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mr 7cailicr i Monday maximum tem perature 35, minimum! 21. ' Elver J ft.; ; j :.i i J Increasing ! cloudiness la northwest part. Fair else where Tuesday and Wednes day, local fog in west side valleys Pcundqd; 1651 :t ... , v k- ' r mm . i n CM l - 1 m I. m mjr 1 mt.m mm -.' We used to get literature boost ing Hawaii, the output of promo tion, departments of the steamship lines and pineapple companies in terested in trade and travel. Now the United i Fruit company is ending - out press sheets dealing with "Middle America." That ti tle refers to the countries ef Central America and the north ern part of South America. It is the old banana dominion of Unit ad fruit, j. served by its white steamers in the . days . before T the ;war. '; J The publicity deals with devel opment of growing of spices in that - portion of the world. : It seems that the Japanese conquest ef the "Spice Islands'.' of the south seas started plantings of spices in 'Americas. So it may well be, tjt the dream of Columbus may- oe unfilled, and the Central Ameri ca he discovered may turn out to be the "Spice Islands' he was peeking at least the region will Iprovide "sugar and spice and ' e verything nice'? ''which is what Jitt2e girls are said to b made of. ; , Other developments in South I American horticulture are mere ; iy the "return of the native." I "'refer, to the. revival of production of quinine (cinchona) - which was : native to '.Peru;, and rubber, na tive, to, the Amazon valley. All of these matters are of In ierest. These changes may be per "xnanent, at least in part Wars do ' start ' things." When France got Short of fats during the Napole onic wars Napoleon offered a prize for a butter substitute. The Jesuit was "butterine" out of which the margarines have come, o we may after the war get qui nine and spices from "Middle America, as well as bananas. Trachsel Makes Here Today First Salem public appearance f John J. Trachsel, " missionary to China who returned to this country this .winter on the Grips holm after two years internment in a Japanese prison camp is scheduled for 11 a. m. today, when the -WjBamette university F gradu-. ate addresses the monthly meeting 4f the Marion County Holiness association at Wesleyan Method ist church, 1485 Mill street. ', Trachsel, who with 1238 other Nationals arrived in New York aboard the Swedish liner Decem ber 1, came to his home at 1810 fcduth High street, Salem, last jaight after a week's visit In Port land with his mother. Mrs. Trach sel, the former Laura Cammack, and their daughters, Helen Marie, t, and Carol Faith,. 2, remained there with him, having gone to Portland to meet the traveler as lie came in by airplane. , Mrs. Trachsel, who became pas tor of the South Salem Frierb ehurch on September 1, now will share that pastorate with her hus band. ;; ; Many Salem residents and Wil Jamette university graduates of a decade ago remember the return ing missionary as a tall youth who played baseball with the Bearcats and who was student assistant in German from 1927 to the time of pis graduation in 1930. The ; Tuesday, meeting of the lloliness association is the regu lar monthly session. Three services will be held, - Rev. Oscar Brown ef Rosedale will speak in the mor ning, Rev, Joseph Knotts will speak at the 2 o'clock meeting and Rev. C. H. Steinmah will preach St night. ' The fellowship meeting will be inducted by P. J. Griffiths. Co operative meals will be served at noon and at 5:30 in the afternoon, Liquor Deal Nears Completion ' Completion of the OregonWash Ington liquor control commission's deal to purchase two Kentucky distilleries, thereby acquiring some 21,000 barrels of whiskey, was . near Monday, Secretary : of State Robert S. Farrell, jr., was lnfnrmo4 Hm Sin1r Vila chief deputy, who went to Kan sas City, Mo., to deliver the war rant for Oregon's share, approx imately $3,700,000; of the pur chase price. ; The warrant was expected to arrive in Salem for payment by airmail not later than Wednesday. SWOPPING X DAYS LEFT MOW ABOUT X Nk TRUNK i - V First TaU 'S I 1 w ... f.f NINETY THIRD YEAH JUS MmMMast Npnh i Shipping, Industrial Area, Schipol Airfield Damaged; ; j4TreasNazi Fighters Downed i Togers, I reporter, v &&2 Sldrdevn. ral numbers by B?. 13 (AP) The American Eighth airick Concluded C wifjj a large-feJ' northwest GcrmP 27 and a medium MaiVnsberger, airfield hear AmsterdtL0.1! Fifteen enemy fights to heavy bombers and one by of both Thunderbolts and announced. Five heavy bombers, two med ium" bombers and two fighters failed to return from the German raids and other operations. f Returning fliers said the Fort resses and Liberators beat their way through some of the heaviest flak, ever seen over Germany. ' Big formations of Fortresses and Liberators cut through wintry skies to blast objectives through almost complete cloud cover. . . A DNB broadcast from Berlin said several coastal towns of nor thern Germany were attacked and the agency made the usual nazi charge that explosives were drop ped "indiscriminately." Members of the first flight crews to return said they had run into fields of anti-aircraft fire on both the trip to their target and the return, but experienced little opposition over the target itself. They met few German fighters, but observed attacks on other groups, t It was : the second time In three days that big bombers drawn from steadily -expanding heavy bombardment groups had attacked that ares mt the relch. t; The Marauders, . eat for the ; first time in eight days, , last hit Schipol7 November J. It fs ene f the Germans' Important flxhter bases. Returning to the region where only Saturday 138 German fight ers fell before the blistering ma chlnegun barrage of heavy bomb ers and their escorting fighters in a vain attempt to protect Emden, the heavy bombers boosted to four the number of major opera tions accomplished this month. The exact target was not speci fied in the early announcement of the raid. J The effect on the Germans cer tainly would be to give stern em phasis to the promise yesterday of Gen. Henry H. Arnold, ehief of US air forces, that "fearful, and terrible"! air attacks were in store for Hitler-dominated Europe this winter and spring. Today's American raid followed quick jabs which RAF Mosquitos delivered for the third night in a row on 'targets in western Ger many. With a pickup in light bombing operations there was a possibility that British heavy raids : cur tailed by poor continental, weath er once more will hit the stride which has put Berlin on the list of the reich's heavily damaged cities. ' Zero Spell Hits Nation East of Rockies By the Associated Press Temperatures ; near the zero mark chilled the midwest Monday night while a cold wave bore down on the east. Forecasters predicted wintry weather would continue today in the north central states after ther mometers had registered such rea dings as 12 below zero at Duluth, Minn., nine below at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., zero at Green Bay, Wis- and Minneapolis and St, Paul, Minn., one above at Mil waukee, four above at Chicago, and seven above at Detroit and Buffalo. ' " A cold wave : warning was is sued for states in the Ohio valley and in the middle and north At lantic " regions. Lowest tempera tures of the season, were expected today 4 ranging from 15 below Zero in upper New, York and nor thern New England, to zero in the northern parts of Ohio and, Penn sylvania,1 ten to ' 15 above in Vir ginia, ar d 15 to 20 above In Ten nessee. The cheek - tingling winds un covered a sign of the times in Chi cago's west side hobo district. For the first time in years no vagrants sought shelter for the night in po lice stations. One desk sergeant explained i " "If they aren't la the army. they've co( Jobs : zZL.yr?: 14 PAGES Germany full bla on Europe today mbardment of targets in jVand industrial region t tne XMazis sctupol down, 14 by the s - - - , j . - : communique A,-tJSA Is a strt '.exchanre ship -LJ of their lives Tank, Infantry Battle Rages Through 7 Stahs By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 14 CffVRussian troops aided by powerful guerilla forces behind the German lines gained ground for the third day in succession Monday in the great battle of the Kiev bulge, while to the southeast other Soviet forces expanding . the Kremenchug bridgehead advanced a spectacu- la 20 miles westward" hi 24 hours in a dash aimed at relieving em battled Russian units at Cherkasy. The great tank and infantry battle west of Kiev raged furious ly throughout the day, and Gen. Nikolai Vatu tin's Soviet ; forces, after absorbing seven German at tacks made "one after the other," struck out in a countersmash and improved their positions, Moscow announced In .its daily communi que. About a batallion of nazis were wiped out in this action, said the midnight bulletin, recorded by the soviet monitor from a broadcast, while 300 more were left on the battlefield on another sector of this front The Moscow announcements - (Turn to Page 2 Story C) McIntyre,FDR Secretary, Dies WASHINGTON, Dec. 13- Marvin Mclntyre, slight but firm buffer for President Roosevelt throughout his years in the White House, died today after -, long illness. Death of the white-thatched 63-year-old secretary meant the loss, said the president In a message to the White House, of "a public servant whose whole career em phasized fidelity and integrity. Mclntyre had been associated with President Roosevelt for more than 20 years, serving as his pub licity - representative during the vice presidential campaign . of 1920. Prior to that he was a news paperman in Louisville, ; Ky., Asheville, NC, and Washington, DC. V . U,i t -i : IV l ,. .A XiL Japan Shifts Air Power To Check Mid-Pacific Blows : PEARL HARBOR, Dee. 12(JP) Japan apparently Is shifting her expendable air power into the mid -Pacific In an effort to check the intensified American offen sive against strategic Nipponese island outposts. A As these thrusts by United States warships, and : warplanes grow in number and weight, of ficial communiques indicate a fal ling eff in the enemy's ability for air combat in the south - south west Pacific area. Simultaneously there has been some increase In enemy air opposition over central Pacific islands and notably heavier losses of enemy aircraft there. Actions In the mid - Pacific have accounted for 92 of 128 Jap anese ' planes officially reported destroyed or probably destroyed so far this month In the Pacific. The other 31 were In the south west Pacific. Of 103 planes def initely shot down, 73 were In com Salem, Oregon. Tuesday And It Was Death! I ,-" --".irT-r ' j "v i : i ..... -X-.V'-.. sssssisssbW.wi -i esssBBBssssss "Rome or Death" was the slogan chalked en the side of the vehicle carrying these jubilant Italian soldiers to the fighting front where they joined the battle against their former ally. (AP wirepheto via signal corps radio) Roosevelt May Tell of Councils In Congress By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Deo. 13 The chances are that President Roosevelt will report to congress in person on his history-making trip to the middle east for war conferences. Secretary of State Hull FLlas Europe through the 15alil vited to sppear before Joint "Sen ate-house session after his return from the ' Moscow conference of Russian, British and American foreign ministers. With that in mind. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said in response to question today that he would "naturally anticipate that the president would receive a sim ilar invitation and would respond" to it. Hull accepted his. Democratio , and republican leaders ta both senate and house said they hoped Mr. Roosevelt would give congress an aees-ont-tng of his meetings with Win ston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Chiang Kai-shek and President Ismet Inona of Turkey. Bat they are not talking of Issuing a for mal invitation.. Their Idea ap pears to be to wait until the president once more Far la the White House and then learn his - wishes. The chief executive has - been gone more than a month already and undoubtedly will have a con siderable volume of work stacked on his desk when he returns. Not only will he have to dispose of routine paper work, but he also will have to consider an annual message to congress and a budget for the 194S fiscal year, both of which must be ready early In the new year. : Consequently he might see fit to combine his report on his mid dle east travels with the annual message. A . separate appearance to discuss the highly significant Cairo ; and Teheran conference might be favored, however to help bring about the unity on foreign policy between the two major po litical parties which Hun has rec ommended.. bat over the mid-ocean Islands. Latest report ef heavier Nlp nese air losses in the central Pacific came Sunday from Adas. Chester W. Nimltx. He reported that tea planes were destroyed, nine of them on the ground, in the assault by American war ships and planes . last week en Nanra Island, southwest of the Gilbert Islands. American bat tleships participated la the bom-, bardment, Nimltx said It was . the first disclosure that these big battle wagons had actively ' taken part In the attack. Two American planes were lost in the assault on Nauru, which is an important enemy observation outpost. Shore batteries hit one destroyer but the navy said the damage was minor. Air activity over the enemy- held Marshall islands continued. Nimitz reported that a Liberator JTurn to Pae 2 Story C) Morning, December 14 1943 Patton Appears In Cairo By JOHN F. CHESTER CAIRO. Dee. 13.-(P)-Lt. Gen. George 8. Patten, Jr., com mander of the US Seventh army, and various, members of his staff appeared unexpectedly In Cairo today en an unex plained mission. (Cairo is the seat of two gov ernments ta exile Greek and Yugoslav. Conferences with representatives of these govern ments would be a natural pre. lad ta m.nv allied ' attenrnt ' t kans. There has been specula tion as to the next assignment of the Seventh army since Its whirlwind campaign across Si cily was completed.) ' . P a 1 1 o n's ' appearance here comes at a ' time when there have, been discissions on solid ifying the Mediterranean and middle east commands. The Persian gnlf forces 'already have been separated from the middle east command and mad Into a command of their own. Patton arrived by plane and made no attempt to conceal his presence. He drove about the city In an automobile bearing his three-star flag and sines no American, British or other si lied officer of equal rank is reg ularly stationed here, this at tracted attention. ; ' SeclStimson. Discloses 3rd Incident WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., who slapped one soldier and up braided another, was disclosed to day to have spoken with "undue harshness. . to a third, who had left off his leggings because his ankles were swollen, - - The disclosure was by Secre tary of War Stimson in a report to the senate military committee arguing that while the apparent denial of . th slapping incident, whlclx was Issued November 22, may have been "an error In Judg ment from a public relations view point It was i "eminently sound from a military standpoint. Stimson said that Patton, who had been charged previously with upbraiding two soldiers and cuf fing one of them, was reported by, news correspondents on an (Turn to Page 2 Story . H) Kaiser Yards Adopt Ruling PORTLAND, Ore, Dec lSWPJ The three Kaiser shipyards in this area will go on a six-day week starting Sunday, Edgar Ft Kaiser, general manager, announced ; to- night. - He predicted a drop In ship pro duction would result from the maritime commission order elimi nating Sunday work at yards un der its jurisdiction, effective Jan uary 1. - "No immediate layoff of work ers is contemplated pending an analysis as to whether the total manpower now employed can be efficiently utilized when the yards change from a seven-day operat ing schedule," Kaiser said follow ing: a meeting with union officials. British Extend Positions Ortona Heights - Taken; Nazis. Use 3 Divisions By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers,.. Dec..l3-yP-Gen'. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth army punched doggedly into the Germans new 15-mile- long Adriatic defense line, hinged on 8000-foot Mt. Maiella, and captured heights overlook ing the coastal town of Ortona, the allied command announced to day. Despite the loss of 6000 prison ers since, the allies invaded Italy, the nazis were able to throw three crack divisions into their fierce resistance in this sector and to launch repeated counter - attacks. Heavy fighting raged along the entire front from Ortano, which is three miles north of the Moro river, through the battle-torn village of Orsogna to Guardiagrele at the foot of the towering Mai ella mountain range. Highly train ed German Alpine units were op posing Montgomery's men in the Guardiagrele area. Eighth army waits, which in cluded Canadians, fought their way onto elevated ground over looking Ortona on the coast. while other assault troops galn- . ed - positions . , dominating the lughwayetween Ortona. and Orsogna, effectively blocking its ae by the nasls. Both of the Eighth's bridgeheads across the More river were widened. : Canadian troops driving north west of captured San Leonardo near, the coast were engaged in their fiercest, bloodiest fighting since they reach Italy, front dis patches said. At least five times the Germans counterattacked one Canadian unit, and each time they were thrown back. Both sides suffered considerable losses. Heavy fighting was confined to the Adriatic end of the line. The drive of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army in the Migoano area, 25 miles from the Tyrrhenian sea, lost some of its impetus in the muck and mud of a miserable Italian winter. American troops repulsed a strong enemy patrol that attempted to penetrate newly won allied positions north of Mlg nano. -The7 rain sharply curbed allied bombing activity and the sky was completely bare of enemy planes. American P-40 Warhawks helped carve a path for the Eighth army's limited gains by bombing nazi po sitions near Miglianico. Mitchell medium bombers at tacked railroad yards and a Ger man air field at Terraelna, 2 miles northwest of Gaeta on the Appian way. A formation of American A-33 invaders raided Itri an the Appian way just above Formla, N allied plane was Jest daring the day. Marks III WiUard L.. Marks, president of the state board of higher educa tion, was stricken ill at a com mittee meeting today and taken to m hospital where attendants said he had suffered a partial collapse. An Albany attorney, he formerly was president ef the Oregon state .senate, . In which position he served several times as acting governor. (AF phete) ' 7" ' - - S V. :: . ..( Prlco) 6a : ; i ' ( : 1 Ml r-zD nan i I Month-Lons Marshall Raids Continue With Neyr Blasts At Southernmost Air Bases By Charles H. McMurtry ! PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 13 (AP) Army erators kept up a month-long series of raids on the mid- Pacific Marshalls by bombing a Japanese cirgo ship and shore installations at Emidji (Imeiji) in the Jaluit atoll Saturday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced to day in a press release. " . -The' bombers dropped ja.mii ana iniu a i o 1 bases of the Japanese in the est to v the Gilberts, 300 conquered by the Americans lateO last month. . "' As on other raids last week at Jaluit, no mention was made of enemy air interception, with oppo sition limited to anti-aircraft fire. Some of the Seventh American army airforce bombers in the new attack were damaged but all got back to base.- None of the crew was wounded. : The bombing of the Marshalls by the Seventh AAF began prior to the Gilbert invasion and has continued with frequency. Two days prior to the latest Jaluit raid a single Liberator at tacked a medium cargo transport and an escorting patrol vessel near the atoll. The i continued presence of enemy vessels in the Marshall area, where heavy . shipping losses were inflicted December 4 by swarms of planes from a big American aircraft carrier task force,' probably Indicates the Japanese are seeking to re inforce those outpost defenses against a threatened invasion. Fire Damages West Salem Grade School West: Salem school children missed one of the greatest' thrills of a life time on Monday seeing the school house burn but; they will not have to attend classes to day. 'Fire which was first seen shortly after 4 o'clock, partially destroyed the newer of the two school buildings used by the West Salem elementary school system. Classes ; will . resume Wednesday according to present plans. The fire eTidently started around the floe 1st the first floor of the building used for the lower grades, according , to Mrs. Easily Van Santen, princi pal of the two buildings. The Salem fire department was called but the roof was badly damaged before the flames were extinguished. Water and smoke damaged the .walls and plaster broke away from the ceil ins in several of the upper teems, according to Mrs. Tan Santen. Estimate of the damage has net been made the princi pal stated. Members of the Sa lem fire department reported too loss probably was not hea-Ty and resulted chiefly from wa ter. The damage was covered by in surance according to Mrs. Elmer Cook, , clerk . of the West Salem district. John Friesen, cnalrman of the board, could not be reached last night. Mrs. Cook said to-night is the board's regular meet ing night and because members are mostly engaged in war-work it Is difficult to contact them In an emergency. Other members of the board are Thomas Dalke and Peter Harms.;; '.i-V .,. It was ' at -first believed thai classes would; be resumed this morning, .the, lower grades Inf eluding the fourth to meet at the First Methodist - church and the upper grade classes meeting In their regular building. Later it was decided more time was neces sary to check . the heating plant (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Postwar Planning C Group May Report To School Board A report from the postwar plan ning committee . of the Salem school board Is anticipated for to night's meeting of district direc tors in administration offices. The committee, appointed on re quest of Supt. Frank B. Bennett, was asked to investigate needs for physical ! improvements in ;; the school system with a view toward planning , the financing of needed buildings and additions when work and materials become available. Lib. ; , ' : 'j jj J 1 ; j 50 tons of explosives:' 1 s are me soutberomost air Marshalls, thus being near miles south,1 h ch were?. I ! O Press Attack Un iliion atriD C. YATES McpANIEL WEST ! PACIFIC I ALU LlEDj HEADQUARTERS, Tues day, jDec 14.-iffVA us t r a 1 1 a n ground forces j maintained 1 their steady progress! j in the task of clearing the Japanese from Huon peninsula, NewJGuine, by push ing across the So wi Hver for a train M tvn mile ' ; -, l - 1 1 ! K Supported by Matijda (medli I Nun)! tanks, the i advanced Aas- - trallkn Infantry 1 vniti were re ported In General Douglas Mae Arfhnrs communljque to be neaipng Lakona on the coast. It miles north ef j Flnschhafen. : Anpther Australian force inland continued its pressure against en emy ear guards nort& of Vfareo, the important enemy fbaso which the Aussies captured Pecember 9. Bojnbers,- light! fend heavy,f sup ported by fighters broke their in activity enforced by th weather in the Solomons to giye Japanese (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Selection I Tnought Duie Wednesday By Banking Board . Selection of fa stae : superin tendent of banks probably will bo considered by the stae banking board; Wednesday.: At Jany rate, a meeting of the board has i been scheduled for that day and the circumstance that A. AJ Rogers, in cumbent, ' is continuing to servo beyond : his appointed; term j can hardly be ignored. J ,i , J I , Rogers. term ended December 1. Gov. Earl Snell hid left the previous day on his tpp to Chi cago, j returning j last week. Other members i of the banking board are Secretary of State Robert S. FarrelL jr., : and I State Treasurer Leslie M. Scotti Service 1 ; Colurnhs Follow tiie h o ra o town boys on tho land on the sea, in the) cdr 2nd iki home town cirls tco in &e women's military xmits. 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