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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Orecon. Tuesday Morning, December 14, 1 343
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fFDR Reviews
Seventh Army
Of Gen. Patton
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Dec. 13 - (JP - President
Roosevelt, flying within some 250
miles of the battlefields in Italy,
visited Sicily on his homeward
Journey from Cairo, reviewing
Seventh army troops of Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton, jr.. and decor
ating Lt-Gen. Mark W. Clark and
several other officers for bravery.
The president came frorn Malta
to Castelvetrano airfield, it was
disclosed officially today, with his
C-54 transport guarded by 12
Lightning fighters.
Accompanied by Gen. Dwight
f D. Eisenhower, ,Mr. Roosevelt
; drove in a jeep along the runways
; lined by bundrecLrof Seventh ar
; my troops who helped win Sicily
; In a blazing campaign. Castelvet
; rano is at the southwestern tip of
the island.
" (This dispatch gave the first
j disclosure of Pat ton's where
i abouts since' the announcement
that Eisenhower had made him
i apologize to his troops for strik
ing a soldier in a hospital.
: (It did not indicate whether the
; president said anything to Patton
t concerning the incident. In Wash
1 i n g t o n , Presidential Secretary
Stephen Early, asked if the presl
i dent at this meeting had "put his
! OK on Patton' replied: "What's
' the White House got to do with
1 OK-ing Patton? He was assigned
! to a job by Gen. Eisenhower, and
! Gen. Eisenhower is keeping him
i in command of the Seventh army,
isn't he?")
It was said Mr. Roosevelt
wanted to go to the Italian battle
; front but that those charged with
j his security objected,
j The president decorated Gea-.
Clark, commander of the Fifth
r army firhtin- in Italy, and five
ether officers with distiagalshed
' service crosses. The others were
i Cel. Reuben IL Tucker. Aaso-
nla. Conn.; Lt.-CoL Joseph B.
j Crawford, Humboldt. Kan.: Lt
! William W. Kellogg. Highlands.
Tex.: Lt Thomas F. Berteaa,
j Chicago, and LL Edwla F.
j Gould, Orange. Calif.
Clark was decorated for "ex-
traordinary heroism in action" at
I Salerno when the allied bridge
j head was threatened by German
j v counter-attack pn'September 14.
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j Adds 3 More
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13-;P)
The Shrine's West 22 -member
football squad reached the half
way mark in its formation for the
charity game with the East Jan.
i as three player acceptances
were announced today.
Co-Coaches Orin Hollingbery
and Lawrence Shaw announced
the newest additions included
Bill Mayther, University of Ore
gon center; Abe Croft, an end
from Southern Methodist univer
sity, and Lt. Felix Bucek, former
Texas A. Sc M. college guard who
played army football at Camp
Hood. .
MacArtliur Clubs
Plan Convention
s tor a national convention of "Mac-
Arthur for President" clubs in
j Chicago early next year were an
! nounced today, following a state-
nit-.. tI" Secretary of War Stim
; son that no war department regu-
lation or policy would prevent an
J army officer from accepting a no
mination for president or vice
; president. : "
The convention plans were an-
nounced by Attorney Joseph .P.
i Savage,' president of the' Illinois
i club, who said , he - was corres
- . pandinfcwith MacArthur clubs in
: other states to fix an exact date.
He said " the Illinois club has
beeti.senring unofficially as a sort
,. ,of clearing house for other Mac
Arthur clubs. '
Independence College
Conference Slated 'n
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Plana, for -.an independent, col
lege day conference in ; Portland
early . In January are under way,
according to Dean Walter "E. Er
ickson, Willametto delegate to the
conference.; Conference members
will visit metropolitan schools in
Portland and meet with seniors
Interested in independent col
leges. " -''-1 -y
i The conference is held once
each , semester. It is endorsed by
high school' principals, seniors and
college, officials as a" .favorable
method of introducing independ
ent schools to students interested
in attending college, Erickson
said. V''"'.' .: : y:;
Too Lale to Classify
'WANTED: furnished 'or unfurnished
modern apartment or houaa. . Immed
iately, PUaaa can J106S.
Shcp T7csdroT7s C
Fot WILLARD Batteries.
KELLY Tires, NASON
Paints. SHATTERPROOF,
Glass," Unpointed FUR- ,
NTrUR. AUTO ACCES
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ONtheHOMEFRONT
By 13 ABEL CHTT.ng
"You must be a captain or some
thin!" Speaker is a member of
Boy Scout troop 1 (Rotary troop)
of Salem.! Spoken to, Ma. Gen.
John E. Dahlquist, who merely
grins at the boy and at the two
stars on his shoulder.
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This and much more occurred
Saturday ; when boys of troop 1
were guests of ' Gen. Dahlquist
and Capt. George Godfrey at
Camp Adair, because Scout Com
mitteman ; Leslie Scott (who, it
seems does not spend all ms time
asking for attorney general's opin
ions and ' signing vouchers) had
arranged the jaunt
, First hand, the lads learned
iiow the big guns are fired, what
PX means, how the army's laun
dry is done, what "judo" is; they
visited a tank and saw a "ba
zooka" is that the way you
spell it? They rode in jeeps. With
Gen. Dahlquist, who is training
a division in which many of the
privates are only six years older
than most of these boys, they had
their group picture taken.
Members of the happy caravan
were Kenny Wright, Steven Ben
son, Bill Paxson, Jack and Rich
ard Geer, Donald Young, Dwight
Quisenberry, BUI Johnston, Bla
den Owens, Richard Esau, Dick
Boyd, Elmer L. Kleinke, Ronald
BarUett, Ronald Blume, Richard
Wyatt, Arthur Hagen, Harold
Mansfield, Bill Hart, Donald
Jones, Bob Johnston. Robert E.
Canf ield and Alden Suntilie.
Rotarymen Carrol Hayes, R. C.
Sellers, Martin Mockford and A.
E. Wilkinson drove the cars which
went to Adair. And I'll wager they,
too, rode in jeeps.
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Whether, like the boys they
were greatly impressed by the
fact that candy bars are not only
stocked but actually exhibited in
the post exchanges, I couldn't say.
Mark Taylor Put
On Safety Council
Mark M. Taylor, in charge of
the accident records division of
the state motor vehicle depart
ment, received notice Monday
that he has been appointed a
member of the committee on
traffic and accident records of the
national safety council.
A number of important projects
are now before the committee.
One of these involves develop
ment of a memo on a method of
directing selective enforcement in
cities by the use of accident rec
ords. Another involves develop
ment of a package program for
use by local safety councils in the
promotion of accident system rec
ords.
Labor Shortage
At State Hospital
To Be Discussed
Problems of the state tubereu
losis hospital in connection with
the labor shortage will be brought
to the attention of the state board
of control today by Dr. G rover C.
Bellinger, superintendent.
Officials said it was necessary
to close one pavilion at the hos
pital recently because of insuffi
cient help. There is a waiting list
at the institution. In case suffi
cient help is obtainable this pavil
ion may be reopened.
A somewhat similar situation
was renorted at the eastern Ore
gon state tuberculosis hospital at
The Dalies.
90,000 Applications
For ! Car Registration
Arrive, Farrell Says
Applications for 1944 motor ve
hicle ! registration numbering
slightly over 90,000 had been: re
ceived by the -state department up
to last weekend. Secretary of
State Bob Farrell reported Mon
day, j : ; i
Farrell . estimated' that 437,000
motor vehicles would be regis
tered during the 1944 license pe
riod, p . " - '-
license stickers, now. being
mailed out, cannot be- placed on
windshields until December IS.
The new license period starts Jan
uary; L 4;,;-v.
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Ucdnerday - Thsrsday - Friday
Elks' Temple Curtain at 8:00
Adm. 50c including tax
Australians
Press Attack ;
On Hubn Strip
A (Continued from page 1) A
air, strips and installations t on
Bougainville a heavy pasting,
Liberator heavies 1 attacked the
enemy in the Buka area. On-the
north tip of Bougainville, while
nearly 100 Dauntless dive bomb
ers. Avenger torpedo planes and
fighters, unloaded 54 t o n a of
bombs on Jakobina field in : the
Buin area, on the south end "of the
island ; ' '
Meanwhile, Mitchell medium
bombers supported by Kittyhawk
fighters blasted the Kieta air in
stallations, eastward across the is
land from Empress . Augusta Bay
where Americans have establish
ed an air strip. ;
Japanese planes raided Ga
sap. allied base in the Sunn
Valley, New : Guinea, Sunday
for the second successive day,
but as en the day before they
were beaten eft by Kittyhawk
and Thnnderbelt fighters
which, en this latest fight,
dawned twe ef the nine bomb
ers and ene fighter of the raid
ing force.
Liberators flew north -of Aus
tralia for raids on Boela on Cer
am island, west of New Guinea,
where fires were started, and at
tacks on La rat and Watamoeri
villages on the Tanimbar islands
in the Arafura sea. Enemy barges
also were strafed in the Mac
Cluer gulf, northeast of Ceram is
land. Mild Influenza
Nears Epidemic
Over Nation
Br the Associated Press
A mild form of respiratory ail
ment, similar to the grippe and
influenza, has reached epidemic
proportions in some sections of
the United States, health officers
said last night, but they stressed
that deaths were few.
They said the ailment was of a
far less serious type than in Eng
land and Wales, where 709 deaths
were reported in a single week
recently, and not to be compared
with the influenza epidemic that
swept this country in 1918.
An average of one person in
10 was Ul in the hardest-hit
sections, with a proportionate
level of absenteeism In war
plants and offices. Absenteeism
in schools was as high as M
per cent in some eases.
The ailment, usually affecting a
person , fpr about five days, was-
reported on the wane In son
areas and on the increase in oth
ers. Physicians said current' cold
weather in many sections would
tend to stop the spread.
The ailment extended from
populous centers of -the northeast
through the midwest to the coast
and to sections of the south.
Philadelphia . reported 200,000
persons ill, and Washington, DC,
100,000.
Dr. Frederick W. Strieker, Ore
gon state health officer, said cases
in that state showed increase.
Few cases were reported.
Stoll Stops Further
Labor Recruiting
Outside Oregon
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 -P)
No further recruiting outside of
Oregon will be allowed by the
war manpower commission for
shipbuilding companies operating
in the Portland, Ore., metropoli
tan area, L. C. Stoll, chairman of
the Portland war manpower com
mission, announced here tonight.
Stoll said that after the six-day
week order had been Issued last
week in Washington, a conference
was. held among the war man
power commission end operators
of the shipbuilding yards 'and it
was decided that recruiting for
shipyard workers outside the state
would cease until further notice.
MONMOUTH, lll.-W-From
distance, a closing-out sale on
farm near .here looked like a gold
rush, , .
One hundred and seven men of
fered to pay , the : OPA celling
price of $892 35 for a tractor.
complete with tires. The winner
was Leo Jones. He won it draw-
ing lots, l . ','... J ;X; i i,
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Japan Shifts
Air Power y
To Stop Blows
B (Continued from page 1) B
bomber strafed a ' medium cargo
transport and its escorting patrol
vessel near Jaluit atoll last Fri
day.
That the enemy still has seme
air . strength in the southwest
Pacific was brought ent la Gen.
Douglas .Mac Arthur's commitn
Iqve today. It said that a force
ef 4o enemy fighters ansnceess-.
fully attempted to raid allied
positions la the Rama valley ef
New Gaines. It was the largest ,
amber of planes reported la
aa enemy attack la southwest
ern area this month.
Allied planes kept pounding en
emy targets throughout the
southwest Pacific , These includ
ed two long distance raids last
Saturday, one on Balikpapan on
the southeast coast of Borneo- and
the other on Makassar, on the
southwest peninsula of Celebes
Island They Involved roundtrip
flights of about 2,500 miles each.
Fire Damages
West Salem
Grade School
D (Continued from page 1) D
and clean up the building.
The damaged building was
erected in 1927 according to. the
principal and the faculty in
cludes six teachers all of whom
were in the building at the time
the fire was discovered. The up
per grades are housed in the old
er building erected about 1903,
Mrs. Van San ten said
All classes are to be dismissed
for today since it will take the
time of all teachers to clean up
the mess left after the fire, Mrs.
Van Santen reported.
Members of the Salem fire de
partment gave credit to the school
janitor, Charles Brown, who with
his wife, was on duty when the
fire was discovered. Mr. Brown
attempted to control the blaze
with a fire extinguisher and real
izing it was beyond such meas
ures put in a call for the Salem
fire department which responded
promptly with two of the big
pumpers.
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indicated that the Russians may
hare broken the back ef the
great German counter - offen
sive, which already had gained
39 miles from Korosten and car
ried to the regiea below Malin.
abeat 55 '- miles west ef vKler. :
with the Germans throwing in-
to aetiea-aearly tdot 'tanks and !
T rashing la reserres as the red
army destroyed the machines
by the handreds. - ;t.;v ,
Greatly aiding , Gen.' Vatutin's
forces were several guerrilla de
tachments Which, combining their
forces. 12 days ago. captured two
railway stations in a sudden at
tack in the region it Zhitomir, 40
miles to the southwest of the main
action. At one of these stations the
guerrillas destroyed four German
tralnloads of troops with military
supplies which presumably were
being rushed to the front
The. guerrillas, declared the
soviet communique, ever since
have held these two stations, re
sisting repeated attempts of the
Germans to win them back.
Troops aader soviet Gen.
Iraa 8. Kenev. striking , west
ward from Kremeachag. cap- ;
tared several strongly-fortified
places Monday, among them the
towa of Grashevka, miles
beyond Cnigrin. taken Saaday,
aad only 25 miles seath of .
Cherkasy, .?;-- - ? ' ' '
These Russian forces are driv
ing to relieve a soviet bridgehead
established in the Cherasky re
gion several weeks ago and which
has been under terrific German
assault since. The Russians, al
though not retreating under this
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OSm ol rriea AdaiaiatratiM
ported in huge quantities from islands of the
Far East. Those islands are now in enemy hand&
And the government wants the used fats you can
save in your kitchen to make mountains of am
munition, medicines, and other battlefield needs.
"tUst a Premium
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"Tnese are the facts as they have been pointed
out to OPA by the Wax Food Administration.
And they have led to this new plan: Tivo red
TMtion points free when you turn in s pound of
used fat to your butcher!
This is not a premium on patriotism. It Is a
way of bringing home to all women the urgent'
need of "kitchen fats to make gunpowder.
Moreover, h seems only just to return points
for this service, because fats cost ration stamps.
Your butcher has been informed of this ruling
which went into effect on December 13th."
How the Plan Vffl Work
Irs as simple as it sounds. All you have to do
is fill up a tin can with used cooking fat and
take it to your butcher. You don't need to use
Approved
attack, nevertheless have failed to
expand the bridgehead materially.
The ' troops" which ' established
themselves at Grushevka are be
lieved to be within 15' miles of
the nearest Cherkasy bridgehead
froces, and a joining of the
Kremenchug and Cherkasy forces
appears near.
The Berlin radio, already is be
ginning to prepare its audience for
such an event, declaring Monday
that the Russians had managed to
establish a foothold in the town
of ; Cherkasy v itself, which , had
been by-passed in' the first cross
ing, of the Dnieper. The fighting
ln-this entire area, Berlin said, is
growing more intense by the hour.
In a second main drive expand
ing the Kremenchug salient the
Russians continued to advance to
ward the industrial city of Kiro
vograd, beating off several tank
counterattacks,' capturing 'several
populated places and killing COO
nazl officers and men.
. The Germans, acknowledging
the .. Russian -- thrusts : toward
Cherkasy and fron tally upon
Kirovograd, told of yet another
which the. Russians did not
mention a drive southeast
ward from this area toward . the
long-menaced Iron' ere city ef
Krivoi Reg.-;:; - -. -
Despite, the. importance
the Russian gains in the Rj
chug area,' the battle of y
bulge held' the "chief ir
observers both here ar
cow, not only because
to the Russians In th
attempt to retake
because of the gre
man hopes andj pr eJCgts v nich
would accompfny its collaps t; j
Townsenil f o Meet
Townsend Hub No. 3 miets to
night at 8 ('clock at th J Court
Seet Christian church, corner of
17th and Cour streets. S
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"Behind this plan, effective December 13th. is one of our country's
most urgent wartime needs," says Mr. Bowles. "Every patriotic
American wife and mother is
"7TARS are fought
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with gunpowder.
Gunpowder is made from
glycerine. Glycerine can
only be made from fats.
"Behind those few.
words lies one of your
country's most serious
needs. Fats used to be im
by Office of Price Administration
Sec. Stimson
Discloses
3rd Incident
II (Continued from page 1) II
other occasion to have "spoken
threateningly and with undue
harshness" to a soldier who failed
to wear his leggings because his
ankles were swollen. The soldier
was on combat duty at the time.
- Beyond the three now listed
incidents, Patton's record contains
nothing else of this nature, Stim
son said in reporting that one of
the ' Incident s involved Pvt.
Charles - L. Kuhl and occurred
when the general visited the 15th
evacuation hospital in Sicily Au
gust 3. Stimson did not make lt
clear whether Kuhl was the vic
tim of "battle nerves" whom Pat
ton struck in the belief he was
malingering.-
It was the equivocal denial of
the slapping . as i?i
headquarters-'
on NovemJ
aeterize
"an e-
T)u; sound
said that Patton
en " reprimanded by
(it developed subse
fiat he had been rebuked
ot formally ; reprimanded),
Patton remained in command
the Seventh army whose mor
ale was unaffected, and that no
Patton's commands. :
Big Loop for Eugene
EUGENE, Dec 13-i!P)-A new
ly organized 10-team indepen
dent basketball league, to be man
aged by Dick S trite, district AAU
commissioner, envisioned a 90
game schedule today. The league
is affiliated with the Oregon as
sociation of the AAU.
- the Government
asked to read this statement!
a special kind of can any kind will do And
you don't need to have any specified amount of
fat; take it to your butcher whenever the can is
full. He will estimate the weight of the tin and
give you, cash in hand, 4c and two red points.
for every pound of used fait you deliver.
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The government does not ask for these fats
until you've got the cooking good out of them.
But when that is done, every spoonful is wanted.
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Would it surprise you to learn that just one
shrgle tablespoon of fat just the little bit that
Is usually washed out of your
ing pane and skillets will make r? machine
gun bullets? Or enough smallpox vaccines for
seventy-three men?
Answer to Housewives' Questions
It doesn't matter whether
black it still makes crystal-clear
It doesn't matter whether it's pan drippings,
fat from a soup, used shortening, cooking oils,
or melted solid fat, ? -
And, finally, it doesn't matter how little
save each day. Every drop is
I Saving these fats and turning them in Is not;
ah easy job. But it's a lot easier than doing thai
things our men must do on the battle! fronts
Is it too .much for them to expect that the
wives and mothers of America will perform this1
task for them to help put into their hands what
they need to win? f . -
They know it is not. They know that all their
country has to do is ask once our women
really understand. i 1 I j
Won't you start saving your .used fats today jt
and War Production Board. Paid
Acie RIartin Held
In California
. Acie Martin, sentencH I
on July
30 of this year! by Circuit Judge
EL M. Page to serve 18! months in
the state penitentiary on a charge
of assault and battery j is held at
San Luis Obispo, Calff j charged
with a morals 'offense,
auto rob-
bery, grand theft and
kidnaping.
officers here were informed; Mon
day.
T,
Martin was arrested
here on a-
charge of assault and robbery, but
his elderly victim! was , unable to
testify that money he had lost had
not been dropped in
south of Salem rather
the brush
than taken
from him, so the charge was made
more mild. , - j ; . ir
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Canadian soldier I paiil a pound
($4) for a bottle at a local nub
and discovered later it contained
noSwhisky but cold t4a. i
A judge sentenced the pub own
er to 30 days and observed : "Such
an act is calculated I to produce
dismay-and discouragement among
his majesty's forces."
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