The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Thursday Morning. December 23, 1943 PAGE TWO -71 :! 1 I i. , t t 4 N US Heavies Strike Ship Building E (Continued from page 1) K Eighth air force did not specify the day's targets but the crew men from the participating Lib erators and Fortresses said they scored bits on the nose, although forced to bomb through layer of. clouds ; ! ''--v The size of the losses on both sides indicated that today's op eration was - comparable in size with the Eighth air force's 500 bomber blow at Emden Monday, .when 40 nazi planes were knocked down, and 25 US heavy bombers ' and eight, fighters were lost The American raiding force to- I-V rday struck at' a strongly defended area. German planes crossed the .southeast English coast twice to night and a bomb was dropped on the outskirts of a coast town, but no casualties were reported and damage was slight. The flak was spotty daring today's American bombin- op eration and was. not as Intense as that encountered or recent operations. Heavy bombers ac counted for 22 of the nasi planes destroyed and the escorting fixhters got 15. Returning crewmen reported that German fighters concentrated heavy attacks on some of. the Fortress and Liberator formations while others had little or no con tact with the enemy. At the same time RAF Mosqui tos, Bostons and Typhoons, es corted by RAF dominion and al lied fighters in great force cross ed the channel for a separate at tack oil what was officially de scribed only as "military objec tives. The planes, which went out in such quantities that it ap peared to be one of the greatest sustained cross-channel assaults of the war, returned with four missing. Some sources suggested they might have been attacking the nazis' secret rocket-gun em placements for the third consecu tive day as they streamed .into France and back until dark. A beat the time the big bomb ers were returning from today's major operation the eighth air fore disclosed that the Impor tant German port of Kiel was ' attacked on December IS with - tat long tons of high explos ives and Incendiaries. The British air ministry, issuing Its first official report on damage to Berlin since the RAF began its sustained assault on November 18, told of widespread destruc tion in the German capital, with the central government and out lying industrial areas getting the "worst In the Kiel raid, which prev iously had been announced only as being against targets in north west Germany, bombs rained down , on shipbuilding yards of the Deutsche Werk Kiel AG and Turbine Engine, plant slipways and engineering works. The air ministry's report on damage to Berlin said that "pho tographs leave no doubt that damage goes far beyond anything don before the night of Novem ber It Previous reports already had shown that perhaps half of Ber lin had been blasted in an assault which has far exceeded the Lon don blitz. Casualties Ready to Rise 'By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL W ASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -JP) Hinting at offensives far mightier and bloodier than any yet under . taken by Anglo-American arms, one of the government's highest executives predicted tonight that American battle casualties In the next 90 days would more than triple the total for two years of war. That would push the total of dead, wounded, missing and pris oners, now at around 132,000, well past -tiie half million mark. The forecast appeared to - con template a full-scale assault on the European continent within a .. matter of weeks and perhaps ad ditional smashes. at . Japanese strongholds in the Pacific However, the prediction was made by a civilian official and the " intimation that a cross-channel in vasion might be imminent was not echoed elsewhere In Washington. - On the contrary, unofficial specu- rrtion has centered on spring as the earliest starting time for European invasion. Three Injured When Car Crashes Tree Three suffered minor injuries early this morning when .a ear - driven by Henry X. Morrow, RFD, Independence, failed ; to negotiate , , a turn on the Fairgrounds road l into Hood street and crashed into a tree on the lawn at 1387 North Church. The driver suffered face Injur . ies,. small cuts and : bruises; the two occupants, Charlotte Thomas, treated at the Salem General hos pital,, cuts and bruises, and Pfc Edward C Carberry ot .Camp Adair, returned to camp, face ia- .:, Juries and possibly , others. . j .Morrow will face reckless drrrr , tag- charges todayv Night Officer ; D. M.' Houser made the arrest when he found skid marks' ap- 1 . proximately 192 feet long lead Vlng the the wreck.. ONtheHOMEFRONT It ISABEL CHUDS" Christmas greetings should have color and warmth and Jol lity, but they may be "different' also believer Ivan G. Martin, lo cal attorney and charter member of the Salem Musicians' associa tion. So he has composed -a greet ing song which this year has been published in attractive large greeting card form. . - ; . V ? " Murray Wade designed the title page and Vern Suko drew the in side decorations, so the card is a real Salem production. The. song is both novel and mu sical and is arranged as a per sonal Christmas and New Year's message with a decorated envel ope ready for mailing. Incidentally, there may be a time when it may be had in small record form a singing telegram by mail or whatever Mr. Martin, as an avocation, has composed or collaborated in the authorship of a number of songs among which are "June Time in Old Oregon," adopted for a sea son as theme song of the Portland Rose festival; "My California Queen" and "A Dream," senti mental ballads; and "From Wild erness to Wonderland," the theme song of the 1940 Salem Centen aal, in collaboration with Wayne Allen, one of Salem's well-known arrangers and pianists. V Incidentally, while ar from the Christmas theme, Mr. Martin now has ready for publication two war songs, "So Sorry So We Go To Tokio" and "Mr. To jo We're Coming," both of which sound to the writer like pretty good New Year's greetings. Will He or Not? Maybe FDR Will Do Both - - By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -(P) It has been said that President Roosevelt will run again and that he will not, but one well known democratic party official made the intriguing suggestion today that the president might accept a fourth term nomination and, ' if elected, resign at the war's end to head the American peace dele gation. This would be unprecedented and when the writer suggested that a president had never resigned before, the party official, who re quested that he remain uniden tified, replied: "That's why Mr. Roosevelt might do it? He was referring, of course, to the long . line of precedents the three-term chief executive has shattered! 'While his suggestion was made seriously as a possible political development, , some oth ers, including Frank C Walker, democratic national committee chairman, could not conceive of that happening. Walker was asked about it when he left a White house luncheon conference with the president He replied he did not believe that would occur, but emphasized he had not talked about it with the president m He did say that he had dis cussed politics "a little," and when asked whether Mr. Roosevelt would run again said: "I don't know and I don't think hr does himself. If s much too ear ly" The resignation idea was in par tial response to a statement made several months ago by Alf M. Landon, 1938 republican presiden tial nominee, that "it is perfectly evident that the president will never leave the White house vol untarily." Kaspar Kubli Dies Suddenly PORTLAND. Dec 22-6PV-Kas- par K. "Cap" Kubli, retired Port land businessman who was elect ed state representative seven times and speaker of the house once, died here today at the age of 74. He had been ill a brief time. The widow and two daughters survive. Kubli, whose grandfather. Dan iel Newcom, brought a wagon train over the mountains to the early Oregon country, was born in Jacksonville. He attended the University of, Oregon and Har vard. - He left a southern Oregon law practice to enter business in Port land, in 1900. He was speaker of the house in 1923. i Muriel, Orphan, Adopted by WACS, 'Like it Fine By RUTH COWAN tOKDO N, Dec 22.-(-Her blue eyes round -with excitement the seven-year-old daughter of an RAF gunnei missing since April, arter a raid on, Cape Bon penin sula, was adopted today by WACS in Britain as their Christmas war orphan and .mascot Muriel WAC, as she Is known because regulations: corerina sponsorship of British war or phans exclude use M the foil name, la the first non-American to wear a WAC uniform, - - J. R. Jackson Rites Friday : Strubhar Funeral to Be 'Thursday at ; ' ' Hubbard Church ; WOODBURN Dec 22-Ter ome Richard Jackson, '71, native and lifetime resident of Hubbard, died Tuesday in Portland. Funer al services will be held following requiem mass at the St Paul Catholic church Friday ; morning at 9 o'cloc. Burial win be made in the St. Paul cemetery. Mr. Jackson was a member of St Ag nes Catholic parish of Hubbard. The rosary will be recited at the Ringo . chapel Thursday . at 8 o'clock. . , ; Mr. Jackson was born July 24, 1872 in Hubbard. Mrs. Jackson died in 1939 and three sons, a daughter and 12 grandchildren survive. Mr. Jackson was the last of a family of 12 children. The children are Clark Jack son of Hubbard, Ralph Jackson of Lexington and David Jackson of Pendleton, and Mary ' Supple of San Francisco. Solomon N. Strubhar WOODBURN. Dec. 22 Solo mon Nicholas Strubhar, 68, was found dead in his office chair at the agricultural implement store he operated at 199 Young street, Tuesday noon. Death was said due to natural causes. Jess Fikan, a farmer, found Mr. Strubhar when he came to the store. He had been dead two hours, the doctor said. Mr. Strubhar came to Oregon 52 years ago and had lived in Woodburn for 27 years. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 o'clock at the Zion church in Hubbard. Rev. C. M. Roth will be in charge and burial will be made in the Zion' cem etery. Ringo Funeral home will be in charge. Survivors are the widow, Ros ina Strubhar, a son, Wesley of Sweet Home; a daughter, Mrs. Carl Banker, Woodburn; three grandchildren, a brother Andrew in Hubbard and a sister in Cali fornia. Arawe Hold Strengthened By Americans G (Continued from page 1) G the Huon peninsula on the north east New Guinea coast, leaving 21 tons of bombs there and on off shore islands and causing fires and explosions in supply dumps. Australian ground troops on Huon peninsula advanced a mile and a half to occupy Hubika, IS miles northwest of Finshhafen, Tuesday. Australian and American bomb ers and fighters attacked Japero and Ceram in Dutch New Guinea, hammering the Amahai airdrome at the latter place with 20 tons of bombs and causing firest visible 50 miles. American destroyers shelled shore positions in the Tinputs area on the northeastern coast 6f Bou gainville island in the -Solomons, and -allied medium bombers hit airdrome and supply centers at Buka, on the northern tip.- Dive- bombers and torpedo planes paid a visit to the Japanese' supply dumps and bivouac areas at Kieta, on the east coast of the island. Fifteen Japanese bombers raid ed the American positions at Em press Augusta bay, on the west coast of the island, causing slight casualties, the communique said. One enemy floatplane was shot down here by American fighters. The Japanese, reported pulling out of their bases and airdromes in the Buin-Faisi area on the southern tip of Bougainville, re ceived some encourageemnt to de part in the bombing by medium American units - of : Bivouac and supply points there.; American air activity; over - the Marshall islands - in - the Central Pacific continued active, with the Japanese showing stiffening aerial opposition but still heavy losers compared with American plane losses. Oregonian to Issue Overseas Miniature PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 23 The Oregonian announced tonight a miniature edition starting Jan uary 1 for members of the armed forces overseas. ; The service men's edition wQl be reproduced by an offset pro cess from the regular edition which will be made over to com press essential news and features into eight pages daily and 18 pages Sunday. The paper's regular for mat will be maintained , but re duced - - photographically to " one quarter size. . - "' : . - , ; ; -X i Tonlte on wuoamuB rusnr-na. um tsc&a ttsovn Invasion Commander MayBe'Ike9 C (Continued from page 1) C .Just as the demands of the Pa cific war on Marshall's profession al ability appear to have been in volved in consideration of the ap pointment of a western -European commander, so the demands of the Mediterranean campaign had be yond question arisen as to Eisen hower's future. When his name was first men tioned for the western European command post, the point arose as to whether his transfer, would not give rise t to a feeling that the Italian campaign had been side tracked. . ; ,: .' Today, however, it was pointed out competently that there still would be Gen. Sir Harold Alexan der, British leader who is Eisen hower's ' deputy commander and who is Intimately familiar with Eisenhower's plans and purposes.' Salem Men Get FDR Greeting, Draft Notices The greetings from the presi dent which a list of Salem men will answer today were not of the Christmas variety. - - - x Reporting this morning - at the armory for induction into the na tion's armed -services are: Julius Harold Bergstrom, Al bert George Reinke, Grant James Baney and Don Raymond Wick man, volunteers. Claude Wallace Martin, Hiram Anton Hagen, Kenneth T. Lund gren, OIlie Hamilton Copenhaver, Milo Odien Syverson, Roy Van Lear Reynolds, James Jay Mor rell, Howard Lester Tiamkin, Paul Earl Wilson, Verle Edwin Gookin, Lawrence Lee Kasselder, William Buster' Barber, Frank Dewhurst Evans, Clyde Lee Hamrick, George Leslie Holland, Ralph Daniel Schlesinger, Kenneth Ray Lukin beal, Melvin Lynn Sines, William Francis Loveall, Bertram Leroy Iverson, Robert Hinkle, Chester Albert Teeter, Edwin De Wayne Applegate and Harlan Duane Brown. Kenneth Douglas Clark, Charles William Lasch and Clair Ellis P .arson have been transferred to the Portland board for induction this period. Dale Milton Dasch, Condon; Er land Leonard West volunteer, Mineapolis; Dallas Crumpacker; LeRoy Krause Kuper, Stayton; Kenneth Jacob Adams, Atlantic, Iowa; and Robert Ralps Chaves,! Stayton, who registered elsewhere will report in Salem today. . Officers Plan Campaign Meeting at the Marion county health department offices on Wed nesday afternoon were members of the- executive committee of the health association. Plans- were made for the. enlargement of the infantile paralysia committee and the campaign to raise funds for the National Infantile Paralysis foundation. Dr'.W. J. Stone, county health officer is chairman of the committee and presided at the meeting. Present at this, the final com mittee session for the year, were Mrs. David Wright Miss Margaret Magee, Frank Bennett and Mrs. Ruby Bergsrik, executive secre tary of the Marion county health association. , - - The county will conduct a cam paign to raise funds for the cele bration of the president's birth day, Jhe funds to be allocated to the . infantile paralysis fund. . X Opens :45 r. M. Now Showing! In response to your many requests ... here she is! . Ginger Rogers c OS 1 "Killy Toyh .1 Dennis Morgan Janes Craig - Gladys Co-Feature Flight To Jldvcntnrc CSCSS & Jas38SS jarjsct wti crssk ts it tit JUaskat vSram! EDUUHD s LOUJ0 L"JG I Jse Allies Assault San Vitttorev Ortona Areas F (Continued from page 1) F Disclosure that French troops had for three days been struggling for possession of a mountain pass in -this flanking : thrust gave the location of ' Gen. Pierre Juln'a units for the first time since their presence on the Italian front was announced last week. The French infantry, V employing r the ; finest American weapons, had won the southern shoulder of the hotly contested pass. Far across Italy on the Adriatic, Canadian " infantry and tanks fought a roaring battle through the streets of Ortona. Normally a town of 9000 population- perched on a shelf 200 feet above the sea, Ortona had been - turned into a veritable fortress by the defencf ing nazis. Until' the' Canadians fought their way into its southern edge Monday night the ' Germans had doggedly repulsed almost continuous attacks for two weeks. Ortona is only II miles from the coveted Italian port of Pes cara, and with Ortona's fall the eighth army was expected to make short work of Pescara's less for midable defenses. From, that port a main highway cuts across the waist of Italy to" Rome. i In an effort to relieve the pres sure on Ortona, the nazis sprang a fierce counterattack led .by flame-throwers against New Zea land forces holding the road run ning inland from Ortona to Or sogna, but the attack was com pletely smashed. The United Na tions radio said that almost the entire stretch of Ortona-Orsogna road now was in allied hands.' For the first time in five days, muggy weather kept the big Fly ing Fortresses and Liberators of the 15th US air force on the ground, but allied fighter-bomb ers and medium bombers kept up their searing attack on German ground positions and communica tions. One enemy and one allied plane were destroyed during the day. American Mitchells and War hawks bombed Terracina, 38 mil es southeast of Rome, while fight ers exploded a building believed to be a munitions factory near Colle Ferro, also southeast of the Italian capital. RAF Spitfires de stroyed two locomotives and de stroyed or damaged 18 trucks near the eighth army front, and American invaders wrecked a lo comotive and six cars and dam aged many others. American me diums again spanned the Adriatic to support Yugoslav partisan forc- Mrs. WilsonRallies, Names Son for Father PORTLAND, Dec. 21(JPyCr- olyn Davis Wilson, 20-year-old paralyzed mother, rallied slightly in her iron lung today after she and - her army corporal - husband selected a name for the boy born to them last Saturday. The infantile' paralysis victim said the child would be christen ed Marvin James Wilson, jr.- Wil son, an army corporal given leave from an air base in India, said his wife, convinced-the baby would be a girl, had not selected a boy's name-in advance. The Wilsons have another son, 18-month-old Danny. Cont. Shows 'From 1 P.M. Now Showing! Funnier Them Ever! He doodlt Again! I RED SKELT0I1 1 1 'i w I Ilotiraws , . .. Co-Featurel I SCAlFa to::y RailUnion Disagrees,. Progress Due - B (Continued from page 1) B so by the-White house. . . w The operating : brotherhoods, keeping the- deer open far eesa prasaise, scaled dewn their de mand for a wage Increase from S3 a day se 64 cents. After a telephone conversation with the White house, representatives, of . the braiherheods presented this revision figure to a committee representing railroad manage aaeni. . . There was - no -. immediate word as .to. the reaction of either rail road executives or government of ficials to the 64-cent figure. Rep resenting 8 cents-an-hour increase for an 8-hour day, it is exactly double the 4-cenJ increase recom mended by a special mediation board, however, and whether the government could allow it under wage stabilization policies seems questionable. While these counter - proposals furnished a j basis for continuing talks looking toward a settlement, there was passimism . in some quarters over ' chances of resolv ing" the wage dispute before De cember 30, , deadline ' set tor a strike. This pessimism was in creased by the decision of the 15 non - operating unions - (clerks, shopmen, etc.). to . strike ' also on December 30. The government as yet has not intervened in the non- operating wage dispute. Sen. Reed (R-Kas.) said the chances for a settlement "don't look very good, to me. He pre dicted the government will seize the railroads unless something is worked out and the strikes are called off. ' Moore Suffers Severe Burns LIBERTY, Dec. 22 Ray Moore, about 40, still unconscious after undergoing several blood transfu sions, it was reported, remained in a serious condition at the Dea coness hospital where he was brought by the Salem first aid car after suffering second and third degree burns. The hospital said late tonight that his condition was only fair. Moore was building the fire at 7 a. m. today in the kitchen stove at the home of his landlords, Mr. and Mrs. L. McClain, when he ap parently poured gasoline on the flame, thinking it kerosene. As he is still unconscious, no explanation for the accident has been made as yet. The McClain family found him severely burned with one arm particularly badly burned. Rush ing, to the Liberty store, they called the first aid car and re turned with .the store's proprietor, Charles ICrauger, to put out the fire in the kitchen which charred the room but caused no great dam age.- - Mr. Mooreis employed by Skew- is and Judson. Mundinger Has Flu Police Detective Ersel "Mundin ger is an influenza patient at Sa lem Deaconess hospital. :4S Now Playing! Cofeature i ANN MI11IK I SITT Y 1HOOIS JIltT COIONNA Extral Donald Duck -rDr Feuhcx'a Fcce" -JUITGLE GHX" ; I --v An-nit PrOQrcsnl V v - Hat YBlases! Nazis Hurl Tank Force At Russians A (Continued from page 1) A southward in the Dnieper bend where in the Klrovograd area they suceeded at first in driving a wedge into the red army position. "Our troops . first cut them off ami then by a decisive' blow com pletely liquidated the enemy group which had broken through," the communique said. "Two companies of German, automatic; riflemen were wiped out, seven tanks and two armored" cars destroyed.. . In another sector repeated at tacks by large forces of tanks were flung back and the Germans re tired after the loss of 18 tanks. Winters Dies In Albany ALBANY Walter W.' Win ters, 50, for a number of years a member of the state police force, died In the Albany General hos pital Tuesday morning, following a brief 'illness from pneumonia. Although suffering with a cold the past week, it was not until Sunday that his condition ap peared serious and he was taken to the hospital Monday night Funeral arrangements are in charge of .the Fortmiller Funeral directors and await arrival of relatives. , Born in Salem on April 29, 1893, Walter Winters, the young est of eight children, had spent almost his entire life in Oregon. He at one time was a deputy sher iff of Multnomah county, was a member ' of the state '' police for five years, and stationed in Al bany. He was employed as a de tective by the Southern Pacific railway company for a time; was chief detective for the Oregon state liquor control . commission. and became assistant manager of the Albany state liquor store; aft erwards served as chie,f of. the shop guard at the Willamette Iron 8c Steel company, plant in Port land, and recently had been em ployed as a guard at Camp Adair. He -was a veteran" of World war no. 1, was a member of the Albany lodge of Elks, and belong ed to various Masonic bodies. Surviving are three brothers, Frank and Charles 'of Portland, and Ross of Seattle, Washand two sisters, one living in Che halis. Wash., and the other in California. LabtUnion Elects Bayes SILVERTON Charles Bayes was made recording, secretary of the AF of L labor union No. 2327 at SUverton at the regular meeting Tuesday night Bayes replaces - Jim Neal who resigned because of ill ness In the family. " Barney Schuley, vice chairman of the union, presided as EL J. Beesch, regular chairman was at the city council meeting. However, Boesch returned later and gave a report of the executive board meeting which he attended at Cor- vallis last week. .lit t.i.il jm Last limes Todar - CoTecdure Stnart JErwm, -i Evelyn Tenable tn "He Hired the Boea" Stcnrta Frldcrr 1 5 z:im -tmx-mh i r Vf rv-WJ.w QS ET3 BBS rjr-l UM1HLJ Fltt ' Edward Arnold, Virginia Wetdler In -TOOIIGST--, . TZOTZZZlQZr mm e. Si mil man m llwusanas In Salem Suffer Flu P (Continued from page 1) P outbreaks which have occurred each January of the odd-numbered years 1933, 35, '37, 39 and '41, according- to the current bul letin of the medical department of Northwestern National Life Insurance company. Expected in January of 1943. . the present epi demic arrived 10 months behind schedule, without apologies, ac cording to that bulletin. : Best treatment, physicians ad vise, is staying in bed,, drinking lots of water, : fruit Juices and soup; eating lightly; keeping warm and remaining in bed until at least 24 hours after the end of the fever. : Liars Listen , To Hitler, Tojo , BURLINGTON, Wis Dee. 23 (fPr- Four officers ef the Bur lington Liars Clnb, Ine, gathered around 'a short wave radio set today te listen to broadcasts from Tokyo .and Berlin. They were, according to - 0. C." Hulett, originator ef the clnb, "getting in shape to pick the 1943 champion liar and boy there's nothing better than those axis broadcasts to get us warm-, ed up to our job." LAST TIMES TODAY mm IS iiwy'r nMari t STARTS FRIDAY ..If UALir IcyOWALL CRISP VniTTT GYZ2M EHUCS rxuUu;cnESTn LASSIE CFeature V The star ef Oeedbye, Mr. Chips VThe Ctadsl" SKns rele I - ::.iiE3 r.iu mzi ww "St v "B p. 'I I'- - 8: mm t-, i I - i i I 4 i t