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On Cape Gloucester
Airdrome, N. Britain
H (Continued from page 1) II
1hefiiht'NI:lli.;,9,e,
were .listed.'."''' .;i":li't--r'
omons air iorce, ' $ escorted by
lighten, were opposed by heavy
enU-aircraft fire and Between 80
and .PO. Japanese filters aa. they
raided Babaul Friday noon. Many
fires were, started with the 78,000
rounds of explosives.
" A spokesman for Adm. William
t. Haisey said 20 enemy fighters
were shot down for certain ind
six others . probably destroyed.
His figures were based on reports
received after Ceteral MacAr-
" tour's communique was issued to-
; dav. listine 12 enemy losses. '
e One . raiding. : bomber was lost
and several were ; damaged but
Nipponese , planes failed again to
hit the Liberators witn aerial
' phosphorous bombs. -..;
i At the hour of the Rabaul raid,
si' Solomon force of 18 unescorted
Mitchells dropped 72 light bombs
- and many fragmentation clusters
n - lanan' Inntf tnnrxrative Ka
hili airdrome on the' south' coast
f Bougainville. M
The 253-ton strike on Madang,
- anread over gun positions,' supply
and bivouac areas, was aimed at
th next big Japanese New Gui
nea base northwest of Huon pen
insula on which Australian Jun
gle troops are steadily advancing.
Those troops, - reported today to
have reached a point some 35
miles- north, of Finschhafen, are
approximately 100 miles from
Madang but in the Ramu valley
another Australian force is within
- 35 miles of that enemy : shipping
base. T ' ; - --!
Among -points - bombed in ' the
big raid was Bogadjlm, the de
fense outpost -for Madang some 20
miles to its south and linked with
It by a fine road.. :v - !.'- -(Such
concentrated "aerial ' as
saults N frequently presage offen
sive . operations ' against s u c h
'bases.) ' 1
The Madang raid was made by
a .strong force, and headquarters
reported the waves of bombers
started big fires and caused wide
spread damage. ,
, 112 Violent
I Deaths Mai
New Year's
By tha Anociated Preaa
The nation's New Year week
end celebration passed the half
way mark near midnight last night
.marred by at least 112 violent
deaths. r'V
Of, the fatalities reported since
p. ; vcl, Friday, an Associated
Press survey showed that 79 were
the result of traffic accidents and
S3 from other causes, . including
fire, gunshot, suffocation and
drowning. " : .
The normal toll : or the three
day' holiday period would range
between 225 and 275 lives lost in
traffic accidents, the national safe
ty council estimated. - .
i California, with 13 traffic
deaths, led the nation in the num
ber of highway, fatalities. New
York led from all causes with 16
deaths. .?
5 Seven states, Alabama, Arkan
sas, Connecticut, Maine, Missis
sippi : North Carolina and South
Carolina, reported' no deaths by
violence. : w i
Washington had six fatalities,
five traffic, one drowning. Oregon
reported two traffic deaths.
Marshall Raid
Isn't Opposed
, WASHINGTON, Jan. 1
Army bombers carried out .three
raids on Japanese bases in the
Marshall islands and encountered
little opposition, the- navy report
ed today.- -V-
No interception was encounter
- ed when -heavy bombers hit
Kwajalein and' light bombers es
.. corted by Airocobra- fighters at-
tacked Mffle. -1 -ArV
. This was in sharp contrast with
the heavy fighter" opposition, that
was met in the last previously an-
nounced raids on those two points.
The third raid took - medium
bombers over Jabor, in the Jaluit
atoU. .-The navy statement,; pre
r pared iby J" Admiral , Chester Wl
Nimitz, commander iin chief bf
- the Pacific fleet, omitted any ref
erence to opposition " there, but
dids'ay none of our planes- was
damaged. In . the raid on: Jabor,
ground installations ' were strafed
a? well as bombed.
Deposed Bolivian
Erc3ideiitOte3 ::;
Vinericxni
ACiA, Peru,: Jan. l-aVEx
rrel Jsnt Cnriqna - Penaranda .of
Bolivia, overthrown in- a
coup
in a
J'etat Eecember 13, said
'itatcrr.cst here today that Ameri
fcaa cavsrnraents by'; their -recent
J-;r?crr::-t to consult ' each? other
:Lcr:r3 riccjrJzl-.j :new -!fcovern-;:-
:-t3 fomed ty frc J;ad :tac-
:y rcrudliicJ t .2 r..-..i-d2mocra-'
t::-ch;ry Li ry ccr.try.
Taxi Driver Xlinh
RoiigU Argument
ALBANY, Orei Jan. l-VCecfl
Hikson, taxi driver, told police to
day a passenger hit - him on the
head with a whisky bottle but
that he overcame his assailant
and threw him out.'.v.;v
. State Police Officer Don Chris
tensen soon brought in a! battered
youth with one shoe missing. BDc
son " identified - the youth as his
assailant. The youth was booked
as Clarence A.. White. 18, tran
sient, and ctasraed with assault
with intent to rob.
Reds Rout Foe
As Old Polish
Border Neaired
D (Continued from page 1) D
surge far beyond Kiev, the com
munique also announced that Gen.
Ivan Bagrarnian'a , First Baltic
army had captured 28 populated
areas I west " and northwest of
Nevel in a renewed drive toward
Latvia. Other red army units were
tightening their hold on 'Vitebsk
below iNeveL i ?
Vatutin's army was closing hard
upon Berdichev.- the Junction of
the - Leningrad-Odessa and Warsaw-Odessa
railway lines! 25 miles
below j Zhitomir, which
day to the Russians.
fell Fri-
By i capturing Vblodarka
bJs
forces 'also have outflanked deep
ly Belaya ' Tserkov along the
southern side of the Kiev salient.
Volodarkka is 12 miles northwest
of Belaya .Tserkov and I W miles
southwest of Kiev. Th Russian
line ia - the southwestern section
of the! Kiev bulge now runs west
from Yolodarka through Pogre-
bishche and Samgorodokl The lat
ter town is 12 miles from the Bug
river hear Vinnitsa. ,
Two Killed
E (Continued from page 1) E
ferson; when they offered the sol
dier a pride. He was to take a bus
out of Albany,' and Miss Green
turned! the car off highway 99 at
the Geary street crossing. The
car was hit by the second section
of the south bound Southern Pa
cific train. The soldier passenger
was killed instantly by the Im
pact of the train which threw the
car 60 feet, against - m , telephone
pole which was broken off. The
accident happened at the junction
of the Santiam highway and Pine
street in Albany at 11:40 Saturday
morning.
Miss Green - was employed by
the Mountain States Power com
pany at Corvalli where she lived
with her mother at 401 Norm
16th street. . i J
LEBANON", Jan. 1 Wilma
Green was one of the five child
ren of Mrs. Lela Green and the
youngest of three girls. The family
came to Oregon from Canada 16
years ! ago and the children at
tended Lebanon schools.
Two brothers. Warren and Wil
liam are in the army. Warren has
been in the army signal corps but
was recently transferred to the
army air corps and is stationed in
Texa&j William in in the cavalry
and was very recently home on
a furlough. i
Eileen Green is a USMC ser
geant ; and ; has ! been . stationed in
Salem; The second sister is Louise
with the. US forestry service in
Portland.' " .. -
The; family was broken up when
three ' members : entered military
service and Mrs. Green went with
the younger daughter, Wilma, to
Corvallis. The father died several
years ago. :". ! '. -
SgtJ Eileen Green was trans
ferred Saturday to the Portland
recruiting office of the US marine
corps.:. -'.
Vandegrif t
Becomes Head
Of Mamies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1
Century-old tradition, with a ser
enade and toasts quaff ed in hot
buttered rum,! was. observed by
the marine corps today as Lt. Gen.
Alexander Al Vandegrift became
18th commandant of the. corps. ;
It. was In 1801 or about that
time-f-that the; marine band first
stood: before the quarters of the
commandant and played - stirring
martial . music i as, a 'new marine
chief took office.' f - r
Always since then the tradition
has been 4 observed ' today the
band; serenaded Vandegrift with
the marine hymn, a new march
bearing hist name, and U Dixie",
for bK home is in VIrginla.i:ic
' Vandegrift. who commanded
troops which drove : the Japanesei
from r Guadalcanal,' and led the
invasion at Empress Augusta Bay
on Bougainville, r succeeded ; LL
Gen. Thomas tC Hotcomby who
Immediately . was . commissioned
as a full eeneral 4he first four-
star general in the marines. ; .
Ilolcomh, the navy has said,
will be retained on active duty for
"an imnortant assignment." No
indication has been given of the
nature of that assignment, but it
seemed likelr that he would be
come a member of the staff of Ad
miral Ernest J. Kins, naval com
mander. Jn chief," as sin expert on
the inareasir.s!y Important axn
phlbiluj tyrs cf warfare.!
AslTrain Hits
i: -i.
Thoiandth : ;
MembetiNoted
A (Continued from paga 1) jA
long but also sponsored a certain
amount of newspaper, advertising
in their own behalf offering tes
timony of the necessity, the pb-
ligation, and responsibility of jau
professional and business Inter
ests of the citr ia supporting the
chamber t commerce. ii order
that -a fuller measure of civic
Sfttessiveness. and ,) commercial
productivity can be achieved.
T?he tremendous buying power
that can be created and developed
for. our community through the
combined efforts j of the Salem
Chamber of Commerce member
ship and - the official staff ,will
benefit the membership far in (ex
cess of the small , dues that ere
paid Jot support of the Chamber.
A tabulation of the results of the
past year alone; proves that mil'
lions of, dollars 1 worth of buying
power . can be -produced ! In ; our
cornmunity. and In this 1 respect
every business t and professional
unit of our combined commercial
enterprises in the territory that
the Salem Chamber of Commerce
serves becomes a "beneficiary far
In excess of the financial 1 support
which - it - is expected to render
the chamber. j
"As president of the f Sal
Chamber of Commerce I appre
ciate the honerlof being tallowed
to serve the second-largest cham
ber of commerce in the state of
Oregon. To the many loyal work
ers who have brought about real
ization of this successful expan
sion program I nwe a deep debt
of gratitude. To the entire mem
bership, the board of directors.
and the staff, L as a business man,
and citizen of Salem, offer my
sincere desire to assist in always
working for a better and bigger
Chamber of Commerce for our
city- , - t i I ; H '
Under the new arrangement, 14
directors of the chamber of com
merce are to be elected by ithe
members. These subsequently will
elect the president and other! of
ficers. The King Bing of the Cher
rians, president of the Retail
Trade bureati and president of the
junior chamber of commerce will
be additional non-voting directors.
Nominees for. the 14 regular
places bn the directorate, an
ounced last week by the nomin
ating committee, include: ; ft
Position No. ;? 1 Jim ; Condra,
Frank Doerfler; Dewey Greiner.
No.- 2 Ralphs Campbell, urUn
Page, Brazier Small. i .
No. 3 Lowell E. . Kern, Ed
Schreder, Gene Vandeneynde.
No. 4 Fred y A nun sen, Percy J
Biundell, Lowell Jones. .
No. S Lester ! Barr, Elmer
Church, William Stacey. f J
No. 6 nda E. Irwin. Ora Mc-
Intyre, Winnie tyjobJST '
No. 7 Keith Brown, Robert
Elfstrom, Lee Eyerly. ..; j (
No. 8 Bill S Braun, . Francis
Smith, Una Smith. M ' ! V.'
No. 9 Guy Hickok, pan Jar-
man, Elmer Scellars.! "SI
No. 10 Ralph Johnson, Stanley
Keith, F. H. Weir. ; ... M i'. .
No. 11 Burr Miller, Earl Ver
non, Loyal Warner. " i . j ,
No. 12 L. V, Benson, G rover
Hillman, Gilbert Madison. ,
No. 13 Dan Hay, Al Ramseyer,
WaUer ZoseL f 1
No. 14 Carle lAbrams, Orval
Lama, W. L. Phillips. j r
Perkins Sunk
In Collision
I (Continued from page 1) i I
Announcement of the loss of the
Perkins indicates that this ls the
second American (destroyer to go
down in New Britain-New Guinea
waters recently;; It was : explained
that tonighrs communique does
not refer-; to action in which a
destroyer -was lost and a -coastal
vessel damaged. Secretary of the
navy Knox recently mentioned the
loss "of that -destroyer and! the
damage to the "coatstal vessel. "
The commanding officers of
both the Perkins and the APC-21
were reported to- be among sur
vivors. The - Peridns skipper; Is
Commander -Gerald Lyle Ketch
uf. of Pine Bluff, Ark. the APC-21
was commanded; by LL (JX7.)
William N. Vlachos, Swarthmore,
Pa. ' - 1 ' y
The v PerMns ' was a l,45-ton
craft, 371 feet long, commissioned
September 18, 1938. Her normal
complement was 200.' She i was
armed -with five inch guns and e
battery of quadruple guns, j The
Perkins was one of the vessels
buflt with 1 the 4 funds; provided
under the-National Recovery! Act
in 1933. r. 1 -r 4 1 ,
The coastal ' transport ' ' was r a
230-ton vessel, about ' 100 Ifeet
long." "1 J"
k The date of the loss of the
coastal- transport,! which i could be
used t either td Icarryi cargo ; or
personnel. Indicated that it might
have 'gone down during the land
ing- operations' at Arawe, New
Britain. . I t -"-.
Bits. CHAN ... LAM
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-,.-.C::iNI2 Cerfcailsts
211 North Liberty t
Upstairs Portland General Cectrlr
Co OtQcs 1 oro " Saturday or 1 7 j
IS ia to 1 pj t.; S o 1 pjn coa-1
sultattoa. Elood pressora m-"i t?rin '
tests are free 1 citars l'rcutJ
wnca IS1T - -r 1
Signing of
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L Only 'person around here,; who
seems to have made any resolu
tions ! Is the ' weatherman. Ignored
for most of 1943, he now proposes
to take the headlines far 1344. 'Sao
joke, he predicts mow, -
And there will,; no doubt, ; be
many bachelor, whoc will . be
right ready to take that leap year
proposal seriously Hit every otti
er motorist bell do almost any-
thing for chatnst .
j'. : i ; ' ir V ,;i-i;r r .
HereV a money-saving tip : for
lovers of esthetic I dancing:;;, You
will- need no ..admission ticket to
watch the soldier boys who trip
the light fantastic dimce nights in
the service station across the cor
ner from the armory-, and Crystal
Gardens. They're better on rainy
nights the long raincoats swoosh
out, then. - .,
That nasty man who says in a
loud; voice: No! I won't tell you,
I want td talk to a manT .when
be calls The Statesman newsroom
has made a terrible mistake. He
addressed one of his Christmas-
New j Year's cards so that It came
to me. Since tt is signed, by his
dog; perhaps it was a canine mis
take, for I know the dog could
never bark so harshly as his mas
ter. i
Dairy Subsidy
Is Continued
Q (Continued from page 1) Q
boosting consumer prices of milk.
- The WFA said the January rates
for the entire country would av
erage 40 cents per hundred pounds
for fluid milk and 5.1 cents a
pound for butterfat. :
. A -similar subsidy on cheese
which expired today is expected to
be continued, officials .said. An
announcement may! be made early
next week. : '
; The January adjv'stments In the
dairy subsidy rates provides a S
cent Increase for ; fluid milk in
areas where the rate has been
at the minimum level of 30. cents,
and an increase in several western
states from 33 and 40 cents' to 50
cents and an increase from 4 to 8
cents in the niinimum rates- on
butterfat. ...!'--.
The-rates by area Include: 1
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas. J Montana. Wromint 'Idahoi.
Washinston east of the Cascades.
Oregon east of the Cascades 33
cents per hundred pounds for
milk and 1 cents a pound for but-f
terfai, : - . rsi t ; !U ; -a f'n- i
Germany Can't
Match Allies
Production
B (Continued from page 1) P
armaments' for defense- in ; 1944.
Shipping remains the chief econ
omic weakness which prevents
Japan from fully exploiting con
quered territories and expanding
further its economic base.
- "Japan has failed to capitalize
fully on its conquest .since Pearl
Harbor. Primarily the measure of
Japan's war production is: the . ca
pacity of its pre-Pearl Harbor in
dustrial plant rather than the raw
material resources of Its - recent
conquest, C:'-':-;--4'-J'v
Year Decisive
Says Bricker
COLUMBUS, C; Jan. 1
Events of 1944 may well determine
the course ef" civilization for cen
turies to come, , Gov. John W.
Bricker declared tonight in a na
tionwide 1 New Year's ' messsi
broadcast over 170 radio stations.
;l-Aa we: enter 19441 b4 said,
"thai forces of evil and destruction
are being driven to . the. wall and
the forces ; of righteousness 'and
freedom f are on the conquering
march . ; . But, when this war is
wod, f there f atill will I be memon
tous decisions to make and diffi
cult problems to salve."-yJj.-.
: The Ohio chief executive, who
recentiy announced his candidacy
for - the republican presidential
nomination,7 declared: , ' 3
. .TThis year; will determine whe
ther the place of the Individual in
society shall be strengthened or
whether he shall become more and
more , dependent upon organized
government. This government was
organized as a protection against
the power of the masses as (well
as1 the classes.' - i, t.-t i .....:
VT?nnT"T7f'f! Have any ef rw.caiSa beesit, t
i y-t'-LiXlinm.a ii A stolen and slaaghteredr , -
Here is Insurance that will cover this loss, also loss by fire,
flood; windstorm, fallen buildings, killed -while on .highways
and roads or being transported, from one farm to another
.land'many other perils. ; -i -.
.. nates 75c- per -313 which about what you now pay for
fire insurance alone. . - - .-
Iluins Office has always the insurance to fit -your needs.
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Ffccssl; Raid
C (Continued from pay I) O
" Tiie allied communique specif
ically listed ' important: Cam
ban beaxinx factories at Ivry; and
Bois de Colcnbes and the air
fields at. Chateau Bernard, oste-
balf mile south of Cognac, and at
t. Jean ITAngely, 23 miles north
west of 1 Cbcnac.u the Fortress
and- Liberator targets. ' V
Then today Mosquitos and Hur
ricanes, escorted by Spitfires and
Typhoons,- underscored -the un
ceasing allied air activity by go
ing out toward the Boulogne-Dieppe
area for attacks on "m&i-
ta ry - 'objectives In : northern
France the same ' phraseology
which officials " have used in de
scribing ; the Immense' operations
this week f and - last - against the
supposed "rocket-gun coast. Ear
lier squadrons of Spitfires had
thrust home offensive patrols.; All
these planes returned safely, i -
SehatoreS
Warjih Etkrbpe
Ending in '44
WASHINGTON, : Jan. 1
Members of congress generally
expect the war in Europe to end
in a smashing victory; for the
United Nations in 1944 but fear
the fight against Japan will last
into 1945 and poasibly until 1947.
A check; of representative cross
section of senators disclosed today
that a majority believes Germany
will collapse before many months
if an allied invasion of the con
tinent is added soon to the weigh
ty blows now" being; delivered
against ithe nazt ; armies by the
Russians, j " ' " ;"'; ' - ";r: '
Predicting the war's end in Eu
rope this year, Senator O'Ma
honey (D-Wyo.) expressed be
lief that before the end of the
new year th nation's big problem
will be to find "jobs and markets.
I However,' Senator -Thomas (D-
Utah), acting . chairman of the
military committee in the absence
from Washington of Senator Rey
nolds (D-NC), told a reporter
he thought few people realize what
a tough fight lies ahead before
Japan can; be conquered.
Heiglbts Taken
By Fifth Army
r (Continued from page 1) F
ground land, kept most -allied
planes out of the air.
The positions taken by the
Americans! place them about two
miles southwest of Viticuso and
approximately half - a dozen miles
from Casslno, the important road
Junction 79 miles from Rome. ,
-The status. of ruined San Vit-
torio, whose underground ; wine
cellars have been used by the
Germans to turn the village into
a veritable hedgehog, remained in
doubt and allied headquarters had
no confirmation of the capture of
the heavily-fortified position at
the base of ML Samucro although
the Bari radio, controlled by the
government of Marshal Badoglio,
announced yesterday it had been
taken- by the Americans, .-j
Jfo matter how tempting.it
may seem to stay out late'
think of the meaning, and
the demands of your job'
and insist on at least eight
hours of sleep every night:
more at least one night a
week! When you are - well
rested you are less likely to -be
rundown, and to be a
target for illness If you
have trouble sleeping, by all .
' means consult your doctor; ;
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