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1 1 '- " L 111 - ' ; Imp eddie Allies Crasn i : 1 1 - o TlffD' A 9. ILaimS' Forces ; . , . ... . . -,- . ; . , . . . -i . : ' .. t First the training camps, then the hospitals. -Construction for military pur- poses which began about four . years ago was swiftly accelerated following Pearl Harbor. Initial provision was for local defense and then for waging war. Air and naval bases were laid out, coast- al defenses set up, great training ' camps constructed, munitions and supply depots! located and built That Job Is done, We get" ready now for the wreckage of war. The navy is building hospitals at As toria and Klamath Falls.-The ar my has Installed no new hospitals in this; state, but has done so in ' Washington and California. Soon what we shall see will be men with the wounds of battle, where . now those in uniform are in the ' pink of physical fitness. Without doubt the sight of men maimed and blinded, crippled ' and broken will: have a sobering effect The glory of war is. lost ' for one who has stopped a ragged piece of shrapnel, or taken a gre- nade fragment in': his: face; but usually the injured person himself ' is braced for the ordeal and takes - - it with; a soldier's courage and '- patience. But what about the pub lic? How will they bear the shock? And how will, they respond in the ; way of helping the wounded to readjust themselves on their re--lease from the army on medical : discharges? The people have been " - keen to entertain and . help the ' young chaps as they prepared for : war. Will they lend the helping hand that will be needed by the war casualties more than by any- - one else? If civilian response is valuable to the soldier in training or in action in helping him keep up his . morale so is it valuable to the ..men wounded in the fighting. . They, must not be shunned or avoided, - neither should they be ' given a maudlin sympathy for : either course dooms them .to a i class apart. The cheery greeting, assistance toward a job, the "lift" In dark moments and the kindly consideration 'which looks to fac ing the future rather , than reliv- - ing the past are what will be need- ed, giving the injured; men them selves a reassurance and a feel ing of personal value. After the camps, the hospitals. The home front must prepare for - the reverse tide of warfare. Bridges Seeks F rv- orce runs Intentions : By HAROLD FLIEGER WASHINGTON, Jan. 28-(P) . '. Sen. Bridges? (R-NH), laid plans ? today to force President Roose- velt's hand n a fourth term de cision through legislation requir ing that the hames of presidential candidates bi printed on the bal ... lots which must be mailed early ' to let service men vote. Bridges said he would suggest Monday thai- the democrats ad- Vance their national convention to ' a date early enough to list the V ticket on overseas ballots, j I : . ; The federal ballot form in the " administration's bill carried blank spaces for president, vice presi - -dent, senators and : congressmen. ? The voter 4itnr could write in i (Turn to Page 2--Story F) Government Officials Split I With I Ramirez I - 1 . ! : h - MONTEVIDEO, Jani 2&-JP) The military governmnet of Gen. Pedro Ramirez, president of Ar--gentina, . wai split wide open to night as a result of the country's severance . of diplomatic relations with the. axis. -.'" v.;;.-, ? Cen. Arturo Rawson," a com rade in arms with Ramirez in the June revolution of army leaders, i. resigned as ambassadors to Brazil because he! was ; too pro-allied, Three cabinet members, the may--e. of Buenos Aires, and several t minor - government officials also resigned, but -because they were I too pro-axis. ' i' t - Rawson served as president for 48 hours after the successful coup ' last June 4jj giving way to Raml- rez. Wednesday, Rawson in a cort i gratulatory I message to Ramirez after the latter- had announced severence of relations with Ger smany and Japan, said the action ; fulfilled me purpose of the up rising. - - ' i I An open break between the two i revolutionary leaders became evi dent yesterday when - Ramire in a curt message signed by his sec retary, Colj Enrique P. Gonzales, ' t rebuked Rawson, declaring that a f rupture of relations with the axis j was not the purpose of the revolu ; lion but that the uprising was for : "national recuperation and affir mation of Argentine soverignty. Fcrd Vorkcrs Strike EnnoiT, Jan. Ford Holer company spokesman re - c J tcr lrht that 17C3 of the iiZO r::.ht shift war workers at tv.e ITI-hlarid Park plant "had gone en . j: " ; s I'"5. : : wundbd 1651 .- ' -. BSaSSSSSSBSSMSSpMSSSSkBMSSKMSSMMBSSKiSSWSMBaSSSSSSSSSSSSSkSSBBMBSaMMMaSSSS' - BSSBBSSSaBSSSSBSSSSSSSSSSSSSBSSSiBSSSSSaSSSSSSSSSWSSSSMaaSSSSSSSSSMSS imiZTY-THmD YEAH mm Hull Promises Butchers j Of Nippon to Be Brought To Account; Congress Irate , By Tom Reedy ' '-j. WASHINGTON, J an. 2(AP) Enraged as never before, America tonight Vowed "merciless Yenge ance on every one of tfie Japanese who tortured j and murdered the unforgettable heroes of Bataan. j Even the calm,- judicial Secretary of State Cordell Hull was moved to use such words' as "demons" and butchers of Nippon would be brought to account,; ' -; j Cries of hang the Mikado' and "bomb Japan out of existence" roared out of congress. From all quarters expressions of sheer rage grew more vocal by the house as the full import of last night's army-navy disclosure : ; : : -O sank in. f - "; il-i -; ly',l-'': 1C Britain Riled By Atrocities SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28-( The i war - conscious west coast, home of well over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry prior to Pearl Harbor, found words a poor pal liative for stories of Japanese atrocities tonight, and many were the vows of vengeance. j M Salinas, Califs" home of 150 captured heroes of Bataan, Mayor Edson G. Thomas said nothing less thsatr- c6mpletet sabjugationf ot I- Japanese ; "savages"- would ease the memories of such "inhuman treatment." And the chamber ; of commerce called its stand, forever opposing the return of Japanese to 'California, 'completely Justi fied." LL Gen. Delos C. Emmons, com? manding general of the western defense command and former war-time military governor of Hawaii, said an "exact and unre mitting justice" would be meted out i for ."dastardly and cowardly acts.. He warned against retalia tion in this country, however, and said such action would "do more harm than good. The . situation, so far as could be learned, remained quiet .in the four Japanese relocation centers in the far west at Tule Lake and Manzanar, Calif., and at Rivers and Poston, Ariz. At the town of Tulelake six miles from the segregation center now housing 15,000 proven, po tential or suspected disloyalists and their families, street-corner groups renewed their angry pro test at the recent move whereby the war relocation authority again took over - control of the center from ; the army. " The army was called in after violent outbreaks last November. It retains an .mx temal guard. ; . -- The : Manzanar evacuees - were very f much : disturbed,. Project girector Ralph P. Merritt saidHe said the evacuees there were "practically all loyal people" and sympathetic . with the - American attitude.;, . Turn to Page J Story E) Slavs Pierce Rail line v LONDON, Jan. 28 -- Yugo slav partisans, hammering at the Germans on four widespread fronts, reported today that they had -pierced six holes in a main cross-country railway from Bel grade toZ agreb. '! Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) and his- forces kept the Germans from shifting their forces by constant attacks on : their communications, partisan communique indicated. Bitter fighting also was reported still raging fen eastern Bosnia In the vicinity , of Zvornik, 75 miles southeast of Belgrade, and around Tuzla, 22 miles northwest of Zvornik. . J -. " . ' ; The Germans ; were said 'to- be inarching troops to Tuzla on the Croat coast around. Sen below the bombed port of Fiume, and parti sans launched 1 offensive opera tions in Slovinia in the Ravna Groa sector, the war bulletin said. : At least . cine German trains were destroyed or derailed in the last month with heavy nazi cas ualties and a considerable tie-up of traffic, . authoritative allied sources in Cairo revealed. No one knows yet exactly how many of the ' US and i Filipino troops were brutally slain but Palmer Hoyt, former direcior of WOI's domestic branch, declared that most of the 50,000 who sur rendered met their deaths I from deadly heat, thirst, starvation and other j forms of torture. Hoyt was critical that the ghastly news was withheld from the public for two years. ' ' j.. ,:;?.! '; : ; a .- Two reasons were ; given today for making the information? pub lic now. Stephen Early, presiden tial secretary, said there was no longer any point to ; keeping the veil of secrecy. Instead, Early de clared that there was no hope of the Japanese allowing further re lief supplies to reach the captives. .The OWI.. said publicatioa, was decided upon in. the belief that it might bring some improvement in the Japanese attitude: toward prii oners. ! . '. I Sec'y Hull revealed that the government is compiling ; all in formation possible about prisoner treatment and said the criminals will . be punished when ' the war i (Turn to Page 2-r-Story J 7th Air Force Blasts Naiirii, Other Atolls ; ' M : PEARL HARBOR,' Jan. O-iJP) Seventh air. force bombers , re sumed the air offensive in the mid-pacific yesterday by ; blasting Nauru island west of the allied held Marshalls in a daylight, raid and by hitting Wotje, Mili and Maleolap atolls in the enemy-held Marshall islands. ! ;? ' :The raid on phosphate-producing Nauru was the first since De cember 21. No American losses werec reported by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. .. U . ;. i .;. The raid on the Marshalls was the 22nd consecutive daily attack this month. One American dive bomber was shot down by ground fire at Mili and our total plane losses were described as light. -V ; j No Japanese fighter ) opposition was encountered in! any of the raids. ' - , .Vr' Medium bombers started fires among ground facilities at; Wotje and dive bombers and : fighters bombed and strafed airdrome in stallations and gun positions at MilLS-'j'v-U.-f; j h ;-f .,-;- ; Heavy bombers dropped 20 tons of explosives on important Taroa airdrome on Maleolap atoll, caus ing extensive damage. V 22 Jap Planes j Lost at Rabaul j ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Satur day, Jan. 29 Twenty -two Japanese planes have r been shot down on the 24th ' day ' of raids this I month to hit the stronghold of Rabaul', headquarters an nounced today.' ; . More than 100 planes from Sol omons bases delivered the attack Wednesday and four were lost. Allied , planes ; have missed ' only two days this month in smashing at the northeastern New. Britain fortress. The enemy losses an nounced today raised the total ac counted for so far this, month, to more than -380. ; ." i. . 7eatlicr I t Friday nuxlmnw ? tempera ture 59, minimum 25. Eiver 3 :;feei . f . ; ? Occasional rala w est, snow ever aad east ef Cascades; Lille ciiare Li ttrcrerataxe. i Salem. Oregon. Saturday Morning. January 23, 1944" It Wasn't All Nigh itmare V SEATTLE, . Jan. 28-iqFT-Eleven months in a Japanese prison camp burned, into Cmdr. Melvyn 1. McCoy's memory a nightmare rec ollection, but he can smile at one of his experiences on a prisoner's workldetaiL : L ,f i "We were: carrying cases bf milk from .(he- top ef an athletic stadium to the street, he said. "The store, room was packed witlr provisions, and we noticed among them t a" case - of bourbon whisky that looked as if it wouldn't be too 'difficult to open. : ' . - Three of us went to work on the project One distracted the Jap guard's attention by talking to him. Another kept watch. ; And the third worked a bottle f whisky out of the case and filled his canteen with it. I "That night five of us got drunk on that one canteenful. It didn't hold a lot of liquor but it doesn't take much to get you when you're starving to death." . t j US-Spariish Policy Due to Be 1 J By FLORA LEWIS WASHINGTON, J a h . 2$-(ff") The state department announced tonight that it is reconslderfng general : relations between Spain and the United States "in the light of trends in Spanish policy." t i-. Pending that . reconsideration, the department said, loadings j of Spanish tankers with - petroleum products for Spain have been' sus pended.; - ' . ;: ;i j .. "Th Spanish government nas shown a certain reluctance to sat isfy requests deemed both reas onable and important by the state department, and concerning which representations have continuously been addressed to the Spanish government for some time past,1 the announcement said. 1 J ' It ' then listed these points on which Spain has failed : to satisfy the allies: j 1 Certain Italian warships And merchant vessels continue intern ed in Spanish ports. 2 Spain - continues to permit the export to Germany of certain vital war materials such as Wolf ram " (tungsten ore used in mak ing armor-piercing steel.) 1 1 3 Axis agents are active; both in continental Spain and in Span ish African territory as well as in Tangier. 1 ! 4 Some portion of the Blue (Spanish) division appears! still -involved in the war against Rus- sia. 1 1 ' 5 Reports have been received, indicating the conclusion of a fi ' ' (Turn to Page 2 Story II) Chang Individual Bond Purcliases in Marion County Pass Half Way Mark to Reach $7,174,000 Half way mark in the sales-to-individuals phase of the fourth war; loan was passed in Marion county Friday when the total 'rose to $1,174,000, and Jesse Card, county war finance , committee chairman, declared bond ' buyers were really hitting a pace which would spell .victory if inain tained. until the $25100 goal is reached and .exceeded. " , i . . , . - - i' ; i f People have been responding in great, shape all over the coun ty Gard declared, "but the pace must be continuedto the end of the drive if we are , to make as good a record as we did last time. Marion is a top-flight county in bond sales and - we aim to keep it that way. The committee knows that everyone within the county borders has pride in our showir': and will do everything possib toward, making that quota.; j : -. : Silverton's bond show Friday night was reported a huge j suc cess, both as a stimulus to bond sales - and as entertainment. A similar show is scheduled for to night at 7:30 o'clock in the Wood barn high school auditorium. The Young Oresonians cf Portland, in cluding Jean Toy ' end tlary Thompson,, who have Just ended a two months tour of UCO ccrr-.s, Reds Gut ' -feakeiliiid Vatutin Beats. Vinnitsa Attack! f din Ukraine -1 ' LONDON, Saturday,-Jan.-29- important- Leningrad - Vitebsk eailway west of take nine, leaving the Germans only one raldroadi ;f6r.Tretreat?from' 4he north ;v where , other ( Russian forces have pushed to within 34 miles of Estonia and have al most cleared "the Moscow-Leningrad double-track trunk 'railway and its parallel highway, Moscow announced today. Far to the south in the Ukraine, where the Russians were nearest the Rumanian border, Soviet forc- es under Gen. Nikolai. Vatutin again beat back an important Ger man counterattack east of Vin nitsa, said the midnight Moscow communique recorded by the So viet monitor. 1 Sixty-five German tanks were destroyed and 1200 Germans killed in this fighting. The Germans failed to make gains, Moscow said. 1 r'-- - ; " -i In the north the - Russians now held all of the Moscow-Leningrad line except the town of Chudovo, 75 miles southeast of Leningrad. Complete Russian occupation of the vital - railway was expected within -the next 24 hours as the Russians routed German' garri sons holding out north- of Chudo vo and captured weapons and am munition. ; - ' i . . vp-. ' '. ' " j Premier Mirshal Joseph Stalin "a special order of the day earl- fer told of. . the .. capture of - the large station of Lyuban and four others on this line and then de-? clared: ' . ;4 , ..v, k V- "Thus the maJnf j-ailway 4 line connecting . Moscow . with Lenin- grad the October, railway line- has been freed , from the . German invaders .along its entire; stretch, excluding, the station of Chudovo where.. the. enemy is encircled, and being annihilated. - . The premier-marshal ordered a victory salute of 12 salvos from 124 Moscow gun to mark the achievement which, when the line is repaired, will once again per mit Russia's two largest cities to exchange supplies and men. , (Turn to Page 2 Story O - lM DeVlieg Aliasing ; In Burma Action Nstlfleaun that First 14. Robert L. DeVlieg . had been missing .m aetiosi over Banna , siaee Janaary IS was received here Friday br his wife, the for mer Marian M aeLaehlaa, daaghter ef Mr. and Mrs. L. R.. MaeTLachUa ;of Salem. IX De Vlfeg one of a groap of pilots who flew In the' air show held at Salem air Held the fall of 14L was pUotiag a P-33 1st the Nfath photo adroa Jaa-: vary IS." - : '. ': . .". t-. and versatile & Richard : Michael Dick, are headliners. . ; Other special events throughout the county win follow, the com mittee promised. Appreciation of the cooperation given by Ma). Gen. John E. Dahlquist, CoL E. CSnow and the officers directly in charge, was expressed in connection, .with the army exhibit r in - Salem on Thursday, one of the best-attended special events to date.' Air raid wardens ; in- districts bordering Salem's city limits have become active' in- solicitation and Moody Benner, chief air raid war den, has ' announced assistants in his territory, including . Virgil Starr on Lansing avenue, Roy D. Anderson on Evergreen avenue, Fred Wolf on Fisher avenue, Bert Hulst on Sunnyvale avenue. Ben' near will solicit in the vicinity of Silverton - road Just outside the city limits, and Glen Heinlein in the Auburn ' community- Arthur Smither, :, Salem 4 chairman, ex pressed appreciation of this aid which will take care of areas not solicited - otherwise because they are between the block leaders ter ritory -and that of the rural solici tors. : David --Wied,- Jeffarson district chairman, a caller at bond head quarters Fillzjf jroudly asreur.:- Ptk 5e No. 254 WASHINGTON, . Jan. , 23 HPh Wayne Merse was reported te 4 v nis-ht"W have resigned from the -, war labor erd in order to seek . election as senator from Ore gon. He is known to have, been - considering snch a step far seme .. time, and friends Mid they mi ' derstand ma reslgnatloa already has gene to the White Hoase. Bforse, 43,; is serving: ea the ' WLB daring a leave of absence as dean " of the University of Oregon law school. He is a re publican and, lit seeking a sen-! .. .ate seat, would oppose Sen. K . fas Holxaaa in the republican primary. Informed of the report of his-resignation, Morse de- elined eonunenf. ' Solons Okeh ; Social Security Tax Freeze' By FRANCIS J. KELLY r WASHINGTON, Jan. : 2S-P A freeze of .'social security tax rates, strongly opposed by Presi dent Roosevelt, was"approved to day by a joirit committee adjust ing senate and bouse versions of the jiew -revenue bilL -Employers - and; employes cov ered by 'the act will .continue to Pay 1 per- cent 1 pay roil - taxes throughout this yeor under the freeze. The rate had been-sched-uled to double automatically Jan uarys I, but a stop-gap resolution :held the proiected-rifle oif-S0-days. " As on two previous occasions, the move to block the increase de veloped in the senate. Sen. Vand enberg (R.Mich),: led the Tight, contending the social security re serve fund is from five .toll times larger - than the i estimated, drain upon it in any of ; the next" five years. ;. rl'..' is. ' ' '-1 In his budget message . a few weeks ago, Mr. Roosevelt "earn estly urged" congress to let the increase - take ' effect: He said re--serves should be built up now against future benefit demands. . ; The , house conferees decided, j however, - to go along with the senate on the matter. Final for mal approval will -. come when congress - adopts the conference committee's, recommendationa on disputed items in the tax bilL -; r The . committeemen now are near the end of their labors. On ly projected changes , in the war contracts - renegotiation'' law re . (Turn to Page 2 Story G) ed that his district had passed the halfway mark toward its $50,000 quota, and expressed 1 confidence in final success. D. B. Hill of Mill City reported that the Mill City Detroit district Is nearing the half wayupoint.LV. 1 ,: i I George ' Wadsworth, chairman at Gervais, telephoned ; a - report that his- committee had accounted for $13,000 to date, all in E bonds. - Attending ith Sidney Talbot bond rally Friday nigrht at Talbot from the county, committee were Arthur JfC Smither, Salem chair man; Roy Rice, agricultural' chair man, and Mrs. Rice; : Rex Gibson, secretary; County Chairman Card and fPViD.. ,Dotsoni who enter tained with sleihtof-hand and other numbers.- Mrs. E., B. Hen ningsen, chairman in that district, is counting on making the $3,CC3 quota.. :y j--' .v. t ; . Payroll . savings fey industrial workers alone will - account f jr ?;'C3,371 in Marjon county's fourth war loan campaign, workers here were advised by William A. Cir. ham, slat's payroll savir.ci direc tor. ' : -; W--'---; 'The f!rst 13 perrcna to t -y 1Z12 wcrd cf .:'. .3 E Lends i.: e "tj i2- Cw v crCit- . Am i c trp jTi it Wis pcin'sd cut FriJ-y; thrcr ''i ! Cagey Sky Figliters : j Dealing Second Heavy Blow ; j To 'Stand or Die' Germans If" By Edward Kennedy; j 4 ALLIED- HEADQUARTER, Algiers. Jan. (AP)- Allied land and air forces have dealt the nazlj 5fting twin defeat in the battle for Rome, smashhr an enemy asaanlt on the British-American bridgehead -et a pbint 21 miles from the Italian capital and destroyir j 28 German plane in furious sky fights over the land ing beaches, the allied command announced today. 1 Tfc liai deacIc in ai" nf. he repulsing jot kwtfest enemy attack so far against the weekld bridgehead came as German prisoners declared that Adolf j Hitler Jdmself had ordered the German lOrli army to "stand or ;die" on the Cassino front, some CD miles from Rome. i ' " : : -- ' '(The f Cerman'-cori trolled Paris radio in a broadcast reocrded by the British ministry of informa tion in London -said: f "German military -quarters are r expecting another allied landing in t Italy shortly.! Increased allied naval ac tivity has been observed.- Besides the Fifth and Eighth armies an other army is to participate in the battle for Italy.) , j The site of yesterday's ground clash, in which. British troops routed -elements of the German 29th armored division, i was near the little village of Carroceto, i 10 miles due north from the allied beachheads at Anzio. In addition, to inflicting casualties, the Brit ish took more than 100 prisoners and drove the enemy back toward the Appian way. - Despite this German effort and a previously reported . counter attack" by units of the Hermann Goering armored division f near Uttoria, 15 miles . east of Anzio, the allied 'invasion holding .was being slowly but steadily enlarged, latest official word from the area said.: ;.. -v - ::: 1 Gen-i Sir .Harold Alexander's Italian j headquarters said the bridgehead was at least six miles deep at all points and that 'allied spearheads had pushed considerably-farther -inland. The stretch of beach in allied : hands was about 24 miles long, extending: an equal distance on each side of Anzio. Probably a score of villages were in the i fan-ehaped - area engulfed by the landing -forcesa flat, al most treeless country. ' . ! ..German artillery rained shells into the bridgehead, including sal voes . from big: Sguns : mounted on armored trains just outside Rome. Reconaissance disclosed that the nazis were assembling heavy ar mored f forces, . including 60-ton (Turn to Page 2 Story A) , 4 Japanese Lose -1291 Planes " - , I - ' ; - ..- j - -By FRED HAMPSON AN ADVANCED' SOUTH PA- CIFIC AIR BASE, Jan. 29-JPy-Allied headquarters announced to day 129 1 -Japanese - planes were blasted from the sky by South pacific ! airmen from August i. 1. 1S43, to January 25, 1944. i A spokesman for Adm. William F. Halsey, South Pacific allied commander, said our. losses have been heavy on occasions, but aye rage "only one plane , for every seven Japanese planes downed, -(The: figures do not include heavy damage inflicted on the Japanese air force by allied fliers in the Southwest Pacific war thea ter.) . t - ... .u: Th . period' covers. the intense fighting when American marines landed; at Bougainville, ; in the northern Solomons ; islands, -. last November 1, and when the Solo mons i air j. campaign - against , Ra baul, New Britain, began last De cember 17.' ; ; v Halsey's ' spokesman said the figures, do not include probables, which also are "vast." . Breiuers Cut ! uyirig -; WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -P) The war food administration is sued an order today limiting brewers- 1844 purchases of hops and tiieir production of hop products .such as beer-and malt for food to last, year's level, " ' ' -fhcti&T 'iv'srd, officials said, : to -Tf strict the use of hops and ;-mal grains., for brewing rurpoEcs ia order -to" help s.-rure i Jequ-'. supplies cf rr.ilt for food ? ndL c'.':-?r essential wartime uses. - Uadir the order, no bxewer r.-ay L.:y' cr -accept i.i int-a ..reisr qraastl ly -4t- fceps -ihan- he trrl i:i e rr.-nurcfjre or c.t oever- OrvHopB "nfc- --in Bag 23 Planeo Fleet bs Berlin; Blasted By GLADWIN HILL . v LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 29 W)-A powerful i fleet of Britkh bombers thundered toward Eu rope again last night, following up j its attack against shattered Berlin Thursday night and an intensive daylight aerial offensive yester day oyer northern France. - ' During the daylight operations American Liberators, J supported by Thunderbolts and lighter RAF forces, raided mystery targets' in the Pas-de-Calais area, the por tion of France closest to England, without the loss of a single Amer-" ican plane.) v j - i . . London experienced a brief air raid alert tonightits 700th "of the war and seventh this year. , The all clear sounded within- a short t time and no gunfire was i i heard in the center of the city. ! One German plane, however, ! penetrated to the greater London ; area but was driven off by two short bursts of gunfire. A number of persons j were injured when a ! bomb damaged several houses in the Thames estuary area. ; Berlin still, simmered imonf hundreds of fires fron the. RAF ; attack which drove -florae a 1500 long ton blow, one of a series of hard punches which apparently , is necessary to finish off the nazi capital. . . , : i The RAF heavy bembers also , reeked Helgoland, the "German Gibraltar" in the North sea, with a diversionary assault lasf- night .Llj-., -T Other regions in northern France . were attacked as well as the Pas-de-Calais area : which; has been given the popular name of "Rock et Gun Coast. V During the day's operations Ca nadian planes shot down four (Turn to Page 2 Story B) : Canol Project May ntinue SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S-V Captain Maxwell L Rae, army en gineer, said in a 'written state ment today the army, considers completion ; of the Canol project advisable. The Canol oil line par- , allele the Alaska highway. The chief of the San Francisco US engineers office, which has re sponsibility for . the construction, made this comment: - i "Arguments that the period of military expedience is past, with lessening of Japanese threat to continental North America, are not accepted by. the men who are completing this supply route, with , its fueling system, to the north, and . who, hint that . traffic can move in two directions. ;The Alaskan front Is only 25 C 3 miles frpm the heart of Japan. ,"The cost of the project is less than the cost of one day of war. "In the light of military eco nomics, it may well turn out tht the direct contribution of another route to Japan will be a sound investment. - Cpl. Et2ene Bo ill well Killed in Action ; CpL Eorene C Ctbwe" rT-3ate of rarr!!! :-.l:r 1 '1 . school,' Salem, wti 11" :1 Li s - tia In Italy oa J-. . ry 17, 1 " r parents, w he t;w ti...3 I :i rert2ni. hire t 'f .1 t 2." - cca cf f-i ::.-3. rx. : : . n-:hw:v . i r.::- : ress Is 7213 ..-' "i s . ttt yeczj ec!.:.r c '.: I t: - Utzltr t,-I?: r i iar. . . tcr cf L'.! 1 '. i C ' . British Calais