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1 . Satnrday - maxlmsia ten peratsre 44, taialrasEi -2. river U feeL ' 'Occasional rala vrtrA tzrt and snow cast part anf ij and Sanday tlsht. ClouJy Monday. Little cSiaitf e iJ temperaare. mm -Vfinu ( n WW y wan (JJ llTil - 'When protest came from the State school for the deaf tjgainst th location of heavy IndustrV-in lt vicinity lit caused a ripple of mirth. A deaf school,;- the public seemed . to think. could be con ducted m the. middle! of a boiler . factory without ill . effect to its work. But one of. the i deaf school -teachers wrote a letter which was . published in the Oregonian, stat tn briefly i the i e rounds s for : the complaint;, j how rumbling trains drown the ; sensitive hearing aids . used br students and how outside '. none interferes with teaching par- - tially deal ;- cruiaren 10 xrame bounds in speech. It is a mistake - to think that instruction in a deaf school, is limited to teaching the - sign language. Now every effort Is made to teach the children now to use the vocal orcans for speech. But man speaks through his ears; hence the heed of protecting the vestiges of.-hearing. . . . i, am talking .through my hat when -I say that man speaks through his -ears, but the -mean- -in .may be dearer if I say man e speaks by means of his hearing. Most children are, mute, not be- t . cause tf defects in their vocal r- ' jns but because their hearing is defective. Spoken - language . is merely the vocal reproduction of j the "sound impression ; left .in the auditory center of the brain. Lan . guage is-merely the reproducton ef sounds that are recorded ; by prolonged hearing of the same sounds which come to have a rec ognized meaning. The vocal r- . ans like a needle on a phono-: 'r graph record, merely reproduce :. the . sounds with the ears acting J A dialect or brogue is not due , to anatomical differences in ra vocal organs. The Scotchman's , burr is-not caused by baffles in his throat nor the New York East .Sides' Oy,7 oy" to adenoids. The - Pole whose palate ' bounces hard consonants doesn't have a mouth kni differently from the-vltal- iaat whose I speech runs to. labials: (Conthined on, Editorial raw thinlrTpjo; Unaware ; Of Tortures ; f "'ByljAMESD, -WHITE ' ' WASHINGTON, Jan.' 2-(JP) Japan's delay in replying to docu .mented 'stories of her soldiers' barbarities on Bataan led some in the' capital tonight to! think that perhaps. Tokyo officialdom itself was surprised at the details. " ; This could -be true j because of the loose control which the Tokyo war office commonly exercises over the disciplines of troops far afield, and because the Japanese army traditionally hasj. done what it pleases In combat atones, with out letting the government and people know. ' ''-: ; - - "l ' ' : ' The Tokyo radio--after nearly ' 1J hours sUence-broadcast a t jnei dispatch beamed to this country, but apparently l left the Japanese- people, as usual, far the dark. : r- ' - r ,Domei quoted "high military quarters as labeling the Amer ican army and navy charges "vi cious enemy propaganda." and counter - charging American butchering of our wounded sol diers perpetrated on Guadalcan al and "brutal assaults on our helpless hospital ships." s As for civilian Japan's possible ignorance, it is pointed out that " the full horrors her troops com mitted in Nanking and many oth er ? places ; in China were made . known to few Japanese: . Officials who recalled this, and 'also that the Japanese people nev 'er were told of indignities heaped 'open British civilians j in 1839 at Tientsin, see some : possibility of th Bataan-Corregidor: atrocity stories leading to art-eventual im provement of conditions . among "prisoners of war. j Navy Funds to Be ; Spent in Pacific WASHINGTON, Jan, 29 - (JP) The major part of the navy de partment request for $130,000,000 for repair facilities would be spent on the Pacific coast, If congress finally authorized its J appropria tion, ; Chairman' Sheppard (D Calif.) of the house appropriations subcommittee on n a y a 1 affairs said today. r - -i ! ft: The Calif ornian ' said he saw in - the request an "indication that the Pacific activities are being ade quately prepared for and would .be effective in the reasonably hear - future." yyUyyy.:i.:i d f -j,.-' : The navy ; appropriation .would be granted under a bill introduced 'recently y Chairman Vinson (D Ga.) of the house naval affairs ' committee, p Ililler to Broadcast i LONDON, Sunday,! Jan. SB (.T) A German "news agency, broadcast heard by the ministry ef information said Adolf miler; weal J broadcast from his head- 1 esartzrs at boob today In'eon jiectkn with the German cele trallr ef the 11th anniversary ' cf Li 4.tiia t pwtr. KINETY-TnmD YEAB 1 i Admiralty Invasion PossibiV Circled section Indicates area where allies have airfields' from which. apparently, they are bombing the . ers) as possible prelede te lnTasion f Jhese Jap-held regtona. In , vmslon wemld mean stepped vp . . (opeja arrows) and weald eat and their Trak base. (AP WlrephoiO) ! : Rabaiil Raided Again; Plane Losses 400 ap : planes probably were shot down as ' Mitchell ' medium bombers, es corted by .fighters, flew up from Solomons bases to hit the Lakunai airdrome, J the.' enemy's principal fighter , base at that northeastern New Britain fortress.. "- : -. In a favorite - allied . hunting ground for. Japanese shipping f: in ; the vicinity of Kavieng, New Ireland, navy Catalinas' sank an 8000 ton enemy- cargo vessel , the night ot January TT,r : : : . The air arm pressed its cease less, campaign to. soften up the New Guinea are.aboii.V Madmg, current objective . of.the. allied ground forces. MiU'hefls; and fight ers went after the Bogadjim sec toe just south of Madang. The Ra mu valley , and the shoreline below the Japanese 'shipping base. ' The newest victory over Rabaul was noteworthy for the fact that the 23 to 29 enemy planes downed amounted to more than half of the 40 interceptors the Japanese threw into the battle. The raiders lost six planes, mak ing a total of more than 60 as the cost of the attacks made on all but two of the 27 days so far ac counted for. Later on Liberators flew to Ra baul from the Solomons and blast ed supply dumps. The Japanese sent ' up no planes against those raiders." T ; ' ' ' -I Marines Tied a CLEVELAND, Jan. 29 HJP Wounded marines on New Georgia island were trussed with rope and left by their Japanese captors to die, ; Captain David . N. Marshall reported in an interview approved for publication tonight by the of fice of censorship. Last December, ' Captain Mar shall, 30 year old commanding of ficer of company 1, 145th infantry. (Ohio's 37th division) was home on leave here and told an inter viewer the story of enemy atroci ties which he said occurred during a quick American withdrawal on the south Pacific battlefront last summer. ,: Censorship authorities at Wash ington i ordered Capt. Marshall's story withheld but with Friday's disclosure of Japanese torture in flicted on America's defenders of Bataan, publication of the - New Georgia incidents was approved. ; ADVANCED ALLIED HEEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA,' Suhday,"Jan. 0-P)-Rabaul wai raided again on January 27, the 25th raiding mission there by thip'allies this month, during which 23 more planes were shot down 'to soar Nipponese losses in" Jan uary above 400..; w , VP ' j.'-. Headquarters reporting the raid today, said six other enemy In New Georgi James Carlton Nelson Dies Suddenly Saturday Night James Carlton Nelson,' 76, pruW cipal - of the Salem senior high school Ifrome-UH to 1929. and thereafter principal emeritus and registrar so that his ' connection with the school covered a 40-year period,- died Saturday' night. He had carried on his "duties at the high i school - until . the-last few. days. Other school officials said! he had been ill one day,.-then re.- rurned lor one , day which was either Wednesday or Thursday.5 J Throughout his 52 years as an educator Mr. Nelson maintained a personal interest in the welfare of his students and in their extra curricular as well as their scholas tic activities. Having been asso ciated either as principal or regis--trar with so many generations c students, some now past middle 'ife, he enjoyed possibly the wid4 ?st acquaintance of any Salem ; (Turn to Page. 2 Story A) 22 PAGES . ' y - a. d Admiralty islands (broken point- air activity ever Wewak and Kavienc roete between Japs ea New Geinea O Carrier Planes SivarmOver Jap-Held Atolls - . .1- ! H f By WILLIAM HIPPLE -I PEARL HARBOR, JanJ 29 -JP) Posiibly presaging imminent' in vasion of Japan's mandated i Mar' shall Islands in f mid-Pa c 1 fic swarms ot J planes ifrom ) nited States carriers 4 heavily pounded three atolls today which signifi cantly had -drawn some of - the major attention during more than 20 consecutive air raids. T j 't -' - Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said the targets included the air base of Taroa on Maloelap, an' atoll whoch already had undergone 21 raids; the atoll of Wotje, which had; takenl8; and Kwajalein, pre viously hit 16 UmesT f , - Probably sizeable elements of the aircraft carrier forces publicly reported as being " amassed ' for use! against ; the. Japanese have been thrown into the battle. . - (The terse communique did not make clear whether the attacks had: been completed or were con tinuing. ,'. :: ' The Marshalls have been hit for more than 20 consecutive days by Seventh AAF and navy planes but this is believed the heaviest and most concentrated assault yet delivered. '-'. i: ; i . The Marshalls have been poun ded, almost ' daily eincej shortly before the invasion of the Gilberts November 20 when regular raids were begun in order to neutral ize the Marshalls. ; ' - These islands were hit twice before by carrier forces,: which included a heavy concentration of torpedo planes, divebombers and fighters. i ,. , ' Troops Expel j v Argentine 'Mayor.4 , MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 29-yPrThe mayor of an Argentine- city who ordered all flags flown at half mast and seven days of mourning at a protest against the break with the axis has been expelled by troops who occupied the town hall, travelers from Bue nos Aires said today. .ja: Seimm. Ormtfoa Sunday Morning. January 33, Newt Moinma Yanks Apprdacli Cisterna; British Take Carroceto By EDWARD KENNEDY - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers.' Jan. 29-(JPU-Thm allies have . expanded the beachhead south 6t Rome in drivei; which have' placed British troopf with in 18 miles of the eternal city and Americans within light ar tillery range of the Vita point of Cisterna, 14 miles northeast of Anzio and 33 miles from Rome, allied headquarters declared in a special announcement today. - ; The British advance went three miles beyond ' Carroceto where a railway:, bridge 18 miles south of Rome was .captured. - Lieht ar tillery range"; in connection with Cisterna, might mean adything from 'small mortars with a range of a few hundred yards .to a' 75 millimeter, field gun, so it was not known here just what this posi tion was. But it wis considered certain the Germans were unable to use either the air ifeld, the Ap pian iWay; or the railroad in the area. i 1 f - - Cisterna Is' on both : the Appian Way and the main rail! line to the Cassino front which intersect there. Allied airforces have been bomb ing German gun positions f there. Cisterna also has an I important airfield with concrete runways 1 100 yards long, .hangar? and work shops. , y 1 "t'" . The-y Mix y war . ever Italy ; . reached a new peak ef fntensiv ' ty; la which allied planes efaalljl types new semes ana ' 3" enemy' planes ent .of the skies - r axainst a losi ef flv allied air craft. It brenght the allied, twe day total of 87 nasi planes de- sfreyed. ' 1 . . -j j - i The heaviest" air fights broke out over the beachhead where al lied, fighters in six hours knocked down 21 out of 100 German planes which attacked invasion t fleets landing reinforcements! and sup- plies.: J'. . The British advance 12 miles (Turn to Page 2 Story IT) OSC bads' j Club Elects Harry Brock : CORVALUS, Ore., Jan. 29 -(fi3) Harry W. Brock, Portland, was elected ; president of the - Oregon State College Dad's club today. Mark Weatherford, Albany, was chosen vice president; O. R. Maris, Portland, treasurer; Will wt Hen ry, Portland, secretary Ben ; Hil tonj Grants Pass, H. A. Watt, Til lamook, B. Babb, ValseU, Cordon McGilchrist, Salem, Jacob Risley, Mihvaukie, R. T. Ridgley,' Hood River", and George Bi Wallace, Charles W. Wentworth, Paul S. Wright, and . J. Skaggs, all Port and,; directors; 0,y r , - :.. . . The dads commended the state board -of : higher -educationi for a provision made at its last meeting providing special short courses for returning, veterans. They asked the; board to cooperate -with the superintendent of public instruc tion and secretary of state In main-, taming high teaching standards among schools that may seek ac credited standing under terms of the veterans educational aid act. President Strand said the college wilt need to expand its campus fa cilities to meet postwar needs. ' The dads-adopted a resolution urging the board to realize the need for " an enlarged physical plant and be prepared " to share expense -' from direct' state! funds added to student building fees and revenue bonds which have borne almost the - entire . new building costs in the last 16 years. Guns Hoar Over Dover Straits! f LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 3&-JP) Heavy guns roared on both sides of the Dover strait last night and the target of 'the. British artillery was believed to be an enemy con voy between Calais and Boulogne. The British guns poured . salvos in rapid fire and the German batr teries answered in longer spaced bursts, dropping shells in the Do ver area. A brilliant white and or ange glow lit up the channel area as the heavy British guns fired.-; The" action came a week after British coastal guns sarJc an ene my ship if Cap Gtis X'ez. b 3 Officials From Salem Announce Candidacies By RALPH C. CURTIS : Pointing out that he has initiated a municipal program which, due largely to wartime conditions, eannot be expedit ed tdthe point of public adop tion or rejection in the re maining months of . his pres- jent term, Mayor L M. Dough ton announcsd Saturday that he would be a candidate at . the Ma primary for a second term. ; Saturday appeared to be a pro pitious day , for:. launching candi dacies. In Washington, DC, Wayne L. " Morse tossed his hat into the Oregon senatorial -ring,, simiilta neously resigning as .a member of the war labor, board and as dean of the university law school, thus assuring this state of a lively cam paign for the republican nomina tion,: with incumbent : Rufus C Holman as his 'opponent (See also story on Page. 6.) 4:,; .n.v ' ' In : Salem ! two present' office holders in addition to the mayor announced candidacies for reelec tion. In each case, to date no op-; position has 'made itself apparent. Alfred Mundt, -city recorder who won that office in 1942 after serv ing as deputy in the recorder's of fice "for many years, announced that he would run again. v District Attorney Miller B. Hay dext made a double-jump on the political . checkerboard by ; letting his official .filing as a : candidate for republican renomination serve as his announcement. Now serving his .first . term, Hayden ; was pre viously, justice of the peace in the Salem district. : - , Mayor Dough ton upon, taking office in January,. 1943, outlined a program which included deter mination of, the feasibility of ex tending the : city . limits; study of possible ' improvements in the city's form of government, per haps leading to adoption of the city manager or commission plan; (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Kvlri'x Costs . Up 43 Per Gent Report Qaims WASHINGTON, Jan. 2&-(JP) Labor members of a presidential committee studying the cost of liv ing reported today it has gone tip 43.S per cent since January,-1941, and were taken to task by indus try members who said the report had not been "reviewed by com petent and accepted authorities." "There has been no committee findings on this ; point,' saidUthe industry members, H. B.Hrton, treasurer' of the Chicago Bridge and Iron company, and George K Batt, vice president iof Dugan Brothers, Newark, NJ. - v "It is the opinion of the indus try . members - of the president's committee,' Horton and Batt add ed in a . statement, "that the com mittee is under responsibility not to makers final report to the pres ident and to the public until care ful consideration has been given to all the relevant date. . , Chairman William H. Davis of the committee also Issued a state ment saying -the report is not in any sense a report of the commit tee." ; r . "It is a statement of the con tentions of the CIO and AFX, as to the cost of living in the BLS (bureau of labor statistics) index." ne continued. . - - " ; ter - i : Nazis in Croatia ; ; 4 LONDON,i Jan.: 29-VSlauh- ter of 230 Germans and destruc tion of several enemy tanks in a battle near Kistanje, in Croatia, was announced today by the Yu goslav partisans. Thexommunique broadcast from headquarters of Marshal Jos Ip Bros (Tito) said the nazis were routed and their units also had been cleared from the right bank of the Krka river. Partisans meanwhile' are at tacking Germans between the towns of Projedor. Bosanka Nov! and Bihac in western Bosnia, and have . occupied Borece and Celic In eastern Bosnia, the communi que said.' . f DSC Awarded SEATTLE, Jan. 29 The first merchant marine distinguish ed, service, medal ever to be awarded in the Pacific northwest waa .given today to Capt. Robert E. Blakefield, Seattle master mar iner,- who was credited by the army with saving large part of an Alaskan port from destruction. Gives Away lliHion v ; LONDON, ' Jan. 29 3V Sir Richard Acland, leader of Brit ain's newest political party, tie Ccninon' Wealth, formally., gave to the nation today his two 1 1 j titates valued at $l,CCa,CCa. L M. DOUGHTON si 4 v ALFRED MUNDT i v V ' 1 4 MILLER B. ' HAYDEN r , XMstriet-l Atterncr Pre-Iridiiciioii , . . - . . . - . By MAX HALL - : ' f- WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 - jp) -Local draft boards grappled today with the doubly-difficult task of overhauling -their selective ser vice? machinery without' slowing the flow of about 600,000 men in to the armed services in January and . February, j . ; ; Major changes effective v Tues day provide that:- ' k 1. ; No : registrant shall be 'In ducted until ., he has passed a thorough physical examination by array-navy doctors at least 21 days previously 1 i ' V -. ' ' - Registrants ; 14 through . 21 years old ho longer will be granted occupational " deferments - unless engaged .in farming, or unless a state ; selective director certifies that a man is necessary in indus- try. I" 'y '---,'T: i ;;; Deferments In effect before Tuesday will run thier course but ; (Turn to Page 2 Story D) ;- U-'"Ti', .it''' t ' ' - ? ' .?s-yt':. y ,:.;r , ' i';::--s'v?-; vy--''- '. 'J: x :-: ' - . Physicals SidrieyfT Towns Pace Bond Purchasing Paced by the Sldney-Talbot dis trict Which was "first over the top" and the SUverton and Wood- bum districts which also staged special events at the weekend, Marion county's . total Jn fourth war loan bond purchaes by indi viduals rose Saturday to $1,301, 32.75. Early this week the coun ty figure' will climb more rapidly when the investments of corpor ations and Institutions begin pouring in but,; reminds County Chairman Jesse J. Card, account still must be kept of the individ ual purchases "in their prc-ress toward a $2SlJ)C0 goaL -? i 'J5 1 d n e y - Tiltct's . rztct? . acLleved at the well-aticn: J rZr PrUay nlshU Is a!l tLe mere notable In that it l ere t? V ccr-'.y's snstller cl-lricts : i ? 3 ry-zix x.zs t-s T I", i - :t cr r - ratlla Price Se i i n-n a r. vyuu u u 1 31 US Bombers, 13 Fighters jFail to Return; 102 Nazi I Fighters Lost; France Hit LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 30 (AP)!.Iore tltsa 1C00 tons" of bombs were burletl on Frankfort, Ger many, in daylight yesterday bjr moretban COO US Fly ing Fortresses and Liberator ihe greatest ernisda cf ncavy American bombers ever sent into action. The3rfnI filter escort, moi t 1500 planes, sbot down 102; German fighters, it was announced. Thirty one US bombers and 13 fighters failed to re tnrn The bomber airmen themselves shot down 60 enemy planes and the escort pilots 42. . : ,Tle e r tn n manufacturing and transport I center, was deluged with The Americans flew an 800 mile round trip by daylight to deliver their blows less than 12 hours after . the - RAFs night - fleet,! at tacking" in unusually .great Strength, : handed Berlin its . 13th heavy bombing, -the second jnj two nights, one of the -most -damaging of the T war. - With the two attacks on Berlin and ' the one. on Frankfurt, j the allies in a litUe more; than, 38 hours "staggered the German homeland" with threes crippling main blows' and in addition f en gaged In a number of secondary mine-laying " and bombing opera tions which were ' exceptionally widespread, the entire effort! in volving probably , well over -2000 planes. , -.TonUat- the German leac- -ware transmitters, Inciadlnc the coontrrx largest.- DeuUchland sender, weni off the- air, sag-"; gestiair new nlsht raids en Ger man territory and, perhaps the third Inr a raw en Berlin. j Swedish ' dispatches- reported great fires: raging in the German capital p after the two nighta of assaulti ' and one , report said ( the great Templehof airport apparent ly: was! knocked out. . The authoritative British Press association speculated; however, that it might require a half mil lion men . and 20,000 bomber flights to win the battle of ; Ber lin. It estimated the cost might be 6000 men and 800 aircraft Wnd noted that more than 250,000 per sons in the air br at British bases already were participating in I the attack j "which r. is believed how half over.! :":? . ;:!-""': -'1 " Among the American Fortresses ost today, was one rammed from below by a' German fighter that it had knocked but of ', control. The j Marauder raid ; was com plemented by sweeps carried out by RAF light bombers and fight ers which also hit a Brittany jsir base and enemy shipping off the channel island of Jersey. Support ing RAF fighters, which also cov ered the return of the American heavy ! bombers from the conti nent, shot down : four German planes.; Seven British planes failed to return from the operations. , t .... .," :;-.-::; . .-. , . J , Missouri Launched , -. By GEORGE BU MBlLER! f NEW YORK, Jan. 29 -P- In a brief, swifWmoving ceremony,' the mighty; ' battleship Missouri f was launched today with the .express hope ," that she ; would . "be: an avenger to - the barbarian who wantonly slaughtered ' the heroes of Bateau.". ; J:' u ' - - : ' ... When the total was added up just as the meeting was about to close the figure was Just short Of the goaL - but a further appeal from Mrs. E. B. Henningsen, dis trict chairman, , and members . of her committee brought enough additional purchases to make up the shortage. Thus Sidney-Tlbot made its. quota in. one hours' tisie. Mrs , . Henningsen " announced that an effort would be made to bruig the total -up to S0,CG3, and neighborhood - leaders will i this week canvass those who could not attend? the rally; Mrs. V.'illlam Wiederkehr, Jake.; Gilniour, tRay Abneyi Mrs. Cliff Johnston, John Finlay: and Mrs. Gecrz Msrlatt in the Sidney territory, Mrs. llen ninsen, Delmer Davidson, David TurrJdje and Keith Allen in the Ti'.hct area. . ; . ' The program included a display (Tvm ta Tr- 2 Ctory C) 1 n A Li LlU' U high explosives, incendiaries Suffer iS InUk raine Br JAMES M TjOr. , LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 30 The - red army lost ground - to; a " VWM.mlmWUM - kVUUWI jllUILIL AMX - tne faouui Ukraine in the fiercest fighting on the long Russian front yesterday, while j other soviet forces in the north advanced to within 22 miles of the Estonian border, cleared the great Moscow Leningrad trunk-railway, and cap tured the rail junction of Novo sokolinkl, 70 miles from the Lat- today. ... :f TV.. -,-.Zm 1 . nonn . j mm !. mi muw men ana oo of their tanks in their Ukraine counteroffensive east of Vinnitsa. . - The Germans, who have been attacking steadily in this area since . January. 12, . were throwing all .: their "weight against , soviet forces which not only menaced the approaches to the Rumanian fron tier but threatened the man Ger man supply artery into the Dnie per bend, the Odessa-I.wow rail way, i'; At the same ; time Berlin an nounced It had abandoned the Ukrainian - railway junction ot Smpl 1.U RiiIm mam rt Vimiltr-, . v --rr i i,, ; Major.: Russian successes were scored ' in the north where the - Kussians reached the town of Zagoritsi,- 22 miles east of the Estonian border, and moved west- . ward all along their line from the Baltic' coast to the Narva railway. More than - 2000 Germans were killed in this fighting, and in an ambush the Russians wiped out a column of German artillerymen, captured 60 of their heavy guns and 100 trucks loaded with am munition. '-.X- , .. (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Sirt. Broldce Said Missing SILVERTON, Jan. 29 Mr. and Mrs. - Hal vor E. Brokke received word this week that their son, Sgt Charles F." Brokke, 2g, a Flyins Fortress waist gunner, was mis sing in action over Germany on January 1L Another son, James, died of pneumonia on board a ship in the Pacific in May 1942. ? :A' third son is a seaman first class in the navy and is now ia Indiana. - - - SgL Brokke was graduated from the SUverton high school in 1S34. Before joining the AAF he worked for the Douglas Aircraft company at Santa Monica, Calif. Bomb Kills Six In London Raid - LONDON, Sunday. Jan. 30 H9 Six persons are believed to have been , killed and . others . injured when a bomb struck a surface shelter during a comparatively weak German air raid on Lcnc!cn last night. , There were about a dozen per sons in the shelter Rescue work ers dug into the wreckage to re cover the bodies. .. 7 Dancers at a school party in C.3 outer London area :t out safe ly from a buillii". ti e per floor of which was fired by incendiar ies. One, downtown building gt & direct hit . . . . . The raid gave London its 7Cli air. alert of the war and e:;M'i this year, and prove' ed an u usually heavy 1zttzz$ from t: ground defensts. ; r , - Reds 'i