lb OHTGOII STATESMAN. Zc&ia. Oregon, Thursday Morning February lOlCU
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'4th War Loan
Finale to Be,
Held in Salem
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plete with lamps and radio. The
dining room set j is modern and
attractive ; and the " bedroom , set
Includes table lamps, rugs, mat
tress and linen.; furniture ; dealers
contributing : the suites for the
bond drive planned the ensemble
carefully so the ?$wner will have
harmonious furnishings- Arthur
Smither Salem ; chairman, viewed
the set Wednesday and compli
mented the furniture dealers on
their selections. Iri addition to this
grand prize,' other awards will be
made. .' . ;
In reporting steady progress on
the part of the Salem, retail divi
sion of the bond campaign. Chair
man Douglas Yeater congratulated
Paul Wilson, chairman for the
block bounded by Liberty. Com
mercial, Court U ind , Chemeketa
streets, and his committee on sell
ing more than $50,090 in bonds.
Others on this committee are
Cyril Nadon, Gordon Black and
Elmo Linholm. Chairman Yeater
also commented on the sales of
John Stark, who) has the block
bounded by High' State, Church
and Ferry streets.!
The Elsinore theatre was pack
ed' to capacity lor the war bond
premiere of "The Desert Song
Wednesday night and war finance
committee members said the event
had been extremely helpful in
promoting bond; sales. The stage
show featured Bob Henry's ver
satile band from; Camp Adair.
Show-goers interviewed by Bill
Talbot, master of j ceremonies, for
the broadcast over KSLM were
State Treasurer i Leslie M. Scott,
Secretary of State Bob Farrell,
Mayor I. M. Doughton, Salem
Chairman Arthur jSmither of the
war finance committee. County
Commissioner Roy Rice 'who is
agricultural chairman, Supt. Frank
B. Bennett of the Salem schools,
Secretary Fred Paulus of the state
bond commission Mrs. Winnie,
Pettyjohn who is ' chairman ' of a
women's solicitation group, Bill
Dashney of the war finance pu
blicity' committee! and Secretary
George Riches of the war finance
committee. - , I
Yanks Launch
Fierce Fjighf
For Cassino
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f German artillery, mortar and
machine gun fire, at one time
reached a point-only 75 yards from
the. ancient Benedictine monastery
which crowns the crest of that
key height, dispatches from the
front 'disclosed. j f
Inside Cassino itself the sweat
stained doughboys fought into
several more fortified buildings,
but after a week of fierce house-to-house
combat j jthe nazis-stnf
held about threeifourths of the
stronghold and their line of supply
Was unbroken, j j
The Ieng-d elayed break -through
at Cassiao can come
none too soon to serve allied
strategy. From the shell-pocked
beachhead .jjbelew Rome
Daniel De Lace of the Asso
ciated Press wrote that "no one
fat the beachhead is uder Illus
ions as to the grtamess of the
' strargle new anfoldinr. Any
where in the area rtm are liable
to be shelled, bombed or straf
ed. ii
"It is a very small beachhead.
German power still seems to be
mounting, . ' If .
Seeking to relieve some enemy
pressure against the landing forc
es, American! planes heavily
bombed and strafed German po
sitions around the Appian way
town of CisternaJ 14 miles north
east of Anzio, which the nazis are
said to have converted into a
powerful fortress Not a German
plane appeared oyer the beach
head yesterday, the enemy apoar-
ently not having relished the loss
of 19 fighter-bombers over the
area the previous j day.
The famous - monastery which
overlooks ; Cassino and hundreds
of square miles f of surrounding
countryside has been spared by
the American artillerv. The armv
newspaper .Stars and Stripes said
Italian - prisoners f reported that
ZuOO Italian civiUans had taken
refuge in the monastery buildings.
Burns Vjpes
Jap Convoy
Of 4 Ships
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He j radioed other members of
his squadron and they carried back
word of his location to this- carrier
task force. , '
Rear Adm. Frederick' S. Sher
man immediately delegated the
destroyer j Burns for the rescue
mission, i : . -v
While the Burns was on the
way, Lt i Paul E. Dickson, of
Springfield, Ohio, member of
Brown's torpedo squadron, saw a
plane hit the water and three men
emerge, one of whom appeared in
jured. : ; .'; ' . V : .
' The Burns picked up the strand
ed aviators before nightfall, trans
ferred the injured radio man, Nu
gent, to a battleship in the vicinity
and headed back for this task
force. -'..
Brown J was welcomed aboard
the Bums by the destroyer's short,
wiry skipper, Cmdr. Donald Tem
ple EUer, a native of Washington,
DC. i .. ..
"You fellows have all the fun,"
the skipper complained.
" "I'd give anything in the world
to have some of it, All we do is
patrol and screen the big bas
tards . I ;
Less than six hours later, skip
per EHer had his chance. His de
stroyer encountered four surface
objects which proved to be . a Jap
medium tanker ' of 6000 to 8000
tons, a medium sized transport
of 4000 to 6000 tons and two smal
ler craft armed with machine guns.
Eller.was on the bridge, rubbing
his hands', in anticipation.
Then he shouted: ,
"I've, been looking for this mo
ment for 20 years close range
to 10,000 yards and open fire.
The second salvo caught the
tanker in a vital spot and it blew
up. Burning oil covered the wa
ter and deck of the doomed ship
and illuminated all the others.
"The skipper rubbed his hands
some more and gave the order to
close the t range to 1000 yards,"
Brown said.
"We steamed in and cut loose,
with every gun on that one little
destroyer blazing."
"At one time, we passed within
100 yards of those Jap ships and
let go with all the fire power we
possessed,? Brown continued.
XThe Japs threw some sort of
bullets at jus. I could see tracers
but theyj were shooting every
which way. They didn't know
where we were coming from next,
we were moving so fast.
"One of ; our task forces was on
ly a short distance away by now.
A battleship saw the fire and sent
word to stand-by, as it was coming.
Whm r..,J Ptl.. 1 I .1 A.
he told the communicator to send
a message to the battleship:
" 'Keepl out This Is our party.1
"It was all over in half an
hour."
Toward! the end. Brown saw
three Japanese clinging to a line
oyer the blazing bow of the tank
er. There Were flames above them
and flames below them, covering
the water
The skipper looked them over
for a moment and said, "Well,
there isn't much future for those
boys nowj Let them alone
: After the last enemy vessel sank
the destroyer resumed her course
and rejoined this task force. The
Burns' sent a brief resume of the
night's activity to the flagship with
the terse comment. "Enjoyed pic
nic." . .
Adm. Sherman sent congratu
lations on a job well done.
Brown j and Gunner- Sandberg
returned i to the carrier today.
When the little Burns came along
side, the big flat top crew gave
the destroyer a lusty cheer.
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Finns Consider
Qintiing War
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surrender evfn if Helsinki were
razed by bombs.
The foreign! office said Its Wash
ington legation had advised that
no such comment was made on the
warning of Secretary of State Hull
that Finland must drop out of the
war, or take the consequences.
(The Finnish legation I; official
in Washington who on Tuesday
had said that Finland would not
surrender - evfn if Helsinki were
razed by bombs, declared today
when informed of the Helsinki dis
claimer that hie had "no comment"
to make.) ". fi 4 's: i ' ;'
.The Finnish radio said the ev
acuation of Helsinki was continu
ing, with mainly old persons and
children being removed to safer
areas. . '. '. i, .,
; (Moscow warned that the Sun
day night air j attacks on the Fin
nish capital were only a forerun
ner of what, is to come. The Soviet
newspaper Pravda said "the Finns
declare with jinsdence that they
intend to protect Finland east of
Petrozavodsk, j The Finns will soon
realize that the red army will pro
tect the borders of the Soviet un
ion in the district of Helsinki. The
red army will give the Finns what
is due them" fi '.
(A Swiss newspaper, quoting
German diplomats, said the Fin
nish government had held a secret
session last night to discuss Hull's
warning, and that Moscow had in
formed Finland that the Soviets
were ready to 'discuss peace im
mediately.) Flyersj Report
Evacuation
Jap Madang
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dropped on the enemy air and sea
base. '::... . ;
A submarine on the surface of
the bay at Rabaul was hit and a
cargo vessel, set afire by the raid
ers, who alsq destroyed 26 gun
positions. The enemy plane toll
was 12 shot down and seven de
stroyed onitlje ground.
The attack was in continuation
of almost daily assaults on this
south Pacific bastion by aircraft
from Adm.: William F. Halsey's
bases in the $olomon islands.
Headquarters" communiques of
February have reported 123 Jap
anese planes destroyed at Rabaul.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
munique also announced that Aus
tralian jungle fighters on the coast
of the Huon peninsula. New Gui
nea, had continued their advance
to the northwest and were only
seven miles from American army
invasion troops in the Saidor area
on the coast, i ; I
Firemeri tct 2 Calls
City firemen responded to two
calls Wednesday night. Some
clothing caught fire at 344 North
Front street ait 8 pjn. and a chim
ney- at 1179 Chemeketa street
burned at 9 pjn. ' i
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By I3HE2L CHIT.na .
Three hundred J a r e of home
canned fruit were destroyed In the
fire which razed a Coos river res
idence early this week. The Coos
Bay, Times fails to say so, but we
assume that the owners, too, were
"burned up." ' ?' : ;
US to Broaden ;
French Relations V
In Algiers ; '
I WASHINGTON, Feb. sf)
The . United States Is expected
soon to broaden its relations. with
the French national committee In
Algiers so; that the committee may
serve in effect as the , temporary
government ' of those areas r of
France to! be liberated, when al
lied forces invade Europe.-
i A statement revising the Amer
ican policy probably will ' be Is
sued by President Roosevelt. u
! ; Whatever . H. action : Washington
takes undoubtedly will be paral
leled in London. Ever since Prime
Minister iChurchill : visited Gen.
Charles de - Gaulle, the French
jcommitteei leader, in Algiers sev
eral weeks ago, reports from Lotv
don have pointed in that direc
tion.' i
Spain; Reports
On Italian Ships
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! MADRID, Spain, Feb. 9if)
Six Italian merchant ! ships -. set
Sail tor Spanish ports under the
flag : of Premier Marshal Pietro
Badoglio early in January and the
Spanish government now is hold
ing only eight other Italian ves
sels, a Madrid source said tonight.
I Departure of the lone Italian
ship now belrjg held in the waters
of metropolitan Spain and . the
seven others Interned in the Ca
naries and Spanish West Africa
was said jto rest upon the out
come of negotiations now In pro
gress betwee n' Generalissimo
Francisco Franco and the Badog
lio government. ......
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State Avenges
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PORTLAND. Ore, Feb. 9 -(JP)
Oregon! more than kept its pledge
for "Avenge Bataan! day yester
day with war bond purchases ; to
talling $17,962,500, E. C Sammons,
state war finance chairman, an
nounced. - , V- ,
Thr day's goal was $17,000,000
a rnillion dollars for each of 17
Oregon! men whose deaths in Jap
anese prison camps have been re
ported. X"--"- ':' '-;-'
The state's quota for the fourth
war , loan t drive was r boosted; to
$73,10180 or 7S.8 per' cent of the
quota, Sammons said. Baker coun
ty went over the top today with
sales of $1,009,150 compared: to
a quota of $9SL300. J
Three giant tales spurred the
state on ; toward its - $99,000,000
coaL One was a $4,000,000 pur
chase by the state of Oregon.
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1943 Strike Total
Counts 3750 '
WASiEHNGTON, Feb. 9 -(!?)-Secretary
of Labor Perkins re
ported f today there were $750
strikes in 1943 involving 100.0OQ
workers which resulted in 13,
500,000 ( idle man-days the sec
ond largest number of work stop
pages since the European war be
gan.' - ':.; : . -
. "The record for preceding years
was 2968 strikes in 1942. 4288 in
1941, 2508 in 1940, and 2813 in
1939. lit 1942 a total of 839,981
workers struck. . , 1
Miss Perkins said the four, coal
strikes, each of brief duration but
involving 400,000 men, accounted
for 8,500,000 of the man-days idle
last year or 63 per cent of the total
days lost x .l 1 N;
Johnston Buyd
Bligli Billiards
Charlies "Chuck Johnston, for
3 years operator of Chuck's tav
ern on the Pacific highway north
of Salem, this week completed
purchase and took 'over manage
ment of Bligh. Billiards. : i ; .
Jess Try on, operator of the State
street establishment for the past
14 years, has announced that j he
will devote considerable time to
his farm near Labish. ' t 1 .
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Leningrad - Warsaw railway, there
was bitter fighting as Soviet for
ces : overcame the . heavily 1 - de
fended district center of Oredezh,
18 miles northeast of Luga, .
Also captured in this area was
Boyshoye -j Zamochye, 13 miles
northeast of Luga. -
The Bussians moving from No
vogorod were nearing Batetskaya
on the Leningrad -' Vitebsk rail
way. In the far south around the
captured manganese mine town of
Nikopol . eight towns, including
Chertomlik, eight miles northwest,
were captured and 800 Germans
killed. In the ' Nikopol ' area con
siderable equipment was taken and
two companies of Germans made
prisoner; as ; the Russians pursued
beaten nazi forces . through . the
mud flats and swamps.
The Germans for several months
have been able to keep the Rus
sians at least five miles from their
last railway supplying Krivoi Rog,
a line : running to . the northwest
through! the1 Junction of Dollnov
ka, but with the new breakthrough
of the past week in the! Nikopol
area and with the general deter
ioration of the German southern
position! that thin thread of sup-
ply seemed doomed. j
Ranger Planes
Hit! Sliipping
Off Norway ,
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blow against the axis, the Rang
er's part in the north African in
vasion. There her planes made
two principal strikes. Their 1000
pound bombs crippled the French
battleship Jean Bart and silenced
her guns which had been a threat
to r invading forces. Again the
Ranger's planes dumped ' 1000
pound ' bombs on - coast ; defense
guns and anti-aircraft batteries.
clearing the way; for -invasion
forces at Casablanca.
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attempt to beat - competitors at
that market.
' Challenging, what he termed the
allied program of blotting out Ger
man cities area by area, the Bish
op of Chichester asserted j
The policy is obliteration, open
ly acknowledged. That is not. a
justifiable act; of war.. ' V ;
London's press was critical of
the attacks by . the churchmen. -
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Landed in Marshall
; WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 H&
Rep. ; Heff erman (D-NY) propos
ed 1 today, the : army and navy
search for possible evidence that
Amelia v Earhart - landed t in 1 the
Marshall islands on , her round-the-world
night in 1937 and that
her fate had been concealed by
the' Japanese.! ; - ? - -.' ; : ; .
; The famed American aviatrix
was lost on a flight from Lae,
New Guinea, jto Rowland island,
2555 miles distant and on an air
line route-south of the- Marshalls.
Concerned Over Oil Line
By ROGER GREENE
' LONDON, Feb. fr-OT-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden indicated
in the house of commons today
that Great Britain has not yet
approved a proposal to construct
an American I pipe line from the
Persian gulf to the Mediterranean
and agreed with inquiring mem
bers of parliament that the gov
ernment would - be profoundly
concerned . about .any such pro
ject so deeply affecting British in
terests ! -
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