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MY EDITION CITY EDITION EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS Be NO. 174 lhirfflifiini.s-.IMaizD IFosd'Edot . " LANE COUNTVS HOME NEWSPAPER. - TODAY'S NEWS TODAY . tier Holds Conference Allied Of fensives Worry Axis JMDON, Dec. 21 (U.B Adolf !s, beset by Allied offensives, deterioration of Italy and dis iion to France, has held con kcs with Galeazzo Ciano, an foreign minister, and m Laval of France, Axis adcasts announced today. 1( Hitler-Laval conference re td rumors in Stockholm that il might reach a peace settle ct with Germany and declare ! id the Allies, and Radio Paris, am controlled, quoted the ii! tollaborattonist leader Mar Dot as saying that France's ittskwas now to build a new m, substituting for his father j Benito Mussolini, arrived at fi headquarters Friday and "ied until Sunday morning. "I fighting for his political life iictator of Vichy, was per ad into the conference breifly Wjy and left the same day. to Axis communique announc t Ciano and Hitler discuss ed the common pursuit of aims by Italy and Germany. If Laval was permitted to see .Hitler.alone.at all it was only for a few minutes, and he was sent away immediately after a general Representative ns Eugene Office P- B. Ebersole, representative to aistrtct office of defense "-Ponatlon, will be in Eugene '"minder of December to dis "PPeals on certificates of war sty issued for trucks in Lane - Starting Tuesday, he will liable for consultation at of- c "nvc ueen set up ai P wjenth avenue east. ( Ebersole's service to resi- P Of the EllBnna ri.VMnt V.. F "ranged by the Portland r' ill pnninn: jihMUii wnn uie 10 nber nf mmmo ah ra Of Certlfiraloo ...ill 1... Nb? 0ueh Motor Transport . ' American Bank """ ine Junction iWi.! "yam conamons fS,h aPPeals may be filed. iarm transportation com ; created by the U. S. de of agnculture, and un C ,rmanship of Frank infci '""''fue to handle ? ,arm irus- A , aInKis define Ul.u P UJM c, " uue vviim:ii Ntural P, "nt or more for Program Tuesday oted t 0Ver KORE wi" oted t torrivt! . " "L alJPea OtcWsi ty Certificates of KcTr: Yor ""WAST 'British n' Dcc' 21 (UB a. "'oadcastins - noim-j . Fft v i j lay that Kin radio at 10 Easterners Shiver As Mercury Dives . By the Associated Press Winter which doesn't begin officially until tomorrow con tinued to get in icy practice blows today which kept much of the nation in a sub-freezing grip. Below-zero cold continued to prevail in the east, bedeviling householders striving to stretch oil supplies and upsetting the cal culations of fuel rationing boards. Although temperatures in New York City dropped only to one below last night, suburban West chester county reported 28 below SEE EASTERNERS STORY PAGE 2 Capf. R. C. Kuehner Home for Xmas Soviets Predict Fall of Important Rail Junction Delay Likely For Snell's Inauguration SALEM, Dec. 21 P) Governor-elect Earl Snell was begin ning to wonder today whether the battle over the1 presidency of the state senate would prevent him from being inaugurated on Janu ary 11 at the opening of the state legislature. With Senators Dorothy McCul- lough Lee and W. H. Steiwer each claiming 15 votes in their contests for the senate presidency, there is a chance that the battle won't be decided on January 11. Since the governor can't be In augurated until the legislature Is organized, Snell might have to wait a day or so, or at least un til the senate president is elected, Both houses meet in caucus on the evening of January 10. and all officers usually are chosen at that time. war, talk which Ciano, Joachim von Hibbentrop, German foreign min ister, and Field Marshal Hermann Goering, German air .force chief and economic dictator, took part. Various Axis communiques and semi-o f f i c i a 1 pronouncements, which emphasized "the firm de termination of the Axis powers to engage all forces in order to at tain final victory," indicated that Hitler and Ciano talked over the entire situation with special at tention to military problems in cluding the defense of the Medi terranean, and Hitler, Ciano and Laval discussed future Vichy re lations with Italy as well as Ger many. The fact that Benito Mussolini, as executive head of the .Italian government, did not attend the conference might be taken to mean either that reports of his ill health were correct or that Hitler had snubbed him as he snubbed Laval. Oregon's First Woman Compositor Dies SALEM, Ore., Dec. 21. (U.R) Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Mrs. George J. Fearce, 83, first woman composi tor in Oregon and an early mem ber of the states' typographical union, who died at her home Sat urday. She was first woman chairman of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian church and had Home for Christmas and a week's leave is Captain Richard C. Kueh ner. leader of Lane County's 4-H clubs until Uncle Sam called him i been employed in the state print into service. i ing offices. Captain Kuehner is now sta-l She is survived by two daugh tloned at Luke field, near Phoe-! ters, a sister, and two nephews. nix, Arizona, as assistant secre-i tary of the big school for training ESCAPED MURDERER BACK pursuit, and fighter pilots. BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 21. W) Kuehner says he is enjoying his Duncan M. Johnston, 44-year-old armv exDerience. but looks for- former Twin Falls mayor con- ward to the day when he can re- victed of killing a Utah jewelry Axis Reported Moving Troops From Tripoli Enemy Appears Ready To Make Desperate , Stand in North Africa By The Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 21. W) The Axis was reported today moving Its forces from Tripoli and divert ing men and material even from the hard-pressed Russian front in order to make an all-out fight for Tunisia in the wake of a two-day military and political conference at Adolf Hitler's headquarters. Neutral and Allied sources re ported that a huge convoy was being assembled in southern French ports to rush reinforce ments from Europe, and that Marshal Erwin Rommel's African corps and Mussolini's tattered legions might give up Trlpolltania altogether in order to concentrate every available man and gun in the struggle for Tunisia. Italians Captured A Reuters dispatch from North Africa said Allied patrols had captured Italians from Tripoli who were trying to link up with Gen. Walther Nehring's Tunisian forces and added that there were indications that part of the Italian garrison of Tripoli also was mov ing by sea to Tunisia. The Daily Mail, in a dispatch from Madrid, said it was reported from Vichy that the Germans were planning a large-scale at tempt to reinforce th Tunisian forces with a convoy ot 150 French ships massed in French ports for the risky crossing. The presence of Pierre Laval,' Vichy chief of government, at the Friday and Saturday conference with Hitler and Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian foreign minister, unoffical quarters pointed out, may be linked with some such Axis plan. Hard Flffht Ahead Observers coupled reports that tne axis was prepared to use In ately disclosed, but an announce. north Africa even the weapons ment that 11 planes were lost in . iT 4 . wm ummo in assault was taken by ob front with the statement of an rvr. .. . Allied spokesman In Algiers that considerable number participated. ins auacK on uuisDerg was the 52nd on that important com munications and industrial center since the start of the war and the fifth night attack on Germany this month. Duisberg was last at- tacKea the night of Sept. 8. The weather over the target was aescrmea as good and pre liminary reports were said to in dicate the attack was entirely successful. The last night assault on th Reich was last Thursday, when northwest Germany was attacked in oaa weather with a loss 18 planes. Six of the big American bomb. Crs Were lost, but 40 German fighters were shot down in the sweep by U. S. forces deen into France yesterday, a raid that pro- aucea snarp Dailies, Tanks Arrive To Help Crush Japs at Buna U.S. British . Bombers Active LONDON, Dee. 21. W) The RAF pounded Germany's great inland port of Dulsbere at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers last night in a swift foV low-up to a daylight raid by American t lying 'Fortresses which dared swarms of German fighters to penetrate deep into occupied r ranee yesieraay. "A strong force of our bombers attacked, industrial objectives at Duisburg 'In- clear weather and bright moonlight," the air minis' try said. "The attack was heavy and concentrated and many large nres were leit Durnintf." Railway engines and other ob jectives were reported to have Been the targets of fighter com mand aircraft on intruder opera tions over France and the low countries. 11 Planes Lost " The size of the force which at tacked. Duisberg was not immedt we have a lot of long, hard fighting ahead of us." Meanwhile, the British were progressing slowly through dense mine fields in Libya where they had reached the region of Sultan, 140 miles west of El Aghella and 255 miles from Tripoli. Both Allied and Axis reports told of lively patrol activity and much air fighting in Tunisia. Four Injured in Accident on Coast turn to Oregon and to his regular work. While home, Captain Kueh ner is calling on friends and look ing after his farm. salesman, fled from the Idaho penitentiary grounds last night, but returned voluntarily this morning. Douglas Orme Makes Final Appearance With Symphony ''in""'a sPpk to the nstmas day. I a. m. (EWT) Air fcrrU !?ning Signal VSL'1 "Peated every tl OT? for two mlntitM. Offlrlal .1. I J . " 1 I 1 u -'I. A Inn. he CT PProxim.i , mn "eaajr wem-deariltnaJ. By DOROTHY LENHART Making his final appearance as conductor of the Eugene Junior symphony, -following eight years as a successful Eugene music teacher and director, Douglas Orme presented the symphony in concert at the University School of Music auditorium Sunday afternoon. Mr. Orme, who has also been director of public school music in Eugene for the past eight years left today for army officer's train ing school, and has left with stu dents, as well as adults, all over the city pleasant thoughts of many pinrpr. or a arana luaiu symphony and who was also the first director of the junior sym phony. The concert Sunday afternoon bv the fifty-piece orchestra, of which many were youngsters un der senior high school age and a few even from the lower grades, showed the citizens of Eugene just what young people who nave a desire to learn and play music can do with the correct super vision: teachers and directors that are talented and interested In the student and his work. The symphony's principal vio linist and soloist at mis concert, William Shlsler, who is a student "acher and of some verV toe and' of Rex Underwood .and one of the iCv'.Trecting. I first members of the organization Trili concert marks the begin- showed in his playing 01 me nine of the 194243 season for the Vleuxtemps "Adacio Religloso" symphony and the orchestra will from the Fourth Viqlin Concerto go on with rehearsals and prepar- great natural pUymg abihty and V .h. finnl concert of the poise, and in the playing of the year which will be under the dl rection of Rex Underwood, con ductor ol the University of Oregon SEE ORME STORY PAGE I NORTH BEND, Ore., Dec. 21 (U.R) Emil Parker, 13-year old son of Mrs. H. O. Parker, died here today of injuries suffered in a two-car accident near Florence yesterday. His mother was reported in fair condition, as were John Sundman and.Milo Johnson, drivers of the cars. FLORENCE. Four persons from Florence and Glenada were injured seriously at midnight Sat urday when cars driven by John sunaman and Milo Johnnon col. llded on the Coast highway about two miles north of here. Sundman, Johnson, Mrs. H. O, Parker and her son, Emll, 13, the latter two passengers in the John. son car, are the four seriously hurt. All are at the Klser Broth ers hospital, North Bend. The other passengers in the Johnson car, H. O. Parker, Emma May Parker, Henry Parker, and Earl Coffin, were dismissed after first aid treatment. The Johnson car was demol ished, the Sundman car landing in a ditch. Sundman was going south on the highway, Johnson, north, Both drivers received bad chest Injuries. Both Johnson and Sundman are from Florence and the Parker family from Glenada, Allied Troops, Planes Strike at Jap Bases In New Burma Campaign By the Associated Press American - made tanks have rumbled into the attack against the last Japanese strongholds in the Buna area of northeast New Guinea, while on the Burma front British troops and American bombers struck at' Japan's west ernmost bases. From China, Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault's sky dragons dumped tons of heavy explosives yesterday onto a big Japanese air field and military warehouses at Lashio on the old Burma supply road. Not a bomber was lost and not a Japanese fighter was en countered, reported 3. Reilly O'SullIvan, Associated Press cor respondent who accompanied the raiders. 1 He said fires were started which could be seen 60 miles away. From the mountainous Indian border. Gen. Archibald P. Wav ell's forces had pushed through the western Burma jungle for al most half of the 100 miles to the important port of Akyab, 340 air line miles across the bay of Ben gal from Calcutta. No Jap Resistance There was no word of Japanese resistance. ' The Japanese struck back In the air, however, with a raid last night on the Calcutta area. Raids also were reported in the Chit' tagong region ot eastern India. A British 'communique said only a few scattered bombs fell in the Calcutta area, and damage was light. Informed quarters at New Del hi said the drive was not WaveU's awaited major attempt to win back Burma, but could be re. garded as the start ot a step-by' step strategy toward that goal. Akyab would give the Allies an War In Brief By United Press MOSCOW; Russian spearheads penetrate Mlllerovo In new offen sive; fall of railroad junction ex pected as birthday gift for Stalin. CAIRO: Rommel's forces reach Sirte in headlong retreat; Allied planes raid ragged Axis remnants 225 miles west of El Agheila. NEW -DELHI: .British-Indian army continues Burma drive; Jap aense counter with thrust into Yunnan province of China. LONDON: RAF bombs Dulsburg; American bombers make deepest penetration into France. ALLIED NORTH AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS: Rain slows of fensives; French capture town 30 miles inland from Tunisian east coast. GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS: Allies launch general attack on Japanese New Guinea positions, Japanese com mander killed in action. War Fraud Laid To Wire Plant SEE TANKS STORY PAGE Z Holiday Travel Jams il, Bus Services . of Lack of Paunches Found in Army DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 21. (? Physical training Instructors at nearby Hensley field are wearing that smug, satisfied look. The soldiers want to have a Christmas party and there's not a paunch to be found among 'em, befitting a Santa Claus. A bay-windowed civilian will be imported for the chore, More Drastic Travel Restriction Coming WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U.B War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson today advised motor ists to prepare for "much more drastic" travel restrictions, and warned that transportation facil ities in general will be greatly cur tailed. ' "Travel by common carrier will be increasingly inconvenient and in many instances not permis sible," Nelson said in a letter to Sen, James E. Murray, D., Mont., chairman of the senate small busi ness committee. The letter was written In re sponse to Murray's request for In formation on the position of small ousiness in me war ana me raw materials situation. Nelson told Murray that the transportation limitations and other war neces sities will require extensive read justments in small business in cluding the elimination ot many retail stores. "It follows that the number of outlets may have to be reduced: Cross-hauling eliminated; deliv ery, distances and frequence of purchase minimized; and services and frills curtailed," Nelson wrote. GAME LIMIT HEARING PORTLAND, Dec. 21. m The state game commission an nounced today that a public hear ing on 1843 fishing seasons, bag limits and other regulations will he held here Jin. 9, By United Press Holiday-bound service men and civilians took every available seat on trains, busses and planes to day, leaving other thousands to be turned away, for lack of acconv modations. Record crowds, apparently dls. regarding pleas ot the office of defense transportation, poured through the nation's Important railroad terminals where trains were running hours late. All standing room was gone and plat forms were filled with disap pointed passengers. Air reservations were sold out through the holiday season and one air line, reporting the heavi est backlog of reservations in years, said requests for reserva tlons exceeded "three or four times our capacity." San Francisco reported . rail roads there were devoting their facilities primarily to service men and trains were running two to six hours late. Sixty-nine trains were added to the 300 normally operating dally out of the Chicago union station, but requests still ex ceeded accommodations. Denver railroad officials said It was the "worst rush and tleup in history." Trains were running a minimum of three hours late WASHINGTON, Dee. SI VPl Attorney General Blddle announc ed today a federal grand Jury at Fort Wayne, Ind., had indicted the Anaconda Wire and Cable com pany, Marlon, Ind., and five of its officers for conspiracy to de fraud the United States, and to present "false claims in the nro- duction and sale of wire and cable used by the armed forces for com bat communication purposes." "This Is one of the most renre- henslble cases of defrauding the government and endangering the lives of American soldiers and sailors ever to come to the atten tion of the department of Justice," Biddle declared in a formal state ment. . ''I can conceive of nothing more vicious, or treacherous, than de liberately supplying our armed forces with defective war ma terial; and I am informed that only the alertness of government in spectors and the promptness with which the war frauds unit and the FBI investigated complaints in this case has prevented enormous quantities of defective wire and cable from being transported to our troops overseas." "Fix" Test Tables The justice department charged the defendants "secretly install ed," behind sliding panels under test tables, mechanisms that en abled the passing of Inferior or defective materials. In addition to the company, the justice department said defendants named in the indictments were Thor S. Johnson, general manager of an Anaconda mills; Frank E. Hart, manager of the Marion di vision of Anaconda; Don R. Car penter, superintendent of the Mar ion plant; Chalmer Bishop, chief company Inspector at Marion; and Frank Kunkle, assistant chief company inspector at Marion. Tom C. Clark, chief of the Jus tice department's war fraud unit, told newspapermen that Russia had complained that practically 50 per cent of the wire manufactured by this company and shipped to Russia was defective. Germans Admit Break In Central Don Front; Claim Heavy Toll MOSCOW, Dec. 21. U.B Red Army forces, driving ahead hard in an attempt to win the city of Millerovo as a birthday present for Premier Josef Stalin were be lieved today to have threatened additional units ot the German army with encirclement near the important junction on the Voronezh-Rostov railroad. Stalin Is 63 today. Near Mlllerovo Front dispatches Indicated there was fighting in the outskirts of Millerovo, which is about 200 miles southwest of Stalingrad. The Red army, fighting in bitter weath. er, was rolling the Germans south westward and inflicting mounting losses on the enemy. The Russian noon communique annouced that the Germas had suffered 43,230 killed or captured since the of fensive started five days ago. (The German high command communique admitted that the Russians had broken through on the central Don front after attacks by strong tank formations. The Germans claimed the Russians suf fered heavy losses and that th fighting was continuing with "un abated vigor.") There were 1370 Germans killed along the4 central Don front in the latest operations, the non com munique said. Cnt Railway -The Russians In their new of fensive, already had seized con trol of 45 miles of the Vital Voronezh-Rostov railway. Twenty- two German divisions were trapped between the Don and Vol ga at Stalingrad, and if CoL Gen. Vatutin, in his central Don of-, tensive, occupies the entire stretch of the railway between Kantemi rovka and Aamensk-Schachtlnsky, all Axis forces inside the northern half of the Don valley will be cut off. Foreseeing this, the Germans were counterattacking with des peration in the Stalingrad area, trying to establish contact with their trapped 22 divisions. The noon communique reported six counterattacks, all repulsed, northwest of Stalingrad. The Ger mans lost 400 men and 27 planes, which the Russians destroyed aground or In combat. SEE HOLIDAY STORY PAGK 2 Beebe Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter Murray Hill Beebe pleaded guilty In circuit court Monday af ternoon to the charge ot man slaughter and sentence will be pronounced by Judge G. F. Skip worth Wednesday at 8:30 a. m. Beebe was Indicted by the grand jury one day last week. Evidence indicated that he was responsible for the death of his father, Carson Beebe, of Coburg on the night of August 22, 1038. The father's home was destroyed by fire at that time and the elder Beebe's charred remains were iound in the fehu the next day. Plywood Sales Curbed By Priority Order SEATTLE, Dec. 21 m All sales, shipments and deliveries of softwood plywood through whole sale and retail channels, except upon orders given a priority rating of AA-5 or higher, are now pro hibited, Deputy WPB Regional Director Milton H. Luce said to day. It was effective yesterday, under a new limitation order is sued Saturday In Washington. "It Is intended to confine the use of softwood plywood to essen tial military and civilian needs," Luce sam. The prohibitive order will not affect the activities of either the Eugene Plywood company or the Springfield Plywood corporation, mill leaders said Monday. Neither has received official notification. Both plants have been selling on "higher priority ratings" than AA-5, they reported. j "Uncle Sam is practically our only customer, anyway," said M. i E. Batchelor, office manager fori Eugene Plywood. Men With Dependents May Lose Deferments WASHINGTON, Dee. 21 (U.B The cold facts of the manpow er situation today point almost Inevitably to gradual abandon ment of dependency as grounds for deferment from service In the armed forces. The facts are that the army and pavy, as now projected, will want more men than there are in this country without dependents. A system of payments to de pendents of men in the military establishment already Is In oper ation and It would absorb much of the shock of the Induction of men who now are deferred be cause they support others. President Roosevelt's executive order of Dec. 5 authorizing war manpower commissioner Paul V. McNutt to stop Induction of men over 37 Is partly responsible for a situation which probably will require the Induction of many men now referred. There Is some pos sibility, it is understood, that the 37 age figure may be reduced ul timately to 35, although no de cisions are expected soon. INJURIES FATAL PORTLAND, Dec. 21 OP) Marvin C. Riley, 28, Aloha, died here yesterday of Injuries suf fered in the crash of his auto mobile into a pole west ot Port land Sec. 12. HE ot to LERE'S the sad saga Dorabell Dumb Who drove into town shop. She used gas and tire aroused all her Ire And was tired enough to drop. But now here's the story of Winifred Wise Who shopped without going to town; With Want Ads in hand her selections were grand, The Job never got her down. Turn to the Complete Gift Directory In THE CLASSIFIED SECTION
