MY EDITION
CITY EDITION
EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942
ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS Be
NO. 174
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- 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:
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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
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, aInKis define Ul.u
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Ntural P, "nt or more for
Program Tuesday
oted t 0Ver KORE wi"
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torrivt! . " "L alJPea
OtcWsi ty Certificates of
KcTr:
Yor ""WAST
'British n' Dcc' 21 (UB
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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.
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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
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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.
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