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VOL. 101 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY -
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EwPresident Roosevelt had told
LtfM conference that a rail-
" Strike would be the worst
Z, imaginable against the war
Mt The president revealed he
a jrMd a compromise proposal
averting a strike of the five
Liting railway brotherhoods
Allowing them four cents an
L, in additio .to four cents
flrfrf by an emergency board.
, StfriMi Today
jmreientatives of the 15 non
anting groups met today while
iitutive committees of. the five
resting unions were meeting In
ETome hotel to discuss the ad
rjniitration proposal. There was
jnnouncement from the non
witting group, but it was learn
,1 that the officials were planning
o lnue a strike call for Dec. 30.
Tbt non-operating unions' de
jsion to force a showdown came
sly one day after they were de
lated in their efforts to obtain
m Immediate house vote on the
pite-aproved Truman resolution
b boost their hourly rates by
sjht cents an hour.
the non-operating leaders, it
ns raid, complained that while
Sej had had three understand
jn with the president during the
pit six months for settlement of
luit wage dispute, none had ma
Wiilized. Meanwhile It was understood
Did the non-operating group does
tot favor the house interstate
tanmerce committee's proposed
edification of the Truman reso
lution to strip Economic Stabillza
tm Director Fred M. Vinson of
Hthority over railway wage
OHt. ,'
will Treatment
I The union leaden were said to
Itkn would put them In a position
fl that the proposed modlfica-
of seeking special treatment
through congress. They have in
cited throughout the long contro
nnjr that the eight-cent hourly
niie, which was recommended by
d emergency board and vetoed
tr Vinson, did not violate the
Inn itabllization program.
I Officials of the five operating
Imioos held a threehour -mom-Ifci
lenton and announced at Its
iooeiutkm that they would go to
ft whit house at 3 p.m. for their
meeting of the week wltn
dent Roosevelt The non-
itag group has not been par
ting in these conference.
Tht solution of the operating
tployes' wag Issue proposed by
Soosrvtlt would retain a four-
entt-in-hour increase which was
ill that Vinson would grant for
Icht time. To that the prest
it would add another four cents
hour, on the average, by pay'
Dent of time and a half for over
tint,
.
lane Taxpayers
flush This Year
Tax oavments on th 1943-44
kvi far exceeded those ta pre
vail years, County Treasurer
Grin Schtska said Tuesday. Many
ot the property owners of the
romty are paying their taxes in
full Immediately this year in order
w retain me tnree per ceni re
nte rather than paying by quar
ten and running a risk of a pen'
ity for not paving on time.
Tuesday the aheriffi office
ail a turnover to the treasurer
" more than half a million dol-
IT1 CftlWterl nn 4hA mnnt mil.
The total of $548,713.73 has been
"sregated as follows: State and
""nty taxes, $181,843.77; city
wee, $105,662.62; school district
fool districts, $62,471.34: county
ysnscnool tuition fund, $6665.14;
ttt fire patrol, $5368.21: water
:
ers Reappoinfed
To State Bank Post
Th Stat tisnMnf, KnP w4b
' a four-year term as state
"genntendent of banks.
Kogers was appointed In 1939
nng the term of former Gov.
wanes A. SDramie. H wn en-
Peed in k.i. i. ,
to 1933 when he went to Spo-
u"e lth the fntmt lnnrt h.nk.
.J state banking board is com
fd of Gov. Earl Snell. Treas-'
"" Leslie Scott, and Secretary
nooert s. Farrell, Jr,
Knox Supports
Kaiser Plan on
Post-War Jobs
WASHINGTON. Dee. 21 (U.B
Secretary of Navy Frank Knord
sam xoaay mat Henry J. Kaiser's
pian lor determining the job
wishes of soldiers and sailors by
means of questionnaires was a
'very thoughtful suggestion" but
should be held In abeyance until
nearer tne end of the war."
Kaiser's plan, outlined in an ex
elusive interview on Saturday with
Frank H. Bartholomew, United
Press vice president, is under con
sideration by the navy, Knox dis
closed at his press conference.
Committees Proposed
The west coast shipbuilder pro
posed that committees be set up in
every community to consider and
make detailed preparations for the
return of service personnel to civ
ilian life. The committees, oper
ating rather like draft boards in
reverse, would analyze question
naires sent to service men to de
termine where and how they want
to live and what they want to do
after the war.
Knox agreed that some prepara
tions for such a program could be
made now. Although he felt the
proposed questionnaires should not
be submitted now, Knox said
Kaiser's proposals would help to
"combat propaganda that nobody
gives a damn what would happen
to them (service men) which Is
very untrue."
Kaiser's program, Knox con
tinued, would help toward "a bet
ter preparation for peace better
for us, better for the country, and
better for the world."
Example Cited
He cited th case of a small New
England town whose chamber of
commerce Investigated the pre
war jobs oi evory service man lji.nn
m . ii - . 1 1 -.-' m u- T
ber then interviewed all the em
ployers involved and was able to
assure the men that they would get
their same Jobs back on their re
turn If they wanted them.
Asserting that this town showed
fine example of community co
operation, Knox recommended that
other small towns pursue a similar
course. '
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Ban on Press
Second. Front
Guesses Looms
WOUNDED GUNNER PULLED FROM PLANE Rear Gunner
Kenneth Bratton of Mississippi, wounded In the Nov. S raid on Rabaul,
waa pulled from the turret of his Avenger torpedo plane after It landed
on the carrier Saratoga. Bratton retained consciousness until lifted
from the plane by Lt. Julius Bescoe (USNR), former University of
Southern California football ace. AF Wirephoto from U. S. Navy)
LONDON, Dec. 21 0J.B Brlt
tsh and Afherican censorship au
thorities were understood today to
be preparing to ban publication
and broadcasting of all specula
tion originating in either country
on the opening of a second front
in western Europe.
Speculation originating In neu
tral countries or picked up from
axis radio broadcasts or news
papers would not be affected by
th nrHar it Is hflif.VMt.
Military authorities in London! They are Mrs. June Schults,
nnA Wnshlnotnn r uiri to be i who came here from Marshall.
dissatisfied with the widespread town, Iowa, and Mrss Sandra San
discussions over where, when and i Juan, Des Moines, Iowa.
how an invasion of western i "We just started laiKing aooui
Sisters Meet
At Shipyard
For First Time
SEATTLE, Dec. 21 W Two
women, working side by side as
welders' helpers at the Associated
shipyards here, have discovered
they are sisters, through a chance
conversation.
ANOTHER INVASION SEEN
IN RAID ON NEW BRITAIN
Van Winkle P'
Filled by Governor
SALEM. Dec. 21 MV-George
Neuner Sr., McMinnville, was ap
pointed stat attorney-general
vesterday By uovernor oneu io
serve out the term of the late I.
H. Van Winkle, which expires
Jan. 1, 194S.
Neuner was graduated from
Willamette in 1908 and practiced
law in Roseburg until appointed
United States district' attorney for
Oregon in 1925, with headquart
ers in Portland, post he held
until 1933.
He was assistant chief elerk oi
the house of representatives In
1909. a member of the lower
house In 1911 and of th senate In
1913. He has served as assistant
attorney general of Oregon and
attorney for the Oregon liquor
control commission. He was gov
ernment appeal agent during the
first World war, city Mtorney or
Roseburg from 1910 to 1912 and
Douglas county district attorney
for many years.
He is married and has three
children.
Iron Lung Is
Vain Resort
For Soldier
emergency resort "to-
Lane county's iron lung, Robert
Struck, 24, soldier rushed - here
from Camp White at Medford,
failed to survive an attack of in
fantile paralysis here Monday
night.
He died at about 1 a. m. in sac
red Heart general hospital, three
i.n,,v. ntl or hi arrival from Med-
forrl. - 4
Th Iron lung, belonging to
Lane county chapter of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, was called upon for one
of its infrequent rescue missions,
but in this case It was louna im.
possible to stave off death.
Paralvsla of the breathing mus.
cles, described by the attending
physician as "a rapidly progress
in thin, sometimes amenable to
treatment, sometimes not," refused
to yield in this Instance.
The soldier's young wife, Mrs,
Vieva Struck, 711 Cedar, street,
Medford, accompanied her hus
band here and waited In the hos
nltal during the vain battle to
mva him. -
Military authorities were said to
be coming here Tuesday to take
charge of the body, which was
taken to the Veath-Holllngsworth
mortuary,
Franco Attempts
To Rally Spain
MADRID, Dec. 21 U.B Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco
sought to rally all Spain behind
his government today with th
establishment of greater freedom
of the press, political amnesty for
all prisoners except those convict
ed of murder, dissolution of th
falange party militida and modi
fication of some party organizations.
The political amnesty, most
Generous In Snaln's history, was
announced yesterday. The minis,
trv of iustice estimated 8000 pris.
oners would be released before
Christmas.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, NEW QUINEA, Dec.
21 (U.R) A record 414-ton Amer
ican raid that shattered Japanese
defenses on Cape Gloucester
touched off speculation today that
Gen. Douglas MacArthur may be
planning an invasion of the north
western tip of New Britain in an
attempt to tighten the blockade.
oi Kaoaui. r,
Hundreds of American Libera
tors, Mitchells and Marauders,
striking in two formations, spread
fire and destruction through the
Cape Gloucester area, 275 miles
southwest ot Rabaul, Sunday in
the heaviest attack of the war in
the southwest Pacific.
The raid exceeded in weight the
356-ton assault, previously the
heaviest in the southwest Pacific,
that smashed the Arawe penin
sula defenses 50 miles to the
southeast less than 24 hours be
fore sixth army troops swarmed
ashore last Wednesday.
Capture of Cape Gloucester
would cut the northern barge line
from New Guinea to Rabaul and
leave that key bastion dependent
entirely on Truk, Japan's Pearl
Harbor, some 800 miles to the
north, for supplies and reinforce
ments. Sixth army patrols were reveal
ed to have pushed nearly six to
nine miles northeast ot the Ara
we peninsula on the southwest
coast of New Britain to the ap
proaches to the Sigul ana Puu
rivers.
Gasmate. 82 miles east of Are
we and a trans-shipment point on
the southern New Britain coast.
also was hit by allied bombers,
Some 90 miles across Dampier
strait from Arawe. Australian
iunela forces drove across the
Masaweng river, previously con
sidered a natural defense Una, In
mirsuit of Japanese fleeing north'
westward around New Guinea'
Huon peninsula.
Europe will be launched,
British Policy
British newspapers have been
adhering fairly well to broad cen
sorship. directives permitting them
to speculate only along the line
suggested in official announce
ments or speeches of high govern
ment authorities and to report
foreign speculation of any kind.
The censorship discussion
rjcarance
convoys shuttling big detachmenta
of the American troops to Britain
and sp.ecutaUonj.ver.wheiher
''SEE BAN ON PRESS STORY
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Planing Mill Case
Upheld, Modified
Maintenance of an open saw
dust fire with no device or appar
atus for control should be en
joined but a reasonably controlled
burner or furnace should not b
included in an injunctory decree,
the state supreme court held
Tuesday at Salem as It upheld but
modified the decree of tne circuit
court for Lane county in the case
of Linus W. Lindley vs. Wilbur H.
Hyland and others (Eugene plan
ing mill-.
The case, which came to the
court her on appeal by the de
fendants, Involved claims of the
plaintiff that smoke and refuse
from the mill's fire enveloped his
home and caused him to suffer
physically. Lindley had asked for
500 damages in nis sun lor an
Injunction, and received the In
innniinn hut not the damages.
Sine h had not appealed, the
supreme court could not award
him the money sked, the opinion,
written by Associate Justice Percy
R. Kelly, points out However, th
opinion continue with an ex
pression of belief that the plaintiff
had suffered damages.
The modification of the decree
permits th planing mill to install
a control devie on 1U burning
equipment
TROOPS GUARD BOLIVIA
MINES AFTER REVOLT
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 21. Troops guarded Bolivia's tin ore mines
today as a nationalist junta which yesterday overthrew the govern
ment of Gen. Enrique Penaranda announced that it was firmly en
trenched and discounted rumors that a counter-revolution had begun.
The troops were stationed at
the mines, producing a large por
tion ot the tin ore used in th
manufactute ot United States and
British arms, In one ot the first
acts of th new government which
pledged, however, to live up to
Bolivia's commitment to the
Unl.ert Nations.
Victor Paz Estensoro, leader of
the coup and new finance minis
ter, told an Interviewer that "the
Atlantic Charter and other obliga
tions of Bolivia will be respected
and maintained and "the new
goverment In no case will alter
the international situation at the
side ot the United Nations." Sim
ilar sentiments were expressed by
Maj. Alberto Vlllaroel, th new
president.
To Affeet Output
(Dispatches from Santiago,
Chile, not that th na
tionalist revolutionary movement
from which most of the new lead
ers are drawn has long campaign
ed against control ot the mining
Industry by three major produc
ing companies. These advlcea said
the coup could hardly fail to af
fect the production of tin.
(It was announced In Washing
ton that, pending direct word
from La Pas, negotiation be
tween- the Bolivian government
and the United States Metal Re.
how we couldn't get our birth cer
tiflcates," Mrs. Schults explained
today. "Sandra asked me lt I
thought I was born in Missouri,
and I said, "No, Iowa.' "
"Suddenly Sandra looked at me
funny, and asked me, 'Was your
nam Fiddler?'. "
"I told h'er that was correct. She
asked me about my younger sis
ters, Alice and Frances Marlon. 'I
told her what I knew how Alice
..."I? "T. 5 .,. .;i and I had been placed in an or.
Hvcr lllJ "CC.-tllU ... -K- . , , . ..,,, .... ,.,. .-
nf rllenntrhea te Hn of "" """"- '
small and taken from It by our
grandmother when we were 10.
Then Sandra took hold, ot my
arm and took me over to a corner
to sit down. 'I've got something to
(tll a eolrl T am vnnr altir ' "
Sandra was the "Frances Mar
Ion Fiddler" of childhood. Both
sisters said they had tried, when
youngsters, to find out about each
other.
But Sandra waa born after the
other two had been taken by a
grandmother, and Sandra in turn
was adopted by another family
and th sisters never knew each
other.
"It's a lot of fun, now, visiting
back and forth," they said.
SEE TROOPS GUARD STORY
PAGE ,
Five Ex-Leaders
Of France Seized
Missing Plane Sought
In Pendleton Area
PENDLETON. Ore., Dec. 21 M
A search was under way in the
rugged mountains east of here to
day for single - engined army
plane that vanisnea law mgni uo
signaling for an Instrument land
ing here because of the heavy
overcast ,
The Pendleton air base public
relations office said' the plane took
off from Felts field, Spokane,
shortly after 4 p. m.
The pilot flew over Pendleton
field at 5:10 p. m., reported three
hours' gasoline supply, and said he
would attempt a blind landing.
The ship disappeared to the east
. :
Senate Adjourns
For Holiday Recess
WASHINGTON. Dee. 21-)
n,. .nxtii adiourned at 12:47 p.
m.-. today, bringing to a ciose in , QT pART op 8HOw
first session of the 78th congress LQS ANGELESl Dec. 21. U.B
for that chamber, and beginning Tne 1500 patrons of a movie Wie
the Christmas recess which will ; atrr Mt quietly while a robbery
continue until Jan. 10. I was taking place on the stage.
The adjournment resolution j ip, thought the hand that
went to the house, which was reached through the curtain into
till disoosing of eleventh hour I , howl containing 1125 for a draw-
business, when the senator. hlTr
Powerful Red Drive Likely
To Isolate Finns From Nazis
Anti-Nazi Revolt
Rages in North Italy
NAPLES. Dec. 21. W North
ern Italy is flaming with revolt
against the Ge-man military com
mand and Its puppet Italian gov
ernment trustwo.thy information
reaching Naples showed today.
At the same time it was reported
that 'the Germans, following the
tactics employed In Naples, have
forcibly evacuated whole areas of
Rome, presumably to permit Ger
man engineers to plant mines and
dynamite on a large scale. This
may indicate a decision on abandonment
Note During th temporary
absence of DeWitt MacKenle,
this feature la being conducted
by William Fry of th Wash
ington bureau.) '
By WILLIAM FRYE
Associated Press War Analyst
The great red army offensive
now rolling southwest of Nevel,
whatever its immediate tactical
aims, is clearly a major blow
aimed eevntually at collapsing the
German left flank.
It is, moreover, in all likelihood
only the first of a series of winter
drives by the Russians calculated
to speed up considerably the prob
able intention of the German staff
to withdraw by spring to th so
called Riga-Odessa line.
The power of this northern
lunee is indicated by German con
fession of losses long before the
Russians disclosed progress.
even admitted the drive had start
ed. And the Russians probably
expect to keen moving, with grow
ing momentum, until the red army,
reaching the Baltic, has relieved
the long siege of Leningrad and
isolated Finland from her nazi illy.
There Is In some Washington
circles a rather strong belief that
the "main" Russian show, presum
ably timed to coincide with inva
sion of western Europe, Is still to
coma, nd will com la to south)
aimed through th Ukraine and
toward Rumania. Such an offen
sive probably will be launched.
But that should not minimize
the importance of the push already
undertaken In tne nortn. Tne
truth is that the Germans prob
ably used up their last "real
armored striking force In the
counterattacks In the Kiev bulge, I
and now that those have failed,
have lost the initiative tn th
Russians along th entire front
That calls for some line-tightening
by the Germans. It calls for
It particularly because the nazis
are scraping the bottom of the
manpower barrel, and cannot re
place their lost divisions with
equally strong fighting units. Al
ready men past 40 hsve been
thrown Into action on the Russian
front a sufficient Indication ot
Germany's manpower straits. The
figure of 300 divisions still Is used
for German army strength, but
many of them are no longer first
rate divisions.
All of this points to the likeli
hood that the nazi high command
will pull back, partly by plan but
obviously as the result of Russian
pressure, to a line pegged on Riga
In the north and th Dniester river
in the south. Bv shortening their
line that much, the nazis probably
could man the Russian front with
30 less division.
More City Workers
In Montreal Strike
MONTREAL, Dec. 21. W
Montreal's second strike of muni
cipal' employes within a w.k
started today, with an estimated
2,000 city hall clerks and stenogra
phers out to enforce demands for
higher wages.
The white collar workers turned
down an offer from the provincial
government, through the Quebec
municipal commission, for an ar
bitration board to Investigate their
wage demands. A week ago today
employes of the police, fire and
public works departments staged
a 14-hour strike that won them
union recognition for the Canadian
congress of labor, 1
Those striking today are mem
bers of the national syndicate of
; municipal workers and two small
er unions who joined forces wltn
th syndicate, recognized by the
city as bargaining agent for the
whit collar workers.
Th vol was 050-40 to strlka at
last night's mass meeting.
U. S. Consulate
In Spain Invaded
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 U
The slate department revealed to
day that two members of General.
Issimo Franco's falanglst party
invaded the United States consul
ate at Valencia, Spain, on Satur
day, tore down photographs and
harangued visitors there.
The report of the Incident was
received from the U. S. ambass
ador to Spain, J. H. Carlton
Hayes. Ho said "appropriate rep
resentations" were being made
both In Madrid and In Valencia.
The report did not describe the
photographs other than aa being
"press" pictures.
The falanglst recently broke
Into the British consulate at Sar
agossa and abused the consul
there.
ALGIERS, Dec. 21 00 Fl v
Frenchmen formerly high 1ft their
nation' political Ufa, including
former Premier Pierre-Kttenn
Flandln, paced cells in Algiers'
military prison today, charged by
th French national committee
with treason.
Justice Commissioner Francois
d Menthon, who acted at th di
rection of the commltte follow
ing an investigation of th five
cases, said the arrests of th fiv
Flandln; Marcel Peyrouton, for
mer Vichy interior minister;
Plerr Tixler-Vignancourt, former
Vichy secretary-general of Infor
mation; former Gov, Gen, Plerr
Boisson of French west Africa,
and former French Deputy Andre
Albert began two days ago and
wer completed this morning,
British Loso
42 Planes In
Big Raids
By Associated Pres
British bombers "In very
great strength" rained mor
than 2000 long tons of explo
sive death on the German city
of Frankfurt last night In on
of the most massive war as
saults in history and mounted
a secondary attack on the
Rhineland chemical cities of
Mannheim-Ludwigshafen. . .
Striking from another direction,
other allied planea bombed th
Bulgarian capital of Sofia for th
fifth time, concentrating on th
rail yards. Ensuing air battle cost
the allle 11 planes and th enemy
28. Other planea attacked th
Elevsls airfield near Athens, a
principal spring of German air
power In the threatened Balkan.
"First reports Indicate the bomb
ing was effective and large tires
war left burning," the British air
ministry said of th assault cat
Frankfurt
Th British lost 4 plane in all
night operations which Included
Mosquito stings at unspecified
points in western uermany ana
Belgium, min laying and attacks
on coastal ahlpping.
Th heavy British bombing,
blow followed daylight assault
yesterday by U. 8. Fortresses and
Liberator on Bremen, th German
submarine and shipbuilding bat
which haa become th leading nasi
port sine Hamburg was knocked
out of th war. We lost 25 heavy
bomber and eight fighter and
destroyed 40 German planes.
Reds Peril Germans
Before Leningrad
Reds Discontinue
'Internationale'
LONDON, Dec. 21. OP) Rus
sia is hailed aa a "republic of the
free" In new soviet national an
them which has replaced tht fa
mous "Internationale," a Moscow
broadcast said last night
The "Internationale" was aban
doned by order of the council of
peoples commissars, the broadcast
said, because It "does not reflect
the basic changes that have taken
place in our country as a result of
the vitories of the soviet system." 1
The old anthem begins: "Arise, y ,
prisoners of starvation, arise y
wretched of the earth," and con
cludes with "the International so
viet will free the human race."
The new song praises th vic
torious growth of the soviet union.
MacArthur Declines
Political Comment
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 21.
W -N.i comment was available
from Gen. Douglas MacArthur or
his staff today on the latest Wash
ington press stories suggesting that
MacArthur would accept the re
publican presidential nomination.
The southwest Pacific com
mander and his senior officers
were described as too occupied
with the current New Britain cam
paign to hsve time or opportunity
for comment on political Issues.
CHURCHILL IMPROVES
LONDON. Dec. 21. UB The
condition of Prime Minister
Churchill continues to improve, an
official announcement said today,
and his cabinet colleagues expect
ed momentarily the resumption of
the flood of directives which nor
mally pour In whan h it (broad.
1
State Parole Board
Director Resigns
SALEM. Dec. 21 M Resign
tion of Fred Flnsley, director of
the state board of parole and pro
bation for the P. I four and one
half years, was announced her
today by th board simultaneously
with the appointment of H. M.
Randall, Portland, tn the position.
Flnsley will move to Wheeler
county tn resum th practic of
law, h
Th Increasingly violent air of
fensive cam as th first Baltic
army of Russia waa reported with
in 20 mile of Vitebsk. Th wMk
old offensive in th Ncvcl area of
whit Russia threatened to isolate
German armies and also Imperiled
the whole German position before
Leningrad.
Dispatches said th Russlsn of
fensive In the north had forced th
Germans to divert troops from th
Kiev bulge and area farther
south. Some 3600 Germans wer
reported killed on various front
and 70 mora hamlet toppled in
the Nevel area.
Polotsk, as well as Vitebsk, was
threatened, and th capture of
both these rail centers would fore
the Germans to rely on communi
cations between the center and
north on rail lines far west In old
Poland.
Another Indication ot closer re
lations between Russia and her al
lies was the abandonment of th
"Internationale" as the soviet na
tional anthem, In favor of new
song glorifying Lenin and Stalin.
War In Brief
By United Pres
Air War Hundreds of RAP
bombers blast German chemical
centers with 2000-ton raid on
Frankfurt and subsidiary attack
on Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, 41
bombers lost; Mediterranean-based
American heaviea pound Sofia
and Athens airfield, loss nine
bombers and fighters, down 28 en
emy fighters.
Italy American gain ltt mil
on right wing of 6th army front,
seize mount Spinucclo overlook
ing main Inland road to Rome;
British reported fighting in street
of Orsogna, Inland anchor of nasi
Adriatic Una.
Russia Red army advance con
tinues through 50-mile gap In
German defense below Nevel;
soviet outflank Vitebsk, drive
within 40 miles of Polish frontier;
Germans abandoning guns and
equipment
Pacific Record 414-ton bomb
Ing raid on Cap Gloucester air
droms foreshadows possible new
allied landing on northwest coast
of New Britain; American acts
Arawe air strip on south Co, ex
tend beachhead to as much nln
miles; Japanese seen evacuating
Bougainville atrongpoint.
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FORMER COACH DKS
PORTLAND, Dec. 21. W
Funeral arrangement wer under
way today for Earl P. W. Harding,
83, one-time chemistry Instructor
and football coach at Oregon Stat
collg, who aUd y1ry.
IHHZ ,i;!:tSlevtngth.c.pitol.
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