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.CapitatMi Salem, Oregon 3 Dk tMA .1 Jouamail Greece is Giving Mussolini and Hitler something to think about, and the Capital Journal gives you the complete story of Greece's courageous resistance to the dictators as it happens the day It happens. Weather Rain tonight and Sunday, snow over higher mountains; little change in temperature; south east gales. Friday max. 85, mln. 44. Rain 1.14 in. River i.t ft. B.S. wind, cloudy. 52nd Year, No. 305 XlX Salem, Oregon 1 ft k K8BI J 1 Saturday, Decern Price Three Cents USSSSSS inuqn O JO n . Bi 0 oragedl by. -U.S. policy of Hosylts0 aerim .Auto Crashes Kill Four and Injure Three Ambulance Carrying Victims of First Crash at Warner Corner Smashed Two men and two women are dead, and a man, a wom an and a child in hospitals ser iously injured following two traffic collisions near Salem early last night. The second accident, half a mile north of the North Salem viaduct, in volved an ambulance carrying casualties from the first acci- dent which occurred 11 miles northeast of Salem at Warner corners, on the Hazel Green road a mile north of Central How ell. Dead and Injured The dead: Arch Clayton Winn, 37, 770 North Front, Salem. ; Theodore G. W. Crites, 34, Scotts Mills. Mrs Theodore Crites, 33. Mrs. Tillle Vallet, Scotts Mills, employe at the Crites home. The Injured are: Darllne Crites, 3, fractured hip and other Injuries, In SUverton General hospital, condition serious. William Winn, Capitola district of Salem, In serious condition with fractured skull and other Injuries, also at SUverton General hospital. Mrs. Champ C. Shepherd, 170 Evergreen, serious second degree burns on lower portions of body, In Snlem .Genera) hospit&ft- . Champ V: Shepherd, minor body V Bruises, at Salem General hospital. ' James Bennett, 21, of 655 North High, ambulance attendant, treated for facial bums at Salem Deaconess hospital and released. Details Meager All the deaths and injuries ex cept those of the Shepherds and (Concluded on page 0, column 6) New Plants to Supply Powder Washington, Dec. 21 UP) Defense officials reported today that the army had forestalled a perilous threatened shortage of ammunition by speeding a new $50,000,000 smoke less powder plant toward comple tion. Under war department pressure, two or six projected production lines at the New Charlestown, Ind., ( plant are expected to be finished . early In the spring, two months or more ahead of schedule. These limited facilities alone, by authoritative estimates, will more than double the nation's existing capacity to supply powder to the army and navy. Until they are put into operation, the capacity to re place limited react yea Is so low as to cause official concern. Just four substal producers of the type of smokeless powder used In shells have supplied the peacetime needs of the army and navy for years. One of these, the Hercules plant at Kenvil, N. J., was damaged by an explosion this fall. The others are the army's plant at Plcatlnny, N. J., the navy's In dianhead, Md. arsenal, and a du Pont plant in Delaware. . To multiply many times their combined normal recorded output of about 25,000,000 pounds a year, the war department Is building huge plants at Charlestown and at Radford, Va, It contemplates two more, but none was scheduled to . attain full production until next t summer. Student Killed Portland, Dec. 21 UP) Clyde Way mire, about IS, high school student, was killed by an automobile driven by Hans C. Karstens, 25, Helix, last night, Patrolman Andy Crabtree reported. Double Congratulations Here James J. Tunney (left) and Lieu tenant Commander Joseph A. Gainard (right) exchanged con gratulations in the office of Secretary of Navy Prank Knox. Tun ney received a commission as a lieutenant commander In the naval leserves and Commander Gainard received the Navy Cross for "distinguished service in the line of his profession so ably dem onstrated whUe master of the steamer City of Flint at the times of Its seizure" by a belligerent European power. He is wearing the decoration. Associated Press Photo. Petain Refuses to Reinstate Laval Vichy, France, Dec. 21 today that Fernand de Brinon, man-occupied Paris, acting on jriiuippe j:eLiii, ueuvereu to France s retusal to make any back the ousted Pierre Laval. Petain agreed, as requested by Otto Abetz, German ambassador to Paris, to re place General de la Laurencie as delegate-general of the Vichy gov ernment In the occupied zone, with Fernand de Brinon, these sources said. Other demands, including the ouster of Minister of Interior Marcel Peyrouton and Minister of Justice Raphael Alibert, were said to have been rejected. Government leaders convened to day at the home of Foreign Minis ter Plerre-Etienne Flandin, who Is ill with influenza, while awaiting German reaction. Paul Baudouin, secretary of state for the presidency of the council, received German correspondents today, it was learned, and told them "collaboration" was not an issue in Laval's resignation, but that Laval had lost Petain's confidence because of his methods of working. Asked by the Germans about Pe tain's failure to attend the Paris ceremony marking the transfer of the ashes of the Duke of Reichs- stadt, son of Napoleon I, from Vien na, Baudouin replied that Petain had found it Impossible to go to Paris. Risto Ryti Takes Oath of Office Helsinki, Dec. 21 (P) Risto Ryti, newly-elected president of Finland, pledged himself to Improvement of relations with Russia, Germany and Sweden as he took the oath of of fice before parliament today. RAF Bom bs Berlin Plane Engine Plan t London, Dec. 21 (P) British raiders touched off "many explosions and fires" in a Berlin airplane engine factory last night, struck damaging blows at the industrial Ruhr and "in vasion ports" and attacked nazl gun positions along the English channel, the ministry of informa tion reported today. At the same time the admiralty announced "fires were seen to have been started" In a raid by planes of the fleet air arm on three cities In the Italian Dodecanese Islands off the Turkish coast Dec. 17. The ministry said the RAP, em ploying large forces of bombers In "successful and extensive opera tions," scored hits on the Berlin engine factory and "other parts of the target area" and that the fires which resulted were "stimulated" by a subsequent attack which also started new blazes. In operations by the coastal com mand yesterday, a "direct hit" was registered on a German supply ship. Particularly good results were ob tained from the raids on the in vasion ports of Ostend, Antwerp! (both in Belgium), Le Havre' v 1 I To " ) 1 -JIki m Informed sources asserted French ambassador to Ger orders of French, Chief of State uie uermana in iraris umay changes in its cabinet or take Ban Extended On 15 Exports Washington, Dec. 31 (U.R) Presi dent Roosevelt today Issued a proc lamation placing 18 additional ma terials under the export licensing system, Including plans and equip ment for the production of aviation lubricating oil. The president's move boosted to 73 the number of crucial materials placed under the rigid licensing system. , The materials added to the list today Includes: Bromine; ethylene; cobalt; plas tic molding machines and presses; gauges; measuring machines; test ing machines; hydraullo pumps; tools Incorporating Industrial dia monds equipment and plans for the production of aviation lubricating oil; ethylene dye bromide; methy lamlne; strontium metals and ores; abrasives and abrasive products containing emery, corundum garnet as well as abrasive paper and cloth; and balanclngVachines. The White House said that the 15 Items were added to perfect the list of products covered In former proclamations. Already under the export license system are aviation gasoline, ma chine tools, tin, rubber and other strategic and critical materials needed for the national defense. (Prance) and Flushing (The Ne therlands)," said the Information ministry's statement, Berlin. Dec. 21 (Pi Six persons were killed and 17 Injured by Bri tish warplanes which attacked Ber lin during the night, the German high command reported today. The Dom (Protestant) Cathedral In the capital was damaged and small fires were set in the suburbs by Incendiary bombs, but no mili tary damage was caused by the raid ers, a communique declared. On their first attempt to reach the city, the official account said, the British raiders were driven off by heavy anti-aircraft fire. 'Later," the communique de clared, "several enemy planes flew over the center of the city and dropped a number of explosive and Incendiary bombs, particularly In the east, resulting in slight dam age to the populace, and some dam age to buildings." Greeks Capture Heights Along Tepeleni Area British .Bombers from Greek Bases Bomb Brin- disi on Italian Heel Athens, Dec. 21 (P) Brit ish Royal Air Force bombers based on Greek sou were re ported today to have carried out successful attacks on oil tanks and railways at Brin disi, across the Adriatic Strait of Otranto on the heel of the Italian boot. "Poor visibility and intense anti-aircraft fire made obser- v a t i o n difficult," said the RAF communique, "but all bombs exploded In the target area Large fires were started and subse quently there were several explo sions." While the RAP reported this and other assaults to support the Greek offensive Into Italian-held Albania, dispatches from the fighting front said Greek forces had captured an Italian colonel and two battalions in fierce fighting around Tepeleni. Take Two Villages Greek infantrymen, battling cold and a stubborn fascist force, were said to have occupied two villages and two strategically Important heights In the Tepeleni area. Heights taken In the Tepeleni area were described as strongly guarded with barbed wire. After mentioning the gains In that sec tjnr.. nnft rpnnrf. Kn(H: "6ur aVtllle'ry'successfuIly shelled the retrcAtlng Italians. Guns and much material have fallen Into our hands. "While the enemy was being chased, Italian planes attempted to halt our advance but our fighters took off and shot down four enemy aircraft. Greek Destroyers A naval communique Indicated today that a Greek destroyer force actually preceded British warships In their sweep of the lower Adriatic, as reported by the London admiral ty yesterday. The British sent a battleship - cruiser - destroyer force Into the lower Adriatic December 18 and the battleships, It was re ported, poured nearly 100 tons of high explosive shells Into Italy's port of entry Into southern Albania, Valona. Now the Greek navy reports that on the night of December 15-16 Its reconnaissance destroyers penetrat ed the lower Adriatic as far as the (Concluded on pwre S, column 3) Nazi Bombers Raid Liverpool ' Liverpool, Dec. SI (IP) German reconnaissance planes flew over Li verpool and the Merseyslde district after daybreak today to survey the damage caused by wave after wave of bombers which battered this cen ter of British overseas commerce last night. The night raid was reported to have been the heaviest of the war for the Liverpool area. Rescue workers digging through wreckage and rubble for victims of the attack hardly spared the scout ing planes overhead a glance. The raid started so early last night that crowds of Christmas shoppers were caught In the streets. They filled shelters and basements In the business district and were forced to remain there throughout the night. A greater use of Incendiary bombs than in any previous raid on Liver pool coused many fires, lighted tar gets, and guided wave after wave of bombers over the industrial areas. There were relatively lew casual ties, however, and transport facili ties were operating almost normally this morning. During the height of the raid a fire truck ran into a bombcrater In a downtown street, Injuring two firemen. Explosive and fire bombs started many fires as the raiders swept down In a concentrated attack de spite an Intense antt-alrcraft bar rage. Applications for Postmaster Come Washington, Dec. 21 W Applica tions for the postmastershlps at Cave Junction and North Powder Ore., will be received until the close of business January 3, the civil ser vice commission announced Friday. Preparing to take over the office of city recorder of Salem on Jan uary 1, Hannah Martin yesterday took the oath of office, admin istered by City Attorney Lawrence Brown. She Is the first woman to be elected to a municipal executive or administrative office here. Still Time to Aid Christmas Cheer Only two more shopping there are still scores of families in dirS need who need assist ance this Christmas time.--The-Capital Journal-Santa Claus editor has listed the names of families whom you might help this Yuletide and if you have family, wouldnt you find a great deal of Joy shopping for another family less fortunate than your own? Letters galore have come to the Santa Clous editor during the past 24 hours asking last-minute help. Upon Investigation It has been found that the mothers have waited until now, thinking that something would break for them and they would not need to ask any organization for Christmas toys for their small ones. At last they have realized that they must have help. It Is up to us who are more fortunate to see to It that these kiddles aren't disappointed. Will you help? A Christmas basket would be wonderful and toys would make the day a supreme event to these tiny ones. Contributions of clothing, food, toys and money will be gladly ac cepted at the Journal office and distributed by the Journal's Christ' mas cheer staff. One family was provided with a load of wood today by a Salem fuel dealer. Each member of the family has been very ill with the flu and there has been no heat In their small but clean home. Bedding was also provided by the Journal Santa Claus helpers to this family. A Christmas basket has been assured this fatherless family on Tuesday. Such Is the work that the Journal and its readers are trying to do. Your cooperation is needed. The Junior Red Cross and Salem schools have made clever miniature Santa Clauses and filled them with candy for distribution to the old folk confined to the Deaconess hos pital. Still other groups are contrib uting to the cheer of Invalids and oldsters this Christmas time. If you haven't a Christmas Cheer project of your own call the Santa Clawi editor, 3573, or the Christmas Basket Exchange, 21421. Willkie Returns to Finish Vacation New York, Dec. 21 IIP) Wendell L. Wlllkle said today he was atlll looking for a Job any lob for a fellow who likes to argue." Accom panied by Samuel P. Pryor, Jr., vice chairman of the republican national committee, and Gene Tunney, who yesterday was appointed a naval lieutenant commander,' Wlllkle left La Ouardla field for Hobe Sound, Fla., to continue Ms vacation. Capital Blackout Due to Power Break Washington, Dec. 21 (&) A power failure at 6:45 a. m., gave Washing ton a few minutes blackout today. stalled the city's street cars for two hours, and forced thousands of per sons to walk to work Fire engines raced through the streets before dawn after alarm systems failed and panicky citizens sent In need less calls. days until Christmas and finished shopping for your own - - Santa's Helpers ' Among those contributing to the Capital Journal's Christ mas Cheer fund, to assist needy folk during the Yule tide, are as follows: Previously Reported (115.35 Mrs. Brown 1.00 Anonymous 10.00 Dr. U O. Clement 6.00 Anonymous 1.00 Anonymous 6.00 Anonymous 3.00 Mrs. Thomas 1.00 Total 1140.25 Manv other Und-heuted folk are taking entire families for Christmas and providing them with baskets of food and toys. Contributions of clothing, toys and food are pouring In to be distributed to the needy. If you haven't done your part this Christ mas time call 3573 and the Santa Claus department will be happy to assist you. Pope Calls for Xmas Prayers Vatican City, Dec. 31 (IP) Pope Plus XII called for Christmas pray ers and charitable gifts for war suf ferers, especially children, in a let ter today to Cardinal Lulgl Magll one, papal secretary of state, and said he prayed "trying days" would be shortened for "suffering human ity." The Pope expressed "especially gratitude to the American bishops who, although far from the horrors of war, have shown once more their full comprehension of the needs of the suffering church and, appealing to traditional generosity, those Ca tholics (and particularly fellow citi zens of the countries struck by the scourge), who have so abundantly and bencflclently aided the charity of the common father. "To it (American esplcopacy) goes out our full and entire gratitude and also goes our benediction, as It will go no less affectionately to all who will permit us to dispense with a larger hand that which the other receives." The Pope said he had done every thing possible to avert the Ills and sufferings of the devastating war, but that his efforts ran up against "difficulties at all times more ser ious still than those In the past World war some of them Inherent to the very nature of the scourge which Is raging, others we must also Ray Interposed by the will of men." King To Broadcast London, Dec. 21 (IPt King George VI will make a broadcast address to the British nation and the empire at 3 p. m. (8 a. in,, EST) on Christ mas dar. British Mop Up On Italians in Besieged Bardia Trapped Fascists Trying Desperately to Slip Through Ring of Steel Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 21 0P) While British bombers, ar tillery, and warships were re ported battering beleaguered Bardia today in an effort to smash a path through the Ital ian defenses, a general head quarters communique an nounced British troops had captured an additional 900 prisoners and were "clearing" the areas to the northwest and west of the eastern Lib yan base. The British forces In the western desert, "which continue to be rein forced," also have taken four guns in their mopping-up operations, the communique reported. In addition, patrols along the Su dan frontier were said to be carry ing on "their aggressive activity." Seeking Escape As the British closed in on Bar dia, large units of the trapped fas cist forces were said to be trying desperately to slip through the ring of steel around their eastern Lib yan base under cover of darkness and the pall of emote and dust hanging over the town after five days of bombardment. It was believed In some British circles that such units if any got through' would" try to' Join Marshal Rodolfo Orazlanl at Tobruk for a new stand TS miles west of the Libyan-Egyptian frontier. The coastal road to Tobruk and Derna has been reported, like Bar dia, under almost constant RAF and naval bombardment. Reports from the battlefront said the British, bringing up Infantry to reinforce their advance tank col umns, completed a seml-clrcle of men and guns around the landward side of Bardia last night while a Una- ol warships of the coast Sin ished the encirclement. Becomes a Siege Immediately, It was said, the bat tle of Bardia became a siege. Prom, all sides British, guns were thundering at the 11-mile Italian defense front of tank traps, gun em placements and pill boxes manned by some 20,000 troops many of them survivors of the fascist flight from Egypt. ' The British counter-drive Into Libya ln the desert lands to the south also was reported advancing. There the British, spearheaded by a unit of Australian cavalry, were fighting to oust an Italian gwrslson from the oasis of Olararub, about 20 miles west of the Egyptian frontier. Some prisoners were taken in three days of fighting around the oasis and last night the rest of the Italian force was reported stilt hold ing out against heavy pressure, Stalin 61 Today Moscow, Dec. 21 (IP) Joseph Sta lin's 61st birthday anniversary pass ed today without formal observance. A year ago It was celebrated. There was no mention of the birthday In today's press. Germany Asks Recall Of Em bassy A ttaches Berlin, Dec. 21 (P) The German government requested the state department in Washington today to recall Cecil M. P. Cross and Leigh W. Hunt, secretaries in the United States embassy In Paris, and embassy em ploy, Mrs. Elizabeth Dccgan, the ground they helped an unnamed British officer who escaped. An official announcement stafed1 that the United States government had headed the Ctermon request and had Informed the Reich govern ment that it had started Investiga tions. The announcement said Mrs. Dce gan supported the English officer in an effort to enable him to flee. Ocr man authorities' Investigations In Paris dLscloscd that Embassy Secre taries Cross and Hunt also wcro In volved, the announcement moerled. Furthermore, Crosa was clinrged with having hidden for months In the embassy building an unnamed English citizen In the employ of the secret service. The agent flnolly was arrested outside the building, the announcement declared, and con fessed espionage aBainst Germany while In the embassy hideout. Await Reaction To Cross Demand For Enemy Ships British Inciting U. S. to War Pinpricks and Humiliations at Limit Berlin, Dec. 21 (IP) Ths German foreign office spokes man declared today that tha British suggestion that the United States turn over to Britain "enemy" ships now in refuge is "nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act" and American reaction to the suggestion is "being awaited by Germany with extraordinary interest." He asserted that Germany had "shown restraint to the point of self effacement, while on the other side there has been a syste- matlc policy of pin-pricks, chal lenges, humiliations and even moral aggression." Now, the spokesman added In comment on British-American dis cussions of assistance to Britain, it is unbearable for Germany to let things drift further. .Reaction Awaited The statements came In a solemn press conference. (Ronald H. Cross, British minis ter of shipping, said yesterday In London that the assignment of "a certain nvnnber rl enemy srApi Va the United States" and addition of United States ships to the British service "are the only ways X . can see for Veplonlshment of any. con sequence,") "The entire attention of the Ger man government is centered upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal," the spokesman asserted. "That proposal is nothing other than Inciting America to commit (Concluded on page 9. column 8) Pick Halifax Envoy to U.S. London. Dec. 21 UP) Appoint ment of Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax as ambassador to the Unit ed States was regarded as certain bV Ml Influential tecttoti at the. British press today and the-London Times said it could conceive of no one "better fitted for thla Import ant post." The Dally Mall flatly declared the tall, scholarly foreign secretary woafd assume the post lelt vacant by the death of Lord Lothian, and asserted his name already had been submitted to President Roosevelt for approval. The authoritative but more re strained British Press Association parliamentary correspondent said Lord Halifax was considered tht most likely choice for the ambassa dorship. Minister of War Anthony Eden will move up to the foreign secre taryship, If Halifax Is appointed, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill also will make a post for David Lloyd George, World war prime minister, the Dally Mall said. Lloyd Qeorge was reported by tne British press earlier this week to have declined the ambassadorship because of his age. Washington, Dec. 21 VP) Secre tary Hull said today that the state department would comply with the request of the German government and withdraw two officers and an employe of the American embassy In Paris, Two secretaries of the embassy, Cecil M. P. Cross and Leigh Hunt, and the receptionist, Mrs, Elizabeth Deegan, will be assigned elsewhere. Hull emphasized that any govern ment has the right to demand the withdrawal of officials or employes of another government without sub mitting any reason. The slate department will Inves tigate the charges against Cross, Hunt and Mrs. Decgan, Hull said, but a preliminary examination of the tacts had not disclosed that they were guilty of assisting a British officer to escape, as charged by the Germans. i
