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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.
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.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'
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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.
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