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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1942)
4 fe tefe, te TO Buy War Bonds Keep 'Em Flying 1 Salem, Oregon 1 Monday, Dec Price Five Cents JTI1 I ear, no. JWO mmttw at Salem. Onion New Red Army Drove Rolls Sermamis Back WTO 11 r .1 II John H. Carson To be Appointed State Senator Brother of Allan Carson fTo be Named Pro Tern This Afternoon Appointment of a successor pro tern to Capt. Allan G. Carson of the United States army as state senator from Marion coun ty is expected to be made by the county court Monday afternoon. While court members remain silent as to their selection it is virtually a foregone conclusion that John H. Carson, Salem at torney, brother and law partner of Senator Allan Carson, will be the appointee to serve during the latter's absence in the arm ed forces. Smith Returns The appointment has been held up due to the absence of County Commissioner J. E. Smith who went to Portland early last week for medical treatment and was in a hospital here during the week. Com missioner Smith was returned to his home here yesterday and while reported to be able to sit in at his home on the selection of the senator it was deemed in advisable for him to go to the courthouse. So arrangements were made for other members of the court to go to his house this . afternoon where Commissioner-Smith's signature is ex pected to be attached to the or der of appointment.- " ' --''v'-'. Commissioner Glrod also went to Portland Saturday accompa nying fhis mother' who started on an eastern trip and he did not return until late : Monday morning ; so the : arrangements were made for , the afternoon session. tBrown Also Candidate While there have been a num- ber of candidates for the post the two names which have led the procession in outside specu lation have been those of John H Carson and Chandler P. Brown. While Chandler Brown is re ported as saying he would be re ceptive to the appointment if tendered he would not make a personal campaign. However, (Concluded on Pftfe 10, Column 4) Canada Cuts .Buffer Rations r Ottawa, Dec. 21 U.R Cana dians will be restricted to one half pound of butter per per son per week beginning today. under a coupon rationing plan announced by Donald Cordons, chairman of the war-time price and trade board. Cordon also announced a : duction in the price of butter and temporary increases in gov ernment butterfat subsidy to producers. He blamed "some greedy and unscrupulous people" for the ra tioning, hoarding having result ed in a "serious strain on butter. distribution. "Panic buying has been in evi dence," he said. "In some cases the rush for supplies has been almost hysterical." 1 Effective today, the whole sale price will be lowered from 38 Vt to 35 cents a pound on the basis of prices in Montreal and Toronto. A week from today, the retail price, in localities where it has : been increased since Oct. 30 must be lowered to the October 30 level. Vr shopping ti days. left -h aw- y. ms-1 S0ieTIIIM6 RXtuMOE TUyD ViOAUNT BuyChristmasSeak Tanks Smashing Jap Remnants In New Guinea Enemy Commander Killed But More Troops Believed Landed By William Boni Somewhere in New Guinea, Dec. 21 m Riding on the mo mentum furnished by the first tanks ever used by the allies in the Buna theatre, Americans and Australians had achieved these gains early today: 1. They had swept westward along the coast for 2000 yards from Cape Endaiadere, which they took Friday. 2. They had reached the creek separating a new Buna air strip from the old landing strip, and had blasted away the Japanese bridge connecting the two. Tanks Do the Work 3. They had cleaned out the strong points along the north side of the new strip as well as those on- the west bank of the creek. . Australians, chiefly infantry, cooperated with the Americans in neutralizing these strong points, around which some of the heaviest fighting had raged. The allies' reached a point on the. beach only some 3000 yards east of Buna government station, principal point held by the Jap anese after the fall of Buna, to the. west, and Cape Endaiadere.. The bulk of the tank strength was used in support of the Amer icans who attacked the strong points defending ; the landing strips. These were solid defense po sitions, but the armored units made short work of them. Allied Headquarters in Au stralia, Dec. 21 m Allied tanks and infantry smashed today at dwindling Japanese forces trap ped in a horseshoe pocket in the Buna Mission area of New Gui nea, and allied headquarters said the enemy commander, Lieut, den. Tomatoorii had been reported killed in action. The bloody trap was drawn tighter with capture of the Cape Endaiadere region Friday by Australian shock troops, and General 'Mac Arthur's command announced a general attack, spearheaded by tanks and artil lery, was now underway against the Japanese remnants on this right flank. A communique de clared the "enemy's position is deteriorating." First Tanks Used It was the first time that the allies had used tanks in a gen eral attack on this front. Field dispatches identified the tanks as light American-made "Gen eral Stuarts manned by Austra lians. . The enemy is believed to have landed troops Saturday night at Andang, 300 miles northwest of (Concluded on Fare 9, Column 4) Below Zero Weather Grips Most of East (By the Assoclsted 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 -house- holders 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 be low at Mt. Kisco and 21 below at Yorktown Heights. Albany reported 18 below, Boston S below, and Buffalo 5 below. The temperature dropped to 8 below in Cincinnati, compared with 9 above reported yesterday, but farther west there was a general trend to higher figures. At Duluth it was only 5 below, instead of the 21 below reported yesterday. Giant Killer Like "a bar room brawl with all lignts out" was the way Com mander E d ward Nelson Parker, 29, of Lexington, Ky., described a machine gun duel between a U. S. destroyer and a Jap battle ship in the Solomons the night of November 13, He believes his destroyer sent three torpedoes into the bat tleship' before the lighter American warship was knocked out of action and sunk. Commander Parker said the battleship, one of the Kongo class, was sunk' i the next day. This official , navy - p hot o was radioed. from Honolulu to San Fran cisco. Associated Press. Married Men To be Drafted Washington, Dec. 21 U. The cold facts of the manpower situ ation today point almost inevlt- ably to gradual abandonment of dependency as grounds for de ferment from service in the arm ed forces. The facts are that the army and navy, as now projected, will want more men than there are in this country without depend ents. 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 execu tive order of December 5 author izing War Manpower Commis- soiner Paul V. McNutt to stop in duction of men over 37 is partly responsible for a situation which probably will require the induc tion of many men now deferred There is some possibility, it is understood, that the 37 age fig ure may be reduced ultimately to 35, although no decisions are expected soon. Owl's Head, N. Y., where the mercury plunged to 45 below, still held the week-end record. The frigid weather was ex pected to abate somewhat in the east today. Chicago had a low of one above last night, compared with 10 above the night previously. But at Bismark, N. D., the mer cury had risen to a low of 10 above, considerably warmer than the 18 below reported yes terday. 1 Other low temperatures re ported today: Albany, N. Y., 18 below; Detroit 10 above; Phila delphia 1 above; Pittsburgh zero; Washington 1 above. Al bany's minus 18 passed all low marks since weather records were started there 68 years ago. Duisberg Left Flaming Ruins By RAF Fliers Moonlight Raid Follows Daylight Bombing by Flying Fortresses London, Dec. 21 W The RAF pounded Germany's great inland port of Duisberg at the junc tion of the Rhine and Ruhr riv ers last night in a swift follow up to a daylight raid by Am erican flying fortresses ; which dared swarms of German fight ers to penetrate deep into oc cupied France yesterday. "A strong force of our bomb ers attacked industrial objec tives at Duisberg in clear wea ther and bright moonlight," the air ministry said. "The attack was heavy and concentrated and many large fires were left burn ing." German Admissions - The German high command said both explosives and incen diaries were loosed upon Duis berg. . "Considerable damage was done, especially in the residen tial districts and to public build ings," said the high command communique broadcast by the Berlin radio.. "The population sustained losses." Railway engines and other objectives were reported to have been the targets of fighter com mand aircraft On intniddr opera tions -oyer France and- -the low countries. ; . , ., . . ' - 11 Planes Lost ;' The size of the force which attacked Duisberg' was not '. im mediately disclosed, but an an nouncement that 11 planes were lost in the assault was taken by observers as an indication that a considerable number partici pated. . The weather over the' target was described as good and pre liminary reports were said to in dicate the attack was entirely successful. Six Fortresses Lost Six of the big American bombers were lost, but 40 Ger man fighters were shot down in the sweep by U. S. forces deep into France yesterday, a raid that produced sharp battles. Last night, taking another trick out of its bag, the RAF us ed new Whirlwinds as intrud ers. One of the twin-engined, single-seater fighters, which also can be used as bombers, toppled over a railway engine and freight car in a hedge-hopping attack over Belgium. The air ministry news service said other intruders covered a wide area,- penetrated deep into France, and shot up at least eight trains. All returned safe ly.. The German . news agency DNB reported last night's at tack by RAF bombers was aim ed at western Germany, and ac knowledges some damage and casualties. ' Eight British planes were downed, DNB said. The German rtidio reported that nazi planes . had made a strong attack last night on the city of Hull, causing many fires in docks and warehouses. Hull, an important port and industrial center, is near the mouth of the Humber estuary on the north east coast of England. Limit Placed on Plywood Movement Seattle, Dec. 21 VP) All sales, shipments and deliveries of soft plywood through wholesale and retail channels, except upon or ders given a priority rating of AA-5 or higher, are now pro hibited, Deputy WPB Regional Director Milton H. Luce said today. It was effective yester day, under a new limitation or der issued Saturday in Washing ton. "It is intended to confine the use of soft plywood to essen tial military and civilian needs," Luce said. x lJi;,l;!;.y.;i;:fii Duce Leads Procession Spectators applauded when Be nito Mussolini (second from left) led a delegation to new headquarters of the Italian women's organization in Rome recently on the 20th anniversary of the fascist march on Rome: The picture was received in New York from neu tral Portugal. Associated Press Photo. Ciano and Laval Consult Hitler London, Dec. 21 (U.R) Adolf Hitler, beset by allied offensives, the deterioration of Italy and dissension in France, has held con ferences with Galeazzo Ciano, Italian foreign minister, and Pierre Laval of France, axis broadcasts announced today. The ; Hitler Laval conference revived rumbrs in Stockholm that Vichy might reach a peacejjsetuem.enlli.witn JGermany, ahad declare-.tWar. on the allies,' and radio Paris, Ger man controlled, quoted the Paris collaborationist leader Marcel Deat as saying that France's main task was now to build up a new army. Ciano, substituting for his fa-therrin-law, i Benito . Mussolini, arrived at Hitler's headquarters Friday and remained until Sun day morning. Laval, fighting for his political life as dictator at Vichy, was permitted into the conference briefly Saturday and left the same day. An axis communique announ ced that Ciano and Hitler dis cussed the common pursuit of war aims by Italy and Germany. The fact that Benito Musso lini, as executive head of the Italian government, did not at tend the conference might be taken ' to mean either -that re ports of his ill health were cor rect or that Hitler had snubbed him as he snubbed Laval. CPA Airliner With 13 Lost Vancouver, B.C., Dec. 21 (CP) Search for a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane missing with '13 persons aboard swung imme diately north of this city today as CP. A. officials disclosed the aircraft, manned by a pair of veteran pilots, had asked for landing instructions before dis appearing soon after darkness fell yesterday. Capt. Ernest Kubicek and Capt. William Holland were at the controls of the transport which took off from interior Prince George, B.C., yesterday afternoon and was last heard from a few miles north of Van couver just before it was due to land. Stewardess Edna Young and 10 passengers, their identity as yet undisclosed, also were aboard. The plane-was expected here at 6:30 p.m., PWT, three hours after taking off from Prince George. The C.P.A. control tow er at Vancouver airport said one of the pilots asked for landing instructions but when the con troller called back he could get no acknowledgement. Walter Gilbert, Vancouver district superintendent for C.P.A., said weather yesterday was "normal" and declared the plane must now be on the ground "for better or worse." R.C.A.F. planes are joining in the search. At While House ' Washington, Dec. 21 (U.R) High government officials res ponsible for gasoline and fuel oil distribution meet at the White House today to study pro posals for revamping the exist ing rationing program. The meeting was called by Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes "because of recent de velopments affecting the eastern seaboard area." - The most drastic development a 60-hour ban on gasoline sales to private motorists in 17 eastern states ended at 12:01 a. m. Motorists unable to buy gasoline over the week-end, rushed to filling stations today, but with less valuable coupons. Byrnes called to the White House today Price Administra tor Leon Henderson, Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes and Transportation Director Jo scps B. I Eastman, heads of the three agencies responsible for control and distribution of gaso line and fuel oil. They have been asked to submit to Byrnes re ports Indicating (1) in what res pects our existing policies and machinery may. not be effective and (2) what remedial, action should be taken for the present and the future. Immediate Use of Airport Not Planned By Harry Crain More urgent need for planes and the crews to man and service them at established bases and for actual combat duty may delay occupation of the Salem municipal airport now ready for occu pancy by the army air corps Indefinitely. . This is the interpretation plac ed upon official information as to present plans for intended use of the field received from Col onel I. B. Summers, adjutant to the commanding general, fourth air force, San Francisco, who in dicates that the local port is to be utilized as a dispersal field under the immediate control of the Portland air base. "For the present it is contem plated that the Salem municipal airport will be under the imme diate control of the commanding officer, army air base, Port land," writes Col. Summers in reply to a Capital Journal in quiry. "When air corps troops may be assigned to the airport has Axis Planning All Out Fight To Hold Tunisia Rommel's Flight Con tinues Through Tripoli tan ia Pursued by British By Edward W. Seattle London, Dec. 21 (U.R) Marshal Erwin Rommel has appealed to Adolf Hitler for reinforcements to help keep the German toe hold in North Africa and an axis convoy of 150 ships is massed in southern French ports, Madrid dispatches said today. Col. Gen. Walther Nehring, axis commander in Tunisia, join ed Rommel in the plea, the Lon don Daily Mail's Madrid corre spondent reported, indicating that Rommel has abandoned hope of defending Tripolitania and plans to make his stand in Tunisia. Radio Morocco broadcast a report that advance units of the Afrika Korps had reached the vicinity of Misurala, about 100 miles east of Tripoli. Prepare Relief The Daily Mail, quoting re ports from Vichy, said the Ger mans were preparing a large scale attempt to relieve the sorely-pressed axis forces in Tripolitania and Tunisia. Rom mel, and Nehring were said to have asked especially for planes. tanks and gasoline. , : British -m U i-.t a r y observers wore - convinced . Rommel1 no longer was going to offer more than delaying actions against the British eighth army advancing toward the axis base at Tripoli Instead, it appeared, that he now was bending all his energies toward effecting a junction with Nehring's Tunisian army, 15 Miles Dally Retreat The' German Afrika Korps now is retreating at an average rate of 15 -miles a day, front dispatches said. i Advanced patrols of the Brit ish-eighth army are harassing the German-Italian army, the rear guard of which was report ed to have reached the vicinity of Sirte, 175 miles west of El Agheila. Abandon Tripolitania Military observers here were convinced that Rommel's plan now was to abandon Tripolitania to the eighth army and join forc es in Tunisia with Col.-Gen. Wal tor Nehring's axis forces. In the meantime, Rommel was expect cd to continue to lay mines and have his roar guard fight occa sional delaying actions with the advancing British. There were reports from North Africa that some Italian troops already had fled from the big axis base at Tripoli and had been captured by the French near Gatacs in Tunisia. Although there was no confirmation of the report, informed circles here believed it to be highly likely. (Concluded on Page 9, Column 81 not been made known. "The use of the airport by air corps units depends upon the situation. Units may come and go with little or no advance no tice." Having practically completed the necessary installations to ac commodate planes and men on the field, a crew of army en gineers who have been in charge of construction have been mo mentarily expecting orders for several weeks to turn the field over to the air corps. While no official word has been received, the indicated procedure is that an air corps guard and maintenance unit will be detailed here to keep the port and its facilities in constant read iness for emergency occupation., Berlin Admits Front Broken On Middle Don Russians Seek Capture Of Millerovo as Birthday Present for Stalin Moscow, Dec. 21 (U.R) Red army forces, driving ahead hard in an attempt to win the city of Millerovo as a birthday present for Premier Josef Stalin were believed today to have threat ened additional units of the Ger man army with encirclement near the important junction on the Voronezh-Rostov railroad. Stalin is 63 today. Front dispatches indicated there was fighting in theout skirts of Millerovo, which is about 200 miles southwest of Stalingrad. The red army, fighting in bitter weather, was rolling the Germans southwest ward and Inflicting mounting losses on the enemy. The Rus sian noon communique an nounced that the Germans have suffered 43,230 killed or cap tured since the offensive started five days ago. Admit Front Broken (The German high command communique admitted that the Russians had broken through on the central Don front after at tacks by strong tank formations. The Germans claimed the Rus sians suffered heavy losses and that the fighting was continuing with "unabated vigor.") .; There were ,1,370 Germans killed along the central Don front in the latest operations, the noon communique said, More towns and villages be sides well above 300 that had previously been announced -were taken by the Russians to day, the communique asserted. Localities Captured Among more than 100 locali ties captured yesterday were Mancovokallwhvenskaya and Shestuchovka, on the Kalltva river, a tributary of the Don, 20 miles or less from Millerovo. 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 trap ped between the Don and Volga at Stalingrad, and if Col. Gen. Vatutln, in his central Don of fensive, occupies the entlr stretch of the railway between (Concluded on Fngo 10, Column 4) Wavell Drives Far Into Burma New Delhi, Dec. 21 U.fi Gcn. Sir Archibald Wavell's British-Indian army pushed an unopposed drive along the Bay of Bengal coast in Burma today while the Japanese retorted with a sudden counterdrlve into southwestern China. Moving out from their Baun-gaw-Buthidaung line, where they had thrust 30 miles into Bur man, Wavell's forces drove ahead along a front of about 20 miles between the coast and the Mayu river toward Akyab, the import ant Japanese-held port 60 miles to the south. Ahead of the ground forces, the Royal Air Force swept Jap anese bases and troop concen trations In widely extended of fensive operations and flew 250 miles to the cast to bomb the enemy airdrome at Toungoo, on the main railroad between Ran goon and the Burma road. Bombers escorted by fighters flew through heavy gun fire and enemy plane opposition to rain bombs on the Japanese airdrome at Magwc, cast of Akyab, scor ing many hits on the runway. Two Japanese planes bombed Chittagong, just Inside India on the Bengal Bay, during the night. Japan extended the new front, opened when Wavell's men marched into Burma from the Chittagong hills of India, to an 800-mile east to west line by bombing Calcutta, India's largest city.
