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1 Buy War Bonds Keep 'Em Flying Salem, Oregon ..uary 21, 1943 Jjm I eur, riO. IO mum at Balnn Onion Price Five Cents aftidons '.Burning -City o omminnie II m -Ih-Vm J 11 H Thurso. . f Tripoli Heavy Snowfall Mantles Salem And Vicinity Some Inconvenience But kittle Damage Trans portation Slowed Snow that began falling In and around Salem about 11:30 o'clock last night brought a white blan ket to the community which caused no serious inconvenience aside from the curtailment of school activities. Snow fell in termittently during the fore noon. Traffic by street busses and taxis was handicapped early in the day, but by the middle of the forenoon vehicles were op erating on fairly accurate sche dules. ' J Attendance at the Salem pub lic schools was approximately 60 per cent of normal, Superin- tendent Frank B. Bennett re ported. With two exceptions rural buses made their trips, The one which operates through the Polk county hills found tra vel too difficult and called off the trip. The one which. collects pupils in Mission Bottom failed to complete its run. Little Damage Results Superintendent Bennett said that most parents contacted this forenoon reported they would rather have their children in 4 school than running loose around .the. afreets. - He ; expected atfenV Manee during" the afternoon would pick up . considerably, i . The city street department had a crew of . about a dozen men working on the streets, clearing the snow from sidewalks and crosswalks in the downtown sec tion, and several men clearing gutters, No machinery is being used, City Engineer J. H. Davis said, hand shovels being depended upon entirely. No Wire Trouble W. M. Hamilton, district man ager for the Portland General Electric company, said no trou ble had yet been caused by the snowstorm. "We expect no trouble as long as the snow is dry, he said "But if it gets wet then trouble may be expected from over weighted tree limbs falling on wires and power lines. (Concluded en pare 11, column 8) Brown Given Fuji Leaway Washington, Jan. 21 VP) Glv- en a free hand to make or break himself, Prentiss M. Brown set i sail on stormy OPA seas today with a bid for consumer support of a program envisioning gradu ally rising prices, increased local controls over rationing and few er cold homes next winter. The nation's new price admin. istrator, a Great Lakes boatman of no mean nautical ability, tack ed smartly to catch the wind of public and congressional appro val in a press conference declar ation yesterday that he was tak- lng over OPA with the primary ) objective of protecting the An erican consumer, Isolating himself for a 10-day look-see at the inner operations of OPA, Brown went to work on several pressing problems These Included the Imminent necessity of going to congress lor a $2U,ooo,000 deficiency ap propriation, the need for addi tional transportation subsidy money and the possibility of a shake-up in his agency's top per sonnel, Brown, 53-year old former senator frqm Michigan, took ov er formally from Leon Hender son with the reputed understand ing that he would be given a free hand by his immediate boss, James P. Byrnes, the economic I stabilization director, to work ' out the country's supply and de mand problems with the con suming public, congress and the farmers. , Cold Wave In Midwest Moderates (Br the United Press) The' worst cold wave of .the winter moderated today in cen tral portions of the country, leaving death and crop destruc tion in its path but sub-zero temperatures continued in the northern tier of states from east ern Washington through New England. A United Press survey showed 53 deaths attributed either di rectly or indirectly to the storm. They were: Illinois 14, Wiscon sin 4, Iowa 2, Michigan 2, Texas 5, New York 1, Massachusetts 2, Oklahoma 4, Missouri 3, Tennes see 1, Indiana 7, Nebraska 1 Pennsylvania 1, Washington 3, and Colorado 2. Below freezing temperatures wiped out winter vegetable crops in the Rio Grande valley, Ari (Concluded on page 11, column 7) New Carrier Christened Newport News, Va., Jan. 21 (U.R) Mrs. Frartklin D. Roose velt returned here today and christened a new carrier York- town. ' ' -. ;i The new ship, a namesake for the gallant carrier sunk in the Pacific after she had helped win the battle of Midway, is of the Essex class and reportedly dis places 25,000 tons. The old Yorktown was also christened by Mrs: RoQsevelt on, April 4, 1936. ' ; i Artemus L. Gates, assistant secretary of the navy for. air and principal speaker at the launch ing, said that "our aircraft" car riers have been given credit for damming the raging flood of Jap aggression that was surging so strongly last spring and sum mer, threatening Australia and Hawaii with invasion." , Labor Board Forms Branches Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R) The war labor board today created 12 regional boards with full au thority to make final decisions In labor disputes and to pass on voluntary wage and salary ad justment cases. Each regional board will have equal presentation of public, em ployer and labor members. Boards will be established in two new regions Detroit and Seattle. Edwin E. Witte, chair man of the University of Wis consin economics department, will be chairman of the Detroit board, serving the state of Michi gan. The chairman, for the Se attle office, for the Washington and Oregon area, has not been named, - The regional board' for Den ver Will be headed by Charles Graham and will have jurisdic tion in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming Montana, New Mexico and Colo rado. Anthracite Miners End 3 Weeks Strike Wllkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 21 strike In the Pennsylvania anthracite fields the nation's costliest in man hours lost since Pearl Harbor apparently ended today a lew nours before a back-to-work deadline set by President Roose velt. Enthusiastic miners by the thousands trooped back to their jobs in all major strike-closed collieries in what one strike leader described as "a courtesy to the president" rather than an acceptance of defeat. Of the 24,000 who once par ticipated in the revolt against United Mine Workers' leader ship, barely 3,000 were known still to be idle as the crowds of over-allied workers rode down colliery shafts to their pits, many for the first time since December 30, Two of the four small UMWi Snow Blankets Most of Oregon; Industry Slowed Transportation Hamper ed But Snow Plows Open ing Highways Portland, Ore., Jan. 21 VP) Snow covered almost all sections of Oregon today but in spots freakish weather changes clear ed it off in a hurry. There was considerable snow on the ground here, transporta tion was hampered and some de fense workers living in outly ing sections were unable to get to the job. The weather bureau said it had not been authorized to issue any warnings or forecasts. Deep at Eugene Heavy snow last night blan keted Eugene with its greatest depth in six years and there was one death In an automobile accident attributed to road con ditions. The victim was George Cameron, a lumber worker. George W. Drake and George M. Drake were injured in the ac cident which occurred on the Jasper road. Klamath Falls battled a deep carpet of snow which melted rapidly this morning following a nightof rain and warm wind, The Dalles also reported con siderable snow but said major roads were . opened although ',Hppery(:-.i;:-;f:?-.f; Snow Plows Used The highway department sent snow plows out on several roads around Salem where the fall was also heavy. Highway traffic in that and other sections of the Willamette valley was sharply curtailed. . Corvallis reported a deep lay er of snow- but the storm there ended before daylight. ' Grants Pass reported a variety of weather. The temperature sagged to 14 degrees Monday' when two homes were burned tp the ground and the fire depart ment answered a near-record number of calls. Tuesday came two inches of snow, Wednesday morning produced a downpour of rain which cleared it off and brought the Rogue river up to 16.33 feet, just 3 short of Jan uary flood peak. A warm wind last night once reached an esti mated 30-mile velocity. Industry Slowed Industry was' operating at slow bell in most sections. Ship yards and other factories here had not suspended but almost all of them ran with only par tial crews. Some yards report ed all outside operations tem porarily closed. Klamath Falls' mill operations were curtailed heavily. The same was true of mills around Eugene and else where in the Willamette valley Power failures were common place. Wet snow on trees and power, lines cut Eugene's con nections with Bonneville and its two hydro plants on the Mac- (Concluded on page 12, column 4) VP) A three-weeks old wildcat local still out announced meet ings for later today and many members believed back-to-work votes would result. Only one of the four was committed to "wait out" Mr. Roosevelt's zero hour sometime this afternoon, when, he has said, the "necessary steps" would be taken if necessary to "end this strike which is doing seri ous damage to the war effort." Strikers and others took the president's warning to mean that troops would be sent to take over any collieries still strike-bound at the end of the 48-hour grace he allowed when his order was telegraphed short ly liter noon Tuesday. Wavell and Bissell Confer in New Delhi Britain's General Sir Archibald P. Wavell (left), commander in chief in India, and Brig. Gen. Clayton Bissell, commander of U. S. air force in India, received a snappy salute from a guard (right), on leaving a confer ence at New Delhi, India. The meeting was seen as a possible omen of important action to come. (Associated Press.) Reds Advance on Kharkov, Rostov Moscow, Jan. 21 (U.R) Red armies closed in on five key nazi held cities between the Ukraine and the north Caucasus today. Their spearheads were within 79 miles of Kharkov, 50 miles of Rostov, 30 miles of Voroshilovgrad, Donets basin industrial center, 18 miles of Salsk railroad junction and 48 miles of Armavir, where Nurse Slabbed Police today were without a clue to the identity of a man who last night stabbed Mrs. Dale Moon, 21, a nurse, as she stood at the gate to the Salem General hospital grounds awaiting for a street bus. Mrs. Moon, serious ly wounded, was able to -run back to the hospital, and today it was said her condition was good. Mrs. Moon had been on spe cial duty at the hospital. As she waited for the bus just after 9 o'clock a man approached with a knife in his hand and told her he would stab her if she did not do as he told her. She struck the man who stepped back, then lunged at her with the knife, wounding her in the abdomen. The wound was between stom ach and intestines and appeared to have been-made with a two edged blade. Mrs. Moon told police she had a clear view of the man and gave a description that is being used by the officers in their search for the assailant. Exact nature of the wound was not revealed, but it was said that more than simple treatment would be necessary. Army Scraps Brass Buttons, Not Hats Washington, Jan. 21 VP) The army is scrapping its brass but tons but, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today, "there doesn't seem to be any Patterson' made the remark in telling a press conference that substitution of plastic for brass in uniform buttons is expected to save 365,000 pounds of the metal this year. "Incidentally," he said, " 'brass hat' in the last war meant only a staff officer. What it means now, I'll leave to you Ask Memorial For Ruml Tax Plan The house taxation and rev enue committee today recom mended passage of a memorial asking congress to adopt the Ruml plan, or pay-as-you-go system, and paying federal in come taxes. The committee recommended against passage of a resolution providing for joint senate and house hearings on tax matters. the Baku-Rostov oil railroad joins witty that to the Maikop oil fields sh:Tiifipse)g''o.;jrt.;5inj ine BiacK. sea,.;.. . -.-,.,-.,.V Today's noon communique re vealed that in a ferocious three day battle for Prloetarskaya, 20 miles east-northeast of Salsk on the Stalingrad-Tokhoretsk rail road, the Russians smashed the famous German's troop combat regiment "Germany" and rem nants of other regiments con centrated there, before the Man ych, with big artillery, mortar and tank forces. Germans Routed Russian storm troops led by guards broke into the town and the railroad stations yesterday. They routed the Germans in street fighting, the communique sair, and threw the remnants beyond the Manycti. In another sector the guards at once drove ahead, occupied two inhabited places, captured an artillery battery and nine machine guns and took prison ers. In overnight fighting the Rus sians took nearly 1,700 prisoners by specific claim, including a battalion of 1,000 Hungarians who with their officers downed (Concluded on pare 11, column 5) Axis Powers Sign New Pact Tokyo, Jan. 21 (Japanese broadcast recorded by UP at San Francisco) Japan and Germany and Japan and Italy have signed new agreements de signed to substantiate the tri partite pact "in the field of eco nomics," the board of informa tion announced today. The announcement said the Japanese ambassador to Ger many, Lt. Gen. Hiroshl Oshima, and German Foreign Minister Joaqulm Von Ribbentrop, signed the agreements at the headquar ters of Adolf Hlllor yesterday. At the same time, the Jap charge d'affaires at Rome, Hun eisl Kasi, and Italian Foreign Minister Ciano, signed the pacts for economic cooperation be tween the two nations. The board of information said "these agreements possess the same period of validity as the trl-partlte pact with the purpose of substantiating lt in the field of economics. The announcement said the agreements provide for "accel eration of extensive exchange of various kinds of economic goods and services." t The board of Information said the agreements recognized "Japan's exclusive right to the economic sphere of greater East Asia." Jap Destroyer 8 Planes Lost Washington, Jan. 21 (IP) The navy announced today the bomb ing of a Japanese destroyer off Bougainville island in the Solo mons and the shooting down of eight enemy planes in the Short- land island area. SSTn'e'tftext of the navy's' 'com munique,, number 257:;J':" "South Pacific (all dates are East Longitude): "1.. , On January 19 . an air striking group of United States planes bombed Japanese posi tions at Munda on New Georgia island. Results were not report ed. "2. On January 20: "(a) During the early morn ing flying fortress heavy bomb bers (Boeing B-17) second a bomb hit on a Japanese destroy er off Cape Friendship at the eastern-most tip of Bougainville island. "(b) Flying fortresses with fighter ' escort attacked two en emy cargo ships and two destroy ers in the Shortland island area. A number of enemy Zeros and float-lype biplanes . Intercepted the attack and eight of these planes were shot down. No hits on the enemy ships were observ ed. One United States fighter wast lost and several fortresses were damaged. '"3. On January 21, during the morning,' marauder medium bombers (Martin B-26), dropped bombs on Japanese positions at Munda. Results were not ob served." Nazi Losses In Russia London, Jan. 21 VP) Reuters quoted a Moscow radio broad cast today as saying that Ger man casualties on the soviet Russian front in the past six weeks totaled 750,000 men, in cluding 250,000 dead. 5 Axis Subs Sunk In South Pacific Rio de Janeiro, Jan.' 21 M"j Rear Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, commander of the United States naval forces In the south Atlantic, announced today that five axis submarines have been sunk in the last month In the south At- lantic, ' Ingram said a German surface raider had been Intercepted in these waters and scutted by her crew In the same period. "There have been compara tively few sinkings of allied ships In the south Atlantic," In gram told a press conference, "and we've gotten a high per centage of enemy craft higher, I believe, than In other zones. "We can account for five submarines within the last month. Our success Is due largely to the fine air forces of the United States and Brazil, which are doing a magnificent job operating from bases extend ing from Bahla northward." The admiral said his theory of Army Troops Replace Marines At Guadalcanal Patch in Command Stimson Reports on War Progress Washington, Jan. 21 VP) Un dersecretary of War Robert Pat terson disclosed today that army ground troops have replaced the marines in the Solomons and are commanded by Major General Alexander Patch, who has mov ed his headquarters from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal. "The marines who fought so long and so well in the Solomons are now getting a chance to rest," Patterson said at a press conference. Patch; who commanded the army troops which landed in New Caledonia last year, reliev ed Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift of the marines not quite a .month ago, Patterson said. a The army, troops and Patch are under the general command of Major General Millard F. Harmon, who commands all army troops in the south Pacific, but the operations in that entire area are still under the com mand of Admiral William F. Halsey, Patterson said. Position Improves ' The American position In the Salomons ,has improved further during the last week Patterson said, but the Japanese are ex pected to make new efforts to reinforce their, troops on Gua dalcanal. A navy communique also for mally announced the change In command on Guadalcanal, and said General Patch would also command troops on Tulagl, a small island in the Solomons near Guadalcanal. Reviewing other aspects of the war on various' fronts, the undersecretary reported that ex cept for submarine sinkings of allied cargo ships, "the over-all picture is bright." Results in Russia i He said Russian successes against the Germans might force them to retreat to the Dnieper river to form a winter line, and that political differences among the French in North Africa had not stopped the French from taking an important part in mil itary actions. Construction of new ships now exceeds the losses from subma rine sinkings, he said, but the axis undersea attacks are still placing a heavy drain on ship ping and supplies even though new ships "are both faster and better than the ones being sunk." Anti-Sub Warfare Greater emphasis is being placed on anti-submarine war fare and the protection of ship ping, he said, as offensive ope rations develop around the world. (Concluded on pare 1.1, column 8) operations was "absolutely of fensive." "We have thrown de fense aside," he continued. "For example, we station no North American troops at Rio de Jan eiro, but If the capital Is threat ened we can throw heavy forces here Immediately." The newspaper O Glob pub lished a dispatch from Recife which quoted the Brazilian air minister, Joaqulm Salgado, as saying: "I am almost sure that within two months the African conti nent will be free of axis armies. "The North American air forces will throw them out of the Mediterranean, and we are giving this victory full hearted cooperation." Afrika Korps Speeds Retreat Toward Tunisia Last Citadel of Musso lini's African Empire Abandoned by Axis (Br the Associated Press) Final collapse of Premier Mussolini's African empire ap peared to be only a matter of hours today amid signs that Field Marshal Erwln Rommel was hastily abandoning the burn ing city of Tripoli, and British Eighth army columns stormed forward within 35 miles of the axis stronghold. Tripoli is the last citadel of Italy's dark continent domain which once embraced Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia, Cirenaica and Tripolitantia. A bulletin from Gen. Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery's 8th army headquarters said British troops yesterday captured the towns of Tarhuna and Horns, respectively 40 and 56 miles from Tripoli, and continued their pursuit of Rommel's fleeing armies. Pursued by Planes Front line dispatches said Rommel's troops and equipment were , already streaming west ward from Tripoli toward the Tunisian frontier, 100 miles away, with allied planes making a shambles of the enemy's line of retreat.,,ji';f"; ' " V '-, '..' ' :,ri-,'tf A 50-mjle, stretch of coastal road between Tripoli and Zura was described as littered with the bombed and bullet-smashed wreckage of trucks and other equipment, , : British headquarters indicated that Tarhuna and Horns fell early yesterday and said that "during the day our troops were in close contact with the enemy retreating to the west." In Narrow Strip Rommel's battered forces were now pinned down to a narrow strip along the Mediterranean coast as the British 8th army moved swiftly upon Tripoli from the east and Brig. Gen. Jacques Leclerc's Fighting French troops drove up from the south after a 1,000-mile march across the Sa hara desert from Lake Chad, ia the heart of equatorial Africa.. Gen. Leclerc said his force were in firm contact with the on rushing 8th army, "brilliantly taking part with their British allies In the advance on Tripoli," thus effectively sealing the arc which the allies have thrown (Concluded on pate 13, column 5) Gabes Bombed By Fortresses Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Jan. 21 (U.R) American Flying Fortresses have attack ed Camp Mangln at Gabes in Tunisia, scoring hits on the air drome and shooting down two Mcsserschmitt-lOOs, lt was said here today. At the same time a French communique said the Germans had made new advances south west of Pont Du Fahs and that the French forces hod retired to new positions in the Keblr river valley. The Germans suf fered severe casualties and heavy losses In armored equipment, the communique added, The French said they had Improved their positions around Fondouk. The Flying Fortresses were re ported to have scored hits on the barracks and an adjacent rail road at Gabes. All of the Amer ican planes returned safely. Billy Mitchell bombers escort ed by Lockheed Lightnings bombed a lanker, escorted by destroyers, between Tunisia and Sicily. When last seen, the tanker was stationary. Two enemy bombers were de stroyed last night when axis planes raided Algiers, lt was ' said. One allied plane was missing from all operations. X
