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..uary 21, 1943
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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
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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
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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.
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