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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Dec. 20. One
good official source thinks Hit
ler has lost one fourth of his
total available
man power on
the plains of
Russia. Total
nazi casualties
(killed, wound
ed and missing)
he estimates at
2,000,000. The
long battle line
required the
fuehrer to keep
Fanl Mallon
an army of 4,-
000,000 to 5,
000,000 up front continuously.
He has fed this force from his
maximum man-power pool of 8,-
000,000 to 9,000,000 men (which
incidentally is spread thin all
around Europe in the Balkans,
France and other occupied re
gions.) - These estimates picture Hit
ler on the verge of disaster, but
unfortunately they are not fully
accepted by other sources. An
other authority, just as official
and usually Just as accurate,
thinks most of the nazl casual
ties who were wounded, will be
available again. The permanent
nazi loss so far, he estimated at
only 580.000 to 600,000 men.
Everyone agrees red losses are
much heavier. Estimates run
between 2.000,000 and 4,000,000
men. Certainly 600,000 to 800,-
000 reds have been taken prison
ers. (Nazi losses In prisoners
have been relatively inconse
quential). But Stalin can stand
man-losses better than Hitler.
His maximum available man
power is more than half again
as large as Hitler's between 12,-
000,000 and 14,000,000 soldiers.
The differing estimates repre
sent at least the best available
balance which can be obtained
on the widely varying claims of
the Moscow and Berlin propa
ganda ministries.
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TTHESE two generals who are
taking over the army de
fenses of Hawaii are flying gen
erals not desk-sitters. Both
are red-tape haters, chosen on
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55 LOSE JOBS IN
Los Angeles. Dec. 20. UP)
Fifty-five welders who laid
down their tools in a nation
wide stop work action were dis
charged today and escorted
from the California Shipyards
plant.
General Manager John A.
McCone said they were all who
heeded the call out of a claimed
United Welders membership of
1,200 among the plant's 1,700
welders.
"The policy of the company
is to dismiss any man who lays
down his tools," McCone said
"Such action is insubordination,
We have a closed shop contract
with the AFL.
The welders long have been
demanding autonomy within
the AFL. claiming their mem
bership is split among several
crafts unions.
NORWEGIANS FLEE
FROMJZI HATE
Stockholm, Dee. 20. UP)
Swedish newspaper dispatches
reported today that increasing
numbers of Norwegians were
fleeing their German-occupied
homeland, slipping away to Eng
land in some instances by the
boatload.
Only recently, according to
these advices, a 200-ton ship
s'ipped out of a remote harbor
on the Norwegian west coast
with 200 persons aboard, in
cluding some accused by the
Germans of political "crimes."
Washington, Dec. 20. (AP)
The navy department announced
formally today the establish
ment of "defensive sea areas"
around 13 Important harbors
and waterways on the east and
west coasts
m
NAVY HEARS BUT
Welders Union Urged To
Call Off Strike Threat
Caution On Atlantic Coast
San Francisco, Dec. 20. UP)
The navy received uncon
firmed reports that enemy sub
marines fired on two oil tankers
near the California coast today,
apparently scoring a hit on one,
and chasing the other tanker in
to port.
San Francisco, Dec. 20. UP)
Disclosure that enemy sub
marines are destroying Ameri
can shipping in waters off the
California coast came from
Rear Admiral John W. Green-
slade today as he appealed to
shipyard welders not to quit
work in the war plants.
San Francisco, Dec. 20. UP)
The navy said tonight, it had
received unconfirmed reports
that two oil tankers had been
attacked off the California
coast, and that one had sent
out an S.O.S.
One report, the navy dis
closed, was that the 6,912-ton
tanker Emidio was fired on off
Blunt's Reef, near Eureka, and
that it sent out distress signals
after smoke enveloped it. '
The other report was that the
6,771-ton tanker Agwiworld
was attacked off Cypress Point,
about 100 miles south of San
Francisco. It reportedly escaped
and reached a haven along the
nearby coast.
The navy does net deny, but
it cannot confirm these reports,"
said Rear Admiral J. W. Green
slade, commandant of the 12th
naval district.
At the naval district head
quarters, an aide to Admiral
Greenslade said it had been re
ported without confirmation
that the Blunt's Reef lighthouse
had picked up an S.O.S. from
the Emidio.
Blunt's Reef Is some 200 miles
north of San Francisco, and
thus approximately 300 miles
north of Cypress Point, where
the other alleged attack was
reported to have occurred.
Earlier, Admiral Greenslade
had disclosed that enemy sub
marines were preying on ship
ping off the California coast as
he took quick steps to assure
uninterrupted production in
shipyards. -
Washington, Dec. 20. (IP)
Naval sources announced to
night that enemy submarines
have been destroying American
shipping off the California
coast, and have been active, as
well, off the Atlantic seaboard,
The news that enemy sub
marines are operating off the
Atlantic coast was given out In
directly, by the navy in a state
ment cautioning radio stations
against weather forecast broad
casts, even when they Involve
only isolated areas far from the
sea. The department related
this story:
A "weatherwlse" command
ing officer at an Atlantic naval
base recently heard a radio an
nouncement of sub-f r e e z 1 n g
weather in the Dakotas and a
temperature of nine degrees at
Duluth.
From his knowledge of con
tinental weather tracks, he de
duced that . a few days later
"his patrol area would have a
clear day or two with high
visibility and conditions ideal
for enemy submarine attack."
"Special precautions were
taken in patrol work on the
calculated day, which turned
out as predicted, and in the
course of operations It became
apparent that enemy submarines
had also picked up the same in
formation and made the same
deduction.
"It was pointed out that the
information so inadvertently
broadcast would also have been
of benefit to an enemy air at
tack along any port of the
'weather route' In the North
American continent"
FIRE DELAYS DEFENSE
Newark, N". J., Dec. 20. UP)
A three-alarm fire destroyed
today the plant of the Steel and
Alloy Tank company and ser
iously delayed f 500.000 gov
ernment defense contract for
I large stainless-steel tanks.
Axis Forces in
Defense Bond
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WILLK1E LISTED
TOSERVEONFIS
By William B. Ardery
Washington, , Dec. 20.-
President Roosevelt was report
ed on excellent authority today
to be considering the creation
of a supreme war council which
would be subordinate only to
him and would have powers
even greater than those of the
cabinet.
Those in a position to know
said that while the plan still
was embryonic, the president
believed the war effort could be
prosecuted more efficiently if
he had a small group around
him which could handle many
matters of policy which now
require his personal attention.
Informants said the proposed
war council would be composed
of from three to five men. They
listed the following among those
considered for membership on
the group:
Wendell L. Willkle, republi
can nominee for the presidency
In 1940 and now member of a
New York law firm.
Rear Admiral William D.
Leahy, minister to Vichy, form
er chief ol naval operations,
former governor Puerto Rico.
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace. Philip Murray, president of
the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations. Washington, Dec. 20. UP)
Supreme command of the
United States navy, wherever
its operations may take it, was
given today to Admiral trnesi
J. King.
With the appointment went
the navy's recognition of the ter
rific power of the airplane in
modern warfare, for King's
career includes service with the
air corps and he is, in his own
right, a naval aviator. .
In addition, he has served
with submarines as well as sur
face craft, has proved himself
an excellent tactician, and thus
Is considered an officer of un
usually full and well-rounded
experience.
HONOR CAVEMEN LEADER
Grants Pass, Dec. 20. VP)
Grants Pass prepared today to
suspend business In all Its stores
and offices Monday morning
from 10 to 10:13 to pay tribute
in death to L. A. Ringuette,
flamewatcher of the Oregon
Cavemen. -
San Francisco, D-c. 20 (AP-
USDAV Butter, 92 score 36c
91 score 35c; 90 score 33 Vic;
89 score 3 2 ',4 c
Demand Speeds Up Presses
demand for U.S. Defenia Savlnas
BRAVE HONGKONG
DEFENSE LAUDED
EVEN BY NIPPON
London, Dec. 20. (IP) Writ
ten off by the generals as hope
less, the magnificent defense of
Hongkong was prolonged to
night by the blood of a garrison
of fighting men thrown together
from two sides of the world.
Even the Japanese, in sudden
praise of the last stand of the
band of British tommies, Cana
dians from Manitoba and Que
bec and bewhiskered, stoic In
dian Sikhs, admitted in a broad
cast tonight:
'The expected Imminent fall
of the colony has been staved
off by their stubborn defense."
Waiting for the end, author
ities in London said it' would be
a miracle if the colony, a rocky
square of England In the orient
for a hundred years, did not
soon pass entirely Into Japanese
hands.
The Japanese say they have
the city of Victoria and that
lorries living the scarlet Dan
of the rising sun are roaring
through the streets, packed with
disarmed British soldiers; that
the cannon on Mount Davis,
dominating a chain of forts
eastward, have been silenced;
that remnants of the British gar
rison are encircled on the peak
cf the island. Mount Victoria,
But, their broadcasts ac
knowledged today Mount Vic
toria's guns still replied at in
tervals.
TAKE TO WATERS
Charleston, S. C Dec. 20.
UP) Two gray warships slid
down the building ways at the
Charleston navy yard within 10
minutes of each other today In
the first dual launching of de
stroyers In the south.
The new 1,700-ton destroyers,
the Tillman and the Beatty, hit
the water at Charleston harbor
at 10:50 and 11 a. m. They
were the fourth and fifth de
stroyers launched at the Charles
ton yard this year. Two more
destroyers are under consider
ation. -
NEW POWER STATION
Portland, Ore., Dec. 20. UP)
Construction of a sub-station
near Tacoma, costing more than
$1,000,000, has been authorized
by the defense plant corpora
tion, the Bonneville administra
tion announced today
Compete Retreat in
bends had bean so meat since
GRAND OFFENSIVE
OF
UPON ALL FRONTS
(By the Associated Press)
Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 21.
Plunging forward with acceler
ated momentum, the red army's
grand offensive has captured the
key Industrial and rail center of
Volokomansk, 63 miles north
west of Moscow, and registered
other gains from Finland to the
Sea of Azov, the Russians an
nounced today.
The town of Voibokalo, south
of Lake Ladoga on the northern
front, and dozens more villages
on the Moscow front have been
re-occupied in fiercely contested
battles, the soviet information
bureau communique announced
last midnight.
With soviet forces counting
vast new spoils and mounting
numbers of German dead, pur
suit of disordered nazl divisions
routed in the Kalinin sector, 90
miles northwest of Moscow, was
declared gaining momentum.
There the wreckage of German
transports and war material Ut
tered the snows, the communique
said.
Six German planes were de
stroyed yesterday and Russian
fliers reported destroying or
damaging four German tonks,
170 trucks with troops and sup
plies, seven field guns with
crews, two anti-aircraft bat
teries, 100 ammunition cars,
setting fire to five railroad
trains and blowing up an am
munition dump, -
LABOR COMMITTEE
FOR STATE PLAN
Portland, Dee. 20 UP) Ap
pointment of an Oregon labor
supply committee to deal with
problems arising out ol the
country's armament effort, was
announced today by James U
Bryant.
The acting chairman of the
regional labor supply commit
tee for the west coast said the
purpose was to increase defense
production by promoting an
adequate labor supply and to
prevent, if possible, dislocations
in employment caused by pri
orities. Management, labor and fed
eral and state agencies are
represented on the committee,
headed by Otto Hartwig, social
security adviser of the Crown
Zellerbach corporation.
I MANILA REPORTS
JAPSLANDDAVOA,
DETAILS LACKING
Fifth Column Aid Hinted
Dutch Airmen Hit Three
Nippon Warships.
Manila, Dec. 21. (Sunday,
7:40 a. m. 2:40 p. m. EST Sat
urday) VP) Army headquar
ters announced today that due
to communication difficulties
the situation at Japanese-invaded
Davao, on Mindanao island,
is obscure.
No word has been received
from there since yesterday aft
ernoon. A brief communique disclosed
that an aerial bombardment was
carried out against Davao by
the Japanese before they sent
a considerable force of troops
ashore from four transports in
the early Saturday dawn.
The announcement said the
situation remained unchanged
on Luzon Island, where the Jap
anese have established small
beachheads on the north, north
west and southeastern coasts.
Davao Is one of tha most
heavily Japanese-populated cen
ters in the Philippines and the
Invaders apparently chose that
port for their landing with the
idea of obtaining support from
fifth columnists among their
number.
Batavla. Netherlands. East In
dies, Dec. 20 UP) Direct bomb
hits on two Japanese cruisers,
a transport, and another warship
presumably used as an aircraft
carrier were reported officially
tonight by Dutch airmen operat
ing big American bombers off
Japanese-occupied MIrl, Borneo.
Other explosives rained along
side the Japanese ships as the
Dutch pilots twice attacked the
Invaders who are seeking to
reinforce their toehold on the
Sarawak coast, which la adja
cent to British and Dutch Bor
neo, the agency Aneta said.
Another Japanese cruiser was
reported hit last Wednesday,
hence the Dutch asserted three
enemy cruisers had been put
out of action in less than a week
by their fliers.
At the same time Aneta re
ported that 17 Japanese planes
bombed and sank the 4,200-ton
Russian freighter Perekop in
Dutch waters, an attack which
may lead to serious conse
quences, since Russia thus far
Is neutral in the Pacific war,
ELEVATOR CHASE
KEEPS COP BUSY
Columbus, O., Dec. 20. UP)
Four boys found an unlocked
elevator in Columbus' skyscraper
American Insurance Union tower
and for a half hour had a merry
up and down time. The police
men spent 20 additional minutes
chasing the lads from floor to
floor for 37 floors.
Unsuccessful, the policemen
turned off the elevator power.
The boys' one-spot aviation spree
ended on the 19th floor, where
they were trapped.
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Manrvllle. Mo.. Dec. 20 (IP)
Every man, woman and child
In this town of 5,700 has either
a defense savings stamp or
defense savings bond, city offi
cials claimed today.
Residents contributed $63,000
In a 10-day drive culminated by
house-to-house canvas.
STOCKS IRREGULAR
New York, Dec. 20 (AP)
The stock market today finish
ed another declining week slight
ly on the irregular side.
War Bulletins I BRITISH PURSUIT
London. Dae. 20. (AP)
Ack-ack guns along tha
Thames sat up a rolling lira
tonight to repulse raiding
planes, and machine-gun fire
could be heard in tha darkness
aloft.
Later an announcement said
that bombs ware dropped In
southwest England and some
casualties occured.
Raiders attempted to attack
the northeast but ware forced
to drop most of their bombs
In the sea. One boy was In
jured on land. Bombs dropped
in tha southeast caused no
damage or casualties, author
ised sources said.
London, Dec. 20 (APV
King George VI will broad
cast to the empire on Christ
mas Day at 3 p.m. (6 a. n
PST).
. Berlin. Dec 20 (Official
broadcast recorded by AP)
U-boats have sunk four ships
totalling 17.000 tons In re
cant operations against British
shipping In tha Atlantic, tha
German high command said
today, and credited scouting
aircraft with sinking an 1,000
ton tanker from a convoy in
St. George's channel.
Berlin. Dec. 20 (Audi
agency to AP) A 62-year-old
woman was sentenced today
to 10 years In a penitentiary
whan a court In Katowice,
upper Silesia, found har guilty
of listening to foreign radio
broadcasta and disseminating
tha news to relatives. Tha
court said she escaped a death
sentence only because of her
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Moscow, Dee. 10 (JPtU't
so dark oa the Russian steppes
at night, tha Moscow radio
says, that Qermaaa ara getting
tha Jitters.
At the same hour every
night they send up a stream
e! rockets la the area where
between Dee. 7 and Dee. IS
Russians have wiped out
S.S00 German soldier and
officers.
GERMANS TOLD TO
T
DUDS TO TROOPS
London, Dec. 20. UP) An ap
peal from Adolf Hitler read in
every radio station of the relch
tonight acknowledged that his
army faced an enemy superior
In numbers and material and
begged the straitened German
people to contribute their warm
clothing to enable the soldiers
to endure the rigors of the bitter
eastern front.
The appeal, sounded on Hit
ler s behalf by Propaganda Min
ister Paul Joseph Goebbels, said
the German people must show
their gratitude by making a
Christmas gift of every article
of warm clothing that possibly
can be spared to the men In the
army.
While Goebbels was thus read
ing his own appeal and the pro
clamation of the fuehrer, the
high command admitted Its Afri
can army was withdrawing west
ward "according to plan" and
that on the frigid Russian front
heavy battles were being fought
without a claim to German ad
vances. In Russia, the high com
mand merely said, the Russians
were suffering extreme new
losses.
Every kind of fur and woolen
clothing, from lined overshoes,
socks and underwear to ear
muffs, blankets, shawls, over
coats and blankets, la needed to
protect tha soldiers from the
"bitter cold," said Goebbels In
20-mInute speech.
Nazi party members will make
tha house-to-house collection
from December 27 to January 4,
h said.
Chungking. Dec. 20 (TV
Ten thousand Chinese troops of
Japan's Nanking puppet regime
mutinied near Chengchow Just
south of the Yellow river on the
night of December 16 and kill
ed or wounded 1,000 Japanese
troops. Central New
reported tonight
Agency
Libya
ON LAND, IN AIR
TAKESHIGH TOLL
Rommel's Army Flees Close
To Bengasi London Hes
itant With Optimism-
By the Associated Press
Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 20. Axis
resistance in Libya has all but
collapsed and the British are in
full chase of General Erwin
Rommel's army, fleeing west
ward in rout almost to Bengasi,
the British declared tonight.
So fast Is the pursuit, it was
said, that the British have been
hard-pressed to stay on the ene
my's heels and much of the Job
of smashing the axis' last rem
nants of strength has fallen to
the RAF,
The main body of tha retreat
ing axis army Is now in tha west
ern Geb El Akhdar mountains, a
coastal range whose western end
extends to south of Bengasi, the
British said.
The rout was said to have lit
tered desert roads with destroy
ed and burning tanks, guns and
vehicles and to have left two
merchantmen listing off North
Africa with torpedo hits after an
assault on a convoy guarded by
three Italian destroyers and
three cruisers.
After occupying tha port of
Derna and Meklli, 40 miles In
land, the British were said to
have pushed their advance pa,
trols as far as 60 miles further
west, within 100 miles of
Bengasi, the axls's Important ad
vance supply port.
These patrols now are beyond
the desert and in the green coun
try of eastern Cirenaica, which
one was the region of on of
Mussolini's most ambitious colo
nizing efforts. '
Although the British were hes
itant to count ten over the one
formidable German-Italian north
African forces, commentators ex
pressed confidence that the axis,
harried from land and air, could
not make another strong stand
even at Bengasi.
They were confident also that
there would be no axis escape to
parallel the British withdrawals
from Dunkerque, Greece or
Crete.
Belief that Rommel will be
unable to marshal his forces for
another major stand was based
on two assumptions: That there
are no substantial axis reserve
at Bengasi and that he lacks tha
tank strength to delay his pur
suers while that port's defense
are prepared.
Even those British sources dis
inclined to optimism agreed that
the Nazi commander is in a spot
where heavy air reinforcement
scarcely could help, especially
since the axis is limited to a few
landing fields In a relatively re
stricted area under constant
RAF attack.
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Sacramento, Calif.. Dec. 20.
(AP) The California assembly
tonight by a vote of 43 to 10
caUed upon Governor Culbert L. -Olson
to revoke the parole
granted Earl King, Ernest O.
Ramsay and Frank J. Connor,
by the state parole board.
This action was taken on res
olution Introduced by Assembly
man Gardiner Johnson, Berke
ley. It termed the paroling of the
three men, who wer convicted
of plotting the killing of George
W. Alberts, chief engineer
aboard the freighter Point Lobo
at Alameda, "ill considered" and
"subversive of public confi
dence." SOYBEAN PRICE UP
Chicago, Dec. 20. (AP)
Soybean price rota almost
cents a bushel at one stage, eloae
to tha limit permitted In today's
session. Injecting strength a
well aa om Ufa to tha other-
(wis languid grain ireae.