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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Dec. 8 A gigan
tic crucial battle (or control of
the air over the Mediterranean
it now in its
first phase.
This battle
will determine
the fortune of
our invasion of
Ainci, anu
may require
weeks;
1 1 wise K
'T ff el fies to
VsAi . I very far th
I ill) ii days with.
No wise gen-
go
these
without
ran Halloa air power. To
do so would
waste troops.
Hitler met our first landings
by moving great quantities of
planes into northern Tunisia,
Sicily and Sardinia. He drew
them from Stalingrad, central
Germany and every point, but
particularly from Bulgaria
(where it now appears they had
been placed In preparation for
Invasion of Tiukey), and from
southern France (for a contem
plated Invasion of Spain.)
It was obviously necessary
then for us to establish air bases,
to ship fighter planes in from
Britain and the U. S. (You can
not fly fighters that distance),
to establish gasoline supplies in
great quantity in short, to get
an air screen overhead before
moving our land troops further.
We are getting that now.
When German planes are
driven fmm North African skies,
the next step will be to pulver
ize their bases in Sicily with our
bombers, chase them from the
Straits and open the way for in
vasion of Italy.
A COMPLETE re-making of
America would result. If Mr.
Roosevelt goes through with the
idea of limiting all personal pro
fits to $25,000 net after taxes. It
is a new Idea and no one seems
to be thinking about the effect
it would have on the average
taxpayer, worker or business
man, but someone had better
start.
No one cares about the rich.
They will get along on thelr
123,000, but the question is what
the limitation will do to the
average man and (he country as
a whole.
All the progress that has been
made in America has depended
Continued on Paca Eight)
BLINDlLAYER TO
BE FREE IN JUNE
San Quentln, Cal., Dec. 5 (U.R)
Parole of blind Capt. John M.
Holmes, Jr., former U. S. army
air corps flier, convicted of man.
slaughter in the slaying of Wil
son McNary In 1941, was an
nounced tonight by the state
board of prison terms and pa
roles.
Holmes, blinded In a suicide
attempt after shooting McNary
-cousin of Oregon's U. S. Sen
ator Charles McNary in a quar
rel over a wealthy San Mateo,
Cal., matron, will be released
June 25, 1943, 22 months after
he started serving a sentence of
one to 10 years Imprisonment
2 BIDSRLEDTO
Portland, Ore., Dee. 0 (U.R)
Only two bids were received to
day for th scrapping of the
battleship Oregon when bids
were opened abcard the vener
able war vessel, Lieut. J. G
Dean of the U. S. navy an
nounced tonight
The Dulien Steel Products
company of Seattle offered to
scrap the ship In four months,
Both bids, which were taken
tender-advisement, approximated
$00,000. Dean said.
: -Ttie Oregon reportedly Is the
navy's largest source of .metal
ahJch can be Immediately con
usiUd into armament,
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II STRENGTH IN eTS- M
NORTH AFRICA TO V'W,
BE REORGANIZED S -
Issue Still Unsettled In- "S. y"1 ' ' 4 T
tense Fighting Underway - C ' YiA yty
-Axis Takes Key Towns. . iv! s" ' , - .? T ) 1 ! -V
London, Dec. S (U.R) Maj.
Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander
of United States army air forces
In the European theater, has
gone to Africa to reorganize Al
lied air strength in Tunisia,
where British and American
troops had retired from two key
towns under battering blows of
German planes. It was disclosed
today.
Allied Headquarters In North
Africa, Dec. 5 (U.R) Axis in
fantry and mechanized units
streamed tonight into Tebourba
and DJedeida, key towns west
of Tunis from which British and
American forces had withdrawn
under pressure.
Allied units had withdrawn
to a height dominating Tebour
ba from the rear and were being
pounded by German tanks, in
fantry and dive-bombers.
German troops earlier had
entered Djedeida, 12 miles west
of Tunis, and apparently bad
completed their occupation of
that town.
The situation at Tebourba, 20
miles west of Tunis, was far
from settled, however. A com
munique from Allied general
headquarters said:
"Some enemy mechanized
units and infantry have entered
Tebourba. Heavy fighting is
continuing in the region of
Tebourba. The enemy is at
tacking with infantry supported
by tanks and dive-bombers.
"Our forces have been re
grouped on the heights domi
nating Tebourba."
(This communique also was
issued simultaneously in Wash
ington as the war department's
259th of the war.)
Intense fighting was proceed
ing In widely separated parts
of Tunisia. In the northern
sector, presumably around the
Dedeida Tebourba - Mateur re
gion, Axis forces were known
to have lost 33 tanks in opera
tions from Tuesday to Thurs
day, communique said.
Tank losses also were run
ning high for the enemy farther
south, where the communique
disclosed that Allied aircraft
had inflicted casualties on a
number of Axis machines yes
terday. Air activity was Increasing
I or Dotn sides, with Allied
planes hitting Bizerte three
times within 12 hours yesterday.
On one sweep, they engaged
an equal force of Messerschmitt-
109s and two Focke-Wulf-190s.
One Me-109 was destroyed and
two were damaged against a loss
of one P-3B.
Front reports said American
and French troops, including
United States paratroops, had
scored an important victory in
the Tunisian east coast area.
Crack American paratroops un-
cfer Col. Edson D. Raff of New
York, operating as ground forces.
cooperated with regular infantry
and French patrols and artillery,
storming Sidi Bou Zis, 73 miles
inland on the Important highway
from thqe port of Sfax. They
captured 100 Germans, killed 40
and wounded 60. Their own
losses were slight
Additional towns were said to
have been recaptured in the
southern Tunisia area, and front
reports gave great praise to the
French artillery. One report said
the operation of the French 75s
the gun made famous in the
last war was the decisive fea
ture of the action.
These successes, dispatches
said, left the American-French
units in position to strike east
war toward the coast and consti
tuted a threat oward Tripoli
ania. NEW TRAINING SCHOOL
Ssn Francisco, Dec. 5 (U.R)
Two big new U. S. navy pre
flight training schools will be
established at Stanford Univer
sity, Palo Alto, Cal., and at the
nationally-known Hotel D e I
Monte resort near Monterey,
Cal., it was announced tonight
ir-ev,
Aetna Telepholo
Here's another sight to make you remember Dee. T. One of the main reasons the Japs were able to escape
after the atab-ln-the-back Pearl Harbor raid without heavier loses was the great amount of damage to
D. 8. planes which were surprised on the ground. Here la one of America's fighting Flying Fortresses
blasted in half by a Jap bomb just a year ago. The C. 8. Signal Corps photo has Just been released for publication.
NAZI OPPOSITION
ON THREE FRONTS
Moscow, Dec. (Sunday)
(U.R) The Red army drove for
ward on three fronts today, the
anniversary of the start of its
crippling offensive against the
Axis last year, crushing German
opposition to its new attack
southwest of Stalingrad as well
as within the steel city and on
the central front
Front dispatches reported
Soviet spearheads 10 miles be
yond the west bank of the Don
river in a new surprise offen
sive that carried through the
lower half of the river's big
bend, southwest of Stalingrad.
Three bridgeheads had been
thrown across the Don, dis
patches said, and the Germans
were thrown into a panicky re
treat despite Nazi high com
mand orders to hold the Don's
west banks at all costs. The Ger
mans had rallied somewhat, it
was indicated, but were un
successful in attempting to re
gain their lost territory.
Just one year after they had
stopped Adolf Hitler's Legions
only 18 miles from Moscow and
started on a winter of annihila
tion that saw thousands of
enemy troops succumb to Soviet
guns and bayonets and the great
Russian ally winter the Red
army was on the march again.
Northwest of Moscow, a new
advance was reported on the
Rzhevgeliki Luki salient. Front
dispatches said the fighting had
carried to the region of Smol
ensk, the key city of the entire
German defense system in the
north.
TO
Washington, Dec. 5 (U.R)
Attorney General Francis Biddle
disclosed tonight that the jus
tice department's anti-trust di
vision recently discovered $15.
000,000 in royalties on a certain
type of anti-aircraft gun were
finding their way to patent-hold.
k,8 in ucj iiiaujr.
1 Ih, flnw nf ,! m,nv
through devious corporate chan
nels in neutral countries into
Germany was stopped, IBddle
said in a review of the Justice
department's internal security
program during the first year of
American participation in World
War II. He did not reveal how
the money flow was stopped,
however.
GRATUITY CHECKS
Washington, Dec. 5 U.R)
The war department announced
today that dependents or rela
tives will receive gratuity bene
fits after officers or enlisted men
are reported missing for one
year.
Salt Lake City. Dec. 8 (U.R)
A growing coal shortage to
night threatened the already
critical fuel supply situation in
th western states-
.
TOKYO PREDICTS
By United Press
(Undated) Japanese radio and
press, summarizing results of the
first year of war in the Pacific,
warned today against compla
cency and the possibility of fur
ther American air raids on Japan
during the coming year.
A Tokyo broadcast recorded by
the FCC said that "It Is most dis
astrous for us to become too
tranquil."
"We must increase production
and furnish the required arma
ments to those at the front," the
Japanese radio commentator
said. "Just how fervently Amer
ica is attempting to plan some
method by which to bomb and
raid us need not be mentioned
here as .you know all too well."
Tokyo broadcasts, recorded by
the United Press, boasted that
the "greater part' of the U. S.
naval force and practically all of
the British force in the Pacific
had been destroyed.
Referring to the battle of
Guadalcanal, the enemy radio
said:
"Ever since the American ma
rines were trapped, Guadalcanal
Island has been serving as pre
cious bait to lure the U. S. naval
forces for the Japanese navy,
ever anxious to encounter the
enemy, to send to the bottom of
the sea."
The broadcast admitted activ
ity by Allied submarines and air
craft but said they were "Iceble
efforts."
The Japan Times-Advertiser,
referring to Benito Mussolini's
speech last week, said that the
Italian premier may be assured
that our country certainly will
not disappoint" his expectations
of Japan.
E
INCREASED TAXES
Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R)
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., tonight warned
Americans that they must pre
pare themselves for heavier
taxes and greater savings out of
current income in order to fi
nance their global war.
In a Pearl Harbor anniversary
statement, Morgenthau declared
the United States is fighting on
both a military and an economic
front "the war against the
Axis and the war against post
war chaos." And, he added, ex
perience has taught that "a
military victory alone may turn
to ashes."
WAGE BOOST OKAYED
Washington, Dec. 8 U.R
The War Labor Board today
granted the request of Remlng
ton Arms Co., Inc., for Dermis
sion to give a general 8 cent- n-
hour wage increase to 30,000
employees
E
'FALSE FINAGLING'
OF DARLAN DEAL
Chicago, Dec. 8 (J.R) Wen
dell L. Willkie, Republican
party leader, tonight denounced
American collaboration with Ad
miral Jean Darlan as "false
finagling with expediency," and
warned that through loss of
moral force the United Nations
may win the war and lose the
peace.
"Under the lame excuse of
'expediency' to save American
lives and win an easy victory,
we are collaborating with
Vichy's Darlan," Willkie said In
an interview published in this
week's issue of th Christian Ad
vocate, official Methodist church
newspaper. ,
"After promising freedom to
the French, we put Into control
over them the very man who has
helped enslave them. And then,
when the world's astonishment
sweeps down upon us. we en
deavor to explain that the deal
with this arch-bctrayer is only
temporary, and that we shall
ditch him fast when we have got
all we can from him.
"With all my soul I hate this
false finagling with expediency.
temporary or permanent."
Willkie called for an America
that would be an arsenal of
Ideals as well as munitions. He
urged churches to take the lead
in promoting these ideals.
T
BOMBERS' TARGET
New Delhi, Dec. 8 (U.R)
Heavy bombers of the U. S. army
air force In India attacked Japa
nese troop and truck concentra
tions near Mandalay yesterday,
dropping nearly 100 bombs "with
telling effect," an official air
force communique said today.
The attack was directed at
Pyawbwe, about 75 miles osuth
of the Burma capital, the com
munique said. The enemy trans
port depot was estimated to con
tain about 300 trucks. All crew
members returned safely.
WOT ON
Two soldiers are believed to
have lost their lives at Camp
White Friday morning while
crossing tiic Rogue river, It was
revealed Saturday by the Public
Relations Office at the camp.
The bodies have not been recov
ered but next of kin have been
notified of th accident. Names
of the men were not made pub
lie.
Search for the missing men Is
continuing in the river and a
board of inquiry will be sum
moned to Investigate the cir
cumstances, the public relations
of lie sain
NAVAL FORCE
AT GUADALCANAL
RAKEDBYPLANES
Aussies Roll Up Enemy
Flank On Gona Beach
Air Raid Hits Kavieng.
Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R)
Alert and hard-hitting dive
bombers and torpedo planes have
Intercepted and attacked an ene
my naval force which may have
been attempting to relieve gradually-weakening
Japanese forces
on Guadalcanal, the navy dis
closed tonight.
Ranging 150 miles northwest
ward from their base on the
island, the death-dealing planes
on Thursday (island time) found
a small force of enemy light sur
face vessels between Santa Isa
bel and New Georgia islands.
They let go with bombs and
torpedoes but thus far, the navy
said, results of the attack are
not known. It was assumed the
Japanese force consisted of
cruisers and destroyers, possibly
bent upon landing supplies for
enemy troops on Guadalcanal
which have received no appre
ciable relief in several weeks.
Gen MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Australia, Dec. 6 (Sun
day) (U.R) Australian patrols
fanning out along Gona beach
continued today to roll up the
Japanese right flank toward
Sanananda point, one of the main
centers A enemy resistance, after
105 mm. howitzers had been
flown from Australia to centers
of-heavy .fighting on the North
Guinea shore. '
In the New Ireland theatre
Consolidated Liberator bombers
struck at Kavieng early Saturday
in one of their heaviest raids,
dropping about SO tons of bombs
on an airdrome, supply dumps,
Installations and dispersal areas,
the communique reported with
out mentioning specific damage.
In the Buna-Gona area, the
communique said, activity "in all
sectors is limited to patrol clashes
and sporadic fighting." In ex
tending control of the beach east
and west of Gona, the announce
ment said, the Allied forces sent
medium bombers against enemy
defensive installations in the
Buna area.
DECEMBER SET AS
Portland, Ore., Dec. 8 (U.R)
With the warning that Oregon
faces a winter in which it will
be unable to obtain Its normal
supply of fuel, Governor Charles
Sprague today proclaimed Do
cember "war on fuel waste"
month.
Asking Oregonlans to reduce
fuel consumption as a safeguard
against a more acute shortage
in the future, the governor said
newspapers, radio stations, civic
organizations and schools would
cooperate In a public enllght-
ment campaign.
"I urge the people of Oregon
to study the material which will
be presented to them and to
take the simple precautions
necessary to reduce fuel waste.
the proclamation said. "I par
ticularly urge school children
to become fuel wardens in their
homes and to check constantly
against the fuel conservation in
structions." GERMANS ROILED
BY FLEET'S LOSS
London, Dec. 8 AI R) An anti
French tirade by Dr. Paul Jo
seph Goebbels indicated tonight
that the Germans were so en
raged over the scuttling of the
French fleet at Toulon they will
not seek an alliance with the
puppet Vichy government.
The Nazi propaganda minister
In an article In his weekly pub
lication. Das Reich, which was
broadcast by the German DNB
agency and recorded here, de
clared Franc was dead.
BULLETIN
Beverly Hills. Cal.. Dae.
(U.R) A mild earthquake
was fait hare at (:3S p. m. to
day. It was described as a
single, short sharp jolt
Tucson. Aria.. Dae, S (U.R)
The publie relations office
at Davis-Monthan field her
lata today announced it was
a heavy bomber from the field
which crashed and burned on
th desert near Florae lata
Friday, killing all members of
th eight-man craw.
BOMBARD NAPLES,
E
First Yankee Attack Upon
Italians Wrecks Docks At
Main Port.
Cairo, Dec. 8 (U.R) Recon
nalssanca reports tonight re
vealed that the American four-
motored Liberator bombers
which blasted the important Ital
lan port city of Naples In a day
light raid yesterday definitely
sank one of two cruisers on
which direct hits were scored.
Allied reconnaissance planes
found that in addition to the
heavy damage previously report
ed Inflicted on Italy's third larg
est city, which included a direct
hit on a battleship and an un
determined number of merchant
ships, sticks of high explosive
bombs had burst across the Mas
sanelllo and Cesarlo Console
moles.
The heavy damage to dock In
stallations was highly Important
because Naples had become the
Axis main port for sending sup
plies and reinforcements to Af
rica since British bombers had
virtually knocked out Genoa.
The Liberators, attached to the
9th U. S. air force in Egypt and
Libya, late yesterday brought
home to Italians that Prime Mtn.
ister Winston Churchill was In
deadly earnest when he warned
last Sunday that southern Italy
as well as the northern parts
would feel the might of Allied
air power.
It was the first American air
attack on Italy and it achieved
"excellent results," a United
States communique reported.
The huge bombers were able
to sweep across th Mediterra-
nan from African bases and
reach Naples undetected by trail
Ing a formation of Italian planes,
the Italian high command re
ported.
ASG.0.P.CH0ICE
St. Louis, Dec. 8 (U.R) Re
publican national committee
members, enthusiastically gath
ering to choose a harmony chair
man, heard the first gun of the
G. O. P. presidential campaign
sound from Ohio tonight with
the Informal but emphatic
launching of Gov. John W
Bricker's 1944 favorite son can
didacy.
Coincidental John B. Holl Is
ter, Cincinnati, O., lawyer, was
most prominently discussed as a
compromise choice for national
committee chairman to .avoid a
political ruckus between the
friends and enemies of Wendell
Willkie.
PARITYILTO
Washington, Dec. B (U.R)
The Senate Agriculture commit
tee today unanimously approved
a revision in the farm parity
formula which Its sponsors con
ceed would ultimately raise the
price of food to consumers.
Supporters of the measure said
they would make every effort to
drive the bill through th senate
at an early data.
AMERICAN LOSSES
Battleships Crippled In
Sneak Attack, 177 Planes
Lost Casualties 4,575.
Washington. Dec. 8 (U.R)
Eight U. S. battleships and 11
other naval vessels were crippled
ana i l l 01 our planes were de
stroyed in the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor a year ago
Monday, the navy department
disclosed tonight
In 110 flaming minutes th
Japanese hit every American
battleship that was In the har
bor. They thus laid up nearly
half the number of battleships
m th entire U. S. navy at th
tlma.
They destroyed or disabled
"most of the aircraft in the Ha
waiian area," the navy said.
A high naval officer said it
was fair speculation that th
balance of the Pacific fleet re
maining seaworthy after the at
tack could have been annihilat
ed if the main Japanese battle
fore had followed up th initial
blow.
All told, th navy revealed In
its anniversary statement 89 .
ships of the Pacific fleet ex
clusive of small craft were
moored at Pearl Harbor on th
morning of December 7.
Th Japs struck at 7:58 a. m.
At 8:45 a. m when the last of
the raiders had retired, the U.S.
Pacific fleet had been crippled
to this extent:
Put out of action: Battleships
(5) Arizona (sunk), Oklahoma
(capsized), California, Nevada,
and West Virginia; destroyers
(3) Shaw, Cassin and Downes;
the minelayer Oglala, the target
ship Utah and a large floating
drydock. Total 11 ships.
Damaged: Battleships (3)
Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Tennessee; cruisers (3) Helena.
Honolulu and Raleigh; the sea.
plane tender Curtiss and the re
pair ship Vestal. Total, eight
ships.
Other losses:
Planes estroyed (177) navy
80; army 97. In addition, 70
navy planes and a still undis
closed number of army planes
were- disabled.
Personnel killed, wounded or
missing (4575) navy, 2177
killed, 960 missing and 878
wounded; army 226 killed and
396 wounded.
On the morning of December
7, the report relates, the Pacifio
fleet was divided up into four
task forces two at sea and two
at Pearl Harbor following ex
tensive operations in the Pacific
There were two phases to th
Jap attack. The first was when
dive bombers struck at Hlckara
Field and the naval air station
on Ford Island and Kaneoh
Bay. A few seconds later, tor
pedo planes and dive bombers
swarmed in from all directions
to concentrate on th heavy
ships at Pearl Harbor.
"The enemy attack was based
on exact Information," th navy
said.
The Japanese, hs said, wera
poised to hit well in advance
and probably weeks were Con
sumed getting into position. Ho
estimated that three and possibly
four aircraft carriers were used
In the attack.
So perfectly executed was
the assault, he added, that it was
probable the enemy rehearsed
the attack "like a Hollywood
movie".- He said it was not im
probable that th enemy may
have set up a replica of Pearl
Harbor In a restricted area or.
the inland sea off Japan to
practice.
Naval experts assumed, h
said, that most of th Jap fliers
failed to get back to their car
riers because they could not
have carried sufficient fuel and
large bomb or torpedo loads to
have completed the round trip.
In that respect, h added, they
had engaged In a suicidal mis
sion. SHIPYARDS INSPECTED
Portland, Ore., Dec. 8 (U.R)
Rep. John Z. Anderson, mem
ber of the House Naval Affairs
committee, declined tonight to
discuss his inspection trip today
through Portland shipyards en
gaged in navy construction.