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Army and Navy
Land Tax Sought
Nurse Needed by
Armed Force
' 48-Hour Week
Drive Expected
Br Joha W. Kelly
Washington, D. C, Dec. 29
One of the first bills to be In
troduced In January when the
78th session meets will be one
to require the army and navy to
pay taxes on all the real prop
erty it has taken oft- the tax
rolls. This measure was intro
duced last summer but the ses
sion adjourned sine die before
action could be taken and it died
In committee. The idea is sup
posed to be so good that the bill
will make its second appearance
with what is believed to be a
pretty fair prospect of being en
acted. Reason this hope is hem
out Is. that almost every state
in the Union is affected so wide
spread have been the purchasing
activities ot the military torces.
There are counties In the
northwest which are suffering
I because the government bought
so generously, and where more
purchases are contemplated. One
of the latest is the site- for a
large air base at Mountain Home,
Ida.; aonther, the navy plans to
expand the blimp base on Tilla
mook coast by 16,000 acres of
fine pasture land. This blimp
base, which was to have been lo
cated in California, Is to be no
temporary affair; it Is being
built permanently, far win, lose
or draw,' Japan will always be
an enemy and must be watched.
Every county court In Wash
ington and Oregon, at least.
which has seen property slip off
the assessment rolls is behind
the bill to make the army .and
navy pay taxes.
BY June, 1943, the armed
i forces want another 55,000
nurses; by June, 1944, 65,000
more Training schools for nurses
are all hospitals in the Pacific
northwest and if a candidate
cannot pay the fees the govern
ment will absorb them. Of the
55,000 scheduled for graduation
by next June there is a short
age of 19,000. Eligibles are worn-
(Continued on Paga SU)
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Washington, Dec. 29 (U.B
Small business concerns the
kind that serve suburban neigh
borhoods and crossroads towns-
today received a promise from
the war production board that in
the future they can expect
more equitable distribution of
dwindling stocks of furniture,
clothing and other consumers'
goods.
The WPB has set up controls
over the sire of stock Inventories
of large manufacturers, whole
salers and retailers which even
tually will force large concerns
' to share their merchandise more
equitably with smaller ones.
Affected by the order, which
becomes effective early next
year, are stores and stock-carry
ing branches of manufacturers
whose Individual annual sales
total $200,000 or more and
whose inventories -total at least
$50,000.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTER
Bert Daugherty, all graduated
from Yale and dressed up in his
Navy uniform, and home 'or a
brief visit before leaving for duty
"somewhere" and being quite ex
plicit about not wanting his
name in the paper.
And Sgt. Don Lawrence of the
army air force also home for a
brief time after sojourning In
Alaska and Las Vegas, Nev..
which he describes as out-Reno-Ing
Rene
Bl Men Surround Hideout,
Move in At Early Morning
Hour 2 Resisters Slain.
Chicago. Dec. 29 (U.R) FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover today
announced that the terrible
Touhy gangsters "the most vi
cious and most dangerous crim
inals the country ever had
were killed or captured in a
series of raids by G-men early
this morning in the seizure of
Roger Touhy and Basil( the Owl)
Banghart.
Captured were:
Roger (The Terrible) Touhy,
gang leader.
Basil (The Owl) Banghart, his
lieutenant. .
Edward Darlak, escaped Joliet
prison lifer.
William Stewart, lifer.
Matthew Nelson, lifer.
Slain resisting capture were:
Eugene Lanthorn, alias James
O'Connor, lifer.
St. Clair Mclnerney, alls Baby
Doll and the Saint, a safe blower
and robber.
"This wipes out the Touhy
gang, Hoover said.
Two Mowed Down
After mowing down the two
men who resisted, the FBI men
moved against the gang leaders
with tommy guns, tear gas, and
rifles in a north side apartment.
Hoover described the scene
this way: ' ' "'
"The aero hour was- set lor o
o'clock this morning for the raid
of the Touhv-Banghart hideout,
FBI agents surrounded tne
building. They had an apart
ment on the floor opposite
Touhy's apartment. The FBI
was equipped with machine
guns, high-powered rifles and
tear Eas. The building was
lighted with searchlights at ex
actly 5 o clock.
Banghart First
"Loudspeakers which had been
set up told the men to surrender
arid instructed them to come out
of their apartment backwards,
hands ud and one at a lime,
Ranshart first.
The men deliberated 10 min
utes. Banghart, acting as spokes
man, indicated they wouia sur
render and following instruc
tions, backed out of the room,
hands up, and was taken.
The others louowea inu
there was no struggle. They
were Touhy and Edward Darlak.
At that point Hoover smuea
and remarked that the FBI's
only Jurisdiction was for draft
evasion, except in the case of
Banghart, machine-gunner for
the mob as it was constituted in
the roaring prohibition era, who
was wanted on a previous feder
al conviction with 36 years to
run for a $100,000 Charlotte N.
C. mail robbery.
Failed To Registsr
The boys had neglected to
register for the draft after they
broke from Joliet,
Touhy had dyed his curly
black hair peroxide blond. The
others were easily recognized
by the men who had circularized
the nation for their capture since
they shot their way over the
walls of the Stateville peniten
tiary at Joliet, 111., last Octo-
kav O
The mob's hair-trigger leaders
mrrehdered with a docility in
marked contrast to the resist
ance of two of their henchmen,
r.n Lanthorn. alias O'Con
nor, and St. Clair (Baby Doll)
These men were surrounded
In similar fashion at lliia p. m
nit mowed down in a searing
blast from tommy guns when
they tried to shoot their way out
of the trap.
Had to Be Killed
"We were waiting for them
and they fired on us and they
had to be killed. Hoover ex
nlained.
Lanthorn. the FBI director
said, was one of the most vicious
and ruthless criminals in the
country. He was a thief at 12
and at 15, while handcuffed, he
swam a swamp and escaped from
police. His left arm was para
lyzed from bullet wounds.
The captures began at Minnea
polis on Dec. 18 with Matthew
(OonuaiMd on rage SU)
Vichy Loses Somaliland, Last
War Bulletins
London. Dee. 29. (U.R)
British fighting planes car
tied out patrol missions ever
the low countries and aorta
era France today, aa air min
istry communique announced.
Mosquito planes of the
bomber command attacked a
railway target la France.
Two British planss were tout
ing. Washington. Dec 29 U.R
President Roosevelt, dis
counting reports to the con
trary from abroad, said today
he fully expected to confsr
vary soon with Cea. Charles
Do Gaulle, leader of the
Fighting French.
The president said no defin
ite date had beea set for De
Gsulle's visit. The trip of the
French leader to the United
States hsd beea p-ailjiieed
twice, but he expected to see
him very soon, Mr. Roosevelt
added.
Washington, Dec. 29 U.R)
Allied units have been with
drawn from the hill position
six miles northeast of Medjes
El Bsb la northern Tunisia,
which thsy took on Christmas
eve. the War department an
nounced today.
ING FORCE
Moscow. Dec. 29 (U.R) A
special Soviet communique
said tonight that Russian
troops had taken Kotelnikov
ski. important rail center
southwest of Stalingrad.
' (By Unitsd Press)
Russian forces drove on Ros
tov from the north and the
northeast today, developing a
gigantic plncer potentially cap
able of isolating one-third of
Adolf Hitler's armies.
The Red army had all but en
circled Kotelnikovski, principal
German base southwest of Stal
ingrad, and Soviet troops push
ing down the Voronezh rail line
were within 80 miles of Rostov,
the gateway to the Caucasus.
Success of the twin drives, to
gether with the capitulation of
22 German divisions pocketed
far to the rear of the present
operations, would end the threat
on the southern front for this
winter 'at least and would seri
ously cripple Hitler's manpower
reserves for operations on all
fronts.
On the southwest Stalingrad
front, driving forward through
out the night, the Russians took
several more small towns and
villages, killed more than 2,000
Germans and knocked out 20
tanks.
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Portland, Dec. 29 (U.R) Rus
sell P. Kramer today assumed
his new post as special agent In
charge of the Portland office of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion, succeeding J. Douglas
Swenson. who reportedly re
signed because of displeasure
over a proposed transfer to Dal
las, Tex., has not announced fu
ture plans.
Jap's Bribery Try
Net Ten Months
Los Angeles, Dec. 29. (U.R)
Atsushl Endo, 38-year-old Jap
anese, began a 10 months' sent
ence In the county Jail today for
attempts to bribe civilian guards
at Santa Anita assembly center.
Endo was charged with offer
ing 850 weekly to guards if
they would allow him to oper
ate gambling games. He pleaded
guilty. .
TANK CARS FROZEN
Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R)
The Office of Defense Transport
ation today froze in eastern pe
troleum service all tank cars op
erating In that area.
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TANKS ARE COMIN U.S. motorized columns in rapid advance in Algeria, raise a cloud of dust as they move up toward front!
lines over coastal road in the North African theater of war. These troops are now encasine Axis in Tunisia.
BL PAUL MITT
Washington, Dec. 29. (U.R)
War Manpower .Chief Paul V.
McNutt todav revised UDward to
65,400,000 his estimate ot the
number ol men and women of
this country who will be en
gaged in war industries and on
the - battlefront by December,
104. '." r . .,':-'-: .,"'
. McNutt, at press conference.
declined to say whether the 2,
200,000 Increase over previous
estimates of 1943 manpower re
quirements was due to needs of
the armed forces.
He said 69,000,000 persons are
now working in essential indus
tries, agriculture, . non-essential
Industries, professional or scien
title professions, or are in the
armed forces. This means that
6,400,000 more persons must go
to work or become members of
the armed forces in the text a
months, he added.
Asked why the estimate had
been revised upward from 63,
200,000, McNutt said:
"We now have a more com
plete picture before us. It is.
due to needs of agriculture,
lend-lease, and supplying our
armed forces."
McNutt said 17,500,000 per
sons now are employed in war
industries alone, an Increase of
10,600,000 over December, 1941.
The number employed in non
.ntisl industries, decreased
from 29,200,000 to 21,100,000, he
said.
Industry, he said, will neea
19,300,000 persons by December,
loss -r 1.800.000 more than
it h. nnw. This leave 4.600,000
to be found for agriculture ana
the armed forces, he said.
President Roosevelt sam re
cently that the armed torces
would have 9,7uu,uug men,
.i. u n nfficers. bv the end
of 1943, an increase of 4.200.000
over the present estimates siic.
Thn. mi McNutt s revisea ins
ures, it would appear tnai "
remaining 400,000 are needed in
agriculture.
Austin, Tex, Dec. 29 (U.R)
The last edition of the Austin
Daily Tribune was Issued today.
A brief announcement in the
paper said:
"This Is the last publication of
the Austin Dally Tribune. Con-
servstion is ever in the public
Interest.
"We are grateful to those who
have with loyalty supported this
undertaking.
"Uncertainty and trial shall
reign for some time, yet there
are none but who with militant
confidence face the future with
unfailing hope. The Tribune be
gan an - Ideal which shall re
main." Announcement came as sur-
prise even to editorial employes,
'"&'b ' ' v'rtL'iw
BAY AREAJTREMBLES
San Francisco, Dec. 29 (U.R) A dish-rattling earthquake
shook San Francisco, Berkeley, Richmond and other nearby
communities at 11:18 a. m. today but no damage was re
ported.
Prof. Perry Byerly, University I
of California seismologist, de
scribed the tremor as "small but
sharp". The quake was recorded
over a period of three minutes
on the university selsmograpn.
Byerly said the epicenter of the
quake was 15 miles from Berk
eley. .
Chandeliers swayed and dishes
rattled in many homes. The
tremor was felt In downtown ot
flee blilldings. " '. "
The quake was felt as far east
as Concord in Contra Costa
county, where telephone lines
quivered during the brief tem
blor. Dish-rattling was reported at
Richmond on tha east side of
San Francisco Bay, and In other
metropolitan communities fring
ing the bay.
A quick, up-and-down move
ment was felt in top stories of
San Francisco buildings.
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TO HELP SALVAGE
EMPTY TIN CANS
Save your tin cans because
the school children will be
around to gather them up. The
tin can salvage Is expected to go
Into high gear In the schools as
quickly as large containers can
be provided for the tin, E. ti
Hedrick, city school superin
tendent, stated today. The con
tainers on hand at the school
house now are being used for
metal and rubber salvage.
A. S. Cummins, county sal-
vase chairman, has promised that
a means of gathering up the tin
cans will be provided from the
schoolhouses when a local outlet
for the cans has been secured
Housewives were reminded to
take the label from the can
wash the can thoroughly, remove
both ends, flatter the can and In
sert the ends, making a compact
and neat package of tin salvage.
These cans, when. properly pre
pared, may be stored in mue
space until picked up by the
school children in uie aiv
drive. ,
GIVEN NEW HOPE
Portland, Dec. 29 (U.R) Port
land restaurants, plagued by
help shortage and the prospect
of forced closure In some in
stances, were heartened today
with the announcement that rep
resentatives of the army, navy
and war manpower commission
would conduct a series of meet
ings beginning tomorrow In an
effort to work out a solution.
The labor shortage reached a
climax Christmas day when the
failure of hundreds of employes
to report for work forced many
restaurants to close their doors.
French Strongnold
OF 125 UNITS TO
Plans for the Federal Housing
Administration project to be
constructed here near the Jack
son school,' are being prepared
by Architects Francis C. Jacob-
berger and Frank C. Clark, as
sisted by a force of 'eight
draughtsmen. The project will
cost in the neighborhood of
$400,000, and will consist of 125
family units, arranged ' In 28
rows of houses. The site Is
about 15 acres, bounded by Mo
Andrews Road, Summit avenue,
Clark street .and Jackson street,
Clark reported:
Besides the family units, there
will be a Community House,
with the administrator's office,
storage space and social room
There will be a children's play
ground, and parks through the
project. It will be used by de
fense workers and soldiers with
families. Allocation of (10,000
for landscaping had been made,
Clark further explained.
Each unit will consist of a
oarlor. dinlnl room, kitchen,
bath room and bedrooms, the
number of bedrooms varying,
They will be built according to
government specifications, with
shingled exteriors, slate chip
mineral composition roofs, and
gypsom board and panelled, in
teriors.
The plans were slated to be
pnmDleted by January 1, but
have been delayed by surveying
details. Clark said. There also
are several sewer and water
problems to be adjusted.
The work will be let In
lump contract, to be 50 per cent
completed In BU wonting oays,
and the balance In 30 more
working days, Clark .further
said.
Skelton' Cruelty
Detail Unrecited
Hollywood, Dec. 29. 0J.R
Edna Skelton, manager, gag-
writer and wife of Red Skelton
the screen and radio comedian,
accused her husband of cruelty
todav In a divorce suit.
Without detailing her charge.
Mrs. Skelton said that she could
work with her husband but that
she couldn't continue living with
him because of his cruelty.
They separated last Septem
ber 22, she said. They were
married June 1, 1931, at Kansas
City, Mo.
DUCK1 COST MORE
Washington, Dec. 29 (UR
A temporary Increase of from
one-half cent to seven cents
pound In the price of ducks wss
suthorlzed by the Office of Price
Administration for producers
and wholesale dealers to assure
an adequate supply of the fowl
lor Mew leer nouaay laoies.
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IN AFRICAN SEAS
London, Dec. 29 (U.R) Brit
ish submarines have blasted tour
ships attempting to reinforce the
Germans in North Africa, and
the allied air attack has grown
so heavy that observers said to
day that every axis-held port in
Tunisia was dsmagad heavily. "
The submarines struck along
the axis' Tunlsia-Slclly-Italy sup
ply line and sank two ships,
forced anothei to beach itself,
and probably sank a fourth, ac
cording to a British Admiralty
announcement.
German positions in Tunisia
were under two-way attack from
the air. Bombers and fighters at
tached to the British Eighth
army roamed far from their
bases to strike at German bases
in Tunisia. Then allied planes
based on Tunisian airdromes
took up the attack in what al
most amounted to a round-the-
clock air offensive.
American Lockheed Light
nings, long range, twin fuselage
fighters, carried the battle from
Tunisia into Tripolitania and at
tacked a German supply column
au miles west of Tripoli. .
Los Angeles. Dec. 29 (U.R)
A price celling, effective within
48 hours, will be placed on
Southern California's citrus
fruits, local Office ot Price Ad
ministration officials announced
today.
Present regulations set the
price on fresh citrus sold at re
tail at the highest price the re
taller charged between Septem
ber 28 and October 2, 1942, offi
cials explained.
In addition tha new order will
bring citrus growers and whole
salers under OPA regulations
already governing retailers, OPA
chiefs said.
Despite an Increase of ap
proximately 8,000,000 boxes of
citrus fruit for the 1942-43 sea
son over last year, officials pre
dicted less fruit will be available
for civilian use. Large quanti
ties of the pack will be diverted
into concentrated orange Juice
and similar products for lend
lesse and the armed forces,
spokesmen aald.
Control of Franc
Given to Gettapo
London, Dec. 29. 0J.R) Re
ports from the continent tonight
said Heinrlch Hlmmler'a Ges
tapo had taken over control of
the entire Internal administra
tion of France.
- The reports tended to confirm
earlier ones that Otto Abets,
German ambassador to Paris,
hsd been recalled to Berlin and
would not return to his post.
The Allied occupation ot North
Africa was reported to have de
stroyed Hitler's confidence In
Abets.
in Africa
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STRATEGIC AREA
FAILS TO ALLIES
WITHOUT BATTLE
Fighting French Hoist Flag
at Djibouti Area Straits
Between Red Sea, Aden.
(By United Press)
French Somaliland, V I e h y
France's last stronghold in Afri
ca, came over to the cause ot
the United Nations today.
The flag of the Fighting
French was hoisted last night
at Djibouti, capital of French
Somaliland and the terminus of
an important railroad leading to
Addia Ababa, capital of Ethiopa,
Announcement ot Somali
land's adherence to the Allied
cause was made at the London
headquarters ot Gen. Charles
De Gaulle's Fighting French.
The British foreign office an
nounced later that compact
waa signed between British and
Fighting French leaden on on
side and General Du Pont, act
ing governor ot French Somali
land, on the other. Axis propa
ganda broadcasts attempted to
picture hard fighting in Somali.
land, but Allied sources Indi
cated there was little resistance).
The strategic value of French
Somaliland- la that . it controls
the straits between the Red sea
and the Gulf ot Aden. It has
8,492 square miles ot territory
and population ot 45,000 na
tives and 1,700 Europeans.
Axis radios sought to make it
appear that Britain was trying
to take over French Somaliland
before the United States did. :
ADO JAP CRUISER
TO RABAUL
Somewhere in New Guinea.
Dec. 28 (Delayed (U.R) It's
always good hunting for Lieut.
James J. Crawford and the
bomber crew of "The Yanks
from Hell."
To the envy ot more veteran
pilots, Crawford, of Taylorvllle,
111., destroyed an 8,000 ton Jap
anese freighter In St. George
Channel at Rabaul, In New Brit
ain, last Saturday and today led
another attack that broke the
back of "a Japanese heavy cruis
er at Kabaul.
Describing the action, Craw
ford ssld, "We arrived in the
Rabaul area before dawn and
hung around for a long time
awaiting daylight. Finally we
made a run across the harbor at
a medium altitude. That's where
Smitty (the bombardier) took
over for the bomb run. We hit
the cruiser the first time and un
loaded our whole batch. Then
we died away Into the clouds be
cause both ship and shore bat
teries were sending up plenty of
stuff, hot and heavy.
TO HALT RABIES
New City. N. Y, Dee. It
(U.R) Police with high-powered
rifles began hunting dogs
today in an effort to stop
rabies epidemic.
The hunt extended over most
of the county. Most of the dogs
they sought to kill were former
pets, now running wild In packs
snd killing deer like wolves.
They sought only dogs "at large"
that is without visible means
of support.
Twenty or more persons and
50 animals have been bitten by
mad dogs recently, and, al
though msny infected animals
have been killed, cases of dog
bite steadily increased.
POLICE HUNT DOGS