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Army To Start
Training Boys
Grand WPA Plan
Waiting Lehman
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Replace Imports
Br Jona W. Kelly
Washington. D. C. Jan. 2
For almost a year the brass hats
had been denying that they had
any designs on the boys in high
school; sniffed at the Idea of
using teen-year-olds in college.
Now the army has "come clean"
and announced a program that
will begin giving special train
ing to boys as soon as they leave
the grades and enter high
school. The military forces in
tend taking over the youngsters
at about the age of 14 and pre
paring them for induction into
the army when they are 18. For
the high school kids the program
calls for vocational training
rather than academic.
Greater weight will be' given
Instruction in mechanics, elec
tricity and radio than English
literature and composition.
Army contends that boys of
high school age like to "make
things" and will quickly adapt
themselves to vocational train
ing. Four years instruction in
mechanics will be invaluable
when the students are 18 and
ready to be sent to college by
the army or Into service.
Parents, of course, will pro
test but their objections will be
brushed aside by the brass hats.
The plan sheds light on one
point: the length of time the
high command believes it will
be necessary to win the global
war. And another prediction:
look for the time when 19-year-old
boys are trained as pilots
and become veterans by the time
they are 21.
a a a
COLONIAL administration Is
being taught at one of the uni
versities in the east Similar in
struction will be taken up at
other schools In the near future,
with at least one institution on
the west coast dealing with the
subject. The government knows
that as occupied countries are
taken over it will be necessary
to install qualified army officers
to administer the affairs of the
country until such time as the
natives are in position to assume
this responsibility. This requires
specialized Instruction and also
familiarity with the customs oi
each country that is taken over
(Continued on Page Four)
SEN. TAFT URGES
DURATION TAXES
Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., said
tonight the new congress should
start woiV immediately after
convening next week on a new
tax bill which. could stand un
changed for the duration of the
war.
"I think the joint congression
al tax committee should proceed
immediately with a tax plan
without waiting either for the
treasury or the March returns,"
he told reporters.
' "I think we're at the point
where we can draw up a per
manent tax program for the war
period and the sooner the peo
ple know what it is, the better."
Manchester, Jan. 2 (U.R)
Denis N. Pritt, Socialist member
of Commons, urged in a speech
today that the allies open a sec
ond front in Europe to eliminate
the possibil'ty of Axis advances
In a new offensive in Russia
next spring.
Asserting that Europe is the
only place where Adolf Hitler
can be decisively beaten, Pritt
said a large scale allied landing
In Ital, or elsewhere on the con
tinent "obviously" would seal
Der Fuehrer's fats.
AERIAL ASSAULTS
UPON KISKA GAIN
AS ENEMY ACTIVE
Yankee Subs Take Toll Of
Jap Shipping Pacific
Bases Blasted.
Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) U.
S. submarines have sunk seven
additional Japanese ships and
U. S. planes have carried out
destructive raids upon Japanese
bases at both ends of the Pacific
front, the navy announced to
day. The newest report of sub
marine activity in Pacific and
Far Eastern waters brought the
jtal of enemy vessels sunk by
U. S. submersibles to 112, with
22 others probably sunk and 29
damaged.
In the air, the most Importa.it
news was from the Aleutians
where American planes intensi
fied assaults against the enemy's
submarine base at Kiska follow
ing the sudden strengthening of
the Island's fighter plane de
fenses. ' General MacArthur's head
quarters, Australia, Jan. 3
(Sunday) (U.PJ Allied troops
rolled through the cocoanut
groves on the right of the Bona
area Friday and delivered a gen
eral assault which crushed Jap
anese resistance today a com
munique reported.
Describing action In the Buna
area, the communique said, "on
the right, our troops, in a gen
eral assault, have broken the
back. of enemy resistance and
are destroying his shattered
forces."
The assault was made west of
Gairopa, one of the three main
segments of Japanese resistance
in the Buna sector.
"The attack was completely
successful," an allied spokesman
said. 'The enemy was divided
into small groups which are be
ing quickly reduced."
Some Japanese were observed
swimming, with the aid of life
belts or logs, from the Gairopa
area toward the government sta
tion. Others evidently were try
ing to escape by swimming from
the government station west
ward.
The allied assault was opened
behind an artillery barrage and
tank screen which pulverized
the enemy strong points.
Operations of the past few
days may be sumarized thus:
1. Early in the week an allied
column drove a wedge through
the government gardens, reach
ing the beach between the mis
sion and Gairopa.
2. A second column, attack
ing from the air strip area,
drove another corridor to the
sea at Gairopa Point Friday,
thereby dividing the Japanese
forces into three segments.
3. The latest assault was
launched frori the Gairopa cor
ridor westward along the coast
toward the first corridor.
The infantry now mopping up
in this area may be assumed to
be two allied forces which short
ly will establish contact, al
though this has not been claimed
as yet.
WALLACES TALKS
New York, Jan. 2 (U.R
Wendell Willkle took Issue In
directly today with Vice-Presi
dent Wallace's recent speeches
on post-war International co
operation, asserting that peace
aims were a "mere dream" un
less they were developed by a
"common council" while the
war is being fought.
"I have been quite deliber-
tely prodding our official lead
ers to discuss such questions,"
the 1940 Republican presidential
candidate said at a victory rally
at the Metropolitan opera house.
"It is idle to talk," he contin
ued, "about creating after the
war is over a machinery for pre
venting economic warfare and
promoting peace between na
tions, unless the parts of that
machinery have been assembled
under the unifying effort and
common purpose of seeking to
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A new threat to Nazi Marshal Erwln Rommel's battered Afrika Korps
turned up when a communique from the long-unreported Fighting French
force from Lake Chad indicated that the powerful mechanized unita wera
only 450 miles south of Tripoli and striking northward. Meanwhile, an
American column In Tunisia moved to cut oif Rommel's westward re
treat by driving toward the Important port of Oabea. On the east, tba
British Eighth Army continued to close In on Tripoli.
COOS BAY BOMBER!! RAIDS BLAST
CRASH CLAIMS 7;
IVOR F
San Francisco, Jan. 2 (U.R)
Seven crew members of a big
navy PBY patrol bomber which
crashed into the ocean off Coos
Bay, Ore., Thursday night were
officially listed as missing to
night by the navy.
Ensign Roderick McLeod
Brush, of Jacksonville, Fla., was
the sole known survivor of the
crash. He was found unconscious
on a cliff along the Oregon coast,
and taken to a hospital at Wald
port. Ore., on serious condition.
The navy listed as missing:
Lieut. James E. Breeding, plane
captain, McMinnville, Ore.; En
sign Alvin L. Chamberlln 2nd
pilot, Yakima, Wash.; Loyd
Helming, AMML-C, Des Moines,
Iowa; Howard Stanley Gordon,
ARML-C, Hastings, Neb.; George
Franklin O'Callaghan, ARM3-C,
Tupelo, Miss.; Henry LeRoy
Burtz, AMM3-C, Langlie, S. C;
Newell Smith, SK2-C, Seattle,
Wash.
A widespread search for the
missing fliers by ground parties
and the coast guard will be con
tinued, the navy said.
Two life rafts and one life
jacket were found on the beach
where Brush was found, and the
navy said it was possible other
crewmen had reached shore.
The plane crashed about 7:30
p. m. Thursday in heavy seas
about a mile offshore.
Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R)
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., announced to
day that December s victory fund
drive netted a record-breaking
total of $12,906,000,000.
His announcement coincided
with disclosure in the treasury's
daily statement that the United
States ended 1942 with a fed
eral public debt of $112,470,920,
266.79 exactly $48,108,785.-
114.37 more than at the close of
1941.
"The $12,906,000,000 of bor
rowing Is a reflection of the
scale in which the war Is being
carried to the enemy In our grow
ing offensives," Morgenthau said.
London, Jan. 2 U.R Allied
air forces, maintaining their
around the clock offensive
against ports through which the
axis Is striving to push reinforce
ments and supplies into Tunisia,
started fires among harbor" In
stallations and railroad yards In
another attack on Tunis yester
day, allied headquarters
nounced tonight.
The axis sought to counter
with an attack on the Algerian
port of Bone, but allied fighters
intercepted and turned back two
waves of raiders, the communi
que said. Four axis planes were
destroyed and a number dam
aged, while six allied planes
::Ued to return from all opera
tions, It was added.
The communique said there
was nothing to report on ground
activity In Tunisia, where con
tinual rain continued to prevent
large-scale operations by both
sides.
London Jan. 2 (U.R) A
"fairly strong" force of Roysl
Air Force bombers snd fighter-
bombers swept northern France
this, afternoon, raiding railway
targets and ground troop con
centrations.
The air ministry said there
were no RAF losses.
New Delhi, Jan. 2 flJ.R)
Allied air forces, paced by Amer
ican units, are blasting Japanese
installations and communica
tions In a non-stop aerial offen
sive spanning Burma, official re
ports disclosed today.
While Field Marshal Sir Archi
bald P. Wavell's British Indian
army Inched its way to within
23 miles of the western Burma
port of Akyab, the principal
objective of its offensive thrust,
British and American planes de
livered blistering attacks on
widespread areas of the enemy
held British colony.
LIQUID DYNAMITE
Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jan
2 (U.PJ Police magistrate John
Campbell today urged American
authorities to Investigate the
bootleg sale to American sol
diers of sn Irish brand of "fire
water" which has the kick of a
mule and provides a fortnight of
headaches-
ITS
ON JAPAN PROPER
Mikado And Tokyo War
Lords Taunted By Pacific
Commander.
With the U. S. Fleet In the
South Pacific, Dec. 31 (Delayed)
(U.R) Admiral William J. Halsey,
commander In chief of the U. S.
naval forces In the southwest
Pacific, today predicted complete
victory for the United Nations
over the Axis In 1943, and di
rected this warning to Tokyo:
"Hirohito, your time is short!"
The fighting admiral, who won
smashing naval victories over
the Japanese In the Solomons
campaign, promised the enemy
that the distant rumbling of the
1943 Allied offensive will grow
into a shriek of bursting bombs
and falling shells upon Japan
proper.
"We have the initiative," the
grim-jawed, gray-haired veteran
pounded home in an interview.
"Hirohito, your time Is short.
"Admiral Yamamoto (com
mander of the Jap fleet), you
will be present at a dictated
peace in the White House, but
it will not be as you envisage.
"To Tojo (Japanese war lord
premier), when you. unleashed
your attack on Pearl Harbor,
you started something which will
make you wish you. had died
when you were a baby' Adm
Halse declared. -", - -
. 'To the Japanese 'people, you
are hearing the distant rumbling
now of the handwriting on the
wall. This rumbling will grow
into the shriek of bursting bombs
and falling shells and clashing
of swords on your own sou.
Wearing no necktie, Adm.
Halsey tore into his predictions
for 1943; warning the Axis, "We
are just starting now. We have
the initiative and we won't
stop at Rabaul."
Rabaul, Japanese base on
New Britain island, is under per
sistent bombing by Allied planes
and has been mentionel as the
next step in the Allied south Pa
cific offensive after the Japs
are driven from New Guinea.
Japs are getting harder and
harder to find, the admiral com
mented. CRUISER LOST
FAR NORTH FRAY
London, Jan. 2 (U.R) The
story of a naval battle in Euro
pean waters began to take form
tonight as Germany admitted
loss of an auxiliary cruiser and
a destroyer, while Britain con
ceded the sinking of a corvette.
The German high command
had issued a communique giv
ing the first Axis version of
naval battle which previously
had been described vaguely by
the British.'
The Germans said the engage
ment took place Thursday near
Bear island, 319 miles south
of Cape South, Spltzbergen,
that it lasted several hours, and
that German cruisers damaged
several Allied cruisers snd de
stroyers.
The communique, broadcast
by DNB, admitted loss of one
destroyer and claimed destruc
tion of one Allied destroyer.
The British admiralty, which
declined to comment on the
German communique, previous
ly had announced merely that
a battle was underway and that
considerable damage had been
done to a German cruiser and
destroyer. The latter was left
In a sinking condition, the ad
miralty said.
The German high command
said merely that the auxiliary
cruiser was lost In an engage
ment with a British cruiser of
the 9,803-ton Devonshire type
The high command said the
auxiliary cruiser was of the
Atlantis type, which Is not list
ed In available shipping hand
books,
LOG JAM MENACES
FLOOD CREST DUE
Break In Oregon City Dam
Serious Many Homeless
In Springfield Area.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 (U.R)
Harbor crews rounded up hun
dreds of logs above the Industry-thronged
Portland harbor to
day to avert a serious jam In the
flood-swollen Willamette river.
- More than a million feet of
timber, officials estimated, rolled
through a crack in a wing-dam
at Oregon City, 14 miles above
Portland, but nastily mobilized
rivermen corralled the floating
logs Into small clusters to keep
them from jamming bridges and
seawalls.
Additional thousands of logs
were reported by the coast guard
to be rolling down the stream
from points above Oregon City,
but nq serious log jams were re
ported yet.
Meanwhile, residents of Eu
gene, In the southern Willam
ette valley, began returning to
their homes tonight as the river
dropped to 12.2 feet, only a lit
tle above flood stage. However,
In the West Springfield area.
hundreds were still homeless be
cause of bad sanitary conditions.
Red Cross disaster relief com
mittees were completing arrange
ments to care for the homeless.
Th flood crest of about 21 feet
is expected to reach Portland
early tomorrow morning, but the
harbor seawall, erected some
years ago after a previous flood
could withstand a top level of
29 feet.
Another death from the floods
was reported today, making the
toll seven. The latest victim was
John Heffner, a farmer on a small
Island nar Corvallls, who was
drowned when his rowboat over
turned after he had removed his
wife and children to safety.
Portland's war Industries were
not disrupted as yet by the high
waters except for the sub-chaser
yards of the Alblna Engine and
Machine Works, where 300 weld
ers were barred from their jobs
by high water in the ways of
the plant.
(By Untied Press)
The Ohio river left many
thousands homeless in its wake
and caused damage estimated at
$2,500,000 to cities on Its banks
as the crest swept through Ports
mouth.
Thousands of refugees up
stream from Portsmouth re
turned to their homes but other
thousands downstream evacuated
lowlands -as the flood crest of
about 62 feet moved toward Cin
cinnati.
The Ohio visited destruction
on the valleys of West Virginia,
Indiana, Kentucky and threat
ened southern Illinois.
CONGRESS AWAITS
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Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R)
Representatives and senators
were drifting back to the capital
tonight for the opening of a new
congress expected to claim
more direct share in the formula
tion of war policy.
The 78th congress whose pre
decessor wound up its business
Dec. 16 after a flurry of fili
busters had made further legis
lative progress Impossible faces
the problems of the new year
with democratic majorities In
both houses cut to their lowest
point since President Roosevelt
entered the White House In
1933.
Mr. Roosevelt Is expected to
deliver his annual message on
the state of the Union to con
gress on Thursday and on the
following day will send up
budget message expected to call
for expenditures in the neighbor
hood of $100,000,000,000 In the
1944 fiscal year which begins
July L
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War Bulletins
La Lines, Spain. Jan. t
(U.R) The British aircraft
carrier Formidable, two battle
ships and several other war
ships steamed out of Gibraltar
tonight, presumably bound for
a Mediterranean destination.
The battleships ware the
Nelson and Rodney. In addi
tion there were several Brit
ish destroyers and cruisers
and two French warships.
Heavy air activity continued
day and night on the Rock. Re
cent landinga included a num
ber of Boeing Flying Fort
resses. Allied North African Head
man dive bombers, escorted
quarters, Jan. 2 (U.R) Gar
by Focke-Wldf-lSOs. attacked
Bone Harbor. Important Al
lied Algerian supply port, yes
terday morning despite stiff
opposition from British Spit
fires. 11 waa disclosed today.
Two additional groups oi
Gorman planes attempted to
raid Bone In the afternoon,
but were Intercepted by Allied
aircraft before they could
reach their target. Three
Focke-WulMSOa and a Junk-ert-87
were destroyed by the
defending plana and other
war damaged.
OF SOVIET LINE
Reds Near Latvian Frontier
Substantial Gain Near
Stalingrad Much Booty.
Moscow, Sunday, Jan. S (U.R)
Soviet troops forged ahead
west of Velikle Lukl today, driv
ing the Germans back toward the
Latvian frontier, while other red
army units pressed forward In
the Caucasus, around Stalingrad
and along the middle Don.
The Russian midnight com.
munlque reported that Soviet
troops dislodged German forces
from a fortified position west
of Valikie Lukl, destroying five
enemy tanks and killing 160 axis
soldiers. Front dispatches Indi
cated, meanwhile, that the Rus
sians had advanced 24 miles to
Novosokolnikovi, only 60 miles
from the Latvian frontier.
Substantial gains were reoort-
ed south snd southwest of Stalin
grad and In the northern Cau
casus, southeast-of Nalchik.
Red army units captured the
district center of Elkhotovo, 35
miles southeast of Nalchik and
10 miles due north of Alagir.
Elkhotovo is sn important town
on the Rostov-Baku railroad and
its capture represented another
sizeable gain for the Russians,
South and southwest of Stalin
grad, Soviet troops drove ahead,
occupying several inhebited lo-
allties, among them Dubovs-
koye and the railway station at
Remontnaya, the midnight com
munique said. The capture of the
rail station at Remontnaya rep
resented a new advance south
westward from Kotelhikovski.
the chief German base southwest
of Stalingrad, which fell to the
Russians last week. Remontnaya
Is 26 miles southwest of Kotel-
nlkovski on the Stalingrad-Tik
horetsk railroad.
"In the fighting for Dubovs
koye snd the railway station at
Remontnaya," the communique
said, "large booty was captured,
among which are many tanks
artillery, food stores, war mater
ial and cattle."
ARMY FEARS CONGRESS
Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R)
The army has become seriously
concerned over the possibility
that congress may take from it
control of procurement and pro
duction of planes, weapons and
other war material and hand It
over to some civilian authorlaty.
Adolf Shuffles Diplomats
(By United Press)
Adolf 'Hitler has reshuffled
three important diplomatic
posts, naming men considered
closer to the Nazi party as am
bassadors to Spain and Japan
and minister to Sweden, the Ber
lin radio announced tonight. ,
F
State Department White
Book Reveals Diplomatio
Secrets Know Jap Plans
Washington, Jan. 2 (UR
The United States had ample ad
vance warning of all moves of
aggression by the Axis powers
in their program of world con
quest, the state department re
vealed tonight In a white book
dealing with secret and open
diplomacy of the decade preced
ing Pearl Harbor.
Information from diplomatic
agents aboard accurately fore
cast the war policies of Japan, '
Germany, and Italy, even to th
warning of a surprise mass Qt.
tack upon Pearl Harbor, it dis
closed. -
The publication, entitled
"Peace and War", placed th
blame for the war squarely upon
in axis powers. It said that
while this government's lnfor
m a 1 1 o n convinced President
Roosevelt and Secretary of Stat
CordeU HuU that an ultimata
attack upon th United States
was inevitable, public opinion
her lagged behind in an attfe
tude of "illusory aloofness."
The stars of America's keen
diplomatic reporting were Jo
eph c. Grew from Tokyo.
George 8. Messersmlth from
Berlin and Breckinridge Lons
from Rome. -
Grew, th U. 8. ambassador
In Japan, kept- the department
fully Informed of the dangers
Inherent in Japan's ambitions
for Asiatic domination. On Jan
uary 27, 1941, he told the de
partment of reports from many
sources that Japanese military
forces planned a surprise mass
attack on Pearl Harbor in case
of "trouble" with the United
States.
As far back as December 27.
1939, Grew said it would bo
'criminally shortsighted to dis
card from calculations the possi
bility of war with Japan.
On November 3, 1941, h
turned of Japanese prepara
tions for measures which might
make Inevitable a war with the
United States. Two weeks later
three weeks before Pearl Har
bor Grew cabled from Tokyo
that the Japanese probably
would resort to surprise meas
ures. Messersmlth. now U. S. am
bassador to Mexico, was consul
general In Berlin on June 20.
1933, when. In a letter to th
department, he reported a "dan.
gerous situation in Germany.
On November 23, 1933, Mes
sersmlth said leaders of Ger
many had no desire for peace
unless it was a peace In com
pliance with German ambitions.
Breckenridge Long, then U.
S. ambassador to Italy, predict,
ed Italy's 1933 attack n Ethiopia
more than a year In advance.
When it beccme apparent in
early 1940 that Italy was plan
ning to join Germany as an
active war partner, Mr. Roose
velt made numerous efforts to
dissuade Mussolini. Finally, on
June 1, Mussolini confirmed
Italy's decision to enter the war
and said he preferred not to
receive any "further pressure
from the President
The white book related de
tail, of the diDlomatlc discus
sions with Japan prior to Pearl
Harbor. It showed that Japan
was deliberately plotting war
while making protestations of
peace.
LOOSE LIPS AID
U-BOAT SINKING
Washington. Jan. 2 (U.R)
The Office of War Information,
cautioning against disclosure or
war secrets, tonight told how th
captain of a U-boat taunted an
American crew before he sunk
their ship.
"Your ship Is several hours be
hind schedule," the Nazi jeered,
u And OWI said the crew knew
It was true.
"He knew their orders!" OWI
said. - ' '
defeat the enemy."