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CHIEF BARRIERS
GAINED BY FIFTH
Record Barrarjo Paves Way
British Threaten to
Roll Up Nazi Front.
On Ml. Camlno With tha Fifth
Army. "e. 3 AJ PJ Amarlcan
ttoopi. aupporlad by umi Brit
lih until. scrambled up tuggad
Ml. Camlno In a ralmlorm to
itf and. lighting Ihalr way from
ctTt to cava, taliad all of Hi
prominent casks In tha waka
e tn artillery, barraga that
plnntd tha Ctrmim to tha
rocky taca of tha mountain Ilka
putad papar figure.
It waa tha haavlait artlllary
drubbing tha Germans hava yat
ttkaa In Italy and rivaled any
Uld down on any front In thla
war.
Allied Headquarters. Alltir.
!),.. 4 UR Mud begrimed
American troops batllrd today
to SOOO-foot crests overlooking
tha 70-mlle open vallry route to
Roma while Gen. Sir U. L. Mont
gomery's F.lghth army broke
Ihrotuh with tanks to flat coun
try alona the Adriatic, threaten
ln lo roll up the tottering Natl
front In Italy.
In l dayi of bloody fighting,
beginning with the Eighth ar
my's creasing of he Sangro rlvrr
m1 climaxed when Lt. Con.
Mark VV. Clark'a Fifth army went
ever to tha otfcmlve at daw.t
J yeiloxiUy. Uia main barrier to
Roma had been breasted.
Storming forward behind a
MO-ahelbva-mlnuta barrage and
thunderous aerial support, the
filth army drove two mllea In
lh find 36 hour of Ita offensive
inj gained all the dominant fea
tures of lofty Ml. Camlno, over
looking Casslno at tha head of
tha Rome valley.
Battling rock-alldea act looe
by the mud and the fury of the
fighting as well as Intense Ger
man fire, Clark'a doughboys had
virtually outflanked the Narl
stronghold of Mlgnano to the
rut. which guards the Rome
railroad gorge leading to the
wlley.
From Casslno tha Eternal
City Is 70 miles away almost as
the crow flies and the entire dis
tanceexcept for potential bot
tlenecks around Frosinone and
Vslmontone Is open country be
yond artillery range from Ger
man positions on the coastal and
central mountain ranges.
After a month of routine pa
trolling and bringing up supplies
the Fifth army cut loose Ita r.
attack barraga Ilka a bolt of
lightning Thursday afternoon.
More than BOO guns roared ns
one thunderclap In perhaps 'he
irrslest artillery display of the
JJallnn rnmpnlgn, devastation
Ccrmsn-held areas of 300 square
md with as many as 1000
founds In flva minutes. Farther
Mrk, overlapping waves of Al
lied Blrcrnft screamed down on
perrnnn supply troops and dis
tribution centers.
Then when tho Infnntry
logged fnrwnrrl ivllh lh fnllnu..
In dnwn they found tho Gor
Mni still cringing In their fox
'm and dugouts whero the
"""Re hod pinned them, most
' them Onltf inn r.1 n .1 t n a.Pnn.
W. nlthough a few could be
;"nvinc-e.l only by denth from
'nkco hand nrenades.
Msny an American died, too.
J" 'he struggle for Mt. Calnn.
"hlch appenred destined to prove
decisive In the bntllo for Romo
"111 BOO was In tho drive for
in Tunisia,
tlfMlAR
J Pni, Bollvln, Dec. 4. (U.R)
-ihe president of tho Bolivian
Ml) not
.. -- uiiiiiiiiuuti iticuiy unit
government lind declared
n 1,10 Axl8 nntlons.
"nllvlti's declaration follow
W , ono week -the action of
"" ulster republic, Colombln, In
c nrlng n 8tnto of belligerency
lolnst Germany -
WITH AXIS LANDS
Three-Power Meet in Cairo to Settles Japs' Fate
Mlk a ttrtitfvte-:;
Generallitlmo Chlana Kai-Shek. Preildont Rootovelt and Prima
historic Cairo conlerenca lo settle tha fata of Japan in World War II.
Photo from OWI. Radio-Telephoto.)
TENTH BIRTHDAY
L
Liquor Industry Peeved,
Citizens Glum and WCTU
Campaigning.
Chicago. Dec. 4 flJ.fD The
eve of the 10th anniversary of
the repeal of prohibition tonight
found the wets and drys again at
each other's throats, the man
In the street glum because he
couldn't buy a bottle and the
liquor Industry peeved because
It has been accused of withhold
ing Its product.
The toper wanting his tipple
was as harassed as during the
13-year period of national pro
hibition which ended when the
senate passed the 21st amend
ment 03 to 23 and tho house 2R0
to 121 and 30 states ratified the
rrpcnl act to make it the liiw
of the land.
The 10th anniversary of re
peal was not a happy celebra
tion. At Evanston, HI., the Women's
Christian Tcmpernneo Union an
nounced It would open nn ant!-
liquor campaign tomorrow In
hopes of eliminating liquor pro
duction again. The crusado will
be conducted from church pul
pits throughout tho nation.
Simultaneously, the confer
ence of Alcoholic Beverages In
dustries . Inc., opened a newspa
per advertising campaign to tell
the nation why tho industry is
vital to the war program, both
on the military and civilian
fronts and why It cannot quencn
the great American thirst.
Remaining neutral, tho Amer
ican Business Men's Rcsenrch
Foundation presented arguments
for and against In an effort to
shed light on both sides of the
question.
Washington, Dec. 4 (U.R)
Tho War Lnbor board today
uphold its Detroit rcgionnl board
In denying pny to employes of
tho Nnsh-Kclvlnator propeller
division at Lansing, Mich., for
a work stoppnno which the
United Automobile Workers
(CIO) described ns n "lockout."
Tha stoppngo occurred last
month when tho company turned
off tho power In Its factory
becauso of a demonstration
by blndo department employes
against two supervisory uiu
clnls who allegedly had Ignored
grlcvnnco complaints.
Tho total cost of Oregon's
schools In 1040, Including the
debt service, was Wi,vw,w
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War Bulletins
(By United Prats)
A new contingent of Amer
ican troops hat arrived In
Britain, -the Britllh radio re
ported Saturday In a broad
cast heard by CBS.
(By United Prats)
Radio Berlin, In broad
eatt recorded In New York
by tha United Press Saturday,
aald tha American hospital
ship "Arcadia" arrived at Gib
raltar Thursday with a "great
number of seriously wounded
aboard."
E
HIT ENEMY BASE
Allied Headquarters, South
west Pacific, Sundny, Dec. 5.
(U.R) A force of Allied Libera
tor and Mitchell bombers car
ried out a record air blow
agninst Cape Gloucester on the
northwestern tip of New Brit
ain island Friday, dumping 179
tons of bombs on the enemy
airdrome and Installations, a
communique announced today.
Heavy dnmago was caused In
the raid and the communique
reported that "the whole area
was covered with a blanket of
smnko and fire."
The communique also report
ed that sharp fighting was in
progress nt the Japanese New
Guinea base of Wareo, 10 miles
above Finschhnfcn on the Huon
peninsula, where Australians
closing in on the enemy outpost
have crossed tho Kalucng river.
Pearl Harbor, Dec. 4. (U.R)
Navy lnnd-bascd B-24 Libera
tor bombers, prowling the Paci
fic skies over Japan's perimeter
defenses, attacked enemy ships,
planes and Installations in the
Marshall Islands Dec. 1 and 2,
a U. S. Pociflc fleet headquart
ers spokesmnn said today.
Ono heavy bomber strafed
airdrnmo Installations on Millo,
n medium-sized cargo vessel in
tho lagoon and a number of
small craft.
BULLETIN
Berkeley. Calif., Dec. 4
(U.R) The University of Cali
fornia varsity batketball team
opened tha 1943-44 taaton
with a surprising 71-19 win
over San Francltco State.
California Institute of Tech
nology 43, University of
Southern California 35.
ARMY BOMBER CRASHES'
Reading, Pa., Dec. 4 U.R
An Armv bomber crashed ana
oxplodod In a farm flold at El-
vnptinn in miles east ox nere. laie
tonight and police said seven
or the nine crew memuers wero
I killed.
Minister Churchill meat at their
(Photo radioed Cairo-New York.
CHINESE PREDICT
VICTORY NEAR IN
E
Hong Kong Shipping and
Docks Bombed; Jap Army
Circled.
Chungking, Dec. 4 (U.R) B-25
Mitchell bombers of the U. S.
14th air force and the Chinese-
American wing have blasted
Japanese shipping and Installa
tions at Hongkong, lt was an
nounced today, as a Chinese
military spokesman predicted
news of "a decisive nature indi
cating, the complete victory is
in our grasp, in the bloody
battle of Changtch.
Maintaining their attrition
raids, the Chinese - American
bombers were reported to have
dropped 90 per cent of their
bomb loads on Kowloon and
the Tnlkmo docks at Hongkong
Dec. 1, sinking a 4,000-ton ship
and badly damaging two other
cargo craft in drydock. Fighter
planes also seared enemy supply
lines In French Indo-Chlna and
attacked troop-carrying craft on
LakeTungting, apparently head
ed for Changteh.
The Chinese spokesman as
serted Friday that Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek's forces north
of Changteh gradually were
completing a counter-encirclement
of the Japs, who, he
conceded, had completely sur
rounded the city. He said that
this counter-move would close
all enemy escape routes, except
across the lake and added that
meanwhile "fierce close-quorter
fighting continues within the
city."
T
DAD DRAFT CALLS
Salem, Ore., Dec. 4 (U.R)
State selective service director
Col. Elmer V. Wooton asserted
today that Oregon would never
reach a stage where droft quotas
would bo filled wholly by pre
Pcarl Harbor fathers.
Young men Just turning 18
would fill a substantial part of
t.ie quotas, Wooton said.
Approximately one-fourth the
January quota for Oregon will
bo drawn from pre-Pcarl Har
bor fathers who are not In war
work, however.
VETS GOOD GARDENERS
Amarlllo, Tex., Dec. 4 (U.R)
A photograph of four navy sea
bees standing in the midst of
their island victory garden in
the southwest Pacific today won
for each of them a $50 prize in
a garden photo contest staged by
tho Santa Fe railway for its employes.
SOVIET PINCERS
LAST ESCAPE GAP
Zhlobin and Rogachev Men
acedBerlin Admits Im
portant Line Cut.
London, Dec. 4 (U.R) Gen.
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's
Soviet pincer threatened tonight
to collapse the Nazi White Rus
sian escape gap at any moment,
with one column driving within
eight miles southwest of Zhlobin
and another menacing the neigh
boring city of Rogachev from
positions only seven miles to the
east.
Moscow's operational com
munique reported that Rokos
sovsky's forces, advancing on
Zhlobin from two directions,
captured more than 30 town and
villages northwest of Gomel to
day, including the railway sta
tion of - Khlach, eight miles
southeast of Zhlobin on the rail
road to Bobruisk and Minsk.
The northeastern arm of the
Red Army pincer carried a dou
ble menace to Rogachev and
Zhlobin, taking Gadilovichl, sev
en miles east of Rogachev and 13
northeast of Zhlobin, and Goro
dcts, 12 miles northeast of Zhlo-
Ll-
uin. s
Meanwhile, radio Berlin
broadcast German High Com
mand reports that the Russians
were attacking west of the rail
road from Zhlobin to Kalinko-
vichl, indicating that .this Im
portant line had been cut by
Rokossovsky's forces. The Nazis
admitted that the Russians had
entered on important, unidenti
fied road Junction on the Bere
zina river south of Zhlobin but
said they had been driven out.
LOBBYISTS HARD
HIT BY WALLACE
Washington. Dec. 4 (U.R)
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace tonight accused "pressure
groups with their high paid
lobbyists" of attempting to win
"special privilege at the ex
pense of everybody."
In a radio address. Wallace
said that freedom will destroy
itself unless every individual
and group recognizes "with
more than mere lip service a
supreme allegiance to the gen
eral welfare."
"By general welfare, I mean
the antithesis of that which is
represented by the pressure
groups with their high paid
lobbyists battering against the
state and national legislature to
get an advantage for special
privilege at the expense of
everybody," he said.
Wallace spoke in connection
with the united church canvass,
sponsored by Protestant, Catho
lic and Jewish organizations.
Religion and government must
work side by side to bring
about tolerance among all peo
ple, he said.
SPACE SHORTAGE
Washington. Dec. 4 (U.R)
War Transportation Director Jo
seph B. Eastman said tonight
that arrangements now are be
ing worked out to alleviate a
shortage of refrigeration storage
space which Is threatening to
tie up large quantities of food
stuff at many of the country's
larger ports.
Eastman asserted that there
was very slight chance of any
food spoilage but added that
present "freezing" facilities are
inadequate to handle the huge
amounts of meats, fruits and
vegetables now reserved for
ovcrseaa Deeds.
SWEDES PROTEST
ON OSLO EXILES
ERMANY
Brusque Answer Causes
Anti-Nazi Outbreaks in
Neutral Land.
Stockholm. Dec. 4 (U.R) The
German government today cold
ly spurned Sweden's official
most urgent request" that it
cancel Its threatened deoorta-
tion of 1,000 arrested Oslo uni
versity students with a demand
that Stockholm mind its own
business.
Simultaneously, new anti-Nazi
demonstrations broke out in
Sweden, straining further al
ready frayed Swedish-German
relations.
Adding to the tension between
Germany and the lone Scandi
navian neutral, fed by a series
of incidents since last August,
Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop summoned C. T. E.
A. von Post, Swedish charge
d'affaires in the absence of Min
ister Arvid G. Richert who re
turned to Stockholm for consul
tations yesterday, and brusauelv
rejected the Swedish foreign of
fice appeal that the loung.men
and women seized in a mass
roundup in Oslo last Tuesday
not be carried off to the reich.
Nazi broadcasts bristling with
anger against Sweden said
Ribbentrop "without mlncine
woras" notuied yon Post that
the German government would
not even fliscuss the Swedish
protest, and demanded that
Stockholm henceforth cease In
terfering with Germany's ac
tions in Norway.
Berlin dispatches added that
Ribbentrop "expressed surprise"
that the Swedish government
had found cause to intervene
in such an action. The arrests
followed a fire a week ago today
at the Oslo university assembly
hall.
Lecturing Von Post. Ribben
trop then was reported to nave
declared that Germany's sur
prise was all the greater because
Sweden "had not found cause
to undertake action against the
really harmful actions of Eng
land, the United States and
Russia."
ICKES DECLARES
Washington, Dec. 4 (OR)
Petroleum Administrator Harold
L. Ickes said today that since
Pearl Harbor the United States
and allied powers have been
constantly threatened by a short
age of 100-octane aviation gaso
line and he reported that the
race to boost production to meet
the increasing demand is still
not won.
At the present time produc
tion of aviation fuel is more than
four times greater than the out
put during the early part of
1942, and within a few months
will be about eight times great
er, Ickes said.
The nation s extremity was a
fighting challenge to our refin
ing capacity, he said. "The oil
Industry proved its abiltiy to
meet a crisis by completing in
credibly quickly more than ZOO
projects, minor and major, for
the conversion and adaptation of
existing refining facilities to
bridge the gap in our plane fuel
output until new plants could
be constructed and swing into
production."
Salem, Ore., Dec. 4 (U.R)
The University of Oregon Web-
foots defeated a Willamette uni
versity navy basketball team 40
26 tonight before 300 fans in
Willamette pavUlion.
Not Like Mother's
Salem, Ore., Dec. 4. (UJ5
John Kelly, chairman of
the State Post-War Readjust
ments commission, said today
Oregonlans would be able to
eat their owp forests If lt be
comes necessary.
The State Cbemurgt coun
cil has advised Kelly it has
made pie crusts from the
products derived from Ore
gon's Ponderosa pine. The
council added that there were
tons of available fats in
every tree. Ponderosa and
wood flour and shortening
may be obtained by process
ing the pulp, according to
Kelly.
No one has said how the
nle crusts tasted.
UP OWN VIEW IN
RAIL WAGE FUSS
Washington, Dec. 4 UJ0
The senate interstate commerce
committee tonight recommended
adoption of the senate Joint res
olution validating the flat 8-cer.t-an-hour
increase awarded 1,100,
000 non-operating railway em
ployes last August by the presi
dent's emergency board and ac
cepted by the industry and the
employers.
Economic Stabilization Direct
or Fred M. Vinson rejected the
flat wage increase but subse
quently approved sliding scale
boost of from 4 to 10 cents an
houA - - I
The senate group reported that
In reaching the 8-cent-an-hour
agreement "the orderly processes
required by the acts of congress
have been followed religiously
by the carriers and their em-'
ployes, and in our opinion, the
congress should now insist that
its laws be observed."
The committee said "it seems
to us. that it becomes incum
bent upon congress to internet
its own act in this stalemate."
Asserting that the difference
in the total amounts of monev
involved under the two ' olans
the committee said that the flat
Increase could not be inflation
ary "because' Judge Vinson
maintains his substitute is not
inflationary."
Ii 8 cents does violence ta
the little steel formula, what
does 4 to 10 cents do to it?" the
report continued.
POST-WAR PEACE
OF V.F.W. LEADER
Denver, Colo., Dec. 4 (U.R)
carl J. Schweninger of Detroit,
Mich., commander-in-chief of the
Veterans of Foreign Wirs, to
day proposed establishment of
a post-war peace commission
which would Include officers
and enlisted men of both World
wars.
Schoeninger arrived In Den
ver to attend the Founder's day
ceieDration of the V. F. W,
which was organized in Denver
in 1899.
Schoeninger, who spoke for
a nau million veterans of actual
combat, said he favors a six
months cooling off period after
the victory, then establishment
of a peace commission which
would Include as representa
tives "a commissioned officer,
a non-commissioned officer and
a plain service man from both
wars."
The commander said he op
posed heavy reparations and
the reconstruction of devastated
areas by forced labor. He sug
gested that an International gov
erning commission be estab
lished In each of the conquered
countries "to rule during a
period of re-education."
LABOlT"MEETnTo SET
San Francisco, Dec. 4 (U.R)
The 10th Regional War Labor
Board will meet in San Diego
Thursday and Friday for its
first sessions In that city,
Thomas Fair Neblett, regional
chairman, announced tonight.
COMMISSION AIM
AERIAL TRICKERY; J
ENABLES RAF TO
WALL0PLEIPZI8
Feint For Berlin Outwits
Nazi Planes Rail Center
' Pulverized. J'
London, Dec. 4 (U.R) The
RAF pulled a dazzling fake play
from its bag of aerial tricks ear.
Iy today, feinting against Berlin
with a mighty force of bomber
which then swung 80 mllea
southwest and hurled 1680 ton
of bombs into Leipzig while Nazi
fighters were racing to stem an
apparent assault on the capital.
During the confusion, one of
the largest forces of twin-engined
Mosquito bombers ever
sent out, darted over Berlin and
plastered key objectives in the)
city still smouldering front
Thursday's big assault. -
Two British typoon fighter
squadrons, sweeping Holland
during the afternoon, met a for
mation of German bombers and
shot down 11 of them. Other ty
phoons bombed enemy airfield
in Belgium, all without loss. On
Mosquito was lost from an often
sive patrol. -
The sneak play paid dividends
for it cut losses almost SO per ,
cent from the night before when
41 bombers were missing from
a similar sized armada which hit
Berlin. Only 23 were lost in all
of today's operations including '
mine laying, which were carried
out by an Estimated 600 planes,
A communique announced 24
lost but later it was announced
that one missing plane had r
turned. Fighter command ma
chines, one of which was lost
further harassed the befuddled
Nazi fighters by hammering alr
fields spread over a wide area of
western Europe. -
Three hours before dawn
about seven hours after the Brit
ish normally have been striking
the big show over Germany
began. Taking off early in the)
morning to avoid bright moon,
the Lancaster and Halifax bomb
ers following flare paths laid out
by the Germans to guide their
fighters, swarmed in over Ber
lin. They then pulled a double re.
verse, like a football team, and
headed for the real target, Leio
zig, one of the biggest raiV cen r
ters in Europe.
Night fighters were up in
great numbers over Berlin.
The air ministry announced
the German fighters we:
"duped by the feint" and trios
planes which reached' Leipzig
"were too few to become a real
factor in the battle." It. an.
nounced that several were shot
down.
The ministry said that as tlig
bombers drew near Berlin, Ger
man man fighters fell back over
the city and thus were taken out
of action for many vital minute
while the bombers dashed for
Leipzig.
As the bombers turned toward
Leipzig, Germany's fifth largest
city with population of 750
000, the men aboard could se
the flash of Mosquito bomb
thumping Berlin with its (iStn
raid of the war.
BIG STOR'i
London, Dec. 8 (U.R) Thg
Sunday Times in its mail edition
today published a story of major
importance which united state
newspapers have not yet been)
permitted to print, and then with.
drew it from later editions or)
orders from British censorship
authorities.
(Censorship regulations pro.
vented the United Press' Low
don bureau from transmitting dot
talis of the Times' story, but it
was assumed lt referred to th
Roosevelt-Churchlll-Stalln meet
Ing which the Mascpw radio
said had been held in Teheran.
Later edition ,vt the Timet
replaced the .banned story with)
dispatch Mating that "a full.
Joint offlckal communique on th
Teheranconference betwc
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
wUl lssutd shortly.".