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By FRANK JENKINS
DOHTLANO. Wodneaday.
Members of the advisory
commlttoa that superintends
Oregon's annual expenditure of
Q IIOU.OOO lor promotion of tour
ist travel to tills stuto voted this
afternoon to suspend for the
present plans for tho advertis
ing to hav been don next
year.
TTHE Idea of advertising Ore
gon'a vacation advantages
isn't to be abandoned. It is
merely lo-be held up for the
nresent. The department of the
state highway commission that
handles the advertising Is to
be continued and will resume
Its normal duties as soon as life
on the Pacific Coast returns to
a sufficiently normal basis to
permit people to make plans
again for such pleasant inter
., ludes as vacations.
Oregon people are realistic.
They recognize at once that
under present conditions mere
Is little tlma for planning vaca
tions. There Is too much else
to be done.
A "THE department handling this
1 advertising consists at pres
ent of three persons a airec
tor and two assistants. All three
havi been, commandeered by the
governor's onice ana are worav
inc kit davaneV ' Air ' Into the
night on suit defens activities.
Oregon's stat government,
you so, is doing what all the
rest of u ar doing It Is
devoting .sill it energies to meet
ing the new situation created
by America's sudden entrance
into-th war. ,
....
TTHERE Is.muchjalk these
days about business as usual.
Tha Idea Is basically sound. Th
life of the nation -must go on.
W must produce ss w never
hav produced beiora, lor mod
ern warfare Is unbelievably
wasteful and wast can only be
made up for by increased pro
duction.
But this basically sound idea
of business as usual needs some
, clarification, Wa can't carry on
business A3 USUAL, for In time
of peace business is tho first
thought of all normal Ameri
cans. It Isn't th first thought
now. With our country at war,
WINNING THE WAR must be
first In our thoughts all the
time. Everything els must be
secondary.
Back of the Idea of "business
as usual" must be a clear under
standing of this fact. We must
carry on business as usual only
to the xtent of keeping up
normal production and keeping
up normal morale.
We must ba prepared all the
time to do unusual things when
ever called upon. If we don't,
no one can say whnt the con
sequences will be.
RACK of all these plans for
civilian defense is this
thought of being ready and pre
pared to do unusual things.
We can't let the unexpected
creep up on us and find us un
ready. That would mean demor
0 allzatlon, and demoralisation of
th civilian population Is the
objective that Is foromost in the
minds of th ambitious gang
sters who have upset the world.
W mustn't play Into their
hands.
'
'J'HE people of Oregon and
the entire population are
responding magnificently to the
sudden emergency. On every
hand, by the hundreds of thous
ands, they are asking: "Whnt
can we do?" "
There will be plenty to do In
the months to come. But moan
while, BIGHT NOW, there is
something everybody can do:
Give, within tho limits of our
means, to the Red Cross. 1
' HOTEL CLOSED
ASTORIA, Dec. 10 (P) The
Gearhart hotel, large Clatsop
j beach resort, has been closed by
war conditions. Manager Clyde
Bett said the lighted hotel
"stood like a beacon," and Its
closure was military measure.
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REGISTRATION
AGES 1 8-64 IN
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Senate, House Reach
Compromise, Send
Measjure to F. R.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 UP)
The senate passed and sent to
tho White House today legisla
tion requiring the registration
of all men from 18 through 64
and making those from 20
through 44 subject to compul
sory military service.
The chamber adopted a com
promise conference report, prev
iously approved by the house,
which fixed the minimum age
for actlvo service at 20 Instead
of the ID previously set by the
senate and th 21 figure which
the house had voted.
Administration loaders had
encouraged tho compromise 20
year proposal.
Chairman May of tho house
military affairs commute said
that conferees agreed to accept
other. minor senate amendments
to tha bill, including provision
for the payment of $3000 to
qualified survivors of all men
who have died while on active
duty with the military forces
sine last October 8.
"Santa" Gets Aid
In Delivery of
Christmas Feast
Old Santa Clous himself
walked into The News and
Herald office Friday and asked
help in locating a family which
needed and would appreciate
a turkey dinner (with all the
trlmmln's) for Christmas.
Hnrd-boilcd editors stopped
their work and helped put
Santa In touch with the proper
parties who could tell him
about a deserving family. The
family was found, and as a re
sult of this bit of generosity
the parents and nine children
are going to eat heartily on
'Christmas day.
Everybody felt very happy
about it, most of all the man
who played Santa on this oc
casion. Ha Is E. E. Spencer,
the caretaker at Moore park.
"Spenco" agreed to let us
print the story, when it was
argued that it might Inspire
somebody else to a similar
good deed.
Six Army Fliers
Killed as Bomber
Falls, Explodes
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Dec.
19 (P) A bomb-laden army
plane crashed and exploded near
the Muroc Dry lake bombing
rango yestorday, killing two
army lieutenants and four en
listed men. Coroner N. C. Houze
of Kern county Identified the
victims as:
Lieut. Don Work, 28, pilot;
Lieut. Theodore Richards, 23,
co-pilot; Frank Serao, 20, New
York; T. J. Kennedy, 21, New
York; J. J. Luclan, 20, New York;
Alfred Legenhauscn, 22, New
Jersey.
Persons several miles from the
scene said they heard the ex
plosion. Hawaii Divorce
Trials Suspended
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19 (P)
Married folk In Hawaii are go
ing to atay that way at least
until the war is over,
A Honolulu broadcast record
ed here by NBC said the terri
torial courts had reconvened but
decreed that no divorce trials
wll be heard for tho duration.
Jury trials and all hnnrlnm
for which witnesses must be sub
poenaed also have been dis
pensed with, the broadcast said.
APPROVED AG
DRAFT
Knox Praises
Pearl Harbor
Defense Force
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 19 UP)
Secretary Knox, asserting that
30 minutes' warning of tho Jap
anese attack on Pearl Harbor
would have mada "all the differ
ence In the world," disclosed to
day, that the third and final
wavo of enemy bombers met
such a devastating barrage that
It turned away without hitting
a single objective.
Tho navy secretory, speaker at
graduation exercises for the na
val academy's class of 1942, said
Japan's assault on the great Pa
cific naval base was a "damning
account of infamous treachery"
such as "wos never recorded in
the history of the world."
"There Is no question at all.
In the light of what transpired,"
ho said, "that half an hour's
warning of the approach of the
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COURT FIGHT SET
DN MET TIX
Snell Moves to Vake
-t- Collections - on
Disputed Levy
SALEM, Dec. 19 (P) Secre
tary of State Earl Snell today
paved the way for collection of
the state 2-ccnt per package
cigarette tax when lie notified
the state tax commission that he
was accepting an attorney gen
eral's opinion that the measure,
passed by the 1941 legislature,
should not be placed on the bal
lot. Tho tax commission said it
would make plans to collect the
tax, but that It was likely that
tho State Retail Grocers associ
ation, which sponsored tho ref
erendum against the tax, would
go to court to restrain the com
mission from collecting tho tax,
and to get a court order plac
ing the measure on the ballot.
The association sponsored the
referendum to put the measure
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Paarl harbor th morning of Dcmbr 7. Circles show some of th Jap bombers diving en objctlTs, At Uft. smok rising
behind mast of th USS Arlsona after two direct hits. At xtr m rloht. black snots ar bunts of shrannal from dar.nrllna mini.
(U. S. army signal corps photo).
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REDS DESTROY
British Near Derna;
Spain Announces
Neutrality
MOSCOW, Saturday. Dec. 20
(IP) The red army has wiped
out the entire nazl 134th divi
sion, "not ; single German es
caping,", ' the - midnight com
munique announced early today.
Th division was trapped
while trying to flee west of
Moscow, it was stated. The com
manding general was killed.
A sweeping advance west and
southwest of Moscow was re
ported, the Russians taking
Ruza by storm, 80 miles due
west of the capital, and cutting
west of the important rail junc
tion of Kaluga, 100 miles south
west, taking several villages
there. Tarussa, northeast of Karl
lug also 'was captured.; v.-..t
!'- .By Th Associated Pratt $
. Adolf Hitler's battered lnva
sion armies, reeling in retreat in
Russia and North Africa, were
reported to have abandoned their
Finnish allies today as soviet
dispatches announced huge new
gains in the 17-day-old counter-
offensive on the Central front.
"Reports from Helsinki (the
Finn capital) this morning say
that all German troops have been
withdrawn from Finland In a
great hurry," the British radio
declared.
The broadcast said Finnish
lines had been shattered between
Lakes Onega and Ladoga by a
red army drive In the vicinity of
the Leningrad-Murmansk rail
road. Derna Airport Falls
On the Libyan desert battle
field, British troops were offi
cially reported to have captured
Derna airport, 100 miles north
west of Tobruk. Derna itself
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SAY
MOSCOW
Enemy Bombers Over Hawaii Open Attack on U. S
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TOTE
Full General
Rank Received
By MacArthur
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 UP)
The senate confirmed unanl
mously today President Roose
velt s promotion of Lt. Gen,
Douglas MacArthur, commander
of tho United States army in
the Far East, to be a full general
MacArthur, former chief of
staff of the army, retired with
the rank of general and then
went to the Philippines to take
charge of building up the island
defenses.
He was summoned back to ac
tive duty by President Roose
velt when the Japanese became
acute several months ago and
placed in charge of the Far East
ern army command, into which
all Philippine forces were in
ducted.
The president also nominated
four brigadier generals to be
major generals, 12 colonels to be
brigadier generals, and Captain
John F. Shaf roth Jr., to be a rear
admiral In tha navy.
E
ncreasea Activity . in
. Philippines Shown.'
. In Communique
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 UP)
The marine garrison on Wake
island is still fighting off blows
of the enemy, the navy an
nounced today, and from the
army came word that the Jap
anese air and ground activities
in the Philippines had shown a
"marked increase."
One of the new attacks which
the stubborn defenders of the far
Pacific isle have withstood, a
communique said, was "compar
atively light" and the other was
"in greater force."
Text of the navy department
communique, No. 12, covering
the situation as of 6 a. m., PST
today:
"Atlantic theater There are
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125.000 PAY
BOOST SLATED
E
.Six More Firms Set
2V2-Cent Increase
For Employes .
Over 3100 Klamath basin lum
ber workers have been granted
2 J -cent per hour wage increases
effective January 1, a survey of
district sawmills revealed Fri
day. The boosts, coupled with those
announced for 500 men Wednes
day night and Thursday, will
mean an increase of nearly $25,
000 monthly to Klamath pay
rolls. Mills announcing pay raises
were the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company, Pelican Bay Lumber
company, Kesterson Lumber
company, Shaw Lumber com
pany, Ewauna Box company, and
the Crater Lake Box and Lum
ber company. Four of the six
also granted a one week's vaca
tion with pay to all employes.
The other two, Pelican Bay and
Crater Lake Box, announced to
employes that a vacation pro
posal is under consideration.
Officials of the Long-Bell Lum
ber company, Kalplne Plywood
con-many and the Lamm Lumber
company could not ba, reached
for a. statement'" There was -no
announcement from the AJgoma
Lumber company; r y
' The Weyerhaeuser - increase,
according to Superintendent R.
R. Macartney, was announced to
all employes Wednesday. The
boost will benefit approximately
1200 men at Weyerhaeuser. ' ,
At Pelican Bay nearly S50 em
ployes will receive increases; at
the Shaw Lumber company mill
at TiOnesta, Calif.,, pay raises
will go to 400 employes; at
Ewauna 500 workers; at Kester
son 450 and at the Crater Lake
Box and Lumber company near
ly 300 wage scales will be upped.
Wednesday night it was an
nounced by the Lumber and
Sawmill workers union (AFL)
that 300 men at the Big Lakes
Box company would be boosted
and Thursday morning the In
ter n a t ional Woodworkers of
America (CIO) revealed that 200
employes of the Chiloquin Lum
ber company at Chiloquin will
receive raises. Both announce-(Contln-ied
on Page Two)
-NEJL Talanhntn
ILLS RE
,
Portugal Raps
"Invasion" of
Far East Isle
LISBON, Dec. 19 (P) Pre
mier Antonia de Oliveira Salazar
told his parliament and people
today that Australian and Dutch
troops "invaded" Portuguese
Timor without the threat of a
Japanese attack, and while mu
tual defense discussions were un
derway. Although this speech had been
forecast as one of Salazar's most
important statements, he gave no
hint of drastic change in Portu
guese policy as a result of the
occupation.
"The situation is not settled
yet," he said, "and discussions
still are going on. I shall dis
close later the further develop
ments." Australian and Dutch forces
have occupied the Portuguese
part of the Far Eastern island to
anticipate any Japanese action in
Timor.
Salazar said the first sugges
tions for collaboration on- de
fense were made on Nov. 4.
The premier asserted that
there was no reason to consid
er that an attack by the Japanese
was probable," and that while
conversations were still in prog
ress, Australian and Netherlands
troops invaded the territory of
Portugal an ally of Britain.
Japs ; Fought ' to - Stop
. ; In Malaya Jungle;
New Line Set.
Br C. YATES McDANIEL
SINGAPORE, Dec. 19
The Japanese drive in northern
Malaya has been battered to a
standstill, the British announced
today, but the rich island settle
ment of Penang, outflanked by
the Japanese on the mainland,
has been abandoned by its Brit
ish defenders.
Presumably the withdrawal
of the garrison ' from " Penang,
leaving its 108 square miles and
mixed population of 240,000 to
Japanese domination, was under
taken while the Japanese were
thrusting their spearhead about
100 miles into northwestern Ma
laya. Krian River Lin
The garrison, of unspecified
strength, was removed without
loss to another zone of defense.
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Ninth Army Corps
Headquarters to
Be at Salt Lake ;
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19 (JP)
Headquarters of the army's ninth
corps area is to be moved to Salt
Lake City, the army announced
today, and will become the bead'
quarters of the zone of communl
cations for, this theatre of oper
ations.
The ninth corps area embraces
the Pacific coast.
Most of the ninth corps area
staff, enlisted men and civilian
employes, will be moved to Salt
Lake City. The change was or
dered by Lieut. General John L.
DeWitt, whose western defense
command and the fourth army
headquarters will remain in San
Francisco. '
A theatre of operations in
this case embracing eight west
ern states consists normally of
a combat zone nearest the en
emy, and a communications zone
to the rear. ' Until now the com
munications zone has not existed
in the ninth corps. Creation of
this element in Salt Lake City
is the purpose of the change an
nounced today.
5000 Italians
Killed at Sea
TUNIS, French Tunisia, Dec.
15 ' (Delayed) UP) Approxi
mately 5000 Italian seanen lost
their lives December 12 when
British naval units sank two
Italian cruisers, a destroyer and
three transports off the Tunisian
town of Kelibla on Cape Bon..
.Some 1000 Italians were res
cued and are being treated for
burns and other injuries in cities
along tha Tunisian coast. ;
JAPS CONTROL
BIG CITY ON
ISLAND
CLAIM
Fierce Battle Raging
For Naval Base at
Latest Report .
BERLIN, Dec. 19 (Official ra
dio recorded by AP) Japanese
troops have occupied the city of
Victoria, the chief settlement of
Hongkong, a German broadcast
declared tonight quoting reports
from Tokyo.
All government and adminis
trative offices of the British
crown colony are in Victoria,
which lies along the extenslva
Hongkong harbor. . .
The broadcast said that most
of the islands was in Japanese
hands and that British troop
had' withdrawn to Victoria hill-
"The Peak" which towers almost
2000 feet high over Victoria and
is the site of the governor's rest
idence. ' .. ;. ; . :
LONDON, Dec. 19 (ff) Un
broken resistance by Britain's
embattled Hongkong garrison,
was indicated tonight by a Reu
ters report of a Domei announce
ment that fighting there and on ,
the Malayan front overshadow '
any other in the east. . . ,
This report, unless long-delayed,
presumably represented
the", situationin .iha.-BritiJh.
crown colony early Saturday
morning, Hongkong time. '
Communications Cut
It followed by one hour thet
British colonial office's acknowl
edgement that communications
with Hongkong have been out
since early morning and that it
is not known directly, therefore,
what if any new progress the
Japanese have made.
' Reuters quoted the Japanese
agency as saying there was noth"
ing important to report from the
Philippine, Hawaiian or. British,
north Borneo fronts.. -
The British agency previously
had announced receipt of a Ger
man broadcast of a Tokyo dis
patch conceding that the British,
still held key positions on the be
leaguered island. .
The dispatch was received
shortly after 9 a. m. PST or 1
a. m., Saturday, Hongkong-time.
The dispatch said , Japanese
dive bombers were continuing to
bomb British positions. , - -
Artillery emplacements and
other military targets on the is
land were said to be enveloped
in great clouds of black smoke!.
. The garrison had previously
been reported holding out at
10:45 p. m. Hongkong time Fri
day against Japanese who had
landed in considerable force on
the island.
Hope Abandoned
For Family After - -
Oswego Home Burns
PORTLAND, Ore.; Dec. 19 UP
Hope virtually disappeared to
day for Mrs. Kathryn Hardesty,
37, and her two daughters, whose
Oswego home burned to the
ground Wednesday night. Neigh
bors at first thought the house
was unoccupied at the time.'
State Police Captain Sam
Malehorn learned yesterday
from relatives, however, that
Mrs. Hardesty and her daugh
ters, Mary 14, and Judy 0, had
returned home shortly before the
blaze. ' ';, ;, . ? ' ,: .!
A pile of coal In the basement
kept the ruins smoldering and
prevented a thorough search for
bodies. . ' 'r r
' Malehorn said hope stemmed
largely from a report the mother
and daughters had gone to visit
a friend known to relatives only
as "Donna," However today
Mrs. Mars Donna of Portland
identified herself as the friend
and said Mrs. Hardesty and chil
dren had not been with her.
News Index
Church News ....Pages 18, 19
City Briefs Page 6
Comics and Story ........Page 12
Courthouse Records ....Page 4
Editorials Page 4
High School News . Pag 6
Information ..... Page 8
Market, Financial' ......Pse 14
Pattern ....................... -Page 3
Sports Pagjs 10, 11