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AS these word are written (nt
Moclford, Wednesday nftor-
ii non) another bis fight Is on In
the Solomon the fourth so (nr.
Tho nnvy, keeping silence aa
to whnt la happening, soya it la
a "mnjor effort to regit In control
of the entire Solomons area
Tlmt menna tlmt so fur ns the
West Const of tho United Suites
la concerned it pushea the other
war nows Into tho bnekgrnund
Out hero, the Jap la our No. 1
enemy.
MEWS of this buttle came to
ua first (ns luis happened so
often) from the Jap radio
which, aa usual, boasted that wo
wero taking n frightful lacing
while tho Japs wero getting off
with small losses. Wo paid little
attention to theso reports, know-
Ing from experience that they
would turn out to be highly ex
aggerated. . Each great defeat tho Jnps
have suffered lit tho South Seas
has been preceded by Jap re
ports clnunlng j great victory.
Tha Jap luetic "in such in-
atances are by this time pretty
well known, They act up a
barrage of wild 1 talcs about
losses inflicted on us, hoping that
we will becomo excited and deny
the reports In auch a manner
aa to give thera information aa
to the disposition of our forces.
We refrain (wisely) from fall
ing for auch bolt.
CECP.ETAP.Y KNOX, who sold
tho other day (hoj he thought
tho Japs were through with
major efforts to win back what
they havo lost In tho Solomons,
sn.vs today that no really pitched
battlo has developed as yot.
Ho adds:
"What Is going on down there
la a process of fooling out by
both sides. Any assumption that
tremendous battle is in pro
gress nt this moment is Incor
rect." TF the Jap Is the kind of crea
tiiro he has been painted by
those who havo had tho oppor
tunity to know him well, if ha
fears "loss of face" as he is sup-
posed to icar it, it has been hard
to believe ho will glvo up tha
Solomons without another hard
fight.
Thore havo been numerous re
ports of luto of the gathering of
hoavy Jap forces In tho Islands
to the north of Australia, and tho
Australians havo been distinctly
norvous,
To most of us, tha battlo that
Is in progress now Is not unex
peeled.
A S to lis outcome, we can only
4 wait. Hani as It Is to wait
Tor news when wo know that a
major battle Involving our boys
is going on, wo must accept the
navy's statomont that it is too
early to glvo out detailed news.
Naval fighting Is fluid. It
moves from place to plnco over
vast areas with great speed. Tho
clement of surprise Is nll-lmport-
nnt.
Any nows that gives tho en-
oVny dependable knowlcdgo of
tho disposition of our forces is
lmmcnsoly useful to him. We
simply mustn't give him tho
knowledge.
JsyJOTHING has occurred In
Africa ns tlioso words nro
written to chnngo tho situation
there. We're still trying to
crowd Rommol Into a trap whero
we con destroy him at our
leisure, as tho Russians destroy
ed tho Germans trapped bofore
Stalingrad. Tho Gormans are
fighting to prevent us from Iran-
pinglllm. t
JN Russia the' Germans con- sistnnce t'hve enred
t nuo to lose. Tholr position since tho beginning of their
In tho Caucasus is getting dally sweeping drive along tho north
more precarious, and London re- em coast of Gundnleannt.
(Continued on Page Four)
Plane Collision
Kills Father,
Son in Tucson
TUCSON, Arlr., Fob. 8 (IP)
A father and son completed their
day's work at Consolidated Air
craft corporation's plant yester
day and wont out for brier flights
In separate planes at dusk. Fif
teen mlnutos lator tlioy collided
over tho desert and crashed to
their deaths.
Tho father, James H. Nicker-
son, 40, was manager of Con
solidated plant here, and form
erly had served as flight engineer
for tho company at San Diego
and as field Inspector for Douglas
Aircraft at Santa Monica, Calif.
Tho son, Harold Gone Nlckcraon,
21, waa on assistant plant fore
man, also formerly connected
wllh tho plant at Sun Diego.
Tho elder Nlckcraon was fly
ing his own plane. Harold had
rented one from a flight in
structor. They crashed to earth
about 300 feet apart, plummeting
from a low altitude. Both men
were crushed at the controls.
Morris Hcddcrmon, deputy
sheriff, said the planes collided
about three and one-half miles
from the municipal airport about
10 minutes after they cleared
the control tower.
T
$1.05 Minimum, 48-
Hour Week Guaran
tee Included
PORTLAND. Feb. 8 (JPiThn
AFL Lumber ana Sawmill
Workers' union today made new
wago and hour demands for its
70,000 northwest members, In
cluding $1.05 an hour minimum,
$1.00 a day bonuses for regular
employes and a 48-hour week
guarantee. This Includes pine
ua wen as nr.
The demands come 80 dnvs
" or tho west coast lumber com-
mission of the WLB urantcd
overall wago Increases retroac
tive to May 1, 1942.
Miliar Shortage
Union officials said their
agreements with lumber opera
tors provides for automqtic re
opening of negotiations every
follr months and that the way
was open again January 1.
Boylo Pearson, assistant sec-
rotary of the northwestern coun
cil of the union, said the new
dironds wore made to relieve
tho labor shortage in the In-
dustry. Hlglior wages and a 48-
hour week are tho only means
of getting former lumber and
sawmill workers to return to
tholr old Jobs, ho declorcd.
' Frostn
Pearson said the dollar bonus
was proposed and discussed at
(Continued on Pago Two)
Yanks on Guadalcanal
Capture
WASHINGTON. Feb. R
American troops on Guadalcanal
isiana nnvo advanced to a posi
tion a hnlf mile bovond Tana.
faronga, tho navy reported to
day, indicating that Jannnesn-
ncin village Had been captured.
Consldcrablo Blgnlflcanco was
attached, to tho advnnca beyond
Tassnfaronga bocauso tho , Jap
anese had on many occasions
used tho bench nt that dIbco for
winging in bargo or shiploads
01 troops ana supplies.
By WILLIAM HIPPLE
WITH ADVANCED U. S.
TROOPS ON GUADALCANAL,
Feb. X (Delayed) P) Amerl-
iV Jr"
ons nt r.nnn t!,ranra
We were strafed at th front
BiDim
TO DIRECT
NT IN
CRITICALAREAS
Lend - Lease Reports
50,000 Tons of
Food Shipped
By The Associated Praia
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 Mi-
President Roosevelt asked con
gress for $4,000,000,000 more
cash today Jor tho growing
navy and from the lend-lease
administration came word that
tho use of food aa a war wennnn
had brought 80,000 tons of civ
ilian goods to the hungry North
.ftincon population.
A round billion dollars of the
navy money would go for ord.
nunco, and the rest to the varl
ous needs of a fleet flBhtlne:
global war.
30.000 Tons a Month
Lcnd-Lcase Administrator
R. Stcttlnius said about half of
the food and other auDnllea ma
far shipped to the people liber-
aica irom axis oppression
Africa come from, th ; United
stales and ball from Great Brit-
In.-.. - -V- v-. , :.!
From now on, It Is planned
10 sena 1 n e m 30,000 tons
month from the United States
alone, plus additional large
amounts ironv Britain.
Manpower Plan
1 no nouse ways and means
committee continued its search
for ways to help pay for these
and the other vast costs of the
war and heard criticism from
Rep. Crawford (R-Mich.) of the
Ruml plan for cancelling 1942
income tax collections as a
means of attaining . pay-as-you-
earn Dasls.
Tho government moved on
Droua ironi to bolster tho na
tion's manpower forces and as
sure an adequate supply of la
bor for war industries in areas
where shortages exist.
WMC Control
J. O. Walker, chief of the la'
bor branch of the food produc
tion administration, disclosed
the govert'ficnt.was considering
the use of axis war prisoners on
farms and the shifting of 80,000
families from marginal areas of
tho south and midwest to dairy,
uvestocK ana poultry farms.
This followed the war man
(Continued on Page Two)
Conshie Camp
Deserter Sentenced
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 8 (JP)
Federal Judge James A. Fee
sentenced Norman E. Bledsoe,
33, Bremerton, convicted of de
serting the conscientious ob
jectors' camp at Cascade Locks,
to four years in a federal peni
tentiary yesterday.
Landing Point
by enemy planes. We saw a
United States destroyer a mile
off shore throw shells Into Jap
anese positions for an hour.
Across the channel, near Savo
island, . we watched Japanese
dive bombers attack one of our
destroyers. .
We saw Jap bombers shot
1
EMPLOYM
down by American fighters. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Amoricnn artillery -ilre-whlrrMW RTH AFRICA, Feb. 8 (A)
over our hends and exploded
with terrifying noise and con
cussion Just ahead of us. Jap
anese guns and mortars fired
awny spasmodically, trying to
reach us.
To ton It off. Jan anlnera
pinged at us from trees in sur
rounding slopes and kept every
body on edge and stepping live
ly. . - .
Jap forces, after belna routed
and under retreat for 10 days,
today made a stand at Boncgi
river, about four miles along
tho coast northwest of Kokum-
(Continued Jon Page. Two) .
Urge Greater War Effort
""lJ ' A... ....
Mikhail Iranor. 28, (left),
entine 1. urilKova, 27, fourth mate In the Russian merchant
marine, aat together at a presa conference in New York at which
they urged American workera to "double and treble their war
effort." lyanov aald he had personally killed one German with
a Knue and eight with bullets.
Official SecrecyShrpuds
Pacific Battie; Jap Fleet
Heading for Guadalcanal
By The Associated Presa
First word of a large- Jap
anese sea-borne force bearine
down . on Guadalcanal Island
camo In delayed dispatches from
the South Seas battlefront to
day as official secrecy continued
to shroud developments in an
expected showdown battle be
tween the American and Jap
anese fleets.
In Washington, the navy re
ported "recurrent engagements"
by opposing naval and air forces
Grew Warns of
Relaxation in
War on Axis
CLEVELAND, Ohio. Feb.
(P) Relaxation of the war ef
fort would bring German and
Japanese attack on America it
self, Joseph C. Grew, former am
bassador to Japan, said today.
The former envoy also warned
against a possible "jiu-jitsu peace
offensive," by the enemies, when
tney face military defeat, with
the purpose of lulling the United
Nations into a "false Deace."
Stalemate could only mean
tho doom of civilization," Grew
said in a speech prepared for a
meeting under the auspices of the
Cleveland foreign affairs coun
cil. 'Either the men and- the
weapons of Cleveland will go to
Germany and to Japan, beating
those militarists nations into un
conditional surrender, or the
Germans and the Japanese will
fight their way here literally
here and will subject us to the
oppression which the Poles, tho
(Continued on Page Two)
rench West Africa
Ready to Furnish
Allies With Troops
Governor-General Pierro Bols-
son declared today that French
West Africa was ready to fur
nish the allies 100,000 trained
Senegalese troops and a reserve
of 200,000 more if equipment
and leadership were provided.
. "I have offered General Gi-
raud 100,000 troops for imme
diate use nnd will provide 200,-
000 more if equipment nnd offi
cers nre provided to lend them,"
Bolsson snld at a press confer
once. He said tho reserve had "some
military training, but whs short
on white officers." I
Russian guerilla fighter, and Val
."..
In the Solomon Islands theater,
but declared that Tokyo radio
reports of a big naval fight al
ready In progress were false. ,
Amid the tense hiatus, censor
passed dispatches from Guadal
canal dated February 1 declar
ed: -
"Aerial observers reported to
night, that a large force of Jap
warships headed for Guadal
canal. Some observers think the
Japs, hope to bolster their totter
ing Guadalcanal ground forces
with reinforcements."
Tha dispatch quoted Flight
Leader, Major -Narce Whitaker,
of Toxana, Ky., as saying he
observed between 30 . and 40
Japanese ships, many of them
warships, in Shortland harbor
ISO miles north of Guadalcanal.
A Tokyo broadcast had prev
iously asserted, without confirm
ation, -that Japanese forces at
tacked American warships off
Fenncll 'island 100 miles south
of Guadalcanal on February 1,
the date of the Guadalcanal dis
patch.
There was no immediate In
dication, either from Washing
ton or Guadalcanal itself, that
(Continued on Page Tour)
Civil Air Patrol
Planes Join Hunt
For Missing Plane
PENDLETON, Feb. 8 (JP) A
dozen northwest civil air patrol
planes today joined military air
craft in the search for a two-
motored army bomber end its
eight-man crew missing seven
days and believed down . near
Burns.
A check of aerial photographs
taken . over ' the mountainous
country near Burns has failed
thus far to reveal any clues, al
though the missing airmen ra
dloed Monday they were safe
after abandoning their plane,
January 29, Pendleton field pub
lic relations authorities said to
day.
Nazi Sub Sinks -
Vessel by Time
Bombs in Atlantic
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8 W)
The navy reported today that a
Gorman submarlno crew operat
ing in broad daylight recently
sank a small Swedish merchant
vessel off the northern coast of
South Amclca by time bombs
after the 25 crewmen of tho ves
sel had been allowed 30 min
utes In which to take to lifeboats.
Vankrfiiitiieri Sew
FLY NG FORTS
BAG 26 NAZIS
inpiA
U. S. Armored Forces
Withdraw From
Sened Post
LONDON, Feb. 8 (P) News
of a smashing aerial victory in
which American Flying Fort
ress bombers and Lightning
fighters destroyed 28 enemy
planes and damaged another 26
with a loss of only 10 of their
own number was tempered some
what .today by the disclosure
that United States armored
forces had withdrawn from the
Sened railway station in central
Tunisia, 85 miles northwest of
Gabes.
Only "a patrol activity" was
reported from the Tunisian-Lib
yan border area where the Brit
ish eighth army is following
Marshal Rommel's rearguards
into; Tunisia.
-Yanks Withdraw .
The air battle in which Amer
ican plane scored their most de
cisive- triumphs of, the Tunisian
campaign so far occurred when
tho Fortresses with their fighter
escort made a heavy attack on
German airdromes and auxiliary
fields at Gabes yesterday and in
subsequent, sweeps by Lightning
fighters over axis-held territory.
An allied spokesman said the
American forces withdrew from
Sened, which was captured last
Tuesday, after "accomplishing
the purpose of their mission.';
' Fires Started
The heavily-gunned . Flying
fortresses accounted for 24 Ger
man planes in a 50-mile running
battle after they, had dumped
tneir explosives. Only one Fort
ress was reported lost, but nine
twin-engined Lightning fighters
were missing.
Six or seven fires were started
at Gabes airdrome and nearby
(continued on Page Two)
Northwest Men
Play Part in
ortress Raid
LONDON, Feb. 8 (IP) Two
Pacific northwest men took part
in the American Flying Fortress
raid on northwestern Germany
yesterday. . ( ,
Staff Sergt. Stanley Tucker,
Danner, Ore., top turret gunner
in a Fortress piloted by First.
Lieut. Charles O. Cramer, Akron,
O., shot down two Messerschmitt
109s. Staff Sergt. Robert Gun
nler, Toppenish, Wash., top tur
ret gunner, said he shot the en
gine out of an attacking Messer
schmitt 110 and the plane went
into a spin and crashed.
New U. S. Commander Sees
Stepped Up Air Offensive
LONDON, Feb. 8 (JP) Lieut.
Gen. Frank M. Andrews as.
sumed command of United States
forces In the European theater
today and announced that "my
first Job Is. to increase and In
tensify the bombing of the en
emy."
General Andrews came to
London from the Middle East,
where he was In command of
United States forces, to succeed
Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er, now commander-in-chief of
North African operations.
Himself a veteran airman,
General Andrews said he would
see that American air forces In
the United Kingdom were In
creased in order to step up the
aerial offensive against Ger
many.
"We Intend to go all out In In
tensifying the air warfare." he
snld.
The genefal added that "there
will be no night bombing bv
American plajps : Immediately," I
Missing
"y f , A :
i f; 4 J, i
t; Yh 1
t X i I
Captain Ehle Reber, son of
County Comminioner and Mrs.
John Reber of Malln, missing
after a Flying Fortresa raid
oyer Europe. Captain Reber may
be a prisoner of war. '
GAPT. EHLE REBER
Fortress P i 1 0 1 Fails
To Return From
Kaid
Captain Ehle Reber, son of
County Commissioner and Mrs.
John Reber of Malin, is reported
missing after a Flying Fortress
flight - over Hitler-held Europe
on January 3.
Captain Reber, pilot of the
Fortress, Jerry Jinx, has been in
England since September.
. Pictured Recently
' The plane did not return after
a January 23 bombing. The
family was Informed Friday by
the war department that Captain
Reber Is missing, and it is pos
sible he may be a prisoner in
Europe
The outstanding young airman
was pictured with other mem
bers of the Jerry Jinx crew, and
tconiinuea on rage Two)
Japs Lose 77
Planes in Fiery
Night Attack
', By CHARLES McMURTRY
ADVANCE BASE, South Pa
cific, Feb. 5 (JP) The Japs lost
at least , seventeen Mitsubishi
twin-engine torpedo planes in a
spectacular night torpedo plane
attack on a U. S. task force a
week ago tonight, 35 miles south
of Guadalcanal in the Solomons.
. One Jap plane was filled . so
full of steel in speeding in to
strafe after dropping his torpedo,
(Continued on Page Two)
indicating that United States
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
would continue daylight assaults
while the RAF concentrated on
night bombardments. '
As Andrews put It, the task
of the USAAF in this theater is
to be the "continued softening
up of Germany."
He said it was a firm expon
ent of strategic bombings such
as the Fortresses and Liberators
have been carrying out with
great success.
Discussing the relative merits
of dive-bombers and fighter
bombers, the general said the
latter had the edge because they
did not require complete air su
periority, as did Hitler's favorite
air weapon.
Ho said he strongly favored
combined operations of land,
sea nnd air forces "wherever
possible."
The new commander to 89
and a native of Nashville. Tenn.
He was graduated from West
Point in 1906.
200,000 NAZI
Home-Based RAF Hit
Italy, Ruhr, Nazi-
Ruled France
TROOPS GUT OFR
IN CAUCASUS
By ROGER GREENE -i
Associated Presa War Editor
British home -based bomber '
thundered destruction UDon Hit. .
ler's vaunted "European ForU
ress" with triple fury beforsj"
dawn today, attacking Northern.
Italy, the German Ruhr and nazV
occupied France in the most
sweeping single night's onera'
tions ever attempted by tha
RAF. . - , . ,
In Italy, the RAF blasted thai ,
royal arsenal city of Turin and
the port of Spezia, main north',
ern base of the Italian niw.
120 miles southeast of Turin.
Ruhr Pounded - ,
In France, the raiders deliv ¬
ered a "heavy and concentrated"i
assault on the German U-boat
nest at Lorient, with good weath-.'
er helping the bombardiers to ,
find .their, targets. -- ;
In Germany, the RAF once..
again pounded war foundries of
the Ruhr industrial valley.
Yoree Plane Mlaalng,
The British said Turin waa
heavily bombed and declared
that the city's defenses, "though
clearly strengthened, were no
more effective than in Decem
ber." - V - rv:,'-V
Despite the scope of the raids.'
only three RAF planes were list
ed as missings
The raids marked the RAF'a
third successive night foray over
Europe and capped a 24-hour of
fensive in which U. S. army
bombers, including Flying Fort
resses, bombed northwest Gerw
many yesterday in the second
ail-American daylight assault on
the reich.
Mora to Coma
It was the first time home-
based British planes had bombed
Italy since December 11.:
An Italian communique said
the raiders attacked Turin "in
several waves" and indicated,
that casualties were numerous..
By daylight today RAF planes
carried on the round-the-clock
offensives, with big bombing ,.
formations escorted by Spitfire
squadrons flashing across tha
channel toward northern Franca.
200,000 Menaced
In. Russia, soviet dispatches
declared today that approximate-
(Continued on Page Two)
Government Will
Assume Losses From
War Crop Failures
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8 WO
Secretary Wlckard announced
today that the agriculture de
partment had established a $200,
000,000 wartime food production
loan program under which tha
government will assume losses
from crop failures on products
needed for the war.
Farmers planting designated
crops may borrow funds to cover
planting, cultivating and harvest
ing. They will be obligated to
repay only to the extent of tha
value of the crops produced.
In event of a complcto failure.
the loan will be cancelled.
Crops on which the loans ara
offered Include those involving;
high production risks or which)
farmers would not otherwise
grow. Loans will be made by
the county agricultural war
boards from funds provided by ':;
the regional agricultural credit
corporation.
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