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Number 9718
MHO 'MNMOflM
urobean Drive loo
By FRANK JENKINS
nrODAY'S dispatches aro not
- tho kind that thrill tho writ
era and tho renders of headlines.
Thoy Inek the punch of IMMED
IATE achievement.
But the wlroi throb with sup
pressed excltemont.
Olio has the feeling Hint com
ing great event aro beginning
to cant their shadows across tho
pa til of tho news.
MONTGOMERY'S Bth army Is
1V1 cTiii.Kinurar.
U. S. War Secretary Stlmson
foreoasts heavy fighting In North
Africa, with many casualties.
He says we're moving into posi
tion FOR A SHOWDOWN.
General Elsenhower says:
"We're going to throw every
American soldier wo can get In
to tho fight."
pllUnCHILL tells us today tho
allies hnvo moved nearly
HALF A MILLION MEN Into
Africa. That's an army.
rrHE Russians are moving on
Kharkov r r o m three sides,
Unconfirmed reports say they're
within 10 or 12 miles of the city.
Moscow dispatches report
break In the stubbornness of Ger
man resistance.
Vatutln Is still pushing south
ward toward the Sea of Azov,
having taken five more towns.
The Russians have landed troops
at Novorosslsk (sco mop) to cut
oft German flight from tho Cau
casus by woy of tho Icy Kerch
strait.
ORITISH FIELD MARSHALL
DILL, U. S. Air General Ar
nold, British Commander in In
dia Wavoll and Chiang Kb I
Shek, after conferring for days
In Chungking, announce agree
ment on "offonslvo plans" against
Japan's far-flung armies.
. London says there will be
subsequent conferences between
Wavoll and MacArthur.
IN that announcement, thero's
a tip for us as to why tho Japs
hnvo pulled In their horns in
tho Solomons. Thoy sco somo
thlng coming, and don't want to
be spread too thin when It ar
rives. ,
AT Wau, a few miles from
" Salnmnun, In Now Guinea,
tho Jups attack tho airfield we've
acquired without much drum
beating. They got a surprise, running
unexpectedly head-on Into Aus-,
trallun troops IN FORCE. Thcso
Australians had boon FLOWN
IN by American pilots In U. S.
transport planes.
The Japs aro thrown back
toward Salamaua.
lEEP your eye on New Guinea.
Vour map tolls you that In
our possession It will be a
THREAT AT THE DOOR of
Jopnn's ncwly-sclzcd empire.
You'll hear moro of It.
DEAD Churchill's speech In this
newspaper today. As usual,
ho tolls us dcflnito facts wo can
got our teeth Into.
For example:
Wo and tho British (as already
mentioned here) hnvo landed
nearly half a million men In
Africa. That's fighting power,
oven In these days. -
UE gives us our first picture
of tho mysterious and men
acing submarine situation. Hith
erto tho attitu'do toward tho sub
marine has been one of fright
ened hush-hush.
As Churchill shows It to us,
It could bo worse,
I '
COR example;
We're moro than holding our
own In tho tonnngo warfare.
Our slda now hns a million and
a quarter MORE TONS of ship-
(Contlnuc4 on Page Five)
1
ROLLS TOWARD
L
Allied Armies Relieve
Battle-Weary
French
LONDON, Feb. 11 P) Al
rcudy 20 miles Insldo southern
Tunisia, the British eighth army
was reported today rolling to
ward tho fortified Mnrotli line
while tho British first and
American fifth armies extended
their western Tunisian holding
front to relieve battle-weary
French being re-armed for the
big push.
In the air, allied planes from
the east, west and Malta sank
one ship and left another sink
ing off the Tunisian coast, straf
ed axis troop concentrations,
pounded the docks at Trapanl,
in western Sicily, by night, and
delivered another hard day
light raid on the Sicilian sea
piano and naval baso of Pal
ermo. :
Details Scarce
A Cairo communique which
announced that Gen. Sir Bern
ard L: Montgomery's force
wero engaging Marshal Rom
mel's rear guards near Ben Gar
done Indicated that tho eighth
army's new sweep forward had
oarricd moro than 30 miles from
Its striking base in extreme
western Libya.
Tho full extent of the en
gagement near Ben Gardanc, 23
miles insldo Tunisia, was not
disclosed. The communique,
however, mentioned sharp artll
(Continued on Pago Two)
America Warned
Of Heavy Casualty
Lists to Come
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (IP)
The nation should get set for
heavy American casualties, "per
haps In- tho very near future,"
Secretary of War Stlmson said
today In a discussion of develop
ing plans for driving the axis
from Africa.
The opposing armies In Tu
nisia aro moving into position,
ho told a press conference, and
heavy fighting is in prospect.
This country Is Just beginning to
participate In major offensive
warfare, he said in his mention
of casualties.
MARETH
Ten Believed Drowned as
Tug Capsizes in Columbia
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 11 (P).
Bot'lcs of four men lost aboard a
tug which capsized In tho Colum
bia rlvor about midnight were
recovered this morning. Ton
were feared lost.
The four were Identified as
Phillip Gcrstonkorn, 43, James
Hoyt Wostorland, 20, William H.
Bennett, B5, all of Portland, and
Ncls Nelson, 32, Grcsham, all
shipyard workers. '
Nino of the 10 aboard the 50
foot tug, including Pilot Clnr
enco Hnrvcy, 38, wero rescued
shortly nftor tho craft turned
over about 400 feet from the
Oregon shoro en routo to tho
Henry J. Kaisor shipyard at Van
couver, Wash.
Six remained unaccounted for.
They included Ben and Ray
Lewis, brothers, deckhands
aboard tho tug; Walter Pearson,
IB, shipyard' workers, and two
others whoso identities had not
boon established.
Two coastguard and several
other craft wero dragging the
river near where tho tug lay on
tho rlvorbottom in about IS foot
of water, part of her super
structure abovo tho surfaco.
Rcscuo of the nine was credit
ed largely to Harold Granville,
forry terminal worker, who be
came alarmed when he noticed
the tug's running lights had be-
Hershey Sees
Induction of
Family Men
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 Wj
Major General Lewis B. Hershey
today opposed legislation to re
quire deferment of men with
children until all slnglo men and
childless married men are
drafted and said "tho great
majority of men" Inducted In
tho next two or three months
would be men with children.
Without giving any figures,
tho director of selective service
said he had previously testified
that a lowering of the draft age
to 18, which was done, would
not meet the demands of the
armed forces for manpower, and
added:
"In the next two or three
months tho great majority of
men Inducted will be men with
children because there will be
no one else left."
"I feel that it would be unwise
to enact this legislation," said
Hershey, first witness called in
house military committee hear
ings on a bill to set up four
(Continued on Page Two)
50-Mile Assault Line
Formed East of
Kharkov
LONDON, Fab. 11 OT The
red army in its smashing
soml-enclrclomtnt of Kharkov
has cut the Ukraine bastion's
main railway to the south and
the Crimea by capturing the
ky rail junction ol Loiova
ya, the Moscow radio an
nounced tonight in a special
communique recorded her by
th soviet monitor.
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, Feb. 11 CP) Cap
turing settlements between Bel
gorod and Chuguyev, tho red
army formed a 80-mlle-long as
sault front Just cast of Kharkov
todoy, and the fighting was re
ported mounting in other sectors
of southern Russia.
The capturo of Chuguyov, 22
miles southeast of Kharkov, and
Volchansk, 36 miles northeast.
was announced by the Russians
early today, along with tho sciz
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come motionless. He rowed out
to investigate. He brought all
nine ashore In his rowboat.
There were four women
among the nine rescued persons,
one the mother, another the
wife, of presumed victims.
Mrs. Walter Pearson, 42, Port
land, said on reaching shore she
last saw her son Walter, throw
ing lifebelts to others. Mrs. Ncls
Nolson, 25, Gresham, a shipyard
timcchccker, said she saw her
husband go under the water.
Miss Madge Stowart, 35, and
Mrs. Thomas G. Hazel, 36, both
Portland, were among the res
cued. Mrs. Nnlcnn snlrt 41ia tuff hiv-
gan "swaying from side to slde'Tf ation launched an investiga
shortly after leaving the Oregon tlon of reported "black market"
forry slip. With each sway, wa
ter swept over the deck. A door
on the main deck was rjponod
and water cascaded inside and
tho tug began to sink.
Somo of the bodies are be
lieved trapped inside the tug,
which was carried onto a sand
bar. Capt. Earl Stanley of the
Multnomah county sheriff's of
fice, who took charge of the
search for the missing, said the
tug was used to transport work
ers because the number was so
small that the regular converted
barge ferry did not make the
run.
CHURCHILL SEES
Half - Million Allied
Soldiers in Africa,
He Says
By ROBERT E. BUNNELLE
LONDON, Feb. 11 (P) Prime
Minister Churchill declared to
day that the allies had landed
nearly a half-million men in
Africa and planned an offensive
campaign during the next nine
months with the goal of engag
ing the enemy "on the largest
possible scale and at the earliest
possible moment."
In a war review vibrant with
his usual fighting spirit and
brightened by unusual optimism,
the prime minister brought back
from the Casablanca uncondition
al surrender conference the news
of a new unification of com
mand In North Africa and the
strong intimation that Europe
would be invaded as soon as the
United Nations were ready,
:, High Points ;
These were hfghppints of. ..his
address 'to the cheering house or'
commons: , i , i
1. As the British eighth army
moves into Tunisia, the North
African command is unified un
der the American commander,
Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er, with Gen. Sir Harold Alex
ander, second in command, and
with Mediterranean air forces
under British Air Vice Marshal
Sir Arthur Tedder, and sea
forces under Admiral Sir An
drew Browne Cunningham.
2. The allies are more than
holding their own in the U-boat
warfare, with a million and a
quarter more tons of shipping
available now than six months
ago, with losses of the past two
months at the lowest figure in
over a year, and with the best
rate of U-boat sinkings so far
in the war.
3. Churchill will meet again
with President' Roosevelt within
the next nine months. The prime
minister disclosed that the presi
dent had been willing to go as
far as Khartoum, Egypt, to bring
Premier Stalin into the January
conferences, but that Stalin was
too engaged with Russia's
mighty winter drive to leave his
country even for a day.
4. Britain has offered to cm
body into a "special treaty" her
pledge to help carry the war
against Japan on to uncondition
al surrender, but had' President
Roosevelt's answer that "the
word of Britain was quite enough
for him."
Shipping Boom
Churchill's speech emphasized
that the allies were preparing
to strike.
"In the last six months," he
asserted, "Anglo-American and
important new Canadian build
ing (of ships) exceeded all the
losses of the United Nations by
(Continued on Page Two)
OPA -Launches
Probe of Black
Market in Spuds
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11
(P) The regional headquarters
of the office of price adminis-
ucHimgs in poiaioes nere today,
The OPA said the reports
were. that the armed services
were being deprived of adequate
supplies of potatoes by western
manufacturers of potato prod
ucts, who are paying above
celling prices to farmers.
William H. Stanton, acting
head of the fresh and dried food
and vegetable section, food price
division, OPA, in Washington,
notified the office here he had
information involving several
west coast dehydrating and po
tato chip manufacturing plants,
which have been buying up
large crops of potatoes. ,
AT ONWT N
NEXT- 9 MONTHS
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a
hdtfSttssfIiiC-
Thl concentration of nearly 100 Jap ihlpi, riding at anchor In
Rabaul, New Britain, was attacked by 17. S. bombers in another
dealt against nmy base in th South Pacific. Whit circl in
from craft indicate ship getting up steam to dash for safety. (U.
Main Jap Force Driven
Back Toward Salamaua
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 11 VP)
In a suddcn.display of offensive
power, allied troops in New
Qulnea have driven the main
Janese ItSrce m'tfie'Wau-u-bo
area back six miles toward
Salamaua, killing .125 of the
enemy, it was announced offi
cially today. '
A communique from General
MacArthur's headquarters said
allied artillery was heavily ha
rassing the retreating Japanese,
who are estimated to have lost
approximately S00 men in fight
ing in that area in recent weeks.
Allied spokesmen emphasized
that the action around Wau,
which is about 35 miles south
west of the enemy base at Sala-
Linn Grand Jury
To Consider '
Folkes Charge
ALBANY, Ore., Feb. 11 (Pj
A Linn county grand Jury, to
convene February 18, will con
sider the "lower 13" slaying
charge against Robert E. Lee
Folkes, 20, Los Angeles, District
Attorney Harlow Weinrick said
today.
Folkes, dining car cook, Is
charged with' first degree mur
der in the killing of Mrs. Martha
Virginia James, 21, four-month
bride of Navy Ensign Richard F.
James last January 23.
She was slashed ' to , death
aboard a Limited train while
lying in her berth, lower 13 of
car D, en route to California.
Folkes was arrested when the
train reached Los Angeles and,
according to Weinrick, made a
verbal confession. ... ,
The district . attorney said
Folkes, held in the Linn county
Jail, has not employed an attor
ney. A preliminary hearing was
delayed to give him a chance to
obtain counsel.
Tho dato for calling the grand
Jury was set after Prosecutor
Weinrick learned that Ensign
James would be permitted to
come to Albany.
Tho grand Jury personnel will
consist of the same group drawn
for duty on November 30 , and
continued through the Decem
ber and February terms. The
members are William Bain, Susie
Looncy, Edward Kalina, Ruth
E. Burihart, J. M. Llndley, Viva
Carnegie, Eleanor Jeter. Roy V.
Shelton is alternate member of
the grand jury.
Certificate Still
Needed for Recaps
PORTLAND, Feb. 11 (IP) The
district OPA office said today
that tire recapping can be done
only with an OPA certificate
during February,
v Need of the certificate will
not cease until the district office
sd orders.
U. S. Bombers Catch Jap Ship Concentration
4
Z"' 0Vf
V" -"-i
maua, Is still on a small scale,
but the tempo of operations ob
viously was increasing, with the
allies definitely taking .the. In
itiative after repulsing Japanese
xeeier uirusis. ; ,t ,t r t- . .. -.
General MacArthur's head
quarters, meanwhile branded as
"a complete fabrication a Japa
nese communique -attempting to
minimize the sweeping, victory
which the allies won last month
in the Papuan campaign.'
"The statement in the impe
rial Japanese headquarters com
munique . . . that .'the Japanese
in New Guinea, after comple
tion of their mission, evacuated
the Buna area at the end of
January' has no base of fact,"
the allied commander's state
ment said.
"It is a complete fabrication
and must be regarded as propa
ganda rather than as a military
report.
"The necessity for such a sub
terfuge in the name of the em
peror himself represents a mo
ral defeat even greater, per
haps, than the physical one he
has suffered. There was no
evacuation . of Japanese from
Buna at the end of January. At
that time, the last scattered
remnants of the enemy were so
surrounded that evacuation no
longer was possible.
"General Horii and his army
perished."
SEE PAGE 7
A Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps advertisement appears on
page 7 of this newspaper today,
and is of , vital interest to all
women planning to Join in the
fight.
Work Order Aims to Free
Labor for War Plant Jobs
By EDWARD H. HIGGS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 Pi
The war manpower commission
made it plain today that the aim
of the new 48-hour minimum
work week order is to free more
workers for war production and
indicated leniency for establish
ments where a longer work week
will not achieve that purpose.
In a statement answering some
of the questions that arose in
the wake of the presidential or
der, applied initially to 32 labor
shortage areas only, the WMC
also said that overtime pay for
work in excess of 40 hours week
ly will not be required for many
workers who are not covered by
the wage and hour law or labor
contracts. These include farm
ers and domestic servants.
While in the cases of these
workers, the employer cannot be
compelled to pay more for a
longer week the WMC pre
dicted that many of them would
quit for jobs that do pay over
time. Taking specifically the ex
ample of a store or office now
working less tfjan 48 hours, the
'
th Jap base In th harbor of
of a ris of air blow being
water (how bomb bunts. Smok
S. air fore photo).
Circuit Judge Makes
Statement - On -.
Clerk Bill
- Circuit Judge David R. Van-
denberg said Thursday that the
shifting of the circuit court
clerkship to ' appointive status
under his Jurisdiction need not
cost a cent more than the present
cost of handling this work.
Meanwhile, as an aftermath of
an editorial suggestion in The
Herald and News that the judge
and clerk "bury the hatchet.
County Clerk Mae K. Short said
Thursday, that . she. is willing to
"go up and do my work and get
along" if she is not "subjected
to ridicule.
Judge Vandenberg's state
ment was made in connection
with the bill now in the legisla
ture to' create the, office of cir
cuit court. clerk, appointive by
the judge, shifting . those duties
from the county clerk. . County
Clerk Mae K. Short, who is op
posed to the bill, said Wednes
day that it would cost the tax
payers additional money.
No Need for Deputy
Judge Vandenberg said he dis
agreed with Mrs. Short on this
point. The judge averred that
it would be simply a matter of
paying the appointive clerk the
salary that is now paid the dep
uty county clerk who does the
circuit court work. '
; He said there would be no
need for a deputy. The clerk's
office, he said,, would be estab-
(Contmued on Page Two)
WMC said those businesses
should Increase their work week
to 48 hours "only if going to 48
hours .would result in more ef
fective use of employes or if it
would avert employment of ad
ditional employes."
"The purpose of the order is
to release workers for war and
essential jobs," the WMC said.
"Mere increase of hours that will
not result in this was not in
tended." Explaining further that the or
der applied to newspapers and
retail stores in the critical labor
shortage areas, the WMC again
stressed this point, saying: '
- "It should be emphasized that
the purpose of the order is to
economize on manpower, and not
to increase hours of work where
it will not contribute to the
war." ,
' Where an employer or a plant
considers it is impossible to in
stitute the 48-hour week, ' the
WMC said, the commission "will
investigate and make such ex
ceptions or exemptions so as to
make the fullest possible contri
bution to the war."
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HIGH-RANKING
LEADERS AGREE
ON OFFENSIVE
American Fliers Pound
Japs Over Vast
Pacific Area
By The Associated Pxs -i
n. concerted United Nations
offensive against Japan was
foreshadowed today with the of
ficial disclosure that high-rank
ing American, British and Chi
nese military leaders have met
and ngreed on "offensive plans"
against Japan's far-flung invas
ion armies.
The British government an
nounced in London that Field
Marshal Sir John Dill, repre
senting Prime Minister Church
ill, and Lieut.-Gen. Henry H.
Arnold, representing President
Roosevelt, had held a series of
conferences with Chinas Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in
Chungking and with Field Mar
shal Sir Archibald P. Wavell in
India. ,.
. Chiang Satisfied
A British communique said
the fullest possible coordination
would be insured by subsequent -
conferences between Marshal
Wavell and Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur, . allied commander-in-
chief in the southwest Pacific.
Prime Minister Churchill told
parliament in London that Gen...
Chiang 'bed- expressed satlsfac-i- '
tlon about "strong additional
help that will be provided fort
China at this stage of her long- .
drawn, undaunted struggle,"
Kicks Blasted
Meanwhile, a navy communl-.
que reported heavy : American
aerial assaults on Japanese bases
over a -vast Pacific area from
the Aleutian Islands to the)
South Seas.. -
' The navy said--XT.',' S. heavy
and medium bombers yesterday
blasted Japanese ' positions on
Kiska, in the Aleutians, scoring
many hits.' ":
Other American, warplanes.
pounded the enemy base at '
Munda, in the Solomons, in two
attacks by night and day. ;
"Japanese forces on Guadal-'
canal have ceased all organized;
resistance," the communique'
(Continued on Page Two)
MotorisisWarned
To Renew 'C Gas
Books by Feb. 28
Motorists who have C gasoline
cards are warned that February
28 is the expiration date for
them regardless of whether ' or
not all the tickets have been
used.
In order to obtain new books,
the tire inspection record should
be mailed to the board as soon
as possible, and the application,
will be reconsidered, and a new
book issued. '
If the amount of gasoline
needed" has- decreased or in
creased, it will be necessary to
fill out a complete new applica
tion form. If the amount re
mains the same only the tire In
spection record will be neces
sary. Some B books also expire at
the same time. The procedure
for renewing them will be the
same.
According to Don Drury of the
rationing board, motorsts should
submit their records as soon as
possible in order to avoid run
ning out of tickets before the
applications have been reconsid
ered. The board urges that all
records be mailed rather than
brought in to the board, to fa
cilitate quick action, and to save
the extra gas and tires necessary
for an extra trip. '
News Index
City Briefs ...........Page 8
Comics and Story ........Page 12
Courthouse Records Page 7
Editorial . .Page 4
Farm News . .......Page 8 ,
Markets, Financial Page 13
Midland Empire News. Pago 6
Our Men In Servlco Page 11
Pattern ....Page li
Sports ...Page 1Q ,
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