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EARL WARREN TAKES OATH News Behind The News BUR LBN GAME SAMMAT1Q RECTORY 111 Wh Tou Pbon (h SAN MATEO TIMES 31831 WASHINGTON By Pay Tucker The BIETlg 'MTEIllgTMOirTAW COUNTY" mM. FULL LEASED UNITED PRESS HUQjJ DIRECT WIRES AND FEATURES JfijIftsTAMPS Y0L 35. as, 29TH YEAB MM PAGES' HAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, 110KDAY, JAWUAHf 4, 1943 sTpW COPY MONTH NAZIS ONlilNlli Reds Closing in On Rail Base New Governor Warren Takes Governor Oath Rommel Stops to Fight 1 Pursuers Near Tripoli African Hero Soviets Tell of Gains Made on Six Fronts MOSCOW, Jan. 4.U.R) Russian forces have captured, the townnd railroad station of OheiTiyshliovsky, a special eoni munique' announced tonight. MOSCOW, Jan.

4. U.R) The ivauomng spMiii, commU. f.c ri investigation wui jn.ur.cn lliorouchcoinc innuiL i' into the foitl situation when conRrcss resumes. No ahn, not even the shortage of gnsoline, 1ms created Ti miu pniiUint and confusion as the thrt'ntenerl senrcity of The Kciiiilurial fileulha will try to asrrtpin.why rnidi a vsst and productive country as the United Rutos should lack edibles. TJnlfisn the army and navy wnntiuia VM mnfinn nn thft PTfMmd thftt lfc a military ccuret, tii legislators will call for complete data on the amount Df goods we nrc sending to the armed forces ami our Allies.

Proliuiinaiv surveys suggest that these details will not be forthcoming except in executive session. To puhliBh exnet figures iiUKht reveal haw many men we have abroad in the various unite of our fighting niRchine. Ae was exclusively revealed here recently, our shipments to foreign cmiiurins nnd to nur Bnldicrd and sailors will consume about 40 per cent of our. totnl yield rather then the 25 per eer.t lately mnde pun lie by Secretary of Ajjrieultnre Wfck srd. That provides the reason for severe rationing of evervChinir ex cent wheat, potatoes and possibly Money STS I our Luxation system tvhk never mora vipcorons than lorlay.

Instead nf accepting treasury advice "when o.vifitiiip revenUB acts are rewritten, it ffl probable that the house ways and means committee will fii its iiivii ticket. They are quite disputed uith Henry Morgentliau'e methods of handling federnl fi The lucifibera will men some "crt jf "pay as you earn, pio irram similnr to that. nivmriKpil hv Wdaley Ruml of the New York Federnl licscrve hank. His tUga tion has the allont endorsement of hitfh oflicinJg in the government and Tvill piobably be accepted by bol branches of the legislature. Along with this Tefnrm, the beys and (riils tin Capitol Hill may enact burdensome than anv wln'eh slates and municipalities have put Fflar of a sharp postwar depreu Pion underlies the current agitation for payment of one's debt lo Uncle Sam from woges enmurnted in the.

year when lie income, eollcctov drops around Should there be a dump, a man whose ten thousand dollar a year salary falls to four or live may be unable to kick through to Mister WJiiBkuns. The solution appears to be a plan whereby will contribute while in the big money. jrrum irarcitics in the thinc a i.hnv jnivate word from consular officers and businessmen abroad reveals that millions in Europe find inp; winter. Crops in friendh'C omy anri neutral countries have been short, agricultural labor has slmosl disnppejireil and transport mi iJifficultiea tvill prevsnt prop Tbe last nieiltinnrd prohlen ii people leanferi after the invasion of North Africa. Plenty of dinner ivhicli has served as Europe's Ern a lerv iilraads exist, sajiplie had to he delivered by truck olid there was no fuel.

It was this Emergency Heinand for gasoline thai, forced us tn eo on abort rations few weeks eii of fond in Germany should not has sloted va. quantities sr.d. i doeririE warned in a Treent speech, ntller ratioraikies may starve but is slipping, according to inside reports in London and Washington, hut not hcrause the Germans are famished. It is Dpr Fuehrer's fee farms. 1 frnin various hntH fl.i.i pei soluiel nnd Jnunitinns liave given Washington cheerio nttitude witb The rominf; of tile New Yenr.

fn every sector, frnm Bizertc to Gliad aleanal, ad5 are. Piitf Jehting: St'oi ies of our snnremaev ir nra almost incredible. Iteeent reports state that Ilii uliilti'a nvla tors refuse tn tackle our latest madeis. S. truops in bpth front iiiiii icir unes in Norlli Alrica re ir.mn unmoloated for weeks by the varmio: rule is tlie (Turn to Page 3, Column I) Giraud and De Gaulle Meeting Imminent LONDON, Jan, 4.

(LP)Dinlo. nutic quarters believed today thnt ft meeting between Ocn. Hemi Ho nnve Oira jd, high eonnnissioncr for French Africn, and Gen. Charles de fiaullc, Fiehtinr French lender, to unify Ibeir fnrces, was immliitnt. ever, a FiEhtiuc French Tpnkesmnn denied repriTis thst de liunllo jlrendy had received a reply from Ciraud, who linrl RugRestcil a rnfftinjr nn French soil, ft 2 In ed i Red army, driving the Germans back from the gateway to Rus, sia's vast store of Caucasian oil, developed an attack from two directions today on the axis base at Prukhjidnaya, 28 miles west of Mozdok, Front dispatches said the Rus sians were closins in on Prok.

Iiarinaya, a strategic rnil confer, and ihc fall of the city appeared immi. Germans for three months, fell to a lightning week end assault by the' Red army. General Attack (Axis sources broadcast reports Ibat the Russians were massing on the snirthem fronl for what was described as "a general attack." The Nasi controlled radio Paris 1 1 quoted German reports as sayl" Aides Weep as McSwceney Leaves Office Ralph MacArthur Takes Reins; Fahey Becomes Justice fiEDWOOD CITY. Jan. 4.

Ralpl 0. MacArthur Df Enriu game, pioneer county resident, at noon today assumed his new duties as county tar collector after friends and associates bid tearful farewell to his ured. cessor, Ambrose MoSweeney, tirinff lifter 32 years in office. who dCCUtied 10 oi ins Health, smii nortbye to Tiers of his alufl and snir friendR ad 2nd tended best wishes to Ta Collect Thp redi iliir dean of courllioiisG hsndsame table radio by his tk pu on which ivas a ffnhl nlafce healing th? inscription, "To Oui' first elected liiHI. lakini.

oirice tne ioiiovt'inc; January. DlaeArthur won the office at the November general election, defeat ipg Supervisor John Pnole of Jteiiwnod City. After receiving the congratulations of officials and friends, he Announced that his predecessor's staff would be retained. The only ether ne offiein to be sworn in today was Attorney John J. Fahey Jr.

nf Dniy City who be rim? vis'itr 'i H. L.nv. New Terms Begin All other elective ufl'iciah turned to office lust vear also lip gnn their new terms at noon today, Slid iiulicalions were that there would ce no changes in office Staffs. The board nf supervisors I rurn to rase uoiumn Z) $8000GarHc Bulbs Burned hrtween ffoon and w. r.r itt n' re which wly yesterday ran loaded wilii 1 garlic Mbs ready (or winter planl rancller and operator "of Hie Ne Porlaln picnic park in Portoli valley, 1 1 1 1 Jiilllj stored in the building, formerly used as a horse barn, Fire Chief aonn voipiano el lvnodsitle estimated each sack tained Or iore pounds of garlic seed.

Present value, Ihp opI ic frnm 8 to ID cents pound tn the grower, according to County Agricultural Commissioner Mnx Leonard's office. The bam, located inside oanta tinrn county on the south side of Los Trnncos creek, opposite. destroyed despite efforts of Wood i (i Pace 3, Column 6) German Generals Killed in Action STOCKHOLM. Sweden, Jan. 3 (Delayed) (LP) A Berlin dispatch the newsnnner rini hla.W today (hat liaj.

Ren. Vh lor Koch, cnninianding a German divi nn the Uussinil (rant, had been killed in aclion nut! Mn.i. Gen. Ileill7, Von H. 1 1 1 1 1 i tnlc division in Africa, had bccn i hillnl Dec.

2 At Sacramento Republicans Now Control Both Branches of State Gov't By JOHN W. DUN LAP SACRAMENTO, JaTI 1 The fifty fifth legislature convened today to inaugurate Republican Governor Earl Warren and then tickle the state's war. time problems. An immediate surprise was a senate caucus decision tn p1pc errDld'SeaWell, Eetjubiiuan of. Koseyine, as president pro tem P.

fiich of Marysville, The caucus required mure than an hour. a. though the vote on the Seawell iien contest was not revealed. of Los Angeles was elected unanimously as speaker, climmilnfr his 1915. Chief Justice Phil S.

Gibson of (he stnte supretne court opened the session ny swearing in t.ne members. Lee Hashoie. of Gleu dura then nr minsterl I.vnn nrl rjemocralie Floor Leader Alfred Ttobevtson, Santa Barbara, closed to make the choice The Republicans took full trol of the lower house when Thomas Malonoy of San Francisco, an olher veteran of 18 years' legislative service, was unanimously leet Spenser pro tempore. bull Cnntrol 't'o rl.i genet aL to the governorship gave the Republicans full control of the executive utid legisluLive branches of the government. Except for the four year term of Democrat Cul bert Olson just ended, the P.f half centuiy.

Republican Lieutenant Governor Frederick F. Houser of Alhambrs was inaugurated after Warren's address. Retiring Gnvp.rnor Olsen and Lieutenant Governor Ellis K. Patterson, defeated in November by the Pledges Tas Cut Tn hi, 45 minutc address, Wai "0 pledged a reduction in taxes, rr organization of the deferso svsteti abolition o( politics in civil' sen ire, careful handling of the tatu' surnlus. nlaiminir fn, tiosI work, guarding ef putliu rrnhl 0( ie liaioln and uaivln system nn allenipt ia solv problem.

"We meet as men women as senibled 10 unttertakp an erne, gency lask a task which fur ful lillment will requlfe that ndlu nty 01 pnrposc wlncb we find spoud to the call of their battle St lions." Warren lolil mint aei nte assembly session. Ilnur of Crisis meet here ns renrppnl of the people of California, hour of crisis. Ilouvlv. sands of those, whom we represent in rage 3. t.

oui Hawaii lo Return Partly to Civil Rule Presidelit Roosevelt is expected to annnunce. within a week the return of Hawaii to partial civilian ri" pin. lm nr Horbor. Stukas Arrive To Help Make Final Stand LONDON, Jan. 4.

OJ.Rl Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Afrika Korps is making a deter mined and possiblv final'stontl lurce of Etuka dive bombing planes, advices from Africa disclosed today, Rommel is ranking his stand on inn nam Aem Mm, 23tl miles frnm Tunisia and only 170 miles from Tripoli, capital of Libya. His Ktukas and other nlanps arp offering a strong challenge to the Allied air fnree which for weeks nau rmeo tne Lldynn sines, Italians Flee L'nited Pi ess advices reported (list an Italian rear guard, left to defend the Bn Gnpm IRn Viroml fnrt, on the eastern arm? of tile Watli Bci El Cliehir. had been knocked out. The.y set the place Stronger rtx.s vear guards uuw holtling the IVadi, on dried river bed, Df Zcm Zom. hnwevnr iid the approaches to it and British niobjle armored forces were hack uib mem all along their fronl The main Eighth army had now reached the Wadi Bci El Chebir.

il was disclosed, and it was. judicated that Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery commanding 1 he British Tfflchfh But the dispatches revealed why coinniiinitmes ol the Middia EaEt 1.1T1 command Had reported no sub stantiel progress on the Libyan Front for many days. Today's conimunifjue said merely thai there was in, epnrt from the irt'm iiniPL. ann inei bad been no arnal activity nver )atU yesterday.

Middle Eastein cinnnlalld planes joined, however, in ferocics AHied offensive on avis pesitinns in Tunisia by bombing the porU nf Sousse and Tunis Saturday night. 1 anks French African dispatches said Anmri can planes and aliti tunlr units hud tier Gen. Alphoiise wK, are holding inO miles of the flout smith o( Tunis, farina 1lip cnast. reported that German troops bad made nn attack in force with many fanks. bis line southeast, df iiuni to i.

age Cnlunin 5) Barking Dog Saves mirlingame Couple I'he burking uf their pet dog oUEed Mr. and Mrs. llaiiv Olsen of 90S Bayswater avenue, nurlin Kame, and saved 11 em fi mi possible suffocation early yesterday when a 1 Irak developed in the coil nf their ii iferator and lulcrt ie house lib funics from Hie themienls. vith them, Ihey fled from the houi firemen. Jap Hold at Buna Cut to Small Pocket GENERAL i Tan.

4. (U.BUnited States and Avotpniinr, persona, direction of Gen. las MacArLhnr moved todav against Japan's last in the Papuan area of New Guinea. A Email, desperate enemy Cape Sanananda, alone remained to jungle hardened American troops rades stormed and captured ihc una gavomuienl station. Enemy Loss Heavy liave cumpteted the destruetinn of the enemy's defeated forces," Ccn.

alacArtllur's ennimunique said. "His lusscs have been heavy. of the Papuan army are confined in a narrow salient extending from Sanananda point. I ii. in envelop.

hopeless." Three months ago thousands of tough, confident troops held the Buna area and more warn Kmri m. Til. Pi witliiu 82 miles of Port Moresbr, the el ear Allip.t lhr New' Guinea cnast which Japan sought as the springboard for an invasion of the Australian conti enL less tnan inn nines away. Lafe in October the Japanese met themselves and then altjiWpd. Tlio Japanese witlMrew across Owen Stanley mauntains.

On Nov. Itl Ihe Abln, brilliant offensive campaign which now nrumised In end. nosfiblv wilhli, a few days, in the greatest Southwest Pacific cumnaisn i i' i'H1 eial Stuai tanks nnd artillery Japs Get Help To Kiska Island lltAUOIU STKJS AT Ac. p. A 11 1 tt i AN 2.

ILP1 (Beluvedl A sbarn crease in tne tempo of the Aleutian Officers tnday following aerial re iinoiceinent 01 Japan, r.ri; i ili on Kissh island. After a no iorl nf wpIi, whe American airmen encountr red no opposition in bombing and strafing been strengthened by mixed squadron nf single nud dnubic flont typc Kcro fighlers. ents were luado in an lempt to land hVsprrnlelv necdcd ipplies. The Japanese succeeded ilnrkintr twn eargii ships in ICiskt (Turn Pnje j. Column 8) watching the Russian preparations.) In takins Mozduk, their fourth major victory in six days on their 1100 mile battlefront, the Russians took also Malgobeek, 20 miles lo Ihc soulheust, and Elkhotovo, 10 miles to the southwest Itailruad Gut They had cut Iwth arms of the (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) IVariea.

thirlielh rnv, of California, nho took Ihe of officr tnday in Hacrameliln. In pomica'i a RAF Affain Blasts Ruhr LONDON, Jan. 4. (IJ The oyal Air Force attanketl the In dustrial Ruhr in Western Oermnnv durinR the night in the first big The air ministry announcer? that piain were lose. i.i,.,i.ki.i.e that a niouei atelv small force possibly not more than 60 or 70 planes, participated, (The Berlin radio asserted that British bombers caused damage to a residential section of a Ruhr town with explosives and incendiaries.

Civilian casualties were reported snd several planes were said to have been shut down.) The attack on the liuhr followed closely a devastating raid by American heavy bombers oil ihe German submarine base at At. Yanim nn the French wefi. coast mid allied I tli 1 1 1 i tLir: A ri cfin four engine bombers llad blast ed il. iazairc. heven hombcrs wnrn missing, a recunf loss for the rum to Page 2, Column S) Get Facts on Your Income Tax Nest to the war, the biggest news in the United States today is the Liuunie Tax Millions of people who never had to worry ahnnt it before will have ta' file returns this year, ami most of them will have to pity sonic kind of a tax on their income, even down to S12 a week.

For news and information en ail phases of the income tux, what deduction you may make, what deductions you positively may not make, information on credits and exemptions and what part of your income mav not he laxable, read the scries o( special articles which will appear daily in The Times. The first appears iedfly on pate. 4, This entire, series nf S3 articles hns been prepared by the tronsury dvpar'ment for ynur gnidnnce, Rind Ihem carerully. heg i today. Unc ill tiro Snn Blatco couutj nutating Amelresn airraid Tunis and BlKcrtc was Sgt.

Walter E. Shay, 2.1, of Burllngamc. Shay, a (ail aunuer, is the soil uf ilrs. Dnruthy Shar, grav chosen as NnrthcV'lWornia "illiss Victory." 2S.M.Menin Tunis Aid Raids Tn Sau Mnten cuuntv men were among 11 northern L'flliforaians who participated in the second biggest air raid of the war Safunlav by American flying fortresses on Tunis and Biierle, according lo delayed diSPatcheS tOrlpv from North African froat. One.

was Set irt. of Burlinjame, whose mother, Dorothy Shay, only four weeks 1 Ln 1 ornia ax A'ictorv" tvp Ttirn tn Page 2, Column F.D.R. Warns S.F. Bay Unions W. SllI (ri'0T.

Jan. I. IIPI President Rnnsevell lodny ordered hers fbe International Asso ill of Mnchinists (AFL) to Ii j.i:.: viral v.ar prnduetinr" in Snn Francisco hav shipyards. The White House aunoiincerl that the president had sent the fnllov iug tckgrani to union officiuls and the members of two loL als: "I am informed by army, navy, and muiitime commissinn that actions of your union arc seriously interfering with vital War pinduc (Turn In Pace 3, Calnmn K) or I SOUS I dieted 17 0.j; ucihihiii. WASHINGTON, 1 ILP) Altorney i i.l red thnt a llhliirf r.

luuihia grnnil juiy loiiay rel irncd an i ii cl i 1 ii iinj elmiging indi' vidii.ils a ad our. corporation with wai litne scilitiui; ALL TIME RECORD "Califurnia rariurrs hillinn dnllars worlh nf 'fond mnnitinus' in Ibis War of a Irulj hiMloric sc. viimplisbiucnl," repnris the Pacific Rural I'hi Genre repre. enls an increase nr SJSJ.Zri.OOD ever lasl year or almost nne leiilh of Hie rslininlcil farm income of the entire United Statcsl The of San Mateo An Independent Bank.