Ho Sn THUS iftIL THylffl lE(Mli i 1 Defenses Of i Cologne Goal 1 Of Offensive k WM M ft.ffrttffi:lt.fti(Mtf ALFRED Alfred E Smith, Democratic Candidate for President in 1928, Ex-iiY. Governor, Dies NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (AP) Alfred E. SmKh, 70, native of New York City's East side, four times governor of New York state and 1928 democratic presidential candidate, died today in Rockefeller institute. Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan, his physician, said lung con gestion and acute heart failure were the causes. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS lE'RE getting a little news again. The U. S. First (farthest north) army swings a Sunday punch at the Siegfried line just north of Aachen Aix-la-Chappelle to read ers of Browning). The assault is preceded by a fleet of nearly 3, 000 allied warplanes and a heavi ly concentrated artillery barrage. On I he heels of the shells and the bombs, while the enemy defend rrs are still shaken and punch drunk from the rain of explo sives, the infantry moves in. A gain of about two mi!?s in the first hour is reported in the early dispatches. IT seems to be quite an affair. One of our correspondents cables: "I doubt if we'll stop now until we reach the Rhine. (One man's opinion, basojl on lack of knowledge of what the Germans will be able to do.) f THE attack is on the Siegfried I I line fortifications, which were built BEFORE multi-ton bombs and modern concentrated barrages were invented. It should give us an idea as to how effec tive these methods will be against prepared defenses.) THE British still hold the Nij megen corridor, with its milc-and-a-half-long bridge over the lower Rhine channel. Against this corridor with its strategic bridge at the tip, the Germans have been launching some of their heaviest counter-attacks since Normandy. So far, these attacks have FAILED. There is a report as this is written that the nazis have start ed a FIGHTING RETREAT from western Holland, where they are (Continued on page 2) War Policies, Peace Framing CaSi For N on-Part isan Statesmanship, Wayne Morse, Senator Aspirant, Says The American people have the right to expect and Insist that the United States senate and the president shall agree upon a non partisan peace, Wayne Morse, republican candidate for United States senator, declared last night In a radio address originating In the studios of Roseburg radio station KRNR and released as well from station KALE, Portland. "No matter who is in the White House after November 7. be he democrat or republican, the war policies of our government must be conducted on a non-partisan, non-political basis," the candidate said. "Our people expect and have the right to be assured trom all our political leaders in both the democratic and republican par ties that the war aims and ob jectives of our country in this war will receive the united and non partisan support of all our officials of government. The mil itarv objectives and plans must be left to our military leaders, who are doing the greatest job In military history. Statesmanship Needed "We have the right to expect E. SMITH Only last night a dozen red roses arrived at the hospital for Smith from President and Mrs. Roosevelt. It was Mr. Roosevelt who nicknamed Smith the "Hap nv Warrior" when he nominated Smith for the presidency in 1928. The close political and person al friendship between Mr. Roose velt and Smith cooled, however, in 1130. when Smith took what he called "a walk" from Mr. Roosevelt and the democratic party and supported Alf I.andon for tbe presidency. He again on posed the new deal in 1910, stumping for the republican can didate. Wrfjhdell L. Willkie. In Washington, President Roosevelt issued a statement in which he said "the country loses n true patriot" in Smith's death. The president naid in part: "Al Smith had qualities of heart and mind and noul which not onlv endeared him to those who came under the spell of his dynamic presence in personal as sociation but also marie him the idol of the multitude." Smilh had not taken an active (Continued on page 6) Freed From Jail, Faces Phony Coupon Charge PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 4 (AP) Just out of jail in Salem after serving a liouor possession sentence, Charles Wade, 23, of Se attle! was arrested here on a charge of possessing counterfeit gasoline ration coupons. II. S. Commissioner Leedv. or dered him held on S2.500 bail. Capt. William R. Jarrell, Seat tle special investigator who has been working on the case, refus ed comment today because, he said, "the case has ramifications." He said he would return Wade to Seattle shortly. Bumper Apple Crop Faces Picker Shortage WENATCHEE, Wash., Oct. 4 (AP) A bumper crop of 30.000 carloads of apples are hanging on central Washington trees al ready for harvesting and "there is a fruit job for every man, women, bov and girl who can do this work." Arlhur Kulin. state farm labor supervisor, said to dav. There Is a shortage of workers also In warehouses and packing plants, he said. th" nlnetvsiv men whom we send to the United States senate to face the prohiems of peace, not as nartisan republicans and dem ocrats, not as nrofessional poli ticians, but as statesmen entrust ed with the grave obligation and resnonsibilitv of worklnrt out " I'h the nresident of the United States, whoever he mav be, a urogram of international cooper etion wherehv our nation will as. simtic its full share of resnonsibil itv for maintaining a world order of peace." Declaring that "our country cannot remain a great world pow er, even for the next fifty years, if she returns to a policy of Iso- .(Continued on page 6). Myiftle Gunshot in Leg Fata! to C:G. Fulton Bullet Reported Fired By Mistake by Partner In Devil's Knob Region C. G. Fulton, 62, Myrtle Creek mill worker, died Tuesday after noon from a gunshot wound re portedly inflicted bv a hunting partner. Harold O. Bav, 26, Sher iff O. T. Carter reported today. Shot through the upper part of the leg, Fulton died Irom loss ol blood while being carried on an improvised stretcher from the Devil s Knob district into litter. W. A. Rutter. B. E. Coulter and Guy Way were other members of the five-man hunting party, ah are employes of the Orwest Mill company at Mvrtle Creek. Coroner H. C. Stearns and Sheriff Carter, who investigated the accident, reported they were informed by the hunters that (Continued on page 6) National Unify in Taxes Planned by Western Group PORTLAND. Oct,-' 4 (AP) Representatives of 11 western states taxpayers associations laid plans today for a national organ ization to suonort tax-conserva tion measures and develop a uni fied tax nrogram. Mai. Gen. Albert H. Beedo, ex ecutive committee chairman of the Washington State Taxpayers' association, said unififed activity of taxpayer grouns wasi necessary to keen "organized minorities" from having a "field day." "We must all be marehlni In the same direction," he said. "The Pacific coast cannot be headed in one direction and the Atlantic coast in another, the opposite di rection, with the central states going some other way." A federal law requiring the government to eomnensate state and local agencies for tax reve nue lost because of federal land purchases was urged bv an Ore gon state tax commissioner. As an examnle of diminishing revenue. Earl B. Dav cited Polk county, which he said was forced to boost taxes 9 per cent after much of its land was taken over for Camp Adair. Removal of the land from tax rolls cut 10 school districts' revenue an average of 50 per cent, he said. Dav said local revenues from federal forests have averaged only a cent an acre, whereas pri vate timberland yields an average of 39 cents. Oregon Pickles Taken Over for Armed Forces rORVALLTS, Ore., Oct. 4. (PlMnnv a pickle that G. I.s will be oatinfr next vear has been harvested this summer in Ore gon, the state farm labor office at Oregon State college reported todav. At Scapnoose alone more than 7.000.000 pounds have been har vested from 400 acres adiacent to a local nickle plant, the work be ing done mostly by imported Mevican laborers. The government has reserved 40 ner cent of the nlant's pro duction and ultimately may fake 50 to 60 per cent, II. D. Sheldon, manager, said. More than 16.000 barrels of dill pickles have been filled with most of the rest of the crop brined for future processing into sweets and other sorts. 66 World War II Vets Enroll at Oregon State CORVM.I.IS, Ore.. Oct. 4 (API Sixtv-six World war II veterans are amon the some 2 000 students enrolWl ' Ore pon State college this fall, the registrar's office reported todav. Thirty-two of the vets are re cefvinf government assistance through a federal rehabilitation pram and 34 ar" enrolled under the so-called "GI bill of rights" act. All colepe expenses are paid for these veterans. Pat Glenn Gets Editor Post on O. S. C. Paper CORVMJ.IS, Ore.. Oct. 4 ' AP) First co-ed editor of the 'VVvear-old Oregon State CoIIcre Barometer was annointed this week. She is Pat Glenn of Rose burg. The student paner will nuhllsh twice weeklv this vear, Instead of dally. Miss Glenn Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Glenn, Roseburg, Creek i X li ?7klf jf it; SOME SONG ! Lt. David Stanley Crockett, USNR, above, of Indianapolis, Ind., wonders if It was the song or the shells that caused 500 Germans to surrender to him. Crockett, a fighter pilot, was shot down over Toulon, France, and cap tured. He and fellow-prisoners sang "God Bless America" dur ing an all-day allied bombard ment of the naiis. Then the Germans' commanding officer summoned Crockett and sur rendered himself and men. F. R. Asks Petrillo To Remove Ban on WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (AP) President Roosevelt today call ed on James Petrillo, head of the American Federation of musi cians, to lift his ban on the mak ing of musical recordings, saying what you regard as your loss will certainly be your country's gain." Mr. Roosevelt sent a telegram to Petrillo terminating a case which long has been before the War Labor board and stabiliza tion director Fred Vinson. In the wire he said that be cause a war emergency is not ere ated by the union ban the gov ernment cannot force the musi cians to return to making records but that lt should be lifted "In the interest of orderly government." The WLB has entered direc tives in the dispute between the electrical transcription manufac turers and the American Federa tion of Musicians directing that, the federation withdraw its ban, but Petrillo has not complied. Lifer Escapes From Idaho Prison Grounds BOISE, IDAHO, Oct. 4. (AP) William Behler of Grangeville, once sentenced .to death for murder In Idaho county, escaped from the state penitentiary grounds today. The convict fled from a gang working outside the prison walls, and probably headed into the Boise river country. Behler was convicted of killing Storekeeper John G. Gllbertz at Ferdinand during an attempted robbery In 1943, and sentenced to be hanged. The Idaho supreme court re duced the sentence to life' im prisonment. Priscilla Wade, Hurt in Accident, Now On Mend The condition of Priscilla Wade, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. B, Wade, Roseburg, was re norted as satisfactory today at Mercy hospital, where she is re ceiving attention for Injuries suf fered Sunday evening, when the horse which she was riding stumbled nnd fell with her. She suffered a badly cut chin and sev eral stitches were necessary to close the wound. She expects to leave the hospital this week and return to her home on South Kane street. ' Five Northwest Men Named Advisors of OPA WASHINGTON. Oct. 4 (AP) Five men from Oregon and Washington have been named by the OPA as Its advisory commit tee on custom milling and kiln drying of western softwoods. Members of the committee who are to organize here Oct. 7 are William Easterhrook, Seattle; George Petrich, Tacoma, D. W. Taylor, Vancouver, Wash., S. R. Smith and R. L. Stevenson, Portland. ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Deer Yanks at Area Air Oil Center Pounded to Ruins Soviet Flood Pours Close To Belgrade MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (AP) Rus sian machinegunners in Ameri can jeeps, with Yugoslav parti sans acting as guides, speared westward along the Danube less than 20 miles from Belgrade to day. Nearly all Yugoslav territory east of the big elbow formed by the confluence of the Oanube and Tisza rivers was reported swept clenn of German resistance by Red army forces advancing like a flood from the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps more than 50 miles beyon the Danubian Jron gate. Front line reports told of the Germans fleeing after the Rus sians broke up their counter-attacks in the vicinity of Petrov grad, important rail junction of 33,000 population 37 miles from the Yugoslav capital. East of Belgrade Yugoslav help speeded another Russian (Continued on page 6) Nazi Guerillas Plan Death War, Goebbels Says YLONDON, Oct. 4 (AP) Ger man Propaganda Minister Goeb bels declared today that the al lies have opened an ollout of fensive against Germany and that the nazis are prepared to wage guerrilla warfare to the death. In a speech broadcast by Ber lin. Goebbels said: "Our enemies have unleashed an all-out offensive on our fron tiers of gigantic impact In order to win a speedy and, first of all, not too costly victory." The propaganda minister said the allies wanted to end the war In Europe before winter nnd be fore the November elections in the United States. Canadian Bomber Crash Kills at Least 3 Men VANCOUVER. B. C, Oct. 4 (CP) Three airmen were killed and possibly others were missing in the crash of a Royal Canadian air force bomber early todav on Salt Spring island in the Gulf of Georgia, 30 miles southwest of Vancouver. Western air command said It was not known immediately how many were aboard the plane. Tumble in Subway Fatal PORTLAND, Oct. 4 (API Charles O. Slatter, 27, Vanport City, a shipyard worker, tumbled 15 feet to his death into a sub way entrance here today. Two police patrolmen caid they saw the man sit on the rail of a safety island a moment, then tumble over backwards. Peacetime Tax Cut Pledged by Dewey If G. O. P. Wins; Asserts Today's Levies Pay for Extravagance as Well as War ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 4. (AP) His sights fixed on an annual postwar national Income of $150,000,000,000, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey stood committed today to a program of cutting peacetime taxes on Individuals and businesses, if the republicans win In November. The republican presidential nominee, in a nationwide radio ,-irMress last night, called for s!m ipficatinn of what he termed "mtr 9vlst'ng. confuted and com "'leatf ri t"X laws" which he said 'h"eatened to form a rond hi. irk In the way of nostwar progress Daw asserted that the an nual cost of government conoid rii" the likelihood of a S.W t(X). 000 000 national debt and the ne cessity of maintaining "adeouate ormed forces" would reouire federal levies far above prewar lovlc. "Rut It Is utterly Imnosslhle to iiinnosp thnt w can sunnort our ''ovornmrnt bv leaving heavy trx es unon a dwindling national In come." he doclired. "Our first aim." he continued "must b" to Increase our national 'ncome bv nutting to work nil of the nroductlve resources of our eountrv Industry, labor and ag rleulture. It Is far better to have a low tax rate with a nntlonal In come of $150,000.000 000 than a national Income of $76,000,000,000 OCTOBER 4, 1 944. Hunter Bay in Last China Base; Japs' Borneo "No Tickee, No Washee" Laundry Edict Stymies Customer of 12 Years CHICAGO, Oct. 4 (AP) Mrs. Ray Lepovetsky has patronized Willie Lee's laundry for 12 years, always has approved his work, but yesterday she complained to police. Mrs. Lepovetsky told Sgt. Wal ter Rentflejsz she had mislaid her laundry ticket and Lee had re fused to get her her bundle. "Willie knows me nnd my laun dry as well as he does the back of his own hand, but he won't give me my laundry," she com plained. Sgt. Rentflejsz was sympathetic but philosophical: "You've bump ed yourself up agninst a problem that the police, FBI, army, navy, and marine can't help you with. Nobody has ever been able to get anywhere in a Chinese laundry without a ticket." Mrs. Lepovetsky went shop ping. Neutrals Warned On loot" Refuge WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (AP) The United States and British governments have sent notes to neutral nations requesting that they prevent axis leaders from "retaining their loot" or "finding safe haven" for their wealth in neutral territories. . Reviewing methods bv which enemy officials and particularly nazl leaders have sought to plant weaitn ror tnelr tuture use in neutral safety, a state depart ment statement issued today de clared: "In anticipation of Impending defeat, the enemy is increasing these activities in order to sal vage his assets and to perpeuate his economic influence abroad and his power and ability to plan future aggrandizement and world domination." The reouest for measures against protecting the wealth of enemy governments ana me leaders and their collaborators" apparently went to all neutral countries except Argentina. 30 Indicted for Recent Strike in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4 (AP) A special federal grand jury which investigated the Aug. 1-7 Philadelphia Transit strike today indicted 30 employes of the Phila delphia Transportation company on charges of violating the War Labor disputes act. The unauthorized strike tied up all bus. trolley and subway traf fic in Philadelphia, causing war production losses and giving rise to race violence. Four of those indicted were ar rested during the strike on charg es of violating the war labor dis putes act. nnd a high tax rate, as we had un der the new deal at its peacetime best." Would Aid Little Fellow His first step, Dewey said, would be to urpe revision of per sonal exemptions "so that the man who makes as little as $11 a week no longer has an Income tax taken out of his pay envel ope." Dewey made no direct refer ence to proposals to increase war time taxes above their present levels, such as President Roose velt's request to rnnm-ess last winter for an W 000,000 000 boost In levies. Wendell L. Wlllkle. the 10'0 G. O. P. nominee, suhse nuentlv said this projected total should be doubled hut congress resnonded with an Inerenre of slightly more than $2,000,000,000. Dewev qald, that the people "cheerfully pay hlch taxes to meet the cost of the war." (Continued on page 6). No. 44-147 Killed Philippines Puppet Shies At War Entry (Bv the Associated Press) American warplanes crowded into their only remaining air base In southeast China main tained a constant attack on threatening Japanese columns to day while U. S. bombers In the ijacitic. operating irom an ever increasing number of lields, smashed "the most lucrative stra tegic target In the Pacific" Bor neo's Bankpapan on center. The plight of American airmen driven from half a dozen evacuat ed fields to the Lluchow airdrome lent sunnort to Tokyo propagan da broadcast that "this is to be a lone war." Other Jananese broadcasts told of the deaths of seven more Japa nese rear admirals and Indicated the Filipinos would not fight Americnn invasion iorces. ioKyo has reported the death of 19 ad mirals within a month. One Dome! news agency radio cast quoted.Jose P. Laurel, puppet president of the Philippines, as refusing to allow "the remnant of Filipino manhdbd to be deci mated on the battlefield and by disease or to take up arms and tight In this war." Jan OH Center Blaftted Gen. MacArthur. Who Is expect ed to lead the Phlllnplno Inva sion, announced 60 of his army Liberators had scored telling blows nnd left huge fires raging at Balikpapan, Japan s "most im portant source of aviation gasO' line nnd lubricating oils." The Liberators fought their way through 30 Interceptors to loose 74 tons of explosives on the Pandansari gasoline refraction towers and the paraffin refinery. Seven Interceptors and three Lib- (Continued on page 6) ikes Overpay DETROIT. Oct. 4 (AP) The huge war production nrogram In the Detroit area wns Impaired to dav as maintenance workers In more than a score of factories be ean a strike which their union of ficers said earlier would he defer red pending a meeting with the war Lanor Hoard. Bebore noon 3.000 maintenance employes had left their 1obs. 11 nlants had been closed down, and more than 50.000 workers had been sent home. Maintenance workers In 10 other factories had left their 1ohs and additional closings nffeeting another 50,000 or more workers were said by comnanv snokesmen as probable. The strike grew out of a dls nute between the maintenance. construction nnd pnwerhotise workers council of the United Alt tomohlle Workers (CIO) and the War Lnhor Board over procedure for handlln" wage demands. Closed Ihls forenoon were sev en nlants of the Briggs Manufac turing company: the Wvomlng nlant f the De Soto division of Chrvsler Cornoratlon: the Chrys ler East Jefferson avenue plant nnd two factories of the Kelsey Haves Wheel comnanv. Others affected but maintain ing curtailed nnerntlons Included the Packard Molor Cnr comnanv nlant; American Metal Products: three Hudson Motor Car com nanv factories: L. A. Young Soring & Wire Co.. Tlmken-De. troit company; Continental Mo tors Corn.: Chrvsler Tank Arsen al nnd 7enlth carburetor division of BendW Aviation Corp. Most of the factories are ongae- ed in various types of aircraft manufacture. Clayton Quits as Surplus Property Administrator WASHINGTON. Oct. 4 (AP) War Moblllzer James F. Byrnes todav announced the resignation of Will L. Clnvton as surplus property administrator. It came a dav after President Roosevelt slpned legislation set tine un a board to stinerv1 dis posal of an estimated $100 billion worth of war poods, legislation Clavton previously had branded unworkable. Bloody Battle Rages at Metx Fort; Dunkerque Truce Frees Civilians LONDON. Oct. 4 (AP) i American tanks rumbled today Into a 21 mile breach in Ger many's Siegfried line above Aachen and fanned out, bringing; their guns and armor Into sup port of a doughboy drive against backstop defenses guarding Co logne. t ne nrst army smasn naa car ried two miles Into Germany it self, AP Correspondent Don Whitehead reported. Supremo neauquitrters earner aeciarea ine drive had carried three miles be yond Ubach, a mile Inside the irontier, to one or the enemy a main escape roads above Aachen. Infantrymen had torn the broadening hole In the westwall defenses, beating off three Ger man counter-blows. The Germans were bringing up tanks and guns to meet the growing threat. Battle Raaes at Ft. Drlant Some 125 miles to the south, U. S. Third army troops battled ' at Fort Drlant, most formidable of the fortresses guarding Metz. Supreme headquarters said the doughboys had won full control of the fort, but a front dispatch told of bitter fighting continuing late in the afternoon against Ger mans In underground tunnels and fortllfcatlons. German counter-attacks early today were surprisingly feeble, one allied officer told Whitehead. "Those counter-attacks didn't have the zip and sting normally to be expected from first line German Infantry," he said. "None of the attacks had that Quality. The answer to that is that the enemy Just hasn't got enough. first class troops." There were Indications that the Germans had been taken by sur prise, and did not have reserves to mount heavy counter actions. Opposing units are watered down with old men, youths, and non Germans. Civilians Oult Dunkerque ' , At Dunkerque, last channel port held by the Germans, a 48 hour truce permitted evacuation of civilians before the final as saults by British and Canadian troops eager to avenge the mem ory of the Dunkerque withdraw-' al in 1040. There -was a strong likelihood that tfc o enemy, as at Calais, will be rbady to surrender shortly - (Continued nn page 6) Coast Guardsman Thomas j. Weber ; Lost in Hurricane Thomas J. Weber, coxswain with the coast guard, was lost at sea Sept. 16, in the hurricane which struck the Atlantic coast, according to word received by his cousin, Ralph Weaver, of Myrtle Creek, with whom Coxswain Weber made his home for two years prior to enlistment In the coast guard In August 1942. Weber, it was reported, was serving on a vessel escorting a merchnnt ship which had been damaged off the North Carolina coast, when ho was lost over board during the storm. Ho was a graduate of the Can yonville high school with the class of 1942. Ho was married at Maywood, N. J., June 24, 1944, to Rita Bode and is survived by his wife: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Jay Weber, and two sis ters. Jo and Jane Weber. Hins dale, Illinois. Sizable Revenue Seen in Slot Machine Licensing MOSCOW. Ida.. Oct. 4 (API- Slot machines will be licensed in Moscow, but the city council In passing a licensing ordinance yes terday Included a paragraph de claring the action did not mean to legalize any machines or de vices "prohibited by the statutes of Idaho." The city will tax 1-cent machin es S5 monthly; 5-centers $15 monthly; 10-centers $30 monthly; 25-centers $75 monthly; 50-cent-ers $150, and $1 machines $300 per month. un the basis of the number of machines now operating in clubs and lodge rooms here, the city would receive $23,000 annually in revenue from the licenses. British Bomber Hits Nazi Battleship Tirpitz LONDON. Oct. i (AP) Rus. sian based Lancaster bombers of the RAF recently scored a direct nit wnn a li!,u00pound bomb on the German battleship Tirpitz, it was disclosed tonight. Lvtty pact Rant In years past, arrival of th Southern Pacific pay car in Roseburg was acclaimed a "banner" day. Slmilfar lation Is now registered vhen arrival of a freight car or truck heralds "banana" day. 1 r