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HISTORIC AACHEN BEING DEMOLISHED Blasted by American artillery and aircraft, invaded
by infantry, following refusal of the German garrison to surrender, the 1,148-year old city of
Aachen, pictured above, is being gradually reduced to rubble. Aachen, originally known as Aix-La-Chapelle,
was the headquarters of Charlesmagne. He was born, died and buried there.
Russians Within 9 Miles of
East Prussia; Hungary About
To Quit, A ustrians Warned
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS . -
THE Japs are taking over Fu
klen province, in China (again
they took it once before, and
evacuated it; that was before WE
became a threat). Fukien is just
back of the island of Formosa.
Tokyo says the operation is
"part of our move to forestall U.
S. landings from the Pacific
which would SEVER OUR COM
MUNICATIONS with the south
ern region."
COMMUNICATIONS! They, are
the little yellow men's con
stant bugbear.. They have more
islands than ships to supply them
with and we are sinking MORE
of their ships every day.
So they ' have to take to the
land, in China, and conquer a
railroad. When we get to the
Philippines, we'll even be within
bomber range of their precious
railroad.
JAPAN isn't whipped, by any
means. But the Japs know by
this time how the British felt
when Hitler's submarines were
sinking Britain's ships faster than
more could be built.
THE fighting at Germany's west
ern border is bloody and terri
ble. A dispatch the other day re-
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Permit for $12 Million
Lumber Plant Sale Asked
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.
(AP) Sale of the huge Red Riv
er Lumber Co., the town of West
wood, Lassen county, which it
owns, and some 84,000 acres of
timber land, was proposed in ap
plications filed today with the
state railroad commission. The
Northern Counties Utility Co.,
Los Angeles, has options to buy
for an aggregate of around $12,
000,000. The utility company, recently
formed, was organized by Fruit
Growers' Supply Co., a co-operative,
and an affiliate of the Cali
fornia Fruit Growers' exchange
which markets about 75 per cent
of the state's fresh citrus crop.
The fruit companies already
own big lumber mills at Hilts, Sis
kiyou county, and Susanville, but
need other supplies for shipping
boxes.
The Red River company is a
Minnesota corporation.
Sgt. N. B. Pendergrass,
Wounded, Said On Mend
Sergeant Norris S. Pender
grass, son of Mrs. Margaret Pen
dergrass, who esldes at 811
Fleser street, Roseburg, is report
ed by the War department to be
making improvement in his
health, following his being
wounded in the invasion and bat
tle of southern France no August
18. Sgt. Pendergrass is in the
tank division. He has a twin
brother also serving in the U. S.
forces.
S-
Sailors, Coast Guards Up '
Output of Coos Sawmills
MARSHFIELD, Ore'., Oct. 13
(AP) Coos bay sawmills are
stepping up their output whh the
help of sailors and coast guards
men, Lt. C. M. Merkel, executive
officer at the North Bend air
base, reported.
The service men are permitted
to work In essential industries by
a new navy policy and many are
in me mills, ne saia.
MOSCOW, Oct. 13. (AP) Russian tanks and infantry stormed
the centuries-old Junkers lands of East Prussia, barely nine miles
northeast of the important city of Tilsit today, while in doomed
Hungary the victorious red army raced for the 160-mile-distant
Austrian frontier.
The East Prussian frontier was
American Planes
Bomb Austrian,
Silesian Regions
LONDON, Oct. 13 (API-
Powerful forces of American
bombers from Italy attacked the
Vienna area, German Silesia and
western Hungary today while
fleets from' Britain and France
pounded heavily at nazl front line
positions on the western front. r
The homhers from Itnlv attack-'
ed industrial objectives and rail
roads over which the Germans
were supplying their troops in
the swaying lines in Hungary be
fore the red army march against
Budapest.
Overnight, British Mosquitos
from Britain bombed the German
port of Hamburg and unspecified
targets in western Germany.
One night plane was lost. A
German minesweeper was set
afire off the Dutch coast last
night.
U. S. bombers based in France
added their weight to the siege
of Aachen by attacking bridges
and road junctions outside the
frontier Prussian city.
The U. S. Ninth air force yes
terday delivered attacks on Aach
en and German communications
in the Ruhr, where 62 locomotives
were destroyed and 31 damaged.
nanwavs were cut at places
and 207 railway cars knocked
out.
Three heavy bombers and 17
other planes are missing from
yesterday's aerial operations in
the Mediterranean sector, which
included strafing of airfields and
other targets in Austria and Hun
gary. Eighteen enemy planes were
shot down.
Health of Roosevelt
"Okay," Physician Says
NEW YORK, Oct. 13. (AP)-r-Demoeratic'
National Chairman
Robert Hannegan said today
"apparently there Is a whisper
ing campaign going on and be
ing intensified about the presi
dent's health."
Hannean made the comment at
a press conference after calling
attention to a newspaper story
quoting Vice Admiral Ross Mcln
tire, the president's personal phy
sician, as saying "the president's
health is perfectly okay."
Sleepii
ing Tablets Blamed
For Evangelist's Death
OAKLAND. Calif., Oct. 13
(AP) A coroner's jury today re
turned a verdict that evangelist
Almee Semole McPherson died
last Sept. 27 "from an accidental
overdose" of sleeping tablets.
The jury of 13 persons, includ
ing four women, deliberated only
a short time.
A pathologist told the jury the
evangelist had died "of shock and
respiratory failure due to over
dosage of a barbital compound"
and a kidney ailment.
Says Smaller States May
Decide Presidential Race
WEISER, Idaho, Oct. 13.
AP) This year's presidential
election mav be so close that the
votes cast In smaller states will
be the deciding factors, , Rellly
AtKinson, iormer state republican
chairman, ' predicted here today
The present trend, he told a
party meeting, is toward G. O. P.
Nominee Thomas E. Dewey.
cracked in the Memelland sector.
Hitler annexed this region from
Lithuania in 1939 thus recover
ing territory which was held by
Germany for hundreds of years
before the first World war.
Great offensives against the
northern and southern extremity
of the reich rolled back maimed
German divisions like driftwood
in a flood.
Hungary's admission of defeat
was expected hourly Russian col
umns were converging on Buda
pest along the main rail lines, ap
proximately 60 miles east of the
capital, and reportedly less than
that-on the south; All major com
munications between Hungary
and Serbia were reported in Rus
sian hands.
Wilting Hungarian resistance
all along the invasion front seem
ed to substantiate diplomatic
hints that the exhausted satellite
nation was about to quit Hitler.
The mop-up of Hungary was
counted on to prepare the spring
board for the invasion of Austria
as well as to assure the early lib
eration of the Croatian and Slo
venian areas of Yugoslavia, and
to pinch off the Germans In Slo
vakia. Austria Given Warning
(Turkish sources said Berlin
had urged Austrians to dig for
their lives in a frenzy of frontier
spadework near Vienna. The
broadcast proclamations appeal
ed to tne populations to louow tne
example of "the East Prussians
and Rhinelanders," and said that
all able-bodied men and women
in the Vienna region were at or
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German War Prisoners
Aid in Apple Harvest
SEATLE, Oct. 13. (AP) Ger
man prisoners of war numbered
in the hundreds were disclosed
today to be aiding the allied cause
by working in the record-breaking
Washington apple harvest.
Many of the prisoners, ranging
in age from 20 to 34 years, still
wear the distinctive caps of the
German Afrika korps.
The government is paid $6.50
per day for use of the pickers on
the basis of a 65-box estimate
about one-third the pick of an ex
pert. The prisoners are paid bv
the government in script, which
may be used in their prison can
teens. Local Slaughter Permit
Aids Cattle Raisers
SPOKANE, Oct. 13. (AP) A
program to make It possible for
farmers to grade and sell cattle
locally in small towns to elimin
ate shinning to slaughter houses
and back was conferred upon yes
terday bv national, regional and
district officials of the OPA.
H. H. Williamson, national
agricultural OPA advisor, said
"present plans are to distribute
Information to the farmer as to
how to stamp and grade his own
meat along with regulations re
garding the collection of ration
stamps on the meat he sells."
Proposed Dams Seen as
Menace to Fish Life
PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (API
State game commission biologists
said today that "the cost of re
plenishing fish losses will prob
ably be $4,000,000 If a high bar
rier is erected on the main Rogue
river."
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife ser
vice cooperated in a survey.
The game commission also Is
sued a preliminary report to the
effect that dams at any of seevral
sites surveyed would prove detri
mental to fish life.
Established 1873
Yank Raid on
221 Nippon Planes, 26 Ships
Island Under
Another Blow
Today, Report
Installations Damaged
Extensively; American
Loss Set at 22 Planes
(By the Associated Press)
American warplanes renewed
their attack on Formosa today, a
Japanese imperial communique"
reported.
The broadcast said the "enemy
planes" which made a 1,000-plane
raid on the big island guarding
the central China coast Thurs
day, struck again Friday morn
ing (Japanese time).
"Fighting still continued on
both sides up to about noon," tho
communique said.
A previous Tokvo broadcast as
serted one American carrier was
sunk and another damaged off
Formosa in night-long attacks
Thursday.
Domei, Japanese news agency,
said in an English language
broadcast that China-based planes
of the 14th U. S. air force parti
cipated in the Formosa raid.
Domei said this was "of particu
lar significance" and indicated fu
ture strikes would be joint oper
ations of land-based and sea
borne planes.
Previous Toll Reported
In Thursday's raid by U. S. car
rier forces the fourth successive
powerhouse smash at Japan's in
ner defense line 221 Japanese
planes were destroyed, 26 cargo
snips jvi?ru suiik mm 19 uiners
damaged, Admiral. Nlmltz . an
nounced today from his Pearl
Harbor headquarters.
This was the first confirmation
of Tokyo radio reports that a
thousand nlanes had raided the
island blockading the approach to
the China coast.
The mighty strike only 575
miles south of Japan proper cli
maxed a series of attacks on the
Philippines, Formosa, the Rvuk
yus and Marcus within four days.
Onee again Admiral Halsey's
mighty Third fleet failed to find
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Petrillo's Defi Forces
Roosevelt to Eye Law
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AP)
President Roosevelt said today
he would like to do something
about the refusal of James C. Pe
trillo's musicians union to make
recordings for two major com
panies, but added that he would
have to look into the law first.
A week ago the president wired
Petrillo asked him to to lift the
ban, but Petrillo declined to do
so unless RCA-Victory and Co
lumbia would sign contracts with
his union as he said others had
done.
The president said it is a great
question whether he can legally
force the head 5f the musicians'
union to remove his restrictions
on record-making.
War Costs $93 Billion
Yearly, Morgenthau Says
DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 13. (AP)
Ninety-three billion dollars an
nually are being spent to keep
the nation's war machine rolling,
Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau said here, adding that
there would be a seventh war
loan drive.
Morgenthau stopped last night
en route by plane to Los Anceles.
Members of his party snid the
seventh war loan would he an
nounced from the west coast.
New Ladies Dress Shop
Will Open in Roseburg
Opening of the "Excel Dress
Shopne" at 124 N. J irkson street
has been announ for the lat
ter part of next we"k by the own
er. Mrs. Freda Child, former'v
with the Charles ferg store In
Portland. Mrs. Ch'Ul report"! that
the shop will cairv an exclusive
line of ladies readvtn-wear and
accessories and will feature
youthful fashions for women of
all ages. The shop is located In
the building formerly occupied by
Dr. P, L. Clinton.
Conscientious Obiector
Killed by Falling Tree
PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (API
George R. Watklns, 30. stationed
at a conscientious ohlectorc' enmo
near here, was killed yesterday
by a falling tree.
Watklns. a former resident of
Athol, Idaho, was working on a
forest service road-building pro
ject .
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ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 3, 1 944.
White Girl Becomes Wife
Of Jap-American Despite
Her Mother's Protest
Eugenia Sperling, 19, above,
of Spokane, Wash., who laBt
Monday was married to Japan-
Sse-American Pvt. Massao G,
uroki by an army chaplain
at Fort '.awton Wash., de
spite parental objections. Army
spokesmen In announcing the
the marriage, forbidden by Eu
genia's mother, said the army
regarded the Idaho-born Jap
American soldier In no differ
ent light than any other sol
..dler. Mrs. Sperling last week
told reporters she wanted to
have nothing to do with "any
Jap."
Liberation at Hand,
Gen. Wilson Tells Greece
ROME, Oct. 13. (AP) Gen.
Sir Henry Wilson, supreme allied
commander in the Mediterranean,
said in a broadcast tonight that
,'a force under my command is
about to land in Greece" and
that kingdom's liberation was at
hand.
Unofficial reports said that the
Greek flag was flying over the
acropolis in Athens and that the
Athens radio was in allied hands.
Allied proclamations were
broadcast promising immediate
aid to the Greeks.
Rome radio broadcast an "offi
cial announcement" today that
Athens has been evacu'iteil by the
Germane -and its administration
is in the hands of Greek patriots.
Exhibit of Days Creek
Girl Wins State Title
PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (AP)
Chamnions of the state 4-H club
handicraft show being held here
this week include Maxine Wright,
Days Creek, nine-jar exhibit.
Mr- cn
Italian People will be Permitted
To Choose Own Government When
Allies Whip Nazis, Roosevelt Says
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AP) President Roosevelt, saying
the American army entered Italy "not as conquerors but as libera
tors," has promised the Italian people that they "will be free to
work out their own destiny, under a government of their own
choosing" when the allies defeat Germany.
"The untied nations ro deter
mined thnt every noss'ble meas
ure be taken to aid the Italian
Doople directly and to give them
an onnortunitv to helo themselv
es," the president said last ni"ht
In a radio address from the White
House.
It was directed to the meeting
of the Italian-American labor
council In New York In accept
ance of the council's four free
doms award.
Earlier, Mr. Roosevelt address
ed chiefs of diplomatic missions
from the other American repub
lics on the occasion of Columbus
).iv. Recalling the millions of
Italians who have .followed Co
lumbus to the western hemi
sphere, he said:
"This is one of the many rea
sons why the forces of liberation
have been welcomed so cordially
uy tne Italian people after ii
year of fascism."
Saying aviation has brought
Formosa Bags
Bricker Talks
To Throng of
3,000 Here
"When Tom Dewey Is eleet
ed as the next president of
the United States he will
need the services of Senator
Guy Cordon, Congressman
Harris Ellsworth and Wayne
Morse, republican candidate
for senator," Governor John
I W. Brlcker, republican nom
inee for vioe-presldent, told a
cheering crowd of approxi
mately 3,000 people at the
Roseburg station today dur
ing a 15-mlnute rear platform
taik.
Lashing out at bureaucratic
controls, which he Insisted must
end as soon as the war is over,
he declared that "we must have
simplification of government. The
more government we can get
from the cross roads and the less
from Washington, the better off
we will be. - . -
"No problem Is too serious if
we attempt its solution honestly
and sincerely," he declared In
sneaking directly to a large group
of young people surrounding the
rear platform of his six-car spe
cial train. "It is the young peo
ple who must face the realities
of government, for the burden of
paying for the war, and extrava
gances of domestic government
will rest upon their shoulders."
It Is the responsibility of the
present generation ha pointed out
to provide employment for the
returning soldiers. "We can pro
vide 1obs." he said, "only If en
couragement is given Industry,
laoor ana agriculture. ..,..
Would Proteot Trade , '
Bricker has taken the stand
thnt America's armed forces
should protect her Interests wher
ever her flag of commerce and
territory flies.
If this nation's trade should
extend around the world, "we
would have to protect our trade,"
he said.
His position was set forth In a
press conference late last night
as the Bricker special train stop
ped over in Eugene. It was an
elaboration of his October 11
speech In Bremerton, Wash.,
where he advocated that America
maintain after the war a "strong
system of outlying military bases
within the sphere of American
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Wage Differentials in
Lumber Industry Hold
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AP)
Refusing to eliminate regional
wage differentials between the
Pacific northwest and the south
west lumber industries, the War
Labor board yesterday declared
the differentials were based on
basic economic factors and could
not be eliminated under the prin
ciple of wages stablization.
The AFL lumber and sawmill
workers had requested an in
crease in the minimum wage rate
from 65 cents an hour to SI .05 for
approximately 2,600 production
emnloyes in seven logging and
milling companies in the Arizona
New Mexico pine lumber area.
Labor members dissented.
The northwest minimum ranges
from 80 to 871 cents an hour.
the "HI pnd the new worlds clos
er, Mr. Roosevelt asserted "that
If we do not now takeeffeclve
measures to prevent- another
World ivnr and If there were to
be n third World war. the lands
of the western hemisphere would
he pr vulnerable to attack from
Europe and Asia as werp the Is
land of Crete and and Philippine
Islands five years ago."
"Our oblectlve." he said. "Is to
cstahllsh the solid foundations of
neace organization without fur
ther delay, nnd without waiting
fo the end of hostilities."
T" New York, Attorney Goner
el Diddle presented the four free
doms nward with the statement
thnt "Long, Inn? after Mussolini
Is onlv a half-forgotten night
mare. Amerlcn and Italian schnl
I ars will be discussing their two
great common heritages the
principles of Columbus-navigator
and oX Roosevelt-liberator."
Review
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Roseburg Flier Evades
Capture by Nazis After
Being Downed in Battle
Lt. Bernard, B. Koller, above,
who spent 56 days dodging Ger
man troops In France, after
being shot down as a member of
a Liberator bomber crew l1
June 8, while participating In D
day invasion attacks, is in Rose
burg, visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. R. Koller, 826 S. Pine
St. His parents only recently
learned of his safety.
Lt. Koller, who was a navigator
qn the bomber flying out of Eng
land, balled out with other mem
bers of his crow from the plane
which was crippled by flak fire
while bombing and! strafing tar
gets aunng tne invasion. '
He was reported missing In ac
tion, but after 56 days rejoined
the allied forces when they
swept over the town where he
had been in hiding. .
He was overseas In the Euro
pean theater for three months.
F. R. Advised to Silence,
Browder, Hillman, Wallace
WASHINGTON. Oct: 13. (AP)
Senator Johnson (D.-Colo.)
said today that President Roose
velt's campaign managers "oueht
to put Earl Browder, Sidney Hill
man and Henry. Wallace in cold
storage along with Eleanor" for
the remainder of the camnaign.
"They are proving to bo a mill
stone around the president's
neck," Johnson told a news con
ference. "Browder just antagon
izes people, Hillmtin has been so
far out In front in tho campaign
that he has made himself an is
sue, and as for Wallace well,
that angle speaks for itself.
Supporters Urge Dewey
To "Keep on Punching"
ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 13. (AP)
Urged by supporters to "keen
puncTiing," Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey prepared today for a new
invasion of the west in which he
may lay down the heaviest bar
rage of his attack on the Roose
velt administration.
Due to leave Sunday for a ma
lor campaign speech in St. Louis
Monday night, the republican
presidential nominee heard the
head of his Michigan alumni
club assert last night that only
b "keeping punching" could he
win the presidency.
PGE Asks Salem Vote
On Co Op Utility Plan
SALEM, Ore., Oct. 13. (AP)
The Portland General Electric Co.
asked the Salem cltv council to
day to call a special election to
let the voters decide whether the
Salem Electric cooperative shall
he given a franchise to operate in
the citv.
The PGE company agreed to
share the cost of the election with
the cooperative.
The cooperative distributes
Bonneville power, and was or
ganized by a group of Salem
businessmen.
F. R. Orders Speed On
Farm Machinery Output
WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. (AP)
President Roosevelt directed
WPB Chnlrman Krug todav to
sten up the production of farm
machinery so that the United
States can continue Its record
high food production Into the
postwar nerlod.
In addition to domestic needs,
tho president said tho United
States w'll have vart food exports
after the war, both through
UNRRA for liberated countries
and through commercial chan
nel of foreign trade.
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Yanks Fight in
Streets; Nazis
Rushing Tanks
City Reported 85 Perct.
Destroyed; Escape Route
Eastward Being Closed
OUTSIDE AACHEN, Oot.
13 (5:50 p. m.) (AP) The
berman escape gap leading
east from Aachen was cut to
. half a mile tonight and was
being closed. 1 -
(Bv the Associated Press)
U. S. First army- doughboys .
fought into Aachen block by
block today, and the Germans
rushed up reinforcements.
A major tank battle was in
prospect, and Berlin reported the
Americans, also, were bringing up
reinforcements. Shifting armor
I from Holland, the Germans roll
ed up a heavy tank force toward
the wrecked smoking city of Ger
man kings, which Berlin said
was virtually flattened by an -unprecedented
steamroller of fire."
Dlvebombers screamed down
against the holed-un defenders.
and returning airmen reported
the city 85 per cent destroyed or
I damaged. North of Aachen, the
uermans hurled a neavy counter
attack in the Bardenberg area. .
At the deenest point of pene
tration Into Germany Americans
moved ahead slightly In the Stol
berer sector east of Aachen, and
i to the south, took vossenack aft
er driving all the way through
the Hurtgen fir forest.
A counter-attack threw them
back slightly.
Foe En Route Strafed
While the fighting carried into
Aachen shells and bombs poured
on enemy troops and armor mov
ing alone secondary roads In tho
vicinity of Rohe, five miles north
east of Aachen.
The enemy kept his columns
off the main roads and no traffic
moved on broad Adolf Hitler
highway from the direction of
Cologne. But on the side roads
there was a heavy movement of
troops toward Aachen. -The
Germans threw In Tiger
tanks and artillery at Aachen,
Benin said. They also sent
swarms of fighter planes, largest
forces In recent weeks to be com
mitted to a single action, against
U. S. positions last night as First
army Infantry fought iro the
northeastern factory district. In
flaming sky battles, 12 nnd
planes and possibly two more
we're shot down for a loss of four
American fighters. - -
Other U. 8. Units Gain ' ! ! '
On the allied southern flank,
U. S. Seventh armv forces pain
ed in the drive toward the Bel
fort gap, and In the center, the
Third army took Parroy on the
east fringe of the Parroy forest,
east of Luneville. Other Third
army troops battled hand-to-hand
with Germans in Mezieres-Les-Mez,
five miles north of the for
tress citv of Metz.
New battles developed swiftly
In the north.
After a sharp attack . against
enemy positions west of the
Meuse river, tank-sunported Brit
ish Tommies captured the German-held
Dutch town of Over
loon, ten miles from the relch
border, and surged Into the woods
beyond. They also exnloited a
sudden nazl withdrawal from a
12-mile wide bridgehead on the
south bank of the Neder Rhine.
In the north the Canadians
landed reinforcements for their
bridgehead south of tho Seholde
.river in southwest Holland, and
extenoea tneir nolo across the
Leopold canal In Belgium.
German Resistance Still
Slows Allies in Italy
ROME, Oct. 13 (AP) Heavy
fighting flared up in the hills
along the Florence-Bologna road
today following yesterday's mas
sive air assault on German posi
tions and Installations south of
Bologna, key communication:!
center of the Po valley.
Allied headquarters announced
that Fifth army troops took mora
than 300 prisoners in the new as
sault in the central Italian sec
tor. Aided by warm weather Ameri
can forces pushed ahead in thii
wake of yesterday's tremendous
aerial attacks and partly flanked
the town of Llvergnana, 10 miles
south of Bologna, tho communi
que said. i
The doughboys again encoun
tered stiff enemy resistance. In
describing the heavy fighting as
tride a highway the communique
said "no material advances have
been made."
Aged Man Perishes as
Fire Destroys His Home
TILLAMOOK, Ore., Oct. 13.
(AP) Fire which destroyed his
home at Bay Ocean near here
yesterday took the life of George
Baker, 76, whose body was found
In the smouldering ruins. Causa
of the fire was not determined.
LvtfryFcRnt
Th Oration election halls
for Nov. 7 lists nine measures
for verdicts of the voters. None,
however, provide for free cig
arettes, nylon hosiery, bananas
or gasoline bonuses as an In
ducement for voters to ao to
the polls. -