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MKEMTInI IIP-. LiWE E m Yanks Overrun Foe's Strong Defense Lines Captured Airdromes to Be Converted Into Base; . Freedom Reestablished ' Review -Buy 'Em, Hold 'Em War bond! for victory now, for security in the future. Shelf out for a knockout. Lay 'em away for a rainy day. mm Established 1873 East Prussianytfghway Qemiteir Ot Goldlap Jaheti by Offensive on Entire Border Is Broadened Russians Also Drive to Border of Norway, Score Fresh Gains in Balkans ' LONDON, Oct. 23. (AP) Rus sia troops have captured the East Prussian highway center of Gol dap, 18 miles inside Germany, and have broadened their offen sive along the entire eastern boundary of the province, the German communique said today. "Deep penetration" in nazl lines between Goldap and Su walki were acknowledged. The Germans said the front now was 10 airline miles long from beseiged Memel, northern most German claimed city, and Augustow in the Suwalki sector at the southeast corner of East Prussia. Goldap, at the top of the wild Masurian lake country, was the scene of a von Hindenberg tri umph early In the last war when he collapsed the invading Rus sian west wing and crushed the Czar's armies with losses of 100,000 men. - At the extreme tip of the east- (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News Tlx, TTRAWtt" TTTMVTMC f nvH 'VH Tf n pn inp .tan npnm Wf T-i i i a it . rur weens, we uuinueu .Min danao, leading him to think we were going to land there. Then we landed SOMEWHERE ELSE on Leyte, about midway in the Philippine group. Partly because the Jap was fooled and .partly because we have him heavily outweighed in fire power, we're ASHORE ON LEYTE (always the ticklish mo ment of an invasion) with rela tively light losses. FIRST we took the screening Is lands at the mouth of Leyte gulf. Then our minesweepers went in and cleared the way to the beaches of Leyte island. (This took THREE DAYS, but still the Japs didn't get onto us or stop us.) Through the channel thus cleared we poured a mighty ar mada of transports and protect ing warships. While our warships and their planes kept the Japs (Continued on page 2) DeGaulIe Regime Gets Recognition Pending Election WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (AP) -The United States today recog nized the De Gaulle administra tion as the "provisional govern ment of the French republic." The action was announced by Acting Secretary of State Stet tinius who also disclared that most of France, including Paris, had been designated by allied mil itary authorities as an "Interior zone" in which the French au thorities have complete respon sibility. This Interior zone covers every thing except the combat areas and nolnts essential to combat sunnlv. Stattinlus' statement recalled that the French leaders, Includ ing General Charles De Gaulle, have declared on several occa sions their Intentions to hold elec tion as soon as possible. "Pending the expression of the will of the French peonle through the action of their duly elected representatives." Stettinius said. "the nrovisional government of the French republic in its ef forts to prosecute the war until final vlctorv and to lav the foun dations for the rehabilitation of France, can count on the contin ued, full, and friendly coopera tion of the government of the United States." The French funds which have been tied ud in this country are estimated at about S900.000.000 credited to the bank of France, plus several hundred millions more of private funds, making the total far in excess of one bil lion dollars. m iW- . I SSP HOLOCAUST TAKES HEAVY TOLL Three gas tanks stand intact amid the wreckage of homos and buildings in a half-mile square section of Cleveland,, Ohio, devastated last Sunday by the city's worst conflagration, started by explosions of stored liquid gas. Latest count puts the number of dead i"97, with 107 missing. In the hospitals are 172 injured, some of them criti. cally. Property damage estimates range up to $ 1 5,000,000. m. GOP Senator Ball Bolts to D. R: on Foreign Policy; Dewey Slates Farm Speech Largest Oregon Vote in History Is Forecast ; PORTLAND, Oct. 23. (AP) The largest Oregon vote in his tory is predicted for November 7 by the Oregonian's political writ er, Herbert Lundy. . He reported greatly aroused in terest in both the presidential and the senatorial campaign, and nrpHiptpH n 5n0 OOO vntp eomnar- ed with 481,200 in the 1940 elec tion. Outcome of the heavy vote; Doubtful," reported Lundy. Gov. Snell to Aid Idaho . Republican Campaign SALEM. Oct. 23. (AP) Gov ernor Snell will leave Wednes day for Boise, Ida., where he will make a radio address at 7 p. m. (PWT.) Thursday in behalf of the republican ticket He also will take part in a statewide republican rally to be held October 31. This also will be broadcast. Argentine Corn Coming To Feed Oregon Stock PORTLAND. Oct. 23 (AP) . Ten thousand tons of Argentine corn will arrive in the northwest this week to ease the feed short age. Leon S. Jackson, secretary of the Oregon Feed and Seed Deal ers corporation, said 4000 tons would . be distnoutea to uregon feed mixers and 6000 tons to Washington. The corn shipment Is handled by the Commodity Credit corporation. Death Toll in Cleveland Holocaust May Reach 200 CLEVELAND. Oct. 23. (AP) Coroner Samuel R. Gerber esti mated today that "possiblv 200" persons met death as liquid gas explosions and flames laid waste an east side area one-half mile square. me numDer 01 Known aeaa in last Friday's disaster reached 99 today, with more than 100 per sons listed as missing, 49 of them East Ohio Gas Co. employes. Gov. Warren Improving After Penicillin Given SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 23 (AP) Governor'Earl Warren, for whom Denicillin treatments were ordered- Saturday after he had been ill a week with influen za, was reported last night by Dr. J. B. Harris to have a normal temperature and to be on the road to recovery. Uifv;. fMf (By the Associated Press) Senator Joseph H. Ball, Minnesota republican, tpday announced his support of President Roosevelt for a fourth term on the basis of foreign policy pronouncements made by the president and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the republican candidate. Ball, who previously had reserved his decision, said in a state Little Townsend Plan, Sales Tax Proposal Rapped PORTLAND, Oct. 23. TAP) J. T. Marr, executive secretary of the Oregon State Federation Labor, charges that non-resident promoters are most active in the "Little Townsend plan" movement. He indicted the sales tax measures on the November ballot. "Oregon would become a barren economic waste if Oregon voters gave the bill a majority," he declared. Disouting this assertion, the Tax Reduction Information com mittee of Oregon, through its chairman, Harold Barnett, Pen dleton wheat grower, described the proposed sales tax as "Ore gon's biggest opportunity to com pete successfully with Washing ton and California for postwar Job-making industries." Bricker'Says Ball Has Made Grievous Mistake CHEYENNE, Wvo., Oct. 23 (AP) Gov. John W. Bricker de clared todav that Senator Joseph H. Ball (R.-MInn) by throwing his support to president Kooseveir, had made a "grievous mistake" and was "doing a great disserv ice to his country." On the other hand, the Ohio governor remarked, "It is the nrivllege of the American citizen to vote for whom he desires. That Is the essnce of the republican campaign." He expressed belief that Ball's change of position "will help our side in Minnesota." Clare Boothe Luce's Assertion Draws Reply NEW YORK. Oct. 23 (AP) Quentln Reynolds told a "broad wav for Roosevelt dinner" last night that he had "too much re- soect for the intelligence of Clare Boothe (Luce) to think for a mo ment that she believed her own words when she said 'the oresl dent lied us Into the war.' " "It is not the first time." he added, "that a person named Booth treacherously assaulted a president oX the United Slates, SEBURS, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1 944. f v: ment that Mr. Roosevelt had met foreign policy Issues more square ly than had Dewey. In his Saturday night speech on foreign relation!, Ball said, the president kept a record of action by "meeting squarely and un equivacally the two vital and con troversial issues on which the Iso lationists kept us out of the league of nations and will fight our entry into the united nations security organization." Ball added that Mr. Koosevelt insisted that the security organi zation be formed without delay and be granted power to use mili tary force against future aggres sors without requiring individual approval by member nations. Lrovernor JJewey nas opposed delay, but has not met squarely the second vital Issue," Ball's statement said. "He has spoken for a strong international security organization, but in each speech has so worded his commitment (Continued on page 6) Liquor Permit Rule for Oregon Visitors Set Up PORTLAND ' Oct. 23 (AP) Oregon visitors will be able to purchase llauor under a regula tion adopted by the state l'ouor control commission and wtfprn ed after an existing Washington state law. The commission ruled thnt ner sons who can prove ot-n'-ta'to residence will he given a llouor permit stub, entitling t'm to buv all unrationed liquors. The pprmlt itself, which also orM'ies th"m to rationed liquor, will be fiailed to the apnlican't name address for forwarding. Fee for the visitors' oPTnlt will be the same as for residents. Worst Goods Shortages In Oregon Are Listed PORTLAND. 0"t. 23 (AP1- A new Oregon office of civilian reauirements dredged through civilian complaints trvtav and came up with a list of the worst home-front shortages Greatest bottleneck" reported Director Robert B. Elliott, are work gloves, overalls, rieanlnq solvents, coat hangers and caulk ed "hoes. The office was set un to deter mine the most acute shortapps In this arpa and to obtain goods which - though available have not reached the northwest In suf ficient "Tiarrtlties, the district OPA said. Allies Pound Vestwallln Various Spots LONDON, Oct." 23WAP)-Slx allied armies pounded the tight drawn nazl defense band from Holland to Switzerland's border today with an unceasing pressure aimed at opening the eventual cracks that will permit a smash at Berlin. The rain of blows' was not yet grand coordinated offensive, but it was intended to hammer the enemy line eveo thinner and to mask the timing and place of the main attack. The assault was on against the shrinking south Schelde pocket west of Antwerp, the Breda box north of Antwerp, the hard-held doorway from Aachen, the up per entrance of the Saar valley, and the , sharp-cloven Vosges passes. ' The British Second army, strik ing in three columns on a 12-mile front frqm the western side of its Holland salient, drove to within three to five miles of the prize communications hub of 'S-Herto-gen-Bosci. ' , The Canadian army swept on from Esschen on the Dutch-Belgian border, 16 miles north of Antwerp, after an 11-mlle ad vance in two days, and hammer ed methodically toward Roosen daal, four miles ahead. Antwerp's Use Sought The strikes here, which were '. (Continued on page 6) Islands in Aegean Captured by Allies ROME, Oct. 23 (AP) The large Aegean island of Evvola (Euboea), adjacent to the Greek mainland north of Athens, has been cleared of Germans, allied headquarters announced today. Dispatches from Athens said the island's chief city, Khalkis, surrendered to a combined force of British and Greek patriots and that a small number of troops left behind in a German evacua tion were . taken prisoner. The strategic north Aegean is land of Lemnos has been occu pied by the British and all of the Cyclades group was reported freed today as German forces on the mainland continued their flight through northern Greece. Allied headquarters announced that six months emergency civil Ian supplies for Greece, amount ing to about 780,000 tons valued at $120,000,000, had been provided for partly by the United Slates and the remalne and the remalner by Britain. Eighth army troops in Italy inching their way up the Adriatic coast have occupied Ccrvia, on the coastal road four miles north of captured Cesenatico and only 12 miles below Ravena, but bad weather again hampered opera tions on the Fifth' army front, allied headquarters announced to day. Cervla, 19 miles above Rimini, Is on the main highway from R'mini to northeastern Italy. War Orphan, Six Months Old, Flown to America NEW YORK, Oct. 23. (AP) Six months old Kenneth Barry Maloney, a war orphan and the youngest passenger to cross the Atlantic on an army transport plane, was In the care of his pa ternal grandmother today who had started his upbringing as an American boy. Kenneth, whose American fath er, Lt. Kenneth Maloney, was kill ed In action before his birth and whose English mother died in childbirth, was flown from Eng land to New York yesterday in the care ot an army nurse. Kenneth's maternal grand mother, grandfather and Aunt were killed when bombs struck their home In England. Only the infant escaped injury. Veteran Official Of Masonic Lodge Passes TACOMA. Wash., Tct. 23 (AP) Horace W. Tyler. 89, sec retary of the grand lodge of Washington A. F. and A. M., since 1895. died yesterday" at the home of his son, Edward V. Ty ler, at Dash Point. He was believed to be the old est living past potentate and secretary in the United States. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Susan Cook of McMinnville, Ore. ON EDUCATION BOARD Phil Metschan, above, Portland hotel man and former banker, who was appointed - Saturday by Gov. Snell to the state board of higher education to succeed E. C. Sammons, resigned. Mr. Metschan, alumnus of Wil lamette university and later a student at Stanford university, was the republican nominee for governor in 1930. ' Richard Ben-ett, Noted ' Character Actor, Dies LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 (AP) Death has taken Richard Ben nettj a stage Idol and screen char actor actor famed for a sharp and witty tongue that enabled him to reprimand inattentive au diences and make them like it. His daughters Contsance and Joan Bennett, film actresses, were at his hospital bedside when he succumbed yesterday at 72 aft er a long series of heart attacks. Barbara, a third daughter, was reported on her way here from New York. - 1 His fiery curtain speeches, de nouncing drama critics, produc ers or whatever else happened to have stirred his anger .delighted audiences. Himself thrlcc-marrled, Ben nett and his daughters figured In 11 marriages and nine divorces.- Cordon, Morse Report on Campaign Expenditures WASHINGTON. Oct. 23 (AP) The $15,465.26 spent by Camer on snerwoou, wana waua repub lican, In his unsuccessful bid for his party's senatorial nomination, was the top personal exDenditure reported by northwest senate as pirants in the prlmnry campaign, the senate campaign expenditur es committee disclosed Saturday. Guy Cordon, successful .in his bid for the Oregon G. O. P. sena torial nomination, reported no personal outlay although $23,785 was expended by his campaign committee. Wayne L. Morse, also successful In his republican bid, listed $932.73 with $23,388.50 spent by his campaign committee, while Sen. Rufus C. Holman, also a re publican, listed $1,085.55 with 513,021 spent by his campaign committee. Japan Now on Defensive, Tokyo Spokesman Says (By the Associated Press) "Japan is now in the defensive" a Japanese naval commentator, Masanori llo, said today In a dis patch transmitted ; by Domcl news agency. Ito's statement came In the course of remarks In which It was claimed that Japan "welcom ed" the American Invasion of the Philippines because it offered "another opportunity to deal crushing blows on the mainstay of the enemy's Pacific forces." The speaker compared For mosa with Pearl Harbor but then said: "However, a considerable dif ference exists in the present cir cumstances compared to three years ago. That difference Is that Japan is now on the defensive while three years ago she was on the offensive." Locomotives Going to Russia Via Portland PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 23 (AP) Locomotives and tenders. built by the United States for so viet Russia, are rolling from a Portland assembly plant and be ing loauen aooara Kusslan vessels here. Lifting of an army secrecy ban pcrmmeu uisciosure or tne ship ments undpr wav in n Willamette Iron and Steel corporation plant for the last seven and a half montns. The locomotives, manufactured In the east, are shipped here bv URtrar and assembled in Portland. The plant here can handle 3 locomotives and tenders dally, and a storage yard holds 100 lo- coinouvcsi .. . No. 44-163 Woman Dies Of Gunshot in Local Home The body df Mrs. Thelma Ger trude Craoroft, 46, of Kansas City Mo., was found with a gunshot wound Saturday night In the apartment of her brother-ln-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Brewer. 4141 Second Avenue North, Rosebura. Coroner H. C, Stearns reported the case to .be one of suicide. - - - ,.: , As officers reconstructed the case, the coroner stated, Mrs, Craoroft arrived in Koseourg Sat urday for a surorise visit with Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, but found they were absent. She was admit ted to their apartment by a nelgh- oor. wnen Mr. ann Mrs. Brewer returned home late Saturday night, they found Mrs. Craorolt's body In a clothes closet where hunting equipment also had been kept. Scattered cartridges indicat ed difficulty in loading the .22 cal- mre ruio with wmco, tne latai wound was inflicted, ' III and Despondent Her husband. William. H. tSra- croft, a warrant officer in the U. S. naw. unon arrival hero to day, reported that his wife recent ly had oeen seriously in ana mat upon recommendation of her phy sician he had brought her with him to Seattle following a brief leave which he spent at Kansas City. They had planned to estab lish residence In Seattte for the duration. Mrs. Craoroft left Se attle Friday' for a surprise visit with her sister, whom she had not seen for several years. She had been very despondent De cause of the condition of her health, the husband reported. Officers were informed that Mrs. -Cracroft arrived in Rose burg by bus about 2 p. m. Satur day. She ' located her sister's' auartment and was admitted by a neighbor, who provided' her with food. Mrs. Cracroft was left alone in : :tho j. apartment .' after about 3 p. m. ' " 1- " When Mr. and Mrs; Brewer re turned, tney.. found the ': body crumpled In a clothes closet, where Mrs. Cracroft had appar ently loaded a. small calibre rifle with which she fired a bullet in to her head, A number of un'px ploded cartridges on the floor in dicated extreme nervousness In loading the Weapon, the officers stated. State, county and'cily po- ( Continued on page 6) Son of General Patch Killed in French Battle STAUNTON. . Va., . Oct. 23. (AP) Lt. . Gen. Alexander M. Patch, commanding the American Seventh army In Franoe, not Ki lled his wlte here today that their son, Capt. Alexander M. Patch, 3rd, 24, has been killed In action. The radiogram said: "Mac killed Instantly yesterday while assault ing enemy positions in France." Capt. Patch, the general's only son, had just returned to duty after treatment for wouhds re ceived Aug. 28. Commissioned irom west I'oint in iui2, ne had been overseas this year with the 79th division in command of . a rifle company His wife and young son reside at Evanston, 111. U. S. National Purchases National Bank at Elgin ' PORTLAND, Oct. 23. (AP) Purchase of the First National bank of Elgin, Ore., was announc ed today by the U. S. National bank of Portland. Officials suid the Elgin bank would be consolidated with the U. S. Natlonul bank branch at La oranue. The Elgin bank, which report' nA $rtn tWI AnnnUe laut limn was sold by Walter A. Cosgrlff and associates, operators of a chain of banks in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. Boy Found After Four Days in Play "Foxhole" SEATTLE, Oct. ) 23 (AP) Seven-year-old . William Schell, missing since last Wednesday when he fell Into a branch-covered "foxhole" while playing "war games" with o'der boys, Is homo totiny. The boy was found yesterday when a neighbor heard whimper ings are he walked through the wooded area. Dr. J. I. Durfind said the boy was In "astonishingly good con dition for being without food or fluid for four day; and nlgnts. Alleged Bank Robbers of Oregon Placed on Trial DALLAS, Ore., Oct. 23 (AP) Malay Stone and Elmer Riley Ine. charged with robbery of S13.000 from the Grande Romle State bank on last August 2, were on trial in circuit court here to day. Ida., a few days after the holdup. . The mua ware wrtsteU in Bulie GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Oct. 23 (via army radio) (AP) American soldiers, pushing westward on Leyte Island's south ern front, today overran strong1 Japanese defense positions and were trying to trap enemy troops retreating up the wide Leyte val ley. A. P. War Correspondent Al Dopking, on the southern front, ' reported that Yank Seventh in fantry division troops, led by tanks, were moving up the open valley inland from Dulag, where one of the first American beach heads was established. t The country leading northwest ward from Dulag is flat and ideal or tank warfare. The Leyte val ley, over which the forces of lib eration are moving, is 25 miles wide on the southwest. It tapers to 10 miles wide on the northeast. The vallev is flanked by moun tain ranges with peakes rising up to 1.300 feet. (Supposedly, the Japanese on the southern front were retreat ing northward up the open valley or falling back into mountain po sitions on the southwest of the valley.) ( Major Base Being Built As his troops pressed forward. Gen. MacArthur announced prep arations already are under way for construction of a great base for future operations around the captured airdromes of Tacloban and Dulag. - , The supply problem for' Ja pan's vicious 16th division already is becoming difficult alter tneir'. "preliminary defeat" and should they be forced into the hills might become acute, Gen. Mac. ' Arthur said in his communique; today. The role of this strategic Island,' in the heart of the Philippines. was underlined by the announce-, ment that work has commenced on the two captured airfields and other installations to prepare "a great base loir au arms lor iu ture operations." :'- : rr.ailAm I2.atq hi Iahf4 vinclai capital,, occupied by the. Vaults uuur iney wm uiu uir-fleld- ln that- sector, became the temporary capital of the first free government of the.PhlllD' (Continued on page 6) Gives Away Boxes to -Mail Gifts Overseas KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct. -23 (AP) Parents of Klamath Falls servicemen have had no trouble in finding properly shap ed boxes to ship Christmas pres ents to overseas sons. H. D. Mortenson, a lumberman who didn't want any body to miss a Christmas Dackasc because of shipping complications, has been giving away boxes complete with wrapping twine and postal instructions lo everyone who turned up. He estimates his boxes given away each year at 26,000. This years batch had a new decora tion: A green Christmas tree painted on the lid. Subjects Listed for High School Debaters EUGENE Ore., Oct. 23 (AP) Oregon entrants in the annual state high school speech tourna ment win debate tne question: What shall be the postwar policy ol Oregon toward Japanese- Amprlrnn, ' Other subjects, announced by the Oregon High School Speech league, will be "postwar develop ment for Oregon" and "resolved that the legal voting age shall bo reduced to 18 years." The contest will be held next spring. Truck-Train Collision Kills Man at Hubbard HUBBARD, Ore., Oct. 23 (AP) Walbert A. Klmlinger, 29, Mt. Angel, was killed here today when his creamery truck was struck in a heavy fog by a south bound Southern Pacific passen ger train. The truck was carried 250 yards. A widow and two children sur vive. . Dog Racing Produces $73,245 for Bond Drive PORTLAND. Oct. 23 (API Oregon's war bond finance com mittce flaunted a $73,245.08 checic today proceeds from last month's six-day bond benefit do race meet. . The money will finance bond campaigns In the state. B; U F. lUbanUU By omitting a periodical' trip to Florida during t(je current' "whispering" concerning his age and physical condition, Presi dent Roosevelt gives his op ponents ne opportunity of ac cusing him of taking up the quest where Ponce de Leon left off. - i