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Omura, on Kyushu, Raided 3rd
T'ne, Nagasaki Also Pounded;
Typhoon Slows Leyte Battle
(By the Associated Press) ' s?..
Superforts bombed the heart of Japan's aircraft (ji
today in the wake of a sea-borne air raid on Manila tha-.
out 118 Nipponese planes and
useless fleet of 100 bomb-wrecked craft that litter the
pines harbor.
The War department announced "a large task force
aircraft attacked industries on
pon s home islands.
Tokyo radio said their targets were Omura, big aircraft
center twice previously hit, and Nagaskai, west coast port city,
Japanese propagandist claimed between 14 and 25 Superforts
were shot down in an hour-long air battle fought above low.
hanging clouds. They said the giant bombers came from south
west China bases, now threatened by Japanese armies which
have driven the 14th U. S. air force from all of its fields In east
China. . 1 , .
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
RETAILED progress reports
from the great battle to crash
Germany's western gates before
winter closes down are still lack
ing, but what news we get Is
encouraging. For ones, thing, the
first clear, blue skies in a week
are reported from the battle
front, and our air force Is out In
STRENGTH.
OUR U. S. 1st and 9th armies,
fighting a battle of "utmost
Intensity," attacking In waves as
many as 42 times in a single sec
tor, are reported to have smash
ed to within 25 miles of the Rhine
(roughly halfway from Aachen
to Cologne).
They are meeting every ob
stacle the Germans know how
to devise earthworks, trenches,
tank traps, VAST minefields, etc.
PATTON Is making progress at
Melz. ,
His GIs, crossing the Moselle
BRIDGE (not yet destroyed, you
Bee), are filtering into the city
from the north. Others are re
ported oozing In from the south.
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Meeting of Biq 3 Not
Likely Before Next Year
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP)
Plans for an earlv meeting of
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
appear to have hit a snag. De
spite hones freelv expressed here
and In London, the best prosoect
now is for a parlev earlv in 1945.
The whole schedule of postwar
conferences and world peace or
ganization evideritlv is having to
be revised in consequence.
Exactly what has happened to
the prolected big-three meeting
before the end of this year Is not
certain. But presumably the way
in which the European war is
having to be fought full-scale in
to the winter and the probability
now that it will last into next
spring has had a lot to do with
it.
Lowering of Voting Age
In Oregon Requested
PORTLAND, Nov. 21, (AP)
A resolution asking the state leg
islature to lower the Oregon vot
ing age from 21 to 18 years was
passed by the Oregon democratic
clubs meeting here last night-
"When men are taken into the
army to take up arms they should
be allowed to vote for the persons
directing the affairs of the coun
try for which they are fighting,"
said Mrs. Maude B. Thomas. Os
wego, who introduced the resolu
tion.
Special Election on 3
Issues Dated at Salem
SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 21. (AP)
The city council last night or
dered a special election for Feb.
9, 1945, to let the voters of Salem
reclde three controversial issues.
The issues are whether the city
shall pay $175,000 for 43-acre
Bush pasture to be used for a
city park; whether the Salem
Electric cooperative shall be
granted a franchise; and whether
the city's boundaries should be
extended.
Colorful Parade Boosting War Bond
Sales Campaign Will Precede Shrine
Ceremonial in Roseburg Saturday
A colorful parade Is scheduled In Roseburg from 7 to 8 o'clock
Saturday night, when Hillah Shrine temple Joins with the Douglas
county committee in charge of War Bond sales in promoting the
event. The parade, led by the Shrine band, will Include officers and
members of the order and the 50 or more candidates expected to be
present for Initiatory work,
which will be a part of the cere
monial being conducted at the
armory following the public ex
hibition. The parade will form at the
armory, which has been secured
for the fall ceremonial being con
ducted by the Shrine, and will
march to the Umpqua hotel,
where the patrol team will, pre
sent an exhibition drill.
Elbert Lenox, illustrious poten
tate, will purchase a bond on be
added three more ship
Kyushu, southernmost of Nip
. On previous B-29 raids against
Kyushu, the big aircraft center
Of Omura was the primary tar
get. On Oct. 25 Omura was hit
hard and then on Nov. 11 the
B-29s returned In a mission to
destroy all the center's structures
still left standintr.
Kyushu is the most southern of
the Japanese homeland Islands.
China Slashed In Half
The Chinese high command
acknowledged that, units of the
250,000 Japanese troops in south
east China effected a junction,
thereby cutting the nation In half
and preventing Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek's Inland armies
from joining a potential Ameri
can Invasion force.
U. S. carrier planes attacking
Manila Sunday (Philippines
time) found the harbor turned
into a shipping gravevard. Like
tombstones, 100 half-sunken dere
licts testified to the effectiveness
of nrevious U. S. attacks.
The attackers Tokvo said
there were 300 of them were al
most unopposed. They wrecked
100 Nipponese aircraft on the
ground.
Counter Blows Reported
Japanese planes did attack U.
S. Sixth army troops on Levte
island and struck back at Vice
Adm. J. S. McCain's carrier task
force. Seven Jaoanese were shot
down over Levte and eieht over
the fleet, without inflicting any
announced damace.
The navy announced the recent
loss of ten craft, ranginc from a
destroyer down to four PT boats.
American air raiders bombed
a destroyer at Borneo's Brunei
naval base, and set fire to six
small enemy freighters in sorties
ranging frpm the northern Kurile
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Park Ordinance
Changed; Alleyway
Paving is Planned
The Rosebure park commission
ordinance was amended last night
at the regular mid-monthly meet
ing of the city council to provide
the final form of commission
membership and outlining details
of operation. The ordinance
changes membership from seven
to five members, who will direct
parks, playgrounds and recrea
tional activities. The principal ef
fect of the amendment will be to
authorize acceptance by the city
of any gifts, contributions, be
quests, etc., either in money or
land.
The council adopted a resolu
tion authorizing the city engineer
to prepare plans and specifica
tions for paving the alleyway
from Lane to Mosher street in the
Rose hotel block, where plans are
being considered for an addition
to the hotel and construction of a
stage terminal. The council, act
ing upon a petition recently filed
bv property owners, ordered
plans prepared on a basis of con
crete pavement without curbs
and with center drainage.
Renewal of beer licenses was
aDproved for Henninger's Marts,
The Spot, Sandy's Place, Mono
gram Cigar Store, Umpqua hotel
and Elks club. .
Two New Polio Cases
Reported at Portland
PORTLAND, Nov. 21 (AP)
Two new civilian infantile paraly
sis cases In the same family and
one at the naval barracks here
were recorded today by Dr.
Thomas L. Meador, city health of
ficer. Nine cases have been listed at
the barracks this month, four of
them fatal.
half of Hillah temple from the
Roseburg Minute Maids, who will
be prepared to sell war stamps
and bonds to spectators.
Several truckloads of equip
ment to be used In connection
with the degree work at the
armory already have arrived In
Roseburg and the building is be
ing made ready to entertain hun
dreds of members expected to
gather from Lane, Coos, Jose
phine and Douglas counties.
Established 1873
l3Xirench Sb&txer Nazis' ' Lime W Vosges
of Nip- V
4oerman Oil
Centers Given
Air Bombing
LONDON, Nov. 21. (AP)
A record fleet of more than 1.100
fighter bombers destroyed at
least ' 52 German planes today
while the 1,250 heavy bombers
they were escorting plunged 4,
000 tons of explosives onto three
zealously guarded synthetic oil
plants- . V
Lancaster bombers of the RAF
during the afternoon smashed a
synthetic oil plant at Homberg
In the Ruhr. ,20 miles southwest
of Kassel. Spitfires and Mustangs
Hew as escorts.
. First reports of the American
attacks showed 21 hazte felled
by a single eighth air force unit,
and this prompted a spokesman
to comment:
"Something big happened over
there."
Clouds were scattered over the
targets and at Hamburg and
nearby , Warburg the. flak was
"very Intense." Ground fire was
reported moderate at Merseburg.
Score may Increase.
An eighth air force spokesman
said the score of the swirling bat
tles over Hamburg, Harburg and
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Price Reductions
Planned by OPA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.
(AP) Action to reverse recent
price rises described as small but
disturbing, is expected shortly.
designed as an assurance to work
ers that Jiving costs will not.out-
run pay scales. '
,l Climaxine a series of adminis
tration moves all pointing to a
decision to hold on to the prin
ciple of the "little steel" wage for
mula until after V-E day, the
OPA prepared to take specific
steps to hold the price line. .
trice . administrator Bowies
called a conference after Sun
day's statement by Economic
Stabilization Director Vinson
that ."disturbing" advances in
costs of living, especially In tex
tiles and clothing, "must stop."
Observers believed Bowles, was
ready to: .
First, tighten controls over
fabrics and wearing apparel, the
items singled out by Vinson as
inflated; and
Second, announce more rigid
standards for ruling on requests
for "extraordlnary'r " price in
creases not provided for in the
price conrtol act and otner laws.
Father With His Stolen
Daughter Is Sought
PORTLAND, Nov- 21. TAP)
Authorities still were searching
today for Marshall Crowell, 52,
charged in a felony warrant
sworn out by his divorced wife
with stealing their 41-year-old
daughter. Mary Amelia.
The child. Mrs. Delia Evans
told police, was taken from her
nome i-naay, tne same aay a
Portland auto court manager said
Crowell registered without the
girl.
Sgt. Virgil Weckert of the
sheriff's office said that Crowell
showed him an old court order
eiving him custody of the child.
Th district attorney's office, how
ever, said that Mrs. Evans had
permanent custody and that
Crowell's order was apparently
temporary.
Slayer Asks Snell to
Commute Death Penalty
SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP)
Plchard Harry Layton. 39, former
Monmouth noliee officer sentenc
ed to die Dec. 8. has annealed to
Governor Snell for commutation
of his sentence to life imnrison
ment, the governor said todav.
The governor did "o indicate
what action he would take, al
though It has been his policy not
to commute sentences unless a
miscarriage of iustice Is proved.
Lavton was convicted in Polk
countv circuit court of the ran
laving of Ruth Hildebrand. 17,
Dallas, and he was sentenced to
die in the prison's gas chamber.
Oregon's Unemployment
Fund Totals $61 Million
SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP)
The state unemployment com
pensation commission reported
todav that lt reserve fund now
totals Sfil nnonno, comnared with
onlv S1 6 000.000 when the United
States went to war.
The commission said thp legis
lature must determine whether
the fund is large enough to deal
with unemployment which might
XoUow. the war.
Clever Motto Sparks .
War Bond Campaign of
Nazareth College Girls
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Nov. 2i
(AP) Nazareth college students
are conducting their Sixth War
loan drive with the mottos "Dip
in your pocket for the boy In your
locket." Nazareth college is a
Catholic school for girls... -. :?
WICHITA FALLS, Texv, No
21 (AP) W. T. Knight told sot.
dlers in a war , bond rally auoH
ence he would buy a $25 war-Dbhd
for each G. I. who would buy pne
for himself.
He had 68 takers. Cost of the
gifts to Knight: $1,275 In war
bonds. , . , - . . ,
100,000MoreWar
Workers Needed
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.--(AP)
The CIO convention today was
urged by Lt. Gen. Somervell,
army supply chief, to help recruit
another 100,000 workers for war
plants to turn out the fighting
tools needed In Europe and the
Pacific. , ...
"We must have these workers
at once," said the general In an
address to the delegates who yes
terday cheered their president,
Philip Murray,- after he urged a
revision of the little steel formula
limiting wages and said "we
have no quarrel with business."
Somervell told the convention
that production in some items is
40 per cent behind, adding, "It
all boils down to this: we are
calling on American productive
power for a supreme effort to
meet a supreme :' crisis. The
doughboy has fought his way
ahead of schedule and we have to
catch up with him."
Thanksgiving Day to Be
Observed in Roseburg
Thursday, Thanksgiving day,
will be observed as a general holi
day in Roseburg. All retail stores
will be closed together with pub
ic of f ices, '' bank . and postoffice,
the latter observing the usual
holiday procedure. No edition of
the News-Review will be publish
ed Thursday. ..-''
Thanksgiving church services
will include a union service at
the First ' Christian church at
7:30 p. m- Wednesday; Lutheran
church 10 a. m. Thursday, Holy
Communion, St. George's Episco
pal church 9:30 a. m. Wednesday
and 9:30 a. m- Thursday; Chris
tian Science church 11 a. m.
Thursday.
Statement on Oregon
Logging Mishaps Nailed
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 21. (AP)
State Industrial Accident Com
missioner Dunne termed "un
true" today a statement made in
Portland yesterday bv Roland P.
Blake, Washington, D. C, senior
safety engineer for the U. S.
Department of Labor, that Ore
gon had 60,000 logging accidents
in 1943.
Dunne said Oregon actually
had only 4300 logging accidents,
and there were onlv 56,000 acci
dents In all industries.
Woman Dies of Wound
Received in Gun Fight
ASTORIA, Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP)
Mrs. Florence Paulsen, wound
ed at Warrenton Saturday nieht
in a gun squabble that left Jess
Dilleshaw shot in the foot, died
last night.
Police said he and Mrs. Esther
Goodrich were visiting Mrs. Paul
sen when a dispute arose. No
charges have been filed.
Teacher Lack Closes
School of 21 Pupils
OREGON ' CITY, Nov. 21.
(AP) Fir Grove school was
emotv today, closed by the teach
er shortage.
Officials could not find a suc
cessor to Miss Masreie Hampton,
''ho resigned because of Illness.
Thp 21 oupil mav be transported
to Oregon Citv for school.
Weber's Bakery, C. of C.
Reach War Bond Goals
Sixth War Lion camoalen head-
nuarters was advised todav bv
Weber's bakery that the payroll
deduction goal for that firm has
been achieved. Erich emnlovee Is
htiving an extra $100 bond. In ad
dition to the repular deductions.
The Rosebure chamber of com
merce staff also is in the 100 per
cent list.
Bmbr Crh Kills 4
BOISE. Ida.. Nov. 21 (API-
Four men were killed last nlfiht
In the crash of a B-24 bomber
from Gowen army air field and
Col. John R. Kane said today iden
tification is not yet complete (
ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1 , 1 944.
Flood Control
Bill Beset By
Controversy
I WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP)
-Plans for quick passage of a
billion dollar flood control bill
ran today Into an argument over
the St. Lawrence seaway recom-
T ended by President Roosevelt.
Insiead of acting on the bill
in a matter of hours preliminary
to taking up a $500,000,000 rivers
and harbors authorization, the
senate faced the prospect of a
controversy that might run into
next week.
The plans were snagged when
Senator, Aiken tR.-Vt.) insisted
on presenting his amendment au
thorizing the seaway. Even as the
senate moved toward debate, Aik
en kept his colleagues in doubt
as to whether he would offer his
amendment for the flood bill or
the rivers and harbors measure.
;: Should Aiken hold his amend
ment for the latter bill, the St.
Lawrence controversy would .be
removed from the flood control
measure, but there would still re
main arguments over states'
rights, hydroelectric power devel
opment, and irrigation as' well as
several big projects. ; , -Huqe
Program Offered
. The house-approved bills call
for postwar construction of flood
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McElligott Nominated
For Land Office Post
President Roosevelt today nom
inated Richard McElligott to be
register of the U. S. Land office
at Roseburg, according to word
cWved from-Washington: Mr.: Mc
Elligott already has assumed the
duties on temporary oasis pend
ing action on the appointment.
He came to Roseburg from
Grants Pass. '. ') 1
Trains Collide on Bridge,
Nobody Seriously Hurt
: MEMPHIS, Nov. 21 (API
Two outbound' passenger trains
collided today on the Harahan
bridge which spans the Mississip
pi river but none of the passen
gers was injured seriously and
damage to the trains was slight.
Durrazo Seaport Freed
By Albanian Partisans '
NEW YORK. Nov. 21 (API-
Albanian partisans who earlier
liberated their country's capital
of Tirana have taken the seaport
of Durazzo 20 miles to the' west,
the Free Yueoslav teleuraph ser
vice said in a dispatch today. . .
Chancellor of K. of P.
To Visit Roseburg Lodge
Penn C. Crum. grand chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias of Ore-
gon, will pay his otticial visit
to Aloha lodue. No. 47, Roseburg.
at the K. of P. hall tonight. The
Pvthian Sisters, Temple No. vd.
will furnish a turkey dinner for
the occasion. .
Committee for Senator
Cordon Spends $23,623
RAT.TTM. Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP)
The Cordon for U. S. senator
committee reported to the state
deDartment today that It spent
$23,623, while two committees
working for election of Wayne L.
Morse to the senate spent $24,-082.
Modern Romeo, With One Legal Wife,
Three Other Consorts, Plus Several
Children, Lands in Jail in Montana
GREAT FALLS, Mont. Nov. 21. (AP) Lester Logan Martin,
34-year-old mechanic and truck driver of Great Falls, today was
lodged In the county Jail pending unraveling of a Casanova trail
across three states and Alaska which brought him one legal wife and
entaglement with three other women living as his wives.
Sheriff John Bradley of Fort
Benton, Mont., arrested Logan on
charges of "living in open and
notorious adultery" and gave
this version:
Martin Is reportedly legally
married to Beona Martin, for
merly of Whltehorse. Yi T., and
Is the father of their nine-year-old
son. She is again an expectant
mother.
Bradley said questioning had
disclosed that Martin declared he
was the father of three other
children, born out of wedlock to
two women, and the expectant
father of another child to an un
wed mother.
Four years ago, Bradley quoted
Martin, the. mechanic met a
woman In Bremerton, ' Wash., to
whom two children were born
eut ol wedlock.
"I Want More Supplies Than We are
Getting," Gen. Eisenhower Advises;
Sees no Sign Yet of German Crackup
By EDWARD KENNEDY '
SUPREME . HEADQUARTERS. ALLIED j EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Paris, Nov. 21. (AP) Gen. Elsenhower declared today his
plan for future operations is to increase pressure steadily all along
the western front until the Germans are crushed. -
To do this, greater supplies are necessary,, the supreme com
mander of the western front
said.
"I want more supplies than we
are getting and I think the sol
dier wants more than he is get
ting, both now and in the future,"
he said.
"To get peace, we have got to
fight like hell for it," the com
mander said, "now let's do it."
The general told correspond
ents that his plans were to hit
and hammer, the Germans with
Increasing pressure, reaching Its
peak on the day the nazls finally
surrender.)
"Unless evorvone all the way
through the nations those at the
front and those at home keen
on the Job everlastingly and with
mounting intensity, we are only
postponing the day of victory,
Eisenhower declared.
"The very maximum effort
must be made on the day of sur
render." .
No Prediction On End '
: Elsenhower declined to make
any prediction as to when the
war would end and said his call
for an all-out effort both at the
front and at home was his "pre
scription for victory."
. He said the weather had pre
vented a full effort in the air in
the current offensive but added:
"One thing that continues to
grow to my Intense satisfaction
is the teamwork between the
ground forces, navies and olr
forces."
He gala that while ha saw no
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Wine Retailers Seek .
Removal of Legal Snag
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 2t
(AP) Oregon wine retailers may
be prevented by a federal law
from selling their stocks of des
sert wines to wholesalers lor re
sale to the Oregon liqoor control
commission. ,
Retailers, under their federal
tax stamp, are limited to the sale
of no more than five gallons at
a time. Dealers here have enter
ed a plea at Washington for re
laxation of the regulation in or
der . to clear . their shelves of
fortified wines before the Burke
bill takes effect December 7.
The bill limits sale of that type
of wine to state liquor stores. .
Cabinet Level Post
Given Donald Nelson
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP)
Donald M. Nelson has been des
ignated "personal representative"
of President Roosevelt, with rank
at the cabinet level, and will oc
cupy offices in the White House.
The appointment was confirm
ed shortly before Nelson, former
WPB chairman. left this country
on his second mission to Chung
king to create a Chinese war pro
duction board, It was ascertained
today.
Alaska Senator Dies;
Special Election Set
JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 21
(AP) Alaska will hold a special
election snortiy to select a suc
cessor to territorial Senator A. P.
Walker, whose death Sunday in
the naval hospital at Shoemaker,
Calif., was announced here last
night.
Two years ago, Martin pursued
a courtship with a student nurse
from North Dakota, to which as
sociation a child was reportedly
born five months ago. The couple
lived recently In Fort Benton
More recently, he declared he
associated Intimately with a
woman formerly of Bremerton,
but now of Great Falls. She is
reported an expectant mother.
Bradley said he was told, de
spite the maze of extra-martial
affairs, Martin's leal wife was
unaware of any entaglcments.
Martin also asrerted none of the
three other women knew there
was anvone eke Involved.
The sheriff said Martin wag be
ing held also for the FBI for
questioning on violation of the
wann act.
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Cigarette Sales
Halt in England
LONDON, Nov. 21 (AP) The
halting of cigarette sales at all U.
S, army post exchanges In Eng
land except at air force combat
stations led the army newspaper
Stars and Stripes today to de
mand an answor from Washing
ton "to the question which is in
the mind of every GI smoker
where are tne cigarettes.' '
The armv said a critical short
age and priorities for combat
forces on the continent caused the
ban on sales, Hospital patients
and combat personnel will still
be able to smoke their favorite
brands from. the states.
British cigarettes cost about 50
cents for a package of 20. British
Tommies are rationed 45 English
cigarettes A week.
In Paris supreme headquarters
promised a report on the ciga
rette situation in the French cap
ital and many other rear areas,
where U. S. soldiers were also
told they could get no cigarettes.
American cigarettes were sell
ing on the Parts black market at
$4 per package.
(The Tokvo radio. In a broad
cast, said it was virtually impos
sible to find a package or popular-brand
cigarettes anywhere in
the United States, and cited this
as an indication that collapse on
the U. S. home front was near.)
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 (AP)
From the Pentagon went this
word of cheer today to GL's In
London where cigaret sales have
been halted at all but air force
combat stations:
It's only temporary.
"Sufficient cigarets are going
over," authorities here asserted.
'There is no question about that.
What happens after they get
there is another matter."
Vandal Defaces Windows
Of 3 Reedsport Stores
: REEDSPORT Three plate
glass windows In front of Reeds
port mercantile establishments
were wrecked Saturday night by
a vandal deliberately using a
plass cutter to deface the win
dows. The windows damaged by
the net of vandalism were at the
Frank Tavlor hardware store,
Dunn's Outfitting store and the
W. M. Burdlrk drug store. Offi
cers believe the work to have
been done bv an adult rather
than a Juvenile.
14 Days, 14 Votes
ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. Nov. 21
f AP) Ifs 14 dvs since the Nov.
7 election and final returns show
that Earl C. Borchers. democrat
has defeated Lieut (.Iff) Lewis
Wallace, republican. In their con
test for the state legislature. The
margin; 14 votes,
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Yonks Capture
Saorebourgm
Drive to Rhine
Foe Resists Bitterly In
Effort to Stem Allied
Push Toward Cologne
(By the Associated Press) ,:
The whole German position in
the Vosges mountains of astern
France was collapsing today as
French armor drove Into the out
skirts of the industrial city ot -Mulhouse
and the U. S. Seventh
army to its north captured Sarre
bourg, 32 miles from the Rhine. '
swirtly exploiting tne eeuon
breakthrough the French already
may have entered Mulhouse, 16
miles above the Swiss frontier,
in a rush undermining the Ger
mans position for 100 miles to
the north. Above them the Amer
leans of both the Third and Sev
enth armies were meeting weak
ening rearguard resistance from
Germans retreatiner toward tha
Rhino. . . -
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Allied armies shattering the
nazl grip on eastern France pour
ed men and guns into the upper
Rhine valley through the Belfort
Bun and to the north edged for
ward against bitter resistance on
the Cologne plain. '
British troops on the left flank:
of the allied Invasion of Germany
drove three and one-hall miles
northeast of captured Geilenklr
chen and almost to the Outskirts
of Wurm. - '
South of the British drive tne
Germans threw 20 to 50 tanks
against U. S. Ninth army unita
at Schlctden, seven miles south
jeast of Gellenkirchen. The blow
'was -repulsed and the Americana
advanced 1J miles northeasc, cap
turing Aldenhoven, ' three , miles
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U.S. Munitions
Program Called
Partly Critical
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21-(AP)'
Terming 28 per cent of the mu
nitions program -cnticai," j. a.
Krug today said General Eisen
hower has notified Washington '
that his progress against Ger
many will be paced by delivery ot
arms.
"The big push now on against
the west wall Is entirely depend
ent upon the flow of materials to
those six armies," Krug, chair
man of the war Production
board, told tRe National Press
club in an address.
"Not long ago General Elsen
hower laid It flat on the table,"
Krug said. "He earned us saying:
'You tell us what you can deliver
and we'll tell you when the war
will end.'
"We have tried to tell him. He
has used the information to plan
nis attacK. n is up to us to malts
good."
This Is the "most critical Phase"
of the war, Krug observed, with
tne European drive coinciding
with progress in the Pacific run
ning several months ahead of
schedule. It finds 60 per cent of
the munitions program on sched
ule or ahead, he said, the other 40
per cent lagging.
Folkes Loses Composure
On Failure of Appeal
SALEM, Ore.. Nov. 21 (AP)
Robert E. Lee Folkes, young ne
iro cook under death sentence
for the slaving of Mrs. Martha
Virginia James, lost his compo
sure vesterdav when Deputv Pris
on Warden Halley told him the
United States supreme court had
refused to review his ease. '
Hallev said that until vester
day, Folkes "made lots of wise
cracks and walked around i his
cell." confident he would be sav
ed from the gas chamber.
"But now he lust sits on his
bed. He isn't Interested In wiso
rracks and walking any more,"
Hallev added.
Folkes' only hope Is for Gover
nor Snell to commute his sen
tence. Mrs. James was slain, her
throat cut. on Jan. 23, 1943. while
she was sleeping In her berth on
a Southern Pacific train as it
sned through T tnn enitntv.
The omening erqy of Jirvtnlk
shoplifting, in Portland uggtr
that whil It may bo wis to
"spore th rod," it may pro
rtmedial to try a 4H flub,
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