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1 U "Ml ME 1MB Jl mm Buy 'Em, Hold 'Em War bonds for" victory now, for lecurlty In the future. Shell out for knockout. Lay 'em away for a rainy day. Established 1873 B-29s Japs as Usual Claim Damage Only "Slight" Foe's River Line Near Ormoe Broken; Advance In China Is Extended T W E N T Y-FIRST U. S. BOMBER COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Saipan, Dec. 7 (AP) Two Super fortress bombers on weather reconnaissance flights bomb ed Tokyo last night and early today, in separate strikes sev en hours apart, the 21st U. S. bomber command announced today. Capt. J. T. A. Archer of Brownwood, Tex., command er of one of the attacking planes which operated through an overcast, said that photographs through clouds showed the best precision in strument bombing results yet obtained on Tokyo. (By the Associated Press) Americans pain on Lcytc in the Philinnines, Superfortresses hit Manchuria In force and perhaps Tokyo lightly, Japanese claim their paratroopers are in a "prand scale offensive" against Yank held airfields on Lcvte while their forces score new gains in China that's the war picture in the Far East todav third anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Yankee men, arms and ships have traveled a long wav over a rough and bloody road since that day three veal's ago when an es timated 3(10 Japanese earrier-bas-rd planes launched their sneak at tack against the American fleet ;it Pearl Harbor, 5,300 miles east fOnnlnneri1 nn rmo-e fi In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE war on the western front is more of the same-inching forward, killing Germans, smash ing German equipment (espe cially transport), WEARING THE NAZIS DOWN. It is being fought In weather described by the dispatches as either worsening or so bad al ready it couldn't get worse. PATTON'S 3rd army gets ACROSS the Saar 'river on a front 16 miles wide. The situation at this point is much like an ancient fortified castle. The Saar is the moat. The Siegfried line, back of the Saar, is the fortified castle that has yet to be stormed. The Saar was crossed in the face of flaming fire from the Siegfried guns. TO the north, the British get across the Maas into the out skirts of Venlo, on the eastern bank thus putting one more river obstacle behind them. They ' still have to HOLD what they've taken. !N Hungary, the Russians are INCHING forward, much as we are on the western front. 'Continued on page 2) Importance of Individuals Meetinq Their 6th War Loan Quota Stressed By Treasury Head, War Finance Chief WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (AP) Head men of the Sixth War Loan urged Americans today to "convince our enemies" and prove devotion to our fighting men by meeting the $5,000,000,000 quota for Individuals. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, In a Pearl Harbor day state ment, said the "real answer" of home-front America must come from individual bond-buyers. Ted R. Gamble, national wav finance director, told reporters U. S. troops overseas will of course he nleased to know that American businesses have oversubscribed their ouota. "but you and I know that what counts even rooro with these fighting sons, husbands, and brothers of ours is what we as individuals do." . With the hulk of corporations' pvailnble rash already Invested In the sixth war loan, the total spies figure stood todav at S13. 105.000 000. less than a billion short of the $14,000,000,000 over all quota. : Bom&T&kyo, Manchuna British. Burke Wine Bill, 6 Other Measures Voted Nov. 7th Will Become Laws Today SALEM, Ore., Dec. 7 (AP) The Burke wine bill, only meas ure adopted by voters of Oregon at the November general election which creates an Immediate en forcement requirement, will be come law late this afternoon if both Governor Snell and Secre tary of State Farrell sign the of ficial proclamations today, as they , have indicated they will do. So, too, will constitutional amendments repealing the doub le liability provision for stock holders of state banks, provid ing for establishment of a meth od by which counties may adopt the managerial form of govern ment, permitting the state legis lature to restore voting privileges to persons who have been con victed of felonies, and authoriz ing establishment of a veterans' loan fund. A second bill, provid ing state education aid for veter ans of this war, also will become law when the proclamations are signed. U.S. Casualties Heavy, Mounting, Patterson States WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (AP) Undersecretary of War Patter son said today that in the fight ing on the western front "we are suffering severe casualties and are facing the grim prospect of more to come." i He. made the" statement in a weekly war review which dis closed that on this third anniver sary of Pearl Harbor United States battle casualites amount to 552,018. Patterson said army casualties reported through November 22 totaled 474,898. This was an in crease of 13,840 from the report uast week which covered the per iod through November 15. The new naw total is 77.120. an increase of 1,228 for the week. The latest army casualties, to gether with those reported a week ago, follow: killed 81,625 and 89,- 840; wounded 268.099 and 258,106; missing 58,826 and 57,514; prison ers 56,249 and 55,598. The naw casualties: killed 29, 738 and 29,480; wounded 33,469 and 32,600; missing 9,427 and 9.326; prisoners, 4,486 (unchanged from previous week). Gunder Haegg Handed Guardhouse Sentence STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7 (AP) Gunder Haegg must spend five days in the guardhouse, the mili tary court at Ostersund ruled to day, because he reported one day late for military service. The Swedish track star, who is in training for a trip to the Unit ed States must "sit off" his sen tence before he can start his trav el. Oregon's E Bond Sales Still Far Under Quota PORTLAND, Dec. 7. (AP) State war finance committeemen eyed Oregon's E hond sales with concern todav "Pearl Harbor" dav. The 313,513.038 figure was still far under a $34,000,000 quota. Total war bond sales, lacked up by corporation purchases, reached $87,181,560 of the $107, 000.000 goal. But Morgenthau said "Its Is not enough that the sixth war loan's 14 billion dollars be raised." Gamble said that "without the sunoort of-everv man. woman and child, we cannot finance the war this vear." Without this support, said Gam ble, "if everv corporation In the nation Invested all its earninps In Government bonds, we should still fall short of our goal. That's whv we have established sepa rate war bond ouotas for corpor at'ons and Individuals." Individual sales so far were S2 642.000,000. slightly more than half the Individuals' nuota. Ten davs remained In thP 27-day drive , wnicn enas Dec. lb. 1" V '- ; . ' OJOSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1 944. fo " J O. Greeks 6-Hour Quake Centered in Japan, Belief WEST BROMWICH, Eng.. Dec. 7 (AP) A violent earthquake that shook the whole earth for six hours according to one lead ing British seismologist was re ported today to have centered In the vicinity of Japan on this third anniversary of Pearl Har bor. ' J. J. Shaw, veteran West Brom wich seismologist, said that wind tremors made it difficult to trace the" direction but he expressed a belief that it was possibly in Ja pan, the Aleutians or the Kuriles. A short time later Swiss radio said that both Zurich and N urn burg observatories had recorded an "extremely violent earthquake in the direction of Japan." "In case the quake took place in populated regions the conse quences are bound to be cata strophic," said the Swiss an nouncement. NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (AP) Two "extremely violent" earth quakes possibly in the southern part 6f Japan were recorded on the Fordham university seismo graph early today, the Rev. Jo seph J. Lynch reported. He estimated that they occur- (Contlnued on page 6) Dorsey Case Dismissed; " Court Raps PrevaricafoPl.. - LOS ANGELES,' Dec. 7 (AP) Judge Arthur Crum today dis missed the Tissault charges against Tommy Dorsey, his wife, Pat Dane, and their neighbor Al len Smiley growing out of an at tack on Jon Hall. Judge Crum referred to one of the state's principal witnesses, Antonio Icaza, Panamanian actor, as a "fabulous, masterful fabrica tor of falsehoods, a perjurer pure and simple, demonstrated innu merable times out of his own mouth." Icaza escaped last night from protective custody, the sheriff's office said, but was rearrested early todav and committed to the couiitv jail. He had been kept in custody in a hotel since his re turn from Panama. "No court with any sense of justice," continued Judge Crum, "could permit such testimony as he gave, so thoroughly impeach ed as a matter of law, as it is, to go to the jury." Two Arrested in Probe Of Logging Camp Fire REEDSPORT Cecil Bvron Overlander and Lyle Edwin Campbell were under arrest here today while officers were investi gating the origin of a fire at the newly organized Reedsnort Log ging company camp. The blaze destroyed a tractor owned by V. V. Hagedon, Myrtle Point, with damag.? estimated at $2,500. The machine had been leased by the logging companv. Deputy Sheriff Harry McCabe reported the two men were found in an intoxicated condition in a mired down car near the scene of the blaze. One of the men was reported bv the officer to have admitted accidentally setting fire to gasoline while searching for a shovel with which to dig out the stalled automobile. Both are being held for further questioning. Ilwaco Fire Kills Woman, Razes Three Buildings ILWACO. Wash.. Dec. 7 fAP) A woman burned to dpnth and three store huilHtnors were de stroyed hv fire of undetermined origin here er7v today. Mrs. Violet K. Van Wetterding. 33. operator of Maud's cafe, died In onarters she oecunied with he hi'shanrt In the rear of the cafe. Her husband was out of town. Also destroved were the Tlwaco bakery and Brumbach s store. Wagoner Innocent of Charge, Jury's Verdict The circuit court term which was convened here November 97 ws terminated late Wednesday when tb Itiry henrtng the rase nf flip Sta' of Orepon aeainst Waltnr L. Wagoner, indicted on a charge of contributing to the dolinouencv nf a minor, was found not guilty. The lurv was excused from further attendance. as ail docketed cases have been heard. Battle in t;.4,'.w.i.ft,f vs PRIVATE TO GENERAL Buck private to major general at the age of 37 is the saga of Mai. Gen, James M. Gavin, above, of Washington, D. C recently promoted to two-star rank on the field in Holland, where he commands the 82nd airborne division. He enlisted as a pri vate in 1924, went to West Point the next year, earned his commission, went overseas in 1943 as a colonel. i r-1 - . - . Sedition Case Ends in Order Of Mistrial WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (AP) The mass sedition trials came to an end todav when Associate Justice James M. Proctor declar ed a mistrial after 22 of the de- fendants said they did not wish to continue their case under a new judge who would have to be ap pointed in succession to Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher, who died last week. Only one defendant, Prescott Bennett, expressed a willingness for the eight-months-old trial to proceed. Attorneys for three defendants answered neither "yes nor no . The trial opened last April with 30 defendants. One later died and three won severances. The judge explained that if the trial were to continue an extend ed postponement would be neces sary to permit the new judge to iaminanze nimseir witn the rec ord. It includes more than 18,- (Continued on age 6) Pvt. James M. Morgan Awarded Purple Heart Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Morgan of Roseburg that their son. Pri vate James Maurice Morgan, has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in Italy. He has returned to combat duty. f IK i7V Costly Lessons Since P earl Harbor Attack Teach Americans How to Fight Japanese (Editors Note: Eugene Burns, who nave Americans the first evewitness renort of Pearl Har bor, tells what we have learned In the succeeding three vears of fghtlni the Japanese. Burns has seen action from the Solomons tn the Aleutians and from Pearl Harbor tn Pevlon.) Pv ninFMc; RUPNS SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 7 (AP) It has taken us three vears to get the "know-how" of fight ine the Jananese. They forced wood fighting by air, sea and land upon us. In the three vears. we have had defeats and victories that were too costlv In blood but thev are saving votir pons' lives as the war goes Into the fourth ye". Wh"i T mad" the first evewlt ss, twn-Pelfle telenhon" rail from Prl Harbor to the United c'otes. "ndiv rnnrnlnoi. Dec. 7 1941, whit" .Tiinaneso homos HI exnlodln" and our battle fleet was burning, we had vet to fi"ht a malor naval, air or am ph'hlnus war. Had the fleet steamed out 01 t Athens Popular Vote Vow Fails to Holt Strife "ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 7 (AP) British parachute troops and Infantry, with the support of planes, tanks, and armored cars and artillery, blasted their way at (ommy-gun point from house to house today against the prin cipal centers of ELAS resistance around the Acropolis. Although Mai. Gen. R. M. Sco- bie announced that progress was being made in clearing the ELAS. tne armed auxiliary or the leflst EAM political organization, from the Athens area, the fightine spread to Thrace, where ELAS and Greek nationalists clashed. British Beaufighters crushed the ELAS' mortar positions In a public park east of the Acropolis and across the main Athens-Pir aeus road where it enters the capital, and field artillerv was used to blast out other positions. But snipers' bullets still zipped back and forth down the side streets of the capital in the sec ond dav of pitched 'battle. Shellfire echoed through the (Continued on page 6) Fewer Teachers Will Be Graduated in Oregon ' PORTLAND, Dee. T (APT Oregon colleges will graduate only 190 teachers next spring and on -support by the Btate can ease certain snortage or enucarors, Willard B. Snauldlng, Portland school superintendent, told Mult- homah county legislators here yesterday. He said this figure compared with 2000 persons who were Is sued new teaching certificates In 1943. Snauldlng proposed that state supported high schools for veter ans ony be established here and In other parts of Oregon to en able returning servicemen to complete their studies for high school diplomas without using up icuerai eaucauonai creuit. Body of Slain Infant Found in Trash Container SEATTLE". Dee. 7 (AP) Po llen searched todav for a brutal killer who crushed the skull of a newborn bov, stabbed the body 13 times and discarded It In a trash container, where It was found yesterday In the Seattle business district. The infant's mouth had bpen stuffed with naper. With the body was found a man's pipe and a toy naper horn, but the coroner said there was no clue to the child's parentage. Youth' Convicted of Killing Friend's Mother SEATTLE, Dec. 7. (AP) A superior court ury convicted Louis Vaughn Bowden. 20. of manslaughter last night for the heer bottle slaving of Mrs. Stella Brunnelle, 39, mother of his close boy friend, after an argument two months ago. He and Louis Seglo, 18, had been schoolmates. She objected to his "dominating" her son, he admitted on the stand yesterday, Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 the result might well have been permanent ly disastrous. Fleet At First Inadequate As measured bv nresent-day standards, everv man-of-war was woefully Inadeauate. While visiting the U. S. fleet's flagship, before Pearl Harbor, the commander-in-chief pointed out a small battery of 1.1 anti aircraft puns. "There Burns Is thp answer to the nirnlane." he said. I think the ship had two such hatteries of four barrels each. Todav, three years later, that shin has DPrhans more than 100 much heavier anti-aircraft rifles. Our Asiatic fleet, which took on the full brunt of the Japanese naw after. Pearl Harbor, was worse. Most of Its shins' guns could not be elevated to fire at an Incoming plane. Ctl Lessnns Lrned Tn November. 194? our battle ships fired their main battery at an enemv surface force for the first time since the Spanish American war, 1898 44 years before. . No. 44.200 Roosevelt's Select ions for Posts in State Department Bounce Back to Committee WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (AP) President Roosevelt's personal selections to help run the State department bounced back to the foreign relations committee today from an unsatisfied majority of the senate. . . , . ' ' . . . Chairman Connally called up the. nominations, for an under- in secretary and three assistant secretaries, late yesterday and the senate by a roll call vote ot 37 to 27 promptly sent thcrh back the same way. , 'The nominations had been ap proved In committee Tuesday without hearings and a vocifer ous group of lawmakers some of then new dealers demanded op portunity to learn more about the men's political philosophies and plans for the years ahead. The action affected these new: ly appointed aides to Secretary of State Stettlnius: Joseph C. Grew, former ambas sador to Japan, designated under secretary. . . Will JL. Clayton, former cotton dealer, erstwhile assistant secre tary . of commerce and surplus war property administrator, nam ed an assistant secretary of state. Nelson A. Rockefeller, coordi nator of inter-American affairs, assistant secretary. Archibald MacLeisn, poet ana librarian of congress, assistant secretary. Procedure Resented Connally made no effort to hide his feeling that the senate's ac tion was a slap at the foreign re lations committee if not a direct blow at the president. Acting re publican leader White of Maine, who voted for all the nominations in the committee, backed up Con nally in denouncing "this very un usual procedure," but to no avail. Senator O'Mahoney pf tcred the (Continued on page f) U.S. favors Greek : Political Liberty V WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (AP) Secretary of State Stettlnius to day put the United States as favoring complete freedom of po litical action for the people of Greece. He formally endorsed a decla ration by Prime Minister Churchill Tuesday that the peo ple of Greece should have com plete freedom to form a govern ment either of the right or of the left. ' But Stettlnius deliberately re frained from endorsing another statement by the British prima minister aeaung wtin tne use oi British troops to prevent lorma tlon of what Churchill called a "communist dictatorship in Greece." This was the second time this week that the state department has spoken out in favor of po litical freedom for the people of Europe. Earlier it protested Britain's In tervention in the formation of a new Italian government. The British action had vetoed Count Carlo Sforza as a candidate for either premier or foreign minis ter ot a new regime at Kome. Pvt. George E. Langston, Riddle, Killed in Action Private George Elbert Langs ton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Langston, formerly of Riddle, now of Grants Pass, was killed In action November 12, In the Eu ropean area. Private Langston reclved his advanced training at Colorado Springs, Colo, His brother, Private Howard Leroy Langston, is now stationed in England. s Likewise, we had not fought a modern night action until August. 1942, when at Savo island a small Japanese cruiser force almost wiped out our Guadalcanal screening forces. We lost four cruisers within minutes without Inflicting any appreciable dam age to the Japanese. At our first amphibious land ing at Guadcanal, sunplv lines failed, our men were bombarded almost nightly, reinforcements and replacements did not come, air coverage was lacking. At Attu In the Aleutians our California-trained men were not eoui""ed with the right Jan-klll-Ing tools and the right clothes. Casualties as a result were high. And vet, all these Pearl Har bor, Savo island. Attu. Guadal canal. Tarawa paid off because we learned the know-how of iun"le flfhtlng, carrier battles, night fighting. Because these men died In the past three years from Pearl Harbor to Leyte we've learned the know-how. Succeeding vic tories will be cheaper. hi Nelson Rockefeller. Or ViN. ' William L. Clayton War Output Spur Calls for 300,000 More Workers ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (AP) James F. Byrnes and a new crew of assistants moved In on lagging war production today to speed mnuions to lanns. Into the campaign they funnel- ed efforts of all government agencies responsible in any way for war output, the manpower supporting it, ana the transporta tion hauling it Spurring the director of war mobilization and reconversion and some newly-selected helpers were shortages or sagging pro duction in big and little ammuni tion, assault ships, radar for planes, cotton for tents, foundry castings and tanks and B-28s for bombing. And they had to hunt up some 300,000 workers to Dring scnea ules back to par. The War Production board. which has been the main force In the field, was reported meanwhile to be proposing the clamping of labor ceilings on less urgent war plants, as well as on civilian in dustry. A special WPB report on the armament emergency, tt was said, recommends thnt the gov ernment fix limits on the number of workers which can be held by less essential factories. Drunken-Drivinq Mayor Fined, License Revolted SEATTT.t1;. Dec. 7 ( AP) The mavor nf Both). Joe Rvan. was fined S300 and his driver's license was revoked veserdav on a con viction for drunken drlvln aft er, said State Patrolman D. H Pniltt. he had stonned the ear and the mayor and two frighten ed sailors stepped out. The sailors reported the cow Hov hattpd mavor tnld them, said Prultt, thev were "riding with a rough riding cowboy now." Pvt. Dean Foael Wounded In France. Parents Told Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Fogel of Rosehttrg received a telegram from the War denartment vester dav tellln of the wounding of their son, private IVan Fogel, of Roseburg. Private Foeel was re ported critically wounded lome where in France. Saar Capital Battered 8th Straight Day Russians Closing in On , Budapest, Get Within 35 Miles of Austrian Line (Bv the Associated Press.)' U. S. Third army tanks plung ed todav to the outskirts of For bach, French rail town and Sieg fried line outpost three and one hair miles from battered saar- . brueken, as artillery pounded the capital of the Industrial Saar for the eighth straight dav.. To the northwest the AmerU . cans still firmly held Saarlautern, the Saar basin's second city, de-, spite German claims to have re captured It. Troops continued to pour across the expanded bridge head there. Action flared again on the stat ic northern flank of the Ameri can line. Lt. Gen. Hodges' First army struck out from captured Inden, midway between the Koer river citadels or juuch ana uur en. Patrols reached the outskirts of Pier, a mile and a half awav. The Germans were believed fe verishly preparing defenses on the Erft river, a narrow stream, bevond the Roer. In the south the U. S. Seventh army driving toward a juncture with the French in the Vosges advanced to within five miles of Colmar, last major Alsatian city In German hands, against moder ate resistance and amid signs of a nazl withdrawal across tne Rhine. - Air Bombers In Action Some 1.300 RAF planes blasted the rail centers of Osnahruck and Glessen and the Leuna svnthetlc oil plant during the night, and made Berlin a secondary target. U. S. bombers yesterday had rain ed 3,000 tons of explosives on tho Leuna refinerv. Twenty-one British planes were lost and at least 17 enemy craft were destroyed, an air ministry communique said. The luftwaffe stuck to the ground during daylight yesterday and American losses were limit ed to four bombers and two fight ers knocked down by German anti-aircraft fire. Budapest Rinq Tlohtens In the east, by Berlin account, the Russians cracked the Gorman . line northeast of Budapest - as ' fresh . red army tank forces at-. tacked. In a northwest direction! Other Russians drove to points' (Continued on page 6) Maiwower Lack V'-w! to Absence Of Service taw WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (APV J. A. Krug, chairman of the War Production board, today at tributed manpower shortages to congress' refusal to enact a na tional service law. In a spirited exchange with Senator Ferguson Krug declared the manpower commission needed "more teeth" in its regulations to keen workers on war lobs. "Why haven't they the teeth to do the Job?" Ferguson demanded. "Primarily because congress re fused to vote a national service act." the witness answered. Testifying before the senate war investigating committee, Krug said that if war agencies! had had the same control over workers as thev have had over the flow of materials the "man power problem would have been solved." ' He said while national service law "would have been helpful a . year ago," he did not "believe it would do much good now. 'Tt would take too long to get It functioning," he said. Senate Group Favors Security Tax "Freeze" WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (AP)' Squaring off for a showdown with President Roosevelt, the senate finance committee voted 13 to 2 today to freeze social se curlty tnx rates. Chairman George said he would call the measure up tomorrow for expected sennte annroval. Tho house voted 262 to 72 Monday In favor of keeping the levy at Its present one per cent rate on both employers and employes. Mr. Roosevelt repeatedly has expressed his opnostlon to halting a scheduled automatic doubling of the tax Jan. 1. Arthur J. Altmever. chairman of the social security board, tolil the house wavs and means com-. mlttee last week the rise should be permitted to safeguard the fu- Latest answers to the ques tion, "what are we fighting for?" By tho United States: To make the world safe for democ racy. Bv Great Britain: To make the world safe for monarchies. By Russia: To make the world safe for communism. By liberated nations: To make us safe from our friends. tvByFiCTRni Ar t. . lUfamMa