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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.
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' OJOSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1 944.
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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.
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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,-
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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.
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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
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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.
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