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"if-" tf Ccmplofo YeaH And as aewspaper cu Iti nor real satisfac tion thaa ysor local morn lftg paper, with IU WOKLO NEWS pins tlO&CE COM BXUNITT NEWS. cv Jl 'Hours? I 1 Are yea looking for alaee to lire, or for a tea aat? If so, tan to The Statesman classified advert Using pare where fcayer and aeQer ret together. t i i i i i j PCUNC3B tZZi tmTY-CECOHD YEAH Salem Oragon. Thursday Morning, October 23. IS 42 Pile Sc. No. 153 Politics Q)ut for General an k i A Soldier Only Russians Allies Push Forivard in Desert Enemy, TSo'oib) CasmaMes Far Exceed AmeFicalll, Jtre AlF .eia - BoimB'2 "Mpg lU iiriiiur Avcra , Aussies' Effort In War Supreme By C YATES McDANIEL ' GEN. Mac ARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, Thurs day, Oct. 29JJF)-Gen. Douglas MacArthur Thursday disavow ed that he-had any "political ambitions whatsoever" and said that "the only hope and ambi tion I have in the world is for victory lor our cause in the war.' He issued a statement to this effect in ' commenting on news paper reports quoting the Wash ington correspondent of the Chis tian Science Monitor that "poli tical Washington was largely re sponsible for the establishment of two separate commands -in the Pacific, partly because of the con uervatiVe opposition which launched the MacArthur-for-pre- tldent campaign." , ;;-.. I started as a. soldier and I Shall finish as one, MacArthnr said. If I sarvive the campaign, I shall retara to that retirement treat which this great straggle called me."l ' w alan -Minted renorts that Australian war , effort was not ; " His statement ! said: , ' being pushed as it should be. No nation In the world Is max ing a more supreme war effort J than Australia. It is rapidly gear- fag to full capacity. Its resource. are relaUvely meager but it is are relatively meager utilizing them to the utmost Its - 1 equauy au classes ana bu "Tt, has unanimously ana com- pletery supportea me in my mm- . . . -- HI tary command, and the nony and cooneration between Aus tralians and Americans in this area are inspirational. . -Such internal ; pany amer- . . . i m a. . - ences as exist are largely based iiDon the desire of one group or the - other to accelerate rather than retard the war potential. - "I am deeply grateful for their magnificent spirit of friendship and understanding without which It would have been difficult ) to co oh. . "I have noted the statement quoted In morning papers from the Christian Science Monitor's Washington correspondent that (Turn to Page 2) Oregon Flier Helps Sink Jan Ships Li, - SAN DIEGO, Calil, ucx. x (fly-Tour marine c o r p s . fliers, whose exploits In the Pacific mnffed from sinking several Jap-1 anese warships despite fierce an- ti-aricraft fire to thwarting enemy efforts to reinforce Guadalcanal units, are relaxing here before returning to the war xone. - Thev are Mais. Leo R. Smith, a Portland Ore and R. J. Mor- rell. ir- 29. San Diego; Capts. B Prosser, 27, McMinnville, Ore., and Daniel Iverson, jr., 28, Miami, Fla. Fighter pilot Morrell, credited with downing five Jap planes, sui fered a' minor wound in aerial combat A 1937 graduate of the naval academy, he was ; football captain his final year. The others. dive bomber pilots, escaped in iury, Although they cannot be certain of bow many warships they sank, there is little doubt, the navy said, that they made the enemy pay a staggering price in men and vessels. ; .... 1 PrnMr1! sauadroa sank a cruiser (a bomb aroppeo aowa th stack), and a destroyer. ana S .lag; mist, Prosser dropped a bomb on the deck of a destroy er, bat it failed to explode. Prcsser and Iverson took part in the battle of Midway, bombing several ships. In one attack Iver n'a Diane was riddled by ma- cwnwau - returned safely to his base. The (Turn to Pago 2 : State Scrap Pile I At C0,C00 Tons PORTLAND. Oct 2S--Or gon's scrap pile weighed an es JmatPd E0.CC0 tons Wednesday, 1nst 20.000 short of the state's goal. Ralph Mitchell, executive secre- tarr of the salvage commitiee, 5LiA .t that Wheeler county time that we will have synthetics j the US marine corps headquar poimea oui i . ... . Iters reported Wednesday nifiht. aZ t'A nvpr its Quota, -while UCJU"'i . - p, vokted its agsrezaw xo iou, only 375 below its goal. -r r. gfctStBBt86ttfiM GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR Disavows political plans Auxiliary ; r urniShing I Of Day Rooms Gets. Many Pledges Church ffrouns lead all other or- gani2ations within the city to date Dedrin their efforts to furnish at Camp Adair, sub- rj wnMHS. committees reporting ; Wednesday :t . dSStai meeting of the county camp buu uuepiuu tuui- mjttee indicated. 'sure" j. tte diviBion t workers were told, : while others are checking their resources, planning, to furn- ish either one. room apiece or a portion of the need lor a room. N oreamiatian is to nrovide more f. th ,njw fnrniahinn for than the auxiliary furnishings for the day rooms, or parlors, which serve as rest and recreation cen ters near the barracks. The army has promised to provide heavier pieces of necessary furniture, and civi ind cm- I ? JSL lian organisations are lowed to give draperies. radios, phonographs, additional easy chairs, bookcases, addition al lamps, ping pong tables and similar equipment. Already pledged to undertake one room apiece are First Chris tian, Jason Lee Methodist, First Presbyterian, E v a n g el 1 c al, St. Joseph's Catholis, Calvary Bap tist, First Baptist and First Meth odist churches, while First Con gregational and Knight Memorial Congregational churches have joined to undertake the project jointly and ' at least two other churches have indicated that they will probably take on at least one room apiece, Plumbers' and Steamfitters union No. 347 was the first labor group to volunteer to furnish a room, while the Salem Women's club, Business and - Professional Women's dub, Order of Eastern Star. Bnai Brith and the GKP club have adopted the project. One lodge group has offered to provide 12 ping pong tables. and another has promised to un dertake the furnishing of a room. It was .understood Wed nesday night, although a special report of lodges' activities Is planned for presentation later. Employes - of J Sears Roebuck store, through their manager, Gene Vandeneynde, led commer cial - organizations in pledging to furnish a room. :! . s , Used furniture is altogether ac ceptable for the rooms, the divi sion chairman, CoL Carle Abrams, made clear, Placques will be placed in each room telling the name of the donor organization. Jeff ers: Sees Rubber Supply BALTIMORE, Oct 28-(ff) William M.'Jeffers, national rub ber administrator, predicted Wed nesday night that by the middle 19U the United States would H,,t- of mb. have an adequate supply of rub ber substitutes and that never again would this country be de pendent upon crude rubber from Malaya. Speaking extemporaneously be fore the National Association of Independent Tire Dealers, Jeffers said: ."If every auto driver will play the game, I believe we can bridge the : gap . between the supply of rubber we have on hand and the I The army and our allies' would I iv. .vk. .. 4 v;nr? rt g we uwu .'tires they want, he saio. Churches Lead Help to Camp &Tizis Make 2nd Advance; Allies 4 Win Tank Clash , - By The Associated Press At the start of the 66th day of 1 the battle of Stalingrad Wednesday, night, .the military position of the Russian defend ers was slowly but progressive ly worsening. There also was a Russian reverse in the deep Caucasus, where the Germans reached the Nalchik plateau in new flanking offensive. The : midnight ' communique from Moscow reported a 200- yard gala for the Germans fat the northern factory district; the Wednesday noon communi one had acknowledged German Infantry-tank advances along two streets. There was ne ques tion bat that these advances were costly; however, they far ther compressed the Russian de fenders ia' their narrow corri dor oa the west bank of the Vslga. On the Egyptian desert the British eighth army hammered after winning its first sizable clash of armor, and the allied gouge in the deep axis positions was grow ing slowly but surely wider and deeper; Instrumental in this pre liminary . process of penetration was the day and night barrage 55 7Tw: r1!' ZJplu. ?. .-m.g. maintained by massed British ar- fect partnership of British, Amer- " i' The Wednesday German com munique , reported actual nazi penetration to the Volga in the factory sector.- ; :.,.t:::--f. The Russian midnight account declared,-however, that one com pany of motorized German infan try which reached the southwest outskirts of one factory was 'com pletely annihilated, and said that 'twelve other infantry -companies had been wiped out by Russian artillery and mortar fire and air (Turn to Page 2) . Appeasers Flailed by President WASHINGTON, Oct 28 rreswlent Roosevelt struck out at appeasers and comDromisers Wednesday night in a message praising the Greek people on the second anniversary of their re sistance to axis aggression. In a letter to the Greek am bassador, he recalled that on Oc tober 28, 1940, the Italian fas cists handed , an ultimatum to Greece. When the Greek mainland was overrun,' he said, "resistance was carried on from the islands. When the islands fell, resistance continued from Africa, .from the seas, irom anywhere the aggres sor could be met - "To those who prefer to com promise, to follow a course of ex pediencyV 4o appease, or fo count the cost I say that Greece has set the example which every one Of us must follow until the de spoilers of freedemm everywhere have been brought to their Just doom." . ' There was no information as to whether Mr.' Roosevelt In his re marks about . appeasers. ' was thinking especially of the Vichy French leaders, .who have chosen a course in marked contrast with that of the Oreeks. jine : presiaent s message was read at a meeting commemorating the Greek resistance. Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, spoke at . the meeting, . renewing his country's pledge to "leave no thing undone which will hasten the day of Greek liberation. weswent .Roosevelt also, sent message to President Edouard Benes of : Czechoslovakia on the occasion of that country's na tional holiday, assuring the neo- ple of the republic now occupied oy uerman troops ., that .their steadfast sacrifice it contributing to tho victory of the united na tions. Marines Arrive In Britisli Isles: LONDON, Oct 28 -UPh' Addi tional units of United States ma rifles, led i by Cot William T. Clement ; a- Bataan-Corregidof ; hero, have arrived in the British Isles and are at battle station. I ' American marine unite already I here hnro pnon-Prt i-i iln 4; - ing with the royal marines. Allied troops,; spearheading the forces in the North African desert,- stand ever the body of a Ger- German-Italian line, as they This is one of the first pictures of seat by radio from Cairo to the iciemai. -' Don't Help the Enemy By Usual Halloween Tricks, Warns Uncle - By KENNETH WASHINGTON, Oct 2MP:The best way to help the enemy, children, is to go out and celebrate Halloween as usual this Saturday night With those gentle words, Uncle Sam sorrowfully warned his uvenile nieces and nephews Wed nesday' that about the only way they could hobnob with the hob- goblinsenthe coming All Hal low's eve wa to stay at home and' make faces at each other. . Ia Washington, they won't even be able to don masks and wander abroad this year. Drag ging an old law oat of the moth balls, of Ku-Klux-Klaa - days, the police department warned that masked individuals will be suspected as i saboteurs and dealt with as such boom, boom! .. : ' ' At the same time, high gov ernment officials who, for rea sons possibly involving votes of 1955 or thereabouts, preferred not to be quoted by name, asked the country's children to " remember that the old gag of letting air out of tires is nothing short of sab otage itself, this year. Furthermore, they pointed out ringing doorbells will - ruin the sleep of many a war worker and thus slow down the flow of mu nitions to the fighting men. Waking ' someone in the ..wee, sma hours with a telephone call is no longer funny when the wires already are jammed with mes sages. - Soaping windows is using up a war-vital material, since soap's Ingredients also go into high ex plosives.' (Of course, this can be used as anti-bath propaganda, boys.) Grabbing gates also b bad business, since if they can be dispensed with they, should be fat the scrap pile, and if not someone is going to- lose plenty of war-vital hoars hunting -them. ' ..... - i : , And if you think not being able to upset those little buildings be hind big buildings this year Is going to hurt your morale, boys, just remember that what it does to the neighborhood's morale when you do kick them over Is not to be sniffed at! Nazi Saboteur Closes CHICAGO, Oct 28 Fin est Peter Burger, one of the eight nazr saboteurs who were smug gled into the United States by submarines, finished his story of the plot Wednesday with a display of anger over the question of whether he had saved his skin by turning against his confederates. He was on the wtiness stand at the trial of six German-Americans on treason charges when defense attorney, Paul Warnholtx,- asked: nVere you promised immunity i: you testified .against other mem bers at the military . commission trial in Washington? Burger drew himself up stiffly. stared haughtily at the lawyer and declared: 'li'iv;..',.-:. "I may remind you, sir, that 1 you are speaking to a German soldier. The United -States gov ernment respected me by not of fering any promises. I expect the same of you, sir.' Story current allied drive against axis examine captured axis equipment the new allied campaign, and was I United States. Associated Press . L. DIXON ; GQP Leaders Assert Alius ? Snell Says Keeping Of Representative : . System Essential : ' Staunch belief in the two-par ty system of state and national government was voiced by can didates and other speakers at the pre-election open meeting of re publican party groups and others interested at 'the Marion hotel Wednesday night One of. the most Important re - sponsibilities of the. state and na - tional electorate is to "keep rep- resentative government Secre- tary -of State Earl Snell, as re - publican Candidate for governor, aeciarea. The minority party na- tionally, this party will remain the majority party In Oregon at next Tuesday's . general : election, SneU and other speakers predic - tcd. The gubernatorial candidate listed as the programs the elec torate must demand. In the or- .(Turn to Page 2) Boy Escapee Caught When Autos Grash : PORTLAND, Oct 28 yi Portland police , Jailed a youth Wednesday night after a down town, automobue chase that re sulted in two traffic accidents which hospitalized seven persons. Patrolmen G. B. Hunt and W. P. Doescher said the youth, cap tured after the automobile he was driving crashed Into another driv- quest of the Philippines that the advisement Wednesday the ap en by Mrs.' John J. Keegan, wife Nipponese have put in motion peal of 70,000 sawmill and tim of the Portland police's chief of such superiority in power against ber workers -in the -northwest's detectives, was John -Van -Hove, IB, a rugiuve. irom me wooaourn state training school. . , v The officers said they pursued the car driven by young Va novelfic. when . they Identified -it as . one reported stolen at Canby by Per- cy Ottoway of Aurora. Mrs. Kee- gan suffered arm and back lin- juries, and Van Hove's knee was hurt. - Five persons in the crowd that a&acuiuicu at . uie crasu scene injured when two other cars collided at the intersection and one caromed into their midst - ' Hunt and Doescher said Van Hove told them he escaped from the - training . school with Tohn Hottman, 15, Portland, who later was taken into custody by police. 7calher , ' ; Tuesday's max. temp. 48, min. 36. Elver Wed. -4 ft By army request weather forecasts are ' withheld and temperature data 'delayed. ..-' - Dimout: Thursday's - sunset 6:CJ pxi.t'rilij'scssnrlse 1:13 warship Hit, Blazes Set AtRabaul Guinea Posh Gains; Showdown Seen ' ; In Solomons GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, Australia, .Thurs day Oct. 2MVAUied bomb ers winging far north of hotly- contested . Guadalcanal in the Solomons hit a Japanese war ship and another vessel at Ra- haul. New Britain, and started fires visible for 80 miles at Buka, another enemy base, a communi- oue said ThursdaT. Allied . headquarters , also an nounced that Australian ground troops striking across the Owen Stanley mountains in New. Guinea had "forced the enemy north ward along the main trail to posi tions in the vicinity of Alola," and that stubborn fighting against iso lated Japanese detachments and strong points was continuing. Thus the allied troops were within eight miles of Kokoda, mid-way point across the waist of the is land. The night aerial attacks on Ra haul and Buka were "in continu ous support of the general Solo-J "J0113 rwtuatum. and "all our tMuies re uuura, the communi- I que saia. PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 28- A showdown in the .southwestern Pacific between American: and Japanese forces appears to be at hand. , - - The magnitude of the Japan ese , posh, with superiority - of sky, sea . - and land ' forces mobilised for months and stem ming from their power house on Trek Island, " places the se curity of: the mala . American positions between the Hawaiian Islands and Australia in peril. . On .Guadcanislan1in the Solomons American marines and j army troops are hemmed in a Ismail strip of land six miles long land three miles deep, with Jap- 1 anese ' forces ' in overwhelming numbers on three sides and the enemy having the advantages of (heavy artillery, tanks and sup- plies. ; Whether there will be a re-en- actment of the historic stand on Bataan peninsula in the early stages of the war hinges on get- 1 ting planes, heavy weapons, sup- plies and reinforcements quickly to Guadalcanal. The American forces . there are confident they can hold out if such supplies and reinforcements reach them. The Japanese have control of the air in the southern Solo mons area and amass landings of troops indicate control of the tea ia the Guadalcanal sone. Ia addition, a force of enemy car riers, battleships, heavy cruis ers, destroyers and submarines is moving eastward to l tuer Amcncu pwuvn u un j to give the Japanese widespread control of the sea. Attacks from the sea and , air, already have been made on American bases ta the New Hebrides. . - This is the first time since con- I American positions in the Pacific. xnere is no aouot inai u is an au - "t effort to destroy these- Amen- J can footholds in the south Pad- TnTTl fnfiTllltlpfi "OHie ISUOIUCS 17 TJssIao' fV. Ja,tJ I tmwM.rm " t ?5l JPWRmi- A!- w, w. P. Blandv said Wed tw IWomhw 7. more Americans have been per - manently disabled by accidents on the home front than the total of our . military losses, wounded, captured and killed in action." I that standard pay rates would ap Admiral Blandy, chief of ord-1 ply to the same type of work nance for the United States navy, made the assertion in an address written for the annual banquet Tntin cf the national safety congress sponsored by . the na- tinnsl safetv COUnciL - Kinr. December 7" he also told the delegates, "accidents have Rear Adm. Randall Jacobs, chief cost us more than three billion of navy personnel, said Wednes-man-hours the same producUve cay the US marine corps, as well energy involved In-huildini 1C3 aircraft carriers. .. . Bucharest Alert; Helsinki Raided By Soviet Planes LONDON, Thnrsday, Oct Zt The Vichy radio said that . a half hoar air raid aleart oecar-, red Wednesday night la Bneha rest, capital' of Samania. No details were given bat , both sedet bombers and US planes previoasly have attacked. Bamanls, . , HELSINKI, Oct. tt-MVKv- siaa bombers raided Helsinki twice Wednesday Bight. This was the first time the Flantnsh capital had been at tacked since August, whea two large-scale' raids were made About 4t planes took part la a attack ea August SS . and fear days later Helsinki had Its heaviest attack of the war with: M planes participating. - Eleanor Tires ons Britons Amazed at . Stamina Shown by Honored Tourist LONDON, Oct 28 -VP) Eg lisbmen . are incredulous over "the eternal stamina of the wom- I an." Mrs. Franklin Dl Roosevelt has 1 had that effect on them since her arrival In Britain five days ago. The personal charm of Amer ica's first lady has evoked pleas ed exclamations everywhere, but it is her tireless activity and the effortless - way In which 7 she spends whole days wearing out shoe leather visiting war estab lishments that has caused them to tip their hats in admiration. In less than a week Mrs. Roose velt has covered perhaps as much as a thousand miles just on jaunts around London. She has been on 4fiA e?n fi-rwn mat anrlv aaV T at in ------ ' in half a dozen different places in a day. Not only this, but she has displayed as much' enthusiasm watching girls tinker with gaso line engines at 7 o'clock in the evening as she did at one o'clock in the morning. The effects of the pace have begun to tell on her two Scotland Yard escorts. Veterans with years of leg work behind them, they are shifting ruefully from one tired "dog" to another. r Last Saturday Mrs. . .Roosevelt wore reporters down on her in spections of St Paul's cathedral, air raid shelters, the bombed area, and civilian defense work- tomDam On Monday she tore 150 rnueal across country from the -airport to " three different bases, and. In the process drove '' Mrs, Oveta Culp Hobby, director of the WAACs, and Mrs." ..Winston Churchill to near exhaustion. iT - T ' 1 luumner juanor Appeals Wage PORTLAND, Ore, Oct 28-JP) The newly created west coast lumber " commission . took under I Douglas fir industry for more pay. 1 your eases involving wage dis- Dutes fa Oregon and Washington j WCre consolidated, and the com- mission heard final testimony from ' AFL and ' CIO 'Tepresenta tives of the workers. The unions were allowed a week to reply to contentions of employers oppos ing the requested wage increases. I Annthr Mtr will V itknvl tor - 1 the fflina of briefs. Chairman Ben 1 H., Kf7r SnAkin. MiA. 1 In tho meantime, tho commis- I si on will undertake a survey of the question of standardization ol the Industry by classifications so throughout the industry, - Kizer I said. Plan Female Marines I PnTSBURGIL Oct. 23, as the coast guard, plans to en 1 list women. Guadalcanal Fight Lulls For Breather.! Congressmen, Urge r United yar Force ; : . Mott joina Call ; . . By RICHARD L. TURNER - WASHINGTON, Oct 28-ff) J apanese trying to take the vi tal airfield oh Guadalcanal are greater numbers than the American defenders, the navy announced Wednesday in a communique which also de- scribed the damage to enemy equipment as "very heavy." Possibly because of the losses they have suffered since they launched their full-scale offensive on October 23, the Japanese re duced ; their-opera tions on the night of October 28-27 to several "small scale thrusts' against the . American, positions. All of these . attacks were thrown back. ' j Otherwise, naval officers la terpreted a communique mak- ; tng these anneuncements Wed aesday as . indicating that the fighting m the Solomons was , fat a lull. They emphasised, how- ' ever, that there was nothing te Indicate that - Japaaese naval ' forces had withdrawn Irom tho i area of the fighting.. After a series of . furious sea battles which erupted at several points in the vicinity of the Solo mons ever ilhe weekend it was . only natural that both sides should be catching their breath and tak ing stock of the resulting situa- . , Describing the losses In the land fighting, the communique said; - 'Enemy losses f in- men and equipment in troop actions on the island since October 23 have been very heavy as-compared to our onm." Tl" Naval officers added to this the- information that American losses have been light' ' The period covered by (Turn to Page 2) the Detroit Bus, i Tram Crash Fatal to 16 f DETROIT, Oct 28.-(ffV-Sixteen persons were killed and more than a score injured, several crit ically, .Wednesday when a Detroit dren, office workers and factory employes, was ripped in two by a ' passenger train. . ' The, locomotive of the Chicago- Detroit train sliced through the rear .end of the bus, hurled the front end to one side, scattered bodies along the right of way for two blocks and ground to a stop a quarter mile away .with the -bodies of six youths mangled against the front of Its boiler. Suburban ' Hambramck police took into custody for questioning the bus driver, William F. Clos, 25, who has been a regular motor driver. -k r.r-- -?.v- Fred A. Nolan, general manager of the municipally owned : DSR transportation system, said , the" accident was the worst in the sys tem's history. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ordered a complete hv vestigation. ': wuw i w, r seated directly behind - th ; bus driver, told how standing riders obscured his vision, ' ' ' liberty Stotue Lighted Briefly NEW YORK, Oct 28 To Ti'mai afnNi Poflrl Harbor UJC JJUBft s sp-- the torch atop the Statue of. Lib erty Wednesday flashed seaward its traditional message of freedom and equality. . r j Seven-year-old . Charmalnt StacQer, whose father - is ; in the forces of the Fighting French, pressed :.the button lighting the torch briefly in commemoration of J the 56th anniversary of tho French republic's presentation ol the statue to the United States.