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IT SEEMS-: TO ME. that the
figures on ; payroll - increases ; in
Oregon reveal the magnitude of
Oregon's post-war problem. .In
two years payrolls for the state
have trebled, but for Multnomah
county they have, quintupled.
Comparative figures for the first
Six months of calendar years, as
reported by the unemployment
compensation commission are as
' follows: ; "w-??.:- -
; - - ; ' Oregon : .
IMS " $269,343,422
3342 143,753,523
1341 flg.aaSl
" Multnomah County
1943 . :
1942
1941 iv,;"--'.-,.
. . $19302,658
- 81,158,037
t j 38,336,933
I am going to make this blunt
assertion that when the war emer
gency is over, about the best thing
which could happen would be
period of unemployment. Shock
ing, Isn't it? But listen to my rea-
sons. - ;TViu w, -
The concentration of - employ-
xnent in Multnomah county is un
healthy, not only for Portland but
for other ' communities. Formerly
the Multnomah-payroll amounted
..'to about one-third of that for' the
whole state; now it Is better than
two-thirds. This means that out
lying cities and farms have been
sucked dry of their workers. It
Is not merely the surplus, the par
tially employed, the ex-WPA-ers
who have migrated to Portland
and its shipyards; The regular
worker the men with - steady
jobs, have gone in droves to get
in on the big money and to make
a contribution to the winning of
the war. ;
j The : home communities have
Buffered, some of them grievous-.
1v Thmr mnomic and social life
feels the deficiency of this mass
emigration. They have been will
ing to bear the loss as a war' sac
rifice; but when the war is over
they expect the ; return of the
workers, perhaps -not just r t the
same Individuals, but the same
" numbers.
' ! On the other hand the expan
d on in population 1 in Portland
has bera faster man the city can
absorb. - It4oes4t havst.tlie
"housing, the transportation facili
ties, the 1 schools and . churches
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Fancy Meeting
YouHereySay
Sciem Youths -
Literally la the Coral sea they -:
met, these two yeung Salem men.
When Sgt. Lawrence Allport,
ef Mrs. Aagasta . AUport.
- 448 Water street, was damped
: lata the tropic waters following
' crash landing ef his plane, he
waa "fished eat of the drink"
by BaVTIeUr, ef Mr. and
Mrs. Keberf Jt Victor, lit East
-Killer street,--; -''-K-zt'
Fresa Vieter he heard news ef
' other , Salem men, laeladlxkg
CapL Dow LoveU, a relative ef
the sergeant. .
' Allport. radioman en a Flying
Fortress, was fa the hospital re
' eovitag t reas malaria mad from
salaar lajarlea sastalaed In the
erasar landing, when the letter
' by Victor was-written te Mrs.
Allport. He Is a graduate of Sa-
- lem ' nigh school - aad waa eav .
- roate te Manila when the war
with Japan began, having sailed
from this eo on try for overseas
-: daty ea Thanksgiving day, 1941
Jap Destroyer and Transport
Left Burning Fiercely When -Yank
Bombers Score Hits
. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Thursday, July S.-KffAnother
Japanese warship , and at least
one transport or cargo vessel have
fall n victim to allied bombers
In "the southwest Pacific. -
' The destroyer and .transport
were sighted by a reconnaissance
plane , off Cape Gloucester, New
Britain. Four - engined bombers
were sent to the attack and direct
hits : were scored on both ships
despite a protecting cover f of
Japanese fighters.
f "Both ships were left burning
fiercely a x communique rfrom
. General, Douglas Mac Arthur's
headquarters said.
Damaging near misses ..were
scored on - another cargo ship, a
1500-ton vessel, anchored near
the enemy base at Manokwari,
rtch New Guinea.
. Another heavy-attack was de
I v ored by torpedo ' and - dive
I nbers against . Munda, New
C -rgia, airbase. Forty seven tons
I explosives were dropped on
- ::.:y positions in 1 and near the
I's'n e. There' were no reports
i t: progress of American
j, -, f'-hters who are closing In
r.rr..:!c central Solomons
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Churchill
Italian Overtures -';
Nazi Reinforcements Reach Sicily
To Stiffen Resistance at Catania :
' ; " ' By RICHARD McMURRAY ' ' !. .' " ,
"i Associated Press War Editor
: Mutinous Italy bordered on revolution and anarchy Wednes
day night as its war-weary people clamored for peace and the
"receivership" Badoglio government dissolved the fascist party
of t alien. Mussolini.
', The fervor for peace apparently spread to Hungary. Turkish
reports said German troops were massing on that Balkan state's
Lebanon Man
Biidly Beaten
- Pcdenon Tells of
" - Attack but Accounts.
Vary; Case Probed- .
The assailant or assailants who
Wednesday afternoon beat Sigurd
Pederson, 69-year-old ; Lebanon
painter, and left him near the
Pacific ; highway south repeating
to himself a colorful tale involv
ing the possible murder of his
partner,w became obbject of,
search ? Wednesday night which
continued on ' into this morning
for state police.
T Pederson, his head cut and
bleeding profusely, was at Salem
Deaconess hospital, where stories
told investigating officers in. his
seBu-deluium.vai&4: widely.
Ed Anderson, Operator of a Sa
lem used car lot, and his son, Ron
ald, coming 'into Salem, wea
flagged down seven' miles south
of the city limits near the Alder
Springs club at approximately 7
o'clock Wednesday , night by Ped
erson's feebly-waved bloody
handkerchief., , :-
; Describing himself as a logger,
the man told his benefactors that
his f partner'- was probably dead
in the woods on the hill behind
him, but that the men who had
set , upon them had not robbed
him. ; ' ' :--ri:"--r
At the hospital later he told of
ficers ; he was a i high-climber,
which require skill" and balance
usually found only in young ath
letes, that he had been robbed of
$40 arid that not his partner-but
one of the highwaymen had been
left in the woods. Even this story
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Archbishop Spcllman
Returning to U. S.'
WASHINGTON, July 23 -iJPf
The state department said today
that 'Archbishop Francis J. Spell
man of New-York, who has been
abroad for several months, was
enroute back, to the United States
today, without Intending to visit
the Vatican on the way.
Today's communique was lim
ited to accounts of aerial action
and some light surface activity as
the - Americans . and Australians
pressed their attacks designed to
blockade Japanese garrisons from
supply points farther norm.- v
The -aerial, blows went forward
despite Japanese attempts to
blockade Japanese garrisons from
supply points farther north.
' The aerial blows went forward
despite' Japanese attempts to
block them and in one brief battle
over Rein bay on the north coast
of New Britain, nine P-38' tan
gled with: 15 -Zeros and shot down
six; and probably destroyed two
more. - - .--.
. The fight v occurred during : a
raid- by our medium : bombers on
a barge base near Rein bay. Seven
barges and two launches were de
stroyed - and violent - explosions
followed . hits on -Inland fuel
dumps. p.
: At ; least nine " Japanese . barges
were I destroyed by. US aircraft
and light surface units. Seven
were destroyed and three others
damaged by medium bombers In
sweeps along the coast of New
Guinea; four were intercepted by
surface units off Kolombangara
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Denies:
frontiers to prevent the kingless
kingdom from quitting the war.
Hungary .was - reported steadily
withdrawing her troops from Rus
sia,, r . if I -; 1'rf--.":.
i Hamburg ; was ; heavily bombed
again. Flying Fortresses hit cen
tral Germany ' for. the first time;
Americans captured six towns in
north Sicily, The Russians en
croached on Orel. Kiska and Its
Japanese garrison shuddered un
der 19 new. air attacks;.: Wake is
land was pounded anew. ' Ameri
cans, made a "considerable ad
vance on Munda .in the Solomons.
Small wonder that faces in Berlin
were long and worried, as Spanish
reports cabled. , The tide of war
was surging ever stronger against
the doomed axis. ... .
Milan, the birthplace i of ' fas
cism, was the most. troubled spot
in troubled : Italy. ' The situation
was one of outright rebellion and
the: Swiss radio said conditions
had deteriorated and - "armed for
ces have intervened.' There were
bonfires and bloodsheds All -workers
left : their - benches. Fascists,
fighting for survival, " barricaded
themselves in suburban buildings
and fired on troops and civilians.
The prison, crowded with political
Internees, was in mutiny. Soldiers
marched with bayonets' fixed.
Blood was shed. Cannon rolled up.
Mobs swept the bombed streets
shouting "Liberty I" and "We want
peace!" The German garrison dis
appeared. The Milan newspaper,
II Corrierre Delia Sera,' called the
situation grave and said "A cer
tain unrest, has arisen among the
people. ' i:f.;J;;;..:;
-" F e a 9 e ' . ' demoastratioas aad
. erap lions of huUgnatien . against
the fascists were : general la
. . nerth aad south Italy. Ia -defi
ance of old Marshal Badoglio's
prehlbltioa ja g a I a s t assembly
'and his carfew, rleUag was re
' parted la Tarta, Naples, Polog
; aa, Geaoa, Bart, Taraate, Trieste
and- Venlee. T 1-i ifK
; Prime Minister Churchill said
again that no peace overtures had
come from Italy. The Turkish ra
dio, at Ankara said: "News reach
ing Turkey tonight says the Ital
ian government shows willingness
to negotiate with the allies. The
main difficulty seems to be the
fate of the German . divisions in
Sicily and southern Italy;", Pres
ident Inonu of Turkey, a possible
negotiator, was said by Berlin to
have broken a provincial tour fol
lowing the meeting at sea of his
foreign minister and, Raff aele
Guariglia,n e w Italian foreign
minister. The Vatican Was report
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Cottage Farm
Patient Killed
, Jumping -from the roadside
where he had : been conversing
with; another state hospital pa
tient and a former employe at the
state Cottage farm," Muriel Davis,
35, dived and rolled to his death
Wednesday- morning beneath the
wheels of a car driven by Delia
May Burton, route five, j .
.' Mrs. Burton, driving down from
the crest of a hill on a gravel
road southeast of the state hos
pital farm, south and east of Sa
lem, wheeled her car aside into
the fence in an attempt to avoid
striking the insane man.
Davis, first committed i to the
hospital here In; 1939 and re
turned in .1841, was talking with
a fellow ' Inmate of the institu
tion and George H. Bradford. Sa
lem, former farm employe who
knew - both men and who . had
parked his car beside -the --road,
when, apparently upset at the ap
proach of the vehicle, he : leaped
into the path of Mrs.-Burton's on
coming car. Death was by skull
fracture, sf accidentally received.
Deputy Coroner Virgil T. Golden
said.
Fortresses
Stab Farther
Into Gerraany :
No - Letup in Assault
As, Hamburg .Takes ...
2300 Tons of Bombs
. LONDON," Thursday, July 29
()-" Swarms of Flying -Fortresses
stabbed farther , into Germany
Wednesday than ever before and
smashed ' an' aircraft V plant .at
Oschersleben, just 80 miles south
west of Berlin, after British night
raiders ; had showered , the might
iest load of bombs in history on
battered, : shuddering- submarine
center at Hamburg in the sixth
such allied operation in ' three
days.-'!:.- -r :";
(And late last night there-appeared
to be no sign of a let-up
in the j aerial assault on Hitler's
Europe: as great waves of heavy
bombers thundered from the
southeast coast over the English
channel. '
' (The . federal communications
commission reported the nazi-run
Calais and Paris radios in France
had gone off the air.) - - '
- Aieanwmie, a oriex -' alert was
sounded in London early today.
The - great American bombers
also battered a German plane fac
tory at Kassel and destroyed more
than 60 : nazi fighters In furious
battles In which 23 heavy bomb
ers and one allied fighter were
lost. ' ' - " -i "
United States medium bomb
ers attacked Industrial targets
la Belgium, and British fighters
seared German 7 air bases ta
aorthera " Fraaee and Beldam
as the sastalaed day-and-night
aerial offensive rose ta a new
pitch ef shattering Intensity. -
' The air ministry said "just over"
2300 long tons (2567 US tons) of
bombs i were loosed upon blazing
Hamburg Wednesday' night, shatZ
tering the violent world record
set by the RAF on Saturday night,
and that more than 5000 tons had
fallen in the current 1 bombing
cycle on ; continental: . Europe's
greatest port and Germany's lead
ing submarine center."', ;
The first central German target
of the Flying Fortresses- was an
aircraft assembly plant at Osch-
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Davis ;
Mentioned for
Moore's Post
, Resignation from the dfy coun
cil of Alderman Lloyd L. Moore;
ward six, received Wednesday by
Mayor x. M. Doughton,'. found no
."picked' nominee ready for coun
cil mention, t O
Names of Clark Craig, confec
tioner who recently sold his Mar
ket street store and is now, em
ployed in a Salem war Industry,
and Dr. C- Ward Davis, dentist,
were promlne ntly mentioned.
however, and Moore himself was
expected to attend the council
session which is to receive . his
resignation. Vf-r - ;. -:-' f J j7 '
Now employed in the shipyards
In Portland, Moore has decided to
make his home In that city, the
1 e 1 1 e r of resignation, received
Wednesday by the mayor, de
clares. Earlier this year . a rumor
to the efect that he would resign
for that reason .was denied - by
Moore,! who at that time said he
was employed on only a temp
orary job. . . .
. Chairman of the sewerage and
drainage committee of the coun
cil, Moore is also a member of the
committees on accounts -and cur
rent t expenses and. fire depart
ment. . - - r
Badoglio's Son Leaves
Spanish Morocco -On
Return to Italy
By Ibo Associated lresi '
The Berlin radio said Wednes
day night that D-Ls Mario' Bad
cglio, son of Italy's new premier
and Italian minister, in Tsz'er
Spanish-controlled 1 ate rnational
zone in Morocco, had departed for
Italy on official business. . ; '
The broadcast, heard by the As
sociated Press, said Eadcslio was
chief of cabinet for his father dur
hi the laitrr's term as vicercy cf
Graig
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Haiv-Haivs Indicted, Treason
Fear ef the eight US citizens Indicted for treason by a federal grand
' Jury for having given aid and comfort t the' enemy-by bread
easting prepsganda from Germany and Italy. Edward Lea DeUny
', (top left), 67, was a stock and picture actor before going la Carope
la 1929. Frederick IVChelm Kaltenbaeh (tap rixht). 4aV waa fired
from a teaehlag Job la Dabaaae for Crown Shirt activities. Robert
It. Best. (bottom left), 47, Is a farmer US army efflcer. Esra round
(bottom rixht). S7 XsVfaaoas poet and writer who lived abroad
trainee titU7 .s s'
Coffee Is Off
Rationed List
Effective Today; ERj
Telia Good News ,
In Radio Message '
WASHINGTON, July , 28-(ff)
President Roosevelt announced to
night- the end f coffee rationing
for civilians and a . probable in
crease in sugar allotments. He at
tributed the moves to a vast in
crease in available shipping space
and greater success in - the war
against U-boats. - . ,
"One tangible result of our great
increase, in merchant shipping
which will be good news to ci
vilians at home is that tonight
we are able to- terminate the ra
tioning of cof f ee." he said in his
broadcast to .the nation.' We -also
expect, that- within . a;, short time
we shall get greatly . Increased al
lowances of sigar."r: .r t v r. "
He warned that while wahave
been losing fewer ships and de
stroying more U-boats for several
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Boiribar-Dear?
J I f Bishopu Photo a; .
Laaghlng Martha Kelly. 171 South
Commercial street, who operates
her own .coffee shop. Is right la
there la the eompeti'.ioa for the
title ef Miss Eombar-Dear. Sec
retaries, bookkeepers," home
makers whatever they may
' eULa as - their fall-time lobs,
Salem yourg women who can
"pat their ' personalities late tLeir
pictares stand a chance ef wis-
ning one ef tie tiree UUes f
; fered la the eompetltloa and the
prizes and honors which accom
pany them, 'aeceriag te LL LQ
- Ian Carried, X7 AC recralting ef-
zlecr wL U chalnsaa of the
' board cf airi-8 ZV.ztT frfzss.
(DctiUs cf V..S cc.tsst ca per 5)
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Thirteen Dead :
In Hurricane
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Ten Die at Galveston .
In .Dredge Sinking; T
Gty Is Hard Hit
: HOUSTON, Tex July 28-JP)
Thirteen persons were reported
dead tonight, scores were Injured
and property - damage soared to
around $10,000,000 after the Texas
gulf coast from Houston to Port
Arthur was battered by' a raging
tropical hurricane.. .
Army engineers at Galveston
said ten bodies bad been recov
ered "from north' Jetty after the
dredge Galveston sank following
a - terrific pounding against the
wcks.-':;,''1 , j'
Nine of the bodies; they i said,
were definitely Identified a moxa
bera of the dredge crew and-the
tenth- might have been a crew
member who signed on late. .
r The engineers said 57 men were
known: tov have been in the crew
and that 48 of them had been res-"
cued. M'u'"T 'Z'
Galveston, where the hurricane
struck yesterday, faced a short
tage Of drinking water, said the
Galveston News, adding: The city
is drawing upon reserves which
will not last long." ' '
Electric power to pump water
from : the 'mainland waa cut off.
- Galveston, . Houston, Port Ar
thur, the tri-chies area of Goose
Creek, Bay town and Pelly : and
La Porte began cleaning up de
bris-littered streets. - '' ":
Motorboats were being used to
night to evacuate ' residents from
the power sections of Port Arthur
after .19.24 Inches oCrain one of
the heaviest rainfalls ever record
ed in the southwest flooded the
city.. .-' ;
Portland Hih Schools
Return to OSIIAA
PORTLAND, Ore- July 28.-(jpJ
-Portland high schools returned to
the Oregon State High School Ath
lete association Wednesday night
as the Portland school board ap
propriated 750 for annual dues.
They dropped our last year when
dues were upped $500. , ;
Heavy Doinber Crashes
PUEDLd,' f3olov Ju2HSir
heavy, bcrr.ber, from the , Pueblo
air base' crashed late Wednesday
south of Tort Morgan, .with ten
men aboard, the base public re
lations office announced ton! -ht
The . announceiaent -said' 1. . -1
cfTicers .from Lowry field,, Den
ver, will Investigate. No other t!s
tzZs were tlkren. - ,
Yanli Bcnibers
Pound IGs!ta,
Wake Island .
Offensive Stepped Up
u ; Oyer All Jap FronU -.
In Aerial Assaults' -
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER '
WASHINGTON, July 'l8.-(Py-Punishing
series of 19 air raids
against Kiska, and a new aerial
blow j at - Wake island ' Indicated
Wednesday .t h a t the American
high command is broadening the
offensive against Japan to. throw
pressure on the wholeipf her 3000
mile Island defense line. - - " .'
Delivering the 19 attacks against
Kiska in the. Aleutians' on MonT
day ' and Tuesday, the- American
filers scored hits on the Japanese
airfield and submarine base - and
started , fires" elsewhere, - a- navy
communique revealed. Far away
in the central Pacific, American
bombers scored hits on Wake Is
land . targets. Intercepted by 25
Zero! fighters, the bombers de
stroyed seven,' probably destroyed
five and 'damaged three.
The heaviest raids' so far re
ported were made ea Kiska
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Rommel Said
"'i'i'.-i'- v ' -' tT" " P.
in
LONDON, Thursday July 29-
W)-The German radio said today
that ifsecra surrounding Field
Marshal v Erwin 'Itommel's where
abouts" has been ended., through
the publication In' Berlin morning
papers , of pictures, showing the
former North ; African command
er arriving at Salonika, Greece.
Greece is the gateway to the
German-held Balkans, largely
garrisoned by Italian troops, and
an allied invasion through Salon
ika in the first World war led to
the defeat 'cl'"Geman3ii?,,'-.,,.:
The possible collapse of -Italy
has exposed the axis' vulnerability
in Greece and other Balkan coun
tries "where the Germans depend
ed on the Italians' for- a great part
of the police work in those rebel
lious areas. T
There were reports that the It
alians already were beginning to
leave for their homeland.
Drive Opens Against
Car Stamp Violators
PORTLAND, July 23-4rVCol-
lector of Internal Revenue J. W.
Maloney announced Wednesday
the opening of a drive agaiaet
motorists - who ' do- not have the
$5 federal motor .vehicle use. tax
stamp. Those found- to be deliber
ately violating the law will , be
prosecuted, Jie- said. - - ? ; .? ..
Highlights
ff7T aT rrm jy - All J3
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To, Escape? Is FDKs Promise
WASHINGTON, July 28-v
Following are highlights of Presi
dent Roosevelt's speech to the na
tion: - :
Our terms to Italy are still the
same as our terms to Germany
and Japan "unconditional . sur
render. , .
The first crack In the axis has
come. The criminal, corrupt
fascist regime in Italy Is going to
pieces. -;
. Cot he (Mossellnl) and Lis
fascist gang will be brought te
book no criminal . wCl be al
lowed to escape by the expe
dient ef "resignation. -.
It is our determination to re
store conquered peoples to ' the
dignity cf human beings, masters
of their own fate, entitled to free
dom 1 cf speech, freedwaa of re
ligion, freedom from want, free
dom from fear. ' .
. Ahesi of us are many bisser
Cht3. ,'7e end cur allies ' v. HI go
into them as we went into Sicily
together. Arid we shall carry on
tc ether. '
One tangible result of cur great
increase in merchant shipping
hlch will be good news to ci
"First Crack In 1
Axis" Ilcraldcd by .
President on Rsdlo
WASHINGTON, July ZSVP)
-President Roosevelt virtually
counted Italy out of the war la
a report to the American people
tonight and indicated greater
things in the offing with, the
prediction: .
"Ahead of us are much bigger
fights." ; . . . . ,
He said the allies would ac
cept k thing less than "total vic
tory" over the axis, with defeit
for "Hitler and Tolb on their own
home grounds. ; " '". -
He 'called the Italian cause al-
would go-xn' until the people f
that country "realize the futility
of continuing to fight", in a cause :
... . A . .wa.
lu which iDC DeoDie oi xiaiv nev
er gave their whole hearted ap
proval and support. v
"The" plans we made for the
knocking eat of Mussolini and'
his gang have largely succeed
ed," the president said. "Bat we
still have- to knock . eat Tlliler '
aad his gaag and Teje and LU
tw":.. . " . . ""
Almost pointedly the president
refrained-in his broadcast speech
from going, into future plans for
action . against Germany, but fcr
the Japanese he had a word cf
warning: ;
"If the Japanese are basing their
future plans for the Pacific on a
long period in which they will be
permitted to consolidate and ex
ploit their .. conquered resources,
they had better start revising their
plans now. I give that to them
merely as a helpful suggestion..-,-.
Let "us remember how far we
were, a year ago, from any of our
objectives in the Eurooean theater.
We are pushing forward to occu
pation of positions, which in time
will enable us to attack the Jap
anese islands themselves from the
north, t from the . south, from the
east, and from the west,
. . ins cmei cxecuuvev in an an
alysis of the war broadcast to the
American people, promised that
Benito Mussolini and "his fascist
front luMiTrl wMiirli KW
and punished for .their, crimes
against humanity. He said "No
criminal will be allowed to es
cape by the expedient of "resigna
tion." . I - . j;;
It was a rosy-hued picture of
the war which the president drew,
depicting ' the , "criminal, corrupt
fascist regime in Italy as "going
to pieces. And he gave a new as
surance that the terms of the al
lies to Itala, as to Germany and
Japan, still are "unconditional
surrender.' . '
1 Looking ahead toward the post
war world, the chief executive said
the United Nations were substan
tially agreed on general object
ives but also were agreed that the
terms of peace and details of the
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' "we mast net relax ear pres-
fare ea the eaemy, he said,
"by taking Cme- eat te define
every Tanaa nary aad settle every
political controversy la. every -part
ef the world. The all-lm-portant
thing sew Is ta get ea
: with the war aad to win It.
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tit je sAuuiveu,
vilians at. home 7IS that tonight
we are able to terminate the ra
tioning of coffee. We also expect
that within a short time we shall
get greatly increased allowances
of sugar. ; -
The heaviest and most decisive
fighting today Is going en in Rus
sia. I am glad that the, British
and. we have been able to con
tribute somewhat to the striking
power of the Russian armies.
With a aatloa which, la sav
ing Itself te thereby he!p!rg ta
save all the wcrlJ frcra the
nasi menace, this c e a a t r y
'shoald always be glad to be a
good and sincere friend la t' e
world of the f store.
' In the Pacific we are' pxis-hing
the .'Japs from the . Aleutians to
New Guinea. There, too, we 1 eve
taken Ue initiative ari we Ere
not going to let go of it.
You have heard it caid t'.at
while we are succeedlrj erectly
on the fighting rent, we ere fail
ing miserably cn the home front.
This is another cf those immaturi
ties a false Electa crry to itats
but untrue in the essentlil fects.
'"The United Nations are tub
(Turn to Ts;e 2 Ctry A)