Mr lite XL SJJJDQS WDOGDGB FalroiraMe Tmurin poundoD' 1651 I 1IEIETY THED YEAB 12 PAGES . Scdesn. Oregon. Tuasday Morning, September 21. 1943 Price 5c NaT 152 3 The republican clubs of the state are holding their annual con vention in Salem. Outside of club chores, such as electing officers, etc., the chief assignment must be' setting the stage for 1944. That means, .the presidential election, primarily, and a senator and four congressmen jecon darily. The presidency is what has all the politicians guessing now. Drew Pearson, in his S unday night broadcast, renewed his flat prediction that r Mr. , Roosevelt would not be a candidate to suc ceed himself. It seems to me that Pearson is sticking his neck out spite Pearson and prove he is the chronic liar Roosevelt claims he is, the president may Just go ahead and, run -as - everyone else in Washington, republican r demo crat expects him to. . ' Eliot Janeway, a Fortune maga zine writer, is. visiting Oregon on one of the political round-ups that magazine writers make in months before the party conventions. He 'had a piece in the current Fortune after his survey of the midwest. While the polls show that Roose velt has a big lead, Janeway found widespread revolt among mid western . farmers: -. "The region closest to articulate revolt against Roosevelt' is the middle west" .", But """inere, Janeway says, 1 the "upper crust is swinging to him as religiously as the same element is on the Atlantic seaboard" what he calls the Churchill vote.' And Janeway accuses the republican high command with being willing to make a "sacrifice hit" in 1944 In order to score in 1948: '' "The No. 1 factor working . in Roosevelt's favor is the., republi can high command. Many of its influential members are not play ing to win, in 1944. One motive is that they too have been influenced by the ubiquitous 'you can't beat Roosevelt with the war on, and by the impressive list of their Roose velt hating friends in each state who are announcing that they in tend to .vote for. the Commander- ' in-Chief, JButthe chief motive behind, this attitwOeUa the wide spread feeling among republican strategists that it would be poor politics to win in 1944." It has been told on Tom Dew ey that his advisers were en couraging him to dodge- 1944 and hold for 1948. And Jane way imputes to some republi can strategists the desire to give Willkie the 1944 nomination (Continued on Editorial Page) : Stay on Food Front, SHS Youth Advised , Public schools open in 1 Salem next Monday, September 27, but high school pupils now working r available for .work; in canneries of the area were Monday urged by Supt Frank B. Bennett and Principal Fred D. Wolf to "help in the war effort" by filling the Jobs which mean saving the crops even though . they may miss the entire first week of classes. ."A quick survey is now being conducted ' in the. 11 ' plants in volved to disclose just how many students from 16 years and up are employed, according to a state ment issued : jointly by the par j. (Turn to Page 2 Story I) Silver ton Council Votes To Delay Building Dam SILVERTON, Sept 20 - (Spe cial) No dam at all will be built t; Sflverton for the. present, " ac cording to a motion carried at a special ' meeting called Monday night by Mayor Reber Allen to bear the past week's progress on priorities and other information obtained bj. City Manager E. K. Burton toward the building: of a log crib.. dnv.- ;? '--'1 4; Burton reported that priorities obtained for the concrete dam which .the., council had at first hoped to build, would not bold for the log crib dam which the coun cil voted for at its earlier meeting this smth. New forms had to be filled out and sent to Washington, DC, for approval, Mr. Burton said he had learned last ' week . when he k Interviewed J war i production board officials at Portland. The forms were airmailed at once. The Portland office had told him that there was little ' doubt that the date, however, he said, no reports had been received from Washing ton, f -' 'V7';- - .- - - :: ' - - Manager Burton's report also contained ; the information i that Iluch Range, local contractor, had promised to act as foreman on the building of the log crib dam and that he 'had -lined -up .equipment ir.d icr.ar men to work.- However, State MepiiAcan (Eliiib Of ftllkie rrs W GOP Straw Vote For President Washington Governor Addresses Banquet and Overflow Audience I. By RALPH C. CURTIS Wendell Willkie is the present choice of Oregon republicans for the 1 944 presidential nomination, if those members of the party j who attended the Oregon Republican club's convention banquet here Monday night are typical. In a straw ballot Will kie received 94 votes, Thomas E. Dewey 53, Harold E. Stassen 18. Oregon's own Charles L. McNary was fourth with 14 votes, just ahead of Gen. Douglas MacArthur who received 12. Herbert Hoover polled 10 and there was a scattering of other votes in cluding one for "Eleanor" and five possibly cast by democrats Reds Threaten mm In West Drive By JAMEJM. LONG LONDON, Tuesday, Sept 21 (JP) The Red army overran more than 1130 villages yesterday, flanking the German . central anchor at Smolensk and cutting the Kiev Chernigov highway and the rail way into the Crimea amid signs that the enemy was abandoning the Caucasus. , A Moscow communique also discIoMd early today a - vast pca array wucnuq mrunn aimed at Cherkasy, oa the mid dle Dnieper southeast of Kiev, in an effort ! trap hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in the river bend. One Red army unit was within 40 miles of the Cherkasy area, key to an ex i tensive rail network. ' , ' East of the bend the Red army reached a point only eight miles from Melitopol after snapping the Crimean escape railway between Zaporozbe and Dnieperopetrovsk and capturing a town only 15 miles from the Dnieper. , Red - airmen of the Black sea fleet, the bulletin said, sank a German ; minesweeper ' and three troop barges along the south side of the Taman peninsula above re captured Novorossisk, indicating an enemy withdrawal from the narrow Caucasian foothold. Nearly 10,000 Germans were' de clared killed by the pursuing Rus sians along a 750-mile front in an (Turn to Prge 2 Story G) Norman Davis Back From : Mediterranean NEW ' YORK," Sept 20.-CV Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross, arrived here by plane today after a month's in spection trip in England, North Africa and Sicily. . common labor would have to be paid the standard wage of $1 an hour with $1.35 for skilled labor, Mr. Range' had said. Willard Ben son, had promised to furnish the lumber when , priorities were granted. - -- : Burton asked permission from the council to go ahead with the preliminary : work necessary to building the dam." so that when priorities were received the fin al work could be pushed because of the lateness of the season. ' . ' Considerable discussion termin ated in motion by John W. Jor dan' to the effect ..that because of the lateness- of the season the un certainty in obtaining? 'the prior ity and the high cost of labor; con struction of the dam be -suspended and arrangement' for pumping be made J for , the present and ; until such a. time as the council see fit to go ahead with' further plans on the. dam. Alderman E. I. Starr seconded the 'motion, which drew a. tie vote. Starr, Jordan and George Christ enson favoring it and Jonas By berg, Tom Anderson and Ernest Boesch opposing : it IMayor Reber Allen's "yes"! is fa vor of the motion carried It Burton reported that the elec tric company had agreed to 'in stall line. and furnish energy for (Turn to- Page 2 Etory A) 1 - 1 oiensK, Oregon inee in disguise for President Roose- velt '. "Liberty is the important thing," declared Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington, banquet speaker; the thing for which t Americans on the, fighting front are making untold sacrifice, the thing for pre servation of which Americans on the home front need to be vigil ant The speaker identified liberty as one of the spiritual values, in con trast to material ease for which some are persuaded to surrender Say Carr of Portland is the choice of the Oregon Republican club's nominating committee for president of .the organisation, it was announced Monday night The election will be held today. Carr is a past president of. the '. Multnomah county chapter. , I Others neminated lncldT fr ' treasurer, Alan Brown; who . is president of the Multnomah ceanty chapter this year; for secretary, Alice Paine of Clack amas county; for sergeant-at-arms, Victor White of Tillamook. It was considered Multnomah county a turn for the presiden cy, and a contest between Carr and Jack Lynch was settled by caucus of the Multnomah county delegates. ; some of their liberties. The men now fighting for, national liberty will not be content he warned, if they return to find freedom of opportunity for useful employment restricted. - ;;,; The rep u b 1 i c an : declaration dealing with America's post-war participation in world affairs was merely a set of recommendations for the people to be thinking about, Gov. Langlie said, and not a "blueprint for a world organi zation. But he added, its recom mendations t were ' based upon sound principles. Two hundred fifty persons at tended the banquet and there was an overflow crowd : to hear Gov. Langlie's address over a public address system in the Marion ho tel lobby. Two hundred attended the opening session of the eon- (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Legionnaires B!L Building age; : Ability to offer to the veterans of World War II upon their re turn an attractive, well-furnished and debt-free ."home": was hailed as one of , the most ' gratifying aspects of the achievements of Capital . Post No. 9, American Le gion, in the past year as : "mort gage, burning" ceremonies ? were conducted Monday night in the Elks temple. ' - Actual destruction of the mort gage was the privilege oX Ira CX Pilcher, retiring commander dur ing whose adininlstration the last S9000 of debt was liquidated. Rec ognition of the Salem chapter of Americas, War Mothen' contriim tion cf $1250 toward acquisitiah of the building was accorded." The original debt of $18,000 has been wiped out since 1941. " Credit for outstanding work in removing the debt was given to Pilcher, B. IL "KeHyw Owens, Tom Hill, Brazier Small, O. E. -Mose" Palmateer and Arthur Johnson. About 300 post members attend ed the meeting at which the new officers . headed - by Commander John Olson were installed. ; Other officers include B. E. Owens, first vice-commander; L N. Bacon, sec ond v i c e - e ommander; Ralph Campbell, adjutant; Harry Cald well, finance officer; C V. Rich (Turn to Page SStory II) ' Mortg Yanks Gather on Italian L Extensively trained soldiers of Lt Italian mainland for their thrust Inland. Tanks from LST (landing ship, tanks) beats off t the beach come ashore. Right fere round Is metal netting to ! provide traction for motorized vehicles en the sands. (Associated Press photo front CS signal corps radiophoto, from Algiers.) 'Two Down, Loan Score e 9 Marion County Leads but Lane Pressing Hard; Outside Districts Report Sales; Stay ton Rally Wednesday Eve 'One; down and two to go." That's what they are saying about the war. In Marion county, with reference to the third war loan, it is "two down and three to go." War bond sales passed the two million' dollar mark late Monday, but there were three million dollars worth of bonds yet to be ciaim xne lass: weu aone- Meanwhile, barring a sudden Japs Blasted At New Britain, New Guinea By OLEN CLEMENTS ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACI FIC, Tuesday, Sept 21 -JPy-New Guinea and New Britain bases of the Japanese most im mediately menaced by allied capture of airdromes at Lae and Salamana have begun to rock under ' an increased weight ef bombs. - Today's communique told of a 94-ton iraid Sunday by Flying Fortresses and Liberators in con siderable force on the enemy air drome Of Cape Gloucester which is' on the westernmost tip of New Britain only about 120 miles northeast of Lae. These raiders, protected by fighters, an got home after wrecking five grounded ene my bombers and a fighter, destroy ing two anti-aircraft positions, si lencing a third and spreading fires s arge they could be seen for 70 nutes. s - . Steadily extending the target area of long range fighters, which until recent months never ap peared (over - New Britain, these units of the fifth airforce moved up the island's north coast to strife an airdrome, supply dumps, anti-aircraft positions and surface craft m! the Kimbe bay area. ; r Only C miles above newly- ; won Lae en the Hnon peninsula I ef New Guinea. Mitchells net on-1 ' ly dropped Zt tons ef bombs :' Sonday airdromes and other targets hnt also flew, as low as f . possible se their gunners might ' strafe i enemy occupied villages amd smrfae eraf aear-- Flnaeb- ',' trafesw; -V ' -.v - ' ' In the jungle region above Lae, into which enemy ' remnants re treated; when tfeat ai base fell September- 16, allied forces block- inffthe-trails the fugitives 'must take have come into contact with them. Contact also has been es tablished 4y allied soldiers mov ing against them from Ie, a spokesman said. ; k . Behind Lse alaztg the lkrk ham river, some enemy f )rag- "glers have been taken prkaner. . Japanese Who fled north' from Salamana " after that air base fell en Sept 12 new have been -destroyodriv--'ssi- Six hundred miles above Aus tralia,: Liberators raided Japan ese-held Amboina island, drop ping 2S tons on Ambon. In the Solomons area, where air activity has been Intense, ac- fcon was tf a smaller scale. Jeii CoeveBtioe Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army Tliree to sold before the county' might ac- H9 urao was getting snorr.' spurt on the part of the friendly enemy, Marlon county was ahead, but not comfortably ahead, of Lane county. Lane's total Saturday was $1,616,639, a little more than $200, 000 short of Marion's. Dr. N. H. Cornish, Lane county chairman, said: "We ran ahead for a time and they're running ahead now. Well be back on top in a day or two." Emphasis in the campaign here today was upon the. opportunity, obtainable only by purchasing war bonds, of attending the "war bond premiere' of the motion picture, "Salute to the Marines' tonight at the Elsinore theatre. Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Reginald Ow en, Keye Luke, Ray Collins, Wil liam Lundigan and Marylin Max well are some of the stars in this technicolor wartime epic, based upon the heroic defense of the Philippines. Several large war' bond ( sales were recorded at the auction held in connection . with the Victory Center noon rally Monday,, spon sored by The Statesman with Tom Burkett master of ceremonies, Sid ney Stevens auctioneer and the Willamette' university, navy band providing the entertainment Returns from communities out side Salem' were coming in stead ily, Monday to swell the county's total and a sizeable contribution is expected from the Stayton dis trict in ' conection with the big rally scheduled for that city Wed nesday night The army band sta tioned in the Salem vicinity, will provide music and Robert S. Far rell, JrV secretary of state. Coun ty Chairman Jesse Gard and others will speak. - W.'-Su -.k i:' The Stayton Lions club commit tee arranging the event Includes Harry Rowe, Lindsay Wright and Lawrence Spraker. Floyd Miller, Harry Scott Arthur Smither and Joe Land of the Salem Lions have been assisting.' Mrs. Roosevelt In Honolulu HONOLUIAT, -Sept. 20.-i)- Mrs. Eleanor , Roosevelt has ar rived in Honolulu after a 20,730 mile flying' tour of the vast Pa cific war theater.' t She 'told a press conference to day she believed a" return of the wounded and. war' crippled into the' nation's social life, constituted one' of the greatest post-war problems. . Dlmczit " '.. , eOTawnsMBBnwsssanest' .k $ ' ' 'J s Tues. sunset 7jll 7ed. sunrise 6:53 ' - (Weather- on rage 7) - irv Beachhead gather swiftly: en a beach on the Go' Is War Set Tonight Badoglio Asks on By NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept 2(HPh Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio called upon the people of Italy to take up arms against their former German allies in active coopera tion with the United Nations; in a proclamation published here to day. The premier's appeal, in effect a declaration of hostilities, was the first - official indication from any source that the Italians might be accepted as full-fledged allies of America - and Britain in the campaign to drive the . Germans from Italy. -' Badoglio declared that "all talk about-' unconditional surrender (to the allies) is out of date and irrelevant to the changed condi tions of today," adding that "we have intervened decisively against Germany following on the ag gressive attitude of the Germans." It was announced that the pre mier, now officially disclosed to be in allied-held Italian territory, made his call to arms from a new Italian government station,. Radio Italiana, on the mainland ' Sept 16, two days before the voice at tributed to, Benito Mussolini was broadcast over the German radio in an appeal to Italians to disre gard the armistice with the allies and fight at Germany's side - The text - ; of the marshal's speech was . carried by plane to North, Africa and released Jtere through allied military channels. The new stand apparently committed. Badoglio and his fol-r- (Turn to Page 2--Story.K) Railway Strike Voted in LA LOS ANGELES,' Sept 20 Representatives of approximately 2500 Pacific' electric railway work ers, irked Over failure of the economic stabilization director to approve a 13 cents an hour in crease already authorized by their company, - voted tonight to . walk off their Jobs, at 2 a., m. (Pacific war time). Friday.-- The walk-out vote was taken at a mass meeting of the Brother hood of Xxxxxnotiv Trainmen and employes of the interurban rail way which serves large areas in southern California,' ..'extending through the vital harbor district and eastward to San Bernardino and Riverside. Union officials called the meet ing: after William P. Nutter, gener al manager of . the union's griev ance committee, sent word from Washington he believed there would be no action until the war labor board ruled-on the case, which has been pending for weeks. The employes present wage scale is 7 cents as hour. They are asking $1. .The company once agreed to grant the IS cents in crease, but it was blocked by Econ omic Director Tred . Vinson, -f Arms Landings Effected XJnder : Noses of Nazi Airforce By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 20 (AP) -French commandos, taking their first ac tive part in the war since Tunisia, have stormed into Corsica, to battle side by side with French patriots in an effort to grab the key Mediterranean island less than 50 miles from the northern shores of the nazi-held Italian mainland, it was announced tonfcht. ' , .. The French high command, In announcing the swift, surprise action against the Germans on the turbulent Island, which- lies directly, above Sardinia, declared the fighting there had taken "a favorable . ' . The news of . the lrench of the Germans and within range of the nazi : air f o r c e in ' both France - and ? Italy, -came ' a ' few hours after it was announced that Lt jGen. Mark W. Clark's American-- fifth " army had 'seized key positions overlooking the Gulf of Naples4' "Hv-"--- .i; f-r5-f---fl.'.';; i "Immediately, after -news ef v the IUUan ; armistice became known French Corsiean patriots took p the fight against - the Germans, v ; the French high , command said in a oommuniaae. "French commandos were im-' 'mediately landed to back ep the patriots. ' "Events have taken a favor able turn - " ' -,. The communique was signed by Gen. Henri Giraud, commander in chief of French forces. ; ( 'A Cors leans have long engaged in guerrilla activities against axis forces on the island. They seized upon the capitulation of Italy to carry their warfare into the open. : One of the first acta the Corslcans was to gam control ef the administration of AJaccio, their capital, and hold it ' ' Occupying a sheltered position on the north shore of the . Gulf of AJaccio, on the west coast of the island, ( the city is a shipbuilding sjid lishing center. It has a popu Wnvnr of snore than 20,000.; With lightning-like suddenness, the commandos swept onto' Cor sica to help them drive out the nazis, who still occupy the eastern side of the island in force. (This dispatch did not bring out the point from which the commandos struck. They may have embarked from either north Africa or Sicily.) J A few minutes before the com munique .was issued,., the French controlled radio at Algiers broad cast a warning to Germans . that Corsiean guerrillas wearing skull- and-crossbones insignia on : their sleeves must be considered regu lar soldiers and treated as prison ers of jear in event of capture. Naval vessels participated la the action, which Included swift dashes , nito ' German-patrolled waters. '- -t (NC J Reporter Don Hollenbeck, in a broadcast from allied head quarters, said that two Italian di visions which. drove the nazis off Sardinia Were slated to cross to Corsica to help the French" drive. He said the Germans were ftrying to get to the port of Bastia for quick evacuation to the port of Leghorn on the mainland.") Thus far, the entire Corsiean operation' has been French. - The 'control of the Island would give the allies one of the greatest (Turn to Page 2 Story D): Council to Revise Salary BroposalsjVisity City coundlmen, ' who - spent three i minutes T determining to; visit the proposed site for Phil Steinbock's thrice-postponed es tablishment of a junkyard on the Salem riverfront Monday .night put in 49 minutes discussing the overtime clause in the new salary ordinance and. then : sent back the entire thing to be rewritten. r Discarded at the same time was a special overtime i ordinance. Acceptable features of both win be combined in the new ordinance to ibi drawn by a committee which Mayor L M. Doughton is to name, the council anticipates. -When, and If, those clauses are written into a salary ordinance, employes of the-dty street de partment' will put In regular 44 bour work' .'weekay. may work up to 48 hours, receiving straight time 'for "the Overtime tasks, but may- not work ,more thsn eight hours in any one day-'or 43 hours in one week except in case of an emergency. . . ;va;v ; The argument Which has kept the council talking in circles dur ing two -sessions -in committee f the whole has been a state law provision to the effect, that mu nicipal errployes may hot work overtime except in cases of an emergency. The state Jaw also provides f or a . 48 h o u week, 'vile feveral of the city depart turn.' , landing under the .very noses Naples Vithin Range of Fifth By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept Naples was visible and within 12- mile artillery range tonight of the US .fifth . army, which has cap tured the Sorrento peninsula. In capturing the Sorrento pen insula, - the fifth army plunged i through tottering nazi resistance1 for a 15-mile ; advance through mountains shrouded in heat and dUSt " ;. . , All Sardinia was m the hands of two Italian divisions which acted on orders of Marshal Fletro BadogUo and chased German "elements onto the French island ef Corsica, seven miles north, which also sp peared untenable. While ; the, Britisheighth army " consolidated its Junction with Lt' Gen. Mark W. Clai. a fifth army on the .churned beaches of Saler now the British fifth-corps' in the south captured Gioja, 2& miles in land and northwest of Taranto, extending the allied hold on southern Italy. . " -. r . Allied air power, . particularly American ; invader dive bombers, ripped and tore with high explo sives at German, convoys totaling as high as 1800 vehicles retreat ing north of Contursi from the center of. the Salerno front under the pressure of the fifth and eighth armies. Of 1800 trucks 4 jamming ine roaas in tms area. the allies destroyed H 09 and dam aged 137 others. ! T Seizure of the Sorrento penin sula flanked the south side of the Bay of Naples. Sea approaches to shadow of Mt 1 Vesuvius already Were firmly commanded by the allies who . seized the guardian islands of . Capri, Ischia and Pro dda on either side of the bay last week. American 155-mm Tong Toms" of African and Sicilian fame could now lob shells into bomb-torn Naples at will from the peninsula or the islands. The peninsula lies 12 miles across the bay from Naples and Its 868,000 people. Gen. -Clark has said Naples Is his first objective. ' - "The fifth army continues to (Turn to Page 2 Story F) ments operate on a 44-hour sche dule. Fire and police departments are exempted from those regula tions so far as either state law or city policy Is concerned. . . Question of Steinbock's estab lishment of a "salvage depot" for metal scrap at his Willamette riverfront property' was brought' before the council by Paul Hen dricks, who maintained that cur rently the spot is a "dirty, filthy place, and that , "anything 'put there would be an improvement" Stelnbock'has asked for the right to build a 10-foot board fence around the property, which is zoned for such businesses as that which he Intends to put there, but which is also a' fire zone re quiring a metal fence. - By denying ' the board fence privilege, aldermen have main tained they could keep one un sightly development off the banks of the river and would - thus be in position to start a beaulifica- inn nrnffram' at the close of the war. To this, Steinbock has re sponded that he will gladly move the materials "from the property within six months after cessation of hostilities, but that during wartime he , needs the ccr-.t! - - i assets of central locale tr.i rail road frontage to move in and cut the metal scrap needed for .de fense, work. ' v . - y : . t -" ' ' ' Army Artillery V