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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1943)
i r - - n ' ' r n -- n r Lf Km .A few weeks ago Eugene Allen, vigorous young editor of the Ore gon Labor Press, official organ for AF of L unions, switched his party registration from democrat to re publican, which occasioned quite a buzz-buzz in political circles. ' It was reported at the . republican club convention ' here that Dell Nicker son, executive secretary for the state federation of labor '(AF of L) had also made a similar switch. Dell was here during the convention, just out of the hos pital .but took no part in the convention. Does this mean any general pa rade of organized labor from the democratic party to the republi can? Probably not. It more prob ably indicates a recognition on the part of AF of L leaders that it Is political mistake to carry all their eggs in one basket. Especial ly so in Oregon, where the voting weight is predominantly republi can, and the legislature and elec tive officials likewise. The CIO, which has a considerable following in the state, in logging .'and lum bering principally, remains over whelmmgly democratic; , though It would not -be surprising to see come switching even there, either to punish foes or reward friends. " It was the idea of old Sara Gompers that organized labor should form no political party of its own, that' it shouldn't rely too much on polities : and legislation so it would never become just a tool of government He kept la bor independent of political affil iation, but he used labor's voting power actively on the punish and reward basis. Later, labor leaders were attracted by legislative short cuts,: and they made the most of . their opportunity under the Roose velt new deal. But when the new legislation pinches, as the Wag .' ner act did with the Union control of kaiser's shipbuilders, then the AF of L squawked, supported an amendment whose effect was to protect - its labor contract with Kaiser, and realized that there was some ; wisdom in - the Sam Gompers policy after alL . Both branches of labor have outlined their policy for the next elections, to defeat all who sup ported the Smith - Connally bill, and to support those who voted against it. That means in Oregon, working to defeat every member of the congressional delegation but Homer Angell. Even So, it (Con tinued on Editorial page.) Pope to Stay In Vatican LONDON, Friday, Sept. 24.-(JP) A Reuters dispatch from Zurich said today J t was reliably report ed from Rome that Pope Pius XII intends to become va voluntary ' prisoner in the Vatican by re establishing the conditions pre- . vailing before the Lateran treaty. The Germans have established 'guard at the entrance to the : Vatican. " From 1870, when church states were incorporated in the kingdom of Italy, uniil 1929 the popes re mained t in ; self-constituted im prisonment in ' the Vatican. Then Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran treaty ' with T the ; government of Italy, headed by Benito : Musso lini, which, recognized the pope as 'sovereign of the city of the Vati , can., . Britain to Call Up Americans in England ? LONDON, j Sept. 23.-f-Americans in Britain, who have not joined United States armed forces or who have hot been exempted by their own r government are to be called up by the British, La bor Minister Ernest Bevin said today. . .' . Tqinato Crisis I Scanned; Due to Early Ripening V Hope of avoiding the wastage of a substantial proportion of the Willamette -valley's tomato .crop appeared Thursday to be limited by the amount which individual families might purchase and put Into cans, though growers and oth ers interested were searching for other solutions. : - .'---v; . As for family canning, it seemed probable that this outlet would be negligible for the reason that most families, including city dwellers with their , victory gardens, raised as many tomatoes as they could handle. . . 'Present over-supply of tomatoes has come about through the com bination of unseasonably warm September weather which ripened much of the crop ahead of the us ual time, and , the general short age of cannery workers. Canner ies which had contracted for to matoes, it was reported Thursday, are not able to accept them for the reason that they are still busy with the prune crop. Inability to con vert machinery to handle the to matoes also is a", factor. ; : Glenn Lengren, manager of the Etarr Fruit Products company which handled a substantial vol jsa ef tomatoes last rear, said torn f 67 O Slovenes Press Also On Trieste LONDON, Spt. 23 (AP) Slovene troops of the Yugo slav army were reported to night to have penetrated the Italian:, Adriatic port of Trieste,1 fighting the German garrison there with the aid of inhabitants.' - Yugoslavs having commu nication with partisan armies fighting bloody, battles in northwestern Yugoslavia said other Slovene formations occupied Idria, 30 miles northeast of Trieste and 50 miles north of Fiume, ex erting - pressure on both Italian portswu i-; V-,'- - . . Elsewhere troops were said to be lighting . heavy engagements. at a 0-mlle front from Bistriea to Ljabljana. ' (The Algiers radio said the Yu goslavs were shelling Fiume from Susak,i just across the frontier, and reported street . fighting in Trieste. The broadcast was repeat ed by BBC, which was recorded by CBS.) The Budapest radio, quoting a Zagreb dispatch, declared the Ger mans had : captured Susak. This broadcast was recorded by the Associated Press. An area 55 miles north of Daraxxo was reported under siege by Montenegrant after they captured the coast town of UeinJ and the summer resort of Pet rovae. The Italian "Taurinence division, with its - commanding" general waa said to hove come ; ever' to Yugoslav partisan antts now fighting' the Germans. .- In a wide area around Banja Luka, Croatian divisions were said to have destroyed German railway facilities at Nova Gradiska and Novakapel. The German air force and ar tillery practically destroyed Novo mesto on the Krk river, 20 miles northeast of Banja Luka, a Yugo slav authority here said. There were some estimates that the war equipment of aboat four out of 2t Italian divisions In the northern part of the coaa try had now fallen into the hands of the Yugoslavs. Mrs. Roosevelt In San Francisco s SAN rRANCISCO, Sept. 23-) Looking rather tired after her 23,- 000-mile trip to and about the south Pacific and Australia, Mrs. Jeanor : Koosevelt : told a press conference today she was glad to be home, adding VI donH think I ever worked as hard in my life. She arrived at 9:20 a.nx, Pacific war. time today, just five weeks and ; two days - after, leaving the country on the longest and hard est of her many- journeys, rested briefly at her hotel, tried in vain to find and telephone the father of a marine corps lieutenant who dropped 3000 feet into the sea and will recover and then an swered questions at a press con ference. 1 this was the situation temporarily at the Starr plant, but added that within ten days or thereabouts the situation may change and the later-ripening tomatoes may be han dled, i He said non-existence of available cold storage space made it impossible to store , tomatoes ripening now for later canning. " Meanwhile producers who raised tomatoes for sale as fresh produce report that the market upon which they had counted ia glutted with the products of those who raised them for canning. County Agent W. G; Nibler said some producers took their tomatoes to the Port land farmers market but he had not yet received a report on the outcome. .'. . Unlike "some of the fruit crops, tomatoes may be preserved only by canning them, whether .. whole or as juice or in some other form, Nibler pointed out It was feared that ceiling price : considerations would prevent the shipment of any great volume, of fresh tomatoes to markets in areas where this vege table is not produced. 7 The cannery labor situation irf general was reported Thursday to have eased slightly, thanks to the (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Adriatic Sf 1 S) ItSl ilTIpl 101 ' !-. . f ' Wundbd 1651 - 3 iNETY THZSD YEAR 14 PAGES Russians Capture Poltava t. . . . ; ' Smolensk Within Artillery Range; : Kiev i Threatened By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Friday, Sept. . 24 The Red army captured the German fortress of Poltava yes terday after a bitter three day hand-to-hand struggle, smashed to within artillery range . of Smolensk, and tightened its at tack' arc around the Ukraine cap ital of Kiev, Moscow announced early today. - "'"JV " , A Soviet eommnniqae also an nouneed the capture of Uaecha, 73 miles southwest of Bryansk on the road to White Russia, and said Russian troops ' had reached a point only It miles 'from Dnepropetrovsk on the eastern Dnieper bend as S63 more towns and villages were swept, ap daring the day and more than StO.t Germans were killed. ' The fall of Poltava released a soviet military wave engulfing a 300-mile stretch of territory bor dering the I middle Dnieper be tween Dnepropetrovsk and Cher nigov. Marshal Stalin saluted the victory-with an order" of the" day, and, also issued a second one last night to celebrate"" the ' seizure of Unecha. ; ! - ; The daily bulletin recorded by the soviet monitor told of the cap ture of Buzanovo, nine miles northest of ' the German ; central stronghold of Smolensk, and . of Pochinok, 19 miles to the south east The seizure of Pochinok cut the railway to RoslavL where Ber lin said soviet troops already were fighting in the streets. Two thousand Germans fell in pie bat tles around Smolensk, i Northwest of - Smolensk in a drive aimed at Vitebsk, strategic rail junction, the' Russians said their troops had beaten down 20 enemy counter-attacks and forced the Kasplya river. That river emp ties into the Dvina only 25 miles above Vitebsk. On the approaches to Kiev the Russians killed more than 1000 Germans at a rail station 24 miles to the northeast, the communique said, and also gained in their en circlement tactics . southeast of Kiev. . In the surge toward white Rus sia 1500 Germans were killed in the capture of Unecba, rail , junc tion midway between Bryansk and Gomel, the communique said. The Moscow jradio earlier had said in a bnoadcast-that, soviet troops al ready had crossed 'into: that ter ritory adjoining Poland. A Berlin broadcast acknowledg ed the peril to Smolensk, : Kiev, Cherkasi and other eastern front site in the Salem vicinity in rela- , (Turn.to Pstge 2 Story B) Stoes Twice A Year Now WASHINGTON, Sept. 23-(-It will be six months Instead of four between new pairs of shoes for civilians in the future, the office of price administration announced tonight. ; 'It The cut in civilian shoe rations is necessary, the agency said, be cause of "heavy drains for mili tary purposes, greatly reduced leather ' supples9 and , manpower shortages." i v r: The change means that the new shoe stamp, which becomes valid November 1 will have to last until May 1, unless shoe" production should exceed present estimates, OPA explained. Simultaneously, OPA announced that shoe stamp 18 in ration book 1 will not expire October 31 as planned originally, : but will ; be extended indefinitely,' overlapping the new- stamp. , Stamp No. 1 on the "airplane sheet in war ration book 3 was specified for use beginning No vember 1. Dim out : Fri. sunset 7 :05 . Sat. sunrise 7 :02 (Weather on Page 7) Alumina Site Here-Proposed- West Salem Area Suggested; IVIany Advantages T Seen By RALPH C. CURTIS v Subject to the qualification that the primary, effort of all concerned is to obtain establish ment of the first proposed alu mina plant somewhere, any where j in the Pacific north west, it may now be revealed that the specific available . sites for which Salem' interests are plug ging are not in Salem proper, but across 'the river in and adjacent to West Salem. This is made clear in" an out line of "factual data in reference to Salem as a site for the proposed alumina plant" prepared and sub mitted to the proper federal offi cials by the Salem - chamber of commerce. '. : "Several - specifie sites, any one of which may be obtained . - at a reasonable flgm-e, have been proposed." the oatnne smys. -AU fthese are located In aaV ad jacent to West Salem, a city of ' 1490 population,' lying Immed iately across .the "Willamette river from the capital, the two cities be ins: connected by a toll free bridce." The particular site considered most suitable lies north of West Salem, along he bank of the river. Relative to the advantages of a . (Turn to Pago 2 Story D) Finschhafen Airfield Falls To Aussies By OLEN CLEMENTS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN T HE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday, Sept. 24-P)-Australians who landed from the sea six miles n o r t it - o f Finschhafen,' New Guinea," Wednesday have 'pushed resisting "Japanese southward, reached the airdrome 1 only two miles north of the base and have placed the coastal town under ar tillery fire. ; : - Headquarters announced these developments today in a commu nique which also disclosed that a heavy air engagement ensued the day of the landing in which 40 Japanese planes were downed and five others probably were de stroyed. :,. ' 'Three allied planes were lost" Headquarters also disclosed a preliminary count since July 1 of more than 6300 ' Japanese dead In the fighting which resulted in allied capture of Lae and ' Sala maua. This totaL coupled with a previous estimate of .6000 killed in that area before July 1, raised the figure above 12,000. ' "Enemy resistance is being rap idly reduced and we are pressing toward Finschhafen which is now under artillery fire," the commu nique said. , i "We have reached the north end of the airfield. - Shelling warships and bombing planes ' provided cover for Wed nesday's landings. ' . Capture of Finschhafen would put MacArthur in a strong posi tion, if he so chose, to strike at crescent-shaped f New Britain which,' in turn, outflanks Bou gainville, principal Japanese hold ing in the Solomons. J t i : t i The Japanese airforce began attempts to intercept the ships off Finschhafen in mid-morning Wednesday. The landings began at dawn. Two of the first attack ing planes were shot down from high altitude. - The, big fight occurred at noon. Japanese planes- attacked landing craft Anti-aircraft guns on American warships put up a heavy fire. Al lied fighters engaged in a 25 minute battle.- .". - . Headquarters said not a "ship or passenger was damaged or in- (Turn to Page 2 Story JC) Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning, September Mediterranean Calendar Oii - tZC& , "V rTfCi VJ MOiC Sea fill; DdOECANCSC A ii at CRFTl Vjobruk Alexandria j Major developments In the allied campatf : la the: central Medl terraaeaa,: begmalng with the conquest of Pantellerla Jaae 11, are Included on the map above. Black . areas axe controlled by allies, v And ' below Is - a ; map showing.; the location of . three islands off Greece Coe and Lero in the Dodeeanese troop and Samoa ! the which ; KAF planes strikinx. Acklin Added -As' Council Possibility - The name of Edward W. Acklin was this week added to the roster of possible candidates for the first ward position' on the Salem- city council left vacant by the resig nation of E. B. - Petrine. ' 14 . Acklin, one-time candidate for the post who made no campaign but still' drew a fair number of votes, has told inquiring aldermen that he would like to do the job. Kenneth Perry, also a merchant has said . he would ace ej t if named by the council. v Gene Vandeneynde, prominent ly mentioned for the. post, ; has definitely declared ' he will not run. A. O. Davison, who' resigned from the council when he moved out of his old and Into the first ward, and W. E. Hanson,' who has been a budget committee member for a number of years, are others known to be under consideration. LA Electric Rail Strike Starts Today LOS ANGELES, Sept 22.-VP)-The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's grievance committee tonight voted a strike of 26C0 workers of ; the Pacific Electric Interurban railway for 2 a. m. (PWT Friday- as scheduled, de spite a last minute move by President Roosevelt . in hope of averting it- ' ---J ft . ALT CORSICA rJ,5i::Jv- Adriatic sardine fbszttz r u yf9Vl l5JP , us.r im iA . , t'Vi -8SiO ": : - IfflrJll VCalabria StJ PAHTIUIRIA w .. v MALTA . Jo 100 Btoci See i aw o -r n am v s - i rnfi avva t - j 24, 1943 Price State Reaches Half of Quota PORTLAND, Sept 23H)-Ore-gon, trudging toward a $104,000", 000 goat passed the half-way milestone today in the third war loan drive. The war finance committee re ported that sales stood at $54, 013,476 nearly 54 per cent of the state quota. ' House-to-house canvassers in tensified " solicitations, and the Warm Springs Indian tribe pur chased $2000 worth of bonds from tribal funds. ' - At Portland's invasion exposi tion, soldiers from Salem air base built a loft for 22 carrier pigeons, which will fly messages from Portland to Salem. One pigeon will be released every hour. : rmnidn vs.LAIIE - THIRD WAR ; LOAN THERMOMETER -5 MiUion Marion qaota S4.SJl.S0t Lane vota '. $45640f -4 MiUion r -. MiUioa -2 Minion 1 Million LANE MARION TO DATE Marion $2,632,CC0 Lane . r.$2,432,615 (Lane total compUed at aeon. Jlarion fatal at close of day's sales.) v . . 5c No. 15S Bombers IniFo: Hit- ; Raids on France Accompany-; Big. -Germany Attack : LONDON Sept. 24 (AP) A strong force of RAF bomb ers blasted at targets in Ger many last nigbt for the see ond successive night while Hitler's west wall defenses between Dunkerque and , Calais were being subjected almost si multaneously to a pulverising as sault . ( . ' As usual the preliminary Brit ish announcement of the- over night attack upon the' reich failed to identify the objectives, - but there were indications that the raid was on a major scale. ;rv ' There was plenty of evidence both aadlble and visaal of the weight of the attack on the French coast. ' Great explosions shook the Eng lish coast 20 miles away. Scores of enemy searchlights and burst ing shells stabbed the skies while the . bombers poured tons of ex plosives on ,th fortifications guarding the Trench Invasion coast ii-.-l:i::r The roar of heavy bombers as they went Cut' in a long proces sion over Dover straits continued more than an hour.. Within a few minutes after the flights started, the Berlin, Koeningsberg, Leipzig. Paris and Luxembourg radios were; silenced. ; . ;.::. ':'-;"-'- These night assaults climaxed a tremendous 24-hour bombing of fensive - perhaps the .greatest yet against German continental air and sea bases and industrial targets! on a front 500 miles long and more than 200 miles deep from the . west coast of France to . the north coast of Germany.: - Daring that period at least 14 targets were Masted by heavy and medium bomber armadas. German planes made insignifi cant raids on areas of east Anglia and the northeast coast Neither (Turn tq Page 2 Story II) Nazis to Increase Bohemian Bread Ration Br the Associated From The German . radio announced last night that the bread ration in the protectorate : of Bohemia and Moravia formerly Czecho slovakia would; be increased by 400 grams (14 ounces) monthly In October. ; The broadcast, which quoted a Prague dispatch, was recorded by the Associated Press. ; : nee- Reich County Bond heaButNotfery Far Thanks to extensive payday war bond investments by cannery, wor kers, the "Jilt provided by Stay ton's auction rally and several sub stantial purchases by business firms,! Marion county moved ahead though not far enough ahead for real 1 comfort : of -Xane county Thursday in their third war loan duel'; ; ;.-:"-. , Marion county's Thursday night report showed, an aggregate , of $2,632,000, .which amounted to 53 per cent of the quota. But when the county chairman, Jesse Card of Marion and Dr. N. 1L Cornish of Lane,! compared scores Thursday noon Marion had $2,524,000 to Lane's $2,432,615. Z 1 i Retorting . to Dr: Cornish's re cent, wisecrack that Lane county people were more intelligent than the Marion county populace and were; proving it by putting more of their- money in the safest and most j useful place, Card told the Lane chairman that Marion coun ty was going to win and that wh to the f turkey" dinner was served, Marion county would insist upon having a band and other entertain ers provided as well as the ban quet, promising to do the same in the unlikely event of defeat. He also said something about tak . c- ...: Battle for Corsica in ; j : Final Stage By WES GALLAGHER AT.T.IRn IIF! ATIOIT AT? TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,' Sept. 23 (AP) Gerraa nv torch and dynamite crews de molished the Naples water front, scuttled 30 . ships to block the harbor and wrecked industrial and rail centers in the great Italian metropolis in apparent' preparation for evacuation as allied : armies lunged : tonight within sight and sound of the wholesale de struction. : ,: , ' .'; ; , - ' ;; -' ; The battle for v Corsica was in its final stage; French troops and American rangers closed in on Bastia, northeast port of the Na poleonic island, and allied navies and air forces clamped on a tight blockade, cutting off German es cape. Gen. Henri Giraud, French commander in chief,, predicted that all Germans on 'the island would be ousted or killed in "from 10 to 15 days." Advances of from It to 15 miles In central and southern Italy pet great chunks of land, behind the strsiaatenlar allied lines. ' " The whole German left flank in the Salerno area, 20 to 40 miles south of Naples,' was pried loos and turned inland. The American fifth and British eighth armies were advancing and forcing Mar shal Albert Kesselring to draw grudgingly back on the interior approaches to flaming Naples. - Glnosa, Avlgllano- and. Aeer- no icii. .,.;;,'...,..'." . . (The British radio said Auletfa and Contsuri had been captured. Auletta is 36 miles southeast oi Salerno on the road to Potenza, Contursi is 26 miles southeast of, Salerno on the road to Potenza. Contursi -is . 26 miles southeast of Salerno, and there the Germans admitted "a ; dent made by the enemy in our positions.") A French communique said the Germans lost heavily in men and material near . the tiny Corsican seaport of Solenzara, 60 miles south of Bastia on the east coast A small " number of rangers aro fighting alongside the French and Corsican patriots in the battl v Bastia was bombed again, and (Turn to Prge 2 Story G) Fire Destroys Lewis Barn A wooden building at 13th and Howard streets belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Minor , Lewis was to tally destroyed by fire late Thurs day night,' : ;. '. j i " ' . .The building . was . an old barn containing wood and straw a net although two trucks, one from the. central station and ope from south. Salem went to the scene, 1 ittle could be done due to the advanc ed stage of the blaze ana the tin derbox nature of the material. - Sales Move ing, all Camp Adair along to en joy the feed,, though the Lane county ' leaders - had indicated a limit on the number of turkey portions.'!'-' '' ";, , ' At the i three canneries' where "the ghost walked", Thursday, war bond 1 salesmen - marshaled by Douglas Yeaterand Francis Smith did a brisk business. These were, the California Packing Co., Hunt Brothers and Paul us plants. To tal figures could not be reported since the solicitors returned to in terview workers on the night shift, Reid-Murdock workers had pur chased a large number of bonds Wednesday. . ; . ' . Block leaders and the women so liciting downtown office continu ed to turn in; excellent reports, Gard said Thursday. Some larg purchases credited here were al lotments out of the J. C. Penney company's $10,000,000 national purchase, the local share beln reported by Loyal Warner, man ager, and Safeway Stores, the Sa lem share being reported by Dis trict Manager E. B. Miller. Marion county also was credit ed with $32,000 out of the $3,CC0, 000 investment of the federU land bank of Spokane, it was repcrtci (Turn to Tas 2 Etcry F)