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o I ! 1 Liii MO1. i ii i - i f r f POUNDDD 1651 T r. ': Llilii T mmm iTm 7.ff V II P II It I t i l I - M I 1 I f I I I J i 1 I I 1 TTV it ' rr- ..II V I V IV,' III - I . . iv y--M ii v i i ii -it ii it i , i y ill i ' t ii i J t ... : " v." - - ' ' (1 I 12? if "V In this war, perhaps more' than in any other, bad news about an individual soldier or sailor is later disproven. There have been num erous cases where men reported killed or missing in action turn up later alive. I talked to one such yesterday, Sgt Jack Luehrs, son ct Hr. and Mrs- Otto Luehrs of Ontario, and a nephew of Elmer Orcutt, Mrs. Dave Caplan, Mrs. yr. Ii Waring and Mrs. Wm. Alli son 1 Salem., Otto Luehrs, by the way, was a long-time druggist in Ontario, who retired not long ago and' looks after his ranch near Ontario where he raises ; many fine same birds. Jack, the son, worked on the state game farm near Ontario before entering the service. - I This is Jack's story: He served us radio gunner, with a squadron based in England. He went on 19 Hussions, with a total of 105 hours flying. His last mission, one day last April, was an attack on the Benault works near Paris. His flight sailed in over - Paris and over its target without encounter ing enemy fighters or flak. But on the way home some Focke-Wulfe 190s that had been hiding in the skies jumped down on -them.. His plane .was so badly crippled he was forced to -bail out his first experience doing so. His 'chute opened all right; an enemy -plane headed in his direction, but swerved away and the pilot waved at him. Jack landed in a small village, and quickly attracted local peo ple, particularly -' children. He made his way to a road, which was , being patroled : by German ri ; motorcycles and In ; trucks " looking for American airmen. The ' children signalled to him when anv German was approaching. and he escaped detection by ly ing prone on the ground. Finally he hid behind -an apple tree while nazi planes flew low hunting for Americans. A native came along and told him to stay where he was until dark. Later a couple came inn as thoueh nicking berries alon the road. They dropped a suitcase which he found contained civilian clothing, food and wine. After , night the, native returned and took mm to a house ...and late Into the . country where he was sheltered in a barn for several flays." The man who befriended him got hold of , some : form of pass port, then took him on the train to Paris where he was given ref uge in different places until final ? ly he was placed with the "un derground which works just like - .the old "underground railroad in slavery days in (Continued ; on .Editorial page) , Work Stops on Central America Military Highway SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Sept 80.-jP)-Suspension of work on a military highway through Central 'America . to thr Panama Canal zone was announced last night, and President Rafael Calderon Guardia said today it "constitutes hard blow to Costa Rican econ " cmy." Building of the road is spon sored by the US war department. The cause of the suspension ; was not disclosed here. K Several thousand Costa Ricans have been employed on the pro ject, The -economy of Central Am erican nations, all of which have declared war on . the axis,?, has - been shaken ; by. curtailment of banana exports and - the loss of .their European coffee markets. 111 A r iitiCK Ends. Peak By GLADWIN HILL LONDON, Sep t. SO-HAfThe ' ItAF concluded a month f peak allied ;air activity from Britain . last night with a heavy attack on the Ruhr industrial city of Bocb-i um, a nest ; of targets - including three large steel works and coke, coaL Iron and chemical works,; It was the RAFs first attack on the Ruhr in September, a month devoted to nine powerful defense dispersing blows at targets hun dreds of miles apart, ranging: from 3 Berlin to central France and the Italian border, and a month which , hrought the American Eighth air i if rce's greatest pprgress to- date, i ' .' The month's operations made it clear that allied air fleets are naoving from "groundwork " at tacks to a phase of intensive oper ations preliminary only to the fi nal big invasion drive .against Germany. ' ' . " . The RAF lost eight bombers in hitting Bochum, a figure regarded ) cs loW and as reflecting Inroads ( niade on the German air force's ow mainly defensive force dur--j the four weeks of continual -r.:r,ering of nazi bases, facto s and planes. IHETY THIRD YEAR aassQSws i - . - MdscoHails Falloi - j - - , - .Rail. Jiiiiiictioini l jSoviets Eect JHfouriy 5 iBy Ceans East of Duiker j , By JAMES. M. LONG : ; ; LONDON, Friday, Oct. I (AP)r-SoTiet troops fought to clean op the eastern bulge of white Russiaa today in new adrances that: overwhelmed Krichev, 57 miles east of -the Dnieper river " crbssinglal Mogilev, while to the south a crescendo of guns and bombs announced the beginning of the battle for Kiev,: Moscow said today. ? .. . T Thepture of Krichev, bringing an order of the day from Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin, was said to have given the Russians an important strongpoint and railway jnnc- tion." To take the townr wnere railroads' to Mogilev and Orsha cross, the Soviets; forced the Sozh river. - ;i But it was only one move in a widespread battle on a 50-mile front to clear the area between the Besyad and Sozh rivers." The soviet midnight bulletin, broad cast from Moscow and recorded by; the soviet monitor, said red army mobile detachments were ferreting out the German em placements, taking a considerable number of prisoners." Much war" material was cap tured and 2200 Germans were de clared' killed in this area alone. .The MoscewvJradl said Savtet planes raided theWhlie Rns siaa ebJeeUves of Vitebsk, Orsha and Mogilev Wednesday i sdght ss . Soviet lines drew closer to ; these objectives. The broadcast was recorded by the Soviet monitor. At Kiev Soviet forces, installed in the cross-river eastern district of the city, were less than a hun dred yards across a w.tow part of the Dnieper from the frowning cliffs of the ancient city. Here German guns answer the attacks from emplacements in the ancient cells of monks. : While the fight for the great est prize since Kharkov . was shapinr, the Soviet daily com munique, recorded by the Sov iet monitor, made bo mention ;of Kiev. ,;.' I It told of the capture of Krichev and more than 170 other populated places' in advances up to 12 miles while Soviet - forces marched on toward Gomel and Vitebsk in the battle for White Russia. 1 South of Mogilev otheir Soviet forces which already had reached one point 12- miles from Gomel also mdvedp south and east Mos cow dispatches said Gomel's cap ture was expected hourly, but the communique merely recorded the capture of 50 inhabited localities in advances of from six to seven miles. : ' i Gomel is the last city held, by the Germans on the eastern side of the. Dnieper. . . (Turn to Page 72 Story TL) on 1 n uii r u u v Raid Month Concentrated fires were started soon after the first bombs were dropped, and by the end of the at tack smoke was rising 12,000 feet ; in- the air, the , air ministry: said tonight' Reports from tharaiderr agreed that the defense were by no means so strong as at the be ginning ef the battle of the Ruhr. ' The attack was made la the early evening, the fliers going after, tea and returning for a. late-supper. . It was the fifth attack of the war en Bochum,' which lies' ISO milea inland from the Dutch coast and has a population of more than 300,000.- The steel works there in clude branches of the Krupp com bine. -. '' The attack, described by the air ministry as heavy, was the third this week at the nazis important industry artery, the Dortmund Urns canal, which -brings Scandi navian' iron ore in from the, sea. The northern terminus of the ca nal, Emden, was hit twice Mon day, by daylight ' by American Fortresses and at' night by the RAF. September's operations Included an unprecedented eight-day, non (Turn to Page 2 Story K) - j 16 PAGES : vmm llFiclhiev Patriots Fight Nazis Savagely In Yugoslavia By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE LONDON, Sept 30 -(JF)- Yugo slav patriots by scores of thous ands savagely . fought : German troops tonight from, the middle Adriatic, to . northeastern Italy, hacking at HiUer's tight-stretched southern European lines in batUes now approaching f the. statrel a major. front r V,:' 5 - Spilt, en Yugoslavia's Adria tic eoast, the port of Susak, 175 miles to the north near Italian Flume, and the area of Gorlzta, about 25 . miles above Italian ; Trieste, were cores of heavy action involving many nasi di visions. Fightinr also was In prosress in several other less critical areas. The German high command in dicated the scope of the military task suddenly ? heaped f atop" its grave reverses in Russia and Italy by declaring that : in current ac tion in the Gorizia area ; . along "Slovenian and communist bands" bad lost more than 1000 killed and "several thousand prisoners. Nazi troops were reported to have been ordered to take no more prisoners. - (Turn to Page 2 Story M) Oregon Fills Its Bond Quota PORTLAND, On?., Sept S0HtP) Oregon's raft sitters, " castaways for 13 days in the middle of the Portland harbor, were rescued to night by bond officials and hauled downtown to help put Oregon ov er the topv in the third war loan campaign. -' . The seven war workers, who had pledged to sit on the raft un til the state filled its $104,000,000 quota, were hoisted, raft and all, onto a truck and driven to a nighttime bond rally. : There were still $3,000,000 to go when they left the Willamette river, but three hours later bond officials 1 announced : the quota had been filled and money still was pouring in. . ; '- : This news was greeted enthusi astically by the seven, who start ed , out expecting Oregon to fill its quota within six days They ate accordingly, and rations were almost - exhausted .' on the" raft whe"the rescue cameTheylhad nothing but' a' piece of pemmican and two .milk tablets daily the last three days. - One of the volunteers, William Minkler, estimated he had lost 25 pounds. . : ' Crop Insurance Bill In ; f WASHINGTON, Sept 30.-P-Chairman Fulmer (D-SC) of the house agricultural committee tor day Introduced a bill to, provide crop insurance in 1944 for wheat, cotton, field corn, tobacco and "war crops. . . . . - A. Dim out . ' "... . - --t ' 1' ' -' ' ' l i " - 'r" y Fri. sunset 6:52 ; ' Sat. sunrise 7:11 " (Weather on page 7) ' "".-' Salem. Oregon Friday Mornina. October X. 1943 IS US Goes Over Goal On Bonds National Drive 1 Exceeds Quota : By Half Billion WASHINGTON, Sept 3HP) Largest financing operation in world '. history, the treasury's third war loan to "back the at tack" went $532,000,000 over its: $15,000,000,000 goal ", tonight with two days of the drive re maining j- and untold ' millions still to be counted. Although . expressing gratifica tion that the quota had been over subscribed ' before the October 2 deadline, Daniel WvBell, undersec retary of the treasury, said ; he hoped there would be no letup in bond buying. t . . To which National Director Ted Gomble responded, "There won't be. We're going fall steam -ahead right np to Saturday mid night . . - S e c r e tary Morgenthau an nounced in a radio address at Ev ansville, Ind., earlier in the day that the $15,000,000,000 mark had been passed at 11 a. m. Tonight's total represented a; $793,000,000 overnight jump. .. ? ; A final tabulation on the drive will not be available until October 18 - to permit all sales made by the 60,000 issuing agents through- f- ls generally expected the to tal at that time will approach If not exceed - the $18,500,000,000 raised in the second war loan last April. Of that amount however, and similarly of the $13,000,000, 000 raised in the December first war loan, commercial banks sub scribed $5,000,000,000. They were excluded from the current cam paign. ; The treasury's latest breakdown on : sales, .through i yesterday, showed three more states, Georgia, Illinois, and New Hampshire over their quotas, with Georgia the first state to top its goal for in dividual sales. ; : National sales to individu als aggregated $3,324,000,000 or only S8 per cent ef the quota set for them, but Gamble said he was confident the goal would be met Corporate investments stood at $11,415,000,000. Well over the 510,600,000,000 big mo ney quota. - Bell said he believed there would be no further war loan this year; but added some . securities would be offered to banks within a short time The amount' has not been announced. "" ..-.' i - Gas RatibnXJp On East Coast; MidwestiCiit -"WASHINGTON, Sept 20-fr- The office of price administration tonight raised the gasoline ration of A" card holders on the Atlan tic seaboard from li to 2 gallons a week and simultaneously cut the value of "B and "C" coupons to 2 gallons everywhere east . of the Rockies. The cut in the B and C rations was from 3 gallons in the mid west" southwest and ; southeast It was from 2V4 gallons in the north east " t X ' ' . . "A rations were left at 3 gal Ions in the midwest and south west i The, - changes are . effective at midnight tonight c: Even before the changes were announced, a house subcommittee laid plans for, an investigation of motor fuel rationing and distribu tion generally. v ' ; ; - , -: Chairman Lea (D-Calif ) said hearings would open in about two weeks and that government offi ciate and others would be called to testify. .: He said the inquiry would reach into!the administrative agencies dealing with raUoning to deter mine the reasons for the restric tions! and their effect upon all sections of the country. In addi tion I the committer will go into questions" of the supply of crude oil and its distribution. Senator Just Warming Up K WASHINGTON, Sept SHF) .Senator Downey (D-Calif), op posing drafting of fathers, ad dressed the senate for four and one-half hours, and then an nounced: ' ; . " have supporting material and other argnntents which I mast pat into the record because I have not reached the most important part ef my speech. Father Draft Begins Today On Schedule . , WASHINGTON, Sept Z0-VP) The general draft of pre-war fa thers is. due to begin tomorrow and congress, mindful of military leaders' advice that nothing must stop the flow of men. into the ranks, showed no signs tonight of heading it off, - ; - 1 The Ooctober 1 deadline set weeks ago byV selective service means that from now on the num ber of children a draft-age man has counts for nothing. .From now until the end of the year draft officials intend to call in 448,000 physically fit men be tween the ages of 18 and 38-who heretofore have been deferred for dependency ' reasons.' And an As sociated Press survey showed that in most states some pre-Pearl Harbor fathers may expect to start leaving home for service ; in Oc tober. ! Few states reported hav ing enough non-fathers to meet quotas past November 1. When 3-As ' become 1-As will on by their order numbers with local draft boards. These boards have authority to take into . consideration extreme hardship cases; the-importance of a : man's job to the war effort They are not supposed to draft any f: pre-war fathers until they have exhausted the supply of childless men, post-Pearl Harbor fathers, those in specified "non deferrable" jobs and fathers who have quit farming in violation of the law. s r The bill of Senator, Wheeler (D-Mont.) to defer the drafting of fathers until January 1 made no progress in the senate today.-' . . An effort by Senator Downey (D-Calif.) to have it laid aside, pending a congressional examina tion of the high command's strate gy, failed when Majority Leader . (Turn to Page 2 Story F) tmniou VS.LAIIE THIRD WAR LOAN THERMOMETER ii i i 5 Million Marion qaata Xjum eaota ' - 4 Miffion ' " .-. - - ' I i ' -i 3 MiRion 2 Million 1 Million -. - :".' LANE MARION TO DATE Marion L. $4,787,CG7 Lane ;$5,15S,4C3 (Lane total compiled at neon, Marlon total at close ef day's .sales.) -;.:-.-..-: i:o. 1S1 Over-Top Rally. Is. r Tonight . Alarion in Need Of $143,033 to Reach Its Goal Oregon has bought its quota in the third war loan campaign and the raft sitters ! are safely back on dry land. The regional goal also has been - attained. Lane county, has won the tur key dinner; at Marion county's expense. That leaves no "firsts for Marion' county to garner. But the campaign is still on and Marion county's "over the top" rally is scheduled for tonight Just giving it a name doesn't insure that the' name will fit ; - ; The big purchases are all in and the county total is $4,787,967. That leaves $143,033 to go and since series E purchasers will have to y make up , the difference, : it means that ,5722 Marion county residents must buy bonds of the smallest denomination, unless some dig deeper. ; Confident that those citizens will come through, the county war finance committee is going ahead with its plans for the "over the top" program. And by no means incidentally, the Lane county third war loan leaders who gloated at Marion county's expense Wednes day will be there. They'll gloat again if the rally doesn't live up to its name. Gloat and eat turkey. But no matter someone let- out a hint that they too are in for surprise. . :S.-'-. . The program at the Victory Center will start at 7:15 p. m. and will include In this order: ' lNumbers by Priscilla Mei- singer accordion orchestra. ' Z. 2 Numbers by brass band from (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Dairy Co-Op Enters Retail The Dairy Cooperative associa tion, which operates under -lease the former plant of the Fairmount dairies on South Commercial street, announced yesterday that. beginning' today, it will engage in the retail as well as the whole sale distribution of Grade A pas teurized milk in the Salem mar ket Its other retail operation is in Vancouver, Wash. Arthur R. Hurlburt, local manager, was manager at Vancouver for two years. Coming to Salem to conclude final arrangements were W.'W, Henry, manager of the Dairy Co operative, : and C W. J erome, its public relations man. -- "We are entering the retail field in Salem, saidHenry, "in order to obtain larger returns for our producers, under the limitations of the OPA." In Vancouver our re turn to producers is on the basis of 04c a pound butterfat, while hf Salem : our return under OPA regulation is 87c 1 The Portland basis, where we are wholesalers, is 9pc less shipping charges which bring it to 80c. i w ' "A large portion of our product will be homogenized milk and all will be Grade A pasteurized. We will market our Mayflower brand." The Dairy Cooperative controls the. largest volume of fresh milk production in the Salem-Portland- Vancouver milkshed, and operates a factory In Portland for manu facture .of dairy products from market surplus or from milk or cream not eligible for the fresh milk market. , , Salem now . has but six milk distributors, many of those for merly in the business having quit since the start of the war. , Commands Airfield Map. William CL Evans, former mayor of Riverside, Califs com ing here from the Portland air base, "today takes over command of the Calem air field. ' : During the interim between de parture of Maj. U. R. Sellers, who was called' back to Portland on Tuesday, and arrival of 1.1a j. Evans, Capt George Chuson has been in command. - Price 5c 17 'a - Today PCM AlKes Already Pointing At Rome, 135 Miles North; i British Seizing East Coast - By WES GALLAGHER ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 30 (AP)- Beaten German forces streamed north out cf burning- Naples tonight toward their next defense line in the hills just short of Rome, 135 miles away, as American tanks clanked into the outskirts of the great port from the south 'after skirting Bit. VesuTius. . (A Berlin "dispatch' to Stockholm said the Germans had . evacuated Naples, and the nazi-controlled Italian radio said a British fleet was shelling the ravaged city.) ! At last report American armored columns had fought their way past the ruins of ancient Pompei to reach Torre Annunziata, arms and iron center nine miles south of Naples ana wiuun ciear view oi tneur goal. " f With the first great step In the conquest of Italy nearing comple tion in the capture, of a superb deep-water port, it was' announced that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, allied ' commander In chief, met yesterday v with Marshal- Pietro Badoglio to discuss the future use of Italy's army and navy against the nazis. - : (The German-controlled Vichy radio said tonight- that , "Naples no longer is inside ' the German defense line in southern Italy. The German line now runs north of the city.) " : -yr" ; (. The fall of Naples was near. The five German divisions bul ' warklng the nasi defense were' seen fleeing, into the city and ' then streaming to the north and 1 northeast In orderly retreat. . I The unbroken ' advance of the American fifth army rolled be yond Mercato San Severino, 22 miles southeast of Naples, and ap proached the broad plains of Ve suvius in a move that threatened to flank the city of 925,000 and trap any German rear guards who elected to fight there behind street barricades. - .- .;.-;..; J.The allies already were thinking about "Rome',, IA. Gen. Mark W. Clark's second announced objec tive, which . lies v 135 rail miles north of Naples across broad plains netted -with excellent highways. A military spokesman today quot ed an old school book saying, "All roads lead to Rome, adding that the nazis face an almost impossible military task of supplying their troops south of the capital for a full scale battle unless they Use Rome as a fortified, and not an open, city. The extreme right flank of the allied line across Italy rapidly was investing the Adriatic coast The British eighth .army advanced 20 miles north of Zapponeto to cap ture Manfredonia on the gulf of that name. Some indications were that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery might be hurling part of his forces westward to flank the Volturno'river, 20 miles north of Naples, to which the main body of Marshal Albert Kesselring's army apapeared to be fleeing. The frontal and . flanking ap proaches to r Naples were mined and demolished extensively. '!! Large systematic demolitions ' slowed : the French cleanup of Corsica, their Mediterranean Is land 10t) miles below France. TJS rangers and Moroccan Geoms -'(Turn to Page 2 Story A) NewTaxBilltbWithhold 30Percent,Re WASHINGTON. Sent 30HyP)-A proposal for postwar tax refunds with: the ; taxpayer allowed to take them in government Insur ance or annuities wag reported tonight to be included in a new administration revenue- program calling for a 30 per; cent ! wltn- holding tax..:i;a'-. -v;-nv The program will be presented to the house ways and means committe on Monday, but already has been shown ta some legisla tors, - and ' congressional - sources said it shaped up in xms manner: Increases in individual Income taxes, heaviest- in the- $5000 to $25,000 brackets, to bring In $6,- 400,000,000 yearly. : A boost from 40 to 50 per cent In the combined normal and .sur taxes ' On " corporations to raise $1,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000. Hieher levies on liquor, tobacco. and some o'ther presently-taxed products, and imposition of ex cise taxes on some new Items, in cluding soft drinks, estimated to produce $2,500,000,000. As a part of the increased taxes on individual income, the with holding levy on taxable income would be increased from 20 to SO per, cent The 5 per cent victory tax i would be abolished. The Idea of 'post-war refunds was said to have won President sivagedCiCj i : AUies Storni LastJapHoW At Finschhaven By OLEN CLEMENTS -ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday, Oct 1. - (Jf) - Australian Jungle troops' are closing in on the last Japanese positions at Finn schhafen. New Guinea, after hav ing burled back three savage Jap anese counter - attacks which sought to break the stranglehold. General MacArthur's headquar ters announced today that 50 Jap anese were killed in sharp fight ing for a strategic spur Just out side the townsite. The remainder of the defending forces were scat tered. All enemy resistance has been .rdenced en the high ground sur rounding the little village, the last Japanese holdings oa the ' Iluon calf looking toward New .-.Britain. " ,i; ,.:': MacArthur's spokesman said opposing troops are "very close a matter of yards.. -Fighting was reported heavy for Jungle type warfare, but there was no mention of casualties aside from the 50 Japanese killed in the one assault While the allies maintained (Turn to Page 2 Story I) .. r- Blaine McCord Wins Cluster ' WOODBURN Lt Blaine Mc Cord, jr., of Oakland, Calif., son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine McCord, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster in recognition of his par-' ticipation in a dangerous bomb ing mission over the Eismark sea last March. He-.vas navigator with the crew of a, heavy bomber which attacked an enemy convoy approaching the New Guinea coast. In the face of heavy anti aircraft fire, the plane piloted by Lt McCord secured one direct hit and three near misses in bombing a cargo vessel. The boat burst into flames and sank. McCord was killed . In line of duty in mid-April, thus the oak leaf cluster is a posthumous award. . . . Roosevelt's ' approval over objec tions from Secretary of the Treas ury Morgenthau. The latter has consistently opposed forced sav ings which refundable taxes, in effect, would be. The scheme was described in this manner: ; A part of the increase in in dividual levies would be desig nated as refundable after the war but with a provision' that no more than $SC0 of taxes In any one year " could be refunded. This would mean persons in the lower tax brackets could receive all the refundable part of their taxes but the maximum of $500 would be reached at about $11,600 net an nual income. . To encourage taxpayers to take their refunds in government in surance or annuities, cash rebates would be at the rate of 75 per cent of the amount allowable with the treasury retaining the remain ing 25 per cent The full amount would be credited if the taxpayer elected to take insurance or nn annuity. 1 Some opposition to this idea al ready in evidence . with legis lators raising the question of what effect it might have on1 private insurance companies. Eome " alro expressed concern that . r , would mean continuing hij.i taxcj for many years after the v.r. fund Lata -Ok.