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if f r. rJjfiU -V V i ! 1 H u Til 1 Y7ed. cunsct 6:29 Thurs. sunrise 7:27 ' (Weather en rags 8) PCUMDI3D 1G51 Mwu Jin mi I 1 1 I. , Vw .. . mmm .X'V f T II "X. II 1 Hitler has only one chance of success, And that is if the old rule of "divide and conquer? swings to his advantage.. That was the .way he made his start: picking off one small enemy at a time. It wasn't until he defied the world, taking on Russia and later the United States that his star commenced to wane. " - I do not think Hitler can "di vide and conquer" Russia, Great Britain and - the United States. But internal dissension among these great allies might - do -". the trick for him. History is full of examples of collapse of alliances through internal discord.. That is our danger now. Hence I shudder to hear people sowing seeds of suspicion of Great . Britain or of Russia, because X know what harvest may come from those plantings. Hurling jibes or t whispering inuendoes against Russia or Great Britain is a favorite : device of the erst while isolationists, done under the cloak of ardent Americanism. You've heard the tales: "Brit ain is .doing business as usual;" "Britain is getting our machinery on lend-lease but selling machin ery to South America; iThe Brit ish do not want to send their men in to fight; "Russia is just. wait ing to spread communism over the world;" "Stalm will make a separate peace;" "Russia will not join in the war on J apari. The tale-bearer has " not reliable; in formation, he , " is - m e rely the spreader of gossip. Though his in dent may be innocent, the result - is to propagate suspicion in the minds of Americans against their 'allies and thus to slacken Ameri can-war efforts. . . .The fact is that these other countries have their doubts about ' the USA. Some of the British may say, as they did in the last war: "We're fighting your war; why did you wait so long to come in?" And ; Europe says: "How, can we make a durable peace if you i Americans will run out on us as soon as the war ends? How do we know you won't, do that again?" " And Russia says, "What about the second front? and "What about your papers and politicians that are constantly attacking our USSR? There is other ground for sus- picion of our good intentions. Ed ward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, writes in his magazine, after a (Turn to on Editorial Page) Tliuuderbolts -K Take Spotlight Over Wewak By a YATES McDANIEL ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Wednesday, Oct. 13-()-The lat- . est addition to General. MacAr thur's aerial armory, the Thund erbolt fighter, took the spotlight over the weekend when four of them tackled 32 Japanese fighters over Wewak, New Guinea, down- In eight and possibly 10. This stirring action of eight to one odds was the feature of to- ... day's communique which also re ported new allied air blows in the Solomons, stir of Japanese air activity," and the . killing of more than 400 Japanese by Australians in mopping up operations- to the northwest of captured TTnschhaf- en. New Guinea. - In -belated reports on the Cght- ? (Turn to Page 2 Story C) USChamberi&sksSale Tax,GreaterEcbnoniy WASHINGTON, Oct 12-iT)-A federal' retail sales tax, v coupled with rigid economy in : govern ment expenditures, was urged up on, congress today . by the United States chamber' of commerce, as a substitute for the administration's badly ; pummeled $10,500,000,000 new revenue program. ; - ; - Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the house ways and means : com mittee, interrupted presentation of the chamber's tax suggestions to say "I've never been able to reconcile the treasury's argument that increased income taxes would retard inflation, while a sales tax would increase inflation. i . . Doughton took no definite posi tion on " the issue, but said he wanted more information. In the past he has led fights - against sales taxes. The sales .levy, however, ap peared to have run into a rising tide of opposition in the commit tee. There were no predictions that congress would pass such , a tax. , - Ellsworth C. Alvord, chairman of the chamber's ' committee on , federal finance, opposed 'j further increases in income taxes--either for corporations or individuals as proposed by the administration. -? He declared the treasury de partment's multi-billion revenue plan is "supported solely by poli tical expediency . ' Although recommending no pre cise level for the sales tax, Alvord told the committee a 10 per "cent tax without any exemptions, pro bably would yield, over $5,000, 00,000 and a 5 per cent levy about i3,500,oco,6od. ... ' : rnriSTY runny yeah oviefe On '. West? j ... .. ... ' I Fierce Fighting Reported i In Battles of Dnieper as ! Russians Close in on Kiev By JUDSONO'QUINN 7"''. f LONDON, Wednesday, Oct 13-(P-Soviet forces widened their areas of penetration on the - west bank of the - Dnieper in close quarter fighting yesterday after, battering down German . counter-attacks, and the Berlin radio said the Red army-had opened a new. drive "north of Kiev. The Russian t operational com munique and midnight supplement broadcast from Moscow and recorded by the Soviet monitor, disclosed today Red army troops had edged closer to the White Russian citadel of Vitebsk in the north in the face of stern enemy opposition. ; In all these active areas the Russians destroyed 53 nazi planes J , I : -Oby air combat or anti-aircraft fire, . ywi rredicts Further Cut In Gas Ration By MARVIN L. AKROWSMITH i WASHINGTON, O c t . 12 - P) Further sharp curtailment of ci vilian driving was forecast today in an office of war information survey pointing up the mounting demand for gasoline for swiftly expanding military operations. j Not only will there be less gaso line,' but its quality will become progressively peorerr OWI pre dicted. - . - - - - ' - i ', The report estimated that quan tities available to civilians now are running 500,000 barrels short of the daily pre-war consumption. It added that the shortage "will intensify for- the -duration." ' , ! The gloomy survey of civilian supply prospects. was made public Just after the petroleum adminis tration fort war announced reor ganization of its foreign opera tions division in a manner indi cating that greater use would be made of oil sources abroad. I (The action followed criticism by five US senators who returned from ' a warfront- tour -saying American oil supplies were being drained while foreign , sour" were not heavily enough tapped.) Ma general,1 the directives rrom Secretary Ickes, petroleum admin istrator for. war, empower the foreign operations committee; to order wider use of American owned fields abroad; : to utilize transportation, storage, process- l (Turn Ur Page 2 Story B) " ; The witness said it was the chamber's belief that a sales tax: I 1.1s desirably deflationary and would help stamp out black mar kets. ; i 2. Would collect substantial rev enues, without imposing unbear able burdens, from those receiv ing four-fifths of the national in come. - -! 3. When viewed merely as a part of the -tax system, would not im pose burdens which discriminate in favor of high-income groups and against low-income groups. 4. Would render unnecessary the tremendous increases in certain excise taxes advocated by the trea sury. - ' -r 5. Would be a highly desirable supplement, at least for the dura tion of the war, to the present tax laws. I Fred R. Fairchild, professor of political economy, Yale univer sity and a member of the cham ber's federal finance committee, told: the tax-drafting body "It is safe to' say that something like $5,000,000,000 could be subtracted from the annual expenditures of the federal government without impairing any essential service indeed possibly to the improve ment of the public service. t The elimination of unnecessary government v expenditures y offers the most' direct and effective of all possible . attacks . upon infla tion, he said. , ' r - ; ,'Reps. Forand (Dflll.) and Lynch (D-NY.) brought out that a sales tax would cut into old age pen sions,, allowances for soldiers' de pendents and veterans' benefits.' 12 PACZ3 A T! Ai ft' TV1T AT TED r . , . iiisE I destroyed or disabled 42 German tanks, captured two artillery bat teries and silenced eight . others, it was said. . ;, . Referring to an told and com pleted operation the Moscow ra dio, in a dispatch recorded here by the Soviet monitor, told how the Russians once ; flanked the German line in the south by, mak ing a night landing from the Azov sea at Yalta,' 20 miles southwest of Mariupol. 1 ; To- effect this -' operation, the landing parties beat off three Ger man counter-attacks, the broad cast added. This was one of the red army . thrusts which opened the Way .for the ' current" " push against the Dnepropetrovsk-Sevas topol rail line. ' . Fierce local fighting was re ported In the battles ef the Dnieper, through which the Bed army is closing in relentlessly on the Ukrainian capital ef Kiev. ; Without definitely ; locating the area, the communique said that units of one formation killed 700 of the enemy. In another area the Russians were said to have won a height dominating the sur rounding country after a day-long fight. About 1500 Germans were killed1: to this latter struggle. which, developed into numerous hand-to-hand engagements, the communique said. la still another sector of this battle front the Germans accom plished a breakthrough with 11 tanks, but Red artillerymen' oper ating with infantrymen disabled (Turn to Page 2 Story A) France to Get Gauleiter if Allies Invade v rf" By LEWIS HAWKINS LONDON, Oct. 12-0PThe na- zis are preparing"' to name a Gauleiter or leader for France as soon as allied landings begin, a French leader in London reported today. -4 This would be part of the full implementing of drastic controls known as "plan A," which already are partially in effect, it was said. Steps taken so far to tighten con trol against widespread sabotage include: A warning to prefects on Au gust 24 that they would be held personally responsible for any vio lence against occupying troops; Notice to prefects on August 25 from German generals that French police work in rounding up ter rorists' had been unsatisfactory and that the German police would take charge of repressive measures including the taking of police officials as hostages; , A demand on - August 30 that the police furnish a list of all their officials and their addresses to insure their arrest in case of events." ; . . . - .The Germans and Vichy lead ers are taking ' ever-sterner' mea sures to halt sabotage. They have increased their attacks on Jews and given mobile guards permis sion to shoot on sight A Paris broadcast said "the har vests are burning, railway ? lines are being blown sky-high and trains are being derailed. Every where, French national socialists are falling under tommy-gun bul lets . while the army of terrorists is moving about freely," almost un der the protection of the robes of judges who are only too ready to acquit criminals." 71 Salem. Orecon. Wednesday Morning. October 13, 1S13 Nazis Say NoEalkan Drive Due Allies Abandon ? Invasion Plans ; This Year, Claim By A. I. GOLDBERG LONDON, Oct. 12-VPh The Berlin . radio, despite contin ued allied aerial attacks in the eastern Mediterranean and the operations of Yugoslav- guer illas, said tonight' that the al lies now had abandoned a plan to land in the Balkans this year, - Berlin conceded that at the time of the Italian armistice on Sept. 8 the Dalmatian coast ports were i4 the hands' of troops loyal to Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio or anti-axis partisans: The broad cast described that period;: as the "most favorable moment offered British and American forces for a land operation in the Balkans and added that : an operation "seems to have been definitely abandoned in view of the approaching win ter." " ' 1 Direct .contradiction of the German claim that nasi forces had weathered the went ef the storm In Yngoslavia was can tained today In a communique ef the Yugoslav- liberation army which announced that partisan forces "firmly held" the . Dal matian eeast seath of Split. .This weald place these forces in control of approximately half their eeontry's coast line. , - Bitter fighting continues, said the 'communique broadcast by. the free Yugoslav radio,: in the - sec tors of Susak, Otocac, Duga-Resa, Karlovac, Zara and Sinj, all north of Split ; . f. Capture of Slankamen, on the Danube near Novisad, and Zumer ak, last Utashi , strongpoint west of Zagreb, also was announced Slankamen - is approximately SO miles northwest of Belgrade. . In an attempt to quell the op position to liberation' forces the Germans have threatened to de stroy every city, town and village in Yugoslavia and to, shoot an unspecified number of . hostages, the war bulletin added. German planes .scattered leaflets contain ing .the threat-over Yugoslav cities. -,., . , . .. ,. . - . It said this threat bad been car ried out on the town - of Novo- meste,' which is 40 miles west of Zagreb and 10 miles east of Zumerak. Reporting the, complete destruction ' of this town by the Germans, -the ': communique - said "not living soul remains there. A German attempt to storm me important partisan stronghold f iTuzla," 100 miles southwest of Bel- gnrae, was oeaten orr oy columns of the First Bosnian corps, oper ating under the -liberation army banner of Drug Tito, the commu nique related. Farmers Mart Open Saturday . - - - iTe market, to . market to bay -- not the fat pig ef the nursery rhyme but many ef the other choice products of the farm, the Salem housewife will . re Satarday snernlar as the cap ital city's first fanners' market opens en the south side ef Mar lon square,' . i Frequency ef future market days will depend ha large mea sure ea the response given Sat arday, members of the poblle market commission said Tues day la aaaeunclnr selection ef ; the first market date and ef the temporary location.' -' Theodore G. Nelson, Salem grange master, wCl asslra farm ' ers places to park their tracks head-In along 22arien street by the park, and Mrs. Walter Earsch ef the commission wi3 have women at that site to re gister participating farmers, Al- - derman A. IX. Gille, commission chairman, sail Tuesday. . Snell Now Foc:r?rinter. JS f rORTLAIT, Ore Oct 12-C- Governor Snell was Inducted in to . the International Footprinters association, - fun' rrsnization- of the Pacific ... Coast Internattor.sl Law Enforce ment sssociatlosi, here tcxfy. lis was presented a ricnuscrsr. p" p:n cy itiice Chief Harry 1-1. Niles, president 'A Set for the Drive on Rome "v.. ' " ' " ..;,. Allied troops have massed along a 44-mtIe front en the Volturne riv er north of Naples, smashing across the river with advance patrols, h: and poised for. their drive ea Rome against the seven German divi , : siens. On the eastern side ef the Italian mainland, the British Eighth , army pushed Germans back eae to fear miles along a 39-mile frent. i (AP Wlrepboto.) " - Portugal Grants Bases; In Azores to Britain To Combat Sub Menace - r ...,..- 1 - . I Iberian Country to Remain Neutral; German Hostility Thought Unlikely r , - . - By E. C. DANIEL LONDON, Oct. 12-(ff)-Portugal, In an agreement announced by. Prime Minister. Churchill " in the house of commons, today granted Britain naval and air anti-submarine bases in the Azores, strategic . Atlantic crossroads United States, to Europe and the ' The new. bases, made available to Britain immediately, will give the allies much needed aid in the battle against the German sub marine menace, expected to rise sharply again as the allies pre pare to invade the continent - - Press dispatches , from Lisbon said that a number ef British warships already had steamed Into barbers in the Asores and landed treeps to defend r porta and airfields. British planes some from ' carriers were said to have landed ea the fields. A Dally MaU dispatch from. Madrid - said ? the Fertagnese gevernment had Jssaed a state-' meat verify big the landings. '. British forces will be with drawn front . the . Azores at the end of the war, Churchill saiL Britain for "her part is to -asfasjt "in furnishing essential material and supplies for-the Portuguese.! armed forces and for the mainte nance of . j Portugal's J national economy.':. 4 ..?fv;;:";-vs: Churchill told .commons that the new facilities -"will: enable better protection ,to be provided for merchant shipping In the At lantic," and rwill prove an im portant factor in shortening the war. Although the agreement was announced t amid rumors , that Portugal. Britain's oldest, ally. was about to take an active role in ftu sir l . rTiiirchlil made n dear that the Portiiguese govern mentin full agreement with Britain deshjed" to "continue their policy of neutrality on the European mainland ; and thus to maintain a zone of peace in the Iberian peninsula. Premier Antonio De Salazar or Portugal emphasized the same point In a press conference at Lis bon, saying nothing in the agree ment affected Portuguese deter mination to . maintain neutrality on the European mainland. It was considered likely here that the Germans weald refrain from hostility toward tlay Por ta!, which has - an .army of only 150,800 ' and a negligible air force, la order to keep ap their valuable diplomatic sad spy activity la Lisbon. The foreign ministry of Spain, which has a pact of friendship and ; noh-aggression -i with her Iberian neighbor, issued a note saying the Spanish policy of vigi lant neutrality would be .main tained. - -: ; Hope was -raised . Immediately in London today that Eire, Tur key and other neutrals might take Portugal's -action as a precedent and extend military facilities to the' allies. ' " The f '-hrm extension of the cnti-U-Lc. t Icrrier thus will help 1 tl.e first essential condition for "tictory and the Invasion of Zjrcpe tpecifled by Churchill tTtcr the Cssblanca conferences ' defeat of the submarine. .. - ;.. commending all routes fronr the Mediterranean. O US to Use ' " Azores Bases In Emergency WASHINGTON, Oct 12 -tfy- President Roosevelt said today that the United States and other United Nations would . in emer gency cases use the Azores , bases Portugal has granted to Britain. He disclosed that the decision to seek the Portuguese - govern ment's - agreement to use of - the bases was reached at the confer ences he and Prime Minister Win ston Churchill had here in May. In other volunteered statements on the war, Mr.-Roosevelt told his press-radio conference: -. ; 1. Japan has lost an average of 130,000 tons of shipping month for the last six months with Amer ican submarines' taking the hea viest tolL This is believed, - be said, to be ... considerably, larger than the enemy's replacements. 2. The American people, when thinking about , gasoline, rationing and what they have accomplished in production, should consider the statistics of American air' raids on German objectives last Friday. He said 855 planes participated car rying 2,500,000 pounds of bombs, 2,750,000 rounds of ammunition, and 800 pounds of - maps.: They flew 850,000 miles, traveled 1400 miles on the ground in taking off, landing and taxiing, burned near ly, a million gallons of . gasoline and 25,000 gallons of oiL Each plane was over, enemy territory from two to six hours. Five thou sand crewmen participated. - Germans Trying. To Patch Tirpitz STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct: 12 -WV-A-naval source said today a German repair ship was attempt ing to fit a makeshift patch on the water-line hole torn in the side of the nazi battleship Tirpitz by midget British submarines at Alten Fjord In Norway. Predicting this job would take a . montn, - tne source . saia uiai when the patch was fitted the Germans might" attempt to take the Tirpitz on a perilous . 1500- mile dash down the Norwegian coast to aXlerman harbor for per manent repairs. - , Uzzi FIanc3 Slrilie . At En"!ril Ajraia LC:.T)CN, Oct. i2-.-D-Seyerl German planes struck at the east coast of Er -land tonight and were cr.-n-ca ty . neavy anu-aircrait o. Criwrs declared shot down. Ito L..-ts were reported drcrr' i Price 5c sewers tT-t---: o n T Fof OlBFeirisive r . ...... v ... .... . . . . . Qeaig-SIdes Permit Allied Bomters ta Blast Enemy Along WKole Italian Front ? - : By EDWARD KENNEDY , ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 12 (AP) Fifth ariny observation details high In Italian hills are map ping German "dispositions in Volturno for "the hour, when Lt.' Gen. Mark W. Clark orders the big push toward Rome, a 'field dispatch said tonight, -'-i Clearing skies permitted allied bombers- to blast nazi positions all along the front and British gained ground on the Adriatic end of the line despite bitter German resistance. - (Hinting that the Fifth army offensive was imminent, a British correspondent quoted General Clark as saying after an" inspection of the front. Tuesday that "There is no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before the battle." ' (Radio France in Algiers said O la a broadcast recorded in Lon- doa that American forces had advanced more than 14 mUes In the last 24 hears. The site of this reported fain and the na ture ef the action were not sta- ted.) ., Mud handicapped the movement of the Fifth's heavy equipment as a result of several days of rain. The observation posts are .work ing: day and night to collect data for the offensive. - ! -An allied communique said only patrol activities and artillery duels had enlivened the rainrbog-g-ed front across Italy in the past 24 hours. The nazia grasped the respite to strengthen their de fenses in . depth along the north ern bank of the Voluirno, which Clark's forces - must penetrate in their drive toward Rome..' Despite the adverse weather the British Eighth army was report ed to have gained ground at some points on the Adriatic end of the line. German resistance in this area was described as Increasingly stiff.' r However, west of Termoli British-patrols ran into enemy tanks. ':. - (A Berlin breadeast said Ger- fereea alear the Calere riv er at the center ef the Itallaa line had retreated to new posi tions in the moon tains near Cer re to. Cerreto Is eight mUes west ef Peatelandelfe, whose eaptare the allies annooneed yesterday), -In the day's most telling aerial assault,' American Mitchell medi um bombers escorted by Lightning fighters rained bombs on a nazi airfield on Corfu,, strategic Greek island dominating the entrance" to the Adriatic In addition to rak ing 'the Garitza airfield, the Mit chells scored two direct hits on a merchant ship in Corfu harbor. " In ? Italy allied fight - bombers smashed at nazi gun positions the length of the front and destroyed motor transport and trains that are straining to keep the enemy's (Turn to Page a Story D) . Government Gets . ' Out of Mine Business WASHINGTON, Oct. 12-iFy- The government took itself, out of the coaL mining business today as Interior Secretary Ickes turn? ed back to .their owners the 1700 mines still in government posses- sion and announced liquidation of the coal mines administration, which he headed. SimpleGthRatiqh Slgiz zip WWar-Planned 'Oct. 26 Most simple rationing registra tion of the war ' to date Is that planed for- the week of October 23, Supt Frank- B Bennett ot Salem public schools told directors at their .regular board meeting Tuesday niht ' Not only has. the process been so simplified for the teachers, who with the aid of .some senior high school students will handle it, that the total , of -, extra work to oe heaped on any one faculty mem bers will probably ; not be more than "three hours, but the regis tration can actually be used as a survey for school plannir.z, ac cording to Bennett - - - " Through inf&rmation -made available at t'.e tJme of xecistra- cn f:r war -rr'n Lock number sur, the school administration i No, 171 i i 1 I"! i.l 1 Map osatiCDinis the valley across the flooded Italy May Soon Declare Var Against Reich NEW. YORK. Wednesday. Oct, lS.-ff5)-The New York Times . qnoled private advices today as saying that Italy would formaJ- . ly declare war en Germany to day and wonld be reeognizeii by the allies as a co-belligerent against her former axis partner. The action, the Times said. It was vnderstoed, wonld be taken with the approval of the United States, Britain' and Russia, which have agreed to grant It; &ly status as a eo-beUlgereat. Italy, however, the story con ' tinned, would net be considered as one of the United Nations under the agreemeat. althonah presBButbly the allies would be compelled to equl with lend-' lease material any large Itallaa forces pat Into the field. LONDON, Oct SIH-Italy may soon declare war on uer many and be recognized by the United Nations as a co-belligerent, it was reported unofficially in London today. y- The question 'of Italian partici pation in the ton filet, it was learned here, has been thoroughly discussed by Gen. DwiM D. Eis enhower and Premier Marshal Ba doglio and the time may be ripe for the Italian army and navy to shrike a blow against their for mer axis partner. Finns Report No Change In Nazi Relaticnsliip NEWi YORK, .Oct laW-The Finnish radio -said today the Fin nish diet had accepted a report of its foreign political committee stat ing that Finnish-German relations had been "of decisive Importance' and : had been "maintained by a spirit of comradeship in arms and in the economic field.' The broadcast quoted the report as stating that "Our connections with the . United States in these I difficult times have not undergone any change.' may learn- the trend and make preparations if first grade classes are to continue to shew heavy in creases throughout the comir.2 five or six years, Bennett declared. This year's first grade class In Salem public schools totals 4C5, in -comparison with last year's 259, while grade school rc;slra tion" as a whole is iJer'.Ical wi'Ji. that of ! last year. Figures com pared were those of the second Mondays cf the two school years. Seventh graders are more num erous by seven, eighth graders by 27, while there sre Zi less ninth graders, 16 less IC.'i era J ers. It less In the junior year cf h:h school and 23 more seniors tl.zn last year. Total school cnrcll.. . t is down 43 from L::t jt;.r.