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Tf I a VCD iTJOij? pcuwnnn tTZl . ; ij- , . KSfZTY TinnD YEAH 14 PAGH3 Cdein. Oregon. Friday Morning, Octcbcr 15, IS 3 TAcm IJo. 173 Mr Pres. Roosevelt lost the battle in 1937 on the packing of the su campaign. Changes in the supreme . court which followed that mt - morable contest enabled him to fill vacancies with men who' are not merely his disciples in po litical theory, but in working they "out-Herod Herod.' The inter . state ' commerce clause" and 'the i general welfare clause of the fed t eral constitution h a v e been ; stretched so far by judicial in- terpretation that it is no, longer i accurate to say that ours - is a government of delegated powers. . It has become all-powerful. ' This trend was reviewed very . ably by. CoL Alfred E. Clark of . Portland in an address before the i Oregon .State Par convention last , month. He supported his -thesis ;ort the concentration of power in , the": hands of ; federal ; executive officials by citing a succession of court cases. They show complete . Mnitiilatirtn frUlnwinff court flMri- sions. in the original NRA case , (the Schechter Poultry corpora - tion case) and the decision in i the 'AAA case and. in .the coal commission . case in . which ' the court held: these laws unconsti ! tutionaL Then came , the - decision J- sustaining the Wagner act, which .helped avert the calamity of the supreme court bill, but the new ' court goes far beyond that deci , sion in the later rulings as to the 5 extent of interstate commerce. Cok Clark says that the court has f gone "even further than the de tpartment.of labor in its interpre- tive - bulletin" on the wage-hour act.- - ; "One case, the Kirschbaum case) ' was' over whether employes of a : building, like elevator operators, f janitors, charwomen, were engag !ed in interstate commerce. The high court said they were because some of the tenants were so en ' gaged. i In another case, . that involving the Wrightwood dairy, the court f ruled it- was engaged in. Inter- state commerce,' although it was only a -local dairy, 'felling milk within, a local community,' part .'ct -which overran state lines. The . court said that because this milk T might compete with milk which did cross state lines the dairy was i subject to federal ' control." T ? - In still another case,' that of - Warren-Bradsha w Drilling com ' pany vs. Hall, federal power. was given further -extension by the . court. It was the business of the Warren-Bradshaw company to f drill holes, in the ground in the 'oil-field area. It stopped short of the ou sands, when another con ! cerri (Continued on Editorial page) Terry Allen: Headed for ; .Camp Adair - Predictions that the-new conv maivierof the Timber Wolf divi sion will be IJaJ. Gen. Terry De La Mesa Allen, who led the first di vision.-in a dozen major engage ments Jn Nortl-Africa and Sicily, T 4 1 . . J1 A ppearea xo De pome out wun me revelation Thursday that the fa mous leader of the firstTwas en route to Camp Adair. ; r ..: Known as America's "Terrible Terry," , Gen.' Allen was wounded at St. Mihiel during the first World War, holds the silver star for bra very and " the purple heart With oak leaf cluster. He was in com mand of the First division when it spearheaded the counter-attack at Kasserine Pass. - At Adair he is expected to suc ceed Maj. Gen. Gilbert R Cook, who-has been promoted to com mand of the 12th army corps. ' Salem Postwar Planning Committee R eadyto Meet . Initial meeting of Salem's post war planning committee, created some weeks ago to study the city's needs in the way of public proj ects which might profitably be Initiated to cushion the anticipat ed employment slump shortly aft er the war ends, will be held early next week, it was revealed Thurs day by Daniel Jf Fry, chairman. " Although formal consideration of projects and of thejeommittee's procedure has been held in abey ance because of the harvest man power crisis, some of the prelimi nary spade work 'has been done, Chairman Fry revealed.' Informa tion as to the procedure and ac complishments to dato in other cities has. been gathered and com mittee members have discussed informally, among themselves and wi t h other . interested citizens, some of the projects which may be considered. r i Committee members include Tom Armstrong, David O'Hara rnd Chairman Fry named from bo ' LsdieOsDo Liu' Key City, Bend Falls : 3 Nazi Divisions 1 Smashed in New ! Drive Near Kiev s LON D O N. Oct. 15.-Pr-A Heaters dispatch- from Moscow .voted the - communist organ : . Pravda today as saying that ' victorious Russian troops had smashed, their- way , across the ' Dnieper river after, capturing the east bank city of Zaporozhe. ; t Capture of Zaporoshe.situa- . ted on the great bead of the : - river, was annoonced in a so- ,' . Viet communique last night ' l By JUDSON O'QUINN " LONDON, Friday, Oct. 15.-P-The red army captured the Dnie per rive, .bend stronghold of Za porozhe yesterday, sealed- off Melitopol for early conquest and cut its railway link with the Cri mea, and in a new break-through north of Kiev smashed three Ger man divisions, Moscow announced early today. ' ;" The fall of the east bank indus trial citadel of Zaporozhe opened, the way for' a soviet landslide southward into the Crimea where 100,000 German troops risk .en circlement Front dispatches said soviet units already were pursu ing German remnants from the broken Zaporozhe-Melitopol line. I Nearly 10,000 Germans ' were slain as the Russians over whelmed porothe's -desperate nazl garrison, -and 'fought 'their way- - toward " early '-triumphs at Kiev on- the middle Dnieper, and Gomel In White Russia. T" iThe Germans,' still y throwing their previous reserves , into the inferno raging on both - sides of Kiev, lost .-3000 men in one area there, 3000 at Zaporozhe,, 1500 at Gomel and 2000 at Melitopol, on the basis of ; preliminary data, said Moscow's midnight commun ique supplement Sixty-one Ger man tanks and 105 enemy guns were destroyed. 1 -In the area north of Kiev" it added, "Our tanks broke through German positions and smashed three enemy divisions." .' ' Huge quantities of equipment were declared to have been aban doned ,by the Germans around Zaporozhe and inside that city which is near the site of the giant Dnieper dam. ' ; ; Sixty-five miles to the south Russian troops had isolated Ger man troop, clinging to the roofs and entrenched : in cellars . inside Melitopol after cutting them off from- Crimea by - snapping the main railway into the peninsula at two points; the- soviet .daily communique'; disclosed! - V " i Fighting their - way over heaps of German dead,' the' Russians also were closing in on Kiev oa the west bank of the middlo -Dnieper from their" bridgeheads e a t a b lished north and south of the cap ital, said the buletin, recorded by the Soviet Monitor. Front dis patches said : the Russians were smashing ahead in a. furious ef fort to take-Kiev before German dynamite squads had completed the wrecking of the city, already in flames. ; Gomel, in lower White' Russia, i . (Turn to Page 2 Story D) . the city council, and Carl W. Hogg; Iledda Swart and David Wright, representing . the- city at laxge4 . . s. ' Already a number - of post-war projects pertaining to Salem and Marion county have- proceeded from the idea stag at least to that of formal proposals. One of these is construction of a new Marion Polk county- bridge at Independ ence, a link in the Saiem-Inde-pendence-Kings Valley highway project. Linked with that proposal has been the suggestion that the present inter-county bridge be tween Salem and West Salem, in adequate in view of the heavy traffic' it must carry, be moved to the Independence site .and a new, larger bridge with more con venient approaches . be erected here. . ; : The need for a bridge at Inde pendence was brought formally to the attention of the state highway commission by the two county .. (Turn to Page 2 Story A) ; Bniepe V -O.X Azorey1fcse? 9So -r CANADA! r - (iAADo& , S VNEWFOUNOUNO Boston' . " - BERMUDA T BAHAMAS - New ?S0Q MMP : York I - . - V : - ' : ' . - AIORIS J , " , : ' ' ' : .-V.. , , r ... -, - . - - - - -. , How the Azores, strategic Portaroese Islands, at-the crossroads of Allan tie shipping lanes, will affect anti-submarine . strategy is indicated hy distances from the tQands to war centers. The Portarnese granted the allies mse of the base. (AT wirephete.) . - - , . Polio Closes : Independence ; Pqblic ScKbols ; .INDEPENDENCE,- Oct H,w Quarantine of the city and clos ing of public schools were ordered by city health, officials here to day following the death of a first grader, Bez Emanual. Johnson, at Doernbecher hospital Tuesday night, supposedly from infantile paralysis. Other children in the family are reported also ill with polio. , ( - ' " Schools will remain closed, un til further notice; parents have been urged not to allow their chil dren to gather ; In groups ' or to frequent the streets and police au thorities are instructed to take any- children found playing, on the streets to the parents' homes. While other cases ' of infantile paralysis have not been reported, authorities fear that they may follow exposure to the Johnson children. The boy attended school last week, complained of feeling ill and a physician wa consulted Monday. He was taken to Doern becher "hospital Wednesday morn ins: and died Wednesday night - He was born October 30, 1937, son of Mrs. Flossie Johnson. Four brothers also survive! .. Smith Baun mortuary .is in charge. but funeral arrangements have sat yet been set , ; . "Although state- health'; offices reported 33 new cases of polio in Oregon . the . past week, highest number of the year, Marion county has had none since Saturday, Oc tober 2, a : period of nearly two weeks. Dr. : W. J. Stone, Marion county health officer,' said Thurs day. - : :."',- Court Favors Surety Firm Default order - In favor of the American Surety Company of New Yorkin its suit to recover $383323 it ' had ' paid to Marion county aa. surety for W. Y. Rich ardson, ' former deputy ; county treaaurwv In connection -with a shortage in county. . funds for which Richardson was held part ly, responsible, was entered in circuit court Thursday by Judge XL'M. Page. - - The default order was virtually automatic after Judge Page had overruled Richardson's demurrer, inasmuch as a stipulation filed earlier Thursday had - provided that the demurrer would be sub mitted without oral argument and that" the defendant served notice he would .stand on the demurrer and tbst bv-case It was overruled, default miht be entered. - , Weather - ... .j-. - - " - -is - $ fTednesday n a x I m m terrperatare ft, : mlaimam 12. Thnnixr tiver -2 feet Lie Athtvart Shipping Lanes a Johns 4' i - AMantk Ocean ; T' - - ' ...v.. New, Super-Bombers Now In Actual Production :-!WASHlNGTON, Oct, 14-P)Aev" American surer Jjomber hauling more explosives and having : vastly "greater range than any existing warplane now is in, actual iroductIon;: y r; : f :. " An tmspecified mtmber oi the deadly new air giant rx'as been delivered to army -within the last several weeks. , -C ; - Ah increased rate of output is scheduled for this month.'- Dwarfing the Consolidated. Liberator and Boeing Flying Fort ress,, the new dreadnaught of theO sky is reckoned capable of bring ing the inermost production cen ters of Hitler's European fortress and the Japanese .empire within the sights of United States bom bardiers. . ,. The plane has been identified as the B-29 by the army weekly, Yank, in recent article which declared: . . '. ; ' "A new super fortress,' the B-29, is being built which , will have a greater bomb capacity and longer range than any existing bomber.'! - From previous -guarded 'reports which have cleared .military cen sorship, it appeared that officials do not expect to see the new air plane in combat before 1844- This presumably is because of the time required, to attain full-scale pro duction, train crewav and elimin ate any fbugs" ,which .may show up in the early .models, j , . I A - prediction .that the new heavTweifht'Duncher will be "the determining" factor' "in crushing Germany".- came ... - last summer from Eddie RIckenbacker, .World war ace. In June he told the 10th United - States army ah . force in New Delhi, India,-: that the new bomber would join the Liberators and Fortresses fa 1944. He also told the American pi lots and crewmen that the super bomber ' would have double ; the load and fighting power of the planes they were flying and was especially designed for bombing Europe. " "No nation could survive , the pounding a fleet of these planes can deliver and they will be out (Turn to Page 2 Story G) County Bond Sales" Totaled Final total of war .bond sales in or credited to Marion county in the third war loan campaign was $8,330,925, approximately 23.5 per cent over the county quota of $4, 931,000, it. was announced Thurs day by Rex Gibson who served as office -manager at the county war finance committee's head quarters during the campaign. Excess over the quota was $1, 403,923. Previously- it wu an nounced that every district in the county exceeded its quota and that the county as a whole went "over the top " in purchases ty Individuals and in series E bond sales, in which the state and ca tion la-sd. Final figures segre gating sales of the various types cf bonds are yet to be cttal.-.edL i ; ICELAND BRITISH ISLES T,USPAIN MIUS r VHondon.K 800 . . MADE It? AS MOROCCO CANARY-' j ALGERIA Rommel Takes Oh Yugoslavs hi New Post . By JAMES' F. KING LONDON, Oct. 14-WH AdcJf Hitler, whose armies ' have - been pounded increasingly hard in Yu goslavia, has placed -his ace sol dier. Field - Marshal Erwin Rom mel, in general command of opera tions against th Yugoslav patriots, the Berlin radio said tonight ; '"The announcement followed re ceipt of a Swiss report through Stockholm that Marshall-Rommel has been placed in full charge of all hazi -occupied Italy, with Field Marshal .. Gen. . Albert Kesselring recalled4: from his command of southern Italy after a quarrel with RommeL '..: -- '. Announcement of assumption of the Yugoslav command by Rommel was made in a German home ser vice broadcast recorded by the ministry of information. Circum stances indicated it was made to quiet unrest in Germany regard ing developments in the Balkans. The Germans thus made it clear that " they regard .the '.Yugoslav patriots as a full-fledged battle (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Jap Exchange Ship Docks : ' MORMUGOA, " Portuguese In dia, Oct 14-(P)-The port officer was informed today in a wireless from the Telia Manx that the Japa nese ship bringing American re patriates from the far east would arrive at Mormugoa October 15 at 1 a. ntL, and that the Gripsholm, bringing Japanese from America, would arrive the following day. The Teia T.Iaru will proceed immediately to dock but the pas sengers . are likely to ; r e m a 1 n aboard- until the Gripsholm ar rives, as there is no shelter for them in this port 'except aboard. (l u. m. Friday Ilanscgsa time is 4 p. m. Eastera standard - time, Thursday, so that the Tela - 'lam presumably has anived at port on the IrLan ctzit tvtih of riombay. (Tie Japanese ship carried 122 j Americans, 221 Canadians and A 3 Latin Americans who are beirj repatriated. An e,r.:lv&!err.t number of Jar5anese nationals iJ aboard fce CrL-;hclnt, v.hlch td txcr a Unit: i States r'rt f t rrtr 2.) 1 r QQTjZQ B Forts Hit - Deep ; Into MeicM Record Number. Lost m Big Raid . By ROBERT If STURDEVANT , LONDON, Friday, Oct. ISffi US : Flying Fortresses reached deep into Germany yesterday to smash the important ball bear ing. plant . at; Schweinfurt ' and lost "a record" number ? of ;60 bombers while knocking down 91 fighters in what was probably the fiercest , single ' air battle , - ever fought. ' . . V , Escorting Thander bolts P 47 fighters accounted for an other 12 aircraft boosting the total of enemy . losses to 104. Two of the American - fighters . were missing, boosting the raid ers total losses U 62. - The size of the attacking groups was not announced but US army headquarters referred to them as "large formations.", It was the' second smash In two months ' at the industrial 'city in south-central Germany. ' ... " The heaviest "previous Amer- . lean Joss was 5t bombers on the Regensburg-Schwelnfurt shut tle raid to Africa Aug. 17. ' .The RAF peak loss was 58 bombers In the Aug. 22 attack on Berlin. The .German air . force's worst 'day was' Sept 15, 1940, when 185 nazi planes went downi ln-the,battlexff Britain.;, , - ' ' The American .loss "represented 600. Amercian fliers killed .. or missing and perhaps . $20,000,000 worth of precision bombing and fighting machinery. - f But preliminary' reports indi cated that the plant whose prod ucts form key parts of the Ger man war machine, was knocked out "of production.' - . .There ought to be ball bear ings rolling all over. Germany to night," said . one . crewman who watching hundreds of bombs pour into the target despite the des perate efforts of. German fighter planes to break up the attack. V 8gt William B. Mortimer of Reimersburg, Fa a ball-turret runner, who fought his - way home, said "There was a better eoacentration on this, raid than. a( Marienburg In East Prussia .- and I saw both." ', " v The Berlin "radio, broadcasting a DNB report, said 90 American planes were shot down, correct ing their earlier claim of 70. - While- erewmest wore unani mous la reporting- that It was a fhsa Job of bombing they were (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Keith Powell to Draft Board- Appointment of Keith Powell to Salem's ' local selective service board, in the place left vacant by the death of -Ray J. Stumbo, was announced .Thursday by CoL Elmer vY.Wooton, state director of selective service. . ; r-. Powell, president of the Salem Federal Savings and Loan asso ciation, is a veteran of the first World war. member of the Amer ican Legion and the 40 et 8, and Is -the father of . Lt Robert K. Powell, recently retired from ac tive service with . the , US : army because of an eye disability. - The son, member of the national guard for five years prior to its call to duty in September, ' 1940, served at Forts Canby and Stev ens, attended training schools, re- celvina? his ' commission upon his completion ".ot-t work at officers' candidate school. Camp Davis, NC, and was acting battalion ad- lutant at Camo Ilulen. Tex., when ts retirement came. -lie may t ? ctllci a -am to active duty she. ' U.3 cja :iflculty d:::ppcr, 1 s father said Thursday. - Accrrtlng the assignment", Fow c::, s.nior, declared he wr .' i ac c;. t it Es a duty with t" j I e tLat I ci dy l.alf as wt'.l t cIJ r'.y pre '-cccr there."' L'.i.- was chairman c tie board, o which V. I. !.-:-" f -.i T.cr .o Couley are the c-.e -.crr.l::-. TtS board -tZztii ill Appointed rGermans Battle Desjperately f To Prevent Yanks, Britisli From Enlarging Bridgelien tlo . " r By EDWARD KENNEDY : L: ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiere, Oct. 14 (AP) The Germans'- first natural, defense, line before Rome the steep-banked Volturno river has been smashed by the Fifth army at several points near Capua in a fariocs night assault in which allied engineers bridged the stream under. wither ing German fire, allied headquarters announced today. . Zi a American and British infantry and armored forces, in cluSing tanks, stormed acroas the river in darkness early yesterday :.'al(er Jfcansnpejled'. fniiii nazi ' tsciult ,cn Capua, and today were fiffhting fiercely to expand their bridgeheads, against desperate enemy resistance.- , . ' r; 4 ! ' So murderous was the aerlat cover given Lt.' Gen. P.Iark W. Clark's attacking troops that German infantry waa pinned down to Its -defensive positions north of the Volturno and not a single, nazl tank was able to join the battle. Hoiise iFaVors Dollar a Day , Dependent Pay -WASHINGTON. Oct 14 WJV- In a liberal mood, the house be gan debate on service, men's de-' pendency benefits today amid in dications it will insist on a mini mum of a dollar a day for the up keep of minor children of enlisted ngming.men. , With, a vote tentatively sched uled for Monday, the opening dis cussion was devoted to pleas for increases over the, scale of bene fits, recommended-by the house military committee $50 month ly for a wife, $75 for a wife and one child, $95 for a wife and two children ,and $15 for . each addi tional child. " , ' ? : . - Most members . annear tr , UVe the senate - approved, schedule $50 tor the' wife. $80 for a wife and one . child,, and $20 tf or each additional " child but ' there is increasina supnort for a CIO rro- posal. to' boost the payments fur ther. - ReDresentative V Sadowskl fD- Mich.) is ready to offer an amend ment embodying the CIO demands for $55 for a wife. $90 for a wife and one child, and $30 for each additional child. He predicts it will be accepted. -Present ' law gives $50 to the wife, $82 to a wife and one child, - (Turn to Page 2 Story ,H) Vatican Radio Asks Reports On Broadcast ; LONDON. Fridar. Oct. 15-fJW In what -was interpreted here. -as an effort to find out if It still bad contact with' the outside world. the Vatican radio last night made an unusual appeal to its listeners to report on the efficiency 'of a "test broadcast" . The announcer explained that results of the tests would be Ma matter of extreme urgency An Osservatore Romano article '. en? tirely unrelated to the war then was read. ' London sources , said they be lieved it was ' for the purpose of checking whether the voice of the Vatican, which is under German guard, could be heard around the giooe. ' lot ten .came over weu and was reported easily by moni tors of both the ministry of in formation and the Daily Herald. Senate9Mouse Divided on PqstwarFdreign- .By JACK BELL.T WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 This government la-headed toward two separate congressional decla rations offoreignr policy neilher of which- can-.be officially . con curred in by President Roosevelt that may-confuse our allies about America's postwar r'?.ns. .' J'jr The . senate- received.' ' cfHclally today a resolution offered - by Chairman Connally (DTex) and publicly supported by a majority of the senate foreign relations committee... ' : This measure, which an Asso ciate 1 Press pc!l shows is favcrcd ty 12 of the 23 mc -, frs, advo cate that the UniteJ rutes "jdn with free and sovertlja r.atl-s In V e e: r.'cnt and i: t.-'.cnce cf.intvrnatIor.il autioti.jr v.-'Ih power ta prevent asression a;.4 preserve the peace of the wor; J." TLere is every indication that i ir"! , eventually will pa:i t!.:s i:.r;Ie re3c!u.!-n rjtstcnlli! how far allied: Vanguards had penetrated; beyond the. river, but an official announcement - that bridgeheads had been . firmly es tablished indicated Clark's, troopa had pushed northward far enough to ensure .them against German counterattacks. :'- "Thronzhoat today a stream f allied . tanks, artillery, upplie and men , rambled ever the LONDON, Oct, 15 -iD-Radle France at Algiers, qaoting semi official reports, said today that the key road center of Vlnchla- "ture ea the central IUllaa front had been captured by aUled .. troops. ., ; .. . . Vlnehlatoro Is approximately eight miles Vest ef Glldone, cap- wiuca. was., announced by allied fceadqaarters yester day. . makeshift brldres. hrar!-? hea vy nazl fire, to sujtrt U.a ad--vanee suits that were fanclag oat along the Volturno' north- . Weltering under the sledgeham mer blows of Clark's fighters, the Germans were falling back to ward the Gargllano river and Aurunci .and. Ausoni mountains. There they undoubtedly will take another stand to delay the Invad ers again and permit the Germans to hold on to Rome as long as A Berlin broadcast said sea borne British troops, fallowing - typical allied leapfrog tactics, had landed at the month ef the Voltnrne where It flows into the Mediterranean and threat ened to flank the entire Ger man defense system along the stream.). - .The fierceness with vhioh ... . " Mi Germans are defending Rome in- oicaies tneir appreclaUon of tho v a 1 u e of the DossesaloB: r,t th. eternal city for its political and religious effect.. Its eventual loss by them may have all tha rr.a(.r repercussions because of their de- xermmed fight for It - . Gen. Clark- took advmtn . r subsiding floods ' and dryin g ground to hurl his forces into the attack m th vit.,. i v . - fi.uiuu iviiinq terrific' artillery. barrae that tn nazl defenses to shreds. Hundreds of medium and fighter-bombers thundered immediately to daze nd demoralize the Ger- uns, wno naa taken advantage of protracted ralnv rwHvi t. build formidable defenses. . The first waves ef allied com bat troops swan- and crossed the water barrier la assault (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ly as it stands despite efforts to maka, ii jaore- specific Thus the house-approved . Fulbrisht meas ure, which favors "the creation of appropriate international machin ery with power adequate to estab lish and maintain a Just and. last ing peace among, the- ns::.r.i cf the " world" "would t e Ut h i'i and- dry- rt'"''..r ." , " , Once adopted, a resolution such as Connally's stands es an ex pression of the senate's views. It does not require President Roose velt's signature nor any action ty the ' house. Unless the irr.ats waives the rules, it will ret te sent officially either to the presi dent or the house. - While Mr. Roosevelt miht pul llcly endorse it, he probably would express unofficial approval at t' i same time of the rulbriht rro posal, which the house adopted j an overwhelming vote cf ZZi - 29. The TuItrifU frcpcssl wes en (Turn to Trz ' rj )