The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, October 21, 1943, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textn f-' II. 7eallier Tuesday maxhnsci itrrp erature SS, minimum 4S. Wednesday river -2.7 feet. LI n i l n ETCDQQD - i PCUNDSD I&51 i i liCTY TROD YEAB 12 PAGI3 Calem, Oregoxu Thursday Morning October 1 943 Pric 5c iro.U73 - The special' financing for the War might be divided into three '- classes: ; r - ' '.v 1. Government financing by tax- l es and bonds to pay the direct costs of the war. 2. - The American Red " Cross, which conducts one campaign a year, in the spring, to raise the 'funds it requires. 3. The National War Fund, . ; which represents consolidation 'of the appeals of virtually all other war-related welfare and Lrn ti Trn -SI. 9 J i' - - - AMie relief organizations. It has one I rfl Cm "M -' i inn r ? ' . ; : '. ';' CJ r, T1 4 va J, 1,-1 Li-' :- . - , K ' -t cf- ' " r if j. - gon are in the midst of this cam- ' Daign now. ' Since the National War, Fund - ! f is rather a new name, it may be well to inform the people just ! what services it includes. The i War fund operates no agencies itself. It undertakes to raise the 1 money for the participating agen- cies. . . ; : : ': ' The first task of the National . War Fund is to sift appeals, reject ing agencies improperly managed or not related to the war. Second, ; I ' Lit -reviews 11 the budgets, bal- . i-ances requests with needs on v comparative, basis, and then as signs to the states the share which - . , . ' , each state may fairly be expected 1 to raise. : The 'National War Fund thus spares the individual citizen the task of determining whether par I ticular agencies are worthy or not and how much each should receive. : Since some . of the most capable and responsible men in the coun try are doing volunteer work for i the National War Fund, the pub lic .may have full -confidence in ' its organization and management. Just what are the services cov ered by the 17 agencies financed through the National War Fund? Here is a breakdown by types of WOrkf ; . V.. Services to our Armed Forces .. S 61.Z27.000 Services to Merchant Seamen 4.744,000 9.S84.00O a.S38,000 24,973.000 Services to Prisoners , of War Refugee Relief Aid to Civilians in Combat Zones' .... Relief in Occupied Countrn . 5425,000 800,000 12.807.000 Administrative Costs Contingent Fund .- Total 125.000.000 1 The largest portion goes to fin : ance - work with our own soldiers and (Continued on Editorial page) US Forts Hit German Plant, Dutch Airfield By ROBERT N. STURD E V ANT LONDON, Thursday, Oct. 21 (ffJ-US.FlyimgFortresses attacked the non-ferrous metal plant at Duren, Germany, and a nazi air port in Holland m strength yester day and the roar of heavy bombers was heard over the English south east coast in the night, indicating the RAF was again striking at the continent Heavily gvarded by f tenters, ' Inclnding the greatest suunber of - ITS Eighth air force fighters ever - to operate on one mission, all ; bat eight ef the Fortresses re tained. Eleven enemy fighters were de clared destroyed- in this raid in which ; a Be w" double - barreled fighter escort , technique was used to meet the challenge of the fierce nasi opposition. It was the first US raid since the Schweinfurt attack six days ago which cost 60 Flying Fortresses.'.;'. ; y :, :4:.X ' f Duren is 22 miles southwest of Cologne. The raid involved a round trip of at : least 480 miles from British bases. The communique said: "Strong formations of US Eighth air force Flying Fortresses at tacked a non-ferrous metal plant at Duren, in western Germany, and the Gilze-Rijen - airfield in Holland today. . "The heavy bombers, which were escorted by Thunderbolts and supported by RAF, dominion and allied Spitfires, destroyed two (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Gasoline Cut Rumor Spiked SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Zi(P) Earners ef Immediate farther re daetion of gasoline mileage ra tions were spiked today by of fice of price administration (OP A) officials here and In Washington. -. .f i -W' Informed that the romors had swept the San Franclsee bay area and traveled north along; the coast to Seattle within S hears, the OFA office at Wash ington said no additional gase - lino ration eats were expected - The first cat in A, B and C coapons held by western met ertsts was . made October 12, from four, to three gallons. The fast - traveling rumor sail aa- ether cat ; to two gallons was - doe momentarily. - "We have not even had a hint from-oar Washington off ice that another ration cat was tmml : stent, Lee F. Centner, regional CPA administrator, for the western states, said tonight. Nazi Troops ; : Menaced in ! Dnieper Bend T.: By JUDSON O'QUINN ; ; LONDON, Thursday, Oct. 21 (ff Moscow dispatches said to day that a large-scale German evacuation of - the r Crimea was under way as the Russians' raced to outflank the peninsula from the north and tore at the last thin protective shell- from the east. . : 1 ' . .'' ' Reuters said that information brought back to Moscow through the German lines indicated that nazi divisions garrisoned in the Crimea were fleeing through the last railroad open to them, via the Perekop land, bridge. ' . - The Germans were desperate ly piling reserveS and bombers' - into the Dnieper river bend to : the north bat the Rasslasut. al ' ready west of the Crimea, sent spearheads six miles farther en, killed 1S0O nssis and reached down a railway to within 35 -miles f ;v a r nb4U?; ; Krivol Rog, key railway. Junc tion and Iron mine center. " ; $ These gains, reported by the Moscow .midnight, communique, appeared aimed at - trapping the Germans - defending the Dnieper bulge, i i The Russians also cleaned out new districts of Melitopol, east of the Crimea, where for more than a week the Germans have waged desperate defensive war. Beyond Melitopol lay miles of flat, hard to defend steppes and the Crimea. In the Dnieper bend battle, where the nazis faced their greatest debacle since Stalin grad, Germans were hurriedly swung from other sectors - to meet the Russians pouring J through a major break hi the front south ef Kremenchug. One ; spearhead swept Into Zheltye Jvedy where guns and stores jwere captured. i This town is on the railroad leading south from Pyatikhatka, captured yesterday, and is 49 miles south of Krenenchug. The line leads directly to Krivoi Rog, the capture of which would seal the last railroad exit for the Ger man divisions in the great bned of the river between Kremenchug and Zaporozhe. t Russian progress in this sector dropped German morale to its (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Berlin Fears Rome Landing J'; LONDON, Oct. 2 -Jfy- An ; allied landing in the area of I Rome, which lies bat lSmiles from the Tyrrhenian sea coast, was declared Imminent tonight j In a DNB dispatch broadcast from Berlin, "Feverish efforts which have : been observed recently to make the port of Naples serviceable by day and night shifts" were cited In the broadcast. The remarkably increased allied t shipping traffic at the southwestern coast ; of Italy seems also to lend emphasis to thU assumption." it said. t DNB said Its information from well-informed Ital ia Roi Trieste. Yards Said Wrecked LONDON, Oct. 20-P-The Rus sian Tass agency said today that the Italian shipyards at Trieste on the Adriatic, which the Germans "had hoped to use for repair and construction , purposes, had been wrecked by explosions. The agency added in 'a broad cast that the 25,000-ton -.Italian battleship Impero, which the "Ilit- lerians hoped to complete in a few weeks, has - been seriously damaged." TmsiiYear Doubtfdli Committee Ends Hearings ' Amid .Economy- Pleas ! By: FRANCIS M. LE MAY WASHINGTON, Oct 2(h-(Jf) Public hearings on new wartime revenue were closed by: the house ways and means committee today amid - widespread . doubts that a tax bill can. be written .this year. , --The inquiry ended with, a repub lican demand . that the desired billions come put ; of government spending cuts instead of more tax es. - . . I -: ; ; ; : The last witness. Rep. Taber "of New York, ranking republican on the house appropriations commit tee, said , $10,000,000,000 could be saved by economy and elimination of . "waste,", without " interfering with the war effort, .and declared: ? "I intend -to give the, house an opportunity ; to vote -'.down .every, expense not required 'for. the" way effort' and to do my best to call attention to every wasteful act which wfll delay' the : war effort. His estimate of possible saving was only half a billion dollars short of a new revenue goal set by the treasury.' ' - -. . , - ' ; : Rep. Cannon (D-Mo), chairman of the appropriations T committee, shot back in a statement to news papermen . that ' the I republicans were playing politics." . ' ; "If we could held the presiden tial - election next: week, instead of next year; arid 3 get- it out of the way," he said,- then we could win this war a' lot Quicker' 'and a lot cheaper. Of course weve got to have more taxes than we" have now, unless we want to pass the cost of this war on to the soldier and to our children." ' 7 ' The ways and means committee will begin deliberations behind closed doors tomorrow on tax le gislation. . - - - Old Age Aid : Not 'Pension' Says Director " By ISABEL CHILDS If the general public realized that there is no such thing as an old age "pension" in Oregon, half of the problem of administering the, limited - funds ; for Marion county's still growing welfare load would be solved, Marion Bowen, who handles that job, told- the county welfare commission at . its meeting Wednesday afternoon. - s "Nineteen out of 20 persons you might meet on the street and ques tion concerning our old age assist ance program would tell you that Oregon has a pension system," Dr. O. A. Olson, newest member . of the board, had declared. ; k The $47,000 budgeted for distri bution as -old age assistance . in Marion county during the coming November, $4000 more than that expended last November for al most 150 more persons than are now on the rolls, is provided on a subsistence basis alone. ' - . " ; It may not be humane to deny elderly people the right to small amounts of spending money,, but Oregon taxpayers' have not yet approved a system which,: would allow them anything over and above their, own actual ; living costs and those must be figured on a not-very-ample , basis if the funds available are to be made to stretch over all welfare needs. : Applications fro m Oregon's senior citizens for old age assist ance funds are frequently made without the knowledge of chil dren who are ready and .willing - (Turn to Page 2 Story C)" Brazil Gives US Troops : Cof f ee t ? RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 20-P) President Getulio Vargas of Bra zil presented US Ambassador Jef ferson Caffery title to 53,000,000 pounds of coffee today for United States armed services. - The coffee -- 400,000 sacks of it -'was given-to President -Roosevelt last July - by Brazilian' Air Minister Joaquim Pedro Salgado. Jr . who was visiting the United States at the time. . Students Solicit For United "I t c 1 1 - i , . a4 - - f rs. i "J- - )t I I rfi -. '! V1 I " m I x ' ii ill - minium The leaders, not all ef the solicitors by any means, in tno schools division ef the Salem United War Chest , campaign throughout the city's secondary schools are pictured here. At top is the Salem senior high school committee of Hi-Y and Tri-T leaders and advisors: from the left, BL. Davis. - Bill Juxa. Bob SkopiL Pat Brawn, Bill Relnhart, Geraldlne Nelson, Mrs. Elaine Fisher. Second picture from the top is the Leslie Junior high school group, next the rarrish junior high school group and at the bottom the Sacred Heart academy committee. This Is the first- year that aa organised campaign has been . conducted for the War Chest In the secondary schools. - New Chest Subscriptions Bring Total Either the going was tough or, as one team captain put it, solici tors were waiting for their sec ond wind" in some divisions of the Salem United War Chest cam paign 'Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday forenoon. But other divisions .boomed . ahead and at Wednesday's luncheon new sub scriptions amounting to $10,652.60 were reported, 1 bringing. the total up to $54,395.61, of 64 per cent of the minimum goal of $85,000. Meeting jointly with the Salem Rotary j club, ' chest . solicitors heard President G. Herbert Smith of Willamette university cite ex amples of the praiseworthy man ner in which young Americans are accepting 4 the "'responsibility v of warfare examples of which ' he learned while attending an orien tation course recently in the east as reminders that persons who remain on the home front are ob ligated to accept such less hazard ous responsibilities as War Chest fund-raising. ;; j';-.'; Campaign: Chairman Loyal Warner reported that inmates of the Oregon penitentiary bad rais ed $138.85 for the War Chest xJThe school's division made its first report of $235.73, this amount coming exclusively from the -senior high school, where solicitation however has not been completed. Solicitation also is ilnder way at the junior high schools and at Sacred Heart academy. The , rural division : reported $321.50 bringing' its total up to $2212.75 or 31 per cent of its $7500 goal which is separate from the Salem goaL West Salem with a , i 1 " " i t to $54,396 total of $368.20 to date is. 31 per cent along the way toward its Division reports .": in 'the. city campaign included:' VV'tL. -i Automotive, and . transportation $302.50, total $4652 or 72 per cent. Contractors $3500, total $8893.50 or 74 per cent. ' . : (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Salom yllnilcd Uar Chcsi - . 4100,000 S2S3 185,000 Wa -1 County Chest Drive Reports ; $4477 Total ' Subscriptions aggregating $4477 had been reported up to Wednes day afternoon ' in the Marion County War Chest solicitation, be ing conducted this week in all ter-1 ritory outside of Salem and 25 school I districts near. Salem. : S. Parzy Rose, county campaign chairman, ' pointed : out' that un doubtedly a somewhat larger sum had been obtained but . that re ports could not be made as speed ily as in the Salem campaign. The quota for the area over which the county ; chest has jurisdiction is slightly over $29,000. Reports inclu ded: Aumsville $89, Aurora $205, , Donald $45, Gervais $100, Hubbard $47, Jef ferson $697, Marion $85, Monitor $195, Shaw $140, Silverton $2000, Stayton $867,, White school $7. On a .' percentage basis, Shaw was nearest its quota with Aurora and Monitor close behind. There were no reports up to late Wednesday from Mehama, Mill City, ML An gel, Scotts Mais, Sublimity, St Paul," Turner and . Woodburn, but the -campaign is' proceeding in each of these districts.. ;: , 7e!Ies to 7ritc Article Series WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -VP) Sumner Welles, who resigned In September f as under-secretary of state, said today that he will write a series of 25 weekly articles for the New York Herald Tribune be ginning December 1. i v Aussies ' Lock Japs In.; Battle , 1 - ' . 4: -Thousands' of -;. .: . ; Troops Fighting . In New Guinea ,1 ' By C. YATpS McDANIEL ALLIED -HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIF IC, Thursday, Cvt.'21H-Sev7 eral thousand troops are locked in bitter fighting along the Song river north of Finschhaf eh, New Guinea, where the Japanese are attempting: to cut through elements of the Australian Ninth division to the sea to join other enemy troops. L. These Australians, famed heroes of El Alamein in Egypt and the October 2 captors of Finschhaf en, killed more than 200 Japanese Tuesday in repulsing a series of fierce attacks but a headquarters spokesman said today the enemy has made . some progress toward the mouth of the Song river. . It was the second straight day en which the spokesman told of progress by Japanese - forces moving out .of Sattelberg. 15 miles northwest of Flnsehhaf- j iTuesday. morning, the., enemy airforce made an ineffective ,at7 tempt to support the ground units. Fourteen p i a n es dropped 86 bombs -in advance of - their . at tacking troops - without', causing any "damage or .casualties. s Inland to ,the northwest, , Aus tralians : moving up - the. Ramu valley against Madang have ex tended their grip. Jn a series of patrol clashes between October li and October 17, these Aussies kill ed 72, Japanese. - . -r- The i enemy, apparently con centrated his strength in the Jungle at Sattelberg mission af ter Finschhaf en's fall. . The Japanese went over to the (Turn to Page 2 Story E) ' House Hears Off Record War Report ; WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-(JP)-A grim, and graphic accounting of the war since Pearl Harbor, pre sented to house members by top flight military leaders, ' left many convinced i today that a terrific sttruggle ' lies ahead and - brought home demands for freer release of information to counteract pub lie optimism. ' ' .' -'- - The legislators assembled in the congressional library autditorium to hear "off-the-record talks from General George C. Marshall, Sec retary of War, Stimson and other military men, among them a pri vate, 3. R. f Oden, who gave a personal . experience account of the Sicilian landing In which he was woundedMovies of fighting and .other phases of the conflict were shown.": -'- . v - House members reported the military men supplied this infor mation as part . of the ; over-all picture: . - ' -r-i ' 1. Siberian bases Even if Rus sia would permit the United Na tions to build or use airports at Vladivostok, Japan has a half mil lion men within a short distance, a ,V consideration which would make their defense difficult 2. German air arm The Ger mans no longer accept battle with our fighter planes, not as one member put It that they are scared or have- given up" but because : they are . saving their fighters for splitting bomber formations- and tackling : bombs, in some cases by head-on collisions. . 3. The Pacific skyJapan is building . planes faster than . we are destroying them. ' 4.. Manpower Japan's manpow er problem has not yet become as serious as this , country's. The , is land empire has hot called all . of its eligible draftees or young men between the ages of 17, and 20. ... 5. Over-all Transportation of supplies remains one of the chief war problems, with big losses in landings and airplanes still a long way from supplanting ships. (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Flank- British Gain V Against Stiff Resistance ' v ' ..: By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Oct. 20(AP) In the ugliest of: moods and venting ' their" wrath on the Italian civil : population, the Germans fell back from the scorched ' Volt urn o valley to day to a new, mountain line along Massica ridge after be ing; threatened by' a swift American advance of five miles on their left flank. Reconnaissance showed heavy concentrations of German troops on the high ground north of Lib ert, itself five miles north' of the Volturno, and a major battle may be .- developed there by a nasi counter-attack, said a dispatch by Relmsn Morin, Associated Tress correspondent on the fifth army front. As American and British troops swept' across the fertile Mazzoni plain north of the Volturno they found not only the most dreadful devastation yet encountered in southern front operations, but many slain civilians as well. - In addition --ta it blowing up roads and railways and destroy- Ing everything that' might be of . value to the allies, the nails - fired farm houses and bay-. - stacks to provide smoke screens -for . their withdrawal and slaughtered all livestock, official reports from fifth army head- . quarters said. The enemy is establishing a strong new system of defenses along a winding 27-mile line ex tending fromrMondragone, six miles north of the Volturno river mouth, northeast to the mountain stronghold of Oenafro. The neyr line runs along a series of high ridges intersected by deep valleya through which pass the two main highways from Naples to Rome. By driving five miles north and northeast of Capua, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's American troops left the nazis no choice but to fall back to their new defenses. The advance carried the fighting Amer icans into the towns of Pignatara, six miles north of Capua, Rocca- romana, five' miles northwest of Liberi, and Dragoni, a highway junction "two and one-half miles northwest of , Alvignano, which was seized the previous day. The villages of Formicola, Camigli ano and San Potito also were tak en. . V; ' .- . ', Gen. Sir Bernard L Mont- -gemery's British Eighth army pushed through Increased Ger-. man resistance along the Adri atic to capture Petacclato, nine miles west of Termoll, and beat back a heavy enemy counter attack en Montecilfone, occu pied Monday. A spokesman said - (Turn to Page 2iStory D) London Aerial Target For Fifth Night LONDON, Thursday r Oct. 21 (P A number of fast, high-flying German planes swept over Lon don from several directions early today, causing the fifth alarm here in as many nights and provoking the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage heard in the British capital In a long time. Some bombs were dropped, but it was not learned immediately if there were any casualties or ex tensive damage. ; The all clear sounded at 1:4$ a. m. (8:45 p. m. Eastern war time Wednesday). . LonHon's big guns roared into action even before the wail of the sirens Stopped, and searchlight picked out some of the planes for the gunners. - A few enemy aircraft also were over northeast England, and bombs were' r 'ported to have been dropped in one area there. Early yesterday evening a sin gle nazi raiding plane was driven off as it approached the Thames estuary area.