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- 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
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relief organizations. It has one
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' 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. ' . :
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Salom yllnilcd
Uar Chcsi - .
4100,000
S2S3
185,000
Wa
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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.. ;: ,
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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.
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Aussies '
Lock Japs
In.; Battle
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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
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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.
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Flank-
British Gain
V
Against Stiff
Resistance
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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
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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.