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Th CZZSCIX GTATZCI-IAN. Cdira. Oregon. Thcryiay Ilorcla October 21. i: 13
Nazis Retreat,
Scorch Italian
Countryside (
Three-Power Old Age Aid
Foreign Heads ZVot Pension
ON the HOME FRONT Talk 4 Hours Says Director
m s W tTT 1 TVl -,rT -im-ov .... I .
Bt ISABEL CIIILD3
Bt EDDY GILMQXU5
MOSCOW. Oct 20 -Wr Tor-
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she Germans had been strnlr
'reinforced all along- the Eighth
; aroar front :
; In addition to taking vengeance
upon the Italian- farmera for their
''country's surrender. to the allies,
the German in their retreat were
owing the Fifth army's path with
great number of mines and were
" fighting occasional artillery, mor-
ta and -.macninegun - cuou
cover their withdrawal.
If the nasi eonddct north f
the Veltnrne Is to become a
"regular practice ta th -retreat
steward eSme, the Italian penln--
sola wlU be left in a more rav
aged state than after the pass
are of marauding hordes of
Vandals and Visiogoths through
- It centuries ago.
' When columns of smoke first
were observed behind the enemy
lines two days ago it was believed
the Germans might be burning
their own supply dumps. In this,
however, the allies underestimat-
.d the thoroughness with which
the Germans were devastating the
country, - for when Fifth army
troops reached these areas they
found most of the smoke columns
were coming from the embers of
burned homes, barns and other ci-
vilian buildings.
- Surviving Italians of the area
were found hiding in ditches, ca
nals and woods terrified by the
,last days , of occupation by -their
-former axis partners. , -
- The stubbornness with which
the Germans clung on to the Vol
turno line and their apparent de
termination to make a fresh stand
,on Massico ridge, which is scarce
ly 10 miles beyond it, offers little
hope of a speedy allied entry into
Rome.
There may be many weeks
more of costly fighting before the
eternal city is reached. Meantime,
' blows being struck behind the
enemy's lines by the allied air
.force offer the best hope of hast
ening land progress, because of
' their weakening effect on the Ger-
-mans. ,,
To tho Wolverines: Drop in to
see' me at The Statesman office
sometime within i th. , next . xew nou without
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RHSsians Race
To Cut Crimea
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lowest since the nazis lost Stalin-
eign ministers Maej . . 1.W dianatches from Stockholm
.grappled lor xour ana once m s wf .u .
nttxt few I j -4u. .itffimUiM I W tn miDOOrt them. A nesir 1
.. i nnun iuuit vvi.uwv mivm- - i .
davs-might caU 0101 first to be with military problems, presum- not to be a-burden upon their des- . The Moscow
aays -rnigni I tT , ' LZJ1- . I az l..ki. in I nt rnhlimied bitter fiahting in
sure I am here-or were I I Unmixed br the law. . J Melitopol, south of the Dnieper
now? some persona working on I E which. ! desired by Three units of government pro- bend, where lor mofe than a week
accused ? by Tito supporters - pi
cooperating with the Germans, de
clared that his Yugoslav army had
stood fast for two and a half years
in its "struggle against the invad
ers" and said that It is now ready
to "vanquish the common enemy.
The statement contained an im
plied appeal for allied aid.
iUS Forts Hit -
German Plant,
something very similar to what
diimi, ' ' 1 viae me zunas tana xne rezuia- huh my vwm a
you hava suggested. Yqu can help. J;- whatever nar b- th-utc6in 1 ttons) .for.. old .asslstaic'pu 1 blocka, ai : both sides grappled In I fymf pU IXjWJJ plfl
Tf -rm had Eiened TOUr names, i . . it iMmtd ! on the basis of need. Miss Bow- I Ilerce nana-xo-nana ugaun& i M- mxm a
I wouldn't be having to notify you thal-5.us Secretary of StaU Cor-1 en pointed out t Wednesday, as "Several city blocks? were cap-
in this public manner. dell Hull. Britiih Frpgn Secre- there were presented cases of I farH, th mmmnnique said as the
v ; V U Anthony Eden and Soviet I "worthy" appneants who riad been I ri forces
7 an aU writers of letters. Foreign ; Cornrnissar Vyacheslav j refused funds because they could Icounterattacks, taking a heavy toU J fff
Mnt( 0 ha anonymous variety Molotov, with their miliUry aides, either support themselves as well T0f men and material.
which come to my desk aren't real- had a congenial discussion of the I as commission clients are support- oI Bechitsa, m the Gomel
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aircraft, whlla Thunder-
bolls destroyed .six and Spitfires
three.
lv distressing. But they mean ex-J first subject to be thrashed out at
actry nothing when tney Dearno i me m-paruie cwuweuw
signature. If a letter is worm writ
ing or reading, it is worth sign
ing. You have a perfect right to
ask us not to use your name and
if such a request as that Is made,
neither this nor any other news
paper I know of would make that
name public.
In the case of the Wolverines,
they are very apparently high
school girls. I once wrote an an-
Two military men US Mai.
Gen. John K. Deane and Brit
ish IA Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay
sat in at today's meeting.
Aides participating in the con
versations wm , changa as ; the
various problems wherein they
are experts com ! before the
conference. . " ' v
Deane has been attached to the
chief of staffs office of the United
the family Is willing to provide
enough for sustenance.' '
"More money to fewer persons
is the basis upon which Marion
county welfare monthly budgets
continue to be drawn the admin-
Cnitf!na mnT&mA In nirmArb
. i I uJ-l t" ..,,-0 r,
.!T7u.i3IL.. tog sweeps.
"From these operations, eight
i bombers are missing.". u. A
The operations, abetted by re
inforced v fighter sepport. .were
the seventh major , offensive
action ef the US army air fore
f the month from British bases.
It was the first, time that, the
wKn t was in hiffh I States army and Ismay' is from
wrt hooL and I'm I the office of ? the British
not boasting about it now. How
ever, the suggestion these girls
make is considered only because
their letter to me was not mali
cious and because the writers may
not be expected to realize that
anonymity is a sign of shame or
ignorance. .
, V
Strictly not anonymous is Col
umnist Don Upjohn, who lectures
us for a mis-spelled -word in one
paragraph and in the next mis
spells my name!
Labor Leader
Asks Relaxed
war
cabinet. ' : l '
The presence of the two gen
erals at this first real business
meeting of Secretary of Stat
Hull, British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslav M o I otov
might mean that a western Euro
pean land front was discussed or
at least that the soviet union's
side of the matter was heard. ;
A British spokesman told Am
erican "newsmen that Britain had
azreed .: to discuss . anything - the
Russians wished to discuss. It was
pointed out that before the meet
ing began the representatives of
the three nations had exchanged
agendas. . ' ; -
Newsmen here understood that
both Eden and Hull had been fa-
WdfTg fVintrril5 orably impressed with the pro
TV He VUIllA O-IS I ceedings to date. Hull's already
bridgehead across the Dnieper and
took several towns. ."There was
also bitter fighting north of Kiev
and south of GomeL
Berlin wallowed in gloom as the
Lixator saTdVt ImpUcaUon. of the soviet advice
CrriT behind the Dnieper sank in, wrote
r JtuHtL I Swedislrl correspondents in the
dnr. it vear Is in the field of German l capitaL They aaid th gmaU Ruhr city of Duren was at-
ffeneral assistance. Last November. German high command represen-1 tacked. 3 : ; v
eiaannrt MMtM Utire broke the news to them AnilndicaUon that
cases; this November, $10,000 has solemnly and mad no effort to meant to keep up th newly started
been allotted for 298 cases (in hide the fact that Germany's sit- pace which ended a six-day lull,
most instances, family units). uation was critical. : . cam tonight as several Danish
The oroBram for aid to depend- Berlin-, radio not only, empha- German radio stations signed
ent children calls for exoenditure sized the seriousness of the Dni- ott abruptly.
f aanoo rt month for 120 1 per bend fighting but spoke oml- The GOze-Rijen air field, 0
cases: last November $8400 - was I nousry ox strong nussian kwp miles east of Flustung, last was
concentration in me rca w 1 attacked by US Heavy oomoers
ingrad, ; indicating : "th , enemy I August 19.
might begin an offensive there in J The Duren plant was described
the near future." las turning out non-ferrous metals.
The Germans admitted the Rus-1 raising th possibility that the
siana had thrown more tanks into I factory might be an important pro-
the battle of the Dnieper bend ducer of lightweight metals used
Hieher living costs explain the than have ever-been used on the Urfdely in aircraft.
increased expenditures; the great-1 eastern front, and one Berlin r-i Formidable Spitfire forces cart
er caU for workers even from I port said soviet artalery "is ac- er m the day had scored a vic-
among the group so old as to have i tiv here on a scale never known I tory in a sweep over France, and
been considered unemployable a I before." - later RAF Typhoon bombers and
year ago Is largely responsible for f j The drive, which , began Typhoons attacked Woensdrecht
-
October 15. is mounting to
crisis which wCl force German
soldiers to master all the moral
and military courage they
possess, a Stockholm report
spent for 180.
Twelve hundred dollars has
been allocated on next month's
budget to blind assistance, , with
39 cases on the books; last year 37
persons received $1150 In Novem
ber.
the drop in the number of cases,
Miss Bowen said.
By the Associated Press
A new demand from a top la
bor leader that wage controls be
relaxed 'was- heard as President
Roosevelt arranged to go into ses
sion today with union chieftains
session called against a back-
ported growing.
Chinese Admit
Jap Advances
Persons who know moioiov say 1 ri i .
how he is thinking in oumwesi;
they can tell
by the way he manipulates his
pince nez spectacles. When every
thing is going well, they say, he
removes - his glasses ana places
Unity Pledged
By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH By Mihailovic
CHUNGKING, Oct. 20-ff)-The J
in Holland and another enemy
airdrome at St. Omer-Longuenesse
in France. They knocked down
three more nazi fighter planes.
Two fighters were reported
missing from these collateral ope
rations.
The over-aU toll of planes lost
in the day's activities: Lost by
the enemy, 20; by the allies, eight
bombers and two fighters.
Labor-SIiori
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Areas Put on
48-HourWeek
WASHINGTON, Oct Ib-ijv)
The 48-hour week was decreed
today in all areas of the country
with acute labor shortages, mean
ing that 30 new areas must adopt
minimum of 48 hours -sefor
November 15.:' r; - -:'
- Th 30 areas Includ Indianap
olis, Jacksonville, Fla, Oklahoma
City, Dallas and Spokane, o
Announcing the order, the war
manpower ; commissi pa said .' th
engthened week has proyea jp d
helpful ' in reducing . demand for
new labor and obtaining more ef
fective utilization of manpower.
Seventy-one areas ax classi
fied' in group 1, as having .acute
labor 'shortages, but A ot those
are already under the 48 hours
weeK. ..-.-'j' - ',- - . -
The manpower commission also
opened th door to early : adop
tion of th 48-hour rule in areas
where an acute shortage has not
actually developed but is likely
within six months. .
There are 112 areas In this clas
sification (group 2) and only It
are operating under the 48 hour
week. Regional , manpower direc
tors were Instructed ' to consider
the others and decide in each case
whether to order the area under
the 48 hour week or exempt ft.
Today's order""does not apply to
certain types of employers such as
those With less than eight Workers,
farmers or local governments. It
does not change the - system
whereby th employer may apply
for exemption on the 'ground' that
the 43 hour week I riot practical
for his type of activity, or would
not reduce bis labor requirements,
or would conflict with law. -
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2nd Big Hit
Joan Franchot
Bennett Tone
"She Knew All the Answers'
Now
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MY
noGEns v
"TBICCEE" J j
Continuous
Aussies Lock
Japs in Battle
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drop of unrest in the vital railroad desk and talks with-
and coal industries.
President A. F. Whitney of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men asserted at Cleveland yester
day that wage stabilization "is no
out them. When the soviet foreign
commissar does not like th way
things are going he keeps putting
on and taking off his glasses.
So far Molotov has kept his
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Chinese high command declared
today that Japanese forces seeking
to strike into southwestern China
from Burma still had not forced
the Salween river, but acknow-
War Crirae Board
r A t rrrvr rvavon
London, Oct 20 Gen. I Planned in London
Draja Mihailovic in his first pub-J LONDON, Oct. ? 20-(fl3)-The
lie statement - in months replied foreign office announced today
to critics today with a declaration i that final arrangements have been
ledged that the . enemy was driv-1 interoreted to mean he is wiUingi wwnnleted for the establishment in
a 1 1 " "
tag north ana souxn aiong m to suspend the long v and bitter! London ef a United Nations corn-
west bank. J duarrel between his Yugoslav I mission for the investigation of
A4iliAr riiila niffMI irrflfll US i . j ai & : M, 1 Tnrrar
1 . ... 11 .. ... ... m mmmm I L & - ' I B f 111 .nil 1(1 IIH rLIXHn All! I 1 T T r 1 1 I 1.1 I W. m
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o.v.mi i o - i ; iimnnaaor. u lETVinr niKinnm innioEra wuciuKUUMT fn.i Hm. i i rf...... ........ ..ft.fwa m m
i : i- !J1 M .nmwmAMl I ' " . I ' 1 s "'"WH liuw - I uu,umai itLV. -
Hull's assistant during xne comer-1 ter ngnung as xn Japanese w itv The statement? was Issued by I meeting today were the United
longer morally or poUticaUy de-1 glares on his desk.
lensiDie. wim rawrma , "at ' A-w.r11 TTarrlman. tho new
ies of defeats, beginning in early said he would not recommend ac
September, during which they
lost the 'air bases of Lae, Sala
.maua and Finschhafen. These bas-1 ing brotherhoods
I es are on the Huon gulf, a poten
tial springboard for allied invas
ion of Japan's pivotal position of
,New Britain.
' In the Seiomns, another
American raid in the southern
Bougainville area has reralted
in the downing of 17 Japanese
planes out of a force of 55, to-
-. day's commnniqne said.
'u More than 100 United States
. navy and air force planes took!
'part in the northern Solomons of-
; ' tensive Monday morning during
'-which enemy gun positions and
j. dumps wer$ blasted.
. i" Mitchell medium bombers,
P striking in coordination with the
Ramu valley drive, strafed bridges
1 ! and villages along a good road
' which the Japanese built with
Chinese coolie' labor from Madany
! past Bogadjim. The Aussies in the
I Ramu valley last were reported
; only 20 miles from Bogadjim,
t which is the main defense outpost
for Madahg.
1 The communique itself made no
mention of the Japanese progress
above Finschhafen. saying only
j: that ground forces north of there
"repulsed several sharp attacks,
i the enemy leaving more than 200
j. dead in our hands."
$ Japanese aircraft sought - at
c? -wrSveraS nd WOliam Strang, British umna moved north and south. The Yugoslav goverrmient m Cairo, States, Britain, Australia, Bel
increase awarded the live perax-i ... ,,. Tnnon.. rn ta ta forces the I r -...n i- 1 j . t r i
eien affairs, likewise Is attending I communique said, after they had f Ttw. nartisana an-1 vakia. Greece. India. Luxem-
the sessions. r t I been routed Saturday from me
The meetings yesterday ,w r I position opposite vn jman attempt to land on Yugo- land, Norway, Poland, the Union
given over to setting the agenda I bank.
announcement
last month by
an emergen scy board. A 80 per
cent increase had been demanded.
Today's White House session
was called by President Roosevelt
to thresh out labor problems. In
vited were leaders of the CIO,
AFL and railroad brotherhoods.
At Birmingham, Ala, local offl-
i today by Molotov, Hun and Eden
H?.h 2 TT5!: TwhTr.
thing possible to get 20,000 Idle
Alabama coal miners back to
work.
A UMW representative warned
local officials that if the Alabama
walkout continued, it might jeo-
for the conferences, a snokesman i An American
said, and he pointed out that there yesterday that US planes naa
was "no challenge" to th agenda bombed Japanese troops at Luku
by any of the parties, f Sunday indicated that the enemy
Xtescribinff a luncheon attended I had crossed tn river, dux me wu-
nese communiques suu cua noi
explain that attack.
' The Japanese column hitting
southward along the Salween has
reached Lichaipah, the Chinese
ilavia's Dalmatian coast. I of South Africa, Yugoslavia and
Gen. Mihailovic, who has been j the French National committee.
affairs said:
"This was really something in
pardize the chances of getting the j an were offered In the spirit
the war of a luncheon. There was said, and th north column "Is
a real smrit of friendshiD around held south-of Lusui by our troops.
the' table." ; ;
There were at least 15 ; toasts
war labor board to approve a new
wage contract which would In-
crease miners earnings aoou
$1.75 a day for a Gve-day-week.
Elsewhere on the labor front:
At White Pigeon, Mich-, 220 men
. . MIL. . .. A - - J. A
oi xnenasmp. mere was toast vj t - -g-m -w-v -r
the "second front,' Several Rus- ff f i TiYtti r I ft
sian Mnerals and atleast one mar- MSUZ M. f f-flf f
Messag
j sian generals and atleast one mar
shal were among the- more than
100 persons present. Premier Sta
lin, President Roosevelt and Prime
and women workers at the Eddy Minister Churchill all were toast-
Paper company, manufacturers of j ed.
containers used for lend-lease
shipping, remained away from
their jobs in a 17-day strike de
scribed by a WLB official as the
first strike authorized by a union
under the . Smith-Connally act.
The regional WLB has ordered
the strikers back to work.
The" Moscow News, an English
language newspaper, today devot
ed most of its front page to the
conference and an editorial en
titled "chief task of the moment"
that said: V; -
"If the Hitlerite army has not
yet been defeated it is only be
cause there is not yet a second
night to bomb Australian
; tions but the raid was reported
The communique for the second Yritten Off
aii-aigm uay .reported successiul
i aerial action against troop-laden
.. boats. This time it was a large
f barge filled with Japanese troops
j on a river in the Aroe islands
f north of Australia. Long - range
. fighters sar.k it. Yesterday's com-
, munique disclosed the sinking of discrirnination amendment which
1 " iroop-crowoea transport nearly it southern support.
By HOWARD FXJEGEK .
WASHINGTON. Oct. z - (a3)
Th capital is looking forward
t an Important , food message
from the president as th likely
starting gun for. a new congres
sional fight ever food subsidies,
, aa administration devlee for
holding down the cost ef Uvlng.
The president probably win
send his food message to Capitol
hul tomorrow. It is expected to .
r-mphasis th Whit House
preference i r subsidies over
higher ceiling prices as th best ;
means mt stimulating farmers to
th biggest food production pro
gram in th nation's history.
P?1" Soil On I Al li Kl 1 1 406 Prtsent defeats of the fascist
orted OCllUUl HU Ulil rTn;M daath blow for Hit
lerite Germany. , .
The editorial concluded: "The
fascist bat ! arioiislv wounded.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 20-UP, " Has yet to be xinisned on, dux i yy aiiace warns. ox ,
Sponsors of a bill toirovide $300,- loner W doubt Transnnrt MnnODolr
000 ftnn a ar In federal Brants It will be. The important thing 4s lransport Monopoly
to public schools wrote the meas- to finish it off now. This is dic-
ure off as dead tonight saying it tated by th interests of all the
was killed by a broad anti-racial 1 allies and the whole of, mankind.
t New Ireland.
I
Acceptance of the amendment.
offered by Senator L a n g e r
(R-ND), by a vote of .40 to 37,
was . followed by aa to 28 vote
to recommit the measure to the
education committee. - .
House Hears
War Report
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i i
Not only was there no attempt Tntol CtKAl QQA
to refute statements made by the XOlcU. tyJLtOyJ'
t . a : a t i . .
( xi ve giooe-giraung; senators upon
New Chest
their return from an inspection
C ot war fronts, on member said.
F but ther was no reference to their
J,- report
:. "Straight - from - the - shoul-
deT . . Very convincing
"highly Informative- . . . "no fan
cy stuff, just straight talk" these
Wert some of the descriptions with
: hich. cor4essmen tgged the
background, first-hand story.
"riim.fl T.TarriBTt craw, ui thA
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General gifts $168."S, total ,- Utaly"
ziu9 or 37 per cent.
Government and education
1130641, total $84S1J1 or 70 per
Cent j ; .
Industrial $1719.23, total (8023
or 50 per cent ' .
- Mercantile ;4tt3, total (3T73.23
or "81 per cent
Count Sforza to Head
Italian Action Party
NEW. YORK, C'20-ff)-Cotmt
Carlo Sforza, anti-fascist who re
cently returned to Italy after liv
ing for a number of years in the
United States, will take over the
leadership of the Italian -action
party tomorrow, Don Hollen-
beck, NBC repeater, said tonight
in a broadcast from Algiers.
The action party, Hollenbeck!
aaid. is . composed, of "socialist
groups which have come out for
a progressive socialist republic in
DALLAS, Oct 20-WVVlce
President Wallace said tonight
th "public transport is again be
ing brought under monopoly con
trol,' and "the evU consequences
are 'every where apparent
The day of j accounting has
come, ; he declared in a speech
prepared for delivery before local
civic and labor groups.
M3M
Today nd Friday
W
Professional (237.50. total
i "Impression that w are in one hell I (5775.50 or 58 per cent.
! cf a war," grua one memDer. . i uuuues (laios, total (Z174.43
' ' rr-owo-r--"?m- TT!1awrrth : fR- I tsr 8T tier eent "
Women's division (107V total
(2133 or 21 per cent
- Schools division (235.73 or 18
I bre.) summed vp what seemed to
' he "the sentiment of most when he
r tald the program "debunked a lot
tm ij7! ill
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