Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1943)
n v PJ"L'" aip '' 'TO iluDLi: I I ;" --- v J j jj J , - jj Milt VcatL er r .Wednesday max.- temper 4 store 5 S, mLt. 4S.;Thnrsdiy river -2.5 feet. Heavy treat ; .forecast for western Oregon. 0 f ! T 1 ' r . What deep emotions must have stirred in the breast of Count Car lo Sforza on his arrival this -week in his homeland of Italy, and how they contrasted with his feelings when 16 years ago he voluntarily left Italy, an ' exile for political principle. Count Sforza was once, foreign minister of Italy, and waa one of obeisance to Mussolini after that upstart made his "march, on Rome,- which . proved to b( a .train-ride' trailing his Hack-shirt bruisers.' Never, . during his long exile did Sforza cease his resistance- to the fascist regime in It aly. Now he can see a partial ful fillment : of his hopes ft through Mussolini's downfall and the im minent recovery of the country by allied arms from-the nazi in vader. It was the murder of Giacomo Matteotl, also a member of the senate, by;' Mussolini's hirelings that showed Count Sforza that his personal safety lay in self-imposed exile. He took a train for Marseilles ' in France and , never returned until a few ' days ago. According, to Milton Bracker, correspondent of the New York Times, Mussolini persistently courted Count Sforza, seeking to win him to his support Sforza 's one condition for his return to Italy was that he . be permitted to speak freely in the Roman sen ate in opposition to the regime. For : a dictator with a one-party system this would be treason Sforza's condition could never be met 'So the count lived In France or Britain 'or. in: later years in America, writing and speaking in behalf of Italy and against the strutting., usurper.. - According to his statements the Italian leader plans to devote his full energies to ridding his coun- tr -. nf tH nazis and nf fawit influences. Since ! the existing government of the . king - and Badoglio are pledged to that purpose the count does not propose to interfere with their, rule, i-There .is little doubt however that, he will be the focus of the democratic elements In It aly who want ' to complete the purge-: which began with the forced retirement of Mussolini. In .fact it is -already reported that he will take over the leadership , of the Italian action party whose goal is the establishment .of a "progressive socialist republic" (Continued on Editorial page) Rain Shelter Farmer Displays, shoppers and farmer sellers sheltered , from the : rains, preparations f o r Salem's second public market day bear the im print of experience received at the first, members of the city market commission said Thurs day. - ; The canvas prepared for last Saturday's market covering, but not needed then, will.be in place over . frameworks on . which car penters worked all day Thursday. Requests women purchasers expressed last Saturday , have their response in the promise of farmers F that live and dressed poultry, flowers and potatoes will be among the produce offerings. Meanwhile, grange members the county ovtr are watching' the city's experiment with especial in terest At Wednesday's Marion county Pomona grange meeting at North Howell, Pomona Master Rex Hartley;. was instructed to name a committee of three from over the county to contact granges in an effort to determine their 1 interest in furthering the market (Turn to Page 2 Story G) r Ready Effort to Write New Tax Saved From Defeat i By FRANCIS M. LeMAY : WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-(JF The effort to write new wartime tax legislation was saved from the brink of defeat today after Rep. Doughton (D-NC) ; declared that administration officials had promised to bend all efforts to economize. . " On the assurance that expendi tures ' would be "streamlined, the house ways and means com mittee, which originates all rev enue legislation, voted to1 con tinue work on a tax bill, but. It gave no hint on how much, if any, additional revenue might be channeled to the treasury. Previ ously it had been Indicated the committee might not write any tax bill. The committee Ignored the ad ministration's proposal to raise 1 10,5C3,CCO,CCO additional through higher individual and corporation income taxes and lar 'NBIZXr THUSD YEAR 14 ssosiGms&Qittacscgsi .BeFiio; In Grave PliHlt r Soviets Capture Center : Of MeKtopol, Make New Gains Near Kiev and Gomel I ! :? I 'J, - iBy JTUDSON CQUINN t, . T i . LONDON, FTiday, Oct. r a-KPThe Red army piunged fto within 23 miles of ths' industrial center of Krivoi fLog yester day, rolling over 1500 German dead and. through 50 more Dnier per river loop villages in a six mile stride toward the Black sea, Moscow announced early today. - -.?'. ' "The enemy is sustaining enormous losses and under the blows of our troops is retreating, abandoning arms and stores' of war materials," 'said a - midnight emmunique supplement broadcast RUSSIA J rWitebifc V7 OLCNSK Kharkov V2TParava avoitaya Poplnostovoe Dnepropetrovsk 4 IZaoorozhelt rv hX A' J fMelitopoll Nambered arrows locate the Rus ; sians' 'main bridgeheads on the west bank of the Dnieper river - after the captare of Loev (1), Pereyaslav (z) and Fopelno stoye (J), fighting. continues at Gomel (top arrow) and in Mell - topol (bottom arrow); (AP w ire p bo to.) - Anti-Sub Planes Using Searchlight j LONDON, Oct . 21-(ffVThe keystone of success in the air of fensive against the U-boats in the Atlantic1 has been a powerful searchlight of a special type used on nti-submarine I aircraft, the air ministry news service dis closed tonight, , - ; The guardedly-p h r a s e d an nouncement deseped the search light as in the millions of can dlepower in . strength and said it has ; been used for more than a year. ' -. r ger; excises on so-called luxur ies. In the midst of the sizzling tax controversy, friends . of Randolph Paul, treasury general counsel who handled- administration tax matters, said he had indicated lie would resign .when the current tax bill is out of the way. They quoted him as saying "I've hand led three tax bills, and I think that is enough." . 'r The ways and means committee ballated on whether to proceed further with a J new bill "after Chairman- Doughton (D-NC) told the members that persons close to President Roosevelt "Have as sured me they . will make every effort to locate and eradicate all unnecessary expenditures. " ; - The committee vote to continue consideration of new tax. legisla tion was reported unofficially to be IS to S. I. Jii f X a V Taxf a Gomel St I i g'leo!t pi 9 'QQ IpCRlMEA PAGES Salem. e"' - Admits mm, Oby Moscow and recorded by the Soviet monitor. While a Berlin spokesman ad- mitted the southern German ar- " my was in an "extremely daat gereos" plight, enmeshed In a giant Soviet pincers, the Eas sians alse annonneed 'the eap tare of the center of , embat " tied Melitopol, Crimean gate way far to the soatheast, and fresh gains north of Kiev and southwest of GomeL . -t In Melitopol, last major axis position east of the lower Dnieper which is holding up the other arm of the Soviet pincers the . Rus--sians said - their Units wiped - out 1000 enemy , troops and smashed German reinforcements " in vio lent fighting. ; . i - , The streets of : the' city were declared - strewn with German dead, : dozens of wrecked - tanks, huge 83. mm. guns and other abandoned enemy equipment. The Germans still hold the northern part of Melitopol, the Russian bulletin ' said, as the fighting enters it 10th day of street combat. Fanning out over the steppes in the Dnieper loop the Russians captured Annovka, 23 miles north of Krivoi Rog in a sweep that has carried them 55 miles r south of Kremenchug, on the f Dnieper. Petrovo, 10 miles to the north west,' also fell, and Alexandrovka, 50 miles to the northwest,' also was a prize seizure. . f- Alexandrovka is only 18 miles from the 5 vital rail J unction - of , (Turn to Page 2 S lory B)' Brown Leaves OPA; Bowles Said Successor WASHINGTON, Oct 21 -VP) Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown resigned today, telling President Roosevelt he l thought the main task he set out to. do halt an upward trend in the cost of living had been accomplished. Mr. Roosevelt accepted the res ignation after first urging Brown to stay on. He- is expected to nominate r Chester Bowles, now general manager of OPA- to head .the agency. Brown has left policy making largely to Bowles for the last two months and in offering his resignation told the president that OPA is in "competent hands." - A ; 54-year-old former ; senator from Michigan, Brown took over OPA; last January, succeeding Leon Henderson, ? an economist who had held various posts ear lier under the new deaL At the time the agency was under fire in congress- with many members sharply critical of Henderson. - Brown told friends then that he did not - want the post, but was undertaking the job at Mr. Roose velt's request He also said publicly- that he wanted .to adminis ter OPA on a 'common sense basis, and ' to show the ' American people and congress that price control is- not an Imposition but a protection. In his letter of resignation, he expressed the opinion that price control has been a success and that it is appreciated by the coun try. . ... Bowles is a 42-year-old . New York advertising man. He was OPA "director for Connecticut for 20 months before Brown persuad ed him to come to Washington last July as general manager of the agency. peuNono Oregon. Friday Morning, October.2ZriS43 - TJSB6rn Japanese Go Into Aiitmltcdy f V Trpical American doaghbeys" Is i r i v f ' A - 1 e t . neso sncesur wno aro mnimr in jhuj, sumson oeseriDea now a company of these doughboys led one of the Italian mainland attacks -and is now ia the battle lines along the road to Rome." A group .of them are shown above in actios, marching over a wooden bridge, in their advance to the front. They were trained In Mississippi. (International Soundphoto) Mount bat ten, Qiiang,StilweIl Talk in China CHUNGKING, Oct 21-JP)-Ad- miral Lord Louis Mountbatten, supreme allied commander in southeast Asia, has completed a series of three-power : talks with Generalissimo Chiang Kai - Shek and Xt Gen. ; Joseph W Stilwell in Chungking, it may now be dis closed. Other American representatives as well as General Stilwell, who is chief of staff of -allied-forces in China, took part in the strate gical discussions. l. ' ', - (A ; British broadcast recorded by NBC said both Mountbatten and Stilwell had left Chungking after attending Jong conferences with Chiang during the last five days.) - Slo-ontbatten arrived ht Chnngking October 18 and re turned to India yesterday. Mountbatten was named to head allied forces for the budding offensive in southeast Asia at the Quebec meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime ; Minister Churchill last August . ; ' - Lt' Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, commanding general of the US army service of supply, was high among . the American consultants. His., primary interest is in the movement of food, fuel and mih nitions, a job largely carried on by air in the Chinese theatre since Japanese seizure of the Burma road. "s.l Maj. Gen. George Stratemeyer, commander of. US air forces in China, Burma and India", and Maj. Gen. Claire' L. Chennault, head of the US J4th air force, al so were called in for consulta tions. .-'''"-Vr-v;:.-''"; ; X The sessions were, held at Chi ang's country retreat in the pine covered hills near the capital. r British representatives at. the discussions included Maj. Gen. Gordon ' Grimsdale, head of - the British military mission in China. . The fact that the discussions here took place while the Rus sian, British and American con ference was beginning in Mos cow was viewed by the Chinese as a happy augury for intensifi cation of the war- against both Germany and Japan. Four Salem MeiT .. - Head for Denver Tour Salem men will be includ ed in a group from western Ore gon which will leave Saturday for Denver to attend a meeting of the Natioxal Reclamation congress, in tent upon making a proper show ing 011 behalf of the Willamette Valley project . - . The Salem men are County Judge Grant Murphy, Chairman Frank Doerfler of the Salem chamber of commerce agriculture committee. Manager Clay Coch ran of the chamber of commerce, and Charles E. Stricklin, state en gineer. Others in the party will be State Sen." Angus Gibson Junc tion City and Arthur King of the Oregon - Stale college soils de partment Other Oregon men will join the party at Prineville and Bend. DBDCS what: Secretary '.;.el ; War Stimson yesterday called US soldiers of Japa- Roosevelt Sees Labor Leaders, Gives NoSignof Relaxing Wage Control ' ; ; By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK '. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 HThe administration wage con trol policies, came under bitter fire from top labor leaders in a two-hour conference with President Roosevelt today: but .there was no sign the chief txecuUve would consent to relaxing them. CIO, President hilip Murray said the labor men did get assur ances that the r pricejroll ck prbgramrouW be prosecutedr " Additionally, the congress reported, Mr. Roosevelt suggested that a committee be appointed toO determine whether the govern ment's curbs on living ' costs are adequate. These figures indicate a decline in the cost of living in recent weeks while the labor ar gument Is that wage controls must be eased because prices have not been stabilized. " v I A. Ff Whitney, representing five railway operating brotherhoods, came away from the White house meeting reiterating that a 4-centi an hour wage increase -recommended for these workers by an emergency board was unsatisfac tory. The brotherhoods had asked a minimum increase of $3 a day. Representatives of the brother hoods will consider the wage de cision at a meeting' in Chicago tomorrow. ' There has been speculation that if the decision :' is rejected the brotherhoods may authorize " a strike vote, and that similar ac tion may be taken by non-operating railroad employes." A special boards recommended ' 8 ' cents an hour increase" for the latter group last May, but Stabilization Direct or Fred M. Vinson set the recom mendation aside on the grounds it Violated wage- policies He in dicated he thought an increase of 4 cents an hour should be the limit for higher- paid non-operating employes. -They had asked 20 cents.- . " ; While the president's confer ence, was in progress, the , war labor board held hearings on an other of the current major labor problems. This is a proposed con tract by John L. Lewis United Mine Workers with Illinois coal mine owners which would" boost miners' earnings about $1.75 a day by establishing an 8V4 hour day, including underground trav el time. Representatives of mine owners in northern .and southern Appala chian areas asked the board to reject me contract contending it was "in clear violation of the sta bilization program. R. L. Ireland, representing . northern . operators, offered an alternate proposal call ing for an S8-cent increase. WLB Chairman W. ; IL Davis commented during : the " hearing that the proposed . Illinois con tract apparently ; would result in an outright wage increase of 37 Mi cents daily without justifica tion. ',.,.' Some administration officials, among them Secretary of Interior I ekes, who Is fuel administrator, have expressed fear that walk outs may , become general in the coal Industry unless a contract is agreed on before October J L. The powers that Vinson has to set aside findings of the war labor board or of railway labor boards were the target cf criti cism by the labor board meeting with Mr. Roosevelt . (Turn to Tase 31 Story E) ' Price So (BDHGl 3 Japsfyance; In Jungle Near Finschhafen By DEAN. SCHEDLER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IS THE SOUTHWEST PACDIC, Friday, Oct 22 '-(-, Japanese troops in the jungle northwest of Finschhafen,', New Guinea, have advanced still farther by infiltra tion in a move disclosed for the first time today . by an allied spokesman' as one intended " to save their forces by reaching the coast ''"-v '7': '"'tv Tha enemy drive, which pre cipitated ' a battle - Involving thonsands of Japanese and Abs trallaasv is not presently aimed at recapturing Finschhafen, the spokesman' said. Although acknowledging some enemy , progress lor the third straight day, he explained their limited successes were due .to in filtrating patrols sent out at night, with all frontal assaults bloodily repulsed. The ' Japanese, . moving out of the Sattelbercarea IS miles northwest of Finschhafen, are seeking to achieve; a . solid line along the Song river. Its mouth is five miles - north of .Finschhafen, the coastal base wrested from the enemy October 2. : - f , Elements of Australia's Ninth division are barring the way ; to (Turn to Page 2 Story F) : ? Snhzn United Ucr CLssl 1100,000 485,CC0 .est (S9,CS8 -us,e:a ( IJo. 173 Aliiimiinia , Plant For Northwest "West Salem One. Of Sites Under Consideration By RALPH C. CURTIS Construction of a $4,000,000 alumina - from - clay plant somewhere" in -the Pacific Northwest having been author ized, through reversal of an ear lier junf a vorable decision by the War Production board, it is now every . man for himself or more precisely, every commun ity for1 itself and that puts West Salem, one of the sites prom inently mentioned, actively in the picture with Salem prepared to rally to its support ' ; However, the regional committee through which Oregon, -Washington and Idaho interests acted re cently in harmony to bring -about this 'favorable decision will con tinue to function, its Oregon vice- chairman--- Clay Cochran of the Salem chamber -of 'commerce, de clared Thursday. Mindful of un happy resulU of inter-community and interstate ; bickering in sim ilar: circumstances in the recent past this committee ..will : endea vor to discourage any recrimina tions uhich might 'endanger- the entire project.. ' . , ' r- The . Salem -chamber of com merce has heretofore filed a brief setting forth the logic of construe ting such a plant here, about equl distant, from the several major sources of alumina - bearing clay, and will pass up no opportunity to put in further, testimony. Of ficials of the Columbia .Metals company which will construct the plant have been fully advised of the West Salem location's advan tages. ; - ' ix , -' Construction of this "pilot" ' or experimental : plant which , will supply less than 3 per cent of the alumina ' needed to - keep the northwest's five aluminum plants supplied, will occupy about. 300 porkers eight to ten months. Op erations of the alumina plant will require about : 150 employes. If the experiment proves successful and the only remaining question is ; economic, .since'; technical phases have been . determined through tests in a Connecticut plant the operation is expected to be greatly expanded. . The brief submitted by the Sa 1 e m chamber described several proposed sites in and near ' West Salem and pointed out advantages (Turn to Page 2 Story O Chest Solicitors Knock On Wood; No Slump YeO - Past "Chest campaigns in Sa lem without exception even the rousing one a year ago have en countered at some time' or other before the windup a discouraging ? slump in subscriptions. Cau tiously knocking on wood, lead ers in the I9 sajem unitea War Chest campaign noted Thurs day that no such setback had yet occurred. It may come today, for that matter but already the cam paign is within $17,000 of the min?Tnym goal with two and one half working days before the originally-set "victory luncheon date next Monday. The various teams could coast a bit and still make it but in addition to knocking on wood, the aforementioned leaders have their fingers crossed., : - Total subscriptions at the noon hour Thursday were $68,871.19, or 81 per cent of the $85,000 needed to Jmeet minimum requirements. It was a foregone conclusion that Ralph Johnson's utilities division would go "over the top at. to day's luncheon" for it had enly $33.23 to go and though listed at S3 per cent was nearer 100. However,- Fred Anunsen's contractors division, accused by Frank Doer fler of poaching on his rural divi sion territory, also was within striking distance of the top and it gets to report earlier on the roll call. The mercer. tile division also was in the runnir - . ' At Thursday's lun..I.eon, held By Wmix. Resistance By Germans Streng By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Oct. 21 (AP) Hopes of a quick allied con quest of Rome faded tonight as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army slosgred forward at a slackened pace through mujdy terrain . a little more than 21 miles north of Na ples, lost 21 days after enter- ling that important port. average er a mile a day In country that was growing in creasingly difficult, and against German resistance growing corre spondingly stronger placed the capture of the eternal city, 400 airline miles away, a considerable distance Into the future. Yesterday Clark's augmented forces registered only slight gains north of the Vol turno river as pa trols probed Into the -enemy's new 27-mile-long defense line that fol lows the . rugged Massico ridse from the sea to Venafro. The sog gy, devastated agricultural ter rain posed terrific transport prob- ems for the American and Brit ish allies. . 1 - Fighting 2400 feet above sea lev- . el along Italy's mountainous back bone. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery's eighth army captured the village of Busso, about four miles west of Campobasso, and Oratino, a few miles to the north. Storming of the high ground weft of Campobasso against strong nazi resistance was essential for the movement of . Montgomery's for ces along an important road to ward the highway and rail junc tion of Isemia. From Isernla a lateral "road leads southwest to Venafro, and any push along this , road by the eighth army would threaten t? flank ., the 4 inland - anchor of t h a nazis new defense line. Apparently; eneonraged by actien. Field Marshal Albert Kesselriag, the . German com mander, has brovffbt fresh for ces late the fray and Is ef ferine greater resistance along the 11 At f f a. - -r ji army frent. The brightest spot in the allied ' (Turn to Page 2 Story A) . Mainland to Get 1 Hawaiian Gerinana HONOLULU, Oct 21 -)- AH American citizens of German an cestry interned in Hawaii will be sent to the mainland, Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, jr., mili tary governor, -disclosed today in affidavits filed in federal court. Y The general said he had ordered their removal - in his capacity of commonding general of the central Pacific area "in furtherance of the war ' effort "and for purposes of military security . A military government spokes- man said only military internees) of Japanese descent will be held in Hawaii. i jointly with the Salem Lion club's regular session, ChaJrmani Eton Thompson of the mercan tile division mentioned that J. C, Penney company employes had pledged $417.25, trebling thei 1942 total; and it was announced) that Thomas Kay Woolen Mills workers had given $660, an ave rage of $4 per capita. One juniog high .school student. Campaign Chairman Loyal Warner related, told he should give a day's pay, went out and earned $8.99, thenj added a penny and made it $7, The work of Paul Parker, one of organized labor's workers in the campaign, drew special commen dation. - "A practical - demonstration of good will on earth" was the char-i acterization of the War Chest pro gram by Rev. W. Irvin William, speaker cf the day. He praised the careful planning of . the National War-Fund program for aid to service .men and the people cf war-ravaged lands, and said the campaign by all means should continue until $IC3,CC3 was raised, for that amount was needed. Iri s. McSherry, executive sec retary of Oregon "War Chest, said S0,CC0 men and wc-ea through out the state were .engang in just such an effort as is being car ried on by the Salem group. "Give, not just until it hurts, but until it makes ycu feel Z'-ai,m 1.3 offered as a sic -pa. (Turn to TZ! 2 Ct:-ry D)