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- . Prentiss .Brown has resigned as
chief ' of .the" .of Gee of price ad
ministration Some may. feel like
borrowing the baseball call two
down," one to go." Brown follows
Henderson. Will It be three strikes
and out for OPA?
Our answer !i no.M - Chester
Bowles, billed for the hew direc
tor, will not "fan out" In the brief
time that he has been deputy ad
ministrator he has demonstrated
executive tcity of a high order.
He haj4jjfrect, practical and
sincere. '. ......
Bowles comes to this assign
ment after a long and successful
career in business and after a turn
as OPA director for the state of
Connecticut, which gave him first
hand information about rationing
and prices right at the store and
household level. His business rec-
ord was that of partner in a very
successful advertising a g e n c y
Benton and " Bowles. Benton quit
business some time ago v to be
come assistant to President Hutch
ins of the University of Chicago.
Bowles is doing his civic duty by
entering government service in one
of its toughest branches, the of
fice of price administration. a '
"" I Ulked not long ago with a
man who had gone to Washington
as one of the employes in the early
staff of OPA. After some months
in Washington he gave up in des
pair. He found it impossible to
bridge the . gap -; between . two
groups ' One was the- theoretical
group of reformers or college ec
onomists, who would "ignore ; the
"realities of business and try to
, make the country fit their rules
rather than adapt their rules to
the country. They were like Pro
crustes of Greek mythology who
tied his victims on a bed: if they
were ; shorter - he stretched their
limbs; if -longer, he whacked off
the limbs anything to make the
victims fit the bed. '
The other group in OPA. were
practical men, all right too prac
tical. They saw things through
the smoked glass of their former
(or, continuing) business connec
tions. A report for instance which
favored expansion of the freezing
Industry as one j way to conserve
tin and yet preserve food brought
strong resistance .from the canning
section. The difficulty of these
groups - was - that; each brought
along its own interests or its own
preconceived, .ideas, .which they
could not slough off to look (Con
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US to treat
Puppet Filipinq
Rule as Illegal;
W A S H I NGTON, Oct 22 -)
President Roosevelt said today
that the United States will never
consider as lawful any act of the
puppet government set up in the
Philippines by the Japanese.;;
i In a statement, Mr. Roosevelt
noted "that this government - was
: set up ! October 14 with Jose P.
Laurel, formerly i j ustice of the
Philippine supreme court, as
president'. Its first act, he said,
was to sign a military alliance
with Japan and its second was. "a
hypocritical appeal for American
sympathy."
Reiterating- that the United
States will use all Its resources to
'drive the invaders ; from the
Islands and establish a truly inde
pendent Philippine nation, the
president added:
- "Our sympathy goes out to those
who remain ; loyal :, to ; the United
States and the commonwealth; to
that great majority of the Filipino
people who have not been deceiv
ed by the promises of the enemy
and who look forward to the day
when the scheming, perfidious
Japanese shall have been .driven
from the Philippines. . That day
will come."
Snell Namesl Committee
On Juvenile Delinquency
Investigation of factors causing
child delinquency in Oregon and
definite recommendations "look
ing toward a program of educa
tion, cooperation and coordination
of the activities of the various
groups, officials and agencies" is
requested by Gov. Earl Snell of
a committee appointed Friday by
Gov. Earl Snell. . ' T4
Several agencies, groups and in
dividuals already are actively
concerned with the delinquency
problem and are already doing a
commendable job. Gov. Snell said.
"The war services division of
the : civilian - defense have em
barked on a worthwhile program
dealing with child welfare and
delinquency and are entitled : ;to
much commendation," Snell con
tinued. "It is with a view of. bring
big - about full coordination and
encouragement that the state-
-wide committee has been desig
nated. -
. Snell said it may be determined
that legislation or amendments to
existing laws may be necessary.
He added that because of travel
complications the committee ap-j-
ointments are more or less con
Red ' Ttkp
Closing
0n: Nazism
German troops
; Forced Into
i Dnieper Loop.
j By JUDSON O'QUINN 1
LONDON, Saturday, Oct. 23.
(Russian forces have slashed
to within 31 miles of Dnepro
petrovsk and within 18 miles of
Krivi Rog as they forced hun
dreds of thousands of German
troops into the Dnieper river
elbow, Moscow said today,
To the northwest, below Kiev,
the Russians suddenly .thrust out
tank columns from their bridge
head - at Pereyaslav in a drive
that may, catch even 'more Ger
man troops in the river loop. ? A
major " tank engagement ended
with : 32 . wrecked - German - ma
chines, a Russian bulletin said. -
Fierce fighting raged In the'
last part of Melitopol held by
the - Germans . after ten days of
street fighting the northern
district while north of the elty
" Russians cracked several : Ger
man strong points and beat back
German counter-attacks with
heavy nasi losses, said a "mid
night " communique supplement
recorded by the soviet monitor.
Over 50 towns and hamlets fell
to the advancing soviet troops in
the Dnieper bend area where the
Russians captured - Verkhnednep
rovsk on the driver and the rail
way station of the same name
several miles away to the south.
This drive, paralleling the Dnieper
river on the .west bank, was hurl
ing back the Germans to Dnep
ropetrovsk, already hemmed in by
Russians camped' on the east bank,
j The fall af the" Verkhnednep
revsk rail station pat the Kbs- :
slamT astride the Dneprepet-rovsk-KIey
Uam; alr JX n4les .
from DMprpetrovak."lt ' ale .
cut off that German garrison's -meet
direct eemmanleatiosui
with Imperilled Krivoi Reg.
Other Russian, columns - were
swinging south toward Krivoi Rog, ,
a strategic rail junction and iron
center. With yesterday's capture
of Iskrovka, 18 miles to the north,
they were approaching within ar
tillery range of their objective.
Znamenka, a rail terminal fat to
the northwest also was threaten
ed by Russians " only 16 miles
away. A! strong force of soviet
planes raided Znamenka Thurs
day, night bombing a concentra
tion of: German military trains
and starting many fires. -i
The Germans hurried Iflr pushed
in several infantry divisions, some
of them coming from as far as
Norway, Holland and France, as
they sought to avoid complete dis
aster. : Moscow reports said the
nazis had lost : all semblance of
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Shoe Stamp Expiration
To Get 30-Day Notice
l WASHINGTON, Oct 22-(iP)-To
quiet rumors and end scare-buying,
the office of price adminis
tration said today that the public
will be given 30 days notice before
shoe ration stamp No. 18 becomes
invalid.
! There are no present plans to
terminate the stamp, OPA said.
Originally scheduled to expire Oc
tober 31, it was extended indefi
nitely last month. . . fc
fined to centers of population. '
The membership:
t Warren A.; McMinimee, Tilla
mook, president of the state dis
trict attorneys association; Fred
W. Bronn, Portland, judge of the
court of domestic relations; Earl
C Latourette, Oregon City, circuit
judge; Carl W Chambers, Pendle
ton, president of the Oregon coun
ty judges' association; Captain
Walter Lansing, Oregon state po
lice department; , W i 1 1 i am A.
Bowes, acting mayor of Portland;
Harry M. NUes, Portland chief of
police; Dr. Samuel Haig Jameson,
professor fof sociology, University
of Oregon; Dr. Glenn A. Bakkum,
professor of , sociology, Oregon
State college.
Howard C Belton, Canby, state
senator; Dr. F. H. Damasch and
Walter J. Gearin, state represen
tatives, Portland; Walter H, Evans,
former, federal f judge, 'Portland;
Dr. I. George Nace, executive sec
retary Oregon Council of
Churches and Portland Council of
Churches; Rev. Francis P. Leip
zig, pastor St -Mary's Catholic
church, Eugene; Mrs., Isaac Swett,
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Above,3 Capt J. Douglas McKay
: of Salem, just appointed post
public relations officer at Camp
; Adair, succeeding Capt George
Godfrey, who has been trans
ferred te the Trailblaser divi
sion G-2 efflee.
Public Relation
CAMP ADAIR.1 Octtv22---Cap-
tain James Douglas McKay of Sa
lem has . taken over the reins as
post public relations, officer at
Camp Adair, it was announced
here . by' Col, Samuel D. Hays,
post commander. r t
A veteran of World war I, Cap
tain McKay came to Camp Adair
in December, 1942, to assume the
duties of post motor pool officer,
later to become the commanding
officer of headquarters company
SCU 1911. Subsequently he be
came assistant range officer and
is now director of the post train
ing branch, an assignment he will
retain 'in addition to that of the
public" relations office.
In dvUian life. Captain McKay
had . been mayor, of ; Salem and
was three times elected state sen
ator from Marion county. He wit
nessed the Jap attack on Decem
ber J, 194t; being f at that time
a Visitor in Honolulu. ! Not long
thereafter he resigned his legisla
tive office in - order to return to
active duty. t ;v;
Capt jMcKay will fiU the posi
tion left vacant, by Capt George
H Godfrey who :r was ', recently
transferred to the 70th division,
G-2 office at Camp Adair. Before
going into the service, Capt God
frey was 'assistant in the school
of journalism at the University of
Eugene. . - . -
3-PowerTalk
Said Veering
Into Political
By EDDY GlLMORE
MOSCOW,; Oct , 22-OPV-In an
atmosphere of cheer and, friendly
cooperation, the foreign ministers
of the United States, Britain and
Russia conferred again today on
world-vital matters, ' and it was
suggested that the talks had veer
ed into political channels. ' ;
v; Today's conference, ; the fourth
between US Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden and Soviet
Foreign : Commissar" Vyacheslav
Molotov, began an hour earlier
than the others in an atmosphere
described ar fverjr cheerfu.,
Decisions are understood to
have been, reached already on
some of many political questions
under discussion. This did - not
mean, however, that the political
action was as important as the
military " action taken or to be
taketuL y ; ? ' r ; f . : :;:
- Yesterday, Premier Joseph Stal
in traded his khaki suit and high
boots for a. new marshal's uni
form, , with epaulettes and - long
pants, and : greeted the British
foreign secretary, and there were
indications he would see Hull soon.
Meanwhile, the Russians an
nounced that their delegation to
the conference included ' Marshal
r
Doug
McKay
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New Tax.
Pro
gra:
m
'Fatten
l Plan Would Not
Materially Alter
Income Levies
. WASHINGTON, Oct 22.-VP)
The administration plan to in
crease individual income taxes
by $6,500,000,000 was flatly re
jected ; by the house ways and
means committee today as it
decided to streamline part of
the tax structure without alter
ing materially the totai 'take'.
from personal incomes. - " -. ,
. Under 'the - plan the -: present
1 per cent victory tax would be
abolished but the revenue .
weald : be , made ; np in ether :
ways, such as increasing the
normal tax .rate on Individuals
from C to 19 per cent, and dis
allowing the 19 per cent earned :
Income credit ; J
Whereas the treasury had pro
posed lifting the victory tax In
such a way that the tax burden
would be removed from ion e
9,000,000 low income persons, the
house committee voted specifically
that this group must go on paying
taxes, although they apparently
will now be called income taxes
rather than victory levies. -;
-Committee Chairman Dough
ton (D-NC) said the tax bur
dens en all taxpayers would be
substantially what they are un
der the present system.
The committee's action placed
no bar - against ' consideration of
proposals for a federal rf tail sales
tax and higher and new excises on
so-called luxuries. The body has
not yet considered , proposals for
increases in corporation rates.
Turning : thambs " down - en
farther Income tax hikes, the
eemmittee voted 19 te I n a
formal resotntleny as follows:
It is the sense of the commit
tee that, whatever individual In
come tax plan is adopted by the
committee there shall be no addi
tional burden imposed on the in
dividual taxpayer except such in
cidental burden as results from
integration of the victory tax." -
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Hitler Calls
Balkan Crisis
Conference
' By A. I. GOLDBERG
LONDON, Oct 22r(fl3)-Adolf
Hitler, confronted with1 a Balkan
problem growing " graver every
day, has called in the regents of
Bulgaria' for a conference with
him and his highest military aides,
the Berlin radio disclosed tonight.
The meeting was held last Mon
day, the German announcement
said, as both military and political
developments indicated increasing
difficulties: for Germany. A- re
port from Madrid today said Ger
man peace overtures to Russia had
been made recently in Sofia, the
Bulgarian capital, 'and had been
turned down flatly., . i -
In Yugoslavia, meanwhile, guer
rillas .charged into . Europe's sec
ond largest iron mine in Croatia
and -wrecked all the installations
there, capturing the nearby city of
Bosanska Dubica, the partisan
army announced. - One hundred
and twenty prisoners and 360 ri
fles and other war materials were
reported taken in the city's cap
ture. .
Heavy Snows
Block Roads
Snow plows : rolled into - the
mountains today, as the season's
first heavy snowfall blocked high
ways in the Cascades and blan
keted areas of eastern Oregon.
' The McKenzie pass, only direct
route between Eugene and Bend,
was closed to traffic today, but
State Highway , Engineer R-. R.
Baldock said it would be re
opened within a few days.
- Snow, which began falling, this
morning at Government Camp
near ML Hood, covered- the high
way from the camp 18 inches deep
by late afternoon. Motorists were
advised to .carry chains.
All roads through Crater Lake
national forest except the west
and south entrances, were closed
for the winter by the park depart
ment ' -" ' -. -
In eastern Oregon; three inches
of snow temporarily halted potato
digging southeast of West'n.
The US weather bureau in Port
land tonight predicted continued
snow .'Curries and low tempera
tures over all the Oregon moun
tains -r- -' .
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JduiSy Jellies :
Frozen; Ration
StartaOcU3L:
WASHINGTON, Oct .-(Pr-The
office of price administration
today ordered a freeze on the re
tail sales of jams, jellies, preserves
and fruit spreads at midnight to
night (eastern war time), prelim
inary to the - start of rationing
October 31. -
.The sales freexe will continue
for eight days, after which ra
tion stamps for processed feeds
most i be surrendered for par
chase ef the newly rationed
-Items.
Citrus , marmalades ..were ex
cluded from the freeze because
supplies are ; adequate at present
They will be added to the ration
list - but will be given a point
value of zero on the point table.
; Housewives will not be required
to make reports on their cupboard
supplies "of i the fruit spreads
whether bought in stores or home
canned and ration books will not
be tailored. For these items point
values will be announced, OPA
said,'- in a fewf days. Consumers
may use blue stamps X, Y, and Z
from war ration book 2 from Oc
tober 31 through November 20 In
purchasing the four types of pro
ducts. In addition, '.green stamps
A, : B and C from ration book "4
will be valid' for the hew items
from November 1 to December
20. These are the same stamp's
used for other, processed foods. .
"This action has been taken in
order to restore these . important
fruit spreads to grocer's ' shelves,
and to insure ; consumers a fair
share of the supply in the future,"
OPA's announcement said.
"Such supplies have been drain
ed to a low level in recent weeks.
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Japs Renew
Sub Warfare
On Allied Ships
LOS ANGELES, Oct " 22 - ()
Tanker ; and freighter crews re
turning .to the west coast from
Hawaii and other Pacific points
reported tonight that Jap subma
rines have reappeared in strength
in new attacks on allied shipping.
: The -crew -of - a tanker- just in
from the west reported being at
tacked . twice, and that several
torpedoes missed their vessel be
cause of deft maneuvering of the
ship.
Another tanker reported a brush
with : enemy subs r but : came
through without damage. Navy
authorities were non-committal
about the results of defense meas
ures adopted. v
These ire the first' reports of
Jap activity under water on the
west coast since early in the war.
Then the American ships La ha in a
and Cynthia Olson were sunk this
side of Hawaii, the latter, with
the loss of her crew of 20, A few
miles off the Pacific mainland the
tanker Emilio w a a torpedoed,
shelled and sunk; the Montebello
blew up and the Absaroka, a
freighter, limped into a California
port with a hole in her starboard
side... V ;" ' ' ..:,y . .
In June, 1942,' one or two pre
sumably Japanese submarines
fired shells on Vancouver island
in Puget Sound, near installations
of a f government radio station.
NO damage, was reported.? ?
: A few day later, nine shells
i.were fired late sand dues at
Seaside, Ore, near Fort Ste
vents which guards the entrance
f the Colombia river. '
H There Were other narrow es
capes from Jap attacks.' The Sa
moa, Agwiworld, Barbara C and
H. M. Storey were attacked, and
then defensive measures put ; a
stop to the enemy raiding.
; Nine and possibly eleven subs
were destroyed off the Califor
nia and Oregon coasts by the
navy and coast guard elements
alone. -
. . Except for one Jap sub that
fired into the Goelta, Calit, oil
field, and another that sent a col
lapsible plane ever Oregon in an
abortive attempt to ignite a forest
enemy thrusts in the western area
have been stopped.
Convoy Enters
Mediterranean
LA UNEA, Spain, Oct ilHJPf
Seven allied ships filled . with
troops, and 24 large landing barges
laden with war material, entered
the Mediterranean from the At
lantic through the Straits of Gib
raltar today. "
The troopships - included two
large United States merchantmen,
three British, one Dutch and one
Norwegian transport
Five British freighters were un
loading war material at Gibraltar
while 30 other freighters la X 1
last left for Britain frctn tl.e
Mediterranean. ; -:
i Two Italian destroyers and an
Italian transport of the Vulcania
type were anchored at the harbor
with a Ei it :ih Hed Cro?s shsp.
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ooinas
. 35,000 Leave
Coal, Mines in
Wildcat Walkout
- By the Associated Press
A nationwide strike vote
among 350,000 members of the
five railroad operating unions
became a strong likelihood to
night as spreading wildcat
.strikes 'of coal '.miners pushed
the -total - of idle to more than
35,000. .---I-'-
Leaders mt ' the -railroad operating-
anions were reported by
qualified spokesmen . to favor
the strike vote and rejection of
a proposed wage Increase of four,
cents tan hour. A Joint meeting
f all leaders ef the anion wast
expected te act today en a reso
lution recommending the strike
' poll and" rejection of the ' pay -raise.
; :
; The coal strikes " ' spread -J to
Pennsylvania, - Illinois and Ohio,
and 4000 additional walked out in
Kentucky! The : total- of idle - in
cluded Alabama,' 20,000;. Indiana,
3000; Kentucky, 7700; Ohio, 1650:
Pennsylvania, 1201; Illinois, 1400,
and Arkansas, 400. ;
The current series of walkouts
began in Alabama Oct 13, and
the war labor board has formally
ordered the r miners - there to go
back to work.- At the request of
the WLB, John L. Lewis, mine
workers ' president, also asked a
return to the Job. - ' ' :
r Yesterday", the WLB ordered
officials of the United ' Mine
Workers to appear before It te
! ilay and explain why the min
!: era are stlU etv :t z-'r
: . Local quarrels figured in " some
of th Kentucky work stoppages
but most of . the strikes," which
were. not authorized -by the Unit
ed Mine Workers, "were based on
the , miners': historic policy, "ho
contract,: no work. V 1 -
Hearings on a proposed new
contract proceeded, meantime, ' in
Washington before the war labor
board with much of the argument
revolving about the possible ef
fect on the price of coaL Union
spokesmen disputed a contention
from operators that the proposed
contract would boost prices 45 to
60 cents a ton, asserting addition
al costs would run no more than
20 to 35 cents a ton.
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Alsea Resident
Murder Victim
In Corvcdlis
Seeking the murderer of Clin
ton Beal, 56, Alsea resident who
died in a Corvallis hospital early
this morning of gun wounds in
flicted by an unidentified assail
ant, state police of this district
with deputies from the the office
of the Benton county sheriff
spread a net in the coast moun
tains west of Corvallis. -
Beal was taken to the hospital
late Friday night from the Alsea
area. He died at 12:35 this morn
ing. Officers here knew few: of the
details of the crime, other than
that the man had been -stmt sev
eral times and that the gunman
had crashed Off through, the brush.
Mildred Tracey, Cottage Grove
hotel, was listed on hospital rec
ords as Beal's daughter and only
survivor. " -
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Clark's Troops Beat Off
Two Enemy Counterattacks,
Harass New Nazi Positions
. ' " By ED WARD KENNEDY
.1 ALLIED - HEAUARTERS, Algiers; Oct. 22.-(P)-Beating
off enemy counter attacks at two ptints, American troops of Lt
Gen: Marie Clark's fifth" army have captured the strategic inland
towns of Alife andi Piedimonte d'Alife to harass German efforts
to install themselves in new mountain defensive positions north
of the Volturno river,' allied headquarters announced today.
Seizure of the two towns in advances north and northeast
from Dragoni, captured two days previously placed the Ameri
cans in position to continue their
upper Voltuma 'toward Venafro,
the nazis haye sunk the inland
Both at Alife and Cahcello, where British troops hold posi-'
' r,. " 7. otions eight miles inland from the
For 3rd Big
Raid of Week
- LONDON, Saturday, Oct 23JF)
British heavy . bombers returned
to Germany last night for their
third big raid of the week, it was
announced today; ; r
The night foray followed an
attack yesterday by American
Marauder medium bombers en
a nasi airdrome near Fails.
The Berlin and Cologne radios
went off the air before midnight
- The Marauder-bombers in day
light attacks yesterday struck at
an axis airdrome 43 miles west of
Paris to sustain the new cycle of
round-the-clock ' bombing of the
continent
, The- Americtans sped :- to their
target, the airbase at Evreux-Fau-ville,
over approximately 75 miles
of nasi territory and returned to
their British bases without en
countering a single enemy plane.
This performance, probably the
first time in the war that such a
sizeable operation into an enemy
stronghold had been allowed to go
utterly unhindered, attested to the
depletion of the German air force
strength.' -.
The raid came in the midst of
an autumn flurry of cross-channel
aerial warfare In which the allies
have been - landing solid punches
while the Germans have been
limited to light jabs. i ' ;
'." (The naxis made their seventh
stralsht nmisanee ' raid m the
London area tonight when a
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Eisenhower, Morgenthau
On Network at 3 Today
WASHINGTON, Oct; IZ.-VP)
Treasury Secretary Morgenthaa
and General Dwlght D. Elsea
stewer will be heard m a special
short-wave broadcast from Al
giers at t p. m. (FWT) tomor
row te be carried ever the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System
' netwerk,--'''"--, -y ''
Solicitors Raise Sights
s hestictory a t
Obtaining subscriptions of only
$6222.77 between Friday noon and
Monday noon, , time set for the
"victory" luncheon at the cham
ber of commerce, would be like
shooting ducks- on the pond for
the Salem United War Chest work
ers but their sights' have been
raised.
Inasmuch as the original "min
imum" goal was $85,000, the meet
ing Monday will be a celebration.
But announced Loyal Warner,
campaign manager, the Chest is
accepting the -challenge voiced by
Itev. W. Irvin Williams at Thurs
day's luncheon, and aiming at
$1C3,COO. Chest officials earlier
had Indicated that sum was
needed.
The total at close of the Friday
report luncheon was $78,777.22,
approximately 3 per cent cf the
original quota. Three divisions
contractors, industrial and utilities
had more than 3 per cent cf
their respective cuc-trs sr.i "X!
viously were skidding on their
heels to keep from going over the
top prior to the victory luncheon.
Some other divisions, however,
were far to the rear. Meanwhile
the rural division had climbed to
$3CC3 or 78 per cent of its sepa
rate goal, and the West 'Ealcn di-
thrust along both banks of the
-18 airline miles away, where
anchor of their new defense line.
mouth of the Volturna, the Ger-
mans struck back with everything,
in their - arsenal in an effort to
relieve theallied pressure, but in
each instance Clark's alert forces
met them with a withering fire
that threw the nazis back and lit
tered the field with hodiM.
(Berlin dispatches to the Span
ish press relayed German re
ports that an allied thrust
against Rome both from the air
and from the sea, only la miles
away, was Imminent Spanish
correspondents la Berlin said
the Germans had reported that
heavy-allied naval concentra
tions were maneuvering off Os
tla at the mouth ef the Tiber ,
and that allied parachute troops
' were standing alert at many air
"fields.)
- The great allied air ' fleet ex
tended its manifold activities as it
tindertook to give aerial support to
Yugoslav grouna troops in iigrit
ing the Germans along the Dalma
tion coast In the initial engage
ment of this new Balkan opera
tion, American. Warhawk fighters
shot down an entire flight of six
Junkers-22 Stukas that had been
sent out to dive-bomb Yugoslav
partisans.
As the Warhawks carried the
aerial war to Dal ma ti a, American
Lightning fighters again bombed
the important Serbian rail center
of Skoplje, -and German shipping
in the Adriatic also was attacked
by allied planes. RAF Wellington
bombers smashed nazi railway in
stallations by night along the Ital
ian side of the Adriatic.
British. Canadian and Indian
forces of Gen. ..Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's eighth army,
meanwhile, consolidated posi
tions they gained earlier In the
week and sent patrols thrustinr
inte enemy territory. They met
with what was officially termed
"varying resistance."
The day's principal air blows
were aimed against naxi commun
ications both north, and south of
Rome, upon which the enemy
Is heavily dependent for the move
ment of reinforcements and sup
plies necessary for a prolonged
stand before the capital,
c For the first time in many weeks
the Germans made a serious ef
fort to halt the deluge of bombs.
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vision had $788, or 68 per cent
Capital ; Post No. 9, American
Legion, announced a War chest
dance, all proceeds to go toward
"the cause, Monday night at the
armory with . the cavalry band
providing music.
"Try to visualize,! admonished
W. M. 'Hamilton, first president of
Salem Community Chest and the
luncheon speaker, the hardships of
American boys on the f!-hting
fronts and the sufferings of the
people in war-ravaged countries.
Anyone who can visualize these
things and then applies the Gold
en Rule will not fail in his re
sponsibility In this campaign, he
declared.
Each of the division leaders was
called upon by Fred Anunsen,
chr'rman for the Friday luncheon,
t Ull cf some experiences while
soliciting. In addition a number
cf the rural division district chair
men were csiied vpen.
Ecb Ekcpil cf Sa'en 1
school and Donna Carr cf U V.t
junior high expressed appreciation
of tie schools e-rportunity to r-sr-ticlpate
active' in t:;e crrr- i
this year. The senior fc-;-i ech I 3
total to date is ZZ2 tr.i U '
$207. Farrish junior hi;a tn-1 I -
(Turn.t3-ra-s 2 Ztc-ry )
Hand