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9 i1' rJ k! 10 Czi. rx. ::, t.:.i. 43. 1: tir. S3 fcii. V f ' I ! i ll r- inniTT TIUHD YEAH r.!:3 Z: A ! !- ! neurit: :r IZZl Tucked away in fish story in the Portland Journal was a bit of new of real interest in the Willamette valley. At a fish con ference in Boise (which seems to have accomplished more than the usual - legislative fish committee conference at Olympia), r. W. M. McGibbon of the army engineers' district office in Portland revealed that "the army, engineers have abandoned the proposed high dam for the middle fork of the Wil lamette near Oak Ridge, one of the, dams of the Willamette val ley flood control project which has raised fishing industry objec tions." Both" The " fish : and game commissions have hatcheries above the, site and fish could hot be lifted over the barrier. Mc . Gibbon said this objection plus the cost of moving both the high way and Southern Pacific rail road had influenced the engineers to look for a site near Natron and the building of a low dam rather than a high dam." This news is important and in teresting. It shows that the army engineers and the fishing interests are getting together to iron out their differences respecting dams in the Willamette flood control project. This particular dam meets with another very serious objec tion: it would ruin one of the most scenic spots in the state, visible from the railroad and thehigh ' way. A low dam at Natron, some 15 miles east of Eugene would, do no sucn damage, and would . be far less expensive. ' -. . I hope the army engineers will also revise their plans for a high dam on the McKenzie which if built at the proposed site would flood one of the most beautiful portions of this lovely stream, na tionally famed as a trout-fishing stream. Perhaps a. series of low dams in sections of the river be low will accomplish the same for Hood control. While the proposed high dam on the - North Fork of the San tiam will flood a considerable sec- - tion and erect a barrier to salmon migration. I believe it can be ac cepted. The Santiam is not so famed as a fishing stream - and there are long and : beautiful stretches f the river above and below the proposed pool. This dam has power possibilities which 'Ul timately should be realized. . The success of the fish ladders at . Bonneville dam -has gratified the (Continued on Editorial Page) Postage Rate ; Boost Urged In Congress By FRANCIS M. LeMAY WASHINGTON, Oct 25-PfA sharp increase in postal jrates, boosting the charge on first class, out-of-town ? letters from- three cents to, four, and larger excises on so-called luxuries including liquor, cigarettes, candy and pop r were proposed today . by the congressional advisory staff on taxation. ? V- ';:i'-; Estimated to yield $1,580,204,000 in new revenue, the program would place a one-cent tax on bot tled soft drinks, and raise the fed . era I gasoline tax from 1.5 cents to 2 cents a gallon. , Rep. Knutson (R-Minn),' lead ing republican member of the house ways and means committee, said there was a good chance the proposals would be adopted. The program proposes for the first time during this war to levy excises against soft drinks, candy, chewing gum and ? pari-mutuel wagers. ; ; x ; v : ; - - , - The tax on" liquor would be raised from $8 to $3 a gallon, the cigaret levy would go from $3.50 per thousand to $4 per thousand and larger levies would be - im- (Turn to Page 2- Story E) No. Objections Expressed At Rent Control Hearing A hearing without expression of any objection to the ordinance as whole and out of which the prin cipal problem arising appears to be the method of financing and of handling details was given the proposed new Salem rent control ordinance Monday -night : in the city council .chambers, ; , Whether the schedule of reg istration fees quoted in - the - bill (minimum of one dollar, two dol lars for five to 25 living quarters tinder one roof and three dollars for all establishments having more than . 20 sets of living quarters under one roof ) would be only an Initial cost or would recur annu ally, and whether registration fees along with . investigation fees would support an executive sec retary were questions asked. . If such fees could not support at full-time employe, could or should the city allocate -funds for such a purpose? L. T. LeGarie chairman of the ordinance com mittee and of last night's meeting, asked this question without re ceiving a definite answer. Some property owners tpoke in favor of larger fees; it was also suzested . that , the - investigation fee, minimum one dollar, to be charged either landlords .or ten rrnrrr4f r : . .... !... . ' - .. ' " . f ' '- ;" '.. ' ! " . . X V ,-. r i Driyes. B' Miles. Four Violent Counterattacks 1 - - - - - - ' - - . , ; Repelled; 8th Army Expands ; Bridgehead at Trigno River . ' By EDWARD KENNEDY . , ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, three miles against determined violent counterattacks within 24 captured the important roa the mountainous sector of the Rome, a headquarters communique announced today. Fall of the town, 13 miles from the Mediterranean end of the 125 Jap Planes Destroyed by ! Rabaul Raid i -j nByDEAN SCHEDLER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST i PACIFIC, Tuesday, Oct ' 25--)- General MacArthur's, airforce ; destroyed 125 Japanese planes Saturday- and Sunday in raids on reinforcements at Rabaul, New Britain, bringing the total wiped out there in four recent smashes to more than 300. Soaring i.theuenemy'aplaae losses in 1w weeks in the south : ' and southwest' Pacific to more ' than 700,' his bombers escorted . by fighters as they were in the record 350-ton raid ef October 12, went back to Kabaul the strength ef reconnaissance pho tographs showing the enemy had sent in air replacements. ' After -destroying; or badly dam aging 177 planes in the first raid and 60 more in a raid October 18, aerial photography planes spotted 222 planes on the airdromes of Vunakanau, Rapopo and Tobersu The first attacks Saturday, were high altitude bombing suns by Li berators, escorted by Lightnings. Twenty parked aircraft were de stroyed and 15 of .50 intercept ing fighters were shot down. ; Sunday, Mitchell medium bomb ers made the flight of more than 300 X: miles r across New Britain, screened by Lightnings, and de stroyed 45 enemy planes on the ground. Between 60 . and 70 Ja panese planes tried to break up this attack and 43 were shot down. Allied ' losses for the two new raids were two Lightnings and two Mitchells.1' This small- price was paid by raiding forces which totalled nearly 300. r . Today's communique which" announced the new raids , said these succeeded - in crippling "the enemy's air reinforcements: which he - was - attemptlar te build up from rear areas." 1 (Turn to Page 2 Story I) ' ants complaining and asking ac tion by the ordinance established fair rent, committee might bring the total up to the needed sum. A full-time secretary will not be needed after registration has been completed and the- first flurry of complaints : has been cleared, O. A. Davidson, former ajderman, maintained. - - :' ".' ' . Elsewhere- after the hearing, it was suggested that the city build ing inspector, whose official work has been T sliced by wartime re strictions, I might .handle the job The "ordinance should include a provision ; whereby , the executive secretary would be empowered; to act by and with private property owners in efforts to secure prior ities, ; thus : encouraging building here, declared W. II. Crawford, maintaining that new housing fa cilities are the best rent control " . Only expressed objection to the fee schedule. was on the grounds that it is " unjust to owners ! of courts of small houses. Discussing this subject Carl Gies of the Hol lywood district pointed out that his 16-cabin court would require payment of a $16 fee, while an ho tel .with 1C0 rooms would pay a three dollar registration charge. , ; (Turn to Page 2 Story D) 1L MJ I LU Algiers, Oct. 25 -Wh Driving resistance and , repelling four hours, Fifth 'army troops have and rail junction of Sparanise in Italian front 83 airline miles from O battle line, raised a severe threat to German forces between that point and the sea. An allied com mentator declared: "If they don't get out they will be caught in a pocket" Sparanise is about seven miles north of the Volturno river near the center of Lt. : Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army front The ad vance placed Clark's troops across the strongly defended Regia ca nal and, if continued, would split the nazis Massico ridge line. ' Gen. Sir ' Bernard L. Mont gomery's British, Canadian and Indian forces ef the Elxhth ar nay 1 enlarged their bridgehead across the Trigno river in the eastera sector in stern fighting against German f ormatiens which have dor themselves la te the mountainous terrain 1--dctermined. effort i block "any "back door" entrance to Rome, "Steady . progress ; continues to be; made along the - whole front," an allied announcement said. "Ac tive and extensive patrolling con tinues on the Fifth army fronts, with'; small - advances r in certain sectors." " ' In : crossing the Trigno river Montgomery's fighters carried the invasion of the peninsula from southern into central Italy, the river; in this area being consid ered .the dividing line. In front of the , Eighth army rise mountains up to 2200 feet Behind - these tower , still higher ridges and farther northward is the Gran Sasso, or great 7 rock of Italy, towering over 8500 feet high,'1 the highest point of the pen Insula south of the Alps. ' Air warfare rose a new tempo as, American heavy bomb ers t protected by Italy-based fighter squadrons plunged ex- ' plosives on southern Austria and a German , airfield at Tirana. 'Albania, and the nasi air force threw at least CO of its own ' fighters into the conflict (Turn to Page 2 Story C) -c California Has Sharp Quake SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 25-(flP) A ' sharp - earthquake " apparently centering in the San Jose area 50 miles, south shook the. central California coastal area "for three minutes starting : at 9:49 o'clock tonight, but damage evidently was confined to dqwntown San Jose, where store windows were shat tered: and plaster fell from walls. Prof. Perry Byerly University of California seismologist ' de scribed the 'quake as a "right sharp shock." Dr. Albert J. New luv University of Santa .Clara seismologist s'a id the temblor seemed to center directly under San Jose as no preliminary trem ors were recorded. Telephone communications were disrupted for a 5 time in . two out lying districts of San Francisco, but the shake here .was confined to dish-rattling proportions.-- '- Residents of- counties on t h e San Francisco peninsula and, north of San Francisco . bay. described the shock as the most severe they had felt in many years. It. was felt from Sacramento 100 miles northwest to the Santa Clara val ley 100 miles south. V v , While the 'quake totaled three minutes in duration on seismo graphs, the sharpest shock came about 8:51 and lasted approxi mately 2D seconds At San Jose about 12 lar store windows were fcrtken End auxil iary police patrolled the streets to prevent looting. Plaster dropped frcm cracking walls. Bocks tum bled frcrn shelves cf Ltrsxies and the city hall. Theatre audiences were calmed and no panic oc curred. - - ; One Blazing This is aa air view ef the northbound tanker which collided im the" Florida coast The mast ef the sunk i vessel Is visible ever the stent lives were lost (AP Wlrephoto froi i army air force). r Tanker tire Victims to Be "; Buried at Sea - MIAMI, Fla Oct 25-;p)-B dies of 35 unidentified dead of the 88 men who perished in flames when-two blacked -out tankers col lided off the coast of Florida last Wednesday will be consigned- to the sea in funeral - rites "some-' where in the Atlantic" tomorrow., A warship will bear the bodies from a Florida port to the point selected for the services, it was announced by Rear Admiral W. R. Munroe, commandant of the sev enth Haval district . ' " , ' Only " 37 bodies 'have - been ' re- covered from the charred hulks of the tankers. One has been identi fied. Both merchant seamen and members of the navy gun crews are among the dead, but ful mil itary honors will be paid to all. Two tfha plains .will preside and the bodies wrapped in canvas will slide into the waters with the tra ditional ceremony for burial at sea. - Pope Moves For Peace By JAMES F. KING . LONDON, Oct 25.-iJPiP ope Pius XII has intensified his effort to bring about a peace, the Vatican radio said today as other advices indicated Catholic bishops in Ger many ' and northern Italy were preparing conferences for reasons unannounced. , The past few days have brought reports that the pope has talked with the American, JBritish and French envoys to the holy - see, which is under German guard. These, reports have set off specu lation on the possibility of making Rome an "open city.V ' ... . Another ; Vatican broadcast to-" night also recorded by -the Asso-' ciated Press, said that; Cardinal Schuster of Milan, had called the bishops, of Lombardy,' in northern taly; for a' conference. . ; Indications emanating from Cai ro and Switzerland a few days were that the cardinal and a num ber of priests had been taken into custody by the nazis as a result cf sermons- denouncing the anti-racial measures of the German au thorities in northern Italy. . Earlier, the German internation al information bureau had report ed that : Catholic bishops in the reich would ; hold a conference in Berlin early in December -their second this year.;":;,., ; Just what the relations were be tween the pope and his uninvited nazt "protectors" was not clear in the numerous reports." Scio H Jan Hurl In 'Sobbing - ; SCIOr Oct 25-(Special)-Vrrarren Burton was taken to the Aihany General hospital tonight and O. IC Howard arrested by City I'.sr shal L. KtujtJ as a result cf a knifing which tock place at 7 p. m. -..-; Howard, said to be I'rur-, wsi arrested on charges c havh' ' quarreled with Eurton and tliihe.. his face with a knife.. WounJ-i rci from below the ri ht eye -down the cheek toward the jugular vein. Burton's condition was not criti ceL : ' - - - . . -. , .: -Slate -rjpclice W-2 - toni-1-.t re portedly were quc-4Jonin2 How ard as to the cause cf the quar rel. . - ( 1 Tcinher Resta Atop Another Mew Strikes Coa I F ields Nation 9s F uel Problem By the Asaoeiated Press Development of fresh wildcat strikes in the eastern coal fielda last night gradually increased severity of the" nation's "fuel prob -. t m : - . , . , - . . Even as the war. labor .board with the,explanation that it of the United ltlme Yorkerg are the men back .to work," additional Ui 7' " r'zed strifr jv-rpf?4 ed in Pennsylvania and West" Vir ginia mines. - - While some 1500 miners resumed work in Ohio- and other strikers returned : to work in . Alabama, about 1400 ' quit work at a mine near' California, P? about 40 miles south' of Pittsburgh, , and seven mines in West Virginia failed to operate! with 2500 men; failing to report ; About ,1000 "Virginia coal miners also remained idle. The numbers of idle miners in Illinois increased again today, as 5500 of .the state's 40,000 organized coal diggers declined to work. . The number engaged in ' the work stoppage was a gain of 1400 over Saturday." - The WLB. which . on Saturday spoke of possible government seiz ure of , Alabama mines unless the strikers returned this . weekend, meanwhile approached . a decision on a proposed contract between the United Mine -Workers and Il linois operators.1 x . - J ; ; This contract would grant up-, wards of $L50 a day more to Il linois - miners by extending - their .work, day - to 'cover underground travel pay. The UMW-would like to, see it 'applied toihe whole in dustry; .but -Appalachian operat ors oppose it vigorously - f The bulk of those staying away from the -mines' continued to. be in Alabama, where the estimate was 19,000 idle. Kentucky -and In diana' followed- with 7500 and" 7000-respectively. -- . . - Longressxnen : , Said Favoring Expense Cut . ; Drastic reduction in federal ex penditures not directly related to the , war program,, is favored by most republicans and a substan tial number of prominent demo crats in congress as an alternative to increased federal income taxes or. imposition of a federal sales tax. Congressman James W. Mott declared Monday while in his home state in 'connection with a house naval affairs committee in vestigation of naval production units on the Pacific coast Con gressman Mott spent Sunday and part of Monday , at his home near Salem.'", y ;'- ?"."T ' y".r'' ' : The subcommittee will arrive in Astoria.-. late . Saturday ' ' af tsrnoc-a snd will Inspect Tongue Point and ether 'naval uz.ils - there . cn I.Xondsy. Two days-wCl be nent in Portland latere.. ; '.-IJott t$aii .the cc par trularly tis interested Li dcter mlaing whether there hss been tnj serious letdown in, V.s pro duction of naval: centers, llz rr ticularly refcrrel to t'.a i -?cr-tance of the r.av: 1 base s.t Ailoria v.here a nuir.bsr cf , Kair-;r-tuilt vessels are fcci-eiu-rr-L- - On a previevs i. :zl'.:n -tri?. Licit said, cc r.--f'crs (Turn to T. i 2 C::r;- : ) 1 9 dark with another tanker off the ef the flaming ship. Ela-hty-eixht in Eastern Increase erased a back-to-work deadline Telieves the international officers making a sincere effort to' get Hull Confers 55 Minutes With Stalin " By HENRY CASSIDY " MOSCOW;' Oct 25-P-Secre-tary of State Cordell Hull talked with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin for 55 minutes today and became the highest US official to meet Stalin since the United States and Soviet Russia established diplo matic, relations in 1933... After the historic meeting, de tails of which were not divulged,' the 72-year-old Hull proceeded to ' Spiridonovka palace; to begin the ' second week of his conversa tions on war and postwar subjects wit h British : Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Vy acheslav "Molotov. " -r US Ambassador W. Averell Har riman and . Molotov were present at. the Hull-Stalin meeting, the length of which indicated that it brought forth more than mere courtesies.: - c - , - i - Eden conferred separately with Stalin last week and, it was learn ed, they ; discussed , only. British Soviet matters... - . :, - The only official American com ment on the Hull-Stalin - meeting was: f.' . - , i ;:" v - -"If wasmatural that the secre tary of. state,f. having come here for the conference,'' should be re ceived by Marshal Stalin.'S " As he did for the Eden' meeting it was, understood, Stalin again laid! aside his -drab raiment of tunic, breeches and boots and don ned a marshal's - unif orm-long (Turn to Page 2 Story F) - ;ico,cc3 t If. TJauIed Invaders, Perliaps Dacle iii Southern Russia "- - By JUDSON O'QUINN . - ' ' '; LONDON, Tuesday, Oct 28-(P-The Red army crushed Ger--many's powerful : Dnieper river bend defenses yesterday with the 'capture of the industrial cities of Dnepropetrovsk and Dnep- -rodzerzhinsk, spun the enemy into a "disordered retreat" near' Krivoi Rog, and killed 2000 Germans in a new break-through above the Crimea, Moscow said today. j A sadly mauled German army of perhaps 1,000,000 faced a de bacle in southern Russia, judging from Moscow's disclosures and the admissions of danger emanating from Berlin broadcasts. 1 A- midnight supplementary bulletin broadcast from Moscow said one. Soviet army crossed the Dnieper near Kaidaki, 10 miles : ' below Dnepropetrovsk, while a second moved on the city from the west They smashed through elaborate concrete pillboxes and blockhouses to take the twin cities in the upper corner of the loop by storm, . and captured "enormous quantities' of war material . the enemy had been accumulating for months. - , : X This, skillful springing of a , .irap-within-a-trap ..was abet ted by , twe arms of a larger soviet - pincers, eae hammerlnc ai the gates ef Krivoi Seg..g5 miles, to the soothwest, the eth er racing senthwestward throvrh fallen Melitopol toward ' the Crimea. . .' . . . . . V- Thousands, of Germaasfell on the steppes above the Crimea, and the. early morning Moscow bulle tin announced the shattering of a German defense line based on the railway from Melitopol to. the Cri mea." A number , of strongpoints were, .captured, including Rldion ovka, 14 miles southwest of Meli topol on- an Inlet of. the Sea of Azov. . .:-:' -.. Eight German connterattacks were beaten down before itri vol Kog, and one soviet:, unit smashed an entire nasi regiment said the bulletin, recorded by the soviet monitor, i Front dispatches said the' 23rd German tank division already had been trapped at Krivoi Rog, itself ah important industrial and rail center, and the German command er killed. .'v , Dnepropetrovsk normally ; sup plied one-third of all Russia's cast iron, and the city of more than 500,000 is the key to control of all Russia's lower Ukraine Industries. Dneprodzerzhinsk, 20 miles to the west also is an important metals center. . - . . '- ; - -. ; ' : The action vlrtnally freed the entire Dnieper bend area which Includes the wrecked remains ef the. hare $110,600,009 Dnieper dam and hydroelectric works de stroyed by the Rassians In their '- (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Salem Ghesi Over Top and Super -Go First in Oregon "over the top" and over the $100,000 super-goal set last week as well as minimum quota of $S3,CC3 the Salem United' War Ches1' campaign nev ertheless will : continue until all cards are turned in, it was announ ced at the y I e 1 6 r y" luncheon Monday noon by Loyal Warner, campaign manager. The total tabulated at that time was $103,132.54; for the Salem campaign proper. West Salem with $1730 in its separate campaign ex ceeded its goal by 43 per cent and the Salem rural division was bare ly over with $7533. The West Sa lem total is credited to Polk coun ty and Salem rural to the Marion county, quota, but they made the total amount raised under Salem United War Chest auspices $11 2,-. Al Raraseyer, West Salvia chair man, made special mention cfthe West Salem city government which subscribed $1C0, and the West Salem Liens club which 3ve j:3.-Ia the absence of Frz: 't Doer- r, rural division, chairmc n, I !rs. r.cr-.'i Jcnes cf Crocks w! rec:H trict including Lake LLL'i sub scribed Its quota three times over, report? for that division. ' A trurrrt fanfare r reccJci the TCirsrce cf the wctr.crs tllvi :n tarhit Ut-lzz with i'.r.'-s, t I? two V.'amer I; res. r '. :r- i i O- or Situation Said Delaying t WASHINGTON, Oct 23-UP)-The Pacific northwest manpower situation was cited today as the factor'which Is delaying a defi nite -.decision 4 n whether the government will finance a $4, 000,000 aluminum-from-clay pilot, plant in the region. . .. . Senator McNary (R-Ore) re ported that Charles E. Wilson, vice chairman of the war produc tion ' board, 1 informed him that ' War Ma n p o w e r. Commissioner. Paul . V. McNutt would be asked to explore further-the northwest's manpower situation and report to the WPB. -I itold Wilson," said McNary, ,"that the labor situation in Ore gon, would be found ample at places mentioned as sites for the plant" , H, The senator i a i d Wilson told him the WPB had approved con-. tinued construction of similar pi lot plants in Wyoming and South Carolina.;' , Wilson's announcement that the WPB was withholding approval of Pacific northwest plant left the situation there just where It was a month ago when members of the Washington-Oregon-Idaho' house . delegations began a cam- ' piign to force action on the es tablishment of a $4,CO0,CCO semi- commercial pilot plant in that section. At that time the WPB had approved the plant - but the war manpower " commission re-. fused to sanction its construction (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Leads Slate ettcs, which enabled Miss Bara thea Steusloff, chairman, to report $4131.14 for the day and a total of $12,343 or 123 per cent of that di vision's quota which had been greatly increased this year. , Contrary to all past experience, every division in' the campaign went over the top on "victory day," Fred Anunsen's contractors' , division topping them all ona per-: centage basis wUh $15,7C337 cr 132 per cent - -' ' Complimenting Salem on its out-; standing showing in this campaign, . Chester A. Moores of Portland; painted -a bright picture of this city's future in the Usht of extensive-development--which looms ahead forthe entire Pacific coast, whose industrialization, he estima ted, has been set ahead 23 years by the war. He pointed to the Amer- -lean Can company's selection cf a Salem factory sits and described as favorable Ealcm's rrG.-.-ct cf cb-taining- the alurr.ir.a r i'.ct riant now assured for the r.cr.h-.vr.t. ' .Since a rcons: h3 been the north v, speaker aj-!-uJ 1 t' of cocperatica v '. h relization that t'.l benefit from each mcnt On I c! c. . cf whkh he U i" . (Turn. to V: : ; Z- 3 I . , the : hit ' a i Alumina maii