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In a celebration of modest di
mensions, made so by war condi
tions, Oregon State college will
today celebrate Its 75th anniver
sary. There will be formal exer
cises culminating in a Charter Day
Convocation at the gymnasium to
night, when President Harrison
Clifford Dale of the University of
Idaho will give the principal ad
d ress on The Durable Ideals in
. Education." Next day the insti
tution will start on the final quar
ter of Its first century. It may well
be prophesied that the "first 75
.years will prove to have, been
the hardest.
Different people see v Oregon
State College in different lights,
like the various blind men who
saw the elephant: to one it was
" a wall, to another a tree-trunk,
- etc The farmer thinks of the state
college primarily in terms of agrH
-' culture "the! college says to do
this, the college says that," or as a
place where he can write about
' some strange pest on his fruit or
. disease among his livestock. An
alumnus will think of it as his al
ma mater - - and remember with
pride and pleasure his four years
spent - at Corvallis. "His loyalty
sticks: Another may think of It
in terms of ex-President Kerr, its
great builder, and regard it as an
- example to fit ' Emerson's oft4
quoted phrase: "An institu Uon" Is
the lengthened shadow ox one
man. The sports fan will think
of the college in terms of f ootball
teams, past and future, not pres
ent. The housewife may think of
the college in terms of its home
makers' conferences, and of its
bulletins on home-making. To the
thousands of Four-H club .mem
bers of the state there is one reas
on for OSC, which is enough for
them, and that is Harry Seymour,
In the past university partisans
have t been green-eyed When the
name of the college was mentioned,
accusing it of all sorts of . high
- crimes and misdemeanors in the
perennial scrap between the two
institutions, the charges being duly
reciprocated by college partisans.
OSC- is not all things to all people;
it is different things to different
people. ' . .' j '
The state college of today fol
lows the general pattern of land
grant colleges. On its educational
side it combines the theoretical
..with the practical. In its extension
division . it seeks to spread the
knowledge of book and laboratory
" and experiment station to folk in
(Continued on Editorial Page)
Local Postage I
BoostLuxury j
Tax Approved
By FRANCIS LeMAY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -Pi
An increase in postal rates, boost
ing local letter charges from 2
cents, to 3, and stiff er excises on
so-called luxuries including a
66 per cent increase in the tax
on liquor - were approved today
by the house ways and means
committee. ; 3't ':-
The tax r initiating body, how
ever, rejected all proposals for
hikes in levies . on cigarettes - and
other tobacco, and refused to im
pose excises on soft drinks, candy
and chewing gum.'
It voted down a proposal to
"Taise the federal gasoline tax from
1JS to 2 'cents per gallon.
Estimated to r yield $1,430,500,
000 in additional revenue, against
the administration's request for
$10,500,000,000 in new taxes, the
schedule represents the first ma
jor congressional action .: to get
more money,' the committee pre
viously having battered down one
- treasury request after, another.;;-.-;
With so little new. revenue in
sight. Representative Robertson
(D-VaJ informed the committee
he would move for a vote on a 10
per cent federal retail sales tax.
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Postwar School Bit ilding
May
Soon Be on Ballot
By ISABEL CHILDS
How do taxpayers of the Sa
lem school district wish to finance
the already - needed ' school ac
commodations in the postwar days
when construction can be under
taken? 'This question may be answered
at a school election next spring;
If the school district' own little
postwar planning committee
named t last night's meeting of
directors finds that the, projects
can be accurately determined and
the school board approves their
presentation to the citizenry J
1 Dr. Li E. Barrick was appoint
ed chairman of the committee by
Schoolboard Chairman Don
Young. Serving with' him will be
Directors Roy Harland and Fay
Wright ...
Assigned to wtrk with Supt
Frank D. Bennett . and District
Business Manager Connell Ward,
the committee is to prepare a list
ef physical ' needs together with
postwar price, estimates. ;
Voters, if the board decides that
. there is a chance to flnarce the
inrnmr txxzid year
AC
TiVns
Nazis Withdraw
To Yet Stronger
Defense Line
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k By EDWARD KENNEDY ?
f ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algjers, Oct. 2 e-jCffThe-American
Fifth . and British -Eighth
armies striking forward up to
six 'miles have,, captured- ten
more towns, , the - allied com
mand ; announced today, wind
ing up I the : first phase of the
battle; for Italy as the Ger
mans withdrew into a new moun
tain defense line- stronger than
any they have held before.
; ; The new line, runninr from
Mondrarone on the Tyrrhenian
f coast northeast te Venafro and
then to Vssto en the Adriatic,
; apparently is where the Ger
mans have decided te make their
! first "permanent" stand. The
'position has natural, advantages
! ef mountains - extending right
' across the peninsula and run
j ning several ridges deep.
j The allied armies," having , con
auered all of southern Italy in a
54-day campaign, now are con
fronted by a much more difficult
task. In having crossed the Vol-
turno . and Trigno rivers, they
might be said to have hurdled the
moat of Hitler's fortress Europe,
and they, now stand before its
first great wall. - ; - -
I The enemy's retirement to the
shortest and best defensive line
anywhere between Naples . and
Rome and report that Field Mar
shall Erwin-RommeU 'Wasbring-
ing more troops into northern It"
aly were accepted as certain signs
that the Germans are determined
to hold Rome at least through the
winter. ' . ' " ; '
j It was even regarded as pes-
sible thai the nasls intend to
) launch a eounteroffensive. '
; Of the ten twons whose capture
was announced today, four fell to
the Fifth army, including the im
portant road Junction of Franco!
ise, lVi miles west of Sparanise
and six miles north of the Voltur-
no river. -
j The Eighth army, whose Trig-
no river crossing was disclosed
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Boost Signed
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 PV-
Higher ' payments; approved .by
Congress for the servicemen's de
pendents became effective " today
after President Roosevelt put. his
Signature to the legislation. -
The new, scale leaves, at r$50
monthly the payment to a wife, but
boosts from $62 to $80 the pay
ment to a wife and one child and
from $10 to $20 -the payment for
each additional child.i?
All the increase comes from the
government, the serviceman's con
tribution remaining at $22 mon
thly unless payments are made to
two classes i of dependents to a
wife and child, for instance, and
also to parents. In that event, the
serviceman contributes $27.
construction by other than a bond
issue; will be called "upon to de
cide : whether they care to -establish
a sinking ; funcL Oregon law
provides . that such a- fund, dedi
cated to specific projects, may be
gathered over a Reriod , f . five
years. ' " ' , ." L; ' - . -;
The school district is this year
paying: out $S7,CC9 on principal
together with interest on $412,
000 worth of. bonds, Bennett
pointed out last night.
When the war is over, it is. al
together possible that the expand
ed ; population of . Salem " schools
may require expenditures beyond
what could be raised under the 1
five per cent bonding limitation
requirements, he declared. ,
. Parrish junior high school
needs an auditorium, a cafeteria
and additional classrooms; the
system owns an undeveloped ath
letic - f i e Id ; ?' elementary school
building needs in the north end
of the city arp already . felt for
Englewood is filled, to capacity,
Il'-hland is almost at the satura
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By Allies
Depe
ndent Pay-
12 PACZ3
Under cover mi mschiMui fire Russian troops make their way across the Dnieper river la their drive
v against the German defense line, according to the caption accompanying this Soviet official photo. (AF
; Wlrephoto from Soviet Eadiophoto).
Jap Air Bases
In Solomons
Put Out of Use
By OLEN CLEMENTS
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS - IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Wednesday, Oct. 27.-A5)-Constant
bombings by hundreds of Ameri
can planes apparently - have com
pelled the Japanese to quit using
their most important air bases in
the northern Solomons.
(A spokesman at South Pa
cific headquarters ef A dm.
William F. Halsey said today
the enemy's BeugaiaviUe fields
ef Kahili and Kara have net
been used since OcL 23 and
that the Banale bUnd field In
the Shortlands . also ,1s inopera
tive) C ' " - -wV
In the latest two raids on Kar
hill, biggest airdrome left to the
Nipponese airforce in that sector,
and on the nearby Kara field, to
day's communique : reported that
heavy bombers, v torpedo bombers
and dive bombers carried ; out
their methodical destruction with
out a single Japanese fighter in
tercepting. Two hundred and 30 American
planes dropped 130 tons of bombs
in those knockout assaults. Gap
ing bomb craters were left in the
runways of Kahili and Kara.
The revetments, where planes
are kept, and - the supply areas
were blackened by fires. The only
Japanese opposition consisted of
moderate anti-aircraft shelling.
: These : pulverized bases guard
the approaches to RabauL New
Britain, the air-sea fortress where
four recent allied raids have de
stroyed more than 300 planes.
(Admiral Halseys spokesman
said the long series of heavy
American air attacks en Kahili
and Kara had made It Impossi
ble far the Japanese te repair
the fields sufficiently for planes
te take off."? I'.l-:'" - V
(He added t that f the Ballaie
fighter strip, even when it was
useable, ; failed to provide; fighter
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Single Men's
Draft Ahead
Of Dads Voted
By WILLIAM F. AR BOG AST
"WASHINGTON, Oct-- 25.-ffV-
With an enthusiastic volley of
ayes' the house today passed
legislation requiring selective
service to take all available sin
gle men and childless married
men m ine enure nation before
drafting , fathers. :
This rule would apply regard
less of the fathers' occupation.
Under the measure, which now
goes to the senate, a father is de
fined as a man with children born
prior to Sept 15, 1942. .
The bill is similar to one passed
by the senate on ct , but differs
in that it -strengthens, the auth
ority of Major Genersl Lewis B.
Hershey, -selective service direct
or, by taking away much admin
istrative power delegated to Man
power Commissioner Paul V. Mc
Nutt However, it removes much
of the leeway, the senate bill
would give Hershey in determin
ing whether some lathers should
be drafted before some non-fathers.
There were no roll-calls , on the
bill passed by the House. Only one
no" was heard as it was put to
a voice vote. It came from Rep
resentative Morrison (D-NC), who
told the House he was "proud of
it . .---v - - - ,
Before passing the measure in
the near-record time of four hours,
txurn 10 I'zze 2 story C
Cclesa. Oraejca.
Russians Cross Dnieper
Retreating Germans Lay
Home Cities Open toFirial
Destruction
By JOHN M.
WASHINGTON, Oct.
Russia and Italy toward an
are setting the trap for the final
' The more they retreat to shorten their lines and strenghen
heir positions for ground fighting the more they lay open Ger-
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Resigns Post
:. DR. VERNON A. DOUGLAS
Dr. Douglas
Resigns State
Defense Post :
Dr. . Vernon A. Douglas, since
June, 1942, director of the emer
gency medical service for the Ore
gon state defense council, and pri
or to that Marion i county's first
full-time health' officer, Tuesday
announced his resignation' to ' en
ter private practice in Portland.
There he will be associated with
Dr.; E. W.' St : Pierre. r,';
No appointment of a successor
is repocted by the defense coun
cil, which for the time being, will
endeavor - to coordinate emergen
cy medical activities in the state
thrcugh volunteer ; workers, ; Jer
rold Owen, adnuhlstrator, said last
night -' .:-;..'-V-:
Dr. Douglas, -.whose commission
as a major in the US public health
sen-ice terminated - this month
when OCD funds allocated to this
sendee were curtailed by con
gress, has been desirous of re
turning . to private practice for
some time, he revealed Tuesday.
Prior to his appointment to the
state -' defense post, he served
briefly in the ' adjutant - general's
office as state medical officer,' but
his long period of service in Sa-
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rilercliant Vcccel,
Destroyer Collide
WASHINGTON, Oct 25-(-The
navy reported today that the de
stroyer Murphy-was damaged se
verely in a collision .with a mer
chant vessel in the north Atlan
tic. ' :
A part of the forward-structure
of the destroyer, a 17C3-ton ship,
was sheared' off in the collision,
but she was successfully towed
into New York harbor.
v-The navy said the next cf kin
of casualties will te nctLied as
soon a3 reports are receive L
.- The llurphy was ccr.".mLsIcned
in July, IS 42.
The navy reported the r - re' int
vessel was damaged s'.'J..S.y. -
Wedzeidcry Ilcrriag, October 27.
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HIGHTOWER
o--Gernian armies falling back in
inner fortress of Europe actually
destruction of their homeland.
Omany's cities ' and industrial - re
sources to attack from the air.
i This is one of the most impor
tant points to keep in mind about
the European war today. . '
i According to. the old. standards
bf warfare,, the German in shrink
ing his fronts, shortening his sup
ply lines' and generally strength-
ening his grlpon -his vital cenfral
position. This central position in
cludes: all that- vast area from
western France to the heart of
conquered Poland and from north
ern -Italy- and the central- Balkans
to the North Sea which the Reich
generals know they must hold to
win even a chance to avoid com
plete defeat , .
- In so far as ground action alone
is . concerned it is . conceded by
some Allied leaders that once Ger
many has. drawn her armies into
that fortress she can offer power
ful defense and .may be able to
muster occasional offensive
strength, ,
-. These leaders confidently ex
pect, therefore, that when the Ger
mans have consolidated their final
ground positions - they will come
foreward with peace proposals on
the argument that since the Allies
cannot hope to win without enor
mou cost they should agree to an
armistice on terms short of uncon
ditional surrender, v - - v
However, with Allied air power
in the ascendancy and German
aerial defenses steadily weaken-H
ing it is an open question whether
the Germans ever will be able to
stop and consolidate their ground
lines for a war of position.
Even" if they do succeed, they
will not be able to stop Allied
bombers from striking across their
ground defenses at the supporting
industrial elements without which
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Ration Signug
ens
From 4:15 pjn. to S:15 pjn. to
day tomorrow and Friday, regis
tration for ration book four will
be carried on in the eight elemen
tary, school buildings of . Salem.
"' Persons "whose surnames begin
with letters from A to G are ex
pected 'to register today and may
do so at any elementary school.
although for their own conveni
ence the nearest such building is
suggested. Others in the . alpha
betical segregation 5 (H to N on
Thursday and O to Z on Friday)
may register today; if the speci
fied dates would be inconvenient
for them. ' - . -;
f Three hundred eighty regis
trars, largely teachers, working
two to six hours apiece through
out the week, e x pec t to issue
23.CC3 books in this district
- Restrants are required to take
with them, to the school building
all -ration books three for mem
bers cf t!.s family for which they
ere rc-'-lcrir.x. Across th.3 covers
of these bocks will be t'.''.::i
A" at C-a tL-ne bock f . . r is
Issued so thit no Ci
be made. A--
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Nov. 25
Non-Operating ;
Unions Join
7age Pressure
Chiefs of the 15 non-operating
railroad unions tonight ordered
a strike ballot among, their' 1,
500,000 members. .The ballot
was made - returnable Novem
ber 23. .
The, operating brotherhoods,
meeting in Chicago las week
also authorized a strike ballot
, The . non-operating chiefs, in a
statement, said they saw no pther
way except through a strike bal
lot to secure a "satisfactory wage
increase.
The non-operating brotherhoods
asked last December for- a 20-
cenas an hour wage increase, and
subsequently an emergency board
recommended a eight - cent in
crease. This was set aside, how
ever, : by - Stabilization- Director
Fred M. Vinson on "the grounds
it conflicted with wage stabiliza
tion policies. ' .
. "It would be a neglect of our
duty if, by failure to take con
certed action and to allow grow
ing dissatisfaction, we permitted
the interest of the employes and
the public interest to be injured
by increasing individual discour
agement which results in the drif
ting of large numbers of employes
out of service of this essential war
Industry and also results in spor
adic unauthorized strikes harmful
alike U the employes, the . car
riers and the effective prosecu
tion of the war, said the state
ment of the non-operating bro
therhoods. ' " i
7LB Rejects
Illinois Soft
Goal Proposal.
. WASHINGTON, Oct 26-ff)
The war labor, board tonight re
jected the wage schedule in pro
posed Illinois, soft coal agreement
and countered with a proposition
which it said would increase the
miners'; earnings $1.12V4 cents a
day 9 or about $10 for,, a - 6-day
week. '-- v -
The board said its proposed set
tlement could be applied in prin
ciple to the other bituminous areas,
subject to modification on varia
tions in underground travel time
of miners in the various districts.
The board also set a deadline
of .Thursday morning for the re
turn of miners now on strike to
their jobs and said that the presi
dent would be notified then of all
mines that are idle, presumably
as a prelude to seizure by the gov
ernment " " - 101:
The WLB's counter-offer was
approved by a vote of 7 to 5, the
four public members and three in
dustry members voting in the ma
jority. One industry member, Al-
mon Roth, ef San Francisco, join
ed, the four labor members in dis
senting.- - '-. - --' -. ' - ;
PfTTSBtTRG, Oct,2-P-Rep-resentatives
of 1400 idle miners
voted unanimously tonight to re
turn to work tomorrow, ending a
two-day walkout in a dispute ov
er dismissal of a blacksmith.
FDR Praises
Men of Fleet
OnNcLvyiBay
WASHINGTON, Oct i tSHPi
PresUent Coosevelt declared te-
' nisbt . that with ' new ships and
planes already en the way te
til ta tia navy's 7S 3 wsrsi!-s
and 23, CO r lanes, still mere will
be ready "as they are nttZt l la
. the tsttls ta protect I . ' m
life, t rest ere human ct;-ry
it 1 t rfeserve tumn l.-erly."
la a I.'avy - day ; m"Z
dressed ta Secretary cf tie IJavy
Ee0X IIr-roosevelt ilZl c .
f!f :r.;s tliat t2-e'aelJzvcier.'.a
ia tl-e f at n III. te C Tarf e J ij
tie
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f.t-re by "acLlavcments
will restore fref'rM it
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South Arm of Giant Pincero ;
WMte Russia Soviet Drive "
f By judsojj o'quinn
LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 27-(i5)-Soviet forces captured a rail- :
way station only two and a half
yesterday as the Germans retreating in disorder before the
blows of three Russian armies sought to extract themselves
from the closing Dnieper bend trap.
The midnight Russian communique reported that Soviet units
took Karnoyatka, two and a half miles northwest of Krivoi Rog,
industrial, iron ore and rail center deep in the Dnieper river
bend which the Germans said the Red army already is storming.
On the southern arm of the
told of the capture of Veseloye, 24 miles northwest of Melitopol
after "particularly fierce fighting." Hundreds of German dead
New Chairman
' W. I. NEEDHAM
W. I. Needham
ToHeadDraft
i W. I. Needham, chairman
Of
Salem's draft board in 1917,
was
Tuesday elected to chairmanship
of the capital city's selective ser
vice board, the post left vacant by
the death of Ray J. Stumbo.
Needham, wUh Romeo Gouley,
has been a member of 'the local
board since it was called- to duty
in October. 1940.
In 1917 -when he became mem
ber and chairman of the draft
board, he was also sheriff of Ma
rion county. .Today he operates a
bookstore on State street -'
Keith Powell," financier, ; was
earlier this month appointed to
membership on the board, suc
ceeding Stumbo. Needham was
elected by the board to the ex
ecutive position. - -
School Children to Open
Tin Can Drive N6v.M:
Schoolchildren of. Marion coun
ty, who have made possible the
shipping of approximately 80,000
pounds of tin cans for the war ef
fort in previous collection cam
paigns, will conduct another coun
tywide tin can salvage drive Wed
nesday, November 10. ; ,
Rural schools of the county
should start actual accumulations
of the tin at schools on November
l, continuing to. . compieuon on
November 9, County Supt Agnes
C Booth declares in a letter di
rected to all principals. k , , y
In Salem the date has simply
been set as November 10. Whether
concentrated one-day drive or
i competitive and : longer; tram-
paign wiir be conducted was not
announced by Supt Frank' Ben
nett when he said Tuesday that
Salem schools would use the date
selected by beverage distributors.
Those distributors , will again
provide their trucks, , picking up
cans at Aurora, Brooks, Gervais,
Jeirerson, lit. ' 'Angel, Ealem,,
Stayton, Turner, AumsviUe, t
Paul, Keizer, Hayesville, Ealcm
Heights, Woodburn, Sllverton end
Hubbard schoolir
Rural schools in areas tributary
to these centers are to make ar
rsnrcment in corr::-" viLh lo
cul comzr.unity f ..! : - cl I. r.- a
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miles from strategic Krivoi Roj .
giant pincers, the war bulletin
O "were left on the approaches to
the town and in its streets," the
communique added.
In their drive the three Soviet
armies have taken nearly 100
towns and villages, 23 of these be
ing in the Melitopol sector, where
the Russians advance from four to
12 miles and are fanning out in
three directions across the steppes
and marshlands from the fallen
gateway to the Crimea. ,
More than 3000 Germans were
listed as killed in. the bitter bat
tle of the Nogaisk steppes which
the nazis are trying stubbornly to
hold to protect" their routes from ,
the Crimea. " ' "
The Germans were said to have
lost - more than 7000 dead in the
fighting for Dnepropetrovsk and
Dneprodzerzhinsk, newly captured '
sister industrial cities on the Dnie- .
per, while: in the latest engage
ment in the Krivoi Rog area Ger
man casualties amounted to about
two regiments (more than 20CO
men.) This made a German death
toll of 12,000.
Declaring that the Germans
were eff ering stabbern resist
ance la the Krlvet Doe area
the point ef the northern arm ef
the pincers the communique
said the nasls had thrown in
fresh tank forces incladlag. the '
24th tank division recently
"transferred from Italy."
The red air force followed uo d
the ground attacks by bombing ',
concentrations of German troops '
fleeing the Dnieper bend, wreck
ing three- railway trains and
smashing and burning more , than
170 trucks and carts loaded with
military supplies, the war bulletin .
said. The German retreat west-,
ward is toward the Dug river in '
southern Russia.
The large German armies half- ,
trapped in the great Dnieper bend
fell back in two main sectors be-
fore the victorious Russians, who ;
advanced up to nine miles south
west of Dnepropetrovsk and con
tinued to close in on the bf iron
and metal center of Krivoi I'.c.
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to have their collections of cans
delivered to the nearest or hand
iest pickup school.
Only properly-prepared cans
will be gathered by the beverage .
distributors, since space saving in
both trucks and later in railroad
cars requires that only useable sal
vage be carried, Mrs. Booth de
clares in her letter to principals.
"To prepare cans, wash thorouth
ly, remove labels, cut off or fold
in tops and' bottoms and flatten
by stepping on canr full weight,"
she advises. Evaporated milk cans
are wanted, Mrs. Booth adds.
Local salvage chairmen 1LU1'.
this week by C. W. Paulus, county.
chairman, are R. A. .White of.
Brooks; Mrs. Lester Wampole, Au
rora; Zeno Schwab, Gervais; Hey
T. Chester, Jefferson; Robert G.
Wood, 409 B street, Stayton; Hiss
Theresea Dehler, route one, lit
Angel; Gene Vandeneynlc, AZi
State street Salem; Dr. A. L. V.
Smith, Silverton, and I'rt 1 Ileck
r, 152 Arthur street, V.'coiburn.
: The pickup day, scheduled ia
the middle of National Edacit'cn
week and on a Czy when . ::1
schools plan prelims ii rt
tion fit the week, will i Ive I s ; ' i
an opportunity tatu t: ; v.t.: :
cf the school salvr :? in'..: -leva
Supt DeivitU sc.M .
. J.