PAGE TWO
ap Air Bases ';
In Solonibiis y
Put Out of Use
ill (Continued from Page 1) n
iijterceptioir againsf;United State
missions. It, therefore, can lse as
sumed nothing is left-at-Ballale.)
I The attack reported in today's
communique against Kahili , and
Kara occurred October 3. ; ,,
-Well - concentrated" bombing
was observed at - both targets.".
headquarter reported. -
The Japanese are estimated to
have some 40,000 j troops, on Bou
gainville, jthe only, big island, they
hold In the Solomons, and they
are believed still ' in -the 'process
of trying to transfer by' barges
from nearby. Choiseul. remnants of
their forces driven out of the cen
tral Solomons. Choiserd'a barges
t have been pounded anew by allied
"raiders. - -
- IA headquarters spokesman re
ported that the Japanese troops
who were driven- back - into . tne
1 uncles north f Finschhafen, New
- Guinea. last week while trying
to establish an avenue of escape
to the coast were bloodily repulsed
when they launched fresh coun
terattacks with artillery support.
Three such attacks were thrown
back with heavy losses Saturday
and a fourth Sunday. These oc
irm! three miles north of the
'Hied airdrome at Finschhafen.
v ' One Japanese 75 mm. .field piece
was put out of action in the latest
.'fuzhting. '-V:.---- I
Allied Boston - attack planes
bombed and strafed enemy posi
tions to the rear of Sattelberg
nrns'my the Japanese strongpoint
northwest of Finschhafen. Japan-
'ese in that sector have been in
nr untenable oosition from ! the
point of supply since Finschhafen
was captured October z. ;
v Northwest of Fischhafen,
Mitchell medium bombers silenced
anti - aircraft positions Sunday
around i Alexishafen, strafed ' the
airdrome and set fires in areas
where planes are dispersed, j
Still farther northwest, a J re
connaissance bomber crippled a
1000-ton Japanese cargo ship off
Wewak. - - J ' . : .
Yesterday's communique had
outlined other disaster for the Jap
anese airforce, reporting destruc
tive smashes at Rabaul and Ka
hili. Local Postage
Boost, Luxury
Tax
F (Continued from Page 1 F
The tax on. liquor (100 proof)
would be raised from $6 per gal
lon, to $10, representing an in
crease of 5 cents per drink, fig
uring 80 drinks to a gallon
thus raising the total federal tax
per drink to 115. The levy would
be lighter on lower proof whis
kies. Rates, oh wines and beer
would be raised.
The schedule on postage rate
changes follows:
Local letters, first class Now
1 cents an ounce, raised to 3 cents;
out - of - town letters, first class
--3 cents, unchanged; air mail
6 cents an ounce to 10 cents; spe
cial delivery now 10 cents to
35 cents, -unchanged; 2nd class
mail (doubled), now 1 cent each
2 ounces, to 1 cent per ounce; 3rd
class maO now LS and 2 cents
for each 2 ounces, to 3 and 4 cents
for , each two ounces; money or
ders, now 6 to-22 cents, to 10 to
27 cents; registered .maif now
13 cents to $1.00 per article, to
20 cents to $1.35; insured mail
now S to 33 cents per article, to
10 to 70 cents; COO mail now
12 cento to $1.20 per article, to
24 cento to $20.
Allies Capture
Ten Towns
C (Continued from Page 1) C
today to have been made at the
Adriatic coast, scored its most re
cent advances for inland. Advent
cing six miles west from Vinchia-
turo they captured Bojano, on the
main inland highway toward the
key communications center of Is-
ernia, and five other towns.
American medium bombers' and
long-range lightning fighters
from this theater delivered anoth
er sharp blow against the Ger
mans ,.in." Yugoslavia yesterday,
hitting, the landing grounds at
Podgorica, 20 miles inland from
the Dalmatian coast not far from
the Albanian frontier. Aircraft,
hangars,; motor trucks and admin
istration 7 buildings all were bit,
and several fires were started.
American and RAF planes
bombed "several towns in Italy
where the Germans were well es
tablished, hitting especially at
communications.
Two allied planes were lost in
the day's operations in Italy, but
all those which flew to Yugoslavia
came' back taf ely.
Liurre Allied Force Said
Assembling a Corsica
STOCKHOLM. Oct
Owirht D. Eisenhower is assem
bling a larre force on Corsica, per
haps for aa invasion of the French
rivisra cr ta attack against Ilaly
north cf T.orzs, the newspaper Al-
limei dispatch from Bern.
Approved
FDR Denies
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Government -r:
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Slacker Haven
' ' WASHINGTON, Oct 28.-WP)-President
Roosevelt, aroused by
charges from some legislators that
federal employment has becomes
haven -for draft dodgers, Jold con
gress today that the government's
standards for draft deferment are
much stricter than private industry's.-
... - ' ' .
In simple Justice to the many
fine, public-spirited; and, devoted
persons ! in I the 7 government em
ploy, these ? u n f al r accusations
must be effiDhatically denied,'! he
said in identical letters to ...Vice
President Wallace and Speaker
XUybuxiuij;
The1. very.' number :. of ex-em
ployes of the "government now in
the armed services should "silence
me . mudslinger. Mr. Roosevelt
declared, adding that on last Jan.
1 the total ; was 238,154 and Is
estimated: currently to be about a
half-million. ' ; . ' ' "
He reported that on July SI the
number of l full-time government
employes, both men and women,
was 280,404 and the number
having, occupational deferment
was 88,053. No figure was pre
sented on the total number of men
of draft age in the government
service. ' : f '
Of the 98,053, Mr. Roosevelt
said, 84,000 are employed by the
war and navy departments, most
of them at establishments outside
Washington. Altogether, the two
departments employ 1,952,700 ci
vilians, h ! '
"The greater part of these," the
president commented, "are en
gaged in war production in gov
ernment arsenals, ordnance plants,
powder factories, and navy yards,
or in essential work 5 at govern
ment depots, warehouses, proving
grounds, air bases, naval training
stations, and government hospi
tals. - i '
He noted that the post office
department is the largest govern
ment employer after the war and
navy departments, and said that
of its 315,741 employes only 81
all postal inspectors had re
ceived deferment.
In the rest of the government,
Mr. Roosevelt said, there are about
119,380 men of draft age 25,537
single, 28,195 married without
children and 67,647 married with
children. I i i ;
Germans Open
Pindus
By LYNN HlglNZERUNG
CAIRO, Oct. 2&.-VPt-Gmaan
occupation forces have opened the
Pindus road through the Pindus
mountains in west central Greece
by setting the two most important
Greek guerrilla armies to fighting
each other, advices to this Egyp
tian seat of the Greek ; government-in-exile
said today.
The Edes army of Colonel Zer-
vas is now fighting both German
troops and the Elas guerrillas of
Colonel Seraenhis in this region,
an informed source said.
The Pindus road from Ioannina
through Metsovon to Trikkala,
Larisa and Volos. It is an essen
tial line for the Germans hauling
supplies from east and north
western Greece. ;
In explaining the confused sit
uation in Greece, one Greek here
said the Seraenhis guerrilla army
had refused to comply with an ap
peal from allied middle east head
quarters to cease fighting brother
Greeks, asserting that Z e r v a s'
troops were collaborating . with
the enemy, j - '
The allegation against the Zer-
vas group could not be confirmed
here. - ; : .
Of (Germans
LONDON, Oct ; 28.-ff)-Fiery
Yugoslav partisan fighters have
driven the Germans from the last
nazi-held center of heavy indus
try in Bosnia, central Yugoslavia,
capturing the steel city of Vares-
Maydan after a 12-hour battle, a
Yugoslav national liberation army
communique announced today.
. Stockholm , reports, meanwhile,
said that Vienna 'had been
bombed on Sunday, .. and declared
the bombers came from Foggia in
Italy in the first American raid
from new bases there to hit Aus
tria and Hungary. Yugoslav patri
ots assisted in the raid by sabotag
ing axis ' communication lines to
Austria and southern Germany
these reports added.
KThe Stockholm newspaper So
cial Demokraten" said there was
chaos in Vienna as bombs fell in
the unexpected ; raid from the
south. i
Community Cannery
Meets Expenses
Salem's non-profit community
cannery did net enough during Its
first season's operations to more
than meet its current expenses,
SupL Frank Bennett revealed . to
school directors Tuesday night.
However, that net is sufficient
only to pay a winter-reduced ren
tal for the building the equipment
occupies and to buy a first small
stock of : cans next, spring or to
meet dismantling expenses, the
school executive explained. '
7 Directors advised holding the
building through the winter and
retaining the cannery for at least
another season. Operated by the
school system, the cannery, made
a charge for cans to cover their
purchase cost and operating ex
penses.
Senators Row
On Resolution r
For Postwar ,
. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (JF)
Angry words flared in the Sen
ate's international peace debate
today over- attempts 'to : write
stronger language into the Foreign
Relations Committee broad
termed resolution on postwar col
laboration. Senator Pepper '(D-Fla) de
clared' senators urging a specific
plan for this country's participa
tion in international peace plans
were "unconsiously intimidated"
by a Foreign Relations sub-committee
now. resisting attempts to
re-word the general resolution.
"There was no effort at intimi
dation on the part of anybody,"
replied Senator Berkley of Ken
tucky, the Democratic leader. .
Senator Hatch j (D-NM) put In
that the reception the ; sub-committee
gave to some witnesses
"wasn't any1 too warm.; Hatch,
Pepper 7 and others advocate I a
more pointed resolution ( which
would, among other things, re
solve the nited States to lend arm
ed resistance against future ag
gressions. Pepper and Senator Ball (R
Minn), a co-sponsor of the Pepper
amendment, were in frequent
clashes with the chairman Con
nelly (D-Tex) of the Foreign Re
lations committee who termed
some of Pepper's remarks "in
sulting. -' i r '
The Florida Senator replied hat
Senators "do not like to be brow
beaten. And if they are able to
prevent it they do not expect to
be browbeaten. -f
Connally brought Ball to his
feet in-obvious anger when the
Texas senator accused him Of try
ing to "emasculate the resolution'
because it is "not the kind he
wanted." '-t. c.
Declaring the shadows of world
war III stalk in this senate this
afternoon, Pepper said the com
mittee's post-war resolution "is
like an old; mother Hubbard. It
covers everything and touches no
thing. At least our resolution says
something." "i. " - ;
The advocates of a more spe
cific resolution encountered ire-,
quent questions I as : to whether
their sanction of using military
forces might not open the way
to send the United States into a
future war ; without the consent
of congress but Pepper insisted
that was not the intention.'. ;
"I'd never consent to any agree
ment," said Senator Millikhv (R
Okla.) "thot would let any organ
ization commit the United States
to war without the consent of
congress."
"Neither would I," Pepper re
plied. , .
Senator- Eastland (D-Miss.) sent
up an amendment xooay iwmcn
would pledge the United States to
freer international trade and' to
"remove impediments and re
straints which tend to hinder the
prosperity of the United States
and other nations, and which pre
vent nations from access upon fair
and equitable terms to the raw
materials and trade necessary to
their national well-being f
Pepper. cautioned - the senate
against repeating what he termed
"the political chicanery" ; which
kept this nation out of the league
of nations. t ;
Nazi Retreat
Lavs Reich
Open to Bombs-
D (Continued from Page 1) D
their military- fronts eventually
must disintegrate, f ;' :l I
The Allied high command
believed to have plans for hitting
Europe with all available force at
the time when aerial destruction
has had a maximum effect on both
the physical ability and the moral
strength of the Germans. - :-
This time probably is only a few
month away. '
Russians Near
Krivoi Rog
G (Continued from Page 1)
- The Germans made bo effort
: to conceal the gravity of the
plight of their armies la Russia.
; The German hUh command ao
knewledred penetrations in the
Melitopol sector; after fierce bat
.' ties, and said only that "some"
were sealed off,- Implying that
: ether were net. " . . '
Although the Russians reported
only reconnaissance and "artillery
action on sectors other than those
in the south, Berlin said that the
red army had opened an attack
a broad front in White Russia,"
front about which Moscow has
been relatively' silent lately per-r
haps In preparation, for an an
nouncement of a big break
through.
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The story , of a 17-year-old rur
al Marion county boy who to his
comparatively long r e c o r d of
training school escapes has now
apparently added desertion from
the jinny and escape from an
army stockade was told here last
night by state police after they
had apprehended .Paul John
Schneider in a car the youth told
them he had stolen in Arizona.
Schneider, who during the more
than two years he was a pupil at
the state training school at Wood
burn for boys got most of ; his
publicity through breaks, was re
leased 18 months ago and entered
the army, state officers said Tues
day. Bow he got into the organ
ization when he could not have
been more than 18 years of age
they said they did not know.
For a while, he apparently got
along with , army discipline, but
(and this Is the story Paul John
is said to have told t state police,
who told it to me) last July the
lad deserted, stole a car and was
apprehended by Arizona state po
lice. After 18 months in Jail, he
was released to the army and, ap
parently - not long ago, . escaped
from the stockade and stole a car.
Yesterday, Paul John says, he
saw a state police car behind him,
got worried and so speeded, even
tually traveling so fast lie could
not keep ! the car on the - road.
When the vehicle left the high
way, tne arrest was made on a
charge of reckless driving. Then
the officer found that there were
a number of license plates in the
car; the boy said he had stolen
them, and,, questioned as to why
he had speeded at the approach of
the officer, : allegedly admitted
having stolen the car he drove.
In Salem justice court, he was
held on the reckless driving
charge and committed to Jail for
10 days. During that time, Ore
gon will check to , see whether
Arizona "wants" him. Ill wager it
doesn't. : No one seems to want
John, Paul except the army and it,
apparently, didn't want him bad
ly enough to build a stockade that
would hold him. - .-
3-Power Talk
Proceeds in
Full Harmony
By EDDY G ELMORE
MOSCOW, Oct 28-(ff)-Del-
egates to the three-power confer
ence met this cold, damp day in a
growing atmosphere ' of coopera
tion which' all quarters predicted
would lead to a complete under
standing among Britain, the Unit
ed States and Russia. ' .
There was definite assurance
from all circles that Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden and Foreign
Commissar Molotov had dedicated
themselves to the assumption that
the conference already is a suc
cess and that its fruits will be
hailed as successful.
One also gets the impression
from talks with persons who. are
sitting in on the meetings that the
results i: of the conference al
though they deal with matters
small and large are going to have
aa important effect on the peace
of the postwar world. .
Hull, t Eden and - Molotov - sat
down again at Speridonovka pal
ace at 4 pjn. Earlier in the day
the drafting committees met in a
joint session and made some pro
gress. . , m. r r:C
There was still no Indication as
to how long the conference win
last and for security reasons no
speculation will be allowed. ' :
This much is certain, however,
the conference is in no sense near-
ing its end. . The delegates are in
the midst of some of the most im
portant questions of the meeting
and will likely continue with them
for some time. . fc -7-
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New Roll-BacL:
Reef Subsidy
By OVID A. MARTIN J
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 HP)
The government announced to
night a plan under wEfcH Its" roll
back subsidy on beef will be used
in an effort to - tighten control
over live cattle prices and to "give
financial relief .to a Jsmali: group
of slaughterers caught in a squeeze
between controlled meat Prices and
heretofore loosely controlled, cat
tle pricesv :
tlnaff ected bv the nlan -will be
present ceiling prices- on beef at
the retail meatcounter.
The clan ' which ' was an
nounced . by' Economic Stabiliza
tion Director Fred M.. Vinson
is. expected to maintain prices of
live cattle within a stated range
approximating present v market
price levels.' That range win be
between $7.43 per hundred, for
lowest grade to $18 for highest
grade. J7
The roll-back subsidv. which
was Inaugurated last June;' has
been $1.10 per. hundred pounds
on 7 live cattle, v Irrespective of
ffrade.? This subsidv . was estab
lished - when the . office of - price
administrauon roued back meat
prices "10 per cent' The" subsidy,
which is paid to processors and
slaughters, was designed to enaoie
the latter to pay producers the
same prices for live cattle as be
fore the meat prices were re
duced. ." V . i . , .
TodaVa action renlaced the flat
uniform subsidy rate-with varia
ble rates ranging from 50 cents
for common, cutter and canner
classes of cattle to $1.45 for good
grade, with the medium grade eli
gible ;for a 09 "z cent rate and
choice grade for a $l-rate. v
In order to be eligible for these
subsidies, -the slaughterer or pro
cessor must pay producers prices
within a snecified range. That
range by classes is: cutter and can
ner cattle. $7.45 to $8.45: common
grade $10 to $11; medium grade
$12 to $13; good $14.25 to S13.Z5;
and choice $13 to $16. : ; V . ;
If a slaughterer pays outside
Ouim nrice ranxes. his subsidy will
be reduced by the amount he falls
below the wniwimiim or. the amount
he pays over the maximum. For
example, a slaughterer who pays
1B.56 fox choice grade cattle will
lose 50 cents of his $1 subsidy rate.
The government set up new
subsidv cavment of 80 cents per
hundredweight to non-processing
slaughters those wno, u says,
have been cauxht in a squeeze.
Such slaughterers do not process
cattle by-products and consequent
ly are not in a. position to compete
equitably, Vinson said, with large
slaughterers who, process all.by-
nraducts. Vinson said this latter
subsidy would be financed from
wmnmlM nmecteA to. be effected
thrtMirh substitution of the Hat
roll-back subsidy with a graduated
scale of such subsidies.
The eraduated subsidies by of
fering a xreater rate on good grade
cattle are designed, also toe en
courage the feeding of more cat
tle to heavier weights a, develop
ment "which would provide the
country with a larger supply of
beef. The rates, however, are de
signed to discourage the produc
tion of choice or prime beef a
type which requires extra amounts
of feed, time and labor v
To crevent a breakdown in .that
phase of the program designed to
encourage greater feeding of good
rrade cattle a development which
might follow an abnormal slaugh
ter dfmnd for. cattle Vinson di
rected the war food administration
to develop a system for allocating
supplies of cattle among slaughter
ers and feeders. . "
:-Rep. Kleberg (D-Texas), oria
cized the program, assertinr that
it. would, discourage, beer proauc-tkn-nd
bring about a beet fam
ine iate in tne winterr -. f -
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Officer Villi Trcatliery
LONDON, Oct. 2SPy-Genu
Alfredo Guzzoni, 63, Italian com
mander in Sicily during the al
lied, campaign and formerly caie
of Mussolini's most trusted offi
cers, has been arrested byTLthe
Germans on a charge of treach
ery, a DNB broadcast said to
night.' ;
Voters .May : : .
Decide cite bl
Building Is3ue
B (Continued from Page 1) B
tion point and McKinley school Is
practically overflowing; the sen
ior high, school was - never quite
"finished," since it lacks space for
music and (dramatics, the superin
tendent declared. - -
An example of ' what may be
expected in future years was cited
by. Bennett as he discussed cur
rent population trends . Tuesday
night. Thirty pupils in any grade
will fUl classroom ; for any
teacher; In the first grade, indi
vidual attention la considered es
pecially important. " .
But every first-grade classroom
in tne saiem. system - nas so or
more pup us.- - yesterday there
were 44 in "thef ir st grade at
Washington : school; 42 at Grant
and 41 at McKinley. 9 Enrollment
throughout the district has con
tinued to grow, Bennett told the
board, but the first grade situa
tion has become the most serious.
That is' not the climax of the
story. In 1937 when most' of this
year's ' first graders were born
there .were 1138 birth certificates
filed in Marion county; last year
there were 1493; already this
year there have been more than
1300.
If there Is any Indication that
public sentiment favors the type
ox nnancing wnicn ; Bennett de
clared the individual family "con
siders wise,: w hen it is making
building plans, voters will sure
ly be called upon to ballot on the
question next spring so that pro
vision .. for establishment of a
building fund can be made in the
next fiscal year's budget.
Mrs. Giles Visits
D AULAS Mrs. Margaret Giles
and daughter, Kathryn, of Port
land spent the weekend visiting
at the E. A.' Wagner home. Mrs.
Giles was formerly Miss Margaret
Terry of Dallas.
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health department ; 7
Coming to .Marion county. In
1928 after the , Commonwealth
fund had established- the county
health unit - here, he remained
when the fund - supported unit
was reorganized into a county
city health service and he then
became the first full-time county-city
health " officer, in which
capacity he remained until early
1941, when he was commissioned.
'Now, that attack from without
appears more remote, the emer
gency medical services of civil
ian defense is" confronted with the
responsibility for preparing local
resources in physicians, nurses,
nurses aides and other volunteer
helpers to handle natural . disas
ters and the results of sabotage,"
Dr. Douglas said Tuesday night.
- "Groundwork has been laid for
this activity throughout - Oregon
and- volunteers are helping to meet
the situation caused by the con
stantly decreasing supply of
trained medical men and nurses
available for civilian work. I know
this work will continue" without
setback as it is in competent hands
in every community, he added.
; Douglas' - commences ' - private
practice Monday, but his family
win continue to reside here until
arrangement for a home In Port
land have been made. -
Sin oJtV ill tori's
Draft Ahead
Of Dads Voted
E (Continued from Page 1) E
the House refused to accept an
amendment requiring the induc
tion of fathers under 31 before
older parents are taken.
' The Chamber wrote into the bill
a stiff requirement that the Presi
dent deligate to the selective ser
vice director "all authority ex
cept that relating to plant seizures
given him under the selective
service act.
This section of the legislation,
members said, is aimed at McNutt,
whose recent order designing cer
tain occupations - as non-deferr
able aroused much Congressional
Ire. The bill contains a specific ban
against inducting men solely be
cause of their occupation, a ban
that in effect nullifies the McNutt
order. '".rHc ty
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