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Newspaper Page Text7callier v - Cloudy ii,2ay, freei.!; er east of Cascades. ' O1!1 iJTiiI A y - 4- For the special benefit of the . small army of employes of the state industrial accident commis sion who are suffering from punc tured arms and inflamed tempers as a result of the official herding Into taking ten cold shots in a month I quote the following from a scientific publication: . "You might as well take so many hypodermic injections of water as to take cold vaccine shots. Neither w ill do any good in the prevention f colds. Nor will vitamin ' cap- , sules help. These conclusions are based on a critical review of me dical literature. A member of the council on pharmacy and -chemis try of the American Medical as sociation recently; stated that .'At present there are no effective me thods available for the prevention of the common cold'.? , - j .If . these regimented employes wish to read the -whole article thejr will find it at page 20, Sep tember,' 1943, issue of the Scien tific American," at most any li brary. Its author is Robert H. Feldt, MD, who cites tests made at Columbia university ? and - the University : of ? Minnesota .which showed that "those who received the vaccine had Just as many colds as the ones who didn't," The ar ' tide should prove interesting Reading for those who marched to , the needle against their own pref erence.. They might, surreptitious ly of .course, lay a marked copy on the desk -of the administrator, Ralph Emmons. The original. re port attributed the hypodermic round-up ; to Emmons, I but, later Commissioner Dunne assumed re sponsibility. Since the employes are presumed to know "who's boss around here,' the mistake, if it was a mistake, is quite uridertand- able. Maybe the administrator Just; "recommended it. As to AdministratdrjEmmons, his emergence from : a none-too-successful local haberdasher to the post of "Harry Hopkins' in the new state house deal was review ed at length by Ralph Watson in last Sunday's Oregon Journal Quite a Sherlock Holmes story Rut . Watson wrote too soon. He should have waited a week for the disclosure of rEmmons as reputed crescriber of hypodermic :. injec- tions.. : ":--t " :-' " - "Quick, Watson, the needle." It might be thar Emmons thinks he inherited the title as well as the task - of the late, - inimitable "Doc" Riley; but so far Is sjs known Tine v Rilev -never' ventured Into the healing arts. Nor has Emmons previously made (Contiuued on Editorial Page) ' - Committee Favors Raising Luxury Taxes By ALEX H. SINGLETON WASHINGTON, Oct. 30-JF) The house ways and means com mittee today cut in half a pro posed $4-per-gallon boost in the federal liquor taxes, but voted to stiffen several other ; levies in cluding those on cigars and pari .mutuel 'betting to pick up a net of S49.0OO.000 more from excise tax sources. - The action on the liquor assess ' ment, aftermath of vigorous pro tests that too high a rate would -put a premium on bootlegging,' set the tax at $8 a gallon. The previous tentative decision was to hike it from $6 to $10. The resulting $242,000,000 loss In the estimated revenue the bill would produce was more than off set by, the increases as the com mittee reviewed about half its previous decisions on excise taxes. It will complete the work Monday. ; Out of todays session' came these recommendations: ,'' I . I I., A 100 per cent, increase in the tax on c i g a r s.' The present rates, on a sliding scale, run from a .tax of $2.50 per thousand "for cigars sold at retail 4o' two and one-half ' cents e "it ? r.,to? 20 a thousand' for those priced above 20 cents. The proposed rates would start at $5 and run up to a maximum of $40. Estimated ad ditional revenue $28,000,000. v 2. A boost in the tax on pan- xnutuel ; betting from four per cent the previous tentative pro posal to five per cent There is no federal tax at present. The es- (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Salem Youths Keep Hallowe'en Clean , Salem youths made a good start Saturday night itoward meeting last year's record of a clean Hal lowe'en. Half the children and young people of the city held their observance last night, a night early out of deference to the Sabbath, city police estimated, but not one prank in the nature of property destruction was reported. -'X A double shift of police officers will work from- 8 to 12 tonight, but early this morning represent tatives of the force anticipated ho trouble. ' i - : " - What was described as "a whale of, a "good scavenger hunt" en gaged at least one high school group Saturday night,; but par ticipants apparently " met all the requirements by asking politely for the wanted objects f non . critical material -. . KEIETY TffiSD YEAH vie 775 Allies Bring Total to 2292 : In Four Months By OLEN CLEMENTS. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ; THE SOUTHWEST 'PACI FIC, Sunday, Oct. Sl-trySeven hundred and - seventy-five 'Jap anese planes Have .been destroy ed in October in the southwest Pacific to run enemy losses in four months to 2292. The bulk of October's record bag was made, in: five powerful smashes at 'Rabaul, New Britain, where nearly 700 tons of : bombs were dropped. .In addition to the 775 destroyed in T the sector, 115 probably were destroyed and 105 damaged. Three hundred and three enemy planes were destroyed on the ground during the month, 36 probably de stroyed and 78 damaged. Practically all records for num ber of planes Used and tonnage of bombs dropped in the Pacific war were bettered. In the Oct. 12 raid on Rabaul, 350 tons of bombs and 250,000 rounds of ammunition were employed. In that raid alone. 126 enemy planes were wiped out, The toll of Japanese aircraft has risen steadily. In July 436 were destroyed, all' of them shot out of the air. . In "August 53 1 were de stroyed, 224 of ; them on the ground. In September 550 ; were destroyed, 338 on the ground. 1 During October,- allied planes in the area a sank a Japanese ernfcer. destroyers, -five auxiW s, 14 merchant vessels and seven warships. cargo ships and more than ' SO barges. ! WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -(JP) Destruction of one of Japan's biggest flying boats was dis- ciosea today by tne navy In a series of pictures taken from eameras- on. planes which sent the enemy craft plunging into the sea. 1 The big four engine ship was Destroyed shot down in a Ave minute en- I T 1 TT -gagement by two carrier-based 13611111 UlieaSV Hellcat flahters who encounter- ' ed it east of the Gilbert islands In the southwest Pacific. SlighUy larger than the US navy's Corenado patrol bomber, the enemy flying boat, "Emily, baa a wing spread of 118 feet and an over-all length of 91 feet. ' By WILLIAM RIPPLE ! SOUTH PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Sunday, Oct 31 riJPy-.Indications of impending action on south central Choiseul wnere seaDorne American para troops landed Thursday in the si (Turn to Page 2-5tory B) - 10-Day Supply Limit on Coal i. ! WASHINGTON, Oct 30-()-An emergency regulation prohibiting the delivery of anthracite coal to any domestic consumer t having more than 10 days supply on hand was ordered today .by the solid fuels administration - The emergency regulation also prohibits retailers from delivering! and consumers from tntn and consumers from accepting more than a half ton of anthracite. f Harold L. Ickes, solid fueS ad- ministrator, said the; regulation is necessary to assure distribution of the limited available supplies of anthracite during the present per iod of : strikes and threatened strikes. ' ; All anthracite sizes larger, than barley are. affected. The emergency order is effec tive at once. : . Gilliam Second to Top YTar Qiest Allotment, McSherry Reveals I Gilliam was the second county to go over the top in the Oregon war chest campaign, Executive Director Irl S. McSherry reported Satur day. Judse James D. Burns is Gilliam county campaign chair man. - - - - Reports from all counties in the state which have so far started their campaigns add up to $312, 832, said McSherry, against a state quota of $1,365,000. A number of cities have exceeded their quotas. :3 PAGES m Schtceinfurt Factories in Ruins 1 i Factories In the German city of manufactnring center 500 miles inside Bavaria, lie in ruins after the big raid of October 14 by Flying Fortresses. Targets in the city, bombed with deadly precision, are: 1 Vereinigte Kngellacher Fab riken AG plant; Z Deutsche Star plant; 3 Ficktel and Sachs plant. Sixty Fortresses Were lost on the raid. Detailed account of the raid will be found on page 3. (AP wirephoto from US, army air forces.)' " i "- ' : jfl - ' JTh ' " 1 fTTI HOlltltY 1 OlltlCCLl i'TCB ": : - - . Fails to Bud I By RALPH C. CURTIS "& Jow is the time in the quadrennial cycle when ; political ambitions start to bud which means, not that they have just been; born, but that their existence becomes manifest. Reference of course is to normal times. Four years ago, Oregon republicans were fixing to back Sen;tMcNary for th& presidency, first dis- -1 . v j' ' g--m - f-i I lYrci I hntlllPI V V VllCllAlICJ. I - I t " . ' - - . .- J ! .By the AsaocUted Press t The Berlin radio said today tbstj the . English channel and surrounding territories were at tracting Increased attention "as a potential battlefield" and cit ed activity hinting at Invasion preparations. -r The i naval correspondent of Transoeean, German news agen cy, said these activities were noted:V - , ? ,t l ' : L Growing number of clashes between German and -'British naval craft in the English chan nel.! X'a r; s z. - 2.1 "Considerable f eoneentra-I tions" of merchant shipping in the porta of southern England. 3. Strong formations of troop ships In south English ports. I 4.1 Air-borne units stationed in southern England. . 5.1 The "appreciable strength ening" of the royal , air foree along the southern coast. JapsEmploy ft47 Kfimhoi A,'V" XIUllllJCl GUADALCANAL. Oct layed)-a5)-The ; Japanese have introduced a new dive bomber in to, the fighting In these parts with remarkable lack of success. Artay P-38 Lightnina fiahter id- lots shot down seven out ol a flight of nine of the new Nippon birds yesterday, when the fliers were - helping American cover 5 the landings on the Treasury islands. Trie American pilots said the divei bombers apparently replaced trie Ai cm 99. 't . First i Lts. Murray Shubin t of Dormont, Pa, and William Harris of -Sprihgville, Calif, described the craft as "three-place jobs with internal bomb racks. -; .j "They're half again as large as our ! Dauntless : (Douglas) dive bomber, with a fuselage of the general appearance of an Amer ican . hellcat (Grumman Fight er , said Harris. They seemed to have a speed of about 270 miles an hour at sea level, and ought j to carry about 2000 pounds of bombs com pared with : their predecessor's load of about 1200 pounds." - Ccla. Oretjca, MWM.A .. " 'nfi Schweinf art (above), ball-bearing . -...... . in Season -Otrict democrats were orally anni hilating Congressman . Jim Mott, and a number In both' parties were managing to toot their own horns a bit in the "process. . . - The wartime , version ; amounts approximately to this:, that,, politically-minded folk find time oc casionally for a hasty remark that politics ought to be warming up, but Isnt Oh, there is talk about the presidency, and thus far futile but animated, on the part of some, quest for a senatorial candidate who has what it takes to beat Rufus Holman. Right about, there it. ends. : .. t X'XX -j7- X - -.. I"Presidential year,!' w hich looms, is an "off- year-in state politics, but an""onyear in Mar ion county. There is one county commissioner : to : be; v elected, X district attorney,. a sheriff, a coun ty, clerk, a treasurer, county "su perintendent,! coroneri Every two years, of ' course,' four Marion county members of the lower house in the legislature are to be elected. " . , , ' ; Unique and to some degree un certain . is the situation with nv spect . to state senators. Douglas McKay and "Allan Carson were elected last year for terms run - (Turn to Page 2--Story C' Roosevelt Veers upward Policy of Joint Pqstwo By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Oct 30-(fP)-Several elaborate blueprints for federal X postwar planning have been laid before White House of ficials but indications now . are that President Roosevelt may spike all of them for an informal, piecemeal " policy-making done more , or less Jointly . by govern ment, business, labor and agricul ture. :Xx XV XX ':':XXj. The " system is, in fact, already taking shape; The president fitted the newest piece into place Wed nesday by creating a war advisory council of business men. This - is now. widely interpreted as a frank bid ; for ; close industry-business cooperation with - the administra tion during the closing months of the war and in the post-war era as production shifts back to peace time goods. Co ' What probably surprised the eight business and industrial Zrlzr I'zzzlz.?. October 31. G i Is QUEL Give :; Way to ; British, Yanks . Seize 20 Toiras ' -Iu-Three Sectors By EDWARD KENNEDY ? ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 30-(P) Driving forward in three important sec tors ; in iUly, the fifth and eighth armies put more. than 20 towns and villages into their bag today and stood poised in positions immediately; before the massive line which the Ger mans have established as the first southern section of their fortress of Europe. ' ' The British with Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark's fifth army : occupied Mondragone, seacoast' town nestl ing under Mount Massico, where the Germans have built strong positions anchoring : the western end of their line Bom Germans and townsfolk had abandoned the town. . ' ;:V' --X'r " '- i Farther inland,' American forces took the strategic town of Pietra- vainaro, which put them in a po sition ; to threaten the f flank ' of ' the nazi bastions on Mount Mas sico. - " - On the eastern end of the line, where the heaviest fighting .of the entire front developed, the British Eighth army advanced to take Montemitro " on the Trigno river 14! miles inland from the San Salvo area where the Eighth holds a bridgehead. ' . " While allied ground forces thus lurn to Page 2 Story D) Slav Partisans Cross Border Into Hungary - By A. 1. GOLDBERG l' ' LONDON, Oct 30-P)-The Yu goslav partisan r radio announced today that guerrillas had pushed their way across the Hungaian border in bloody fighting with the nazis and tonight other partisan forces were "reported battling the Germans in thetFiume -Trieste area after Joining ip with a strong group of Italian patriots. V 5i j DNB, the German news agen cy, in a . broaacast irom tterun gave tacit admission of the scope of : the Yugoslav-Italian opposi tion, declaring that mopping-up operations' against the guerrillas in the northeast comer of Italy "is progressing, with 500 captured and 1600 killed, but added, "In Dalmatia the guerrilla war still aontinues." :X' : ' : A communique broadcast by the Yugoslav army of liberation said partisan forces crossed into Hun gary from Zagorye province, north of Zagreb and were engaging the enemy.,!; X X XX X: ,x h In , Dalmatia, - the communMue said a German column was de feated rafter 10 "bours of bitter fighting in which some 150 nazi soldiers were killed or wounded.; - The partisans of Gen. Josip Broz (Tito) were aided in Dal matia by 20 allied planes which bombed enemy columns near. Ston, Metkovic, ' Split and other com munities near Knin, 45 miles north of Split the' communique related. leaders most in their initial meet ing with the chief executive Wed nesday was his statement , that since congress eliminated the na tional resources ? planning board several months go he has no over all long-range planning" agency and no funds with. which to do such work, Congress, Mr. Roosevelt is re ported to have added, often moves by trends and the present trend appears unfavorable to basic ad mmistration planning. .-.-. ." ; . Consequently several of the business men came away with the feeling, later expresrpd, "that pres ent government efforts to arrange for .returning the country to a peace economy are developing without much overall coordina tion,., and will continue to do so unless the president and his as-1 sistants, already jammed with im- mediate problems of the war, can 1 find time to do the job. ; Ettaly 1C13 VY) K n Mud-Flatter Says 'Mistake1 PORTLAND, Oct 19 UPr- The London Dally Express - in terviewed Mayer Earl Riley on bis tour of Britain and proceed. ed to tell its 5,000,609 English readers that Portland Is " posed of mud fiats. A clipping of the London pa per, which ; arrived at Riley's office here today, carried head line; "America's Mad-flats ' Ma-' yor Tells How He Altered the Face ef X CHTX '7 ; The interview, began: "Amer ica's mayor of the mud-flats, 'Robert t Earl Riley, mayor of Fertland, Oregon, who helped ; Henry Kaiser build his Liberty : ships, bas.arrived.,' . . Then the Express described the erection of Vsnport "Mayor Riley had the marshland round the city drained and used the one , day a builder erected 117 houses. . The tenants were charged, one pound .'for four rooms." ..'.- : Portland, admitted the Ex. press, was rising out of its mud-. flat condition. It is a "town re puted - to be the cleanest in America, where the pavements are washed every day," the pa per said. , Mayor Riley scribbled this commentary on . the ' clipping: "Lots of mistakes reminds me of our papers." , Coial Strilie Settlement Due Monday By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK WASHINGTON, .Oct 30-P The .number ef striking coal min ers climbed to 115,000 today neightening prospects of .a vir tually complete industry shut down by Monday. ' Monday also may bring a set tlement' m one fashion or another, of the; issues which have kept the industry torn with .contro versy, and turmoil since early spring. The United Mine, Workers policy committee meets here, and President Roosevelt has promised that unless this meeting brings a back-to-the-mines movement he will take "decisive, action.' -' Whatever the climax, the gen eral expectation is that this time the situation will force some ar rangement government - imposed or otherwise, holding good for the war'r duration. r -1 In other developments:. 1. The war production board estimated the strikes in Alabama and Indiana ' alonewhere the current series' of walkouts began October 13 have caused the loss of 100,000 tons of iron and steel output This is metal enough, WPB said, for "33 Liberty ships or 2500 medium tanks or 7000 155-millimeter guns. ' ' 2." WPB also stood ready,- In event of a prolonged strike, to ban ornamental street lighting, show window and electric adver tising. A spokesman said it might be necessary to divert some coal 3. The solid fuels administra- production declined 425,000 tons in the week ended - October 23 compared with the previous week. Output for the week was II,- 300,000 tons. ': ' 7 (Turn to Page 2 Story JE) Piece-Meal Planning Mr. Roosevelt gave the .business men a hat full of specific problems on which he asked them to advise. J One estimate is that there were 18 different ; problems " .in -the bunch; ' The group , will report I back to him with specific propo- sals on several of the most urgent J of these matters on November 22. j The meeting between Mr. Roos-1 velt and the business men produc- J ed some spurts of frank, man-toman talk. - - .--j'------ ij. s- One of the group, by some re ports Eric Johnston, president of the U3 chamber of commerce who is known to have a friendly work in relationship with the presi dent .declared that no thin could be accomplished unless the busi ness men felt they could speak freely and in a fully critical vein during their meetings wilh - I.lr. Roosevelt ' The chief : executive replied that he considered such talk higlJy desirable and would welcome it -XL 'XL CM Escape , . XL Goliimiis Pursue Fleeing Enemy;Jguipmen Munitions Are Captured X''Xx:X B JUDSON O'QUINN ' . -LONDON." Sunday, October 3 1-OPi-The second battle of tha Crimea, began today with Gen.'Feodor Tblbukhin's stenne Zions hammering at its hortheasterh gate arid plunging 'down the uia. -iiuieiap lowara i-ereKop escape door on huge German A midnight communique Russians continued to pursue the retreating Gerjnans after they took the town of Genichesk by assault killing over 2000 nari at the northeastern edge of the Another column captured 22 miles from Perekop and the last railway escape for the hun dreds of thousands of Germans on the peninsula. considerable quantities of Ger - man munitions, eauinment and I stores fell to the Russians in their spectacular drive across - the No gaisk steppe to the fringe of the Crimea, which may "be sealed off in a matter of hours. , - The Russians advanced up to 22 miles in yesterday's drive and swept up a total of 159 more towns in the desert steppe in a drive of 56 miles exactly a week after the capture of Melitopol said a Moscow communique recorded by the Soviet monitor. In the Dnieper river bend more than 2100 Germans, fell before fur ious . Russian t attacks that sent the Germans' fleeing in disorder in at least one sector. Gen. j Rodion Y. s Malinovsky's forcer pusbedahead ;three tofive miles .toward NikopoL, manganese center, capturing Bozhedarovka, 43 miles southwest of Dneptopet- rovsk and about an equal distance above Krivoi Rog on a rail line. . At Krivoi Rog itself the Rus sians were standing off waves of German tank and infantry count- charges which cost the Ger mans 1000 dead, the communique supplement said. In one sector the Germans used 100 tanks which re tired after 28 were smashed. In another, sector, 23 more, tanks were destroyed. ' In the south, Toibukhin's eav- ary-paced columns spread over the . great steppe like a flood, reaching" the shores of the SI vash oc "putrid" sea, formed by a thin bar of land between the eastern shore of the Crimea and the Sea of Asov. One Cossack . column swept into Dmltrievka, 1C miles from the Dnieper at Kakhovka. The Russians thus were swinging in to position far at least two cross ings of the river, at Kakhovka and near Nikopol where Russian forces were bey end Blagovyes- chenskoe, only five miles from the river. , (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Cooperative r o IraG I IVPr DeLuxe Dairy i. .- . V .. - ' - , '.!- -. - W On' Monday the Dairy Cooper ative association will take over the fluid milk business of DeLuxe Milk and Ice Cream company, which has been owned and oper ated by Ostrirr Brothers for the past 30 years. -The firm will con tinue in the ice cream business at its present plant at 1857 State street . ' ' - The Dairy Cooperative In the transaction acquires the equip- ment trucks and going business of DeLuxe, in the distribution of fresh milk j and cream to Salem residents - and stores. " Equipment will be moved to the Dairy Co- op's modern , plant t 910 South Commercial street and service to former DeLuxe customers cared for from that location,- stated Ar- thur Hurlburt," manager. - - The ... Dairy Cooperative began retail distribution under its "May flower" brand name several weeks ago. i Ostrin Erothers were sup plied their milk rom producers who were members of the cooper ative. x X . I want to thank out customers for, their long-continued . patron age," said C. H. Ostrin, who with his brother, J. A. Ostrin, has con ducted the DeLuxe milk distribu tion business. . "We will continue in th eice - cream business, and plan to expand this line as soon as conditions permit" ' i Zo 17 Gate ' to slam shut that northwestern forces in the peninsula. supplement ' announced that tk Crimea. ' the town of. Askaniva Nova.'nnlv O - : : 3Po vers By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE LONDON, O c t . 3(HP)-The Moscow - three-power conference plunged Berlin into restless anx iety today. Nazi propagandists relayed Swedish reports that the allies had given Russia"- "..''fixed date" and all details for launching a majoa front hi western Europe. Betraying the nazis deep uneas iness over the dangers etched for them in President Roosevelt's dis closure that the. conference was succeeding, Berlin sounded this general ilne: ; J The United States and Britain have been "compelled to yield to all demands of. Moscow," and lost their grip upon exiled ments by giving up their insist ence upon independence of small European states after the war. From this, it was argued, Ger many would "gain new followers." Quoting Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet one nazi broadcast said "England and America made a detailed proposition to the Soviet Union regarding a second front with a fixed date" and thus "gain ed the favor of the Soviet nego tiators." V A second conclusion reached at the meeting "as a result of tho compliant attitude which wa surprisingly shown by the Soviet government" was upon postwar reconstruction in Russia with al lied aid, this report added. In London, President Roosevelt's announcement was hailed as set ting the seal on the defeat ' of Hitler, and caulking any chink that might have existed in allied unity. "With this news rings the death knell of Hitler ."and all his crim inal , associates," said the Com munist Daily Worker. The Eve ning Standard declared that the conference '"gives political real ity to freedom's cause. Its success is tremendous and solemn and up lifting." ' London Gets Tmiit in?-! LONDON, Oct 30HT)-Londoi was subjected to a light nuisance raid tonight a few hours after the RAF delivered fresh blows en docks at Cherbourg and the Mau pertus airfield nearby. The London raid was almost 103 per cent ineffective, the net an nounced .result being a bomb hit on a private residence. - The German air force lost two of a "very small number" f planes that reached London dur ing the. brief alert During the RAF light battalion attack' of Cherbourg, American and British heavy bombers rested. Sassy little Typhoon bombers peppered the drydocks at the French port while the Whirl winds, with Spitfire cover, poured explosives into the warehouses. Boston bombers raked the run ways and buildings at the air drome. For a second straight day the bombers encountered not a single enemy fighter and the British lost no planes. ' Nazis Date Fixed By -if,