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Enrollments at the three col
leges of education in Oregon are
aDDroximately as follows: South
ern Oreeon f Ashland) 55: Oregon
College (Monmouth) 150; Eastern
Oregon (LaGrande) 90 civilian
and 500 army. I have seen no pub
licity given to these enrollments
from the state board of higher ed
ucation, merely overall figures for
all the schools. I think the facts
should be disclosed fully so the
people may see just what is hap
pening to their colleges of educa
tion fnee normal schools).
When you recall that Monmouth i
alone used to have around 900 stu- ;
dents, when only a two-year
course was offered,, you can see
the falling off in numbers of per
sons preparing for teaching in ele
mentary schools.
What is it costing the state to
maintain three separate institu
tions for teacher-training? - The
amounts budgeted for this bien
xuum were:
Seatherm Oree-en (Ash- "
land - . $157,.
Oreron College (Mon-
month) .... $JMS4.
- Eastern Oreeon (La
Grande) : $154,114.
, The allocations however remain
with the state board of higher
education. Shifts have been made,
transferring teachers from schools
with light - enrollment to other
schools. But necessarily an ade
quate staff must be maintained
and the school overhead carried
even when the enrollment drops
to 55 as at Ashland. Obviously
this makes the cost per student
exceedingly high.
Since the schools were created
by legislative action and since
'appropriations were made by the
legislature for their operation the
state board of higher education is
reluctant to consolidate these
schools even for the duration, and
probably lacks the legal authority
to do so.
The real seriousness of the situ
ation is not in the heavy cost to
the state in operating three col
- leges of education whose total ci
vilian enrollment is less than that
f one formerly. It lies in the dry
ing up of the source of supply of
(Continued on Editorial Page)
RAF Takes Air
To Hammer J
Nazi Fortress
LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 1 1
ry- The RAP'S heavy bombers,
taking the air for the first time in
a week, struck at targets in German-occupied
territory last night
after more than 500 Britain-based
allied planes had hammered Adolf
' uii.r'i TTiirorAn . fortress - In
cweeninf davlixht raids.
The night: assault apparently
was carried out in great force, for
observers on the British southeast
coast said they heard planes roar
ins out toward the east for more
than an hour before midnight. As
usual, however, the preliminary
British announcement of the raid
did not specify, the objectives.
The RAF's last major night ope
ration was the November 3 attack
an Duesseldorf and Cologne.
A major operation yesterday
was the attack by American Ma
rauder bombers oil the nazi air
haae at Chievres. near Brussels.
' Early today a few anti-aircraft
guns in the London area fired
nnon a sinele Diane which was
not immediately identified. No air
raid alert was sounded.
'A dozen attacks were executed
by allied squadrons in the day
lieht operations yesterday and
medium and light bombers and
fighters thundered back and forth
across the channel hour alter nour
The American force which
blasted the Chievres base. Just
20 miles aeathwest of Brussels
and 115 air, miles from Dover
a the English coast, lest
.. elanes.
Returning fliers said their
bombs fell among at least 30
iwin-eneined enemy bombers in
the air base's principal dispersaV
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Russia Hints
Turk Support
LONDON. Nov. 10.-MP)-Russia
hinted tonight that she expected
Turkey to give "direct support" to
the allied effort In the war
aeainst Germany.
: The Moscow radio broadcasting
an article on the Moscow confer
ence which appeared in the mag
azine "War and the Working
Class said:
"It ia ' exceedingly 'important
that obligations i undertaken - by
our allies and reaffirmed at the
Moscow conference should be dis
charged with the proper time. '
' "Considerable importance will
be attached to the decision of cer
tain states which so far have ad
hered to a policy of neutrality, as
for example Turkey. The transi
tion of such states to direct sup
port of the anti-Hitler coalition
will be a factor of considerable
' Importance in reducing the dura
tion of the war,"
NINETY THIRD YEAR
25th Armistice
Looks to Victory
Salem Celebration V Rioted
To High Pitch of T otism,
Intense Hatred f c & rmans
By JlALPH C. HS
Twenty-five years ago numerous effigies of Kaiser Wil
helm were dragged by the neck or otherwise maltreated in
Salm's most uproarious parade, celebrating: the cessation of
hostilities in World War I. Today with the world locked in
a greater and bloodier conflict there is no such cause for
jubilation. Yet Armistie day is a patriotic holiday, patriotism
again runs high, and there is reason to hope for another
allied victory ending hostilities with Germany before the
historic date rolls 'round again.
For these reasons Armistice O
day's silver anniversary will be
fully and fittingly observed in Sa
lem, under direction of the Feder
ated Patriotic Societies. Outstand
ing features for the general pub
lic will be the parade , at 10:30
a. m. and the program centering
about the War Mothers' monument
at the west end of the courthouse
square immediately following the
parade. In case of inclement
weather the program will be held
in the armory.
Principal speaker at the patriot
ic exercises will be Col. Albert
H. Stackpole, commanding officer
of a regiment stationed near Sa
lem and in civilian life a news
paperman. Irl S. McSherry will
be master of ceremonies and Rev.
Dudley Strain will lead in the in
vocation. Other features will be
floral offerings at the monument
by school children, the placing of
wreaths by patriotic orders, "taps"
and volleys from the firing squad
following a moment of silence at
11a. m., the playing of the nation
al anthem by the military band,
and choral selections.
The parade, more orderly
than that of the first Armistice
day in 1918 bat perhaps as
kmc, will be composed of seven
divisions, i. most., lotereslinr
which may he tna composea oi
military : units with motorized
and mechanised eqaipment and
a carrier pigeon unit. Jerrold
Owen? civilian defense admin
istrator; for Oregon, will be
grand marshal; Ira O. Pitcher,
chief of staff and Maj. William
H. Adams, adjutant.
A change in the parade arrange
ments provides for the Leslie jun
ior high school brass band to
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Tracks Cleared
At Albany
After Train
ALBANY, NIOA
were cleared id the All
road yards today fo
lision in -which4jia-Tr eight
and a locomotive were dera
with minor injuries to an ei
eer. i '
The engineer, W. E. Engel, suf
fered a broken ankle.
r He was piloting a local irei
from Lebanon which ene?
yards on a branch line and side-
swiped a fast, southbound South
ern Pacific freight.
His ; locomotive jumped the
tracks, remaining upright, but two
empty gondolas on the south
bound train overturned.
."i tfgs on
if & on to
iuivi or o pm a i r-T -
Aged Borie Ends Naval Career
In Furious Battle With Sub
By HAMILTON W. FARON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10-P)-Battling with shotguns, pistols,
empty shell cases and even knives at ranges down to ten feet,
the men of the destroyer Borie fought a nazU-boat to the death
while their ship pounded the submarine to pieces.
Then, her aged plates overstrained in contributing more than
one ship's share to a brilliant new O
chapter of American naval history,
the Borie limped away in a heavy
storm to carry her crew to safety
before she quit the fight. Beyond
salvage, she was sunk by Ameri
can planes. I .
- The Borie already , had depth
charged one U-boat to the bottom
before her last fight, in a cam
paign that won for her task force
a presidential , unit citation for
having f destroyed "more subma
rines than any team in naval history-
;
- The skipper of the Borie, 30
y ear-old ! Lt. Charles y H. Hutch
ins, Terre Haute, IimL; told today
of what became at times almost
a hand-to-hand fight somewhere
in the Atlantic after his ship, try
ins; to ram, rode up and over the
submersible. . ; i-5V"'v
We held him there and start
ed shooting with everything we
had, said Hutchins. "Some men
fired shotguns; the executive of
ficer grabbed a tommy-gun and
started shooting from the bridge;
others used pistcls, one boy even
10 PAGES
Jim Hannaman,
Engineer,
Dies, Portland
G. L. "Jim Hannaman, widely
known and experienced as a west
ern construction engineer, died
Wednesday at St. Vincent's hos
pital, Portland.
In Salem, where hea4u,''
family had madethfTuThome fince
1938, he hasupermteidedcoa-
struction ohe.ferMghschoet
buildingfand as amember of trie
contracting - Crnr of Viesko ari
Hannaman, had builtf thk Salem
Steel tndoppl? building, tie r-
cenf addisons to Oregon ifuin
Panes
PatkuS
to Uu
oompanx a
dalifom
laritifltrid
roieoti,int
mecpeil fcoir
hoikctor the ofd
struelipnr'of
empoorwsfB-ti;
Born In C?aiesbOrgK I1U
it !
ber 13, 1880 Jwasthe son of
George LV and Jane Ifanrlaman.
He was graduated 'ftcnn Krtc rroif
" Z JZ7 ' " . J ' " 1
first work fitUaS graduation r.wTr
as a draftonan innarcrLuect s
office in1' his home. tov, r-
i-2
firsTem-
Mr. 4fahnaman Wi firs
nlnvaitn 4fi XnnKir CSC m
tireraerion nayy jpta a araii- i
from lOTf to1907; ne served
5pWftheec,ury-di-
partmentf JJijsr ire : CQnsu-ucndrtj of
posffoffice" blildings katrin r
gen4 istfficejn" 9lt fJmIoyedTj
nextlbT th a Oregon 13ectr?c,'Raili
way i r mfk superintehdenoJ
consirucuon on suDsiauon duiiq-
the rail line between Port-
and Eugene, he then moved
San Francisco to serve as
rary buildings at Grass
lif post offices at Chico
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 10-(JP)
President Roosevelt will go to Ar
lington national cemetery tomor
row for the traditional Armistice
day ceremony in placing a wreath
on the tomb of the unknown sol
dier. took a signal pistol and fired at
the sub.
The range was se short one
gun couldn't be brought to bear
on the submarine. So the gun
captain started throwing emp
ty shell eases and knocked one
man off the deck of the sub.
Another fellow threw his knife.
He said later he'd never I been
able to stick a knife In the floor
before, but this time he hit a
man and knocked him over
board. " ' i ;r t:,: .
'' "One : other gun crew , couldn't
fire because : their shield was in
the way. They cut a hole in the
shield and fired through it"
s The action ; with "the ; biggest
sub I've ever seen," Hutchins said,
lasted about 10 minutes before the
U-boat broke loose and attempted
to flee. -i u
; "He went into a tight turn and
we couldn't turn close enough to
bring our guns on him," Hutchins
continued. "We attempted to ram
again even though we'd been da
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JPland
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Salem, Orecjon. Thursday Morning. Norember 11, 1943
Germans
Ordered
Hold Line
Nazis Launch
Counter-Attacks
Against Yanks
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Nov. 10(P)-Under or
ders to hold their present Ital
ian line at all costs "for at least
eight weeks," German forces
are launching savage counter
attacks against American infan
try and massed artillery in the
mountainous Venafro area, the
allied command announced today.
The reinforced nazis hurled nine
furious but unavailing charges
against the frostbitten Americans
within 24 hours in a desperate ef
fort to check the allied advance
on their new Garigliano river
Sangro river positions. Each time
they were thrown back with
heavy casualties by Lt. Gen. Mark
W. Clark's fighting doughboys and
by terrific artillery barrages that
ripped up the mountainsides.
Snow already had begun to fall
in the Apennines, and conditions
w .the worst under which the
Ipught since they, in-
yaded". Italy.
-.The weather' seriously cut d
cn the' activity cf allied figh
and fighter-bombers ver the
tlefrpnfe, but.heavyrtFlying F
ressea" and Liberators of the new
15th; f army aforc - pattered ft
balT androllerr bearinworkswat
Viijar Psax TuHnTln nor-;
-rnJUyis anafme'insamo 2xeei
WoAs,jockahd; raft ways at Ge-
oa !tfe2eading: 'pjpThe vilfe
Perosst plant was taught to be
the lasttn ItalyWnin out be it--ings.
for the-ri;wstr ynachin i.f ,
"v.:. Documents t :z t v. from ea;
. amT rprmi - c t-ntlrmnA that
- .eenesayw'hf apkled bp - bis
Drescatftont across Italy, some
t if - tjBitti rrom some.
winier line" and h 4 ordered '
It held at all eoststfcr Tt leasjr
elghlweek.
iuiyi t--v.ijr m
(The following ttory was written by
Master Tech. Sgt. Jim G. Lucas of
Tulsa. Okla., a marine corpa combat
e satisfaction or Knowing mat
he was still in action against the
adalcanal long after
order
ure
en-
heart for his wounds. CpL
nett was knocked out by a shrap
nel wound in the right arm when
the six-inch naval gun which the
enemy had emplaced atop Lunga
ridge, overlooking Henderson
field, opened up on the marines
on November 12.
Three weeks later, however, he
was back in action, and remained
in the Solomons until" his unit
was evacuated lastFebruary. By
that time Guadalcanal had been
cleared of its last Japs and flunga
ridge was rid of "One Lung Pete."
He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Bennett of Dallas, Ore.,
where his father is foreman of
a lumber milL A 1938 graduate
of Dallas high school, he had be
gun a physical education course
at the Oregon College of Educa
tion in Monmouth when he en
listed January 10, 1940.
CpL Bennett has been under
going intensive training here.
Mrs. Wright
Re-examined
ALBANY, Nov! 10-(VCather
ine Wright, 26, army wife accus
ed of abducting two-day-old Ju
dith Guroey. from a hospital crib
last August, was re-examined to
day by two physicians.
. She was: found mentally defi
dent yesterday by a court-ap
pointed sanity commission.
. County Judge E. G. Arnold, act
ing ' under circuit z court orders,
called in "Dr.. Lew Hurd and Dr.
Wade, for further examination,
conferred at length with the phy
sicians, then- announced that he
would study the matter further
before taking any action.
-,-The woman is held in the Linn
county lail under a charge of
child-stealing.
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Work
On Armistice
LONDON. Not. lft-P)-Amer-ieaa
troops in the European the
ater are going to observe Armls-.
tlee day with hard work.
This is the order of Lt Gen.
Jacob L. Devers, who said this
woald be the only fitting way
to observe the day.
; .The customary formal ob
servance . of the day also has
been dropped by the British and
: other allied governments.
The Germans will see. Instead,
an observance that will furnish
a grim reminder of the days be
fore the armistice of 1918.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Thurs
day, Nor. IMAVHeavlly en
gaged in war close to home,
Americans and Aastralians In
the southwest Pacific paid little
heed to Armistice day.
Soldiers and civilians from
General Douglas Mac Arthur on
down went about their business
as usual.
American and Australian flags
flew from military buildings
and on the street civilians paid
no attention as the hour of 11
o'clock came and went.
Nelson to Ease
Production
CiviDan-Goods
Congresreceiyed astnuance -,to
! ay v i Tcxti Doftald M.iKets6tha t
i croductiBl 'of " essential? civilian.
oods,wll be permittrtbn an In-
tcrea?ing scale as fast'as. militapr
- , - -
requtronenis enow ine, xejease ;Ot
;
war plants ana uai, materia ls'
e war production board
war proaucuon wira
in tokt-:seiiat e :fimHTTiry ;
iMfftee that jjjrlmfv eon ;
cha
su' eomasfS
jsJdei-atloii Woulcl .be 4ren to'ti
vilian need, for CratispStriatleni
eqciFmentaTrm r.' chmvry-fm
wasning mac: aes, rerrig i
eraiors
and other.
esanUals
-in order .to meet wai i i i
ianuH'"?; he declareq, ' it : Is is-
.liai ihat prdjuctionwii.eopper,
J -d.- steel, riiic and other -.ctala 1
t -i icept t?v!!g x peaaxvy-ib.
;i Ntson pif : plans of th ubV tJ
coramitteev1 headed by.. Sehatoi
IZiwfr&rTr&ltont); to drafl
tlationto expedttfi'TtetUei: - n
fi'THisis",N)t mereiyPe
.rff
coiKtr-c - vbeenVHSdVf
than werr3ffc"fled af
war.
While plants or materials re
leased byA6ne military agency
transfe:
tary
e
mo.
ual
time,
perative to provide a uniform pro
cedure for cancellation of con
Sounds Just Same
In New Guinea
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI
NEA, Nov. IMAVIt was just
another air transport landing on
a busy New Guinea airdrome
until two khaki clad girls and a
tall, lanky fellow stepped off.
They were Una MerkeL Phyl
lis Brooks and Gary Cooper.
Both actresses looked tired.
As soon as they left the plane,
soldiers crowded about the
screen stars for a close-up look.
One soldier summed up his re
action: Why that guy Cooper sounds
just like he does In the
ain't that something?
All This
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OROCCOj
Troops
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Mam&t 'y'tti Cb. ff- -J.
Allies Take Tunis
May 7.1943
Allies Land
No.8.l942
'ALGERIA
HlrhspeU of allied progress m the
in North Africa November S,
7 1
lani
Jap Zeros
Marines Kill
150 Japanese
At Bougainville
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS,
Thursday, Nov. ll-(ff)-Sixty-seven
Japanese planes have
been destroyed in all sectors,
General MacArthur's head
quarters announced today.
Marines on Bougainville
fighting the. Japanese force
which landed Sunday north of the
Americans beachhead have killed
150 of the enemy.
By WILLIAM F. BONI
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED "HEADQUARTERS, Thurs
day, Nov. ll-(;p)-United States
marines have killed an estimated
half of the Japanese force which
landed from barges north of their
Bougainville beachhead and Unit
ed States army troops have put
ashore without loss, despite a big
enemy air attack, to reinforce the
northern Solomons positions.
The marines, employing tanks,
decisively defeated the Japanese
Tuesday, four miles north of the
original marine position on Cape
Trpkina, General MacArthur's
neadauarters reDorted .todavl ? .V
From the South' Pacific head-C
quarters of Admiral Balsey'
e&mai vnart iht- trrh.YArr
wtoatjJksof iatmaubA
uenUyaBpxlmatelyrCJat-
a nese dive bombers: and fights
fers s cpt in for a raid, damag-f
. .... r .
ax siieship. t
Allied ; Nnes intercepted, sh
t down j?.;3east tttllw
t I3riifiatra ag.1nlt
' LoT Oielr owfAi
. ,rn -tn PaU lLktvv
it?rt
d M - " TS
-Race
ijiitTit
rA"2H5v-WlLLIAM TAEZACOCK
- ASHINGTON, Nov. 10-()
aLJovernor John W. Brick er's an-
uuuin.cuicut wjuajr ui lie wiu ue
a republican candidate for presi
dent in the Ohio primaries May 9
cted to touch off an inten-
Ie for control of dele-
'next year's GOP conven-
next two months much!
. . . . . . , r
fight iQy be cUtered bU
hind the scenes in southern states.
Many
republican
leaders there
have
ohg-time
dating back
admini
ders
fro:
Tna
,Aibli
riends of Wendell
L. Willkie already have been ac
tively seeking- southern support
for him in the 1944 convention.
Supporters of Harold E. Stas
sen, former governor of Minnesota
and now a lieutenant commander
in the navy, have disclosed they
will enter his name in the Nebras
ka presidential preference primary
to be held April 11.
There also is a movement to
draft Governor Thomas E. Dewey
of New . York, who has declared
he will: not become a candidate,
and there has , been talk among
some republicans of drafting Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur. A Chi
cago group has urged that Col.
Robert - R. McCormick, Chicago
Tribune publisher, permit his
name to be entered in the Illi
nois primary.
I 5
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v m. v w"7m
camcmir - tr
Happened in One Year
CHUNGARYi
italy:
Toulon ?V . V""' A
cor steal 5-
J
itt..
SARDINIA
Naples falls
OcU.t943
Sicily
Jut
U W. .
; -MALTA
l TUNISIA
British Start
LIBYA
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OU23.1942
Mediterranean theatre since the British-American-Canadian landlags
are Indicated en this map. AP wirephote.)
JUkramianiA
mo
rms
Troops Fan Out on 70-SIilei
Front Beyond
Zhitomir, Key
1 By jUDSON
LONDON, Tlnirday,
ULranian army stormed westward through a battlefield
littered with 3500 German dead and abandoned nazi
war material yeeterday, fanning out on a 70-mil(! front'
beyond captured Kiev to within:40 miles of the Siito
inir rail junction, Moscow said today. I j ! I
Over 60 towns and hamlets two of them
centersfell to the Russian offensive; whicl
across the Teterev river in
maroika in the central sector. Komorovka, northeast
of Zhitomir, is also 48 miles southeast of KorOsten, an
other rail center which, the Germans must hold1 f they
; - -O would protect I their north-south
Eight Groups
Seek Drastic
Wartime Taxes
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10,-UP)-
Eight national organizations. In
cluding the CIO, called today for
more drastic wartime taxes, de
claring -,the bill shaped by the
house way siCEjrans committee
ul wux adequately nin per-
Tho organisations Aroposed a
TMi aft-
? ttxesi b reposed any form
cf r a t hal retail sales tax.
t -ft :;-:iThe committee is about ready
aooWUjfcl submit te the house a bill
l?fHdh?pr25,OSS,0Si in new
H t M ! K r eent hort the
a! fnXSttMi'i reast for
WSb.
vSaorvxt utnessai
OOS additional rev
xorth their po-
ge addressed to
each member of congress. It was
signed by President Philip Mur
ray of the congress of industrial
organizations, and .representatives
of the National Farmers union.
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, National association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
National Women's .Trade Union
League of America, League of
Women Shoppers, National , Law
yers Guild and Consumers union.
Points were:
1. Elimination of the income tax
levies on low incomes which were
substituted by the committee for
- . .
1 neswrauon oi personal m-
L,,,. ,rt
. ,ICUI . . .
gle persons, $1500 for married
couples and $400 for each -de-
Exemptions under the
are $500, $1200 and $350.
eased . personal taxes on
above $3000 a year, along
$25,000 ceiling on net in-
after taxes. Congress . re
cently repealed such a salary ceil
ing established by President
Roosevelt through executive or
der. 4. An increase in the corporate
tax rate from 40 per cent to at
least 50 per cent, recommended by
the administration but rejected by
the ways and means group. ,
5. Elimination of the option to
compute- excess profits on the
average-earnings method. -
"6. Elimination of "special privi
leges' so as to provide for mandatory-
joint returns, the taxation
of government securities and the
elimination of percentage-depletion
allowances for oil and mining
properties.
7. Increased tax rates and low
ered exemptions for estate and
gifts. -
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i
Istanbul.
TURKEY
Invaded
9.1943 h
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Kiev to Approach
Rail Junction
9'QUINnI
NovJ ll-(AP)-Raggia,
district
broke
to Ko-
the north and surged!
communications. This push mark
ed ah advance, of 42 mile west of
Kiev! . ;
The district centers 'of jlvankov
and Prebenki fell to th4 Russians
as the Germans retreated before
the massed Soviet artillery lined
up at 20-yard intervals. Their for
mations smashed by the devastat
ing barrage, the Germans aban
doned food, ammunition, guns,
trucks, a train f and tanks in their
mght. r in
The Moscow midalgbt com- :
. mnnlque said fit German tanks . 1
and eight self-propelled guns
were blown up by the Germans, '
but the Russians were able to
capture intact! more than 75 big
guns, 17 tanks, 115 trucks and .
numerous damps as Iwell as
. prisoners. ;i j "v. - i
An earlier Russian communiqua
listed as captured a town which!
might have been Khorlyevka, but
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Postal Rate
Still Prevkils,
PUC Decides
i ' H . . .
Western Union
eTann comnanies
and Postal Tele
are merged, but
in Oregon the flower jrates of the
latter still prevail, when intrastate
messages are ;5 sent through the)
one-time Postal offices j and over
the lines it operated prior to the
merger, public utilities; commis
Price 5c
sion authorities I indicated thli Igff
week... !.. i t m
may have beeft sounded Wednes-rjv S
day when Attorney iienerai i. n.
Van Winkle hlnded down, at tha f
request of Public Utilities Com- if
missibner George It IjFlagg : aa
opinion declaring that there is no
question as to the merger although
no official notification of it hag
yet been sent UC offices.
Pending tha opinion, a request
from Western si Union fjor discon-
tinuance of Postal Telegraph rate
in Oregon had been held up. Time)
for the hearing may jnw be set.
ine puoiic Huuuaicommissiuu
er, under uregon laws, nas au
thority to fix reasonable rates foa
intrastate messages lover West
ern! Union Telegraph company
lines following the merger of the
two companies. Van Winkle held.
However, the commission has)
not been asked to fix such rates
it has simply') been asked to dis
continue those of the: Postal com-
1 .S i i i
pany. ,.-.f - 3 r ,
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Allies
Seejc
Remote Roatta
By: RICHA9d gV jwksSOCK.
LONDON Nov. 10.--The al
lies have requested IPremierPie-
tro Badoglio t$ remove; Gen. Mar-
io Roatta, Italianl chief of staff, as
a result of Yugoslav charges that
he was a "war crimfaal' respon-.
siDie ror a reign or jerror in xug-
oslavia, it was disclosed today. .
The Germaps,! meanwhile, har
assed by; guerrilla activity from
the Swiss bolder tot the Franco-.
Italian Riviera, navel offered am
nesty to Italian iand French pa
triots who surrendered , before No
vember 15. The offer Iwas believed ,
aimed at an ejttujnate t0000 anti"
axis Italian troops who were re
ported to have? dug in for the win
ter in the maritime Alps.
The case of Gen. ii Roatta may
be the first presented .before the J
United Nations (commission which ,
is to be set up In London soon by
the United States, Russia and
Britain. The commission proba
bly will decides whether Roatta
will be sent to Yugoslavia for trial
under terms of (the Moscow con-
ference. if j-
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