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mf VXD fins (BM j.ugJ Coh&mbia I : i v .Republican stock is looking up since the elections of 1942 and 1943, and with good cause. Atten tion now is focused on the repub lican national convention in 1944. : But I do not like this talk of blocs and blocks. Sen. Butler of Nebraska is in the papers with a declaration that the western states will form a bloc to pick off either the presidential or . vice presiden tial nomination. A few weeks ago there was a political meeting in Missoula when northwestern, poli tico gathered to talk . over - a northwest bloc for the national convention. Then it is reported that the purpose of John D. M. Hamilton's grand circle tour is" to -block Willkie." - - Why these blocs and blocks? Re publicans of the country should pick out their best man as candi date, first, a man equal to "the de mands of the time, and second, a man with a popular following so he will command votes. If he comes from the west or the east or the middle west makes little difference if he has the stuff. When the age calls for a man able to think and act in terms of world wide responsibilities and relation ships we should not think in pro vincial terms either for president or vice president. - And if the best the anti-Willkie forces can offer is to wreck his prospects by the" political trick of favorite son set-ups then the rank and file of the party and the coun try at large face the prospect of a manipulated nomination like that of Harding in 1920. The maneuv er to kill off Willkie and then draft" Dewey or name a nobody would be transparent. (Continued on Editorial Page). Liquor Probe Develops . Twin Moves t. By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 17-Twin moves to drive liquor out of ware houses and the "gangster element" ' 'out of the whisky business devel oped here today. -: On top of senate approval of a $10,000 fund for a committee investigation of ' the business, the office of price administration said a growing.JgangJfter, element", is ; complicating the liquor price and supply problem, and : Chairman 1 George (D-Ga) of the senate fi nance committee announced his group will consider a plan to im pose excise levies on liquor held in bonded warehouses more than Jour years. Sen. i Van Nuys (D-Ind), chairman-of a judiciary subcommittee named : to investigate the liquor situation, ' has asserted that big distilling Interests are creating a scarcity by holding good liquor off the market. He said taxes are evaded ?' thereby, and consumers are compelled to resort to black markets. George did not relate his tax announcement to the current re ports of hoarded whisky, but im position of the tax would have . the effect of driving at least some liquor out for consumption. At present liquor , may be held in a bonded warehouse for eight years before the federal tax of $8 a gallon applies. ' Vail Nuys said part of the short age resulted from holding' liquor in bonded storage in the hope of higher prices. The tax would make such storage expensive on older Whisky. s George estimated the tax would (Turn to Page 2 Story F) ' . Hull to Report To Congress WASHINGTON, .Nov. 17-VP) Secretary of State Hull will cut a new pattern of relations between the ; executive and legislative branches of the American govern ment tomorrow in a report on the Moscow conference at an informal joint session of congress. , Whether his unprecedented ap pearance in the house chamber will be followed by similar visits by the cabinet officers was not ap parent tonight, but a move in that direction appears in a resolution introduced in the house by Rep. Kefauver (D-Tenn). Under it ad ministrative heads would be in cited periodically to report to con gress and answer questions. Under tomorrow's' procedure there will be no questions. " Never in the memory of con gressmen has a cabinet member addressed a joint session. N Marines Do Good, 1 Tatty Berg Says CHICAGO, Nor. 17-(iiP)-Lls-ten gals; . Patty Berg, famed freckled,, golfing redhead from Minneap Us, said today she'd knocked off 12 pounds whilst completing an eight weeks officers trail ing course for the marines at Camp Lejeune, New Elver, NC The marines do you a lot of good that way. she said with s grin.. ' KINSTY THIRD. YEAH ' i : v ' . .. ... Nazi EPrkies First Admitted In-hitomir-Korostv J3 & Small Portion By JUDSQN O'QUINN .s , LONDON, Thursday, Nor. 18 (AP) A mounting: Ger man counter-attack with a field force reported to total 150,000 men sent the red army into reverse yesterday in the Zhitomir-Korostyshev region of the northern Ukraine- a small sector of the vast eastern front in the first admitted soviet setback since the Russian offensive began four months ago. .. - i " -I vl However, in the Dnieper bend soviet troops killed 2000 Germans and seized several towns and in the Korosteri rail junction area. 60 more towns and hamlets were captured. Advances were also made in the Gomel-Rechitsa area and a new oviet drive was reported under way near ; Orsha.' . The unusual announcement of O-r - r the soviet retreat came in the reg ular Moscow radio communique, and in the later midnight supple ment I . - The Germans concentrated large forces of tanks and infantry on a narrow; sector of the front, the communique said, and after kill ing 1500 Germans and destroying 80 tanks - and troop carriers, the Russians "under pressure of the numerically superior enemy forces abandoned a few populated places and entrenched themselves in new positions." The German counter-attack was seen in London as purely a de fensive, move and the Berlin ra dio itself, while talking of "grow in g German counter - pressure," said the Russians were forced to carry out "a ' certain backward movement which at the moment is pot very considerable. (Henry vassiay eniet oi wej?lds at Istres e fube and Salon Associated Press bureaqr In ilos- cow,. said military observers- be lieved the Russian retreat was not a large scale movement but a tac tical maneuver designed to pre vent encirclement of a compara tively small advance guard. (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Aerial Drive Hits 3 Bases In J ap Islands 1 By CHARLES McMURTRT PEARL HARBOR, TH, Nov. 17 (Jf)- Continuing their aerial of fensive in the central Pacific, army Liberator bombers raided: the Jaluit and Mille atolls in the Mar shall islands and Makin in the Gilbert group the afternoon of November 15, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced. The communique gave the fol lowing i results of the attack: One enemy ship set on fire and three others possibly hit in Jaluit harbor. : Many fires started in hangars, shops and fuel dumps at Imieji (Emidj) and Jabor islands of the Jaluit atolL Several fires started at Mille atolL-; , Clouds prevented accurate ob servation at Makin. It was the third successive day on which Liberators of Maj. Gen. Willis Hj Hale's 7th air force had struck against Japanese bases in the central Pacific area in an of fensive which ; the general said would be continued until we ren der them "completely untenable." There was no enemy intercep tion at any point in the November 15 raid and no damage to Amer ican planes or personnel. Intense anti-aircraft fire was encountered at Mille, but it was weak at Makin and Jaluit. County War Chest Closing Accounts; Funds Near Quota Efforts to conclude the Marion county war chest campaign before November 30, the date set for closing accounts, were urged upon district campaign chairmen Wed nesday' in letters sent out from county headquarters here.' r Working toward a $29,117 goaL the total on Wednesday stood at $21,593.96 actually reported to headquarters and it was known that some additional amounts in subscriptions had been reported to district leaders but not yet relayed to the central office. : Districts "over the top " were Stayton, SL Paul, Sublimity, Mon itor, Jefferson and Mehama. Sil vertorv Woodburn, Mill City and possibly others were close to their goals, j -.... ' " .' 10 PAGES Scdonu Repelled Set-Ba oines of E; Fro V Allies Launch Heaviest Raid. Nazi Air Arm By NOLAND NORGAARD 4 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ALGIERS, Nov. 17-AVAttacking on a front of more than 1000 miles, bombers of the Northwest African air force struck their heaviest blow of recent weeks at the nazl air force yesterday when they smashed enemy - airdromes near Marseille in southern France and in the Athens area in Greece. Blistering onslaughts by Flying FnrtrpRjtta and Marauder atralnst near MarsexHes. were aimed pM-, marily at the destruction of fleets of Dornier-217 and other German long-range bombers that have been harassing allied . shipping in the Mediterranean. Many ground ed bombers were left flaming at the two enemy bases and a tre mendous explosion indicated an American bomb found an ammu nition dump. Another farce t Mitchell medium bombers whipped east ward from their Italian bases to niast ine JUevsis air neld Bear Athens for the second straight' day In futile support of allied ground troops defending Leros island in the Aegean sea. While the allies' Mediterranean air activity fanned out. on an ever broadening front, ground opera tions in Italy were cursed by dis mal weather, 'with high winds, rain and snow hampering the movements of men and supplies. Several brisk patrol actions were reported from the various sectors. The most important ' re sulted in Americans of the Fifth army regaining some high ground on Monte Croce north of Venafro which had been lost the preceding day to two strong German counter-attacks. ; -5 The day's operations, inciden tally, marked the first .anniver sary of the Northwest African air force's initial blow at the enemy. On November 18, 1942, a half dozen Flying Fortresses that ha5 been flown from Britain opened for business with a raid on the Sidi Ahmed air field near Bizerte in Tunisia. . Rounding out yesterday's ; ope rations, Spitfire fighters returned to Albania to strafe enemy trans ports and bomb bridges : near Durazzo, while American - Mit chells struck an effective blow in support of Yugoslav patriot armies by bombing harbor installations and a railway at Sibenik, from which the nazis . are - conducting operations against partisans hold ing nearby islands. ' Roosevelt Tells Forum A Hies Have Of Initiative, Produce Important Wr Events NEW Y O R K, Nov. n.HfPh President Roosevelt said tonight the United Nations now had ; the "supreme advantage of initiative1 and their progress could be meas ured by the fact that they were producing "the important events of the'war." --- j "We must not lose this advan tagethe supreme advantage of initiative," he said in a message to the closing session of the New York Herald Tribune forum on current problems. . Vice President Wallace and Wendell Willkie addressed the session in the . Waldorf - Astoria ballroom. Messages also were read POUNDHD '1651 Oreccm, Thursday Mominc IToTOmbor 18, 1943 Back FrpmBpugaiiwUle j I'M ' A wounded US marine swings toward a navy transport as another wounded trooper lies on the bottom of a landing boat in which they . were brought back from the beach on Bougainville island in the Solomons where the marines established a successful beach head in the invasion of the Japanese-held Island. (AP wirephoto from coastg nard.)' "r : ; 9 Million Per Month Subsidy Plan Opposed WASHINGTON, Nov. nThe broadest food price sub sidy program yet--a $9,000,000-a-month plan to hold down the cost of bread ran head-on into specific opposition on Capitol hill 'today while the -storm of congressional and farm protest against food subsidies in general rose to new fury.. , Sen. Reed (R-Kan.) tackled the bread price issue ahead of its .iormal announcement,, saying he understood the subsidy to' mil' ers was planned ati about 14. cents a bushel and addingr . . , "I'm still opposed to it It's Just part of the subsidy program to which congress is overwhelmingly opposed.- But that doesn't seem to make any difference, to those birds." ; It was learned tiat the bread program, including a ceiling price on hard-wheat, awaits only the signature of Fred: M. .Vinson, eco nomic -stabilization director,, ex- lpected this week. .- Meanwhile, , opponents of pay ments to cut consumer prices add ed new force to their attack with a parade of state agriculture com missioners and farm leaders be fore the senate agriculture com mittee. ? 1 E. H. Everson, South Dakota secretary of agriculture, led the drive, contending that the end re sult of consumer price subsidies is inflation. Subsidy supporters call the pay ments anti-inflationary, arguing that they are necessary to hold the line on living costs as a bar to demands for compensating wage increases. . Everson, republican former president of the. Farmers Union, recalled President Roosevelt's comparison of a little Inflation ." (Turn to Page 2 Story B) , Adj.i Thomas, USO, Is Transferred . Adj. C. H. Thomas of the Sal vation Army, director of the Court street USO since its opening last summer, will be transferred No vember 28 to Eugene to resume re gular Salvation Army corps work and will be succeeded here , by Adj. BramweU Glaeser, who has held a similar position in the USO at, Deming, NM, it was made known Wednesday. ., ; " : Adj. Glaser's wife and ' three children , will accompany him to Salem. from Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden or Great Britain and . Gen eral Charles De Gaulle, president of the French . committee of na tional liberation. : Churchill observed t b. a t the forum was meeting "in the glow of one of the most cheering de velopments "in international af fairs, the Moscow conference,' and referred to the pledge of the United States, the United King dom, Russia and China t6 work together not only to winning the war but in building the structure of lasting peace.' Wallace said that loans made -. x O - OWing Heads Rent Control A committee of r four business men and a -minister, headed by Merrill D. Ohling, will administer Salem's new-rent control ordin ance, Mayor I. M. Dough ton an nounced Wednesday. Serving with Ohling, who is an insurance man," are Lowell E. Kern, manager of an Ice and cold storage company " and an active worker in the chamber of com merce; Alderman Kenneth Perry, druggist; Rev. Dudley Strain, pas tor of the First Christian church, and Leo N. Child, realtor. , First duty to be undertaken by the new committee is the appoint ment of an executive secretary; second, the securing of registra tions of rental properties from owners or' operators. Setting of the deadline foa such filing and provision of forms is left to the committee by the ordinance adopt ed Monday night Ohling said Wed nesday night he had not yet de cided when to call the first meet ing of the group he heads. : ' -. The ; committee was selected as a representative body of men in terested in the welfare of the city as a whole, not likely to be pre judiced in favor of either lessor or lessee, Doughton said as ' he made the list public. 1 Under the new ordinance, adopt ed in the expectation that OPA would not extend federal rent con trol enforcement where local agen cies prove, able to handle a rent inflation situation, rents automat ically move back to those charged January; 1, : 194' The ordinance makes provision for establishment of prices" to be paid for quarters not rented on that date and for, adjustment either up or down fol lowing investigation and hearing. abroad after the war. If proper ly invested,' could Increase jobs tm the TJnlted SUtea and far nish millions of Jobs for the whole world. , Certain p r i v a t e interests, he said, must not be "allowed to high pressure congress into higher tar iffs, while other private interests kre financing unsound loans abroad at the expense of the small American investor. : He said that "by lack f plan ning and the selfishness of the so called hard-headed men we -can turn peace II into World war UL ; , Willkie, . hailed the Moscow agreement' a "a sound foundation Group in Salem Prlco) 5e No. 202 U: Fliers Damage Jap Base 39 Tons Bombs Dropped, Kara, At Bougainville SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Thursday, Nov.' I&KjSP)- Thirty nine more tons of bombs have been dropped on Japan's Kara airdrome on ' the southern coast of invaded Bougainville, head quarters reported today. Kara is one of Bougainville's often-bombed enemy, bases which have been kept inoperative by constantly raiding planes of A dm. William F. Halsey in support of the invasion at Empress Augusta bay. The American beachhead is northwest of the Kara airfield sector. ' - " In other actions around Bougain ville reported today, allied air patrols destroyed 10 barges, dam aged seven others as well as a small cargo ship 'and set fire to two fuel dumps. . . A COM ton merchant ship took a direct boqab hit from an allied plane off Kavieng, New Ireland, and a 2500 ton mer chantman was bombed and left sinking in Hansa Bay, New Galnea. . , .. ' . Seven Japanese planes definite ly, were shot down and five others probably destroyed in air actions over Wewak and the Ramu valley, northeastern New Guinea. -; Elaborating on General MacAr thur's communique, Admiral Hal Bey's headquarters said 100 Daunt less -diyeBombers - and Avenger torpedo bombers, escorted byCor sairs, attacked Kara Monday, en countering no enemy interception and all the planes .got back. Earlier . fighter . patrols -had scouted the situation around the Empress Augusta bay sector with out noting any signs of Japanese activity. The patrols then sought targets of opportunity along . the Bougainville west- coast, among them the barges on. which the Ja panese rely for - supply and rein forcement. Admiral Halsey's headquarters said, the allied .-planes Monday harassed the Japanese on Boug ainville from Buin on the south to Buka off the island's northern tip. . . . . Navy Reveals Solomons Win WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 - (JP) Fighting a long-odds battle against nine Japanese. warships, three US destroyers sent a cruiser and tw enemy ' destroyers to the bottom and forced the other enemy, craft to fleet in disorder in the engager ment October 6 off Vella Lavella in the Solomons.' . 1 ; This was disclosed by the navy today in reporting details of the fight. A communique October 9 gave only a report of the damage. "Aware that they were far out numbered - and I in waters con trolled by the enemy the navy said, "the US ships boldly closed with the Japanese until less than ?000 yards separated them. "Then blinding gun flashes split the silence and blackness of the steamy Solomon islands and the battle was . on. Torpedoes 'were launched by the destroyers just before the guns fired. . '-"Every five-Inch gun was brought to bear. The first salvos struck" home on the ,cruier and fire quickly raced along her top sides." - e. on which we can now build" and urged that it be enlarged to in clude "economic as well as politi cal and moral objectives' and par ticipation by all the United Na tions and eventually, all nations. Eden's I message' said tlf our power declaration f ailMoscow "made, it plain .thai there was Land there would be no attempt to Impose a sort of great power dic tatorship on other states. President Roosevelt . said that "in the years and perhaps .the centuries of peace that are to fol low this war, the .forces, of civili (Turn to Page 2 Story AJ. Advantas If WPB Leaders Here Voice Tjkanks I For Cooperation; Bright I i Future Seen for Industry ! : S - -. . . I . ( i J ' - Prompt action toward construction in the Salem vicinity of a $4,086,000 alumina-from-clajf pilot plant was promised, by officials o the Colutnbia JIetals cor-5 poration Wednesday night, a few hours after the an-i nouncement from Washington; DCj hat I Arthur II. Bunker, director of Ihe war! production board's alum- ina and. magnesium division, had : prepared an order f designating Salem as the site for the project. The or- t: der had yet to be signed by man of WPB's production . News of the decision from Coneressmen Harris Germans End 5-Day:Battle Taldng Leros By STEPHEN BARBER CAIRO,. Nov 17-(avrhe tiny but . strategic island of Leros has been captured by the Germans in five days of heavy fighting despite a "most determined resistance put up by its British and Italian defenders, the British middle east command announced today. The allied forces were unable to beat off the nazis, who subjected the island's. 28 square miles to a terrific - pounding - from- the: air, meanwhile continuing to land re inf orecements by boat and by par achute. 'The battle,: which began with a,; German landing Friday, ended last night : ' . ;- The Germans - tactics were similar "to -those used In their ' capture of Crete la s major ' vie-, ' .tory to this ares two tad one . half.; year atev-awl i they wen? for HiUer the second Dodceari ese Island In three weeks. The 1 . British announced on October St the evacnatioB of neighberlnr Cos, 1 20 miles south ' of :- Leros, - ander similar German assault, . - - r."(Ado!ph Hitler -used the Leros victory as occasion for a special communique from hi headquar ters iassertmg-Leros was-.taken from defenders "superior in num bers and armament'': and claiming that a total of 8550 prisoners had surrendered 3200 : British-; troops and 5350 Italian. '; . i (Loss" of Leros to the Germans brought sharp: questioning in Lon don of Britain's entire eastern Me diterranean tactics.. Some sections of the British press were openly critical, and there was talk ; , of replacing the British . middle east commander, Gen. Sir Henry Mait land Wilson, but this suggestion found no support in official quar ters, which showed no great alarm at. the turn of events in the Aegean.);.)- j - ; "V. -.. TJbe Germans erected a power ful air cover, over Leros, a rocky island about eight miles long and three miles wide, formerly used by the Italians as a naval base; and situated strategically off the coast of Turkey at the front door to the Balkans. . Under this cover they moved in with a picked battle team of vet erans, some from among the con querors of Cos ; and others from nazi forces-on .nearby Rhodes and in the Balkans. Beirut Calm; Conference On By WILLIAM McGAFFIN BEIRUT. Lebanon, Nov. 17-iP) Gen. Georges Catroux. French minister, of state sent by the com mittee of national liberation to settle! the Lebanese disturbances, conferred k here today - with Sir Edward Spears, British minister. There was "no - announcement concerning results of x their talk, which followed a consultation which- Catroux yesterday - held with French Authorities Beirut continued calm follow ing the disorders bf last week which came after the dissolution of the Lebanese government and the arrest - of many, 'officials, by order of Jean Helleu, French, high commissioner. Helleu's action fol lowed inoves by ' the Lebanese government 'for- Immediate inde pendence from French control. , 500 per Cent Safer . NEW YORK, Nov. 17-W American.- military - planes have improved 500 per cent in safety since ; Pearl Harbor, Maj- Gen. Walter H. Frank, commander-of the air service command, said to day at a press conference, follow ing opening of the army air force's air power show here. Ohsfos ,: Charles; E. Wilson, ehair 3 division. reached Salem in telegrams, Ellsworth' and Homer 5aiem chamber of commerce. In- lormauon uiai me. oecision was m . ' T' i. .... : - . i. - ' . . hnminent ha come the previous "day to Congressman James W. 1 t ilott who is it his home here fol- ! lowing an inspectioh trip of west U Coast naval Construction plants, j In. Seattle, s spokesman for Co- I " lumbia Metals corporation which fj Li composed bf a score of . north-1 west capitalists, said that &sj soon Pat Gallagher 'i was signed; officially the corpora tion would procure a site, let con- i tracts and rt to irork. He esti- mated production j of! alumina I r might be staHed within 10 to 12 i months. The WPB Order provides that construction priorities will be I Iranted, itjwjas revealed; and the f necessary transmission lines and . ub-stationj to utilize Bonneville t power will p4 readyj Gallagher in- dicated, by the tinw the plant la I. $uilt. ; . j' 1;; f 3 Highly . gratUfied at: the success f their I unceasing; efforts since s midsummer , io convince the- me- J. tals corpora taon and.- federal of-1 ficials that Silem offered the most! advantageous site for the proposed! jtfant,- officials f ofji-c t h e Salem i chamber hoi Commerce : voiced ap-1 jpreciation iwlednesday ot the co- operation among communities' of I the three northwest' states, includ-J ing bringing about reversal of a decision' based on manDower con- liderations tq build ithe plant else-lf ' iTurn tA Pare 2 Stoi-r C 1 ":.Vi , Si Bombers fTal jto Air r - -u. i .-.-.( -; v- 1 rtVrermany i LONDOM' I Thursday. Nov. 18 9T)-The RAF's heavy bombers, taking to the jair. from British bas-1. es for the first time since Armis- (ice day, battered Germany again 2 last night in !a renewal of the si- j i ji ! ; S uru Krai oijtnisiv , The assauli apparently was car-s; icq ouv in zorce, lor resiaenu on the English south coast said a great v passed overhead during the eve ning. A brminarir British an nouncemfeni disclosed neither the weight of the artack nor the spe- Cific targets! jiowevlr. ; I Yesterdajf RAF jTyphoons, hit nazl-held channel ports in a fol-1 towup to,! the; US heavy 1 bomber J loray uie previous oay, wmcn was u believed to ehkve knocked out the highly important ; molybdenum plant at Knafen in southern Nor way. . Ml I: - ;.: j- j . Photographs made during US j i attacks on jthje Molybdenum min-1 tng installs tiois at Knaben, a pow- , er . station at Rjukan, about 80 1 miles west p Oslo, and other war yj : Industries iri Norway yesterday5j ,1 ! (Turn to JPage i Story D) . &I 5Irs. Harripgton To Acciept jAir MedalUor Son if. At ceremonies clanned for next ?1 esday afternoon fit Salem army ir fieM, HT- Martha A.. Har- i fington, 594 North Liberty street, 2 . will receive the air! medal award- i -: fd posthumously to her son Robert harringtoni 19. ' 1; . ,. -1 j J The Saleih 1 youth, air corps wmber engineer, wjps killed in ac-J ion over ily ori July 16. The urple healHf medal has . already ' been sent to Mrs. Harrington, buM ; tt the request of his commanding -bfficer, theiipedal Signifying spe- t rial recoghitijpn of service will be, presented by Lt Charles 2iser, g commander;: at the- airbase here, '; before assembled troops of . the base. 1 :1: M .Weather Wednesday : maximum I persture IZ'i zilnLssm 22. dpiUilon i.C2. Llvf r ..2 ft. Fre- - Partly cliady Taurf iayf lit tle change La teisieratsre. p.; l! : S :' I' i