, . . . . 7eatberlj .K - Friday seaifmum temper--ature 52, minimum-'3 4. Pre cipitation .C3 Elver -.6 ft. I Recurring showers Satur day and Sunday; coder west portion Saturday;: strong surface winds along coast POUNDQD ! 1651 Saturday. ; M F ... irSriTY TXXQD YEAH 10 PAGES Solent, Oregon. Saturday Morning. November 23, 1943 Price 5c M t V a . . A few nlaht ago I was visiting with a vroman, one on whom age sits so lightly it may never be said that she is old. She had lived In the midwest and the conversa tion turned to how there and in the east the householder rears his bulwarks against winter's - cold; storm windows, storm- doors, and "banking the, house. To her Oregon-born grandchildren banking the house Was a complete myi- trr. which had to be duly explain ed. That it is still an annual rite, at' least in ' some . sections, v is at tested by the fact that the .New .York Times made it the subject of an editorial in its issue of last Sunday. v They do a thorough job of it in New York and New England. Far ther west, earth, straw, or leaves may be banked up against the side of the house and -battened down with boards or posts. As the Times describes it, however, no such slip-shod performance would meet the standards of your true easterner.' The ancient tradition must be fulfilled; and experience r has no doubt proven their efficacy in withstanding the blasts of win ter. For. the benefit of those who have memories of preparing for eastern winters and those who do not know how mild our Oregon winters are in comparison I re print the Times editorial: "When October's flaming colors have given way to November s browns, when the harvest is safe ly under cover in barn and crib, and when the parlor stove , has been set again on its square of zinc in the living room, then the time has come to. bank the house against the cold and winds of win ter. (Continued on editorial page) Navy to Save 5 Billion; Tax Estimate Hit By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, NaT. 19 Capitol Hill heard tonight that the navy may find It unneces sary te spend $5,040,000.00 of Its funds for this fiscal year, r thus bringing the total -of Mssv ins" by the tmttf forces to jtnore . than $1S,000,000,000. - Last night it was disclosed that the army will not use $13,163,519,' 000 of the $71,000,000,000 given it to spend in the fiscal twelve month. . Hep Taber of New. York, rank ing republican on the house ap propriations committee, said he expected navy, savings of $4,000,- 000.000 to $5,000,000,000. The army-navy actions, he said, make It "perfectly clear that with any kind of management and any kind of elimination of the things that we do not need, the federal bud get can be trimmed $25,000,000, 000 next year below what it was for this year." Chairman Cochran (D-Mo), of the appropriations committee said the armed forces fiscal position reflects "a very favorable condi tion on the front as far as sup plies and material are concerned.; Treasury officials Insisted that the need for additional taxes la net lessened by the army's re pert ef Its financial eendition. Nevertheless, many members of congress interpreted the develop- ' ment as taking off some . of the pressure for additional revenue. It -. (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Third Train-Car Wreck Reported; Kleins Injured AUMSVTLLE, Nov, 19 Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klein and two small children escaped serious injury, but their car was badly wrecked when -struck - by a train at the crossing here . early Thursday night Mrs. Klein sustained a broken rib and Klein a cut on the fore head. Neither their daughter, Donna Lee, nor their four-months old son was injured. The family was en route to the bazaar at the achoolhouse when the accident oc curred at approximately 7:30 o- clock. ' ,. - ; The Aumsville accident was the third train-car mishap reported in the Salem area during an eight hour period. - - .S" r Hereford Breeders , Accept LaCrande Bid t IWTSTON, Idaho, Nov.. The Northwest Hereford Breed ers association voted to accept the invitation of La Grande, Ore gon's representatives to hold the fall sales annually at the Oregon city at its meeting last night , E. H. Ford, La Grande city manager, and Bob Ball, secretary of the chamber of commerce, told the association members that they would start construction imme diately ct a sales arena ' at the fairgrounds which would accom modate SCO head of cattle and 1000 recTple. ' . 1000 Bombers Leave Berlin .Reeling, Blazing; American Fortresses Stage Day -Agacks : ; LONDON," Saturday, ,NoY;y'(AJP)Oiryiiig the current allied air off ensi , new heights,' the RAF heavy bombers were o rmany last night for the third night in succession 6vas announced today. The target was not w Sn the first brief of ficial announcement. , Only the night before.' a powerful force of Brit ish bombers, possibly 1000, left Berlin reeling and blazing under the impact of 2500 long tons of bombs. A few. hours before, American Flying Fortresses kept rolling the. daylight side of what appeared to be an all-out air 'offensive to obliterate nazi war sinews with an attack on unspecified O . 1 1 . 1 targets in western Germany.' Although the . Germans admit tedly are 'pulling back fighters from the Russian front to protect the homeland, the Fortresses ' did not meet a single fighter and re turned without loss. The Ameri can heavy, bombers were escorted by Thunderbolts. After two months of mild stings by Mosquito bombers, Berlin rum bled under the full weight of allied air might last night. The four-en-gined bombers sent more than 350 blockbusters weighing 4480 pounds each crashing down on the nazi capital. ! More than 12 hours after the big Berlin raid, the German high command indicated fires still were raging in the city in a brief broad cast announcement which said "the Anglo-American" raid start ed' conflagrations but "these have now been brought under control." Late j reports from Stockholm said traffic in Berlin was paral yzed and that the raid was one of the heaviest yet to hi the Ger man capital. The report said, the (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Victory Ship To Be Named For Barnes PORTLAND, Nov. lJHVHen ry J. Kaiser's record breaking Oregon' Shipbuilding corporation today laid the keel of the first of the new Victory ships which even tually ! will : supplant Victory freighters throughout the nation. Work on the new hull, which will be launched in mid -January, began immediately after the Se gundo ! Ruis Belvis, the ward's 298th Liberty, named for a Puerto Rican abolitionist, slid into the Willamette river. Yard officials announced that two ef the 2S Liberties (till to be built will be named for Ore genlans Ralph . W. Barnes, late war correspondent from Sa lem, and John Stranb. former University of Oregon dean. The first will be launched No vember 27 and the second Decem ber 13. The family of Barnes, a New York Herald-Tribune corre spondent killed in a plane - crash in Yugoslavia, in 1940, lives in Salem-V Oregon Bond Quota To Be Set Nov. 25; Card Urges Volunteers PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 19-(P) -Oregon's quota for the fourth loan drive is expected to be an nounced November 25, . C. S am nions, state chairman of the war finance committee, said tonight at a dinner in his honor. Gov, Earl Snell was host and guests included 38 county chair men of the bond sales organiza tion. J Oregonians could -invest $200, 000,000 in the fourth war loan if necessary, Giles' French, Moro," told county war bond chairmen meeting here- to plan the Janu ary campaign. ... - . Jess- Gard, Salem, urged in creased use of volunteer salesmen. Best "Vecorda in Marion county,- of which he la war bond chairman, were made by Inexperienced but enthusiastic solicitors, he said. . WPB Lifts Restrictions dnUscpfiWools'V ; WA SHI NGTON. Nov. 19 -JP The war production board today lifted restrictions -on the use of wool in Jhe production of clothe big, draperies and upholstery fab rics. -1 , vW-v;.;. r;V - ' Only exceptions are: The use of finer grades of alpaca is banned except for military purposes, and only carpet wool and mohair are permitted for the "manufacture of floor coverings.' , , - ., 1 -I i rmy; Moves to Archi; Athens Blasted v By NOLAND NORGAARD , ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Nov. 19-(iP)-Units of Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's eighth army fought through : rain and rough country . to win I new high ground north of the village of Ar chi near the Adriatic end of the Italian battle line, the allied com mand announced today, ; while American bombers practically completed destruction of the Ger mans' Elevsis airfield near Ath ens. There was a slight improvement in the weather, but the front re mained relatively quiet. Rivers still were flooded to record heights and there was no question of a mass movement of troops by ei ther side. Artillery duelled inter minably and patrols fought brisk actions at many points. Heavy equipment was hopelessly bogged down. " . (The German international in- T formation b area a said, however, . that Gen. Montgomery - had -broaght Into line "massive forc es la the coastal region. The broadcast, recorded by the Asso ciated Press, - noted the arrival lit the fighting area along the Sangre rtver . ef "arsoored for mations and lafanrty groans." (The nazi propaganda agency said the British attacks near Archi were interpreted as an indication of "a full-scale attack for which the left wing of the German de fensive front appears to be the ob jective.") An official map of the present fighting line released by headquarters-today disclosed that the front had undergone virtually no change in the past two weeks. Gored by Deer r PORTLAND,- Ore, Nov. 1M) Thomas N. Crane, 91,' route one, Molalla, a caretaker at Wilhoit mineral springs, was gored .by a deer today as he entered the ani mal's pen. Crane was ' brought to a Portland hospital where his con dition was reported improved to night. : ..j Samos Next? I ' '-J!U!WJMUiaiWWi., K pJS-OAKOANLll S ' Batik sir f CpVs STURKEY UStOV ;r--. i, 5 Izmir I 1 ySAMOS : 'Stt .Rhode's "DODECANESE If -1 . S. 1 RH.ODES r CRETE 50 Capitulation of the ' Dodecanese ...Island af Leros to the Germans has caused .sharp -criticism -of Middle East operations fat Lon don. Isolated 4r Germaa bases - at Crete and 'Xhodes, the sole remaining Tirltlsh-held "Dodee- ; anese island af v Samos," nnder nasi attack, may be the next to fall. Eilglltilfi Russians Give Up Zhito . ' Red Army Drops . Paratroopers . To Take Junction . By JUDSON O'QUINN ' LONDON, Saturday; Nov. 20 ( AP) The Rdssians lost Zhitomir, t h e " fed , army's westernmost threat to Poland and ! Rumania; yesterday in their first major reverse In four months, but the red ar my dropped troops from the skies for a new " crossing; of the Dnieper and captured another rail "junction 70 miles north of Zhitomir. Evacuating . Zhitomir "before, a concentrated German counter-attack by perhaps ISO.Opo men, the Russians abandoned a . strategic center they had captured only a week ago: The Moscow midnight , commu nique supplement, recorded from a broadcast -by the Soviet moni tor, failed . to mention . Zhitomir, which the earlier war bulletin said had been evacuated to obtain bet ter defensive positions. The Germans announced their first sizeable victory in Russia since July a few hours after the Russians Jiad admitted their own retreat. A Berlin radio broadcast said the nazis captured a large number of soviet weapons and prisoners. Meanwhile Russian airborne units, aided by guerrillas, struck an unexpected blew at the Germans, crossing the Dnie per between Kiev and Dnepro petrovsk and storming hp to the town of Cherkas amid nasi con fusion. Two thousand Germans - were reported killed in the as sault aimed at flanking the Germans balding a out to the eeutlrin the Dnieper bend."Tt5 action might aise take the pres sure off the Russians fat the Zhitomir area- Other airborne troops captured Ovruch, 25 miles north of Koros- ten and severed another rail link between - Germany's forces ' in White- Russia and the Ukraine. They captured trains and other ' (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ' Nazis Said Planning to Police France MADRID, Nov. 19- -French newspapers arrived ' here tonight carrying official German military and police communiques which seemed to make it clear the nazis mean to take over the- policing of France whether Marshal Petain is induced to cooperate or not . , A battle between Petain and his chief of government, Pierre Laval, brought into the open by the nazi dominated French, press while the Germans .prepare hastily r to take over if Vichy collapses, appeared to have come to a head over Pe tain 's being forced to cancel a speech last Saturday. ! Action Francaise published an appeal for new ' Quislings and in formers. The appeal, signed by the chief of German' "security? police in Lyon and the Rhone val ley district, offered 100, 000-franc rewards . to . Frenchmen supplying data causing the arrest of "terror ists and guaranteed the inform ers "absolute discretion. - Spanish correspondents in Paris reported; the Vichy government had called off the nightly black out in at least one French city on grounds that the underground and guerrilla peril exceeded - that of allied bombings. ' - - (Meanwhile CBS quoted a mes sage from Madrid as saying that "Thousands of people in ? France are - fleeing from towns which were warned by allied broadcasts that a new aerial campaign against nazi war industries in France would be launched shortly.) t Market to Feature Thanksgiving Fare -- No matter what happens In the Balkans, there will be turkey for Thanksgiving on the tables of 50 Salem families. A promise to off el a half hundred of the favored fowl, " average weight 13 pounds, at today's public - market was made last -week by one producer who has been among the farmers seHirs3 at the open-air pavilions on -Marion" square.". .;.'I7-;i- . Vegetables and fruits or xvAi eties suitable', for " the" traditional feast are alio to "be featured at today's market, last of the calen dar year. . Big and in Action for Allies The mighty-35.0 ton battleship steamed Into the Brooklyn, NT, go repairs, but today she has arrived in full fighting trim at Algiers to resume her place in the struggles against the axis. One of the felggest and meet powerful naval craft In the world, the Rlehlleu was inspected by Gen. Henri Glraud, commander-in-chief of the French land, sea and air forces. Be' expressed delight with the ship's evident strength. Subsidy Showdown Is Due Monday in House , By ALEX HV SINGLETON - WASHINGTON, Nov. lMiTVBacking for continued con sumer food subsidies came from the League of Women- Voters todays while a powerful house coalition drove on toward a cli mactic showdown Monday in Its fight to outlaw such payrnents. The league declared in a board: ' "Ruin lies ahead unless congress quits undermining price control and if it persists in its refusal to see that subsidies are essential to price-control; unless both congress and the president hold firm on wage stabilization; and unless the congress stops backing away from using the taxing power to "curb' inflation. The resolution also declared the league "is appalled at the extent to which the interests of the coun try are being betrayed by political leaders who yield to the demands of special interest groups. The : house completed general debate late today, and took the weekend off to think over the ar guments, of opposing forces with the likelihood that . several com promise ' amendments .will be of fered and defeated Monday be fore a vote is reached on the bill itself.-' The measure, in two parts. would give a new lease on life to the Commodity Credit corpora tion, but would prohibit use of any government funds for consum er subsidies, President Roosevelt's chief weapon for holding down food prices. ' ' . Highlight In the long and bit- -ter controversy en the floor. ter. day came in a ' warning from ; (Turn to" Page 2-rStory D) Portland AFL Defies Mursner PORTLAND, Nov. 19 -fl- Two members of the : Portland A u Boilermakers union today defied Otto W. Mursner, international vice president. In his attempt to carry opt a court decision giving him temporary control of the Portland local. . M. K. Forte and Hugh Fagan, supporters of Tom Ray, who was ordered by Circuit Judge E. M Page to relinquish his post as fi nancial r secretary 'and business agent, refused to deliver the ni ton's keys or books to Mursner. The two men claimed the locals governing board had elected them last night to succeed Ray. , Wilson Agrees e To Stay With WPB WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -JF) Charles E. Wilson has agreed to stick with his Job as executive vice chairman ; of -the war pro duction ; board unta . President Roosevelt releases hinx . . Wilson, whose desk, is piled with telegrams from aircraft pro ducers, war 'contractors - and - in dustrial groups urging him to stay on, gave thir pledge, it was learn ed todays to James F. Eyrnes, head of Uie office of war mobi lization. $ - 'Z - Richlleu, pride of the French navy, navy yard not se long ago to under resolution adopted by its national O Worlonen In Aluminum Ask Pay Boost By the AaaociaUd Preoa Aluminum workers Joined the CIO march for higher pay Friday, asking a 15-cents-an-hour increase which would crack the little steel formula of the war labor board. Already the United Auto Work ers bad demanded that this wage formula be thrown away, and the steel workers have called a meet ing November 30 to push the union campaign to scrap this restriction as out of line with increased costs of living. :. '. Representatives of the aluminum workers, saying' their demands "are hv common -with, the unani mous sentiments of the recent CIO convention,", voted at Pittsburgh yesterday to see to it that our members receive full compensa tion in cash for the failure of our government to hold the ' line on the price front. A union spokesman said that workers at each of the aluminum plants established prior to Janu ary 1, 1941, have received since then increases "equal td or above" the 15 per cent raise permitted by the war labor board under the little steel formula. A company official said ' basic 'male hiring rates at the New Kensington, Pa., plant are 7S cents an hour, ."with their plants varying slightly. About 50,000 4 workers in 26 plants of the Aluminum Company of America are involved. - (Turn to Page 2 Story G) : Gohf erericeTX)peii8 : On Rehabilitation v Of Disabled Vets ; , 4.-. .... , Vocational rehabilitation of vet erans with non-service-connected disabilities and disabled civilian defense personnel' ia being. dis cussed : at a conference attended by ' representatives from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, which opened ' Friday, -and 1 will continue today at the state apitoL The , meeting was - called by Frank J. Clayton, Pacific coast re gional agent for vocatkmal 're habilitation, federal security agen cy, t prepare plans, of operation. Members of the armed forces ho are'dlscharged due to non-service-connected disabilities which have resulted ' in . vocational handicap will "be trained while on duty, in civilian defense activities or while working for non-military govern ment agencies. : Jl. Ship J-Set -Afire, ., a : trbyed ; on j - ' Phosphate Producing Island :' .PEARIr-HARBOIV Nor. scope of the six-day-old central Pacific air offensive,! carrier based planes dropped 90 tons island base 700 miles northeast of Guadalcanal, Thursday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced todayJ? i ' Expandin; operations 500' piiies west) of the Gilbert . islands which, with the Marshalls, have been pounded daily - since last Saturday, several pedo planes kindled' fires on destroyed several grounded ' at .Na'uru.,. .,1k -k.- said Irying To;Keep By THOMAS. F. HAWKINS . - BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 19-Kff) Information leaking across ' the French I frontier tonight said that a number of Marshal Petain's close friends, including three gen erals, had been arrested after the 87-yeari-old chief of state offered his resignation ' in protest: against thwarting his plan to promulgate a democratic constitution. j ' "Vichy France'- which meant Pierre Laval and the Germans was said to be exerting every ef fort to keep Petain in office. A speech, which Petain in tended to make ever the radle -bat : which f waaHbarred - by the Germans, - would have been an attempt: te i renounce Laval as his successor, and pat power in the hands ef a national assem bly, trusted advices said. - ' The marshal- was said to have told friends that he sought a way out whereby a revolution between the Vichy regime and the French committee of - national liberation could be avoided. '.r-:'':t.U. The Journal De Geneve (Gene va) published today what it de scribed as the text of the speech Petain I had prepared for broad casting last rSa turday 1 night, in cluding - the . decree - the marshall (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Germans Take More Islands In Aegean By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE i LONDON, Nov. ,19 VP) The Germans claimed ' the occupation of four more "pin-point, Aegean islands today in a creeping coun ter-offensive along - the sea line before Greece, while the. allied air arm fell with methodical vio lence across the' Balkans from Sa lonika' to the Yugoslav coast.; ;; In yet another Balkan arena the Yugoslav patriot army of Gen. Josip Broz (Tito) cut tirelessly at the nazis in far-separated fighting arenas. , ' :' Adolf Hitler command, ex pending ' yet- more . of forces so badly needed elsewhere, announc ed a victory to follow its recovery of the Dodecanese islands of Cos and Leros seizure of the outly ing islets of Patmos, Ikaria, JFurnl and Lipsos, the military signifi cance of which is not clear. The situation en the more Im portant Island of Samoa, the last in the Aegean te remain under allied standards, waa In . doubt, but German broadcasts Indicat ed allied resistance there was still j strong . and - implied that some' ef the allied forces taken off Cos jind Lerea .had gene In te snppert the Sasnea garrisen. The allied northwest African air force made heavy bombing at tacks on the Larissa airfield near the Grecian center of Salonika, on the Elevsis airfield near Athena, and on I German shipping along the Yugoslav coast. Eight fires sprang up on Larissa among grounded German planes. At Elevsis." which wu hit for' the fourth time iJn four days, more than a dozen German planes were destroyed on the' ground. Alice Grinde Hurt , - .1 Sixtei-year-old" Alice Grinde of 1430 Saginaw was taken to the Deaconess . hospital late Friday highti with scalp and possibly oth er injuries resulting' when she was struck ij a car. Early this morn ing the police still, had no record Jof the accident " - - Vichy France Q Nauru Aircraft Japanese 19 r-(AP) jf. Extending the of Jbombs on Nauru, Japanese squadrons of bombers and tor-' the: airdrome jand shop! areas. planes and se a ship ablaze i r: : - :JI -' I - ( I ' .', Despite slisht air 1 interceDtion and heavy anti-aircraft fire, hone oft the Nauru raiders was lost. Ad miral Nimitz . said, thus leaving the raiders intact during1 all the six days of the spreading! attacks. Over Nauru,; seven Zeros got in- to; the air and : two were shot down. - "il i . i '.') . f .... One American pilot wai wound- -ed.,-. ' r S I j , ' lit was . the first. 'carrier raid against Naurui which is a strong Japanese air base and is aj valu- able phosphate producin i ' Island. jThe bombinji of Nauru was the fourth this yeMr and the second iri force. ; ' ! :On the raids announced earlier today there were no personnel casualties, but two ! planes were damaged. j . i By MURLIN SNER ' SOUTHWEST PACIFIcj ALr LIED HEADQUAUTEUS; Sst nrday, Nav.jlflC-Alistrailan Jungle troops on the Hion pen 'lnsula of northeastern New Gnl- nea h a v e; battled j forward against strong Japanese resist ance and tMoous terrain t Within a mile ef Sittlebergr eight miles northwest ef allied- held flnschhkf en. . t i I I -' " I Supported jby heavy , mortar 'and niachinegun fire, and bombing and fstrafing sweeps by American Mitchell and Marauder planes, the Australians drew close to Japanese positions .which . are on the edfe or a 3000-foot blateaii and command; the wfiole Finsch hafen area. i-Stir (Turn to Page 34-Story B) Oiurche Start Drive it Clothing wh ich will be eagerly accepted and put to use by the suffering people of, war-ravaged lands, even tfioughj it has been discarded byj j the world's best dressed people, Americans, will be collected in jSalem starting next Monday in a! Campaign sponsored by the city's lhurches, it was de termined at meeting jof; minis ters, with C. HjV.iPaulus, ! chairman of the county salvage committee, Friday, at the , chamber of com merce. , jl . " " 1 - At 8:30 a.m. today the! repre sentatives of j service ?lubs, the schools and jpther - agencies who met Wednesday night .will meet again With the salvage committee chairman to j jjwork out jdetails of cooperation w!ith the churches. I Following jtoday's meeting, de tailed Information as to the pub lic's share in Ithe program will be Of collection! jcenterS arid specific description ,f the ; types of gar- I ments and rags wanted, j Reiit Control Group Discusses Registrjation 1 . Deadline foX landlords' registra-1 tion of all housing facil ities rent- ed or offered for rental with . the rent control; j committee probably : Will' he January - lj th members p agreed at thir first meeting Fri-f day afternooh. The deadline wasl not set-definitely at this meeting pending determination i as o just X Glothihg how soon the rent control office ; may be set jip and ready to re-1 ceive registrations. 1 j Jj The' comnii ttee's f first problem, ft . r Chairman Merrill D. Ohling said, Is selection bt an executive secre- tary; and he I made; it known that 'i applications i are invited and may I be addresseol to him at ; the city ; hall. The salary will depend some- what upon j the qualifications of the applicant .selected.".'. ! . 5 Several questions of policy were . discussed at the. organization meeting. Other members of the si committee - are Kenneth Perry, Leo N. Chilis, Lowell! Kern r.i IRev. Dudley lEtraLt 4 V -til -r- 3f : I r t ST, ft : S ' i m I i. 4