'ill t: v.-71 . j ' i j I ' n frr ?DGJDu JVUSJUUUU c-'ju!u 'LKD QDQUB Aiigsies iPbiniimciii : ' i .: . J . 1 IV KWIl II , I I i III J The release . of Sir Oswald Mosely, British disciple of Hitler, from prison because of his ill health stirred deep resentment among the ' working classes , of England who muttered "If Mose ly must die, let him die on the gallows! w h I c h reveals some thing of the depth of feeling in Great Britain against the nazi ideology. The AP report in the papers of. Monday concluded in this manner: The attitude of the man in the street was reflected in the utter ance of a bus passenger, 'who was heard to declare: 'I suppose they will be releasing Hess next I'm not going to discuss Mosely or - Hess, but the "man in the street" who uses the personal pronoun "they" with reference to government. Such usage is not uncommon in this country. 1 You hear frequently - over the state, when the legislature is meeting: . What are THEY going to do at Salem?" Or if someone is irked by regulations, he uses the third . person plural ' to refer to." the powers that-fce: "See what THEY re doing to us now." The use of THEY with refer ence to " government indicates a breach between the citizen " and his government. It is a sort of unconscious confession of political disfranchisement. Gover nrneht, whether local state or national is regarded as distant and unrelated. Theindividual feels impotent in the face of what THEY are doing. True, he may vote on election day, but no matter how he votes THEY carry on government, and he as a . citizen can only obey and pay taxes. .. The reference that should be made is to MY government or OUR government. That connotes a very different feeling. It indi cates proprietorship, and in a popular form of government each citizen should feel a sense of pos session as far as his government is concerned. So I do not like to hear government whether, at the courthouse, the city hall, the state r national capital referred to as THEY. We may not like what OUR government does; but since we have voted to put it in office, it is OUR (Continued on editorial page) Service Men's Ballot Takes Senate Beating . . WASHINGTON," Novr- 22-(JPV- A jHttposed sy.st.ejm for service men -to vote in next year's elec tions took a beating 'from two ides today and emboldened - op ponents 'set out to kill the- whole idea of federal supervision of voting. ' ' r First, the senate struck from tho plan - a provision by which - a war ballot commission could have challenged the . validity.' of the presidential voting in any state. Then, after Chief Justice Har lan F. Stone refused to participate In an arrangement whereby a su preme court justice would act as an umpire to settle deadlocks on the bi-partisan ballot commis sion, the senate knocked out. that provision, -'.v -' ' -r " Sen. Lucas (D-Ill), one of the authors of the bill to have the commission handle the service men's vote, complained that the (Turn to Page 2 Story P) Air Medal Given.Today ; Public presentation of the air medal to Mrs. Martha Harrington as a posthumous award to her son, Sgt. Robert Harrington, killed in action in Sicily, is scheduled for this afternoon at Salem army air Held. So that there need be no restric tion on attendance, the formal re treat is to be held on the apron in . front ; of - United Air Lines' hangar. ' Since the retreat is to begin at 8 : p. bl, onlookers should be on the grounds before the hour, Chief Warrant Officer Vernon E. Glass, new commander at the base here, aid Monday. ' Glass, who has been, in Salem since September and has had more than 18 years experience in the regular- army, , succeeded ; ' Lt. Charles Geiser as executive at the field Sunday following Geiser's transfer to Portland, , SHOPPING DAYS' LEFTH lb PICK OOt TIES TOR ' I I Buy CfiristmdsScis n I NINETY THIRD YEAR Soviets bash Attacks ; - . - " "" German Drives At Korostyshev, Kiev Halted By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 23 (AP) Red array troops buttressed by fleets of tanks smashed powerful, new nazi attacks near Korostyshev, halting- a savage counter-offensive toward Kiev, wreck ins 60 enemy tanks and carpeting- the battlefield with German dead, Moscow announced early1 today. Even as the Germans lunged desperately on this narrow sec tor 20 miles east of Zhitomir, oth er soviet armies on the distant flanks slashed deeper into the Dnieper bend to the southeast, and in the Rechitsa area to the north, killing 2500 nazis, said the broad cast communique recorded by the soviet monitor. , These drives apparently were intended to relieve pressure on the Kiev, sector as well as to advance the general offensive toward the borders of Rumania and pre-war Poland. ; ; , ; Another 600 Germans fell in bat tle 10 miles north of Zhitomir, the war bulletin declared, as Field Marshal Gen. Fritz von Mannstein struck out in a new direction in the Chernyakov area, possibly aiming at Korosten. Two attacks were! repulsed near Chenyakhov. Holding- firmly In the ninth day mt battle la the Kwestyshev .sector, the Soviets werejleclared toJhave met'and'roken the tre mendous new nasi - onslaughts yesterday, leaving the approach es to the Rassiaa positions "cov ered with dead German officers and men." 1 . The u twin-pronged red uarmy clean-up of the JQnieper bend- ham merecl ; closer ".to ' fCriypi j Rog and Nikopol, the war bulletin said. Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's heavy ar mor 1 swept victoriously over at least six strongly-f ortif ied Ger man defense centers in a broaden ing Dnieper bridgehead south of Kremenchugv and fought off coun terblows launched against, the Rus sian bridgehead at Cherkasi, midway between Kremenchug and the Kiev sector, Flankinr Ton Mannctem's at tack from the North, Gen. Con stantin Rokossovsky drove west ward along a 100 -mile front capturing 12 villages and one railway station along the lower Pripet river, taking If more towns west of Rechitsa, " and storming eight centers of re sistance north of Gomel. The Russian-reference to fight ing in the Chernyakhov sector sug gested that Von Mannstein, blunt ed in the direction of Kiev, has turned north toward Korosten, but even - there is finding the going hard. . The second day of Russian suc cesses in the push beyond Krem enchug reflected a broadening of the whole offensive front down the Dnieper bend, where the nazis' es cape: -corridor in the Krivoi Rog nikopol sack already has been pinched to some 40 miles. ' Summing up Sunday's fighting, the soviet communique said the Germans had lost 190 tanks dis abled or destroyed, and 18 planes downed. White Surveys Alumina Sites i Possible sites for the alumina-from-clay 'pilot plant to be con structed in the Salem area " were being surveyed Monday by C. K. White, engineer for the Colum bia Metals company. He explained that it was his duty to report back to officers of the company, not personally to make, the final de cision. :'r "'.v . ; Assisting the engineer in gath- orinr data on the various' proposed sites, some ; on each side of the Willamette river, were Faul B. Wallace,' Oaude Steusloff; Mayor Guy Newgent of - West , Salem. Frank DoerOer, F. H. "Weir, a. McCulloueh and Manager Clay Cochran of the Salem chamber of commerce. - Tn addition to a r e a , location and availability. White is obtain- Ine data on each proposed site in relation to raU and water trans portation. soiL and cost of pre paring the site for construction of the plant. 12 PACES Sen. Warren Barbour Dies, Third Congressman in 24 Hours- WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.JP) Sen. W. Warren Barbour, 55, of New Jersey, died at his home to night the third member of con gress to die within ; the ; past 24 hours. ' : The senator's death, of coronary thrombosis, was announced by the capitol physician. Dr. George W. Calver, as the house was observ ing a 24 hour recess out of respect to two of its late members, Henry B.' Steagall of Alabama, ; and J. William Ditter of Pennsylvania. Steagall, democratic chairman of the house banking committee and usually a stalwart supporter of the administration,' died : in Washing ton hospital this morning after a heart attack which associates said was brought on by an energetic speech against the subsidy pro gram last Thursday. He was 70. " Ditter, 55,' chairman of the re publican congressional committee and recognized as one of the most eloquent speakers in congress, crashed to his death last night in a navy airplane near Columbia, Pa. A member of the appropriations subcommittee handling navy funds, Ditter was en route from the Squantum, Mass., naval air base to the navy base at Willow Grove, Pa., at the time. , The two deaths raised to six the Postwar Planning Committee To Study Community Needs By RALPH C. CURTIS That intensive study of the Salem community's, needs must necessarily precede the drafting of a detailed postwar program if it is to deserve the name "postwar planning" was tacitly agreed by members of the Salem postwar projects development commit tee at their first meeting Monday night at the chamber of com merce. Daniel J. Fry, chairman of theO- postwar planning commission ap pointed by Mayor Doughton, invited civic, patrioticr and - occu pational organizations through the delegates representing them on the larger committee to prepare lists of worthwhile projects and , sub mit them through the city record era office, for consideration by the commission ' and ' possibly "discus sion at'Iatei meetings of the devel opment committee. . There was no disposition to leap immediately into a ' discussion - of detailed projects especially after W. M. Tugman, Eugene newspa perman, had outlined the organiza tional and research steps which had been -taken in that commun ity to arrive at the point at which intelligent . selection of projects may be undertaken. a The Lane e o t y "central planning - council" la Interested, Tngmaa explained, in three pha ses of postwar planning of which pnblie works is only one; the others are mobilization of Indus trial and private resources In other words, solution of the an ticipated employment problem (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Japs- Hammer Road to Hunan CHUNGKING, Nov. panese infantry, cavalry, artillery and aviation hammered at the ap proaches to Changteh today , in an effort to blast open the way to the Hunan province -t capital I of Changsha where they previously have met three great defeats. While the Japanese fought at close quarters to the northwest and southeast of Changteh in an en circling battle, they were reported bringing 10,000 troops to then base at Yochow, evidently in read iness to spring a two-day offen sive from both the western and eastern shores of Tungting lake to ward Changsha, 50 miles south of the lake in central China. - The Chinese high command in a special communique charged that the Japanese had won part of their success in laying the foundations for the offensive by using poison gas. on a large scale to balk; pro jected Chinese counteroffensives. Mussolini ; Said Suicide ' LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 23 (JPy-A roundabout Renters dis patch front Stockholm said to day Benito - Mussolini was re ported, to have committed snl cide yesterday at his Lake Gar da villa. 'Vii.iL'T The dispatch said the report came via the Zurich correspon dent of the Stockholm newspa per Dagens Nybeter from trav elers arriving m Switzerland. " " There was no : eonfirmatioa from other quarters. , FOU NPPP 1651 Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, November 23. 1943 7 V Ui SEN. WARREN W. BARBOUR mortalities among house members of the 78th congress and brought from Dr. George W. Calver, con gressional physician, a warning to aunreccr !oSiin Tosses Rail Fight to Board By 135 WARD H. HIGGS WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-tfP) The supreme court ruled today that under federal law the settlement of jurisdictional disputes between railroad unions Is up to the na tional (railway) mediation board or the unions themselves, not the courts.- ' ' -.; v".'"' In three cases involving the Is sue, the court declared in opin ions by Justice Douglas that while congress had provided specifically for judicial review In certain types of railroad disputes, it had not given the solution of jurisdic tional controversies to the courts. The vote was --seven to two in two with Justices Roberts and Reed dissenting, and four to three in the third case, with Just ices Reed," Roberts and J ackson dissenting and Justices Black and Rutledge participating. The conclusion is irresistible that congress carved out of the field "of concilation, mediation and arbitration only the select list of problems ; which it was ready to place , in the adjudicatory chan nel," the court said.. "All else it left to those voluntary processes whose use congress had long' en couraged. The concept of media tion is the antithesis of justidabil-ity."';-:'-;':'--'-.-, - 4'' Van Nuys Says Liquor Probed WASHINGTON,. Nov. 22.-flV Chairman Van Nuys (D-Ind), of the senate judiciary committee, said tonight that a subcommittee investigation into the current li quor, shortage is now "in full sway." While public hearings will not start for another week or ten days, he saidVOne paid Investiga tor and a dozen volunteers are at work. The volunteers, Van Nuys add ed, are key men in government de partments who are "exploring rec ords that will aid in laying -the foundation for later public' testi mony. Stassen Receives . Minnesota Choice ST. PAUL, Minn, Nov. 22HJP) Former Governor Harold E. Stas sen of Minnesota, now a lieuten ant commander In the navy, today was unanimously endorsed by the republican state central committee for the 1944 republican .nomina tion for president. Price 5c other members to "slow down and give more attention to their phy sical condition." They left the political line-up in the house at 219 democrats, 207 re publicans, four minor party mem bers and five vacancies. , Capitol hill , flags were lowered to half staff and the house ad journed out of respect to the pah after leaders and members of both parties had participated in a pro gram of eulogies. Steagall's death automatically boosted to the banking committee chairmanship Representa live Brent S pence, Kentucky democrat, who supports the subsidy program. However, no one in the house ex pects the eventual vote on subsid ies, should it come , tomorrow or later, to be anything but flat re jection. - ; Barbour, a republican, was born In Monmouth Beach, N J. He was appointed 1 to the - United States senate December 1, 1931, to suc ceed the late Dwight W. Morrow. He was defeated for reelection in 1936, but was returned to the sen ate two years later for the unex pired term vacated by resigna tion of Sen. A. Harry Moore who became governor. He was reelect ed in 1940 for a term ending in 1947. Demonstrators Throng Capital In Lebanon By STEPHEN BARBER CAIRO, Nov. 22-JP)-The cham ber of deputies and police head quarters in Beirut were reported occupied today by crowds of dem-r onstrators .who were joined by police n the Lebanese capital. Elsewhere li the small republic. which has been torn by disturb ances as the result of its efforts to attain full sovereignty In the French mandate, the Lebanese flag flew. - . ' . A British official here said the crisis was by "no means over.V (An Algiers dispatch earlier in the day said a framework aimed toward the quick return of order ly government In Lebanon had been set up through action of the French Committee of National Li beration in reinstating President Bechara Khoury and promising to negotiate the question of full Inde pendence.) Serious misgivings were caused among the Lebanese, according to an official British source, regard ing an Algiers report that Presi dent1 Khoury must appoint new ministers. The president and Pre mier Riad Sohl: arrived in Beirut this afternoon - " Totten Fatally Hit by Train Near Cliemawa Impaired vision and hearing of Milo Perry Totten, 74, caused his death - beneath the wheels of a train near his Chemawa residence Monday night, Deputy ; Coroner Virgil T. Golden said after view ing the scene of the accident and Interviewing members of . the el derly man's family. The ; body was found at 9:30 o'clock by Wallace Totten, who has made his home with his parents in the brick house north of Chemawa crossing. t -"i-1:- Mrs.. Totten, fearing that some thing had happened when her hus band failed to return shortly after leaving the house, had gone out of doors to search for him and then had called the son. - ; Lying in a ditch 24 feet from the track north of the crossing and near the Totten residence, the body was badly broken. Golden said last night. One shoe and a sock still ly ing on the track indicated at once the immediate cause of death, he declared. Mr. Totten was almost blind and almost deaf,' the coron er's representative was told. Survivors include the widow, Leah Jane Totten and the son. Wallace Totten of Chemawa, and two sons in army service, Warren V. in Montana and F. Willard Tot ten in Italy, " Petain Resignation . Rumor Unfounded LISBON. Not. 2t-(P)--The Vi chy French legation here issued an official statement today say ing that published reports that Marshal Henri Petals was HI or had resigned as chief of state are absolutely unfounded.1" vVV vVA, VV No. Aw4 8th Army Reaches Main Line - Launches Large Scale Offensive -, On Sangro Front By NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Nov. 22 (AP) Secretry reinforced by a heavy contingent of Cana dian troops; General Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery's Eighth army has plunged ahead . to capture two more towns near the center of the Italian front and was ; fighting tonight within two miles of the enemy's defense line along the upper Sangro river. - (A Berlin broadcast Monday night said the. Eighth army had begun a large scale offensive, "preceded by strong artillery fire and supported by strong air for mations but it described British gains as negligible. Heavy losses were declared to have been in flicted upon the attack troops.) The site of the Eighth army's latest thrust, made under miser able, weather conditions, is ap proximately 40 miles inland from the Adriatic seacoast Sanpietro AveUana, 10 miles due west of Agnone, and Vastogirardi, be tween those two towns, fell be fore Montgomery's determined drive that was aimed at an im portant junction of interior high ways leading to Rome. - The Germans, falling back stubbornly upon their main "winter line" northwest of the Sangro river, were, reported burning both Castel Dl Sangro and Alfedens In the Eighth or !iiVirM! V.,,B r m could be of value to the allies.' The Eighth trar vangvard was reported within three and one , half miles of Castel Dl Sangro, a city of S90S population. r Continued heavy downpours the length of the front greatly restrict ed ; movement - of men ' and guns and limited the Fifth army at the . (Turn to Page 2 Story. B) US Agei :ncies .nticize ; - WASHINGTON, Not. tl-(JP - Spokesmen for three - govern ment - agencies ; criticised tht army sharply today for Its $130, 009,000 Canadian oil venture and broke into the open a smoulder-' ' lag argument dating back a year and a half. Interior Secre tary Ickes said flatly that the whole project "ought to be Junked." The senate's Truman committee, self-chosen umpire in the dispute, heard from the" Interior depart ment, the budget bureau and the war production board that: 1. The war department ignored other interested departments when it negotiated . with Canada to fi nance, entirely with US funds,' the drilling of 27 wells in the Norman field of the Canadian northwest laying a 500-mile pipeline and er ection of a refinery, to provide the army's Alaskan forces with fueL 2. Protests of the interior de partment and the war production board that the plan was unsound were not heeded. ; U ; ..... S. The ; entire US investment (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Gobble, Gobble, Self Defense, First ' Thanksgiving holiday casualty of 1543 seat to Salem General hospital Sanday Clyde WoodraffrlSO Lana, avenue, who ' wasttacked by a turkey! The bird struck m self de fense. ' ' ' Woodrmff. beHeving the tur key dead and thinking that the graft lie . had cut hi its mouth was not large enough for a rapid bleeding, had approached the holiday dinner piece de resist ance s second time with a sharp knife. Lashing out with injured head bat still strong neck the angry fowl struck the : man's right hand such a blow that ft doubled back and ' drove the knife into his left arm. A large blood vessel was severed and Woodruff was taken to the fcos riial ky city first aid ear. Canol Pfojec Wed Troops at Tarawa,1 Maldn Improve Positions; m Naval j Units Send Out "Planes - . " By the Associated Press i Marines hare landed panding the American wedge j in Japan9: mid-Pacific outpoaU in the Gilbert islands, while to the uonthweei Australians drove to within half a mfle of; the eneniy'f strongly defended plateau position Ion New j Guinea uuon pemnsuia . . As the marines swept ashore at, Abemama (A pa mama), believed to be lightly defended, Americans extended their beachheads on Tarawa, 80 j miles north west, and on Blakin, farther north, but the Lfapane's still were fighting back stubbornly at least, at Tarawa with artillery, machine guns and front pill boxes. I In six words, - Admiral Chester W. Njmitz announced thi? new landing: ! ' ! ; "We have landed on Apamama atolK" i i j , At the same time he said marines anq soldiers, Tarawa and Makin Saturday, but added they still are encountering sistance." j Going ashore -with the army Lt.; Col. James Roosevelt,- who marine raiders when they assaulted the atoll iri August, 1942, and wiped out every Jap on it before withdrawihgj tie presume ably went along this time as army instead of his own leathernecks. : While there was no elaboration on the! appeared the marines already had . Powerful naval units, including ships, undoubtedly still are covering the Gilbert ope-ations. Be-1 fore the Tarawa and Makin .invasion they laid down! heavy aerial and surface bombardments.1 ! :-1 f ' J ": I As the Gilbert' island invasions spreadj the allies battle arc from New Guinea through the Solomons ahd on northeast 1100 i miles to a flank 2400. statute miles from he Hawaiia rs, Generl Douglas MacArthur reported the destruction or (damaging cf xy.uuu tons ot enemy shipping in .Bi.. tJiucKuirs sau& a luuu-wn probably an aOOO&ni ship off - ouuug apantrse jorces pounaea at xne ppproacnes oi cnang ii teth, key. to the defense of the Hunan provftice capital, of Chang f sha where they previously have met threej defeats. The Chineij i high command charged the Japanese had won part of their sucMf cess in laying the foundation' for their. offensive by i using pbisoit' l- A brief "announcement Sunday 'from the Pearl Harbor head- f quarters of Adnv Chester W. Nimitz told of th invasion of th Gilberts, aftera "week of aerial mftaninjup. I if said fighting ; continued. Early Monday the" Tokyo radio made its first mention of :thi It action, broadcasting an imperial communique whichj said heaH fightmg was in progress. The enemy statement said a heavy; I bombardment by US warships preceded "the landings, and that U carrier aircraft proVided a cover. I Supported by tanks . and artillery, th creased their pressure, on '. Sattelberg, fighting to retain their position Guinea. Medium bombers struck at the jerierny's supply antJ. bivouac areas and allied fighter raid by 12 Japanese bombers. I Gasmata, on the south coast for 138 tons of bombs in a "well heavy bombers with fighter escort, Geiu Douglas; MacArthur rei ported. Numerous explosions and firea left ?a thick pall of smokai over the area." - I ' f ; t Rabaul, Japan's southwestern Pacific, anchor at. the north- eastern end of New Britain,, was free of attack butfnight recon'f naissance planes got two hits on in St. George's channel to the was left in flames; with her crew German Radio ReportsRAF , FoUdio-up ' LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 23-j!P) The German radio said early to day that Berlin was bombed . last night by allied aircraft returning to the attack on the nazi capital which - was heavily pounded last Thursday night by the RAF V .British bombers were heard for nearly three quarters of an hour flying out over the southeast coast of England 1 soon after dusk last night. Indicating that a large force was attacking the continent. . . , X London mora lag , newspaper, ! studying German radio accounts of the fresh, blow at the capital, suggested the possibility that .swift Mosquito -alanes raided -"Berltaf early and were followed by -the heavy bombers. A great jieal of damage' was admitted by the German broad cast, which said the raid was made by British bombers.' , ; , The attack was said - to have been carried out despite dense clouds and .complete lack of vis- ibnity. ,;-;-::f ii-: i-ii :f Earlier, telephone operators in Stockholm had reported commun ications to Berlin cut because of an sir raid en Cie nazi capitaL r preach r - on the Abemama atoll, ex landing a positidns,f have ''imprcived their 'considerable ground re5 Infantry 4t Makin was Marin yas with Lt. 1 i h .- 5 Col. Evans Carlson' an observer since i he u with the S " U I :SI Abemama landing it secured slrong footholds therl. both aircraft carriers and war the south and southwest Pacific. f stud oii liuicii new uumM nn.i Kavieng New lrejan4.t : - 4 jf it r: t Si if 1 !J-.v...;.l. Aussies : in U ; veteran where the Japanese arts in the Huon peninsula of Ner h patrols broke up a j i I i J j attempted u : tl the target of New Britain,! was concentrated attack by allied V a 10,000-ton Japanese cargo ship U .northwest, of Babaul The" vessel j pouring over her si es. -4- US, Brilaiii Name Italian Ad visors 1 LONDON, Nov. 22-(4VBritan today, named Harold MacMiUan, ". -an expert on' Meditjcrranean : a-f fairs, as her representative on tfief advisory c uncil for! taly a tes- H lng ground, for allied postwar polg- . cy--and appoinied' Xlfred Dulf S Cooper he representative w i t h the French committee of nationjil f liberation. ' j' ;' ' - j - g f In Washington, the state depart- ment announced; that Robert D. : Murphy wfuld represent the Uni- p; ed States on the . advisory council j for ItalyrJwith Edvfrjn C. Wilsnf becoming lhe US ;representative to 3 the French committee, both wiihf the han kf ambassador. MurpKy . had been J representative to the French cothmittee, and Wilson was!': formerly 4 mbassadot to Panaroa prior to wnich he s was embassy counsellors in Paris: before tiJ: French armistice. Weather !-; - ;- . si - 1 : ' I ' Iff- ' " ' ' Monday maxima in tempera ture 47, rftwtwn 37. Preclpita Uon a trace. River j-J ft. Partly cloudy Tacsday and tyednesday with lcal feirs. LI-,- ti thinr ta teis?erati:re. u i