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1 1 i I' -i 'S7estiheil f f IT' ;OUKif 0 M M ID i i s Mf rrr-zx i x. i i x i ii ri-siTix j Wednesday m a x Imam ! tempera tore I S3, raLalpusa jSC- River ll ft. r Partly cloudy Thursday and ; Friday local for at 'night Not ranch change la temperature.? fV:-j - ' j -v J L - VV POUNDOD 1G51 While harvest festivals have been common from ancient times the United States alone has a na tional Thanksgiving day. Among European countries s p eel al Thanksgiving days are proclaimed from time to time, often in cele bration" of a signal military vie torvl The high point of the-occa cinn is the religious service at the established church, marked-with all the Domo and ceremony of church and state combined, the clergy In their robes of office, the representatives of government in uniform or formal dress. At the cathedral or church Te Deums" are sung. . - ' Through the centuries this state ly chant echoed and re-echoed: . Te deum laudamus, to domi- num confitemur; . Te aeternum Patrem; Tibi omnes angelie. , Tibi cherubim et seraphim, om nia terra veneratur. Tibi coeli et universae potes tates . Incessabili voce proclamant - Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, 1 Dominus Deus Sabaoth." . Or in the familiar translation: ! "We praise thee, O God; we ac- i knowledge thee to be the Lord. I All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth. . The glorious company of the aDostles praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the prophets praise thee, The father of an infinite maj esty. " While the ' music and the text date from the' fifth century, the hands of the great masters of music have rendered versions of the "Te Deum," sometimes on royal commands. Thus Sarti com posed one for Empress Catherine of Russia, and Graun's version was ordered by Frederick the Great of Prussia to celebrate the victory at Prague. (Continued on editorial page) ' Salem Plans Traditional Thanksgiving Union Thanksgiving services at . First Christian church at 10 a.m. ' today, a one o'clock' football game on Sweetland field between Sa lem high school's Vikings and the Portland Jefferson Democrats, and the traditional, turkey dinner In many homes will comprise Salem's observance of Thanksgiv ing day. No turkey famine struck Sa lem, where many of the birds were marketed this week, but numerous families chose other fowl or cuts of meat, merchants said.,:. With office and store employes, Salem students take today off to offer thanks. Willamette univer tity classes reconvene Friday and .Saturday, while public and paro chial schools will have the entire weekend of holidays." - Chetniks Take By LEWIS HAWKINS LONDON, Nov. H.-(JP)-Cen, Draja Mihailovic announced to day his Chetniks have gained con trol over "the entire country of Montenegro" and the adjacent Ad riatic coastal area exclusive of the fortress region, indicating his forces have hemmed in the Gerj mans at the Important port of Kotor. Xotor is on Boka KoUrska, gulf of the narrow strip of the Dalmatian coast that separ v a tea Montenegro from the Adri atic sea, the city is regarded as one of the greatest potential in vasion ports of southern . Ynge slavla. In his announcement, made through the Yugsolav information office at Cairo, Mihailovic said his Yugoslav forces had been able to take over "the whole of Boka Kot- orska beyond the fortress area." The riral Yugoslav guerril la forces of Gen. Joslp Bros TUe) reported fresh successes against the Germans farther north. A broadcast communique said Tito's partisans, aided by formations of the Italian Ven- . eiia division, had wiped out s : Bulgarian battalion In a battle near Kremna In western Ser- . bta, killing about 100 soldiers and taking 70 prisoners. . M? SHOPPING DAYS LEFT "TO GET TOYS - p Bay Ctrstnas Seas Montenegro NINETY THIRD YEAR Four Jjp uiufcetioir ails America devote Thanksgiving In Pacific to Mopping Up Island Campaign, New Drives By MURLIN SPENCER SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQ U A RTEKS, Thursday, Nov. 15-P)-Amer-Ican light naval forces sank four Japanese destroyers and dam aged a fifth dorinr the first hours of Thanksgiving day in a naval action fought for the first time in waters so close to the enemy's naval and air fortress at RabauL A sixth destroyer alone es caped the torpedoes and gans of the Americans which cm- ' erged unscathed from the sec ond naval battle to be fought in . the northern Solomons. Intercepting the enemy units off the northwest coast of invaded Bougainville shortly after mid night, the American ships prob ably destroyers virtually anni hilated the Japanese after a long thrilling battle which ended with the two surviving enemy destroy ers fleeing to the north. The action was most daring for the Americans, pursuing the en emy to within easy range of Jap anese air cover. It was even more decisive than the first engagement in which five of 12 enemy ships were sunk and four others damaged. Although the second battle opened shortly after midnight, it was not finished until just before dawn this American Thanksgiv ing day. ( Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, in his Pearl Harbor analysis of the new American victory in the mid-Pacific Gilberts, said the blows de livered recently against Rabaul's destroyers and cruisers helped impair Japan's ability to offer a naval counterstroke to the Gil bert mvaders.) . , " j The six destroyers were mov ing either ' tooth or aitheaat which would be In the general . (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Mrs.Patton Says 'Georgie Quite Sweet NEW YORK, Nov. 24-()-Mrs. George S. Patton, jr., wife of the lieutenant general, says her hus band "makes a lot of noise. But he's quite sweet, really." Coincident with revelation that Patton slapped a s h e 1 1-shocked private in Sicily, called him a "yellow-belly" and later apolo gized, Mrs. Patton 's comment ap peared today in an article in True Confessions magazine. Mrs. Patton was quoted in the article, written by Eleanor Early, as asserting: "My husband says that any man who says that he is not afraid in the face of fire is either a liar or an idiot But that he is a coward only if he lets fear get the better of him." y Mrs. Patton said her husband was known as the- "toughest, most hard-boiled general in the US ar my" but that he had a softer side. , She related how he recently sent to their Hamilton, Mass., home a package containing a nazl flag and a rose satin bedspread, embroidered with white doves and posies, accompanied by a note which said: "The flag is for the kids. The spread won first prize in a con test in Palermo 50 years ago. I thought it might be pretty on the piano.! Love Georgie." Turkeys Plentiful, State Institutions9 Holiday Dinners ' Although the state of Oregon bought less than 1000 pounds of turkeys for this occasion, there will be plentiful servings of the festive : bird ; with all . the trim mings today - for the inmates -of state institutions, it was reported Wednesday by Roy Mills, secretary of the state board of control. , ; Most of the institutions are now raising their: own turkeys. Mills explained .;"'", - f. Approximately 2500 patients and attendants at the state hospital will sit down to Thanksgiving din ner at noon while the 850 prison ers and guards at the state pen! tentiary will be served later in the day. Special Thanksgiving din ners also are scheduled at Fair view " home, HUlcrest school, the state training school for boys, the schools for. the blind and for the deaf, and. at the state tuberculosis hospital. 10 PAGES Ships By CHARLES H. McMURTY PEARL HARBOR, TH, Nov. 24 (JPi American Invasion forces completed, the. conquest of the mid-Pacific Gilbert islands Tues day with the capture of Betio is land and its strategic airfield aft er killing most of the 4,000 de fenders. . Conquest of this key . island in the Tarawa atoll came as other United States ground forces hunt- j ed down the remnants of Japan ese on Makin and A b e m a m a atolls, already firmly in American hands. The Gilberts provide a po tential springboard for new am phibious or aerial attacks on Jap an's outer island defenses. A desperate enemy counter-attack before noon Tuesday failed to shake the marines' grip on Be tio. The leathernecks of the sec ond division broke it up. Then they forged on to take control of the island before nightfall. This fierce action, which placed the last of the three invasion points in the Gilberts in Ameri can possession, came on the fourth day of the central Pacific offensive, the first American campaign in that area, it was an nounced today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. The capture of Makin was an nounced yesterday and the situ ation on Abemama was said at the time to be such as to assure speedy conquest. Few prisoners were being taken, Admiral Nimits said. Some 4,000 Japanese were be lieved slain on Betio alone. There the enemy had concen trated the bulk of his Tarawa forces to defend Us air base fa cilities. A fleet spokesman said the Jap anese counterattack really speed ed the seizure- of Betio. It enab led the "Devil Dogs" to concen trate their fire on masses of Nip ponese instead of hunting them out one by one or in small groups. The Nimits communique also (Turn to Page 2 Story D) French Adhere To Charter By JOSEPH E. DYNAN ALGIERS, Nov. 24-(JP-The French consultative assembly un animously expressed France's ad herence to the principles of the At lantic charter and the enuncia tions of the Moscow conference to day after Gen. Charles De Gaulle made a new demand for complete allied recognition of his govern ment. The assembly said the French Committee of National Liberation, which De Gaulle heads, always had observed France's treaty ob ligations and then voted approval of France's junction with the oth er allies in the common war ef fort for the total defeat of "the axis. In adopting a motion present ed by its foreign affairs com mission the assembly referred InferentlaUy to the Lebanese question by complimenting the national committee for "having settled the recent ! incident" without harming French ' col laboration : with the allies or French Interests. Rent Control Committee Names Mrs. Estes Secretary Members of the rent : control committee created recently by the city council announced Wednesday that Mrs. Herman. Estes, the for mer Alice Speck of Salem and a Willamette university law college graduate in 1938, had been select ed as t executive secretary : to re ceive registrations of rental prop erty and administer the program under the committee's supervision. The rent control offices will be established fin the council cham ber at the city ball early next week and. registrations will be In order as soon thereafter as the necessary forms are printed, It was announced.' v r , i :-. ) The committee has indicated that fine deadline for registration may be January 1, although a final decision on this point has been withheld." Owners - of rental dwelling units will be charged a fee of $1 for the first unit regis tered and 50 cents for additional units under the same roof, these fees to finance administration of the ordinance. : r . Mrs. Estes husband, an attorney before entering war service,' Is a first lieutenant in the azx&y air Salem, Oregon Thursday Morning. November 25. 1943 :A ; , ftjt mm. ,m ' -', This is s general view of the harbor at Toulon' taken a number of years ago where 2 French warships were reported scuttled to keep! Yank Troops Eat Turkey AU Over World By HALE BOYLE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Nov. 24 There will be turkeys aplenty tomorrow for hundreds of thousands of Ameri can troops in the Mediterranean theater, many of them for the second time observing the his toric holiday overseas. The army has made every ef fort to see that front line troops in Italy get the lion's share of the turkey supply but an unofficial survey indicated the big majority from Casablanca to Tunis also will iret a chance at white meat or drumstick. The air force saved the day for many by flying 68 tons of cold storage birds on emergency delivery from ; a ship ; .which docked far from the area In which they were to be distrib. uted. Planes of the trooper 'car rier command flew them from the harbor to the Tunisian field where refrigerated tracks met the planes and rushed off pack ed full of fat birds. By ROBERT EUNSON SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Thurs day, Nov. 25 Roast turkey and dressing, heaped on mess kits, were the order of the day in New Guinea today. America's Thanksgiving day bird, brought by transport planes for the past week across the Coral a, was enjoyed by air corps men, engineers ana uiianirymen sta tioned in the jungle war theater In Australia, American sol diers all day heard their Aussie friends say "Happy Thanksgiv ing day," an expression which may not be exactly traditional but is an example of the way the Aussles want the boys to feel at home. Enough turkey was shipped to New Guinea so that each soldier got one pound. The same quota was supplied hospitals and other units in Australia. Several picnics and dances were given . by . Australians lor ine Americans in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. One program even went so far as to include a hog calling! contest which Australians understand is a prominent sport in America. , MRS. HERMAN ESTES corps and is now overseas or will be in the near future. - . omu n i Si U U U Peaceful Toulon Harbor -Before Raid - .Jtio.'i .'IMlTu...... Soviet Ukranian A Cracks Counter-A ttack By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 25-!P)-Russia's Ukranian army ral-ied to crack the furious German counter-attack in the Kiev sector on the 11th day yesterday, killing 1500 nazis and blasting 32 enemy tanks in bitter defensive fighting which improved soviet positions in the Chemyakhov and Brusilov sectors. "All attempts of the Germans to penetrate our defenses met O with failures," the Russians an Canol Inquiry Qoses; Army Expense Hit WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-(tf) The senate Truman committee closed its inquiry into the war de partment's .4130,000,000 Canadian by Chairman Truman" CD Mo) , that the army had "failed to justify this expenditure.' Brig. Gen. Walter B. Pyron, the army's petroleum expert, wound up the testimony with an assertion that military necessity dictated the decision to develop the oil fields near Norman "in the dark days of 1942." His testimony, like that of Un dersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, was in sharp contrast to the verdict of Petroleum Ad ministrator Harold L. Ickes that the whole project "ought to be junked now." General Pyron could not en lighten the committee as to wheth er the army contemplated an ex pansion of the pipeline and refin ery included in the so-called Ca nol project. i Truman said that Lt. Gen. Bre hon Somervell, chief of the army's services of supply, who directed the construction of the Canol pro ject, "will be called to the stand just as soon as he returns to this country." Patterson raised the possibility of expansion yesterday in pointing out that the original pipeline and the refinery at White Horse were built on the basis of an anticipated recovery of 3000 barrels of oil a day from the Norman fields. There now is a prospect of 30,000 bar rels a day. B & O Passenger. Crashes Freight YOUNG STOWN, 0 Nov. 24. -i&y-A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train crashed into freight train at nearby. Newton Falls tonight. First reports in dicated a-number of persons were injured. The B&O divisional office at Akron identified the passenger as the Ambassador, eastbound from Detroit to New York, bat said it had no further details. Several injured persons were taken to Warren City hospital. Expect Jutland Raid LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 25- (P)-A Stockholm dispatch tonight relayed a Danish press service re port that the Germans have mass ed an army of 250,000 in Jutland in anticipation of an allied inva sion there. Tough Luckl , CHEYENNE, Wyo, Nov. 24 (P) It may bo sad Tbanksglv- tng for one family, . This want ad appeared fat s Cheyenne newspaper: t - "Strayed; turkey in vicinity of 21th and Carey. Reward. Price u them from falling into the hands over the city. ' rmy nounced today in their first com munique to suggest that the Ger man onslaught had reached Its climax. The German-inspired Vichy ra dio, in the first mention of Lenin grad in weeks, said Russia's sec ond city had been bombarded by German heavy artillery, perhaps indicating the r Germans might move in this long quiet area. Ger mans were last reported close to the city on the west. and south. Since German Field Marshal pGen. 1 Fritz - von i Mannstein began the most important nazi counter attack in four months in the Uk raine, the Russians have admitted the loss of Zhitomir, an important rail junction 80 miles west of Kiev. They also have conceded the loss of some populated places in the Chemyakhov, Korostyshev and Brusilov sectors of their west ernmost salient. Brusilov is 45 miles west of Kiev and Chemyakhov 13 miles north of Zhitomir. Korostyshev is between Zhitomir and Brusilov on the southern flank of the Kiev bulge. The Germans earlier broadcast sn unverified report that Brus ilov and Cbernyakhov had been captured by the Germans but the Moscow midnight communique Indicated the tide had turned. 'In the area of Chemyakhov and Brusilov our troops successfully repulsed the attacks of enemy In fantry and tanks," the bulletin said. " . .. Our gunners, infantry and tankmen, repulsing enemy at tacks, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy and improved their po sitions." .. - - The Russians reported 5500 Ger mans killed and 82 tanks destroy ed in the days' fighting from north of Gomel south to the Dnieper bend. North of Gomel over 1500 Ger mans fell in unsusccessf ul counter attacks aimed at wresting back fortified positions captured by the Russians in a fierce battle. Pris (Turn.to Page 2 Story C) Eighth Army Troops Clear Avvroaches to Nazi Main Line - By EDWARD KENNEDY -ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 24-(fl-Stabbing forward over, rough terrain through she intervening towns : and villages. Eighth army troops , have seised the two Sangro riv er towns of San Angela and Alf edena near the center of the Italian line, virtually clearing the approaches to the Germans', mala defense system along a : 45-mile stretch of the Adriatic sea. 7-;-- . : - , : Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery's British ana canaaian xignt- ers plunged 10 miles due west from their - last; reported . position at Castiglione to capture San An gelo on the . eastern bank of the Sangro after routing the enemy from the mountain towns of Cap racatto, Castel Del Giudice, Cian nl and Martano, a headquarters announcement said today. San Angelo, -whose full name is San Angelo Del Pasco, is 28 miles In land from the Adriatic. In a final' five-mile advance in to the burning and gutted town of Alf edena, which was fired by the n a xls two days previously, Sc aaurQ i ), of the Germans when they took -;; ? - House Shout WASHINGTON, Nov.. 24-flP) The administration was "dealt its second i major defeat In as many days as the house today . shouted approval of a $2,139,300,000 tax bill, repudiating the treasury's re quest for $10,500,000,00. The second wartime t revenue measure was' tossed over to the senate a day after the house voted overwhelmingly . to kill the food subsidy . program, described by President Roosevelt as the key stone in ' his " anti-inflation bul wark. ; -.r ' l Passage was by standing vote, 200 to 27, without a rollcalL r ' With many members . anxious to spend Thanksgiving at home, the speed of action probably constituted a record for m tax " bill.' aly six boura. beinr e-; sumed in debate although two i days of discussion had been scheduled, Some speakers demanded curbs oh government spending and on "bureacracy," - instead of higher taxes.! Others claimed the meas ure was a weak approach to war time taxation. :- Rep. Kebert Lee Doughton, St-' y earmold chairman of the ways and means committee and usu , ally an administration support er, led the bi-partisan atUck on the administration's claim that (a multi-billion dollar tox program is essential not only for war j financing but also to si phon off large purchasing newer now biddng for scarce consum er goods, r i "In: my opinion, such a crushing burden of taxation would be far worse than any real or fancied (Turn to Page 2 Story F) f Charles Ray Funeral To Be Held Saturday j HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24-(P)-Privkto funeral services for Charles Kay, country - boy star of silent films, will be held Saturday, Miss Beverly. Kay, his Sister and only close relaj tlve,- announced today. : ' j Kay, who made and lost $2, OOO.Sfit during his movie career, died! Tuesday of a throat and mouth. Infection. ' the Eighth blasted its way through the stoutly-defended villages of Montenero Val Coccinara and Bocca. Alf edena, -" some 45 miles from! the eastern end of the' bat tle line, is on the very backbone of Italy, near the sources of both the Sangro and . Volturno rivers which flow in opposite directions to the sea. -: ;.; v"-.:."-"r.- Although the Germans still held difficult heights east of the Sangro river between San An gela and Alf edena, -1 the two wedges driven to the stream by Montgomery's f troops . guaran teed that the enemy soon would be forced back across the San gro along Its entire length. Only ' then would the allies be in po sition ,for : a- major assault 'against the nazis winter' line from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhe- -nian sea. - ;; ; ; The capture of Alf edena placed the Eighth army astride a fork of a main north-south road where it splits into two highways,- one run ning on each side - of the main range of the Apermines and both leading to a main lateral road to (Turn to Pago 2 Story B 4 Disapproval; Proposed Tax Aw J u'QQ .taciL I Submaxia Pens, f Stations Targets ; , ALLIED j h HEAD QUAR TERS,' Algiers, Nov. 24 (AP)Large;;; formations of F 1 y i n Fortresses al tacked tbe 1 pazi-eontroHed French naval base of Tou Ion : today - and i Liberators raided Sofia, it was an nounced tonight. Jj; J 4 !;(Touloni 1 1 h ej Mediter ranean base where fnost rof the French navy was scuttled a year ago, had never been Jbombed be fore bjr alhed blanes. - . . - i r j -''- -' (Sofia was heavily j attacked by American bombers in daylight last November 14.jThe Bulgarian cap- ital had .air . alarms as early as ' No. - i ' : j :. .1 1 Viactt August I and hi , September allied - i planes droppeq leaflets to warn : the city that . ijaids vwould come.) A group of j Flying Fortresses branched off jfirom, Ibe main for- mation -which struck jat Toirton to bomb again the coastal rail -ia- , duct of AntHeor , near Cannes, about 60 milei east jof I Toulon. I The targets of Toulon and "Sofia are more than 1000 miles apart. . ; ;The Flying! fortresses were es- corted by Lightnings while the, Liberators made thejjr flight ove the Balkans j nd , black without escort I : jj f h Mi h ' . ; " i j- At Toulon 1 ihe : large formation of Flying -Fortresses; of the 15tl f air force bombed submarine pen docks 'and relish' facilities. . . - Liberators ! from the same all force struckagain atJ railroads and ' yards , at SofSa. reported larger evacuated , of fits i civil population ! after the last! raid. 1 . ' ) (Berlin radio. broadcast record ed by the j Associated Press fig London said: jthe Liberators at j tacked, in waves oyer Sofia and I some were shot : down. The text of the! broadcast: i i . ("On Novenjber 24; enemy planes I flew in wave over the territory j of Bulgaria, jnti-aif craft defense j went into action in time and sue cessful air combats: took place. ("At some jpointai bombs werd (Turn to 'p!age 2-f-Story A) Lt J Setinatt t ki'iii-iJ-U : 1 Lt George M. Sennatt, bombar dier of a FlUig Fortress, Is miss ing in' action! following a bomb- ing raid ovep Europe, according to word receiyed by his wife, Mro Althea.R. Sennatt fwho is living with her parents, fir. and Mnrf Everett T. I lahe, at 864 Mil street The st j bombing missiori In which he participated, so fas, as Mrs. Senaatt knows, was ot j October - 20. jThat was the date oi a raid onj ft nonfferrous metal i plant J in western (jiermany. :1 Lt ; Sennatt visited Salem inf July of this year but has not lived here. I He and Mrs.! Sennatt were married December 31, 1942. Hd was a college student in Wlscon- ' Sin when mobilized with the na- i tional guard jin : 1941, latex1 trans- f erring to the air orps. His mo-; ther, Mrs. James Ftzpatrick, lives ; In New Lonqon, Cpnn. . ; 4- Monmdutbj Closes Schools; Pol lO ! &se8 Iepprtecl i MONMOUTH, Nov. 24-Mon-j 1 mouth schools, both high school; and grade school, Jwiu be closed,: ! i until December 9 jpecause of two ! j cases of infantile paralysis In this? n area.-r,.'.T' I I " 4 Charles K4 Hamer, 8, was taken v to Doernbecber -hospital in Port-i land Wednesday jwhile a smallU g child . in tlM Simrhons family is also I. reported to be suffering; ;i from the'diiease. t !. , f .If The Hamejr boy'4 father is withl f the US army overseas, his motherl j is employed in Cfrvallis and he: -S has been making his home with f his grandparents, j Mr. and Mrs.-) ; S J. m Hamr in Dallas. . - Di. Ivan j Milhaup, who is f member" of j the faculty of Ore- gon College ;of Education and di-i rector of th trailing school, said that it seemed wis to close school until mor 'was known of the t'Az . uation. 41 "i I 1 I' i ii f t M If; tl i!