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V7eallicr I Tuesday i milmiim tern .peratnre 54, minimum 48. ! Precipitation Ji. River -19 jut n Ji. Fair I Wednesday sad i Thursdays little temperature ! change.-; PCUNDQD 1651 XI I III 1 I I I I I I I I I I III III . S. ... I" .,,77AiMl I I I " I I I I I 1 I I I "V i - si ' .In the news a few dajt ago was a brief item to the effect that in France the rifle squad would suc ceed the guillotine as the means of public execution. The French re public gone, with a mongrel gov ernment in its place, displacing the guillotine seems .a fitting se quence, removing the last trace of the French revolution. For it was then, in 1792, that the blade in a frame designed by Dr. ' Gullotine took the place of the gibbet. Re member what Carlyle wrote about ju ,':; H (Tor, lo, the great Guillotine, wondrous to behold, now stands there; the Doctor's Idea has J be come Oak tad Iron? tht huge Cy clopean axe 'falls in its grooves like the ram of the Pile-engine," swiftly snuffing out the light of men! 'Mais vous, Gualches, what have you invented?' This?'. ; Set up in the Place de la Revo lution, the guillotine sheered off the heads of Louis XVI, of Marie Antoinette; of sundry nobles. From the prisons the tumbrils rolled over the stone streets' of Paris to deposit the daily, cargo of victims for the axe of Samson, the heads man. Then came - the Terror, and the burden on the guillotine in creased. Charlotte Corday, who had stabbed Marat in his bath, rode in the tumbril, "sheeted in red smock of a murderess: so beau tiful, serene, so full of life." . As with ', Louis, the headsman lifted the head to show it to the people, and "struck the cheek insulting ly? for which he was Imprisoned. Then the revolution began to "devour its own children." Danton is condemned by the very tribun al he created. With the "carniver ous rabble now howling round" Danton mounts the platform, ad monishes himself, "Danton, no weakness,' and says to Samson: "Thou wilt show my head to the people; it is worth showing." The tumbrils keep rolling, bear ing Hebert, who abolished religion and sired the worship of Reason; Desmoulins, another revolutionist, and his beautiful wife, Lucile. "Systole, diastole, swift and ever swifter goes the axe of Samson." Finally Robespierre himself, the advocate of Arras, (Continued. on Editorial Page) Bus Drivers And Shop Men GivenMoost PORTLAND, . Not. SO.JP) The regional war labor board to day granted wage Increases to Oregon Motor Stages' highway drivers, shopmen and city driv ers in Salem and Eugene. . The award, terminating a wax e ' d is put between the company and the Amalgamated associa , tion of street, Electrie Railway ' and Motor Coaches Employes union (AFX), provided: ; Highway drivers base pay of 4.46 cents a mile compared to the eld rate of 4.38 and the un ion's demand for 4.75. The dally minimum was boosted from $7 ta $7.50. The union asked $8.59. Drivers In Salem and Eugene city lines -were Increased to SO cents an hoar from 85. .They asked fL.lt. Shop rates were set at $1.15 hourly for mechanics and paint ers with an additional 5 cents for night 'work, $1.93 for com bination men and 93 cents for washers and greasers. Near Gotham NEW YORK, Nov. 30-(ff-The Swedish liner Gripsholm, ablaze with lights to assure her safe passage, neared New York tonight with Americans ' eager for home after long months in Japanese in ternment camps. - i The 18,000-ton ship, given a safe conduct guarantee by all bel ligerents, carried 1238 US nation als, 221 Canadians and 43 South Americans. ;, The navy department said the , Gripsholm would reach Ambrose light In the lower bay tonight, and 10 sum. (EWT) tomorrow at Jer sey City. Asia Offensive Seen In Heavier. Shipping LONDON, Wednesday, Dee. 1-Jpy-A Berlin broadcast quoting at Tokyo dispatch said ' today there has been increased allied shipping activity in the Gulf of Bengal. Japanese observers believe it a sign t an impending' southeast Asia offensive. Dai CK.rfsfn::sc3!s Gripsholm 35)11 SHOPPING V & I DAY? LEFT v Tf " T0 61TTU'; m w w i 3 U C- g-i;' I f - . NINETY THIRD YEAR Bbnga By; Allies Seaward Anchor Of Japs' Supply Line Uprooted By ASAHEL BUSH SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Wed nesday, Dec, l-tf3)-Australian jungle - fighters pushing north from ; Finschhafen - have cap tured Bonga, the seaward an chor of the Japanese principal supply line on the northeast ern New Guinea coast, and its fall without a struggle has de prived- the enemy of another hold on the Huon peninsula. The - Australians occupied Bon ga the morning of November 29, General Douglas - MacArthur's communique said, and also took Gusika in their general sweep which carried them to the south bank of Kalueng river. A headquarters spokesman said that before the final success was achieved at Bonga, allied forces were obliged to overcome enemy resistance a thousand yards south of the river. The i allied advance along the coast , was parallelled by the in land push northward from Sat telberg, which was taken from the Japanese November 26, toward Wareo which is the western hub of the trail from Bonga. This Interior force was report ed to have reached the suspen sion bridge", over the Song river and to v have-crossed arsinst enemy resistance. ' With Bonga in their possession, the coastal troops turned - west ward along the south bank of the Kalueng river, driving toward a juncture with the force advancing on Wareo. The Hon peninsula ground units received distant support from al lied light warships probably de stroyers which for the first time ventured north of Vitiaz strait to bombard Sio harbor and en virons the night of November 29 30. Sio is on the north coast of New Huon peninsula. While the Aussie jungle fight ers were moving into Bonga, al lied bombers were aiding the ground force by smashing at the (Turn to Page' 2 Story E) Invasion Talked On Soviet Radio LONDON, Nov. 30--The Moscow radio in a broadcast to night warned the German people that they could expect Germany to become a battleground. ' Russian ' spokesmen including Stalin always before have con fined their statements of military aims to driving the invaders out of the soviet union. During tonight's broadcast the Moscow - announcer asserted the heavy allied air "raids are mili tary' preparation for what is to come.'- r .- i ' J. Some Rents At least two Salem landlords have notified their tenants of rent increases to become effective to day just as the wheels start turn ing for enforcement of city, rent control, which has been in effect in Salem since Mayor L M. Dough ton signed the ordinance more than two weeks ago. Whether the two, both holding properties in southwest Salem, plan test cases- or simply believe that until the rent control office opens the ordinance is not in ef fect was f not revealed Tuesday. Under the new regulations, rents are supposed to move ' back to those charged January 1 of this year. " ' First action of the rent control committee, as its office opens this morning in the council chamber of the city hall, is to can for regis trations of rental properties. Fail ure of a landlord , to register by January 1, 1844, such properties, within t the city - limits, win be considered a violation of the or dinance. , . v . v .-'.,. 4 To both - the -landlord and the renter the most . interesting .por Control tion of ;tberrdinance is aecUoal 12 PAGES Christmas Packages Arrive J a -r Mail call has an even greater attraction than usual for these doughboys with Christmas presents from home for troops In Italy. AF Wlrephoto by slcnal corps radio). Officials Formerly Position Taken in 1939 Recalled; City ; Will Merely Shift Pockets With Part Of Sum, Noted as Issue Scanned ; By ISABEL CHILDS If, after receiving advice that it has no "moral right? to waive accrued delinquent interest when it finally collects taxes due and owing from city water properties, -Marion county court has the sensation of standing "between the devil and the deep blue sea", there is really nothing strange about its reaction, men who Kentucky Goes GOP Again Second Republican Chosen, Congreas; Trend Ta Hailed LOUISVILLE, Nov. 30-(P) Kentuckians, who for the first time in 16 years on November- 2 selected a republican governor and other state officials, today el ected a second republican con gressman. Unofficial returns from 352 of 442 precincts gave Chester O Carrier, republican, 24,491 votes to 14,717 for J. Dan Talbott, de mocrat, in a special election for congressman from the fourth Kentucky district. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-iJP) Chairman Harrison E. Spangler of the republican national commit tee after hearing returns tonight from the special congressional el ection in Kentucky commented: "It becomes increasingly evi dent that whatever the president's intentions are respecting a fourth term, the- republicans will sweep the nation in 1944." h. - - "The magnificent ' victory - of Chester Carrier, the - republican candidate for congress in Ken tucky," Spangler added, ,1s the second time within i the ' month that the people of the Blue Grass state have repudiated the New Deal- isedjis . 1 4 ice uoens M. three, which fixes maximum rents as follows: ' (a) , Per housing - stiee-mmo nations - or rooms - rented en January V 1941, the rent far such accomtnoditiona that date. - s - ; ;r-- (a) For bousing accommoda tions or reams net rented ea January L J943, bat rented at any time daring the twe months ending on that date, the last rent for "such accommodations daring the twe month period, v; (e) For boosing accommoda tions or reoms net ; rented ea January 11943. nor daring the two months endinc en thai date, for housing; accommodations . or rooms rented for a definite term or definite number ef ae eupanciea,' for which no maxi mum rent is established under subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the rent shall be such rent as was charged for similar .accommodations mm January L, 1943. . " -"-T : d)- For a . room -with which meals jsrere . provided . on Janu-. aryl, 1943. .wUbest.. separata . U(Tura to Page 2 tory A) Salem, . Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Dsctmbsr 1, ...... Play; Opposed Payment of Tax Ohave been interested in seeing the long-standing tax question solved suggested Tuesday. V; Without wishing to intimate that Herman Lafky, defender of the rights ofralJIyfctf ' related to his vsatanic I majesty; some of these persons delved back into newspaper files and corres pondence records of public agen cies to come out with a remind er that in 1939 Lafky was a "tax payer and water-rate-payer of the City of Salem, and that then also as a defender of taxpayers he demanded that the entire "tax claim be NOT paid by the Salem Water Commission." - So the county court, according to the attorney, has no moral, and Lafky in his letter of this week suggests, no legal right to waive the interest. But if, as in 1939 "there is no legal authority vested in your commission to pay the $33,000 tax item, should you de sire to do .so," then the commis sion has no right to pay the prin cipal, and the only thing to do is to allow the bill to grow larger. Of course, the county could fore close on the $12,000 piece of pro perty sold by the water commis sion to Portland General Electric company, thus obtaining a portion of the tax principal the city pro poses to pay as soon as bonds can be issued legally. And the com mission,, if it abided by Lafky's advice, could thus obtain a poor business rating but could not pro-, tect the private purchaser. . Since Lafky advised the water commission to take no action to ward paying the taxes," an addi tional $11,000 interest has1 accrued beyond the $6000 interest ' then owed. . . .... . , - .... ....I The state sapreme court has: since Jaly If, 1931 agreed with a portion -ef Lafky's freely-ef-fered opinion of that date that "said tax claim is net enforce able as against the water sys tem properties ef the city, er the City Water Comnusslen. (Turn to Page 2 Story F). Case Winds Up PORTLAND. Ore- Nov. 30-iff) Arguments in the contempt of court action against Tom Ray, de posed business agent of the Port land Boilermakers union, were concluded tonight and Circuit Judge James W, Crawford said he would announce - his decision- tor morrow. .. Ray was charged with having violated" an . order Issued r by Crawford last February which limited r expenditure of 'union funds to current operating ex-, penses. Russell -W Duke, a union member, ; had r accused Ray - of withdrawing funds i for his per sonal account v. ' Ray testified that he had never wilfully disobeyed -the court 'Or der. He said a check for 46861.69, paid him November.19 by. the.4m- ion's -bookkeeper, -had - been -au-1 ihorized by the, local's governing Kay Contempt board -the previous-night. - r Meet From Home f x -j- w "3 v. dashing to the mail track loaded MeatRations Liberalized r 30 Per Cent More : To Be Allowed Next Week WASHINGTON, Nov. Z0-(JP) Price ; Administrator Chester Bowles said tonight that . ration cosfc fof meat will be cut to al low -a ' 30 per cent larger ration in December, . . - J;!Our meai supplies are "In pret ty good shape and for. that rea son I am glad to say that we are going to be able to cut the points on meat rather substantially dur ing ' the month of December, Bowles said. "This reduction in point values will give each mem ber of your family about 30 per cent more meat "The new point values will be in effect when you shop next week. You will find that most beef cuts will be two or three points lower. With one or two exceptions, the price administrator said, pork cuts will continue at the reduced point values put into effect ten days ago. Bowles said the butter situa tion has not improved. - "There is nothing in the world we would rather do than reduce Bowles said. "The trouble Is the supply just isn't there on a na tional basis. The OPA chief announced the prospective December reduction in meat ration costs in an address on the blue network. He warned that it may be necessary to hike meat points again in January or February, and added that by spring supplies probably will be less than they are today. . Specific meat point reductions will be announced later this week by OPA. US Malnutrition Puzzle Abroad ; ; Tompkins Avers PORTLAND, Ore NaT. it- (y-CngUsli fs it derstand why many are underfed, Morton Tomp kins, master ef the state grange, said tonight tn reporting en his recent tour ef England. : . - . Tompkins ' .t e 1 d grangers be was shewn articles In British editions ef American periodicals telling ef malnutrition shareeroppers and lew groups In. the United States. , He said he was unable te ex plain why the conditions exist in s vtcorous prodacinx nation, but ha told the English that its elimination will be one ef the major tasks facing this country after the war. Warden Agrees :" To Suspension FOLSOM PRISON, Calif, Nov. SO.-OffVWarden Oyde L1 Rum mer tonight acquiesced in the or der of .the state .board of prison directors suspending him from of fice pendina utcome of :the in uestisation -into 4he conduct . of convict labor-camps and the pris on -system in "general. 1943 East End Nazi Line t - - . . tnashed ; : Sanjgro Ridge Is : Taken; "Winter ? Line9? Penetrated ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. MHP)- General Sir Bernard L, Montgomery's Eighth army shattered the east ern anchor of .. the Germans winter line" across Italy to day, capturing the whole of Sangro ridge and driving the enemy out of a huge bridge head north and west of the San gro river that extended at least 15 miles inland from the sea. Climaxing 48 hours of contin uous, bitter fighting, the veteran Eighth slashed forward, threat ening to turn the flank of the enemy's entire defense system be fore' Rome. ' - : "The whole of the high ridge which overlooks and dominates the Sangro valley is now in our hands, the allied command an nounced tonight in a special com mumque. "The two bridgeheads on the Adriatic side f the coast have now been joined up to form one large penetration in ene my's defensive positions. "Our troops have broken deep into the main enemy winter line and enemy counter - at tacks during the afternoon have all been beaten off. " In today's advance Montgom ery's warriors swept through four towns - Fossacessia, Villa Santa Marta, Mozzagrogna and - Roma gnoTi bringing to-12 the num ber of towns and villages taken since they opened ; their attack before daylight Sunday after a heavy artillery bombardment. ' earner toaay an auied com- (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Russians Lose Rail Junction Fall Back at Key Point in Kiev Area Bat Gain Elsewhere LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 1 MP)-The Russian army has fallen back from the strategic rail junc tion of Korosten, its second im portant retreat before the furious German counterattack at the Kiev bulge, but has pressed forward in White Russia and at the Dnieper bend, where almost 4000 Germans fell in heavy fighting Tuesday, Moscow announced today. The loss of Korosten, 85 miles northwest of Kiev, came 11 days after the loss of Zhitomir. Both of them were railway junctions won back by the ; Russians . in their westward surge from Kiev. . The Russians gave scant details of the withdrawal, announcing in their, daily communique that "by order of the supreme command our troops abandoned the town of Korosten and took up more ad vantageous positions for defense." The midnight supplement made no further mention of. the area.- As early as last Saturday the Russians hinted at Korosten's dan ger when, they reported the nazis bad brought up eight tank divis- (Turn to Page 2 Story H) Bi-Partisan Vote Board Approved; GOP Wins WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-HflPy- Aided by eight democrats, senate republicans today drove into the servicemen's voting bill a require- j ment that the president must draw on nominations by the two major parties in appointing a, bi-partisan election cxmrnission to supervise next year'a batUefront ballots, ' ' The senate wrote In the require ment with a 40 to 39 vote, wiping out the tie which defeated the pro posal yesterday. The change de priving the president of a free hand in setting up the jconimission was opposed by the democratic authors of the bill and byMajor ity Floor Leader Barkley of Ken- Under its terms, each major par- i ty--will submit a list of suggested e le e t i o n -commissioners. to4he White w House. From -these .the president would name 4wo dcmo- Prtee 5c .mum First Kesnillts Released Doings of "Big Four Played Up in As Itenis in War of iSfetves . By the Associated Press; ! P "J A Reuters dispatch from Lisbon said, Pres velt. Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo ChianV !l I Kai-Shek had concluded a long session in .Cairo to a meeting with Premier Stalin in Irani and wave broadcasts to Europe again last night, - The three, statesmen met the shadow of the pyramids," beamed out since 120 p. m. German, Italian and other languages to friend, foe and neu-4 tral alike.- - . :'. ' r : f f During the conference Cairo mas munication with the rest of theO world. Roosevelt and Chiang Kai Shek, who was accompanied ' by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, trav eled to Cairo by plane, while Churchill traveled by sea. It was said that "a communique agreed on after the Cairo confer ence will be published later this week." . , - -''. A telephone call to the New York office of war information elicited the Information that the broadcasts were authorized by the office of censorship after the Reu ters dispatch - duly cleared by the British censorship through London was received from Lis bon yesterday; : Elmer , Davis, "OWI chief, said in Washington OWI broadcast the Reuters report because it, "alrea dy was all over Europe", but cri ticized Reuters for handling .the story." ' " i : He said that DNB, the German news agency, "and virtually ev erybody else" had circulated the Reuters report and that OWI felt it should give its customers some thing, too." " - In i criticizing Reuters, Davis said that "If there were a con ference we could assume from past experience that there would be some arrangement for a simul taneous release in all capitals in volved." "If that were the case,! Reuters broke a release date," he said. "If there were no conference then the story would be an invention. Either way, it is . equally repre hensible." The copy for the broadcast was (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Catroux Reports Quiet in Lebanon ALGIERS, Nov. ZO-ifi-G Georges Catroux returned today from Beirut and expressed satis faction generally with conditions in the Trench ' . protectorate of Lebanon following the v release from Jail of native officials, the restoration of Bechara Khoury as president and the recall of the French . delegate - general, Jean Helleu. Catroux represented the French Committee of National Liberation in negotiations with the Lebanese and British toward a settlement of the troubled conditions in the Levant state. erats and two republicans to su pervise distribution and collection of absentee war ballots, a r. , Opposing the restriction, Bar kley pleaded that "We ought not to say to the president in this time of war that we cannot trust him.". - Supporting the amendment. Sen ator Tydings (D-Md) argued the change - was. "A safeguard which in my opinion the president would want" - '- -i'i y "IX wUl protect the president, who may himself be a candidate, from ."any charge of unfairness. Tydings Insisted. ' . : . He and these other democrats joined the republicans . In , voting for the amendment, offered ' by Senator. Bridges (R-NH); .Chavez of New; Mexico, JByrd f Virginia, Gerry of Rhode Island,-Gillette ef Iowa, - McCellan ef A r k a n s a a, t (Turn to Page 2 Story B) - r-'v- -; r'-'j! If, rq -- r.'u y Til imkm Farley s: i y ymiii y.n i - !: t. Broadcasts dent Roose preliminary OWI short- repeated . the; etory again and on one occasion in a tent in said the Owl transmissions. I 'i Hp yesterday' in English, French, III cut off from com-; Junkers Plot Aren't (1 By ROBERT BUNNELLE LONDON Nov, SO-W-Ari antt-. Hitler group jjof old line Junker -i Germans, according to reports from inside I Germany, is awaiting the psychological moment to at i tempt a government coup. London Observers Misle any . suggesf h group may seize on tion of merciful peace terms thatJ may come ffpm any meeting g4f Churchill, Rolpsevelt and Stalin.1 ' Reports say j this j group already has made informal armistice pro? . posais whlchjlwere Rejected I with- j out discUssiprfci '- j ; ' j -y These wholly unofficial tenders, : the reports continue, were not re ;i I garded by the allies as tenders atf i all and 'wer'eji dismissed, first, 'be 3- cause; they did not originate form-1! ally witir the jGerman government,!; and, second, because they fellfa short iof :thi jjUnitedj Nations" un p conditional surrender. ! ' ' ' The group! reported ready te A overthrew Hitler Is said te be led by Field! Marshal Karl Voa - v Kundstedt, Field Marshal Wal ther Ven BraBchitsch, Field Marshal Fedor Von Beck and a Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. These ld-liae professional sold- ! iers are- said te have support from among jmany Janker Indus- trlallsts. asrsrians and diplo- mats, all thtm eenvlneed x there is no inope for a German 1 military victory. ; j : T-v ' -' : The ability of the anti-HiUee : groups to make good on its peace promises at this stage of the war' is ' highly, questtocabjf , and the (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Rogers9 Term I Up; Continues InBaiilrFost y4U i- The term of A, A. Rogers, state superintendent of banks,; expires ; i todayi However, Itj was apparent f Tuesday nigh. that jie would con- . tinue I to serve . for fan! j indefinite i period. Appointments to this of- i Cce are made by the state bank- i t; ing board, and! it was deemed ex- j ' ceedingly unlikely ttt this board $ ! would meet until the: return of ; Gov. Earl Sniell from Chicago, j Other members . of j the board are- State Treasurer Leslie W. Scott and Secretary of State Rob- i ert S. Farrellji jr. . r.. J -j j '. Rogers, '. formerly;' engaged ; in I banking in Eugene, was appointed ; state Superintendent of banks De- cember I, 1939, by Gov. Charles A. Sprague.It is known that sen- timent favorable to Mi reappoint-!,! ment has . been : predominant in banking circtes.: : 4 " j- .1 Von Papea May Get: Ribbentrops Post CAIRO, Noyi S0-PrFrans Von Papen, veteran diplomatic j trou- j ble-shooter for the paxis who has 'i been ambassador to strategic Tur- key since 1919, may shortly sue- ceedM Joachim! Von Ribbentrcp, one-time -wine salessxan, as Ger man ;4 foreign! i. minister, . reports from' Istanbul i indicated ton'it. ill i f -Hi If M 1: ill ill V. IE If