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The story of 'a horse that broke
the world's record for two-mile
pace at the Oregon State fair over
40 years ego is printed in the De
cember Issue of "Reader's Digest."
The horse was named Chehalis,
and those who recall him say he
'was a wonderful horse. Dr. Fred
eric Loomis is the narrator, and
fie quotes Frank and Katie Frazier
iof Pendleton who owned the horse.
The reputation of Chehalis as a'
.winner of races scared out other
owners, so the fair management
erranced to have 'Frazier drive
Chehalis against time.- ,
The record for the two-mile
pace was then 4:24Vi. On this race
nt the old mile track Chehalis
Vlipped five seconds off the rec
ferd. That record stood for six
years, until it was lowered by the
'great Dan Patch whose picture
domed the calendars of 40 years
Wo. The Dan Patch record still
Stands.
The Fraziers took Chehalis east
(At Buffalo Mrs. Frazier took sick
nd remained while Frank took
the horse to Boston. Chehalis won
bis race there, and Frazier sold
him for, $7200. That was the last
race Chehalis won, and Loomis
quotes Katie as saying:
."I'm - a one-man woman, and
Chehalis was one-man horse. He
never won race after Frank gave
him up not one single race
and he died of broken heart"
j I wrote former Governor Os
West Oregon's racing authority,
for his -version of the Chehalis
Story. This is his reply:
' "Replying to yours of yesterday
Wish to Say the Chehalis (A Runt
jf a Horse) story appearing in the
(December - issue of the Reader's
Digest is well written and pretty
much in accord with the facts.
"Not having at hand my rec
ords covering racing in early Ore
gon, and the pedigrees of the par
ticipants, I am not giving you as
much information as you no doubt
iwould wish.
"Chehalis was a beautiful dark
brown pacing . stallion. He was
sired by Altamonty a horse
'owned by Jay Beach of Lakeview,
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Youths' Needs
'At Conference
Today, as when the pioneers
were building ; the west, youth
geeks not security but opportuni
ty. Dr. Victor P. Morris main
tained Friday night as he spoke
before 140 .delegates at the ban
quet which opened the 23rd older
boys conference In Salem.
Planners for the postwar world
may work toward security for na
tions, but for men they must pro
Tide opportunity to live, labor and
accomplish, the speaker, chair
man of Gov. Earl Snell's postwar
planning commission, declared. ;
The banquet, held at Salem
high school, was opening feature
t a weekend conference for high
school boys, held under auspices
Of the YMCA. -
Principal speakers today are
Capt. Douglas McKay, former
mayor of Salem and state sena
tor now, on leave to serve in the
US army; Lt. George C. Bliss, who
is commanding officer of the na
val training unit . at Willamette
university; Dean U. G. Dubach,
Oregon State college; and Supt
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Finns to Keep
Up Russ Fight
' STOCKHOLM, Dee. J - () -Finland
apparently has deter
sniaed to tight aralnst Rus
sia as full partner of Germany,
abandoning her former propa
ganda line that she was engaged
la a private war not connected
with the world straggle, s re
liable Informant said today.
This policy was said to fcavci
been decided upon after ' the '
Moscow conference of allied for
eign ministers, which the Finns
interpreted as meaning only un
conditional surrender - for ' Fin
land. Cabinet members were
pictured as finding that com-r
pletely unacceptable, preferring ,
to fight u if necessary even af
ter the axis had surrendered.
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Head Eastward
1 Across Channel
LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 4-(P)-RAF
bombers returned to
the attack on Germany last
night, the British announced to
day, in; u swift follow-up to
Thursday night's devastating
raid oh Berlin, when 1500 tons
of explosives were sent crash
ing down on the stricken Ger
man capital.
The f terse preliminary an
nouncement did not disclose the
specific target, but there seemed
no doubt the raid was carried out
in force. Reports from the British
southesat coast said that large
formations of RAF bombers had
been seen1 streaking across the
channel early last evening.
During the Thursday night
raid, which left perhaps half of
the nasi capital In ruins, with
the entire heart of the city
' biasing, swarms of German
fighters met the four-engined
bombers along paths of flares
lit as fax as 50 miles from the
Germans No. 1 city.
In that operation 41 , British
planes feH during a mighty air
battle in skies stabbed by searcn-
lights and torn by intense flakr6
Daybreak found the wreckage ox
planes scattered through the city
after this fifth heavy assault in
two weeks, i
But nothing that Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering could do pre
vented the great force of bombers
from reaching the heart of Nazi
Germany shortly after 8 p.m. and
cascading down their loads of high
explosives and new type of phos
phorous incendiaries in 30 min
utes, j
British reports estimated that
one-third of Berlin was gone af
ter the! fourth raid November 26,
indicating that last night's blow
was as destructive. Half the city
now has been blown up or gutted
by fires. ;
r The bomb load dumped on Ber
lin in the new campaign was rais
ed to probably 15,000 tons.
Berlin dispatches to 'the Swed
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Scott Clarifies
State Distillery
Deal Position
State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott's
position in relation to the whiskey-plus-distillery
purchase con
templated by the Oregon and
Washington liquor control com
missions was made- plain Friday
when he announced that, on the
basis of legal clearances by the at
torney general, he would cash the
warrants involved in the transac
tion if they are presented and if
the necessary funds are on deposit
to the liquor control commission's
credit! ;
At the same time, Treasurer
Scott made it plain that he had
not been a party to any of the
negotiations for the purchase.
Pointing out that the present
transaction avoids some of the ob
jections raised by the Office of
Price Administration and others,
including the treasurer himself to
the original proposal, Scott said:
I had deemed It my duty pre
viously to mention the peculiari
ties, if not the odorous particulars
of the Jransaction.,
i The warrant expected to be pre
sented for payment probably will
be' in the amount of approximate
ly $4,000,000, to cover the pur
chase of 34,000 barrels or about
1,500,000 gallons of whiskey. The
deal involves also purchase of the
capital stock of two Kentucky dis
tilleries whose head, offices are in
SV Louis, Mo. The physical prop
erties of the distilleries, . aside
from the whiskey to be divided
between Oregon and Washington
liquor control commissions, will
be sold to Henry E. Collin of To
ledo, O who also - will 'receive
1105,000 for his expenses in han
dling the deal . and who . has a
contract for - bottling and 'ware
housing the whiskey.
Eyewitnesses 'Describe
Bomb Shattered Berlin
As Orchestrated Hell
NEW YORK, DecJ 3-ff-In the midst of the big RAT raid
Thursday night Berlin looked like "a badly laid out city with
the street lights on" to Edward R. Murrow, CBS correspondent,
as he stood in a Lancaster heavy bomber over the burning Ger
man capital.
"In a little more than half an hour," Murrow said in a broad
cast from London tonight, "Berlin had received about three times
the weight of bombs that had fallen on London in the course of
a long winter night." He was in London through the big blitz
of 1940-41.
Lowell Bennett of International News service, who, as a
pool correspondent, also represented other American news ser
vices on the mission, and Norman Stockton of the Sidney (Aus
tralia) Sun, also flew on the raid, but they failed to return.
Murrow's plane flew through anti-aircraft fire and fighter
opposition long before it got over the target. "Jock," the pilot,
said, "There's a kite on fire dead ahead," and Murrow observed:
"It was a golden slow-moving meteor slanting towards the
earth. By this time we were about 30 miles from our target area
in Berlin. That 30 miles wai the longest flight I. have ever
made ...
"Off to starboard another kite went down in flames. The
flares were spouting all over the sky, reds and greens and yel
lows, and we were flying straight for the center of the fireworks."
A little later: "Another Lane (Lancaster bomber) was coned
on our starboard beam. The lights seemed to be supporting it.
Again we could see those little bubbles of colored lead on two
sides. The German fighters were at him. And then with no warn
ing at all, the D-Dog (Murrow's plane) was filled with an un
healthy white light . . . Jock's quiet Scots voice beat into my
ears, 'Steady, lads, we've been coned.'. . . He jammed the con
trol column forward, and to the left. We were going down. Jock
was wearing woolen gloves with the fingers cut off. I could see
his finger nails turning wTtite as he gripped the wheel ... My
knees should have been strong enough to support me, but they
weren't. And the stomach seemed in some danger of letting me
down too. I picked myself up and looked out again. It feemed
that one big searchlight, instead of being 20,000 feet below.'was
mounted on our wing tip. D-Dog was corkscrewing . ."
Back in England at last, Murrow concluded: "Berlin was a
kind of orchestrated hell, a terrible symphony of light and flame.
It isn't a pleasant kind of warfare. The men doing it speak of it
as a job . . . It's terribly tiring. Men died In the skies while
others were roasted alive in their cellars."
V. S. Produces
1000 Bombers
In November
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 Wi
More than 1000 four-engine bomb
ers rolled out of US aircraft fac
tories in November - the record
month in a record year of air
plane output.
Donald M. Nelson, war produc
tion board chairman, said today
a military plane was kicked off
the assembly lines, of American
factories oftener than once every
five minutes during the month to
set a record of 8789; planes. Octo
ber production, the previous rec
ord, was 8362. : i
The great gains of the most
successful month of war produc
tion were made known in sepa
rate announcements fro mthe war
production board and the navy de
partment, while on Capitol Hill
plans were disclosed for expan
sion of west coast navy installa
tions to speed the flow of men and
materials into the war with Japan.
Bulgar Nazis
Morale Breaks
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
LONDON, Dec. 3-(iP)-A break
In morale and revolt among some
of Germany's Bulgarian mercen
aries helping ' Hitler's battle in
Yugoslavia was reported today by
the Yugoslav ' partisans as they
fought on against nazi legions be
ing constantly reinforced for a
showdown along the eastern Adri
atic. , ' i-.r?
A broadcast communique from
General JosipiBroz (Tito) declar
ed ! that - on the - Serbian-Bosnian
frontier, Bulgarian soldiers had
refused orders of their German
1 commanders to fight, and that the
fiazis had disarmed an entire bat
talion of Bulgarians in one in
stance. r r . ,
f: London although ' considering
the possibility of exaggeration
received the news with interest,
for it could represent a crack in
the dam Hitler has built to keep
the allied flood out of the Balkans.
It is significant also in view of
the fact that the Germans "them
selves regard Bulgaria ; as -the
weakest point in . their Balkan
Sank, and doubly significant in
another connection, s- t
Salem, Oregoxu Saturday
Chinese Drivel
To Ring Japs
CHUNGKING, Dec 3-(JP)-A.
Chinese advance in the drive to
encircle the Japanese forces in
the central China "rice bowl" was
indicated tonight by the Chinese
high command, which said three
points near the highway junction
city of Lfhsien, 45 miles north of
Changteh, had been recaptured.
The Chinese communique said
fighting still raged both inside
and outside of the important city
of Changteh. Thursday night's
communique said the Chinese,
bolstered by supplies ' dropped
from US fighter planes, had swept
the enemy from most of Changteh
and were fighting remnants of the
Japanese force at one gate to the
city.
Most of this city's buUdings
have been destroyed by the Jap
anese and by bombs and shells, it
was said tonight
Federal Jury Fixes
Hanish Tract Value
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 3 -JP
A federal district court jury fixed
a value of $6540 today on the
160-acre Hanish tract taken over
by the government in construction
of Camp Adair.
Witnesses called by C. U. Lan-
drum, special lands division at
torney, estimated the land's value
at from $977 to $1386.
Son, 19, Recruited by Father
DizsinLine of PacificDuty
Less than a year ago proud
father, dressed in the gay regi
mentals of marines, stood before
his 19-year-old son and with the
solemn words of, war recruited
him into the military fold,
i Last night that son, Pf c. David
A. Ringland, was dead a hero to
his land. ' , -:' '..V
- Young Ringland, son of Marine
Sgt and Mrs. David A. Ringland,
1505 Jefferson street, died of
wounds received recently In the
line of duty in the South Pacific.
He followed his father into the
service by Just a month his fath
er having experienced the urge tb
take up his marine duties where
he left off during the last world
war. I ,
The information concerning
young Ringland's death was dis
closed last night by Don Ringland.
Morning. December 4. 1943
Big Ro:
Mounting
Air Assaults
Pace 5th Army
In Great Drive
By NOLAND NORGAARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Dec. 3- (Jf) -Paced for
the second day by aerial as
saults on elaborate, well-prepared
German fortifications,
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth
army stabbed forward from
Calabritto against the right
flank of massed German troops
guarding the main road to Rome
in the fourth day of the biggest
Italian offensive since Salerno.
Great clouds of smoke and dust
hung over the battlefield. Air
force pilots participating In the
methodical destruction of enemy
gun positions and entrenchments
ahead of American and British
forces saw signs of a fierce com
bat raging below. Official accounts
gave no indication whether Clark's
troops yet had reached the hard
core of the nazi line.
Equally bitter-fighting raged
ra the Eighth army front,
where the right wing of Gen.
Sir ' Bernard L. Montgomery's
British, Indian and New Zeal
and forces slogged , six more
-mites -v the Adrtitlo eoast and
approached the Important high- '
way and railroad center ef San
Vtte Chletlno, only 16 miles
from the big port of Peseara.
The Germans had "reorganized
their defenses farther Inland and
were resisting desperately around
the ancient Roman city of Lan
ciano, where they held a 900-foot
ridge dominating the surrounding
country. Montgomery's men cap
tured Castel Frentano, two and
one-half miles southwest of Lan
ciano. (A DNB news agency broad
east from Berlin reported Ger
man troops had evacuated Lan
ciano In the face of the Eighth
army's advance.)
Official reports from Eighth
army headquarters disclosed that
elements of the veteran German
90th light infantry division had
been rushed from northern Italy
and thrown Into the fighting near
the Adriatic. This unit, the 12th
German division known to be
fighting on the Italian front, was
with Marshal Erwin Rommel's Af
rica corps and bore the brunt of
the long rearguard fight from El
Alamein back to Tunisia. Part
of the division escaped to Sar
dinia before the mass German and
Italian surrender of Cap Bon.
(Radio France In Algiers re
ported, entirely without confir
mation from the allied com
mand, that Field ; Marshal - Al
bert Kesselrlng, nasi command- :
er in Italy, had ordered m re
treat from positions along the
Adriatic following the "crum
bling of his entire winter line.)
.. The Germans were reported to
be driving the populations of
small towns out toward the ad
vancing Fifth and .Eighth armies
and then blowing up bridges be
hind them in an attempt to create
confusion and hamper the allied
advance.
13-year-old brother of the young
marine, who with his twin sister
Nancy, la in Salem, while their
parents are in southern Califor
nia. Sgt. Ringland is now attached
to the Portland marine recruiting
office in charge of publicity.- He
was until two weeks ago a mem
ber of the Salem recruiting office
staff and is now on furlough.
: The telegram from the war de
partment was received at the
Ringland home by Sgt. Ruth Bach
man,; USMC, who is staying with
Nancy Ringland while her par-;
ents and older sister, Wanda, are
away. Don is staying at the O. M.
Bradbury home. Sgt. Bachman
forwarded the ; telegram to the
parents, but did not tell the twins
until the information began to be
"known by most every one but
us," as Don. said last night.
Offensive
Germans Hint
Drastic Acts
To Curb Bombs
LONDON, Dec 3-()-Agala
threatening retaliation for the
air war upon Germany, the Ber
lin radio said today that the'
German high command "Intends
by one fell, drastic stroke to end
the unbridled mass murder,"
and added that "mankind Is net
far from the point where it can
at will blow p half the globe.
-The broadcast quoted the
periodical, Daa Reich as saying
that "the commencement of re
taliation no longer depends on
technical matters, bet solely en
the objective which is to bo
attained by It."
- The retaliation wCl bo so
powerful and will be started at
the psychologically opportune
moment te Influence the devel
opment of the war. It would be
superfluous to retaliate for.
ruins with ruins. The sense of
retaliation will find quite a
different and surprising expres
sion spiritually as well as po
litically." Aussies Close
In on Wareo
SOUTHWEST PACDTIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Satur
day, Dec. Australian Jungle
troops, supported by artillery are
closing Tn on Wareo, a Japanese
Stronghold on the Huon peninsula
of northeastern New Guinea. .
Wareo is Inland approximately
11 miles northwest of coastal
Finschhafen, the base which the
allies captured Oct. 2. '
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters, announcing the lat
est progress today, said the Aussie
Diggers were mopping up on ene
my strong points along the track
which leads from allied-won Bon
gs on the coast north of Finsch
hafen westward to Wareo.
To the east, Just across narrow
waters from the peninsula, Mac
Arthur's bombers continued to hit
at targets on New Britain in an
area . of that important enemy
island which is most vulnerable
to invasion.
For the second straight day,
Borgen bay's dumps and supply
barges were the targets. Sixty
three tons of explosives were
dropped by Mitchell medium bom
bers which flew as low as the tops
of the trees.
. Borgen bay is on the north shore
near New Britain's western tip.
In the northern Solomons, the
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Charles Wiper
Marries Star
Of Met Opera
By JERYME ENGLISH
Statesman Society Editor
A ' former Salem ; man, Lt.
Charles Wiper, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Wiper of Eugene,
was married to the Metropolitan
Opera star, Josephine Tuminia of
San Francisco, Thursday night,
December 2. The wedding took ;
place in the mirror room of the
Hotel Beaumont in Beaumont,
Tex.
An hour before the opera sing
er appeared in concert me two
were married by Justice of the
Peace Felix McReynolds. Miss
Helen Oldheim was maid of honor
and Major Thomas Wiper, brother
of the bridegroom, was best man.
Opera Stars Nino Martini and
Igor Gorin, two other members
of the Metropolitan quartet with
whom she is touring, were pres
ent. The bridal couple and other
singers who appeared In concert
were, entertained at dinner later..
Lt. and Mrs. Wiper are honey
mooning in Louisiana : and, the
bride Is : continuing her concert
work while on her wedding trip,
singing In Alexandria last night.
Lt. Wiper attended Salem
schools, the University of Ore
gon and Leland ; Stanford. His
fraternity is Kappa Sigma. He is
stationed in Louisiana with the
United States army air force. His
brother, Major- Thomas Wiper,
who also went to Salem schools.
Is stationed ia Hew Mexico.
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'Give Up or Die 9 Decree
Hurled at Nazi Nation
LONDON, - Saturday,
torie Rooscvelt-Churchill-Stalin
held in Teheran, Iran, and ha. planned military action
to knock Germany from the war, the Moscow radio an
nounced today. ;: . j
The conferees also discussed related Dolitical
questions, said the broadcast, recorded by the soviet7
monitor.
.The broadcast said:
A few days ago in
place between the leaders of the thre
President Roosevelt, Prints Minister
Premier Stalin. Diplomatic and'O-
military representatives took part
in the ; conference.
"At the conference, questions in
the conduct of the war against
Germany were discussed as well
as a number of political questional
j 'Corresponding ; decisions were
adopted which will be made pub4
lie later." - n r-
"The Moscow radio announ
ment that decisions" -reached a
the conference would be made
public recalled reports of the past
ultimatum would be thrown into
the teeth of a German nation,-
now beset by a three-sided war,
Neutral reports earlier said
the date of the "second front
Invasion from Britain probably
had been set at the conference
to back vp the new, and thus
far virtually aabroken aerial
campaign against Germany
which now has Berlin practi
cally half In rains, the Russian
summer-antomn rent of the
German army and the develop
ing eonqoest of Italy,
This, the biggest meeting . o
Moscow's Parley Scoop
Frankly Flabbergasts
War News Officials
WASHINGTON, Dee. 3
The Moscow radio's "scoop on
the Roosevelt - Chare hill - Sta
lin conference came like a bolt
from : the bine to American In
formation officials, : who were
frankly flabbergasted that the
news was not made available
simultaneously In other capitals.
Elmer Davis, chief of the of
fice of war information, said:
"We hope that the next time
allied leaders meet we can make
arrangements te spill everything
simultaneously. It is a difficult
thing to do because It Involves
arrangements with two or three
powers, althongh we did snc-j
eeed in the ease of the recent
Moscow conference. Well do thei
best we can.. v'-V-V'"'1
The, White House offices were
dosed, and no attaches !were
available for comment lmmed-j
lately.
world power heads in history, fol
lowed closely the meeting of
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Traffic Violation JaiU IMan
Intent on Killing President
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - (ff)-A
strange story came to light today
of how a man with a wild plan
to assassinate President Roosevelt
sulked about the White House vi
cinity for 10 days Jast monthf
and finally was arrested for walk
ing against. a traffic light.!' ' j
The arrest by city police came
at a time when the secret service
was searching Washington for the
man' after -receiving word from
his wife of his intention which,! a
secret service official said,' he at
tributed "Id "electrodes running
through toy brain. : , ; , I f I
, Secret service agents, who tojd
the story, said the man is Walter
Best 33. former worker in Pontiac
J and Detroit, Mich, factories. They
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LONDON. Saturday, Dec. 4H.f
Mud-spa tiered
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jereq rea ; army troops $
bit
Into the important German
railway, networlf northwest o
Gomel in jvo directions yesterday, s
stood firm against repeated nazi
counterattack! iri the hotly-con
tested Cherkasv area and eznand I
ed their Dnieper driver bridgehead J
below Kremenchiig 15 miles to f
the west jthrtiughf powerfully do-
fended territory, . Moscow . an
nounced early today. j i ' 1
German troops,1 recoiling before
the soviet attack - northwest of
Gomel, sustained heavy losses, the
soviet midnight bulletin said, as
the Russians Swept up more than
100 villages and- hamlets. Key
points taken in this drive carried
out through fowling winds, ; ,wet J
snow and rap -j- were Sverjen
and Dovsk, only f 1 1 miles and 19
miles northeast of Rogachev re
specuveiy, and :Soltanovka, 13
miles southeast of Zhlobin on the
Gomel ; railroad. Si i ' . -.. i " ) . I .
Germans Recoil
Seven hundred Germans were f i
killed alone In one sector of thai i
fighting in that irea. : i ill
Determined;) soviet troops. blai I
ing their way lorward thiougM
complex j German trench system! J
and dugouts protected by minJ f
fields and barbed wire entangle j
ments, wpok ;NoVo-Georgievsk, ;4
district center of. the Krovogral j
and carpeted1 the approaches ii'- i
the town; with hundreds of Gere
man dead, the communique said..
With this;!' westward thrust op r
15 miles! intjb the Dnieper sack !
below Kremenchug, the . Russian! f;
moved t relieve the pressure oi! 1
their comrades holding on in thi, "
up-river j bridgehead near Cher
kasy. This Gherkasy bridgehead. 3
relatively Ismail one, has been
the scene of , rjard . fighting fo ei
days and the communique said'
that in one sector alone the Rus-
sians threw1 j! bak seven GermaiV i
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said he Is now tin St. Elizabeth's
hospital i forii the Insane pending-
action by the United States attor
ney, ji-ii
William A. Carlson, supervisory
of secret, service agents in the
Michigan-Ohio jdistrict, first
re
vealed the Incident in an inters
view with the Detroit News. Se-r
cret service agents here then con
firmed the story and added some
details. ! -: i! 4 ' ' ! ii I
As the officers told it. Best leff;
Pontiac,! Mich Mov. 2, and arriv-
ed here NoV. 3j and registered at
a hoteL;Carlso4 said he wrote t
his wife, telling her . he intended
to "get rid of Roosevelt," but had
found the president was out of
town and was awaiting his return
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