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v 4 rr 7calbcr Wednesday niimia temperature 49, minimum 12. Elver ft j Cloud j Thnrsday and Fri-. day; occasional light rain west ef Cascades Thursday! few snow flurries aver Cas cades; net much change la crrrn i"ttiilu U VJJ UUC'U POUNDDD temperature. If any "proof were needed that this is a dizzy age one could end it in statistics of "money in cir culation. The figures are dry and meaningless, except when com pared with those of other years. " There has been a phenomenal ex pansion in the circulating medi um, reflecting not only, war-time prosperity, but the habit of the people to carry their, weaitn in currency. , " , ' " You have heard tales from stores, particularly clothing and ladies' wear stores, where custom ers open their purses and pull out rolls of c u rr e n c y that would "choke an ox." Because both John and Mary Doe are doing this, and the smaller . Does and Roes, the . figures' of money in circulation keep climbing, almost to astro nomical heights. . :. . t For . our own 12th' federal re serve district the increase in. cur rency in circulation amounted to $20 millions the first week in De cember. .The cumulative increase for the year to date is $700 mil lions. In 1942 it was $560 mil ' lions and -in 1941 $192 millions. Which shows the acceleration of the increase. 1 Here are the figures for money In circulation for the country as whole: 1930 ."..,:... $ 4,522,000,000 : 1940 . 7,847,500,000 , 1942 14,650,000,000 1943 . - 19,726,000,000 Why such expansion in curren cy? Higher payrolls is the prin cipal cause. With ' millions more Workers employed, and wages higher than v ever before more billions in currency are required. Many of the workers are new to money, have no bank accounts, cash their pay-checks on receipt, carry the currency or stow it away in. caches around home. (Continued on Editorial page) In Congress . WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (JF) Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) sought to break the senate deadlock on food subsidies today through a com promise bill which he said would eliminate government payments to roll back beef and butter prices nd the present milk subsidy, but retain most other price controls. The Taft amendment, proposing Jo slash federal ' subsidy outlays atom rthetr current $1,000,000,000 year' level to $600,000,000 in .1944, was offered formally in the senate after the banking com mittee put off until tomorrow a decisive vote on pending legisla tion .to repeal the entire subsidy program. Under the Taft plan the govern ment would guarantee support prices to farmers on selected com modities to encourage production, nd pay subsidies to processors and distributors where otherwise Jt would-be necessary for them to raise retail prices. The guar onteed prices would be supported by : direct government purchases Where necessary. , WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -(Jf) The bitter political dispute over the service vote bill flared in the senate again today, with t re publican, Sen. Moore, inviting southern ; democrats to join the GOP in fighting a fourth term and Sen. Lucas, democrat, reply Jng that the opposition is "afraid' Of President Roosevelt as a can didate. " WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -) Two new approaches to the prob lem of aiding service men after the war were suggested in con gress today, one providing for as much as $1900 to a veteran woun ded in combat. The lawmakers cow are con sidering a plan to provide mus- tering-out pay ranging from $200 to $500, depending on length and kind of service. "- WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 JP) The resignation of Dillon S. Myer as director of the war relocation authority and that the Tulelake segregation camp be placed un der the supervision of the justice department . was asked in a reso lution passed by house members from California, "Oregon and Washington, Representative Clair JSngle (D-Calif.) said today. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -JP)- The senate . finance "i; committee voted today to retain the. present victory tax rather than adopt al ternate plans advanced by the -house and treasury department for Integrating it with the regular in dividual Income tax. SHOPPING DAYS LEFP TO GET CR.hOCnC m w a .. NUIETY THIRD YEAR Arawe Ripped .Heaviest Raid 356 Tons Drop In Greatest Single Mission - SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Thursday, Dec. 16 (AP) -American heavy and medium bombers rip ped Arawe, New Britain', Tuesday with the heaviest bomb load ever carried on a single mission by south west Pacific air forces. The bombers, support ed by attack planes and numbering more than 100 in all, loosed 356 tons of explosives on the Japanese barge base which is about midway between Cape Gloucester at the western tip of the island and Gasmata on the south central coast, enemy supply center which was subjected to a 248-ton attack Sunday. Not even the big enemy base at Rabaul, on the northeastern tip of the island with its concentra tion of supplies, aircraft and shipping, ever had received so massive a weight of explosives in a single day. Rabaul had .held the record for bomb punishment, with 350 tons dropped there last Oct, 12.. i,; v;. ? - The planes lashed at Arawe throughout thai J day General Douglas JcAcfturV communique said, and with theTBobs-nhe Jap anese were sprayed with more than 174,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition. There was no interception from enemy fighters, and but little ground fire. None of our planes was lost. (i; The assaults, almost continuous from 7:48 a. m. to 10:30 and then intermittent to 3 p. m., were, cen tered on Amulut plantation on the mainland west of the village of Arawe and on a chain of small islands guarding the harbor. (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Salem Yule Tree Lights Cancelled Regretfully, in view of public appreciation of the practice, the special Christmas tree lighting committee of the Salem Cherrians has decided not to illuminate the tree on ; the courthouse grounds this year, Frank H. Chatas, King Bing-elect and chairman of the committee, announced Wednesday. "The. Cherrians could not dis regard the appeal of the govern ment to conserve electricity," Chatas explained. The war pro duction board has issued an ap peal for .voluntary conservation of the. use of electrical energy throughout the nation by various means, one specifically mentioned being elimination of exterior dec orative and ornamental lighting. ... King Bing Orval Lama, confer ring with W. M. Hamilton, divi sion manager of the Portland Gen eral Electric company, was advis ed of this request. It was pointed out that while no electric power shortage exists here, the appeal naturally had to be nationwide, and that conservation of electrical fixtures 'and wire is an objective actually! Involved in the decision here. At the recent Cherrian meet ing the WPB order forbidding electric utilities to make electrical connections for such purposes was read. The matter was reffer back to the committee, which announc ed Its decision Wednesday. Dr. John Kellogg Dies, Pneumonia j . . -v ' r ; ": " .: BATTLE CREEK, Mich; Dec 15-PFuneral services for Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 91-year-old surgeon, scientist, editor and phi lanthropist, will be held Saturday in the auditorium of the Battle Creek sanitarium which he de veloped. : '-' ; - Dr. Kellogg die Tuesday night of pneumonia. He had. been deep ly Involved in research on high blood pressure for several weeks, working even at his advanced age as long as 18 hours a day. He was ordered to bed, last Saturday. 12 PAGES Balkans Hinting Peace Allies Demand Unconditional Surrender By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 JP) Balkan peace feelers are a dime a dozen and the allies aren't buying any. . When Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania want to get out of the war badly enough, they will have to come forward with a different kind of article, la beled "unconditional surrender." Those are the main facts as of now, in the complicated set of military and diplomatic factors known as the Balkans situation. They reflect what must be regard ed as the central truth of this sit uation: Bombed by allied planes and '.bombarded by propaganda, sha ken by threat of political up heaval at home and convinced that German Is doomed, Hitler's Balkan satellites desperately want peaee but net desper ately enough ; t take the enly avenue the allies have opened to them, full surrender. Out of this predicament springs the peace-feeler campaign in which the Bulgarians have been especially enthusiastic participants. They have sown Ankara, the cap ital of neutral Turkey, with. fond hopes and wishful thoughts under the impression that they might be able somehow to harvest an arm istice short of abject defeat. These feelers have neither offi cial nor semi- official status. They are strewn about by business men, diplomats on the , loose or others with no authority to commit their governments. Such persons some times speak only for themselves, sometimes with secret official sanction, they usually work through neutral officials or busi ness men in tne nope or naving their ideas conveyed indirectly to the proper governments and peo ples. Thus the satellite governments (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Steinhock Fence Legal When Philip Steinbock ' con structed a high board fence around his "scrap metal ; depot" on Water street he did not violate the city building code, a jury of business men in municipal court declared after less than five min utes retirement at the close of the trial Wednesday afternoon. Presented from both equitable and legal standpoints to the jury yesterday, the case cannot be ap pealed. Municipal Judge Alfred Mundt explained at the trial's conclusion. The city . cannot ap peal such a case, he said, and the plaintiff in the action was the city building inspector. ; i - Jurors were Fred Anunsen, Charles L. Newman, ; Fred : B. Keeler, Edward J. Burnside, Wil liam A. Cladek and David I Shrode. 1 ' ; Gwibits Fritter Freedom-" WASHINGTON. Dee. 15-jP) Kep. Mondt (K-SD) said m the house today: that prominent . among the forces "frittering away freedom In this country" la the "all-American awitlt" He defined wgwibltM as the guild of Washington Incompe tent bureaucratic Idea throat cutters. i " , 1 , ;:, vr ' , "Hand an idea te a rwfbit and you'd think he had picked up a time-bomb, the congress man said. ''First he ; soaks It thoronghly for 48 hears to be sore it has stopped ticking. Then he ctnrerly tosses it eat the Wtndew. Salem, Oregon, Thursday Carrier Gets Jap Plane "I "i. - - Burstinr Into flame (-top), a Japanese torpedo plane, hit by aatl-alr craft fire from a US carrier, dives seaward and explodes en the surface (bottom) In a violent shower of water and fire. It was ene ef the six enemy planes which attacked the carrier daring the raid en the Marshall Islands. (AP wirephoto from TJSN.) Oregon Capitol Mourns For Attorney General Flags at the Oregon capitol were at half mast Wednesday in honor of I. H. VaiJialdeattorneyrjBil of Oregon since 1920, who died Tuesday night, and the state board of control adopted a resolution expressing appreciation of his record of unswerv ing honesty and the unusual abili - ty he displayed in handling the state's legal affairs. Meanwhile funeral arrangements were being held in abeyance pend ing determination of the time when his daughter, Mrs. Edward R. Melton may be able to arrive from Manhattan, Kas., it being recognized that wartime condi tions might delay her arrival. The body is at the Clough-Barrick mor tuary here. The board of . control resolu tion, signed by Gov. Earl Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Far rell. jr., and State Treasurer Les lie M. Scott, reads as follows: WHEREAS, I. H. Van Winkle, Attorney-General of the State of Oregon has crossed the divide into the great unknown, and Whereas Mr. Van Winkle was a member of a pioneer family of Oregon and has spent many years in the office of the Attorney-General, and for the past 23 three years has been Attorney-General of the state, whereas during his entire period of service he has shown unusual Integrity and tire less activity for the welfare of the state NOW, THEREFORE, Be it Re solved that the Oregon State Board of Control wishes to ex press its sense of personal loss in the death of this loyal public ser vant. ' ;.. j";' , ;.. , . He has left a record of unswer ving honesty and has displayed unusual ability in handling . the affairs of the state and his advice has been of incalculable value to the state departments and insti tutions. RESOLVED THAT we express our heartfelt sympathy to mem bers of his family in their be reavement and - RESOLVED that this Resolu tion be spread upon the records of the Oregon State Board of Control and that a copy thereof be given to the press of the state. ADOPTED this 15th day of De cember, 1943. Assessors Line Up Schedule Meeting In annual session Wed nesday in Salem, members of. the Willamette Valley Association " of County Assessors lined up their personal property assessment schedules.: i' i President of the organization Is W. L Osborn cf Yamhill county, while J. E. Carpenter of Wash ington county Is secretary.; Oth er members attending were E. E. Ijrkin, Benton; Rufus E. Wood, Clackamas; Guy W, Spicer, Clat sop; Fred Watkins, Columbia; W. CT Templeton... Linn: t R. "Tad5 Shelton, Marion and C. T. art, Tillamook. Stew- j J Morning, December 18 1943 sk(&M O City Planners I May Consider Sewage Plant When city postwar planners get together tonight around the din ner table at the Golden Pheasant to trade ideas, one of the ques tions which may be put is that of completing financing of Salem's proposed sewage disposal plant. Reconstruction of the system which now carries away the city's sewage, partially completed be fore the beginning of the war, must proceed. Actual construction of the plant and services of the contractor may soon be available, the council committee on sewer age learned at a meeting this week. Now in war bonds, funds raised by a bond issue for the city's share of a matched-money pro gram of construction for the dis posal plant would not be suffi cient without either the match ing federal monies or some other supplementary financing. Possi bility that the city may take ad vantage of the recently-legalized five-year sinking fund is foreseen and is likely to be mentioned at tonight's meeting. The--fiSSipjabrings to Salem city officials of Marion and Polk counties; Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of University of Oregon's (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Bill Drafted To Prohibit Advancements WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -F) Sen. Wallgren (D-Wash), mem ber of the military affairs com mittee, disclosed tonight that he has drafted legislation to prohibit further promotions In' permanent army rank of general officers. Wallgren - said that this legisla tion, which may be introduced to morrow under the joint sponsor ship also of Chairman Truman (D mo) of the senate war investigat ing committee and Sen. Kilgore (D-WVa), would prevent addi tional nominations by the presi dent to advance officers in rank. "We don't know how large this army is going to , be, Wallgren said. "I think it is about time for the military ccnmitteer to call a halt. to these 'promotions which have been coming along at an ex- cessive rate months.!, for - the - last - few n mm Russians Control Dhiep er i Kremenchug, : Cherkasy Area Falls to Reds ' LONDON, Thursday, Dec. 16 (Jpy-The Russians . have joined their Cherkasy and. Kremen chug bridgeheads completing control of a 250-mile stretch of the west bank of the winding Dnieper river from Nikopol north to Cherkasy, Moscow an nounced today, while the Ger mans said two powerful Russian drives were underway to the north in White . Russia possibly the beginning of a winter offen sive toward the Baltic sea. . . The Russians also advanced to within easy artillery ' range of the railway hub of Smela in the mid dle Dnieper fighting, capturing the railway town of Byelozere, five miles northeast of Smela. New details of the violent battle 55 miles west ef Kiev where the Germans were vdrtv : bug near the Terev river south of Malta Indicated the Russians , had won a defensive battle in ' the last 24- hours. Forty eight German tanks were wrecked, f7 trucks destroyed and several populated places re-captured by the Russians relying heavily up on concentrated pockets of ar tillery. In one sector the Germans at tacked several times with about 4000 men and over 100 tanks but were jiaten back by guns jhich waited until they came within open sights. Soviet airmen also played a major role in the battle, the Moscow bulletin said. Southward, in the Klrovograd area where the Russians reported improved positions, 1400 Germans were killed and 46 tanks wrecked as a result of fierce engagements. The official announcement that the Kremenchug and. Cherkasy bridgeheads had been linked when Russian forces in the two areas 'joined hands," said a. 65-mile stretch of the west bank thus was completely cleared from the German fascist invader." Actually, the Russians have now pushed the Germans back from a great portion of the, stream's western bank. The Germans hold only stretches from the month of the river to Nikopol, from Cherkasy to sooth (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Oregon Gives 2nd Warrant Warrants in the aggregate amount of $3,225,000 covering the Oregon liquor control commis sion's share in the purchase price of two Kentucky distilleries were approved Wednesday by State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott. The funds however are to be held In! escrow in Kansas City, Mo., pend ing completion of legal phases of the deal. The warrants, drawn by Secre tary of ' State Robert S. Farrell, jr., call for payment of $1,400,000 to stockholders of the Shawhan Distillery company and $1,825,000 to owners of the Waterfill-Frazier company. The Washington liquor control commission is paying an equal amount and the two states will share equally In the whiskey owned ! by the two distilleries, each getting approximately 31,000 barrels. Other physical assets of the distilleries are to be sold to Henry E. Collin of Toledo, O., and the corporations dissolved. Fats Waller's Fingers Stilled KANSAS CITY, Dec, lS-) Fats Waller, Jovial eempeeer and band leader who began playing a church organ before, he was II years eld, died today, ending a ,25-year professional career. The 39-year-old negro musi cian died fat his berth aboard m train In Union station. Deputy Coroner Edward . Robinson said preliminary examination indi cated death resulted from a nearf attaek. Among Waller's hits are "Ain't Misbehavin' and Teets To Big." lie composed the mu sic far "Early to Bed," a current Broadway Price 5c 300 Fortress Pom It To Greek Cities Assault Opens 15th's Winter Offensive i ' From Mediterranean : ByEdward ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers, Dei. 15-: (AJP) More than 300 Flying Fortresses, Liberators and escorting Lightnings of 15th strategic air force opened the winter bombing of fensive i from Mediterranean bases vesterdiv with' smashing attacks on three J ' .1 !U -! j. ' .1- ' '. : in me ouisiLiris oi Aniens gateway to the Greek capital. It was the greatest aerial blow yet struck ad Hitler9 Balkan holdings and marked fulfillment of last Sun day's promise by Gen. Henry H Arnold, chif of US air forces, that "terrible bio ws'i' would lie launched gomery Men Carve Hold At Moro River By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec. W.-CflV-Indian and Canadian,.-troops jf Gen. Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery's Eighth army have carved out a firm five-mile-wide bridgehead north of the Moro river on the Italian Ad riatic coast, it was announced to day, while the Fifth army front, relatively quiet militarily, was marked by complaints by nazi prisoners that they were forced to fight against "Tough wild men from Texas. ' Veteran Indian troops, fighting forward a few miles inland from the Adriatic, captured the village of Caldari, six miles from Ortona, against fierce German resistance and seized 200 prisoners. This (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Alumina Plant To Use Oil, Fuel PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 15-C53) Plans for the northwest alumina pilot plant at Salem call for oil as fuel, Earl K. Nixon said tonight, describing reports that Washing ton coal would be used as "wish ful thinking." The director of Oregon depart ment of geology and mineral in dustries i said the war production board (WPB). has approved the use of oil and s changeover to coal would mean an additional $400,000 equipment cost. J. T. Graham announcer earlier that the Columbia Metals corpora tion plant would use coal from the Toledo, Wash area. It would be mined from one of the lar gest "strip mines In the west," seven miles southeast of Toledo, Graham said. Nixon said if coal should be used it would be more logical to get it from the Coos Bay area of Oregon.!. Coos Zay , coal averages from 9000 to 10,000 British ther malunits a pound compared to 6200 for the Washington coal, he said. ' i Dallas Lumberman Heads Association CHICAGO, Dec 15-P)-George Gerlinger of Portland, Ore., today was elected president of the Na tional Lumber Manufacturers as sociation. Others elected Included A. J. Voye, Klamath Falls, Ore.; and O. H, Miller, Portland, Ore, vice presidents. Wilson Compton is secretary-manager of the organiza tion, v ."",-' Gerlinger. second Oregonian to be elected president of the NLMA, is president .of the Willamette Val ley Lumber company st Dallas and has served on the state board of forestry for a quarter of century- He haa been a vice-president of the West Coast Lumbermen's association since 1937. i The other Oregonian to bold the NLMA presidency was A. C. Dix on, Eugene, one-time president of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company. lid. 223 iv!.:!! 'rr;-. On I i Kennedy the powerful new American big nazi military airdromes ' 1 .1 V '-i m Wim '"'hi ana me naroor oi riraeus O from this area at Germany and her satellites. ' i (Dispatches did i fill ; " disclose ndt whether the bombings in Tues- day's k-aid took offj from their old North 'African bases or from fields newly) prepared for them in southern Italy.) jl Returning fliers said heavy dam age was inflicted on KalamakL Tatol and FJevsis air fields sand' on merchant shipping. tin Piraeus harbor. All four targets are with in 10 ! miles of Athens and within the, vital . ar,ea from whlh : thi Germans must support their i te nacious grip on the Aegean islands.! The big bombers diiected : their; heaviest ' smash at Kalamaki air field jwhere they j destroyed hanj gars, j wiped out an anti-aircraft battery and pitted thev runways.! Other formations hit! the other; two air fields and Piraeus harbor; in what CoL K. K.V Compton of St. Joseph, Mo, called "a per-; fectly coordinated blitz." He led, a force of Liberators oi the 20Glh. mission flown by the group ho commands. Compton also i led the famous raid on the Ploesti oil fields; in Rumania las . August I About 35 i Germai i fighters j zoomed up to eha lenae the raiders and 12 were destroyed j by bomber gunners and! the Lightnings. One Fortress j was f lost on the mission!. Several i Yugoslav pilots were ameng the Lightning escort, ! but j they fail- . ed to get into a fight. ; j v FJeysis, Kalamaki j and 1 Tatol fields have been the nazis' prin cipal i mainland air bases in the Aegean area, while Piraeus has been their chief port por ' supply ing the islands by se$. The sev eral hundred islands Jin the Ae gean,; with innumerable bays and landing fields, 'constitute the Ger mans' principal barrier to any of fensive the allies might open from the middle east into 1?ie Balkans. (Turn to Page 2 Story A) wiinjens III dfe That's what Sfatesman Classified adyerusing col umns are. 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