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fMT 'UGD iTDLK SI Tuesday maxlmvm temp eratore ' 47; mlnlasn ; 25. ClvefUft ' C 1 d y Wednesday and Thnrsday; little change la; temperature. : Vt , ) f 4JVvV ' lvk AOr vV tr jT mm Jrf 12 PAGES Solam, Oracjon, Vadnesdtzr Morning, rcember . 22. 1943 Prlca 5c Ho, 31 rtl - Njy 4X T X3T vvy III IV I yw 1 V I I V I v . wtVW. SM II II 111 II II 1 1 i I POUNDDD 1651 .V 1 I give you "Good Morning" on this shortest day of the year. At v nlliM hatlUMfl fVl poles, the time between sunrise and xsuiise will be 8 hours, 45 minutes, the, same as yesterday. At 8:3Q)Na,mthe winter solstice will occuVwhen the sun1 enters the signv MA Capricorn, marking the officialSteii. of winter. Our " sense of the shortness of days at this period is heighteneti by1 the advance of clocks by one hour tinder congressional mandate, which makes the goin-to-work hour seem'- like 4 a going-to-bed hour, at least, for the folk who have to; be on duty by 7:30 r 8 xi m-i People reaUy- do not appreciate Twrtinje'j when ': they have tot bestir 'themselves In darknessi s f h !' " " ; But wartime 1 may be L better than to switch' from davticht sav lng in smmerT to ! staniatfd time In winter. with ..the attendant fussing about ) whether yqu gain an hour Jorlose an hour, an fact . Just the other Mehitsbjel, who has always been hostile- p day light saving; time,! ; remarked she thought it might be all' right Just to stay bn , wartime j. in peacetime. Thus are converts j won hy expe rience. Whether there has been a change jin farmer : opposition or :' Sot I .cannot sayjfJ J . : - This tampering with the clock Is of course ; wholly unnecessary. The same result could be accom plished by merely moving ahead the hours of stating factories, opening .stores . and offices, etc. But people are so s&uch creatures 4c cf habit that they are bound to clock time. It is easier .to move thef hour-hand ox tne ciock ratner than to advance the work-day from 8 to 7 am. Oa the other hand this' venera tionjof standard time is a recent dejvflopmeni S&ajidard time, as we have it. Is only 59 years old. Prcfr J to jits establishment at conference in "Washington in, 1884 (Continued on editorial page) 4- George Replies To Morgentliau Over Tax Bill j f ; c - - WASHINQTQN, Dec, 21 Ben. George ! (D-Ga.) tonight is sued a scathing reply to Secre tary Morgenthau's criticism of the new tax bill and particularly its - War contract - renegotiation law amendments; declaring: ; "Mr. Morgenthau knows no thing about the renegotiation of contract act' and less about bow It is actually administered.' George, chairman of the senate . finance committee which complet cd work on the $2,275,000,000 bill today, said he Jhad "n& apology" it the -failure to reach Morgen- thau!svgoal of $10,500,000,000 ad ditional revenue. . He defended, the proposed freeze ixsocfal--ecu-irjr tax 'rates at 1 -percent each; on employers and . tmployi!khroughout 1944, saying there is no justification for In creasing the rates now. SMorgenthau told a press ' con ference yesterday-that the amend ments to the renegotiation law proposed by the senate commit tee would open the door- to "truly extortionate profits,, by war con tractors. , ; f The senate finance committee put the finishing touches on the Siew tax bill today and estimated prospective additional revenue un der th measure at $2,275,000,000 a year. I : - . One of the last acts of the com ' mittee w3 to trim away a poten tial $17,100,000 annually by mak ing the cot me tier. ' tax 20 instead of 25 per cent. The present rate Is 10 per cent of the. re tail price. ' 4 The bill would bring inTabout $135,000,000 more than the form in which it passed the house. ' The senate adjourned' sine die before the committee completed Jts techeck of the bill. The formal report wil be filed during the ' holiday recess, probably late to morrow, - Utvinov Book Done i .' SAN f RANCISCO, Dec IhHtPi -Madam Maxim Utvinov, wife of the former soviet ambassador to the United States, left today to oin her husband in Moscow. Dur ing her two-week stay here, Ma li tvinov completed her au aphy which will be pub- sooa. CHOPPING DAYS I EFT to ftuy Gloves; ra FOO. HLLEN d totHpgf lishfed 8 x ,11 e .. - em, 800: Frankfurt Heaviest Blow..;. Outside Berlin Delivers 2000 Tons Explosives j r By Gladwin Hill LONDON, Dec. 21-(AP) A force of possibly 800 Pathfinder-guided RAFj heavy bombers attacked the important German chemical and armament center of Frankfurt last night with 2000 long tons of explo sives and incendiaries in one of the heaviest raids of jthe war, pounding their target with relative ease after nazi fighters had been drawn off by a wily feint assault 50 miles to the south. ; . The bombload loosed on Frankfurt came close to the war's record of 2300 long tons dropped on Berlin November 22. The British heavies O blasted and burned the city after a ' diversionary attack had been made' of the twin German cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. These attacks highlighted a busy 24 hours as the allies' pre-invasion air offensive surged to a new win ter intensity. Britain-based Amer ican heavy bombers attacked Bre men by daylight yesterday as Mediterranean -based American heavies were hitting the Bulgar ian capital of ' Sofia and an air field neaf Athens. Greece. Last night RAF Mosquito bombers struck at western Germany and Belgium, and today American and British medium bombers raided northern France by daylight. . The US ; .Eighth .air force an nounced ; tonight . that more than 500 heavy .bombers, with the larg est fighter escort ever used, were inen ibeEreen fiidaini 4hat they sent approximately . 1200 tons of bombs crashing upon the nazi - Dort and U-boat - base. The number of fighters used was not specified. , : Reconnaissance photographs showed great fires and columns of smoke rising from many parts of Bremen, j , , - A r the RAF filers turned -home from the target they saw the nasi fighters racing fran tically back to the main target at Frankfurt. -i. Bat 3the i nazi interceptors were to late to save the great rubber, ' chemical and electrical center of approximately 500,000 Inhabitants from Its heaviest at tack. . ; There was one explosion, fol lowed by red flames as if some great store of chemicals had been bit, which shot up columns of black smoke a mile-and-a-half into the air, and it kept climbing until it 1 was nearly five miles high. i , . : Reports ; of hot aerial combat came mainly from the Mannheim' Ludwigshafen force, further, indi eating that the Germans - were fooled Into concentrating their defense there. One group of Lan caster reported five battles in 15 miriutes, raiders reported. i Fortytwo planes were missing from the three-point heavy oper ation, the Mosquito follow up, ad ditional Mosquito forays into Bel gium, RCAF attacks on enemy shipping in the English channel and minelaying operations along enemy coasts.. 1 :: " ', It was the RAF's fourth major raid in December and the second attack on Frankfurt in less than a month. It moved the city, one of Germany's 20 : major industrial centers, i perilously close to the tat of obliterated places like Hamburg, Essen, Kassel-and the "emasculated' Ruhr. Rogers Fills BanhingPost Hanging fire for several .weeks pending a meeting of the banking board, the reappointment of Ar thur A. Rogers as superintendent of banking was made Tuesday at a special meeting of the 'board. His term expired December 4 1. The reappointment is for a four year term. Members of the state banking board are Gov. Earl Snell, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr, 4 and State Treas urer Leslie M. Scott. r-Z :: r; yf- The election was reported to be unanimous. ;?,;-, , C Rogers, formerly cashier of the First National bank at Eugene, was loan representative in Oregon for the Spokane- Federal land bank when he was appointed banking superintendent four years ago. Bomlbers Hit Arms Plant Rail Unions Set National Strike December 30 WASHINGTON, Dec. 21- Leaders of 15 non-operating rail road unions numbering 1,100,000 workers tonight set December 30 at 6 a.m. for a nationwide strike. The operating brotherhoods, representing 350,000, already had called a strike for the same date, and tonifht they rejected a - plan pat forward by Presi dent Roosevelt as a basis for settlement af the ware dispute. . The 1 5 . non-operating . union chiefs " said' 88 per ' cent of "their membership had voted in favor of striking to enforce their wage de mands. Meantime the five operating brotherhoods ; (engineers, fire men, etc) turned down the Roosevelt settlement suggestion, based on overtime pay. , Representatives f the brother hoods appointed a subcommittee to draft counter-proposals ex pected to include demands for va cation pay, lay-over expenses at terminals away from home, and pay at the rate of time and one half for work over 40 hours work in a week. (Turn to Page 2 Story H) First Citizen Naming Slated Salem's Junior first citizen will be named at the annual banquet of the Junior chamber of com merce to be held January 20 at the Marion hotel, members of the chamber decided Tuesday at a luncheon meeting at Schneider's coffee shop. M f As usual, members of all civic organizations and Salem business men are invited to join the. cham ber at the presentation banquet Pat Crossland, president, is ac cepting reservations. At; the Tuesday meeting, -the group decided to join In a pro gram of postwar planning, ap pointing Irwin Wedel and Pat Crossland as representatives , to meet with Supt, Frank Bennett for school board postwar develop ment plans. Members exchanged Christmas gifts, SUverton Council Approves Beer License for STLTEKTON, . Dee, ? tl Ap proval of beer license applica tions for Kelly's Place, held Bp since the first of December while complaints and abjections reportedly poured in. was grant ed by a three-man city council Tuesday night.' V , ' Three members of the official body were ill at their homes with flu but no epidemic or threat of epidemic kept interested towns folk from filling council chambers and the hallway beyond. . Only spokesmen among' the 50 visitors were Leonard Gouge, pro prietor of the beer parlor, and Rev. O. Leonard Jones of the Me thodist: church; Russell Myers of the Christian church; Rev. O. C. Olson, Calvary Lutheran, and Rev. MJJC Fuhr of Trinity Lutheran congregation. ' . ;r . . Informed that the delay in' con sidering his request for license ap proval had been caused by a de sire to investigate complaints and to offer the public an opportunity Canadians Driving In Ortona Break-Through Is Preceded By Artillery Fire By JOSEPH E. DYNAN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Dec. 21-(-Cana-dian troops and tanks have fought their way from two sides into the outskirts of the German stronghold of Ortona on the Italian Adriatic coast and are engaged in street fighting with nazi defenders barricaded within the battered village, reports from the fighting front said to night. The break-through into the hotly-contested town, before which Canadania forces have been held up for a fortnight by strong Ger man resistance, was preceded by a heavy artillery bombardment which cut a path through the hea vily mined approaches yesterday afternoon. - Ortona, only 11 miles below ' the Important "pert f Pescara, has been a main abjective of' Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery's drive up the Adriatic coast. Its fall- would rip out the main eastern anchor of the German winter line. ' German forces, meanwhile, were reported running critically short of artillery ammunition as Amer ican troops consolidated their po sitions on snow covered Mount Spinuccio, which the allied com mand announced was captured yesterday in a two-and-one-half-mile advance west of Filignano. An allied military commentator returning from the fighting front reported that key supply roads within and behind, allied lines scarcely had been touched by en emy artillery fire. This evidence that allied bomb ings of the nazis' supply lines is having its effect came after heavy Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the 15th American air force flew for the fourth straight day to batter strategic targets deep in southern Europe. -,- ' . ; Fighting American- infantry, which had been ceaselessly attack ing for several days, swarmed up 2600-foot Mount Spinuccio under severe conditions. v All mountains in the area west of .Venafro, where the fifth army Is driving north westward in an apparent effort to flank the German stronghold of Cassino, are covered with snow. Dr. Kimball Dies . NEW YORK Dec 21-P)-Dr. James Henry Kimball, 69, princi pal " meteorologist of ; the New York weather bureau and . the man who gavethe "go to Charles A. Lindbergh and other pioneer trans-Atlantic filers, died today. Kelly's Place to point to specific cases of viola tion of the law, Gouge asked if there had been accusations against any of the other licensed estab lishments, intimated there might be a note of persecution in selec tion of his place by complainants. ' Most outspoken of the minister ial group, .Jones declared he had been informed that Kelly's was selling to the high school trade and that gambling and other un seemly conduct might be found there v A petition circulated through Gouge's influence in op position - to one. member of the council (ill and absent from the Tuesday night session) would be withdrawn if the license approval should "be granted, Jones said he had been told. : Only; one of the three eonn cllmen present. net to east his vote in favor of Gouse's applica tion, following a brief recess, was Jeoaa Cyber- : i;- :, Because of lack of anyspecifle 1 XTura to Page 2 Story B) . Russians Approach sk Liquidate Line On South Bank Of Dnieper River By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 22 -(JPy- Russia's Baltic army, storming down from Neve Wo ward .the Vitebsk-Polotsk rail line, has captured more than 100 populated places, killed 1600 Germans and reached to within 20 miles of the German defense bastion of Vitebsk now menaced from two sides- Moscow announced today. At the same time the Russians disclosed the liquidation of a Ger man bridgehead on the south bank of the Dnieper across from Kher son, near the great river's mouth. More than 2,000 Germans were killed In the three-day battle that wrecked 21 of their tanks, 78 ar tillery pieces and cost them great stores of war material and num erous prisoners. Besides these two Russian vic tories, the front was biasing in other areas along the 809-mile battle line. The Moscow midnight commun ique said the Germans had lashed out in an important counter at tack in the Zhlobin area of White Russia while the nazi counter-offensive in the area west of Kiev took on new momentum. The more northerly German drive Was apparently in the area between Zhlobin and the Bere zina river, where the Russians had been reported in a new at tack a week ago. Gen. Constan tino Rakassavsky was said by the Germans to be using 100.000 troops and two tank-brigades. The German counter attack, the Rus sians said today, began with large forces hurled into a narrow sec tor seeking a break-through with (Turn to Page 2 Story D) censors Tightening On Invasion By E. C. DANIEL LONDON, Dec. 21-i!P)-T1ght- ening of British and United States censorship to prevent leakage of vital information on the western invasion is being discussed by censorship authorities of boi Ha- tionj m London. - A strict ban on speculation in the press about the scope, date and places of the invasion Is un derstood to have been proposed by American military leaders in London in addition to -the already rigid British restrictions. ; ' -Further efforts are being exert ed to bring British and 'American censorship policies I more closely Into line so that information sup pressed by one country will not be released by the ther. These efforts i commenced In " earnest with the breakdown of censorship on the recent mideast conferences. : An Instance of cross-purpose censorship ' occurred this week when a story on American troop movements which would not have been allowed through British cen sorship was passed by American censorship for publication in Brit ain. J v p -,vv" No action has : been taken yet and there may be no formal pro nouncement, but representatives of both sides were agreed tonight on the desirability of further re stricting speculation which might be useful to the enemy. , - . (In Washington today President Roosevelt .told his press confer ence thaV reports British; and American censors were preparing to ban second front speculation was just another London story.) American military s authorities, themselves sharing the British alarm at the troop-movement sto ry, are understood to be making inquiries to determine why cen- Lsors in the United States passed it, i . One of. the difficulties In - co ordinating' British and American censorship is' said : by representa tives of both countries to be the fact that American censorship is split into two parts military and civilian.. Yiteb 1. tup Four-Star r i Genv George C Marshall, chief of staff of the US army, whose out-of-the-way visit with Pacific commanders blots bigger and better plans for the Pacific campaign. Mac Arthur Reveals Jap Plane Losses in A ir Duels By WILLIAM F. BONI I . ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW, GUINEA, Wednesday, Dec. 22-5-Air actionsin which the Japanese lost 20 planes for sure and six more probably against six lost to the allies were reported by Gen. Douglas MacArthur today. Most of - the aerial activity coO 1 1 7 . ' . 1 " ' :i curred in connection with attacks on shipping, a total of seven Ja panese merchantmen being hit and at least one sunk, while an en emy air fleet lost 14 planes for sure and probably six more in at tacking an empty allied convoy off Huon peninsula,. New Guinea, sinking one 200-ton vessel. A total of seven Japanese merchantmen were hit in strikes against a convoy In the Kavieng, New Ireland, area and In Ra baul, New Britain, harbor, with one definitely sunk and four others set afire. , The first attack was against ships southeast of Kavieng by a Liberator heavy bomber Sunday afternoon, resulting In the damage of a 6,000-ton : enemy . freighter. Shortly , after midnight - another Liberator located eight ships of a convoy in which two were escort vessels, and probably sank a 6,000 ton transport. Two US navy Cata linas later ' attacked the convoy, scoring direct hits on 6,000-ton and 8,000-ton vessels, setting both aflame. Shipping in Rabaul harbor was attacked, after noon Sunday by Liberators escorted by fighters. One cargo ship was sunk and two others set afire. The Japanese sent up 50 fighters to oppose this at tack, losing four to an equal allied (Turn to Page 2 Story C) , Congress Heads Homeward to Sound Out Voter's Opinion By WILLIAM T. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -VP) The. 78th-congress headed home ward today to learn, during, the next 20 days, what the " voters think of a nine-months first-session record of all-out cooperation with the war effort and sporadic but successful onslaughts against the administration's home front program. ; . Bentine proceedings In the senate and the house closed the books oa a session that marked, loss of administrative legisla tive control for the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt be came president In 1932. ' Returning, on January 10 for an election-year session. that threat ens to be sparked by partisan battles, the law-makers will face a - heavy docket of highly - con troversial - legislation sidetracked in the last-minute rush.-". Taxes, subsidies,, wages, and mustering - out pay for service men' are high on the calendar of unfinished business. - . Already passed by the house, the tax bill, cut to a mere shadow of what the administration asked to;theway 'of,; revenue,: awaits senate disposition. Hanging fire in that branch also is a house-) passed bill boosting ceiling prices on crude oil. In the General (' ;1 A yy. a a tj. Tarao Air Base In Marshalls . By LEIF ERICKSON PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 21.-ff) -The rising fury of the air war over the Japanese mid -Pacific Marshalls was plainly indicated today in a report that on Monday Seventh army Liberators raided the enemy's new Taroa air base, tangled ! with SO Zeros,r downed four," probably shot down five others and - lost three of the big four-engined raiders. Taroa Is In the Maloelap atoll which the army bombers had pounded only the day before, run ning into 25 interceptors, downing seven, damaging five others and returning - damaged but without loss. . ' - .v- - - '. - Monday's . raiders touched off fires and explosions among hang ars and storage depots with about 25 tons of explosives. In addition to the three bombers lost, others were damaged by the interceptors and the anti-aircraft fire." V:V :v (Turn to' Page 2--Story G) , face of administration conten tions it will blast a hole in the anti-inflation dam." J : ' The senate's gifts to the house, not to be 'opened ' until after Christmas, . ' include - legislation boosting by eight cents an hour the pay of non-operating railway workers and providing up to $500 mustering-out pay for discharged members of the armed forces. The; house Interstate commit tee sidetracked the railway pay biH until next year after directing a subcommittee, to prepare an amendment taking from the of fice of economic stabilization all Jurisdiction over the. pay of rail workers. . : ; The house military committee put off action on mustering-out pay amid - indications .a program calling also for a bonus for ser vice men would be presented-early in the year. Biggest fight In prospect for the opening weeks of the new session Involves the administra tion's " food subsidy program, twice belted down this year by the boose and once by the senate. -Z. ' j , ;---'' ' Extension of the CCC is pro vided in a : bill also outlawing subsidies. The house has passed it, but a senate effort to work (Turn to Page 2 Story A) ' StMOiief Coming Action On AH Fronts V Believed Planned By Williarri Fyre k WASHINGTON, De, 21 (AP) DiUto.ure that Gen. George C Marl shall, chief of staff, hag held important confereri cea with commanders in the Pacific on his" way home from the Cairo and Teheran mreiinir mnlio. . v- O V sized dramatically tonight the increasing : : tempo of the campaigns against the Janan: .. - iTh... t , It Is thousrht tinlilrl r Vka the genera4 would lave under- taVan ' V, li : 1 . i ,' -.i ... flights on a mere inspection j trip at a time when preparations ap- tear tn hJrsahina m . the long-awaited invasion of west-' era EuroDe. , -t i - i'i r i. i Much ' m o r e nmhahl i ! hd Marshal, after; the .Seal was set on strategy at Cairo and Teheran by Mr. Roosevelt, j Prime Minister ' Church;U,4 Marshall Stalin and Generalissimo :: Chiang . Kai-shek undertook to inform the Pacific commanders iq detail of the ecisV ions of the two conferences. The American, i Britishf and Chinese leadeVl at C&tro nledired to fnt J Span "into unconditional "surren der and strip her of all her j 111- gotteri'ains'.j!:l ..!. ! ;' lOn suggestion V was that Mar- , shall was able, oh the basis of staff calculations' pn the European situ ation, toJgive,Gn. Douglas Mac Arthur nd,j Admiral Chester W Nimitz.1 ; some , j indication off the prospect for shifting greatly in creased. ;force; to the Pacific j Considerable significance was attached, to the conference i with MacArthur! in view of published reports sthat MacArthur l is plan ning ja jtrip to the United States in the spring. , ;:, , j ; f ! While those rcnrt wr ; w i t h IacArthur - for -? president re has been sotne Eoecu'. latio confirmed in 'any offi- clal ouarter - that MirArtho. might! actually be planning such a trip to renew In person bis pleas for additional men and equipment for the war against Japan. MacArthur Visit Denied SYDNEY,- Australia, Dee. 22.-CtfV-T h e commonwealth povem- ment does not take seriously any reporxa uen. iwacArthur la plan ning a trip to the United SUtes next spring. j . i (The Indianapolis S t a rf h a published a story quoting "per sistent reports of reliable persons returning from Australia, as say ing MacArthur is making tenta tive plans to return to Washington next March for a series of confer ences.) I - ; li lt was officially stated todaV Prime Minister John Curtin knows nothing about the reports and It was emphasized Australia would be consulted ' first because it is a party to MacArthur'a "militarv di rective and the general Is partly responsible to the commonwealth government. First Whisky Next Month : -vJ.. ' -i..;,- ; . PORTtiAND, Ore Dec' ll.-CT) Initial shipments of "the whisky obtained by tis Oregon and Wash ington liquor commissions through purchase, of two Kentucky distil leries will arrive here late next month, Ray Conway said today. ! -The Oregon liquor administra tor, who returned today from Kan sas City where negotiations wero closed last week, said the ; total purchase price was $7,C0,CC?, with each state putting up $3, 700,000. The cost orisinally was estimated at $S,S00,CC3, he said. Retail price of the liquor will not be determined until federal computations are completed Lj. January, he said, but the consume? will pay less than for an inferior quality of rum and gin. j y