The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 14, 1944, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text-.-rrrhTi. n : - yn -'rnrK -rTi 077770. -; t; TO .o ... w:ilpm: 33m JL&itM mum - 1 i . s i i . . - - - T ,1 . r- t tKD II0DL6 Waif S With reports , coming of grow ing surpluses of formerly scarce metals: - steel, aluminum, copper, sine, the consuming public eager for all kinds of gadgets no longer made may inquire "Well, what arc we waiting for?" in the 'resump tion of manufacturing for civilian . seeds. : V t ;n "rr i ; That is a fair question and one that will press with increasing in sistence for an answer. "What are We waiting for?w - , For one 'thing, the production heads must be sure that war needs sure fully met. They, do not want to reconvert to civilian production and then have to renew and ex pand production for war. However the gate has been opened a bit for such items as electric irons and in fant's wear and supplies. ' Still another reason: the people In to large a degree are commen cing to think the war is about ov er when the hard fighting and ex penditure of munitions lies ahead. If . they see the stores filling up with c pots and pans and alarm clocks and wire coat hangers their war morale may take a drop. Again, though there is a growing surplus of primary 'metals there inay be no considerable excess plant capacity in the fabrication of metals into the thousands and one articles of common need. Labor is still short in certain war indus tries, which may further discour age resumption of manufacture of peacetime merchandise.. , : Finally here is the real Sticker: Suppose there are materials and manpower for making say a mil lion automobiles. What companies will get release to produce them? Some companies may have their plants fully engaged in essential War work that must be continued. Other companies (Continued ; on Editorial page.) g To For Production 1 . By WILLIAM F. FRYE : . WASHINGTON, Jan. " IS -,ff) Victory over Germany will per mit large, numbers of American . troops ,to ;come home and impor tant segments of industry to shift to civilian production even while ' the war against Japan Increase in . fury. President Roosevelt indicat ed today, "If hostilities end on one major front before they "' end other fronts," . he told congress in his annual - budget message, large- i scale . demobilization adjustments w i 1 1 be possible and necessary while we are still fighting a ma jor war. ' I. Some of the reasons Were out lined by the president in his mes sage. "Others are matters of gen eral knowledge. Nevertheless, the Statement occasioned ' some : sur prise in quarters . which remem bered the storm of Yankee criti cism that burst less than a year ago around the head of Prime Minister Churchill when he "as serted that a partial demobiliza tion would be possible in Britain as soon as Germany is beaten. ' Not a few Americans immedi ately interpreted Churchill's re mark as' an indication that Britain -intends to take things easy as soon as. the nazis collapse, leaving the war with Japan to the United States. A number of important Britons promptly asserted ' posi tively that the empire will fight Japan to a finish. With both statements now be fore the public the prime minis ter's several months ago and Mr. Roosevelt's now it becomes pos sible to assess some of the factors which make it evident that par tial demobilization will begin in both countries after the European Victory which. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has predicted wi 1 1 come this year . Outstanding among these are the j (Turn to Page 2 Story.il) Returnin Vets Salem School Children Start 4th War LdaitDrw for Jeeps Show ; Salem's school children a job to be done and they'll get right to. work, whether the of- -flcial starting gun has been fired or not. The fourth war loan cam paign doesn't open until next Mondsy night J. but the - grade schools are already In action, Sev eral of them have set as their goals the sponsoring of "jeeps.'' Bush school for example, which was first to report, has sold $273 worth of bonds and $143-30 worth cf stamps toward a goal of $237, cost ef the jeep they plan to buy. 2Jiss ilary Baney of the faculty was assigned by principal Walter J3eck - to direct the campaign at Push. As for the Bush faculty, It j-.ss already over-subscribed its fjiota. cf $720; how much, has not 1-een announced, t At FJchmond school the Jeep tl::tci for sponsorsi.;? will cost r 11C3; the pupils are $250 along e way toward its purchase. Gar - .11 schpcl pupils already have , .it cne jeep sir.c 3 the school '-rn c;:r.ti, and. lr:ni to fcuy ! :r Ii tuj c:---'U t - KINETY-THI2D YEAB 0.T!- 1. TC Fighting - Germans Put l Up Stiff Battle To Halt Red Drive at Bug; Kalinkovichi Surrounded j l r i j i r; ; . t- ..!-, ,': y ... ; , " t , By James M. Long t 1 LONDON, Friday, Jan. army, beat back frantic German counterattacks on the road to Rumania for the second straight day yesterday in perhaps one of the decisive battles of tue winter, while other forces extended Poland to an 80-mile front. - Farther north in White Russia soviet forces drove to the rail hub of Kalinkovichi and the regional center of . Mozyr, now outflanked Moscow said. Afore than many taken prisoner, and destroyed as the Russians reached the gates of the two towns,' five miles .apart. The midnight supplement of the Moscow communique, recorded by the Soviet Monitor' from a broad east, said large forces of Germans were fighting bitterly to halt the Russians hammering south toward the Ukrainian' Bug river and the Rumanian frontier.' , I In ; this fighting, east of Vin nitsa, the Germans "launched a series of fierce counter attacks at tempting to break through . the battle formations of soviet units," the bulletin said. "Fighting took on an extremely; serious charac ter. Some; populated '' places changed, hands several times.' The enemy suffered heavy losses but achieved no lucce'whatever. .. At stake in this , battle the first important counter attack launched by the Germans since the Russians broke through their lines west of Kiev was not on ly the Rumanian frontier but the Odessa-Lwow : railroad, ; the last communications route feeding Germans in the Dnieper bend. The Russians s were last reported at Nemirov, 21 miles north of the railroad, and only five miles north of the Bug. . "Maneuvering skillfully, sovi et " infantry, artillerymen and tankmen dealt answering blows to the enemy and killed more than 2000 German officers and men, the bulletin . continued. "Fifty nine tanks and self-propelled guns were burned. In one area , our troops encircled and wiped out a German mountain infantry regi ment Up to 1000 Hitlerite dead were left on the battlefield. A large number of prisoners were taken and much material To the north and -right wing of Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's first Uk rainian army captured the dis trict center . of Korets, extending the Russian line into old Poland, and advanced to -the rail station i of Tutovich!, 11 miles west of Sarny on the railroad to Warsaw. Tutovichi's seizure put the Rus sians 49 miles inside the1 pre-war Polish frontier. Also captured was the town of Kilikiev, giving the red army ; a continuous line into old Poland from Dombrovitsa, 17 miles north of Sarny, southwest of Tutovichi, then southeast to Korets and Kili- , -j (Turn to Page 2 Story D) paigners appeared " in the regi ment of workers Thursday as the Salem. businessmen's,: committee was constituted at a luncheon ses sion at the Maroin hoteL Assign ments for solicitation. Including some of the firms which during this drive are on . a quota basis, were handed out to 18 teams of two members headed by C A. Sprague, vice ; chairman of the county war finance committee and chairman in Salem of the nw committee of representative bus inessmen and businesswomen.- The state of Oregon, which dur ing the - Third War Loan cam paign purchased $703,COO worth of bonds, with portion of the purchase credited - in Marion county,' limit its purchases this month because of the cut in state income tax and the , addition of new funds to which state "money is dedicated, Fred Paulus, deputy state treasurer, explained. At the tsm time he promised the state would "c'j all it can without j?o psrdlzl -z try cf the rends.".'' ! ; 5 Cird, ccunty vczt flzrnc3: ": CTv:a U TtZ3 S Ct:ry C) 1 Salexzu ir? Jll in Poljand 14 (AP) The Russian the Russian salient into old and fall - but surrounded, 1500 Germans were killed, 11 of their tanks and guns O 152 German In Big Raid LONDON, Jan. 13 -(Amer ican airmen - shot down at least 132 German fighters j at sf record cost of to bombers and five fight ers In history's greatest sky battle Tuesday, and blasted : two other targets besides shattering the three aircraft centers' southeast of Ber lin, is was disclosed officially to night. - "n : ..-"- The Eighth air force recapitula. tlon hiked fighter losses. from 100 to 152, and added one more Amer ican' heavy bomber to the 59 an nounced yesterday as baying failed to return from the raid carried out by more than 1,200 fighters and- bombers. : J i'-. i f. Fresh ' American, crews ' rolled new bombers out on runways to day to replace the lost 60, and were ready and eager to strike another paralyzing, blow at theenemy's anti-invasion ef forts I centered in air production plants.! : : - . Reconnoissance pictures : dis closed the great damage inflicted on German aircraft plants at Osc hersleben, Brunswick, and Halber- stadt ! . j lip 1 1 - Komc'i eatsklrts were attaeed today $at neea by British and AmericsJi bombers escorted' y fighters, the Rene radio said. A Berlin broadcast' said j sub sequently that three of the ft raiders were shot down.' The targets were net Identified, nor was the raid Immediately eon (Turn to Page 2 Story G)- FCC Prohibits Paper-Radio ; 0mershiD WASHINGTON, Janl IS HJP) The federal communications com mission voted unanimously to night : against an 1 prohibition against future acquisition of radio stations by newspapers. r r , , Without a dissenting vote, the commission "closed the record and dismissed the proceedings, ; thus ending ' its long investigation to determine what barriers, if any, would be placed in the way of newspapers acquiring stations. . The commission's r action : re jected proposals , which would have established a policy of con sidering newspaper ownership as "one element" in passing on ap plications for radio stations. - The decision to close out the long proceedings was in accord ance with a stand taken by com missioner T.- A. M. Craven,', who is understood to have held out against : any action ' which 'would have set newspapers into a special class. 1 - r. : , The original proposal, drafted by sf . three-member ' committee, took the position that , while there should be no outright i bar to newspapers acquirins v stations, C.9 newspaper factor should be censidered as one elements, along with all others, but did net Indi cate, how much weight shculJ be given to it. The general tone of this pro posal wes that the grcwL2 num ber cf newspaper-c- .r ;i stations r.':M rczult in tf rsws CU'Jili, at l.::t la 14 PAGES Planes Lost Oracoiu Frldar Morning, January 14. 1344 ! J dps Hit r i i 1, US asarlnes watch navy hospital ! tarsnuU Islaad, erf Beas;amvfllcv ba the seathwest Pacific, after a j had knocked the gaa smt 1 aeUesu As? Wlrepnete treza saartae Corps). Jap Positions on Arawe Are Raided Successfully FrenchTroops Opea Drive ; ; i By JOSEPH E. DYNAN - 'ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Jan. lJr)-FrenchJ troops under Gen. Alphone Juin opened a flanking drive through Italy's rug- ged i Apennines m o u n t a i n and seized peaks overlooking Acqua fondala, seven miles 'northeast of Cassmo, while American, infantry in. a frontal assault from captured Cervaro pushed within three miles of Cassino, main German strong hold jon the Fifth army front, the allied command announced -today. American forces pressed on to ward Cassino after they entered the fortress village of Cervaro at t'p;m. yesterday, while British units on their 'left flank . fought forward along the railway leading into : Cassino. ' ' ; Allied announcement of Cerva- ro's capture came nearly 24 hours after the' Germans, reported etheir troops had lost the fortified town in hard fighting.. "Cassino, -thus stripped of its main defenses to the east, southeast and south, was expected to fall soon to the steady, grinding assault of Li. Gen. Mark W. Clark's forces. ' r ' ' .'. The American-equipped French troops in their ; renewed attack on the inland wing of the Fifth army Turn to Page 2 Story E) Missing wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in i m i ii.vh.-fiwrfP.'-i, . J .jswessi DALLAS. Jan. 1LLt YTUliiSl Weir Clackley; 19, ee-pQot ens Libera, tr bomber, is snlsslag ta ' action since, December SU ae- . cording ta Information received tonlzht by tls father, TTHIIani Clackley, Dallas city attorney, - U had been stationed far some time with the TJ3 arms; air corps In pszUsi. ; . Lt. Clactlcy. was bora la Salem la Jsse 1ZZ2 and had lived tacit ef Lis 1LT slsce la Dallas. Us was an only 1"3. was. gradaated freza Dallas L!h sclccl la Jiess 1211 ar3 wcrlrsd f:r a tins fcr tla Daclr.j A- , cr;:: frirr, - o Gun Pit onPuruata Island - . ".i s- -i, - , x - - corpsmen remere the dead and weasded from pit arosmd a tOi by American Sixth Army Pushes Into ; Enemy Land; Covered By OLEN rl ADVANCED TALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Wew Guinea, Tri- -cayVJ. JfH-Japaiiese inland portions cnArae, periaula "southwest New Bxiiainwjerj patrols Wednesday, allied headquarters announced today, , The Americans of the Sixth army pushed into enemy territory after paths had heen blasted by artillery fire. The main Japanese force here was not encountered inO- the action, a spokesman at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquar ters, said. I - The mam American mvaslesi -force still Is ett the penlnsvts the spekesmaa said. Fighting at Arawe reported in recent ; allied communiques' has been described mostly as patrol actions, . with dive bombers and attack planes blasting enemy-held villages. A Tokyo radio; report yesterday stating that the Japanese had ; re captured Arawe from the Ameri cans, who invaded the area-De cember; .15, has been denied by a MacArthur headquarters - spokes man who said "We're still right there and on the job." ' . .-' . : Japanese attempting to evacuate northeastern . New Guinea, before . (Turn to Page. 2 Story I) Home Defense GutExeiept On Coasts ' v , . : By TOm'rEEDY : i WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 VP) The nation, successful in building a "bridge of ships across the oceans, served notice on the axis today that a chain of fighting men has been forged in the same direc tion. - - I - " " --yu ' ; . The army and navy disclosed through Secretary of War Stimson a series of steps calculated to' cut down home defense and build up the overseas striking force. Stimson announced that military establishments in the coastal areas --both Atlantic and Pacific are being reduced to apgment the com bat teams "now that the battle- fronts have moved further from our borders., i ' "--;- w -';" At the same time, the eastern and central defense commands were comDined under Lt. cen. George Grunert,' commander of the first army, with headquarters in New York. The entire command now wia encompass 13 eastern states and the district cf Colum bia, and IS Inland states. This Is designed also to release manpower for the actual war fronts. Those units retained in the cess- tsl areas for training will be a--quate InNcase of esaergsncy, tin son added-.1-1;-;-1 :'l Announcement ? avoided t:tails which laisht be useful to tLs ca erjy, cf coursi It was a ccrclliry to recent d;c!::cr.s ta dLsccnllsus civi'iaa. sircrart Warr'-j ssryice, dccLzr cf C3 rr.'yalr .f crce' sti" z::zr.i,' ar.J -itzndzzzLezt. cf pnxil. i.i stairs vlz2 trie east f"l v, c.t czzii;. - ITow 251 rs I- - I I Jap bombing- attack derma; the sdcfci Patrols by Artillery CLEMENTS .successfully; raided -by American Duncan Files Suit Against Jerman Ranch , yijigrowin ox general move ment of large Interests "into the Willamette valley with their res ervoir of ready cash Is a suit In stituted ; against the Jerman Hop Ranch, a corporation, by " A, N N. Duncan, Salem, real estate broker. In which Duncan asks damages of $5000, together with interest. Dun can alleges In his complaint, pre sented Thursday in Marion coun ty circuit court;' that he entered into contract with j the Jerman corporation ' to sell? certain hop land in the Mission Bottom dis trict : north of Salem, and that upon' negotiating a sale he was to receive $5000 remuneration. Duncan j further charges that he found an eligible buyer,' thus ful filling ; his ; end of the : contract, but that In spite of this the de fendant . failed to . complete the deal, consequently ; withholding the $5000, which has been owing the plaintiff since December 3, ma. -. As a-reason for the reticence of the Jerman concern to com plete the deal, lt is claimed that another company, 'after Duncan's client had made a down payment, bid a considerably higher amount than was called for. in the Dun can negotiations. ' Big-money interests In the last tight months have become In creasingly attracted by . the pos sibilities of the Oregon hop yield and have bought up a sizeable portion of, the mld-WlUamette valley hop acreage, j - ; v Williaxa Collier Dies BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Jan. 13-3-WIlliara Collier, sr, ,77, veteran of the stage and . screen, died at fcis- home here today, . . Funeral : services will be held Saturday in the Church of the He cessions! in Forest Lawn Memor ial park, Glendale. .. , " 4 U.V4 TLrrtliy xraxLmoia tMrpera- :rs ZZl r.T!r:-s ZZ; rair.'ia Cc:::.l rala wrrt psrl.':n, snaw ever sad east ef CasriTrs Ttllxr sr 5 Ti'.ZzT t!;lt; tl: lj nrtzU I C.z-lj csst pcillra Prlc 5c i c - 1 Assumes European War Still In Progress in 1945; 0726 Average Listed for Individuals . By William T. Peacock ! WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (AP) Congress re ceived from President Roosevelt todays C99,769,C0O, 000 budget for the 1945 fiscal year perhaps the last huge wartime budget and notable chiefly for a con, templated downturn in war spending and upturn in postwar costs. ' . Although it assumes the War in Europe will still b6 ' going on in 1945, it calls for a reduction, from the $92,000,000,000 of war spending in the current fiscal -year, ending next July l,,to $90,000,000,000. And reflecting the kind of increases which may be expected after the war, it provides for $152,000,- : ...I.. ; O n 1 ' ; . Points i By the Associated Press i.. The. 194S US government bad ge! at a glance: - Proposed total soendmgw$9ft 769.e0f,00S. - A v r- War costs 90,00,ed.S0. Net receipts $40,7C9,00M. Deficit 45M0O.SOMOS. ! . National debt at year end $25S,S,00.0S. P Kecommended $lf jt,eOf . iOt 'new taxes, Diys SpreesjSeek Proliibitipn By WILLIAM Fv ARBOG AST WASHINGTON, Jan. IS -P)- Organized-drys condemned "pay- lday t ?inkingt and Z weeker. sprees" today as tney fired Uie opening guns in a congressional drive for national prohibition. Leaders of the major anti-liquor groups told a house Judiciary subcommittee that prompt enact ment of the Bryson bill to' outlaw alcoholic beverages for the dur ation Is essential in the interest of abetter war effort. They had the show virtually to themselves as the committee held a one-day ; public session to hear supporters iof the hill written by Representative i Bryson (D-SC), who calls himself a "prohibition ist, extremallyi internally, y and eternally jWhen hearings will be held to hear, opponents wss not determined, but chairman Hobbs (D-Ala) promised an opportunity for - "everybody who cares to speatTf.,1-o.?v:v-j . )'v V '.Several ;s congressional oppon ents, including - Representative Feighan (D-Ohlo), didn't wait for (Turn to Page 3 Story F) - Willkie to DeliTer Address i in Tacoma --i; TACOMA. Jam. ls-4P-Wea-deil Winkle win deliver a Liar eela day address to the natioa here. -.. , .. : ' G. Harry Thomas, president f the Fteree eematy republleasi Men's elab, dlselesed today the republican party's lfl, stand ard bearer weald address , the . elab's Llneelni day dinner the night ef Febrmary 1L He said, lie understood It weald be Win kle's only formal address en a nationwide trip. Condemn Council to Ba Ashed Personnel To Get Postwar Project Data Although reports, circulated Thursday, that Salem's municipal postwar planning .committee has approved a list of projects are en tirely erroneous, the committee's work has progressed to the point at which it seems adviseable to employ . personnel to collect all necessary information as to avail finances . and the possibility of providing additional funds through bond issues, tax levies or assess ments, and;- to draft preliminary plans and cost of estimates of some projects, sal a request to that ef fect will be presented to the city council, next Monday xuht, Chair man Daniel; J. Fry said. V. - ; Recognizing 'that.. the - Calem school dlrtrict, Ilzrion county and the ststs are $ls9 wcrkinj on post war prcgrsns. which cay be close ly rclaUd t 'anj . sctlvity- ca the cltj's psxt, ;lhs c-r.:niltt:s authcr- : J crcLiL-cr.t ef a Liljcn ccn Ittse rcrrcscntlrs these cavern r---.;! r-i:.3. C:z I. a Iry has z: rra'Ycur to rerrcsent T 7A- r t':.i county, end . . , j 00 this year, and'for $3,750,000,000 I in interest on the public debt, an increase of $1,100,000,000 over this year.v;;..";..;--.:,v : . , '. : The total in the new budget compares with estimated expend- Itures.this year of $9976,000,000 . and amounts to an average of ' $726.07 for . every man, woman ' and child in the nation, v . Commenting on the budget. Rep. McCormack (Mass), house demo- . era tic leader said: The winning of the war is our first job, and the winning of the peace our second job. There Is no question but that congress will provide the money needed to win the par; and I hope congress later will cooperate in those steps necessary to win the peace." " Rep; Martin (Mass), republican -leader: "Our job is to scrutinize closely, and ; every item must be justified, for this is the only way to avoid heavier taxes. In , a .message accompanying the budget, Msw Roosevelt vigorously renewed his earlier request for higher taxes, saying the $10,500," 000,000 in new" revenue asked by the , treasury is a minimum. . Its J"W tsked-thtt the' social", security is now when incomes are high and goods are scarce," he said. 'Congress already has indies ted overwhelming sentiment to turn the administration down on both points by . maintaining social se curity taxes at the present level while increasing general taxes only a little over $2,000,000,000. Because of the uncertainties of the war and of legislation it was Jydear that' the budget, covering some fiscal matters still 18 months away, may come in for drastic re vision later. Mr. Roosevelt told the legisla tors that much of the 90 billions put down for war spending might not be needed. ."I emphasize, he said, "That this estimate is tentative; it i based on the assumption that the war will 'continue throughout the fiscal year 195. In our military planning, in our production planning, and in our fi- nancial planning we cannot rely with safety on hopes of earlier victory. . ' " ". ' . "If the war sheald eontteae ea ' all freata throacheut the fiscal year 1943 er leader, we shall Tee prepared. If an unfavorable torn la military events sheald result la aa increased demand for mu nitions, we shall, with available facilities, pour eat even more -. munitions than schezlei, an 3 expenditures will be larger. . It, on the other hand, victory should be achieved on one of tha ' major fronts earlier than assumed!, (Turn to Page 2 Story TI) i The committee at its January meeting decided that it would con fine its activities to a public works program only, leaving the task cf tabulating and cooperating in an ticipated expansion of private en terprise to, the Salem. chamber of commerce or other agencies which may be created for the purpose. Primarily, it was agreed, th a committee's studies , should deal with a practical long-rangs muni cipal planning , program . rather than strictly a postwar rrr z?z which might ti cf thcrt t.-: The committes will meet ca t' s secend 'Monday cf esch rac-r , starting in February, Ctairssaa" Frcy- was Lu'jrirct: 1 to-t-i:e"jcp.,.'wiih'. tic-ty I beard; the matter cf fcr-rovc ::.-$ cr; expansion cf the :,:Jlnj i system."'"-- ; ' " - "' '..' - Tha ccrrz'.t:3 vc'.:i tD fl!.s .l .": the clty p'.ir.r.:-3 c; .!.:::':..! "t'.Z segsstsd I ' ; r i cr prc re!.:." TI llit-tlsi ia cz::i:-trs r V '. c,:cizicn,- tzJ err: " I ccr-'.t-t i ' ,::. , . -. (Turn t ; ? i -