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i K 1 -r 7 ' ZlZXtZiJ ItZZXlzlZZM k' peratris 12, rz:.if:r.rra 21.' rreclil-n a far a. VTlzl, from Use wcit. TztUy cl2-.lT. . - 'Partly elss-y ; wert, f-1 casf portlfzs Tses'y; X7el nttiij ti.lT, ll'.Ht clir- la teic;eratrre west; ccl-ar east part Teaesiay, r r : ". , - - r . t -..-. S (I I. - l- H ! X J i V -l V V-irv Surprise is lesson one in 'the book' of military science, and it -remains the most powerful weap L on in the arsenal. s , ; ; The Japs used it at Pearl Har ; bor with devastating effect. The .allies used it - skillfully in the s landings in North Africa, and Ia ter in less complete a manner in .. Sicily. They lacked surprise at Salerno, and paid a heavy price , for the beachhead on the contin gent. Now they have made a most - astounding success with amphib olous landings at the gates of Rome. It was a brilliant maneuver In ., which - - planning, execution . and ' weather and sea cooperated beau tifully. The Germans were thrown , em their, uppers by this landing in I force on their flank which threat-' ens their whole position south of t Rome, and their tenure in the dty Itself. - The spot was well selected. ! i It - avoids the Pontine marshes where Mussolini got some fame.' Remem- ' ber II Duce in shirtsleeves putting i up hay on the drained marshes i which : "were reclaimed as farm- ! lands? That was when he was in favor even in this country , for making ., trains run on time and j putting beggars out of sight of tourists". " The landings were I on F firm ground, between the marsh- : lands and the Tiber estuary, with ! the Appiah -way and a parallel ' railroad only 12 miles away and ; the converging Casilian way land railroad from Cassino to Rome only another 10 miles inland. Sub ( sequent landings were made along ; the coast for a distance of j 80 i miles south of the Tiber. ! The military intelligence must t have helped in the timing, for ft i develops that Marshal ; Kesserling had recently sent three divisions, : his : covering" reserves i at Rome, south to the battle line. That per mitted swift penetration by ; the allies to secure interior points to ;' protect their debarkation. The I length of coast invaded enables ' the Americans and British to pour . in troops and supplies without the ; losses attendant on a mass con ; eentration in the face of strong iv. defense. . , The location of this soft spot i en the Italian coast lends some . validity to the assertion that if the allies had been swifter after the (Continued 'on Editorial Page) RatioiSoards Face Gasoline Quota System A" "quota"' system for gasoline rationing, under. which the local office of the war price and ration - Ing board is allowed to ration out only a specified amount of the motor fuel, was explained to tire inspectors here Monday night by J. H- Hedric, associate mileage representative of the OPA. The system,' discussed in its re- lationship to the Salem are earlier in the day by Hedric as he confer red wtih .Florence S. Bell of the Salem office, is to involve coupon control. If it does not greatly re duce consumption -of gasoline, the' ': petroleum administrator has serv- ed notice that the coupon1 value Will be cut, Hedric explained. , It the local office does not build tip credits by control of individual use of gasoline, it will have no j extra gasoline to allot to anyone regardless of need and .eligibility for it, under the new system, he said. -' t ;: P: '. j - if ; Because the military is build ing up reserves in prepaartion for 1 the "Pacific push a large cut; in civilian use is called for, accord ing to Hedric, who added that the reduction will be accomplish ed by one means or another and urged users to maintain a cooper ative cttitude. - We ere not considering a the ory or a possibility, but an actual condition," he said, "and we must ..get results '""'' "';-tt ' Many persons who are eligible for new tires may not be able to get them, Hedric : predicted, . de claring the tire situation as bad as that of gasoline. Tillkie to Enter r Oregon Primary KEW YORK, Jani 24-0VWen-J ell Willkie, who announced yes ; . terday that he would not enter the California f presidential pre- ference primary, Is expected to "l enter the Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon primaries, it was learned ; today." - ; -'V" "- :--A The Wisconsin primary is April . 4, Nebraska's April 11 and Ore Con's May 19. V kT-'A: t Willkie is expected to announce ' thortly his candidacy for the re j" ' : can presidential nominatien. 7 lurpliy Operation Set te Police Officer Karl Mur-f"110 shct twice as he attempted :!:e into Dallas three sailors j'xlsn csr 10 c3ys bo, today .Iic-uled ' to", undergo ; a. "tone ition. One. b t!;.? shell im::.h- - ? j '"?-' a brr rear the l.r.ce iC-... - - :, "v XICILTY-TnED YEAS 1 . i Pushkii Payloy sk Fall; All Jbiiit One Rail Link iSeveredl Germans Continue Strong ; Counterattacks' rat Vinnitsa 1 ' But 250,000 : Are Encircled ' By HENRY C CASSIDY , MOSCOW, Tuesday, Jan. 25 (AP) The red-army's "clearance 'ring around Leningrad was reported expanded today, pushing southwest and south and cutting the next to the last western railway left to the Germans in that sector, j ; Russian troops captured Pushkin and PaVlovsk in the southwestern and southern suburbs of Leningrad and sev ered the Krasnogvardeisk-Narva railway. The last line re maintng in German hands to the railway a few miles farther south running; southwest to. Pskov and with connections thence southwest to Riga and northwest to Reval, capital of old Estonia. j ' ; j Directly south pf Leningrad the Soviets captured Ulian- : O- ovka on the main Leningrad-Mos- r-J m . wt f cow railway just i north of Tosno service Vote Fight Circles Fourth Term :, i By JACK BELX. , WASHINGTON, Jan. The fourth term issue boiled over in the senate today with a charge br Sen. Taft (R-Ohlo) that War Secretary Stimson and" Navy Sec- re t ajry Knox jure -supporting a uniform federar feallo? forisafVice personnel because they -are "run-f ning for another term. . Sen. Lucas (D-Tll), one of the authors of a proposed compromise on; the absentee ballot bilL re torted that the Ohioan was talk ing "the purest kind of political poppycock.1 Challenging a joint statement by Stimson and Knox, , republi can members of the cabinet, that the war and navy . departments could not guarantee the delivery of state absentee ballots to mem bers of the armed forces, Taft de clared: "The truth is the army r and navy have determined to have i federal ballot and have determ ined not ; to " have state ballots. Air. btimson ana : Air, Knox are running for a fourth term, too. They are convincedTthey are es sential to the conduct of the war." Lucas : replied heatedly that if senate republicans kept up their (Turn to Page 2-rStory G) .' FR Intervenes For Richardson -WASHINGTON, Jan. Stepping into a struggle between the , US army and civil authori ties in Hawaii, President Roose velt has pardoned Lt. Gen. Robert C Richardson, jr., who was fined for contempt because he refused to obey a habeas corpus writ. ', Kichardson, commanding gen eral of the army's Hawaiian de partment, was cited last year by Federal Judge Delbert E. Metzger in Honolulu, bringing to a head a dispute over the question wheth er the right of habeas corpus pre vails under partial martial law.' -Richardson refused to produce two prisoners held incommunica do; by the -army, contending that despite a limited restoration of civil rights the army still had the privilege of holding prisoners without trial. Harmon Won't Tell of Escape - 'WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -VP) Tommy Harmon, who used to play a lot of football, told today about a grimmer sport exchanging shots with Japanese Zeros but he was completely tongue-tied on one big item; . ' . ' : How did he make his way back to American lines 32 days, after be was shot down by Zeros in a furious dogfight in China? , f ; : Well, he just wasn't saying he wouldn't ' even mention "the lake hich he parachuted after his plane was hit . "It , would, just"' mean reprisals by .the Japanese and maybe put a rope around some other ; pilot's neck," fexplained the one-time T.Iich!an foctball star who is now a Lcutcivant in the air forces. Ii PAGES ' 1 . : f l. - the west from Leningrad was and closed in on that junction. The Russian ' advance also was speeded west and southwest of Novgorod jon the Volkhov front The Germans continued strohg counterattacks east of Vinnitsa in the; Ukraine but their assaults were reported repulsed.. . By JAMES LONG LONDON. Tuesday, Jan. 25.- (JPyrThe red army smashed ahead seven, miles yesterday to cut the only east-west escape line for per haps 250,000. Germans pocketed southwest of Leningrad, and Mos cow announced early, tod ay, that of encirclement the Germans ' are retreating hastily. sustaining4 great ' losses in man power and equipment." .', Gen. Leonid . A." Go v o r o v's troops, who freed Leningrad from siege in an ', offensive i launched January 14, struck to the south west to cut the railway at a point between Krasnogvardeisk, 35 miles below Leningrad, and Nar va pn the Estonian border. - - Sixty miles to the south anoth er army under Gen. A. Merets kov raced to within 20 to 30 miles, respectively, of Batetskaya " and Luga, , secondary (rail - junctions through which the Germans must withdraw if they are to avoid dis aster. ? '.'i ;.-:vC-'LV;!-::;--': u Gen. Meretskov's army, based on fallen Novgorod, not only struck westward': yesterday to ward Batetskaya and Luga in an effort to jrlose the "lower end of the Leningrad trap,; but also smashed along the western shore of Lake Ilmen to within 14 miles of Shimsk, a rail junction leading to the rear of German troops an chored at Staraya Russa below Lake Omen. '! -. !--i.;v-': : ...i:-: . More than 3000 Germans were killed in the Novgorod area," and - (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Sailors Waive Grand Jury ! DALLAS, Jan. 2-UF- Three sailors accused of shooting-State foiiceman Karl - Murphy - near Rickreall January 14 waived grand ry- proceedings today and were charged with assault and battery while armed with m dangerous weapon. Murphy who was not critically injured, said he was shot when he attempted to halt a stolen car. He identified .the sailors as his as sailants. 5 , 1 The trio, arrested in a Salem hotel the following morning, arc Byron Neil Dyson, San Francisco; and , Samuel Wells, jr and Clar ence Charles Larson, both of Bre merton, Wash. No date was set for entering plea. . Marshall Stewart Receives Sentence OREGON CITY. Jan. 24-T) Marshall. .Stewart, 35-year-old sailor of Salem, was sentenced to six months ' in the county, jail and fined ; $5C3 today by Circuit Judge Earl C. Latourette on a plea of guitly to a negligent homicide charge. . I .":'' The railor, who was home on leave, tfttr receiving hospital treatment for zr.-!;ria contracted in.t e southwest T: cific, was ao cus 1 cf c virj ir.to the rear cf a car persi.i I y V.'slirr Echubcl, Gladstone, en tl.a Pacific highway near here January 7. Schubel died cf injuries,- , : ' --- - Edna. Oregon, Tuaador ; - 1 ' 1 Allies Land Behind German Lines in Italy ITALY Americaa and British flags and ! maae new landings at Nettorne powerful, forces had established did not disclose exact location.' Navy Bombers Range Jap-Held Marslmlis I By WILLIAM HIPPLE PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 24 -P) Seventh AAF and navy bombers ranged over the" Japanese-held Marshall islands January 22 and 23, striking at six separate atolls in nine raids the most wide spread bombing 1 of these ' enemy bases since the allied central Pa cific offensive opened in mid-No vember the navy said today. ; Adm. Chester W. Nimitz dis closed five enemy ships were damaged, including one T large cargo- ship. Six- Japanese, planes were shot down and ground ' in stallations heavily - strafed and bombed in nine different missions against eight targets J - K : ;L Six atolls, struck Saturday were the most ever raided m a single day. jA total of 85 Japanese fight ers attemntea to mxercepi , we bombers 'but the Americans suf fered ; no r plane losses except on one mission, on which losses were described as "small" ' 1 Six Japanese planes were shot down, six more possibly destroy ed and eight damaged, in the 18th consecutive daily " aerial blow I at the- Marshallfc-r' -- v " K; .;-7"M"il- ' i TWo new targets, Kaven island in Maloelap atoll and Ailinglapalap atoll between Jaluit and Kwajal ein,. Were hit for. the first time. AtV Kaven,"" ground installation were bombed and -strafed at mid day by army medium bombers. (Turn to Page 2 Story F) ? J IIanchester Coal ;i :: Workers Strike " t f LONDON, Tuesday, Jan. 25-iSP) The first strike as a result of "a new mine pay scale left 1400 haul age hands idle at a Manchester colliery today. Strikers contended the new scale was of no benefit to the higher paid workers and very j little to others. . -. . The national tribunal for the coal industry Saturday announced a minimum .weekly wage of 120 for experienced underground workers and $18 for surface work ers. ' " ' B'ivi23 Rcll Into Dimes and pennies, - quarters and dollars rolled Into the collec tion jars ; at Salem theatres - the past weekend to mark the public opening of the ?marth cf c' ..-.irs . to raise money for the I.atioriEl Foundation for Infantile Piraly sis,"Inc:'; T ;r, ,!!.; .""' ".-''""" i- -. j Tonight at their regular mrnth- ly dinner meetic, fier ';r cf tL'e Salem' Business and .r.cLrr'inal Women'a club w;!l -':e r . " -iler cirermg, net cr.Ty ' I'.t.r iaterCbt in the f.:::i jr. i wcrk cf rehs.bil C f IT . ut-ths' ralysis'.tuffcrcrs v-Ity Ccr- to their -prttiisr.i, rillus,,ch;lrr:::i c Maxslng; Joaaucarr SS. 1244 arrow at left indicate where Berlin reported the; allied Fifth army oebuid tbe German line in Italy the new beachhead several miles Heavy line indicated present approximate front (AP Wlrephoto map) Japs to Lose Current--- i ... .v . - t. , f : PORTLAND, Orel, Jan. 24 -A - Porfland man - who , doesn't 'want to be wanned by the Jap anese earrent - has launched a " eampaiga . to - have the Pacific flow of water renamed the Ore gon current. j . ., r H. R. Richards, president ef the farm rate of Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho, disclosed to-day that Gov. Earl SneU and Sen. Charles " McNary are am ong backers of his proposal. The governor, he said, has suggested the change to Meredith 'W. Bur rilL director of the department of Interior. , The current is "an AmerteaB affair, Richards declared, be-, came 'it starts in an American area near the eenater and pro-, ceeds past the.: Philippines be fore swinging past Japan oa its way to the west coast. I - " Marion Bond Qiiota Reaches 37 Per Gent : Inasmuch as tickets can be ob tained only through war ; bond purchases, attendance at" t h e Giand theatre's fourth war loan premiere tonight is expected fur ther to swell the Marion. , county total C of. individual - investments which. Monday night had-reached $582,000 or a little less than 37 per cent of the county's quota for this type of bemds. ,r ? fr "1! Additional features for the pre miere,' which is scheduled f o r 80 pjiL, will be talks by Secre tary of SUte Robert S. Farrell, jrv and Jesse J-' Gard, Marion county war : finance - committee chairman, and numbers by .Glenn Henry' band and ; entertainers from Camp Adair-an aggrega tion which contributed, much , to the third war loan victory , rally. Bill Talbot will be master of cer emonies. , . v - - What a Woman," featuring Ro salind Russell and Brian Aherne, is the premiere's celluloid attrac tion.: '". " ' nanning- for special events to "CTurn to P?e 2 Ctcry E) Catl2e:io:i Jarc divLIoa Li the llxion county taa- pairnvT-;". . - lc I r-iurdayni-ht BeU Sigma Phi forcri'y rtJeived 35.3 ia contri butior :s fcr.the fund through their L:....,:h at tie bbci show.!"--.'-';' ,...v ' '.7f -1 1 Era&ers teatrea first U r-ep.-t. 1 J recti.: 5 cffert:r .t:s --s, v. L rf Vr-neas Cr- 'i .a,.!crn rs a , cf tlc&fcts f. c l.'r V "iTS I. 'en- -j ' . '.....Icnhlp c . " . r ' -T. rrr?, r--I'- ' r' 4 f . C "-r - -J. W - I O r Allied headqaarters reported that long en the Italian west coast bat AiMed Airmen Shoot Dovn 51 jap ik;;23:-Y 1ST tllJtmir fAJNM)N . ; i ADVANCED - ALLIED HEAD- wuAxiiia, new uumea, rues- M. I )! m mm day, Jan. 25-iP-Hundreds of j. lied planes, swarming over" Jap an's ; two key- southwest Pacific air strongholds of Wewak and Ra baul, scored their biggest triumph of 1944 by shooting down at least Si i and , probably -65 Nipponese planes Saturday and Sunday. , The. sky triumphs, which were announced by headquarters today and were tied in with destructive bombings of those bases, raised well above 300 the total, of enemy plane losses this month in the south, southwest 'and central Pa cific.' . - X I - j - " More than 100 'American planes from Solomons bases-gave Rabaul, on the northeastern end of New Britain Iti 27th "bombing of : the past 33 days Saturday ' afternoon. A Urge flight i of Mitchells, es corted by Corsairs, ! Thunderbolts and' Lightnings, smashed Laku- nai's runway and revetments. , ; Seventy - Japanese j planes inter cepted.- Eighteen.! were .known to have been shot down and I two others were listed as probables. Six : American planes were' lost. with the pilot of . one Lightning saved. . Saturday - night, south . Pacific Liberators and Mitchells returned to Rabaul and,: flying into intense anti-aircraft fire as many search lights ; fingered the sky, started huge fires.- Smoke rose 3000 feet I and . the . names were visible for 75 miles; -t" vr-ilment, including the importation of Sunday; the southwest Pacific's 1 fifth airforce sent a big force of (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Pyt; Stephens ICilled in "Action , Pvt. Raymond M. " Stephens, marina from. Salem, was report ed killed' in action, among 291 easealtles la a list released Man- . day by the navy- department. He was the sea of Mtoa Ste phens af Salem,- - - for Polio I7iiiid iliary ftrved today the Lions aux iliary,' wi tlx Mrs. Floyd Cowers as chairman, will sell; Wednesday, Essies auxiliary, ls. 7. A. Corrtr; Thursdry, . Er.ai Erii, llrs. I hilip . Goldstein; Tv:l:y, Etckt2,..2,Xi5S v; Antoinette - .White; Czturtl-ry,- I IsrL-. Corps kr.-ue uxiir-ry,,xni 7cmen's Tilirf Corrs, I'rs. Fred McCall and :irs. Vr. C. Walker, wHl sell tvs tlc'-'s. '-::;r.-.hers cf Fell Ei-rra r:.i t ; : f .:: : ii t1 C. : ry rc: ,i c! : . L. i: -rf c. - .rce. Elr.k : -, ; ::j f - I frrvice cl's i.z 1 t is W. J. I n n Gamal Brad Coiaiteslted; . Maim" .Repetition - j;Cqming; Italians; .Gut ; . ' l Rorne-Gassinb Railiray -: I 1 . By Edward Kennedy t ' lAjLUEP HEADQUAhTEliS, Algiers, Jan. 24 (AP)T-Small but determined German tank, artillery and ! infantry forces were disclosed tonight to have opened counterattacks against the allied beachheads P")0' Rme ncrc another Salerno-type battle may be in the making."';..;" v V' -"'.! '' ' H " v j Even while the main divisions of the most power ful nazi army ever massed in July lashed savagely at allied positions along the old fifth army front to the southeast, some of Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kessel fsf! combat teams opened a series of hot fights for canal bridges, in jhe flatlands where British and Ameri can troops landed. Saturday vir - tualiy unopposed. - : i The Germans battled- all-out in I an effort , to repair the epic staff blunder1 that permitted American and British troops to land between their cross - Italy defense line and Rome; -jY;--,. '-L'--: ::' " -The increasing fights at the ca nal crossings in the beachhead area gave quick point to a warning from i the allied commander F in chief:! fit is' more' than possible that you will see a repetition of Salerno over again." News of the' nazi resistance " at the tfridsei camel In: delayed idisr patches written at the scene Sun day. " They ; told of some - bridges .l.tianirtn r action still on a small scale.! biit I - decidedly vigorous. The Bari radio in ' liberated southern Italy reported that Ital ian patriots had cut the important Rome i f Cassino railway "at least temporarily.. Thus giving ' some aid to the allied beachhead forces. The. nazi high command evident ly ' hoped to deal - a devastating blow to Lt -Gen. .Mark .W Clark's forces! on the Cassino front and then to turn and smash the. am phibious force back into the sea. . . It appeared to be a desperate gamble, as allied landing troops were offielally disclosed to have eaptared the port of Nettvrao, 3t toiles sooth of rRome and i to have ; driven f oar miles inland. This ! broagbt the Appian Way, . main coastal highway; between 'Rome end -the Germans south ern front, within effective range i-ff allied artillery . Genl Sir Henry , Maitland Wil son, allied commander - in. - chief for, the - Mediterranean, : called ; the amphibious -operation ."classical' V; (Turtuto. Page i-rStory B) Foreign Farm Labor Okehed I v WASHINGTON, - Jan. -24- Hffi Expansion of - the - government's program oi larm : labor recruit- foreign laborers, was recommend - led today by a senate appropria- tions subcommittee which voted to boost a house - approved $27,- 000,000 j recruiting appropriation for 1944 to 135,000,000. 4" Members of the subcommittee said they were told the larger fund would make possible the importa tion of about 120,080 alien farm laborers this year, cr approxi mately 50,000 more than the num ber brought into the United States in 1943 from Mexico, Jamaica and the Bahamas. .; r; - In addition, the . senate group struck out of the house bill a pro vision, under which the office of e t tension of the 'department' of ag ri culture would have acL-rJnistered telh the domestic and crelja'im pcrtatlon phases of the recruiting tysterxr The American farm bu reau I 'deration advocated the con ft!; ';'.:c.i cf ccntroL - C-hstltutsJ were ' provisions zzir z ti.:.::.ii--traticn cf .the lo cal recruiting of .farm, labor within ths f'.;tS to the p-ricu!tvr-1 ex t:r.;;3 services cf the Uni rrsnt ti'.l:Z-s, and aL-o 'ccr.'--:- tl.e w.r food administrstlca in ccn-ti-".l cf the 'foreign Lr.pcrtation cf '. .its, d tran:; -crwcj cf wcrk : . .-. t'::i the st-trs. ! fcr allocate .i to the : : : cr 1.':? '."3 r-:re n ILaslbes Sttli' O - Coa S ed Affairi: RAF on win By W. W. HERCHER . ' .LONDON, Jan. 24-(P)-Amer-ican heavy bombers returned ; to their old hunting ground in west ern Cermanj; todayi bombing un specified targets while hundreds of medium and fighter bombers ' attacked the French - invasion coast for the 23rd time in 25 days. The heavy bomber raid into one of Germany's most productive industrial areas was supported by a strong escort of new far-ranging fighters as wen as Thunder bolts and Lightnings. " - . The escort and the heavy bomb ers destroyed 21 enemy planes, a communique: announced, while the RAF, got three more off Hol land. From aU the day's opera tions, (two heavy bombers, m fighferbomber and ten fighters are missing. Nationalities were not specified in the bulletin. Of the 21 shot down in the US AAF sweep,, the bombers were official ly credited with two and the es cort "with 19. i - A brief official announcement did not give details, butfrom a flying fortress station came a story of , how one ' formation, hampered ' by cloads over Its 'primary; objective, managed to discover - an 5 Important - target -farther north ani -destroyed it twih an' accurate salvo ef sev- tral tons of bombs. l . Meanwhile,, early tonight there was an air. raid, alarm in Bern. capital of neutral Switzerland, and the German DNB agency said Anglo-Saxon . aircraft flew over southwestern Danuba; bombs were dropped. Sofia was identified In a DN3 broadcast as a target. The Bulgar ian capital, ' heavily damaged in previous raids, wss reported to have been struck by allied bomb ers at noon. A few continental radio stations (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Sailora Injured y In Train Crasli : v - By ROBERT C. WILSON JORDAN, NY- Jan. 2M-?)-Five sailors were injured tonight when the 11 car New York-to-Chicsgo water level limited left the New York Central main line tracks af ter, plowing , into a derailed cast bound freight train. The injured i were taken ti tn Auburn hospital. Hospital author ities 'said none was senou.Iy i - uredKiines were net av;: ' ' Railroad men. at the seer, j : 1 the freight train was dersile J r t he Jordan station a faw rr4;,i : before the limited arrival. Ti :?j said there was no time to set t 1 warning flares.; . T) The Budari-t corre-r' ' n: the ttjtr I'z. rz-rx T1J.--: ' - c ported -c;:ly tzdzy that ' irecticn -of Austria h:.i C: r.hs c:i two rlaccs Lt '' llj 1 1 Zzlz-T ---- ,t in x Invasion