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CStory in Column 2 Weather Hixlmim temperature Tuesday 103 degrees, mini mum 32; n rain, river 4 ft. I In, OTP - ' ' v-v if tf --. : -..."'--'--' iv vi -hi -bi it i v m 111 n a. rv i r i I hi . w i i . n I l "iiiiiiii ii ii i (I i ii i a iy-v im - 711 v. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 jl i i i 11 11 . - - - - 1 I J i II r- -V II . mm III"! 1 Wl 11 I II 111 I I II I T II II I I I I I I I I ' 1 ! IF I I I 11 Wi t I B VI ! N III 1 II I I - I I i L ' "V I I I I I I I 'll I 1 . , The death of former Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska marks the end of a political epoch. More ac curately it might be said the epoch had already died, though the ven erable statesman from Nebraska lingered on, having been retired by, his constituents - in the 1942 election. Norris was the last of the triumvirate of insurgent repub licans omen were Borah of Ida- ' ho and Bob LaFollette, pere, of Wisconsin whom party regulars accused of muddying the waters and progressives hailed as apostles of a new day. Of, the three, NorrU leaves by ' far the most constructive record. He -was -author of two constitu tional amendments those for di rect election of senators and for advancing the date of change in terms of president and members of the congress. He was the real father of legislation creating the Tennessee Valley authority, and he shares with La Guardia spon sorship of the law forbidding use of injunction in labor disputes. Borah was more of an obstruc tionist. It" seems strange that in spite of 33 years of distinguished membership in the senate Borah left no measure bearing his name which is at all important, but it is true. LaFollette was definite ly the advocate and agitator, i He sponsored plenty of legislation, but the one law for which he is bes remembered, that calling for phy sical valuation of railroads, be ' came obsolete, politically speak ing, before the xpensive job was done. -" Nofris leaves a far deeper im . print on the statute books of the . country though he was less col crful a personality. It is hardly (Continued on Editorial page) Denial Is Issued That Has LONDON, Sept 5. ? (JP) - Allied - sup ram headquarters felt It nee Germany Capitulated essary today to issue an of ficial de nial to rumor that Germany had capitulated after the report had caused widespread " flurry in London and in far corners of the f world.' i . ' The rumor was given wide cir l culation by the Brussels radio, whose first generally recorded 1 'mention of it was a denial. The Brussels station said the original report was broadcast by a "foreign ' It spread fast through. London, 1 ... . 1 t . a A - ivujc til u.c uuuw tuatuii m vmb to toast the end of the war,: others flooding newspaper and press as sociation offices with telephone calls for verification. Supreme headquarters offered no comment beyond the formal denial. ; . .; Berlin Hurls New Threat Of Disaster NEW YORK, Sepk5.-The Berlin radio in a broadcast monitored by CBS admitted tonight that with the loss of the channel coast "the V-l weapon will not . follow its route to England with the same regularity as before, but hinted that it would be "employed against ther targets." ";v h . Meanwhile, NBC recorded a To . kyo broadcast tonight claiming that Hitler has asked the allies to top bombing German cities: and - threatened that if they do not ac cede to his request, he will release German secret weapon which "will utterly annihilate the allies." Army Says 96lh Division in Pacific PORTLAND, Ore," SepL -(ip) The presence of the 96th infantry division - "somewhere in the Pa cific was made known officially today in a public relations office dispatch from division headquar ters. The 96th was activated sit Camp Adair, Ore, August 15, 1942. More Miners Vote To Go on Strike PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5-(P) With 9000 soft coal miners in Pennsylvania and . West Virginia already kept idle by walkouts of supervisory employes, foremen in 14 more pits in West Virginia and Kentucky ; voted today to strike for union recognition. Senate Grants $5000 For Study of Power W A S H I NGTON, Sept 5 The senate today adopted a reso lution to grant the irrigation and reclamation committee an addi tional $5000 to continue a study cf irrigation and hydroelectric Tower reeds, principally in west . cm s'ates. NINETY-FOUBTH YT t mmm Industry Controls Will End German Defeat To Break Dam; Nips Still Eyed WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 - () - The war production board an nounced tonight a decision to scrap virtually all controls over produc tion of civilian goods, once the war with Germany ends. Anticipating that war produc tion can be scaled down 40 per cent, the decision contemplates continuance of controls needed to defeat Japan but giving industry practically a free hand ; to take what materials are left and make "whatever people want" J. A. Krug, acting chairman of the WPB, said the army, navy and major war agencies had unani mously agreed on the program. War Output to Be Cut The board estimated there would be; a reduction of about 40 per cent in war production within three months after the defeat of Germany and that this will free more than 4,000,000 workers. It decided on the following pro gram: 1. Removal of almost all con trols over) materials immediately on Germany's defeat except those" absolutely necessary to assure nec essary production to defeat Japan, 2. The war production board and other government agencies will use their full powers to assist and encourage industry in resuming civilian production and maintain ing employment. - - Eyes 6U1I en Japan - , ; ( - 3. The board will maintain its organization and powers so as not to relinquish authority until' it is certain that the war production program is adequate, for. victory over 'Japan. ji'i Krug said the decision was made after a re-survey, of the military and production situation. A few allocation orders will be continued for "tight" materials sucK as lumber, textiles, and cer tain chemicals. Paul C. McNutt, war manpower commissioner, said the commission soon would announce a program for manpower after Germany's de feat :' , - : '-' ' France Will Be Consulted in Plan To Control Nazis W A S H I NGTON,, Sept 5 The United SUtes, "Britain and Russia are expected . to consult France on plans for the military occupation and "control of defeat ed Germany, it was -learned to day, and the newly ' liberated country, will have a place both In the control organization and in the military forces occupying the reich. City Council Withdraws Approval for Night Club by Vote of6 to 5; Three Are Absent By Marrnerite Gleaaon The Salem city council reversed itself Tuesday night and withdrew its approval of the supper club application of Mike Steinbock. . Members first voted to recon sider the matter, first passed two weeks ago, by a vote of six to five, and then voted to rescind the previous action and n&fy the liquor control board thereof. Petitions containing 491. names were . presented in opposition to the supper club and a delegation of more than 50 men and women was present in th council rooms. Among those speaking , against the club were the-Rev. Harold Lyman, pastor of the Court Street Christian church and president of the Salem Ministerial association fj the Rev. Dudley Strain, the Rev. M. P. Knigge, Mrs, Raynor Smith, Mrs. L. V. PrescotV-Mrs. Cora Blair, and C. M. Roberts. Ralph. Campbell and Donald Young, attorneys for the petition ers, spoke in their behalf. , PAGES Oregon's Forests ) Weathering Warm Days in Fine Shape Oregon's . forests may come through' 1944 In good shape despite prolonged heat and a general lack of moisture, 'providing continued caution' is invoked, it " was indi cated today. . L- . v , ! , - Lynn Cronemiller, deputy state forester, said a few fires had been reported but .none of serious pro portions, and - that "splendid co operation" had been received from logging and: milling operators.) Several logging operations have been curtailed or shut down pend ing more favorable weather, i , Much of Oregon's forest land has been , closed to entry except by permit. , I Soviets Crack i :f. t I- ' -.."'-.;::(., inMoveto t . LONDON, ; Wednesday; Sept4 6 (JP)- The red army raced beyond Craiova - in western Romania less ; than 50 miles from Yugoslavia to day and cracked the tough Ger man! line on the Narew river in i Poland: in a great offensive to by pass Warsaw on the north. - r Having formally declared war i on Bulgaria, Russia also moved toward, invasion of that recalcit rant a?is satellite but kept silent on the latest military develop-rnefets.t-.' - . - Advancing in Romania at the speed of more than 70 miles a day, a Russian armored force al ready was on a strategic spring board, if or an immediate united front with Marshall Tito's Yugo slav partisans and the invasion of the Hungarian! plainT J f I ' . Broken nasi 'remnants reform ed and, attempted to stem the ad vance,; but a soviet official bulle tin this morning said the . focal points j of enemy resistance were being encircled and liquidated. ' Fire Destroys! 70TohsHay BRUSH COLLEGE, Sept 5 Fire apparently caused by spon taneous combustion : destroyed 70 tons of haled wheat and oat hay in the! F. J. Woelk barn at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday; -', j!. Other buildings and supplies were hot endangered. The baled hay included some from the 1943 stock - and new hay just put In Monday. A corn planter and some other farm machinery stored1 in the barn were destroyed. ' Mrs.! Mott, Daughter, To Aid Ship Launching PORTLAND, --Ore, Sept S-P) Rep. Charles R. Clason of Massa- xhusetts will speak at the launch ing of the tanker SS Pioneer Val ley . at the Kaiser Swan island shipyard here tomorrow.! Mrs. James Mott of Salem will be ma tron of honor, and her daughter, Dorothy, flower attendant In the vote to reconsider, coun- j cilmen voting "yes" were C F. French, Albert Gille, R. A.- Fork ner, L. F.tLeGarie, Mrs. G. ; F. Lobdell and David O'Hara. Those voting "no" were Tom Armstrong, Joseph Byers, Claude W." Jorgen sen, R. O. Lewis and Kenneth. C ; Perry. i - , The vote to rescind the previous approval the same. H The roll call vote was made on request of Mrs. Lobdell. 'Members4! absent were Lloyd Rigdon, Howard Maple and E. W. Acklin. , - . The telephone ordinance intro duced by the public utilities com mittee passed first and second reading. - , " . i . The! request of David O'Hara for suspension of the rules and placing the ordinance on third reading was withdrawn when Al bert Gille, chairman of the public utilities committee,; Indicated he would object - " Harry V. Collins, district mana Line urcleWarsaw Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, September 6, 1944 ' 4 i j ' , : 1 " J . - ' - War Strikes Chateau-Thierry r mm wmm m'mimmAtmi i if ''faaMiii MuaMki Wrecked buildings and rabble in the. streets of Chateau -Thierry, France, show damage the town has auffered In this war. It World war I tt was the scene of bitter American troops In July, WIS, ; Nazi Attacks. Beaten Back By Canddiaiis ROME, i Sept SHJ-Canadian forces of the British Eighth army dealt bluntly today with reinforced German armor which attempted to liquidate the allied bridgehead across the Conca river near Rim ini, knocking out a score of enemy tanks and leaving the battlefield littered with' nazi dead as they beat off a series of counterattacks. Eighth army shock troops, in cluding Poles and Indians, extend ed their holdings within the en emy's gothic line defenses and called on the navy for assistance in blasting the Germans loose from their concrete bastions on the Ad riatic coast . J - Canadian; troops advanced with in six miles of Ttimini, terminus of a vital highway through the Po valley. Camp White Placed On Inactive Status WASHINGTON, Sept S.-)- Camp White at Medford, Ore., has been placed on a 30-day inactive status but will be maintained In a standby condition: for- immediate use if necessary, Sen. Cordon (R Ore) i said today, dependent upon the situation. Army Newspaper Returns to Paris PARIS, Sept 5.-(ff)-Star and Stripes, the daily newspaper of the United States armed forces, re turned to Paris today 25 years aft er its suspended publication here after the last war. r , . ger of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, spoke briefly In explanation of the delay in nreDarinc the' ordinance. An agreement on the part of the com pany to provide service under po- lice requirements was not a part of the ordinance and Collins said he believed that should be a vol untary contribution of the com pany. . . ' ; The sewage disposal ordinance played hide and seek with the council members and finally was referred to the special committee headed by French who had it pre viously. The public utility com mittee report "to refer it to the city engineer" was adopted with out Question early in the evening. Later it appeared in the bills up for third reading. No one knew how it got there and in the gen eral discussion it was referred to French'i special committee.' Bids for firo hose were opened and ; referred to ! the fire . depart ment committee and the fire chief with power, to act in conjunction with the city purchasing- agent it - -"I ft" fighting before tt was captured by : Tw6 Men Sought After Disappearance rom. Prison Annex NTwo prisoners disappeared from the prison annex Tuuesday after noon,1 stale police announced, and had not been found at an early hour today. ' They yrere listed as Andrew ramaiAn ! VCUiici vaa. from Multnomah , county on a 15 year sentence for assault and rob bery f armed with ' a dangerous weapon, jand Ted Winters, 20, re ceived in! 191 from Lane county on a five-year sentence for. burg lary not jin a dwelling. '' Strike Ends as in CLEVELAND, Sept, 5-(P) Members of the Mechanics Edu cational ported Society of America re- jfor ; , work fa mounting numbers tonight at two plants of the CleVeland Graphite ; Bronze company after the :.war depart ment took possession of the fa cilities ' jon orders of President Roosevelt -' ; : '. ::-': . Unoffiicial sources estimated 75 per cent-of the 11 p. m. shift of some 13p0 workers streamed into the plants, - which produce bear ings for j B-28 Superfortresses and other military equipment Felix E. Foster Is Killed in Action '- On New Guinea 1 " PFC. Felix E. Foster, 28, was killed inj. action at Neomfoor, New Guinea, jAugust 22. He was a son of W; AJ Foster and Mrs. Lolabelle Foster. 1232, Center street Salem. A brother, Myron LeRoy Foster, is at Camp! Roberts, Calif., and a sis ter, Pauline, lives in Salem. , Felix Foster was a regular army man, '.Hie enlisted first in 1836 and had been over seas since June 25, 1942. Ie attended Leslie Junior high school and Salem high school. Hungary Apparently Will Go on Fighting LONDON, Sept 5 -(V With red - armies driving towards , the Hungarian plain along the main line, Bucharest-Budapest railway and newly at war with Bulgaria, Hungary's . worried ? official re action tonight,' as filtered, through Berlin, j was -determination ."to fight oq nevertheless as a Ger- man ally. Portland Schools Hit High Attendance Mark PORTLAND, Ore, Sept 5-AV Reglstration of - Portland public school students was up 1500 today over first-day attendance last fall, officials said.' More than 45,000 enrolled today and complete reg istratiod was expected to reach Army Steps Price 5c Du'DCaJ 37 More Nip Ships Smashed Japan Indicates Nation Becoming Pressed for Oil By l the Associated Press , The fury of relentless allied aer ial smashes against Japanese ship ping was reported by Gen. Doug las MacArthur today (Wednesday) to have resulted in the sinking or damaging' of 3? additional Nippon surface craft Including a fleet of barges and small vessels loaded with troops. - About 24 hours earlier, the two American Pacific commanders of ficially listed 56 Japanese - cargo ships, barges and other craft as sent I to the bottom or seriously damaged by Yank naval gunners and lers. y.! -':s in'. ; .!.' Nipponese Need Ofl v . !f '.' ;l ' The general's Wednesday' com munique said allied air patrols de stroyed or damaged 13 small troop carrying craft In Celebes. 1 Eight freighters and 13 barges caught at Halmahera island, south Of the Philippines, received similar treat ment- A freighter was sent down in Davao gulf, southern Philip pines.:-- '- v.v,.-:;-:!i.,; At Ambonia, south .of Halma' hera, a freighter was driven ashore and a coastal Vessel destroyed, ,,. J apan indicated - Tuesday - that she was hard-pressed for oiL Radio Tokyo said Japan's muni' tions ministry had brought about large-scale mergers of producers designed to meet fa crying need for urgent action regarding the production of synthetic oilV . : Japs Speed CampaisH The rising sun, losing ground throughout the Pacific area, in tensified her land campaigns in China, especially in bloody Hunan province where she is battling to build a defense line against ex pected American landings on the China coast . : i ' : :.- Ii Spearheads of a neW three- pronged Japanese .drive in Hunan were only 40 miles from their ob jective the Lingling airbase. ' , i Japanese forces also forged ahead in Chekiang province, on the coast' 1- 'Quakes Cause Loss Of Over $1,000,000 In U. S. and Canada Br the Associated Preta r A series of earthquakes jarred northeastern 1 United States and eastern Canada Tuesday, causing damage estimated at more, than $1,000,000 and prompting Dr. XI Don Leet Harvard university seis mologist to suggest that cities take precautions because of an increas ing frequency of 'quakes, ft; - The shocks 'apparently centered near ' Cornwall, Ontario, where Mayor Aaron-Horovitz estimated that damage in the city "will be almost $1,000,000. v Possibly millions of persons were ' awakened as houses and brandings shook in an area ranging from Canada, along the eastern seaboard to Virginia,, and west to Wisconsin. J. - . Townsend Bill Wins Skirmish As Court Nullifies Complaint The so-called ' little Townsend measure will be on the November ballot in Oregon, it appeared to day, unless other possible ' efforts to halt it are more successful, than was ; the complaint filed by T. Lester Johnson, district attorney of Sherman county, ;v 1 ?-' - Johnson's complaint was nulli fied Tuesday by 1 Circuit Judges E. M. Page and George R. Dun can who, in effect directed Secret tary of State Robert S. FarreL.jr to proceed with plans to place the program up for vote. y. ; Their action constituted the tip holding of e' demurrer, filed by the attorney general on behalf of the secretary of state. Johnson was given to and including Sep tember -11 - to - file an amended eomplaint if he so wished. L. ' The complaint alleged that the 'Twas a Bit Warm TuesdayJust 103 ; -1 Hottest Day of Year Salem a well as several other northwest cities had its hottest day of the year Taesday, aad the hettest September day la at least 26 years. K " . The weather ' boreasi said It was 163 at 5 an, l -ii.''- The last previoos record was. 104 on July 2, 1942. I f t f , Frevieos ' hlfh : temperatare thls year was 162. - Portland also had a record for September 162 degrees. And It was 164 at Rosebarg, 163 at Medford, 161 at Eocene, 166 at Conrallis and The Dalles; 92 at Seattle. 1 Bulgaria Asks Red Armistice' On Eve of War LONDON, Wednesday, Sept -(JP)-, The SefU radie declar ed today hat ' the Balrarlaa gtvernment had asked Moscow for an armistice. - i LONDON, Sept 5 -()- Russia declared war on Bulgaria tonight after repeatedly warning that small minion of Adolf Hitler that her belated attempt to adopt "strict neutrality" was hopelessly insufficient , , With the red army already straining at the leash along 200 miles of the Romanian-Bulgarian border, a quick plunge acroM was expected, with; Bulgaria's collapse an early likeljr development The Russian declaration flatly accused - Bulgaria of harboring German soldiers. ' , ij .;, Buulgaria, in the axis camp, for nearly four years and a belliger ent against Britain, and the. Unit ed States, had refrained from go ing to war : against , Russia, a country she long has 'regarded as her Slavic friend. Canadian Justice Says Britain All-Out For Japanese War ' SEATTLE, Sept S All re- cources of the British empire will be thrown into the war in the Pacific as soon as Germany has been conquered. Chief Justice Wendell B. Farris of British Co lumbia, asserted here today. 1 -Justice Farris was the main speaker at the double christening of the 180-foot steel minesweep ers, the USS Fixity and Fancy, launched by the Associated Ship builders. 1 - ' ' Senator McCarran Leading in Nerada CARSON CITY, Nev, Sept (JP)Stn. Pat If cCarran held a lead of 9047 to 8S4S tonight Over Lt Gov. Vail Pittman in the race f o r t h e democratic senatorial nomination. The count was from 230 of 283 precincts. SEES ALASKA A8 STATE AN ALASKAN BASE, Sept 9. -fl-)-Gov. Ernest Gruening pre dicted today that the territory of Alaska would be admitted to state hood within a "reasonable time.. proposed measure was in viola tion of article XVH . of the state code because it purportedly in corporated more than one amend ment The circuit judges held this argument invalid on the grounds that1 the prohibitions - in article XVII applied to proposals of the legislature, - hot to amendments proposed in an initiative. " . 7 ' The" proposed amendment pro vides that all qualified citizens of Oregon over 60, upon proper ap plication, shall receive an annuity of 160. a month. Citizens of Ore gon over 18 years old who are permanently disabled or : blind also would be benefactors. The amendment also prohibits levying of a sales tax. Funds from the - monthly annuuities would come from a - gross income tax of 3 to 5 per cent Nx US ml Action Is Holland, Luxem bourg Hail Allies; Strasbourg Hit .1 LONDON, Wednesday, Sept , . (Wednesday)--American a'r- mored spearheads were reported probing into two and perhaps three keystones of Germany's west wall last night as the governments of tr.il.. j i r i- - . . claimed the entry of allied armies of liberation into their countries. Unconfirmed dispatches from the French-Swiss frontier said the, : Berlin-headed Yanks had captured Aachen and Saarbrucken Inside ; the reichV borders, but supremo headquarters continued to cloak j operations in this sector with si- f lence, and field reports from cor respondents with US troops told of stiffening German resistance along the Moselle river, 35 miles inside the French border. Points Inside Germany Aachen is 70 miles east of Brus sels, the liberated capital of Bel gium, and Saarbrucken is about 30 ! miles from Metz. Both are approx- 1 imately five miles inside Germany. The Americans, according to the, ; report from Switzerland, also were : stabbing at Strasbourg, FrencH border city on the Rhine. i Eye-witness accounts from Lt. Gen. George S J'atton t Third; army said the Amreicans still were " blocked at points on the west bank of the Moselle and had encoun tered concentrations of artillery fire. ; ; .; - :', ft;t: Resistance Heavy ' , Canadian 'forces in a drive for Dover straits ports smashed re connaissance . units within three miles of Boulogne and were en countering heavy German resist ance on the approaches to the city. heavily fortified because the nazie The garrison at Boulogne, al though hopelessly cut off, is ' be lieved to have Set up batteries for defense of the port i - ) Polish forces operating under the Canadian command moved up to St. Omer, 20 miles southeast of Calais and 23 miles south of Dun-kerque.-;''f ? 1 V M In the long narrow coastal pock et from which some robot bombs were hurled against England Tues day, elements of three German divisions were encircled when the British' took " Antwerp, which is virtually intact but whose great port cannot be used until the Ger mans are driven from other fort ress points commanding, the Scheldt river estuary. : .r, ; (Story en . seatbern "France ea ; ' ' Face 2) Sgt Albert Olsen r Of Silverton Dies On French Front . ( (Special to The Statesman) SILVERTON, Sept 5Sgt Al bert Olsen, son' of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Olsen of Silverton, was kill ed in France on August 17, his parents were informed by the war department today. - The youth was a native of this city. . ' . Survivorsr in addition to the parents, include three brothers and two sisters: Rex, in the navy and now on the east coast after par ticipating in the Normandy inva sion; Peter, Jr., Ronald, Geraldine, and Donna Marie. ' - v Surplus Army Trucks Are Sold to Farmers I WASHINGTON, Sept 5 - VP) Through the cooperation. ot the war food administration and the treasury department s office of my trucks have been sold to farm ers and truckers for emergency movement of. farm products, the treasury . announced today. "... War Brides' Arrive In N. Y. From Ireland . NEW YORK, Sept 5-()-A transport bringing naval person nel home from Ireland arrived today in New-York with" CO war brides and their 18 children. Reported