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The formula for preventing in flation has been OPA to hold down prices and WLB to hold down wages. The theory was that if tither went up the other would follow, automatically, and if no control was imposed the spiral would go "through the roof as it did during and after the last war. The twin agencies OPA-WLB have done a fair job only of preventing increases WLB has done better at it than OPA, in part perhaps, be cause the task is simpler.- It be gins to look however as though the wage dike is about to break, by and with the consent of WLB. The limit of wage increases has been 15 per cent, following the Little Steel formula (IS per cent above the prevailing wage in Jan uary, 1941). This has been, ex ceeded at times coal miners, rail way workers; but in general the rule has held. But the steel work ers for months past have spear headed attacks on this formula on the ground that living costs have gone up far more than the 15 per cent. WLB named a panel to study the question, and the panel has reported its findings which are favorable toward "wage adjust ment" ' and other benefits like group insurance, longer vacation, etc but unfavorable toward (Continued on Editorial page) m i mes lane Northern Half OfPalauIslc U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 18-(P)-American ' marines have occupied Asias, principal town on Peleliu island in the Palau group east of the Philippines, and have captured Ngarmoked island, 5 off the southern tip of Peleliu,! Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced to day. ' . ;V: -'; t. ; V ;i'-V . " The 81st American army divi sion, which landed Saturday (U. S. time) on Angaur Island, six miles south of Peleliu, now con trols the northern ' half of the island, Nimitz announced. ' Heavy fighting continued on Peleliu, where 5495 Japanese - had been killed through Sunday, at least half of the defending force. . . v v The marines made northward gains on Peleliu to occupy Asias Sunday after repulsing a coun terattack the previous night . Mopping up operations were progressing in the southern sec tor of the island, which is 600 miles east ot Devo, principal city cf the southern Philippines.; The invasions of N these two islands and the landing on Moro- tai in the Moluccas, 560 miles to the southwest, . posed a triple threat to the Philippines. Oyer 41,000 Soldier Vote Blanks Issued Applications for Oregon absen tee soldier ballots for the Novem ber election -now exceed 41,000, with indications that this number will be Increased to more! than 50,000, the state department an nounced Monday. V . Officials said a substantial per centage of the applications were signed by Oregon men and women serving overseas. Under the pres ent plan, county clerks will start sending out these ballot on the ' 44th day preceding the election, The ballots will be delivered over seas and returned by plane. - The state department Monday notified all county clerks in Ore gon and that the prohibition party probably would qualify for a place on the November election ballot A party assembly, to nominate candidates, will be held in Port land September 20. Congressmen' Ask Pearl Harbor Probe WASHINGTON, Sept 18 -P) Resolutions calling for an imme diate congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster were introduced today by Kept Scott (R-Pa.) and Harness (R-Ind.) who asked for an early house vote. Indian Troops Develop Burma River Crossings v- ; -vv W- -v;v . '..,;!"..,.';'" SOUTHEAST ASIA COM-1 MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan dy, Ceylon, Sept IS-iJP)- Troops of the Fifth Indian division devel oped their crossings of the Man! Tur river, in the Burma border area today while mountain fight irg ranged In the coastal province of Arakan. , . NINETY-FOURTH YEAH '-V;. - .. "r-,8 FAT -I' -;'W.' f .v;-v VV- - .; .. -.: y t . "V? - - V V;.V. ' V I :, V:C'" -.VI I ,: f v;V.V . Vv ,V V.'-,, ;.:,.v ,-".. v - -t :- . : ' v- - . r , J J . , .... V n . .t. .r OA. I -I t ' i i ' ' ' i' . i O 'v'vV !'"-:' Druggist Wounded Wm. Neimeyer Shot, Ex-convict Injured, Caught William Neimeyer, 69, long-time Salem druggist, was shot and seri ously wounded late Monday aft ernoon in a determined and suc cessful attempt to thwart a would be daylight holdup at his store at 175 N. Commercial. Brought down in a resultant fusillade of bullets, as police closed in on a fleeing man a few hundred 'feet away, was Aloysius E. Kilmer, who had been released from the Oregon State prison but a few hours before. Scores of bystanders had nar row escapes from injury. Neimeyer was taken to Salem General hospital with a bullet wound in his groin. . Officials at the Salem Gen eral hospital early today re ported Neimeyer's condition as good and that he had recovered from the shock of the accident The ballet in his leg would be removed by physicians within a few days, they said. Kilmer was reported In fair condition by nurses at the Dea coness hospital, at that time. Kilmer was shot in the neck and head by City Police Officer R. L. (Buck) Main but attendants at Deaconess hospital said it was likely he would survive. Pieced together from the r ports of police and the stories of scurrvine passers-by. the details (Continued on page 2) Silverton Schools Enrollment Shows Boost Over 1943 SILVERTON, Sept. 18 An in crease in enrollment was reported by Silverton schools Monday for the first time in several years. It was 855, compared with 841 the same day in 1943. The increase in enrollment was in the grade schools where 526 registered as compared with 488 in 1943. The high school regis tration was 329 for this year com pared to 353 last year. High school seniors totaled 64, 33 girls and 31 boys. f - London Again on Alert LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 19 (JF) London, which lifted blackout re strictions Sunday, had its second successive night alert last night after a two-week respite from flying bomb attacks. In Holdup City Council Votes to Place Police Pension Bund oh Ballot The ordinance providing for th policemen's pension and retire ment fund was unanimously adop ted by the city council under sus pension of the rules at the regular meeting last night The emergen cy was declared in order to get the special levy on the November ballot . 'v vv : .v The ordinance for the franchise of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company was adopted on third reading. An agreement be tween the city and company re garding police facilities, which had previously been a part of the ordinance, was also adopted. Sep aration of the two was made on request of the company. i V Revocation of the dance hall license of the Moose lodge on 12th street was recommended by the special committee headed by Al bert Gille. The motion-, to accept the recommendation was in the midst of a heated argument when it was brought to the attention of the council that there was no li sense to revoke. .... Lawrence Brown, city attorney, explained to council members that inasmuch as the Moose lodge was a non-profit : organization, a li cense was not necessary. The mo tion to revoke the license was withdrawn and on David Ollara's motion the council voted to direct the police to close the dances at 12 PAGES Gf Converging To Hear Dewey in Portland Tonight l Portland, lore., SeptJ U-(ip); Oregon republicans will con verge on Portland tomorrow to meet the party standard bearer,' homas E. Dewey, who. is sche duled to arrive from Seattle at 9:30 a. m. Following a full day. of congerences with GOP lead ers, the New York governor will address the nation in a ra dio broadcast from the Portland Ice Arena at 7:30 p. mi ' I ' . Berlin Denies - vv 1 j ; f-, Finns Signed Soviet Treaty LONDON, Tuesday, Sept 19 (JP) Stockholm dispatches . quoted the Swedish newspaper! Da gens Ny- hfter today as saying that a Fin nish - Russian peace agreement had been signed last night in Mos cow, but the jBerlin radio declared there had been a hitch in pro ceedings and the agreement would not be signed 'until later in the day- : 1J-- V ! " The German propaganda agency Transocean said signing of the pact originally ; was scheduled for last night but that a secret Fin nish parliamentary session called to ratify the , agreement had been cancelled. ; . , t i The meeting, Berlin ; said, now is scheduled for Ha. m. (5AEW) tomorrow. - ' , . ... " ' Gothic Line Forts Stiffen - I! 1 IV , J :"- - I ROME, Sept. 1R-P)-Fanatical German resistance slowed the al lied assault on Gothic line fortifi cations today j and 1 gave allied forces some of the worst fighting of the Italian campaign. The allied command said nazi paratroopers were fighting "with complete ; contempt fori death" as the' enemy: apparently staked his last resources of men and mater ials to prevent dogged doughboys, tommies, Canadians and Brazil ian troops from bursting into the great Po valley. ! i Only slight gains were made by the fifth and eighth armies. John Jacob Astor 3rd Weds Second Wife 4; . ' - . i 5 :, ; -V NEW YORK, Sept 18-P)-Ger-trude Gretsch,' 21, and John Jacob Astor 3rd, 31, were married today tn a brief ceremony at. the apart ment of the bride's mother, Mrs. Walter Gretsch. r ; i Astor, scion! of one of America's wealthiest families, and his bride said they would honeymoon either in Canada dr Florida. It was the second marriage for Astor. ' ;i 32 o'clock and arrest any persons disturbing the peace in the yicini ty of the dance, hall before that time.;iV..v. I;. r; ;V: . I ;. -.- ji ! The United War Chest board's request to stretch a banner across the street was granted. The re quest of "Bundles for America to display ft i two man Japanese submarine in the downtown area was received J and placed on file. I The request of. the Southern Pacific railroad for terminal tract on Front street was referred to the street committee. The Capitol Auto Part company request for designation of a loading zone was read. ';. ; Letters favoring purchase of Bush pasture ; for park purposes were read from the Salem Ki wanis club and the Junior cham ber of commerce. f v Objections to purchase of Bush's pasture for a park was voiced in a letter from the Hollywood Lions club which suggested instead the eight - acre tract belonging to Keith Brown adjoining the state fairgrounds. The letter said mem bers felt the city had not proper ly improved park property which it now has and suggested that un til such property was properly care for no such large acreage be acquired, f ' All members of the council were present at the meeting last night Satan. Oregon. Tuesday Southern Bombed ! l.i. .,.... ... . j . Philippine Strike Spread to Main Island of Group US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 18.-(JP)-S o u t h e r n Luzon was bombed ,during the Sept 8-13 US' carrier task force strike at 1 the Philippines,- and warships roamed for three days in constant sight of the islands without interference, Artemus Gates, assistant secre tary of the navy for air, said at a press conference today. Gates was aboard a carrier dur ing the strike. His was the first announcement that the attack spread to Luzon, main and nt- thernmost island m tne arcniFiia- go. The island was last bombed by allied planes April 15, 1942 during a brief raid northward of Manila. 1 j , Air Operation Lacking The official noted a "total lack of aggression in the air" by the Japanese which he said supported the conclusion that "These people are definitely on the run." j A total of 501 Japanese planes jwere destroyed in the air and oni the ground, and 173 surface craft were " destroyed or , damaged. Jo stalltions were battered on Pan ay, bebu, Negros and Leylejs- lands. Palaa Called Pattern ,In giving a vivid description of the raid, Gates said the current Palau operations were a pattern for the prospective campaign against the Philippines. For 15 days during the Philip pine strike, Gates said, "The only land we saw was the Philippines. The! last three days of the strike we sailed off the central Philip pines within sight of land. "Surprising to me was the total lack of aecression in the air on the part of the Japs." j War Workers' Aid Bill Killed t " LI V WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 - () t Proposals home for ko pay travel costs back migratory war workers and: provide unemployment com pensation for 3,100,000 federal workers were virtually killed by the house today, but it approved a compromise surplus property bill in a drive to clear the way for a congressional recess until after the election. The surplus property measure, establishing a three-man board to direct disposal of an ; estimated 3100,000,000,000 in surplus war materials, was approved 174 to 91 after a' move to send it back to a joint conference committee was defeated 169 to 150. It now goes to the senate for an anticipated okay which will send it to the White House.! Nazis About Set To Give Up Crete ROME, Sept. 18-yTn-The Ger mans appeared today to be about ready to give up Crete, the Aegean sea island which they took so sen sationally in an air-borne Invasion early in the war. Nazi forces were reported con centrating on the western tip of the island near the city of Khania (Canea), seemingly In prepara tion for evacuation! ' But the allies appeared deter mined to make any evacuation as difficult and costly as possible. Oregon Schools Short (Her 100 Teachers PORTLAND, Sept. 18 -iV More than 100 teachers are needed in Oregon now, and the shortage will become' even more acute al ter October 1, the Oregon State Teachers' asociation said today, v Executive Secretary Dr. Frank Parr reported districts now oper ating with reduced staffs, though pupils have received some sort of i instruction through ' doubling up of teachers. - i Luzon MorningJptembr 19. 1344 Bricker, Truman See Eye to Eye On War Veterans CHICAGO, Sept" 18-flP)- The republican and democratic candi dates agreed on two points today before the American Legion na tional convention: - That America did not do well by the veterans of world war I when they returned homeand that it must give them much bet ter - treatment to those fightinc in world war II. Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio. the republican nominee, said that re-absorption of the soldiers of 1917-18 into the nation's econ omic life "was a difficult Job and poorly done. 4 Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, the democratic nominee, said that the world war I veterans suffered "under tragic mistakes." ,r S : : '' Japs Menace USJlilitary ill China CHUNGKING, Sept 18--Japanese forces were advancing tonight toward Kweilin, key city Of Kwangsi province, in a cam paign that threatens to split China in tWo 'and' wreck the entire Amer ican military setup In the country. A As a result of the current Jap ane8e east China, drive, the US 14tbi air force already has destroy ed and virtually abandoned its strategic fighter and bomber'base at Kweilin. Hundreds of Japan ese saboteurs were said to have in filtrated already into the city.. They were reported being rounded up and shot ; " M The Japanese columns advanc ing toward Kweilin were swinging into position to secure a line run ning from Manchuria to the China sea, only a 110-mile gap, between Youngming, 70 miles east of Kwei lin,' and Waitsap, 85 miles north of Canton, remains to be closed. A junction of the Japanese for ces between Waitsap and Yung ming would form a line of defense against Chinese strikes eastward to support any American landing on the China coast -5 i it' Memorial To Veterans I American Legion post No. 9 went on record Monday night of fering to sponsor the city-acquisition of Bush pasture and its: use as a park commemorating the vet erans of all past wars. The resolution was introduced as the Capital post returned to its own home with flourish after an absence of two years while its facilities were used by the USO An estimated 250 persons attend ed. : A; colorful induction of officers was: conducted by Rose City "post S3 of Portland. The retiring com mander, John Olson, was present ed with a jewel and ring, and his successor, Kelly Owens, received a carefully-wrapped box contain ing a stuffed wildcat in memory of Owens' feat in shooting one of the ! animals in eastern Oregon year ago. World Peace Plan Still Unsettled ! WASHINGTON, , Sept HF) The possibility is increasing that Russian, British - and : American delegates will conclude their Dum barton' Oaks conference without agreement on all major' points of a : world organization to keep The talks, originally planned to last only three weeks, are now in their fifth week. It Is planned to end them as soon as replies are received on queries put before Moscow and London. . that full ; agreement could be reached on the structure of the new international agency, but it now appears that some important questions may le left over for fu ture seltlement' . ? Setup Urged Allied Goals oh Open arrows Indicate large' German troops were driving on the western European front. Solid arrows Indicate points where troops were attacking; Situtlon'vin Ilollanl where airborne troops are active photo.) . u Dewey Flays Labor Secretary; Lays Wartime Strikes to FDR SEATTLE, Sept. I8-i)-Hold- ing President Roosevelt directly responsible for "most of the seri ous wartime strikes," Thomas E. Dewey, tonight assailed the new deal labor policy as a political football and declared his first act as president would be to appoint an "active, able" secretary of la bor. J ; , v - V.W, "The new deal is exclusively responsible for most of the seri ous wartime strikes " he said in a prepared address. "The chief blame goes directly into the White House, and to its agency created at the top of all this chaos of agencies the war labor j board." In what was regarded by many" listeners as a thinly-veiled allu sion to current demands for an increase in the little steel wage formula, Dewey declared that the new deal has "set the stage for a great gesture a big favor to la bor before election day." 5 This gesture, he said, has been "carefully designed to make la bor believe that something it is justly entitled to is a special gift from on high from the new deal. . In his third and perhaps his most confidently phrased speech of the campaign, Dewey said he would: . . -'- v' :; 1. Appoint an able secretary of labor "from the ranks of labor. 2. Restore the ! function of the labor department and make it un First-Day School Registration Totals 5026: Increase of 147 j Increased enrollment in the two Junior high schools and six of the city's ! eight 1 elementary schools brought to 5028 today the total students registered for the Salem city -schools fall term. "" , ';. Opening-day registration & year ago war 4879, but reached 519ft by the second week of school. On that basis it was estimated this year's total J enrollment probably will reach 5300. v :v , Scores of students still were at work in canneries and fields, but probably not as many as on open ing-day a year ago because the 1943 term started week later. Superintendent Frank Bennett said Monday some shifting of stu dents in the elementary grades would be necessary to equalize the loads, but that definite school as signments would be made shortly. . Total: grade school registration was 2236, an increase of 99; Junior high schools 1370, an increase of 122. 'High school first-day regis Price Sc. Western Front industrial centers for which allied was being kept secret AP Wire . s vj,- - - necessary for the "working men and women Of America to knock on door after door . . . to find out what their rights are.", " ; -- 3. ". . . Abolish many of the wasteful competing bureaus filled with men quarreling for Jurisdic tion while f American citizens stand and wait" j v 4. . ,;. Abolish privilege for one group over any other jgroup." : Y Split Reported in Nazi Party Over ; Hitler's Removal NEW- YORK, Sept 18-UP)-The British radio, heard here by NBC and CBS, tonight broadcast "re ports reaching London that a se rious split had occurred inside the nazi party and that gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler was supporting an attempt to negotiate with the Russians on i the basis of Hitler's removal. The reports tacked any official confirmation, i Bulgarians Admit Losing Town, Germans I NEW YORK, Sept: 18-flV-A Bulgarian high command comma nique admitted tonight the loss to the Germans of Strumica, an oc cupied Yugoslav town 10 miles north of the Greek Macedonian border. tration dropped from 1394 to 1320, a decrease of 74. Net over-all in crease was 147.' , r First grade registration was 388, an' increase of 11, divided as fol lowsBush. 82, EngIewood 82, Garfield 18, Grant 41, Highland 71, McKinley 47, Richmond 26, Washington 21. ; Registration by buildings: .1 1943 1944 Bush 395 390 169 196 388 244 185 171 406 430 Englewood Garfield Grant 147 215 417 Highland McKinley 260 Richmond Washington' 221 140 2236 520 950 1320 ' Totals -2137, Leslie , ,.',!, Parrish 459 - 889 -1394' Senior high - i - 4 Grand total' -v ) -''--1 'V'' 1.4879 5426 No, 156 Russians Lash Out In Baltic Allies Knit Lines In Holland; Fight Mounts in Fury - :, LONDON, Sept 18.-W)-The British Second army and the al lied army of the air welded a firm junction: some ten miles -.inside f Holland today as the enemy threw crack troops from i the Russian front and swarms of planes into the spreading battle for Germany. Bazooka and bayonet weldin air infantry struck a tremendous . blow for the all-important junc tion by holding off the desperate Germans trying to destroy the bridges until Second army tanks could race up over Holland's num erous water courses. Soviets in New Drive ! Meanwhile, far to the east, three1 soviet armies totalling more than 500,000 men have i been ! hurled against crumbling nazi lines in4 Estonia and Latvia in one of the war's biggest offensives aimed at finally , crushing two nazi Baltic armies, Berlin broadcasts said. . One German commentator pre dicted an imminent onslaught by a fourth Russian army in the Nar va sector of Estonia's northeastern coast as part of the soviet plan to split up and destroy perhaps 200, 000 Germans:,; . ;s M Neither Berlin nor Moscow told of any fresh action! In the War saw area, where patriots are fighting within the city. 14 Miles From Ri-a Russian troops were - fighting near Baldone, only 14 miles south east of the Latvian capital of Riga on the Baltic sea, in an effort to reach Riga and seal off the Ger man Baltic forces who have such a tenuous link with other nail ; armies to the west ! On the western front in Hol land, Belgium, Germany and France the Germans, aware that here was a supreme bid by seven allied. armies to break into the heart ot the fatherland, fought ' back with more artillery and mor- -tars than they had Used since tbe Normandy landings. For the first time, front-line troops from Russia were thrown into the bitter battle east Of Aach en, and throughout the day the long-dormant German air force wheeled and dived over Lt Gen. : Courtney H. Hodges'. First army troop.. ; KasJa Give Way . .' But despite his exertions, the enemy was giving way slowly and admitted being driven back in side Duren, only 20 miles west of Germany's fourth largest city, Cologne on the Rhine. The Americans i scored small advances east of Stolberg, six miles east of the embattled Ger man frontier fortress of Aaachen. One column was two miles from Sittard, 18 miles : northwest of Aachen and only a mile from the German frontier, i . j j . The other was probing 'the west- j wall's outer fortifications at the Dutch town of Simepveld, little more than a mile from enemy soiL - Supreme headquarters did not announce where the British Sec ond army and the Americans,; British, : Dutch and Poles of the allied First airborne army met, but it probably was near Eind--hove, important Dutch .rail city ten miles inside Holland. . Western Oregon. Forests Re-opened To Public Entry Oregon forests, west of the Cas cades, with the exception of Jack son and Josephine counties and the Rogue River and Siskiyou Na tional forests, were open to the public today without entry per mits, on proclamation of Gov.' Earl Snelt ' . i The proclamation" "wj recom mended by State Forester Nels Rogers on the basis of , improved weather conditions. It was de -dared that in. virtually' all the areas, opened there had been re cent rains. ' ' . Officials said there had been, few costly fires in the state's for ests this year, despite unusually hazardous conditions, I '
