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American traaps la the Aache Stadt
. . Photographer Harry Harris, with
Oregon' republicans greeted
. Governor Dewey, their party can
didate for president, in Portland
Tuesday. It was a more mature
Dewey than the man who came
- out as a candidate for the nomi-
nation in 1940; but still a Dewey
marked by abundant self-control
and poise. And if his personality
is not so magnetic as with some
other men in public life, he yet
shows a real flair in exciting a
popular response. The ice arena
was completely filled with a crowd
- which by its interruptions of ap-
plause showed itself exceedingly
'; sympathetic with the republican
itandard-bearer.
The Dewey speech in Portland
..- was the best of the series to date
of his campaign addresses. He at
tacked the indispensable man the
ory, and pulled no punches in his
- endeavor to dispose of tha,t argu
ment for Roosevelt's fourth term.
In this his reasoning was quite
similar to that used by Willkie
on his trip to Oregon in February.
He might' have -made? but did not,
quotations to support his .thesis
from the political speeches of
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932
when the latter was running
against an incumbent ;
rv The - Dewey strategy is now
rather clearly outlined. It is first
'one -of attack and not to stop with
. thetvague terms "the administra-
tion,. or , "the new dealers, but
to direct his 'fire right at Roose
velt and the White House. Later
it may be expected that he will
- offer his own program for gov
ernment policies, during the com
. lng quadrenniunu
' Thus - In . Philadelphia he at
tacked the Roosevelt administra
tion as
(Continued on Editorial Page)
Lone Gunman1
Gets $1,000 in
Bank Stick-up
BAKER, Sept. 20 -(P- A lone
. gunman robbed ' the Prarie City
bank in Grant count; of 1 1,000 to
day, then made his getaway east
ward on the Blue Mountain Hot
" Springs road, state police reported
. - Striding into the bank, the rob
ber pointed a revolver at the three
employes and announced: This is
a stickup, according- to D. J
Hughes, bank manager. The gun
man loaded his" pockets with cur
rency aird silver from the teller s
booth after ordering the men into
'. a corner. .
Telling the. robber he could be
een from the street if he entered
the4 safe, Hughes denied the man's
request for the safe's key. The
gunman grabbed a rifle from the
bank as he left.
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Tentative Plans Mqdd9 V -Day;
Parade, Programs Considered
Tentative arrangements for a
parade and program on Victory
day ;ln Europe were being dis
cussed today by various commit
tees, following a meeting of 50
representatives of civic, fraternal,
vetef an and religious organizations
in the chamber of commerce rooms
Wedensday night . , ? . "
The meeting was called by the
Federation of Patriotic Societies to
ascertain views regarding a fitting
. observance.' ' : '" ; ,
Resolutions were passed favor
ing a parade to start near the
Court House, travel through the
business district and end at , the
capitol steps where state and city
dignitaries , would give talksAn.
other resolution endorsed an al
ready - announced plan to close
beer parlors with other retail
stores. - '.v ' ' - - '
Plans formulated previously by
several groups were reiterated
V churches will open within 30 min-
1 utes after word is received that
i V-ay hss arrived and (here Is to
( va union service that evening In
forest unfurled a United State flagman German soil.
tb Wartime 8tfll Picture pool, made the picture.
Another
wreck Uh
Rail Line
2 Killed in 3rd
Mishap in 2 Days;
Four Are Hurt
OLYMPIA, "Sept 20-(ff)-Two
trainmen were killed " and , four
were injured in a collision be
tween two northern Pacific
freight trains about IS miles south
of; here today the third: train
wreck in southwest Washington
within a space of 48 hours. -
C V. Swanson, Tacoma fire
man, and Donald L. Sweeney of
Centralia, a brakeman, were the
two killed as the engines collided
headon in a curve three miles
north of Little Rock, 1 on the
branch line to Grays harbor.
First of the trio of wrecks oc
curred Monday night at Castle
Rock, when" a Great Northern
freight traveling on the main line
sideswiped a J; Northern Pacific
freight pulling but of a siding.
One' man was killed, and three
injured. .r,
' Yesterday morning, the special
train carrying Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey on his presidential cam
paign tour crashed into the rear
of another train which had
stopped at the scene of the Castle
Rock wreck and approximately 50
more persons were injured.
Those injured, but not serious
ly, in today's mishap were: Heinle
Orton, engineer. J. A-McMillan
brakeman, Archie - Rhea, fireman,
and Joe Wallace, conductor, f all
of , Tacoma, according to Asst
Supt Thomas J. Kane of the
Northern Pacific in Tacoma.
Cliina Accepts
Nelson's Plan
By Spencer Moesa '
CHUNGKING,- Sept 20.-
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
has accepted a set of recommen
dations submitted by Donald M,
Nelson and Ma j. Gen. Patrick i,
Hurley designed to bring more of
China's currently , available in
dustrial power to bear upon the
war effort it Was announced to
night : - : :
At. the same. time Nelson said
he would leave "very shortly" for
the ' United States to report t)
President Roosevelt arid to work
out the American part of the eco
nomic program agreed upon dur
ing his two-week stay here. ,
Military aspects "will requira
Hurley to remain in China for th
time being. v" . "
Nelson said he expected to re
turn to Chungking later in th
year, "when . the operational
phases of the joint program are
getting into full swing."
the Presbyterian church; , retail
stores will close immediately, and
If the word comes after noon they
will remain closed also the next
day. , v ' " . " "t"
It was the consensus of opinion
that, everything possible be done
to temper the celebration" in line
with the realization that the war
would only be partly won..
Rex Klmmel, the Federated So
cieties' chairman for, V-day, was
authorized to name various com
mittees. - I
; Several suggestions were under
study . one that booths, be es
tablished as soon as possible at
ter V-hour, at which every one
could sign up for or buy war
bonds, volunteer for the . blood
bank and turn in bundles of pa
per, fats, tin cans. ,'
More definite plans will be ah-4
nounced later,' Kimmel said, but
due to the uncertainty of the hovr
when news of V-day. might, arrive
it was taken for granted by the
group that all plant would ha
to be flexible.' . "V : .
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Associated Press
(AP WlrephoU).
fMagicl Carpet' Into
France Is Slapped
By British Paper
! LONDON, Thursday, Sept 21
(Jfy-Tht Daily Mau charged today
that American representatives of
big business were riding into Paris
on a supreme allied headquarters
'"magic carpet" and in the uni
forms of comparatively junior
officers," and' that certain Ameri
can interests were exploiting mili
tary agreements with ; Britain for
purely commercial purposes. '
; British subjects and even Brit
Ish officials wait in vain for per
mission to enter France, the news
paper said, and are amazed at the
alacrity with; which American
businessmen are given facilities
for travel to England and transfer
;jto France. ? ; '
fc Called
f Senatorf by
iGORNominee
1 EN- ROUTE WITH DEWEY,
Sept. ZO-t-vThomas E. Dewey,
greeted by; a cheering crowd ta
sunny Eugene, Ore., on his way to
San Francisco, predicted late to
day the election of Wayne Morse
to the United States senate.
1.. Introduced I by MOrse, as the
fnext president of the jr United
States," Dewy greeted the com
pliment by referring to him as
'Senator Morse." ; .
. (Governor Earl Snell introduced
Dewey in the same manner at
Portland Tiiesday.J ) j
"We've had a beautiful trip
down and . we've had no train
wrecks," the COP;nominee declar
ed, referring to Monday. !
"We have a comparatively sim
pie job to do if you will help us,1
he said. "We have ip get a new
administration and a republican
congress. Then we will have the
greatest house cleaning In his
tory."-:... I j : i :
Speaking from the rear platform
of his train, the candidate said.
"It's grand to find a whole, great
enormous section of the United
States 1 which j the new! deal hasn't
even begun to spoil.'
Sgt. Fiiller, 25,
Dies in Action !
Staff Sgt Norman C- Fuller, 25,
son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Charles. M.
Fuller, 3601 Center j street, was
killed in acticai 14 France on Au
gust 15, his parents were notified
Wednesday, jj j I . :"v'h
Inducted m March, 1941, he
trained at Fprti Knox, Ky.; until
July, when he was transferred to
Fort Lewis to serve as a tank in
structor for more than a year. Aft
er further training at Fort Ord,
Calif and Camp; Pickett Va, he
was sent overseas, : rrA
As a tank commander, he land
ed at Casablanca at (the time of
the invasion of North Africa In
Novemberi 1J42, aw active serv
ice there and in? Italy, where be
was wounded in the "Casino cam
paign. At: that time he: received
the purple hearty Later he saw
active service during; the occupa
tion of Rome and in France. 7
Sgt Fuller attended Salem
schools, graduating from Salem
high school in 1939. Prior to in
duction he was employed at the
slate hospital.
Survivors include his parents; a
grandmother; Mrs. Alverda Welch;
aunts, Mrs. John: Stark and Mrs.
Roy Melspn of Salem, Mrs. C E.
Martson and Mrs. Trent Dawson
of Portland; aii uncle," Morris
Welch of Salem, and his fiancee,
Miss Vera Merk -of Salem.
Kaiser to Build -Big
New Drydock
: PORTLAND, Sept.; 20 -AV As
soon as the present drydock is
completed,' another lone also
14,000 tons f- will be built at the
Kaiser - Vancouver,! Wash., ship
yard, the US maritime commission
said today. ' ... ; f - ,
Costing an estimated $270,000,
the drydock now being built will
be installed at the j Kaiser Swan
Island yard in October. It has
not been: announced where the
tecond drvdccl: v;Y. ts instilled.
Invaders
Kill 7647.
Japanese:
lAngaur in Hands
Of U. S.; Bitter ;
IFiglit on Peleliu:
US PACIFIC I FLEET ; HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Sept
20 Killing 7645 Japanese.
American invaders of the Palaus
are in the the mopip stage on An-
gaupr but are being forced to apply,,
heavy pressure against bitter, en
emf, resistance on Peleliu, head
quarters , announced in a com
munique tonight . ! , I
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz report
ed slow f progress on PeleU
against strong Japanese defenses
in the rugged Ngarekeuk , hills
north of captured Peleliu airport
(In a Blue network broadcast
from the invasion scene Thursday,
Palku time, Webley Edwards, rep
resenting the Combined Ameri
can networks, said the marines on
Peleliu have , won all but a small
strip on the northeast coast and
have seized small offshore is
lands.) - '- v . ' I
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Allied headquarters,
Ner Guinea, Thursday, Sept 21
(A)f- More than 50 Liberators bat
tled through heavy weather to hit
thej Japanese at Davao, southern
Philippines, Monday with 120 tons
of bombs and didn't encounter a
single enemy fighter, headquarters'
announced today. '
The Davao i airdrome, barracks
the' punishment Returning fliersj"
renorted numerous fires and hea-1
vy (explosions.. ;
' The monsoon front was so" ex
tensive that some big bombers
couldn't get through and, instead,
dumped their explosives to the
south on the Japanese garrison in
thel Talaud islands. ,
It was the second heavy blow
tosped at ; the t Philippines since
Geh- Douglas MacArthur achieved
a new air base at Morotai, atop
the! Moluccas, 300 miles southeast
of Mindanao.
Flax Industry
To Be Insured
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Oregon's state flax industry will
go JUirough it peak season this year
fully insured. - H
-The state board of control Wed
nesday i approved a three-year In
surance arrangement with an an
nual premium of approximately
$13,000 to be based upon actual
monthly inventories of stocks.
Sheds, stocks and mill are covered
In the insurance. ; . ;
Placed through' Becke and Wads
worth of ; Hawkins i and Roberts,
Salem, the Insurance carries can
cellation privileges for the state.
Foty per; cent of . the commission
will be participated in by the
Oregon Association of insurance
agents.'; j ?;' K ;.;;; ' :;. J 7M:i
Insurance on the flax industry
of 1 the state was provided by a
state fund until the series of flax
shed fires two. years ago. The past
yer a policy providing a maxi
mum of ' 3.250,000 coverage was
held. The new policy provides
foil insurance in the amount of
approximately $634,599, the maxi
mum varying with the value 1 of
stocks and equipment
(More about , board of control
meeting on page 9).
Wartime Payrolls Fall Off
From 1943 Peak, SUCC Reports
Employment and pay rolls in
Oreeon reached their 'wartime
peak during the second quarter of
1943. state unemployment compen
sation commission statisticians de
clared here Wednesday. Compila
tions of the records for the same
period of 1944 showed a slump of
about . three per cent from last
summer's high point they said.
nployers' reports reaching the
commission up to September 1 in
dicated that covered employment
for the last pay period. of ,une
would be about 10,000 under the
June, 1943 peak of -333,548. Pay;
rolls for the quarter were approxi
mately $7,000,000 less than the
$203,065,000 paid in jthe second:
quarter of 1943. The decrease in
April and May employment was
sliehULv less than for June.
S or tne first nau ci is
pr.y rolls totalled nearly 332JCC0,-
Well, He'll Learn
About Navy if He :
Gets Opportunity "
I MOSCOW, Idaho, Sept 2HJP)-.
Robert Eugene Jordan, 22, of Mos
cow, couldn't get into the navy any
Other way so he" tried this angle:
He told authorities at the naval
radio training station at the Uni
versity of Idaho he was a' deserter.
He had, he said, jumped ship in
Australia two years ago and now
wanted to "face it" and return to
cluty. He said he deserted a crals
er,; the U5 J5. Lipton. i
Naval authorities didn't ' look
grim at that They grinned. Cruis
ers,; they knew, are named after
cities only. r
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Gothic line
Allied Army
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ROME, Sept 10-(P-The allied
Communique today announced
Quit American Fifth army troops
have breached the massive, fierce
ly defended nail Gothic line on
a six-mile . front above Florence,
Opening the way for swifter de
Scent on the Po .valley some 23
miles " distant ,:" ; :' .
j Easily defended mountain roads
Winding toward Bologna; gateway
to the central section of the val
ley, and Imola, a smaller indus
trial city, probably will keep the
advance te a relatively slow pace
until allied forces burst into the
atlands.
A greater immediate' threat to
i rthe Germans . was - Eighth army
Jpush.Jby. Canadian &bd Greek
troops to the outer defenses of
Rimini, Adriatic port at the south
lastern tip of the valley from
Where tanks and infantry could
spread in a huge flanking move
ment Its : airfield already is - in
Allied hands. ; ;';'..,,
! Troons In this area are assault
jng the village of San Fortunate,
and nearby have reached the out
skirts of San Marino and captured
Serravalle
States Rights ;
luonversion Bill
Goes to FDR
f ' WASHINGTON, Sept ' 20-ff)4
Congress completed today the last
of four major bills preparing for
the collapse of Germany, sending
to President ? Roosevelt's 1 desk
states rights" legislation drawing
the outlines for demobilization and
reconversion. 1 J - - X
I The demobilization and recon
Version bill included a mandate on
the release of soldiers and sailors
ho longer needed to fight
j The legislation leave control of
unemployment insurance 'entirely
in state hands., ? At- house insist
ence it was stripped of senate pro-
Visions for back home travel pay,
up to $200 a family, for war work
ers, and unemployment insurance
for 3,100,000 federal employes.
I The legislation sets up a sepa
rate administration . to handle re
conversion problems. It provides
non-Interest loans for states and
cities i to plan postwar public
works; guarantees the solvency of
state unemployment compenstaion
funds, and sets up a retraining and
re-employment office with power
to coordinate existing activities.
00(Tor $6,000,000 more than for the
first half of 1943. Wages reported
for the second half of the year are
not expected to reach the record
figure of $410,500,000 established
for the last half of 1943.'
7 Benefits for August registered a
considerable downturn from; both
July, 1944, and August 1943, but
the proportion of out-of-state ini
tial and continued claims increas
ed. More than a third of the 176
new claims were from other states.
Payments for August were $523
as compared to $314,837 In July and
$9162 a year ago. Officials said
benefits paid this year trt about 40
per cent lower than tie $217,477
distributed to claimants in the first
eight months cf 1S13.
The 313 claimants ho have re
ceived maximum benefits compare
with 678 reported at this period
t last year.
Breached by
Big Gain
In Baltic
Drive Bags Near
ly 2000 To wiis,.
Covers 43 Aliles
LONDON, . Sept 20-(ff,)-(Wed-
nesday)- .Propelled by a double
break through in Estonia by a
fourth army group, the red army's,
grand offensive to rid the Baltic
states of Germans before snow
flies - has engulfed nearly 2000
more towns and reached within &0
miles of Tallinn, Estonian capital.
Moscow , disclosed last night .
An order of the day from Pre
mier Stalin to Marshal Leonid "A.
Govorov of ' the Leningrad front
forces and the midnight Moscow
communique announced a break
through north of Tartu, east-central
Estonian rail city, had gained
more than 43 miles on a front 75
miles wide and . had taken more
than 1500 towns in four days.
A northern wing of the same
army thrust westward from Nar
va in a 37-mil advance in three
days, taking more than 300 com-
munitiea. ' 1
Near Tallinn
These forces stood less than 65
miles east of Tallinn at Rahkla,
50 miles southeast of Tallinn in
thr area west of Vageva.-
Autumn - fog ' made denser by
the smoke of artillery fire cov
ered much of the Baltic country
as the Russians broke through the
strongly - fortified region along
the western shore of lake Peipua
and advanced northwestward on
the railway running from Tartu
to Tallinn. . f .
Estonian troops were participat
ing alongside, the .regular forces
of the Leningrad front, the Rus
sians said.
Casualties Heavy '
Casualties inflicted on the Ger
mans were not yet tabulated, but
an early - morning supplement to'
the communique signified they
were heavy, telling of a German
regiment being wiped out and 600"
prisoners taken at one spot and
of 2000 Germans being slain out
right at another. : ; .
Jq the swampy country west of
Narva, despite German mines, the
Russians cleaned out the 30 -mile-wide
land bridge between the gulf
of Finland and lake Peipus and
thrust on west along the railroad
towards Tallinn. -
WLBHitsat
Little Steel
Wage Ceiling
WASHINGTON, Sept 20 -UP)
Organized labor's campaign to
break the administration's war
time restraints won new ground
tonight as a war labor board pan
el declared that the -little steel
wage ceiling can . be broken , to
keep earnings abreast of the cost
of living. ,
It was the second time in a
week a WLB panel had found the
president has the power to madi
fy wage controls.
Today's panel, which heard the
United Electrical, Radio and Ma
chine Workers, CIO, demand a
17-cent hourly wage boost did
not recommend the increase, but
said it could be granted and de
tailed surveys "showing the j cost
of living has gone up beyond the
little steel"; barrier freezing sal
aries at 15 per cent above Janu
ary, 1941. . ,
A week ago . another . panel
which reviewed a wage increase
asked by CIO steel workers made
similar findings'. Both panels re
ported that estimates on the in
crease of the cost of living range
from the 25.1 per cent figure of
the bureau of labor statistics to
45 J per cent claimed by the CIO.
War Chest Drive :
To Start Soon ;
When the p re-campaign com
mittee for the annual Salem Unit
ed War Chest drive goes to work
next Monday, September 25, " the
organization for the thorough and
rapid solicitation of the city in
the . main crusade which opens
October 9 will already be mo
bilized. '. "
Lowell Kern, president of the
board of directors of the chest and
chairman of its executive com
mittee, with Burr Miller, campaign
chairman, Wednesday announced
completion of the organization,
vhich is listed ia detail ca izgz 1
Fascist' Trembles'
As Court Listens
To "Atrocity Tale
ROME, Sept . 20 - (jf) - Former
Roma police chief Pietro Caruso,
on trial fori his life in an impro
vised . c o u'rt room! elaborately
guarded to protect him from' mob
violence, turned pale and trembled
today as, a medical expert gave a
stark description of the bodies of
executed hostages recovered - from
Rome's, ."Smolensk forest" X the
Ardeating caves lKV:X'::
He told the court that Field Mar
shal ,Gen.Albert Kesselrlng, nazi
commander Iff lUly, ordered him
to- t urrfsi" hostages, for "execution
in reprisal for the bombing of an
SS column. r r:r . t - i
He said, however,' that he cut
the number J of r hostages turned
over to the Germans from the 80
demanded to 50. I
Professor iAttilio Ascarelli, di
rector of Ui medical-legal inves
tigations at '? the massacre ' scene,
told the court 39 of the 335 bodies
exhumed were beheaded.
Service Ballot
: MIAMI, Fla, Sept 20--The
Miami Herald tonight quoted a na
val officer,' anonymous at his own
request as saying that a sailor at
the Miami Naval training station
who applied! or a wartime ballot
from; Michigan, has received re
publican' campaign literature en
closed with bis ballot
The officer said that other sail-
ort from Minnesota and from New
' trsmnchin iiui rMiv) nnp iit;
Hampshire had 'received -GOP liti
erature separate from their ballots
but carrying servlcenumbers "of
the sailors on the 'envelopes." - f
Those numbers . could .have
come only from theiri applications
for: ballots,i the officer told the
Herald. :
WASHINGTON, Sept 20--A
republican fhint that the senate
campaign expenditures committee
might look linto the1 political ac
tivities of Mayor Edward J. Kelly
of Chicago developed tonight after
the disclosure that pro-Roosevelt
campaign letters accompanied sol
dier vote applications mailed from
that 'city. K;o . r
Members !of congress of . both
parties agreed the letters were le
gal under terms of the soldier vote
bill. h
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New Air; Service
Asked for Coast
PORTLAND, Sept 20-(ff)-Unit-
ed Air Lines has applied to the
civil aeronautics board for' a fifth
daily round! trip along the coast
officials said today. ' .
The proposed extra trip,' effec
tive Oct .1, would leave Portland
at 5:33 plm. and arrive at Los An
geles at 1):30 p.m. .1 The north
bound flight would leave Los An
geles at 8 a.m. and arrive at Port
land at 1:32 pjn.
Eugene Schools ;
Enroll 4291 Pupils
EUGENE, . S e p t JO.--Top-
ping tasi zaii s loiai Dy zuo, scnooi
enrollment Set an all-time record
here today4-4291 students.
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Cooperation of
Asked in Paper
All householders, of the city , of
Salem were appealed to today, by
Gardner Knapp, chairman of the
Marion county salvage commit
tee,' to play their . important part
in Salem's all-out waste paper
drive scheduled for Sunday, Sep
tember 24.
Pointing out that the drive is
being made' possible entirely
through volunteer effort and that
the conservation of time, labor
and transportation arefundamen
tal keys to the success of the cam
paign, Knapp asked ; the ' patriotic
Cooperation of tvtxj local - dtir
zen in properly and securely tieing
all newspa pers, ; magazines and
cardboard cartons la small com
pact bundles, and in seeing that
the bundles are placed on curbs
in front of their respective homes
not later than 11 a. rn. Sunday.
"Waste paper improperly , bun
dled and tied, or not tied at all,
slows dowp the loading of trucks
and the reloading into boxcars.
In most cases, the bundling which
ttie individual fails to do must be
Used by Party
Propagandists
i bpan On
1 Khirie:Is;;j
Sole Kev ;
erate
On to Give'Aid;
Nazis Hold Firm
; ; By .IIowartl.Cewanr ',
i; SUPREME ; HEADQUARTERS -'
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY K
FORCE, : Thursday, Sept flHP)
British Second army' troops fought
desperately ; today to cross 'the
Rhine ; river at Nijmegen, Hol
land, in a race to rescue i huge
pocket of allied airborne forces
isolated in the Arnhem sector and
under 1 slashing German attack.
The all-important concrete
bridge, a mile and a half long and
600 feet above the swift-flowing
Rhine, still Is intact, headquar- -ters
declared ' officially at mid-,
night but it was firmly held rby
the Germans, and a great, swirl
ing battle was raging. , .
Troop Sorraande4
The airborne troops in the Arn
hem sector were "completely sur- j
rounded" by the nazis, headquar
ters Said officially; and battled
furiously in the pocket against the
German ring. The nazis claimed
1700 prisoners. 1 5 ; r v' ...
; The1 Germans increased their -airf
activity greatly and : threw
planes into heavy bambing : and
strafing operations both at Arn- .
hem and - Nijgemen, and also 'at
British-held Eindhoven. . !
The great . battle across the
Rhine delta, the German radio
said, might prove a decisive west- I
em front engagement '
Seventy miles toAthe south US
First army troops under' Lt' Oen. f
Courtney HlHodges - re a c he d',
Gressepich, four miles r east oT "
Stolberg, in Germany." " German
forces in this area fought1 furious
ly and with ; better - coordination
than at any time since the battle
of Normandy, front dispatches
said. .rii-: h
: The Americans were hanging
grimly to the breaches in the
Siegfried line : They repelled re
peated fierce infantry and - tank
attacks and 36 enemy tanks were
knocked out by the First army in
yesterday's fighting alone. The
nazis were .throwing in huge re
serves in an effort to prevent fur
ther -penetration into Germany
east of Aachen. ' !
The German news agency DNB .
said allied patrols, from the Arn
hem sector which, had driven -
across the Dutch-Geasnan fron
tier were pushed back in sharp
counterattacks. " '
Lt Gen. Sir Miles C. Dcmpsey'a
British Second army merged with
the other two airborne task for
ces in the snowballing drive
across southern Holiana yester
day in, a spectacular advance.
Nijmegen, a city of approxi-
mately 50,000, is situated on a
high bluff on the southern bank
of the river and once Dempsey'a
main forces have crossed the way
will be open to them through a
rolling valley into the . Ruhr,
scarcely four miles to the east
Weather I
Maximum temperature $1 de
grees, minimum 55 degrees, no
rain, river -2 ft 6 in. ; t .
Partly cloudy Thursday and.
Friday; scattered showers -Thursday
; cooler northwest Thursday ,
and .in the southwest ' and east '
portion Friday. - "
Householders
Drive Sumlay
- re
done later by volunteers before
the material can be shipped off .
to war,", Knapp said. -.
The Marion county salvage
committee and all those associat
ed with this campaign; therefore,
strongly urge all householders to
make it their own personal re
sponsibility to see -that the paper
is bundled securely, as outlined
above". j ' ?
.Waste basket paper is not ac
ceptable because lack of adequate
baling ; facilities in this area,
Knapp added.
A joint announcement was made
by Knapp and by Floyd Bowers,
city salvage chairman, that all
Salem,, fire stations will serve as
supplemental depots .during Sun
day's drive, for the convenience of
suburban residents.
Persons living outside of the ci
ty limits and desiring to donate
their paper to the Salem campaign
may take, tied bundles of news
papers, magazines and 'cartons to
their nearest fire station any time
before 3 p, -m. Sunday,