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fin 'if CDQS -Weather . : : ' maximum termers lure ft derrees, olaitaau 53 de frees, .C2 nla; river -3.1 f Partly clarfr tTeiaeiiay and Thorsiay with after boob showers west cf Cas cades Wednesday. Cooler east portion tTedacsday. " PCUND3D r General Eisenhower's appeal to Austrian to "give positive proof of their willingness to dissociate . themselves from their German masters' sounds like a voice echo ing in an empty rain-barrel.' For what is Austria but an historical expression? . In Vienna, In the interval be tween" the wars, this saying went the rounds of the cafes: ,The situation in Germany is serious but not hopeless; the situ ation in Austria is hopeless but, not serious.. - v- "V ' '." ::y 'i . If that motto was true of the Austria of the 1930s, how much truer is it today when soul as well as body of Austria seems , to be in corporated with " the nazi state. General ' . Eisenhower may know snore about its internal "affairs" than the papers of late years have disclosed. Perhaps, under the ruins of the apartments which' socialists built and the heimwehr . shelled there are still remnants of those of democratic faith who are ready to emerge in a battle for libera tion. But since March of 1838 a I tomb-like silence has settled on ()-Red army troops "slashed into Vienna, known since the treaty of Yugoslavia on a -new . fronts 83 Versailles as a "capital without a miles wide yesterday and pressed country.' Her people are som- a spearhead from the northeast to . nambulists, walking in dreams of within 37 miles of the Yugoslav vanished glories. ' y capital of Belgrade, already ,re i Austria, keystone of the Danub- ported under virtual siege by Mar Ian arch, has been a country of sbal Tito's partisans. tragedy. ' It was the assassination ef Archduke Franz Ferdinand at ' Serajevo in 1914 which precipitat- ed the first world war. The break- tip of the. : -v;r. 1 (Continued on Editorial page) Postwar Bills WASHINGTON,! Oct S.-UfV President Roosevelt accepted to- day the congressionally-designed i. . . . . m n; . ai a.? w.iun7 lor gevung me nauon ,back from a 'wartime to, a peace- xime Dasis dui aecxarea u wouia not run satisfactorily without fur- wer wnaenng. xie announcea ai news con- lerenwne na5 gnea wiui ue- tence the wrptag war property cuspostu vux aoa naa aiso EigneQ WV'lZ, S? "n war moouizauott won reconver- won. Both measures, sharply vary.- ug uuut aixiuiuisurauuii recom mendations, were enacted by con gress just before it took a recess until after the national elections. That creating the office of war mobilization and reconversion was quite satisfactory so far as it went, Mr. Roosevelt said' in a fatmnt Vint It AA nnt MarT.l Roosevelt Signs ButNotPleased He observed that the bill as fi- transportation of migratory workers back home or to places of new employment, failed to pro vide unemployment compensation ior federal employes, and failed to establish nation - wide minimum standards for unemployment ben efits. Roy Strausbaugh Dies From Wound In French Action Frank M. Strausbaugh, 1045 N. 13th street, received word Tue- day evening of the death in ac tion September 1, of bis nephew, Roy W. Strausbaugh, 25, a native of this city. - ? ..f ; r . . Frtor to this last notice, Straus- baugh's wife, Mrs. Frances Strausbaugh, had received word at her home in Des Moines, Iowa, that her husband had , been wounaea m acuon. . - ;; Strausbaugh ;was serving his secona emmmenx as a regular, having joined the army after be ing graduated' from Salem enlorl high school. He attended Engle- wood school and Parrish Junior high before 'entering the senior During his first enlistment - Strausbaugh was in the Aleutians He observed that the bill as fi- TT - O - -xiaUy enacted failed to provide for EflOt U trtttCfif Y transportation of migratory ' war A . i OJ fat two years. After Pearl Har-jlast night as Finnish troops pres bor he was sent to the states to I sed toward German positions in assist in establishing camps for the WAAC About four months ago he asked for. a transfer to a : combat, unit and was shipped overseas. He died in France. : The former Salem man leaves an infant son, William Roy; his wife; mother, Mrs. Ethel Samp, Caldwell, Idaho; uncle, Frank M. Strausbaugh, and an aunt,' Mrs. I.Iabel Siewert, both of Salem, and a number of cousins in this area. Defense Would Prove Socialite CuMUes, i. saunas, cit, Oct t.-m- The defense in the Frances An- drews murder trial will attempt tomorrow to show that the social-1 PORTLAND, Oct J.-(P)--But-ly prominent Carmel valley worn-1 ter" dealers reported in a survey an did not kill 19-year-old Jay Lcyett, son of a neighboring ranch family. J:- The state concluded its case this afternoon. - - , j District Attorney Anthony Bra- ill had built his case on drcum ttantial evidence, with Jealousy 13 a motive for the shootJcg. - rmiETY-FOUBTII YEAB TVT 1TD 7 &Sr - i w .ww ii n i- A. V1 Starts : 1 Russians en Second Front 1 . . --- V ,. -.- J , In Yugoslavia LONDON, Wednesday,-Oct. 4 Striking across the border north of the Danube, Soviet troops clamped a stranglehold on com- munications in eastern Yugoslavia by the capture of the important regional centers of Petrograd, Bela Crvka, Vrsac and a dozen other towns and railway stations. ' i ' ' Key Kail Junction The early morning Moscow communique pointed out that Vrsac, a city of 30,000, is the junc tion of live railway lines and three highways. Ten miles to the south west the Russians took the town of Ulma, which is 37 miles from Belgrade.;";:" ; " . .-: . At Petrovprad. 40 miles north ef th Yugoslav ranital th red flrmT had nushed 24 mile from its starting point on the border I I southwest Of Timisoara. 1500 Nazis Killed Hard fighting in the mountains to MUth reported by the communique, which said the Sov- iet troops making the original penetration j of Yugoslavia had Urfped out more than 1500 Ger- i tnnn i -The Russians; 1 so announced capture of Estonian island of TasfM by amphiblous forces bent on ending Germany's domination of the Baltic sea. Ristna, one of four Island s' commanding en trances to the Gulfs of Riga and Finland, was taken by troops of Marshal Leonid Govorov's Lenin grad army. - -' BelgFade human sideNaval Chiefs For Jap War j SAN FRANCISCO, Calit, Oct 1 3 New moves in the war to crush Japan conclusions of stra tegy that may give life and force to the decisions reached at the his toric Roosevelt - Churchill Que bec meetings were planned by America's naval chiefs and Pacif ic commanders during a recent San Francisco conference Twelfth district naval head quarters officially disclosed today that the conference here was at tended by Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Adm. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief, of th US fleet; Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet and Pacific ocean areas; and other too officers directing i th navy's mighty Pacific forces. I The official announcement was bare of any detail, stating merely 1 that ; conference "on aspects of the campaign against the Japan- 1 ese" was concluded. !"" JT 1I1I1S JL TCSS )t CyfilTTllll STOCKHOLM, Oct. S -P)- Cannon fire was heard in Sweden I the border village of Vojakkala six miles north of Tornea, the I newspaper Aftonbladet reported (today. Tornea was captured in a sur prise landing from the Gulf of Bothnia by Finns seeking to drive Germans from Finland in accord' I ance with Russian armistice terms. I - Finnish troops closed in from I two directions on Ken;V 20 miles I southeast of Tornea where Ger mans resisted efforts to .seize a railway leading to RovanlemL major German base about 60 miles inland. Butter Demand Still . ,mM Exceeding Supplies I today that,' despite higher point values, supplies still are short of demand. Their shelves frequent ly "are empty before the end of business, they said. Demand is sufficient to take In stant care of every newly-churned pound,' said manufacturers, who are reportedly decreasing output 12 PAGES 1 Hnge curtains ef smoke poor forth at Jap-held Manila, as two navy ap from their attack en Nipponese shipping eaaght In the harbor I japs Th Tea ten Foochow, China 's Last CHUNGKING, Oct. 3-Iniperial headquarters in Tokyo an nounced in a broadcast communique today that Japanese troops were driving on Foochow, last ter a "surprise landing" in Fukien province. The enemy pushed toward the China's east coast was regarded Warsaw Poles. Give Up After 63 Day Battle LONDON, Oct 3 m A terse communique from Lt Gen. Tad eusz Komorowski (Gen. Bor) to day announced that his under ground army's resistance in War saw had ended after f a 63-day struggle during which thousands of patriots were killed and the city was reduced to a shambles. Moscow newspapers said a Pol ish officer who escaped reported that thousands of insurgents had crossed the Vistula to Russian lines "There is no longer any re sistance in any part of Warsaw, the officer was Quoted. "Warsaw is as greatly destroyed as Stalingrad." - :: A German , communique an nounced that the "insurrection col- lapsed' and said the city had been "almost completely destroyed." A Stockholm dispatch said the Ger mans claimed a total of 24,000 pris oners. ' - H 1 Komor o w ski's ! : communi que said: . ' H ' , . i 1 ."Warsaw ' has fallen, after ex hausting all supplies of food and ammunition on the- 63rd day of fighting in the face of overwhelm ing enemy superiority. On Oct. 2 at p. i m. orders were given to cease fire." Polish patriots, their hopes fired by the approach of the red army td the eastern banks of .the Vistula brought out their long - hidden arms and turned on the Germans within the capital on Aug. 1. ; Walkout Holds Up . Plane Propellers LANSING, Mich, Oct. S-FH Production of airplane propellers at two 'Nash-Kelvinator Corp. plants here came to a standstill to day as workers at the Cedar street plant, which had not previously been affected by a walkout which started Monday at the ML Hope plant, did not report for work. Gov. Dewey Proposes Reduction of IndividualyCorporation Income Levies as Part of Overliauling Present Tax System ! ALBANY, NY, Oct S-CKfovj Thomas E. Dewey proposed to-' night the reduction of Individual and corporation income levies as a' part of a complete Overhaul of the federal tax system he said must be acomplished after the war to remove a; road block in the Way 'of progress . I In an address prepared for de livery ; oveT a nationwide radio hookup (Mutual), the republican presidential nominee asserted that while the nation cherfuHy " pays high taxes to meet the cost of the war, its peacetime objectives of expansion and recovery could not be obtained "by taxes which eat into the income cf the: 2 who ara Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning. October 4. f i - r - .:;r-v i i-i Yank Bombers Blast J ap Shipping inMqhila Bay from wrecked; shore installations 'Avenger torpedo bombers pall Big Seaport big seaport in Chinese hands, af city of 00,000 population on by observers here as a logical O action to counter any American plans for a landing, and indicated possible Japanese nervousness ov er such an intention. I ; . " (Japanese! press and radio- re ports, recorded by IrCC aolors. stated the seaborne landings were made to thwart American "plans to land on the; China coast from the Pacific and sever1 our com munications with the Southern Region.") ! . Chinese Silent The - Chinese ' high command made no comment on the Fukien landings,' which Tokyo said oc curred last Friday, and report ed no change hi the Kwangsi sec tor, where the Japanese are driv ing toward Kweilin. (Associated press War Corres pondent Clyde A. Farnsworth said in a dispatch written Oct 1 In Kweilin that the Japanese were re ported within 11 miles of the city, but added that its defenders were well - equipped! with US ammu nition and supplies and that Chi nese commanders were confident the Kwangsi city would be China's Stalingrad.) j Flghtinr Brisk The high command communique reported brisk fighting was con tinuing in Paoching, 60 miles west of Hengyang and a vital Chinese defense position! on the right flank of the Japanese; drive on Kweilin. Foochow ; once before was in Japanese hands: having been cap tured in April, 1939 but it was re taken by the Chinese later. Hungary Has Armistice -Terms Now, Says Paper J LONDON, Oct. S-iAVThe Lon don Daily Sketch said today Hun gary has received preliminary ar mistice terms from the United States, Britain and Russia through Baron Garbiel I Apor, Hungarian minister to the Vatican. - The terms, the Sketch said, In clude withdrawal from all Czecho- alovaJdan, Romanian and Yugo slavian territories occupied by Hungary , since 1938; a declaration of war against Germany; and re moval of Regent Nicholas Horthy and other top men in the Budapest government, j already below a decent American standard of living.' Assailing the new deal for what he said were 5 changes in the revenue laws in 12 years, be pro posed this program if the repub licans win in November: v i -: ; ' (1) Revision of personal income tax exemptions; "so that the man who makes as little as $11 a week no longer has an income tax taken out of his pay envelope." (2) Reduction cf personal in come rates. - r J - - (3) Revision and, lowering ; of the income levy on corporations "until it no longer acts as a drag upon production and a barrier to jobs," with aiU-int clla-.Sr.aUca daring twoday strike by carrier-baaed Third fleet (AP photo from navy) Swiss Say Nazis Lose 15 AliHion Dead, Wounded NEW YORK, ; Oct SHflV-The Swiss newspaper ,"Die Nation" was quoted by the British radio today as compiling this box score Of German war losses since the Polish invasion in 1939: Dead, 8,500,000. Wounded, 6,300,000. j 111 ; in Germany, largely from "war experiences" or malnutri tion, 21,000,000. f ' i Shelterless from air raid de struction, jcrssfc- rt' Stote Supreme jCoiirt to Hear Soldier Case The state supreme court will de-' cide whether a man may change his legal residence after he enters the army, the court announced Tuesday, declaring it would accept on appeal from Multnomah coun ty circuit court a case involving Richard H. Zimmerman, navy pet ty officer stationed at Swan Island, who is seeking a divorce, f Circuit Judge Walter Tooze dis missed the suit on the grounds that Zimmerman still Is a legal resident of Ohio, where the suit should 1 be filed. Zimmerman sought by mandamus proceedings in the., supreme court to compel Tooze to assume jurisdiction, '. The court, in mandamus pro ceedings, could consider only the question of Jurisdiction, it pointed out Tuesday, while on appeal from the circuit Judge's decision, lt could hear all questions involved in the case.'." '' ! - 1" v In an opinion by Justice Arthur D. Hay, the supreme court affirm ed Multnomah Circuit Judge Al fred P. Dobson's order granting a divorce to Mrs. Joseph . M. Fuller but ordered alimony reduced from $1000 to 6800 and revoked Dob son's order granting Mrs.? Fuller the household furniture, j . Al Smiths Condition Better, Says Doctor f LONDON, Oct SH'PJ-Improve-ment in the condition of former Gov. Alfred E. Smith was report ed tonight by his physician. Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan. i 1 "There is a little ray of sun shine now," he said after an exam ination, but added that' the 1928 democratic presidential nominee fis still a gravely sick man." 'i of "special war time taxes which now rise to 95 per cent' (4) Elimination "as soon as pos sible of excise taxes, except those on alcoholic beverages, tobacco and gasoline, (5) Complete) overhaul 61 "ex isting, confused and complicated tax laws' and,; the creation of "a basic tax law which can be ex pected, to remain simple and gen erally stable." (6) Esiablislment of a "consist ent national tlx policy one di rected toward achieving full em ployment and a rising national In come." ''.- I Dewey said that in the postwar years, with a cuUcrl d:U cf three 1844 planes el Admiral Halsey's I Nazi Industry Gets Pounding From Bombers LONDON, Oct 3-i-More than 2000 allied planes blasted German industrial targets, knocked out a sea wall guarding the Dutch island of Walcheren, and j supported ground forces pressing against the Siegfried line today. A force of British bombers used 12,000-pound "earthquake', bombs to breach the sea-wall and send the trold waters of the North Sea sweeping over German guns and fixed positions on Walcheren. The blow fell a day after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Dutch ci vilians' - they must3' prepare for heavy bombing of Schelde estuary Islands, - Walcheren, westernmost of these islands, j contains heavy gun em- placements, some perhaps capable of reaching Antwerp, 35 miles away, which the allies captured intact ! 1 -I Today's forays marked the sev-l enth time in the last nine days that at least 1000 heavy bombers at-1 tacked 1 German targets. - Eighth air force Liberators and - Flying Fortresses, escorted by about 750 Lightnings and Thunderbolts, hit the Nurnberg tank factory, the Daimler-Benz heavy truck plant at Gaggenau, and the German air force station at Gieblstadt, S3 miles west of Nurnberg. ; Crete Under Allied Siege . ROME, Oct 3-(0VCrete under allied siege ' today and the Morocco radio said, without can- flrmatioiv ttat strong forces landed in the. northwestern sec- tion to wrest away the island which Hitler won with much Ger - man blood in the spring of 191. jvavai neaaquarxera announcea that the British cruiser Black! Prince shelled the Malme airdrome Saturday, apparently to knock out! the field from which big Junkers of these bonds wOI be able to ob transports have been evacuating tain immediate cash therefor.! The key personnel of the Crete gar- holders of these government bonds rison. i ' may be the prey of unscrupulous '' . The danger of the German pod - tion on Crete was heightened by allied seizure of Kythera, an Island between Crete and j the Greek mtnlan, from which the enemy garrison of 150 men fled after de- stroying its radio station. 5 Germans were reported with - drawing from a number of small islands along the southern fringes ed Greece. hundred billion dollars large fed era! revenues would be needed. " "But.lt is stupid to suppose,' he said, "that we can support our w IjmwWm tto... . - come.' Our first aim must be increase our: national income by W iWWUiWM w ve. wm j at dustry, labor and agriculture.1 It was far better, he said, to have a low tax rate with a national income of one hundred fifty til- the war production board said to lion dollars than to have a high day in announcing that total out rate , with a national income cf put cf all aircraft was 7593 planes seventy-six billion dollars "as wej tad under, the new deal at its pcacce ccst" ' - ---- - i tJ - - . - First-An - t-- -ir'S--ji. , ... ,v V.- ".- ' Mard ; to Aachen New Wedge 12 Miles North of . ' .' Initial. Crack in Defense; Yanks Take Ubach; Destroy 39 Piliboxes ' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIOr. . ARY FORCE, Oct. AP)PowerfuI elcmenU of (he US First army have smashed a four-mile gap through the Sieg ' fried line north of Aachen, 12 miles north of the first allied wedge driven into the massive German fortificationW and : tonight more men and armor, mined stronghold of Aachen. The attack continues and against varying resistance," sopreme headquarters said late tonight J. ; - -r . The twin penetrations of theO Siegfried line were SO miles from I Cologne at one point and 32 miles from Dusseldorf at the other. We are definitely through the old; Siegfried line," declared an American officer. "We have our second major breach. There still are fortifications and anti-tank defenses ahead of us which the Germans bunt recentl y," be added. . Drive Spectacular In a spectacular 36-hour drive the doughboys virtually without air supports-captured Ubach, nine miles north of Aaachen and three below Beilenkirchen, and drove the 1 Germans from the moated 12th century castle of Rimberg on the ; German-Dutch border. Thirty-nine enemy Pillboxes 'were knocked out and between 400 and 500 prisoners captured In furious fighting. ;;V-:r : The first gap in the Siegfried defenses was driven, Just below Aachen at the outset of the inva sion of Germany. Today's break through placed LLGen. Courtney H. Hodges' 1 troops almost astride a main highway running north J from Aachen to Beilenkirchen. I Action All Along Front I All along the Aachen front the j battle flamed bitterly, with the I nazis trying desperately to close f the breaches in the defenses of I the Rhineland. For the past two days the enemy was purely on the defensive, despite the fact that I allied air support was being ham- pered by the weather. I Ubach, captured . after furious house-to-house fighting, is but 10 miles from the important German communications center of Julich, whence hard-surfaced highways lead 20 miles to the industrial cit- ies of Cologne and Dusseldorf on the Rhine. ' 1 j Bond Cashers I Warned About Crooked Deals i -i -.--1.-' . '. -:" " f . A warning against possible nn- gcroputou, operators in the field nf f;nanrft had been Issued todar I h stlttj. r.nrroration Commiasion- 1 . Maurice Hudson to persons cashing their goternment war 1 bonds. The federal government has j eased restrictions on the cashing of war bonds, so that the holder 1 and fraudulent stock promoters I for the reason that the vast ma- iority of them will not have sui I ficient information to distinguish j between good and bad invest j ments, said Hudson late Tues- nay. . ; " ' - 1 inougnt umeiy, inereiore, I he continued, "to Issue a warning I to Ul Ifct that war bond hold ers snouia do wary ox propositions advanced to them to Invest the proceeds of their bonds. - Before investing the proceeds of an A-l security backed by the resources of the United States in some other form of stock or security 1 they should consult someone with knowledge of the values of se curities so that they will not' be bilked by unscrupulous persons. In , 1 leap - . other words, look ' before . you tollioiiibcr Construction TTit All-TImp nf"li ASIIirJGTOIT, O c t . S - m Production of long - range - super I bombers in September wss "the greatest yet la a single month,' or 3 per cent of schedule,; - Total production in Aupust was l"::3 planes. Price Ec. i Ha 1CJ J inTirfiifi iy : Drives Outflank Defenders were driving to outflank the ; ' l"C" hSf r ' ':t 1 advances are being ! made 7 f ,? I . ' n r U. Si Bombers Pound Nippon Oil Supplies ALLIED " HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Wednesday, Oct 4. -iflVJapan' 3,000,000-barrel oil storage center at Balikpapan, Bor neo "the most lucrative strategic target in the Pacific, Gen, Doug las MacArthur called it was pounded powerfully Saturday by more than 60 Liberators. They flew from advance bases from which they can repeatedly pound the center on which Japan leans heavily for her ability to wage air and naval war and to move essential earge', ; Today's communique, disclosing! the attack, said towering fires were started by the big bombers, three of ' which were lost Head quarters said that parachuting Yank airmen from a crippled plane were strafed by machine guns or some or the : 30 Zeros which bitterly opposed the raiders. Seven Zeros were shot down and others were damaged. " , The big bombers, finding their targets through the clouds, accur ately dropped 74 tons of bombs. Road Junction Falls to Yanks In Italy Mud ROME, ; Oct 3 - - American doughboys, slogging along in deep mud in their main drive through the northern Apennines, have cap tured Monghidor, an important road junction 18 miles south of " Bologna, German supply and com munication center in northern Ita-. ly, allied headquarters announced today. I ' , ' 'J ''-. Flood waters of the Fiumlclno river, behind which the Germans axe strongly ; entrenched, stalled the British Eighth army offensive on the Adriatic sector, , the com munique, said. , " while the main allied drive at the center is down -the highway through Monghidor, other US forces have reached Casoni De Ro- magna, a village 15 miles south of Bologna and three miles east of the highway, i 4 r, ' Brazilian troops, on the western flank of j the allied line, moved ahead despite bad weather and stiff enemy resistance and cap tured Monte Nona, 14 miles north west of Lucca. Six Mid-Willamette VaUey Men Missing . -Six mid-Willamette valley men are listed among the 2030 soldiers wounded In action whose names were released today by. the war department i f. Pvt , Leslie E. Williams, whose wife, Ruth E. Williams, resides at 1740 Fir street Salem, was lost in the European theatre. H - ' Pvt Leonard E. Needles, son of Mrs. Katie Needles, route three, Saverton,f and Pfc Lawrence ,F. Schiedler, brother of "Henry J. Schiedler, route one. Brooks, were wounded in ' the European area fighting. , i , " ' ' ' "l ' -i Pvt.. James W; Stilson, son of Harold S. Stilson,' J143 Bellevue street Salem, and Pfc. Bernard P. Wilkinson, whose wife, Edris L. ' Wilkinson, resides at route six, box SS3A, Salem, were wounded in action in - the V Mediterranean theatre. ' ' ' Pvt William H. Spry, husband cf Betty V. Spry; St Frances ho- , tel. Albany, is mis!'-;: :n Mcdi- r tcrrancan area. I-