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NINETY-FOURTH YEAR
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, October 5, 1944
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On Tuesday I spent some lime
.attending the tax clinic which F.
"II. Young of the Oregon Business
and Tax Research : organization
had arranged in Portland. In at-
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all parts of the state. In addition
tax authorities from other states
attended and assisted in the pro
gram. Z While the, sponsor group repre
sents the business element of the
state, and takes a business point
'of view in considering problems
of taxation, Mr. Young arranged
that items of present Importance
; could be discussed from opposing
"points of view.' Thus the propon
ents of the little Townsend plan
were given an opportunity, which
they did not embrace, to present
their side of the pending initiated
constitutionaLjimendment for -old
age pensions. On - the school
amendment ' speakers -for and
-against were. heard. likewise the
McKenna sales tax bill was sup
ported by Senator McKenna and
' R. T. Moore of Bandon, member
-of the legislature, and opposed by
Kelly Loe of the state federation
of . labor and Morton Tompkins
"of the grange.. w
Besides these arguments on con
. troversial measures there were ad
. dresses on special topics. Floyd K.
JBowers of Salem talked on control
.of local budgets. Tax - Commis
sioner Earl Day presented the case
, for added federal contributions to
.local units of government because I
of extensive and growing federal
ownership of public lands. Visit-
Ing tax experts reported on ex-
perience of- other states on spe-
cific tax 'matters. ; 'a?'.:;
Right now, perhaps, the public
is not" in much of a mood to talk
about .taxes. True, they are get-
ting - socked with "taxes right
(Continued on Editorial page)
Petrillo to lift
Recording Ban
. WASHINGTON, Oct 4-0T)-Af-
ter .two years of trying, the gov
ernment decided today that it can-
not make the American Federation
of Musicians stag In hannony-witn
.-vi-r--Uia -rLii
the recording companiesi, so Prcsi
oenx Hooseveu asxea tne union, on
a personal basis, to follow Wash-1
lnxton's baton.
In . telegram to James Caesa,
Petrillo, the union s president, Mr.
Roosevelt said it would be "your
country's gain" if the union would
comply with a war labor board or
der and drop Its , ban oh making
recordings. The WU3 order was
issued, last June 15, and the union
"has ignored it' V" . ... .
, In New York, PetriUoV office
announced the federation leader
had telegraphed the president that
he had called a meeting of the un
ion's International executive board
to be held in Chicago Oct "at
which time your request will be
given careful consideration.", ;
A spokesman said Petrillo would
have no further comment prior to
the board meeting. , ; ?
Petrillo told a senate committee
in January, 1943, that if the presi
dent asked that the ban be lifted
the request would be granted.'
School Heads
To Meet Here
, Wartime practices in Oregon
. schools and anticipated changes to
meet postwar conditions will be
- evaluated at the annual confer-
nc nf Orppim school adminlitra
tors opening October 9 in Salem
Hi S-ichooi d
Junior high school principals, city
and county school superintendents
are expected to attend tne comer-
ence, held under joint auspices of
administrators' associations and
the state department of education,
' Dr. J. Paul ' Leonard,, Stanford
university, will be tne outstand -
tog speaker, - Rex Putnam, state
superintendent of public instruc-
. tion, said Wednesday, the broadcast stated. 'i
V. S. Diplomats to Prepare
ForReturiiof Foreign Trade
WASHINGTON, Oct 4.-W
Preparing the- ground for quick
resumption of American trade
with liberated countries, the state
- and commerce departments have
Instructed diplomatf to gather
economic information for business
and government use. v
; A Joint gnnounccmcnt ',lcnlj3it
' said -American diplomatic and
consular representatives -.in ;i all
areas freed from the axis have
received "detailed and . specific"
instructions on reports they are to
rrcpare as speedily as possible.-
The main points the government
' , wants to know are: : , :
1. Irr-nediate supply require-
r- :r.t3 end estimates of economic
c niitions ia liberated "areas.
Belgrade
tiire ;
Due Soor
Tito, Red Forces
Only 9 Miles
Capital City ,
LONDON, Thursday, Oct 5-(
The fast-striding red army now is
approaching 'the rail junction city
of Pancevo, less than- nine miles
northeast of Belgrade, and fall of I
the Yugoslav capital appears only
a matter of hours, a Moscow dis
patch said today. C , " r
The Russians,' driving in from j
the northeast and east, ; already
had joined with Marshal Tito's I
partisans in a campaign to Wrest
all of Yugoslavia from the Ger-
mans.
Beds Move Swiftly
Knifing" overland so swiftly as
to suggest the nazis were able to
put up but little fight after long
harrassing by the partisans, the
Russians captured the railway
towns of Banatska and Kraljevi-
cevo, is miles nortneaat oi Bel
grade, Crepaja, .16 miles north of
the capital, DebOyacha, ; 18 miles
I north, and Banaska Novo Selo, 18
miles northeast, Moscow announc
ed in its midnight communique.
The plunge to DebOyacha rep-
resented a gata of 27 miles east-
iwaru irvm uuiuu caDiure ox woica
was announced 24 hours eailier,
ana - overran me rau srauons oi
Alibunar j and Vladimorovae
route,
Junction Outflanked
One hundred miles southeast of
Belgrade, other, red , army forces
racing to smash the rail' network
r ich f ttej.Germani must
P -Balkans out-
I i J At f ' . - A - I
naiutea me, inree-way , rau junc-
tion of Zajecar, capturing f the
town " of Vratarnica nine miles to
the south, and penetrated to with-
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tion of Nis astride the main rail
way from Bulgaria and Greece.
Credit Group
Sets Meeting
Salem will be host Saturday to
one of. the largest groups oi cre
dit grantors and credit bureau ex
ecutives ever to assemble In the
Pacific northwest capital city
credit association , officers said
Wednesday night,
Coming here to work out ways
and means of setting up practical
plans for control of credit in the
immediate postwar period, men
and women who comprise the Ore
gon Columbia Basin group will
be in constant conference from 10
a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Saturday.
Following the banquet at the
Marion hotel, a floor show win be
directed by Bill Talbot which, in
turn will.be followed by dancing
until midnight Every credit gran
tor in Salem has been urged by
the Salem association to attend.
bribed by the promise that "there
will be no long speeches.
Rioting Breaks Out
Vienna, Auatria
NEW YORK, Oct 4 Rioting
has broken out in Vienna and oth-
w parts of Austria In resnonse to
General Eisenhower's call to the
Austrian to : disassociate them-
selves from the Germans, BBC
broadcast recorded by NBC said
1 tonight
I "There have been casualties in !
j Vienna and arrests are reported,'
2. General summary of social
and economic conditions needed
as an essential guide to Ameri
can foreign policy."
3. Analyses of specific economic
conditions as t guide to rcsump- l
tion of 'commercial trade and in
vestment, v ; ---j ' '
The bureau of foreign and do
mestic commerce and the state!
department will make information
available to business as quickly
as possible, the statement said.
If special inquiries are address
ed to the bureau, it went on, the
government will . seek answers
from its representatives through
out the wod. - -
Cap
Saturday
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r&PPy .Wwrior' Dies
Alfred JL Smith, four times governor of New York and democratic
presidential nominee la 1928. died ia New York City Wednesday
alter a tons uiness. :
Berlin, Ore. Will
BeCOme DistOlllO
fo HoilOr Greeks
NEW YORK, Oct 4 On
Oct 28, Berlin, Linn, county. Ore,
will change its name to Distoma
The town has approved a plan
to adopt the name of. the Greek
villa err wfcirh 'j-Was raxM v" fin
nazis tctaUatibn for ' guerriHa
ImctlvltiAhmif 110a intnlW
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M and children were iilled-
In announcing the action, Max
well Anderson, playwright and
rebirth of Distomo, which spon-
sored the change in name, said
that dedication ceremonies on the
28th - would coincide f with the
fourth anniversary of the Italian
invasion of Greece. .
liberal
Bonin Islands
XIS PACiriC FLEET HEAD-
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor; Oct 4
7ff)-Striking within, 815 miles of
Tokyo, American .Li berators
bombed and hit a Japanese cargo
ship at Chichi Jlma in the Bonin
islans while two enemy planes
watched but declined to give bat
tle, the navy announced tonight!
The big bombers attacked ship
ping in Chichi Jlma harbor Mon
day. Navy Venturas hit Paramu-
shiro in the Kuriles. Other air
raids were reported against Mar
cus Island, Pagan in the northern
Marianas and Jaluit and Maloelap
in the MarshaHs. r '.-
In the invaded .Palaus, where
marines and soldiers are mopping
up on Peleliu and Angaur, the to
tal enemy dead through Tuesday
was given as 10,8878878 on Pe
leliu, 1109 on Anguar.
Sportspian's
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ef the cpenlr wcr!J scries game as Kay Ean'rrs, Carilral 12.1
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Alfred E. Smith
Long Sickness
NEW YORK, Oct 4-(P)-Alfr ed
E. Smith, the happy warrior" of
American politics, died today llf
Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan attrib-'
uted Smith's death to lung con
gestion and heart's disease. He had
been in ill health since the 'death
of his wife, Catherine, last May 4.
The prominent Catholic layman
knew he was dying "and was
praying all the tune," : said the
Rev. John Healy. of St Vincent
Ferrer's church who was present
when Smith died at CO a, m.
(EWT) in Rockefeller institute.
Body to Lie In State H'V
As plans went forward to have
the bodr He In state in St Pat
ricias cathedral beginning 2 p.m.
(EWT) Friday and for a high
requiem mass at 11 a. m. Satur
day, tribute to the man known for
his brown derby; cigar and Jovial
smile came from the nation's lead
ers in all walks of life.- .
President ' Roosevelt said in
Washington: The country loses a
true patriot"
Hoover Pays Tribote ; ,
Former President Herbert Hoo
ver, who as republican presiden
tial nominee in 1828 gave Smith
his . second and last political de
feat 9aUzlZ-,i i ,; r-"'.
Sor. Alfred Smith contributed
a real part in building America.
He "was valiant In political cam
paigns, but he was so Intrepid in
his honesty of mind, in his fair
ness and his sportsmanship that
be won the esteem and personal
friendship oi every opponent'
(Lift sketch on pago 2.)
Park Packed
park, t Lcrls, la the tot izzL'ZX
Dies
Followin
Japanese
PiishNear
Fdochow
Invasion Forces
Only SiiMUes
From China Port
CHUNGKING, Oct 4-(Wap
anese invasion forces are less than
six miles from Foochow, last large
east China coast port held, by the
Chinrs, the high command an
nounced . tonight acknowledging
lor the first time that the enemy
had made a successful landing in
Fukien province. v
The 'new Japanese offensive in
Fukien and the strong 'enemy
drive In Kwangsl province toward
Kweilin indicated here a Japa
nese plan to seize American air
bases to deny any American force
heading, for the China coast the
protection of land - based aerial
support, as well ; as, a general
strengthening of. Japanese - de
fenses against any American move
from the Pacific
Hlngaa Captured
" The high command said the in
vaders had captured Hingan, en
the Hunan-Kwangsl railroad, , SI
miles northeast of Kweilin, in a
threat to outflank the former US
air base on the west as well as
on the east Fighting was report
ed 12 miles west of Hingan,
. At the same time the communi
que said the enemy had broken
into C""gg. 27 miles south of
Hengyang and which for many
weeks had kept the left flank of
the Japanese drive on Kweilin ex-
posed. The high command said
street fighting still was in prog-
fress in -the city. . -
YtehUng Xages.
1 On the right, flank of the ene
my's Kweilin offensive, fierce
fichtine was rasing inside Pao-
ching, west of Hengyang.
'Face Isn't All Jap
Lost to Woodburn .
Man on Tinian Isle
WOODBURN, Oct 4 -(Special)-
Robert Gannon, a navy
machinist's mate whe has been
herding a bulldozer around
Tinian for the seabees, has a
Wrtot watch which his parent,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gannon mt
Woodbom, believe some Jap
anese would give a pretty pen
ny: to' ret back. -Vi-: , :,:
Gannon wrote that he had
found a watch with a case made
from three German coins "or
medals, which apparently had
been wen by a Japanese swim
mer m the Olympic games at
Berlin in 193. '
A checkup at the Woodburn
library showed that three med
als were awarded Japanese
swimmers that year one to
Maaanera Team for the lit me
ter free style, another to Delsoo
Hanrare for the 199 - meter
breast stroke, and third U
Tvsa, Sngsira, - Tagnchl and
Aral for the S89 meter relay.
. . The Gannons said Rebert had
received a number ef hfcratlve
off ers for the watch bet that
he fancied It tee much as a aeu
venlr to let it go.. ;
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McQuinn's Homer
Gives Browns 2-1
7in O ver Cards , ; .
SPORTSMAN'S PARK, St Lou.
ii Oct 4 -ifiy- George McQuinn's
fourth Inning home run with
Gene Moore ia base cave the
rowns a 2 to 1 victory over the
Cardinals in the opening game of
the world series before 33,242 fans
today. -
Denny Galehouse, , a veteran
curve ball artist who did not join
the Browns on- a full time basis
until July 20 blanked '.the Red
Birds for eight frames but lost his
shutout in the ninth when Martin
Marion doubled, moved to third on
an infield out and scored on Pinch
Batter Ken CDea's long fly to
center.
Billy Southworth's ace, i Mort
Cooper, allowed only two hits, the
Brownies grand total for tne. af
ternoon. In the seven, innings he
worked before he was lifted for a
pinch batter, but the blows' were
the two that did the trick. (See
full details on sports page)
Detroit Strike
Effects 50,000;
s 9 Plants
DETROIT, Oct 4 -)- Main
tenance workers whose strike
made an estimated 50,000 Detroit
area war plant employes idle to
day adjourned a stormy - mass
meeting tonight without taking
any action to end the stoppage.
A plane bearing six represents
fives of the union who appeared
before the national war labor
board In Washington was; ground
ed in Pittsburgh and i another
Plane bringing three Jiigh officials
of the- United Automubile Work
ers (CIO) from Atlantic City with
back-to-work pleas also encoun
tered delay. ' " " ' , s
When It became apparent that
neither plane would arrive before
midnight the maintenance work
ers, voted to adjourn the 'meet
ing, at which both parties were to
have appeared, until tomorrow
morning. - " v
The strike directly Involved, ap
proximately 6000 maintenance
men. ' - -'
The strike,' begun despite pleas
of International United Automo
bile Workers (CIO) officers that
it be deferred pending a scheduled
hearing with the , WLB, ; closed
nine factories and slowed down
production in 15 others." -' . "
First Move Underway ;
To Prosecute Petain
LONDON, Oct 4-W-The first
official move to prosecute Mar
shal Henri Philippe Petain ; for
high treason has been taken, the
Paris radio announced in a broad
cast recorded by the Associated
Press. ' " .
; Omitting Petaln's tiUe, the an
nouncement said the Paris police
were ordered by a Judicial com
mission to investigate the activi
ties "of a man named Philippe
Petain. accused: bf treason' end
communication with the enemy.1
Stop
for the Crowns. Tie Erawrs wen. t ta 1, ttfare
wire;icto.) (Zf tici-re en ?s 2)
Yank Arm
IMoFe Tiian.
Inside Nazi
Patton's Veto
Fight to Giptnre
Vital Fort Driant
SUPREME t HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Oct 4-(P-Smadrons of
hard - hitting American? tanks
which had been held back for two
days while doughboys hacked a
yawtting hole in the Siegfried line
north of Aachen were sent charg
ing through the breach today to
blast German secondary defenses
and help clear the path of Lt Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges First army to
the Rhine." "". t- K -
- Pouring into a gap two and a
half miles wide in the vaunted
west wall the Tanks tonight were
fighting through minefields, tank
traps and hastily-built ' rifle pits
more than two miles inside the
border of Germany, after having
thrown , back three week enemy
counterattacks in the early morn
ing hours.'
Nasi Troops Peer
Front dispatches said the nazi
commanders, for all their desper
ate need to halt the burgeoning al
lied drive at the heart of the in
dustrial Rhineland, did not have
enough first class troops to throw
against Bodges' crack infantry di
visions and tremendous reserves
of armor.
More than 100 miles to the south
in France Lt Gen. George S. Pat
ton's. Third army veterans fought
bitter' hand-to-hand duels inside
Fort Driant a great rabbit warren
of(ttefenses guarding the vital city
of Met? from the west bank of the
Moselle nver. su,
Germans Rally ' -
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After .Yank troops stormed into
the gun-studded fortress and be
gan driving the nazis out of under
ground tunnels with blazing oil,
the enemy rallied, from, hidden
machinegun : and. . rocket nests
within the mile-and-a-half-long
Lmaze and a deadly close-quarter
battle raged into the night .
While- headquarters -announced
officially that the fort one of sev
eral similar strongholds protecting
Metz had been captured, a field
dispatch from Edward Ball of the
Associated Press said that the nazi
garrison, composed of former stu
dents of the German officers
school at Metz, still was putting up
"fierce eslstance.',
11,000 Lives Lost
In Army Air Force
Accidents at Home
WASHINGTON, V Oct 4 -UP) -
Eleven thousand lives have been
lost in 5600 fatal army air force
accidents in the United States
since Pearl Harbor.
The war department made pub
lic these figures today in a state
ment supplementing its earlier an
nouncement that 17,500 planes had
been lost- in the United States
during the same period. Of this
total, the: department said, only
11.000 were cracked up in wrecks
while 3000 were worn out in flight
training and 2500 were worn to
the extent that they became fit
only for ground training, j
The total of "lost" planes was
slightly more than half the overall
losses of 42000 AAF aircraft in all
operations at home and abroad. ;
Goebbels Announces Plans
For Nazi Guerrilla Warfare
LONDON, Oct 4 HFh A nazi
blueprint for highly organized and
fanatical guerilla warfare to nul
lify an allied victory nd tie
civile administration of concurred
German territory almost impossi
ble was outlined today by nazi
officialdom. " t: - - .
Propaganda Minister Paul Jo-
seph Goebbels, in a speech to Ger-
isan workers ca the western frcl
quoted on the Berlin - radio by
DNB, said the allies had launched
ta gll-out cilznzve to win the
war before winter, but that con
ditions now favor the German ar
tsy, and hf any event the nazis
were prepared to wage guerilla
warfare to tie death. t
The plan got an even more thor
ough airing la Ilclarich Jlhzzrlefs
publication "Das Schwarze Kors,
which t"..:.ciei a scheme designed
to r.ke tila wsr virtually without
1 ca tr.it to coerce every Crmm
or Drives
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Roosevelt Sets
Radio Speech
a
. WASHINGTON, v: Oct 4 Hff-
President Roosevelt wfB go on the
air tomorrow night 'for his second
campaign speech, directed to dem
ocratic party workers throughout
the nation. - .
Mr. Roosevelt formally opened
his fourth term drive Septt 23 in
an address attacking republicans
for spreading "falsehoods" and
declaring they should not be per
nutted to "botch" the peace again
at he said they did after the-last
war. C. X:: : --; " 'r
There has been no indication
of the theme of the address to
morrow night a 20-minute talk
scheduled for 10 p. m. (eastern
war time) over CBS and Mutual.
A party worker in each of the
123,000 voting districts has been
requested to invite 10 persons to
his home to hear the address. At
its conclusion, the guests will be
given list of voters and asked to
help get them to the polls. -
R.
Yards, Brenner
Pass Pounded
LONDON, Oct Hft-V 'to 750
Filing Fortresses : and Llberatore
of the US 15th air force hammered
Munich railroad yards ,, and - the
Brenner V Pass area today while
RAF heavy bombers dumped thou- '
sands of tons of explosives on Ger
man U-boat pens at Bergen, Nor-,
way. : .-.v. '
- The air ministry' revealed that
RAF; Lancaster " which used a.
Russian airdrome as an intermedi
ate base 'recently scored a direct '
hit withr a 12,000 pound bomb on
the German battleship Tirpitz an
chored near Altenfjord,. Norway, '
, The attack, made wimout loss; .
involved . a roundtrip - flight vt
mote than 5000 miles - between
bases in England and the airdrome 4
in Russia near Archangel. ; . i '
While allied heavy bombere
were busyf Ninth air force medi
ums destroyed 10 enemy , gun po
sitions mat had been holding up
the US First army drive into the
Siegfried line near Aachen. Other
warplanes, supporting the, US 1
Third j army ; near Luneville,
knocked out one gun position, 35
locomotives and a viaduct
Two Generals Get
Order of Suvorov r
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' LONDON, Oct 4-ff)-The Mos
cow radio announced tonight that
the Soviet government had award
ed the Order of - Suvorov, first
class, ' ; to Lieut Gen. Mark W.
Clark, commander of the US Fifth
army in Italy, and to Field Mar
shal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery,
commander of the - British , 21st
army group on the western front
The order, bestowed by the pre
sidium of the Supreme Soviet of
the USSR, is the highest army dec
oration given to any person out
side the Soviet union.' General
Dwight 1 D. Eisenhower also
holds it
Into fighting the occupying pow
ers on every inch of German soiL
to murder as traitors any Germans
who deal with, the allies, to make
a hell ef returning refugees and
Gcstbels asserted Tour enemies
have unleashed an all-out offen
sive on our frontiers of gigantic
impact in order to win a speedy,
and above IL not too costly a vic
tory." but added that if the allies
succeeded in advancing tempor-
grilyw it would to only over Ma
rampart of bodies, young and old..
The article in Das Schwarze
Eorps said guerilla fighting plans,
to meet conditions already becom
ing evident around Aachen, were
far advanced, and based on every
thing tie Germans had learned in
Russia, theJJa!kans, France and
Belgium where they, as the oc
cupying forces, were harassed fcy
i:ur;i;ats tciiad their Lses.
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