The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, October 14, 1944, Page 1, Image 1

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While S0 men and four women rose and xheered, Dorothea Steosloff, Salem United War Chest women's
di.hian amiid h&tilv Frid&r bsia the blackboard wbero ebcst ltattotlcla had flawed her di
vision over the top by a fall It per cent. The basket at the left of the picture contains money and
pledres to tailor 9430&JS bronrht In Friday te brln the total to MhKf.lt. Chest President Lowell
Kern presented the basket to Mbs Stensloff at Thonday's report luncheon In anticipation of the Fri
day delate. -Well fill tt affahan
; X find many of these pictures of
the coming of war to the cities
and towns of Europe quite inter
esting. The military scene is para
mount of course: the jeep thread
ing its way through a town; in-
f antrymen edging" along with, an
eye oui ana nue nanay lor snip-
ers; cheering, hand-waving civil
ians greeting the liberating army,
or dour, fearful Germans staring
at their conquerors.
But also of much interest la the
background; not' merely the back-
K round of war's destruction, but 1
-m Llk a. . J it. , I
vi uie arauteefcuxe ana- uic uic ui
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xne ciues. une musx realize inai
ciuea nave gone on iuncuooing, i
.after a fasWon, under occupation.
When the War rolls OH', ndl
through them they suffer varying
xaies. some are nearly wotiea oux
by the shelling and bombing and I
by . demolition of the retreating
enemy, ouier. eape wiwu wuy m
jew uupa .ou uic swne oi oio
buildings. Generally it is possible
to visualize irom tne background
, the character of the city,
r Thus, many tunes the signs
show the types of business being I
conducted and they are quite as
one would expect in most any
modern city. Again, the. architec-1
ture- may be very old, truly "old I
worldly." But sometimes the back-
ground is strictly , modern, which I
drives home the fact that Europe 1
since the first world war made!
much architectural progress.
These buildings shorn of old-1
style gables and cornices, rich in
expansive plate glass, with even
the lettering of the
(Continued on editorial page)
Nazis Continue
na r lant
- ROME, Oct 13-H)--German
troops before Bologna, like their
predecessors at Cassino, came up
. 1 out Of their foxholes today, after
- enduring what the 15th air force
described as the "greatest aerial
, assault of the war on
er.
. get area" and rejoined:
, ous struggle for the final hills be
fore the Po valley metropolis.
.There was little doubt that yes-
. terday's .... tremendous ; strike I by
hundreds of American heavy and
medium . bombers inflicted seri
ous' damage on nazi installations,
yet today's allied communique re
ported heavy fighting in progress
with "no material advances
around the embattled highway
center of . Uvergnano 10
- south of Bologna. ,
miles
yeteranirRightat
The Oregon Statesman, start
ing Sunday, October, 15, will
augment its . wide coverage of
war and veterans news with a
daily editorial page chapter on
the rights and benefits of mus
tered-out service men under
federal legislation.
The first will tell The
things to do after discharge;
the second will be on "Master
ing oat pay, etc.
The series, taken from offi
cial information, will be of ma
jor interest to service men,
their relatives and their friends.
Starting tomorrow in
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Women Top CJiest Quota
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the women's aivlitov chairman said
ISaiem Women Fill
Their Compartment
Of United Chest
Victory Appears
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ouro as suo on
Goal Reached
With money earned . In berry
patches or saved from grocery and
clothing allowances, the women
nf Salom hart tnriav filld to nver.
fiowinz their compartment of the
United War Chest
The women raised $11,029.72,
or 110 per cent of their quota, by
I Friday noon, to go over the top
ahead of all the other 11 divisions
inthev campaign, which closes
: wiih a Victory luncheon Monday
pv i.,v, tv. ci-.
iuai tuuvuevut k uic uucju
chamber of Commerce.-will be a
victoi-r celebration, it h.
came apparent Friday when the
- - .nJ ttal nt rht mntrihutinns
mounts above 90 per cent and
workers went into the field to
collect the last of the scattered
pledge cards.
whie men of Salem are receiv-
iM mPdals for battlefront service
Uyond even the requirements of
wa- M v war chest camoaiirner
Lm atop before every division of
the- great annual one-week drive
has topped its quota, Frank B.
Bennett told the men and women
who gathered for Friday's report
luncheon at the Marion hoteL
Men predominated : in greater
percentage than at any of the ser-
vice club luncheons which had
received reports of the drive ear-
lier in the week. And they rose
to their feet shouting as Dorathea
Steusloff, women's division chair-
man, staggered beneath a great
clothes hamper of solicitors re
ports to the speaker's table as the
results of her 359 solicitors work
was tallied. She turned in $4308.83
in money and pledges Friday, ad
ded the assurance that there would
be more to come, and praised the
efforts of women workers and
solicitors.
(Other chest division totals as
of Friday noon on page 2.)
Dewey Sets
Monday Talk
ALBANY, NY Oct 13-WVGov.
Thomas . Dewey said tonight bis
campaign address Monday ? night
in St Louis, Mo, would concern
"the urgent need for honesty and
competence in our nauonai govT
eminent - -
A spokesman irom uewey a ox-
fice said the republican presiden-
tial nominee probably also "would
discuss support President Roose-
veil reportedly was receiving xor
a xourin term irom cig-uiy pout-
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ical groups.
The speech, to be made in St
Louis convention hall, - will . be
works, (nbc and Blue) from 9 to
9:30 pm, cwt. r The Biue iiet-
won wui reoroaacast uie spcevu
over its Pacific Coast stations from
6:15 to 6:45 ajn., PWT, Oct-18.
iTSllvertOn War. Chest.; 1
Pissi. Half Way Haru
SILVERTON. Oct 13 O. E.
i Royer, chairman of the War Chest
committee, reported Friday that
reached. Business houses- have! Acain SHOW U. O. 1 IX
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been pretty weU covered by Mr.
Royeri committee, and work Is
under way in the residential dis-
tricts. Robert B. Duncan is assist-
ant to Royer. The Silvcrton quota
is JS250. ...
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last nicnt.
FR-Stalin May
Meet Before I
End of Year
WASHINGTON", Oct 13 tfV-
President Roosevelt left wide open
today the possibility that he may
meet with Marshal Stalin and
Prime Minister - Churchill in the
next two months to seek new Big
Three agreemenU oi the future of
Europe- and the preservaUon-oil
United Nations unitywheh peace
comes.
The1 president . touched briefly
on the subject at his news con
ference, where he responded to
several questions on foreign af
fairs. One answer indicated he
may be thinking of the French
administration . of Gen. Charles
DeGaulle now as a regular "de
facto , government' rather than
merely an "authority" .
He said you could call it either
an authority or a de facto govern
ment Some of his most-trusted
advisers are urging him to recog
nize the'; DeGaulle regime as a
provisional or de facto govern
ment and stop dealing with it on
a limited military basis. A new
American ) ambassador, Jefferson
caifery, left recently lor,, Paris,
duv pending some runner act oi
recognition, he goes only as a rep-
reseniauve w uie ae zacio xrencn
-auuioruy. - nerexoiore mr. oo-
sevelt has been careful to avoid
the word government in talking
of the DeGaulle set-up.
Jap Columns
Repulsed by
China Troops
CHUNGKING, Oct - 13-(P)-Ad-
jVancing Japanese ' columns have
ibeen repulsed by Chinese troops
25 miles north of Kweilin, key
point - in : South : China's defense
system,' after fierce .fighting, but
other enemy units ' have broken
into Kweiping, an important com
munications center about 70 miles
.outheast of Uuchow. the Chinese
high command announced today.
i jj. Chang Tung Chuen,
J Chinese spokesman, acknowledged
j,t a .press conference 4oday that
the Japanese had reduced the area
i of Free China between Manchuria
i and Honckone to a 60-mile jwide
pincers-like gains
nn KiliM from the : north r and
J uuchow from the ' east 'Gen.
nhn reported that street firiit.
I - -
ing is continuing In Kweiping. He
admitted that Foochow fell to the
Japanese on October 5.
Jury rinds bleeping
Potion Killed iimee
OAKLAND, Calif, Oct 13-(r-
The death of Evangelist Aimee
Snple"McPherson In her hotel
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Iby "anM accidental overdose: of
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I eal testimony.
Paris Blovie Theaters
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f PARIS, t Oct 13 - - Paris I
movie-goers saw their . favonle
Hollywood stars tonl-ht for the
first ' time since 1343 as the re-,
I sumption of electric f:rvice p-
Iraitted tlm houses to xcccOj.,
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American Losses
Light; Opposition
Fails to Appear
U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, ! Oct
13-(p)-American ' carrier planes,
in four days of widespread at
tacks, sank or damaged 140 Jap
anese ships and wrecked 525 to
530 planes, including 3 ships and
398 planes smashed in two days
of action at Formosa, the' navy
disclosed in communiques today
and tonight
Wednesday and Thursday, they
so completely overpowered hea
vily fortified Formosa, after steal'
Ing up on it behind a typhoon,
that its-defenders were unable to
deal a mortal blow at single
attacking warship, Adm. Chester
W. Nimite said.- He refuted ene
my claims of one carrier sunk, a
second damaged;
No Oppesttlon
- Kimitz also made the amazing
report that not one Japanese
plane rose from Manila's many
airfields Tuesday to contest car
rier raiders which wiped out 10
to 15 grounded planes on Luzon.
- He likewise enlarged the vic
tory scored Monday In the Ryu
kyus, which 'reach within f 200
miles of Japan, revising the
1 of bJn- lunk -M damie
Upward from 3$ M" IT, the smaU
surface craft from 20 to more
than' SO and planes from'; 89 - to
The Ryukyus : attack "cost the
Americans eight planes and eight
airmen.
In the southern Palaus, where
American invaders are within SIS
miles ' of the Philippines, Nunitz
announced tonight all organized
enemy resistance has ceased. The
Yanks hold 12 islands.
Accident Kills
Sgfc Richter
a telegram to his parents -told
fif the death of Staff Set Laur
Ricb.ter, son of Mr. and Mrs
irv t;kA. ,4. k w aq
ulegram tte soldier was
killed in an airplane accident in
England.
Sergeant Rich ter was employed
at the Boeing plan in Seattle be-
iore enlisting.
Surviving are his parents,
brother. Irvin, now in France;
sister, Mrs. Alice Robins of Wil
I lamina, and a younger brother,
Harold, who lives at home;
led
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Large B-29 Fleet
Hits Jap Targets
On Formosa Isle
WASHINGTON, Oct 14PH'
A large, force of - B-29' Saper
Fortresses attacked" Japanese
military targets on the Island of
Formosa, today, ,. the war - de-
partment annonneed. . s :
General EL H. Arnold, com
manding general of the ZOth air
force, issned the announcement
through - the war J department'
saying a detailed communique
covering - this operation . wovld
be tssned as soon aa sufficient
details art available
Allies Promise
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Greek People
Immediate Aid
ROME. Oct 13 -WP1- Gen. Sir
Henry Maitland .Wilson, allied
commander in the Mediterranean,
wa the Greek: people 4n n broad-
casi vmght , tnat -your day of
liberation Is at hand, and the
allied controlled Rome radio de-
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Hag w flying over the acropolis
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years ct nazi Jop011 e
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oia Algiers raaio oeciarea xnati
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uncus uoivt svvju uvoawuii
We come now to sweep away
all traces of the Invader and, by
use o( your ports- and air fields.
to liansuntNxdn: retreat General
Wilson said In his broadcast "Fin
al victory is now assured.
A simultaneous proclamation by
'U?-S
called on-afl Greeks to obey the
government promised "just pun
ishment" of everyone who had
collaborated ' with the Germans
and urged avoidance of political
disputes.
Mother Will Get
Posthumous Award
Of Silver Star
The Silver Star,7 her country's
award for gallantry in action, will
be presented to Mrs. James E.
Cook of McCoy at a ceremony to
h hl4 rwKa-'ia 'kiin.:
dale schoolhouse. "Army officers
from rmn Arl.V ,5lt ,-v
from Camp Adair will make the
presentation of the medal, award
ed posthumously to Mrs. Cook's
son, Cpl. Eldon F. Cook, who died
Jnlv 31 1043. oT wounds Veceiveri
In action in New Guinea.
" Sgt. Marvin Cook of Salem, who
is home after 32 month In the
South Pacific, with WAC Pvt
Bertha Cook of Camp Roberts,
Calif- and WAC Pfc Helen Cooklration. -
of Fort: Lewis, Wash; will attend
the 8 pm. ceremony.
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Yugoslavs .Reacli
Belgrade Walls;
Memel Attacked
LONDON, SaturdayioPrt: lm
-Russian shock - troops captured
the Latvian capital and big. nazi
naval -, base of VlUgaj yesterday,"
smashing seven tnilea Jusa
strong maze of axis defenses inn
conquest which released hundreds
of thousands of Soviet veterans for
the battle of Germany. itselfL-
At the same time Marshal Tito'i
headquarters in a special com
munique announced that partisan
forces had "Dcnetrated to the walls
0f ; Belgrade,! Yugoslav capital,
caDturinr en route the village of
BeU Potok, six miles southeast of
the Balkans cross-roads city on
the Danube.
rmssia Attacked
I massed Soviet ta .ron toe
East Prussian garrison at the port
o MemeVand a large-scale wd
army attack across the Narew riv
m mrtoem Poland on the lower
. . t
lent on the East Prussian drive,
which Is not unusual on the eve
of major events; but there . were
unofficial, reports that ;r4heJRua-!-sians'already
liadTcrossed from
Lithuania into Meinelland, annex
ed by Germany in March, 1939, at
three points, and had also fought
way fato the streets of Mem
el city.
Fighting Fnrlons .
The ' Russians apparently have
been fighting on the outskirts of
Memel since Wednesday at least
because Berlin's communique de
clared the Memel garrison on that
day had shot up: 44 red" army
tanks. ' -y
Pole Premier
Confers With
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MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct 14-C)
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tne Jrousn iuvauiuc-.
London conierrea wmi
Stalin, and Premier Churchill for
two hOUTS last . night l fOUOWing
talks with .leaders of the Lublin
Polish committee ,of national lebe-
present at the discussions of the
... . f ii m.il-
Churchill . were British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, Soviet
rnnim aHirfi. VmphMliv Mnl -
otov, US Ambassador W. Averell
foreign minister oftheLondon
PrJich rrnim. 1
Hflfriman i. ann 1 nnpiisz runner,
Forces
r.. ' -ai-a nBt"! ViIn amazing wing ior an area
Observers - predicted that .;-wfcfc,.KJLr:Ln. .,!.
J soive uie ouieicucei utmixu uc
ference, probably, tomorrow, wiut
Lublin faction, and his aides at
tending..
Polk County Chest
Committees Appointed
, MONMOUTH, Oct 1J Oscar
Groves will be chairman of Mon
mouth's. Oregon War Chest drive.
The local quota of $1400 U larg- 1-. Largest Flrin
r than last Tear's. Mrs. Delaer a rCSl Xiyill
Dewey, Monmouth, is secretary
of the Polk county committee, of
which Josiah Wills, county su-
perlntendent of schools, is .chair
man;; Paul , Robinson, Independ
ence, - vice-chairman, and ' Mrs. i
Ivan. Warner, Dallas, - publicity
chairman. Lyle D. Thomas is cam-
I paign chairman. 9
7cather . - - .
, tT3ilmsm temperature rrl-
dzy 1 dzsrees, r.'r.min SI de-
trees; no rain; river -3 ft 9 la.
Partly cloudy east cloa2y' west
Cilzrfiy, . with drira la lis
northwest porllan Satnrday
E3orr.Ir!Z. IIeis"y clear Canfiy.
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Gen. Thomas ' Kflem
Gen. Rilea Back
In U.S. After
sence
PORTLAND, Oct 13-(-Ore-
gon'a ranking army officer, Brig.
Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, of Salem,
was back home again today after
nearly three years in the south
west Pacific.
Mrs. Mary E. Rilea, Tigard,
looked inspectingly at her son, on
leave as adjutant general in Ore-
gon. "Son,! she announced, "you
're thinner.
Rilea, here on an undisclosed
mission, nodded submissively. The
general, part of whose time over
seas .was spent as; assistant com
mander of the 41st. division, cred
ited the northwest's 41st with, do
ing "a grand job. ,
"The 41st division is the finest
fighting machine the United States
army has ever produced, and I
believe that all the credit should
go to the kids," he said.
General Rilea, Oregon's peace -
time adjutant general, will prob -
ably be in Salem briefly while in
the United States, his wife inti
mated Friday night
Tokyo Radio
Warns People
Of Invasion
(By the Associated Press) t
The Japanese people were told
the Philippines may be invaded
1 carrier smash at Formosa which.
. fMl Ameriran
knocked out 396 enemy planes, 63
Aipa J? small ,urtace craft
Tnlnm rarfln nnntintr hiirh
authorities, speculated that
eVen Formosa and possibly the
Ryukyus also might be invaded.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitt last night
I j i .1- - c - ti j
I in five days of naval strikes over
a zooa-mue arc
I Hel disclosed that Tuesdays
I raid on Luzon in the Philippines
i ucwu i? av t aiiviAAicac utaucsi
destroyed on the ground, but that
I none were encountered in the sky
ArCuDlSIlop jpeilman
NE WYORK, Oct ISrWVArch,
bishop Francis J. Spellman- of
New York, who has been confer
ring with Pope Pius at the vatl
san, left Rome today to return to
New York, the Vatican radio said
tonight j. in an : Italian - language
broadcast reported by the federal
- 1 communications commission.
UoaL, Up lUUfJ JLiOUrS
PACOTC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TERS." Pearl Harbor. Oct IS -W
The USS Mars, largest flying boat
in the "WorloV landed here this
week to complete 1000 hours fly
ing time between Pearl Harbor
and San Francisco. In that time
she has flown more than 200.000
miles and has carried a million
pounds of cargo. . .
075,CCa Fire Slri!:es
r.Ie?.Iinnville Hevator
McMINNVILLE, Oct 13 -JF)
rire cf undeterrused origin la the
main elevator of the Buchanan
and Cellers Grain company caus
1 r5r-.i r!-masres today, ofli-
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Run -HigH-
Relief Attempts
Cost Enemy : 84
By Howard Cowan
I LONDON, Saturday, Oct 14-fAV
-American doughboys with flame-,
throwers, grenades and tommy
guns carried the battle of Aachen'
into the. debris littered streets of
the dead city Itself today after 48
hours or bitter air and - armored
combat which cost the Germans 81
tanks and 30 fighter planes. j
Infantrymen broke into the
bomb-ravaged city from the east
and south behind another terrify
ing dive-bombing attack of Amer
ican Thunderbolts and Lightnings, '
which have -dropped 1600 loads of t
explosives in two days onto the
nuns of the first German city
ringed by . an Invader since the
days of Napoleon.
14 Tanks Blasted
Sixty-four ' tanks were' blown
apart by the withering curtain of
bomb and shell fire draped about
German panzer column which
attempted to force through a half-
mile wide gap northeast of Aa-
chen, but was smashed to pieces
three miles away..
Twenty other tanks were de
stroyed Thursday nigh south of
Fischweiler, eight miles southeast
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One German tank division was
being rushed down from : the
northern end of the 460-mile west
ern front at Arnhem to join the
battle for Aachen, which the Ger
man radio said; has been all' but
flattened "by an unprecedented
steamroller of fire.
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1 Enter Aachen.
1 Doughboys crossed the railway
tracks on the southeast and en-
tered Aachen proper at 9 JO am. ,
routing dirty, bearded Germans 1 .
from the rubble, while self-propelled
artillery prowled the ruins
knocking out cores of resistance
described as spotty.
Even as the ancient city of
Charlemagne entered its dyinAi
hours, the - whole British Second - '
army and American First army
front at the western gates of Ger
many showed signs of Imminent
eruption. . . . s- "'
Mid-way between Aachen and
Arnhem, the British Second army,
paced by, American tanks, ham
mered out a gain of more than &
mile beyond the captured Dutch .
town of Overloon on a front of
nearly four miles, neared Venray,
three mues southeast of Overloon; -and
were operating six miles from
the Maas river; which faces the ,
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I OREGON CITY, Oct 13-W-To
I trap a night prowler who had tak-
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jnhn m:v.i. a ,T2
camera with a flash bulb.
The other night he found the
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stolen along with the clothes.
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