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f'lT uu A' . - - I 1 i "' - - - - . ' J , - ' - , ' 1 ' .... ' ' f !- i According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Communications commission is worried over the leapfrog method of pricing radio stations. As it says: the commission "has got crick in its neck watching the prices of radio stations go up and up." There have been 109 stations sold so far in 1944, and many have sold at 10 times original cost, and . A UiUC, IM UiaulliSUVll value. ' ; . . What worries the FCC is not merely the inflation of value, be cause presumably that ' is based on earning power, present or an ticipated, but because the trading actually though not admittedly in volves the franchise right of i radio license, which is Issued free oy me government, uwing to the fact that the number of wave . lengths for AC broadcasting are limited, ranging from 550 to 1500 on .the spectrum, possession of . a ' license' does have a real value, . usually far beyond the value of the 'physical assets invested in setting up for broadcasting. ' Some time ago the sale was an , ftounced of KEX to Westinghouse for a reported $400,000. Since the physical assets are being retained ' in all or in principal part by KGW the price represented (Continued on Editorial Page) inent Soon on Yank WASHINGTON, Oct 14 - 0P) -' Early agreement on the general lines of American policy for the long range control of Germany and especially German ability to make war in the future was foreseen by some well informed officials to day. - , '; ... . Three weeks of public, as -well as private official debate over Sec retary Morgenthau's original plan for ending the German menace by , stripping the reich of its industry is understood to have cleared the official atmosphere considerably. As a result, it is reported ho ex cellent authority that Secretary Morgenthau and those who repre sent his viewpoint in fnterdepart-" mental : comMfiees formulating German control plans no longer insist on extreme delndustrializs tion of Germany. Apparently they are much closer to war and state department .experts .who favor control of the enemy's war making resources through selective elimi nation or control of such industries as synthetic oil manufacture and steel processing. Here's Good Children WASHINGTON, Oct. 14-W- banu Claus received a cheering message from the war production board today: more Christmas toys and better too. . More of the toys this year will be wooden, and fewer, will be of paperboard. . More than 100,000 doll carriages will have metal wheels, and some wagons will have metal wheels WPB reported. - A small quantity of steel dishes will be in Santa's pack for the first time since war began. , Toy soldiers and miniature au tomobiles and trucks of zinc in limited quantity will be ready be cause of the easing of (he zinc supply,. WPB explained. Wallace Joins PAG Committee INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 14 -(P) Vice President Wallace joined the national " citizens political ; action committee today and later waved his receipt for a $1 contribution to the PAC fund at a luncheon meeting with the remark: : I don't know why I had been passed by so long. Now I am a member of. the common" man's Club." . :'-:v':,- The vice president wore on Jus lapel as he left here a PAC button In - addition to an . ."FDR" pin wrucn was tne lapel a sole decora Hon when he arrived this morn ing. Oregon Takes Lead in Recruiting for WACs PORTLAND Oct 14 Ore gon Irecrulted more WACs In Sep tember than any. other state in the Ninth service command dist rict, headquarters here announc ed today. . Tva Anfrlo Kent m4 4V a:4 viia hiv uuv" rict in August 7ealhcr riaxlnaum temperature Satur fay 79 derrees, mintmam 54 de grees, no rain, river g f t law CI?ar e-;t an4 south, clondy r iriiitit portion ' Sunday and ''T. ? -ruing for near eoast -i ssrtlsa Csaiay . a Agree Due German Policy r wm m sti-. m r t mi a t it a i aa.aa a t a a . a . . - i j j " i i . -v i a - w i a a a rwwi.w. . a m .- in?IETY-FOUHTH YEAH Allied -Force"' Frees Atheh'Froin;Nazi-'' Rule After 3 Years Port of Piraeus Also Occupied; Corfu Captured ROME, Oct 14-C)-British and Greek troops, converging by sea and air today, occupied Athens and its nearby port of Piraeus and ended more than three years of tyrannical nazl rule in the Greek capital. A special communique announc ing the liberation of Athens, tak en by the nazis in April, 1941 at the height of their Balkan con quests, said tne operation was conducted by seaborne and air borne forces, but made no men tion of any enemy opposition, in dicating the truth of earlier unof ficial reports that the Germans had withdrawn to the north and left the city in the hands of Greek partisans, . British Navy Used ! The landing force was carried into port by the British navy, in cluding some Greek ships. "British airborne troops, carried in aircraft of the United States army air forces, played a leading part in the operation, the com munique said, but the precise role of the airborne forces was not stated." : '': v, u ' . r ' Scobie Commands .i :i Ma j. Gen. RM. Scobie has been appointed... land- task force com mander in Greece and leaders of various Greek patriot factions al ready have agreed to place their units under his orders, it was an nounced. The seaborne units which land ed and seized; both the capital and the port appeared to be an ad vance force for a large relief ex pedition assembled to . rush food and medical , supplies and other essentials as soon as the country is liberated. .." - . Earlier, the, surrender to other British' landing forces of the Greek island . of Corfu and the entrance to the Adriatic which had been believed 1 to be strongly ueienaea, was announced. Not a shot was fired in the Corfu opera tion. Rival Poles To Negotiate MOSCOW, . Oct 14--Rrval Polish regimes' from London' and Lublin agreed to reopen formal negotiations tonight for a com bined " government, faced with grave differences but aware that the allied powers plainly are agreed on the urgent necessity for some sort of solution to their problems. r ? Although still at! loggerheads over the question of the uprising in Warsaw, the Poles have decided to "let by-gones be by-gonesT and exclude the Warsaw tragedy from their impending conversations. Premier Stalin and Prime Min ister Churchill spent , from 7:30 pjn. last night to 1 a Jn. today con ferring with the Poles. Their meeting with Stanislaw Mikola- Jczyk, premier of the London re gime, and members of his delega tion, lasted for two hours during this period. W. Averell Harriman. U.S. ambassador, was an observer. Two Mid-Valley Men Wounded in Action Sgt Frank A. Porter, son of Mrs. L. E. Porter, route two, box 258, Salem, and Sgt Lester J. Pickens, 88 Oak street Lebanon, are listed today among the US army men wounded in action in the European theatre. i FDR Turns Down Forum Bid But Plans Active WASHINGTON, Oct 14-(- President Roosevelt mar carry his fourth term campaign personally into Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illi nois, in addition to his home state of New York, where an aggregate of 135 electoral votes are at stake. It was said authoritatively today that these states are high on the presidential itinerary how: under consideration, although the white house said no dates or places are ready for announcement " Coincident with an announce ment by Presidential Secretary Stephen Early that Mr. Roosevelt had declined an Invitation to speak next . Wednesday night on the New York Herald Tribune forum, dem ocratic spokesmen said the chances are good that he will rrci ia 'SmWZW Wgmmm WmW. FroitfBurning City; i- .Ty v. . : i vi - .ri a m u m a u n - Lars Force est Slug Formosa US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Oct 14-(,)-American B29 Superfort resses from China bombed For mosa in force today (US tune), the war department announced, putting the army in partnership with the navy in a week of devas tating raids on Japanese inner de fenses. . Gen. H. H. Arnold in Washing ton saia ine Dig bombers, in a larger number than ever engaged In . any previous attack, centered their Formosa strike on Okayama, "the most important air target south ox Japan proper," and re turning crewmen's reports "indi cat a successful attack." (Tokyo radio said the Super fortresses were preceded by two Formosa , raids by 450 , American carrier planes. The US navy has not announced such raids.) inaicauons pointed toward an approaching American invasion of the Philippines- or perhaps even Of Superforts rormosa - or tne Ryukyu islands rT - 1 u- 1 Tia- -above Formosa, was a near possi- l Uat ilelDS Matter bUity. . , ' Ship Workers $3001 Yearly 'Shipyard wages" which is an other . way of saying ; "bulging pockets" to many in this war in dustry area averaged $3001 an nually last year, the state Indus trial accident commission report ed today, 65,000 such workers in the Port- which a spokesman said, refutes the belief that $100 weekly wages are common. j Fewer than one In 20 workers were paid $4000 or more, while about 20 per cent got upwards of $3000. The general average for all workers, including full and part time, was $1843.: . i i Full-time workers in the lumber industry, second in size to- ship building, made an average of $2378 a year, and all workers, in- eluding part timers, made $1758. Moscow Talks V LONDON, Oct 14 -OP)- The Churchill-Stalin talks in Moscow tnis weeK nave been watched w xiou1 in thl international cani -TT- 1 tal where, many believe the out come ; can make -, Or break the. Dumbarton , Oaks plan for world peace. '" ."J ,-f- ' i - - ' It so happened that the British prime minister's arrival in Mos cow with Foreign Secretary An4 thony Eden coincided with the publication here of the text of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. Comment on the project in the press and in diplomatic quarters, consequently, has been dominated by a keen awareness that some of the Issues under discussion In Moscow were the kind that in past generations have wrecked the concert of powers and led to 1 great wars. - ' Campaign Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chi- cago, probably after his address on international affairs before the foreign policy association in New York city next Saturday mght Early's statement that the presi dent is ;talkiii about" other speeches came between two white house shots at 'Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, republican nomniee In campaign speeches. Late in the day the white house made public a letter in which MaJ. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, said he gave a "personal opinion in a field over which I have no responsibility when he said last August it would l be as cheap to keep men in the army as to set tip r -""ry to Averag Eyed Closely care for tcx taLc 1 . trs C'-ti Salem Oregon, Sunday Morning; October IS Yanks Carry ZJltimaium " I, , .-Ill I- Three American soldiers, one with a oea sneet, carry tne "surrender or be destroyed" altimatnm u the besieged German city ef Aachen, The American demand was refused, resnltini In the bombardment ef Aachen. (AP wirepbeto i iiou cwrpa now) Japs Have Cigarette Shortage, Too, if SAN FRANCISCO, Calif- Oct l4-(P)-There is a cigarette short age in Japan, too. The. Japanese Domei (news) agency in ar broadcast intercepted by,- ttnu . federal coiiumraicatins commission said seven expensive brands' of cigarettes were.sus p ended today. A new tipless cigarette will be issued, along with a shredded to bacco for "roll, your own" expon ents, Dome! said. U.S. General i i5lri rll CraTI Ol W A S H I N GTON, Oct 14 -tip) The war department disclosed to day that Brig. Gen. j Arthur ,W. Vanaman ; of , Millville, NJ ! has been captured, the first American general officer to become a pris oner of Germany. . j General Vanaman's Internment in Germany was disclosed in an announcement ' of an award to him of , the Legion' of Merit for prior service in this country as commander of the Oklahoma City air service command.- First reported missing in action oyer Germany last June 27 while acting as an observer on an aerial bombing mission, Vanaman was ascertained ' on September 18 to be a prisoner of war In Germany, the department said.. r r t nvni T,i. Trri " ' - rench Writers . . m - .-'V . - -. ; I , .'V- ; Uet .1 rials in Absentia NEW -YORK, Oct. 14-CPl-The Paris radio said today Pierre La val, chief ; of government In the Vichy, regime, would be fried in absentia for "intelligence with the enemy." . : . '. :, . In a broadcast recorded by the federal communications commis sion, the Paris announcer said the cases against Laval and three prominent pro-nazl French news papermen had been completed by a Marseille court and turned over to the Marseille regional commis sioner, who will decide when the trial will be held. ' " 'V 1 14 Oregon Plants Can . Make Gviliari Goods PORTLAND. Oct ' 14--Tour- teen - Oregon . plants - have v been given the green light to manufac ture civilian goods to the annual value of $1,834,000, Paul ! Hirsh, deputy regional director of the war production board, said today. Hirsh said that reconversion to civilian production in Oregon un der the "spot authorization" plan represents a large contribution to the national total New 'Super ut to Power Allied Planes r WASHINGTON, Oct lHVA new "super-fuel will give planes of ta United Nations 'even greater rjperiority ever tie Japanese air fletls," Ralph K. Davies, deputy petrel sum administrator, s-'i to-t'-T. .. , - ' ... . a white flag of trace made' from Allies Shove Stubborn Nazis Back in Amjcan ashovsd: the stub born Germans back along. Virtual ly the entire front in Italy today. and Canadian Infantry and tanks struck brilliantly across the south ern edge of the Po plain to within four miles of strategic Cesena. Cesena Is 17 miles northwest of the - Adriatic seacoast v jump-off point of Rimini, and 13 miles far ther up the Via .Einilia on ; the route to Bologna lie! ForlL an even more Important highway town and objective. Only the coastal sector north of Rimini where they are dug In aiong tne j lunucmo -river , were the Germans" holding firm." The Canadians drove on without re gard to this force on their right flank. The American Fifth army to the , west was fighting steadily over the mountains. It was within nine miles of the Bologna-Rimini highway at : two points ' and , was engaged in a bitter battle 10 miles south of Bologna itself. ... Clear skies, ' welcome release from the almost ceaseless 'rains of Italy's autumn, were allowing the sodden battlefields to dry and releasing the pent-up armor -, of the Eighth army. Jury Acquits -1 Mrs. Andrews SALINAS, Calif, Oct' 14-ifl5)-Mrs. Frances Andrews, Carmel so cialite, charged with the murder of -Jay Lovett 19-year-old farm boy, was acquitted by a Jury of eight women and four men late today. : . The verdict was returned at 5:15 pjn. after six hours and 18 min utes of deliberation. The Jury took only one ballot It was unanimous for' aoquittaL Mrs. Andrews, 37, was calm as the verdict was returned j and shook hands with her attorney and friends. - James Mott Will Speak At yiclory Lnncheon t Congressman James . W. Mott will be Jpeakcf Monday noon's Victory, luncheon' of -the Sal em United War Ch":t i and Salem C h a m b e r of Ccsuaerce ia" the floral room of ihe chamber.- The race between divisions had lengthened out Saturday, with the goal not ICO per cent but the 110 per cent recorded by the Women's division rriday" as it went over the top. , Dcinccr-its Send Group To Meet With Truman r . A de!eation of llarion county democratv led by Central Com mittee Chairman Kenneth Bayne, t. Zl to Fortlzri cn Uciicr? ry to meet with Harry Truman, the pity's candidate for vice presi- J 4 . ; Italy Price 5c No. 179 TitOiReds . , -2i'.'. ... .. Fight Into Belgrade " . ; . ... Hungary's Fate Being Decided In Tank Battle LONDON, Sunday, Oct 15HPV- Russian and Yugoslav partisan forces fought theur way into the 2000-year-old fortress city of Bel grade yesterday and began a street battle against a doomed German garrison whose commander and staff fled, Marshal Tito's head quarters announced last night With Berlin acknowledging 'strong motorized Soviet forces had reached the. Yugoslav capital and Moscow telling of the capture of Its suburbs, the fall of the city was expected shortly. Tank Battle Rages ' In Hungary the fate of that last big axis satellite nation, was being decided in great four-day-old tank battles raging on the Magyar plains i between Szolnok, 50 miles southeast of Budapest and De brechen, 115 miles east of the Hungarian capital. Budapest's leaders were reported seeking armistice terms. ' A late DNB German news agen cy report said the Hungarian bat tle was in si "complete state of flux," and said the bitterest fight ing was at Debrechen, last big es cape route for German and Hun garian forces fleeing from Tran sylvania. . ,yfi:nQ::r-:i:X -' Key Janctten Falls .',:'; A Bulgarian communique , also announces the iall of ' Nis, key unction on the Belgrade-Athens and Belgrade-Sofia railways 128 milessouthTrast of: the .Yugoslav capitat i YugorSav partisans o bined with Bulgarian units under General Stantchev in the libera tion of that town, Sofia announ ced. . Many prisoners and much booty was seized, it said. Planes Blast Nippon Bases ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Sunday, Oct -Allied bombers have raided Jap anese , Installations . at Amboina and Ceram, dropping 130 tons of Domos, todays communique an nounced. The Ceram airdromes were pounded and strafed. This raid oc curred Thursday. At Boela, oil storage tanks were fired in an attack Friday. One fighter was lost by anti-aircraft; fire. - !, Concentrations of trapped Jap anese near Wewak were pounded by heavy and medium bombers, 50 tons of explosives being i dropped upon them. ; Another 59 : tons were dropped by bombers that made harassing raids over the Bismarck, Bougain ville and the Shortlands. Greeks, Flying British Planes, Aid Liberation ROME, Oct 14-i'rV-Greek pilots flying RAF Spitfires are partici pating In the liberation of their homeland an air ministry an nouncement said today. The airmen, were -all In the Greek air force before the fall of Greece and many made daring es capes after German occupation to oin RAF forces In the middle east Morse Warns Against Class Warfare in KSLM Address There must be no pitting of class against class - or economic group against economic group in this nation. Wayne Morse, can didate for the United States sen ate, declared In-Salem on Satur day night as he spoke over radio station KSLM. Our strength and prosperity," he added, .'re based upon the mutuality of interest of all of us. Labor cannot be prosperous unless larmers and business are prosperous, The na tion cannot, prosper ; if a -part of the nation suffers from economic illness." . . ' Those who seek "to develop an all-powerful executive branch: of government which will control the daily activities of . farmer, worker and businessman are tnakiiig the same claims of efficiency for such a . government that ' fascists and rizis cade for a slriilar fern cf government, Morse maintained. , "We can have eWciency, pros- Itzsj tzi i:rjr:! uzd:r cur Civilians Mauled Relief I Forces Unable To Give Suppor By Howard Cowan . - LONDON, Oct 14 - VP) - U7 troops converged from , three di rections tonight on the heart of Aachen, which at least for the mo ment was left to its fate by Ger man relief . columns - so badly mauled outside the stricken dry that for 24 hours they have been unable to muster a counterattack.' From the northeast the east and the southeast, the infantry dug the dwindling German garrison from houses and cellars, moving slowly through, the rubble to hold down casualties, while long lines of ci vilians streamed from the burning city into tne American positions. Corridor Closed The Ik S. first army, could af ford to take its time, for the half mile wide corridor leading from the city was as good as closed at ter a few small units were believed to have slipped in last night to swell the garrison to perhaps zooo men. ' Furthermore the crack German infantry and tank divisions which threw the British out of the Arn hem bridgehead, then were rush ed south to Aachen, lay bleeding in tne wields northeast of the city, numbed by aerial and artillery bombardment that knocked out more than 80 tanks. Efforts Fall - P' Every- effort to bring- up more tanks in an attempt to throw the Americans from hard-won post tions at the entrance to the great German plain had been frustrated, a high American officer said. The British , second army to the north, moving up its lines toward the - Maas river facing Germany midway between Arnhem and Aachen, hammered- out a half- mile gain south of Overloon. They fought through mire across the bodies of Germans who refused to yield an Inch. - -Germans Attack '; Canadians: i on K the eastward flank were under large-scale as sault ; from strong enemy ; forces who were trying to drive them from, positions astride the South Bevel and causeway, where domin ion troops have cut off escape by land for Germans on the islands in the Schelde estuary. - On the southern end of the 460- mile front, the - German com munique said the U. S. seventh army, had gone over to the attack in strong force on a broad front east of Remirement ' 30 , miles north of Belfort . . '.; '. ' i ' Gift Deadline Near : Christmas packages for service men over seas will be accepted for mailing until the postofflce closes Monday night This was the an nouncement of Henry R. Craw ford, Salem postmaster, Saturday night Sealing of cans with Christ mas gifts will be handled until 5 o'clock Monday I at . the office of Marjorie Tye, Marion county home demonstration agent - The extra day was allowed be cause the final date fell on Sun day, an announcement from the postoffice department In Wash ington stated. Long lines of per sons with packages to mail crowd ed the postoffice at all hours Sat urday as relatives and - friends hurried to get their gifts in the mail before the deadline Monday. Democrats Will Open ' Party Headquarters K , Democrat party headquarters will be opened this week in room 409 of the First National bank building, Kenneth Bayne, county central committee chairman, an nounced Saturday night ; . form of economy, the private en terprise system, he declared. "Political favoritism Is not only Injurious to the nation 'as a whole, but also, in the long run, to those who receive, .such favoritism,' Morse ; said, adding, that this ; be lief had led him "to refuse finan cial assistance from labor unions and employer associations during this campaign and the primary I campaign.". . "I aja ' proud to find that tH groups of labor have endorsed me, he declared. "ml am proud of this because I know the basis for those endorsements. I have told labor audiences and repre sentatives of labor who have at tended, by, meetings all over the state that labor could not expect any special deals from me In the United States senate but that la bor, like every, other group, could erpect a s;usre CzzL That Is all that either labor cr employers hive ever receive 1 or expected of Streamiii, Narrowed RAF Armadas Blast German , Cities in Night s LONDON. fV IS - Snaw early today with one of the larg est night armadas ever seen by coast watchers, hard on the heela of the 3300-plane daylight raids on Duisburg. Cologne and other German cities. ; 1 ; Watchers, in southern England, seasonea to the drone of night bombers, said the force which swept toward the continent short ly after; midnight may have been the largest ever massed for an attack . on Germany, ; l:: ' f ; A considerable force of craft believed to have been Mosquitds spearheaded the constant stream of heavy bombers traveling south east -i ' - '. At 1 a. m the : German radio " warning service reported there were no enemy- planes' over the reich, but shortly afterward nail radio stations exploded into a se- ries of warnings. ; ; These placed the raiders over the Hannover - Brunswick and j Schleswig-Holstein areas and m ' the Brandenburg-Berlin region.:. Hungary Asks Ijeace, Radio ara s LONDON, Oct 14 -(ff)- Hun gary, her capital helpless In the path of the red army, has Sent delegation to Moscow to ask for peace, the Ankara radio said to night J,7.:, ;i . - : There was no confirmation of the report which said that the : Sav delegaUoa already on the wayf" but there have ben nemixfonf r ' ports all week that the Hungarians f were seeking an armistice. " Associated Press Correspondent . Daniel De Luce said in a dispatch from Moscow, that the political . circumstances surrounding the red ' army's conquest of Hungary "may be compared!; with those under which the Italian armistice was kept secret for five days. The; point was not! further amplified and several paragraphs were miss ing from the dispatch, perhaps a result of censorship deletions. 'Egg' Aimed at Sinatra Starts Theater Riot NEW YORK, Oct 1 -Some thing most observers said it was an egg struck Frank Sinatra as he sang "I Don't Know Why" on the Paramount theatre stage to night halting the show and touch ing off an audience disturbance that police had difficulty in quell ing, y a- The pit' orchestra, led by Ray mond Paiee. struck un thfi Na tional anthem as .the disturbance was at Its height and the shriek ing and pushing began to subside. The youth believed to have done the throwing was released, at Si natra's request after questioning in the manager's office. Sinatra said later, exhibiting a stain on the, left side of his light gray Jacket that he certainly was hit by something but M don't think was an egg." "It was small and moist enough to . have been grape, he added. . Salem Unilcd Uar Clicsi : ;. $CDXC3 ; $70X00 $23X03