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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1944)
QLL Vesllzer .Max imam temperature Tuesday 70 decrees, mini mum 44 decrees, so rain, river -S ft In. - Clear Wednesday ' and Thursday fcnt a. m, foe west portions. Little temperature chance. peuNDso t21 vsissa -fen ur : , ., -. -J-Z '' ' " ' '.-.'. . . When the late Jim Hill built the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad (Jointly owned by the Great Northern and Northern Pa cific, but popularly credited to Jim Hill of the G. N.) it was said that-a raindrop on the rails at Spokane could run downhill all the way to Portland. Of course this Isn't literally true; for in stance the road has to climb out of the Spokane river valley to .' reach the plateau near Cheney, though.it is downhill the remain der of the way. - What the railroad ' managers wanted and what the engineers .gave them was a road with low grades for the easy movement of freight. The SP&S has a grade of .4 per cent, which is one -of the lowest in the country. Its volume of traffic however is restricted be cause after all it is the child of two vigorous parents both of which have their major terminals on Puget Sound. '. The importance from the stand point of operating efficiency of a road with low grade is indicated in the news that the SP&S has bought two engines each ot which weight 1,081,000, (our AP report added three ciphers, but that would bring the weight to 500,000 tons which cracks one's imagina tion, let alone the company's brid ges). This monster , (Continued on Editorial Page) Depends Upon Jobs for AU NEW YORK, , Oct 17.-()-pe- Claring that -"Peace, can .be just about what .America makes it,' Bernard ' M. ; Baruch said tonight that world ' security . could be at tained "If we provide jobs ' for Baruch,' special adviser to .the director: ot war mobilization, told the New York Herald Tribune for . vim on current problems In a pre pared talk: "The objective of a world com munity is not so academic as it seems. In fact, supplying every one who need it end who is wEl-r lng to work, even Including the Hottentots, .with a Quart of milk a day" might prove an economic as well as social advantage. It might even be' profitable. After reviewing the events fol lowing World war I, Baruch as serted; "This time we must be prepared to enforce the peace with arms and men, with an interna tional - authority based upon real cooperation. I am more confident I than the last time because both Thirties YiMvm committed them-l selves to the nrinciDle of world security."- I Among others who spoke at the I night session . were War Produc-1 World Security tion Board Chairman J. A. Kruclgoslav partisans teamed . in bat- Terdinand Eberstadt, former vice chairman of the WPB, and James B. Carey, secretary of the con gress of industrial organizations. Japs Advance On Pinyang f CHUNGKING, Oct, 17.-(P)-R-i inforced Japanese troops operat ing In two columns are advancing on the west river town of Pinyang CO miles south of Liuchow, site of an important US air base, the Chi nese high command announced today. . Chinese positions about 12 miles west and northwest of the town were attacked yesterday after the arrival of enemy reinforcements, the Chinese report - .-The Chinese communique today ' also reported that fighting contin- , ued 23 miles north of Kweilin, where the Japanese west of the JIunan-Kwangsi railroad, town of .Ilingan are trying to smash Chi- nese defenses in order to outflank Kweilin on the west or attack' it directly. ' ; - Postivar Planners Study Program to Place Salem on Top With Air Transport Facilitie v McNary field with an estimated: present .capacity of 45 , landings and takeoffs an hour was visual ized in the not-too-distant future as - the homo port of a thousand private planes, and numerous sky freighters and. passenger liners, by a group of postwar planners meeting Tuesday night in ' the chamber of commerce with Alder man Tom Armstrong presiding. Held for the specific purpose of sketching a tentative plan, which misht be enlarged or developed in the immediate postwar period, the meeting was attended by repre sentatives of the United Air Lines, the civil aeronautics authority, major oil companies, local ; pilots, visiting pilots, city officials and Lusinessmen-r-aU interested .in se curing a firm grjp on the poten tials involved in a modern air field rflrr the war to riarantee that Sa- !:n would be able to compete for IIEHTY-FOUBTH TEAR Geri v any Reports .". Assault " .1 , '-----'--' - e . - .. . Red Air Force HeavilyBombs Path of Advance LONDON, Wednesday, Oct . 18 UFV- A tremendous new Russian offensive aimed straight west to ward the heart of East Prussia was announced by alarmed German broadcasters yesterday, and the Soviet midnight communique de- scribed heavy red air force bomb ings all along the path of advance as far as Insterburg, 37 miles in side the German Junkers', home- land. . The . Russians , did trot directly confirm the offensive by Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's third. White Russian army group, but left lit tle doubt that it was in progress. 25-MUe Front The German radio said the new attack' was . along a 25-mile front on both sides of? the -Lithuanian town of Vilkavi&kis and declared it was backed by forests of ar- tillary 'an4 spearheaded by low flying Stormovjk planes. The' Rus sians already were at the border at points west of Insterburg. The Moscow communique ' an nounced a further cleanup south and southwest of Riga, the cap tured - Latvian capital, with the remaining German forces in that Baltic state driven into the corner between the gulf of Riga and the Baltic sea One of their last useful ports, Ventspils, was bombed hea vily. - '- - ; ' KoaeU Silent , ' f ' While silent concerning land action against East Prussia, the Russians announced a further slashing drive in northern Tran sylvania had carried within two miles of the southern border of the Carpatho Ukraine territory which Hungary loot Irom dismembered Czechoclovakia, and told of fur ther small gains southwest and west of Nis in Yugoslavia. Street fighting continued in Bel grade, with the Russians and Yu- itling the Germans for the Yugo slav capital. Salem Chest Pledges Now. Total 8108,569 The Salem United War Chest total of pledges and payments tal lied this morning stands at $109, 569 but no audit yet completed shows all divisions ever the top. ; Possibility that all divisions may have reached their quotas is seen by Campaign Chairman . BurT MiHerV However, Miller said Tuesday night he hesitated to haz ard a definite statement because accuracy rawer,, than speed has become the watchword in chest headquarters as the final returns come in. ' - " There has been no slacking of work among division, solicitors, and in no division has the last re port been received Miller Indi- cated. , . . - f 1 i agreed, would develop in the air-' ways. It was the consensus., at the meeting that the original plan to erect the administration building t near the present site of the city's hangars should be discarded and the building constructed . on the west side of the field. ; It was pointed out that this move would enable the city to use the CCD by 360-foot - government - constructed parking apron as an adjunct to the new building.' '-.";' j; I ' The city of Salem owns 453 acres at the port While it was agreed this was sufficient for a port, E. S. Maroney, UAL, said in 25 years it would be only ' ttie base port, with the sattelite fields housir.2 hundreds of planes. : - I .Jack Reavey,' district enrneer for the CAA in Oregon zr l , :zh ington, cau,tioned thzt rlrns for an administration buildlr j thouli be made with the Idea cf unit ccn- Chinese View Wrecked Honies Chinese natives view wreckage ef their homes in Tengehvaur after their return te the Chinese city taken from the Japanese by Chinese treeps la a drive te reopen the PfazistoWage" All-Out Battle " ROME.OcC 17-(-Nazi Held Marshal Albert Keaselring appar ently has decided to fight for Bo logna, and German troops have been shipped Into position to make bitter, all-out fight for the an cient city in the' foothills of the Appenines, allied headquarters an nounced today. i - The American Fifth and British Eighth armies gathered a few more slippery hills into their lines, but Marshal Keaselring still was frus trating the months-long allied, en deavor to destroy bis army and chase its remnants out of Italy. The Fifth army, in small but im portant gains before. Bologna, ad vanced. past Lamina' and Casa. dl Bortighano along the highway from .Florence, reaching: a point nine miles from Bologna's out skirts. Farther east American troops reached points north of the bulge in the Castel Del Rio-Castel San Pietro road and penetrated to the southern slopes of the-, hill town of Santa Anna and the vil lage of. Baccanella r - ... ' . - j" -- .-'..f. Nazir Planned to Land In England via Eire: : NEW YORK, Oct. H.-PJ-Nazi war maps, found In Brussels by allied intelligence officers, dis close that the Germans planned to invade - by England by way i of neutral I Eire, the London radio said tonight? . J . ; i ; ' '. -i -The broadcast, recorded by . the CBS; shortwave, listening station, said the maps. Were prepared, for the purpose of invasion , in .1940, but the attempt was frustrated by the Royal air force and the Royal navy. -. 'r. . ' - ' later, not the building, he said. In answer to queries, he said the federal government had no funds now for private airports. ' -:: )'' L. N. LaTointe, UAL, pointed out that 24 companies already had made application , for certificzl: to operate in the northwest Prob ably two, not more than three) will get certificates, he said. v - - It. was finally conclude! tha City Engineer Harold Davis and Lee U. Eycrly would drslt a ten tative plan far a new lull z and spot it on the airport r . The UAL will da the s-r ?. The; tentative plans wiH ca to CAA cr. 4 Reavy stli, 113 staff will attemrt to give suestive assistance. ; Others present .at"' the peetir. Inclu f : !: " Postmaster J Henry P, Crawfc.rd, Jcha Il -hes, Lyle Ear thclc;, 7. r Tcvcr, CAP, Lt James H Cannc: V'.T. Tlclr.tyre E. IL J. C. X ZL C. Grady, Tan Nainaik: t.. I Ciarl For Bologn j t,. va Scdem, Oregon. Wednesday Swim Barma Read. (AP wirepbete). , Governor Hadn't - Uluch Respect f of Snake Bite Cure - : There's been many a disparag ing comment regarding snake, 'bite cures that pass for whisky in war time America. V - ' Gov. Earl Snell added another one at the board of control meet ing Tuesday.. Not that the governor was com plaining personally. He was mere ly replying to a comment by State Treasurer Leslie J. Scott to the effect s that . the ' state's whisky. filled warehouse In Portland . was a bad insurance risk. Whisky, as Scott said, is inflammable. - Snell'S rejoindercome of the whisky now on sale wouldn't even bum. ' ri-v . Girctiit Court Will Review Lafky Cases Polk county circuit court will review the records in the cases of West Salem and of the state against Herman Lafky;" with a Judge to be named -by the chief justice of the state supreme court presiding. Circuit Judge Artie Walker, who signed the writ of review late last week, said Monday" 'that he had disqualified himself and had asked Chief Justice J. O. Bailey to ap? point a Jurist to sit in his placei Lafky, 'a Salem attorney.for- feited bail in West Salem munid pal court on a charge of drunken driving and was later charged by the state in Independence , Justice court with operating motor, ve hicle after suspension- of his li censed; The case never" came to hearing : there because . Lafky ap plied, for a writ of ; review, state police records indicate, v, 1 - Beverage Tax Quota Assigned Counties. .. ..... . t .. , ... Marion county, receives $1779.33 and Salem, $15773 in the new quarterlyfdistribution of the privl lege tax on manufacturers and fan- porting distributors'" cf malt and alcoholic beverages.' The aggre gate of the tax which goes to Ore gon counties and " cities it $53, il3.04. Secretary of State Robert S. FarrelL'-r' Jrv announced here Tuesday. ; . ' Polk county,i share cf th5 tax is SS51.65: Dallas receives $i:2.K3 Linn, ?:2.18; Albany, $:C3 J1S3.1S: Lane. S1S73.75: - Eueiie, $1063.60; ,-l.IultncTr.ah, - Z111.C3 Pcrtlcnd, $15,5:7.73. . i ' . ' . f . . EUENOS AKtrG, C:t 17 -(T) The Argentine gavcrrirr.ent 2r ccred the sur n cf t : o ri-o- axis r-x:---:rs t J-y. t 3 Gcr men E:.::y L . . - 3 La H-'-a Ztl tsns,' and Cs- I'-lu Tlrtt Morning. October 13. 1S44 r n .Nazis win Iii Attacks Powerful Allied ; SForces Sparrlnl All Along Front LONDON, Wednesday, Oct 18- (ffJ-The first day without a Ger man counterattack since the nasi line was breached at Aachen has passed and the German defenders of the city still are virtually sealed off from their supporting forces and supplies. Although offfcers at supreme al lied headquarters' would not con firm the' view, it was considered possible that the nigh command had given up hope of saving Aa chen or that the furious allied 'air attacks ' on Cologne and Duisberg had made German rescue attempts impossible. ' . . ' Action Limited . . , , Powerful American and British forces sparred., warily with .the en emy yesterday all along the 85 mile battle , line paraleQlng 'the Dutch-German "border from Aa chen In Germany to Arnheim in Holland. - . . -J: - r -rv Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' American first army probed cau tiously north and northeast of Aachen, where the nazis, repelled in five furious attempts to break Into . the . encircled city of Aachen in recent days, had rolled up m heavy : concentration f tanks and mobile1 guns. - , - . T British Second .army troops fought through the streets to the center of the Dutch highway town of Venray, eight miles from, the German frontier, and pushed an armored column three miles south and cut the Venray-Deurne road. American armor was disclosed to be in position on the British right flank, but was not yet reported to have been hurled Into action, v In the Overloon area, north of Venray, the nazis were reported pulling out of a . pocket approxi mately 5000 yards long and from 700 to 2000 yards wide along the Meuse river,5 leaving the area no-man's land. FDR Says His HedltlCsGodd WASHINGTON, Oct. U-JP)- President Roosevelt said today he is in pretty good health. This was his closing remark in a brief news conference exchange begun -Z when i - reporter asked whether the president had read re ports "by some of our more rugged correspondents' , concerning the state of his health. '-u.- Mr. Roosevelt laughed. He urged the reporter not to get him to com ment on ' the word rugged or , he might say something for which he would be' sorry. . Also, the added, he knew little something more about the health of some' reporters than they do of hls. Japa Become, 'Hainan M Bullets Says Tokybm SAN FRANCISCO, Oct Tokyo radio , has its own wiy of attesting to the effectiveness of the fire power" of the American fleet Today It quoted ? a, Japanese newspaper as saying the moment Japanese airmen . go , - Into .. action against that fleet they turn them selves - into ; human bullets be cause they don't expect to i get back..:'--1, .-...-r. iCi The broade?:t was recorded In San Francisco ty the Blue net work.. - : " ;;r Penicillin Iz co rcrcr NEW YOrJt, Oct 17HT)-TLij year's 17ct:l xrke.fcr. inedldr has been awarded to lr Alex ander Flen:iri, discoverer cf r.l clHji,H. tLs Terns r: ::a t 'A t;' ni:.t -. ' v - The . Swirs . trAni.-! is fen,- nor.1 treaded. t . ".. 1 ... rz3 Dcioy'.Vi!!: i;z7r YorjV'Oct n- Londcn' radio stli t teen ccr,.'.::" ::i Cer. J'-:; I Z2 I- : : C. !: t. :rs (!3 r At Aachen k"mh km Pmmm Physical Condition Of Nazis Soldiers Reaches Bad State WITH US NINTH AIR FORCE IN LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 17 - (J!) uerman soldier ran out of a trench in the shattered Siegfried line today heading toward Ameri can positions with only one arm raised .'overhead. Doughboys J to whom he surrendered discovered his other arm was made of wood. In the same area a captured German captain was wearing thick glasses. He displayed a scroll saying. This officer is to be. ex cused in case he fails to salute a superior officer. He is blind in one eye and cannot see well out of the other." These oddities shedding some light on Hitler's' manpower prob lems' were related by Lt William E. Byers, Portland, Ore.; a Light ning pilot " ' Cologne Takes eating ers, LONDON, Oct n-VPh Thir teen hundred heavy - bombers of the US eighth air force -poured 4000 tons of explosives on Cologne today in that ruined German ci ty's 146th raid of the war and the tenth in October alone, while US 15th air force liberators from Italian - bases - assaulted Vienna again. More than S500 British . based American heavy bombers have hit Cologne in the last four days, and RAF Mosquitos - have : struck it three times in the last week, leav ing little doubt that the US first army, once it finishes off Aachen, is headed for .the Rhine river Me tropolis. . . RAT Mosquitos slashed at Co- ogne Monday night, "just to keep their home fires burning,' as one returning airman said. Then the American heavyweights went over a lew hours later," Tven .though they made their runs about 10 a. nt, In an effort to beat the cloud formations that were closing in, much ot the bomb ing had to be done by instruments. diaries Collar Now Missing: Set Charles Collar, Salem, high school graduate whose wife and two children reside in Lebanon, has been reported missing in ac tion since September 13. "The bomber on which he was- gunner failed to return from Taid over Germany. . Son of the Rev. E. W. Collar, former - pastor of the Nazarene church 'in Salem,! Sgt Collar had been overseas the past five months and in the service approximately year .when Vbe was reported missing. He was employed by the Eastman Kodak company in Port land, prior to entering the service. .The Rev.' and Mrs. E. W. Collar make - their ' home in Oklahoma City,' Okla.v A brother, Keith Col lar, is with the merchant marine sendee.' .- - ' -. Democratic Vice Heavy B FrdmBomb Candidate to Stop Here Today Prfcw 5c Yanks Streaii On Nimitz Reveals Philippine Seized in stem (Prolines; Tokyo Account of Battle Spiked ; US PAQFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Warl Har bor, Oct.' 17(AP) Giant American carrier task: forces operating; in each slrength that a Japanese naval force took one look and fled, are pouring a Philippines, while to the east seized in the western Carolines, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced tonight. Whereas last night's communique said the carrier plane attacks were being; sustained against Luzon, the Philippine Island on which Manila is situated, tonight's merely specified objectives in the Phnippines." " The new naval base is at Uli- i this toll, where 81st division army troops lande September 20 and 21 without opposition. Nimitz kept it a secret so long because there was reason : to ." believe . the Japanese didn't know about it "' '. ':'':;'" Jap Fleet' Rani Z - :,V. The communique was the sec ond Issued today.4 An earlier one, taking Into' account veritable deluge of claims by Tokyo radio, said that since carrier task farces opened up r the current oltf ensive Oct. 8 the Japanese navy had been sighted only once and then fled upon ascertaining . the American fleet strength was unimpaired. This communique, also spiked To kyo claims by saying in all that time no American carriers or bat tleships had received any damage of consequence. Mladanae'nit -; - The carrier plane attacks in the Philippines were meshed with land-based strikes by Gen. Doug las MacArthur who reported a fighter sweep over Mindanao. ' The new landing, made last Sep tember but kept secret . until to day, was achieved without oppo sition on Ulithi atoll in the west ern Caroline - group. . Eighty-first division army troops, of the same group . which aided in the Inva sion of the southern Palaus, went ashore on Ulithi Sept. 20 and 21. Ulithi is 100 miles east of Yap and is northeast of Palau. It has one . of the,; best harbors ; in the western' Pacific : Z:Z Z jr. The landings were kept secret because the Japanese poi s 1 b 1 y were unaware of them - until re cently ' Scio War Chest Quota IW One Third Filled SCIO, Oct 17. war chest con tributions' in the Scio area, lagged with but slightly over one third of the quota reported during the first week, .according . to Mrs. E. Phil lips, civilian, defense chairman in charge of solicitations here. : Solicitors' in the city and in out lying school districts hadTeported $334 of the $900 quota by Oct 18, Mrs. Phillips states. The drive will continue until November 9.": ".. Prebidential gen. Harry 8. Treman ef Mlssovrl, iemeeratie vice presilentil eandl date, whe wtU talk trlefly (rem the eb- tervsiiaa platform tf Us feclil ear ta dar whksi the 3Etieru Taciflc's mfJx - bound Ore- -rsiilaa sto?s la a- lcia at 2.13 pja. . Trsnin bea r:r' t.: CIL'.r i !.i i f- "e for i r l.r a tl ;.-;rs'i:.:.j t:-;r rT rJ;l-t Ha will Is tint": til Tcrt : iaad tcz..: t "'. t - ::s trrs I . 'Htzz: e !i a I r r ; h f - i Irarre, an cf C -'j Cz.: No. 181 Pour: -Steady of Bombs Isles New Naval Base steady rain of bombs on lh a new naval base - has been O t . Hungar,- Army Chiefs Go Over LONDO N, Oct. 1T-P-High Hungarian army chiefs have gone over to the Russian aide and two army commanders have had to be dismissed, the ' German ' official DNB agency announced tonight as the nazis strove amid deepening confusion to hold .tunary in .the war at all eosts. . -- .x -tZ The Berlin and Budapest radio poured out clouds of official ex planations, appeals, boasts and ac cusations tending to' obscure the situation, but it appeared a Hun- garian army revolt was under way, DNB announced that the .com menders of, the first and second Hungarian armies had been ousted and that MaJ. Gen. Bela Mikloe von.Dalnok, commander of the First ' army, ' had deserted to the Bed army along with his staff.' Specific mention of his name was believed in London to be at least implied confirmation of neu tral reports that the First Hun garian army was, marching on Budapest with the intention of . ousting pro-nazi ' Premier Ferend Szalasi and the German military who hold the capital. Planes Blast Nipp on Convoy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ' New Guinea, Wednesday, Oct It (A .The rent big all: fighter raiding party to sweep the Phil ippines penetrated far north into Mindanao Monday and surprised a Japanese convoy on a highway; destroying. 62 trucks, and six staff cars,' today's communique an nounced. : ; : : . The Americana apparently caught , the , Japanese , entirely., by surprise in a bold daylight raid for . the fighters: flew ..low and struck not only the convoy' but also the Important , Cagayan and Matika ; airdrbmea.:v' . ''-;:i They 'attacked a cavalry troop: and inflicted heavy casualties be fore' the horsemen could scatter. 1 Despite the distance from their bases, the fighters evidently spent many minutes in the. target area as they flew along the highway that connects Macajalar bay and Davao gulf, seeking targets of op portunity. " : ,: ' Hurricaiie Hils CtiJia,;. MIAI-IL Fla, Oct 11Hf-A vi cious . tropical - hurricane isolated the Isle of Pines, tonight tent ad vance gales roaring orer western Cuba and threatened the Florida Keys with their orst blow since the stem disaster of, 1S35. ; J; The raging ' winds ' knocked out the government ; radio ; in Nueva Gerona, , principal;, city' of : the peaceful, tourist, islet south' of Cut ba, and there was no word from, tie pcpulation of less than 10.CC3 persons.-. ;,.. K - - - ; The hurricane was bearing down on V.s ' Vicinity ef metropolitan. Kavtr.a; Tte United States wea ther hurt -a 'said hurricane winds cf : T3 miles.' an r' hour or - timber kc'-M 12 tbwir.j ty er 'y V.'cd r -tfzyV-T.fr.g over V t ri:r;ia IZ,z, -a sce CJ L..:. 1 :rld war vitcrE.r.3 lest Cicir L . . i in ; k'.z:z- Lrv:r C:?, IZ'.'j, strcticn. , Let the iits cr.r;r.d S