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nrr .n!' QudQ'S- iS uDOuQQGIIl! 8 .11 f If:) at' tasIL - KUND3D :!tC51 c3n . . )W3D tr. . France S I r-tmm II I A I 1 V F I I . I I I I seamawaeeieaaaaaasa 'v .'T "" i -"':. . .-t :."'. I 1 , Kent Cooper, manager of the ' Associated Press, is undertaking to establish the principle of free dom of the press for the whole world. What he proposes is that "in the peace settlement the na tions agree that news will be per mitted to flow without censorship from country to country. He be- lieves that this freedom of news will help to prevent future war. The political conventions this year both endorsed this principl The republican platform declares There must be no censorship except to the extent required by war necessity . , . All channels of . news must be . kept open with 'equality of access to information at the source," . The democratic platform says: ."We believe. in the world right -.- of all men to write, send and pub- ; lish the news at uniform , com ; munication rates and without in - terference by governmental or , private monopoly and that right : should be protected by treaty, I believe that both houses of congress before they adjourned adopted resolutions in support of world freedom of the press. (Continued on Editorial Page) British Batter : Essen, Berlin InNight Raids LONDON, Tuesday, Oct 24-(ff) VA mighty force of British bomb- ers battered the German railway center of Essen and Berlin last Vtiffht th air vninictrv ttnnnmwl early today, following up daylight raids on Walcheren Island in the southwestern tip of Holland and shipping off Norway. More than 1000 heavy bombers carried out the niht attark- - '- The surprise announcement came Just before 1 o'clock this mornina and indicated that other lareeta also were hit. : -1 Th statement said: Last tnzhl aircraft' of UiVrXf bomber command wer over Get-- many in very great strength, with .sen 1 the main objective Berlin -waa also bombed." . Eight hundred heavy bomben . l J Al . I . yciera-yi -uuuen,; egensourg and 1VT i" JL L . ""ry u nrnuu , UKIKJUUVUII. following un a raid h a small fnr nZiok ii ' lorce of British-basea MosQuitoJiL c,,.- .t.."T .J? Sunday night on Hamburg and other targets in the western reich. Blaze Deaths May Hit 200 CLEVELAND, Oct. 23.-m - Ghostly ruins of humble homes and the aeared rubble and twisted WITH THE 86th DIVISION, metal of shattered Industrial Leyte, Philippines, Oct. 23.-(JP buildings today gave up the bod- From a craggy bill sporadic fusi Jet of additional victims of '.II- lades of mortar and artnierr shell Quid gas explosion and blaze that Coroner S. R. Gerber said would take a toll of possibly 200 lives. , The tragic list of dead climbed to 115 during the day. Of these only 27 were Identified. There I were 82 names on an official roll of reported missing, including 47 East Ohio Gas Co. employes. Mayor Frank J. Lausche mean while set in motion an investiga tion designed "to obtain informa tion on the explosion and to make recommendations as to the fu ture.- Strike Mars Delivery Of Food for Greeks ATHENS, Oct, 23 -J?t What should have been one of the most joyous occasions since the liber ation of Athens, the -arrival of the first food ship, was marred to - day by a strike of dockyard work - era. , . Unloading of the ship at the port of Pireaus waa carried out by the British ordnances corps with the assistance of only 20 Greeks. xne striae was a consequence Of the debased condition of Greek money. Payment of dockyard wor kers is the responsibility of the Greek government, but the gov - ernment is without' funds since .the Drachma's value has dropped until it is-not acceptable. Pvt. Richard S wander Killed In Pacific 7ar i Pvt Richard D. S wander, whose mother is Mrs. Grace L. Swander, route two,' Lebanon, i named among Oregon men killed in ac- tion in tne (Central pacific in a list released by the war depart - merit Monday.?. ' --; : St Sgt Albert E. Grobe, whose Tvife, Francis Grobe, lives at Leb cnon was listed among Oregon rnen wounded In action in the Eu- IlEIETY-rOUUTll YEAR N.- SDain. seetnin0 In Revolt Opposition Party Wages Warfare ' Against Franco LONDON, Tuesday, Oct. 24-Cfl3) Northern Spain is seething with armed conflict, the Spanish na tional radio disclosed jearly today, as Spanish republican -forces wage persistent guerrilla warfare with Gen. Francisco Franco's , regular Spanish army. - The national radio said the I fighting was centered in Navarra on tne panisn- rencn ironuer and other advices told of skirm ishes at various points in the Pyrenees. The extent of the uprising was not entirely clear. I Warfare Mounts Headquarters of the Spanish PWJm in, ,ondon toe wiic. u yu.w ranco was mounung rapiaiyf Franco's radio claimed , that the riniumuon ; opaiusn reus navarra can pe consiaerea over. . aispaicn rrom utnaa, opain, ; oisumu wia were gathered for a cleanup of guerrilla forces which had Jnfa itratedlnto tne Aran vai w jiv.the I eastern Pyrenees west of Andorra 1 during the week, Gaerrill Strang en-in, were m .onve strength .. k.. .. Lw w ..r.aii-- c-' The Spanish radio identified ,, .. knowledged that some still were .1 HT A I . .. ... . Auuionuuve untisn sources - tj vj , - they had no reports of any general uprising in Spain. 96ih Division inches Ahead 1 C illMZr Otieilin& I ! C7 I fell Into the 96th division's beach head for the third day todav. while our troops inched upward seeking the buried enemy posi tions.- - Some patrols were isolated tem- I porarily part way alone the ridre which begins at the sea shore and extends two miles inland. Infan trymen were . trying vainly this morning to reach one patrol which had reported heavy casualties be fore communications' were inter rupted. ;4 ; Wherever Japanese shells be gan dropping the scene was the same men diving into foxholes until the fusilade had ceased. Refugees are still trickling through the lines amidst the shell ing, carrying pitiful little bundles of household goods. One woman of 70 waded trembling through deep mud yesterday, both arms 1 clutching her one possession the 1 family crucifix. Her withered face was blanked with fright. Sen Ball Jumps To Campaign tor Roosevelt I WASHINGTON, Oct 23 4P) 1 Republican Sen. Joseph H. Ball of Minnesota ' jumped . the party fence today to campaign for Pre sident Roosevelt, announcing he made his choice on the basis of foreign policy commitments which he asserted will assure the fourth term candidate the bulk of the Independent vote. . " -, ' - Outlining his position In a for mal statement and elaborating la ter in a news conference, the 39- year-old Senator said: ' r My guess Is Mr. Roosevelt will 1 win", over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. I His move brought comment from political leaders ; ranzing all the way from assertions that it will I nave . "tremendous - effect to a i description of Ball as "taking tim- 12PAGZ3 $7 Reunion This BhotoaraDh of Lt Gen. Jonathan Walnwright (left) and Gen. Donclas MacArthur may again cumstances Walnwright, who surrendered to the Japanese at Cor rerldor after a bitter stracaie aaalnst verwhelmlng odd, la a prisoner of the enemy. MacArthur has Tewed vengeance. (Inter national) Yanks Make Gains All Along Leyte Isle GENERAL MACARTHUR' S pines, Tuesday, Oct. 24-P)-American liberatioa forces made new gains along the entire Leyte island front today, tightening their squeeze on the strategic Leyte inset in t)fiel?ctor -as"beateh On the southern end of the of the 24th corps reached the out - skirts of San. Pablo, a. highway goal seven miles inland from cap tured Dulag, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur'! communique reported to day. ( In the north, American forces advanced three miles beyond Tac loban, . pursuing Japanese . forces retreating to the north. . , Japs Counterattack : v . -1 The enemy counter. - attacked norm, of Palo, American" held town about four- miles south of Tacloban, and were repulsed "bloodily", the communique said. "Some enemy opposition" also has been encountered west of Palo on the main road,, . -" : -: i " American forces are attempting to drive along this route to reach the northern end of strategic Leyte valley. . '', . .' ' Aim far Baraaen ; " The advance .on the south, to San Pablo, is aimed toward Bur auen, communications Junction for the north-south highway travers ing Leyte valley and the east-west road. San. Pablo is about two thirds of the way - to this key town..7. . - . . ' ' . ; ' The . offensive apparently ( is aimed at bottling Japanese force In the broad Leyte valley. ' r; American forces In the Dulag region are bypassing and. engulf ing enemy positions of "great na tural strength northwest of the town, the communique said. V 1 It also announced the liberation of three flank Islands ; to Leyte and 11 communities on this Island. Weather ! - . Maximum temperature Sunday ft degrees, mlnhnnm 54 degrees, trace ef , rain, river 4 ft; maxi mum iemperatare Monday 7S de grees, minimum 44 degrees, o rain, river 4 ft Partly . eleedy Taeaday Wednesday; eentlnsed mild. Party Fence, Ball said he would make a 15 minute address on behalf of the president over the Blue network at 10 pjn eastern wartime Thursday from Washington under sponsor' shipVof the Independent republi can committee headed by Bartley C. Crum of San Francisco, a cam paign associate of the late Wendell L. Willkie. -f-v: Ball aaid he would "vote for and support" Mr. Roosevelt, ; but he told reporters the Thursday night speech is the only one ar ranged to that end. lie described a speech scheduled for tonight In Baltimore and tr.ciher V.'ednes- day nijbt ia New York as non partisan, tzjteiZ h v. cu!i ret Cla- Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, October 24. 1844 mm Nearer be duplicated under different cir HEADQUARTERS, Leyte Philip valley, after a Japanese coutr off in bloody f igutihg. r 18-mile long front, advance elements O - New German Forces Fail: To Halt U.S. ROME, Oct. 23-(ff)-Despite new German reinforcements, American Fifth army troops today consoli dated newly-won positions in bit ter fighting eight 'miles 'south of Bologna, while the British Eighth army enlarged Is grip on the Ad riatic sector in Italy by capturing Cervia 12 miles below Ravenna. It was slow, difficult progress for the allied armies striving to break into the Po valley of north' era Italy.-, The Americans were about one mile south of Pianaro on Highway 65, a main road leading Into Bo logna. Since capture of Iiverg nano was announced a week ago. the advance up Highway 85 has measured less than two miles. The latest-won positions were on dom inating heights, however. China Opens Gounterbloivs i CHUNGKING, 5 Oct 23 '-Wf Successful Chinese' counter offen sives miles north of Kweilin and along the west river front 160 miles farther south were reported tonight by the high command. The communique said Chinese launched counter attacks against Japanese forces 12 miles south west of Hingan, 21" miles, north of Kweilin, Oct. 21 and had scored appreciable gains."; The attacks apparently were designed to smash the enemy's threat to Kweilin which Chinese military ' leaders have promised to make "China's Stalingrad." The Japanese last week drove to a point 18 miles , west of Hingan in an attempt to outflank Kweilin, former site of large US air base. but the high command said the in vaders had been driven back. Marion County Nears Goal for 7nr Chest ; Marion .county i districts, outside of Salem, Monday night had more than $20,CC0 cf the aHotted 325, COO for the war . chest, S.; Parry Rose, county, chairman announced. t ZlzhX tov,TS la the" ! county al ready have x reported collections in excess of the .quotas . allotted them. Rose said. The towns are Aurora, , Donald," Hubbard, Jef f erson, EUverton, i Pratum, Cent ral ITowell and Talbot. Rose said others may have ex ceeded their quotas reports from an gecilcri I-dlcatirj ready re "7i n British Hammer at Nazis Germans' Shield For West Holland About to Buckle LONDON, Tuesday, Oct, 24-) The British Second army early to day hammered at 'S-Hertogen-bosch, the German shield for all of western Holland, and the enemy defenses seemed -about to buckle, but Canadian forces to the south west were reported withdrawn drawn from Breskens on the south shore of the Schelde river estuary in a "confused" situation. The Canadian ' First army had taken Breskens, a ferry port on the long waterway leading to Antwerp,- Sunday and had pushed be yond. Late dispatches from su preme allied headquarters at Par is, however, said the ' Canadians had retired from the town last night and that there was see-saw fighting in the area. Battalion Wiped Ont In their advance on 'S-Herto- genbosch, the British. wiped out a whole battalion of the 712th Ger man infantry division and took 500 prisoners, including one regi- tnental and one battalion , com mander. ; ' . "..".;--'''' The v jiard -driving Tommies smashing til on'S-Hertogenbosch from three directions, rocked the nazis back approximately six miles in liberating the important towns of Schinjndel, Middelrode. Olland and Bruggen. .They received tu- muituous welcomes from " the Dutch populace. New AtUck 1 Fresh momentum was given the British offensive against the west ern flank of the Holland bridge head by a new attack launched at midnight from the south side of the Zuid Willemsvaart canal, southeast of 'S-Hertogenbosch. The Germans tried desperately to regain their balance and realign their defenses, but were handicap ped by an obvious shortage of ar tillery in this sector. An upper British spearhead, ap proaching the city from the north east along the railroad from Pes, was reported within five miles of S-Hertogenbosch. A flooded coun tryside and thousands of anti per sonnel mines added greatly to the difficulty of the allied advance. Two Ue S. Subs Long Overdue WASHINGTON, Oct 23 -UP) The fortunes of war have removed two particular thorns in the side of the Japanese, a pair of heroic American submarine skippers whose craft are long overdue. ' The navy today listed the USS Herring and the USS Golet as mis sing and the presumption is that they, were lost to Japanese coun teraction in the Pacific ' ' Each had .a complement of 65 men, the next of kin have been no tified. . - In command of the Herring was Lt Cmdr. David Zabriaki, . Jr, Los Angeles, Calif, and skipper of the Golet was Lt Cmdr. James S. OarkPala Alto, Calit Auction Fails; LaVal's Antique Pieces Fakes NEW YOar;, Oct- 23-OFy-Auc- tlon of the property of Pierre La val today, at Chateldon, his gov ernment seized estate, waa a fail ure because "most of Laval's. fa mous antique" furniture was not genuine,". . the American broad' casting station in Europe (AESIZ) said tonight in a French-language Broadcast recorded by the clice of war. Information. . Astor V7eds Argentine" Diplomat's DauIilcr V LONDON, Oct - 2-V Anna Inez Carcano, 23, daughter cf the Argentine ambassador to Great Britain, and Ma j. John Jacob As ter, 23, younj-st son cf Lord and Lady As tor, were married today at a quiet Catholic ceremony which IlaJ. Aster's i:;: e:i rct'tt- Trie 5c N , ' Top Sergeant Just Calls Soldier 'Lee' And Who Wouldn't RICHMOND, Va- Oct 23 -OP) To one soldier the sibilant sound which passes for his name Is a means of collecting bis pay, but to officers of the third service command headquarters here who had to fill out the necessary pa pers It was a lot of -work. He is Pvt. Leleieusszuieusszes- szes Willihilminirisstclny Hurri- zisstelzzuv A .native of . Thailand, who stopped off . here today to collect his pay while enroute from Camp Wheeler, Ga, ' to Camp George G. Meade, Md. He said that his top sergeant at Wheeler contented himself with addres sing him as Private Lee.- - Dewey to Fill Roosevelt Gaps InTalkTonight EN ROUTE WITH DEWEY TO MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 23-OrVGov. Thomas E. Dewey announced to night he would "fill in the gaps" in President Roosevelt's recent foreign policy speech when he ad dresses the nation tomorrow night from Minneapolis! ' ..The 'republican candidate - for president told a packed news con- erence on his special train that be was pigeon-holing the farm speech be had prepared for 'Minneapolis fa order to bring out what he said Mr. Roosevelt "forgot" in a New York city broadcast last Saturday. Commenting on the president's criticism of GOP "isolationists," Dewey declared, with a steely smile: "-.. t'l don't think III bother with Mr. Roosevelt's isolationists, he has two of them as committee chairmen, but everybody knows about that" - He declined to name them and when the names of several sena tors were hurled at him question ingly, he exclaimed. . ... "What bunch of Washington correspondents you are." ;.v Wxdbert ICimlinger Is Crossing Victim HUBBARD, Oct 23 Walbert Augustus Kimlinger, SO, was in stantly killed when the Mt" An gel Creamery truck he was driv ing was hit by the southbound Southern Pacific train about 7 o'clock Monday morning. The ac cident happened at a crossing a mile south of Hubbard. ' ' : i Kimlinger is believed not to have seen the train because of the heavy fog. His: body was' thrown clear of the truck which was carried more than 200 yards be yond the crossing. Additional de tails on page 1. Production of Heavy Tracks Off Schedule WASHINGTON, Oct 23 -(re production of heavy-heavy trucks (ten tons and above) fell 24 per cent behind schedule In the first nine months of the year, the war production board reported today. Heavy-heavy trucks are on - the army's "must' list J World Prosperity, Solution f or Lasting Peace, Cordon Asserts Forsaking; politics. Sen. Guy Cordon, Monday ' nijht In an ad dress in the Salem Chamber of Commerce, told assembled, citi zens the way io implement a peace treaty and chancre it from mere words Into living fact la "to cre ate sound, productive prosperi ty In this country so we can aid by example and by Interchange cf goods the creation of a like material prosperity in other coun tries, thus doing away with the underlying cause of waf-tie de spair and fear that comes from abject pavttj.m-:-:r--.rr:''. T Senator Cordon, republican no minee for United States senator, spoke under, auspices of Marion County Republican club, Marlon county central ccrnznitiee and Pro America club. Dr. O. A. Clson pre-r'-i tii t etcher v-s fci'.r3- Hundreds of Towns Captured t Soviets 19 Sliles Inside Nazi Soil; Memel Isolated LONDON, Tuesday, Oct 24 -(ff) Powerful .Russian armies -in a two-way plunge . into pre-war Germany have overrun 1400 towns and . villages, stabbing 19 miles Into East Prussia from the sast on an 87-mile front, con quering .nearly all of Memel ter ritory, on the north and trapping the axis garrison" id the . Baltic port of Memel, Moscow announc ed last night - , In a huge offensive supported by thousands ' of guns, tanks and. planes, the Russians crossed Into the nazi homeland for .the first time after fighting their .way back on the long road from Moscow and Stalingrad. , 900 Towns FaU Premier-Marshal Stalin in a special order of the day announc ed that the Third White Russian army troops led by the brilliant young Jewish tank expert Genl Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky, had cap-; tured BOO towns and villages, 500 of them German, in an. attack from the east: ' , ' .r -' A soviet bulleun thei annouhe- ed the capture of 500 towns and villages in the reconquest of Mem el territory, a : 1089-squarertnIIe area ceded to Germany by Lith uania March 22, 1S39, under Ger man pressure. Memel Surrounded . ' The Russians cleared the entire north bank of . the ,Niemen river from Lithuania to the Baltic, sur rounded Memel ' with 25-mile steel arc anchored on' the Baltic north' and south of the dry, and prepared to hurdle the Niemen on. the road, to Konigsberg. 'East Prussian capital. - - Moscow declared that all Memel territory had been won except for Memel city and a few surrounding localities. . . . France Wants Voice in War, Peace Plans PARIS, Oct 23-(A)-France In tends to wage war against the axis "by all means possible' and should have a voice In all negotiations concerning the war and the peace, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said today in announcing allied recognition of Gen. Charles De Gaulle and his. cabinet as the French provisional government . Bidault spoke to the press with in a few minutes after conferring with' De Gaulle,' to whom he im parted the news of the Joint American-British-Soviet union step. K De Gaulle was pleased, but.not greatly surprised, according to the foreign minister. Bidault added that" for Frenchmen, De Gaulle long had been their chief and the savior of the nation's unity and J honor. - E prague. The address waa broad cast over KSLM. Referring to the late Sen. Charles I McNary as "belonging to the nation and eternity', Sen ator Cordon said he waa trying to carry out the program of his pre decessor. Among projects listed were: protection of tne Willam ette valley from floods; sustained yield management for the forests; protection of the forests from fire, with increased federal aid; devel opment of hydro - electric power in the northwest . This progressive prcjrsra. Cor don said, was the dream of Senator McNary and I am going to try to carry, it to conclusion.? He said development was necessary and would aid in giving opportunity to returning service men. "Inci dentally." -hs said.-"my first of Ccial act as senator was to be- c;? a co-rr-"-"r for Ihe GI till Allies Turn Over ' Most of Country ' to French Rule WASHINGTON, Oct lt.-JP Under the leadership of aggres sive Gen. Charles De Gaulle, the republic of France emerged today from four dark years of defeat,' ; ' occupation and the ravages of war to take control once more of Its own destinies as a sovereign na- tion already promised a position of power in. the councils of peace. Two actions by its allies marked ' the renaissance of the republic: ' 1. The United. States, Britain and Russia at noon Eastern War ' time simultaneously recognizee! the regime of which General de' Gaulle Is president as "a "provi sional government' , . Elsenhower Acts ; ' 2. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower turned over to -this administration-' virtually all metropolitan France except the western front combat zones, by declaring the non-combat area to be an "interior zone." That includes the capital of the provisional government' Paris. Not since German invaders en veloped the shattered nation in , the summer of 1940 had France attained such stature In the fam-,' ily- of nations or such control over . its own affairs. Others Follow ; Recognition by the three great powers was accompanied by sim ilar action of other nations, In cluding Canada, Australia, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. - The United States named Jef ferson Caffery as its first ambas sador. He arrived in Paris only a few days ago to be a "representa r tive" to the De Gaulle administra tion which until noon today was considered to be only a ?de facto authority rather than a govern State Has Big Fund for Post War Projectsr Oregon postwar public work projects, for which funds already are available and tentative, now aggregate. $344,828,000, the Ore gon postwar readjustment and de velopment commission reported to Gov, Earl Snell here Monday. Of this total, ' $178,082,000 was listed as tentative. , The total figures include: Federal projects, funds avail able $128,505,000; tentative $104. 775,000. Total $233,280,000. , State projects; funds available $8,558,000; tentative $58,852,000. Total $85,410,000. - I " i- , County projects, funds avail able $7,915,000; tentative $8,100,- 000. Total $10,015,000.' City projects, funds available $13,295,000; tentative $4,680,000. Total $17,875,000.". County school districts, funds) available $7,473,000; tentative $1.- 875,000. Total $9,148,000. t Port districts, funds available $3,000,000. - The report said these funds de not Include- substantial free- en- terprise i.- projects. . privately, fi nanced. ' I-1 New Venire of Jurors Drara DALLAS, Oct 23 A new ven ire of 40 jurors was drawn late Monday afternoon when the orig inal panel was exhausted In the attempt to get a 12 man jury to hear the case of Maley Stone and Elmer Riley Lane, under Indict- -ment for the $13,000 robbery ot the Grand Ronde bank August 2. The men are defended by Le- Roy Lomax, Portland attorney. He Is assisted by Earl P. Skow, Robert Kreason, Polk county dis trict attorney, is presenting the state's case. - ; - 1" ' Circuit Judge Arlle G. Walker Is presiding at this term of court in Polk county. The trial of Stone, and Lane . la. the only important criminal case on the docket .They are specifically charged with as sault and ' robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. Australian Minister to United States Arrives ' SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 23TV Sir Frederick Egrieston, Austral-: ian minister designate to the Unit ed States, left here Jtonight aboard an air liner for Washington, DC Sir: Frederick, minister to Ch!r.a: since ICil, will replace Sir Ov.t.i; Dixon; lie was accompanied ty Akn S. T7att cf the A:traliaa I 1 n i.rca. i self too seriously." curs candidates li c! . ty f.r.'-.tr Cov. CI :r! 3 A.