arge Japanece Cqmer
r ives lann nawv v tiers rrwiin .- -ms h.;-:.- .uMmHv..
, ;lltuU:i,i-i;i:iiS.:i!IHfe.,igv,;jM.KM mi 3 -;
Vndeir fail cteam a
W1HUC9)
; plctore
In (he historic sea battle; TaTy ctpUoa tald Asmoke seems to be comlnr from deck , , .
mad one hoar and a half before 'she keeled ever and sank." This action was October 24 and
inrht the carrier wu the Znlkakn ef the Shokakn eliu. AP wlrmlutla rrBi ITS unt ;
: nary though
1 r-rr f r-r
t
. The relation iof the chief cxmi
tlve, jwho n democratic countries
is itsuallyi a civilianj1 to the mil
itary1 commanders n time of war
is always a difficult one. The nat
ural attitude of the military ex
perts Is to resent', any intrusion
by the civilian into their sphere.
Onjjthe other jiandj the executive,
who fee s keenly the pressures
from the publiir who ari impatient
forj Ivictory ; and . highly critical of
defeat, "lsT constraihed to;fak'
hand! In the sel jctidn of command
era and the de' ermination of stra
te.f T J.-1 ;r . ' ,f
' President Lmcoln had many Un
happy experiences in trying to get
federal; generals .toj fight and win;
ancjl be eyenlaid out directions for
plan of ; attack when McClellan
was ncliped toj sit on the Potomac.
And there was plenty of peopli
la nd out of ongfess who wer
disgusted. jwitJi 'the ;way Lincoln
was running the.war4 ip.-j
, In ithis'ait; jRooseyelhas been
charged u-jth dipping into the field
reservedl ',tp. tiiMed g enerala and
dmiraUicgk)ing so far as to
Amm hini for! Pearl Harbor and
fif:
I iorj the inva&ioti of Italy which for
-,. m time looked iike a miaadyenturei
. V4 iyill hvi o await the' end of
! the! war when scholars can review
: all! the jdocumenti to determine
how jmufaj Roosevelt has dictated
"armjf arid navy policies in this
. Suppose we leave out present
iiii - j -a . i a .
Hietion in the abstract. It seems
to me there mus be a close work
ing relationship between the dv4
Cianf - !t-!t;ii: '' 'I-m''- V-"'
(Continued on Editorial Page) ij
Witliiti 7 MUes
Of Yugoslavia
ATHENS, Oct. SI -WV British
troops arn4 Greek guerillas, push-n
Ing , the! Germans out of Greece,
were reported j within seven miles
f (he Yugosv bbrder today.
i -The Germans I p'ut !iip a brisk
read guard fight north of Kozane,
240 miles north! o( Athens. The Bri
tish land Gre4i folrces! routed the
nazist ajttelr irtflictng heavy cas
vailies and advanced to Armissa,
40 miles nortn; of Kozane and on
ly seven miles south of the Yugo
slav border. The hazi garrison at
Armtssaj was Ndpdout. J-' i-.J!! i'lS
, f i-i :. VI ; 1 j . . .--''"jM
; Ilussian; pressure , in Bulgaria
sad action of Marshal -Tito's par
tisans in Yugoslavia ! forced the
Germans to lturn westward and
head toward Scutari, in the north
West of Albania; It appeared ex
tremely jdoubtful that many of the
Germans i fleeing
out ' of Greece
would ever reach i the reich.
Of some- 25,000 Germans who
were garrisoned
in i the Aegean
port of Salonika, bnly 10,000 were
reported leftj;
8th Crosses
River
uonco
. iti i-i-
ROME, Oci! Jl - (.P) - Indian
troops of the British Eighth army
: tave consolidated ; a half - mile
; deep bridgehead across the Ronco
river near Meldola, seven miles
! south cf Forll, German strong
: point on ; the lateral Bologna
. Xliiini highway, the allied com-
ci-nd ahnounced ay.
rolish troops, who two days ago
j csptiired ' the nbiin'tain'' town of
; rre-appioi eot to Mussolini's
lirthplace and less than five miles
' souihwest : of ,; jMeldola, ran . into
: ttrcr.2 Gennanprepared positions
at Camiaato j which- slowed their
i drive on rorlij, : 1;: .. ; a!- i; .if
1 Action on the American Fifth
! tzr:.' IxzrA immediately south and
I rout" c a st ' of Bologna was con
ir..l to patrol ; activities. The
V.'i rri:cncrs h
-''-'; V. tillaccia. ....
' Kw'IV kit-
- - -jLt-r."
L . . ;N .)! - l ....... , - -H-'Ji (- i .1-1 -
Jannes ftlrcnft flees US navy carrier-based
tr. : t
Yank ibxib
mm
M'- in r
mmm
By Itha ML
ocUted Press Torelga AfXatrt Writer
: f , h -i
President Roosevelt 1 a'i
Clarence EL Gauss is following
I. IN. 1 . , . I : . HI' .
from China.
. 4 - j - i -1 ' - I ' '! i ) ill I 1 ! I -I !
However' Mr. Roosevelt said,
the recall of the general, which
sonalities with" Chiang Kai-shek,
A" -if'-- ) it
nens Advance
For Budapest
On Wide1 Fro
nt
j LONDON. Oct. ai.-i-Thered
army, adva icing toward doome4
Budapest or a 60-mile-wide front
between ! the Tista : and j Danube t
rivers,; reached points 1;43 mileii
southeast of the Hungarian cap-f
ital today and fought ! the Ger
mans in 1 the ptree of the large
railway luhcuon city of Kecske4
Thf st h-ti 'ttotdkemet"
Hungary'1 third - largest I proving
cial cttyi 44 milefi southeast of
Budapest and 20 mles west of the
Tisza, was announced in the so
viet daily broadcast comminique
recorded, in London by the Soviet
Monitor. I :-:: ;- :; "Ij
Earlier . the .German radio had
said a Russian mechanized col
umn penetrated to the heart of
the city of 80,000, but claimed at
counterattack pushed the invadei
back to the southeast fringes.
fi An; even) closer approach was
made to Budapest with capture of
Ixak. 17 miles southwest of Kecs
kemet and 43 miles below he cW-j
ital, the Bussian communique disf!
ciosed, while more than 200 com
munities were taxen in tne area
extending Westward to the east
banks, of ! the Danut
ain Broadcast
Asks People, Arrav
to Remove Hitler
STOCKHOLM, Oct. Sl.VA
mysterious German broadcast I on
an unusual wavelength tonight
urged the people of the reich and
the German army to revolt igaihst
HiUer. '"M':,4!;ViT1j;,.
i The. newspaper Da gens Nyheter,
Which' monitored ;the broadcast,
said the ; speaker called himself
Col. Gen, Ludvfig Von JZeck and
ridiculed mazi repo rts that he had
Committed suicide after the abor
tive attempt on Hitler's' life July
?!i-n '.-mi
j The i speaker alio declared that
tit. Karl Goerdeler, the former
mayor of Leipzig whom the nazis
reported they had executed, also
at liberty. : " ' I i j 11
Germ
79 Japmwst Fighter Planes
Fail to Scratch Lone ti-29
i;.:?v; -yh; By John Grover,"! "
jA B-29; BASE " IN WESTERN
CHINA, Oct 3l-fF)-Seventy-nine
Japanese fighter planes ganged up
on a single American B-29 bomb
er over their own home; islands
recently and not only failed to to
much as scratch jit but had seven
of their own planes shot down and
two damaged by 1 the bomber'
gunners, interrogation officers dis
closed today, j . j ' . .js : ; j a :;; ,i
This ; four-hour running battleJ
described jas undcbtedly the seJ
verest test; ever made of a B-29's
defenses, began oifei Kyushu when
a flight of nine new Japanese pur
suit planes jumped the bomber;
Just as it Wks heading home after
4, bombing raid. . j 4 a: U K k I
I The Japanese !are skilled and
determined, and the American pi
lot, Majoi J4 Ct Eigenmann of
Springfield, Hi; said, "They came
to close you! could almosf read
their dog iag& j-j V-; p v j ' '-;. --
Lt Col.' Wwird J. Potter. cf
t-, , ., ,., . i .
i 1 I u - .... i i.. - .... 1 :
Diane east 1 Lbmb Island. Phil-
ssadorffll
til well
m 1 China
mm
Bisbto
yesterday .that Ambassador
GeriL
sseph W. Stilwell home
I ' ': ;
there
no connection between
was attr.
ibuted to a clash of per-
ai-shelc, And the resignation of the
- O tkTTVitl4Ar-W nrK3V Via Alol
casually! to a reporter's question.
us in a speech of a few min-
at his: news conference Mr.
eyelt covered the fact that
the jwol highest American officials
at Chungking are coming home.
But I in ! response tok a rapid j fire
of questions he said the develop
ments were not connected with Is
sues! of 1 policy or strategy, i a f 1 ;i
1 The conference came at the
closft of a day marked by numer
ous i I dispatches from correspond
ents I still in ior recently from the
China Burma area. They report
ed deep seated Chinese-Ameri-
can
diff erences over American ef-
get Chiang, Kai-shek to re-
his country's 1 war ef-
t o n , Grover, Associated
rrespbndent at New Delhi,
Stilwell's withdrawal.' ; 1
hina, Chiang evidently
eat face' by the maneu-
ch is looked upon in many
and American Quarters as
capitulation (by the United States
to China on questions of policy.)
ys Charged
ith j Homicide
ike Death
Oct. 3L--Leland
and Harold W Ray,
W. Sdi
both 1
Valsetz, were charged
witW
egligent homicide in justice
court
ere today by pistrict' At
torheyj I Harlow Weinrfck in jcon-
necition; with the traffic death of
Artj Kennedy, 16, Lebanon.
Spriggs
admitted driving the
automobile
which struck Kenne
dy's bicycle j last night, killing him,
jFralnkj J5hoemate, city! policeman,
teportd. ! Bail for the youths was
set j at ilOOO each, and they are
being held in the county jaiL '
Wayne Huffman, state police of
ficer said j Spriggs tcfld him he
had served: a term in the state
training school at Woodburn for
stealing! a car i .
LEBANON, Oct 31.TArthur Lee
Kennedy,! 16, was killed at 6:30
Monday night when struck by an
automobile He is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs.7 John Ken
nedy,! fjve brothers and five sis
ters, He ws born in Oklahonuu '
! Funeral services will be held
Wednesday; morning. . , . i
quarters observer aboard the
bomber J. reported the gunnery sys
tem functioned perfectly and the
gunners, coordinated their fire so
weli thait they put a metal "fence"
around the besieged Superfortress.
Three pt this attacking force were
shot down before the others broke
off after a ISO-mile chase. , '
Immediately 10 j new Japanese
fighters showed up and began a
series bf eager attacks. After 125
es, four of them had been
and the others gave up
. ! They evidently had
p the resecves, however,
e China coast 0 fighters
eet the bomber. t
last attackers .were de
scribed as reluctant ' to' close, and
the J Superfortress gunners, ! run
ning lpr oh, ammunition, reserved
their fire for; the few who meant
business Two of these were dam
aged. The gunners complained that
if they j had possessed more am
munition for long shots they were
hey could 4 have ir.creasci
tbeir ba;
Th
ute
Rooi
ions iq.
M J a
vitalize
fort
; P.reu
Press co
said of I
gained gr
verWbJ
Chinese
W7
1
B
ANY
Hggs
0. of
more mil
downed.
the ! chas
caiiedi ;u
for eftlth
rose; to m
These
2594 Ni,
Nimitz Reveals
For Two MoiitHs
vi:;i!vM!!!'ti:i1 l-nmim
- US fAtttC FLEE;T .HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor.1 Oct
3I-(P)-t-Carrier planes j wiped; out
2594 enemy aircraft and perhaps
252 more in the two1 months dat
ing ! from the time 1 task forces
opened up August 30 with Philip
pines pre-invasion raids and, ex
tending through the trio of naval
battles in the Philippines sea.
In the same period dating
from the big task force assault
on the Bonins, on through strikes
at Palau, the Ryukyus, Formosa
and the Philippines and up Octo
ber 31 -attacking j planes f of the
Seventh and .Third fleets lost ap
proximately : 300 f planes,! Adm.
Chester W. Kimitz announced to
night. Many
American ' pilots and
crews of, th
the downed planes
were
T il' ;"'
stag-
iescueu. -
mmm
serins lair losses li followed 1 com
muniques reporting ; Japan' had
suffered at least 60 warships sunk
or damaged within the past week
and ; probably : 35,000 j naval per
sonneL1 including a few admirals.
Inasmuch as Japanese j plane
production is estimated to be from
1200 to 1500: planes a month," the
action just about rubbed oui all
the , aircraft Nippon's ; factories
could turn out in the. same period.
Clothes Damp
But Not Spirits
Hall
m
en
mm
, Rain
danibened
i clothes but
1 'i-
not th nirit nt h
dreds of chil-
dren bent on Hallowe'en fun last
night There were costumes galore,
j Boyi and jU f
late 'teens roamed the wet streets
in cheery procession to ring door
bells and eagerly demand f trick or
Most f ; them were carrying
baskets or sicks to hold their pi
rated candy,! cookies,1 peaUts and
all manner of forfeit surrendered
by good-natured householders, i!
One little Ibrown f haired girl,
her head atfaM'a!; ban-'
danna, gleefully accepted a chunk
of cakj with the surprisingly! tact
ful comment that "people certainly
are: :nice jto iis this year.? j . ; .; ft
j Basement parties called; in most
of I the! ! youngsters ; In the jeafly
hours. From all reportsfvandalism
was at a minimum.' "; j j: ;
I Whether party h 1 caused tummy
aches will affect school attendance
today remained to be seen.
;r-:- -.'in n
Nazis Expect
NbnvayEll
LONDON, . Oct. 31 -)- Adolf
Hitler's ! Norwegian garrison, 'ap
parently fearing an allied , sea
borne Invasion linked with a Rus
sian drive from the north, is throw
ing up extensive interior defense
works, . a Norwegian official in
London 'said today, I '
L Underground intelligence ; re
ports, he said, show that the Ger
mans are concentrating on i inter
nal defenses, building tank ! bar
riers, bunkers and concrete strong
points around towns and along
communication lines. '. . " i
Towns in central and southern
Norway, according to 1 these ' re
ports, are being ringed with barbed
wire and concrete barriers. Anti
tank ditches, have been duff in
many places, knd fortifications are
generaiiystrengthened. j ' 1 , .
vv-iM jf1 If!", l ' ! - -li'f Pi
October Warmest ,
In Seven Years -
Salem and vicinity in 1944 ex
perienced the warmest October In
the past seven years and the driest
In the past four, according to the
local weather bureau. , , . j
Average rainfall i! for the past
month was 1.54 inches. Compared
with 1943 when the rainfall was
6.31 inches.? ' j j; )a '
Average maximum temperature
for this ..October was 69 degrees,
the highest ; since I93S when 70
degrees was registered.
. Maximnm Uisperatar Tues
' day . t degrees, Tnlntmnn II
dexrtes, At izch rxla, river
ft v -ii a i. -A k- -:
FarCy clsrjy wI'.Ti s:ai::rei
tboweri "; -c;:iy til T. "s-
iirplMIp
I a: . " 1 j ',. 9. . 1
Ainericaii Siibs !
Subtract 18 More
From Japs', Fleet
V It - r".. .c lit. I.
. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.
-New, heavjr blows by Ameri
: can submarines which struck It
..vessels including a destroyer :
1 from the rapidly shrinking Jap
anese fleet were reported today;
rby the navy. '.4:i.f!V4-. j' tt
f ' The latest bag ef the sobmar.
lne operating deep in Japanese
j, territory was annonnced while
the enemy navy still may be en
deavoring to remap remnants '
of Its batUe fleet after ; last
i week's dlsastroas defeat In the
Philippines area. ) !' i '
The new submarine toll rais
es to 971 the n amber of Nippon
ese ships of all types' jrankjor j
j damaged by; snbmaiines patrol-
ling regularly along the Japan-
ese shipping lanes. H'n t f I j; j!i
Yanliees Drive
fft&SMes
ar
.!!;
t' ' V,
1. 1
GENERAL . MacARTHURrS
HEADQUARTERS, PhmUippines,
Wednesday,! Nov.. 1 H-t! Amerji
can 24th division troops, aided by
powerful mechanical units, rolled
nojrlnre through Ley ti valley to
day aboVe Jaro within eight 'miles
of Carigara bay positions the Jap
anese have been reinforcing for a
, A una! enemy suicidal counter
attack: in that area any time with
in the neit few days was expected
by !Maj, C-en. Franklin C. Siber
former ,chief ox staf to Gen.: jc
sepn auiweu ana now command
er of ;the; 10th corUnp .,
MJine; Japanese, persistenuy
sneaking : in barges at Ormoe bay
on the IslancTs wes coast despite
the !r destruction -. I wreaked 'bj y
pj?Iif nighT air patrols, wefe
said I ;byL ;i headquarters spoke 5
man either ;td 'berf.; ; jv.j : P
m ,1. ; Planning to make a'' stand ' ; it
Ormod and more than 20 miles of
the north around Carigara, or i !
! 2. Setting up a perimeter of de
fense with fresh troops in an at
tempt jto evacuate remnants of the
Japanese 16th division, the same
Nipponese who organized Bataan's
fmarch of death." it;ji:4 1 H V
I Headquarters announced this
gathering fight in a communique
which ! also reported, the annihila
tion of a' trapped Japanese force
further south in the Leyte valley
near Dagaml. .:.:-: N
Kauch Jtland
i-i 7 .. III . ii l7 J.,, . . l!.:iJ ,
MlledibyiCar
I John B. McLean, 56, ranch hand
at the Gus Schlicker 'dairy on
route six! the past two years, was
killed j almost i instantly Tuesday
night when struck by a car driv
en by Max J. Groesbeck, 7, route
two, ScioJ McLean was a pedes
trian on highway 222 In front 6f
the deorge S. Ha ger ranch south
east of Salem when the accident
occuijred;'at approximately p.ni
Griesbeck, told state police he
was traveling at a moderate speed
and was partially blinded on the
dark,! et paving by the lights of
an approaching car. '
i 1 One j of the persons riding in
his automobile called his1 attention
to McLean just as the two Vehicles
were almost parallel on the road
and he swerved as far to the cen
ter of the highway aS ' possible
without crashing into the other
car, groesbeck said. The side of
his automobile struck the pedes
trian.; No relatives of McLean
known.!
1
tsombs Mnke
England in Daylight
: LONDON, f Oct? 31.-4VlTlnff
bombs, ' which killed at least five
persons when a hotel was wrecked
last : bight, were over I southern
England again today in ' the first
daylight attack in two months.
' Several, children were among 35
guests In the hotel. A. few of the
35 escaped injury. Rescue workers
tollecl 14 the wreckage throughout
the day! in search of those believed
1ppet!!if.:r "rftfbi-i-tji k:l r,
One of . the Heinkel-llls which
launched i : the bombs was shot
down by 'a Mosquito. ' : i
!;oT ljj'r ' ; . ' , 1 1 I
Elarlene Dietrich ICisses
Yanks Until It Hurts
! PARIS, Oct 3Iv-(-Marlene
Dietrich has been kissing soldiers
until it hurts her forehead,
i The actress, now giving USO
performances before the 35th in
fantry division, got so bruised by
the helmets of the eajer Gr that
she finally had to issue a general
"tats cfrf request to the c:rula-
t.':n h?s-h, the trr-y rr--rrr-r.
Clara auj U .,., i; ki . . . .
uttang
aoav
llllif
Qiitlmei;
Urogram
Candidate Lists
8 Points; Raps
FDR's ! Promises
Us
i By Gardner Bridge
- BUFFALO, NY, "Oct. Jl -(
Charging President Roosevelt with
making i "bogusj1!', campaign prom
ises, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey out
lined tonight kn eight-point re
publican program he said would
onng an end , to i government by
abuse and' smer i s!f ';'Kj-! 1 .'T '
The ; GOP nominee declared In
an address prepared for a nation
al broadcast in Memorial auditor
ium that if he won ' the presi
dency In Tuesday's election he
would take ' ffice January 20
"without a promise,!; expressed or
implied, to a living ' soul"M except
for public campaign pledges he
hacl made. ; ';; jj jl !f' liltq tr j! ;
Raps FDK CIno ! ;! fj;! !fl-,;;li
There is no One Thousand club
in my party ,71 the governor de
clared. "I have not offered the
government ,of the, United States
for , sale at one thousand dollars
to any man! and I never will to
any jone at; any price. Your new
administration J will, take, office
honestly, without l secret prom
ises !of special privilege to any
class, group or. section." ' j
Here,' in brief, Is what he said
the; republicans would do if they
were victorious: J p
PoinU: listed I !; : 4-1
1.. "Direct all government poli
cies toward the goal of futl em
ployment through full production
I . . . . . i -k : J .
tructure designedij primarily io
create jobs.'
Jlr
I-. !l-
Itil.l
i;&.rMake
social security
system, available
loi every. Amer-
ican.!.!.- ; J
. 'rEstablishjia
curt floor under
definite and se-
farm prices.
5. "Restore fre collective bar
gaining in America. ,f ; ! ! 1
6. "Abolish the
greater !parV of
i i
government reports required from
big and, little business.
End Monopoly
7. "Bring an end
to business mo-
nopoly? throu
gh the i
staff of
nent of
acquisition of
Ma competent
prosecutors"
in the departmt
: ' 8, Establish
basis between
of justice.
an
. 7 il '.klLTL'L AA
1 enureiy new
the
president
and
1
Quoting
some 1 of
President
Roosevelt's ) words ; fronj recent
speeches'' Dwey listed pledges he
said ; his I opponent had inade and
declared! that! each Individual
promises; would
"worthless"! or1
be "ho
good,!
!' even
-bogus-
though it was repeaM lagain and
again and again -
I in
uregon lumey
f
Will Be fFairl
iple
M M
PORTLAND,
I 31
spite the fact 60,000,000 pounds of
turkeys will be shiDDedi
all over
the world to iKrherica'l
lighting
men and women, Oregon civilians
will fin(l "fairly ample
supplies
01 tne traditional
day'repiistt-vv.fl'jj
Thanksgiving
m This I was the view jtoday of
Portland poultry': marketitnen,: who
said that when a WFA f freeze
order is ; lifted ! we best grade of
birds will be diverted to the gen
eral market! Right now.: ail grade
A turkeys ; are going only jto the
armed forces."
NewDt
America is being made, over, and
Americans won't like it, former
Gov. Ralph L. Carr, Cdorado, told
republicans at Salem senior high
school Tuesday evening In mak
ing tne statement the Coioradoan
said, This Is not my: statement,
but the 'words of a I democratic
senator i from 'Wyoming, a .new
dealer, who in 1943 wrote an ar
ticle making Just that statement,
and he quoted from Reader's Di
gest. : ;"t ; i ; if;. ; :'f j jjf-i i-k HaA
Carr was Introduced by Secre
tary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr.
The meeting was held under aus
pices of Marion county central
committee. f ;;. j ii ':aIa l !;;
.This is not a partisan Campaign,
but a campaign between new deal
ers and Americans, the ! speaker
said. "I was scheduled to speak in
Oklahoma," , he continued, "and
l-r--l tv;t X wfci'to fts hro-
uctii a flunocrat and ihzt Ce
h ftp !! mm t.; :: ;iday
MMakiha
5.7 : i it : i i :-i m - n-i-...
jLsserts indole
I ii! A H i-!s;i : . iA t.
r- Hi1 ; l - -. - H r 1 ' l - . ; t;,, I
Reports Bombers
Tokyo Area
j! ; ::;';i..':N0iii;i-
1 7:f;Byuttie'!Associated' Press) ! :,!
f "Enemy fonr-motred planea'
swept ever the Tokyo area at J.
p.m. Taesday (Tokyo1 time); a
Japanese broadcast announced, f
Beeorded by the federal em
mnnicaUons eom mission, the
broadcast claimed "the enemy !
planes Immediately fled from
r fighters." , , . (
I The; imconfirmed -enemy 're
port's phraseology of "foar-mo-tored
planes" suggested that the
American superfortresses which
previously have concentrated on
Japanese industrial targets sonth
of Tokyo may be raiding : the
iWirf f -f f'j.. ilidi;;.!!::!:,'1
jf U so, it would be the first
American air attacks on Tokyo
glnce ! carrier-borne M lie he 1 1 !
twe-motored bmbers ff the !
eld carrier Hornet and! led bv
Jimmy DoolitUe raided Toky
April IS. 1942. ' !:.;!;:t i'll n j
urchill Can't
See Nazis' Entl
oeiore summer
LONDON; Oct 31 Prime
Minister Wuston Churchill, seek
ing to prolong the tenure of the
present parliament and his Coali
tion government, told the house of
commons today"il seems difficult
to believe'f the Nwar against jGer
many "can be enied before Christ
mas or! even Easter," and that he
qould not predict the end before
early summer, f Ha fklj ;
j "It would not bt 'prudent? to
assume! that it will take less than
18 months' after Hitler's downfall
to defeat Japan,' he warned, but
Conceded that an election must hie
leldS'-afUi :mahy!t1' disposed
Of, . jwithqutf waiting -for f Japan's
olfa !! ; :t;V-:t;!l!:l l:fi!
I There : ptM no' iireferenck f in
Churchill's address to the presi
dential election campaign now ap
proaching a climax In thf United
sutes. !::j.i!: l!4'i!My:iHiii
j Churchill frankly admits that
fmany high military 1 authorities
irith every means to judge"! Were
more hbreful than he on the end
Of the war with Gernany; as for
apan, he! said his "forecast must
be revised! every few! months by I
the combhied chiefs of staff i"
Fill
regon Third
hir. t -,t 7
Oregon now ranks third among
the states in the war chest drive,
based on population, Irl McSher-
ry, state chest executive secretary,
! 1 tn . , lill'ij W li-- :Ti!
l Eight! Oregon counties' have re
'ported j raising their, full ! quotas.
These include Benton, Multnomah,
Washington, J Tillamook, eHowa,
Wasco Baker ' and Union, j De
schutes county .was exnected ! to
.report Wednesday.
mn
quota
The state and national
bregoii j is ! $1,340,600,
of which
amout
znately
&..f;j:
$1,111,464.65 ! br t aDbrox
82 per cent has been jrai
Republican Guemllas
Ilold! Valley in Spain!
PARIS, Oct aiHV-Republ
can guerrillas now hold the Aran
valley in northern Spain 'near the
French j border and throughout
Spain hundreds of republican ma
quis cells are forming in 1 answer
to a call for national Insurrec
tion, Spanish exiles of divergent
political ! views declared Sherk 'to
il ilirj
Nation Gw
m dveecii
lrt -..a. -7,!i!
meeting-Jhad been ; buil tip by
members of a 'democrats for
Ch
Dewey club. That is proof that
it is Americans: against new deal-
! The difference between new
dealers and Americans Is the con
stitution,' he said. . The republican
platform restates the constitution
which holds that agreements made
with other; nations be ratified by
a two-thirds vote of the U?3 senate,
he continued, but the great indis
pensable 1 in Washington continues
to make! laws through executive
order. ;j h n' '- I i lAlfAp $
J When these boards, set up : by
executive order rules against an
American, he said there Is jm re
course to our courts. Their word
is final.' A vote against this form
cf government, he held, will re
tire the U3 rujreme court to iii
former Clrdtj: i
'Ar : t - 'A'-. ' i f '"- :; I: ;;r.rf ' i:X
It' 1
Striiffgll
:V!llL:freVDrai.H!j
,i- ! IHiMSt
4"? V
German Troops
t lee aoutliwest
Holland
it
: Br Howard Paws
Rap
LONDON, Oct; ,3.)iAilied v
itnnorea xorces, operaUng; lunder
extreme j difficulties ; of iiveathor
and terrain,! fought tirougii to the
Maas (Meuse) river ko fof Tii;
half-mile! jo? ; the Gertrtiiiienberg
wnuge, one ox ime ,main
routes j for, German troops
southwestern HoilaindLi iil i
fleeing
j TThe .bate for the port hi Ant-;
werp it ' over in' our favor, !de-!
clared a. spokesmai fo? JU- Cen.
Sir Miles C. Dempsey, command- j
er of the British Second army "It"
is a question how:; fast, and how
far back the Germans will!, go?, j
Appreaelies oeare4 j;
v) Canadian ! troops II to the 'west!!
Clearing the seavrdJ! approaches
w vniwerp, enargeqi
lOQ-ard j: causeway!!
Beveland island in a
acfossf an 1,-
ms
sputh
cue as-
sadtj on GermaA tM hold,
ing J put! on Partly-flfed! Walch,
eren, i island at the fehtince; to the
Schejdel estua nlghtUh ey
a lootnoia on yvaicheren, I and aT
disaptchj declared jthie ijojsdioiiof !'
the hazi rarrtsm vt fh'Anli
i xiognways oeiow jtne Aiaas were; t
black with nazij transport moving f
toward the ! four fixed and bon-i !
toofJ( bridges left Standing; across
the stream. A thicl fog prevented
the enemy's outright; destjrustion
byailied!plane4j butia.fifild dis
patch declared th 'cenefc o4 tlie
(WM(d Ulcere mhiniscent f lot ;' the!
German ' Seventh amyi , Cight.to
the Seine in Fraric tiS 'MS: i
i iVme-fican,1 B -;i tih.'lCadiaii,"
Polish; and Dutch trWp brstiing
the retreating nazis 'across the flat
and flooded , Dutch j J countryside
were .! forced . toj , rnnain j p n the
roads and highways,! as even in
f antrymen' ' found themselves ' val
lowing in knee-deep mud jthc in
Stant they left hard surface. Ger
man rearguards hidden ! in; houses
alongside the roads liad literally to
be blown out .of., action i; li; Mm -
t Canadian troops fdriving nqrth-
westward from Brjdi
Wert with
Morebdiik iikf!five!; iniles.lbf
bridge-!-jt2' miles, wfcif
of the span
at Geertruidenbergfr-
lean forces hadi m
actoss the Mark rief
bridgehead
inj the some;!;!
vicinity j and y were
20 miles';
3400 German ri$on4rs ! had, been
captured!!(in j the hirie-ayi !. allied
iiil
I. I I !i.i fc
rets Appri
mt
The Legislative I eoi
ommiU'
confirmation of 3 interim
hjSre Tuesday; anil fpprpffd I the
aection'". phflll echiuj Jfofc--land
hotel operator. ! ail a member
the state board lot higher edu-
i ; j'appomtjd;! ly
Gov. Earl Snell recently to succeed
E.! C Sammons, Portland Who re
signed, j Sammonsllliad lliilen I a
member of the board; since-its in-
Members of the committee at-
tendlng the .meeting! ! weri $tate
Senators E. T. Newbry, Medford;
WflUam Walsh,! Marshfield. and
rauerson, roruana
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