V- 7eaiLcr HaslniH temperatar i Tednesday It tfetrees, mla imam 47 dlesTeea, ' .45 la. rain, river -2 ft. in. . ; ParUy elosdy and slightly warmer 'Tfcwradajr. Friday parUy eloady with light rata prcbable cxtremt norUiwit , parts. K.;wv'r-V'K .-1 ''('.' IJEF '1KB POOLS 1 T I . 1 I : li 1 1 111 i ' ' " I I X I I I u 1 I I 1 -1 I : I JP: t V.y X !A: 7 11 ,s-. J . 1 II I III I I 1 I ' X. - v 1 1C51 ;--h.--; - - - ' -";: : 'AAA:AA:r:y ' In every national campaign there Is a certain ' amount of witching from one party to vote for the candidate of . the other party. There was a tremendous amount of it in 1932 and again in 1936, as republicans deserted their party to vote for Roosevelt. What I want to discuss is not so much the" switching in the polling booth as of leaders who make public their shift of allegiance, as has Senator, Ball of - Minnesota this year. This; always occurs; and this year there has been probably less of it than in many previous 1 campaigns. ; ' Gifford Pinchot has jumped the party traces again, but that is al most his regular habit. There are some "Democrats for Dewey" but hardly as many organized groups as.the "Democrats for Winkle" of 1940. There is the final lining up of.' independent newspapers and publicists, but that line-up - seems about even this year. The New York Times is for Roosevelt; the . Christian Science - Monitor for -Dewey. Cleveland Plain-Dealer is for Dewey; St Louli Post-Dis patch for Roosevelt so it goes. ; Perhaps the biggest scramble of party lines was in .the cam paign of 1898. McKinley ran on . the republican ticket and the re publican party's gold standard platform. Bryan ran on the demo cratic-populist ; ticket with the battle-cry. of free coinage of sil ver in the ratio of 18 to one. But there were dissenters in both the parties who became- known as Silver Republicans' and , ?Gold Democrats," respectively. '.; The latter group even put up a ticket Bryan who was regarded (Continued on Editorial Page) Several' Yank iged In Sea Battle US PACIFIC FLEET: HEAD- QUARTERS, l.HVAdm. Pearl Harbor, Nov, Chester W. Nimite announced today that "several warships of the American Third and Seventh fleets were damaged in the second battle of the PhU Jppine sea, Oct 22-27, in which 60 or more" Japanese snips were sunk, probably sunk or damaged. . The extent of the damage and the names of the vessels will not be made public at this time, Nim- Itz said. He added: '"Such information would be of value to the enemy in estimating accurately the size of our naval forces operating -in Philippine wa ters and what ships are available for immediate action. , Nimitx made no mention of Jap anese landings on Peleliu island, In the Palau group ofthe western Carolines, as claimed today by the Tokyo radio. American ground forces invaded Peleliu and near by islands in September. In his last report on the Peleliu opera-tion-r-Oct. 23 Nimitz said mop ping up operations continued. Japs Reach Gty Suburbs C H U NGKING, Nov. 1- () Three Japanese columns have forced ,their jway. into the suburbs of Kweilin, strategic Chinese base in Kwangsi province, and a fourth is within two miles of the city. the Chinese' high command an nounced tonight.-i : Describing; the battle for Kwei lin, site of a former US air base, the high command said a reinforc ed Japanese column pressing from the east forced a crossing of the Kwei river and broke .through Chinese defenses to the city's rail road station.! - Another enemy column entered the northern! suburbs of the town but was beaten back. A third col limn crossed: the Li river south of the city and pushed to the out skirts. Still ! another column was reported within two miles east of the town. ; . : . Ships Dama Board of Control Ponders How Far State Should Go in Helping Flax Cooperatives ii The board of control today was pondering the question as to how far the state should go in remov ing itself from the competitive field, of flax processing. The problem was brought to the for at the board's meeting Wed nesday when the Santiam Flax "Growers of Jefferson requested (1) that the state flax plant de cline to purchase flax . from &S growers, using about 600 acres of land, within four to six miles of the Jefferson cooperative, and (2) that the state now sell to the cooperative 300 tons -of de-seeded flax straw and 100 tons of retted flax, at an approximate cost of The requests were made by let ter. and personally by Harry As- fcahr cf Corvallis, secretary cf the cr-r-tve rr i Demon county inHZTY-FOUHTII YEAH . n JDQ0J 1 'A... -A- ,,,v - n r-iT r-rN r-rs u u Niu News I Still Not Definite Factories Lose Calmness Says o Announcer ne By the Associated .Preu. Japan's radios blurted but con fusedly that US Superfortresses raided Tokyo yesterday (Wednes day Japanese time) and they hint- ea tnai iney uu-ew some pans oi the capital into panic. , v . -i Some factories "lost their calm ness" during the ordeal, one an nouncer reported. This presum ably was due to fire or fear. of fire in the readily combustible metro politan areas. Reports Conflict The reports, conflicting and un confirmed, jwere picked up by .the federal communications , commis sion and reception was income plete. The US war department said it had no Word of aerial opera tions over Tokyo, fit also apparently was the first visit of Superfortresses to Tokyo. They have attacked elsewhere in the Nippon homeland, mainly against naval and ship repair points. : Change Report The enemy reports at first said two Superfortresses raided Tokyo. Then they changed it to only one plane. Finally they announced sev eral of the i big planes had ap peared and that they remained over ' the , area for . about half an hour, One of them said the planes dropped no bombs. ' , . ' One broadcast ' asserted the planes "fled hastily", during a : counter attack of some kind. De tails were not given." Another said the Superforta did not attempt to attack. A third reported they were driven off by, fighter planes. ' Nelson Slates Work in China WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -iff)-Donald M. Nelson, President Roosevelt's trouble - shooter is slated to return to China soon to help step up munitions j produc tion. The White house evidently believes the Stilwell affair has not prejudiced his 1 chances -for success. In fact it was learned today that some of the' arrangements previously made for invigorating China's war effort are believed not to have been upset by the pre sident's recall of General Joseph W. Stilwell at the request of Gen era lias imo Chiang Kai-shek. , I That is the interpretation au thoritatively placed on Mr. Roose velt's emphatic assertion that the trouble was a clash of personali ties on the part of the general and the generalissimo and that policy and strategy issues were sot in volved. t Qiicken Stealing Cot This Fellow Somewhere SIOUX FALLS, SD, Nov. l- A defendant before Judge John T. Medin in circuit. court chided himself and concluded: TThis chicken stealing will never get me anywhere." ' "There," observed the court, "is where you are wrong. Two years in the penitentiary" : .- representative on its board of di rectors, who said the cooperative needed additional flax and assur ance ox a larger snare oz suose quent crops in order to operate. Actum on the two requests was postponed for one week while the board acquires additional data. During the discussion Gov. Earl Snell commented that: 1 "The state has done a com mendable job in developing the flax industry. It eventually should get out of the flax busi ness. It shouldn't continue In It just to provide employment tor (prison) ; inmates. ; Cooperatives should be encouraged. The state should develop something else than flax,' except perhaps to keep an experimental plant and help stabilize the Industry." Asbahr said "it is not cur de uDDrp)DAl,. UOCQ Ai; no; JO 4 S7lolw, t1lR Way 4 . "i-.s- - i - I ..-I f i I IS I f j I Carrying one child and leading another by the hand, SSrt Howard Pre use of New York City leads ational area on Leyte Island to the bad been cleared oat. (AP wirephoto from signal corps) ,- Dewey Blasts FDR Violent ; In Boston Speech BOSTON, Nov. l-(P)-Gov. Thomas E.- Dewey told a howling crowd of Bostonians tonight that the democratic party for sale "to term drive and that the forces of Mr., Roosevelt has so weakened arid corrupted the democratic Who Said That The Wild West Was Now Tame? TULSA, Okla., Nov. L--A squad of policemen, the dog cat cher,; a cowboy, a group of howl ing youngsters and a housewife with a broom all Joined in a chase after I two steers which scattered terror and pedestrians about downtown Tulsa today. j The steers hurdled the side of a truck: and trotted, 12 blocks to the downtown d i s t r ict, occasionally lunging at citizens along the way. They j scored the Medical Arts building, circled the courthouse twice; for a . good look and then headed into a residential district ; Une ultimately was shot, the other lassoed under a viaduct.. Army Airf orcea Now Have 75,000 Airplanes ! WASHINGTON, Nov. !.-()-The army airf orcea disclosed to day that i they now have 75,000 airplanes of all types, including 23,009 combat craft Of which 12, 000 are first line planes operating In overseas theaters;-- "No other airforce in the world has ever reached such a total o combat planes," an AAF spokes man declared. sire to hog this thing or to try to shut down the state," adding, however, that unless additional flax was to .become available the cooperative could not survive. He commented that the cooperative would pay "about" the scale paid by the state, and that if any of the 58 growers didn't want to sell to the Santiam group there would be nothing to prevent them sell ing elsewhere other than , to the state. A'-' v . ' ' - r: ':'' State Treasurer Leslie Scott, commenting generally on similar problems, said "maybe It's part of pur business to keep a surplus so as to neip keep cooperatives go ing." , L. L. Laws, manager, of the state flax plant, indicated acqui escence to the Jefferson coopera tlve's request would not seriously i cripple the state's flax interests. Scdtsb Onq4 :rui a snap of Filipinos from an oper town of Dulag after the Japanese rters President Roosevelt has offered the highest bidder" in his fourth communism are. taking it over. part," Dewey declared, "that it is readily subject to capture. Assailing both the president and what he ; called the hitter's -vie-; - - lent supporters" Dewey said: Mr..,,- Roosevelt, in bis over whelming ' desire to perpetuate himself in office for 16 years, has put his party on the auction block for kale to the highest bidder.! And the highest bidder is not the "notorious one thousand club,1 Dewey sald, but the "Political Ae tion committee of Sidneyt Hillman and the communists of Earl Brow der." The republican candidate for president spoke before a boister ous crowd that jammed this 13,500 seat arena to the roof and spilled out into the streets for; blocks around. Virtually , all aisles were packed With standees when the doors were closed an hour and a half before Dewey appeared. President Roosevelt speaks here Saturday night' at an open air meeting !in Fenway Park, Of f icials Have No Comment9 With ho comment" on the re cent order declaring Salem Out o; bounds for men at the Coryallis marine air base, Mayor L M. Doughton and R. R. Boardman, director of the USO in Salem, re turned to be capital city Wednes day night! following a conference with the base's commander, Lt. CoL Nett Mclntyre. j The con f e r e n c e , ; arranged through auspices : of the' chamber pf commerce, was welcome him, Mclntyre, who had earlier. declined to discuss the reason for his order, said.. The commander talked freely with the mayor and the USO director, the Salem men indicated, but , added that they did not feel ready to make public the convocation. " , ft Wliole of Belgium y -Completely Liberatetl . NEW YORK, Nov. I.-vTVThe whole of Belgium has been com pletely liberated from the Ger mans and the last nazi strong points in the country have been reduced,' Belgian "Minister of In terior Ronsse 1 said today In a statement broadcast by the Brus sels radio and recorded by, the FCC. - - Suppo Thursday l!onig. NcTtsbcr 2. Reds Itoll Towards Budapest Soviets Only 33 Iiles " From City; Many Towns Fall LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 2- The red army thrust within 33 miles of Budapest yesterday in a great drive roiling rapidly north westward across the, Hungarian plain between the Danube and isza rivers.' - Armored spearheads undoubted ly already were even nearer to the imperilled Hungarian capital as the midnight Moscow -communique announced definite capture of the railway town' of Lajosmizse, only 33 miles southeast, along with more than 100 other communities in the marsh-dotted flatlands ' be tween the rivers. . Junction Captured " Among these was Kecskemet, great railway ; junction point and last major defense bastion 44, miles southeast of Budapest. Kecskemet fell after 24 hours of heavy' street fighting during which the Russians also pushed past the city on both sides. The Germans contended this by passing was what finally forced them to abandon Kecskemet, but the, Russians also thrust straight northwestward another, 11 ' miles up the railway toward Budapest Grip Rail Network Thus they had a firm grip on the rail and highway network for the continuing drive to Budapest The soviet secondary drive in northeast Hungary more than 100 miles from Budapest also made progress during the day. It ' swept up more than 40 communities. ' The Moscow communique which announced these gains also repeat ed an earlier order of the day from Premier Stalin on f i n a 1 clearance of the enemy from the Petsamo- region of Arctic Finland, but said nothing of the Polish, East Prussian and west Latvian sectors pf the long eastern front, DeGaulle Has Close Escape osion PARIS, Nov. 1 -W)- A tralnload of captured German munitions ex ploded at noon today on a subur ban , Paris Siding not far , from i cemetery where Gen. Charles De Gaulle had made .a speech 15 minutes earlier. ' t" The explosions, whose cause re mained a mystery, continued clur ing the afternoon as fire spread through the 140-car train, show ering shell fragments into parts of i two arrondissments . (wards) and causing undisclosed casualties and damage. In order to clear the streets po lice sounded air : raid sirens at the height of the explosions and word qulcklj spread that : Paris was being raided from the air or subjected to an attack by flying bombs. 1 , ! There were many rumors con cerning the cause of the initial explosion, but the possibility that it might have been an attempt on De Gaulle's life - was generally discounted. Roosevelt Sets Talk Tonight WASHINGTON, ,Nov. l.-(flV President Roosevelt begins his fi nal drive for fourth tern to morrow niit with a ' 15-minute radio talk from the White House. i The address, part of a half-hour democratic srcrc starting at 9 p. r; 2.WT, will be' broadcast by NBC." The subject has noil been announced. ' . . " : "f5'- Another address Saturday night In Boston, a talk to Hyde Park neighbors election eve, and sev eral informal appearances on, the New England tour round out the president's pre-election political calendar. . r romExpl 1SU , . 'I- ; ! . ' , Here's Some' thing For Salem Folks i To Argue About Salem residents who claim they measured two inches of rain dur ing the heavy downpour Wednes day can argue tAt out ' with the weather bureau, ai( only .05 Inches of precipitation was measured during the big shower and only 45 inches for the entire day. A faint hailstorm was i also ! regis tered. Maximum temperature for , " . 7 i - me uay was ao aegrees. Yanlt Cavalry Battles Jajpis JNear tangara GENERAL. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, j Philippines, Thursday, Nov!. 2 -(ffj- Dismount ed Xirst cavalry troops were locked today in a seesaw battle with a large Japanese force? at Carigara for control of V that I toivn j seven mile east of the only -escape high way left open to ue retreating enemy on Leyte. . p;iv; ' 4.' Maj. Gen. Mudge's toen, moving west along the Carigara bay coast from Barugo, opened the vital en gagement yesterday jjust east of Carigara town. - 'if-uj. :, l - Moving ahead after! the skirmish the', troops encountered; a larger enemy force and engaged it in the town itself whose fall would pave the way for a drive on Pinamopan, north terminus of thf escape road to Ormoc. i ::. i I. ; :J, - While this fight continued, oth er Japanese strove with counter attacks, concentrated artillery and bridge demolitions' tb check an other, peril to Carigara town posed from the south by 24th division troops of Maj. Gen. Fred: Irving. Allied Planes j BlastNaOU Plants, Cities 1 LONDON, Nov. l-m- British- based US heavy bombers attacked German synthetic oil plants at Gelsenkirchen and railway targets at Hamm. and Coblenx today and Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the US 15th air force in Italy bombed military objectives in the Vienna area. . . p 1 i The US force from England met no enemy fighters and encountered only moderate flak a the Novem ber aerial battering iof the reich got under way. ; ( The' 300 heavy bombers and 200 fighter escorts from England shot down three Meh262 jet-pro pelled planes that tried to whip into the bomber formations. They reported that anti-kircraft fire, however, was only moderate. One fighter, which apparently collid ed with a jet-propelled ! enemy fighter, was lost in the operation. All the bombers returned safely. The RAF also was busy with a series of strikes ! at a variety oz targets, including two raids on the battered city of Col ogne. Yugoslavia Leaders Agree on Government LONDON, Nov. l.-WVAgree-ment for formation 1 of a "United Yugoslav national eovernment in the shortest possible time "was reached in conferences today be tween Marshal Tito; president of the Yugoslav council of uberation, and Dr. Ivan Subaslc, prime min ister of King Peters royal Yug oslav government, the free; Yugo slav radio announced tonight ' Quadruplets Born to Woman ThrougtyQiesarian Operation PHILADELPHIA, -Nov. l-aVA slight; 30-year-old inner govern ment girl gave Virth to quadru plets three glrJj and a boywith in a space of too minutes here to day, in the fust caesarean opera tion quadruple delivery In medic al history.. ?J ; .V-f 1.,.,; y Tonight the Pennsylvania hos pital said the tiny babies and their five-foci-two, 118-pound mother, Mrr. Kathleen Hatcher Cirminetlo, were doing well and that the ba bies would live. , The quads, their Expected birth well publicized In advance, were news to no one except Mrs.' C3r minello, a ' pretty, : dark - haired, Oklahoma-born stenographer who c".T,e here Iron VTashfcstea two Prlc 5c British Stalk AlODff Half of Schelde Riv er uiearea5 Of Enemy Mines; Most of Nazi v Army Escapes From Dutch Trap , t ' " By HOWARD COWAN -1 ' LONDON, iThuredav. Nov. 2 (AP) Allied shippini already has entered tne three-niile-iride Schelde river estuary with supplies bound for the great Belgian port of Antwerp, the Berlin radio said early today.! V ; This reported movement portant port which ia expected into Germany came as triple Germans within gunshot of the Vital 50-mile long inland waterway. f';'" J '. i : ' . 'y- 1 'C A '. : :' ': HX It appeared likely today, in view of, the three cross estuary amphibious operations of Lt. ' Gen. H. D. Crear's . troops, that probably half of thel Schelde, as far west as Hansweert, already had been cleared of enemy mines. !' ' ::A" y Field dispatches last night said the big guns on Walcheren island, at the tip of the north rim of the Schelde, had been' silent through out the day. The gun positions have been repeatedly attacked by heavy bombers and dive bombers, some of which made raids yester day. :::..- . i : - The island itself is under attack from the West, south and east. Marines Land -. 1 r Royal marines landed af West- kapelle yesterday morning after a violent naval Dombardment from the British battleship Warspite, which used eight 15-inch guns, and the monitors Roberts and Erebus, each equipped with two 1 5-inch - ers. . - i r ' - Troops of the British Second ar my broadened their foothold ' on the Maas river in south central Holland to more than a mile and maintained relentless pressure against German, rearguards. A spokesman for Lt Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey, commander of the British Second army, tacitly admitted that a skillful withdraw al from the Breda pocket had saved the bulk of some 40,000 Ger man troops who for' several days were threatened with entrapment. He said only enemy - rearguards were left south of the Maas and that the main German , 15th army now was fortifying a new Rotterdam- Arnhem defense line. Lebanon Man Said Missing LEBANON A 1 v I n Jennings, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jennings, 592 East Grant street, and hus band of Margaret Smith Jennings, has been missing In action in Italy since October 9, the family was notified this week. His twin bro ther, Calvin, , who enlisted - four days ahead of him In 'September, 1943, and: wno went overseas a month later than he (spring of 1944), was killed in action July IS in France. 1 The twins went from Tort Lew Is, Wash, to Camp Van Dprn, Miss, for their basic training, j : Survivors, in addition to the wi dowr and parents, include a bro ther, Blaine Jennings, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Weaver and Mrs. - Mildred ' Chris tensen, both of Lebanon, and Mrs. Alice Durham, Los Angeles. years ago with the securities and exchange commission. - "She thought they would be twins," said her ; husband, Joseph Cirminello, 30, an SEC financial analyst' A ' r- The babies, weighing three to three and a . quarter pounds, were born between 11:12 and 11:14 a. m. EWT), the boy last, in a Penn sylvania hospital surgery crowd ed with obstetricians, pediatricians and nurses. " ;:k''vr -'Ar' V'The Cirminellos, who met at the SEC offices and were wed six years ago, have had ; one other child, who died at birth. Cirminel lo said no one in his; family or his wife's ever had had "even Vi-ins before. , - v Ho. 1S4 n 1 r j n Fighters Last! Nazis . ' 'Waterway of shipping toward the ira- ; to supply future allied thrusts assault forces stalked the last StOwcU RecaU PurelyMilii CHUNGKING, Nov. IHJPhTb sudden recall to Washington of Gen.1 Joseph W. Stilwell was called a purely military matter to day by the Chinese minister of in formation, Liang Han-Chao, who said, that for that reason there would be no Chinese comment on the action. News of the reaction here to, the resignation of : US Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss was held up by strict j Chinese censorship. . , Rumors purveyed as fact are current that the American atti tude on the question of the over all allied command Iri China is unchanged and that Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, President Roos evelt's; representative, here, re newed! the original proposals aft- ' er Stilwell's departure, ii (Writing the inside 1 story of the SUI well-Chiang Kai-shek af fair,' Associated Press Correspon dent Preston Grover cabled from NeW Delhi, India, Tuesday that the American . proposals included a request that Chiang reorganize his cabinet and eliminate , reac tionary obstructionists and anti foreign members, and j that' an American general , be placed in command of Chinese operations not only in Burma but elsewhere in major JapaneseJ operations against the British Reach Greece Port ROME, Nov. X -(ff)- The allied ; Chinese Label tary command announced today that r , advanced British patrols had reached Salonika Greece's second city and . the principal seaport of the Balkan peninsular and Berlin said that j nazi forces had evac uated the port f ! The allied communique gave no details '; as to whether British troops actually had , entered the city, over which a heavy pall of smoke from German demolitions has hung for several days. The , German high command's daily communique said Salonika "was evacuated In the course of our disengaging; movements in the Balkans, unimpeded by the en- emy SJbttyNfive miles west of Salon- . Oca in the area north of Kozane, ,i British troops and Greek guerril- las maintained pressure on other '. German forces attempting to , flee from Greece. 1 Pan-American Meeting Considered'Certainty ; I MEXICO CITY, . Nov. 1-VA Pan-American conference of for eign ministers at Argentina's re quest' Is-eonsidered a certainty among Latin-American diplomats here." -V!-."i:J. ' ' 1 There was a curious unofficial convention of most American dip lomats last night at the Inaugura tion of the annual book fair and in the exchange of comments it developed that almost all were sure their countries woj approve calling the confers -v