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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
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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
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Factories Lose
Calmness Says
o
Announcer
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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
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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. " ,
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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. .
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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
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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
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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
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