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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1944)
i nr 7caliicr i Maxim am temperature 54 degrees, i tnlalmam 43 de-, trees; J.1 ft. Inch: rain; river Scattered showers Friday! TKD CDDLn 1 except snow; aver moun tains; Saturday partly, cloudy, scattered showers little change In tempera tares.' .; !!' - ipouNDDD 165! ; ; " . . I! . . - ' ! i 1 First to chirrup on election night 'was Henry Wallace, vice presi dent, and considered favorably by PAC and other left-wing segment ms heir apparent to the presiden cy, if when and as Mr. Roosevelt decides to retire to Hyde Park. In his election night statement Wallace called lor full steam ( ahead. He said "the vote consti tutes a mandate to congress to prepare the way for 60,000,000 ! postwar jobs. Wallace declared that full em ployment means prosperity, to farm and city alike, and put in the mean crack: "corner apple selling disappeared under Roose velt.' Just how .'congress is to "pre pare the way" for 60,000,000 Jobs Wallace leaves unclear (as did Dewey). But there is no doubt as to Wallace's philosophy. It Is that of government pump-priming, . of government spending to provide the 'compensatory . economy" which Stuart Chase writes about and Dr. Hansen of Harvard and Lord Keynes of England endorse. 'This will mean conunuea aeu- . cits or emissions of public debt to I the degree that private enterprise iaus w prwviuc iuu The administrauon is aireaujr laying plans , to keep prop" na agriculture by nuge operations oi the Commodity c.reaii coipgrauuu in buying up crops ana awposin of them at world prices. , . jwjnuuuiu vu. . am K iirnriBi a aairsr v v Soviets Sweep Across Tisza River Barrier LONDON, rriday, Nov. "H Russian troops in a new entire- line move on' besiegea Buaapesi yesterday swept across the middle Tisza river on a 40-miie rroni northeast of the Hungarian capi- . I taL advancing IT miles to a point less than mile from tne Key I Budapest-East Slovakian railway, I Moscow announced last night. A late Budapest broadcast re-1 corded in Bern, Switzerland, said I ether soviet units -t had renewed J their ,, onslaught in the capital s 1 southern suburbs, where fierce I house to house fighting raged. 4 I A special soviet information bu-1 reau announcement said Marshall CrmA I Ukraine army had killed more 4U.H inl nnn Y!rmni mn Hurt garians and captured 42,160 since the last big axis satellite nation began.; '--.' This total of 142,160 made a wand total of ,1,400,881 enemy troops killed' or captured since June 23, on the basis of official Moscow statements. Armistice Day Program Set Final details of the Armistice! dav program will be completed at 6:30 this evening when the gen- eral committee of the Federation cf Patriotic Orders meets at a dinner in the Golden Pheasant, it was announced Thursday by Davej Holtzman, chairman. j 4 Highlights of the celebration in-1 elude: parade over principal streets or cities ny military, iraiernai ana civilian organizations; special cer- emonies at the American war mo- thers monument, court house; pis- cing-of wreaths honoring the ha- tion's war dead; firing of the sa- lute to departed service men and women; sounding of taps; raising of flag; invocation by .Rev. J. C. Harrison; dedication of, Gold Star monument, Lt Cmdr. J. A. Fletch - er; address, by Frank B. Bennett In event" of inclement weather the address Witt" be given in the armory, page 5.) (Additional details on Marine MP's Removed Here Chief of Police Frank Minto on Thursday received word from the Corvallis marine base officials that their" military police are be - lng withdrawn from Salem. This would indicate, Minto said, that the recent order placing Sa - lero out of bounds, as far las the Corvallis marines are concerned, will be rescinded within the next! f w days. The order has been In I cperatlon for two weeks, i ; . Salem . city officials . recently conferred with the air base com - mander in connection .with the out of bounds order. FoOfl Stores Jixpect' .-, Tf - , W-Za TaJ. . iicjfjr-iiauc "-J Food stores of the Salem area ntiHnate a record business to day because the two-day weekend holiday for Salem merchants. y r.etaHers here have voted not ts c-en their places of tusness irday Lj observance of Aimls- t re C?y. 1 "" mtlCTY-FOUBTH YEXB ' T 1 U.S. Army Advances : On Japs Desperate Nips ! Pour in 35,000 Reinforcements ! GENERAL MacARTHUR'S H E A D QUARTERS ' Philininen' Friday, Nov. -10. -() -Weather- beaten doughboys drove over rain-LashH rlHm fnr x-tiniv gains south of Carigara bay to- day a3 japanese poured rein foreementa Into Levte island to repace an estimated 35,000 men lost m campaign which Gen - . . - . - jjougias MaeAruur termed tne ev to the FnilioDines. z v. Grim veterans of the 24th divi siori broke the stalemate to make extensive gains on a wide front'' along the typhoon - swept : road leading to Ormoc, Japan's last stronghold on the island, now roaring with fires set by bombs and artillery shells. S5,00t Landed Japan's 16th division conquer rvm and torturers of Rataan hAi been smashed as a fighting unit UacArthur reported,, and an es I m t e d 35.000 reinforcements have been landed to rebuild the original force. " The 35th imperial army has been senf to Levte. the general said. The fresh troops are pouring Into Ormoc, on Leyte's western coast. from Cebu, Mindanao and -other adjacent Philippine islands. Japs Desperate ,:f The enemy, said the commuri Ique, "is making a desperate effort to retrieve the strategical position which he lost in eastern Leyte in the first phase of the campaign, and "f which threatens his entire V- Dlt l n iu I )iyc KpflirTI To Be Aired ; NEW YORK. Nov. 8-flVPresi- atmt Roosevelt's post-election re- turn to Washington tomorrow will be broadcast by major net- I works, but it was not known def i nitely tonight whether the presi dent would speak on the program. The networks will go on the air "at 9 a Jn eastern war time, with a description of Mr. Roose vert's t arrival from Hyde Park, NY, where ne receivea xne eiec tion" returns. :M ; . . 1 s "The National Broadcasting com pany said it expected the presi- I dent would make a brief speech. Spokesmen . for - other , networks said they . weren't.' certain what procedure he . would follow to- 1 morrow. K- i ,w a : Af "J vi m Court Halts Trial I LONDON, Nov., 9 -()- The court martial of 10 American Ne- I gro soldiers was interrupted to- I day while the judge . advocate I aroused one of the defendants 1 from a nap - All ten including 1 the lad who dozed off are charged with murder, the after math of a shooting which brought death to two MPs and the wife 1 0f an innkeeper. Election Results Ruce for President of Senute Political shifts in Multnomah (county which upset the dope on I state measures will have an effect Ion the race for president of the 1 senate. Cot A. McKenna, incum- Ibent senator who ran first In the republican list for renominatlon, 1 was defeated In the election, bis I sponsorship of a sales tax proba I bly costing him many yotes. ; Of the five elected three are democrats: Lew. Wallace and Tom jMahoney, holdovers and Walter I J. Pearson, who moves up from 1 the house. The two republicans I elected are Jack Lynch, Incum Ibent, and Frank Hilton. McKenna's defeat leaves three in the race - for : the cresidencv: iRea Elis ot.Pendleton, Howard iBelton of Canby and William E. Walsh of Marshfield. None had anywhere near enough pledges to - 1 nuxw nis eiecuon prior to iue- J day, and now there will be a J scurry to get embers ccanmitted. ine nucleus, wnicn ,nas pretty I well controlled senate elections in J recent years, , backing William icteiwer two years ago, has been 127 V6 W V I W jO r ' ",i Ml" - ' ' Wrecked Passenger Coaches in 'V t r Portions f two passenger coaches ger, en rente to Ban Francisco, than 15B otbenk (AP wirepboto) nn j ffl X retlWnUUUS 1 : I?fr ffvYS0 frk sr n-mrit itouti iso ii Vfupmi- jl kjm y i j utc: i i W ASxilN UTUN, Nov. IKT-Late Texas tonight pushed President over Governor Thomas E. Dewey With 8588 of the 130,789 districts still unreported, the fourth term president had a total of The electoral count remained at in 86 of the 48 states. Mr Roose-1 velt returns triumphantly to W iumphantlj to. Wash- bwj to a tremendous to tremendous tasks. ington tomorrow, reception: and Waiting fqr him at the end off a parade from Union stauon to the White house is a hefty array of problems that will cram his schedule from now until his fourth term starts. They centered around: " Another Roosevelt - Churchill - Stalin conference on war and world security, vacancies in the administration, possible cabinet changes, demands for remodelling the little steel wage formula, whip ping together annual , and budget messages for congress. And those weren't all. But, for i the time being. Wash ington itself wasn't interested in them The national capital hatched spur - of - the - moment plans to turn out , the town with ' bands, bunting and ballyhoo. Vice Presi dent - Elect Harry S. Truman flew eastward from Missouri to join the procession.' ,i i Demos Get $18,581.90 Says Campaign Memo WASHI NGTON, Nov. 9, -() The democratic i senatorial cam paign committee has reported to the clerk of the house receipt of campaign 1 contributions totaling $18,581.90. including $10,000 from the One Thousand club. Hurricane Kills Seven I LISBON, Nov. 9 -CR- Seven persons were killed and tremen dous damage caused on Madeira Island by a hurricane. . Will Affect slow to take hold of the organiza tion problem this time, though it seems to be leaning toward Bel ton, land ' some are active in his camp. Rex Ellis has been busiest In scouting for votes, and has been assisted f by Tom ' Mahoney of Portland. Bill 1 Walsh was Ifl Washington much of the time last winter when the political pot was boiling and was slow to get his drive for votes under way; i-i- 'There still remains the chance that opinion may coalesce behind some new name, and if none of the three mentioned develops in dividual strength some move In that direction may be attempted. ' Eugene Marsh,"' Yamhill county, has more than the necessary SI votes pledged to elect him speaker of the house. John Hall, Multno mah, Marsha chief competitor un til Thursday, came away from the peaceable with the chairmanship of the committee- on judiciary, major law committee of the house. As for the senate, the one thing promised is that there will be no deadlock as there war in 1943, Salezn, Oregon, Fridcrf Morning. V J,. iv ::A (above) which were crumpled when was wrecked near Colfax, Calif killing 12 persons and Injuring more I , f i 'f-t -ry V UCe IXUUSeVeil US ne I " :.-.;. j, . i ,.-..' . ;. . . a and complete returns from Roosevelt's popular majority beyond the 3,000,000 mark! 24,249,098 to Dewey's 21,195,298. 432 to 99, the democrats scoring ,. : :'::,; "i1 : I"' ' KUle Ma V lieCD . J XI Turkeys From j Hduday Table PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 9-(ff) Unless the federal court here en joins the OPA from enforcing. its. turkey sale regulations, Oregon and Washington distributors will be unable to channel supplies of the Thanksgiving day -birds Into civilian, markets, Judge , Claude McColloch was told today. C. W. Norton,-manager of the Northwest Poultry Producers com pany, said that .under OPA rules distributors are prohibited 1 from paying more than 38.2 cents a pound to growers for turkeys for civilian consumption, against 39.2 cents a pound for birds for the armed forces. , "The , growers, quite naturally, will not sell for the lower price when they can command more for their product by selling to the gov ernment for the armed forces." Norton's company is . seeking a federal . court injunction of .OPA regulations. Train Wrepk Cause Found 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 9-(fl?)- The interstate commerce commis sion said " today the collision in volving Gov. Dewey's campaign train was due to Inadequate safe guards for trains moving against the normal current of traffic. The ' rear-end '" collision i near Castle Rock, Wash., Sept. 19 re sulted in one death and 58 In juries. - - . : i ' ' . The commission attributed the mishap to the fact that the auto matic block signals protecting the two-track system "did not provide protection for movements against the current of traffic." East-bound trains, the ICC said, were being forced to move on the normally west-bound track, due to another accident which had rendered the eastward main track "unfit for service.' : r. RotnscHirds Regain French Gtizecskip PARIS, Nov. sHMembers of the noted ' Rothschild family and rothers who were stripped of French citizenship Just after the German occupation because they had; fled the country, regained their rights today, the council of state ; ruling the law of October 10, 1943, was void. November 10, 1S44 SP Derailment 4 JkJk '3B0CTSSSSP the SoatJaern Pacific's Challen-1 i' Wf . -w9"m gi-n I XiDlCpttvil s. i i ' , , i ...... ... - . I ileW AlUminUm tra8 Drum to Step Up U. S. Air Warfare PITTSBURGH. Nov. 9-(JPl-The 1 Aluminum Company of America ( today announced the development! of a ; new light weight gasoline drum that will facilitate and crease the supply of aviation gas to the China front. I The new drum, weighing 21 pounds, which is 81 pounds Jess than the old, has- been accepted by the air transport - coxnmandj ALCOA officials, said. An allot ment has been .flown to India, where they will be used to step up supplies needed . by the 14th and 20th air forces fighting the Japanese in Asia. These drums will increase - the supply by , many hundreds of thousands of gallons each month, according to ALCOA. Sub. Activity For October HitsNewLow WASHINGTON, Nov.. 9. - VPs !- German submarine activity this past October was materially low - er than any other month of the war,! an Anglo-American govern ment statement said tonight. The followlnif statement was fU sued bytte office of war Informa-" tion under authority of President! Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill: ; -1 - ti ' i; i "The scone of the German UJ boats' activities in October 1944 was materially below that of any other month of the war; fa con - sequence of which the number of United Nations merchant vessels sunk by German submarines dur ing the month was also the lowest of any month of .the entire war. Although the number of Ger man: U-boats destroyed was less than, what has come to be consid ered a monthly bag, it compares very favorably with the number of allied merchant vessels sunk by U-boats. . - "The allies continue to supply on schedule . their ever-growing armies in Europe.J Nazis Blow Building, Kill Dutcli Glisecs NEW YORK. Nov. t -V The Dutch news agency Aneta report- ed today that the Germans kliledj from 125 to 150 Dutch citizens of Heusden Saturday night by blow- In un the town hall where they bad taken refu in cellars from aiiipd hn r . v Nazis Cease E nil din 3 U-Eoats, Says Report LC:,T)ON, Nov. 9 Thejhome loans "and wUl be spent in Eerl.i news agency, international Inf cr; nation bureau, quoted nazi navsl authorities. as saying that! construction of U-boats lad been are preparing to greet these horae disccntinued in. favor cf. greater seekers, he declared, utz:zz Ore production ' cf land wessons. ronians to push to compleUca the Med TVT 1 - ivieei Prime Slinister Says Big Three' Should Confer LONDON, Nov. 9.-mPrha Minister Churchill said today ."It Is high time- that ; he, President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin had another conference, r He declared that "the prpi'pecti of such a meeting have been vastly : im proved by the results of the pres idential election In the United States,6 for which we waited' serf breathlessly on .Tuesday, last." A new ; tri - power conference "might easily bridge the sufferings of mankind and. stop the fearful process of destruction which is now ravaging the earth" he said. Speaks at Lunch The prime minister spoke at the annual luncheon for the lord may or of London this time for 'Sir Frank L. Alexander, "Now we stand on the thresh hold of Germany," Churchill cau tionedV "It will take the full exer- tions of the three great powers. THT ICTin tYlW Mil rive. to crush down the desperate resist' Unce whichwe i must ; expect from uus military anvagomsi m tast Atf :- ntk. . a 1 x - A - , A. Victory Not Near The prime minister held out no hope of swift victory. He said in stead that "No one .can be blamed, provided lie does not slacken his efforts for a moment, for hoping that victory may come to the al- lies and peace, jnay-tcome to Eu- rope in 1945.?, in-lTa.T Tl illDDOll l-OrCCS - A , ... - - - I ri I V 1 S M 1 w Tj MC'.m. T i,,U.l A-. JL I UHI JLilUUllU YV 1 CHUNGKING, Nov. 9-;P)-Th ( Japanese, redoubling their drive f to wipe out American air power in south China,- rolled i up today to within 15 miles of Liuchow Chi- nese stronghold and 'railway cen ter m Kwangsl provtace and I steadily ware endrclmg, toe city Five columns, bore down and a sixth cut around to head off Chi nese retreat to the old provisional capital of Yungning (Nanning). The Japanese were bent ; on cutting all the raQway lines radi ating from Liuchow. The Chinese high ' command said . that the closest column, moving down from the north, was only 15 miles away, but the peril from other directions appeared I almost equal. 1 , A companion column struck to I Liucheng, railway town, c;nu ci,:n. A:.i;n I" Is Nazis, Paper Asserts PARIS, Nov. i SMAVSpanlsh ships - are being used ; to supply German garrisons holding out on the Garonne estuary and other points along, the French -Atlantic r coast, the newspaper "Comoat said today In a dispatch date- lined "Inside Spain.' Willamette Project Committee Will Be Brouglit Bdck io Life The Willamette valley project J committee will be revitalized at I call of the Salem chamber of com- I merce and become the motivating j power for a post-war plan for de- velopment .which. W. B. Dodson, Portland and Washington, DC, told valley representatives here Thurs day will see a changed and great er Oregon. Meeting in chamber quarters, more, than 60 men and women from valley; cities partici- pated in discussions which cul- nunawa m we ueci&ioa w onus to life the once-powerful commit- j tee. :.".-.. . . L Dodson, Portland, chamber of commerce representative In the I nation's capital told the assembled group that the GI bill of rights will put Into circulation between four and six billion dollars. This money, he said, will be available to servicemen and women : for I the states which have the most to j offer" ; r " Host states cf the west already Pr!c 5c -" -' Jap leader f V 1 f 0 v; Gen. Tomoynkl! Tamashlta, above, victerioos at Singapore and Car regidor, has been transferred from Malaya te serve as com mander in chief ef Japaaese f erees In the Philippines, Tokye radio said. AP wtrephote) American War Casualties Top 500,00,0 Mark WASHINGTON, Nov. 9--Al most three years of war have cost more than a half million Ameri can battle c a s u a 1 1 1 es dead, wounded, missing or prisoners. .. The army saidtoday- that- its casualties, frotn Pearl Harbor De cember 7, 1941J through last Octo ber Z totalled: 437,355. The latest report for navy, marine and coast guard personnel accounts for 71,- 839. w-.-T-y ... j The army total represents an in crease' of 20,243 since the' report a j week ago which covered the period through October 21. Secre tary of War . Stimson : said about 25 per cent of this increase was due to a revision now being made in the casualty information sys tem so as to bring the figures up to date. ; ' j , . j This would mean that "new cas ualties occurring in' the period of about one week; and ending around mid-October were approximately 15,000, j I Of the total army casualties re ported today, 184,811 were killed and 243,054 wounded, an increase for the week bf 4145' killed and 13,742 wounded. v . - , v The overall j casualty total of 43756 does npt represent a loss of strength" eqial to that amount because 112314 of -the' .wounded have been returned to duty. This is a far higher jpercentage than In any previous war. i ' Ike's 4 'Lucky Stere Bond Campaign Prixe, I NEW YORK,1, Nov. 9-iJPy-Gea-eral Eisenhower's four "lucky stars" the insignia of a full gen eral which he iwore during the invasions of Africa, Italy and France will be awarded as a prize to New Yof k state's top war bond salesman during the sixth (war loan.- "h T great valley project (seven dams, two of which are. already complet ed, dredging, etc.) and to move at once to Indicate their Interest In Irrigation, which he character lies as third and perhaps the most valuable of all the contributions of the project. .: t Eobert W. Sawyer, Bend pub lisher, a director in the. state rec lamation congress and president of the National Reclamation society, said the j bureau had a develop ment plan for the valley. Re urged plans be made to crystallize the program and to include naviga tion, Irrigation, timber and trans portation. He stressed the import ance of studying; laws pertaining to an ambitious program of this sort, with emphasis on amend ments to both federal, and ' state laws where need was deemed. It was pointed out by speakers that one of the first needs looking to development of irrigation in the valley was to start at the bottom ty educating the public to the use cf water ia farming through irri-'r-'Joa. . No. 231 ! isions ! r MiirlIii Enters Fighting! In Major Drive V;;::i Bii Howard loiwaii '-: ' if.---; LONDON, -Nov. 9-(yp)-The US Third army hurled lour more divli sions today into a major offensive along a 55-mile front In northern France. The assault by three ini. fan try divisions broke (across the Moselle ; 18 miles north of the mighty fortress of Metz as a crack tank division 1 roared Into battle irom ineisouin. y- : ; Enemy! lines were ripped by more than 1300 US heavy bomb ers, thundering over in the first close support jon such a big scale since the St Lo break-through, that won the battle of France. By sundowiji the Germans had yet to sena a tank into the struggle. 12 Towns Overrun IK :f; H UV-;: A dozen towns were overrun as Lt. Gen George S. Pattern, Jr., sent tne infantry: divisions and the Fourth j arnred divisions-one t tne architects of the St Lo vic tory into the spreading battle to join the three infantry outfits that seized ;15 towns and 1000 prison ers in, the opening assault yes ter- . After the bombers loosed 4000 tons of anti-personnel bombs on the-jilet-j covered" German posi tions, the veteran 0th' division strock ifor the first time north of Metzt'-i -)( ;Ji'M1r--r--' Moselle Cressed - i,V ' f Commanded by Brig. Gen; JamesjA. Van Fleet, the infantry crossed the rain-swollen Moselle 7 river, ai iwo pomts and seized Koe- ! mgsmacher and Haute - Ham, 19 and 18 miles north of Metz and 11 miles from the Saar 70 square miles of coal fields, iron works and German war plants. I i MeaijwhUe the Fourth armoreil divisioi which also had been held m check yesterday, stormed Into the' fighting, " driving four) miles northward to near Delme and Viv- lers In k dangerous salient 18 miles' souUieast of Metz and 23 mile soutn or the Saar frontier. Group Talks ProjectPlans - A half dozen projects of Interest to returning veterans were dis cussed iby veterans groups meet ing in the capitol Thursday at the instance of Gov. Earl SnelL At tending! the meeting! were repre- sentatiVes of the American Le gion, .Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled War Veterans and the Purple leart. ' ' ' ! ') : Projects considered Included: jobs for returning! servicemen,1 Pensions.' hospitalization, financial loans,Meducation and dependency. . ine mi Qui or rights was also dis cussed and it was the concensus that this bill probably was more uDwai 1 in providing i aid for vet erans, covering the first year, than the state proposals on the ballot at the last election. v Organization of a central coor dlmtingjbody was stressed, speak ers indicating strength, of organ- " ization ivpuldlbetter serve return ing servicemen and eliminate con- JL.f I Mi i A 9 m -. mm tuMun ana . Qupucauon 01 enoru j- y , : J Ground ! ; 1 1 ROME, Nov. 9-(ffVBrlt!sh Eighth army troops, overcoming -bitter German resistance, fought; across a i wide canal forming the eastern boundary of Forll airfield and advanced to within 500 yards of the Village of Bussecchio, a mile southeast of Forll, it was an nounced j today. J ' 5 , (A German news broadcast de clared two British divisions at tacked oh a narrow front east and southeast of Forll after a heavy artillery i barrage, but said there had beeii no break-through.) ; Heavy' fighting was reported In progress! for the extreme north ern end ef the airfield, with Brit-; ish ; infantry and tanks meeting 1 nazi infantry supported by C3-ton Tiger tanks. One enemy strong point nearly mile southwest of ts.e field was overrun. Hfc i n i i; I ll 1 1 ll 1 Eoiirpevi CI 111 Eielith Armv w;. 1 -V- .....