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si':3 Mactlrt hur Greets Air Ace :1 4 NINETY-FOURTH. JrtS t V7 a 20 PAGES Solam, Oregon; Sunday Mosnlng, Nornvbr 12, 1S44 Price 5c! No. 223 c4 7 J nn lJi C; r .... Gen.' Doucbs MacArtlior (right), commander of American forces In . tae Philippines, shakes hands with Ma J. Richard Bone, as the army air forces' leadlnr ace arrived at Three treat rivers the Xhlne. the 4um. 'wrA the Scheldt had de pocctad their tlime for agei among the duns and sandbanks heaved up by tne ocean around their mouths. A delta was thus formed, habitable at last for man. It ss by nature a wide morass, in which oozy islands and sav swe forests were interspensed among lacoona and shallows; a district lying partly below the level of the ocean t higher tides, subject to constant overflow from the riveri, and to fie quent and terrible inundations by the Such - were the rivers which, with their numerous tributaries, coursed through the spongy land. Their fre ijuent overflow, when forced back upon their currents by the stormy sea, rendered the country almost uninhab-tiable.- Here, withjn a half -submerged territory a race of "wretched Jchtyo phagi fish-eaters) - dwelt upon terpen r mounds, which they had raised, like hesvers'- above - tha almost fluid, .toil. lire at a later day, the same race chained ' the - tyrant ocean and his mighty - streams into subserviency, forcing them to fertilize, to render commodious, to cover with a benefi cent network of veins and arteries, nd to bind by watery highways, with the farthest ends of the world, a coun try disinherited by nature of its rights. A region, outcast of ocean and earth, wrested at last from both domains , their richest .treasures. , Thus does John Lothrop Motley Jn his introduction to "The Rise nd. Fall of the Dutch Republic" describe the country we know as .The Netherlands. 'v. The battle of these lowland dwellers against the sea covers the whole span of the Christian era, for the Romans found them on their tiny earth-mounds in the lirst century A.p. There primiyve people of Celtic and Germanic origin ' learned " early to build dikes, - but it .was not until the 12th century that construction was begun on a great scale. . ' (Continued on editorial page) Chinese Admit Jap Advances . CHUNGKING Nov. ll-(P)-Es-Umating that 350,000 Japanese had Xecn flung Into the sprawling bat tle for KwarTgsi province, the Chi nese high command admitted to-night that the enemy had -broken into Kweilin and also was push ing a menacing drive in the south toward important Yungning. ( Resistance continued i n s 1 d e Kweilin, Kwangsi capital and de fense pivot A for southeast China, which was- penetrated Thursday night, the high command stated. LJuchow, site of the last advance American airbase in southeast China, still is in Chinese hands, the communique said. A US 14th air force communique detailed wide cpread attacks in Hunan ' and Kwangsi provinces. Bong Nips Two Nipg, Plane Mark Now 36 AT A LEYTE AIRBASE, Philip pines, Sunday, Nov. 12-(-MaJor . Richard I." Bong, of Popular, Wis.! America's ace of aces ran" his String to 36 today, downing two more Japanese planes in the skies above Ormoc. ' : i He said the enemy fighters en countred were among the best he hat met in the air. - -v".. Police Ban Hot' Tire H Sale in Public Square DURANT, Okla Nov. Two men started a tire sale on the public square here today and the merchandise "was going gooJ un til police put them out of business. The officers said the stock of 178 tires, along with a truck in which they brought them to town, were r'.c'cn at Tulsa early today. LflT mucoxB 1 Sit a newly opened airstrip. (AP photo) France Invited To Join 'Big 3? In Peace Plans PARIS, Nov. llP)-Prime Min ister Churchill, returning to Paris for the first time since the black days of 1940, opened conferences on this Armistice day. with the French provisional government which are expected to center on the restoration of France as a first- rate world power. His visit coincided with .. an nouncement that the United States, Britain and Russia had invited the De Gaulle government to assume full membership on the European advisory commission, which is stu dying the problems of peace. j Churchill, who : paused ' long enough to take part in the first Armistice - day celebration in France in five years was believed to have brought at. least informal ly qualified asstnrajrtces from the "big fourMthe United States, Bri tain, Russia and China of what France is most anxious about: ; France's early resumption of a bigger role in settling the future of Germany, and. in establishing a world security organiaztion. j '. The resumption of normal econ omic relations between France and Britain has been widely mentioned as prominent on the agenda, but this is reliably viewed as being forced into- the background be cause. France's domestic economy has been paralyzed by war. i. Property .Tax Delinquencies Property tax delinquencies in all counties of Oregon j totalled $14,284,364 on, August 1 a drop of nearly $6,000,000 from a year ago, the state tax commission re ported Saturday. Highest percentage delinquency was in Tillamook county 18.8)1 per cent. Lowest was in Benton county 0.72 per cent j The record of comparative de linquencies in mid-Willamette val ley counties included: Counties 194$ ' Benton ' $ S5.622 1944 $ 48,748 241,987 156,331 212,186 107,241 . 282,202 Clackamas Linn Marion Polk Yamhill 4 10,90,9 273.077 j ' 389,219 I 154,007 409,839 Grew. in Honolulu to Confer With Nimitz HONOLULU, Nov. 11 -(Joseph Grew, former ambassador to Japan, arrived in Honolulu today, from the mainland. Crew came here to confer, with Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. 1 . Drop Sharply Hunt for 1948 Presidential Timber Already Under Way By Douglas B. Cornell i WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 - (S5) -With some election , boards still j counting 1944 votes, professional politicians already have begun siz ing up potential timber for 1948. - Looking over the assortment, re publicans could see nearly half a j dozen men who might be built up j for the presidential . nomination four years from now - ! Thomas E. Dewey, of course, is high on the list He has two years to go as governor of New York, j 'Political analysts thought they j detected a hint ! that DeweyT was looking to the future when he let I it be known in New York Wednes-! day that he was pleased with the degree of acceptance of his foreign Yankees Advance 5 Miles ... i i .... - German i Bastion ' Nearly Circled; Planes Support By Austin Bealmear ' SUP HEME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Nov. 1 MidAmer ican infantry and armor drew the arc of steel threatening to envelop Metz to fully two-thirds of the way around that nazi held French fortress today; with less than 10 miles separating the two flanking forces. ! ' :-: :" 1 The US Third army smashed ahead five miles,, crossing rivers, rail lines and highways, to tighten the noose around Metz. Lt Gen. George S. Pa tton, Jr who cele brated his 59th birthday and Ar mistice day . with the most sweep ing advances of his new winter of fensive has sent elements of at least eight divisions into the line since the drive started four days ago. -:;U ; ij ;. :;' Draw Near Citadel, Hinges of two assaults swinging around Metz from both sides were driven to within five miles of the citadel due south and within four and one-half miles on the oppo site side. '. The forces on the south ern hinge southeast of Metz in cluding all or part of six divisions continued to smash recklessly ahead, swinging far to the east and increasing the threat of complete encirclement of Metz...r" -.;. American fighter-bombers , flew 700 sorties despite varying weath er. . At one point they caught more than 25 German tanks moving to ward the American lines and re ported the destruction of 10 and the damaging of 15. Push Three Miles 4 j At the same time, the Fourth armored division pushed on three miles northeast along a rail route from captured Haboudange to the area of Conthil, only four miles from the Benestroff rail junction and nine miles northeast of Cha-teau-Salies. - j The doughboys were engaging the German lioth and lllth pan zer grenadier regiments in the area of Gerbecourt on the eastern edge of Chateau-Salins . forcst. Planes combined with ground for ces to inflict severe losses on the enemy. ; . f Tax Boost Bar Being Planned WASHINGTON, Nov. U-(Ry-Legislation to block an automatic $1,500,000,000 increase i n social security j payroll taxes will be of fered when' congress reconvenes Tuesday, Senator "Vandenberg (R Mich) announced today. fl should think that 1945 would be rather -a poor year to double payroll I taxes," the senator ; said, citing campaign declarations by both major parties favoring light er tax loads on business as it re- 1 converts to peacetime pursuits. For three successive years Van denberg has championed legisla tion which prevented doubling of the payroll tax, now one per cent each on employers and employes. Without positive action by con gress, the tax increase becomes effective January 1, 1945., policy views by party leaders in and out of congress. While the 1944 loser in the pres idential race had declared he had no illusions about 1948, Washing ton figured he probably would run for governor again In 1946. He said after Tuesday's election that he was fvery happy over, the high confidence,, the people have expressed In the state government by the handsome majorities of re publicans in the state senate and assembly." . . The democrats have a different outlook. A fourth term naturally gives -rise to speculation about a fifth. But four years from now Mr. Roosevelt will be nearly 67, with 16 tough years in the white house behind him, . , , Petrillo Removes I Recording Ban as ; Companies Accede NEW YORK, Nov. 11 - (JP) James C. . Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Mu sicians (AFL), announced today the lifting of his 27-month 1 re cording! ban against RCA-Victor, Columbia Recording corporation and, the National Broadcasting Company's transcription division, Petrillo, who had rejected a war labor board order and a request from President Roosevelt to per mit union musicians to resume recording for the companies, said all three companies had agreed to the union's requirement that they pay the union a royalty on each disc sold. . B-29's Shower s With Aid WASHINGTON, Nov. Using secret instruments to locate their targets through clouds, B-29's today bombed a Japanese homeland aircraft manufacturing center j and transportation and storage facilities in ' two enemy held Chinese cities. . One Superfortress was reported in a communique to be missing. At least two enemy' planes were shot down, seven others probably de stroyed and 11 damaged. The I communique said a large task force of Superfortresses, ope rating from bases in China, parti cipated in the three-prong aerial blow; The targets, werei;,: . The j Omura jatf craft "factory "at Omura, on the Japanese home Island of Kyushu. The extensive dock and loading facilities at Nanking, a ferry point for rail traffic between Shanghai, Tientsin and Manchuria. Nanking also is the seat of the Japanese- controlled puppet government in China. . J Enemy military storage, and transshipment -facilities at the great port of Shanghai. uration Plans Sealed 1 - . Vy.. -! V WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 -iff The, low -5 down on the fourth Roosevelt inauguration January 20 was given to Capitol officials late today by tLe president They kept mum, however, pend ing their report to the joint inau gural jcommittee Tuesday. , The ,. presidential callers were Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the senate, and David Lynn, capitol architect. They make the physical arrangements for the ceremony, usually held on the capitol steps. i They will report Tuesday to a committee whose joint chairmen are Senator Byrd (D-Va.) and Speaker Rayburn. Other members are J Senators Vandenberg - (R Mich.) and McKeller (D-Tenn) and Reps. Doughton (D-NC) and Martin (R-Mass.), the latter house minority leader. , Night Attacks on Germans Resumed ; LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 11 -Vf) A force of heavy bombers of the RAF flew over the east coast of England last' night, heading ; for the continent in what apparently was resumption of night attacks which had been Interrupted by unfavorable weather. . V . Bad weather, however, did not deter daylight attacks yesterday when "2000 American planes struck at . the reich from the west and south. The returning flyers report ed that German anti-aircraft gun ners in Italy, Austria and western Germany, offered only meager to moderate resistance. Many Soldiers Prefer -. Army to Jobs, Claim ; WASHINGTON, Nov. . 11 Many servicemen do not want to come marching home cow or after the war's x end says;; Omar Ketchum, national legislative of ficer of the Veterans ; of Foreign Wars. - --ri d.. r Instead they prefer to remain in the armed services where their paycheck may equal or exceed their ) civilian :: salary, Ketchum Jap Of New Device Inaug said in a, statement tcday; T Search Goes On : F or Cons I Pair'Believed. ; Hiding in Hills 12 Miles South i A slowiy converging circle , of state police and prison guards' this morning surrounds the spot 1 12 miles southeast of , Salem where a pair of fleeing convicts Satur day afternoon abandoned the sta tion wagon in which they had es caped from the Oregon state peni tentiary after injuring C. J. Plon sky, guard. The car, property of the state blind trades school, Portland, was found shortly before 6 p. m. in the brush beside Skyline road. Possibility that the fugitives, 33-year-old Corneilius Price Long and 63-year-old Martin Caswell Broom,, the former described by officers as desperate and the lat ter serving a life term, might have held up and taken -another car and driver is not overlooked by police who have set up a net work of highway blockades over Lall western Oregon. : i 1 " Leave at 19:09 A. M. Long and Broom made their getaway at 1009 ai m. Saturday in the station wagon which had entered the prison yard to pick up nulk and cream purchased by the trades school from the peniten tiary farm, plonsky, guard at the penitentiary the past three weeks, who rode uW, vehicle into ithe yard, j descrjbLd the , seizure: "I didn't realize, theyhvere there un til suddenly we were traveling 40." .. . . Outside the wall but still on prison grounds, the convicts tossed Plonsky,' who is no lightweight, from the speeding car and drove nonchalantly through the outer gate, traveling west on State street, In the fall, two bones in Plonsky's right arm were broken. Escaped Before In September, 1942, Long es caped and was at large three days. Friday, men at the penitentiary told Deputy Warden Gene Halley after the pair had fled, Long said if he ever got out again, "they" wouldn't take him alive.' (Addi tional details on page 2.) Alcohol Study Will Be Made, PORTLAND, Nov, 11 -(-Sponsored by Gov Earl Snell and the education advisory Committee of the Oregon Liquor Controrcom mission, the first Pacific coast conference on alcohol studies will be held here November 27 to De cember 1. ;;;; ;;. , 'Yale university's section of al cohol studies, under the direction of Dr. E. M. Jelllnek, will conduct the four-day session which will cover the alcohol problem in its widest ramifications. - i . Invitations have been sent to governors and law-enforcement of ficers In 11 western states. FDR's Lead 3,099,284; 7947 Precincts 'Oat' . WASHINGTON, Xov. 11 -JP) President Roosevelt's plurality ov er Gov. Thomas E. Dewey stood at 3,09984 tonight on the basis of unofficial returns from all but 7947 of the nation's voting pre dncts. i ; - The total major party vote re ported by 122,842 voting units was 4S.568.042 with this division: Roosevelt 24,323.663; Dewey 21, 234,379. . . Rural Idaho Houses Poise Postwar Job MOSCOW, Idaho, Nov. 11H?) A University of Idaho agricultur al experiment station report issued today said that 5600 rural Idaho dwellings will (require replace ment and repair work costing 120,- 000,000 will be needed In the first 10 years after the war. , . i 1 The report estimated that 12, 000 man years of work will be re quired to meet these needs. ; Weather Bfaxlmam temperature 58 de frees, minimum 41 degrees, Ml Inch rain, rive -1 ft -' -i-' Increasing cloudiness fol lowed by showers and snow flur ries in mountains Sunday? rain 'Sunday sod Monday. Action, Agency Of World Peace, Says I Bennett in Speech Action by the United States which will more nearly- assure world peace wis demanded by Frank B Bennett, superintendent of Salem public schools, in the principle address of the Armis tice day celebration Saturday. j . . - Veteran of World war iall grey or greying, their shoulders beginning to show the stoop of LONDON, Sunday,: Nov. 12-(jP) Russian troops steadily expanding their wedge between; the German defenders of Budapest and Mis kolc, yesterday drove to within 11 miles of Miskolc, Hungary's fifth city, while a Budapest broad cast late last night announced that heavy fighting had broken out at Vecses, only five miles southeast of the capital. ?! . A midnight Soviet! bulletin said the enemy had thrown in powerful reinforcements in an effort ; to break the Russian hold on the railway to Miskolc, 84 miles north east of the capital, ; and also on the main railway to Szolnok, 50 miles southeast of Budapest t ... i While the Russians did not men tion the Vecses sector they told of particularly heavy fighting near Cegled, 35 iniles southeast of Bu dapest, which is on the. same line serving Vecsis: ,. A .kh-v Sixteen miles northeast of Ceg led, other Soviet units captured Ujszaaz, 43 miles east-southeast of Budapest. . Fleet Losses Of 2 Montis All Replaced US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. ll-T)-The American Pacific fleet fast carrier task force is becoming increasingly stronger and in a Very few months will have ; Jwice as many carriers operating in: the western J Pacific as it had six months ago. Rear Admiral George D. Murray said today. . . tl AS of six months ago this fleet could put at least 1000 planes in the air. " ' , : '.' ; M ;v ... Admiral Murray, naval air com mander in the Pacific, also report ed that all US naval aircraft and pilot lout of the last two months had been replaced, i This Included losses in the great naval battles of the Philippines October 24 and 25. "I'm glad to be able to report- Murray said, "that our losses of the last! two months, since ; the Marianas, are well within what we can stand. -. : 1 "All our aircraft losses have been replaced. 'Our pilot : losses have been replaced." Barrymore Off Stage Once in Fifty-Years J ; NEW YORK, Noy. 11-tfVEthel Barrymore, who missed her first New York stage performance In 80 years last night because of an at tack of Influenia, has shown Im provement and will; be back In the cast of "Embetzled Heaven" on Monday, her physician 'said to night . ' Soviets Expand Wedge Between 2 Prize Cities I V'2 Rocket Swishes Through Sky at 3500 Miles Per Hour By E. V.' Jones LONDON, Nov.: U-(ff)-The German V-2 rocket Domb, de scribed -v as a 13 li-ton wingless projectile w h I c h cuts through space at a maximum, speed of 3500 miles an hour, has been fall ing in allied sectors of Belgium and France as well as in Britain, front dispatches permitted through army censorship said tonight A number 'of these new . ven geance weapons, which cannot be heard coming because : they are faster than sound, fell in one US army sector" alorie in less than two days, and the inter has 'in creased at various intervals, said a dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent 'Austin Bealmear. The censor deleted the . origin of the dispatch. 4 s.. time,' marched with steady tread beside the veterans of World war II and many other patriotic, fra ternal and civilian groups. , Lt CoL Benjamin F. Pound was pa rade marshal : and 'Rex Kimmell master of ceremonies. Rev. J. C. Harrison gave the invocation. .; Dead Honored i. . j Wreaths were laid by patriotic orders of the memorial monument in front of the courthouse. An ad ditional wreath was placed by Luther D. Cook, president of the Federated Patriotic - Orders; be neath the temporary; plaque which later will bear in permanence the .names of the . men and- women from this country who gave their lives in this ' war. Lt Cmdr. J. A. Fletcher made the dedicatory ad dress for the plaque. Salem's school bands! furnished martial music, . being spaced at intervals in the procession. Lead ing the marchers ; were members of the state guard under command of Capt. Kenneth W. Graber. Wants Safe Peace J . Warning that the United States must be on guard to prevent the armistice in this war becoming the, seed for "part three of the World war, Bennett, a veteran of the, last .war, pointed out that "before the last , armistice was signed, the ;blue prints for this war were in the making "Great caution and! statesman ship will be needed at the peace table if the new peace is. to be more permanent than ' the last," he said, "and there j will be no place for isolationists in the com ing peace, and no place for those of us who believe the world will back a dream. I Oceana .bo Protection "When the other war ended we believed we were safe with large oceans on each side of us. We have learned the oceans are no longer a protective j barrier. Since that time we have learned that the great space iaverhead is only an atmospheric sea and that our nearest neighbor is not South America, but Russia. t, Following the formal services Capital Post No. 9 held a pot luck dinner in its quarters. Veter- ans of. Foreign Wars held open house from 1 p. mJ to 1 a. m. this morning. A' dance: from 9- until midnight was the j feature of the latter organization. , . Yank Captures 2 ; Nazi Paratroopers With Empty Rifle tt- ..-4f-:: ''-- 4 WITH THE US FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY, Nov. 11 - (JF) - Pfc. Charles L. Winkler, of Yale, Mich igan captured two German para troopers In the mountains south of the'Po valley and marched them nearly a mile tq military police and then discovered his gun was not loaded. L I ' s--.;. Winkler, "armed with a car bine, surprised the nazis in a fog. One had a machine pistol and the other a revolver, t They came calmly when 'they" saw Winkler's Winkler discovered his gun was empty as he began the march back to his company. He kept it secret Today's German communique said the V-2 still was being, fired at Antwerp j. in Belgium and . at London. i -. - . - t , The new German reprisal weap on was described by the corre spondents as being, about 46 feet long and five feet wide, and less effect! re than V-l, the robot bomb first used against England. 4 ; The warhead contains almost a ton of explosives and the fuel used to propel it weighs nine tons. It i shot from concrete ramps almost vertically, reaches a height of 20 miles before ' beginning a great arc toward its intended tar get At the height of the arc it is. 55 miles from the earth and attain a -velocity of 5000 feet per second, - or . approximately . 3500 miles an hour. . - Ships Go. ToBottom' Only Remnants -Of 8000 Troops ; . Reach Beaches By afarlut Spencer GENERAL Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Sunday, Nov!. 12-0P)-Carrier planes of the- US Third fleet de stroyed an ; entire Japanese con- ' voy of four, transports and six deV stroyers to -Drmoc bay today, :. smashing the second .Nipponese attempt In three days to reinforce ; their Leyte island army. ' ( ! -Only remnants of an estimated ' 8000 fresh enemy troops reached , shore, a f t e r a slashing , dawn battle.: r'lNl' v: -. Jap Lasses High ' V ; The Japanese lost 13 destroyers and Seven j transports, plus thewH sands of 'men, in then- attempts today and lait Thursday and Fri- ' day to land i reinforcements. ' Gen.' Tomoyuki Yamashitai; the new 1 Japanese commander, has . "chosen western Leyte as a main battleground f or his supreme ef- fort to crush our liberating forces," Gen.j Douglas MacArthur said j in today's communique. He said Japan's conqueror t)f Malaya is attempting to land suf ficient ' forces! to break out of the " Yamashita . line," the American- ' encircled area around Ormoc, last Japanese stronghold on Leyte. ', New Gains: Made ; . American grounds forces made' new gains across the rugged ter- rain south of Carigara bay. as the Yank ainneii smashed the latest . reinforcement effort some 20 milea southward, j i The naval airmen, attacking in force, caught the Japanese con voy as it Slipped into Ormoc bay under cover of early morninej darkness. ' ' j Leif Erickson, Associated Press war correspondent fat Pearl Har bor, said "The report of the con voy destruction disclosed that Third fleet! carrier forces again have undertaken direct support of MacArthur's ground operations on Leyte..,.:--l ' : X t jV ("Opposed by the Third fleet plane power, - the Japanese at tempts to throw more troops into the defense of Leyte should be tome increasingly difficult?) British Halted In Italy Drive pOMEklflov. 11 -iJP) BriUsH eighth army troops grinding slow ly forward from captured Foril j -inj the eastern Po valley were halt ed today) just outside the city at the Ravaldino canaL which they t found the IGerman tanks end in- ' faintry r defending in considerable strength.! j iThe canal runs from the north " wst corner of Forli in a north easterly direction. Southwest of Forli the Germans have taken up pdsitions along the Montone river. , Snow flurries fell on both thr-&v fifth and eSeht armv front, vam. - ing fromj i light coating in some sectors to m depth of nine inches on the right flank in the hills. , I Harold Olf ert Dies in Aetion DALLAS, Nov. 11 Harold OI- fert, seiiman ; first class, died of wounds received in action, on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Walt have been notified. Olfert enlisted in the navy in 1943 after completing three years) of high j school work at Dallaa. Survivors I include the parents. three brothers, Melvin, US navy at Shoemaker, Calif.; Homer, US navy, Farfogut; and Waldo, at ' home; also one sister, Sophie, a student at the Bible institute In Los Angeles pv " i - Papcriays IVIarshall'a .?m Age Won't Retire Him , WASHINGTON, Nov. 11AV President Roosevelt is expected to retain Gen. George C Marshall as chief: of staff after he reaches retirement age Dec. 31, the army i and navy j Journal says. : .; The journal noted that Admiral Earnest j jj. King, chief of s naval operation, who was 63 in 1842, was continued on active duty by the president Marshall, in addition- to being army chief of staff, ; is one of Ithe American members of the combined chiefs, of Staff.' FC3TDALL SC03ES Army' 69,5 Notre Dame J " Navy 4a. ;corneU . . . . Yala 13. Brown - ' . ' Penn 39. Columbia 7. -UCLA It. i California 9. 4th Air fyrce J8, Waahlngton a. : ... Utah SI, Colorado Collefe ' ' Denver 4. New Mexico a.- . Utah State S. Idaho (So. Branch) - . Great Lakes 11. 3rd Air Torce 10, i Michigan 14, Illinoia . Minnesota IS. Indiana 14. , -: Wisconsiai 28, Iowa T. -Ohio State 54, Pittsburfh If. Purdue Z7. Northwestern 7. Miatwsippt St. 26. Auburn 21. Georgia 28, Florida 13. - Geontia Tech 54. Tulana T. '. u ' Alabama 34, MiEtiaaippt S. -Tulsa 51, Southwestern 8. '"' n .1 Tex. Chriatian 14. Tex, Tech 8. i Oklahoma A & M 13, Texas S. :