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fnr SLMDQ8 TKD CCDS VTealliei M a x 1 m a m temperature St degrees, minimum 37 de trees, a rain, river 1 ft. .'4 tWI' hl'i';' -.j '-V'Vr' Mostly iklear Tuesday and Wednesday; rising tempera tares is the Interior; mero Ing fog In the valley. -. fl in Poundqd 1651 , r( ! v , . ( " ' Great Britain and lend-lease provide a sharp political question which is already pointing our way, There is first the question of con tinuing lend-lease to Great Brit- j in after the end of the war "with Germany. That will be answered in the affirmative, until the end f the war with Japan, which re mains a joint undertaking. Coming up is another question: disposal of" left-over 'items con signed to Great Britain. There . have to be enormous stores of sup plies for military and civilian use to . insure a constant flow. When the war ends these stores will be on hand. It is not unlikely that ! America will permit Britain to dispose of this surplus rather than to have it shipped back to this country or handled by us abroad. But there are two sharper ques tions which will not draw an an swer so nearly unanimous in the affirmative. One is whether lend lease will be continued for a time, ; supplying , goods which Britain can use or resell to the world, until Britain is on its feet; and second whether British exporters will be given a "head-start", in reviving their foreign markets, as has been suggested. It is .easy to foresee a resounding "no" to these proposals both from American business in terests and competitors and from political leaders quick to protect ; American interests. . ; , ' Support may 'come however from those who believe that a re stored British economy is not only food business for this country but a (Continued on editorial page) aan ateei Closes Tighter On Budapest" LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 14-n -The Second Ukrainian army of Marshal Rodion Y." Malinovsky swept northward along two rail ways yesterday in an outflanking snove against Budapest, capturing the terminal of Jaszapati and, said German announcement, breaking J ito the important communications center of Jaszberenj, 37 miles east of the Hungarian capital. Associated Press CorrespoBdcnt Daniel IV'Luce Reported-" from Moscow that Jaazbereny was un der siege from three sides and that the southern column of Malinov skys forces apparently had made solid junction with another col umn' striking from the northeast after crossing the upper Tisza. The Germans were resisting savagely with tanks and flame throwers, but the Russians seized at least 10 towns during the day in si drive which carried 13 miles in Jts deepest penetration. No Change in 46 Tax Rates WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 Chairman George (D-Ga) of the senate finance committee asserted today "prospects for any substan tial change in tax rates for 1946 re very remote. , He told a news conference he felt the adoption of a postwar tax program should be delayed until congress can see the end , of the European war definitely ap proaching. But it should have Its plans ready for quick action when the time comes, he added. : I "There is not much basis," he asserted "on which anyone can make the prediction or express the hope that we shall be able to re vise .taxes generally for 1945." While some tax measure might be enacted next year, he said, in his opinion It could not be made effective before Jan. 1, 1946. Ogarette Shortage Hits European War Theater i PARIS, Nov. 13-;P)-The Ame rican cigarette shortage has spread to the European war theater. En listed men in Paris were Inform ed today they would get no ciga rettes this week. At post exchanges for officers the ration was reduced to five packs a week, which seems low . to heavy smokers, but added to the chagrin of soldiers who get jjone at all. Cigarette supplies at the front also were low, with soldiers re ported cut to two packs weekly In some sectors. 'Applications for New Commercial Cars Due WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 Persons wishing to purchase' new - commercial motor vehicles in 1945 may apply now to local ODT of fices, the office of defense trans portation announced today. ODT 6aid it desired to give the names and addresses to manufac turers of heavy : duty trucks 60 Cays in advance of production, so that the trucks may be shipped into areas where certificates have teen approved. NINETY-FOURTH TEAR Yanks ip Jap Plans By Strike Five Nipponese Divisions - Face j ! American Drive ; By Murlia Spencer GENERAL " MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. H--The artil lery - backed American offensive on Leyte island, which ground to short new gains today, has dislo cated Japanese preparations for a counter attack with the five divi sions they are known to have committed to this pivotal Philip pine battle. Today's communique reported five . imperial divisions had been identified,-without specifying whe ther they were estimated at their full strength, which; would mean probably more than 0,000 men. Five Identified The Japanese first division has been thrown into the battle line along , the Pinamopoan - Ormoc highway, and the 26th division has been identified by its dead The 16th. 30th and 102nd divi sions previously had been report' ed in action. The American offensive drive, said the communique, has pene trated his (the enemy's) potential assembly areas, compelling him to premature . and piecemeal com mitments of feus forces for the de fense of the main bastion of the Yamashita line." British Cross CsiriarBarrier' Near Ravenna ROME, Nov. 13 -;p) British eighth army troops have crossed the Ghiaia canal, next to the last water obstacle before the German-held port of Ravenna on the Adriatic coast, and there were in dications tonight , that the nazis were : preparing to evacuate the city.. ;.. - - ;, , ! After crossing the canal, before which they had been stalled for several weeks, the British moved into a thick pine forest only four miles south of Ravenna. Still be-1 fore Ravenna is the Fiumi Unit! river, less than a mile from the city's southern limits.! . Patrols thrusting ahead of the main : allied force today reported they : saw no sign of German troops. To the southwest, how ever, the nazis held firmly to weir positions on the north bank of the Ghiaia canal to prevent the eighth army- from bypassing Ravenna. Indiana U. Makes Ernie Pyle Doctor i BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 13- (V-War Correspondent Ernie Pyle became - Dr. Pyle ; today . as Indiana university conferred up on him the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters the first ever given by the school. : William C. Pyle, his father, and others from' his home town of Dana, Ind,' watched as President Herman B Wells presented the diploma to Pyle. .' Congress Faces In Session; FDR WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-)-Ex tension of the president's war powers, without serious inter-party controversy, was indicated to day as the 78th congress gath ered for Its final sessions, i ' House Republican Leader Mar tin, of Massachusetts, told news papermen he knew of no planned opposition to prolongation of the powers Including the ; authority for priorities which under pres ent legislation expire Dec 31. He commented: ' ; ; , ' . "Congress is going to give the president all the power he needs to fight the war ; i The old congress, with a house numbering 21S democrats and 212 republicans, convenes at noon to morrow. Among the members win be about four score "lame ducks" Who must help dispose of a heavy pre-Christmas roster " of legisla tion. . - : : In addition to extension of the war powers, these important ques tions confront the old congress: i 1. A decision whether to "freeze" the social security tax at its pres ent one per cent rate. Unless stop ped by congress, the payroll tax 10 PAGES Jap Bomb Misses U.S. Carrier Smoke and water towers high beside a US carrier in an attack off Formosa. In ammunition for their weapon. ( Ni lippon Occupy Island Near Peleliu US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 13 r (ft) " Two hundred Japanese troops occupied tiny Ngeregong island, eight miles northeast of American-held Peleliu in- the Pa lau group, . last Tuesday night, l-Adm. riresterW. Nlmitx announc ed today. A small US marine patrol, which had been on the island for recon naissance, quickly evacuated, and the enemy was subjected to-ships' fire and aerial bombing and straf ing. .-I- . 'I;' .;-- : - : " Nimitz said in his communique the marines were removed aboard LCI's (landing craft, infantry) without casualties.' 1 The Japanese ; were equipped with knee mortars and machine guns. Probably they came in small boats across the reef-infested Denges passage from Eil Malk is land two miles north of 1 Ngere gong. !- .j--.;- i I Ngeregong is triangular and on ly one mile on each side. The purpose of the enemy occu pation is vague but probably was for reconnaissance Yank Fighter Ace Missing in Action A UNITED STATES FIGHTER BASE; England, Nov. lS--Col. Hubert Zeke, 31-year-old fighter pilot from Missoula, Mont, known as1-the "fightingest" American pilot commander in Europe, has been missing since Oct 30, it was an nounced today. ; j Fellow pilots saw him go down inside Germany while leading his Lightning-Mustang group on a bomber escort mission. At that time, he was the leading 'American ace operating on the western front, credited with shooting -down 19 nazi planes and destroying on the ground. Arduous Task Opposition Nil automatically rises to two per cent each on employer and employe January 1. A sizzling scrap is ex pected on this "freeze." 2. Whether to extend the stat ute of limitations governing pros ecution of courts martial that may grow out of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This might afford opportunity for some blasts at the administration an aftermath - of the political campaigns. : 3. Bills providing for a postwar highway program Involving ex penditure of around 1,500,000,000 of federal funds. ; y I 4. Resurrection of the federal crop insurance program, funds for which congress has refused. Both major parties sanctioned crop in surance in their platforms. ; 5. Disposition of the house-approved flood control4 and rivers and harbors improvement meas ure. .6. Action on a proposal to re vive the bituminous coal law, which congress refused to extend earlier this year. This act sets up machinery ; intended to prevent ruinous competition in the soft Troops coal industry. rvnr5Icr Li j x class as of Esse foreKToand crewmen anU-ajrcraft AP : wlrephoto from S navy) U.S.Stib Darter Destroyed by Crew To Prevent Loss WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 The navy announced today the submarine Darter was destroyed by its crew to prevent capture by the enemy after it had run aground in an undisclosed are i. All the complemert of 65 offi cers and men survived unharmed and escaped to an advanced naval base. . -1 ', ' ' i TJhe . yjar-old ,152S I ton vessel was 'the thirty-wire I submarine lost, by the United, States fleet since Pearl Harbor. In that time the fleet has lost a total of 218 combat vessels including the un dersea craft Sprague Will) Direct Drive For WU Funds Charles A. Sprague, Statesman publisher and. former governor of Oregon, was Monday named chair man of the northwest committee to operate outside of Oregon in Willamette university's campaign to raise $321,p00. Dr. J. C Harri son, pastor of the Salem First Methodist church and president of the university's trustees, heads the committee for Oregon,; exclu sive of Portland and Salem, while Robert L. Elfstrom, Salem con tractor, is chairman of operations in the capital city. Seventy thousand dollars of the $321,000, which is to be used in erecting dormitory facilities for men students, has .already been raised. Bishop Bruce Baxter and Clarence Bishop of Portland are co-chairmen of the general com mittee, of which Sprague is vice chairman and Paul B. Wallace, Sa lem,- treasurer. J. J. Gard,r vice president of the US National back. Is Portland, chairman. , - 1 George H. . Atkinson, San Fran cisco, president of the . construc tion company which ' carries . his name, is chairman of the national committee; Charles E. McCuIloch, Portland attorney, chairman of the steering committee, and Robert C. Notson, Oregonian city editor, chairman of publicity. President G. Herbert Smith will serve with this group on the executive com mittee. 1 Sweden Won't Renew : ! Nazi trade RelaUon . ; STOCKHOLM Nov. 13.-(JP-Formal trade; relations - between Sweden and Germany will end Jan. 1 when their present trade treaty expires, it was learned re liably tonight . ... . , I The usual renewal trade talks held annually at this time will not "be undertaken, and Sweden . has no intention of signing a new agreement a reliable source said! AT&T Gets Authority W For Alaskan Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 13-(JPh, The federal communications com mission today granted authority to i the I American Telephone and Telegraph Co. toj amend its tariff on one day's notice to provide public toll telephone service be tween the United States and Sew ard and V.TiK 7ska. -, - of Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning. Novomber r - Off Formosa Jap dive bomber misses hU target m on aaether US warshia Escaped Cons Reach Timber No definite trar had ! been found Monday by state police of of 29' j ministry coinmuni Martin Pacwti Rmvn M and U" said. The sinking ended a Cornelius Price Long, S3, convicts who escaped from the state peni - SatUrd8y ta "WLllU kJ MM trj tAl " uw win viuicuu xcwiu w ecivmx . 1 l , b ue term un an naoiuwi cruiii - nal charge, while Long was erv - ing a 20-year term for a statutory offense in Lane county. Broom, officials said, engaged in illicit liquor operations during the prohibition era and is thoroughly familiar with locations of many cabins in the heavy timber areas in western Oregon south of Salem, Capt Walter Lansing, in charge of Salem district state police head - quarters, . believed the escaped prisoners would take refuge in one of these cabins -until conditions were better to make a dash from the area. When the convicts abandoned the station wagon at the west end of the Skyline road. 12 miles south- west of Salem, they took with urpie Mean ana was re them several loaves of bread and turned to the United States and more than a gallon of cream. The was here tot yea nd week- station wagon, owned by the land, was recovered late Saturday. A report that a man answering Long's . description entered i the lobby of a hotel at Harrisburg early Sunday was being investi gated. Police said they were continu- ing the search and that all roads in western Oregon were being pa- . , , J."ffl coai .was rouna a snort uiaace wesi oi wnere me siauon ftuu ws auanaoneo. Highest Court Veto Appeal WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - (Jft - The supreme court declined again today to interfere, with a lower court decision that courts can nei- ther review nor enforce war labor EL?" Without comment, the tribunal a.n PP of Mont- gum ii TIT&kJ . r nam oc vu. jxtKn a ruxmg by the District of Columbia couit of appeals. The latter court held that WLB actions are administra tive and "at most simply advisory I to the president .The WLB, in case its orders are disregarded, ; turns cases over to the president for action. The mail order- firm contended the WLB exceeded its statutory powers in issuing orders involving union maintenance, dues checkoff and grievance machinery for CIO employes . at four Ward stores in Z n eacn in Jamaica, NY, and Denver. . , Uniform Aviation Code For States Prepared OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 13 - (JPA uniform aviation code for the"48 state"including provisions !or licensing aircraft, pOots and airports- by states, was being out- lined today at the opening ses- slon of the National Association of State Aviation Officials. -r 14, 1944 F HI Location of Mystery Deepens; Goebbels 'Esiplains' LONDON, Nov. 13-:(A'-Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goeb bels swung into a campaign today to persuade the world that si lent secluded Adolf Hitler is in "excellent, vigorous health," and not a ghost upon whose prestige Heinrich Himmler is trading as the real master of Germany. Despite these' protestations, the - British Sink Tiroitz. Pnde Of Nazi i Navy LONDON, Nov. 13, -P)- The 41,000-ton German battleship Tir pitz, last "unsinkable" giant in Adolf Hitler's fugitive navy, cap sized and sank yesterday morning Ln icJt Norwegian waters of Tromso Fjord when hit squarely by three six-ton earthquake bombs dropped by RAF Lancasters, the British announced tonight Attacking out of J the Arctic mists it took the British only a few minutes to finish off this great potential killer which nev er had engaged in a single surface battle, and which the Germans were five years in building at a cost of $50,000,000. The cost to the British was one bomber, out of an attacking force three-year this by; the British 1 " "V . .,1 "l rWheVt selThe TlrpiUd Uim"'WW -J VW WA.AWW. viva' ha. its backbone snapped. 1 - ? W(Yf i XIPlrrlflrt -LlVllCll V I T 'A - UlCS LQ ClIOn sgt Troy W. Lockhart, 23. was killed in Holland October 25. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.! J. H. Lock hart, route one, box? 46, Brooks, I were notified Saturday by the 1 war department. j Sergeant Lockhart was an only child and was born in Solomon, Kan., Dec 21, 1921. He came to Salem in 1838. He served with the 32nd division in New Guinea and was with the first group which went over the Owen Stanley mountains. Wounded,! he received " lir5W www.wm From replacement center he w "'TT T 1944. Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart, survivors include his grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Walk Maf nJ7t o. Misx yickeri i, daugbter of Mr. and Mrs. E. V4 Vickers of i Tumer and was visiting Sgt Lock hart' parents this .week. 'Invasion of Mars' Puts Chile in Panic SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 13-) At least one death from a heart attark and " InluriM - tn evra1 1 rnn wm attributed tedav to the panic caused by Chiie'a radio "invasion From Mars" last night, broadcast which f upset" this country just as the radio show on the same subject producedby Or- gon-WeUs did the United States m October, 1938. f " Senator Says Occupation Plan Bolsters German Resistance 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - ) -Senator Revercomb (R-WVa) said tMiiaht as aawatsi mili4aiw nirWm proposal to $trip Germany of of her industry might Krve to bolster a nazi resistance in the war ' ' Reercomb7 a member of Ithe J subcommittee, disclosed that he ,tmA rmsrt called its issuance "untimely and unfortunate, and declared It would bring no benefits to the al lied cause. ' 1 Likening the proposal to Treas- jury Secretary Morgenthau's plan to reduce Germany to an aericui- Jtural state, Revercomb told re- porters that it was a subject to be dealt with later" not now. . , "Of . course," he added, fthe armament industries ct the enemy Prlc Se Hitler i - j mystery appeared deeper than ever and the subject of increasing speculation, within as well as out- side the reich. Himmler Signs. Note ' 1 i The Moscow radio said orders given German officers in ast Prussia to "fight to the last man" were signed , by Himmler. German news agencies solely for export and not" in their home services - declared that the fact Himmler', and not Hitler, broad cast the proclamation issued yes terday under Hitlers name was ma m . in no way prooi . oi wiaespreaa reports that Hitler was incapaci tated or dead. Germans Wonder But the perplexed German peo ple could know only that,, in their gravest hour, their fuehrer had forsaken then Visibly and audi bly. They had only the explana tion that he was "too busy at headquarters, working unremit tingly to bring a turn in our for tunes" to appear in public or make broadcasts. The latest report on Hitler's condition, coming from a generally reliable source, was that be was last week, under the care of four doctors including Professor Hor- ster. an outstanding brain special ist who treated Field Marshal Er- win Rommel before he "died. 3 Mem&ers ; Of WLB Want -i ! ,b "S-. '''' ' " : "' ' - To Quit Soon WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -(P) Three of the four men who have had the decisive vote in wartime labor disputes want to quit when they wind up their work on the current Wage, control controversy. They are Chairman William H. Davis, Vice Chairman George W. Taylor, and Dr. . Frank P. Graham, public member, of the war labor board. The fourth public member is Lloyd K. Garrison. Other mem bers are four labor representatives and four management men. j With the board makeup, I the controlling voice on momentous decisions often has been that of the public members. - ; . There was no' indication I that any policy issue or disagreement with other sections of the admin istration lay back of the resigna tions, all presented weeks ago and announced today. Personal and business reasons were advanced in each case. . - :- Nazi Industry Secretly ; Slowed U. S. Production NEW YORK, Nov. 13-iffV- A federal grand jury, asserting that German industry secretly hinder' ed : American i war v production through agreements with certain American corporations, today filed a presentment urging congress to tighten anti-trust laws. "Numerous agreements, in vio lation of the anti-trust laws, be tween foreign and American cor porations lhave ; resulted in re stricting the production in the United ' States of many products of vital - wartime necessity and great peacetime value, It was said in the presentment must be eliminated . but there is no purpose to be' gained by taking away from them the means of making a peaceful living." As yet no definite policy on a postwar Germany has. been made public by the state department but the trend there is toward control at strategic, bottlenecks. The talk is of some, middle ground between Morgenthau a plan and the oppos Ing contention that .Germany's manufactures are necessary to the reconstruction of Europe. ; .. Most recent discussion .has re volved around : uprooting Ger many's war potential by keeping a tight check on strategic, war- contributing ' industries and .! Im ports, rather thajv carrying actual destruction much beyond arms plants. ; ' "'!.... No. 204 1 1 aiikees F Driving U.SJ Forces Only 15 ;Miles From Border of Saar : - - " i ? ! '- Br Howard Cowan LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. H-fjn ! Three of Metz's 22 forts one of them a keystone in the southern defenses of the citadel fell with ' astonishing speed yesterday to US third army j troops who stormed through snow and bitter cold all along a 40-mile front The Germans ceded without a struggle the, subterranean fort L- a Aisne, one j of nine main forts guarding the city five miles to the ' south, and j two nearby smaller fortifications, indicating they were falling back into the city's inner defenses. 11 Drive Continaes Meanwhile, the wheeling move : ment southeast of Metz pressed on up to four miles to within 15 ' miles of the Saar border, height ening the' peril of encirclement to the city. I ' Fort L'Aisne is a series of un derground fortresses similar to Fort Driant, ' southwest ' of Meta across 'the j Moselle river, which the third irmy tried in vain to capture. !'j -v Pressing their head - on attack ' against Meti, doughboys captured the village of Corny, only 44 ' miles southwest of Metx on th east bank! lot the Moselle across from Fort Driant ' , , : NasJa Mayj!Il -OmtX.-- r il The first j indication that Field 1 Marshal Gen. ; Karl Rudolf Gerd von Kunsteat may not try to noia Metr came, in broadcast early today from the German command er's headquarters in the west. "Certainly Metz is being fana tically defended,? the broadcast said, "but Metz has fulfilled its task already during the months of September i and October when it stopped the advance of the third army and; thus enabled the Ger mans to deepen their front zona for fortifications., ; ' t ; Sanguinary fighting was in pro-' gress'at a. newly-won bridgehead across the .Moselle river 12 miles north of Metz near Ockange, which potentially i raises the encircling peril. fori ;Metz, "f ; , Jap Campaign 5 ForiLiuchow Nearly Over CHUNg!kinG, Nov. is-WJ-Tb Japanese drive to clear American air power; out of southeastern China appeared near completion tonight with the Chinese high command! ! reporting only localized street fighting in Liuchow, former site of the last main US air base in '.that 'area. ::'-' .. -s ... - ' The cjty, which, the Japanese announced, last Friday they, had taken, was abandoned by the US I4th air force on November t af ter all runways and Installations' had been destroyed, j , xne current enemy offensive already hid swept the Americans out of air bases at :. Hengyang. Lingling and Kweilin. , . (Associated Press ! Correspond ent Clyde A Farnsworth In a dis patch , from Kunming said that with the loss of Liuchow "south eastern China for a long time to Come, if hbt forever, thus has been eliminated as a possible tone of an inland offensive against the Japanese armies.) ; j Kenneth Sheridan Dies At Naval Hospital Kenneth Sheridan, 25 years old son of Mr, and Mrs. William Sher idan, route six, died Saturday at the naval hospital," Shoemaker, . Calit, as the result of tropical fe ver contracted in the South Pa cific A I military funeral will be held Thursday morning following 9 o'clock , requiem mass at St Jo- sepb's Catholic church. The ro-, sary - will be recited at I p. m. ; Wednesday night at Clough-Bar-rick funeral home. (Additional de- ' tails on iige 2.) f . ; - i t ---c:;;li ' - . ' '" : Canned Food Prices - Slated for Reduction - WASHINGTON, Nov. 13-(V The OrAi said today lower retail prices probably . will prevail for all canned - or - processed, minor fruits, berries and vegetables of the 1844 crop except sweet cher ries and itomato products. Forward