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V Weatlier Uakluam temperatiira , Wednesday S3 decrees. mini Bum 14 degrees, : na rain, river 1 ft. 4 In. - Clear Thursday and Fri day except morning valley for west af Cascades. SlitM lyjiifber daytime tempera ' tares. jr i.- vv:::' V..:' .:T3r-if'--. NINETY-rOUBTH TEAR Salem. Oregon. Thursday Morning, November 18. 1944 Prlca Sc No. 203 Hi 00 WPHP m&mM WTO Ilill v r . , 1 J - :r pounddd ;1651 , : ! . ' ' J- " " 12 PAGES j , ; WW .L.g" U LSUAI UJ ...... . 1 ; ..' 1 On Japs) Tightens Fighting Rages On Leyte; Nips Resist Bitterly When election returns ; began coming in last week Dewey -was leading in New Jersey, Michigan, Oregon. The final count however showed they fell in the Roosevelt column. In each case it was the slower count of the vote in cities like Detroit, Jersey City, Portland which changed the result. In this state Multnomah county's majority of 27,674 swamped Dewey's up- . state lead of around 4000. As in 1940, it was the big cities which gave the ' election to Mr. Roosevelt The 13 cities of the country with populations of 500, ' 000 or over all went for Roosevelt, swinging their slates with the ex- ception of Bricker's .home state of Ohio for nun. Kooseveivs ieaa m -these 13 cities was 2.283.2Z8 in 1944 as compared with 1,913,934 in 1940 when he ran against Willkie. What we are seeing is we po- litical effect of a great population shift in this country, t The following table shows the change in distribution of popunv ;tion in the United States taken . from the reports ot the census bu reau: . ' , Urban ' t ...... Percent 5.5 27.9 49.8 51.3 48.8 The slight reversal of the trend today. between 1930 and 1940 was aue 10 1 Gen, Douglas MacArthur an the depression of the 1930's which I nounced that the infantrymen in a double envelopment move thrust behind the Japanese near Limon, American-held village four miles south of Carigara bay. Conflict Kages The main body of. the 24th meanwhile engaged units of the Japanese first division in headlong combat on the road near Limon, which stands at the gateway to Ormoc corridor. j, j Jv Some 30 miles south s the pulsed a Japanese counterattack at Balogo, 10 mjjes south of Or-j moc on the coasxal roaa This means tSa 7th has advanc ed four miles northward in its drive; to apply fhe southern lever of the American squeeze against UNJ 1860 1890 1920 1930 1940 By Merlin Spencer GENERAL MacARTHURS HEAD QUARTERS, Philippines, I Percent Thursday, Nov. 14-(iP)-Two units 94.5 of the, American 24th division 72.1 I "practically severed the Ormoc 1 road" behind a trapped Japanese regiment as the battle for Leyte island flamed with bitter fighting Rural 50.2 48.7 51-2 French Speculate PARIS, Nov. 15 French officials speculated tonight on the I possibility that President Roose velt, Prime Minister Churchill and President Chiang Kai-shek might attend a major United Nations conference in Moscow soon, fol- t lowing announcement today that Gen. Charles De Gaulle would I leave shortly for the soviet capital. De Gaulle will be accompanied on ths trip by his foreign minis- ter, George Bidault He accepted promptly the invitation from Pre mier Stalin, and French official- 1 ; 1 . 1 . -; "... - '-..,. ' : . .. . .. - ; . . - - . r . . 1 - ..... ... U. S..Rope -Jape Slutk Land Close to Escort Carriir Freiich,U. S.iPush For Eeltort! Gap . In New Ofiensive . 1 1 Patton's Forces Almost in Melz; Fort Driant Neutralized; British Advance Five Miles in Holland ' drove people from cities . (Continued on Editorial page) Senators Cold About Sharing Treaty Powers , WASHINGTON,' Nov. 15-(P)-A i revived proposal to permit ratifi ! cation of treaties rby. a majority vote of house and senate ran into .opposition today in the senate for eign relations committee. Even some members favorable !to setting aside the constitutional requirement that a two-thirds ma- jority of the senate approve treat 1 ies opposed action at this time. " v They took the view that it would ; be more difficult to get the senate I to vote , two to on to'chaige the rules than It would be to get the ; came iaioritv io ratify a'treaty.' " - The issue was ' revived byJ an appeal from Chairman Bloom (D- NY) of the house foreign affairs committee for tepublican support . ' for his : proposed . constitutional amendment to permit ratification by a majority vote of each house. , ; ... . British Make Fair Advance In Italy Push 1 come to Moscow. Water spurts high In the air as a salvo of shells from a Nipponese warship land close to aa American escort aircraft carrier In the Philippine sea battle. (AP photo from navy) Ormoc, Japan'!, last port on the are members of the nazi party to "educate their men in the nazi that Spain long pro-axis I Jaszbereny, a strategic railway island. These Yank forces smash ed a Japanese Handing attempt Yanta Til a et Ton Tuesday at Damulaan, 14 miles IanKS 1)1381 JaP south of Ormocv . : Kl Aof2 Tli.vIolr Pincer. TUhteni . : r H -'V .'O'-. . The third arf.of the American in ilonila Kaifl pincers, pusnuig wesiwra uuvutu the mounta!ns,?loscd tighter as ROME, Nov. 15 -W- The Brit ish "Eighth-? army, advancing from small bridgeheads across the Mon tone river west of Forli, drove forward to a - general , line two miles north of a loop of the river and made good progress elsewhere along the ! eastern sector of the Italian front, the allied command announced today. . f :i After crossing the Montone, Eighth army units seized a foot hold on broad highway nine lead lng to Bologna, at a point two miles northwest of Forli, captur lng Monte Poggiolo and the vil lace of Villagrappa. south of the . road. - ; " Resistance generally seemed, to slacken in the hills below highway nine.: "Allied forces were ln'coh- . tact with the Germans about 1000 ; yards northwest of San- Varano, which Is on the southern outskirts of Forli. Pope Pius Denounces Nazis for -Treatment; Of Warsaw Citizens 1 By the Associated Press ' Pope Pius XII denounced the nazis for their brutal subjugation of : Warsaw in a statement issued ' yesterday, the British radio re ported in a broadcast recorded last night by NBC. . The pope was quoted as stating ."whoever feels the smallest spark of humanity and justice cannot help but be astounded - and ap palled" by the Germans' conduct ; in the Polish capital. He added that . Warsaw's citizens had suf fered "indescribable physical and . moral hardships" and that women and children in the city were in need of immediate help. i Latest Nasi Decree Orders Nazif ication of Reich Army for Never-Surrender Fight Allies Win Bar Spanish From Peace Table ! . . j ' By HOWARD COWAN , LONDON, Thursday; Not. 16 ( AP) The allies' No- dom coupled this with a report vember of f ensive against fortress Germany mounted toward Ea7 -EES esiStooSvJS aU-out proportions today under the impetus of a new assault and Prime Minister Churchill to by the r rench Jrirst army on the approaches to ueiiort gap at the southeastern end of the 400-mile western front. This assault, which began yesterday on a 25-mile front and gained four to five miles in its first day, came as Lt. Gen. George S. Pattoh's Third army closed its steel grip on Metz to within little more than a mile! of the great fortress city and the British Second army forced its way five miles i through the boglands of eastern - i Holland to within .37 miles of the Fortress City Of Jaszbereny Falls to Reds Industrial center of nazis' key Duisburg. . k. .-. ; ! . As aj; result, the" whole front LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 16- from HoUand SwiUerland was W-The Red army, increasing the uve exccPl Ior ?gni!ll pace of its assaults aimed toward around ' Aachen held by the US Budapest, seized the fortress city First army. of Jaszbereny and more than 50tseTeBUT K1m other Hungarian enmrnunities vm. The American bevenui army, LONDON Nov 15 -UPi- D- terday the Germans fell back which is teamed with the French LONDON, Nov. 15-P)-A significant jnew step in the nazi- fication of the backs-to-the-wall German arpy with the appar ent intent of making it a "never-surrender guerUlas after defeat was announced today by Berlin. , .lif . t . ... ... . southeast of the capital to the area e front, had already swung into of Miskolc. ; toe attack. . ' : "-".. ri i; Kai;rK;rt First armv in tne ixm army force to fight on as veiopment of a stern United Na- " "ZZ? L" U n at toe southeastern end of uons policy wwara neutrals wno .:"!'," t, ,irM ,n into -philosophy" both on duty and off "in order to form a closer link-up between the armed force and the party." Previously members of the elements' of tfceHf caYalry ;6Vvfc sion seized new hill positions and overran several , enemy strong points. : ' ; Forward elements of the 24th division's two outflanking units were reported "close to the vital Ormoc road laf e yesterday. One unit ; swung . around to the west, then turned southeast toward the road. Another force moved in from the east and pushed west. ABOARD US: THIRD 1XEET FLAGSHIPr Western Pacific, Noc. 13-(Delayed)-yp)-(Via Navy Ra dio) -Japanese ; ability to repair ships in the Philippines area was 'handicapped Considerably when possibly the only floating drydock in the archipelago was torpedoed during ' yesterday's surprise i car rier plane raid on the Manila bay area. Four torpedoes smashed into the drydock, believed to be the former American drydock Admiral Dew ey. If so it was one of Japan's early prizes of the war and vital to the. repair of ships in this area The Americans sank the 500- foot Dewey i off Marivales when PATERSON, NJ, Nov. 15 (JP) Cavite was abandoned to the in More than 150p supervisory em-1 vading Japanese. The Nipponese ployes of the Wright Aeronautical apparently raised It corporation, whose three-day strike has shut out approximately 32,000 production workers in the five Paterson area plants, voted almost unanimously tonight to re turn to work on tomorrow morning. 9mm i - - L 1 1 1 it 1 Sa nn uh ph hart a minimum turbulent hours with some mem- temperature ot lA degrees, was the Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassig- would he barred from the peace center 35 miles east of Budapest, rencn uoops yesvtTaaj table. fell to a combination by-passing rf"" i . ------ Richard .Law, under ; secretary 1 maneuver and direct frontal as- of the state for foreign affairs, in sault, Moscow announced German" armv were reauired to usually plam for deal-, mormng. ,5 leave the party during their per- 1 f"n ' f WM tuauon of The Russians began to outflank iod of armed service.... .U S? e down before com- the city on the northeasV and then, - rt fmrins this stand of Britain. - when th nmun mAA signature 1 of : Keinrkh ffinunler. " faT " government is themselves to meet this threat the But an authority on German a Concerned; the3r . 8e reason attackers speared straight into the ""J j WW maw town and took It in fierce ctroot B-29 Workers To End Strike Salem Coldest the 7 i5 shift ipot in Valley bers demanding a the strike. was conUnuance of Loldest 8pot In e Willamette val- aaaressea DJ l,. Wx1nil9v irmrHinl in the n.irn.-n muumi n. uavU ox uie local weather bureau at the alr war labor board, who promised , . . 'was reeis- the members of Wright Aircraft tered between ' 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. Supervision mat, II tney would re-1 other I low minimum 1 temocra- nirn xo weir jods lomorrow, a turcs ta valley were: Corvallis, special regional wlb panel wouia 2g degrees,1 Roseburg, Eugene and ne sei up in new x or vo con- Portland each with 31 degrees. eiucr mcir grievances ui me uear future. RAF Mosquitos Blast Berlin During Night Major Earthquake Recorded in South PASADENA, Calif, Nov. 15 (P) ' LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 16 An Mrthfliiak of maW intmsitv I (r A fleet of RAF Mosquito was recorded at 2:02:25 p. m, to- bombers blasted Berlin with 4000 day at the California Institute of P0"1 blockbusters last night, the Technoloirv h ministry ; announced early to- Seismologists said its center was I y. about 7400 miles distant, but were! The night raid followed a day- unable to determine the direction. I light attack by RAF heavy bomb- If in a populated area, they said, ers on synthetic oil plant at damage must have been heavy, I Dortmund in the Ruhr. State Flax Industry Get : $83,320 to Cover Fire . i The state board of control Wed i nesday ordered ' the transfer of $83,320 from the state restoration fund to' the state flax industry; to cover part of . the . loss resulting 'frorn, fires which two years ago destroyed inree uax sneas ana. a large quantity of flax straw. This plant is row covered by commercial insurance along with some other state activities .v Salem Food Expenditure Totals $205 for Each Person Annually Special to The Oregon Statesman ' NEW YORK, Nov. 10 How does Salem spend its retail dol lar? What quality of market ; is it? How does its business progress compare with that of other ci ties? These questions of interest to merchandisers and advertisers, are answered fully In the latest Sales Management survey. ' ? 1 Salem, it is found, contributes more than its quota toward pro ducing America's largest, retail market food which reached a volume of $17 billion last year, equivalent to $128 per person for the nation. The local iopd expen ditures, which were 17,273,000, represented $205 per person. ' v The business growth of Salem since 1939, the last "normaF year, is indicated by the rapid expansion of its local, retail busi ness, which rose; from $2079,000 in that year to $30,207,000 in 1943 a gain of 50 per cent ' i Improvement was shown by Sa lem In the period in all four major retail divisions. Sales of food grew from $4,317,000 to $7,273,000, gen era! merchandise sales rose from $2,642,000 ; to "$4,684,000, apparel from $1,403,000 to $2,693,000, arid drug store sales from $431,000 to $742,000. h-:-"cr: k Further expansion of this mar ket is expected after the war when the large local, savings, resulting from greater incomes and . from present inability .- to obtain many articles, will find an outlet. German-i-was quoted tonight by ine Jtsruisn rress ; association as expressing conviction that the man behind this move was Him- mler. 1 !'. ' t Close students of Germany here interpreted today's decree as the most important in a nazi campaign a positive contribution . to . the United Nations war effort' should be represented at the peace con ference or at any discussions on the peace settlements." His statement generally was re- fighting, nr ' j Besides this biggest prize of the day, the-Russians recorded other gains right along the line from the the river Doubs and a front dis- j patch said they captured several hundred prisoners as wen as ien small towns, v including the high way, village , .of : Arcy. 11 miles southwesrpfBeTforrv Driant By-Passed""; ; Metz 1 was besieged from three sides and Patton's doughboys by passed powerful Fort Driant! in a direct thrust toward the city's suburbs!-from the west- Both-Fort Driant and Fort Jean D'Arc - two of the nine major bastions rinsing Metz were Chihese Face Grave Crisis In Nippon War , l CHUNGKING, Nov. lS-W-The Japanese offensive in South China, now threatening to include1 inva sion of ihe hinterland province of Kweichowj, confronted the Chinese tonight with the gravest military crisis in of war, pore than seven years Cabinet, Spokesman P. H. Chang admitted railway town of Mende, only; 12 ffardod in riinlomti n.iarf hr miles' sou theast of Budapest up to -tM1nL-j K T r.n r.nro s as rpfWtin th viw of h Unit- i ana a grvup oi omer com- OSth "division whirh ran- muxiiues nesuing iy muw www forts, Hubert SofX .MSJaJtSi pohcy "orth Hungarian center of and Jussy, as it smashed toward - --- i .,, , rrt s i x: i iui&uiL. frwuu uin.1. ni(cnuue wiu xarc i the seriousness of Chin ese reverses, butvtf eaarea "we shall fight on -as determinedly as The Chinese high command said the Japanese, continuing their ad vance with reinforcement, now were only six miles from Ishan, . -station on the Kwangsl-Kweichow ' provincial railway 43 miles west of Liuchqw. " This left the Japanese some 80 miles from the border of Kweichow; , province j which lies east of Yun- j nan and. south of Szechwan, the provinces! in which Kunming and , I as well as Spain. would continue, as Hitler put it "past twelve o'clock"r-in the hills and underground, i. The army political decree as J?,. ,.V F.r--A broadcast by the Transocean ag-iMwi't X WtXtZij ency was called "valid from Oct, l' and purportedly was Adolf Hitler, But the fuehrer himself still re mained personally invisible inaudible . as the great "where' the outskirts of the city from the west Fort Illange, 1 4 miles north of Metz' and just south of Thion ville, also was stormed and its nazi garrison killed or captured. Chungking itself are situated. from Oct. J ' w signed by AllOttier JOO and At Japanese Man Admits nmti ra J : ix 5 - Farrell Will Request Women ill L. A. TwoYear Extension For Driving Licenses Communities To Hear 6th Loan Details Hiuer?" ,. mystery spun along m 1 this and other European capitals. MOSCOW, ' Nov. 15 - UP) - Col. Ivan Tolchenov, veteran Soviet army officer and military author- Export Aids Reestablished LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 - (JP) - Horribly mutiliated, the nude bod ies of two women, Lillian Johnson, about 35, and Virgie Lee Griffin, ity, declared today that Japan had 25, were found in separate down- "nsked fighting two great powers, J town hotels today and tonight po- toe United States and Britain, as a I lice said they had obtained a con consequence of her long-time pol- fession from Otto Steve WilsonvSl, icy of expansion," and said that whom they arrested while sipping the war in the Pacific vm dwl. win In n.rK. V,or . . oolnz unfavorably for Tokyo ' I nt T.t J Hnrtt M WHnn operators' licenses in Oregon now Before a rapt public ,ledurelatfirtdn?nvrnnnAiWwith can7 une JU as unuorm audience which included Japanese the killings but later broke down efw " . , t- V xviui e iuu uiivei uveiuc trA' tension plan on page 3.) Secretary of State Robert S. FarrelL jr will ask the legislature at its meeting here in January to extend for another two years the state's half million motor Vehicle operators' licenses, he announced Wednesday at the Hollywood lions club. Originally set to expire in 1943, WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -(JP- The ; government today re-established prewar export subsidy pro grams designed to give American corresponaenis ana Kea army j and admitted he had ripped both cotton and wheat competitive mcn t-01- Tolchenov recalled Jap- j women to death.. equality in world markets. anese attacks on the Soviet union. Police Inspector Bruce Clark, The war food administration an-1 Aiier mentioning the war with the chief of detectives, said files, re nounced thatlthe gwenimemVwill United States and Britain, the So-jvealed Miss Johnson had a long offetf;to pay four cents a ' pound, j v'e officer continued: ' -J. (police record involving an arrest gross weight t on export sales : of r Japan nas also attacxed and I at Salem, Ore. - I cotton, and from six to 34 cents a Iraided the Soviet union several bushel on wheat 4 times. We may recall the Mon-1 Neither city nor state police nor I sen today to receive the humani- Congress recently authorized 1 golian border action by the Jap-I the sheriffs office here has a rec- j tarian award, conferred annually sale of, American farm products Janese In 1939, when they were lord of the arrest of Miss Johnson, Hull Will Receive Humanitarian Award WASHINGTON, Nov 15 HT) Secretary . of State Hull was cho- abroad at prices below those pre- strongly rebuffed.: The Soviet un- vailing in domestic markets as oneioo' peaceful policy has induced means or assuring this country a sharer in foreign markets and of preventing V the accumulation of price depressing farm surpluses. ! Japan to keep USSR." peace with the although she had been listed as 'rwanted". Los Angeles police said she had been involved in check Ir regularities. by the Variety clubs of Ameri ca. It is given to the citizen whose "humanitarian efforts have con" tributed i the most to the welfare of mankind." Navy Job Will Keep Drager From Salem PORTLAND, Nov. 15 -(JF)- A Job as guard at the navy depot I gress. SpecVedTrnua ! i Oregon huxUution Budgets j r j s a a Await Visitation. Conference rtuse rnnhiirnna nruiM todav I t i : ; House republicans decided today i not to seek continuance of the Dies committee by the next con- Their decision, and . the . known here will keep Fred Drager away from this next session of the state house of representatives, where he has been chief clerk since the early: 1900s. Drager, who knows all the an' swers on parliamentary procedure, said today he would occupy his rfttaieSteu"";1 cpenin WPB Asked to "Relieve Kids Clothes shortage Members of the state board of control will visit the various state institutions in this area and con fer with- superintendents before .J'-l ,uc"w,-l", Jau: 1 any of the 1945-48 biennial bud wards the committee headed by " ? IT - Rep. Martin -Dies (D-Tex.) made it improbable . the group would operate after next January 3, when its current tenure expires. ' OPA Rejects Petition For Coffee Price Jump gets are approved. This procedure Was agreed to at a special meeting" of the board Wednesday afternoon.-. , ' - Only budget tentatively 'ap proved1 at this meeting was that of the state school for the blind. Included in that budget is a school building for; which the leg- WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -(JP)-Price Administrator Chester Bow? WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - (ff) - udature two years ago appropri- The war production board was ated " monies but -which has not asked today to reheve what Repre- been built because of lack of ma- sentative Philbin CD-Mass) called terials and manpower, "shocking shortages of children's ' Both this and, the similar bund les and War Food Administrator j clothing in many "communities." ling at the school for the deaf for Marvin Jones announced " jointly ' Philbin said he asked the WPB which funds were appropriated at tonight rejection of a petition from to increase the retaU supply of ba- the same timejnay De Duilt peiore the Inter-American coffee board sic materials and clothes, includ- other state construction programs for an increase in coffee price lng underwear,' shoes, stockings are undertaken, because they will ceilings. . jr - " 1 i I and rubbers. - not require materials. of high pri ority and because they are consid ered necessary for full' school op eration, board members have indi cated.--.1 r-' , . 'Xh:- Under ra proposal offered by Secretary of State Robert S. Far relL jr., the state would borrow from some dormant state fund suf ficient money to make a substatial start on new construction for the Oregon state hospital rather than continue patching up of old build- inp ther. ,.';.: ' v r'-- . "I believe that most of the hos: pital should be reconstructed over a period of years rather than being remodeled from time to time,' Farrell declared.; Support money for .hospital patients now received by the state would over a period of 20 years repay the borrowed funds, Farrell suggested. " . Whether such a procedute Is le gal may be asked of the attorney general. 'V t Plans! for the Sixth War Loan campaign, worked out at a dinner meeting J of committee and district chairmen here Wednesday night, will be j taken Into various com munities of Marlon county prior to or during the week of the open ing of the drive next Monday, No- , vember zq. , - ; First of the community sessions will be held at the Turner school house kt S o'clock tonight The second, is scheduled for Sidney Talbot ! at 8 pm Friday, with a ocal talent show as a feature of the meeting, which is to be in the schoolhouse. -f ' . -. t Dining at the Credit bureaus Wednesday, community and com mittee ! drive chairmen met two new ! Marion county ' divisional heads. jtr. Edward Boring, who served s a divisional chairman in Coos county and was general cam paign chairman for the Fifth War Loan in Douglas' county, will head the retail division, Robert Minton is new chairman of the industrial division . . . With j Hoy Mills presiding, rep resentatives of ; state offices met Wednesday afternoon to outline their' own campaign. Roy Philippl explained plans for the drive. John Hodckins. assistant chair man of the state war finance com mittee, met with the state work ers and the general committee, over which Chairman Douglas Yea ter, presided. . j O'Connor Raps Charge Red Cross Sells Plasma ; WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 - (A) -RedCross Chairman Basil O'Con nor tonight described as "vicious lies" rumors that blood . plasma collected by the Red Cross Is being sold to isOldiers and sailors. -;; O'Connor j said In" a "statement that fthe!rumors "apparently are circulated by persons who wish to deprive '4ur ..fighting' men of life saving plasma." He suggested that such persons should be reported to the federal bureau of investiga tion. ' , -