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t n n u vw ( EJ SI Nazi Resistance '-ill v! - K""., 3gsd"S n n n - HDlfDCB mm. ODD JJUL I- r Those who read the Reader'! Digest may recall the article by J. P. McAvoy in the September number: "Each One Teach One." It tells the story of the remark able work of Dr. Frank Laubach In teaching the illiterates of the world to read. I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Laubach tell his story at Portland Friday after- noon, and note that he is to tell I it again at .the First Congrega tional church In Salem on Wed nesday night It's a story every person should hear. It is thrill ing, and reveals the sweeping potentialities of - Dr. Laubach's program. " The secret of Dr. Laubach's method is to reduce to very sim pie phonetic form the languages of the illiterate peoples and give the rudiments of - reading to group under the mandate: "each one ,' teach one.". First applied ' among the savage Moros on Min danao island in the Philippines, it has enabled nearly 70 per cent of those people to read; and the re sult - was that . they V accepted - American government instead of fighting Americans as they did ' for many years after our occii . pation. . .o Inspired by t h i s success, Dr, - Laubach applied his method to ., other language : groups in the. t Philippines; then he worked out his phonetic charts for teaching Malay; then to India where he set - in motion a campaign to enlighten the 300,000,000 illiterates of (Continued on Editorial Page) Yank Fighters 86 German Planes , j LONDON, Nov. la-fffVEighty six German planes were shot down or destroyed on the ground today by" 400 hard-hitting American fighter pilots .who hung up the sec ond longest ' strafing mission on record of l200 air miles to Munich and back. . .. :-: Another 1500 American flehters attacked bridges, factories, roads and German infantrymen falling back before General Eisenhower's great offensive, while 1000 allied bombers pounded gasoline stores in western and southern Germany. - Tonight RAF Lancaster Went back to the Ruhr after other Brit ish bombers hit Munster during the day.". Target for tonight was the important synthetic oil plant t Wanne-Eickel. During the afternoon 650. Lib erators, and Fortresses from Italy bombed oil targets near Vienna nd their 300 plane fighter escort strafed airfields near the Brenner Pass.' German pilots came up to? fight today for the first time sine Nov 2, in a vain effort to guard - oi stores vital to nazi rocket bomb attacks on England. . The Luftwaffe lost 25 planes shot down and another 61 on the ground. Original Copy of "Star. Spangled Banner' In Washington Again WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -(;p)-The original Star Spangled Ban ner, stored in secrecy away from Washington for many months as a wartime precaution, is again on view at the Smithsonian institu tion "'i''':";: " The banner which flew over Fort McHenry, Baltimore, in 1814 end inspired Francis Scott Key to write the National Anthem, was one of many historical objects which had been moved to safer places soon after the war broke uL': How Will I Hitler End? Some of the 'most interesting speculation in history surrounds the forthcoming fate of Adolf Hitler. Now entering that dis cussion is Louis Lochner, long time Associated . Press bureau chief in Berlin, whose version appears in The Oregon States man on page 6 today. I The addition of the full fa cilities of the Associated Press feature service to augment its global news and photo cover age, is but one step in the con stantly, - expanding program of YOUR COMPLETE HOME NEWSPAPER. . Daily as well as Sunday, The Oregon Statesman is presenting later world-wide, state and lo cal news than can be obtained in any other morning ; news paper in the mid-Willamette valley. . " The Statesman is a part of, and geared to, the friendly com munities it seeks to serve. And its continued and accelerated growth,' and the growth and stability of these very com munities, are its reward. - , .. TI:e World At Your Beer Each Mornis!1 Destroy NINETY-FOURTH YEAR Yankees I Close In j On Limoh ;' : 'S '-''j" 1 500th Japanese Plane Shot Down By Americans . By C Yates McDaniel ' GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Sunday, Nov. 19 -OP) - American infantrymen closed tighter today on the shell-battered fortress town of Limon, at the northern end of Leyte island's Ormoc corridor, against stubbornly resisting Japa nese who were cut off from fresh supplies. ' j"' ..,"-" I-if , Yank fighters and antiaircraft guns, meanwhile, shot down their 500th Japanese plane of the Leyte campaign, "bagging seven ofj 15 attackers on the east coast. 777 Planet Bagged ' (A total of 777 Japanese planes have been destroyed by army and carrier-based planes and ack-ack in the Philippines "thus far in No vember, an unofficial count shows.) ' ( 1 ' Elements of the 24th and 32nd divisions "further compressed" the-Japanese forces at Limon, four miles by road from Carigara feay, today's communique said. j j Block Tightened , C ' A road block, established south of the town by units of the 24th, was tightened, and "all enemy attempts to run supply trucks through to the trapped First di vision troops has failed j; Remnants of at least a Japa nese regiment, it was estimated, are within the squeeze being con tracted by American forces prob ing the town- from the north land the road block. Some Japanese tanks reached the trapped forces before the block was tightened. Belgian Row May End Soon BRUSSELS, Nov. 18 -Jfy- Pos sible grounds for a compromise between Belgian resistance organ izations and the Pierlot govern ment in - their dispute over j the disarming of the resistance forces were presented today in orders issued by both sides. j The government, instead of pro hibiting public assemblies through out the country as had been! in dicated previously, forbade dis plays of arms at such meetings and reminded demonstrators Hhey must stay outside restricted zones as fixed by town and local offi cials.'- - i- '' " -i From the other side, thd na e tional union of resistance groups orders its members to deliver their weapons to their superior officers to be handed over later to "allied military authorities." -! Christmas Seal Quota i $225,000 for Oregon PORTLAND, Nov. 18 0Ph The Oregon quota for the 1944 Christ mas seal sale November 27 to December 25 will be $225,000, Sal die Orr Dunbar,' Oregon Tuber culosis association secretary, an nounced today. ; i The quota is 10 per cent higher than last year, v 1 Gen, Eisenhqtcer May Have To Settle Belgium Dispute By John M. Hightower V I WASHINGTON, Nov. 18-rtfP)-Authori ties here believe that Gen eral Dwight D. Eisenhower will act with speed and power to main tain order in Belgium if threaten ing political disputes produce op en violence. -. T The general's first responsibility as allied commander in chief la to prevent any kind of outbreak from interfering 'with the storming of Germany's inner fortress. He has plenty of authority under agree ments , with the Belgian govern ment, though naturally he would prefer not to divert forces from the main Job. - . While the direct war aspects of the Belgian trouble command first attention . here, there la intense 24 PAGES mm Yarihs Advance With snow coverinf the ground, a 'tl ": V . i ': - - ' 'Up a ; '( )P j1.-; i - 1 V A ) v ' ' 'I opto its position In the front line somewhere in France. (AP wire photo from signal corps radiophoto.) Arrest of Four Explains Service Station Bobberies, , May Expose BlacIrMarKet By Isabel ,. , I Editor. Will the arrests which today of Salem: service station robberies one black j market ring lead to purchaser of illegal gasoline? Police believe youthful Walton said to have admitted the theft of Even Legislators Must Sleep, State Secretary Says A plumber can't plumb without tools neither can a representative represent nor senator scent with out a place to stay. This, in substance constituted an appeal! issued by Secretary of State Robert S: Farrell, jr., for im mediate registration of .rooms to accommodate Oregon's legislative personnel due to commence their biennial session here on January 7. They probably will be here around two months. . .- ; 1 . , Several hotels already have ex hausted their reservations for the session ana more man iuu addi tional rooms are needed, Farrell said Saturday in urging anyone having spare rooms to list ! them immediately with his officej giv ing name, (location and rental rate. Crack Train Leaves Tracks jit Georgia WAYCROSS, Ga Nov. Fifteen cars of the Atlantic Coast Line's; fad New York-to-Tampa west coast champion left 'the rails in swamp country hear Hortense, Ga., today", injuring at least 18 persons, none seriously. Only thie three-unit deisel en gine and three rear cars of &e 18 coach train remained on the tracks. ! . WO diplomatic interest - also in the power and purpose of communist groups there and in France as well It is considered possible that the experiences of liberated Bel gium and France may furnish un mistakabli evidence of the extent to which western European com munists are playing a Moscow pol icy line, 'and alio some indications of Russian policy toward the coun tries of western Europe. . The question has come Into fo cus in Belgium over a government order to i the resistance "'white army - to (surrender its arms. 4 To communist cabinet members and a representative of the re sistance movement in the cabinet resigned oyer the issue, which also involved incorporation of resist' ancc groups Into the regular arsoj. POUNDDD Salem, Onaon, Sunday Morning November 19, 1944 In the Snow unit of American infantry moves Childs L The Statesman S .j have ellegedly explained a series (see page 2) and cut at least an expose of more than one h !. Russell! (Pat) Shattuck,who is many gasoline ration coupons, or his older brother. Gene Shattuck, who allegedly sold the tickets, or even Wendell Macklin, who had A" coupons for 112 gallons of gasoline in- his pockets when' ar rested, may tell them or the OPA something of the market before' the case is closed. The Shattucks, residents of 2290 North Fifth street, Saturday waiv ed grand jury hearing, 19-year-old Pat on a charge of burglary not in a 1 dwelling and Gene on a charge of doing an act manifestly corrupting public decency ? and public morals; Bail for the young' er was set at $3000, that for the older at $1000.- In the county jail with the Shat tucks are Clifford Pierzina, 18, of 2495 Prospect Lane, held for examination Monday on a charge of receiving stolen property, and Macklin, . route three, ; papermill employe whose alleged purchase Of A" coupons in quantity suffi cient to secure 112 gallons of gas oline caused . tre ' tipoff to police, Macklin is charged with posses sion of stolen property and with burglary not in a dwelling, the lat ter charge growing out; of gaso line thefts at Meadow Grove dairy week ago Saturday night in which witnesses declare Macklin was implicated. (Additional ' de tails on page 2). Giuncil Eyes 1 Bush Question ; Best-attended council meeting of the year probably will be that scheduled for Monday night, when representatives from numerous Sa lem organizations will take, seats at the I edge of the council floor proper j to express their opinions and hear what the city .fathers decide ;to do about the purchase of Bush's pasture. 1 The question of submitting to the people at a special election the proposed purchase of the 43 acres which would bring the city's hold ings in that area to 100 acres is scheduled for decision Monday night ; : - Ethel Barrymore Better NEW. YORX, Nov. 18-(,f)-Ethel Barrymore, 65-year-old actress who has been in a hospital suf f ering ; f rom a I lung congestion since last Monday, fshows mark ed i improvement arid ' has passed the crisis, hef doctors announced tonight ; ' l:. U, S. Bombers Get Direct Hits on Nip Battleship, Cruiser ' GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, . Sunday, Nor. li-Jfy- Americas .. heavy bombers scored five di rect hita on Japanese battie- ship and f oar on a heavy cruiser, leaving both in flames after ex-, plosions. General Mac Arthur's headquarters reported today. The. escorted heavy, bombers flew more than 800 miles to at tack the Japanese naval base at ' Brunei bay on the northwest coast of Borneo, dropping 112 tons of explosives on shipping In the harbor. X" l Enemy planes attempting In terception were fought off by escorting fighters which prob- - ably destroyed one of them. Anti-aircraft fire ; shot' down three of our bombers. SB, Troops Smash Ahead 4 Miles LONDON, Sunday, Nov. l-JPy Russian tanks and infantry smash ed four mile, through ; German lines 15 miles northeast of Buda pest yesterday in a powerful en-iri-Hog movement which swept to WitUui 19 miles of the Vienna high road 'running along the Danube river north of the besieged Hun garian capital, Moscow announced last night. Hatvan, German key to all axis defenses east of Budapest, and the intermediate junctions of Aszod and Godollo on a 26-inile front between Hatvan and Budapest, were under. Soviet artillery fire and threatened with imminent capture by Red army tank and in fantry teams, the bulletin dis closed. One Soviet column struck to within three miles northeast of Hatvan with the seizure of Hort as other Soviet groups attacked from the east and south! Five miles southwest of Hatvan another column, rolled v through Tura in a by-passing blow at As zod, six miles beyond, and a third mechanized group overran the vil- age of Valko, only 15 miles north east of the capital and within sev en miles of Godollo junction. British Use German Sub LONDON, Nov. 18 -VP)- In case the Germans still are wonder' !ng what happened to their sub marine U-570 back in August, 1941, they are not going to like this. ' The sleek new vessel, .fitted out with all the latest secret equip ment, was captured by the British and sent out under the flage of the Royal navy to hunt down more Nazi submarines. . V It had several successful en gagements, .destroyed one sister U-boat and scored hits on several other ships, the admirality dis .closed today, v Regency Duev In Yugoslavia LONDON, Nov. 18 -W3)- Marshal Tito's national committee of libe ration and the . exiled Yugoslav government in London were re ported tonight to' have agreed to establish a regency in Yugoslavia in the near future, with a plebi scite to be held after the war to determine whether King Peter re turns to his throne. ' Marshal Tito nimself was re ported' to have been chosen pre mier, of a "new Yugoslav; govern' ment of 28 members representing both the national liberation move ment and the exiled regime. . Dr, Ivan Subasic, premier of the Lon don government, is expected to be one of the three regents.' 7eather Maximum temperature Satar day 51 degrees, minimum 25 de grees, no rain." river -2 ft. . Clear except for valley fcrs Sundai Russian lani No. 2C3 6th Loan paign Radio Show Will Open Big Driv; Valley Prepared ; .- i.. , R : j '. QUOTAS : .. I I National: $14,000,000,000 I State: $107,000,000 i f Linnlcounty: $1,700,000 l l Marion county: $5,000,000 Polk county; $962,000 j witn one community for -over the top and others rapidly organ izing their forces, the mid-Willamette -valley's Sixth War Loan campaign is ready : to swing Into high this week shortly ofter he official opening with a three- hour radio show today. High lighted by a talk? by President Franklin Roosevelt (7 p.m.) the show will bring together Holly wood's best and ; highest priced talent for a kick-off that is! ex pected to send the drive off to flying start well' ahead of the Thanksgiving festivities. i Committees Keady I ' ; f . Twenty special committees were organized in Marion county , last week antflrmiounced Saturday night by Chairman Douglas Vas ter, who with co-chairman Francis Smith will keep the entire organ zation going-at full speed until the county's five-million-dollar quota is well over the top. Of the total $1,500,000 must be subscribed in E bonds, the same amount! in. other bond senes and two millions from corporations and industries. Jumping the gun because of j school remodeling during the Thanksgiving vacation, the Sid- ney-Talbot mint forming commun ity paid for its $35,000 quota in the first half hour of a meeting Friday night, then : proceeded to pledge and pay for another $35,- ooo. ; ; ; ! j T Serve Again J In Polk county all but one of the Fifth War Loan chairmen have agreed to serve' again, E. J. Page, county chairman, announced Jast week; But 300 volunteer workers are sought in addition : to j the block wardens who will conduct a house-to-house solicitation in pal- las..-.- :!.' ". '- - ;-!;;: '". . Linn county's quota is divided as follows: . - If; - Albany, total $660,000, E bnds, $26200; Sweet Home $238,000 and $96,600; Scio $61,000 and $20,- 700: Lyons $20,00 1 and $13,800; Mill City $22,000 sand $13,800; Shedd $51,000 and $20,700; Halsey $51,000 and $20,700; Tangent $24, 000 and $13,800; La comb $20,000 and S69.000: Crabtree $20,000 and $9600. ' i . (Marion county : war finance rommittee aDomtments and ad ditional details page 2). German Deserts Job STOCKHOLM, Kov. 18 Capt, Peter Riedel, assistant I air attache of the Germany legation here, has deserted his post ana applied for a Swedish foreign pass rather - than return . to Germany, the paper Dagensnyheter said, to night. "t -? Price 5c Ga Underway Committee Finds Wartime; Living Is lp 30 . Per Cent WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 1-JP) President Roosevelt's special com mittee to investigate the wartime rise in living costs reported today that for the bulk of 'wage earners It amounts to 29 to 30 per cent ' Rejecting union labor i claims that the rise is about 44 per cent. Chairman! William H. Davis! frith two Industry members concurring "in the main "concluded that '3 to 4H percentage points should be added to the 25.5 per cent increase shown by the bureau of labor sta tistics Index as of last Sept. 15, 'I The two labor members, though not agreeing with Davis conclu sions, pointed to them, neverthe less, as support f or AFL and CIO arguments that wage controls should be erased. ' ..In a letter to the president, George vlleany el the AFL. n pro Becomes StifFer From Desperation Yanks, Tommies Drive Deep Salient Toward Roer River in 4Blendecl Operation9; Patton's Men in RIelz By EDWARD KENNEDY SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITION ARY FORCE, Sunday, Not. 19 (AP) One British and two American armies were smashing;, their way toward the heart of the Rhineland today in one oi the greatest battles of the war against German resistance stiffened by despera tion, v-t- . ' k- -'. - '-."I jl 1 i : The American Ninth and j British Second armies, in a collaboration so close that it was described here as a blend ed operation,'' had driven a deep salient toward the river Roer between Geilenkirchen and Aachen, j 1 a ' On their ri:ht flank southeast of Aachen, the Ameri-, can First army was making- slow but steady progress against i the grimmest sort of enemy opposition, i This three-army attack7 on a front gome 30 miles wide developed into one of the war's biggest drives. Farther south the American Thij-d army also had in vaded the Reich and had fought into the French fortress city of Metz. The American Seventh arid French First armies ' recorded good gains in the Vosges and Belfort regions-' ; ) The best weather since the start offensive enabled both strategic and give their strongest support yet air force Lightnings and Thunderbolts attacked as close as 200 yards ahead of the troops in bitter fighting east of Aachen. ' A ' ' Fighter-bombers intervened in that area, striking German armor at such close range 1 that the irtilota Wnnrtpd aepinff thm Phone Strike Through Ohio COLUMBUS, Q., Nov. U-iXy-A statewide - strike of union tele phone .operators spread Into inr dustrial I northeast Ohio tonigfv despite referral of the case to the national V labor board for "ap propriate action," , and a back-to-work appeal issued by President Randolph Ede of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. h ,' . ? The two-day strike of operators was Joined for the first time by maintenance men, equipment in stallers and construction workers, as 850 "plant men" left their jobs in the Cleveland area. - Ohio federation of telephone workers officials also reported 1300 Cleveland operators had vot ed to quit immediately in support of the strike, which started, Friday at Dayton:' .', . s , The 225 members of the Can ton local which includes operators in Canton, Mansfield, Alliance, and Massillon, also walked out tonight and picket : lines ' were thrown around telephone exchange build ings in hte four cities. : " - Portland Ship Workers Quit PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 18 -(P) An estimated 500 swing shift workers at the Commercial Iron Works conversion dock quit work here ' tonight as a result of a dis pute over superintendents. Minimizing the trouble, Henry A.- White,; executive vice president and general manager of the iron works, predicted that all workers would be back on the job Monday night " - 1 A labor spokesman declared that graveyard and day shifts also would strike and stay n out until the yard discharges ; three men "put into the yard from another organization" and "re instates JLow ell Hollenbeck, hull superintend ent, and Harry Edwards, general hull superintendent over all three shifts posed specifically that the "little steel" formula be relaxed to per mit wage Increases of 30 per cent above the January, 1141, level. The formula limits general'. wage In creases f to 15 per cent above that base date.:'vs.?-v':--::- ;"' " :-".:vC - Davis;, report . emphasised . that the bureau of labor J statistics (BLS) index did not undertake to be all Inclusive, but was aimed to measure the prices of supplies go ing to make up the family budget of big city dwellers with an ave- race Income of 81524. based on a 1934-38' survey. , " ' :Jv - 'C'r v He I expressed the opinion : that for i those with low incomes the Increase In living costs had een higher than 30 per cent but prais ed the technical competence and care of those preparing the XLS. dtui opreadi of the western front tactical air forces to ground forces. Ninth I to the , !i in at least; one tank battle grass wilt before the muzzle-fire .Of the tatnlr guns. ; .'J: J 'j I The allied troops wheeling' into Germany j after their descent from the northj spread over the Geilen kirchen area, cut the main road to the north, captured Niederheide, reached the outskirts of Prum mem, twj miles east of Geilen kirchen, and captured Puffendorf, miles southeast of Geilenkjr- , what was described at 1 operations' by British"". chen, in "blended nan mericans; US First Gains! To the southeast of Aachen, American First army forces made new gaiins up! to a kiIometcf against I heavy . artillery and mor tar fire In the Wurselen area and up to two kilometers around Stol- . berg, while in the Hurtgen forest other First army troops advanced slowly j through j mine fields- and! barbed wire. ! .' I ' To the south, Lt Gen. Georg S. Pattoh's US Third army swept into the reich in! force and began house-to-house warfare inside tha fortress j city of )Metz in France. The break across1 the border was made nea r Perl, near where the territories of France, Luxembourg and Germany meet, and it carried! Third army units a mile inside Germanjr. They are pointed to ward the Saar basin. French Advance j ; ' Still farther south the French First army smashed deep into the Belfort gap after taking the strong point of MontbeUard, where 7000 Germans were captured, and en emy dispositions were upset along za-mtie sector. - . The French tonight were report ed to have reached Delle, 10 miles southeast of Belfort on the Swiss frontlet. They are less than fiver miles from Belfort southwest of that city. 1 - '!.'.- The American Seventh army in gains tip to two miles captured the Muerthe river town of Raon Le Tape, ; continued (pressure at SL Die, find saw nine villages Moy- enmoutier. La Hollande, Etival, Marzelay, Tetedesan-Roche Gra- tin, Rabache, Remenix and La Planchette, go Up in flames as the Germans applied the scorched earth' policy before retiring. ' 1 Property Owners Will ; Have to Cough Up More Tax Money Than jin 143 K Property owners to Oregon will have to cough up about $5,000,000 more this year than in 1943 to sup port local government agencies, the state tax. commission reported today;;! ; -jj:-.:'.- '.f-.i-- A survey of county levies shows, however, that the $40,657,048 1944 total lal sUIl $1,000,000 under the 1941 figure.-- I F-:-, -'::.- ,C Special school levies, lowered last year by a $5,000,000 school support fund, were largely respon sible for the Increase, the commis-) slon said. Levies by cities stayed about the same as In 1943. Russia Will Handle Sovieis Jri Germany ; ! i PARIS Nov. 18 HP)- Agree ment with the. soviet government providing that . the Russian mili tary delegation will assume charge, pf Russian citizens freed by the allied 'advance, many of them de serters from the German forces, was.?- announced : - today, by . the K French provisional goverccenW ,, r