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Germans T alien in Mete fi rs OTi KEIETY-rODaTH YEAR 12 PAGES Salem. OrtgQB. Wednaa doy Morning. Noromber 22. 1944 Pile cv.r'f,'i: Nov 211 - nil! iMl'- f If Y r -- - - omo (i J i-.VV-" .LI ' i ; i 4 i ' v"' A"-'. :T ia A Gtnnu machine nu crew, eatared by members of an Infantry : regiment of tb fifth division dorm- fighting la Mets, march to the rear with their beloniinn. radlophoto). - - : Eisenhower Says Allied ! Pressure on Germans Will Increase Steadily & ' James M. Lona r'. : '-'?-.- . SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED 4 EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Nov. 2l-P)-Geri. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme : commander of the allied forces in western Europe, declared today -that there had been some' reason to, believe Germany might have cried quits after the battle of France, but' that Adolf Hitler and hisjgestapo had managed to maintain their pistol-in-the-back , Congressman Sol Bloom, when congress reconvened, ; proposed a constitutional amendment to change the requirement for ratifi cation of treaties from a two-thirds vote' of the senate to a simple ma jority of both houses of congress. This opens a wound the democrat OTP havo felt since Woodrow WUson'sJtney fipanjr; treaty" with its tnexed covenant irriiir Hiur'iunununi cuvciicuiif of the league of nations failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds vote of the senate in 1920. t The subject came up in the late campaign, the republican platform standing by the present text of the constitution on ' the making of 'treaties: by the president, "by and 'with the advice and consent of the senate . , provided v that two thirds of the senators present con cur." . ' -t J ' '. 'V . . The. 'controversy . between the executive, represented by the de partment of state, and the senate, jealous of its constitutional pre rogative in foreign affairs, is very old. . President Washington had quite a time getting approval of the Jay treaty with Great Britain. Tit took the help of Col. William J. Bryan (well-remembered as a presidential candidate , but not as colonel of a Nebraska regiment In ' the Spanish war) for President McKinley to get the senate to rat ify the treaty with Spain to end the war of 1898. Perhaps the strongest foe of sen atorial authority in treaty-making was John Hay, whom McKinley appointed ' . (Continued on Editorial page) ' Log Accident : Report Upset ; State industrial accident Com missioner T. Morris Dunne Tues day branded as false a statement . attributed tof Roland P. Blake, 'Washington, DC, senior safety en gineer for the US department of labor, that Oregon had 60,000 log ging accidents in 1943. The statement was reported to have1 been made in Portland. Dunne said Oregon actually had only 4300 logging accidents with 56,000 accidents in all Oregon in- - dustries reported to the commis sion. - Nimitz Raises Jap Plane Toll in U. S. Manila Raid U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. ; 2 l-fjry-American carrier based planes ( destroyed s 128 Japanese aircraft Saturday in attacks on Manila, said a communique today from A dm. Chester Nimitz's head quarters. The revised figures were issued on the basis of new . report from Vice Adm. J. S. Mc Cain's task force. Earlier figures had set the Jap anese losses at 118 planes. : 7cal!ier ZUximnm tempera tars Toes Cir S3 ffrrees, minimum 11 Cjrrets, trace of rain, river -J tl t la. ' ' . TarUy cloudy Wednesday aad TtznZir, t!e . temperature c' :s. (AP wirephoU from Signal Corps ,.-'- control of the reich and that the war had become a fight ' to the death for the German people. "To get peace we've got to fight like hell, for it," Eisenhower told a press conference. "Now let's do it" Eisenhower implied strongly that he expected the German command to try to fight out the present battle west of -the Rhine rather than retreat voluntarily to the east . bank. Returning from a tour that took him to all sectors of the front, Eisenhower said with Quiet de termination that the great power of allied armies had been thrown into the preaent campaign to force Germany to surrender or be de stroyed. His plan, he said,1 was to hammer the Germans with in creasing force until the. highest pressure was reached on? therday - . ijj .-i.h ax.- . umess everyone au me way through the nation those ajt the front and those at home keeps on the job everlastingly and with mounting intensity, we are only postponing the day of victory," he. asserted. .r ' '""l ": For this last great effort, he said, he wanted, and was confi dent that he would get, more men and most of all more sup plies. . , ' Nip Death Toll In Marianas, . , Palaus 63,388 US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 2 !.-) American troops cleaning up the Marianas and Palau islands have increased Japanese deaths in those areas to a grand total of 63, 388. ; A communique by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz today covering Japan ese casualties through Nov. 13 re ported thatra total of 3267 prison ers bad been captured in" the op erations which began at Saipan June 14. ' - I - - - i - - t -1 -In the same period, American troops have captured an addition al 1857 prisoners. These are the grand totals: -Saipan Japanese killed, 26,277; captured 2,068. . ... Guam Killed, 17,238; captured, 463. Tinian Killed, 6,893; captured. 316. Angaur and Peleliu (in the Pa lau group) killed, 12,980; cap tured 420. Marion9 s Bond Get Checkbooks Marion county bond purchasers are getting out their checkbooks early in the Sixth War Loan cam paign, accounting for more than $268,000 in the first two days. Oth er subscriptions promised and in sight at headquarters Tuesday put Chairman Douglas Yeater in T an optimistic mood with a prediction that the county's quota would be met even earlier in this drive than in previous campaigns. ' "We've hardly had a chance to get our committees organized and in working togs", declared Chair man Yeater, but already .we have more than five per cent ,of the county's quota actually on . the books and many thousands more actually sold but not yet reported through official channels. .Judg ing from early, enthusiasm shown, this part of Oregon will do its part in an even more emphatic manner than usually." , Headquarters yesterday took on U i i ,. .kaziVAir--' r -3 Arm' Gets: Largest Aerial Escort of War i Protects Heavies LONDON, Nov. 2I-tffV-Seventy- four nsai planes were destroyed in the air and six more wrecked on the ground today as the largest aerial escort in history, more than 1100 American fighters, fought a series of favage sky battles to pro tect a fleet of 1250 Fortresses and Liberators' which! hit three vital German joil refineries with 4000 tons of bombs. a Forty tS heavy bombers and 17 fighters frere missing from the at tack, although a- communique said some of hem may have landed in friendly perritory. Cold Weather ' , ,( The American armada flew through temperatures as low 'as 43 degrees below ; zero in order to pound the refineries at Hamburg and Harburg and the large Leuna synthetic;! oil plant at Merseburg. The Eighth and Ninth air forces marshalled history's greatest es cort of Thunderbolts, Mustangs and Lightnings from bases in both Britain and France to coyer the assault oh the tfio of zealously guarded nazi targets and the luft waffe came up in strength to resist the attack; : r ; Nazis Come Up The US communique said the Germans I sent up more than 250 Interceptors, but the tremendous escort engaged the nazis so thor oughly that ohTy" one "bomber tvr- f station was.actually attacked. In this conflict a bomberttmner shot down one; enemy plane. OP To Halt Rising Cost of Living WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -JP) The OPA5 tonight rushed a brake adjustment on the nation's price control nachinery; a tightening up intended to halt a slight up turn in living costs, r The projected new control, aim ed at holding down textile and clothing f rices, was regarded iby some observers as a fresh indica tion that $he government probably will delays any basic change In the "little steel" wage formula until Germany s defeated. Stricter price control ; m the meantime is a "musf! program to keep costs of essential commodities to wage lev The measure, it was understood, is designed to, increase output of low - cott clothing by plugging loopholes ithat have caused manu facturers:; and converters to turn to production of higher , priced garments! Oyerfinishing fabrics to command a: better price is one practice that may be eliminated, OPA officials said. Oregon Bond Sales at 5.7 Pejr Cent of Quota PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 21-itf) Sixth war loan campaign head quarters announced here tonight that Oregon bond sales to date to taled $6,120,709, or S.7 per cent of the state's $107,000,000 quota Purchasers OutlEarly increased .color with all windows decorated; jand with many workers busy, all day and far into the ev ening. With the retail group set ting the pace, Dr. E. E. Boring, chairmanjwill have a meeting of the full committee at 11 ; o'clock this morning to plan further activities.7- - : . ' - -. ' ; 5 Montgomery "Ward employes in the first retail meeting oi the drive subscribed 225 per cent of their quota yesterday, actually buying (9000 worth of bonds after a short meeting devoted to battle films and two stirring talks, one by the store captain, Mr. Princehouse, and the ether by Dr. Boring. At 8 JO this morning he program will be put on for the second retail, group at Sears Roebuck, which also has as- sisned the Sal en store a large share of. fts nation-wide subscrip tion. (Additional details on page I). : A Prepares This Fellow Must Have Been College Prof essor Once l&NSAS CITY, Nov. ll-A man 'just off a cross-country, bus plucked at the sleeve of a Kansas Citian, asked him: , "Can you tell me where I'll find Woodward avenue?" '5 The Kansas Citian was unable fq recall such a street I - ' ! Th visitor protested, Why, its the main street cuts right across the ' city; anybody here ought to know where it is. ; , The Kansas Citian' suggested the visitor might be confused as to his whereabouts. "I know where ,1 am," he re torted impatiently, ?Tnv In De troit- . "Well," the Kansas Citian re plied, 'I'm in Kansas City. Con Police on Trail Of Second One Corneilius Price Long, younger of a tair of state penitentiary con- victs who escaped here Armistice day after injuring C. J. Plonsky, prison guard, was 'captured Tues day afternoon in the McKenzie river country between Vida and Leaburg, state police' announced.4 Long was taken , on the trail near a cabin from which two ri fles had been stolen Monday nighti furnishing the clue which led to the capture. Long had one of the rifles when apprehended and authorities assume his part ner, Martin Caswell Broom, cz, has the other. , , , Broom went up a canyon near the point where Long was cap- tureT.T Officii w r e , f oUpwii closely and making an- effort -to surround Ithe fugitive and prevent his escape from the area. i Officers reported Long was taken before he bad a chance to use the weapon. : i Germans Take Sombre View Of Allied Pusli LONDON, Nov. 21 - (fl5) - T h e German people got: from their military reporters today a sombre account of German armies yield-, ing ground before an allied of fensive "which has not yejt reached, its peak.": j ':'.)' ,v; :. k Abandonment of their Escbi- weiler salient in the ; Aachen sec tor, trapping of a German' garri son in Mettz, the American Sevf enm army's drive tq Sarrebourg, the; spectacular French break through to the Rhineall were broadcast by Berlin,' sometimes in pessimistic terms. ' Most of the German accounts emphasized the danger to . the Reich represented by the Belfort break-through. The si t u a 1 1 o n along the Rhine was usually de scribed cautiously as still I "too fluid" ; for conclusions on its ul timate importance, ; but ; Martin Hellensleben, German news agen-f cy correspondent, said flatly it "might well place the Germans in a precarious situation.' Double B-29's Says Kniidsen ; SEATTLE, Nov. 21- J? - The Boeing Aircraft company, which announced today it was converting its huge "Plant 2," here from Fly ing Fortresses to B-2D production, was called on! tonight by Lt Gen. William S. Knudsen, chief of the air technical service command, to double B-29 production In three months. ; f -A At the same time, at a late press conference, General Knudsen urg ed Seattle and its surrounding area to provide the Boeing company with an increase of 3000 net per sonnel to do the Job. " "President Roosevelt Is abso lutely jright that ouUmigration -of war plant employes is costing lives of some of our boys In Europe and the Pacific," the general asserted Roosevelt Gives Cabinet Ranking, Donald Nelson ft WASHINGTON, Nov! 21 President Roosevelt 5 has given cabinet rank to the far - traveling Donald M. Nelson. " Vv'.:,-'- The former WFB chairman mov ed his desk Into the White house office and assumed his duties ss "personal representative" to the president before leaving on a sec ond economic -mission to China. Captured Nips Hang Ti To-Limpji ... ' t "Americans k- Inch Ahead : Against i r Stubborn Enemy By C. Yates McDanlel -GENERAL MaeARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. ' 22-(P-American troops slowly and painfully loosened the Japanese hold ( on . northern ap proaches to the Ormoc valley to- day despite '', miserable weather and an apparent Japanese deci sion to sacrifice an entire divi sion if necessary to hold present positions near the village of LI mon. -,. i i Japs Repulsed , r ; Weary units of the 24th infan try division which has borne the brunt of the en tire. Ley te battle yesterday repulsed bloodily the third determined enemy attack on the road block which the Ameri cans now hold across the Ormoc highway s o u t h of the enemy strongpobit at Limon. ( ' ' : Meanwhile, the Japanese In Limon; clung stubbornly to their positions, which General MacAr thur n o ted included elaborate trench systems and heavy fortifi cations; and the daily communi que asserted that General Yama shita had: apparently decided to commit ' the famous First Japa nese division to hold the town. Division. Involved When Limon was first cut off from the main Japanese forces to iheaou-; Americans- estimate that a regiment of the First Japa nese division held the town. How ever, infiltration and at least one tank-aided attack during the first IJLhesouv - Americans hours of the road block may, have permitted the reinforcement of this group. The communique in dicated that the entire enemy di vision was Involved. : :. The , communique said fresh troops of the 32nd division were maintaining steady frontal pres sure against Limon, reducing. the enemy works piecemeal when necessary, i . . j- -:-! Captain Church Dies iii Action Capt Edward J. Church of Sa lem, a 1941 graduate of , Willam ette university, was killed In ac tion in the Italian theatre on Oc tober 24, his brother, E. J,' Church, was notified this week. i Captain Church was ' serving with the 331st infantry, in the Italian theatre. He was born, Feb. 13, 181,: Baker, ND, and was a graduate of the Bismark, ND, high school and North Dakota Agricultural college. - - - f At Willamette, Church was sen ior scholar in philosophy and psy chology v - t . .. ... . ' Seattle Taxi Drivers Quit SEATTLE. Nov. 21-Pi-A sud den strike by more than 100 Se attle taxi drivers seriously . re stricted travel throughout the city tonight;...:- k v -rev f -1 t The striking drivers, who said they were protesting policies of tnetr union officials, halted work ing cabs, ordered passengers to get out and walk and took car keys away from the drivers. . s Police were called to one down town corner to halt a fist fight when a cab carrying a load of servicemen was halted. : No ar rests were made. Mobile Blood Bank Will Visit Dallas DALLAS,' Nov. 21 The mobfle unit of the Red Cross blood donors service will visit Dallas Friday, November 24. Registrations are being made now with " the Polk county chapter of the Red Cross. Mrs. A J. Cleveland, executive secretary, is in charge. 5 I The capacity of the unit has been increased to 200 pints with the quota still 140. The mobile unit will be located at the Christian church promptly at 9 o'clock Fri day morning.'. Every available do nor Is urged to register since the need for blood plasma has in creased so much Just recenUy. ; htly Leader Gen. Jean deLattre deTassigny, shown In a recent photo. Is com mander ef the French First army which has broken through Ger man defenses in the Belfort see tor and reached the Rhine river. (AP wirepbote), . ; ! B-29's Engage Over Jap Isle WASHINGTON, Nov. l.-JPt- American B-29 superfortresses en gaged in their first, big aif battle over .Japan today -Bftheybombed Omura, giant aircraft center, for the third time in less than la month. 1 i ' The occurrence of the attacks indicates that plans for the aer ial offensive are progressing to ward the time when the Japanese will be hit by regularly scheduled flights, increasing in frequency.: At least 20 enemy planes were certainly shot down, 16 others probably destroyed -and an addi tional 19 damaged in the lighting.! A communique from: 20th airforpe headquarters said it was too early to report on American losses since there had not been time for all planes to complete the long flight back to Chinese bases. I 1 I (The Tokyo radio, which cus tomarily . broadcasts extravagant claims of Japanese successes, said 70 B-Z9 S took part in tne air. blow and that. 14 Were definitely shot down and 11 more probably. It said four Japanese planes were lost, one by crashing into a super- fort) ' . ' -1 32 Injured InExpl OSlOllS DENISON, - Tex Nov. 2l.Ph At least 32 persons were burned. 14 critically. In twin explosions which occurred here late today following - a collision : between a butane gas tank truck and an au tomobile. . ; ' The Denison Herald said flames engulfed victims more than half a block away, and that the second explosion, 'much greater than the first, rocked homes over ' a wide area-and blew the warehouse of a grocery store, a block from 'the scene, to bits. rfi i Fire scorched a number of homes in the vicinity and one res idence burned to the ground.' ' Sky 'Terrible Terry9 Alleii Leads His 104th on Western Front " (By th AsocUted Prcn) . ' i , Maj. Gen. Terry (Terrible, Ter ry) Allen, who won fame as com mander of the US First infantry division in Tunisia and Sicily and then was reassigned without offi cial explanation, now is in action on the western front at the head of the 104th division. - 1 A dispatch f r o m Associated Press Correspondent William F. Boni, received last night (Tues day) after being delayed in cen sorship since Oct., 25, said Allen and his 104th infantry had been made a part of the Canadian First army, now In Holland, and had swung into the line on the night Of Oct 24. . . :. , Allen was placed in command of the 104th at Camp Adair, Ore In October, 1S43. At the time there was considerable mystery about his shift and the only authorita tive version ex tr.e reasons was Encircling May Trap ' -Entire Nazi 19th Army French - Battle Into Mullibuse, . Yanks : Drive Past- Sarrebourg; ,t Advance Slower on North End' -: -:-';;;''v-:v-! ''t ' i" Ji-T;r " - By AUSTIN, BEALMEAR . v , SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALIJED EXPEDITION ARY FORCE, ParH Nov; 21'AP)-Frencli and Ameri can , troops of the Sixth army group battled into the cita del city of Mulhonse and drove 1 well beyond Sarrebourg to within 27 miles' of the Rhine today in treat encircling move ments' ihat' threatened to pocket ithe entire Germany 19th army with i& back to the river. . . French First army armored i forces speared into Mul house in a race northward from their footholds on the French side of the Rhine near the German-Swiss-French border to cut off the Germans. The French already had continued on to Col- mar, 22 miles north of Mulhouse. US Seventh 'army troops , some 75 miles northward drove due east through the Vosges,'captured Sarrebourg and thrust six miles farther and took Bittelbronn, near the. entrance to the Saverne gap that leads' through, the forrested mountains to the Rhine plain. The 44th division, whose presence was disclosed only yesterday, led that push in action so fluid that front dispatches said a definite front could not be defined from mo ment to moment . Push Slow la North On the northern' end of the great western front the allies Still were advancing, but it was savage " The British, Second army on the inorthern 1 flank , , ground . slowly ahead in the GeJlenkirchen area and chopped deeper into the Ger man-held sector west of the Maas river in Holland. , The American Ninth army surg ed within sight of the Roer river in an .advance of two and one-half miles that enveloped nine towns in 24 hours, including Laurenzberg, Engelsdorf, Ederen and Merzen- hausen. They were a little over a mile from the Roer. . . Fierce Resistance There were some signs of enemy withdrawal on. .the Ninth's south ern front, but On its north flank resistance was ferocious.' -German counterattacks ; were repulsed in the Lindern area, and there was hard fighting near Langendorf as the Ninth knocked out seven Ger man tanks during the day. Some showed less than 65 miles on their speedometers. . The American Third army merg ed its holdings inside Germany to a continuous 11-mfle front running southeast from near Besch, solid ifying its hold on some 25 square miles of enemy soil despite, heavy artillery fire and masses of road blocks, . mines : and anti-tank ditches. . FerU Hold Oat At 1 Metz, , Fort Queleu on the southwest surrendered with j its garrison of 200 nazis, but two Is land "pockets and six omer forts around that pierced fortress city of France continued to '' hold out. Southeast of Metz the Third army registered gains up to three miles . and was within 10 miles of the German border west of Saar bracken despite stiffening enemy resistance. : .The 26th, 35th, and 80th infantry divisions were active in those advances. - '. that it was in keeping with the policy of rotating officers to give troops in braining the. benefit of working under commanders who have had combat experience. Allen's a s s i s t ant commander when he was with the First divi sion -was Brig, Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, who 1 was transferred earlier to France and died there. . gt Troy W. Loekhart, who was killed in Holland on October 25, was a member of the 104th divi sion. He was the son of llr. and Mrs. J. IL Loekhart, route one, box 143, Salem. When his death was reported in The Statesman of November 14 the location of the ICith- had not been revealed so no mention could be made of his connection with it" He did not train with the division at Camp Adair but was transferred to it after the training period had been ccrrrleted. Move 111 ; ' ; .. -. WLBTellsOhio PhoM rkers To End Strike - it -. . i .i . . . , WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 - () The j war labor board directed to night that Ohio telephone opera tors, j ; return to workH immediately or face government seizure of the facilities. ; , . " , . f- V' WlC Hearing Chairman N. .P. Feinsinger gave union officials un. til ; 10 a. m. tomorrow to decide whether they would recommend that members of the statejed,ea tiott 'of ttlephone "Workers return to work. : "i - ' The WLB official said that the work must be resumed before the labor board could undertake a disposition;, of grievances. He stressed that this had been the procedure in all strikes. . "The only alternative," Feising- er asserted, 1 "is probable govern ment seizure. In this case, work would be resumed under the same terms as prevailed at the time the strike started." ; .:::!: Ciyilian Says Gol. Roosevelt Givers 4 GFs NEW YORK. Nov. 21-(ff)-Max Huddle,- 31-year-old floor mana- Jo ger of a dance hall, said tonight he had complained to the army dis trict provost marshal that a ' man he identified as Cot Elliott Roose veltl second son of the president, interceded in, an early morning fight Ion Broadway between Hud- I die and four soldiers. As a result. Huddle said, the soldiers were able to leave before military police ar rived. - : : - .: ' 1 Lieut Cot John McNulty, dis- tHct provost marshal, said a com plaint ! :by Huddle was being in vestigated. He added that any fur ther comment would come from the public relations office of the second service command. A spokesman at that office said there would be no statement tonight Huddle declared he recognized the army officer, as Colonel Roose velt from photographs he had seen. He added that he overheard a com- , panion lot the man he identified as Colon el. RooseveH tell military po lice that -a son of the president is involved." I;-' ; - - c ,1 h: FDR Appoints Board For Surplus Property WASHINGTON, Nov. . il-ifr-, President Roosevelt set in motion today machinery for the disposal of $100,000,000,000 of surplus war properties under a three-member ; board; headed by Robert A Hur ley, former Connecticut governor, - He sent the nomination of Hur- ley and Lieut Coir Edward Heller ' of San i Francisco , to t he senate shortly; after it Recessed for the day but held up the expected no- ' mination of Senator Guy M. Gil lette i(D-Iowa) until the end of V' the year: .hi 1 Jet Propulsion Plane . Training Due in West ' SAKXRSFIELD, CalifV Nov. 21 -(-The war department permit ted disclosure today of plans for a western! training program for jet propulsion planes. "' Bakerifield has been selected as headquarters of the segment of the Fourth army air force respon sible , fct' jet-propelled : P53 air comet trainirg. : 'r