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. " C I.;; -l;;-v r-A U - V : V U J: : 13 J A U U 1 teMg J - LJ , i 1 Y 1 1,,, ) -wf : . ' -X I . , -r Ll i-V vl ImI 1 1 I Sm-. Off SiiraerfoFts r.TTY-FOUSTH YEAH CUP seen ucpajiis There hx been dispute as to how much credit Calvin CooIklge deserved in the breaking of the Boston police strike in 1919 when he was governor of Massachusetts, but his dictum, expressed in a let ter to Samuel Gompers, epitom- . ized the attitude of the public to ward strikes , of that character: "There is no right to strike against the pUblic safety by anybody, any where, anytime 1 While telephone workers are not police, they are in wartime vital- ly essential workers, whose right to strike is impaired by the very nature of their service.; To extend that strike from the industrial cen- iers of Ohio clear to the .nation's - r. - - - . capital would, if completed, vir- tually . " paralyze temporarily at least . tbcfunctionHt' f ovemnient and of war industry, ' p : r;J C So splendid has been the record I of telephone workers that the pre-1 sent refusal of hundreds of tele-1 phone operators to work is very I surprising. Best of all has been their record of service in time of (Continued on Editorial page) Reds Resume Gain 16 Miles LONDON, Nov. 23-;p)-The red army resumed its offensive In Czechoslovakia west , or , ungvar today, grinding through rain and mud for gams of as much as. 18 miles on a 25-mile front At the same time the soviet recaptured the famous wine center of Tokaj in northern Hungary, The oDerations by Marshal Ivan Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian army in Slovakia and Marshal Rod ion Halinovsky's . Second 1 Ukrainian army in Hungary gave the; Rus- aians a virtually continuous active front of about 55 miles stretching across the frontier northeast from Tokaj to Sobrance, a town 10 miles - northwest of Ungvar, . In the fresh drive in Slovakia. Petrov's army again seized the railway lunction of Csan Con. which has changed hands several times in recent weeks, and joccu pied more than 30 other lated places. . Japs Hard Hit By Fort Raids CHUNGKING, Nov. 23. - J Maj. Geh. Albert C. Wedemeyer declared today . that B-29 super fortress raids on Japan were do ing much more damage than the 'Japanese had acknowledged and said the attacks soon would be in tensif ied from, "another direc tion." J i Wedemeyer, who recently suc ceeded Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell as commander of US forces in the China theater, told a press cor.fer- ence that Generalissimo Cti Kai-shek had approved the ener al concept of a plan he submitted for future operations against the Japanese, -Young GOP Group, to Meet in Salem Deer 9 The annual state convention of the Young Republican Federation cf Orei)on will be held in Salem on Saturday, December 9, with headquarters at toe MJPno- t -officers, of the organization finnounced here Thursday, me r-rr.uo will convene at II tu m. Offense; 12 PAGES . 70,000 Gut Off Bitter Battles -Rage on Cologi Plain to North . ' By Austin Balmear SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Nov, 23-fl)-French armored forces fought their way toward the center of Strasbourg tonight after an 18-mile dash to the Rhine which sealed off the overland escape route for an esti mated 700,000 troops of the Ger- man 19th- army, now pinned against the almost bridgeless nv- er, The: second spectacular ' Rhine break - through in five days, im periling nearly one - seventh of the forces the Germans are be- lieVed ( to have ; comnuttecr-oiithe western front, came as the bit- terest battle since the invasion thundered into its seventh day far to the north on the Cologne plain. Batteaheim Falls As the French second armored division pressed into the outskirts of Strasbourg against light re sistance, the first French armored division more than 50 miles to the south seized Battenheim, four miles north of Mulhouse, and pushed on north up the' Rhine. This was the southern jaw of giant pincers reaching around the broken enemy , Vosges line, with the northern jaw formed by the French of the US seventh ar my which had sped through Sa verne gap. j jni Reich i . Althouah at Strasbourg thev are farther from Berlin than their American and British allies fight Ung inside the reich in the Aachen area, the French advance to Stras- I bourg is the easternmost penetra tion on the western front I Tbey are 370 miles from the German capital as the crow Jlies nd over 400 miles from their landing point in southern France Saar Border I The third army, battering for I ward two to four miles along 1 35-mile front reached the; Saar border ; at two new undisclosed I points. 'drove to within IS miles of th atronghold of Saarbrucken V mue deeper into Germany xo Dnng 3U square miiea under its control. Franco Ouster Planned By 4 Liberation Junta9 , PARIS, Nov. 23 -4fy- Repre sentatives of five Spanish repub lican party organizations living in the Paris- region formed a Span ish liberation junta" today to cam- P111 ,or the oustfr of Generalis simo Francisco Franco and -return to a republic under the 1931 con stitution. Marion's Sixth Germans Goes Into 'High9 Gear Today Marion county's Sixth War Loan campaign, organized in every com- today. .'. -vA;'' . ' ' Tickets to the premiere of "The Very Thought Of You" (next Wed nesday night at the Grand thea tre) offered with series E bonds of $25 denomination are in ad I dition to ticket for the $4000 post war dream house which go with each such bond. Chairman Douglas Yeater made it clear Thursday, i J Call for the show tickets is ex- petted to become heavy today, bondseIlm anticipate The, are . .. V v.. w I to be assured of theatre seats at 8cdm. Oraqon. Friday Thanksgiving Day At Front Dreary, But Soldiers Eat ESCHWEILER, Germany, Nov. 23 -CP)-. Thanksgiving day at the front was a dreary and depress ing' one, today with guns thunder ing and shells crashing regularly, making the buildings of this bat tered town shudder. The boys were just thankful they werie alive and getting turkey instead of "K" or "C rations. Thanksgiving was just another day of battle, with no emotions ost on the meaning of the day at home except that each man wished he was back there. r Churchill Says U.S Greatest Military Power LONDON, Nov. 23 -(&)- Prime Minister Churchill, in a surprise Thanksgiving speech to an Anglo- American audience, tonight hailed the United States as the world's greatest 'military power and de- were movinr irresistibly "and, perhaps, wth God's aid, swiftly towards sjictonous peace." - Nearly j 8000 people, including many hundreds- of American ser vicemen, jammed huge Albert hall to near I a; gala concert dedicated to the United States and its tra- audience rose and cheered when Churchill entered a box to hear, the program conducted by John Barbirolli, for merly conductor of the New York philharmotc symphony orchestra, and again1 when he mounted a flag-draped platform behind which hung a huge portrait of Abraham Lincoln. ! f ,.;!.. - The prime minister said Ameri cans never had more justification for Thanksgiving, than today when w see that in three or four years! the United States has, in sober, fict become the greatest military, 'naval and air power in the world, S i. Allies SDriye Ahea in Italy ROME. 1 iNoy. 23 AJP)- British and Polish troops, slogging for ward in tie. hills south of high way 9 between Forli and Faenza against strong German resistance, have 7 captured a few more- vil lages and ridges and cleared most of the nazis out of the Cosina river loop southeast of Faenza. The Polei, after capturing Monte Piano, moved 500 yards east and took the village of San Mamante against' bitter enemy resistance They also j captured Oriolo and San BiagicL northwest of ' Monte Piano. If . In fighting through these rugged hills at thej edge of the Po valley the Poles Raptured 140 prisoners and inflicted heavy casualties in killed and wounded on the Ger mans. . Loan l8n the big evnt next Wednesday. The retail division carries - its campaign "tjo 'the third large Sa lem store today. Moving pictures of actual I battle scenes , will be shown by Chairman . Ed . Boring and his committee workers ' at meeting of jJ. C. Penney company employes this morning at 8:30 o'clock. :'i i-7--'.-.'j -;-? ; Of the rhore than $360,000 worth of bonds sold to date, a large percentage are E bonds. Marion hasla milion-and-half dol lars quota n that popular series, designed to attract small invest ors (becaus"pf favorable interest rates no individual is permitted to purchase more than $5000. worth In any one year). Campa Morning. Nortmbw 24, 1944 Phone Walkout CalledOff Strike Leaders Voluntarily Off er Return to Work I-'- ..-;-(' r : WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 -(P) The : telephone strike was called off tonight Leaders of Ohio and Washington unions : told the war labor board they were asking striking mem bers to go back on the job. They asked also that sympathy strik ers, such as those at Detroit go back. Detroit telephone workers call ed off their strike, and sympathy strikes,' which had been proposed by Illinois and northern Indiana leiepnone worKers, likewise were dropped. JJew y0rk workers, whp had been holding In abeyance &ny action, announced that the situa tiori now would return to normal in the metropolis, j Robert G. Pollock, president of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers, and Mrs. Mary E. Gan non, president of the; Washington Telephone Traffic union, advised the war labor board of their de cision after the WLB turned the strike problem over to the White House, a step preliminary to seix ure of struck war facilities. Nathan Feinsinger, public mem ber of the war labor board, said both strike leaders walked into his office at 5:20 p.m. (EWT) and voluntarily 5 offered to return f to work. Feinsinger said he assured them that strikers could return to their former jobs. . i Gh Joe. Jn&ists, On Oregon Gal For Dinner Pal PARIS, Nov. 23 -P)- He was as Irish looking as his name and he stood at the edge of the laugh mg crowd of WACs and GI's ask ing, -Has anybody seen Sgt Mar garet Zallar. - Sgt James McGrenary of New York had a leave that was going to expire at II p. m. and he did not want to miss the turkey din ner. ' J -.' . - "Well find her" said Lt"E4e; Rudolf; Milwaukee, Wis. "Anyone seen Margaret allar?7 i "Here I am, mam," said a small brunette from Oregon City, Ore. The WAC detachments stationed in Paris were giving a Thanksgiv ing party with turkey and had invited combat troops on 48-hour leaves from the front McGrenary had drawn 'Miss Zallar's name. U.S. Warships Shell Matsuwa ; ' .. ,. ? . US ' PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-; QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 23.-(fl!)-US Ninth fleet: warships shelled Matsuwa, Japanese Kurile island .base, - in an unopposed strike Tuesday within 600 miles of the home island of Hokkaido, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announ ced today. -". . ' No American ship v.'as dam' aged; Large fires and1 explosions were ooservea curing tne Dom bardment, while Japanese batter ies on the fogbound coast were si lent. v;-" : j -' 1' '' , This was the third time Mat suwa has s been bombarded by gunfire. The last task force strike against it, June 12-13, was a feint before the landing on Saipan June 14. POem Reveals Raid i'yw,Tai:jiiiiiij(S C a, - ' - , 3 Gen. j Henry H. Arnold, chief ef the army , air forces, Was the first to give word of the great . Superfortress strike an Tokyo. Nazi Scars on Belgrade Laid Bare to World BELGRADE. Nov. 20 -(Delay ed MA3)- The story of Belgrade's three and one-half years of nazi occupation was unfolded to the western world today month af ter the Yugoslav, capital's libera' tion br the red, army and Mar shal Tito's partisans. ; f . 3 Uniforms of the western allies are rare, soviet emblems are ev erywhere, and the city is scarred by allied , bombing and German vandalism. Yugoslavia's future po litical j orientation is declared to be subject for postwar determi nation by the people themselves. Partisans Drill The ; first party of American, British and Canadian newspaper' men to visit ; the city since its liberation found a cold, : bomb scarred metropolis resounding to the songs of hundreds of partisans drilling through streets profusely bedecked with the red star, the hammer and sickle and pictures of Premier Stalin and Marshal Tito. i Virhaally every store window is adorned with identical portraits of Stalin and Tito aide by sideband a huge two-story picture or Tito is hanging in the heart of ihe city at an intersectioiu ' Stinison Refuses Press Allied Fighting Quotas WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-AV War Secretary Stimsoit i declined today to - state the relative per centages Of Trench," British, Ca nadian,and ' American troops on. the western European front. Tm ence Jie did not think he should speak without an agreement first among the countries. He said he is "convinced all our allies are contributing" to the full measure of their resources.' Nine Youths Escape. From Fairview Home ; i Nine boys, ranging in age from 12 to 16 years,Thursday afternoon escaped from the Fairview. home; state school for the mentally un-der-par, and at midnight none had been apprehended, state and city police said, i : : -M ' ' Police said attendants, notifying them of the escapes, announced the youths "just walked away, from the institution. n 5e No. 213 Japanese Bastion o Entire Yamashita Line in : Danger Of Being Broken By Morlin - Spencer GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS P h i 1 ippines, Friday, Nov. 24 -(JPy- Rain-pounded American infantrymen have captured the- Japanese bastion of Limon and have driven 1000 yards south in a sudden upsurge of ; a battle which has practically de stroyed the enemy's first division. Headquarters reported today the 32nd division plunged through shell-battered Limon Wednesday, in . the biggest advance hi more than two weeks. - . f Jap Line in Danger The entire Yamashita . liae, upon which the Japanese depend to hold Leyte island, is in danger of be ing rolled up, the communique said. . . ! As heavy - rains continued to ash the battle front, the' Yank inL fantrymen : drove through t.h e mountain village to the nearbi Leyte river. - ' - - Gen.' Douglas MacArthur had identified ; Limon as apparently the Japanese-selected site for their; major defensive battle to protect the vital Ormoc corridor. Capture; of the town, said today's commun ique, means the Nipponese , have lost a "critical defensive line.? Ealing Land Ahead The announcement said rolling terrain lies ahead , of the Yanks in their drive down the main high-! way toward Ormoc, last Japanese' stronghold on the island.' - "The emeny," said the commun ique, "in his bitter defense of this; northern anchor of the Yamashita! line has suffered ; terrific losses from our artillery and superior infantry firepower. !; ,-j "His first division has been prac tically destroyed."- I Service Men ' Add to Holiday Joy in Salem Extra gratitude marked the ob servance of Thanksgiving in at least three - Salem households. where uniformed men and women who have been serving far away arrived or announced themselves en route home. - " - From the European theatre came Tech. Sgt Ernest J. Sing, son of Mrs. Dora Sing, 44 North Com-; mercial street, recently , awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross at an Eighth air force bomber sta tion in England.; He will spend a 20-day furlough, here. Capt Dan J. McClellan, jr. notified his parents by .telephone from San Francisco on Wednes day that he had arrived in this country and would come to Salem as : soon as ; details of his leave could be . arranged. - He had re cently been with the First marines on Peleliu island. Captain McClel son of Mr!and Mrs.D J. : McClellan, 1 100 Chemeketa street. Ethel Louise Close, Slc. WAVEs, in the ptal communica tions branch of tHe navy in Wash- uigum, jjv is to -arrive loaay xor a seven-day leave with her par ents, Mr and Mrsv W, " L?- Close, 1745 State street. (More news of men and women in the service, page three.) Weather - Xj:y : Maximum temperatare Than- day 51 degrees, mininun 4S de grees; .1 Inch of rain; river tL In. :j"v--U Partly cloudy Friday and Sat urday with a ; few scattered showers along north coast and snaw Harries - ever mountains. Flj Yokohama Kobe Blasted: ; , New 21st Bomber Comraan J Makes Blow Fim Saipan ARMY. AIR FORCES HEADQUARTERS, Pa cific Ocean Areas, Nov. 24-(APj)TA large force of B-29's, probably the greatest number yet tor attack' y Japan, bombed industrial targets in Tokyo today, as the 20thY Thanksgiving day message to the Jap anese. ! 1 1 While Gen. H. H. Arnold's brief Washington statement, released simultaneously here by Lt Gen. Millard F. Harmon, deputy jcommander, 20lh' AAF , made only, a general statement that 'a size able force of B-29'si'' attacked industrial targets in Tokyo, it Was believed here that i The force was the greatest ever to hit Japan from either land or sea. . Yokohama and Kobe and the Tokyo area pro bably also were blasted. N 1 Targets included y i t al, hydroelectric plants and dams in the Tokyo area; Tokyo's inflammablo industrial district ; shipping, shipbuilding yards and repair docks in and around Yokohama bay; airfields in the entire target area. f r More than two years have) elapsed between the first and second bombing of the' enemy capital The first attack was made by 16 niedium bombers launched from i the deck of the Carrier Hornet on April 18, 1912. " : i v" M t . '"'t : - ; ; That flight was commanded by the then Lu Col. James Doolitde, now commander of the eighth SAN FRANCISCO, N.v. 24sUdi. Toky Belatedly ackawl edged today the first bembinr raid by Amcrleaa 8aipaa-based B-29's, bat cHlmed residential areas and a hospital were hit and the big ships : were . driven off by interceptors The annouaeer claimed several Saperforta were shet a.wa. - I. . Br Vera Haogland . SAIPAN, Nov. 24-(iff,)-The United States launched a mighty aerial weapon the brand-new 21st bomber; Command of the 20th army air force straight at the heart of Japah today.. ' A great task- force of B-29 dawn at breath-taking one minute intervals from this island which five months ago belonged to Japan. , fl i . The giant planes doglegged in or 12 as they headed northwestward target in the far eastTokyo itself, Resie ODonnel Leads Flight u ? - Leading the entire formation Rosie" O'Donnel of Jamaica. NYiormer West Point football coach. He personally is helping avenge while he, then a major, was piloting B-17 bombers In the Philip- ; pines, Java and, Australia early m. the war.' j ! vjj -1 It's Rosie O'Donnel against said. - : The B-29 fliers took eff knowing the enemy was alerted by re- , cent practice rJssions against Truk and the feonin Islands and by photographic rr.conna.ssance over Tokyo. , ; j Made On Impressive Scale "r i H ' ! -' -""..i'"'' . But the7 expected to rudely standpoint of the impressive scale of this initial jmajor combat mission, : engineered under the watchful eye of the new organization's brilliant youngish commander Brig: Gen. Haywood S. rPossum" Hansell, Jr,l ' of San Ant-i'O, Tex.- Ki-y -"'--u ' - ", "'" y'.-'v A photo leconhaissance B-29, vember 1 and several times since then, discovered the Japanese capi tal was ringed with elaborate air fields, packed with planes. The entire Yokohama area, bristles with anti-aircraft guns, which put up most intense barrage. : 109 Japs Afraid t. Attack On the pholo plane's third trip 100 Japanese fighters rose but failed to attack. Earlier, smaller, formations of the lone B-29, possibly because sired speeds tt that altitude. The cappe l because their engines overheated. This! was an early handicap to thr Superfrats, now largely overcome. , s - "t ' Some of the huge -planes, took field, which was constructed on the main Japanese airbase in the One .f Series of Bases Isely is one of a series of under construction at Tinian and Indicative of the scope of future operations against Japan, Han sel! warned that, despite the large attacks must be regarded as still theater. y..j7,),-y:S:h - Today's raiders knew ' they little fueL They also knew they the Marianas and Bonins. En route theyliad to buck strong westward iy winds, even though the Japanese autumn and winter seasons pro vide the best flying weather. Difficult Navigation Problem : ! ' ." i The mission also involved a difficult navigational problem. Flying north on th sun doesn't provide the fix that the stars give. A navi gator could drift 300 , miles east or west of bis cpurse without know ing it. ";f . vs i ; ':-i" yf.A:r' V;- - ! The 21st bomber command is the second unitsof the 20th air force Jo be announced. Hansel said the organization , thus is able to take advantage of six months' experience gained ;byi the 20tfc command, operating in China, 27C0 miles away, ' ; Eaidl i .1 a lieutenant general and air force m Europe. ' Superfortresses thundered into the ; the sky to jform patterns of nln toward the; most heavily guarded some 1500j miles from, this base. .'::.vv- Xl -l y 'j was 38-year-pld Brig. Gen. Emmett the losses the Americans suffered : . Tokyo Rose,' an exuberant officer - ;i surprise the Japanese from the . which photographed Tokyo on No adjacent to Ithe sprawling capital. ; to Tokyo ia number of days ago, fighters also declined to "engage they were unable to-obtain the de- fighters also! may have been handi- off from the; magnificent Isely air the comparatively small Aslito field. Marianas. Superfortress pases already built or Guam, as well as Saipan. .. sise of this initial raid, . the B-29 in the experimental stage In this &s ' - ' ' ' ' would be returning after dark with must avoid Jaoanese-held islands in r . -;