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: H V if' Aw m en 1 6;,. 1 !'Ai'.i . 1 1 Nil' ; - - - . - c ' ( j Blast i i I .. . ' l PCD HPS i i i -i - V. A V VAA - - i I Some weeks ago Art Kirkham every body : knows ; Art, . the- friendly radio announcer of KOIN : talked at the Salem Chamber, of Commerce ' urging i promotion of Oregon's Jtourist ad vantages. He painted a glowing picture of Oregon's scenic beauty, and said that it wanted only pro per exploitation to become a business asset of far greater value than anything before realized. Art was right. Oregon does have- unusual natural' wonders which delight the eye and inspire the soul of man: ocean front, rivers, mountains, lakes, I plains, green valleys. With - intelligent promo tion the number of tourist Visit' ors who ' will come , when war no longer lays a ban on travel will be very large. The numbers will be large In any event.' And I wonder if we re prepared to take care of them.' What we lack is attractive tourist hotels at our scenic spots. Along the whole stretch of the Oregon coast ther are only a very few first class hotels for example. There-. are host of tourist 1 cabins tanging in quality from super to very inferior. But we ! have insufficient accommodations, especially "of the better quality to take care of the tourists who will come and would like to stay for a spell. As a result thousands will ' merely use Oregon as a corridor a state to get through going north or south, (much as we regard Wyoming along highway 30). Here are some reasons for be lieving there will be a flood of (Continued on editorial page) U. S. Will Help am LONDON, Nov. 30 '-(ff). Aroer lean aid for Britain s bid to re cover her farflung, war-sacrificed export trade " was disclosed by Irime ; Minister Churchill today together ""with the announcement that lend-lease aid to this Island empire will be cut in half when Germany falls. Jubilantly announcing an An-t glo-American economic arrange ment on the future of lend-lease apparently designed to help Brit ain pull out of its financial slump, the prime minister made these ' points: .: 1. A new program will be In augurated next year io permit Britain to export articles made from American-imported raw ma terials. ' . . V 2. Britain will pay cash for that material.';'','; -4 , 3. TJefeat of; Germany would permit Britain along with the United States to release some cf its manpower for production f civilian goods. . 4. Britain anticipates American aid in its rehousing program, not only in raw material but In fin ished houses. Nazis Retake tits ROME, Nov. 30 HAV German troops, lashing out in vicious coun ter attacks against ' Americans pressing on Bologna, have recap tured two important heights over 'looking nazi defense positions, the allied .command disclosed today. One blow behind strong artil lery and mortar fire drove dough boys of the fifth army from Monte Castellaro, 9V miles southeast of . Bologna but the Americans held at nearby .Monte Grande, a higher peak. - , J-'-1 The strongest German blow was driven fn farther west, 28 miles outhwest of Bologna, and forced the Americans from recently won Monte Belvedere and the village f Corona.- .;--" :,-;. Derailed Train Carried fVcley Ogaret Supply Etveral freight cr of an Ore con Electric train were derailed a jhort distance north of Salem early Thursday. Aboard the train was a consignment of cigaireta for Talcm and other Willamette val . :y cities' and towns.; .V Delivery of the ., dgarets was exrected by Salem merchants early Thursday but the acciden' caused. a delay.' : v . . f v . The track was cleared within a v hours and no one was hurt "V T -Y!Z3 13 e -t - - - v - - DritainKes - ........... j Export Trade Italy Heiffl tnTtTYFOU3TH YEAR : Yankees j '3..;j illaffes Hodges' Forces Tighten Steel Net Around Duren ! By Austin Be&lmar ' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,' Paris, Friday, Dec.-1.-4P) The American Ninth army drew up along the west bank of the Roer river on a 20-mile - front above " and below Julich . yesteri day yesterday while, other allied forces battled slowly f o rwa r d against increasingly strong Ger man resistance. ; In forcing, the nazis back across the Roer, last water barrier before the Rhine, 25 miles to the east, Lt Gen. William H. Simpson's Ninth army troops swept through the burned villages ; of Lindern, Flosdorf and Roerdorf and laid siege to the German stronghold of Linnich, six miles northwest of Julich. - - . Daren m Vise At the same " time Lt Gen, Courtney H. Hodges' First army pulled its steel net tighter around Duren, third "anchor city on the Roer river line barring access to the Cologne plain. - , West of Duren the Germans de stroyed two bridges over thi Inde river, cutting off the retreat of their own troops while they-wer stlU f Ightbt? to tfii streets of ln-l den tOM Lammersdorf. Hodges troops cut across the Kleinhau- Brandenberg highway in a thrust that carried to high ground with In a mile and a half of the Roer east of Hurtgen. . ' Third filags Ahead ' Farther to the south the Third army slogged forward for gams up to' two miles, despite numerous counterattacks, and American and French troops of the Sixth army group advanced through the Vos- ges mountain passes and along the plains of Alsace. From every f r o n t, however, came reports tnai'tne uermans were fighting fiercely, often coun terattacking with tanks. -Strasbourg, on the Seventh army front, was being neavily shelled by the Germans from, across 'the Rhine. Heavy Artillery i The Americans also were pour ing tons of artillery into German positions ahead of the advance, using . both high explosive and phosphorous shells In an effort to break through on the Ninth army front. ' ; i At the village of Beeck, a mile southwest of lindern, American troops found mora nazi dead piled in the streets than in any German town yet entered. Sedition Trial Judge Dies to Upset Case WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 HP) The judge who presided over the nation's largest sedition trial since it started last April 17 died today, leaving the future of the case in doubt - , :- V ' ' - ! ; .. i Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher of the US district court, a former democratic congressman from Io wa and former member of the se curities commission, died at his home in nearby Alexandria, Va, He was 63, J -;. - Take Sixth Loan E Bond Sales . Roll Past Half Sales of E Series bonds to indl- vldusf purchasers yesterday pass ed the half million-dollar mark, putting Marion county committee over one-third 'of the way. toward the $1,500,000, tit waa announced by 7 Chairman Douglas Yeater. Purchases of. all - bonds reached $1,123,000, or more than 23 per cent of the county's quota, f i -With several large subscrip tions unrecorded as yet, officials hope that -sales' will reach $1,500, COO before the: half-way point -of the campaign! comes' Saturday nicht In making these announce ments, Chairman Yeater stressed that each of the hundreds of workers must redouble his or her efforts 'for the last half of the drive r; rning next Monday morn-i-z. 14 PAGES -1 - , , - ' t ' " i ' ' ' j ' . - - - T - - v -- - . Navy Rescues Two of Six Baby Flat - Tops in Raging Fight Against Enemy to Retake Philippines: WASHINGTON, Nov. iv30 -JF) 1 Fourteen hundred men were-rescued from two . escort carriers sunk in the battle of the Philip pines, the navy . reported tonight in releasing a detailed account of how six of the 1 baby flat-tops fought a big; Japanese task force. The carriers sunk were the St Lo and the Gambler Bay. "The losses on the St. Lo were low j we picked up 800 ; men," Rear Adm. C. A. F. Sprague said in a first person report of the engagement "Losses -on theGam bler Bay were low too, consider ing that; she dropped - back 'into the middle of the Jap Jleet Ap proximately 600 of her crew were saved The1 complement of such ships has "never been disclosed. Sprague's report identified for the first time the other four car riers in his force o( six which had an escort of three destroyers Claims 56 U.S. LONDON,. Nov. S(H-Ameri can Fortresses and Liberators, spearheading an attack by nearly 3000 allied warplanes on oil re fineries and rail yards in Ger many, drove1 into tremendous con centrations of anti-aircraft fire A 1 . a m k . . . rouay ana suiierea ineir neaviest iua v j retKas opera uoa. t" mmnc 4- .ilmin ir iy-six ua 1 neavy bombers and 30 fighters failed to return to their British bases from the raid, an eighth air force communique announced,' but the majority of the landed in friendly territory. ; The sky was stained black with thousands of puffs of exploding flak as nazi ground gunners claim ed their biggest toll of the war. Today's was the largest loss in bomberrsince April when 63 went down over Z Berlin to combined ack-ack fire and fighter opposi tion. " ... . , Bonomi Will Form Cabinet ROME, Nov. 30 - (JP - Crown Prince Umberto has entrusted to Ivanoe Bonomi, who resigned as premier, the task of forming an other government, it wag announ ced officially tonight Bonomi later said he would con sult with the leaders of the six political parties in an attempt to form a new cabinet "I do not know whether I will bt able to form a cabinet," Bon omi said. At present there 'are three parties against me and three art willing to come into I govern ment headed by me.H Bonomi identified the parties supporting him as " the liberals. Christian democrats and the labor democrats, with the communists, socialists and actlonists against him. , :s Senate Oketis Stettinius WASHINGTON, Nov. SO-tf5)- The senate brushed, aside protests by Senator Langer (R-ND) today and confirmed, 67 to 1, the noml nation of t Edward R. . Stettinius, Jr as secretary of state. ! Million Mark events for buyers in the next few days,' and with the added incen tive of seeing the boys through the home stretch, I feel certain that Marion county will do just as it has done alt- through the war and go over the top big before the end of the- campaign December 18.- declared Yeater. , Every buyer of E bonds Is enti tied to an opportunity to win $4000-; victory home symbolizing the hopes of thousands of return ing service men to return to their American firesides, the committee pointed out . : - Extra sales also were ; being made on the bas!j of -givir.g with each $25 purchase free tkV.tts for the state few tl all thxr.;-:. ramt st Ewtttland fc'.d t Thicl NaziFlal Heavy B ombers ut me B t.ue between Ar... -ton Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning December 11344 1400 Men After and four destroyer escorts vWhen it tangled with a Japanese force of four battleships, seven cruisers and pine destroyers. The other carriers ' were " the Kalinin Bay, . SEATTLE. Nov. St -JP)- Most of the "baby flat-tops'! ef the gallant little fleet which engag ed a Japanese task force In the ': battle .of Ley te gulf came from the Kaiser Vancouver shipyards at Vancouver, Waah , a state ment by Undersecretary of Navy Ralph Bard disclosed here to-i night - the i Fanshaw f Bay, the- White Plains l and the Kitkun Bay. All were damaged. . . V - l: ,. The report disclosed: r' -The American I destroyers and destroyer escorts executed a dar ing torpedo attack against the enemy fleet without suffering any losses. j"It - was' a very gallant at Allied Countries Would Spend $10 Biltion inV. S. For Postwar Materials WASHINGTON, Nov. SMAlliecL governments axe propos ing to buy at least $10,000,000,000 worth of materials and sup plies in tjie United States for postwar reconstruction in their countries, it was reported tonight. J ' v I' . This figure was described estimate of what Britain, Russia, France and the other United T f,t tt -4 I k a i t ? I- f P'"r " In Third U.S. - '- j i - i Raid onTokyo WASHINGTON, NOV. 30.-P)-Tbe third raid on Tokyo by Am erican B-29'i was carried out through night and clouds without lossesj due to enemy action, the army announced today. . It brought from the Tokyo, ra dio . renewed hysterical threats that any American flyer who par achuted after "blindly"- bombing the capital would be "killed on the spot by the angry Japanese peo ple.". 4 - '- , Secretary of War Stimson said the third attack within a week '.'is an outstanding- demonstration of our ability to carry the war to the heart' of Japan." Henceforth, he said, there will follow a "regular ly repeated and constantly j ex panding pattern of destruction for Japan's war production. 26,691 Nurse's Aides Needed WASHINGTON,! Nov. 30.-F)- Red Cross chapters through the country seek 26,691 additional volunteer j nurie'i aides to meet immediate needs, National Chair man Basil O'Connor' announced today.:.!.,',.", U.i'H;.--1 'it;Ti Quotas, based on estimates by local hospitals in every state ex cept Utah, he said, call for 23,596 daytime aides and 6,095 evening aides. Volunteers should apply at their local Red Cross chapters to take an 80-hour course, y State quotas for day and night aides, respectively include: Idaho 62 and 20; Montana 87 and 42; Oregon 53 and IS, Washington 075 and 664. Salem Plant Ordered I To Reinstate Two Workers Dismissed t WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -iff) United Growers, Inc Salem, Ore., is to reinstate and pay back wag es to two employes allegedly dis missed because of union activity, the national labor relations board ruled today. . ' , " ijThe board ordered the plant, to stoo discouraging -union member ship and said it had engaged, in unfair J labor practices The de- Cision Of the trial exaiainer who heard the case, brout by the AFL Cannery Workers union, was upheld in' the ruling. - v . 1 ; Oregon's Dc'r.d C!c3' IIitiC20i:,r3.Tf-! ponTLAr; gon's I war taled j:'?,4: It $1C7, r.r.cu:..i.t '.. CjH U $7,1 r r..!ti. $ t - 1 rr . trt-i t.U Japs Sink tack, Sprague related. : "One of the , destroyers got a direct' tor pedo hit. on a battleship. And not a single one of the destroyers or destroyerrescorta was ctamaged during the torpedo attack. They all got bark to us .safely. : .; 5 The carriers fought back with their 3-Inch - guns ; against the heavily armed enemy ships and morale was so high that at one point a battery officer said: "Just hold on a little longer, boys, we're getting 'em into Tib-millimeter range.? -i; ::f-l - : I; '.' ,J7 - The Japanese force engaged by Sprague's ships came through San Bernadino ' strait and ' was .-; the middle . element ; of , the :; three prongs.. It . had sunk one carrier. two destroyers and a destroyer escort when the Japanese admiral suddenly ' turned , and ; ran.; The second carrier was sunk) later by Japanese land-based planes.: : . authoritatively as a conservative Nations would like to obtain in the years Immediately after thr war. ' iiftouung . can be ar ranged. - , It became known subsequent to two other developments which for the first time brought into sharp focus the broad problems of post war trade and world .rebuilding: I. Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson laid before congress an outline of administration plans for financing purchases in this country and liberalizing world trade arrangements. i 2. Acting Secretary of State Stet tinius, , Treasury 1 Secretary Mor- genthau and Leo Crowley, foreign economic administration chief, an nounced the conclusion of "phase two" lend - lease negotiations, with Britain. A 50 per cent cut under the 1944 rate in" lend - lease as sistance to the British was agreed upon, to be -effective as: soon as Germany is defeated. Estimates are that this will mean $5,600,000,000 of lend-lease aid to Britain for 1943. . . One of AchesonY principal re commendations for financing post war purchases is expansion of the export - import bank and remov al of restrictions which limit its operators almost 'exclusively to Latin America. , i ! . 1300 Japs Die OnPalau Isle WASHINGTON, Nov, SO -()- Troops of the $ 1st army division killed 1300 Japanese and captured 142 on Peleliu island in the Palaus between Oct 20 and Nov, 26, the navy announced tc4iight I Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in a communique said our losses, were 92 killed, 622 wounded and 3 miss ing. Main points of resistance of fered by the Japanese, remnants of the enemy garrison on the Is land, were caves. , . - , : The communique also reported a Japanese bomber attack on Sai pan and Tinlan In the Marianas before dawn Nov. 28. No damage was caused and one enemy plane was destroyed and another prob ably destroyed. Jefferson City Council Elects .CIcason Mayor JEFFERSON, Nov. 30 Edward S. Gleason, service . station oper ator and member of the 'city council, was elected mayor to take the' rUce' left vacant by the death 1: ,t v.-rtk.of .Tl.cron O. Kestcr. j.'iiifcrnj nas s?rved on tne c:.y cou:-c".lf'r several years.'; ". ; 1 CI -1 : l.i v. X.: 'itt: Dead V - Albert B. Fall Albert BJ Fall Of OH Scandal Dies in Texas : EL PASO, Tex Nov. Iso-vf)-Albert B. Fall,' secretary of the In terior under the Harding adminis tration, died here late today. Fall had been broken in health since 1929. He bad been a1 patient at the William Beaumont! General hospital here from 1935 !ta 1933, vhftrrlPair?Temoved home. Fall figured In the Teapot Dome scandal and, six years after he left the cabinet, was found guilty of taking a bribe and was ': fined $100,000 and sentenced to pne year in Jail. He served nine months in prison, most of the timi in the hospital, and retired lo his ranch. (Additional details on page 2.) Walter DaWen Dies iri Action Lt (Jg) Walter Ibahlen was killed; in action in the Philip pines, his mother,! Mrs. A. M. Dahlen, 990 North 1 17th street, has been notified by the .navy de partment , " - ! I ,; Survivors are . the mother, and his wife, the former (Betty Han nanian and their young daughter in Bakersfield, Calif.; a brother, Alvln Dahlen, U. S. hivy," sta tioned 1 In; Memphis fTehn,; and two sisters, Alice Dahlen of Sa lem and Mrs. A. Riviers! of Ore gon City. H.:-?: Dahlen was a student at Wil he en- lamette university when listed In the navy ' In February, 1942, Memorial services will be held for him at St John's Luth eran church Sunday morning. ' . U S. Maneuvers Ships To Speed Up Delivery WASHINGTON, Nov; 30-aV io ipeeq up uc ueiivery pi urg ently needed jtssault transports, v. - i .t- - M -i five of them being built' at WU mlngton, Calif are being Isent to Vancouver, Washl, for outfitting. : The five vessels will be sent from the California Shipbuilding corporation's yards to the Van couver yards of the Kaiser com pany. Inc. I DtriryAsspc Compidsbry Pasteurisation' A proposal for compulsory pas- L terization of all milk and dairy products offered for sals! in Ore gon today bad the approval of the executive committee of Uie Ore gon Dairy Manufacturers associ ation. In session here Thursday, the committee endorsed the leg islative program! of sanitation outlined at last week's joint meet ing of the Oregon Dairymen's an d t s Ore-on Dairy Manufacturers' tr.-oc!. '.':r,s. ,-' . i . i: ? t-ALrA features: j " : ' X . IJ-j cf a till to -before V : "' t lcTiture :prov! fcr ':.-n cf 'all "'; ar.J t. ::. rt l f r st'e . -;ed in ' : 2 cf t'l ; j rrc.t- i .- r in . - i. t c...cr t- . it it t c S l-i .120 J No. 219 in ikii- Oiisttid By FDR . 4Insuborclmation .,Givenia8 , Cause; Feud Not Over WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -4P President Roosevelt fired Assist ant Attorney General Norman Lit- tell today for insubordination but that didn't, close out the jus tice department feud 1 it only moved over into congress. , ' -' Rep. . Voorhls ' (D-CaL) intro duced a resolution for an investi gation of the whole matter by the house judiciary committee, taking issue With the - ground on which the president dismissed Littell. ,InrabordmationM s The reason given is Insubor dination' which is based upon the Issuance of Littell's statement giv ing his reasons for refusal to re sign," Voorhis said in a statement "However, Littell issued : no statement himself but on the con trary the statement was request ed of him by the senate war in vestigating committee and released by the committee. Refutes t Quit v The public row . started when Attorney General Biddle demand ed LitteH'i resignation after a ser ies of difference. Littell, refusing to resign, accused Biddle of "con duct ' contrary to basic prin ciples of good government . Littell, asserted that Biddle in- case in behalf of Thomas G. Cor coran, onetime presidential inti mate now in private law practice, Hopes China Tide Turns CHUNGKING, Nov. 30 MaJ. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer held out hope tonight that steps now in preparations would turn the tide in China against the Jap anese, r l . The US commander in the Chi na theatre acknowledged that the enemy had sizeable southeast Chi na . zorces concentrated in tne Kwangsi - Kweichow . border re gion. These forces have strong of fensive capabilities, he said, but he added it was reasonable to ex pect that remedial measures now being taken would halt the enemy. Making no attempt to deprecate the gravity of China's military sit uation, Wedemeyer said the en emy was obtaining a corridor into French Inde-Chlna and establish ing good interior lines of com munication, after, driving swiftly through Kwangsi. One Yank Holds Up Attack on Germans ' ! 'it . WITH THE U.S. NINTH AR MY, Germany, , Nov. 30-iP)-An assault on four German towns by tanks and hundreds of American soldiers had to be postponed to day, because one Yank Inadver tently, mentioned over .the radio the time the attack was sched uled. The Americans 're-sched tiled the attack for 10:30 ajn. and the war went on. ; ' ' - k -.: lng public health. Effective date ty be fixed after careful study of availability or necessary equip ment r but not 1 at e r than six months after the close of the war. Compulsory testing, of all dairy cattle within; the state of Oregon and often enough to control bangs disease and placing responsibility of enforcement with the state de partment of agriculture. : . .This Joint committee asked the legislative, committees of their re flective organizations ' to - advise v ilh the slate agricultural depart r. rnt ii . kvc!cp . a prcllrrjnary c'rsft cf trr.rndnents to the exist- I. . s cf r " ';' -'..'rn, ta ac- ' "i t' ; t" :.w 1 rurrose. It - ;.; .i crl' . IcrsUcn cf : c I C-f "i c:.r..Tf" cf c.l tl-sjru- Wedemeyer I Erieniy Vessels ! Don't Even Get , Close to . Leyte i ?; - By Jim Hutcheson 'GENERAL Mac ARTHUR'S ' HEADQUARTERS, . Philippines, Friday, Dec. 1--Five thousand more Japanese soldiers were killed or drowned at seathat makes 26,000 who tried but never got to Leyte as American planes for the second straight day accounted for an Ormoc - bound enemy con voy Thursday. . ' Although the convoy was cau tiously scattered over a wide area, the Yank" fighters tracked down all of it sinking a 9000 ton trans port and ? three small freighter and engulfing a 5000-ton freight-' er and destroyer in None Get Close . " In contrast .with. flames. Wednesday's erasure of a 13-ship convoy,- two of w,hlch got reinforcements to Or moci this one didn't even get close to that port - ... . ; -One freighter was baggedas far west as Mindoro by a night patrol plane. Others, including one heav ily Joaded transport were blasted offjMasbate and off Cebu. Losses Staggering i t h. Th P-47s and Pf40s went down to masthead height as they, raised the; enemy's reinforcement losses in attacks on seven conVoys to 29 transports, ! aggregating - 103,759 tors, . and' 18 escorting warships sunk.:";:;:; :1'r'jr;:' ' Richard t Bergholz, . Associated Prss war correspondent at Leyte airjforce headquarters, was told by retfuTilng fliers that they hit Jap-' anese headquarters at Palompon, Wefst Leyte, on the way , back. , attacks on shipping in Car men bay at Cebu, near misses which often are damaging were' ' sccjred on a destroyerf a destroyer., escort and one of two large trans ports. " - il". I: 1 ' ' Soviets Sweep iver it LONDON, Friday, . Dec. HJPH. Russian troops, expanding their neW, trans-Danube front to more, than 100 miles, yesterday swept nine miles northward along the west bank of the great river to within 78: miles of outflanked Budapest and captured 50 more ocalities, Moscow announced last night , ! . ; In the mountains northeast of this besieged Hungarian , capital I other Soviet forces blasted open ' to invasion routes leading into' southern Slovakia by capturing the axis strongholds of Eger andt . Siikszo, Premier-Marshal Stalin ' announced in a stecial order of ? JVliles Alons iianuoe iu the day. "j ; .-.X- '. .,,.... i These troops also cut the Mis- 1 1 kolc-Kassa (Kosice) trunk high- 7 way and railway connecting the ' . crumbling axis fronts in. north- eastern Hungary, and Slovakia and urther outflanked Miskolc by I capturing Arnot, less than three i miles northeast of Hungary's be sieged fifth city.. V ' ' , . Bcltoh, Marsh Share Honors, , Howard C. Bel ton. Canby. and Eugene Marsh, McMlnnville, who claim to hold promises of votes which will seat them as president oi pe senate ana speaxer oz trie house, jrespectively, in the Oregon legislature next month, will share hotiors1 as guest orators at the state Young Republicans' federation banquet here December t.l V Secretary 'of State Robert 4 8. Farrell, Jr., is to be toastmaster at the banquet, which will follow the annual convention's b u si n e s f meetings and election of officer. DeGaulIe in Russia! to Discuss Germany's Fate '. LONDON, Friday, " Dec. IP Gen. Charles DeGaulIe has ar rived in Russia, the Moscow ra dio announced tonight, where he will discuss with' Premier Stalin and a new France-Sovletrpact " si -J SliOPPINCV V S4 i i ' v r.ci K, ( .... .'3'.;. n. ..' . ' (-" (If- J) Wzh -J t' e CT..?.n I