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T-? Y (In r r, I) PCUNDQD G31 fljU (I Kill AS ; , " -J""-;-., A parable of the mqdern mount eir iransnruration j ' It came to pass that three men Were on the mountain of economic transfiguration: a businessman, 'a farmer, i a : worker. The light of war prosperity shone round about them, brighter than any they had vr before eenT ' And one saidfe "It is good for us to be here. Let us make three tabernacles, one for each of us, n4 i abide permanently on the mountain-top." ! ; , . But the businessman said: "The war will end; and then where will we, be?- i-; A v i The - worker said: "I am not Coips down to the bottom again, to work and to slave and to be Jobless half the time. If the gov ernment can ' accomplish this tot war,', it can provide jobs and pros perity for peace. I'm going to stay on the mountain-top." t . ? , ; ; The farmer said: ?I am not' go ing to submit to another post war depression with bad markets end impoverishing prices. I -shall expect government to provide sup port so I can stay on the moun tain-top.".., j " The businessman said: "I want to stay here too. But I must have the government reduce my . taxes and let me run my own business go' I can I".''.; (Continued on' Editorial Page) Armament Task Might Retard . WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 - (ff) -The armament task now in sight may retard reconversion for some time afteftSermany collapses, war production board chairman J. A. Krug said today. He made that i observation in disclosing that $500,000,000 worth ' of new plant construction is plan- tied to boost production of shells for infantry mortars. : The drive meanwhile to get lag ging production programs of other war implements up . to the pace needed to meet the demands of at1Mi titn Ait tarsi MIM fmnti 4e showing excellent' prpgress,H Xrug told a news conference. New workers, he said, are enter ing war plants In "encouraging" : numbers.',.. I "' i '"-.V The unexpectedly rapid advance gainst Japan, piling new Pacific demands atop the heavy requires ments of Europe, has caused the army to ,revise itj V-3 day cut back plans, Krug said. V O" Britain's Home Guard Slates Stand Down9 !-- ! i LONDON, Dec. i-Offr-Brltain's home guard, its Job done with the disappearance of the German In vasion threat that never material ized, will "stand down" tomorrow when a parade through the heart .ff London completes the ceremo nies marking the end of Its active career... , , ; V.,' -.....'..; Picked contingents arrived by special train today from all parts f the3 United Kingdom. E v e ry county had Its representative at the dinner given tonight by the lord mayor of London at the man sion house in observance of the stand-down order. ! ? . More than 5000 men. will march 'in the parade tomorrow. Home guard bands will be In the march, and the band of the Irish guards wUl clay as the troops pass the; reviewing stand. J I ; Crisis Upsets Greek Cabinet ; ATHENS, Dec. 2-A Greek cabinet crisis over a British army proclamation disbanding guerril las came to a hesd today with the resignation of all six ministers belonging to the left vring party. j Premier George Papandreou, expressing regret at the resigna tions, reiterated his determination' to stick to his task and called the cabinet into another session - to night ,; John Zavgos, communist minis ter of agriculture, stepped down, protesting whit he styled "unilat eral decisions', ot Major Gen. Itonald MacKenzie," British com mander of allied troops in Greece. 41 Per Cent of Bond Quota Met, Es' Lag rOTVTLAND, Dec. 2P)-Hu2e corr oration sales shot Oregon's l.-:r"'r;.wsr bond tauy to ,-.;77,fC3- 41 per cent ; of , the r ucta today, nearly double yes l;r,';y's 523,123,213 mark. E 1 nd talcs of $9,833,593, ci t only 3.1 per cent of a " Mr: zzi cicla.' . .. .. . Reconversion KEim-FOUSTII YEAB ; rrr m . m I ! "ira g1C orts Berlin 1 Reds Within 74 Miles of Austria : In Big Advance By Richard Kaslschke LONDON, Saturday, Dec. J-T) -Russian" motorized, troops, in a great breakthrough on a 110-mile front inlwestern Hungary, yester day raced to within 74 miles of the ore-rich Austrian province of Styria, and also sped 30 miles up the right bank of the Danube to within 47 miles of imperiled Buda pest. Overrunning 300 localities south and southwest of Budapest, Mar shal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine army also cut the Buda pest-Zagreb-Trieste trunk railway and hurled the enemy back onto the flat plains 28 miles from stra tegic Lake Balaton guarding the southeastern approaches to Aus tria. " , r - , Tragic' Says Berlin Berlin, describing the break through as "tragic,' said- Soviet spearheads moving up ' the Dan ube's west bank already were at tacking Dunafoldvar, 43 miles from the Hungarian capital. In Czechoslovakia Col. Gen, Ivan Petro's Fourth Ukraine army stabbed to within two miles of the big northeastern Hungarian city of Satoraljaujhely, cut thetity' railway link with Kassa (Koslcc) In eastern Slovakia, and also lev ered the Satoraljaujhely-Cetfierne highway as , it . moved westward six miles on a 30-mile front be yond the Ondava river. Near Strong-held The Russians in ' Slovakia also were only 15 miles from Kassa major axis stronghold controlling traffic in the eastern part of that axis puppet state, jv ; ! ' Stay on Job Requests FDR WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-(JP)- Presldent Roosevelt says "ultimate victory .is inevitable, but in the i meantime the American people must not relax for a moment their Inflexible determination." The chief ' executive couples with this statement, made in the annual "United States at War" edition of the Army and Navy journal, a renewed plea to war workers to continue on their jobs. "The weapons of war . which America has turned out and which have given us superiority on land, on the sea, and in the 4 air must continue to flow if we are to at tain that victory. Everybody' on a warob must stick to that Job December Brings Heavy Traffic Loss; Extra Caution Urged - Sixteen Oregon pedestrians have been killed each December for the past five years, Secretary State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., de clared Saturday. The fatalities were blamed largely on holiday travel and weather conditions. :i Farrell urged pedestrians to ex ercise . caution , when $ crossing streets and highways and warned automobile drivers to keep their speed within the wartime limita tions. ' , t- i t 9 mm m Rep Vague Peace Feelers Hit Allied Capitals By John if. nishiewer WASHINGTON, Dec, 2 - (JV) Peace feelers vague, roundabout and evidently unauthorized. hit the allied capitals at .the rate of about one to two a week. They all are based, it was learned today, on the assumption that the allies in the last analysis are willing to make substantial concessions in order to get Ger- many out of the war. Those taken seriously enough to get any re sponse at all receive, in effect the f 1 rim reply : "Unconditional surrender." 4 . These feelers, according to dip lomatic authorities here, conform to the best fiction ideas of Euro 23 Page' Wounded Yank Moves Out of misr "V 1.. ., K . I Past lines of men moving up to front positions, this wounded Yank field hospital In the forward area Blinding Rains Again Battle on Leyte GENERAL MtcARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Sunday, Dec 3-(iT)-Aircraft trad ed vicious blows throughout the central Philippines, headquarters reported today, as blinding rains again halted the. bitter ground battle for. Leyte - island's Ormoc corridor. ' ' Japanese planes in force attack ed American positions along Cari- gara Day, on Lyie s nonnwesii coast Other Nipponese bombers raided American-held i Morotai island, In the Moluccas, a spring - board for the Philippines. i a t ; i i . tis-. heavUy attacked imperial air bases throughout the central Phil- lppines in new assaults to mini mize the Nipponese aerial flank threat to Leyte., The s strikes Included another blow at Legaspi airdrome on Lu zon island where 27 tons of: ex plosives cratered runways during a raid Wednesday. i Yankees Raid f i i Ti Loblenz: Down 7 28 Germans . : LONDON, Doc. 2 -(P)- Ameri can' fighter pilots; escorting bomb ers raiding Coblenz shot down 28 nazi. planes today1 while a force of more than 500 RAF ! Lancaster heavy bombers hit a benzol plant at Dortmund. The German planes were knocked from the air by a force of almost 850, Thunderbolts and Mustangs cf the US eighth air force which encountered several formations of enemy alrcroft over the Blngen area, 23 miles south east of Coblenz. - ! Eight American fighters and 11 bombers, were reported missing, but six of the fighters were be lieved to have landed in friendly territory, Every Week pean Intrigue. They're made. for the most part in hoarse whispers by men in black hats and turned up coat collars. f i These shadowy figures flit about the streets, foreign offices and embassies of such neutral capitals at Madrid, Ankara and Stockholm. They live on rumor and gossip. . In addition there turn up from time to time business or other rep resentatives of interests Inside Germany at ' least so they say. One msy profess to be acting sole ly on his own authority, another to be a bosom pal of Gestapo Doss Himmler, another to be an assi ate of Hitler or somebody who knows Hitler. Slow Up Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, t i m r-i t Nf-r- '1 f 1 ft" ijvej' 4 : .s'- of fishtlng- on Leyte Island in the Sales in 6th Var Loan Drive Near wan-way Maricer WASH f NGTON, Dec. 2 -(M Leaping ahead at an eleven mil lion dollar an hour; clip, war bond sales to individuals rose $282,000,- 000 in the 24-hpur period ended yesterday. " S ,-.' With the 27-day sixth wac loan drive at about the half way mark, total sales reported to the treas- ury were $5,364,000,000 Of this amount sales to Indi viduals amounted to ; $1,691,000, 000 and sales to corporations $3, 673,000,000. it. ' , T ! fft I Ifl rY&P$ i i C m' Ttnf1 mull Wlli lCVUUitC I -' - ' - . " i L ' Jtett LUVltHl , , i, , . g MOSCOW, ! Dec. 2-MfV-Gen. de Gaulle, who arrived in Moscow by train today, was received by Pre- mier Stalin tonight in his quarters at the Kremlin. The French leader was accom panied on his first: Visit to Stalin by Roger Garreau, chief of the French diplomatic mission to Mos cow.' It was reported that de Gaulle, after a visit of about four days nera, may visit i sian front Hia here, may visit a volunteer French on the East Prus sian front' His aides said such a trip had been discussed .but that arrangements were incomplete. French Foreign Minister Geor ges Bidault conferred today for 50 minutes with Foreign Comissar.l Molotov before de Gaulle's visit to the Kremlin. State I Workers Would Adopt Merit Service Members of the general council of Oregon State Employees associ ation meeting in Marlon hotel Sat urday heard Mrs. W. H. Copeland, of Portland and member of Ore gon League of Women Voters out line 1 conditions under! which the women would give full support to enactment Of proposed legislation placing all . state workers under "merit service" ' j 1 ? Fred C Inkster, president of the League of Oregon Cities, told the council thai his group would like to Join the state group in its ef fort to have the legislation passed. "Oregon," Mrs. Copeland "said. "has had no glaring examples of patronage scandals which always start movements for closer sent tiny of public employes. Because of that the chief appeal for passage of such a law will have to be based on the hypothesis that good mr!A maIta erswi4 aAuaifimanr Weather KM:::v-r Maximum temperature Satur day 48, degrees, minimum 29 de trees, no rain, river -I ft 2 in. Partly cloudy Sunday and Hon day: inot mach change in -tem- I perature. k , 1 ' : ,r : : J: , V" , December 3. 1344 LnJ the Frontline i V'Y is carried .en a stretcher te :the Fhlllppuies. (International) - Two Positions Near Faenza ; FaU to Allies ROME,: Dec. 2 -LTV Two po sitions north and south of Faenza have fallen to tilled armies, head- quarters -announced today, as the German withdrawal, through i the mountains toward the Po plain continued in the face oi threats) against the enemy's eastern flank. Indian troops . of ' the . British eighth army seized strongly : de fended Albereto, a village ' five miles . northeast of Faenza, cap turing 100 prisoners. The US fifth army, swinging across the Lamone. river which blocks the approaches to Faenza, occupied t Monte - Giorenetto,! 11 j miles west southwest of the city. Riirmn TJnnrl s- W.r npwl fpl " X OW11 X UKCll CHUNGKING, Dec. 2 H-The Chinese high command announced today the capture of Chefang, last Japanese - held town on the Burma road in Yunnan province short of -the Burmese border town of Wanting, it . Chinese forces and American Liaison and . combat units took the town, 24 miles from Wanting against scant resistance yester day. ... ";: V J; (An allied communique from Kandy, Ceylon, said Chinese for ces, were consolidating ' positions southeast of the by-passed,' ene my base of Bhamo, 50 miles west of .Wanting.) . ,, , x Ilerriot's Jailer Given Death for Aiding Nazis PARIS. Dec. 2 -V The French news agency reported to day that Angely Angell, former regional prefect who ordered the internment of Edouard Herrlot French political leader, during the German occupation, had been convicted of collusion with! the enemy. He was sentenced ; to death by a collaboration court at Lyon. -' I 'I Herriot former president of the French chamber of deputies and long - time mayor ol Lyons, now is a prisoner in Germany. .- V Russians Not Satisfied . With Chinese Changes MOSCOWDec. 2 "(ff7- the so viet government paper. Itvestia declared today that the recent Chinese government reorganiza tion had failed to ease "the tense internal political situation." : A Ion article reviewing ' the Chinese situation said the Pacific war had drawn - a large number of Japanese troops out of China, : yet .the Chinese had done little or nothing to exploit this advan tage,' but instead, the 'Japanese were-ble to achieve offensive , successes. H . . Ariny-Navy , Game Bond Sales Push Maryland to Top BALTIMORE, Dc I t-OPi Maryland, with the help pt $58, 837,000 in war bonds sold llo pur chasers of tickets to the j! Army? Navy game, became the" first state in the nation to oversubscribe its sixth -war loan quota. w This was announced Just before the kickoff at the stadium today by Theodora R. Gamble,! national director of the - war loan finance division of the treasury depart ment ;,s',V -.. .-il; i i -1 . ' . Gamble told the crowd Mary land's tabulated sales now , total $238,479,000 for . the drive. The quota set had been $210,000,000. r Kaidon lokvo " By' the AaMclated Prew) A ' new Superfortress.' raid on Tokyo was reported today by the enemy's radio.; :- -H ,,- i r The raid, lacking confirmation from allied sources p Tokyo us ually is first to report the strikes would be the fourth since the B-29s started the attacks in late November from bases on Saipah. Tokyo radio, whose, broadcast was recorded by the federal! com munications commission, !s a i d "enemy aircraft flying in several formations ' had passed over To kyo today (Sunday) at 2:10 p.m. Nipponese air force "is now in tercepting these planes.". ' The first reports, as is custom ary with' Japanese broadcasts, did not say bombs were dropped but tne menuon of "several forma tions" .suggested something iinbre than, a reconnaissance mission. If confirtnea, it would be the third daylight attack oii Japan's war industries in the enemy cap ital. A 7VfVf t ll'f'fiil 1 " M15 M1 1 I Food Shortage NEW . YORK, Dec S-Ger mans- are suffering from the first real shortage of essential foods In this war", after-being the best-fed civilians in Europe for almost five years,' the American Institute of Food Distribution said today. Basing Its predictions I on gov ernment surveys and information irom private sources, tne non profit research agency said ' f If German armies are able to continue resistance i u n 4 11 next spring, their fighting men will not be delivered enough food all the time. Hunger will cut producing for war and add to present dis content among civilians. "Insufficient food and hunger were largely responsible, for Ger mans quitting in 1918. ' Similar conditions w i U , be . appreciably worse 'during' the next four months." - Leave Canceled for Naw Men in Bermuda HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec. 2- Un-lieut Admiral Frank A. Brais- ted today canceled shore leave af ter 6 p.m. for all enlisted linen of the US navy in Bermuda. His order was published Shortly after Morris A. Gibbons had criti dzed the "behaviorj; and lawless ness of certain men of the j US navy" in a speech in the Bermuda house of assembly, j . mmm Jewauperie 300 Persons Attend Annual Dog Show Sponsored by Salem IAons Varsity Defender, a wire fax ter rier, was Juzel!best"ef breed at the last seven- dor shews. Owned by Dr. James D, Xlarrl- ' son cf Portland, the Defender Is one ef 2S9 fine docs In the seventh annual Sal em dog show . at the Salem armory today. Ho," 221 Biggest ,. Week-Due On Bonds Infantry, Radio' Show to, Climax Speeded Drive A tremendous effort to boost Marion county ' bond - sales near the required $5,000,000 will open Monday, to continue through1 Thursday when the drive will be i climaxed by a spectacular US in-: fan try show preceded by a peppy hour - long radio pageant and broadcast at the armory. . Thursday, December 7, will be the third anniversary of Pearl Harbor day, and ' American . Le-: gon workers are cooperating with the county bond organization in an intensified campaign expected to result in the sale of at least $1,000,000 in bonds for the next four days alone.' " ' " , Renewed efforts are underway in Polk, Yamhill, linn and other neighboring counties. The Marion campaign is expec ted to reach every prospective buyer in this area. - Broadcast Planned - Salem Legionnaires under lead ership of Jake Fuhrer were mak ing arrangements for the Thurs day broadcast at the armory, to follow. the infantry show at Sweet- land field. The outdoor affair will start at 7:30 p. m., last about 45 minutes, while the armory show as ' broadcast by KSLM win : be from 90 to 9:30 or later. Taking part in the broadcast will " be ; Miss Margaret Becker, Salem girl chosen "Miss Oregon"; June v Johnson, Oregon ' Victory girl; Stephen ' Paietta, accordion ist; and Charles W. Roblson, noted for four - minute radio talks and newspaper articles. , Master of ceremonies will be Capt. Douglas McKay of Salem, veteran of both wars. " . J r' .t ,, ; Exhibits Due , Also on exhibition at the ar mory Thursday will be infantry equipment and munitions; Every-- thing from bazookas .to flame throwers will be shown at the ar mory and demonstrated at Sweet mory and oemonstratea ai aweei- j y-ji v i -i -land field. Nearly 50 trained ser- 1 Q,e XiliierSOIi vicemen will take part I i The 665th army band also "will be on hand for both shows, it was announced yesterday -by Chairman Douglas Yeater of the Marion county bond committee. About 30 service men-. under charge of Captain Gates make up the band. (Additional details on page 2.); Bombers Blast Nip Airfields US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD' QUARTERS. Pearl Harbor, Dec. 2 -yFV-Seventh army air force Lib erators Thursday nude their lirtn raid in four days on Iwo Jima, in the Volcano islands, launching point of Japanese raids on the US superf ort base at saipan. The Liberators - dropped 57 Vs tons of Bombs on the Iwo Jima airstrip and other installations in the Volcano isalnds, which have been subjected to a steady pound- ing ever since Nippon fighter planes began to sweep over Sai pan on November 26, a fleet com' munique said. 1 i ' Five enemy fighters attempted unsuccessfully to break , up , the Liberator attack Thursday. Ack ack damaged some of the Ameri can planes. Attendance at the seventh an nual all-breed dog show of the Oregon Dog Fanciers', association under the auspices of the Salem Lions club was over 300 on Sat urday. Some 250 dogs were regis tered in the show. All breeds . are being Judged again today by Rees L. Davies of Anderson, Ind. On Saturday night, all toys, -non-sporting dogs and hounds 'were Judged. At a. m. today all working dogs and ter rlers will be in the ring. Beginning at X p. m. sporting dors will be judged and at 4 o'clock a cpecial children's class will be Judged. Any child under 16 years of ase is eligible to show a dog benched at the show. Varie ty classes, best brace and best dog in show will be Judged at 7 o'clock tonizht "' (A complete list of Saturday's winners will be found on page IS.) pt Sf. - ' i t ? i v ! Allies Sleeting ;. I Stiff est' Fighting ' jOf Winter Push : j 7 ' , By Edward Kennedy ?ARIS, Dec 2-()-American troops entered two anchor points oi the main defenses of the Ger man reich tofoyflaminf Saai ; lautern, important Saar basin in dustrial city into which they pene nated deeply, and Julich, where i they drove- into the1 outlying part of jthe town on the western side of tth river- Roer;.;';.",5-"r . .At both Saarlautern and Julich,- 1 the Americans face river barriers. :, Julich, key point' to the Cologne plabi, lies mainly on the eastern 1 ; side of the Roer. Across the Saar from Saarlautern, burning , from ! aerial assaults. Siegfried line pof sltidns were dented by 'other air 't bombardments. J - ' OppbsiUoa Heavy .'"'i--t lathe terrific battle on the edze of tie Cologne plain) the US First -armjr at Inden " and , the . US Ninth army at Julich were encountering the neaviest opposition of the win ter offensive. - . v , " U$ Seventh army troops wiped out the last remnants of the Ger- l 9 j i A a manoriageneaa at ine approacnef to. the now demolished Rhine bridges in Strasbourg. i; ,: .? "i .i Following attacks by nearly 250 medjum and light US Ninth air force bombers which left Saar lautern' in. flames and tore open nearby Siegfried line defenses. Third army doughboys entered the $aar city at two points. The Americans then fanned out over mosti of that part of the city which lies i'est of the Saar river. Saar! Deeply Geared Thje 90th and 95th divisions, with j elements of the Tenth ar mored division screening them to the north, how hold . a. 14-mile stretch along the Saar between Merzjig and Saarlautern. The vital Saari basin has been gouged deep ly by Third army advances, but the river still , is a barrier to the v greater part of his heavily indies- trial 'region. The Germans appar ently hope to make a strong stand along this natural line. -j Troops of the 26th infantry di vision teamed ud with Fourth ar-. morefl 'division tanks . and were fighting . inside of Saar union, 12 miles south of the Saar border, whefc the Yanks are moving up the feast bank of the Saar river in af potential outflanking threat to Saarbrucken. Cbh Roosevelt. To Wed Today GRAND, CANYON, Ariz., Dec. 2 -WVf Col. Elliott Roosevelt bridal, party: arrived at the El. Tovar hotel at 11 p. m. tonight after a trip by private plane from i " Holly wood," Victor Patrosso, man- , agef of vthe resort, announced. With the presidents son was) Faye Emerson, actress, whom he i will marry at 9 a, m. tomorrow and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Frye. Frye, president of .Transcontinental and Western Air, ilnc is to be best man.' . - . . t Pstrosso . said the couple ar rived at Valley airport, 20 miles from the hotel, late this afternoon an motored through: Grand Can- , yon j national park, j; The Fryes Joined them later. , : ans LONDON, Dec 2 kff)- Under the German scourge the citizens of northern Norway are a starv ing freezing, disease - ridden band of homeless wanderers, tha Norwegian minister of justice re ported today after a recent trip of Investigation to newly lib erated portions of his country. The minister, Terje Wold, said the Arctic province of Flnmark had been "burned, plundered and laid waste until it is only a bar ren desert." , . ! DiDtheria and a form of ,dy- senery are epidemic in Kerkenes, South Varanger, vaasoe, kotw Varanger, ' Nesseby and . Tana, he said, and supplies must be sent int the . recently liberated areas much more quickly than had been expected. k . - r-i !' SCTGOINSO& tm 6irTS? 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