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vv7 v. n - - ri p- . . ...... r - ' - s'' t -Li - I i I : 3 klGJ - r ,- " ' I .. i ... n ;S,S mg Mew Gros HtD 00013 A few years ago I was browsing ! -around in the M&F book - room when; Miss Cooley, the 'manager, spied me and hustled me to an up per floor to see some paintings by a new artist, lately' come to Port- .- land. The artist was Peter Win- throp Sheffers, a native of San Antonio, Texas, who had studied art in London and Paris and won an M. A. at the Royal Academy. Af ter v a r 1 e d productive work which earned him recognition In numerous exhibitions, S h e f f ers came out to this coast, fell fh love with Oregon, located here and be gan painting its scenery. . . Even a dub like me as far as art is concerned 'could see that Sheffers' paintings had quality; and his choice of familiar Oregon scenes, particularly on our own coast, gave one added delight. . ' So competent an artist could not - long be In Oregon without Claude Kells hearing about him. So it was no surprise to me to see a Sheffers collection on display at the Salem YMCA a year ago. One of his finest paintings stayed at the Y; November Storm," which now. hangs in the lobby. Last win - ter Sheffers conducted a class In painting at the Salem Y. A few months ago " I "received an announcement from the famous art store' of Gump's," Saia Fran cisco, which read as follows: "We are pleased to announce that we have made a discovery. Three years ago Peter Winthrop Sheffers arrived! on the Pacific coast, and, in his quiet and indi- ' vidual way, started painting the land and the (Continued on Editorial Page) Russians Drive - t ; . ..... 16 More Miles In Balkan Push LONDON, Thursday, Dec. f-The red army scored gains rang Ing up to, 16 miles yesterday on the southern approaches to Buda pest west of the Danube river, s Russian Irani dispatches placed Soviet vanguards within 85 miles of the Austrian frontier. The Russian war bulletin said ; Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine army captured SO places in the drive on Budapest, including Racalmas, 28 miles , south of the Hungarian capital. The Germans said they had aban doned Ercsi, only 13 miles south, nd asserted the Russians . had crossed to the Danube's west bank from Csepel Island below the cap ital. ; ... Units of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky'i Second Ukraine ar my are entrenched solidly on the 80-mile island in positions only six miles . from Budapest s , out- skirts. Racalmas is only four miles from the southern tip of the island! and a Junction of these forces was . Imminent, if not already accom plished. x dared the red army was striking at 'Budapest in a new offensive 'from the south, northeast and east, but there was no confirmation Ifom Moscow. : Rockets May Provide War'g Qimactic Blow NEW YORK, Dec. -ft-C&pt Gerald D. Linke of the navy de partment's ordnance bureau, said today that rockets were expected to provide in large part "the cli mactic punch to knock out both the nails and the Japs." ; Terming rocket production "one of? our hottest production pro duction programs,, Linke said that during the recapture of Guam several thousand rockets were hurled In less than a minute. - PROCLABIATION Three years ar,o Japan com mitted a most dastardly crime against the United States of America when, without warn ing, and while talking peace, the cowardly- aud sneaking at tack was made at Pearl Har bor. December 7, 1941, is a dark day in the history of the United States. The wrong then committed against us can ; be avenged by the defeat of Ja pan and the axis nations. To avenge that wrong we are now eagaged in a war. To win the war has required and will con tinue to demand .sacrifices of our people. We can win that war by loaning to our country our money, as well as by ren dering every service possible. On December 7, v-1944, we cannot celebrate, but-we can resolve to ayeni e the wrong committed at Pearl Harbor. Therefore, I, as mayor of the city of Salem, Oregon, declare December 7, 1944. "Avenge rearWIarbor Day" in the city of Salem, and urge every citi zen to buy bonds of the Unit ed States so that the defeat suffered at Pearl Harbor may be avenged." Dated this 6th day of De cember; 1944 X. ?.L DOUGHTON. ' Mayor of the City of Salem. tnHETY-FOUBTR YEAR Defense easures, Prepared Greek Officials Think Civil War Will End Today By Stephen Barber ATHENS, Dec. 6 Polici Chief Evert of Athens said tonight that according to "more or less reliable information", forces of the ELAS and communists may at tempt an "all-out assault" on the city during the night,. 'Measures are being taken to meet the situation," he declared. The police chiefs report follow ed a day of clashes between Brit ish and Greek regular army troops and armed members of the ELAS. Before he made i his an nouncement of preparations to meet the assault, Greek govern ment authorities had said they be lieved the near-civil war which has rocked the city since Sunday would be ended by tomorrow. Clashes Subside V While intermittent firing was heard in Athens all day, punctu ated occasionally by the burst of' a grenade of the L crackle of ma chine gun fire " from a British tank authorities reported that clashes in Piraeus, the ' port ' of Athens, had subsided!' J ; f . 'H British casualties nave -been very few thus far, while those of the ELAS have been considerably higher. It is not possible to ob tain any definite figures, as yet ; Head fer Athens - However, fresh bands of ELAS, armed units of the EAM, the na tional liberation front party, were reported streaming from the rural districts toward Athens. ii Refusal of the EAM to disband its militia brought on the crisis, in which the government of Pre mier : George T Papandreou had been- supported by Britain witk a large contingent of troops un der MaJ. Gen. R.' M. Scobie, who has termed the ELAS mutineers.' British troops were establishing. control over the center of Athens? working out to concentric rings. ' - - Allied Planes ; Blast Germans LONDON, Dec. 6 -(ff)- Allied air fleets, the American eighth air force by day and the RAF with a 1300 plane blow at night, smash ed again - today at German " oil plants and railways, - j f The RAF targets, a synthetic oil plant and two freight yards, were not identified in an air ministry announcement shortly before mid night : i ' - . ;- , ,, ;. The Luna synthetic oil factory at Merseberg and the railway yards that feed into the Ruhr at Bielefield were attacked by 1600 American planes. It was the . 17th daylight attack on Merseberg. ; Jap Paratroops Drop r On Leyte Says Tokyo i By the Associated Press Japanese paratroops were drop ped Wednesday on American air oases ai aurauen, 2an raoio, iai lag and Tacloban on Leyte, Tokyo radio reported today in a broad cast recorded by the federal communications- commission. There was no allied confirmation. -. 1 M Three Years Ago Toddy Japs " Made Attack on Pearl Harbor By Charles It. MeMurtry " , US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 0.-P)-Three years ago tomorrow at dawn planes from a 'Japanese carrier task force then largest fleet unit of that type in history, to that date sank or damaged 18 United States warships lira trea cherous attack on Pearl Harbor. Today, every one of those six Japanese carriers lies on the bot tom of the Pacific ocean, while 11 of those United States warships are on active duty in the Pacific and another presumably Is par ticipating in Atlantic operations. 12 PAGES Bazooka A' - 4 A 39-man demonstration unit f combat Infantrymen will exhibit this infantry weapon In the spectacular outdoor weapons show . at Sweetland field tonifht at 7:30 'clock. i 1: Three Costly Years of War . Finds U.S. Sure of Victory ; ButNot 6fEVnnniig t By John M. Hightower WASHINGTON, Dec. . 6 - (P) three costly years of war today victory but shaken faith in winning: the peace, r ' 1 The eve of the, third anniversary of Pearl Harbor is marked by politicar disputes with Britain,' the latest of which is just de veloping over Italy and Greece, and lack of ' certainty about Allies Set Up Bridgehead Across River ROME, Dec. 6 -iff)- Smashing stubborn German7 resistance,' Bri tish and, Polish troops have firmly established a , bridgehead across the Lamone river, four miles southeast of Faenza, posing a new flanking threat to nasi troops in a bulge southwest of Bologna,' the aUied high command announced today, f ; .. . . Evidence that the Germans were well aware of their precarious po sition in the area and are with drawing from the bulge came in an announcement that the. fifth army, now under Lt Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, jr, had captured Pen zola, a mountain town south of Imola, junction point on the Bo logna - Faenza highway. Northeast of Faenza eighth ar my troops ' cleared the ' Ravenna Godo road and, aided by Italian partisans, were clearing out pock ets of Germans east of Ravenna along the six mile canal leading to the Adriatic.. Austrian Unit Formed LONDON, Dec. 6-P)-The Cairo radio said tonight that the first "free Austrian brigade" had been formed on Yugoslavia and that lt was fighting under Marshal Tito's command to join In the liberation of Austria. .1 Still another of those American ships fought the Japanese , cour ageously for a year before she was sunk. ?;;. .- , - .; . t ; t . The guns, machinery and even sections of the hulls of four other Pearl Harbor attack victims have been salvaged and used against the Japanese.' Only the target ship Utah re mains on the bottom of Pearl Har bor where she well might be a fitting permanent monument to American skill, persistence and ingenuity which raised and re built those other vessels into mod-. era fighting ships greatly im proved over their .pre-war rating. SalemV Dragon, Thursday ?m -mm in Action 0 - The United , States finished off with full confidence in military Russia's future course in Europe. Thus the American people and government face a critical ques tion: can the allies remain unified in peace as in war? . Early Answer Due . i . A decisive answer may be had within three months, after Presi dent Roosevelt meets with - Mar shal Stalin I and : Prime ' Minister Churchill. ' The main objective' of the meeting will be to work out common policies on just, such is sues as ; political freedom in Eu rope and the exact role of .the great powers in the proposed se curity, organization. "i ; . All leaders here agree, in look ing back over the past 36 months, that it was common purpose-to batter the,' enemy Into uncondi tional surrender which made possible; the advances toward vic tory already achieved in Europe and the Pacific Tw Dark Spets There are but two dark spots on military; maps now. One Is the grave weakness of war - weary China and the other the lack of a major offensive by. Russia on Ger many'a eastern front to match the Anglo-American-allied assault in the west But a Russian winter offensive is expected shortly, and there are signs of improvement in China, though little can be done about one basic trouble, lack" of supplies. B-29?s Attack Manchuria ; WASHINGTON, Dec 7 W Superfortresses attacked indus trial objectives in Japanese-dominated Manchuria today. . A brief 20th air force commun ique said a , large task force of B-29s of the 20th bomber com mand "continued the campaign against Japanese war production with ; a b daylight attack today against i Important industrial ob jectives in Japanese dominated Manchuria.' ;," - k;' . !: ? ' Gen.; H. 2L Arnold, command ing general of the 20th air forci in his announcement said further details Will be announced later. Stalin, DeGaulle Sleet MOSCOW, Dec f -(P)- Premier Stalin and General De Gaulle ear ly tonight had the third of their talks since the French leaders ar rival here last week, for discus sions of political and military matters. Morning, December 7. 1844 It's Time To Buy - A Bond Big Push Under way to 'Avenge Pearl Harbor' Salem and its environs will be bond-conscious today! , If a ''the third anniversary of Pearl ; Harbor, and from all ap pearances no one will be allowed to forget it vTJ'v' ; ,V1' j! A drive-within-a-drive a one- day splurge to make the Sixth War Loan an established success 1- Pearl Harbor Day Schedule t am. to S pjn. Thirty-second ' blast of ' sirens on every hour; and bend messages ever radio. 11 ajn. to 4 pml, Exhibition of modern Infantry weapons at armory, free to public ' 7:15 pjn. Band concert at Sweetland field. . 7:39 pjn. Assault on a Jap anese pillbox by US Infantry at Sweetland field. 8:30 pjn.-r-65th Infantry band at armory. : t pjbu Preparation for battle presented by US Infantry. . 9:30 pjn. Radfo show from armory aver KSLM. r All day Bay an extra bond. will open with "reminders by sirens and KSLM radio at 9 a.m. The. day's slogan will be Avenge Pearl Harbor by buying an extra war bond.. The day's big attraction will be the-spectacular US infantry show at Sweetland field tonight But there ; will be others (see pro gram), i I All Legion posts and Legion naire will aid in the campaign to day. Many will be on the tele phone selling " bonds; and tele phone calls to bond headquarters, Salem 9163, will bring bond sell ers to anyone who . , 'phones to make i known what denomination is wanted. Retail stores have been asked to have their telephone operators an swer calls with the admonition Kn liAn1a Iabw A special request for service men and men who have been hon orably! discharged from the armed forces; during' this war to attend the infantry show -tonight was is sued this morning by the Marion county war finance f committee. Such men can" be of definite as sistance if they will report to the sponsors of the show at 8:30 pmL, it was said. (See additional story on page 2). f ?'.' : - Newly Born Baby Killed SEATTLE, Dec 6 The body, of a newly born baby, which was 'slain when approximately an hour; old, was found in a trash con tainer in the Seattle business dis trict today, Coroner C. L. Harris said tonight ' ' Later Dr. Gale Wilson, county autopsy surgeon said the , child's skull had been crushed and the body stabbed 13 times, presum ably with a long heavy pin. Three of the punctures entered the ba by's heart, but any one of the 13 would have been fatal, Dr. Wilson said. ..-'; f The child's mouth had been stuffed with paper, leading to an original theory it had been Strang led to death. , Germ Killing Extract Discovered in Garlic NEW YORK, Dec 9 A germ-killing extract j from garlic. which Is about one per cent powerful as penicillin, but attacks a wider range of diseases, was re ported to the Proprietary associa tion of America here today. Weather ; 7: J Xfaxlmom temperature Wed nesday 84 degrees, mlnlmnm 4S degrees, .$ Inch rain, river -4 ft rV; rrX-- i : Partly eloady Thursday and Friday with light rains north west portion Friday. Cooler west portion Friday, - Insistent v 7 Anthony ' Eden, foreign secretary, served - notice ' yesterday that Britain Intends to; stick to her position. . rU Senate Protests Nominations For StateiPosts WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - () - Several new dealers Joined today a senate debate against Presi dent Roosevelt's nominations to high state department posts and the names were sent back to com mittee for study. ; This startling upset came on a 37 to 27 vote which, turned Senator Connally (D-Tex) pink with an- ger. L.onnauy as cnainnan oi uie foreign relations committee was in charge of the nominations on . . .i the floor. I . r ' . - ; Senator Guffey (D-Pa), usually an administration supporter, was leader in the! fight against im mediate confirmation, of the ap pointments of Joseph C. j Grew to be undersecretary ; or state ana Nelson A. Rockefeller, W. L. Clay ton and Archibald MacLeish to be assistant secretaries. Only praise was voiced for Grew but his nom ination went back with the others. Atlanta Cons Would Give : Up for Story ATLANTA, Dec I Twen ty five convicts, who.have barrir caded themselves in la building at the Atlanta 4 federal; penitentiary with four, guards as hostages, .told an : Atlanta . Journal columnist late today they would surrendef only- if he published! a story set ting forth their grievances. Morgan Blake, Journal column ist and Sunday school teacher, who has addressed inmates of the prison in the past, was summoned at the request of the convicts, who seized control'- of " a "Cvestory building .Monday." g ":; For 45 minutes. Blake, speaking through a window, pleaded with the men to leave the building and liberate" their hostages. ; The convicts 'agreed to' yield only if Blake ran a story in his newspaper . relating their griev ances. They said an early edition of the paper must be shown to them by Blake and, If it met their approval, they would, come out and free their hostages. 4 Amendments, May Become Operative Today; Minus slip-ups, four constitu tional amendments and two sta tutes, approved by voters of Ore gon at the November general election, will become operative some time today. The official canvass of the votes for . all candidates, constitutional amendments ' and . measures was completed at the office of the secretary of state Wednesday af ternoon. Now, only the signing of the proclamations declaring the results of that canvass remains to make the amendments and bills part of. tha state-law. !''; '--i:;y.i Gov. Earl Snell and Secretary of State Robert SL FarrelL jr, In dicated Wednesday that they planned to sign the proclamations when they are prepared today. All will be ready by noon, lt Is anticipated. Farrell will be out of the city part of today but is ex pected to return in time to attach his signatures to the proclamations before 5 pjn. . ;', --fj ' ;.:' :f . When the proclamations are signed the Burk wine bill, which prohibits the sale of anyintoxi catmg ' liquor containing more Prica 5c No. 224 Britain. America , Disagree i Eden Reaffirms c England's Right Of Intervention1' By Alex Singleton i LONDON, Dec. H)-A wide- open : Bnnsh-American split In policy over liberated Europe's po litical quarrels developed today, with Britain insistent upon her right to intervene when necessary and the United States equally firm on a hands -off attitude.'' !t v Watching the continents politi cal strife with mounting concern, the house of commons heard For eign Secretary Anthony Eden his usual suavity sacrificed for edged words of determination - " serve notice that Britain Intends to stick to her position regardless of Ame rican reaction. - .The British government's positions-one of transcendent import tance in its potential impact upon the ideological struggles gripping many of Europe's restive . coun tries was outlined just 24 hours after .the United States formally declared those problems should be settled "without , influence from outside" v v. . The immediate issue 'revolved around Britain's intervention in Italy's affair;, specifically on its objection , to ilberal Count Carlo Sforza as Italian foreign ministef in the Bonomi government. L From that issue stemmed a fun4 damental problem affecting many of the other countries. - . Chinese Admit Ttishan Lost CHUNGKING, Thursday, Dec 7 -vP)- The Chinese admitted in a special communique .today the loss of Tushan, former terminus of the Kwangsi - Kweichow railroad 75 miles southeast of' Kweiyang. Japanese claimed the town was captured December 2, but the Chi nes high command said it fell the morning of December 5 after tile enemy 'suffered heavy casualties. : This reverse came amid reports that a Japanese jdrive was In full swing toward - Kunming, loss of which would hamstring the pros pective India - China supply, route and deliver the US 14th air force a crippung blow. ... . 11 Senate PrLy Still Up in Air -PORTLAND, Dec. 6 -jp)- The state senate-presidency began to teeter uncertainly. 4 again . today with announcement by State Sen. Coe W McKenna - that his name would be presented at the senate caucus ''January TrT. But McKenna gave no hint as to how many senators were pledg ed to him, while Sen. Howard Bel ton, " Clackamas county, . claims more than enough backers for the presidency. ; ' ;.".; : "1; : Some of . McKenna's . backers shifted to Bel ton when early re turns indicated McKenna - would lose the Multnomah county senate seat; . I-C ";;, fr; 2 Statutes than 14 per cent alcohol by vol ume (including wines, except for sacramental . uses) ' outside stores and agencies of the state liquor control commission, will go into effect. :;.!.;-: f So also i will the constitutional amendments and measures ' re pealing the double liability provl sion for. stockholders' in state banks; providing that : there shall be established a means by which counties may adopt the manager ial form of government; permit ting the legislature to restore vot ing privileges to persons - who have been convicted of a felony: authorizing ; establishment of ; veterans' loan fund; and provision of educational aid for veterans. Snell said Wednesday he had been advised by Attorney Centra! George Neuxfer that ; he should sign the proclamations forthwith upon completion of the official canvass of votes. Neuner said the canvass and the proclamations signed by the governor and secret tary of. state were . the only offi cial and authoritative evidence of the results of an election. . - . i : Forced ,1 Sarregiiemines Nearly Cleared Of Nazi Troops I By Gayle Talbot -. AnocUted Prtn War Editor) American 3 troops drove into Germany's rich Saarland from six bridgeheads across the Saar river and last night were fighting for . the final third of the French coal city of Sarreguemines,'nine miles southeast bf J the shell-raked Saar " capital ef Saarbrucken. ' f Doughboys with flamethrowers and bayonets fought Into the first defences of the Siegfried line east and northeast of Saarlautern, which apparently had been clear ed of nazi resistance.! Four new ' crossings of the Saari had - been made just north of Saarlautern. bare six miles from' Saarbrucken General Patton's troopswere a -on tiie west; and south. On, the Aachen front to tha " north the US First army had; mora 7 than four hours of tough fighting In repelling a series of enemy tank-led counterattacks aimed at the village Of Bergstein, six miles southwest of I Duren. Both tha First army jand the Ninth, pn'its left, were resting and gathering their forces for the next phase of their drive; toward Cologne and the Rhinelahdi r The British-Canadian front in Holland remained quiet JA dispatqh from : allied 'head quarters conceded that the allied 7 offensive which began in earnest Nov. 18 was1 perhaps behind schedule at this point, but said it had accomplished a main purposa in forcing' the nazis to commit a . huge force to the great battle of ' attrition east ' of Aachen.' " Tha Third army was, if anything, ahead of schedule in its drive into the. Saar. " I" ' ; ; ; ; ; . v e Fighting Increases With Yanks Gaining GENERAL M a c A RT H U RS HEADQUARTERS, - Philippines, Thursday, Dec 7 , -W- VFightingj on Leyte island in the Philippines is increasing, with the American making substantial gains on all fronts, 'Gen. Douglas Mar Arthur reported today; 1 r A Japanese tank attack; launch ed in the Ormoc corridor sector where the 10th US army- Corps is applying its pressure, failed U) break i the Americans' grip. . ; ) V To, the south of Ormoc, Nippon ese supply port on the island a west .coast, the Americans of tha 24th corps breached the enemy's ine on the. Palanas river and pierced tola point south of Balogo on the coast and Kang Dagit vil lage inland, the communique said, TThe enemy's, lina.of reinforce meats Jbj j water; through; Ormoa bay. has been cut. by.. our naval and air- forces, .Mac Arthur , said on . this third ; anniversary of tha Japanese attack, on Pearl Harbor. 'With the increasing pressure ol our ground troops : the . enemy situation must be regarded as scr ious," the general saidA '.. : Chiang, Communists ' ! Exchange Proposals CHUNGKIN Q,c Dec. t-m- Wsng Shih-Chieh, China's new minister of information, confirmed today that new . proposals have been exchanged by the Chiang Kai-shek government v arid : tha Chinese communists, but declined to disclose details. . Wang did bay, however, that one encouraging! sign was "the atmo sphere; has been more calm and there has been noticeable dimi nution of recriminations on either side.-! l'--1";..--' . ''':;.' Reclamation Congress Will Aleet in Salem 1 The, Oregon reclamation con gress and the Willamette valley project committee will meet in Salem December 19 and 20, lt was announced here Wednesday. Many reclamation1 problems of particu lar Interest to Oregon will be dis cussed. V i- ' ' The congress banquet will be held Tuesday night. A large at tendance was expected at the ses sions.! .. -I: "' -y- Leyt sF - 1 I,