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-nn mm o -' mm mm (Story in Column 5) MM 0 . " ' . ' ' ' - ' -- - ... - h ITU snanie 'UUDODQCg Word come from the state house that the "dairy industry it elf? will draft, new milk control bills tor be submitted to the legis lature, This presumes a unani mity within the dairy industry which does not . exist. It is a sharply divided business. Produc er - distributors constitute one group; producers marketing through the big Dairy Coopera tive another group; independent "B" shippers another; milk dis tributors another; dairy products manufacturers," Independent and , cooperative, two more groups; and l.the one- or twocow "dairies" an- then f '; ." Thai prospects of getting all these people who art important components of the "dairy indus try" to agree on anything in the way of legislation are slight Al ready one hears rumblings of pro test against the call; for universal asteurization, with! cries of "mo nopoly" and "putting the little fellow out of business." A new organization has been formed in Portland and according to "under ground" report It plans to appose all or part of the proposed legis lative program; , The immediate agitation for le glslation has arisen over undulant fever; with a reported 170 "cases of this disease for the Portland area. This disease ii spread by an organism which causes Bang's dis ease in cattle, often called con tagious abortion, because cows afflicted with it abort and lose their calves. The current Ladies Home Journal contains a good, popular article (Continued on editorial page) Division Puts Japs to Flight CHUNGKING, Dec; 8 (ff) Counterattacking Chinese troops have 'recaptured the important railroad town of Tuhshan, 75 miles southeast of Kwelyang on the old Burma road, and are pursuing bat tered Japanese invasion forces to ward the border of Kwangsl pro vince, the Chinese high" command announced today. Electrifying this capital with its first good news hrmany weeks, the announcement said a ; crack Chinese division hit the Japanese at dawn today and sent the enemy "fleeing south la disorder with our1 victorious troops hot on their heels." . J;."-, . : Several Chungking newspapers used extras telling of the victory nd predicting that the Japanese would be driven from Kweichow province. Boys From 20 Towns at Meet One hundred twenty-five high ; school boys from 20 mid-Willa- mette valley towns gathered here Friday night: for first sessions of their annuaj,. Older Boys' confer ence which continues through to day. . r '-: Hi-Y mothers who handled the housing - arrangements saw their ' difficulties in scouring rooms van ish Saturday, as offers of accom modations poured In in greater number than were required. They expressed their gratitude for the hospitality proffered y many Sa lem families.., ' A full program of addresses, a luncheon and visits to state insti tutions and capitol building are on the conference schedulehoday. The conference banquet wis held ' Friday night at the first Presby terian church. '.i ft ; 1 Chinese Lracl Layton Goes to Death in Gas Chamber Still Denying iCrime Richard Harry " Layton, t insist- . ing to the . last 4hat he was jnnp cent, went to his 'death" in the gas 'chamber at the state prison Fri- . day for the slaying of 17-y ear-bid Ruth HUdebrand of Dallas a year ago last June . Layton, 37, .former : Monmouth , policeman, was the seventh per son to die of gas at the peniten tiary. He was pronounced dead 15 minutes ' after, entering' the: cham ber at 9:C3 ajn. There were 75 Layton was accompanied to the gas chamber by the Rev. S. Ray nor Smith, prison chaplain, who bad spent the night with him. ' , . A feW minutes prior to the exe- cution, Layton gave reporters a statement insisting he was inno cent His mother, Mrs. 1 Harry . Layton,- gave The Statesman a . statement which she said was dic tated by her on Thursday night as follows: '- . "I never killed the girl for whose death I am about to die. Che, a soldier and I were on the HINETY-FOUHTH YEAR Hungary Germans Admit Capital Garrison Situation Critical LONDON, Saturday, Dec. -Berlin said last night that Rus sian tank forces had crashed though to the Danube river north of Budapest, half-encircling the Hungarian capital garrison al ready imperiled by other Soviet units which crossed the river 13 miles southwest of the city. ' A German broadcast intimated the important railroad junction of Aszod, IS miles northeast of Buda pest, had fallen, saying "superior" red army forces attacked the vil lage and that "most of the German garrison fought its way out while the rest resisted , to the last .round of ammunition." Beach Danube Marshal Rodlon Y. Malinovtkjy'a Second Ukraine army units broke through to the Danube In a three ray 27-mile drive from Hatvan. 10 miles east of Aszod, Berlin said, and were threatening : the east bank " communications center of Vac, 13 miles north of Budapest . Berlin also declared other Sec ond Ukraine army units had link ed with Marshal Feodore I. Tol bukhln's Third Ukraine army at Ercsi, on the west bank of the hDanube 13 miles southwest of the capital Drive Announced Moscow's . regular communique did not mention the northern ac tion which Berlin admitted put the Budapest garrison in a critical situation, but it did announce a powerful drive toward Vienna through the Budapest-Lake Bala ton defense line southwest of the capital: A midnight Soviet bulletin' said that an entire Hungarian infantry regiment comprising 29 officers and 1390 men, surrendered as a unit on the Danube front and that 300 others were captured and 1500 Germans and Hungarians killed In southwestern Hungary. . . , Jail and Fine Meted To Despoiler of Flag WEISER, Idaho, Dec. -JJP Vena Wilburn of Weiser pleaded guilty in district court here to desecrating the United States flag and was sentenced by Judge A. O. Sutton to 30 days in jail and a $100 fine. The complaint charged that Wilburn last July pulled the flag from a light pole on a downtown Weiser street and "threw the flag contemptuously on the ground." river bank. The girl . . ran, bump- Led . a log . and.lell .into the water. When she came up the second time ' the soldier grabbed her around "the neck. She struggled away from him and drowned. I signed -a confession, but it was a lie. I swear by my God as X am about to die. The police forced that confession through misrep resentations. The girl for whose life , I . atone was not . murdered. She drowned.- . . Layton ate a good breakfast Friday and munched candy, brought to him by his mother and a sister the night before", pending time to enter the chamber- , The condemned man was born in San Francisco, April 3, 1907. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Layton of Independence. Private funeral services will be at 1 pjn. Tuesday at Oough-Bar-rick Funeral home with the Rev. S. Raynor Smith officiting. : Bur ial is scheduled - in City View cemetery. . Circl Citadel 12 PAGES Planes Hammer Jammed Freight Yards of Nazis LONDON, Dec. S--Upwards of SOQ RAF Lancasters spread 300 tons of bombs on the jammed freight yards of Duisburg today and several hours later another force of British bombers attacked a synthetic oil refinery at ,the strategic transportation center on the northern perimeter of, the Ruhr industrial area. 1 , Duiiburg's railway yards were crowded with vital war equipment ready to be speeded to the west ern front. , t Veterans Get Quarters for;' Service Work Selective service offices In the Salem armory were designated Friday as the capital city's Vet erans' Service center, clearing house for the various public and private agencies prepared to aid returning service men and women make the easiest possible adjust ment to civilian life. : - B.- E.. (Kelly) Owens, com mander of t Capital post No. 9, American Legion, was unanimous ly elected temporary chairman of the Salem veterans' service com mittee at the organization meet ing held Friday morning in the Salem; Chamber, of Commerce rooms, and Marcella Miller, chief clerk of Marion county selective service - local board No. 1, was named secretary and veterans' in formation clerk. " . Attending the meeting besides Owens and Mrs. Miller, were Ray Bassett and Arthur M. Johnson. Legion;, Virgil Bolton and C. W. Prickett Veterans of Foreign Wars; Mrs.' A. L; Strayer,VFW auxiliary; Supt Frank B. Bennett of Salem public schools; Marion Bowen, county welfare adminis trator; W. i G. Nibler, county agent; C. F. Feike and Milton E. Coe, division of vocational edu cation; William H. Baillie and Fred Wolf, U. S. employment ser vice; Cecile Bowden, civil service commission; Olive Doak Bynon and Orpha Dasch, Red Cross; William Hamilton, state veterans' committee executive board, and Lt Col. George E. Sandy, . state selective service headquarters. The entire veterans' assistance program was discussed In detail. Representatives from the commit tee declared later that all agen cies are prepared to handle the problems of the returning veteran which have been delegated to them. r Heaviest Combined Strike of Pacific War Jolts Japs in Bonins US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Hirbor, Dec. tff)A heavy- bomber force jolt ing the Bonin islands yesterday in a combined attack with warships probably was the greatest land- based air fleet ever thrown against a. single objective to the Pacific. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said today a "sizable" force of Super fortresses (meaning 75 to 100 In pan accounts j joinea wiin ids Liberators shielded by 30 fighters in a strike - on Iwo Jima, '750 miles south fof : Tokyo and base for Japanese nuisance raids on Saipan. , - V Five Zeros were shot down and another damaged. There was no ackack. . . , Fnnd for Albany Mine ' Laboratory Rejected WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 8- (ff)-A. $160,000 ; appropriation to operate the recently constructed mining laboratory at Albany, Ore. was rejected by a 50 to 31 stand ing vote In the house of represen tatives today. The sum was re quested as an amendment to the supplemental appropriation bQl by Rep. Harris EUaw'orth. ;- ! r ., PCUNbDD 1651 Salem, Oregon, Saturday Mornlne December 9. vwviui wiwuuu. uutunuiT . nuvninn. nrim rmm o iaja . ? s l ,i Damage In 'Quake Ad Tremor Causes Tidal Wave in .Industrial Area By the Associated Press v Tokyo acknowledged last (Fri day) night that factories In Osaka and other war Industry sections of the main Japanese island were damaged by the Thursday earth quake, so severe it caused a tidal wave. ! A Domel agency dlspatchj pick ed up by the federal communica tions commission, said, factories and homes in Osaka, Hamamatsu and Shimuzu areas were dam aged, out claimed that "on the whole" the destruction was light Extent Uncertain The announcement did not in dicate the extent of casualties ex cept to state "a number of per sons, had suffered light or severe injuriei In .the HamamaUu-and Shimuzu areas. i Osaka, 240 miles southwest of Tokyo, has a population of 3,252, 000. It is an important rail and shipping hub. 1 There was no indication Tokyo itseix had been affected. The Do me! dispatch listed the damaged areas as Osaka, Hamamatsu, Shi zuoka, Shimlzu, Nsgoya and Na gano. Center of Aviation Nakoya, with a population of 1,328,000, is 160 miles southwest of Tokyo. Before the war it was the center of Japan's aviation In dustry. I : . Tidal waves and landslides ad ded to the damage in the Shi zuoka area, some 80 miles south west of Tokyo, earlier broadcasts said. i i War Bill Again Gets O.K. Vote WASHINGTON, Dec. 8--The senate voted today to con tinue the administration's broad war emergency authority through 1945, passing without change the house-approved extension of the second war powers act I Senate approval was by a voice vote. The bill now goes to the White1 House. i The senate ' accepted a house amendment giving federal courts power to review , and enjoin war production board orders1 suspend ing individual allocations of criti cal materials, , ' ; , V The administration did not op pose the judicial review rider but its opponents in the house "con tended it - might hamstring the WPB at a Ume when the agency is attempting to hike war produc tion in a number of fields. Churchill Wins Suggests V. S. LONDON, Dec. 8 - (JP) r Prime Minister Churchill won' an over whelming vote of confidence in the houes of commons today for! a foreign ; . policy of Intervention against "mob , rule by t murder gangs" in liberated Europe after a vigorous i defense in which he clearly suggested that the United States could not wash! its hands of the problem. . A tense, often turbulent house supported him 281 to 32 when the premier, in a back-me-or-sack-me stand, forced the issue to meet a clamor of criticism at 'home and abroad; t ': '" "The criais was provoked by the use of British troops to combat fraternal strife in Greece, by Brit ish refusal to approve Count Carlo Sforza as Italian foreign minister, by violent demonstrations in Bel gium, and by rumblings of unrest in-Holland. . i ' . . : Refusing to retreat an inch from tnitted Bonds Hit Quota But Lag Cited Sixth War Loan Topped; Individ ual Sale Needed WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (JPy America passed its $14,000,000,000 quota in the Sixth War Loan to day and kept right on going be cause the drive could, not yet be considered a success. ! As Individuals, Americans had reached only 60 per cent of the quota for individual sales, and only 49 per cent of their series E bondl goal. Quota Exceeded ' Treasury Undersecretary Dan iel W. Bell announced : the quota busting figure of $14,052,000,000. He said the war picture has changed since the goal was set The armed forces need: more sup plies Snd ammunition! than was expected,- he said, and more money must be borrowed from the people. ( Therefore Bell .said in a state ment, "We should not be satisfied with anything , less than a sub stantial over-subscription. . The bulk of Sixth WarLoan money has come from corpora- UOM, $11,031,000,000. Another 'Week: : " , ina;viauaia' sales . . were an nounced. Mr- $5,021,000,000, com pared 'with the individual quota of five billion dollars.! The drive runs another week, to Dec.' 16. Bond sales will continue to count through December, with final Sixth War Loan totals to be an nounced Jan. 2. .' i , Series E .bond sales were $1.- 166,000,000, about 46 per cent of the E bond quota of $2,500,000,000 Industrialists for War, Postwar NEW YORK, Dec. The National Association of Manufac turers,' pledging war production until the last shot is fired," de clared today preparation never theless must be made I for recon version If job goals are to be reached after the war.! In a resolution adopted at its 49th annual meeting, NAM urged: 1. War production until victory. 2. Maintenance of essential ci vilian goods. . . 1. The' small amount of pre- reconversion work that muat.be completed to prepare for recon version in the few converted in dustries on which substantial em ployment depends. 4. Reconversion expansion and resumption of civilian production which does not interfere with war production. - .- i. ' ',' Morgenthau Returns to Duty After Week's Rest PHOENIX, Ariz, Dec Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., left by plane to day for Washington, where, he will resume his cabinet duties af- in Shoicdoivn: Anti - Mob Aid his position, which he epitomized in the sentence, "democracy Is not a harlot to be picked) up in the street by a man with a tommy gunV Churchill made it; evident that he regarded the responsibility as' America's as well as Britain's. The United States state depart ment has publicly avowed a hands-off policy regarding the in ternal affairs of other countries. ..Use of British troops to main tain order in Belgium was direct ed by a. British general operating under command of General Eisen hower, Churchill noted; pausing to praise Eisenhower and remark that ,we thought those orders were wise and sensible." . Churchill r remarked: also that "our interest in Italy is the front" where5 under the American '-, Lt Gen. Mark Clark "we have confi dently placed an army which is at least three-quarters British." - ..5- Lay . 1 ; ; i : ' . ! . 1944 Yanks Land American troops of the 77th division . ' - 1 i ' '. '!-.:-: . ' -I . I v: -1 . .: . aril in a wk. - bk. "m r . . awa, Igri--v -E 7g?? BBBiBiijrAvo nuiea souin er ormoe on Lejrte and are driving northward. Gen. MacArthar's headquarters announced. Other arrows are American land drives. Jap paratroopers who landed In the vicinity of San Pablo i (A) art being wiped oat At Ormoe bay (B) IS vessels of a Jap convoy were sunk. (AP wirephoto map) Japs Trapped rlay; Yanks Move Ahead ' Oh Entire Philippine Front i MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines. Dec 9 UPl-l Three years from the day the Japanese first struck at the PhiliDoines: US 77th division troops slashed through the Nipponese defenders of Ormoe, to reach the outskirts of that enemy stronghold, Gen; Douglas MacArthur announced today. The advance by the veterans of Guam in the first 24 hours after their surprise landing in the rear of the Vamashita line exceeded two miles. . ' - ; . At the same time the 7th divi sion to the south pushed up the coast to narrow the gap between it and the 77th to five! miles, and MacArthur reported "substantial enemy forces" caught in . the squeeze play were facing annihi lation.. , -. I , ' ! All along the'wide front over the mountains, In the valleys and along: the coast the Americans fob- served . the third anniversary of the war in the Philippines it was December 8 'when the Japanese struck by moving forward. From the north, the US 32nd division was advancing slowly southward along, the road to Or moe. -I ''- ; To the southeast of Ormoe oth er troops had reached a point only six miles from the coast To the south, the US 7th divi sion was pushing northward and had seized Balogo. Louis Pitacciato Dies in Action in France, Nov. i5 HAYES VILLE, Dec PFC Louis Pitacciato, U. S. army infan try, was killed in action in France, November 25, the war department has notified his wife,; the former Eileen : Hanson. Mrs, Pitacciato and their' small daughter, Lou- Anne, make their home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Han son, in mis community. Private Pitacciato was inducted In 1941 In Pittsburg,! Pa, where his mother lives. Three 'brothers and one sister ire" fev the U.S. armed forces overseas. He was stationed ' two years." ago : atlthe state fairgrounds and later waa with the 4th division at Ft Lewis. He was married to Eileen Hanson September 12, -1943. French See, Pact With V Reds in DeGaulle Visit PARIS, Dec tHFrance and Soviet Russia will sign an alliance before ' Gen. de Gaulle returns from Moscow, well-informed offi cials" at the Qual d'Orsay predict ed today. . ' ; , - U. S. Lossei Heavy, Said i LONDON, Saturday, Dec 9-W) The German radio declared early today , that 170,000 American troops were lost in; the "great Aachen battle.. There - was no elaboration or allied confirmation. ,. I..' - .-. I -'- - i. ,.; .: . . Near Ornioc n il "0 ATVTt MMf Z Iii - (large arrow) have landed three in Squeeze Pension Tax Freeze Voted j Sent to FDR , WASHINGTON, . Dec.' t -() -Contrary to administration wishes, the senate today sent to the white house legislation' freezing the old age pension tax throughout 1945. The senators voted 47 to 19 In favor , of the freeze not s large a ratio as the 262 to 72 house vote last Monday, but more than the two-thirds needed to override a widely predicted veja'.'A switch of four votes, however, would doom a motion to override. ' If Mr. Roosevelt bows to -congress' will, or if the lawmakers override a veto, It will mark the fourth conseciitive year that an automatic Increase in the pajroll levy has been blocked. The rate, now 1 per cent each on employer and employers, will double Jan. 1, unless the bill becomes law. , Bond Sales Pass $3,500,000 But Purchases StiU Las With the momentum generated by the Pearl Harbor celebration still bringing reports of big salei all; over the county Sixth Wa Bond campaign totals were swell ing today well past the $3,500,000 mark. ' -;. yy-Fl Annouricement.of a bond prei mlere" by the Elsinore theatre for next Wednesday.' night already was boosting E bond sales, although the total still was below a $l,000j 000 against a quota of $1,500,000. All downtown theatres Joined one day this week in giving tickets with E bond sales, accounting for many thousands in additional pur chases. . -.. . ;. . j-. t , Willamette . university , trustees boosted the bond .total Friday by buying $100,000 worth of federal obligations. The state added $3700 to its extensive purchases. .- "Paulus Brothers cannery went over the top with purchases add ing up to $4,462.75, against a quota of $4375. - Additional reports alio are expected from this, concern. Oregon Pulp and Paper employes went 150 per cent of their quota. Industrial Chairman Robert Min ton reported, and - Kay Woolen miUs was added to the honor list of over the top firms. ; Altogether, Weather t Max Imam temperature Friday SI degrees, mlnisaam St - degrees, ao rain, : river t -4 ft , . . . Washington: Partly cleady Satarday and Sunday. Little ; ;. change in temperatare. Oregon: Clear Satarday partly elendy Sunday. Little change m temperature. Big Steel Furnaces Now Lost ! U.S. 3rd and 7th j Smashing: Along 60-Mile Front SUPREME , HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Dec 9 -()- The i US Third, and Seventh armies In 1 a concerted push along a 60-mile ' front from shell-torn Saarbrucken to the Rhine, hammered today at the Siegfried line guarding Ger many's Saar basin and at the out lying defenses of the neighboring palatinate province. ! f The Third army's 35th infan try division forced two new cross- - ings of the Saar river near $ar- '- reguemines, at the threshhold of the rich ' industrial . basin eight miles southeast of Saarbrucken, and -established bridgeheads a half mile deep at both points. Armor Closing In , Lt Gen. George S. Patton's ar mor closed steadily on Saarbruck- . en, the political and . industrial . capital of the ' Saar, whose big furnaces, turning but a tenth of ! the steel for the enemy's .armies ; already were cogsidgry t ot Uk the reich. --,.. i. ;,. !:' The US Seventh 'army, on the ; I Third's right flank to the east surged forward as much as three miles along a 35-mile front and field dispatches j from Associated i Press Correspondent Thoburn Wiant said they entered a town four and . a half miles from the . German frontier. : ' . ' At this point the Seventh turn !, ed its heavy artillery on a moun talnous sector of the Siegfried line. ! -' - . . '-s . : ! - - (Field censorship . would not immediately permit disclosure of the exact location of this closest , advance to Germany yet made by the Seventh.) j Planes Pace Attack ' The doughboy advance, steadily 1 driving the Germans from both the Saar, basin and northern Lor raine, waa paced by hundreds of fighteribombers "blistering enemy strongpoints in their path. ; So close was aerial support that towns bombed In the forenoon were entered by American troops in the' afternoon. .. The Third army's 90th divislon ) was deepening Its mile and a halt deep wedge in the Siegfried line ; in the face of persistent counter- assaults. Fires blazed in eight . Saar valley towns. . ; :J ; , . Patton's Long Toms and heavy howitzers were: wrecking Saar brucken, where two of the great est steel plants In the entire Saar valley are located in the suburbs of Brebach and Burbach. It waa the ninth .' consecutive day of bombardment' industrial employes have account ed for $125,000 worth of E bonds In less than three weeks, Minton said. v Rural schools passed their $25, 000 quotaKMrs. Carmalite Weddle reported, with the Hayesville. schoolJust north of Salem, set ting the pace. First setting a $400 goal and then extending it to $1000, the Hayesville pupils re-! ported $4109 sales at last reports and more was ' coming, according to leaders, Janice Bonsall of the ?Axls Chasers" and Philip Saucy of the "Victory Kids." i SHOPPING- PAYS, 1 Mtsnd uklt. L-. ' 1