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I' ,:; llaximam temperatore . . Tlmrsday 45 degrees, xolnl snum 2$ "degrees, ste rain, river ..It ft. 1 t "I Considerable TsJDey for, ttherwlse clear Friday be- ( , . eeming e 1 d y Sstnrdar. ) '. little temperature" change, ; 0330008 WDCDQCE KiNrry-rouRTH teas 14 PAGES Solsm; Orvgoo. Friday Morning, Dcmbr tS, 1944 Pile 5c No. 131 Some months ago the senate defeated the JUlgore bill which called for federal unemployment compensation up to $35 a week for all workers up to a period of 28 weeks.j It was urged that this was a responsibility of the federal government since workers are now so fully occupied in war produc tion. 'Opponents -objected on the ground that unemployment com' pensationiis a state function now and should be left so; also that the payments provided were too liberal and would encourage large groups in idleness. , The measure that finally was passed left unemployment com pen sa tion in the hands of the states. Within a few weeks the legislatures of some 45 out of the 48 states will meet. What will these states do t.bout unemploy ment compensation? What , wil. the Oregon legislative assembly do? The eyes of workers will be fixed on state legislatures, that is certain. In Oregqn, we have accumulated fund of over $60,000,000. Before the war boom we thought a -fund of $10- to $12,000,000 was ample. Now we ate not sure whether the fund five times as large will be sufficient If we have sharp de pression is will not; if our recon version if Attended by only limited reductions) in employment it will be. -; j -' . In Oregon the benefits lie within the range lot $10 a week minimum (Continued on Editorial Page) NipponLosses On teyte Far Exceed GENERAL MacARTHUK H E A D QUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 15.-iP)-Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur reported today Japanese casualtieslof '82,554 men and Am erican losses totalling 10,409 thus i- far In the Leyte and Samaf cam- i paigns initiatinf the liberation of 4 the Philippines, He alsojreported the Yanks ad- ; vanced another mile north of Or- moc, captuj-ing some major enemy I supply dumps after overcoming bitter ritanc, jTWi ' move rnent further, -closed the jaws of a . vise on Nipponese caught In the : Ormoc cofTidor of northwestern Lerte between two US divisions. MacArtaur did not estimate the. number of Japanese remaining on th two 'Islands. -The campaign against them thus far has run 55 ' The headquarters communique broke down the Japanese casualr fimires this: ' iO'AbandoTied dead on ground cap tured by !Yanks, $3,801. ;' 1 caDtured by Yanks, Estimated dead not yet collect ed,- and dead within the enemy - own; lines l8,500.-. -Lt. Bliss Will Leave Salem Ordered to report to San Diego f the first of next year for training in the armed guard, Lt. George C. Bliss, : comjnanding officer of the Willamette university V-12 unit since it was broughtto the campus ' . tv fi043. leaves Salem on . U I' ' v CmHiv for a short leave. f Lt Marshall E. Woodell, who came to Salem at Tlhe same time Bliss reported here, will take com mand of the training unit - here until the rrival of Bliss's successor who has been ordered xo, wu , i.tt but has not yet arrived, Woodell is present executive of- . Bliss, declaring himself sorry to be leavieg the unit ana Baiem, rtheless. expressed pleasure lit his new. appointment. WHite House Halts Strike i: ,--V -i----' v:.-.v- WASHINGTON, Dec 14.-)-The White House took action to- "night to liheck a threatened strike . on the Seaboard air line railway. President Roosevelt named an ' emergency 'mediation board to In ' ,.ire into the strike, which, had - been called by the Brothernood of Locomotive Firemen ana njigine men for noon. Eastern war time, " rmorrow.! Effect of the presidential action Is to halt the strike pending a de termination of the issues. - - j .1 - 61 PcrlCcnt of State's : E Bonfl Quota Reached PORTLAND, Dec 14-W-The - state's E bond sales, jacked up by ' $690,463 jesterter the biggest ' day iA weeks reached $20,787,470 ; or more than 61 per cent of the ouota today. ' " " Sixth war loan officials were more optimistic over- chances of ' reachir s the E bond goal before the end J December, when indi- visual salia will no longer count ia th dive . - 91 Nippon Airplanes Destroyed Carrier-Based . Yank Aircraft Blast Luzon Isle By Lelf Erickson U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS Pearl Harbor,-Dec. 14 -Jfy- The destruction of 91 Japanese 'planes by carrier-based American aircraft in a raid - on Luzon island in the Philippines and three new land-based smashes at Iwo Jima intervening enemy air base along the B-29 road to Tofcyo were' announced today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. The attack on Luzon, on which Manila is situated, was directed at harbors and air fields but Nimitz' communique gave no-details other than the shooting down of 14 Nipponese interceptors and erasure of 77 on the ground. Pos sibly a later communique will in clude some Japanese shipping losses. Luzon is the big source of supply and reinforcement for the imperiled Nipponese on west Leyte, ' ".' ' ' First December Raid The raid, made Wednesday, was the first this njonth by the carrier air arm which seven times lashed Luzon with devastating effect in November. Even the account of the air losses inflicted was Incomplete. wo Jima Blasted u. Iwo Jima, s the Volcano slands, was raided Sunday, Mon day and Tuesday, making 1 the 10th such attacks in 13 days to knock out the air fields from which the enemy has sent planes to attack the B-29 base at Sai pan, 725 miles; to the souths Despite the heavy anti-aircraft fire encountered, all raiding planes returned.' Liberators, ! corted by Lightnings, " saw three or four , "non-aggressive" Japa nese planes aloft during the Tues day strike. Death of Lupe Velez Laid to Sleep Tablets BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Dec. 14 JP)- Lupe Velez, peppery Mexican film actress, today took her own life, police said, and, apparently - that of her unborn child. On the bed beside Lupe's body were: two notes in her handwriting and a partially filled bottle of tablets, used to induce sleep but fatal If taken in quantities. One note said she was expecting baby. The other, addressed to her secretary, said "you .know the facts for the reason I am taking my life. 1 . Autopsy findings showed Miss Velez was about four months pregnant, county autopsy surgeon Victor Cenalu said. He added he found ho natural cause of death and that a chemical analysis stomach contents will be made, A few weeks ago Lupe gaily an nounced she was going to marry Harald Ramond, a, French actor whom she met about a year ago. But last week she said the romance was all off. ' 1 am so confused, I never ex pected this to happen," Ramond told newsmen. . Texas Town9 s Residents9 Good Teetlv Start Probe for Reason SEATTLE, Dec. 14-flV-T hat little Hereford (pop. 2584) down to Deaf Smith county, Texas, may become the focal point of the dental world was disclosed here today by Samuel J. Clarke, Seat tle engineer who ordinarly con cerns himself with bridgework of more spacious size, -u At the Stattle engineers"' club today, however, Clarke gave a mighty boost for Hereford as .the "town without a toothache,? and announced that he was one of the incorporators of : a ; research or-t ganization set up to find out and tell the world why Hereford bridges are all of cement and Khings, and not of gold. ine engineers imeresi in nere ford developed when he found he was likely to get a mouth full of gold bridges himself he explained, lie had heard el the perfect Bert- mm? German Trawler it Coast guardsmen from the combat : . .. . find an abandoned German trawler (left) recently In Ice floes off Greenland's east coast. Finding:' of this vessel was the Incident In a series of coast guard actions in tore of a second enemy ship, twe German radio-weather stations and the capture of 0 Ger mans. (AP wirephoto from coast guard) 'f , Yanks Smash Nazi Stations In Greenland WASHINGTON, Dec I4-(SV Three nazl weather-reporting ex peditions to the northern Green land area were smashed and an enemy vessel and 60 prisoners captured during a" summer-fall coast guard campaign in those ice-packed waters. . The navy said today two other nazl ships were scuttled by their own crews, one when it was brought -to ; bay by coast guard cutters and the other because it was hopelessly caught in ice floes. The captured vessel was a new, 180-foot armed trawler named the, Externsteine. - An American prize crew has sailed it to Boston. The Northland, one of four coast guard ships engaging in this Arctic naval, war, lost its rudder due to ice damage but was safely towed 3000 miles to an American base. u . Europe's weather originates in the Greenland area and the Ger mans have tried desperately since early in the war to maintain ob servers there. - DeGaulle in Cairo on Way Home From Soviet NEW YORK, Dec, U.-ifl-Cm. Charles De Gaulle has arrived by plane in Cairo m his return trip from -Moscow, the American Broadcasting station in Europe re ported tonight-in a broadcast heard, by the Blue network. Draft Board Gets Wish From Soldier in Burma PHILADELPHIA, Dec. U.-(JP) -From "Somewhere along the Ledo road" in Burma, SSgt. J. H. Colby sent his draft board a V- mail Christmas greeting.. ! "Wish you were here, it said. ford teeth and took his own den tist, Dr. F. Melton Butler,, to Here ford to find out the secret - After marveling at the perfect teeth of all Herefordite the two Seattle mien Joined with Dr, George W. Hurd of . Hereford,; i dentist, and two other civic lead' era in forming the public health and dental ; research foundation. inc. ' -', '. "Our goal is to learn what min eral combination arrests tooth de cay In Hereford and whether it is contained in cereals,' vegetbales, meat, or water," Dr, Butler ex plained, - -: - Clarke said he had been eating Deal Smith county products, in cluding Hereford's Hereford beef, for several months and now ex pected he would be able to keep 1 hi teetSu . in Greenland V.: :-. v. 1 IP A 7 i cotter Northland (background) the area which included the cap scuttling - of a third, destruction of 50 Nazi Officers Call on Pernians To Oust Hitler Fifty captured German officers headed by Field Marshal Frtedrich Von Paulus and Gen. Walther Yon aeiauiz, cauea on :.. tn .Uerman people in a broadcast from Mos cow last night to overthrow Hitler, Himmler and "their baleful" sys tem," -' -- . They declared the "war Is lost," so far as Germany Is ' concerned. Von Paulus, who surrendered the German sixth army at Stalingrad in February, 1943, read the appeal !n a broadcast beamed to Germany and recorded by the FCC. Von Seidlitz is president of the Soviet- sponsored union of German of ficers. i . ' .. Soviet Drive Near Szendro, Mining Center LONDON, Friday, Dec I.-6P)- Russian troops yesterday, drove to within two miles of the rich iron and coal center of Szendro , S3 miles northeast of besieged Buda pest' while Berlin indicated that other soviet units had crossed into western Slovakia at a point 34 miles north of the Hungarian cap ital and 115 miles east of Vienna. A German broadcast said red army troops tried to take by 'storm Ipolysag, a half-mile inside west ern Slovakia, but were' repulsed and lost 1000 dead. ( The Russians struck from the south and west at Ipolysag, ;87 miles east of Bratis lava, Slovak capital, Berlin said. Heavy fighting also was report ed by Berlin at'Szecseny, frontier village 25 miles east of Ipolysag and 1? miles south of the impor tant Slovak fortress town of Los onc (Lucenec)' as the .Russians threatened to smash 1 Into . Slova kia on a broad front at the rear of nazl, forces , fighting ' n eastern Slovakia. , . r -; . .-r1 - Twtr Oregon Soldiers Lre Killed in Action The war department announced Thursday night among the Oregon soldiers .killed in action in the Mediterranean area the name of PFC George W. JHetrick, son of Oscar R.Htrick, Molalla. - Among; those killed in action In the European area Is the name of Pvt Roy M. Hermann, ton of Mrs.' Clara J. L. Hermann, Dun dee, yy. ;ym:y - y: Nation's E-Bond Sales? Reach 60 of Quota WASHINGTON, Dec1 14.-JP)- With; two days left in the sixth war loan drive, sales of series' E bonds reached $1,535,000,000 to day 0 per cent of the $2,500,- 000,000 E-bond quota. - Though the ; four-week selling campaign ends Saturday, treasury officials' how believe that if sales efforts continue vigorous to the end, the" E-bond quota will be vvei-suscriied - ' Churchill In Center Of Stor - - I; ' 1 l: i Clamor Mounting For Enunciation Of Big 3 By Richard Kasishke LONDON, Dec. 14 - - A mounting clamor for a clear cut enunciation of British-American' Russian policy " in Europe devel oped today as Prime Minister Churchill told his critics in par liament he might carry ' to the people his defense of Britain's in tervention In Greece. Still under tire in sections of the British press as well as j in legislative halls, the prime minister stood firm on his policy in both Greece and Italy, but his intim ation of a "further- account" ion those affairs offered a clue to the extent of the still-prevalent pro tests - . Based on Necessity ' In dealing: with the Italian sit uation under persistent labor party cross-questioning, he emphasized that Britain's policy was based on military necessary. ' Churchill acknowledged he had approved continuance of king Vit- torio Emanuele's regime "until the military situation had got into a better contention," and added that the results. were "not unsatis factory os far as our armies are concened.,, ArrM an Italy The Foreign office incidentally announced the British and Ameri can ' governments, '. '"whose views art - In agreement," had endorsed the newly-formed cabinet of Pre mier Ivanoe Bonoml In Italy j Meanwhile, an implication by Ernest Bevin, British minister of labor, that . some-", international agreement- already had,x been reached on the spheres .of influ ence in the Balkans stirred contro versy on both, sides of the Atlantic. War Victim : : i-f IK f Lester A. Vickers. T4, husband f LeoU Vlekera of Salem, who was killed en Leyte la the phil Ipplnes, October 25. L. L. Vickers Dies in Action - ' - .. --1.-.. : ' V In Philippines Lester L.. Vickers, technician 4th grade, was killed in action, on Leyte October; 25, a the ; war de partment has notified his' wife, Mrs. ; Leota Vickers; who Is (re siding with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.; G. W. Howe of 2060 braska st- Salem. ! -Vickers was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John" Vickers of Hammond, Mo. He attended public schools in Salem and enlisted in San Fran cisco four years, ago. He was with an engineering company. ? Brothers and i sisters surviving include Alvin Vickers, Vst. Earl DuChien and Mrs. Carl Jaegler, all of Salem; Luetta Doolin, Sis ters, Ore.; Ruth Findley, Ham mond, Mo.; Alfred Vkkers, San Francisco. U. S. Dollar Slumps in China's Black Market ' CHUNGKING, Dec !4-VThe black market value of the Amer lean dollar which brought abou' 700 Chinese dollars here at the height of the military crisis has slumped sensationally during the past 4S hours. Today's quotations w.ere 450 Chinese dollars to one US dollar. . u Marion Is Within $800,000 Of F.iverMillion Bond Goal? As Deadline Draws Close : - " " -y ' f ' t ''- ' "::::- v"; : .L, !i ; Individual and corporate purchases spurted Thursday to , put the Sixth War Loan drive past the $4,200,000 mark in Marion county, but with only two days to go those in' charge were urging still greater efforts to put' the campaign within sight of the five- million dollar goal by Saturday Less than $250,000 remains to U.S. Superforts WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Superfortresses front India smash ed today at Japanese; outposts of conquestln Thailand and Burma In a f oliowup of yesterday's major strike ' from Saipan against air plane production . in "the. enemy homeland.. t A communique from the 20th air force headquarters here repor ted large fires left burninig after "many bomb bits" on military and industrial targets at Nagoya, Jap an, yesterday. The list included direct hits on the giant Mitsubishi aircraft plant Returning members of the striking force brought back to their base information indicating terrific damage. f The announcement reported on of the B-29's mfssing and pre sumed lost from the big force which Brig. Gen.' Haywood Han- sell, jr., sent off from Saipan, his island base in the Marianas, . The force which Ma). Gen. Cur tis LeMay's 20th bomber command dispatched from India was de scribed by the communique as substantial. . " ' t ights Rage ItfXireece Ending Truce ' ATHENS, Dec. 14 Fight ing broke out in Omonia square, northern fringe of the British de fensive position today, and Elas manned ' 75 millimeter guns pounded the area of British head quarters in the Grande Bretagne hotetv ending the Undeclared truce" which had brought quiet to this strife-ridden city until early afternoon. ' 1 Amid rumors of an impending settlement of the struggle with the Greek leftists, shells burst in the center of the capital and Elas troops , kept up - intermittent small-arms crossfire lit the side streets off University street the main artery between the two prin cipal leftist objectives Omonia square and Constitution square. Partisan fighters continued the in filtrations, reportedly poking their way through r sewers. " 80,000 Men From ; Air Force, Moving To Ground Force WASHINGTON. Dte.--lA.-4jn- The war department said today it expects the transfer of 80,000 air and service force personnel to gorund - forces will be completed during.; January. I - ' To provide more combat troops for the ground forces 55,000 en listed men will be shafted from air forces and 25,000 from service forces. The department said that "the majority of men transferred from the AAF will be replaced by enlisted men of the ground forces, woh are not qualified for, com' bat duty." Mercury Dips to Bomb Thailand Burma Capital Here as Residents Shiver , By Carol Cope land . sua Writer Salem - residents - who , thought Thursday was a bit "chillier" than usual were decidely right in their observation as the 20 degree mini mum reported by I the Salem weather bureau is the lowest for December since IS40 when 18 de grees was "registered on Decem ber 14 of that year. " j Average minimum .temperature for the past six days, was 25 de grees, the ' coldest j day being Thursday with the 20 degree reg istration and' the .' warmest being on the 9tn with a minimum tem perature of 51 degrees. AH mini mum temperatures v this . week have been below freezings. - , The recent low temperatures have been caused by succeeding SM)Mi night , r be subscribed in E bonds, but the buying of F, G and other large value remains far below the $1,- 500,000 mark set by the commit tee. However several - large pur chasers have added to their bond buying in the last day or two and the gap may be closed before the final gong sounds Saturday night, Chairman Douglas Yeater said. : We are meeting with fine co operation in our efforts to meet all parts of our quota, declared the chairman, "but we must act promptly if we are to give the boys and girls the support they are entitled to in this drive. Any one who can afford an extra pur chase should not put it off an other hour." - ' ! Plans for : the selection of the lucky buyer .who may win the $4,000 Victory dream houseand the two-acre suburban tract-were being discussed by the Marion county' committee, but-the only definite decision was to delay the actual drawing until Monday or Tuesday of next week when it is expected that all reports from is suing agencies will be in to head quarters. Tickets of E bond pur chasers were being deposited dailv - in the hu?e rlass 1ar at headquarters. Those in charge ex pected the bowl to be nearly full by the time the last bonds are purchased in the Sixth campaign. The ' drawing probably will be made at a big public gathering after a brief program. Holder of the lucky ticket must be present in order to - be proclaimed the winner, . - z . Churchill Near f Fuehrer,' Says British Writer LONDON, Dec. H.--Assert- ing that Prime Minister Churchill is a ,oul4-beV British fuehrer" who has lost his head complete ly" in the Greek crisis. Novelist H. G. Wells said today rit is high time he retired upon his layrels before we forget the-debt we owe him,", as a British fighting sym bol. .. . : ' :.yyy. - In an article entitled "Church ill Must Go," published in the weekly Tribune, Wells said the prime minister's intervention In Greece was a "discredit" to the nation and resulted from Church- Ill's "pro-royaUsm, . his ""snob bishness" and "limited range of Ideas."..'.-;;"-- ;.'--: '-j- .; Wells conceded, that Churchill had served Britain as a fighting s y m b o 1 , but contended he had "outlived that role." P.O. Workers-; Raise Okehed i WASHINGTON, Dec. '14.-(ff)- The house voted today to raise the pay of postal service workers , It approved and sent to the sen' ate Jegisaltion . adding $400. an nually to the .base pay of regular employes. It also 'provides a 23 percent boost for fourth I class postmasters, special delivery mes sengers and part-time workers.' A similar increase is provided third class postmasters for clerk hire. ' Nearly every member ! of . the house present spoke in favor of the bill which, replaces a 'tempo rary. $300 raise that expires next June 30.. 20 Degrees clear days combined with a high pressure area, according to offi cials at the weather bureau! The average number of clear days for December is only two, while al ready mis month eight clear days have been registered. The abnor mal amount --of clear r days this year makes the daytime tempera tures higher and the night mini mum temperatures lower, which will account for the nearly mean or average temperature recorded so far this month,. December rainfall has : been scant this year as to date only .73 inches have , been reported, 8.11 inches less than the average rainfall for 4 December of- 5.85 inches. This is the second dries December in the past six years. Patch's Mm Roll 7 Miles - - Heavy Artillery Shells Karlsruhe; First, Ninth Gain By Austin Bealmer SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Friday, Dec 15- The U. S. Seventh army rolled seven miles across the Rhine plain through nearly a dozen eastern. French towns almost to Ger many's border today, turned its heavy artillery on the Siegfried line and reportedly was shelling the big enemy city of Karlsruho across the Rhine. The U. S. First and Ninth armies drove to the Roer along a solid 15-mile front at the edge of the Cologne plain and the retreating Germans blew up the last three bridges over the river around their key citadel of Duren, includ ing one on the superhighway to Cologne. ' Make .New Crossing ' - f The U. S. Third army forced i new crossing into the Saar basin east of Sarreguemines. caDtured strongly fortified Habkirchen near 'where it made its first in vasion ' of , the region from the ' south, and pushed a mile beyond. As the four American armies hammered at the gates of the reich, allied warplanes 'swarmed out'ift clearing weather, pound ins; Duren, the French frontier city of Wiasenibourc in , the path , of the Seventh army and Siegfried fortifications east of the Sar river,; ' ,. j1...., .-' ' 7th Bears Dtm . i .". . - . ' The U. S. Seventh army wag bearing 'down on' Germany' all along its 35-mile front "and hi its spectacular dash up the Rhine plain hurtled streams along which the. Germans offered only the flimsiest defense. ; ' , - The . Germane facing the U. S. First army; around Duren like Wise were, falling back. fast. Th 83rd division seized the suburban village of Gurzenich, just to the west , of Duren, and pressed on , toward the" demolished,' Duren bridge. The Roer at Duren is 150 feet wide and running bank full. ' The Seventh army's, thrust al most to the German -border was . spear-headed by the 79th division commanded by Ma. Gen. I. T. Wyche. In . less than three day these troops have driven 15 miles to the southwestern approaches of Lauterbourg and also, reached within two miles of .j. the border farther west at Riedseltz. Dallas Soldiery Taken by Japs Disease Victim DALLAS, Dec. 14 -St. Sgt. Earl T. Watson has died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp of beriberL his. mother, Mrs. Milton Cooper ' has been notified by the war de- I partment. Date of his death was not given but the message said the information was from the Red Cross and that a letter would fol low. ':.. 1 . '' ' Sgt Watson was a coast artil leryman at Fort Mills in the en trance of Manilla - Bay and was taken prisoner when that fort was captured about the time of the fall of Corregidor in April or May 1942. He was officially reported missing in action . May 22, .1942, and on Dec 29, 1942 was report ed as a prisoner of war. A few brief messages on the cards per mitted by the Japanese have been received buf none in more than year. .,-: ','.. -:-. f Beriberi Is a "disease of the As iatic tropics probably brought on by insufficient diet and exposure. SHOPPING; W Jr