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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1944)
l PAGE TWO Tha OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning pecember 13, 1344 v. ! Salem Schools jjOver Tjap, Still Sellingj Bonds ' . Although Salem schools, both I iaculty- and students, have' gone well over their jquota in the Sixth t. War Loan drive, still further pur- chases art being reported daily. rBy the- timedfinal reports are made next week the $52,824 quota s wiIT"be exceeded by at least 50 !per cent; tt iM expected: So far 1.4V. v.. u ,4 tunny H i Students inj the eight grade K schools and two Junior highs have subscribed $36,708 or more than fi50 per cent bf their combined Quotas of $23,505. Teachers are J lover, the top with $12,825 pur I ; chases against a $9321 quota . Parrish schools are leading all .schools, with. $15,642 purchases, while Bush school is 'leading the grade division Iwith $4000."" ; With a late I start that ia e: pected to bring the drive to a j ' climax early eott - week. Salem "Hugh nas reported $iu,abu pur chases or well? over 50 per cent ,of quota. - . L" In suburbanicommunities, 'Chairman Frank Doerfler report ;-ed five districts over the top and Purged others to make reports not f. later , than Saturday night More , than $30,000 in purchases is in, - but the total is expected to reach I $100,000 whens .all reports are made. Here are those, over their quotas: Willard Mrs. Helen "' Paget: Riverdale Mrs. -Rett i-Jones; Shaw 4- Mrs; Fred-Gil ;l bert; Middle prove Theodore ' Kuenzi; Pratum Mrs. C. A. i Lynds.lt $ Three corporate purchases of i- short term bonds helped .boost I' Marion county's tojtal. They are j : Southern Pacific railroad $50,000, Sick's Brewing company $50,000, , and Mountain States Power com ; pany $5600. Employes at .the Portland General Electric com ; pany also were reported as well over their quota. ; Senate G roup Approves 6 Nominations . WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -(&)- . Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of finally reported to the senate to- night the Foreign relation com : mittee's favorable recommenda tion for the confirmation of six state department nominations Connally told I a reporter he had received from I senator Wagner t (D-NY a proxV favoring the ap - pointment of Archibald MacLeish, - named as one of five assistant ' ' secretaries of state. . The . committee previously had recorded a 10 td 10 tie Vote which would have called for an adverse . report on MacLeish's appointment. . Connally previously had repor " ted the committee's favorable ac ; tion on Joseph C. Grew, chosen as tinder secretary and four assistant . secretaries, W. U Clayton, Nelson Rockefeller, James C. Dunn and ns. um. iunn3 xioimes. " Retreating Nazis Acting Like Plague of Locusts MOSCOW, Dec. 14.- -The ' Germans are "acting like a plague ; f locusts" as they fall back in ' Czechoslovakia, s t r i p p i n g the country ot sUjfood and movable 'I equipment andj leaving its cities ,', piles of ruins, te head of the Cze ! choslovak government delegation . for liberated territory charged to- '.. day. Harriman Meets Stalin LONDON, Dec. 14. The Moscow radio said tonight that Premier Stalin received US Am bassador Avereil Harriman at the Kremlin today. The broadcast said that Gadlmir Dekenozov. vice commissar for foreign affairs, was present but gave, no further de tails, t Girls Apprehended . State police reported early to day that the two girls who es caped from Hilicrest on December 2 eand apprehended in Salt Lake City wa. December 9 were returned to the Institution Thursday. Senate Okehg Armour WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-fly The senate confirmed today the nomination of Norman Armour of New Jersey as ambassador Spain. He succeeds Carlton Hayes. lion! ' tlt&M . 'V, ...I. ,7 1 ill! 1 -ijtw . ( c-jx C,,TII2 PHANTOM S i. RECESS HOUR A group el aaUvt children la a Navy-sponsored ,. . a ting around ihe flagpole during recess Seizure of Ward Plants 4 Again Looms1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-()p- Montgomery Ward and the gov ernment appeared headed tonight for -a new collision over labor policies such as led last spring to seizure of the mail order Crm'i Chicago .properties. r Officials of Ihe company failed to appear at a war labor board hearing to which they were sum moned to show cause why they had not complied with WLB di rectives concerning four Detroit stores. WLB chairman William H. Dav is then announced that unless the company complies with "all terms and conditions of our orders" by nightfall Monday, the defiance would be referred to economic stabilizer Fred M. Vinson. Nimitz to Shift Headquarters US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Dec 14.-;P)-Adm. Chester W " Nimitz soon will establish his Pacific fleet advanced headquarters in a for ward area he said today in a press release An Australian radio report re cently said the new site would be Guam. I -The fleet announcement said the main headquarters, however. would remain at Pearl Harbor. There was no comment on the Australian radio designation of Guam for the new headquarters. "Capture of the Gilberts, Mar shall, Marianas, Ulithi and Pa lau has permitted moving the cen ter of gravity of operations of the ground, sea and air forces, Pa cific ocean areas, far westward,' the announcement said. Scout Explorer Unit Will Be Organized A preliminary organization meeting for a new older Boy Scout group, an Explorer unit . to be sponsored by the junior chamber of commerce, "will be held tonight at Scout headquarters. Dean Ellis of the state tax department, is to be leader of the troop, which will feautre special interest groups in camping, hiking, mountain climb ing, a possible rifle team and pos sibly horsemanship. Cruiser Oregon Gty Hits Water in 1945 OREGON CITY, Dec. U.-JPy-A navy cruiser names the USS Ore gon City will be launched at Quin- cy, Mass., early in 1945, the cham ber of commerce here was inform ed today. The ship, built by Bethlehem City Fore River shipyard,, will be christened by a woman to "be se lected by Oregon City's chamber of commerce. Back Our Boys - BUT BONDS! I TMC MOOE THAT mH Auilf'"''""" OPENS :45 P. M. Jack Benny . -versus Fred Men II Love Thy IIeightor";H 'I ONtheHOIffiFRONT By ISABEL CHILDS In professional Jargon this col umn is, or pretends to be, con versation piece: Now, .there' re many subjects about which we are not supposed to converse in this year of our war, but here's one thing the army -wants us to talk about And, I assume that if each of us should discuss this matter with some two or three persons in families where there are children and they, in turn. should spread the tidings,' we might save a few lives. ' V The Oregon state defense coun cil and civilian defenders in Polk county particularly are much con cerned over the number of Acci dents arising out of the unauth orized possession of live ammu nition and "dud" projectiles .which have "already caused the deaths of three children and the serious injury ot three others in the Pacific coast area. With the return to civilian oc cupancy of areas formerly used by the war department for train' ihg of. troops, the possibility of the discovery and subsequent handling of unexploded ammuni tion and"duds" is expected to! increase. V . .: The danger to persons Inexper ienced in these particular types of explosives cannot be over-empha sized, the state CD office de clares. -Persons discovering "duds or unexploded projectiles of any kind should not only leave mem alone but should also report such discovery' immediately by j tele phone to-the nearest military or civil authorities.; This is one spe cific case where a bird In the bush is worth two in the hand. The first public coffee - house was opened at Oxford, England, in 1650. i . ; ' Barry Boy That Bond ' Cent. Daily. from 1 P. M. How! See the Snake Kiss! Terrific Climax to 1.000 Thrills! in ongerous ; , Jonrney" FUmed by 1 -t Armand Denis and r Leila Roosevelt -Conrad Naget, Narrator CO-FEATURE i VkAiEB Attktli Kl i 2 ma hm m m worn ' , r hi taam at mtm tm - Is' Hitler aliveT. Seized German films may" answer! . Army . and Navy; .grid . game! tm 4 school hi the MirshaUs fom 1 ,. Johnson Sees Toueht Years 1 For Youths High school pupils today, with a background, of depression And war years. . have ahead of them a fu ture of war and ' an unemploy ment period when men and wom en in the. service and in war work return to normal peacetime pur suits, Harry Johnson, new prin cipal of Salem high school told Salem lions club members at their Thursday, noon luncheon. Among the responsibilities which the community owes to its youth, responsibilities paralle with those of the community for its servicemen, Johnson declared. are opportunities for further ed ucation, a chance to learn a job in school and at work and the train ing to develop spiritual and emo tional lives. A number of states now require boys and girls to remain in schoo! until they have graduated from high school or reached their 18th birthdays, Johnson said. Oregon requires eighth grade graduation or passage of 18th birthdays. 1' Oregon should develop further schooling plans, they should pro bably be along vocational training lines, Johnson suggested. ! Salem Man Die In Montana Town MISSOULA, Mont, Dec. 14-(ff) Joseph Coursey, 75, of Salem, Ore., stationed here since Novem ber 10 as temporary examiner of interitance for the U.S. Indian service, died yesterday. Coursey's Salem address was 670 North 17th street Xast "Roger Touhy Gangster," Preston Foster Times ; Victor McLaglen, Lois Andrews - Plus Today i- Tou Cant Ration Love," Betty Rhodes- Starb Saiurday - 2 IHls! I- V si? vv ill 1 f wavaw i U2 , T- e Companion Feature Nazis Attack - Canuck Lines Over Lamone ROME, pec 14 P)- The Ger mans flung all available reserves of armor and infantry into a fur ious attempt, today," to contain Canadian bridgehead over the La mone river and to save the near by road center of Bagnacavallo, 10 "miles northeast of Faenza in the Po valley' '"? " '. ' Counterattack after counterat tack thudded against the- four- mile-wide bridgehead, but all were thrown back in savage fighting and at nightfall the Ca radians had enlarged their .hold ing, allied headquarters announc ed. J . -. In a -day mingled with successes and reverses the nazis repulsed efforts by i the American Fifth army to gain high ground near Monte Castello, southwest of Bo logna, and in turn saw their own counterattacks against Monte Ce rere, 11 miles southeast of Bo logna, rolled back. , 1 . British Find Lunatic Hole WITH BRITISH ' TROOPS IN HOLLAND, Dec 14 -(P)- British forces have uncovered the Black oHole of Waansum, a dark, filthy, unhealed basement where Monks and civilians have cared for 172 naked lunatics for twomorrths. A British civil service unit is attempting today to patch up the damaged asylum and has provided Hlankets and fuel for the unfor tunates who literaly "went under ground October 14 to escape the war. :: German troops were said to have 'refused to move the asylum Hmates and carried off their clothes and blankets so they would not escape. xne punning was neiled, - so the inmates, of whom.97 were bed ridden, were moved to the base ment. . British Pacific Fleet Chief to Meet Nimitz MELBOURNE, Friday, Dec 15 (P Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser, com--mander in chief of the British Pa-t cific fleet, left today to confer with Adm. Chester Nimit, com mander in chief of ttie U5. Paci fic fleet, and Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur. ' . TOIIIGET! i o1" ,w terry 1 ' JUnui KnYV'ff i r v m Hunted by. human bloodhounds but at the last, desper ate end of the trail was a girl named Ton!! TCiumbcuail off War! (By the Associated Pseas) Western Europe - Ui S. 7tH army rolls to German border to pound V Siegfried line as- allies advance along Cologne . front - Bassla --'Threatens to smash fintd Slovakia on wide front and drives forward to northeast Hungary, but still fails to cap ture Budapest. " j ' ' .;'- ;V? K Italy German counterattack against Canadians - on Lamone river; British enter Tossignano. 1 . Greece Greek leftists battle with British in Athens for 13th .day. . . ! Pacific Yanks destroy 91 Nip planes- in strike on- Luzon, advance one ' mile north of Or- moc; Superforts hit Thailand nd Burma. China Chinese pursue Jap anese, chased from Kweichow province, toward Kwangsi prov ince town of Hochih. : :X , .1": Allied Planes ' I' - - - : ' Held to Bases LONDON, Dec. I4-(vP)-The second successive day of hazard ous wintry Hying weather on the continent today held aerial work against nazi targets to a minimum.' British-based bombers and fighters, which ripped German rail and oil lacilities with more than 13,000 tons of explosives In a 48-hour period earlier; in the week were -kept under wraps. - I Continent-based T h U nderbolts otthe V. S. ninth air force swirled through cloud banks and attacked a rail yard at Homburg, northeast r. Saarbrucken. I The first public library in New York City was established in 1697. suleii 0PEII EVERY DM EXCEPT TUESDAY ! 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