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OTP TKDQDDCB ; Weather Maximum iinf i rarer j Friday 41 degrees,' minimum zl degrees; ae rsin; river X ft -4 tau Increasing cloud tnea Satarday aad Suday. . t i ieai Tiujey isa. k , tksu N DSD 2651 0 7 ou nun nil XX-:fX :'X:C:.'-'i:i v j - ..j - -'r U : ..- P- -V ; . 1 X -:XX ': '-Xx:':': '':X-:XXXX: '-X " K - " V VXX XsXXX:X.X:X , Announcement that within two i yean the largest and one of the oldest lumber mill concerns in Portland, Clark & Wilson, will !wind up operation highlights re cent industrial news in this state. .The firm, has one large mill at Linn ton and another at Prescott, the two employing about 825 workers. It has drawn its Umber largely from Columbia county which now is almost completely Cut over. To anyone j who has Studied the map "of northeastern Oregon and seen the green patches f forest recede and the white space of cutover land spread over the area the hews of the imminent suspension of this old concern is not surprising. Its doom was writ ten in the decline of timber stand. hastened by the Tillamook burn. . Other mills are continuing to operate in Portland and vicinity. They buy their I logs "from the river," purchasing logs on the open market which are dumped Into the : Willamette or Columbia rivers. Other concerns draw on timber in the ML Hood forest re Serve. So the lumber business is 'Hotmail done! for in Portland, by any means. Clark & Wilson pre f erred to liquidate 'rather than try to operate on the high-priced logs obtainable on the market. Inevitably j the lumber cutting Will follow the timberline. That is why so many mills have, gone in to the Linn-Lane -Douglas -Coos county communities in late years. They have simply gone where there still was standing timber. This is virtually the last great Stand of virgin forest in the Unit - ed States, outside the national forests. ' At the . present rate of cutting it will last a considerable period, .but for (Continued on Editorial Page) Regency Might Solve Internal Greek Strife ATHENS,) Jec. 13 - P) - An 'agreement in principle that a re gency might solve the strife in Greece was: reported tonight al though fighting continued in the tain-soaked, capital. The regency question, was dis cussed at m lengthy conference smong Reginald Leeper, the Brit ish ambassador; Harold MacMil- lan, British! resident minister in the Middle1 East; and Themisto- kles Sophoulis, Greek elder states man who has acted as an inter mediary between the opposing forces. - , t : It was understood that appoint mnet of a regency council of three Was suggested by Greek Premier George Papandreou. Proposed members were said to have been Archbishop) Damaskinos of Ath ens, Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs Philip Dragoumis and Gen. Nicholas Plastiras, who led the Greek revolution of 1922. 5-Star Rank Given Seven Top Officers WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -(JP)-Seven officers top field and fleet commanders and the over-all ar- Jny andnavy chiefs were boosted swiftly today to ... new five-star rank. - . - President Roosevelt signed leg islation ' authorizing "admirals of the fleet" i and "generals of the army," and quickly sent the names to the senate. They are: For the; new navy rank Ad miral William D. Leahy, the pres ident's personal chief of staff; Ad miral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the fleet and chief of naval operations: and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. commander in Pacific ocean areas. - For the inew army rank Gen eral George C Marshall, chief of staff; General Douglas MacAr thur, commander in the Southwest Pacific; General Dwight Dl Eisen hower, allied commander in west ern Europe;; and General H. H. Arnold, commander of the army air forces.; . - Larger Proportion of Older Men to Be Called After Feb. 1 WASHINGTON. Dec. 15 - (P) -i Selective ; service, announcing a much larger" proportion of older men will be inducted after Febru ary 'It, tonight sent out Instructions , implementing the government's "produce or fight" addict . It ordered that registrants in the 28 through 17 age bracket whose Job shifts are not In the best in terests of the war effort should be put in 1-A and placed near the top of the list for induction. -y , Draft boards were directed that when these registrants are put in 1A after leaving essential Jobs ' they should be made available for . a service "in 'the same manner as : registrants who- leave agriculture - This would make them tvaiiatle immediately., alter, voir inilETY-FOUSTH YEAH 10 PAGES , ' Bcimxu Onqcaa. Satodoy Mornlag; DMraabn IS. 1944 ' . ' " Pric 5c 110: 232 1' WW Yankees Enter At 3 Points 103rd Division Makes Crossing First, 45th Next ! f ' By Austin Bealmear PARIS, Dec 15-iiP)-Three divi sions ol tne Ui bevenui army drove into Germany's industrial palantinate today at three points along a 12-mile front, four months to the day after they stormed the Mediterranean short and began chasing the Germans 500 miles across France. The first to make the crossing as the 103rd division, which pushed across at 1:05 p.m., against sporadic opposition north of Clim- bach and four miles west of the French frontier city iof Wissem- bourg in the northeastern corner of Alsace. 45th Crosses Line Forty-five minutes later the 45th division crossed the border along wooded ridges at an undis closable point, but in the same general area. ' Ten minutes later, the 79th di vision burst the Lauter river line at the frontier near Scheibenhard, nine miles east of Wissembourg, and plunged into the fastnesses of Bjen Wald forest on the Rhine plain some II miles west of the Baden province capital of Karls ruhe. Come Under Fir A late front dispatch said the vanguards of Lt Gen. Alexander M. Patch's divisions, which moved up to the frontier while the Sieg fried line's guns were singularly silent, had come under fire of the fortifications and were pressing against outpost bunkers and pill boxes. Forces of the 79th division smashed into Lauterbourg, at the east end of the invasion front be tween the Vosges and the Rhine, and were fighting within 10 miles of Karlsruhe, which is across the Rhine. , Prisoners Taken I In their spectacular six-day dash that virtually routed , the Germans from northern Alsace, the Americans seized 2087 pris oners. Cracking of the German border by the doughboys, who pounded 80 miles in little more than a month, placed all four American armies on the western front inside the reich for the showdown bat ties of the winter offensive! de sign to crush Hitler's Germany. The US Third army on the Sev enth s left flank, in a mile and a half gain six miles east of Sarre guemines, entered the Saar basin town ol Nieder-Gailbach. It drew up its lines inside or within a mile of the border from the south on a 10-mile front east of the Saar river. 1 Body of Lupe Velez Will Be Buried Monday BEVERLY HILLS. Calif ' Dec 1 5(iT") -Tempestu oua was the life of vital Lupe Velez and tempestu ous have been the aftermaths of her suicide. Nonetheless, the body of the lit tle Mexican spitfire will be laid to rest Monday in the quiet and calm of Forest Lawn cemetery' in Glen I dale. ' ' i unteers and "delinquents" those who violate draft regulations. , In leaving to local boards deter mination as to which changes will aid in prosecution of the war, the agency made it clear that in some cases a switch may be approved even though consent of the board was not obtained prior to a move. ' It also ruled that . men who changed jobs before December 11 are excluded from the new pro vision for clearance through local boards. : . X"i'; The ' memorandum instructed boards to "give greater deferment consideration to registrants 28 through 37 who are engaged in war production' or In support of the war effort, than those engaged in activities not supporting -Immediate prosecution of the war." Churchill Dumps Present 1 Pole Government; Backs Russian Frontier Demands t By Alex H. LONDON, Dec. 15-(JP)-Prme board the present Polish exile government today, backed Rusj sia's demand for a new western frontier, and drew a map for cenl tral Europe in which Germany would lose vast tracts of her northern and eastern territory. In an historic address, he suggested; a "practical" approach by Soviets Invade West Slovakia, Take Ipolysag LONDON, Saturday, Dec 16 - (jP)- Russian troops, invading wes tern Slovakia for the first time, yesterday captured Ipolysag (Sahy) junction, 85 miles east of Brastislava, Slovak capital, in a bold operation aimed at cutting off German troops far to the east and breaking open the roads to Vienna, 115 miles to the west. Red army troops, crossing the Ipoly river frontier from Hungary at a point 34 miles northwest of besieged Budapest, actually broke into Ipolysag Thursday, crushing the Axis garrison after a bitter all-night fight, Moscow announced. Ipolysag is a half-mile inside Slovakia, and in taking , it the Russians skirted the 2,700-foot Borzsony mountains, between the town and the big Danube bend to the soyth, and reached a road net work radiating into central and Western Slovakia. To the west the roads lead downhill into the plains before Bratislava and Vienna. Germany Can't Stand Losses V 1 t Says Bradley U. S. TWELFTH ARMY GROUP ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 15-(;p)-Lt. 1 Gen. Omar N Bradley, U.S. twelfth army group commander, said today that Ger man battle casualties are any where from three to five times greater than American and that the offensive is being pressed de spite poor weather because the Germans cannot long stand these losses. I Remarking that the Yanks are capturing a considerable ' number Of "green" enemy troops, Bradley pointed out the advantage, of at tacking them , now instead of waiting until they get ( several months'' experience. Building Bulk Milk Stor age Capacity of 120,000 Gallons By Lillie L. Hadsen , " Farm and Garden Editor ' . Four hundred and fifty three farmers are making possible the building of a new $200,000 co operative dairy plant on the Fair grounds road, Salem. The actual construction cost will be $105,000. The,' additional $95,000 goes into equipment. ' .j , i' X Lack of storage and unloading space and the resultant necessity for "doing-business on the street" in the present location on South Commercial street were motives back of the new building, says Joe Kendrick, " division manager since last January. . Capacity for. storage of bulk milk in the new plant will be 120,000 gallons a day. The storage tanks! are of: insulated, stainless steel. A sweet water system for cooling the: milk will replace the direcV brine .method, now used. What Mr. Kendrick. refers to as "an absolutely fool-proof processH will be the new short-time high tempers ture pasteurization equip ment designed to do its share in controlling undulant fever. - The; building is 157 .feet wide and 150 deep. A paved lot will Salem xn Singleton , i Minister Churchijl dumped overf the United States to Poland's fu ture and, inferentially, to that of all Europe, and disclosed a mys terious misfire in plans for a new meeting with President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin. Vieing in world significance with his 7 dramatic "blood, toil. sweat and tears" pronouncement which rallied Britain four years ago, Churchill bluntly made these main points today in the house of commons: Corson Line Set Poland must accept Russia's de mands .for a western boundary running along the old Curzon line, including .the loss of Lvov. ' Poland, j with British - Soviet backing, would be free to expand to the west, taking over all of East Prussia south and west of Konigs breg, including once-free Danzig, and enjoying i 200-mile Baltic coastline rather than the old, nar row Polish corridor. Land Implied. By implication, torough omis sion, of mention Russia would re ceive the remainder of East Prus sia to the north. 1 President Roosevelt has been kept fully informed of Russian British agreements on the future of Poland. - , v Mass transfers of population would be made . to prevent war breeding minority problems. The whole story cannot yet be told because, "I find great diffi culty in discussing these matters because the attitude of the United States has not been defined with the precision his majesty's . gov eminent have thought wise to use.". Gas Rations To Stay Same WASH INGTON, Dec. 15 -(P) The petroleum administration for war today announced a civilian gasoline . allocation calculated to permit a continuance of ; present consumer rations during the first quarter of 1945. I Hie allocation is 1,144,000 bar rels, a decrease of 29,000 barrels daily from the fourth quarter of 1944. The cut allows for the sea sonal decline in the use of auto motive gasoline. ! ' ! Deputy : PAW Admin i strator Ralph K. Davies said the alloca tion "should not be interpreted as meaning that gasoline is abund ant": .:i l T Area Farmers, 453 of $200;p00 '.hjm'i i. . in im i in. mi v . 1 w 1 ' - , 5 TTtTrt-l 10 extend 100 feet back for truck deliveries. The front of the building will be faced with cream colored glazed tile. The same type of tile wlll extend back 63 feet on Academy street and 85 feet on the south 1 side. All inside rooms, with the exception of the loading dock and storage rooms, are be ing faced with the jcream-colored tile. Red tile 'floor covering will be- used, i ' '- -'X rX' YXX:- Ot special interest to the pedes trian wfil be the fSx-foot plate glass window; through which the entire processing of i: the milk could be watched t all pro- I L ? D :Biniiraffl $350,000 Left For 6th Loan Drive Winds Up Today Program Planned Sixth War Bond workers yes-. terday were pulling all wires in a last-minute effort to put Marion county over the top today. Nearly $350,000 remained to be subscribed on the last day, Chairman Douglas Yeater reported last night after checking all reports with Lawrence isher of bond headquarters. Only E bond purchases before 6 o'clock tonight will be applied toward the $4,000 Victory dream house which will- be disposed of next- week. While the exact time for the decision on the award has not been agreed upon, it will not be necessary for the successful "Bidder" to lay claim for seven days, the committee made clear. Program Planned Arrangements were being made for appointment of a committee to have charge of the awarding, prob ably at Salem high school. Two acres of land south of town also gq to a purchaser of an E series bond. r - Purchases reported last night totalled- $4,652,000, of which $1,. 368,000 -was in E bonds. Fisher re ported. With late reports' due from' outside .Issuing agencies, Chair man Yeater was hopeful that the $1,500,000 E ,bond quota would be passed before the curtain was rung down on the drive tonight. Short Wf Qmota ; "We're still short on purchases of F, G, and C bonds, however,' declared the chairman, "and those who contemplate buying treasury certificates must do so today if they are. to get them from banks. Purchase of E, F, G and C bonds all during December will count on; the Marion county sixth war loan quota, but not treasury certificates after today. The County committee expects to be several hundred thousands over the quota by Dec ember 31. Lt. Marshall Woodell To Succeed Lt. Bliss i , - Ltl Marshall E. Woodell, execu tive officer for the Willamette university V-12 unit, has been ap pointed to succeed Lt George C Bliss as commanding officer, Bliss announced Friday. Woodell came here in July, 1943, when the navy training courses at Willamette were inaugurated. Bond Goal Dairy Co operative ' 1 i s ceasing were not to be done under cover. From the time the milk is dumped into the covered vats until it is capped in its bottles, it will not be exposed to the air. However, the window will give a complete view of the processing room. :, k ,' -y:f X-X: -X: -- The capacity of the processing plant will be 11,000 pounds an hour. The receiving ' room ' will have two automatic can washers, permitting trucks to unload from four country , routes at one time. The loading platform for the city delivery will accommodate seven tnicaj;,-?,:;;.' imi ryin rn ul, . uvyuUuvl Dtl Jap Officer Sings Same Old Ditty Of Nip Strength (By the Associated Press) , A dm. Isamu Takeshita, retired Japanese officer, is sure that the Nipponese (will be able to "take care of the combined naval forces of America and Britain." A Tokyo broadcast iof Take shi ta's remarks said he specifi cally promised that the new and powerful H..M. s. Howe, flagship of Vice Adm. Sir Bruce Fraser, eommander in chief of the British eastern fleet, would shire the fate of the Prince of Wales and Re- pulse, both sunk by Japanese ac- tion early in the war.l Biff 3 Meetinff Arranged for First of Year WASHINGTON, Dec, 15 UPi A second Roosevelt - Churchill - Stalin conference at last has been arranged--ior late January or early February. Dictating the need for it were new demands on both sides of the Atlantic for consultations at top levels and grave concern over di vergent courses of Allied diplom acy. : ! The principal factor; governing the time apparently is President Roosevelt's schedule. It calls for o fourth term inauguration on Jan uary 20. The meeting will be held soon theraftei unless world events force a change in plans The place is expected, to be somewhere out side the United States. J f Disclosure of the decision for another meeting follows weeks of discord, some under the surface, some, in the open, over Allied policies toward Qreece, Italy, Po- land and other areas once infested by Nazis. Is X Heaviest Fog s Sound R1TATTTT n 1 1- flJV I ally disrupted traffic otfbotb, land niw hnnHrrf. nf im.nn -,Ht. racnltMl twlav r- tv. lest fogs on recordgripped the Ml Pet Nfllinrt IrM for th thirH I day and extended north along the coast. of British Columbia. - Thousands of war workers in the Puget Sound area were late to work today as ferries, busses and trackless trolleys wandered far off schedule. Many never got to work at all' and police and the state patrol both issued a series of warnings against any unnecessary driving. .- m 4 1 Them, Are 4- 4 The state-wide dairy coopera tive a non-stock, non-profit as sociation, was organized in 1931. The total membership now is 3300, of which the 453 in the Sa lem area, who are building the ii plant pictured above, are a part Maximum employes number 67. There are 11 retail trucks cover ing 12 rural routes in Marion, Polkr and Linn counties., Besides these, a number of farmers bring their own milk in daily. - v . During 1943 a total of $5,644,000 was paid' to producers, a 1 little over one-fifth of which went to the Salem members, . . Grip Island Within 150 Miles of Manila; "Opposition Light , j Daring Amphibious Move Gives U.S. East-West Lane Through Archipelago, f Route to China By C. YATES McDANIEL ilacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 16 (AP) A naval-borne US Philihnines and trained V virtuallv bloodied beachhead nn ... . . . ... . ;PA ., , Mmdpro island, within 150 miles of Manila, Fnday morning (Philippine time). Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur disclosed today; . The darine amphibious brehJc spanning the heart of th t-i.Mij k:I;: - cans an east-west corridor, through the archipelago which will give them aceess to routes leading to the coast of China,: the supreme commander said." Swarms of carrier-based before scoured virtually every flung archipelago, destroying more i than 1200, perhaps 300, enemy air craft:;, T. The 600-mile overwater move ment took the convoy from Ley te. where the Americans first land- ed October 20, south and West past the Japanese-occupied islands of Mindanao, Bohol, Cebu Negros wi (pV-Tokyo radie saM toaigM to a broadcast recorded by the Blue network that, a vielent air. and sea battle Is raging la wa ters off the American Invasion beachhead at Mlndoro In the PhllliBines. and I P"wy but heroic" guerrilla fairly safe convoy by seizing, air ueios . ana BirBlCKic FVw the W in secret actions just dis Eve witnesses told of the convoy going so close to these islands that the rugged coastlines were plain ly visible. i f : i EaUblish Quickly Three beachheads were estab- lished quickly on southern Min doro. Elmont Waite, Associated Press war correspondent, I told; of tanks rolling ashore, of bulldozers starting roads, , of piers being erected and of engineers ; moving inland with the , troops to con struct base installations. jj 1 (Tokyo radio said the landings occurred neat San Jose, which is on Mindoro's southwest coast and were made by about a division, ttrhlch nrriinarilv wniilH hi around 15,000 men.. The enemy broadcast rf . was without allied confirmation. Landtno Easy i ' ' . " :" Waite emphasized the amazing ease; of the ' landings . by saying a sergeant moving inland with his company was halted only when a native women seized him and em braced him. , " 1 Jim Hutcheson, another Asso- ciaiea rTess war ; corresponaent with the invasion forces, report- ed the only persons encountered on one beach were some waving Filipinos and their carabaos. , Press war : correspondent Front line dispatches said the ! - - -. . i; O lOOl ' , r ' ,! MIUS I f , VICAN":- i j . '.H.ACAN ' j i ' PaciRc; I X Ocean , j .t v;t r POtlLLO K j mindorom Cft? Japanese obviously , fled inland Mist Turley, 1 it was reported, when warships began shelling the at T Greenwood beachee and the advancing anksKome "where Miaa Conradt was stiU I liadnot esblished contact with -the enemy after pushing i wiwuuauic uuuun.x uuwju u bfush from the landing points. .' E Bond Sales Slowly Increase in Oregon , PORTLAND, Dec. 15-K-Whfle the state's total war bond sales 282.8U with the $107,000,000 goal I .. - -'--'-- - far behind, E bond sales slowly Iincreasea toaay. - - ine J4,uuu,uuo mars stiu ues ahead, and E bonds now stand at $22,150,351, C5 per cent of quoU. Finn Payment Refused WASHINGTON. Dec 15 - M5) The United States refused to al low Finland to pay her $233,445 war debt Installment today. ,,. r a'" (0)K(Q) Sixth army force crossed th . a :1s Vr planes that day- and the day, Nipponese airfield in the far- Nursery, loss Near $30.(100 i Fire destroyed the main build ing of the. Weeks & Beardsley nursery, a mile out of Salem and -a quarter mile west of the North A River road Friday with an esti mated loss of near $30,000. Har old Wenger, Salem fireman, sus " tained a back injury when a lad der . slipped, dropping , him .te earth. He was taken to a phy sician's office, j examined, taped and sent home.1 , - The loss as estimated by h. E. Weeks included 18000 to $10,000 on the building, which was buill m J9A1, luny insurea, giaaiojua bulbs $15,000, fully insured; nurs ery stock $2000 or $3000, not in sured. . f ! . " " j ' f. j Weeks announced he would re- r build immediately and anticipat- ; ed no difficulty in obtaining prior ities. The building 'destroyed in cluded a : cold storage plant. Plants in storage were saved An apartment in the basement oc an de cupied by t Lewis Hinebaughj employe of the firm, was stroyed. Nursery stock destroyed was in the work rooms and j in- ' eluded berry plants of the varie ties grown in the Willamette val ley. 1 J( ( ' A shop, recently built iand equipped with tools, was destroy ed. Two motors also ; were 'de stroyed. Book and records of the irm wer aved, bejng regularlj kept at tne weess nome. dome checks, which can be replaced, were burned, but the report that considerable cash had burned, was erroneous, Weeks said, j The fire xwas well under way when the" Salem fire department arrived, j : Woman Scribe I m m m IWUnnTa li iianrl UllUUlo JL A 111111 EUGENE, Ore. Dec ISfUP) Pauline Conradt, operator of an art shop here, was in critical con dition tonight with three bullet wounds in her chest and back, and a woman reporter for Eugene Register-Guard was the be- tag held by. city police. m uau w uij wuw.v i r No charges had as yet beea filed against Miss Gladys Turley, who with Miss Conradt resides on a small " ranch approximately SO miles from here. i Xi J: having dinner, and asked to talk her 3 wu ghown upstairs. ajjj a few minutes later persons ?, downstairs heard loud talking i '.'r y WW u WW. mwmm ... .. N- Fire Destroys m m k - ' DAYS, rU. BE Wl f I 1Mb. ' , VVILL j M T .A t 1 : X