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i - : - - i- rr-v - n n mm hkm ens ?mfo ft .. R31ffls OirasodlG Nazis Use DllI J2dU a- . - . Mwr In the recent political campaign the Emporia Gazette did some thing it never had done under its late, great editor, William Allen ..White: It sponsored a democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, for. presi dent William L. White, son of William ' Allen, himself an able journalist, explained the paper's endorsement, of Roosevelt in" this Wise: He felt that we should have as president some one with a bet ter understanding of and more sympathy for Russia than Gover nor Dewey, and that Roosevelt was much to be preferred for this reason. White's views were ex pressed following his tour of Rus sia with Erjc Johnston, president of the U. S. chamber of com- pierce. v ' j Although White thus threw his Weight in favor of Stalin's : friend In -the White House, Moscow's Pravda, .leading mouthpiece of government opinion, gave White no mercy when lit commented on bis presently published "Report on the Russians," an installment of which appears in the current Headers Digest Pravda called him An obscure American newspaper Brian of "doubtful reputation." Of bis comments on Russian life it aid: ' "The standard stew from the fascist kitchen, with all its aromas of calumnies, unpardonable ignor ance and undisguised" malice." Pravda is theyaper which re buked Wendell tWiUkie who had (Continued on Editorial Page) C. of G. Heads To Be Named On Wednesday Ten of 14 members of the Salem ' chamber . of : commerce board of directors were re-elected for 1945 at the annual ballot Monday. They were Lowell E. . Kern, Robert Elfstrom, W. L. Phillips, Ralph Campbell,; Frank Doerfler, Ralph Johnson, Loyal Warner, G rover Hillman, Linn Smith and . Lester Barr. , The four new directors will be Floyd Shepard, Dorothea Steus loff, Leo Childs and Guy Hickok. These four will replace Fred An unsen, Winnie Pettyjohn,1 E. ,J, Ecellars and Albert Ramseyer. In addition to the 14, other 1945 directors will include Carl Hogg, retiring president, and the beads of the junior chamber, the Cher Tians and the retail trade bureau. Hogg said the directors prob ably would meet Wednesday night to choose the 1943 president, first and second vice president, secre- , tary and treasurer. AUied Planes Plaster Nazis LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 19-(P) The sky over London was filled with the rumble of heavy bomb ers for more than an hour last ll'Jfcf1 mm m miic s.va w . sjs w ward the continent It was believed to be the largest force of heavy ' aircraft to pass over the city In months, indicat ing a particularly r at the Germans was. being made. Earlier in the night a iMu of smashed, at German shipping in the big " Polish port of Gdynia - north of Danzig last night after .1100 British - based American warplanes made emergency day light attacks ; through clouds arainst three railheads-used to buddIt the . nazis new western Zront oiiensive. . . MM . Cordon Sworn in As McNary Successor , WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -(Jf) Senator Guy Cordon of Roseburg was sworn in today to complete the remaining four years in the term of the late Sen. Charles L. McNary. - . He was elected last month to the Dosition in which he has served by appointment since' McNary's death. After the ceremony. Cor don' presented the credentials of , Wvn L. Morse. Eugene, who was elected to succeed Rufus Hoi man and will take office Jan uary 3. . Reclamation Meet May Attract 100 Advance registrations. Monday night Indicated that attendance at the Oregon Reclamation congress convening here today would verge on 1 00, Salem Chamber of Com merce personnel reported. 1 Today's, sessions, beginning at 9:30 am. will be held - in the School Administration (old high school) building at High and Mar lon streets, with the exception of the afternoon meeting of the Wil lamette valley project committee and tonight's 6:30 banquet chamber ci commerce rooms. NINETY-FOURTH YEAR Mindoro Invasion Goes Well Island Landing Easiest Big Job Of Pacific War By Dean Schedler GENERAL MAQ ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Tuesday, Dec. 19.-(P)-Destructioh or serious damaging of 742 Jap anese warplanes during . the past week was disclosed by Gen. Doug as MacArthur today as American invasion troops met no resistance on Minooro. island. The Japanese planes were bag ged by land-based American air craft and planes operating from Adm. William F. Halsey's Third fleet ... . Want Airdromes The chief American purpose in seizing Mindoro island is the con struction of airdromes from wpich further to harry the Japanese. V. Si PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Dee. 18. (JP) Three days of sus tained naval aerial assault on Luon island la-the Pihilipplnes has cost the Japanese at least 28 ships sank, 8 others dsm- ssed and 488 planes destroyed r damaged.' .. Adm. Chester W. Nimlts, an nouncing; this in a communiqae today, told of widespread de struction of Japanese facilities In the key .PJiillppines island as he save complete reports for the strikes of Dec. 13 and 14 and a preliminary account for Dec IS. Manila is only a half hour's flight from Mindoro. American and Aus tralian construction men were busy putting airstrips into shape. The communique said the .Yan kee landing on Mindoro had caught him, (the enemy) com pletely off balance," and except for a few nuisance air attacks, the Americans were making their scheduled progress. Little Resistance Invasion of Mindoro has been the easiest major job of the Pa cific war. Associated Press Cor respondent Elmont Waite, writing from MindOro, said "the Japanese have offered not the slightest re sistance as yet aside from harass ing air attacks by a few planes." He said the invasion has been moving swifter than had been hoped." The Japanese at the city of San Jose fled in such, haste they left their, breakfast bowls of rice and clams still warm. : More Funds Due For Mexican Help Expenditure of an additional 22 million dollars for use in connec Won with Mexican labor in the United States, has -been approved by the United States senate, the state department of agriculture was notified Monday. E. L. Peterson, department di rector, commended the wisdom of the action, but said no forecast of needs for Mexican labor required next year to maintain Oregon's agriculture at the production lev el contemplated by war food goals could be made just now. J ftp Made Paper Balloon. Capable of Carrying 800 Pounds. Falls in Montana; FBI Probe On KALISPELL, Mont, Dec. 18-(ff) The federal bureau of Investiga tion announced tonight that a paper balloon 33 feet in diame ter, bearing Japanese characters, had been found in a mountain region near here. t - f An official statement said the balloon had attached to Its side an incendiary device, apparently Intended for destruction of the balloon. ' . , An FBI spokesman gave this ex planation of the find; "On Dec. 11, 1944, a woodchop per named ' Owen Hill and his father, O. B. Hill, who had been working in a mountainous forest region 17 miles south! est of Kalis pell, Mont, reported to the sher iff s . office the ' discovery - of as object which was thought to be a parachute. .4" . ) , POUNDDD "1651 . " t " 10 PAGES Oregon Formally on Record for FDR f - it J V Oreron's six members of the electoral college swore to nphold the their ballots here Monday unanimously for the re-election of President Franklin D. Roosvelt and the election of Harry 8. Truman as vice president of the United States. Administering the oath of office. Chief Justice J. O. Bailey of the state supreme court stands at the extreme left. Others, from left to rirht: Elton Watklns, Portland; Richard G. Scott, Sherwood; Amanda J. Bart. Milwaukie; Harvey G. Starkweather, Milwaukie; Cells L. Gavin, The Dalles, and Walter M. Pierce, LaGrande. (States man photo) U.S. Agrees in Principle To Partitioning of Poland y uenry WASHINGTON, Dec.J8-()-The blance of harmony to the ranks of tion of agreement in principle to a partition of Poland, demanded by Russia and approved by Britain. The United States agreement, set forth in a statement by Secretary of State Stettinius, was made condition oh mutual accord by the Soviets Smash Into Southern ) LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 19-yf) Russian Alpine troops, swarming down out of the Kecske moun tains of northeastern . Hungary, yesterday crossed the Czechoslo vak frontier on a 10-mile front and drove to within two miles of the Germans southern escape route out of Kassa, big east Slovak stronghold. Simultaneously, the Russians reached the Slovak frontier on a 68-mile front, pushed to within 14 miles of outflanked Kassa-on the southwest, and to within 11 miles on the southeast as Berlin reported that other Soviet troops were attacking within 15 miles east of the communications center. Gaining up to 12 miles from their previous positions, Marshal Rodion; Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukraine army units - threatened the" early collapse of the entire German salient In eastern Slo vakia. Salem Man Weds Actress - - -: v - .:: - - ? v -) HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 18 -(flf-The wedding of Film Player Carol Deere, former New Orleans singer, and Cpl. Dale Rowling of Salem, Ore., is scheduled for to night "It waa brought into town the next day and ' the FBI office at Butte was advised and took pos session of it Upon examination, the object was discovered to be 33H feet in diameter, with a gas capacity of over 18,000 cubic feet and a carrying capacity of at least 800 pounds net r - The bag Itself Is of high grade processed paper. There appeared on the balloon Japanese characters indicating completion of construc tion at the factory on Oct 31, 1944.' No ' determination has been made of the use for which it was intended. Persons experienced in the use of free: balloons report they .are 1 known to travel at speeds well in excess of 200 miles an hour. "There was a rising sun in green painted on it, and there was Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning, December 19, 1944 0 v. vtxuay tU United States restored some sem the Big Three today by a declara "United Nationals directly con cerned' in the new Polish fron- tiers. By these nations, it was estab lished, Stettinius meant Poland and the Soviet Union, which seeks the eastern third of Poland. The secretary of state inferen tially urged such an accord, say ing it could contribute to prose cution of the war and that Poland could have American assistance in transfers of population and reha bilitation of devasted areas. As a substitute for an ironclad American guarantee of their pro posed, new borders, ruled out by traditional US policy, the Poles were offered the general security envisaged under the United Na tions organization. Lt. B. Williams Arrives Home - Lt Bruce W. Williams, USNR, who in November was awarded five separate medals, including the Navy Cross, for his accomplish ments during one month of inten sive action in the Philippine is lands area, arrived home Sunday night on leave, j The navy flyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Williams, a gradu ate of Willamette university, will spend several weeks here, during part of that time geeting accli mated, he said Monday. Coming in late last' week from the I warm South Pacific and flying north al most immediately into one of the valley's most-prolonged cold snaps he declared he found the weather uncomfortable but the home at mosphere warm. (More service news page 8) oriental printing on it that looked Jap to me,M i said Deputy Sheriff Royal Hopkins. "It was cream col ored, about 80 feet long and about 150 feet around. The bomb-look Lag thing about a foot .long was attached to the balloon and there were several fuses on It . -In a statment released by FBI headquarters at Butte, agents said a flash bomb approximately two inches In diameter, six Inches long containing a; mixture tentatively identified as aluminum powder with an oxide was attached to the bottom of the balloon. They said the device was fixed so that the bomb would explode into the bal loon.-: i ., . ! , - A 70-foot slow-burning fuse was attached to the j bomb, and had burned and gone out- , - - ''' a.-; r, constitution and they did, easting Six Democrat Cast 's Votes Democratic presidential electors of Oregon, chosen at the Novem ber election, made short work of casting their ballots here Monday for Franklin D. Roosevelt to serve his fourth term as president and Harry S. Truman for vice presi dent ' . : Walter MJ Pierce, LaGrande, one-time governor and former congressman, was chairman of the group of six named on a statewide basis. Amanda . J. Hart, Milwau kie, who in 1932 was Oregon's first woman elector, was secre tary." The electors took their oath of office before Chief Justice J. O. Bailey of the state supreme court at noon in the office of the pres ident of the senate. A copy, of the certificate they signed . Was mailed to the presi dent of the United States senate. Two were sent to the US secre tary of state; one' was directed to the federal district judge in Port land and two were left here with Secretary of State Robert S. Far relLjr. By the Associated. Press - The electoral college went through the quadrennial motions yesterday and made it official President Roosevelt is elected again. . ; The electors, In line with the verdict of the voters November 7, cast the 531 ballots that formally elect a president and vice pre&j dent: 432 for Mr. Roosevelt and 99 for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. (See story on page 8) Negro Rioters Found Guilty '.' SEATTLE, Dec. 18 -iJPf- Prison sentences aggregating more than 200 years were given tonight to 27 negro soldiers found guilty by general court martial board of rioting against an Italian service unit at Fort Lawton last Aug ust 14. ' ! Three of the defendants were found - innocent of additional charges of murder In connection with the, death of Pvt Cuglielmo Olivotto, whose body was- found hanging in a nearby gully ' the morning after the riot , . X Those cleared of murder charg es,- however, were convicted of rioting and their sentences were the heaviest assessed by 'the court martial board. ' Weather , r Maximum temperature Mon day tl9 degrees, minimum 24 degrees; trace ef rain; river -2 ft 7 In. Cloudy With eceasienal rains west af Cascade Tneadav and Wednesday and anew east ef Cascades Wednesday. Slight ly warmer,' Electors State IPs MIPS Aircraft Factories Targets 70 Giant Planes Concentrate on Nagoya Plants By Vera Haogland 2 1ST BOMBER COMMAND, Saipan, Deer 18 -(JP)- Superfort resses pounded Japanese war plants with new, ferocity today, hitting particularly at the 'aircraft factories of Nagoya. ' For' two hours the big; planes from Saipan ranged over the im portant war industry city in the heart of the Japanese mainland on Honshu island, duplicating in nu merical strength the devastating raid they made on that same tar get December '13 Hankow Target (At the same time Superforts of the 20th homber command, striking from an Asiatic base, blasted docks and storage facili ties at Hankow, Japanese-occupied Chinese city on the Yangtze river, with "good results, the WASHINGTON, Dee. 19 -(JF) China-based Superfortresses at tacked the Japanese mainland today less than 24 hours after their strike at Hankew, China. , . . The latest attack was carried out in medium force against in dustrial targets en Kyvsha, one of the main islands of the Japa nese homeland," the wax depart ment announced. Additional ' information will be released as soon as final re ports 'are. received frem the theater ef Derations. $ war department said. The cir cumstances indicated there were upwards of 100 B-29s in the raid. All returned to their . base. They probably shot down five Japanese fighters and damaged seven oth ers. .. 201 Take Part I Possibly 200 of the giant planes participated in these operations. The Japanese said there were 70 in the Nagoya raid and admitted they had done damage, including tne starting or tires wrucn re quired "resolute efforts' by air raid defense workers before they were put out; U. S. Subs Bag 33 Jap Ships WASHINGTON, Dec. l-(ff)- Score 33 more Japanese ships for the American undersea raiders. A navy communique today re ported the new successes of its submarines which are hunting in the . far Pacific. ; The announce ment boosts' the , total of: enemy ships sunk by United States sub marines to 907, of which 94 were fighting ships. " Electric Franchise Voting Out; Civu Service Exams Deferred There will be no election to de termine whether Salem citizens would or would not . prefer to ' grant a franchise to tha Salem ' Electric company, it was definite ly decided by . the city council Monday night by a roll call vote ending with eight members voting no and six yes. Voting for the proposition were: Aldermen CT F, French, Albert H. Gille, R. A. Forkner, R. O. Lewis, Mrs. G. F. Lob dell and David O'Hara; against. Aldermen Edward Acklin, Tom' Armstrong. J. F. Byers, Claude Jorgensen, L. F. LeGarie, Howard Maple, Kenneth Perry and Lloyd T. Rigdon. " The civil service .examination controversy Involving the fire de partment was referred to the po lice and fire committees and the civil service commission for fur ther study. Alderman Armstrong told the council that to attempt an examination now. would find too few able to qualify. ' The Ealem public parks and public playgrounds boards Joined in a request to the council for $300 Mcsj 5c no, 234 60,000 Japs Due; On Coast Half of Excluded G-roup May Cone Back to Homes SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.lsJlyp) Best estimates tonight were that 1 AAA. V m sa kaa v ! omy ou.vuv oi me iiy.uuu Japa nese excluded from . the Pacific coast beginning March 23, 142, would return now that the west ern defense command has revoked its mass exclusion order. It was indicated that even this number would be slow about coming back, taking a year and a half to com plete the move. . Prefer East I Japanese from southern Califor nia at the Manzanar, Califs center actually were represented as be ing more in favor of relocating in the east or middle west than jre- turaing to their homes. Director Ralph Merritt said that a ' few property owners' among the 3,600 American born and 1,800 aliens at tne camp mignt go to weir former homes, but the majority was loathe to return to southern Cali fornia. ' ', : . ' The Heart Mountain, Wyo re location center likewise estimated that only 900 or less than 10 Per cent of the Japanese there would go back to the west coast . Fairly Accurate Otherwise reports indicated the 60,000 estimate by WBA souices was fairly accurate, although cau tion in testing west coast reaction was displayed at all the reloca tion centers where 61,000 Japa nese still live. Governor SneU of Oregon-con f erred by telephone with Gover nors Warren of California : and Langlie of Washington on a com mon method of handling any problems that might arise from the return, but he declined com ment on their conversations. Dream House' To Be Given Friday at 4? Four o'clock Friday afternoon at the Victory center on the Mar ion county courthouse lawn were named Monday as time and place for selection of the winner of the $4000 Victory "dream house" in the county's successfully conclud ed Sixth War Loan campaign. . Judges at the center that after noon will be E. Burr Miller Guy Hickok, D. W. Eyre, Fra&k B. Bennett and Charles A. Sprague. The winner need not be present, but must make himself or herself known within seven days. Band music and a short program Will be provided, R. W. (Joe) Land, spec ial events chairman, said Monday. Meanwhile, indicates pointed, to a final report of sales of more than $2,000,000 in E bonds. Fred Dentel, Aurora-Donald chairman, reported Monday that his district, with a quota of $25,000, had pur chased $62,000 'worth of : bonds. Robert W. Minton, Industrial chairman, said both Salem j Water system and the. Portland Gas and Coke company employes' had gone over the top. Carl Porter, district manager for Warner Bros, the atres, reported that the 1802 bonds purchased, for admission to the recent premier at the Elsinof e had brought in $112,500. ' with which to make a study of grounds owned by the city, i The letter to the council pointed out that the city owns 25.293 aeries of park and playground spaed be sides the 37 acres in Bush pasture but that nothing, or little,; has been done to improve it I The council approved the request - Liquor licenses which had been held up, pending investigation of the business houses where lntox Icants are sold, were granted by tne counciL ; The council voted to enter into written agreement with West Sa lem to f u r n i s h -fire protection SM i ww . a, Sm -wnen poiiioi e." , west zaiem, which has ' been getting . "when possible" service asked for 'j the written agreement ? as an aid to securing lower insurance rates. I H. McMahan petitioned i the council to abate certain alleged obstructions on Division street The subject was referred to a spe cial committee, for report com posed of Aldermen O'Hara, Gille and -Jorgensen, Secret Weapon Planes Destroy '95 Enemy Tanks, Armored Cars tsy George Tucker SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY. FORCE, Paris, Dec. lS.-flp)-Tha great German counter-offensive,' hammering a deep dent in US First army lines, plungedt least, 18 miles inside Belgium today de-1 spite a lashing ground defense and allied air blows that knocked i out 95 enemy tanks and armored vehicles and damaged 26 more. First indication of the extent of the German drive came from the US Ninth air force, which an- : nounced that British Typhoons had attacked 20 German armored vehicles "west of Stavelot," which is 18 miles west of the frontier and 24 miles southeast of the fort ress of Liege. Cain 15 Miles 1 This was 15 miles from where the lines stood before the German push began. - t . Both the First and Ninth army sectors were bombarded day and night by a f hew German V-weapon of undisclosed nature., The front rocked to the explosions of the weapons and the thunder of American antiaircraft fire. Flares lighted the night sky. Through heavy censorship of ground troop movements on the First army front came reports of pilots participating in the greatest mass destruction of enemy armor since the battle of Falaise Gap in Normandy last summer. . US Planes Bosy " ) US fighterbombers lending priceless aid to ground troops, many of whom had their positions overrun, ripped up and down the western front destroying an ad ditional 265 transport vehicles. They also pounded German troops -and gun positions, bomb ing and strafing. The G e r m a n high command , hurled scores of thousands of crack troops and large numbers of tanks into the great fluid battle that may decide the entire course of World war II. I Naxis Use Planes '.. , ' Once more the Germans threw their air force into the attle, at tacking up to 300 N strong, but 43 of them were knocked from the sky in swirling aerial dogfights above the battlefield. Front-line officers of the US First army made no attempt to minimize the seriousness of this supreme effort to stall the allied drive on the Rhine a counter- offensive reminiscent of Luden- dorfs final push in the spring of 918. At 4 p. m. an ironclad censor ship of news was imposed on the r entire length of the First army front which earlier dispatches said was alive with German attacks ot varying strength from Duren 80 miles south, to southern Lux em- i bourg. Postoffice Has One of Heaviest Days in History Letters and cards mailed at the Salem postoffice Monday totaled 20,000 believed to be a record high mark for the local office. Postmaster Henry . R. Crawford said last night : k The largest number ever count-j ed in the Salem office was 130,006 but that was at a time when th meter machines at the statehouseJ and various other points were, not in operation. , - '' -1 - It was the opinion of Postmaster Crawford that the 120,000 on Mon- day.wOulcniave been at least 150, 000 had the meter machine totals been available. . : - - . v Not only were thousands ot cards and letters mailed Monday but many packages contributed to make it one of the heaviest days in the history of the office. Ship With Gifts for War Prisoners Docks PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 18-TV The international Red Cross ship Caritas, 2nd, bearing . 300,000 Christmas bundles for German prisoners of war in this country. arrived here Saturday and nc-w is reloading ; to take Christmas packages to Americans interned overseas, the American Red Cross disclosed today. j f SHOPPIN IW5 ;htTTft m rr sr . c - mbe- t ,