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7catlicr .- i ' : . Maxlmnm tempatore Fri day 49 ietrttt, mtnlmem SS derree .41 Inch rmia, river . -t ft. 2 la. cl.V..,-..'; i - llostly clendr with show- " crs tionx (he tout and tno w flarrfea la ther sections t- . day and la the seath portion -tomorrow. Clear ia nortti portloa tomorrow. Contin- aed cold. " ' - . P0UND30 fHl-' 'LPCDCDDCB r- . . , . 1 " . 1 ft There was a meeting In New York"-Wedneeday ot republican : members of the house and senate "and ot . the national r committee with Go v,' Thomas " :i E. i Dewey, Plans were discussed for making ; thi republican .a vigorous op i position party.', Ijf was designed also to put Mr. Dwey "in an ac- tive role at titulars leader of the party." ' ; f This . report 1 stimulates several thoughts. One is that the party is left in great bewilderment as a result of the late campaign and election. Just how can it function as a "vigorous opposition party" when its candidate conceded the - new deal's budget of legislation , and approved the administration's foreign policy? f It is questionable if it should function as such In critical war time. Instead it should 'be ready ' with support on truly national questions but it should be ready with opposition where the admin istration's policies are poor. The party has missed an opportunity l to function in the cause-ofgood - government by not insisting on Investigation of the lobby-broker-:. age business of Tom Corcoran. It j ought ; also serve . as a constant i monitor pf the . party in power which .is in danger of . (Continued, on editoriarpage) . Large Force Of Superf orts Plaster Nagoya , 21ST BOMBER COMMAND, Eaipan Dec. 22-(JP)-A good-sized '. force of B29's bombed Nagya, Ja ' pan's aircraft center, again today I through a thick overcast and ran l Into heavy anti-aircraft fire .and n horde of defending fighter . planes. Precision instruments helped to wercome the handicap 1 of the overcast and the bombardiers ex pressed confidence their loads of explosives found a mark. Gunners caught sight of parts of the city through holes in the clouds'. It was the third time in 10 days that the Superf orts had flown 1400 miles from Saipan to plaster the Nagoya area. '. The . first planes over the city today met heavy "ack-ack""buf few enemy , fighter planes. As in pre vious raids, the later Superfort formation fought off hordes of Japanese fighters' but little ack- ack. ... RAF Bombers Hammer Nazi Rail Centers LONDON, Dec. 22 - (JP) - RAF ; Lancasters. and Halifaxes tonight blasted the Rhine railhead cities of Coblenz and Bingen, supply distribution centers for Field Mar shal Von Rundstedt's attacking ar mies. ' . .. Coblenz has large freight yards and is on a rail line from the Rhino to the Trier and Luxem bourg areas one of the : focal points in the German offensive. Bingen is a junction city on an Important railway leading to the highly industrial Saar valley. '. The RAF also was out during ! Saylight hours and flew more than J 00 sorties over the northern sec t lor to . aid American troops by ; blasting German forces and gun - positions. Although the RAF was able to take advantage of a break In the weather, American flying bases were closed . in and both British and Italian - based US heavies , were forced . to remain - borne. r ' v Actor Langdon Dies HOLLYWOOD; Dec. 22-(JP)-He bad fat Jowls and wide eyes that rave him a bewildered look, and an odd little mannerism with his bands that spelled helplessness. They added up to a funny, human character for , which the movies once paid Harry Langdon $7500 a week. ' -,. . , Harry died today, a few months post 60 years, after a short illness, A cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of his death, But his friends say- that when he was making a , two-reel comedy early last month he appeared in excellent health , and 10 years younger than he ac tually Vas. .He started' in two-reelers and onded in them. Between, he had great success and failures and the , tribulations that come with mar riages and divorces and too much money. Naris Use 'Bogus BBC SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIO N A R Y FORCE, Paris, Dec M-flVTh Germans are operating a "bogus tBC" bit 'their counter-offensive fector of the western front," broad fasting "doctored" .news bulletins l Unslish, It was disclosed tonight Harry inNETYTOUBTH YEAH 270,000 Russians In Drive Soviet " Patrols : Active oh Long Eastern ' Front i By W. W. Hercher LONDON, Saturday, Dee. 23.- (TVBerlin said last night that 270,000 Russians, ' including ski troops supported by strong tank and plane formations, had begun a big push of extreme opera tional importance" against 30 Nazi divisions pocketed in snowswept Latvia as a prelude to an immi nent general winter offensive by the Red army. A Moscow dispatch early today also said the long eastern front was stirring ' into action w t h strong Red army patrols probing German positions and sub-zero temperatures hardening the soil to create conditions in which the Rusisans in the past have won some of their greatest military successes. . " Whiter Eqoipped Red army men have been issued -"fall - winter equipment Familiar white-robed skimen are once more in the lines: "tanksharf been winterized and men marshalled in strategic areas. It is believed the Red army shortly will strike the Germans from Latvia on the Bal tic sea through east Prussia and Poland down to the already active Czechoslovak - Hungarian . front, said the dispatch. In Czechoslovakia meanwhile the Russians drove to within nine miles of the important rail center of Losonc (Lucenec) and to within six miles of a secondary junction near the Hungarian frontier, thus threatening to trap a sizeable force of- Germans rounted from the' Hungarian Ma tra mountains by other Soviet units attacking up from the south. Predicts Offensive Berlin predicted a general large- scale winter offensive "in the near future" as part of the Allied mas ter plan of finally crushing Ger many from the east., west and south, and said the Soviet Latvian command already was undertak ing to sweep up an entire Axis army left there to menace th Soviet flank jutting into oast Prussia: Britain Galls Up More Men ; LONDON, Dec., 22.-)-Britam tonight ordered a new draft, plus transfers from the RAF and navy and a stricter comb-out of ' its "desk soldiers," j to raise quickly 250,000 more men for its armies. - The new call-up, which is in addition to the regular conscrip tion schedule, was announced by Prime, Minister Churchill's office as the Berlin radio said Gen. Eis enhower was drawing reinforce menu zrom the British army group to help the Americans check the German western front counter offensive. Stick on Job Asks Roosevelt Reaffirms Atlantic Charter WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 - VP President Roosevelt . asked the American people today for a Christmas present for the fighting forces. It is to -stick on the job and turn out the supplies they need. The president told a news, con ference there was . nothing he could add to. the press dispatches on . the heavy fighting in Europe, but that a lot of people had asked him, what those at home could do for ' the 1 fighting forces at this Christmas time. ' ..-.. He picked up a paper from his desk and read: ; -. -, "We can best help' the Christ mas season, of our fighting men if we carry On our respective tasks, doing those things which will con tribute to winning the war at the: earliest possible moment . ; , Theiefore, X urge that each ol 10 PAGES Psjl irodl Hamilton Dies i 7 .. )!'" .i ... m 4- ; s C 8. Hamilton Rites Tuesday For Pioneer Business Man C. S. -Hamilton, 78, pioneer fur- nituro merchant in Salem and widely known in this area, died Friday afternoon, at a Salem hos pital after a long illness. He had been hospitalized since Septem ber. "V:"; -'V '- Clarence Sloane Hamilton, was born in Jacksonville, 111., March 2, 1888. He came to Oregon in 1891, and first was with the Wood ward and Clark Drug store . in Portland. He came to Salem with Putnam's Drugs, then located on the site of the present Schaefer Drug; store at 135 North Commer cial. He entered the furniture bus iness in 1894 with Max O. Buren, When the two purchased the A. B. Buren & Sons store. The Buren St Hamilton partner ship was dissolved in 1918, and the business at 340 Court street since then has been operated as the C. S. Hamilton company. Two sons have been associated in its operation, Clarence J. and Ralph S. Hamilton. A third son, Arthur M., is in New York. Six grand children also survive. . Hamilton was married to Jessie Stump, daughter of a pioneer Polk county family, who resides at the Hamilton home at 290 Front street. The deceased was a member of the Elks, Oddfellows, and cham ber of commerce, a charter mem ber of the Cherrians, and was af filiated with the Unitarian church. Services will be held at the Clough-Barrick chapel at .10:30 jn. Tuesday. Board Merger Eyed As Economy Measure 'Paul Hale, area board Isupervis or for the OPA, said Friday a eon solidation of the Salem and West Salem rationing boards had been "suggested as an economy mea sure only,'! but that "no definite plans have been made, or will be made until and unless a -thorough investigation proves beyond doubt that such action would be to the advantage of all concerned." The West Salem board serves 3900 persons, , the , Salem board 42,000. o us resolve to keep on the Job and maintain the steady output of sup plies peeded by our men on the fighting fronts." . The- conference developed - an other lengthy discussion of the Atlantic charter which the presi dent disclosed earlier this week was never drafted as a formal doc ument which he and . Prime Min ister Churchill signed. Today's was Initiated "by a re porter's request for comment on what he said "was a feeling by many people that "we are getting away from the purposes" of the charter. ' . .." -'" ... Mr, " Roosevelt said he thought "the objectives of the Atlantic charter are as valid as when they were announced in 1941," and lent emphasis to this statement by an thorixing its direct quotation, Scdanu Oroon, Saturday Morning, Decembo 23, 1844 British Ponder Rightists Report Leftists : Forces ; ; Inyade " Epinis ; ATHENS, Dec. 22-ff)-Lt. Gen. R. M. Scobie, British commander In Greece, tonight received a re ply from the left-wing Elas group to the British terms for the cessa tion of hostilities. The Elas answer Is reported to be a new three- point proposal and was signed by three members of the Elas com mittee. The Elas message delayed for four days because of the heavy street fighting is being consid ered at British headquarters. It will take considerable' time to translate the lengthy letter, it was said. Eplros Invaded - Meanwhile, Gen. Napoleon Zer vas, chief of the rightist Edes, charged that 13,000 to 20,000 Elas wefe invading ( his 1 territory in Epirus, but the Greek capital it self was quieter, today as British mopping up operations continued. A British""6ificer, commenting on th , situation, i said, fWe . have rounded a difficult corner." Tanks patrolled the . Omonia Square region. An office building in ithat area a favorite snipers' position was set afire. 'Report Denied 1 ' ' As Elas - British ; negotiations continued, the Papandreou gov ernment tonight denied a report that King George had communi cated any decision on the regency question; - i The new Elas truce proposal was unofficially understood to agree to Scobie's terms, including disarm ameht and withdrawal of ; Elas forces, from Athens and all Attica, providing; there would be a simul taneous formation of a new gov eminent.' Civilian lire Quota Slashed WASHINGTON, Dec. 22-VPy- A sharp reduction has, been or dered in the output of passenger car! tires in the first quarter of 1943 in an effort to increase pro duction for the armed forces. James F. Clark; director of the war ; production ' board's rubber bureau - announced today that about five million passenger; car ures win oe proaucea m me ursx quarter, a slash, of approximately 1,650,000 from present production levels. . . , Clark said the action made' it "very apparent" that "A card holders must get along with their present castings "for a good part of 31945.- Store Offers Excellent Substitute f or Hosiery4 ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22-tfVMrs. Boyd Rogers, daughter . of Gov. Forrest C DcmnelL asked for two pair! of hose at a department store counter and accepted the paper bag jfrom the clerk without look ing inside. - JK ; -r.-. ; She learned after finishing her shopping and returning home that the store had been making fran tic efforts to find her. Inside the bag was supposed to contain the hose $2200 of the store's moneys Governor or Not, He Got a Job Anyway -The "governor" means a straw boss, in loggers' parlance,' but one Montana worker who sought; a job in the woods near Cottage Grove didn't" know it So, when- ho was told to "see the governor" about the! job, he came right to; Gov. Earl Snell in Salem. Governor Snell telephoned a logging con cern Friday and the job was ob tained. ' r Ifroposal Hannegain FDRKift Reported ; Demo Chairman , Declares Story ; 4Wolly Untrue' WASHINGTON, Dec.' 22 - m- DembcratiC; . National " Chairman Robert E. Hannegan today denied, and President Roosevelt dismissed as something he wouldn't care to discuss, a published story of dis cord at a meeting between the two.. "At his news conference," the president was. 'asked "about the story, published in , the. Chicago Sun,' and replied that he did not think he wanted to comment on stories of that ' kind. ' Call It Untrue Through the democratic nation al committee, Hannegan issued statement later, calling the report "patently and wholly untrue." , The published account said that during the president's recent vaca tion, . Hannegan visited him at Warm' Springs, Ga, to discuss the party chairman's political future. . It called the atmosphere, of the meeting "none too friendly." ' -Expected Post ' V'--.;.. r.., The story said Hannegan, after the successful fourth-term' cam paign, had confidently expected to be made postmaster ' general. Frank C. Walker decided to stay on in that position,-however, the story continued, and Hannegan probably will remain as chairman. - The postmaster . generalship, : a cabinet post, has been by 'custom the reward of the party chief. , . Yanks Advance Towards Jap Escape Harbor GENERAL 1 MAC - ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, ; Philippi n e s, Saturday, Dec. 23.-P)-The.U. S 77th . infantry v division has '. ad vanced three ' miles west . of the Ormoc corridor on the mountain road toward Palompon," escape port for. '.the embattled .Japanese remaining on Leyte .island, Gen eral MacArthur announced today. f Palompon; w h i'c hf Is on the western coast of the northwest shoulder of the island, is under Yank artillery fire. Japanese, rem nants fleeing from the corridor are trying to, cut their way through to Palompon. , r" Mopping up continues in other areas near the corridor, where the door has been slammed shut on the 'Nipponese - after destruc tion of their defense lines, v Another 1546 enemy dead were counted on Thursday, headquar ters said. - Boys Report Jap Balloon SEATTLE, Dec. :' 21.Ufy-Two small boys, aged 10 and 12, re ported today - they had seen a balloon of .the Japanese type re cently discovered -at " KalispelL Mont, settle to earth in a wooded region south of Tacoma, Wash. . Agents of the federal- bureau of Investigation were" sent to the region. .The search was still in progress tonight without confir mation of the, report W V s Seattle army officials pointed out that children might easily have mistaken a drifting weather balloon for, one of the other type and asserted they were inclined to suspend judgment until furth er word from the searching party. Nazis'-New Secret WeaponvNot V-3 0rV4 biit y.lJ - LONDON, Dec 22 JP The Oermans new secret weapon In use on the western front was de scribed here today as "not V-S or V-4. but V'lVt .", - h It apparently is a barrage wea pon and takes the form of a self- propelled shell, H was said. It has been described in front dispatches as a small V-2 rocket , ' Oassifying It as V-1H might indicate that it has some features of both V-l, the flying bomb, and V-2,' the long range roduW Makes Pled ' Gen. Elsenhower 'ffie' Exhorts His Armies to Destroy Enemy ' By James M. Long ' ' SUPREME HEAD QUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, JParis,-Dec. 22-(P-Gal-lantly resisting American troops already have done much to foQ the Germans "great gamble" In Belgium 1 and Luxembourg, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared today in a fighting exhortation to his allied armies to "destroy the enemy on" the ground, in the air, everywhere destroy him." In his first order of the day since the nazis blasted through the First army's lines last' week end,' t h e allied commander-in- chief told his men that -"the ene? my majr give o -chance, to turn his jfreat gamble inta; his wont He charged -ihe eGermans " with using -?4every treacherous "trick to deceive and -kill yeuavghd called upon every allied soldier to "rise now to new heights of courage, of resolution, and, of effort" The allies, he declared, could not - be content merely with repulsing the nazi onslaught, but- must crush the" enemy.' . " - 20. Glamorous Women Picked : - - 4 NEW YORK, Dec. 22P)-Mme. Chiang . Kai-shek, Mrs. . Winston Churchill and ' Rep. Clare . Booth Luce as well as screen; radio and stage stars were among, the "ten most glamorous .women of 1944" selected today by the artists and sculptors' Institute, an informal groups . - Other selections were: Soprano Lily Pons; Mrs. Harry Hopkins, t wife of the presidential adviser; -Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain;. Mrs. Gardner Cowles jrH wife of the newspaper and maga zine publisher; Vivian DellaJ Chi esa, radio 'and concert soprano; Ann Miller, screen and stage dan cer, and Mrs. Edward Villa Senor, wife of the president of the Bank of Mexico. - . : Bond Committee Asks Card Holders to Call r The War Bond committee Fri day night asked that persons hold ing cards number 48993 and 7 1883 telephone, the committee at 9163 as soon as possible. . ' - Citizens Group To Change Folkes Sentence Gov. Earl Snell had under con sideration today rappeals from - a group of citizens' who Friday vis ited his office to ask commutation to life imprisonment of the death sentence meted out to Robert E. Lee Folkes fo the slaying of Mrs. Martha Virginia James on a train south of 'Albany two years ago. The lower court decree was af firmed in 5 to I decision of the state supreme court, and the Unit ed States supreme court refused to review the case. , i t 1 ; WC. Palmer, Portland attor ney, said he believed there had been a miscarriage pf justice. He added that all members of the state, supreme court had agreed there was error at the trial, and that "I believe there is a serious doubt as to whether Folkes com mitted the murder." - Nels Peterson, Portland attor- ney, emphasized ' ti.a dissenting Prlc c at -J. J - . " r '- 1 I " Ehe iiy Broadcasts Report Big Blow By Patton's Army ' Nazis Believed Ma&sing Armor tor, Kenewed Destroy More Than 200 Tanks ;---t- ; By NED NORDNESS : 1 ' v JPARI Dm Tiolent German winter of fensive spent much of its force today after pounding 40. miles across Belgium in seten days, bursting througlt Luxl em hour? and rolling up near Arlon, only 10 mile from thi French Jfcorder40 miles easof Sedaril . ; .1 1 .(Late iJerman broadcasts said that a 'fiercer: attack f from the south by Lt. Gen. George S. Pattons Third army, ! today "succeeded in: slowing" the advance and that the bruh of" the fighting had shifted to the flanks.) v . Field dispatches reporting that the enemy advance had slowed down, said, however, the Germans were believed massing armor for renewed blows ' and Gen. Eisenhower called on allied armies to turn the whole "great gamble Into the enemy's "worst defeat. . - ; ' Th Germans were hurt in a bloody battle of attrition which cost them more than' 200 tanks in five days of batter ing around Malmedy on the north flank along the routes, to the great port of Antwerp, and the Belgian capital ol Brussels.,, i-- Supreme headquarters and field dispatches gave' this picture of the sweep of the German drive from Tuesday noon when the Germans were 32 miles inside Belgium : to . Wednesday noon, keeping events of the last 48 hours under a security blackout: 1 ,- . ', - The most powerful wedge of Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt's i offensive" slashed through Luxembourg and by: late Wednesday had-cut major roads north, south and east of ;ihe keKroad center of Bastogne, Inside Belgium four fmiles. west' of, Luxembourg's This force then lanced on 13 miles northwest across the Ourthe river to La Roche, 32 miles inside Belgium and about 15 miles south of the northern flank west of StaveloU Heavy fighting raged at La Roche. J M' German armor which by-passed Bastogne headed on west for an undisclosed distance.! : ; . In the break through Luxembourg, an American fores was encircled at Wiltz, in the nine miles east of Bastogne. The Americans still held out inside the town. The Germans had been reportednearing Wiltz Tuesday. j , A dispatch from Associated Press Correspondent Ed ward D. Ball, still covering the Navy Identifies Lost Warships WASHINGTON, Dec. i n-i Two American warships lost off Leyte In the Philippines were identified by the navy today las the destroyer Mahan and the de stroyer transport Ward. j . v Loss of the", two "sWps, "which raises to 236 the number of naval losses since the war started was announced Dec 8 by Gen. Doug las A. MacArthur. They were, not idenUfied at the time. V v L At that time he reported the vessels were heavily damaged by aerial torpedoes. Their crews were removed and the ships then were sunk by our own forces,' he said. There was no: loss of life on the, Ward." " '. . Next of kin of the casualties aboard the Mahan. which carried a crew of approximately 170 men have been notified, .the navy said. The number of casualties was mot disclosed. . . ' . , ! Urges Snell v. State supreme court opinion of Justice - George Rossman.?! have no monetary interest in this case,' Peterson declared, "but I am in terested in Justice John Sneddon, business agent for' the Marine Cooks and Stew ards, Portland, urged ; that com mutation be given serious consld era tion because, he said, a latge number of persons believe Folkes did not commit the murder, v v Three Portland ministers and one Woodburn i minister rf Were among those who Joined in the ap peal. These included Browning: C Allen, negro, pastor of the Bethel African , Methodist Episcopal church; George ; Hals lead, pasior of Waverly Heights Congregation al church, and E. C. Salter, pastor of :.' the Ardenwald community church, all of Portland, and the Rev. George R. Cromley, pastor pf the Woodburn Presbyterian No. 233 Assault; Allies border. t northern part of the duchy situation up to Wednesday, reported there was brisk fighting in the areas of Bastogne and Ar- ' Ion, important Belgian city on the allied supply 'route leading i down from Antwerp through liege and ; Bastogne. . -; V Se-BUle Front f Spread of the fighting to Arlon broadened the front deep Inside Belgium to some 50 miles. The situation-was officially re ported stabilized on the southern flank Wednesday around Echter-' nach, in eastern Luxembourg near , the German border, and one front dispach said the threat to the lit tle duchy's capital seemed to hava subsided. x. . -'.-s.ll' Advanced German forces wera reported Tuesday to be about, 14 ' miles northeast of the capital, and 1 the .push toward Arlon reported today put the Germans about IS miles away on the west. ri Tasks Held firm I- o 1' V ' All these developments were upi to Wednesday noon. ; ; ; f On" the basis of today's up-to- the-minute dispatches it appeared that the pace of the German ad vance westward also had been slowed, and that American lines were: holding firm on both - the north and south flanks. , . t Front dispatches describing the ' Germans' point of deepest pene tration as 40 miles and reporting the slow-down of the enemy of fensive apparently described the situation as It exists. tonight On the extreme north flank in the , Monschau- secior, s o m e 16 i miles southeast of Aachen, furious fighting flared over the muddy snow-covered hills and dispatches told of a m a s s i n g of enemy, strength. In this area. ' ! j - t SHOPPIN! w 1