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. j . ' . ' 1(1 i ' s " ! i - , -Si t.i' 7callicr Maximum tempt ratnre Thorsday - 49 degrees; min imum 39 degrees, JtS rain, river -7 ft. i Cloudy with, cessions! - rain west aad light rain or snow flarriea east portion Friday and Saturday. Warm er so nth west portion Friday WD US fir 1 am to n w u Syln his outline of major items of business which will come before the legislature, at the jSalem Ro- - tary club Wednesday, Senator Dean H. Walker of Independence reminded his listeners of one fact, namely, that in Oregon jthe income tax has always been used to re duce property taxes. He warned ' that if this single purpose was di "Vided and appropriations made from this source of revenue there is grave danger that when the in come tax receipts decrease - the burden will fall back! on prop-; erty. , . ' 3 The reminder , of income tax history and the warnings are timely. As the legislature assem bles there are accumulating de mands which evidently look ' to the income tax for satisfaction. There is a disposition to repeal the Walker plan of a flexible dis count on this tax when the re quirements of the government are filled, in order to have the present surplus available for present spending or to pile it up for; some indefinite "postwar planning. ; It is a- matter for legislative de cision, but the members will ido well to reflect on the history! of the income, tax adoption in this state. It was rejected on numer ; us occasions, tried once and re pealed. Finally, an income tax law was passed by the legislature in 1929 under the title "Property Tax Relief Act of 1929." Since the law- was passed by the legislature, ' presumably it may be changed by the legislature, though there might be a constitutional question . as to whether the six per cent lim itation estops direct spending from his source which would exceed 'such limitation.' Before passing an amendment diverting income tax receipts to (direct"" appropriation, the legis - !;y - ? r M ' (Continued on Editorial Page) Tells ELAS to Accept Terms ; ATHENS, Jan. 4H7)-The new formed cabinet of Premier Nich olas Plastiras announced tonight that before parleys begin with the ELAS forces they must accept the military terms of Lt. Gen. Ronald M. Scobie, British commander !in Greece. . . . ' s - .. ' John j Sofianopoulos, the new foreign, minister, followed the al most identical line of the previ ous cabinet of George Papandre u, typifying the 1 ELAS, armed militia of the left-wing EAM, Las 'minority.' ''v. . - J Sof ianopoulos stated lately that the government is determined to impose law and order." j y His ' statement followed an ap peal by Plastiras to the EAM par ty and the ELAS to lay down arms. The appeal declared the new government should eliminate any professed fear of dictatorship, jit was Plastiras' first public move 'to end. the civil war since he ac cepted the premiership from the new regent, Archbishop Damaski- nos of Athens. ' - i" Nomura Tells Japs to On Fighting By th Associated Frees ' Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura, for . mer Japanese ambassador to the United States," has told the Jap- ahese people they can end the war only by fighting until America realizes that "Japan is a country that, cannot be crushed.'' j The Tokyo radio today summa rized an article by Nomura ap pearing in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri-Hochi. according to a re cording by .the federal communi cations commission. Nomura, one of Japan's "peace negotiators" in this country during the attack on Pearl Harbor, was quoted as . aying: . , - i "The way to fight against 'America, which hates the Japan- ese- mpre than ' the Germans, is to be tenacious to a point exceed- ing -tenacity And the time .will most certainly come when the en emy will , realize , that Japan is unbeatable no matter what omea ures they take against us. Until smch time arrives, we cannot stop lighting.";. ; Four SalemMen Home From War FORT LEWIS, Jan. 4.-(P)-Most ef the members ovrhe 4 1st and 25th divisions who arrived in sub stantial numbers from various theatres of war the past week n 1 rotational furlough .will go over teas again after. their. 30 'days gpent at home. They are key men nd not easily replaced, it' was explained here. They came largely V from the Southwest Pacific. -vTnrluded in this 'lot ara CapL ' Carold I. Simpson, Staff SgtTVal do Gilbert Tech. 4 Eobert V. Vic tor and-FFC Clarence H. Comie, til cf Ealem. j- Greek Keep NINETY-FOURTH TEAS . . ,-; Assaults Run Into 2nd Day U.S. Airmen Sink Or Damage 35 More ip Ships By the Associated Press ; ! .-' United States third fleet carrier planes blasted Formosa and Oki' nawa island in Japan's sou thwest rn "front yard Wednesday 4 (U.S. time) for the -second straight day, Pearl ; Harbor headquarters an nounced yesterday, adding to Japan's' admitted fear of "daring offensives'' tj cope. The communique gave no details of the bold American naval air thrust at Formosa and Okinawa, in the Ryjkyu chain, but Tokyo said that 500 planes raided the islands the first Jday and 400 hit them again Wednesday, Enemy, Worried IV j. ' The enemy radio declared that the "daring enemy forays" were obviously intended to facilitate "a quick decision in, the Philippines" and an attempt fe "sever our airj supply routes to the Philippines." - American airmen operating,from central,: Philippines army fields sank or damaged 35 Japanese war and merchant vessels of 'Luzon; island Tuesday and Wednesday' (Philippine time), Gen. Douglas; MacArthur reported, for a total of: 60 enemy craft Kit m that areai the first three days of the year. , j Losses listed? 1 ; ) ' Included in the two-day total; of blasted Nipponese shipping: were 25 freighters and transports; hunted down in Lingayen gulf and Subic Bay, aggregating 37,000 tons; a seaplane carrier, - three escort verels, a coastal ship . and five: luggers. ! "!v ? American flyers destroyed 20 Japanese planes on the -ground in another attack bn Clark field, northwest of Manila, j The Nip ponese retaliated savagely I with five raids Tuesday night on the Yank airfield on Mindoro island, damaging installations. : Bomber Hit Brenner Pass LONDON, Jan., 4 -VP)- Bomb ers of the U. S. 15th air force based in Italy, going into action for . the first time in five days blasted the Brenner pass V and communications in northern Italy today, but snow and fog envelop- the western front held, back allied air power based in Britain 1 aticj on the continent; The German j-adio tonight in4 dicated that Berlin was under at tack by the RAf! when communil cations controlled from the capita;, were silenced. ! i; i Statehouse Cleared for Biennial Action as Session Wears; Legislators Finding Homes . By WendeU Webb Managing editor, The Statesman i The . Oregon j statehouse w a cleared for biennial action toda and combatants for the 43rd legis lative fracas already were arriv tag.'-; ' (..''-""'1' :' :'';-' : The seating arrangement in 4he senate and house has been com4 pleted and name plates are upl Desk drawers hold paper, envel-i opes, scissors,, ilipboards, letter files, paste and nibber bands. Book of Oregon laws, jsenate and house journals of 1943 dictionaries, and loose-leaf folders for bills all ate in place.;;.'.' 'it.C: : : v':"- -:.)-i Typewriters and other equip ment for committee rooms have been obtained, .albeit in lesser quantities than peace days1 could provide. Shortages also are prevaf lent in the session rooms rubber i bands definitely are limited, and paste pots no longer have the metal-bound i brushes of years past ';;?V7'--;C;1 I Additional space for the session starting Monday, has been providp ed. The office of civilian defense has been moved to the fire mar sLal'g office in the state office 18 PAGES U - -i . . - ' -: Hitler Surveys Damage 5?N 1 ' w. t Adolf mtler, sad-faeed, surveys war!' damage" In" an nndeslgnated town In company with a group of nasi officers. This photo Is from a German flint captured by the LV S. army sltnal- corps on the western front Officers with Hitler are unidentified. Date of this scene' Is not known. (AP wtrephote from signal corps) B Plan to yrnes' Briiigs Protest From Labor ; WASHINGTON, Jan.' 4.-iiip)-James F. Byrnes' proposed new, tough manpower ; policy tonight evoked a cascade of protest in labor citcles and on Capitol Hut, 1 r r s - V Union publications shaply criticized the war mobilizer's proposal to ; draft 4-Fs for war jobs; Members Sof house and senate ( levelled their attack oh the order to screen young farm workers again for possible military Service. Secretary of War Stimsoh had nothing to say about that and in fact avoided the entire subject at: his news conference. Ideas Collide v J t -' . A labor contention that there is on shortage of ! vorkers for war supporting civilian tasks collided sharply; howeverj with statements of war manpower commission of ficials in various states who spoke of "serious" and; "acute" short ages. The publication "Labor," organ of, the railroad brotherhoods, ac cused Byrnes of j acting like "a bull in a china shop." It -said a confidential memorandum circu lated in one of tie war agencies denied there is shortage. The AFL weekly news service assailed methods "to dragoon manpower. Kflgore Differ - Senator Kilgore (D-W. Va.) hinted that he had in mind a different approach than that adopted by. Byrnes. He suggested 1 building to make room for attor ney general's quarters, ana xor thei division of laws, legislative and rules, and ways and! means committees of the chouse. ' - The i division Of . audits now shares quarters ith : thef state bank ; superintendent in the state library, making way for the joint ways : and means committee. The postwar planning jand traffic; ad visory committees have moved from the second floor to the board of 1 control office' on the first floor in the statehouse, to provide space for an additional press room. So far as coujd rbe learned Thursday, the employment prob lem for the session had been fairly well ironed out and the housing situation apparently was not: too critical. , ' , Many senators and representa tives had hotel reservations, and a few with families had found houses. 'I Among the latter' are Sen. Merle Chessman of Astoria, who will re side at the Court apartments; Sen. William Walsh of Coos Bay, who has taken the Dr. Stuart M. Lance- Scrlom, Oroon. s." yOiJotPOiiDDiiffi: 1 -4 4 s 1 2E Draft 4&s as 4 temporary measure that 4-Fs be put in uniform and replace thousand of civilian - army and navyf employes to halt what he termed "a wasting of manpower..' The Byrnes order fof d r a f t boards to again cull the 364,000 farm workers 18 through 25 years of age to weed out the unneeded for a uniform was hit in both the senate and house. 4 - -A 1" ' A survey of state officers of the WMG and the U. S. employment service revealed meantime that thousands of 4-Fs are applying for war jobs since the proposed draft was made known. ; Pole Towns Destroyed LONDON, Jan. 4 JPi The Germans have destroyed the south era ; Polish" towns of Opatow and Jaslo by fire and have gutted neighboring; villages, the Polish telegraph agency reported today. field home at 110 East Superior; Sen.4 Howard C. Belton of Canby who found 'a home on Ratclif fe drive; Sen. Walter j J. Pearson of Portland and Rep. John" H. Hall of Portland, who ' will reside on 13th between Court! and Chemek eta;l Bep. Eugene Marsh of Mc Minnville," who will be at " 10 10 Garnet; Rep. Ralph T. Moore of Bandon, who has taken a house on Ratcliffe drive,! and Rep. E. Riddell Lage of Hood River, who will stay at the Cables on South CommerciaL . s. I ' f r I The entire contingents are ex pected, here by early .Sunday for the pre-session caucuses j at . the Marion hotel that day..,; I , ; There was no xhange Thursday tn the program which apparently has Senator. Belton assured of the senate?' presidency and. Represen tative Marsh of the speakership of the house, and jthe jKwsibility appeared strong that Marsh might transcend party -lines to name the veteran Rep. ; Henry Semon of Klamath: Falls,' democrat; chair man of ' the all-important house ways and means committee which he headed once before. ' -'. .. v ... ' ""I 7- , -i;,.1 Friday Marnlnc. JcmucoT 1345 F3)!nM)Sg)p Execution Set For 9 O'clock . - - . . ; -: . i - Negro Loses His Last Court Plea But Stays Calm Barring a zero-hour grant of clemency from Gov. Earl Snell, Robert E. Lee Folkes will tenter the state's lethal gas chamber at 9 o'clock this morning to pay for the "lower 13" slaying. - The 23-year-old negro lost his last :', court pleas Thursday when Circuit Judge E. M. Page: and Federal Judge James A. Fee re fused requests for writs of habeas corpus. Nicholas . jGranoff, Port land attorney, vaihly sought Jhe writ from state supreme, federal and circuit courts, claiming there were errors in Folkes' original trial at Albany. Remains Calm ; . - - The former dining car cook, con victed, of : knifing Mrs. Martha Virginia James in ' her Pullman berth two years? ago; Krernained apparently calm in the death cell adjoining the execution chamber to - Which he was ? removed late Thursday. afternoon. t.; y ji f , : Originally sentenced to die May 28, 1943,' he has remained in the prison while action was delayed on appeal. Early last month he was resentenced to die today jn the gas chamber. 1 Y:.- : j Folkes has accepted the minis trations of a prison chaplainj who will accompany him to the ; door of the chamber this morning. Has Good Appetite . j , Warden George Alexander said the young negro was without nervousness' and showing a j good appetite Thursday. ; , v-' -The execution has been set a half hour later than previous exe cutions so that other prisoners may be turned out into the penitentiary yards in daylight Officials!! said this action might prevent a dem onstration. - .' ' ' j;. Requests from persons desiring to witness the execution have been received from all parts of the northwest officials declared. Many of these have been refused.1; U. S. Casualties In Nazi Drive Hard to Obtain WASHINGTON, Jan! 4 - () Secretary of War- Stuhson said today that fit will be some I time before an accurate record'' of American losses .in men and ma teriel in the Ardennes battle can be established. -1 He told a news conference that an accurate statement of total Casualties resulting from the tier man . break-through had not yet been received -from allied supreme headquarters. His explanation was this: ' , ? I "When casualties remain within your ' own lines the problem is not too difficult j except during landing v operations in the dark Where there is usually great con fusion as, to the whereabouts of individuals, but - in a retirement the problem is ' made exceedingly difficult for the company and reg imental - officers on whom the battle depends.' . V WU Schedules Public Forums First of a series of three meet ings on "education and interna tional ; . relations, , scheduled , for presentation' this winter on' the Willamette university campus, has been set for Wednesday night January 24 , Frank Parr, executive secretary of the Oregon State. Teachers as sociation,. 'ill handle the discus sion of 'Education -endthe Peo ple's Peace" at that session. The meetings are to be open to -the publit They wiH be under Joint auspices of the Willamette depart ment of education, Marion county division ol the OSTA and Delta Kappa Gamma honorary educa tion fxatemity. - i ii i Quarter of ; Million Christmas i Gifts Captured by Nazis PARIS, Friday j Jan.: 3.-UPWA quarter million Christmas pack ages xor soldiers on the continent one percent of the total Yule gifts received on this side of the ocean, were lost through enemy action, the European theater post office division disclosed last night Enemy action: also destroyed aoout 6000 ; packages mailed by soldiers to addresses in the United States. No letters were lost either going , or coming, : postal officers said, During the pre-Christmas rush, army, post offices handled 25 mil lion packages and approximately 220 million letters.' Hard to Help est Nazis LONDON," Friday, Jan. l.Wt Six . German armored divisions, "several infantry divisions and strong units of the luf twaffe have been hurled at' Russian forces in northwestern Hungary in an ' at tempt to relieve the nazi garrison trapped in beleaguered Budapest, Moscow announced last night : "The soviet report indicated that the German ; counterattacks have developed into massive clashes of armor and ajrpower somewhere between the Hungarian capital and the borders of Austria on the east - and' Czechoslovakia on the north. - , :: .-K-'-y ; The soviet communique broad cast from Moscow did .not. state where the; German attacks were made or what points the Germans advanced, if any, had reached. In one clash oh the south bank of the Danube yesterday, an early morning report" from the soviet capital said, more than 1500 Ger mans were slain and 53 tanks and mobile .. guns, 16 : armored j troop carriers and 50 trucks were de stroyed. -':- Has MorePlanes Than D-Day SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Jan. 4 -()-Germany,, despite heavy losses, has the allies landed in Normandy, more, warplanes today .man when but her pilots now are inadequate ly; trained . because 1 of fuel .short ages jind are less to be feared than the enemy's f terrific anti aircraft defenses, high American air force officers told correspond ents today. , , Bad weather, plus the fact that there is only half as much day light on the - western front now as on D-day, prevented adequate air reconnaissance of German preparations ' for the great offen sive onto Belgium and i Luxem bourg last month, the air officers explained in a general review of of the last year, i Swiss Resent Action of U. S. X BERN, Jan. HflVSwitzefla"nd jtook the view tonight following a Washington announcement that she has been cut off from supplies, that the United States, in effect sought to force her to become a Weapon against' Germany, i A Swiss government spokesman said his country's existence . has peen endangered by -the United States move, ' which Washington ces said j was brought about y too much Swiss economic help 'or the naxis. - Jhe conservative Swiss news- per Bund ' said Switzerland wouia "deruuteiy refuse to ac cept demands of any nature." Lay Aside Partisan Politics Savs Texan WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 -(sy-"I'm not going to engage in carp ing criticism of , our allies, rep. Patman (D-Tex) . declared today in asking congress to lay aside partisan politics during' the war. - 'This Is a time for less partisan ship than we've ever had," he told his colleagues. "This is not a time when we should try to tell Presi dent Roosevelt f Prime Minister Churchill and Perrnier Statin how to run the war, or what they should Germans Try Budap Germany Yanks Grind Out 312 Mile Advance In Heavy Blizzard - Hodges' Forces Within 12 MUes Of Juncture With Patton's 3Ien5 U.S. Artilleryl Hammering Nazis By AUSTIN BEALMEAR PARIS, Jan. 4 (AP)-US First army armor and In fantry struck through a raging blkzard today on a 17-raiIt front, grindinsr out gains up to three and a half miles which put them scarcely 12 miles from where the Third army was hammering back an enemy onslaught led by 100 tanks. (Berlin broadcasts said British tanks and the US Ninth' army had jointed, the. offensive oh the north, and the US Seventh entered the struggle from the south, indicating Gen era! Eisenhower was throwing such powerful forces into the) battle that he had abandoned his winter drive into Germany.) ine xury oi tne doughboy at- tack matched the fury of the ele ments. Three Belgian towns were engulfed, at least six others were entered, and the battle to drive the enemy from Belgium for the second time In four months was breaking inside the main German northern defenses. - - '. - j'l On the south, the Third army stood up under great enemy blows without losing an inch oi ground, their lashed - out with - half-mile gains both east and west of Bas togne which cut to three and a. half miilas the neck of a five-mile deep box between Bastognend Wiltz, 10 miles to the east Artillery Used - American artillery f i r e w a s bursting in the ranks of the Ger mans massed within the box, and dazed prisoners emerging from). this mountainous inferno in nor thern Luxembourg told of - com pany casualties as high as 75 per cent . The enemy lines at the tip of the Belgian triangle were, giving way,, the : village of - Bure, four miles southeast, of Rochefort, was overrun, and a field dispatch said the enemy appeared to be pulling out of his dearly-won apex run ning westward from Bastogner There was .little sign of enemy armor anywhere west of a line running north from Bastogne, and allied forces driving in from the' northwest between Marche and Rochefort found the Ger mans were pulling back. A high army officer told Asso ciated Press Correspondent Ken neth I Dixon it teemed obvious the German high command was shifting his armor to prepare a new line stretching In , an arc about half-way back : from its deepest -present penetration, rob bing the allies of any opportunity to trap any large number of two panzer armies now within the bulge. - ' ' '-'-;.-.:;. To the southwest the US Sev- enth army threw in counterblows that blunted the tip of a German salient driven seven ' miles deep into doughboys lines near Bitche in the northern Vosges. The Sev enth, also had withdrawn from ita last footholds inside the reich's Palatinate to the east . Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, sum moning the American Seventh and the French First armies to deal heavy counterblows at the enemy, said in an order of the day that bit forces had been forced to pause and regroup after their long chase of the enemy across France: Three Nazi Prisoners J Of War Make Escape ; FRESNO, Calif, Jan. 4 -(JP)-Euding shots from the guns of guards, three German prisoners of war scaled a fence at the Cor coran camp 57 miles south of here and escaped, the FBI announced today. Sales in Record Breaking i 6th War Loan $21,621,000,000 - WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 HJP Total sales in the record-smashing ! sixth war i loan drive were announced today as $21,621t000,- ooo.' .t s--m ?vj i ' This was a billion dollars above the previous all-time world finan cing record of $20,83,000,000 es tablished in the .fifth war loan last summer. - . " - . ' : The nation in its first Christmas season bond drive took the theme, the war's not over yef and piled up one and a half times the quota of 14 million dollars. " r" -The hard-to-get quota of 2, 500,000,000 ; for series E-bonds Was also over subscribed. "!, -Treasury secretary Morgenthau, Prlct 5c NoJ 249 Blue Lake Will Construct New $350,000Plant Blue Lake s Produicers. coopera tive wll, without i delay, build and equip a .new fireproof can nery, : at an estimated cost of $350,000,. directors announced' Thursday. .The announcement of plans for" almost immediate con struction of a : 26Q-by-00-foot building ; of reinforced J concrete came following a meeting J of the -board at which Xyle P. 'Bartholo mew, Saiem, r-was employed las architect " " 1 ". Debris from -Sunday morning's fire which destroyed the frame cannery buildings is being clear ed away, in i preparation for be ginning of construction. - x . Albert Lamb, assistant general manager, said that O. E. Snider, manager, , in Washington, D. C, at the time of the fire, was to meet Thursday with representatives of an equipment company in Niag ara !Falls, N. ;Yn to return then to Washington ' to continue negotia tions for the emergency construc tion permit he has been assured will be issued. V j Once the emergency permit has been granted,; the cooperative will be expected to start work within 10 days and will have another 10 days in which to file completed plans. ; i ' Britain Eases . Italian Policy At U.S. Urge ' WASHINGTON, Jan. '4.- (A1) -American insistence, - its was re vealed today, has led Britain to modify: a strong position against early industrial rehabilitation foi? Italy, but nothing much has come of the modification so far. The main obstacle now, how ever, it was said on high author-' ity, is the' shipping situation' tightened by .battle needs in Eur ope and lengthtening Pacific sup ply lines, '; ; -'British opposition was based partly on the argument that Allied nations which had suffered from Italian arms would not approve ex tensive rehabilitation of Italy with, Allied aid.' It is understood also that the British entertained the idea of helping the United King dom h recover from the war by moving in on former Italian mar kets,; especially . for textiles. This commercial concern Is not dead and may have contributed to de- lays. , ' " announcing the final results at a special news conference, said final ales of "the people's war bond" were 12,868,000,000, " -. This was: not a new record but ft was more than many . treasury, officials . had dared to hope. The 'sixth was not only the first Yule season drive, but lit marked the first time three drives had been held in one year. , - . r , f No exact figures were ready on sales to Individuals and corpor ations. But Morgecthau said indi vidual sales 'were about $5,800, CCO.CCO nearly a billion dollar above tl:e individual quota of $5, CCO.OOO.CCO. ' -