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MacArthur : Lands t i i ti mm h.K uuj vsst i i i i . :i m m t w m m mm mm mm mm mm a i .' s m i m s'i.'." i it.ii - . vs. ; .mr mm . m m r. mm mm m . -v. m mm -mm t i tThere are 30 members of the Oregon state senate, only four of whom are democrats. Of the 60 representatives ten are democrats. . The . mathematical preponder ance of republican strength helps to smother political partisanship in the transaction of legislative business. - - In fact, it has sometimes been said that the legislature prided itself on its freedom from partisan-considerations in the study of duis. oi since ivjj ana ica 1VI1CU - UCUIWtPUl X. VJ M v of the house has there been very much political sparring between the parties. p , This republican overstrength Is apt to be deceiving this time. While the democrats are in seemingly hopeless minority, ' that minority is by no means helpless. In fact,, I think we may see 'con siderable attention paid by the democratic minority to its party position. 1 ; v Democrats in Oregon cannot help but be heartened by the na tional victory ' in November and by the fact that Roosevelt car ried" Oregon. They can pick up grains of comfort in having sent several more legislators from Multnomah county than two years ago, and in. the election of Al Brown, as county clerk of that . county ; over the veteran Frank Shull, county commissioner. They can see in the heavy democratic vote of . Multnomah future, possi bilities of swinging state elections. What the democrats want to do NINETY-FOURTH YEAR 10 PAGES! j Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morning. January 10. 1345 Pile 5c No. 253 UllDn::(a : ' i . : 1 : - .. : j:;:r'j j if' 1 1 1 ' i ! 1 : i i" ft nr n m Rundstedt Facin Disaster v 3rd Roars Back; Strasbourg Gets Enemy Shelling By Austin Beslmear SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY is to crack the statehouse front If ORCE, Paris, Jan. -()-Ameri (Continued on Editorial Page) Japs Lose 262 Planes, 73 Ships In Yank Raids By Morris Latfdsberg US PACJFIC FLEET HEAD OUARTERS. Pearl Harbor. Jan. 9.-(VUS naval fliers, slashing at j with ains up to a half-mile at can tanks clashed with German armor in a battle that raged all day today ins blinding blizzard as Field Marshal Sir. Bernard L. Montgomery's - two - army team whittled another . mile aff the northern side of the Belgian bulge and closed .within three-fourths of a mile of the important communi cations hub of Laroche. The US Third army which had been forced to give ground late yesterday under repeated counter attacks on the southern side of the salient, roared back today Japan's sea-air strength within the Luzon- defense orbit, sank or . damaged 73 ships and , destroyed or damaged 262 planes in a three! days sweep over the Luzon-For mosa-Okinawa area. - A navy communique today list ed additional damage to the en- several points despite j the , worst weather of the winter and contln ued fierce enemy resistance. Strasbourg Shelled As the Allies in Belgium pinch' ed MarshaJ Karl Von Rundstedt's salient to a' width of nine miles be tween the areas of Laroche and emy on Luzon in the carrier based J Herbaimant, the Germans increas- strikes of January 5 and 6 and ship-plane casualties in the far Tanging raids January 8 on For mosa,' Okinawa and other islands In the Formosa area. ' Hellcat fighters shot down a to tal of ' 18 Nipponese planes and Joined divebombers , and torpedo FDR Asks 83 Billion Budget, Smaller Than This Year9 si No Guesses on War Length 46 2 Torpedoes Miss Mac's Ship as It - Heads for Luzon Federal Budget Given in Nutshell 'Hi i- i i By th j Associated Press . Here the 1948 federal bod get at a ednple of glanees. The estimates are compared with estimates, ef j the present fiseU yea (1945), i i Tetal expenditures 183,000, OOO.ittt, decrease of 817,000, 000,00. War expenditures $70, 00,000,000, decrease f $lf.r OO.OOO.tM. Net receipts 81, 500,000,000, decrease! of 11,400, 00,0001 Debt increase 840,000, OO.QOO, to a! total ef $t92,00. 00,009. j Total appropriations 887,000,000.000, decrease of 8ioioo.ooo.ooo. ' V i TokyoiiFQrmosa Targets of Big B-29 5HINGTON Jan. 9. seared the Tokyo target W Flames area jafer;today'sttw0-way smash at th Japanese homeland and: the ed their pressure in Alsace and shelled Strasbourg with heavy ar tillery from the east bank of the Rhine. ' - r "American forces on the north ern flank of the German bulge drove to within four miles of the last main escape, and supply high- planes a destroying 74 more r-(wayVnd Von Rundstedt was re craft and damaging lua on nei ported hurriedly shifting tanks ground at Luzon in heavy prein vasion attacks by the third fleet's carrier forces. .. WAC Drive Launched ; from the Bastogne; area northward : to meet this threat to his lifeline. Nails in Danger Should the smashing Yank drive ; from the north waist of the bulge WARHmr.TON. Jan. B UP) I sever the rlouiialize - M. vitn Gen. George C. Marshall called highway, all German forces in the upon the state governors today to western half ofvthe salient would back up a new drive to recruit be placed in a precarious position unnn WAns for duty at army hosr perhaps faced with a second pitals. Veteran :i v ' ' l ' Falaise disaster. A field dispatch from Roger Greene of the Associated Press to night declared that "the next 12 to 24-hours may provide the-turn- 'ing ' point in the great battle that f began December 18 when Von . (Continued on Page 2) i4s Kassel Thomas Hickman of Tur ner. naVy EM Ie, died January V, In rhiladelpbla hospital. Russel Hickman, Naval Veteran, Dies in Hospital TURNER, Jan. 9.-(Special) -Bussel Thomas Hickman, electric Jan's mate 3rd class and son of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Hickman of Turner, died January 7 in a Phil . adelDhia hospital after an illness of several weeks, bis parents have been Informed. Hickman, who Joined the navy July L 1942, served overseas two years in the Atlantic area." ; He previously attended Turner high iwides the parents, sur- Uiiw - - u -vivors Include four brothers and . Bisters: Howard Wallace Hickman,4 S 1c, in the Pacific; John Hickman, . Turner; Melvin Hickman. Kellogg, Idaho; " Harley Ti?ir,a-n Ties Moines. la.: Versa Jean 1 Hickman, S 2c WAVES, Bethsada. Md.: Mrs. A. W. Kelsey, Seattle: Shirley Hickman, Turner. Burial will be in Mount Mariah paval .cemetery, Philadelphia. State Barber Law Illegal Court Decides The 1943 state barber law per mining barbers to fix minimum prices on a county-wide basis 3s unconstitutional, the state su preme court declared Tuesday. By unanimous decision,' the court held that the legislature un lawfully delegated its powers to the- state barber board. The law provided that 70 per cent of the barbers in any county could set prices for all barber, services in that- county, , by filing ; schedules with the barber board's headquar ters in Portland. ; Suit contesting constitutionality of the law was filed by Earl La- Forge, Portland barber, against the board. LaForge also contended the law was void on grounds that it violated the due process clause of.' the: federal constitution, but the supreme court did not rule on this question. 1 Justice Hall S. Lusk wrote the high court's opinion which re versed Judge Alfred P. Dobson, Multnomah county. Weather 8aa rrutcisce EagMia -- Silrm . Portland . SeaUl Hinamctte river .7 ft Max. MiauKai S1 42 2 Trace . IX i Trae . 59 " 4 Tract ; Qoudy Today with occasional rain showers in the mid-Willamette valle area, predicts US weather bu reau at McNary field, Salem. great FormQ&a island base by scores or Americas auperiorv 1 ; : 11 r esses. H i ; 1 i ! -I i ' Apparently acting ito keep the nekny occupied in conjunction with jour invasion of Luzon on the Philippines, j the mighty B-29s braved heavy weather to reach the Nipponese capital but found . the say ciear over ineir pojecuve. The army. announcing results on preliminary information, made no mention of any losses on the Tokyo flight. All planes returned m ! it. : j - . , a iroiii uje xoririosa raiu. Apparent ly upwards of 40 planes participat ed in each attack, i '1 I'- Amount of Spending Will Depend Largely On i Battlef ront GENERAL MacARTHU R'S HEADQUARTERS,! Philippines, Wednesday Jan.- 10-P)-Wearing his famed campaign 'hat and five stars on his collar, Gerr. Douglas Trend I MacArthur; returned to Luton with his assault troops Tuesday H By Max H1U morning, j : . . ;r WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-(JP)- Two torpedoes from a midget President Roosevelt groped ahead submarine missed hit ship as the today into a fiscal year that won't convoy beaded for the . landing, even begin until six months from MacArthur then rode upon the now aridi pulled out a "tentative" engine box of a landing craft and waded knee-deep in water , onto bil- I the soil of Luzon 1 he left nearly budget of 83 billion dollars. This would be a drop of 17 lion dollars from the present year, 1 three years ago,: He hit the shore but would increase the total war about two- hours after the first spending program (1941 through j wave. 1946) to the gigantic total of 450 billion dollars. This is nearly a trillion. No Predictions ti r .it- ,. it . You could read the president', annual budget message 40 : ways and you wouldn't find a predic tion as to the length of the War Yet the estimates of government are based on a hope that Germany will giye up some time within the next 18 months, because War spending was estimated at 70 billion dollars, about half way between the best and the v orst Jury! Absolves i Hariiisin Fatal t Shooting m 1 1 ruci Old-ase IBills In GeorgejQmer (Bud) Harris, 33, was absolved from blame in the fatal shooting' at Brooks Sunday, Dec, 31, 1944, of Charles Batche- lor, 35, when the Marion county that might happen. The president I grand jury Tuesday afternoon xe told congress that war costs could turned, a fnot true bill',. to the be less than 60 billions or more charge of manslaughter. than 80, depending on! various as- . Harris, according to police re sumptions as to the war. ports, Tetubied to his home unex Leans on 70 ji! . ; pectedly and fonnd Batchelor in Presumably there would be 80 1 bfd with lhis, -Harris, wife, and billions if we had to keep fighting I in the .ensuing altercation Batche- on alii. . fronts : throughout fiscal lor was shot and killed. Harris; ad- luto. out ine presiaent wose 1 u 1 uuiiu yuiugriiici uuu 11c billions as his tentative estimate. I brought the death weapon into that j the house, j - . Although, Harris was not called The ipresident said in fact he i as a witness he volunteered to ap- said twice that "pie rate of act- pear before the jury for interro ual spending must depend onj de- gation. The jury was in session five velopments on the; battlef rohts. , continuous days taking and. weigh- Because of the battle -smoke ing testimony of persons who had haze of uncertainty, the president j information on the death. postponed until early , spring his The jurors, assisted by District detailed recommendations fori war Attorney Miller . B. Hayden and appropriations. He merely told rjeoutv District Attorney Law- congress he thought 83 billion dol- J Ierice Osterman, called a large ars m war appropriations vui oc numjCr Cf witnesses before com- The whole -budget leans on figure. Reduction Due rmlll'i Mil needed. li I yicjiiuuiiu Stage Big Transport pans Country In Six Hours Effective February 1, all fares charged by Greyhound bus lines on th Pacific highway between Portland andi the California line will be reduced approximately 20 per ent. Public Utilities Commis sioner George H. Flagg announced Tuesday, i Under tariffs to be filed, both ! intrastate -"and inter state fares will be standardized .at IJS cents pet mile for all distances up to 300 miles and 1.4 cents per mile for greater distances.. Round trip-fares will be charged on the basis of 80 'per cent added to the one ! way fare The reduction will save the people of Oregon close to $350,000. - i . i ' r These rates; are the same as are is effect in California. where tiie heavy travel brought about recent reductions i . ; -.: The: Greyhound lines will file tariffs later reducing fares on the co i st highway, approximately March! 1. 1 It is probable that other bus line operators in Oregon will meet: the' new tariffs .of Grey hound, Flagg indicated - Clipper Toll Reaches 23 MIAMI, Fla Jan. -P)-Pan American Airways ! totalled the death i list at 23 today while air line officials sought to learn de tails of the crash of i 10-year-old clipper at Port of Spain, Trini dad, last night ; - The plane, described by ; the builder as a craft which had "gone farther and carried more than any other airplane, was wrecked and sunk while alighting in the dark Only seven of, the . 30. persons aboard were count trl ?s eafe, al though late word frcn Port of Spain said ; that only eight bodies haq been recovered. tog1: to a decision. Marion citizens called to i testify included: Paul Reinsche, E. H. Brattain, Charles Strawn, Cjoyce Drake, Roy Rich man, Les jFerrin, Dr. L. E. Bar rick, Dr. Joseph Beeman, Dorothy Dahl, Frances Batchelor, A. L. Schmidt, Alma Johnson, Florence L. Schmidt, , Clyde Harris, Virgil Cook, Nona White, Lillian M. .72 ilevy andthe defendant; Fred A Moore, foreman of the jury, signed the instrument ' WASHINGTON, Jan A double-decked transport ver sion of the. B-29 Superfortress, known ' as the army's i C-97, ap parently set a cross-continent speed j record of approximately six hours today, The time on this flight from Seattle! to Washington compares with 1Jie. recorl of six hours, 31 minutes and 30 seconds set by a LONDON, Jan. 9.-(P)-T h r e t Mustang fighter plane flying from forces of RAF "ship-busting Mo Los Angeles to; New York last squitos and Beaufighters carried springlf - i '' " ' out a surprise. sweep through icy The j ! flight ; of the - enormous j clouds over Norwegian fjords to- Boeing-built plane, which in a 1 day and destroyed at least five commercial postwar model w I i l enemy vessels, be . toown as the Strato-crulser, it was one of the most success compared also with a time of six ful raids On shipping off the Nor Mosquitos Hit 5 Nazi Ships : With Yanks From 800-Ship Convoy U.S. 6th Army, Acl vanccs Inland Rapidly; Little Opposition' Met; Huge Piles of Equipment Landed I Bynames Hutclieson GENERAL lacARTHUR'g HEADQUAR TERS, Philippines, Wednesday, Jan. 10-(AP)- Ten of thousands of U. S. sixth army forces, ac companied ashore by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, landed luesday along 15 miles of Lmgayen gull coast on Luzon island from an 800-ship convoy- find pushed deep into flatlands leading 120 miles souin 10 iuamia over ideal tank-war country. 4 -' Tanks were among the equipment, put ashore n iImiiL u l.'l- ; ' r ' - ee ' u aucugui iu uittikt; pussiuie u poweroouse oxien ' i t b From the beaches, cleared of Jananpm hr (Senate Gets Big fierce warship shellings and aerial bombings, the 2C8t Part of 2nd V8nUv opposed Yanks surged inland over the same - . i I crescent or sand dunes the JananM mnlnnut v9r. ti,. Aotivitisfi ' 1 Inywion 'scene now Is dry and suited for a war-of movement. , j A field dispatch, disclosing that MacArthur already has set vp . WUW ; .... .t ii .-' i t" ' ' ' " " i i i i. i ' i ' , . - niui several controversial - is- sues already in the open, the 43rd legislature was in full swing to day on such questions as big truck, no-ceiling-old-age assist ance, income tax amendments, re vocation of the "community prop erty Taw and a $100,000 home tor the state's governors: ' $ Most : of such action Tuesday came in the senate, however, while In the house jtep. Stanhope S. Pier charged that "here we sit doing nothing; Something should be done to get the state departments to get their bills . in." Speaker Eugene Marsh concurred. 3 1 Three Bills ta Bouse Introduced in the ' house were bills validating stickers in lieu of car license': plates (already legal by order): providing that candi dates for offices must tile 70 days before an election instead of 45; affirming salary scales for Sher man county officers. ' . A senate bill providing for: a five-man ,'cornmittee to Jnvesti. gate last year's huge liquor pur chase, ' as requested , in Gov. , Earl Snell's message, . already was in the hands of the resolutiqn' com mittee, but there were evidences that it might be broadened .still further, '.before final presentation. Wider' Scope Suggested There was comment among some senators-that the investigation, ito be complete and accomplish the avowed purpose of being fair to "men of character and reputa tion," should not be limited to the single deal but should encompass whatever other liquor matters any legislative group might consider warranted its attention. Other important legislation in the senate Included a bill provid ing for a slate hospital for the mentally '-diseased in Multnomah county.' '! . i -. :;! ' ' At the first formal session of the joint ways and means committee, Chairman Dean Walker said he knew of several large financial requests, not included in the state budget,' which would be made later, and warned that "it is. my opinion the going of this commit tee will be tough." , . iieat. Governor Sought Other bills filed or prepared for filing Included one providing for a lieutenant governor-, and anoth er calling for a "senate, lounge" in the statehouse. ' Resolutions filed in the senate included .one to name IS Oregon citizens to investigate the state's tax structure. The governor had asked that such a study be made. by tax experts. (Legislative .news page 10) hours and 58 minutes made by the Lockheed Constellation .last May from Los Angeles to Wash ington, : Labor Draft Urged LOUISVILLE, KyjJan. JVTr Only an all-out mobilization of : labor can meet the needs of the battlefronts, John Collins, Washr wegian coast in ' months. Diving through intense ack-ack fire the speedy British attack - bombers zoomed down over the., wharves from 20QO j feet firing dozens of rockets into the enemy ships. - The last RAT . ; crews to . leave the target area saw a modern cargo liner lying on its side burn ing and jai small, modern diesei merchant ship - disappearing r be nsionl : told the international as sociation of : publie 1 employment neath the surface with only Its services here today. i bow above water. Bradley Says Nazi Offense Costly Venture for Enemy WITH THE 12th ARMY G R O UP. Jan. 8.-(yP)-Lt , Gen.1 Omar N. Bradley, breaking his si lence i regarding the German of fensive which was aimed at split ting the allied line: in his 12th army group sector, said today that the- now-thwarted ""enemy j move "may; materially affect the Ger mans' ability to. resist." Gen.: Bradley, who was award ed the bronze star by General Eis enhower today: for his part r in halting the Germans, stated at a press j conference that Germany's ability to prolong toe war may haVe been . reduced, but added quickly that this did not mean the allies could ""assume the Germans are on the verge of collapse." ' There is much hard fighting ahead, Bradley warned. - a Bradley told newsmen cover ing his group headquarters that In leaving; the Ardennes fron lightly held, the allies took "what is known in military terminology as 'calculated risk, striking boldly to the north and south with sur plus troops instead of keeping them in the then quiet Ardennes sector. , 1 San nmiyAnTf t-i " few fe . POceon , v; Wi'MtW' LUZON Sea . ; Chrk rM MINOORO PHILIPPINES TOO 'SrATUHMMfS iVf' J J- MARINOUQUtV EX TASIA51. - A Vfl : MASBATE 1 An toe-ship American convey sailed into Ltngayen gulf (shown by ship symbol in above map) Tuesday to land the American Sixth army as the Invasion of Luson, most important island in the Philip pines, got underway. Utah Senator New Head of Militiary Group WASHINGTON, Jan. V-iJF)- Sen. Elbert Thomas (D-Utah) was chosen today as chairman of the senate military affairs com' mittee. He succeeds former Sena tor Reynolds (D-NC), who did not seek reelection. ' ; - To take over, the important military chairmanship, Thomas resigned as chairman of the com mittee on education and labor and was succeeded i by Senator Murraly, (D-Mont); ;s - The democratic steering com mittee which, made the selections, also announced the following new assignments to other committees: ; . Agriculture Senators Connal- ly (Texas); Downey" (Calif.) Moses (ND) and Hoey (NC). ! Banking and currencyi McFar. land (Ariz.); Taylor (Idaho) and Tulbrlght (Ark). ; Commerce Chandler (Ky.) Magnuson (Wash.),' and McClel lan (Ark.), - S ' headquarters on Luzon, said the landings were on the southern ex tremity of the gulf which Includes the city of Lingayen. . few Japs Oppose Yanks . ' M ! At one point, only 11 enemy sniners could be found in an hour'a bunt! --v.: i . Covered by salvos of bombarding battleships and explodinx bomba of carrier and land plane which drove the enemy's main forces in- ua,; uiey;goi asnore on me souin ana east sides oi Lingayen at 8:30 t iJn. against light opposition ;. :" ; ' Within two hours after the first transports had discorgad the sol diers to landing boats, following a dawn shelling of the areas, Mac Arthur was back on the island where he fought the losing battles which opened ihe Pacific war. . : MI" ' V The way for this showdown fight for all the Philippines, was naved by a; multiplicity of warships and aerial attacks. These included the. destruction or damage of 262 enemy planes and the sinking or damaa Ing of; 73 ships in three days of carrier-based assaults on Luzon, For mosa and Okinawa, in the Ryukyu chain. - Much Equipment Landed I I 1 Spencer Davis, Associated Press war correspondent aboard a flaav. ship,; said huge stores of equipment, guns and armor already have' been put ashore for the drive toward Manila down territory suited for mecnamzed war. ., - s-.r . " Deep penetrations inland by some of the landing forces alreadr have! been made, Davis said. I A - r1' (in a shortwave broadcast direct from Luzon, George Thomas Fol- ster,!of NBC, said the 70-mile-long convoy reached the gulf without ine loss oi a single soldier, . ; j, ' . . ; - . ; ! . , (He said 50 per cent more troops went ashore in the first wavo than! landed at Leyte. The waves of men sent in at Levte were ele ments of four divisions. , -' " ("I visited the beaches with General MacArthur and we found n beach defenses worthy of the name," Folster reported.) WU1 Close Jap Supply Lines , t Covered by withering warships and aerial attacks. Ihe trooDS sue- cessfully opened an operation which today's communique said closed tne backdoor to Japan's supply lines to the East Indies and brought ine Decisive Datue in tne southwest Pacific close at hand, r t fin farflung amphibious penetration, our troops, have seized four beachheads at Lingayen gulf," headquarters said. T rThe movement was covered by; a blistering naval and air bom bardment, using both land-based and: carrier-based planes. j l rThe enemy's airforce made repeated and ; desperate attacks against our. naval formations in an endeavor to break the cohesion of our movement but beyond inflicting some loss and damage was un- t successfuL" - . Enemy Eridently Net Ready i ' !MThe enemy evidently had not prepared for a landing in the Lin gayen sector," the communlqud reported, "and, as a result of this strategic surprise, our landing losses were insignificant. . 44 We are now in his rear. His main reinforcement and supply , lines to the Philippines are cut and his ground fight on Luzon will have to be mad with such resources as he now possesses there." . Against light opposition, made so by terrific warship and aerial attacks, the troops hit the Luzon beaches at 9:30 a Jn. - . . Gen. MacArthur announced today in his communique the eagerly awaited news that the transports had disgorged the troops on th4 island which has Manila, Bataan and Corregidor. - ;The way for the landing assaults was paved over a period of week by warship shellings, land and carrier based air attacks whicli swept everything, Including Japan itself, from the Kuriles to th4 Philippines. . i , k Task Losses Very IJabt t , , ' , Although Tokyo radio had trumpeted that such landings could be, made only at terrific cost, the communique I today said Yank lossel were light. W-C : 'n-- " t - 7- . ij The Nipponese obviously were caught unprepared. - ' The Yanks" divisions were from: the US Sixth army of Li Gen Walter Krueger the same army which spearheaded , MacArthur' J return to the Philippines at Leyte last October, ! (A heavy air and naval bombardment at 'dawn covered the Lin gayen landings. ' 'I ' S"