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Japs - - and Filipinos - - Will Watcli No. 14 ';f' I h ' ; " ; . ,L rouNDii65! : " ' 1 V. NINETY-FOURTH . TEAR 12 PAGES Salem, Oregon. Thundery Morning. January 1I 1945 Pile 5c No. 254. -liC 1'rt5 U1 t: fur -v i.W '.v WW U Lin-A ,.s -xtj?v"J rc ft fif rm ;iriir,; r: American forces were closing the gulf, to which the main road (14) from Manila Is shown In the above aerial view of the Philippine esDlUl city. Other points: (1) Manila harbor: (2) Pasif river; (J) Fort Santiago; 4) the Walled City; (6) legislative buildings; (7) the escolta, or business center; (8) nanc palate; (10)! the former BUibld prison; (11) San La tar o race - alty. (AP photo) I i i Of3 3331)00 TOODDCE ' Eugene and Coos Bay arc two cities which, this month go under . the city manager form of govern ment, while Salem j due, to the . sluggish I response of its own cit izens struggles along under ; an antiquated system of mayor and 14 councilman. Eugene reached into Washin,tonstate to obtain a qual - Ified executive, whfle Coos Bay (ex-Maphfield) got) a man from Mill Valley, California. These men have been hired on! the basis of theic competence," not ' because of political I influence. Presumably they will be retained as long as their services are satisfactory. ; - There are 10 other cities in Ore gont which have city managejrs: Astoria, iBandon, Bend, Forest Grove, Hillsboro, LaGrande, Mil ton,! Oregon City, Silverton, War- renton. With the addition of Eu gene and Coos Bay! the roll be comes quite impressive, especially for cities of larger size, as Oregon cities go. The fact that no city in this state has repealed the man ager form is good evidence of its success and of popular satisfaction With it ! I While Salem has voted several times on ' a manager ' plan, each , time it has been defeated. So the city continues to struggle along with jits complicated system of councilmanic committees bossing city government The system is ' Costly - and inefficient but. each time the proposal for a change has been defeated because of personal interest' ignorance or obscurant ism,: iV ; 1 -1.: Our people ought to take notke cf bow the plan works in Eugene. That is . i (Continued on editorial page) It Lt. W. Hodnett Killed When Warship Sinks WOODBURN. Jan.' 10 Lt W P. Hodnetf whose wife is the for zner Ruth Hanson of Woodburn was killed in action when the USS Copper went down In Ormoc bay, December 3. - Information was re ceived by Mrs. Hodnett's parents. Mir. and - Mrs. Tom Hanson this ' .week.'" I." ,". ' Mrs. Hodnett was notified De cember 27 that her husband was missing in action. She is a former " navy nurse and was at Bremerton. Mrs.! Hodnett and her year old , ton; Philip Hodnett III,' is expect ed to come to Woodburn soon to make her home with her parents. . Lt Hodnett was a son of W. P. ' Hodnett of New York and a naval academy graduate. Shwebo, Burma Being Cleared of Japanese SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND' . HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cey- Ion, JanJ lO-O'P) -Japanese strong- holds in the, ghwebo area, ; last Urge enemy bastion ' north of Mandalay 'in upper Burma, were being cleared today : by Indians 5 troops" of the British 14th army. : an allied communique saia. Light Rain ihowers today, in the mid Wil lamette valley area, predict U. & weather bureau at McNary f sU, f Elem, - j , ; -. ..... ;f ft'. land trail back to Manila today Three-Fourths j Budapest in Soviet Hands; German Counterattacks Fdillm LONDON, i Thursday, Jan. tated Budapest; now is in Russian hands, repeated German coun terattacks northwest of the flaming capital have been smashed, and Soviet forces moving westward north of the Danube to out flank the Nazis have driven within a mile and a. quarter of Ko marom, Moscow announced last night, j Rail traffic out of Komarom, strategic railroad and communi cations center an the Danube 40 miles northwest! of Budapest, al ready has been, blocked by Red army artillery, dispatches from the Soviet capital said. ThexSovlet forward surge in Budapest also has resulted in the capture of 'practically all the in dustrial eastern suburbs, the com munique broadcast from Moscow said. " iv:. ' A thousand blocks, ,b( buildings, almost half, as! many as Soviet storm troops had gained in two previous .weeks of fighting, were taken Wednesday, and the Soviet command early jtoday stated. that many factories, quantities of mili tary equipment jand thousands of prisoners also were captured. The Russians now control 3300 of Bu dapest's estimated 4500 blocks. Fresh motorized corps were thrown against the Nazi relief ex pedition which has been battering at Russian lines 15 miles west and northwest of Budapest for eight days in an attempt to break through, to the beleaguered city. Serious Coal Dearth Brings Drastic Rules ... j . . WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - (JPi - The government tonight ordered a widespread blackout of outdoor advertising lights using coal for power, and asked the American people to turn thermostats down to 68 in all public buildings and homes. ' ! i '! War Mobilizer James T. Byrnes, who took the action, said it was to avert "an impending coal short age." Dwindling stocks of this fuel, it was disclosed, have become a matter of concern to President Roosevelt and nisi cabinet : In his appeal jfor ! less heat, Byrnes made no exceptions for people who heat with oil or gas. Compliance was left on a volun tary basis. Washington Considers Closing Night Clubs MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 10-ttrVDr: James S. Thomas, : deputy OPA district director for Florida, said today that Washington officialdom "is seriously considering a re quest to the night clubs in the Miami area and elsewhere in the country to close their doors prob ably for the duration." Draft Quotas Will Increase : Sharply in Next Six Months WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -UP) Draft quotas will rise sharply in the nex . six months, government officials disclosed today in urg ing "work or fight" legislation, to fill resultant gaps in war produc tion ranks.;-1;1: 'UA. fAA'Aifi The government proposes to ex tract some 200,000 of the 900,000 men needed for the armed forces from - occupation ally deferred workers, aged 28 through 29, in war-essential industries. 3 7:;; vf 'f And only through national service legislation channeling every able-bodied person into the war effort, said Undersecretary I of , War Patterson,, can the 900.CCO 1 after their landing- on Llnrayen San Jose hospital; (9) Malaca track; (13) San Tonus univer ' i of Ruined : 1 1 l-(P-Three-fourths of devas 24 Persons Die In Calif ornia Airliner Crash LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10 Twenty four persons were carried to sudden death early today when art American Airlines plane crashed and burned in a canyon five and a half miles from the fog-shrouded airport where it tried to land. t The victims were the 21 pas sengers three, from the navy and 18 from the army and a crew of three. Army f and navy sources will announce! the passen gers' ; names after relatives have been notified. All out two army men were burned beyond recognition, per- 80ns returning irom ine wrecx said. , ! The plane, arriving from New York by way of Washmgton, Cin- cinnati, Memphis, Dallas, El Paso and a Phoenix, reached Lockheed air terminal in suburban Burbank at 4:08 a.m.. Barred by fog from landing, Capt Joseph Russell Me Cauley, 34, told the control tower by radio that he would attempt to land at an emergency field to the northeast at Palmdale. I Price Ceiling Qamped Down On Live Cattle WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - (ff) - The government today clamped price? ceilings on live cattle and umvrwise revainpeu, reBurauons in an avowed attempt to spread short suppuep oi quality neei more ev- enly among consumers. Economic Stabilization . Direc tor Fred M. Vinson ordered OPA to establish a ceiling of $18.00 a hundred pounds, Chicago basis, for live cattle and calves, effee tive Jan. 29. i He directed that the ceiling be reduced to $17.50 online ashore in a steady stream at JUiy 1. Although prices paid i for ' top ffradM at livMtwk- markrit Hav averaged below $18.00, individual 1 . a - saies nave exceeaea mavngure. uicu uc lurui&iicu w wc army ana navy and 700,000 workers be pro- vided for Industry before July LI Patterson Informed the house nuuuiy commiTOe 01 tne army's ana navy plan for. the step-up in inductions, which would boost draft calls -from the present 110,- At the same time," War Mobil- ly wag winding up a series of et.-. ; rr w w" v . dais to revise the list of ess en tial Industries so as to protect the most Important factories from the draft inroads. " Four Key Villages Gantured I Opposition Still 1 Lacking; j Japs . Rushing Up Men By C, Yates McDaniel and j i James Hatcheson GENERAL Mae ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Thurs day, Jan. ll-(vP)-Under the im petus of .Tuesday morning's pow er-packed landing, American troops by midday Wednesday had carved; out a Luzon; beachhead 15 miles wide and an average of four miles deep, still finding little or no ; opposition. They captured four key towns and j an airstrip less than 120 miles' north of Ma- - flan Tii 1 rrl r m Vfaii Aflhtin'a munique today, the: second issued from his Luzon headquarters, an nounced the four separate beach heads along Lingayen gulf had been consolidated " in the first 24 hours of almost bloodless inva sion from San Fabian to Lingayen. Battle Expected MacArtnur said the enemy, "completely deceived;' by the landing at! his rear, was bring ing up reinforcements from the southern part of the island. This presaged an early opening of the real battle; for Luzon. Three key rail and highway bridges ; at Calumpit, 25 miles northwest of Manila, were de stroyed in I the aerial : blasting of all Luzon in support of the inva sion. A i Recalls Bitter Days It was around .Calumpit in the dark days of late .1941 that Mac- Arthur's' American and Filipino forces j fought a bitter delaying action, j This : prevented i the Japa nese, wpo had landed' at Antimo- nan on tne east coast, rrom plung ing: straight toward Manila be' fore the American commander bad time to pull in his advanced scattered forces in the converg ing withdrawal that ended on Ba- taan peninsula. Virtually isolated as were the Americans ! on Luzon j three years ,(, the Jananese on the island i are forced: to call uDon disDersed garrisons to meet the formidable, tank-led American Sixth army driving southward from Lingayen I gulf. j Stand Necessity Somewhere south' of Lingayen, Gen. Tomoyuki Yamasmta, Japa nese commander in the Philin- pines, rnusf make a stand. How much of a stand will depend on how quickly and how successfully he succeeds in bringing troops from the central Luzon plain in the face of day and night US air assaults. The Americana crossed most of the swamps and "fish pond areas, which posed the chief terrain ob stacle. I in i their spectacular and virtually bloodless drive inland. Weather Stormy ; , Broadcasts from the scene said some Yanlc columns ! were; con si1erabiy 'beyond the! four-mile .-i.-i,- annrtiincod efficiallv. Weather, described as stormy, with bi- mrttox rolling up on the beaches.) "Enemy air activity over Lu zon has been reduced to a negli gible scale," the communique said. Supplies and equipment to make the Lingayen sector a ; great base I of operations were reported pour- all the beaches. OPA Is Not Planning 1 Mrn T.;U riAtL: WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -()- Price Administrator Chester Bow les said today that OPA is not planning to ration clothes. "There is nothing in the works I n that n he stated at a news con 1 ference. ftowW revealed that OPA and the war production board are at WQrK dn a new program designed to stabilize the cost of clothing Air RTnWH on GermanV SlOWS Food Distribution P lfi'Tl.!',T t "f T xne sustamea aiuea aeria ouen- Tl live atainst German icommunica - 1 v irft vi distribution of food m Germany, reliable informant just returned ifrom Berlin said toaay 14th Corps Alone Takes 20 Towns At Lingayen Gulf WITH AMERICAN TROOPS ON THE LINGAYEN FRONT, Jan. 10-(Delayed )-(P) The 14th army corps alone has captured' ; about 20 towns and villages at Lingayen gulf and baa extend ed the beachhead west from seized Lingayen city to within less than . two miles of Port SuaLThat extends Its length to 20 miles. ! ! This unit has pushed more than 3000 yards inland at mid morning on this second day of Invasion. It occupied Lingayen airfield without encountering . serious opposition and suffered virtual ly no casualties. ! rs Of U.S. Fleet in Storm WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-(-Three destroyers of the 1 Pacific fleet were lost during a severe typhoon in the western Pacific, the" navy announced today. The vessels were the Hull, the S pence and the Monaghan. At the same time, the navy an nounced the- loss as the result of enemy action in the Pacific of four landing craft (LST)", a motor torpedo boat ; a small submarine ( chaser and a small auxiliary ves- I sel. . i.' - The' Hull and Monaghan had normal complements of about 150 men each ; and; the Spence about j 220. The commanding officer, four other officers and 49 men of the Hull were rescued. Survivors of the Spence ' totalled 24, ; including one officer ofi the supply corns, and six of the personnel of the Monaghan were rescued. Thernavy said .the disaster oc curred while the vessels were tak ing part in recent combat opera tions in the western Pacific. In addition to the three destroyers, a number of vessels suffered dam age, during the severe typhoon. Chutists Hit Homeland To Slow Nazis LONDON, Jan. 10 - ) - Norwe - ian narachute trooDS have invad-. ed their homeland and cut the Germans' main railway for trans-, port of Nazi troops to Germany,' the Norwegian government in ex ile announced today. Wearing white parkas to camou flage themselves against Norway's snowy backgrounds, the Norwe gian troops destroyed sections of two main railways in what a spokesman described as a "good- sized operation." The daring op eration was carried out between Trondheim and OsIoX In announcing the blow to pre vent the transfer of German troops from Norway to Field Mar shal Von Rundstedt's western front ran k s, ' the j government spokesman 'disclosed that Norwe gian parachutists had carried out other operations In Norway. Berle Will Be Sent to Brazil WASHINGTON, Jan. 10-4- ccept for one more appointment! Except for one more appointment N ft a . a rreoaeni nooseveu Maay com- pleted a revamping of the diplo- : ! - matic service I picture by norm- nating Adolf A. Berle as ambas- sador to Brazil. The reorganization, which start' ed with elevation of Secretary of State Stettinius now leaves only one post unfilled. That is the posi tion of ambassador to Turkey, va cated when Laurence Steinwardt became ambassador ' to Czecho slovakia. - ' i It has been: speculated that George , Messersmith, ambassador to Mexico, will get 'the Turkish appointment Weather Sasr rranctfco Ef aa Saiem . PorUaao H ji if it j' .; as Sevttla 1 3 Destroye Norg Pressure Increases For Bills Delay Assailed; Higher Salaries To Be Proposed A score or more bills and resolu tions were in the hoppers of the senate and house, today but in creasing pressure- was being put on state departments to present their proposals more rapidly and aid in avoiding a late rush. . J In the senate Wednesday; Presi dent Howard C. Belton echoed the sentiments expressed in the house the day before by Rep. Stanhope Pier that the state ' departments, other than that of the secretary of state, , were too slow in introduc tions, i.! ' V -,y . V ! : V One Bill Passed Only one bill has passed both houses so far the $100,000 for legislative expenses. ; Most 1 controversial ! proposal to appear formally for the first time (albeit mentioned in the Oregon Statesman 10 days ago) was the bill, now before the house com mittee on administration and re organization, to increase the sal aries of state officers by a total of $24,200 annually ; The present and proposed sal aries follow: .'V Governor, $7500 to $12,000; see retary of state, $5400 to 8500; treasurer, $5400 to $8500; attorney general; $5000 to $7500;-supreme court Justices, $7500 to $8500; su- perintendent of public, instruction, $4000 to $6000; labor commissioner $4000 to. $6000, j (Latest available data on the pa of governors in other states showed ,20 were how getting less than the Oregon scale of $7500, 18 were "receiving more, and nine had the same rate. The average of the 48 states was $8220, with the highest New York's $25,000 and the lowest South Dakota's $3000.) Probably the most heated con troversy in the senate centered around a technicality in a bill pro posing to widen the scope, of the governor's suggested liquor in vestigation, to include matters oth er than the Waterfill and Frasier purchase.- The bill went back ; to committee. The house is adjourning this af ternoon and the senate probably Friday noon, for the weekend, (Legislative news page 5) R 00S ri Wo o Al.la.OC.lCl. Vf CllllO I m-wy n Hf ! I fjl Of ; JYI A At LONDON, Jan. lO--Raising a soviet voice for the first time in an apparent call for a new "big three" parley, the Moscow radio declared tonight that the time had come for. a "further consolida tion" of unity among the United States, Great Britain and the So viet Union.' Hitler's only hope now. the so viet announcement warned, was to split the anti-German alliance. Speaking in the English Ian guage, the Moscow commentator assailed attempts : to : exaggerate differences of opinion among the allies and asserted that German propaganda "may deceive this or that allied journalist but it can not change the basic alignment of forces." Island Japs Have Busy Week CoUIltlllff I. S. ' C7 .. Editor's note: You've been wading J" J?1 ,hug roTv"y wticlL Put Gn. Douglas Mc Arthur back en ywi. Where did the ships come from Here is at let part of tha - answer, on, making . clear the warships daringly passed up anemy- occupiad Islands and threated through narrow waters to gel to tnair oojac- tive. Spencer Davu. tne Associaieo Press war correspondent, who tells about it, has been in on all Invasion moves in. the Philippines. , 1 - By Spencer Davis 1 ABOARD VICE ADM. JOHN KINKAID'S FLAGSHIP IN LIN GAYEN GULF, Jan, -(Delayed) WVVJPKeie along the coasti of islands in the central Philippines just had their busiest Week of war counting American ships go tog by. 1 ; , ? From Mindanao they first saw little minesweepers 'pop through Mixf mi. Ealnithe SurigaO straits bottleneck the P13111 of January 2. These were I followed by a heavy bombardment force of battleships, escort car- rlef sj; crii !str s ;anddestryers, Is At Least Warm . 4aL I- This little native of Bastogne, Bel gium, town; successfully de fended by Americana in the German break through, may not be dressed la the height of fashion, bnt his clothes seem as warm as his! smile. (AP wire photo) .. .. j- Argentina Will Boycott Future America Meets BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 10.-(flV Argentina severed her last con nection with American nations as a group today j temporarily at least by announcing that she would not participate : in future meetings of the Pan - American union because her rights had been ignored and the union's consulta tive procedure had been altered. ( dispatch from Santiago, Chile, said diplomatic observers there re garded the Argentine move as a mistaken one, cracking wide open the division between- Argentina and other nations of the hemis phere, The Chilean dispatch added that it was felt in many quarters that Argentina's withdrawal boded ill far continental peace in South America.) The announcement followed the Pan - American union's decision Monday to postpone consideration of Argentina's request for consul tative meeting to discuss her rela tions with other nations of North and South America. Oregon Soldiers Injured in Action WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -(JP) Oregon- soldiers wounded in. ac tion in the European area in cluded: ' . Dygart, Pfc. Vernon A. -4 Mrs. Alta B. Hetzler, mother, route 1 Amity. : ! Gabriel, Pfc. Louie E. Mrs, Louis E. Gabriel, wife, 155 Cleve land St, Lebanon. ;" Long, r Pfc Wilmer R. Wilmer A.ILong, father, 1416 East 7th St, Albany.. - McManus, Tech. 4th Gr, Den nis P.- Mrs. Dorothy J. Me Man us, wife, 1308 Van Buren St, Corvallis. I SllipS GoUlQ By 1 1 C7 . The advance team of. heavy sluggers moved deliberately be yond Bohl island, to 'within nine miles of Negros island. Into the Sulu sea, thence past Negroe and Mind or o through, the Apo pass into the China sea toward Luzon Successive chains of enemy spot ters goggled from their hilltop posts. - Behind ' the - formation came three more formations, even larg er-than the vanguard. There seemed to be no end to the" parade of I transports, freight ers, landing- ship docks and am phibious craft of every descrip tion.- ,i . i, Before landing, the bulk of the convoy moved within 40 miles of Manila and still closer to Ba taan peninsula, where Americans and Filipinos fought so courag eously la "defeat, three" ears - a Enemy s Forces Shifted Nazis Abandon Anchor Towns; 7th Army Gains By Austin Bealmear PARIS, Thursday, Jan. l-UPh The western end of the Germans Ardennes salient carved out in their costly December counter- offensive appeared, today, to be ' caving under Allied pressure from three sides. j There were indications that erman Field Marshal Karl .Vori ; Rundstedt already had shifted most of his forces to the eastern end of the wedge in Belgium. The Germans acknowledged quitting St Hubert southwestern anchor town of the ,salient Al though his report was. without Al lied confirmation.' the German radio said St Hubert, 14 miles west of Bastogne, was evacuate! before the Americans entered it Lajroebe Mopped Up Laroche, another , communica tions hub on the north side of the salient was being mopped up rap idly . alter having been bypassed by American armor and infantry in a general advance, and front line correspondents said the main German force had abandoned that town as well as. others on the north and west I t Another reverse for the Ger mans was an advance by the Ame rican Seventh army to the south . where the Germans began coun terattacking when it was appar ent that their. Belgian offensive had bogged down. The Americana pushed ahead a mile in a sector seven miles southwest of Saar brucken, a field dispatch said. Nazis Withdraw ) Von Rundstedt appeared to have effected an orderly withdrawal iii the Belgian bulge under cover of the same foul weather that shrouded the mid-December west& ward plunge of his armies and de prived the Allies of support ol their tactical airforces. , ' The US First and Third 'armies. nbw less than nine miles apart at the waist of the salient, after a day of battering advances through ice and snow, thus faced the pros pect of finding the pocket empty when- they eventually come to gether north of Bastogne. Housing Meet Slated Today Persons interested in the con- struction of new dwellings within. five mile radius of Salem, whether they are property own ers, contractors, j building mater ials and equipment dealers or. workmen, may learn how to cure one or more of the 100 pri orities recently released for resi dential building in this area at a meting scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. hi Salem chamber of commerce rooms today. " 5 ' I This is the promise of. national housing administration represent atives who will i conduct the in formal afternoon discussions. Bombers Blast City by Error 5 LONDON, Jan. 10-WVThe US, strategic ' air force acknowledged today that at the height of the Al- : lied aerial attempt to smash the German winter offensive soma American Liberators and Maraud ers nearly destroyed the Belgian town of Malmedy Tin error" while ft still was held by American troops. - ' - ''')..--.: .. 1 Headquarters of the strategic air force said six medium bombers of the Ninth air force dropped bombs on the town December 2$ ' "as a result of mistaken identity and that heavy bombers of tha Eighth air force attacked the town the following day "also in error. Japanese Driven Back' In Clash With Chinese CHUNGKING, Jan. 10 -OP)- A. clash with - enemy forces neaf Paoching, a Japanese stronghold; W miles northwest of Hengyang in Hunan province, In which the Japanese were driven back, was announced today by the Chinese high: tomKasdk v ;.:y: j: 4' i