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Newspaper Page Text----- I i - r . , - i - i-r -J "t ! . -.! ,,.'"V '.';, :..'. ' . 1'..-.',. PulM! OR n fill .(Story in Column 5) ; f l t -I Teathcr 4 Max. Mia. U 4S JT 4 U 4T . .M 4S M 4S las rruclM . Xa(caa , , Slm ' , ,; rrtlu4 Seattle , , ;, .. Wnumcttt rtrct 1 ft. PCUNDDD 3651 0 AAA a mum uCDCijDG " . Legislative styles are various. The nearest to uniformity among the 48 states is the bicameral sys tem and the holding of biennial sessions on even-numbered years. Only one state, Nebraska, has a single legislative body. Only four states,; Kentucky, Louisiana, Mis sissippi and Virginia, hold their sessions in even-numbered years. Four states, "New ; Jersey, New .York, Rhode Island and South Carolina, hold annual sessions. All legislative sessions start in January except Alabama and Louisiana (May), and Florida (April). Twenty-three states put - no limit on the length of the regular sessions. Most of those with limi tations allow 60 days; Wyoming .allows only 40, Oregon 50 and 'Georgia 70. Connecticut requires ihe legislature to adjourn not lat- W than the first Monday in June after its organization. 1 Compensation of members va rie "greatly. In Kansas the pay unless recently changed) is $3 a day but not to exceed $150, which "resembles Oregon's long-time lim it of $3 a day for not to exceed 40 . days. Oklahoma and Texas put a penalty on long sessions. The lor- mer state pays $8 a day up to 60 fays and then euts the pay to $2, While Texas pays ! ' (Continued on editorial page) ses To ' I ' : ' Greek Hostages ATHENS, Jan. 12 -VP)- Hostui-1 ties between British troops and Xlas j left-wing guerrillas will cease at 1 svm. Monday under -truce terms imade public today, . but the ELAS refused to surren der thousands of Greek civilian postages seized during five and a MUiwia - Archbishop Damask inos, newly- ELASRefu Surrender appointed regent of Greece, toiaijaan rearguard action. the ELAS he was "profoundly shockecT at their retention of wo men and children hostages. Esti mates -of the hostages taken by ' civil police of the parent EAM ' National Liberation party) range MMA K- 1Utr1 1 uu w - government newspaper xienas. , ,, (The British government in T-v- hil. trm of the Athens truce, warned that "no Mnxuwu, truce can enduref or ripen into peace unless or until the hostages taken by the ELAS have been ef fectuallT safeguarded and re- ruardeoy. 3ic . leased. ) Ti m. il r L. - JT V i Vaeil Vul UIIC Dies Fighting In Germany Pvt. ClelltCrane, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C Crane, 454 Marion atreet was this week reported "KUiea in acuon m vjerniaiiy unci havins been listed as missing for five weeks. Notification was re- teived by his parents from the war department. '- dell Crane was graduated from Etayton high school in 1941 and had attended the University of Oregon lor two years Deiore ms iniliiMinn tn the srmv. An art student there, he received anoth- ; vrar'i Tfctramin in . art at Georgetown university in Wash - " - -a - ington, D.C following his induc tion. . He was born in Slayton Janu ary 31, 1924. He was home last on furlough in June, 1944, and went overseas in September. Sur vivors are bis parents, Mr. and l(n f f rn iu) ht Vrothr. Berna-rd. all' of Salem, and his m . w w. . , srandthers, Mrs. Josephine J..18. s, !,4 nA Mr. H.n. ry Crane of jPortland. i Red Flasher Lights Installed on .Trains CHICAGO, Jan. 12 Red flasher lights which can be seen S d? installed on the rear ends of trains as a safety measure, railroad of w ficials announced today, Strike End Ordered f WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-The war labor board today , ducted Striking members of the CIO utility workers organizing' com mittee to return to work immed lately at the Cleveland Electric Illuminating company, Cleveland, Ohio. , Qoudy ; today with intermittent light rains over Willamette valley area. . ' innEiy rouRTH yeah HlDS DDI) aI PtlDrSMD'S 20 Nkzi Divisions DlllW !5linnk8 All Way tO r V alley , . Ui Uurtlie KlVer By Austin Bealmear PARIS, Saturday, Jan. 13-P) Field Marshal Karl Von Rund stedt's Belgian bulge had shrunk all the way east; to the valley of the Ourthe river today as German troops, ending all organized re sistance at the i western end of their salient, back-tracked toward the reich with thjree allied armies in hot pursuit. j The allied forces, which have wiped- out at least 20 German di visions since the enemy struck through the Ardennes forest four weeks ago made three and four imue advances yesterday across scow-covered fields against Ger Loses 200,000 ! '. .... Von Rundstedf s ambitious counter-thrust already has cost him something in the neighbor- hood of 200,000 ; men and count.- Z . . . . I ims nnM rr armor ana artmerr. i ll lien, ieoree s. . nttoni neaa- i quarte that the US I Third armv alone has accounted an nnn wni r . " Mnturca since uecemuer zz. ac- J4 jv As the tide of battle ebbed here, it : rose abruptly in northeastern r lojitrr, out uuuuwj wn mit ing a breach in the old Maginot line and had driven the enemy irom au oui me soum eage 01 Rittelshoflen, a vuiage eight miles 60X11X1 01 ?eicn wraer norm 01 oiraswurg. . Withdraw Safely With skill born of similar re versals on the Russian front, the Germans withdrew from their ex tended positions in Belgium with out stranding sizeable forces, al though Lt. Gen. George S. Pat- ton's Third army succeeded in ribbons their troops boxed east of Bastogne. The US First army struck three miles south Laorche, at the northwest corner, overrunning a number of abandoned villages. The British Second army mov ing four miles in from the west joined up wilh the US Third army near fauen southwest corner- I a t..u eff iesternmost seven niiles I u - J t i ui uic niuciuira. China Expects Yank Landing CHUNGKING, Jan,' 12-P)-The I Chinos ; armv- npwsnsnpr Kan "I Tan Pao said today that the I Americans would be ready to land nn th rKina ma.t "in thro months or and the Chinese press opened a campaign exnon - ing the underground in the occu pied areas to prepare for support of such a landing. . With the Americans Japanese now reparations to vading Luzon, the have speeded up preparations I rlsf on . -- ' ). dared. The Japanese are strengthening the carrisons which would -be called upon to resist, the army spokesman said. . Philippine president Returns to America Washington. Jan. 12 csv - pVesident Sergio Osmena of the Philippine commonwealth has re turned from the islands to the United States,- the war depart- ment announced today. ' Osmena will confer with vari ous government officials concern- In relief and rehabilitation mea ures for the Filipinos as a resun of destruction wrought by the Ja canese. Destro yed io pages: Wonder if He'll Know Her Wlien TTiey Meet Again DENVER, Colo.,1 Jan. 12-;P)-A corporal at Lowry field claims he had one of the shortest .honey- moons of the war 30 minutes, plus : five minutes alone with his bride. - ! . - - -i and Kathleen Peak of Manchester, married last September in Eng-f short because Kern had to catch a ship tocome home under the rota tion system of furloughs. i He's expecting his wife to be on the first ship she can board for the United States. f Accelerated '45 to ! Give AU Work i f By Sterling F. Green WASHINGTON. Jan. 2-m-A i "second-wind! production spurt scheduled for early $ 1945 will guarantee war ' work ifor every American who wants it, WPB Chairman J. A. Krug said today. Partjol it will go to equip newly formed French army units r..i i. -i.- j . i. OMV liviuau piwutuuu vuvm. v.. j v, production board revealed further I ;-vi.i - r,?"f? ,1!:." io xor civiuaa ow manu- 1 4..- 1 s U 6 I The supply metals allotted for spot production was cut so deeply that one of Krug's I lieutenants i summarized: "OutDut will be re f diieed td a driblets Authorizations already made will not be cancel- leH but material may; be lacking to cu demand' and new n- quests wiu held to fe minimum. Half of all munitions programs must rise 65 per cent,' on the av erage, over the f 1945! schedules which were set last fall, Krug told a press conference. Turkey Allows Allied Ships In Dardanelles LONDON, Jan4 2 -Ky Turkey is permitting war supplies to be shipped through jthe Dardanelles strait to Russia, a British foreign 6omroentafr disclosed to- u"7 .The only reason supplies pre viously had not been sent through the strait to Russia, the foreign of fice source said, - was because of the danger of ait attacks. : Ship ments began without! any objec tiori from the Turkish: government once the German; air bases in the Ionian sea and the Balkans had 1 1 a i: j -i il. mi w?uJur,i ? - lr I -t:. .A nwe TKHUJ nwung pouu jjf0 iVe eommentator ir ' . . . r y . f . " Iter which has been solved by change in military events. Knudseh Uraes - i , 0 Production W OraH for Men Avoiding Lssentml jobs WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 - () - I Drastic new controls, to channel workers from -"less essential" J firms into war production were revealed tonight, capping these other manpower developments: 1. CIO President Philip JMurray told a news conference the way to meet mannower fnrohlemn 1 not 1 lefFislation. but - a conference ef government, labor. Industry and - 1 agriculture to plan smooth distri bution of work, t He favored tak Ing the problem fout Of "the con- I gerssional mess if ia in and return - 1 ing it to the" people where It be- longs." ; j! - i 1 - l 2. AFL and railroad brother I nooa ieaaers, alter a Joint confer' - 1 ence, said they had evidence "of flagrant wastage of xoanpowci Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, January 13, 1S45 Russian Offense fiaunched Germans Report Reds Start Push est of (Vistula L B y W. w Hercher LONDON, Jan1. 12-(iip)-Berlin reports; said last night that the long-awaited Russian winter ; of fensive in southern Poland, "the biggest of all time,"; had begun at dawn yesterday on a broad front west of the Vistula river bridge head town of Baranow, 120 miles below Warsaw, and had pene trated German lines amid "ex tremely violent fighting." The new push came as Moscow announced that soviet shock troops had hurled the remnants of . the German garrison at Budapest into five-Bcfuare-miie pocket in the heart of the Hungarian capitaL Patriots 1 Rise H ! ; . .--i; , A midnieht soviet bulletin also said that Hungarian patriots had risen, and were firing on the Ger mans from cellars, rooftops and street barricades. In retaliation, the Germans are'blowing up houses and public buildings with out warning and -thousands of civilians are perishing in the ruins," Moscow Said. A late report from Berlin to the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter described the Russian Polish of fensive ; as tthe !g r e a t e s t ; yet launched. The Russians are at tacking t "with 500 heavy guns. two air. fleets, several tank armies and innumerable infantry divi siohs," it said, j , Alms at 2 Towns The drive apparently was aimed at Kielce and Krakow, last ma jor strongholds I protecting Ger4 man Silesia. Whlen ; fighting sub-; sided last August in this aresi the shortest route to Germany's heart the Russians held positions only 20 miles southeast of Kielce, rail town connecting Krakow with German-held Warsaw. S3 miles northeast of Kielce. i Sweden Lodges Protest Over German Blockade STOCKHOLM,! Jan. 12-(P)-The Swedish government officially an nounced today that it had lodged a . "serious protest" through the Swedish legation in Berlin be cause the Germans have enlarged their blockade in the Skaggerak eastward 10 nautical miles toward the 0 widish coast. v Retreat Not i Over - 4 LONDON, Jan. 13 -(")- The German withdrawal from the Ar dennes salient ""does not seem to haye been concluded,", the Berlin radio said today in its early morn ing war report, j " . Criminal Penalties Instead , .. ' J . ; ' " ' I " , and money by federal government 1 agencies and by private industries engaged' in, war. production." 3. LUIGen. William 5. Knuasen, the army's plane production boss, told the house military committee it would be better to apply crimi--' nal penalties fines or imprison ment to men who won't take war jobs, rather than ! to Induct them into menial tasks in the army He favored national service legisla tion for all men between 18 and 60. il. . y - The war manpower commission dispatched to its regional direc tors a plan for a nation-wide in ventory of less essential firms. It calLt for employment "ceilings' for those - with eight . or more workers, and empowers area di "T1- N Of cope 43rd Legislature In Adjournment Over Weekend . By Wendell Webb Managing editor, Tho Statesman ' A stormy session in the Ore gon senate, and rapid-fire action in the Washington house, left both states - well on the way to. com plete investigation of the $7,400,- 000 liquor deal by which nearly 3,000,000 gallons of whisky was obtained from Kentucky i dis til eries 14 months ago. And in Oregon the probe ap parently will not be limited. Two ' senators (both republi cans) ' and : three representatives (still to be appointed) will wade into the 'state's -liquor books with- OLTMFIA, Jan. 12-(P)-The house entered its traditional stride of spring surprises today by voting to set op a committee from this legislature to Investi gate ihe state's 1943 liquor deal. , The committee would work with a similar committee appointed' by thejIOregOB state legislature. The house action now goes to the senate. in the next few days. If the house adts as generally forecast and ap proves the joint resolution passed by the senate Friday.! The proposed liquor probe, which Gov, Earl Snell originally suggested only for the Waterfill and Frajder' (Kentucky) purchase of 14 months ago, topped. the fire works the first week of Oregon's 43rd legislature which now stands adjourned until Monday,. Stormy Session Friday All the fireworks were in the senate, climaxed in a stormy ses sion Friday by a futile-effort on the part of Sen. Lew Wallace, Portland democrat, to win ap proval of a third and even broad' er liquor-probe bill (the first died In committee) but who finally settled for the second (after his own . was . defeated) which does not limit the investigation solely to the joint Oregon-Washington $7,400,000 purchase of two Ken tucky distilleries late In 1943. In Olympia, the house of rep resentatives in Washington alsO voted, Friday to initiate a probe into the Waterfill and Frarier deal, rTep. H. C. Armstrong, chair man bffthe house liquor commit tee. " r ' n Resolution Passed 21-6 i - Named to the Oregon senate committee for the probe were Sen. Angus pibson of Lane and Linn counties1 and Sen. Paul Patterson of Washington county, both re publicans. ((Wallace's 'bill would have provided for a bi-partisan committee, of . seven instead of five.) Senate President Howard C. Belton announced the appoint ments ffter senate Joint .resolu tion 4 was passed 21 to 6. The resolution, as contrasted to the one originally introduced on the basis of the governor's request, provided for an investigation Of the Kentucky purchases "together with any such matters the inves tigation of which the committee deems advisable." The broader bill reportedly carries the governor's approval. (Additional stories on page 0.) rectors to apply ceilings to those with less than eight '; This would put strict limits on the number of people' a firm may hire. . The commission's plan -amounts to a dragnet for any surplus man power. Which then could be shifted to critical War plants., . ' While capitol hill was busy with proposed - legislation to "increaie the hosts of war workers,' CIO President Murray told the govern ment. In effect, to cool off that there is enough manpower to do the war job. All it needs is smooth distribution, he" said.M r r ; Tho AFL in its monthly survey took the same position that each plant behind schedule should be re-examined by the war produc tion beard, Study Widened jaP Potion ( n ' - f A - - - planes ef his Third fleet are ripping Into - four Nipponese conveys off Inde-ChlnaJ its Additional Jap Formosa U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. were sunk and six damages at carrier planer toe navy disclosed tonight 'in Sporting .additional achievements scored ther by the task forces now in; action off! French indo-China- ' j I The two destroyers were among Nimitz Repp Tolls 24 addiUonal sinkings listed in to- JP"n w umoaa n aan rer night's communique amplifying nando, port 45 miles north of the the Formosa achievements. The Yank beachhead, were erased by six destroyers or destroyer-escorts were amort? 88 .vntiwli' tririnff down to small craft added to the list of those damaged. ' I . The twenty-four '; additions to the list of ; ships sunk were two destroyers, an oiler, a large cargo ship, two medium cargo ships and 18 small craft The 86 additions to the list of ships damaged were a destroyer, five destroyer-eseorts, two oilers. five large cargo ships, three medi um cargo ships, 28 small ships and 42 small craft ri .- Tonight's communique also add ed 20 more planes destroyed and 44 damaged. PFCH. Keeling Dies in Battle On Ley te Isle Mrs. Pauline . Johnson Keeling has been notified by telegram from the war department of the death of her husband,! Pfc How ard G. Keeling. According to the notification, Pfc. "Keeling was killed in action on Leyte island on December IS. He was tyith the 77th infantry division.' ;- Keeling graduated, from Wash ington high school in Portland and was with the credit department of Meier and Frank previous to enlistment in September, "1943. The 38-year-old ' soldier I was in the invasion of Guam previous to the Invasion Of the Philippines. Surviving besides the widow are a daughter, Melinda Mae, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs, 'James R. Keeling ( of Portland,! 1020 N.E. FloraL' The , Keelings : lived in Portland before his ! enlistment, but since, Mrs. Keeling land her daughter have been living at the home of her mother, Mrs. Grace Johnson, 1661 Chexneketa street. U. S. Warming Toward Finns Washington, Jan. tt - () - friendly but cautious hand to Fin- ia t4..-, th. rfiniA. matic cold shoulder for - -.-m. - ; - Jonh C Grew' actini secre- tary of state, announced that Ran dolph Higgs, an American diplo mat now . in Stockholm, ) is being dicnatcherf tn HeUinkf to look af ter American interests and that he will be loined shortly hv Maxwell M. Hamilton, a too flight foreign haervice officer who will i hold the personal rank of minister. - The announcement stressed that Hamil ton's assignment "does not constitute a resumption, of formal CljItisaSc rtlations." . i--".-- ;' ' :- - ,1. - i I Prkw 5e b!J U UljvllUi 25 Enemy Sunk, 13 Yanks Capture 5-Road Junction In Luzon ' Drive By James Hntcheson ' GENERAL MacARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, I Satur hday, Ja,n. IS - - Sixth ' army Yanks captured the five-highway junction at San Carlos Thursday as they punched forward in force to points 12 miles from their beachheads along main1 roads leading; to Manila, nearing appar ent enemy defense areas, t Gen. Douglas MacArthur s com munique today said "Our . drive southward from Lingayen gulf continues unchecked" but men tioned more-stiff fighting on the left flank and declared "increasing enemy contacts indicate our for ward units are entering a zone of enemy concentration.' Planes Strafe Nips Harassing enemy' attempts to j assaults on 'motor r columns de- 2 Ves locomotives T - '' ' "Forty-six small Japanese friatersUnd one large transport nav """3 and torpedo bombers I reyers MTUt Tornedo nlane ' 1 nttjtotexl at dawn Wednesday but were driven off by intense anti-aircraft fire. Five US destroyers then steamed in and made short work of the au- j dua enemy reinforcement try, sinking or badly damaging the en tire enemy fleet The warships then turned their guns to shore and shelled the port area, i destroying three large am munition dumps. t i The first real evidence that the Japanese might put up a fight for the northern part of . the j central Luzon valley materialized Wed nesday when the American spear head . pushing southeastward on the Pozorrubio road called! for air support to smash what the' ground patrol believed was a strongly de fended position. r . I Yank Private Persuades 330 Nazis to Quit WITH VS. SEVENTH ARMY TROOPS IN ALSACE, Jan. 12 VP) -The Germans proved stub born, so the American command er decided to try persuasion. He chose Pfc Okey Curnell to do the persuading. , The 19-year-old rifleman from Huntington, W, Va. ; alone and unarmed walked toward the German lines carrying a long pole. Attached to It was a white flag. ana auacnea to tne nag were surrender terms. " . The rifleman then tied the mes sage with the terms to a fence, turned his back and slowly walk' ed toward his own lines. He was n't alone very long. He had com pany following him 330 Ger mans who were persuaded. . When it was all over all Cur nell could say was: y L V T "Let me tell you, I was plenty scared!",,.. K ! :w , : : ..H;, m 50 Federal Housing Units Slated, Lebanon i" i V?Ti-2l leoerai nousms uniw v vu -J Fred A. Cuthbert, national hous- m "W Half will be sold at $7000 each and. others will be rented at $55 a month. . Farm Draft Protested I 4 I WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 ffV- A house group, protesting plans J to induct additional farm youths, j today asked war mobilization di- i rector James F. Byrnes to appear Tuesday morning to defend his .position Near Now 25S Ships Da 12 LoacIed Troop Transports Also Sent to Bottom v.. ,v.,,,?.,. -U. S. PACIFIC! FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 12 -VP)- Carrier planes of the U.S.. Third fleet are. continuing to at tack four enemy convoys oft French Indo-China after sinking 25 ships, including a cruiser, sev eral destroyers and 12 loaded transports, the first day of the assault yesterday. Adm. Chester j W. Nimitz. an nounced the sinkings and damage to 13 ; other enemy ships, m a communique today. Tonight in a second communi que he disclosed as additional de tails that the ships sunk included six enemy, transports at Saigon and at least six 'more' transport at Quinhon harbor, 250 miles to the northeast V j 5 Plan Coanterblow ". These I transports were, being massed for a countersmash,, at Gen. Doyglas MacArthur's inva sion scene . at Lingayen gulf oa Luzon hv the Philippines,' less than 1000 miles west bt Saigosi. The fact the transports were goaded meant heavy losses of en emy, soldiers. 1 ' . ; Hundreds - of American carrier planes of Adm. William rF. HaW sey's Third Ceeti whose' armada so far has suffered no damage, are ripping into four Nipponese convoys 'which were being orga nized to send against Gen. Doug las MacArthur' invasion scene on Luzon. The bag of 38 ships was achieved yesterday. ' BaUleshiv Sank I Fleet Adm. a'W. Nimitz, in his first communique on the decisive action 1000 miles; of Manila, also announced the destruction of .the new Japanese superbattleship, the 45,000-ton Musashi, by air attack last October 24 in the second bat tle of the Philippine sea, has been confirmed. The admiral disclosed also that the Musashi's sister ship, the Ya rns to, was damaged by bombs in the October 24 action. These two vessels were the two most power ful battleships m the Japanese navy. i From Prison Bernard Walton, '22, escaped from the state penitentiary -here Friday while at Work, with other convicts, near the flax sheds out side of the prisoh walls. , A gun guard said Walton dodg ed behind a building and disappeared.;- " -I '. -1' .: Walton was received at the pen itentiary yApriT 9, 1944, to serve three years for burglary in Mult nomah county. He was described as weighing 185 pounds, with, blue eyes and. brown hair. Walton was wearing regulation prison cloth ing. Officials said he has relatives living in Portland and the police there were notified. rt Third Convoy By the AstecUted PreM Japanese broadcasts yesterday (Friday) pictured a third huge American convoy "advancing maged indo-Chiiia v.. ! Escapes Jap Repo boldly' in the face of our fierce ; attacks" into Lingayen gulf and admitted the Nipponese have been forced to "yield air mastery" , in the gulf aea where Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops are smashing ' toward Manila. . ; London reported an enemy; broadcast, heard in Australia but not reported by jthe federal com munications commission,' detailing the appearance of two additional . American convoys one of about 150 ships off Panay island, south east of American-occupied Min- . doro, and another of 100 to 150 -ships off Panaya neighboring island of Negro, '