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WHiattU tint a ft. 1 la. i POUNDBD fi The school people are putting tome of the opponents of their re cently "defeated constitutional amendment to the test: They are coming to the " legislature "with 1 a money, request. " They are asking for $5,000,000 state aid to enable schools to meet the existing emer gency. The appropriation is not a continuing one, but it is safe to predict that both need and de mand will be continuing. . h To obtain this sum the sponsors of the measure would divert pro fceeds of - the income tax, thereby reducing or cutting off the dis ; count allowed r under the Walker plan. This would be the first di rect diversion of income tax re ceipts, which since the enactment of the law have gone exclusively ; to reduction of property taxes. ! While the amount of money in volved is nearly the same as the . "new money" contemplated to be provided under the late amend ment, its tactical position is very different. The - amendment cre ated a property tax liability which 'could be met by income tax re ceipts without altering the princi pie of the act. The bill coming up k is a direct - sluicing of revenues into school spending. ' In studying the school situation in this state I have felt for a long time that administrative reorgani "zation is fundamental to a proper solution pf the problems. To in crease the volume J of state aid un 'der the present setup I (Continued on editorial page) jWould Renew Industry in est By John M. Hlfhtower WASHINGTON, Jan. The United States today put part of Its economic resources and a,, few thousand tons of its limited chipping facilities behind the maintenance of political order in liberated Europe. f President Roosevelt promised the new'prime minister of Greece, Nicholas Plastiras, that the United States would "assist wherever practicable in the rehabilitation of your long-suffering nation." ; . The ?tate department -announced thai more shipping has been made available for increasing exports of American civilian goods to France In the 'first three months of 1945. Meantime, the army service forces told of plans to obtain more than a billion dollars worth o critical goods for Allied armies from French and Belgian industry In 1945. The arrangement, which at present is apart from lend lease, jcalls for the United States and Britain to supply the bulk of the raw materials for the goods, which include uniforms and, tires. The i aim Is two-fold: to obtain : needed supplies and provide em ployment in France and Belgium. Three Yanks Convicted of Army Looting i'l By William F. Benl f PARIS, Jan. ; 1 B-fcTVDespite a ; plea that they had been brow beaten into signing confessions, three more American soldiers 4 were convicted by a general court - martial today on charges of loojt- iihg army supply trains in black market deals and were sentenced to long prison terms. ..... The sentences today,; subject to review by higher authority were .40 years at hard labor for T5 Frederick H. Schultz, Detroit, Mich.; 35 years for TVS James J. Cupp, ' Moline, 111., and 20 years for T5 James T. Roepke, Keno sha, Wis. The sentences also en vain ed ' dishonorable - discharges and loss of all pay and allowances. ' Cigarette Rationing To Start in Fortnight ' CHICAGO, Jan. 16.WpUa plan i'T for voluntary consumer rationing of that elusive article, the cigar ette, today drew both the criticism and approbation of groups affect ed by the plan. ; Under the proposed system, sug gested: by the national association - of tobacco distributors, numbered ration cards will be issued by re tailers ;to their regular customers,' who wlll ; be required to, sign a declaration that they hold vonly , one card. Rationing will, not be attempted at outlets for transit ' trade such as hotels, railroad and bus stations and cram stores. The card system .is planned to begin within two weeks, r - r. Fractures Skull in Fall Into Grease'Pit - Ivan Darby, 57, of Mehama was In the Deaconess hospital Tues- dav ninht with , skull fracture due to an accidental f aU at a Sa Jem service station, v He told at tendants he was waiting for his ear to be removed from the grease fit after being serviced and acci Europ dentally nil into vat pn. KINETY-rOURTH YEAR mm Britons and Yanks Advance -ii- Eisenhower's Men TVear .Nazi Borders in North Br Austin Bealmear SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Paris, Jan. 16 - UP) - The British .Second army smashed eastward in a new offensive near the German border north of Aa chen today, exactly a month after the Germans'. Belgian break through, and during the first hours the Tommies progressed gainst moderate resistance. This switch to the initiative by General Eisenhower's Allied arm ies came as American forces in Belgium captured the highway hub of Houffalize, virtually iron ing out the Nazis' salient into the Ardennes, and made other gains in Luxembourg and in Germany it self, ir't :- The US First and Third armies linked up again in Houffalize and drove on against St Vith, last major communications center left to the enemy in this sector. The Tommies struck in a morn' ing fog north of Sittard, which is 10 miles west of Geilkenkirchen and 14 miles south of Roermond, and were smashing into a Ger man-held " triangle between the Maas (Meuse) and Roer rivers. A terrific artillery barrage preceded the attack. lhe sledgehammer blow was aimed at powerful defenses which the Nazis had been building since October. The German salient against which Field Marshal Sir . Bernard L. Montgomery's forces were driv ing, thrusts sharply into Allied lines just north of Sittard, which is 18 miles northwest of Aachen. During the past fortnight the Nazis have made several strong local attacks there in an effort to extend their defensive lines. All were repulsed. . Everett Smith Killed in Action i Ensign Everett Smith, navy pilot, was kiUed in action in the South Pacific January 2, his wife, the former Martha Frantz, has been notified by the navy de partment. . " " y " ' . Ensign Smith was with the Ore gon ; national guard when It was mobilized in 1940 and when re leased by the army to enlist in the navy. He left for overseas last November. : Smith, a Salem high school graduate, later resided in Port land, His mother is Mrs. Edith Smith of Salem. Dancers Frozen but Paris Show Goes on PARIS, Jan. 16 - UP) -Six girl dancers collapsed - at the Follies Bergere last night, suffering from exposure to cold. ; f; The temperature on stage due to Paris fuel shortage was about 20 degrees, and the . girls went through the show wearing their assigned, costumes which would fit in an envelope. ' 7 The manager said, "We are keeping open only because we are doing our best to' entertain sol diers who come to Paris for a few days' pleasure." Cannery EireNo Incendiary; WPB Approves Rebuilding While plans for new construc tion were moving ahead under recently-granted WPB, authority to rebuild the Producers Cooperative Packing company plant. Manager, William H. Wood announced Tues day that probable cause' . of j the fire which destroyed the cannery November 25 had been discovered. A fused conduit was uncovered in. the rubble which is being re moved" to make way for the pro posed new building at 1695 North Commercial street Loss in the fire was generally estimated at more than $100,000. . . r 'j Although the finding of the con duit with the hole in it indicating that electric wires had short cir cuited, burning their way through the protective metal, could not be 10 PAGES biisltof War Ace With Bride4o-Be ft' J ".J"" " " ' 1 )"'-" '.'.'..J." .ftmmm,,! ,1, j i ,. I IIIJI m; II-.IM l . 'T-'ry, Traditional wishbone breaking was she and MaJ. Richard Bong, Poplar, Wis, war ace, tarred at the ends lof a turkey wishbone In Wis, Bonr and Miss Vattendahl wlrephoto) . f : Noii'Critical Jobs Expected To Yielk 200,000 for Armed Forces: Eirvice Act Backed I - s t .- .to Ijfazis, Says W. ClmrcIiiU 'i : . ; ! "-I ' " f By John F. Chester LONDON, Jan 16 P)- Prime Minister Churchill, "refusing to budge from the official Anglo American stand on two of the war's most controversial discus sibn points,, told the house of com mons today that the objectives of the Atlantic, charter remained valid and that "the -war will be prolonged until unconditional sur- r render has been obtained. : Churchill' said lhe was in com plete agreement with. President Roosevelt's views; on the Atlantic charted, and saidf tha while the objectives now were Just the same as in 1941, all of, them could not be achieved . immediately. "i really do nqt think there is any need, to go into that It has been very well described by the president as a standard of aims an indication of th3 direction' in which we are proceeding. It is not a law," said Churchill, pin, any event the war will be prolonged until unconditional sur render has been obtained." His! remarks were wildly cheered bjl members of parliament return ing after a long holiday recess for perhaps a fateful session. . ' Rankin Will Carry On Dies Group Fight I WASHINGTON Jan. Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) tonight ac cepted membership on the new house committee fon unamerican activities .and declared we ..will carry on the fighi begun by for mer Congressman! Martin Dies of Texas.; : ": , . U - I . . v ' n a radio address over CBS the tousle - haired ; Mississippian de clared unamerican elements who ar " poison in thejbloo stream of de the eyes xt the newcommit- i considered, positive proof of the cause of the fire, 1 it might very well be the source of s the blaze, Wood said. 3 I 1 The fire started in the basement in the vicinity of the fused conduit end had made good headway be neath the concrete floor before it broke Into the upper portion of the cannery, firemen declared. When Blue Lakei Producers Co operative cannery in West Salem burned late in December, there wa considerable discission of possible incendiarism because of the! destruction of two food plants in Jthe area in the brief period. Finding the conduit probably in dicates that at least the Salem plant's J fire was not set, Wood said, Mercy Salem. Oregon. Wednesday Morning. January 17. 194S E'To) e-1 won by Marjorie Tattendaht as the Vattendahl home at Superior, will be married February IV. (AT WASHINGTON, Jan. ' U.-UP)-The government decided today the order in which it expects to call about 200.000 now deferred industrial workers, for the arfae4 forces.; - i . ,j l t- These menf 26 through 29eari old, will be inducted - before July 1 under the present plans. The decision of order was reach- .ed by breaking into two parts the list of; 35 essential activities, as signing the destination "critical to jobs deemed most vital in the war effort. j The test of the. list continues to be rated "essential but to this big segment draft boards are ex pected; to turn first in meeting stepped-up quotas of men for the armed services. President Roosevelt a s s e r ted that the need for; men in the arm ed forces and war factories is now so extreme that voluntary con trols will no longer-work. .. Hence he will send to congress probably tomorrow, a special communication backing up his re cent demand for; national service legislation, under which the gov' eminent, would be empowered to assign f men to I war - important tasks. H: ? : u - : A report from General . George1 C. Marshall, army- chief mt staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King, com mander 3n chief pf the fleet will back, up the president's request. They, were expected to be spe cific- in outlining the increased needs occasioned i by the German counter-offensive Jin Belgium, ex panded) operations in the Pacific and plans to equip a large French army.; . . , Asked about CIO i President Philip Murray's opposition to compulsory manpower legislation in testimony before a house com mittee today, Mr. Roosevelt in quired if Murray .had an alterna tive. The alternative involved a better, use of voluntary methods, a' reporter said- SS. ; :- The president replied firmly that he didn't think that would bring results. .,! : .. Nisei IWelcomed to - Hood River Farma 1 1 . POETLA ND, Jan. 16.-)-Three returned Hisel told the war relocation authority - here today that nearby Hood River, valley farmers were giving them friendly encouragement in pruning of their orchards. i - - Min Asai, Barrett, and Ray Sato and Sat Noji, Parkdale, re ported a "more ;than gracious1 welcome from neighbors, despite the anti-Japanese! activity which has given the valley nation-wide publicity. ; j . Says Conservation Boosts Farm jYield . PORTLAND, Jan. 15-(VSoU conservation was j credited today with boosting the5 nation's farm production 20 per cent. ! Dr. William R. Van DersaL chief of the soil; conservation's personnel division, said .about half -America's land is now or ganized into conservation dis tricta. i " -1 - f ... H bteLBill Drops in Senate Would Bar Race Barriers; 20 . House Measures (By Wendell Webb Managing editor, The Statesman The 43rd legislature settled into y such controversial measures as trucks, f colored folk in' hotels, more old-age assistance, school health' Programs and state acqui sition ot forest lands today, and the marking-time era of the ses sion, it appeared was about to end. An even 20 bills descended on the house Tuesday, including one to levy! a 5-cents-a-gallon tax on aviation gasoline with major part of the proceeds to go toward the construction 01 aviation iieias ana roads thereto.. Another would use $26,000 from the general fund for the school health plan;- one would up old- age assistance to $60 monthly; an Sther would tighten the definition of reckless driving to make con viction I dependent upon fewer contingencies, i And hB 47 would place all li quor revenue in the state's gen era! fund on which old-age assist ance would, draw for support. I1U W- VVU UU 1 .Ul time, in arguments which yet haven't? left any too clear a Die- tare of potential bloc alignment found itself 1 with more than a few warmish issues to warm over still further or toss off the stove. The so-called hotel bill, barring discrimination as to race, creed or color, may get a heated airing In time' and the proposed struck bill is IBcely to find itself wallow ing in diverse objections that it isn't enough to equalize the Ore gon laws with, neighbor states for only twb more years. Meanwhile, the Joint resolution to mull over the . state's liquor business: for public consumption simmered in the house alcoholic control I committee, while in Washington - where a similar i probe, ajso is planned bills were being shaped to permit public purchases bv the drink. Seven; committee sessions, and probably more unannounced, were held Tuesday in the gradu business. But' some departments still were mum on their contem plated bills and if the usual last- minute rush doesn't happen again a lot of bets will be lost (Lerfelative news page -16 . Hitler Ready To Drain Last Drop of Blood MOSCOW.' Jan. 16-OP-A' oic ture of Adolf Hitler as a "mfd" man who was prepared' to fling. the lasf man, : the last drop of blood," Jnto the defense of the fatherland was painted tonight by a Hungarian emissary wno visited the. Fuehrer last September in a futile; effort extricate Hungary aa uiu vuc w ni ' .- -z . The emissary, CoL Janos Voros, now defense minister of liberated Hungary said ' in an interview here he was commissioned by Ad miral Nicholas Horthy last fall to visit Hitler anddemand that all troops inj Hungary, both German and v Magyar, be brought under Hungarian control, i - V Voros told how gestapo agents tlatW niiixum.. I.UI. tr...... Ian officials inr an effort to keep ISt.thS'iJ1dL12lw,iS he himself narrnwW sraruwt sc- he himself narrowly escaped as sassination by .fleeing from an in ternment camp. Landslide Blocks ' Crescent Gty Road ; GRANTS, PASS, Jan. 18.-aV Harbor the trust fund,wai $16, The worst landslide in Tears has 000,000. i ! 4 V temporarily closed the Redwood highway i5 miles east of Crescent City, Calif, Dale Franklin, Pierce auto freight manager, reported to- day. The slide, which occurred be- tween 4 and 9 p. nL, yesterday, has tied? up his Crescent City truck, Franklin saii- ..;- E . . n f, " Parents FineiJ $44 When 13-year-pld Girl Skips School OREGON CITY, Jan. 1 -)-A $44 fine one dollar for every day their daughter was absent, and S3 costs was levied against parents of a 13-year-old Oak Grove girl for failure to keep her In school. County Officer . Jack f Grenfell said the girl, who missed 39 days out of 81 this school year, had been ushering in a Portland thea ter. Mrs. Thelma i Verhage, the mother, received a 10-day sus pended jail sentence. ; : se Jap Attack 911 Way to Manila By C Yates McDaliel 1 And James Hutche$on GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Wed nesday, Jan. 17-MP)-One week after landing in Lingayen gulf, a powerful American spearhead was more than- one-third of the way to Manila Monday and still rolling southward in i dry, clear weather down the broad, central Luzon plain, virtually) unchecked on land or in the air. I However on the left flank of the broadened front the first Japanese counterattack of the in vasion was reported in the stub- bornly-held Pozorrubio sector on Sunday. Gen.- Douglas f MacAr thur's communique today ; said the ; blow was repulsed, i i i I Conservatively - worded offi cial statements located the deep- I " ' HH " the central or three mam north south highways 45 road miles from Lingayen and 83 miles from Manila. m j ' ' f I " The . Yank column reached Camiling, 30 road miles south of Lingayen, on Sunday wsi report ed officially to be working its way southward, but the depth of the advance was not pinpointed. Rapid gains were scored Sunday as the batuefront - widened . east and west around Lingayen gulf. IT. S. troops drove a series; of stra tegic wedges across mam high ways of 1 Luzon's central plain while patrols pushed ahead in the center to reach Moncada, 30 miles southeast of captured Baypmbang, on the main road to Manila, which is some 80 airline hules to the south. tans Seize Nazi I A -if rBflGAfi B Komney tVbeeler LONDON,, Jan. 17 -(PJ- Nor Iwegian troops have opened their first big attack against; tne Ger mans,' advancing 80 miles in ex treme northern Norway and cap turing one of the two ' most im portant nazi air bases in the re gion, . the Norwegian, high ' com mand announced tonight. I uperaung unaer tne ; command of CoL A. H. Dahi: hero of Nor vik, the Norwegians drove over the barren, ice-shea ted wates of ! Finmark ' and gained i positions south of Porsanger fiord add can- tured Banak air field at the base ( of the fjord.' 1 r f wr '- r " " ""g rui Along Oregon Coajt . . SEATTLE, : Jan. 18. -UP)-The weather bureau ordered small craft warnings hoisted aft p. m. this evening .from the 'mduth of the Columbia river south to New port, Ore., and on the inland wa Iters of Washington. ?! h I : M I r Southeast storm warnings were raised from the mouth of the Co- hunbia to Tatoosh, inclusive. I : i ; lj 1 x ' I First Kepul Norweg goiter nates ana newer joos Reduce Unemployment Income . j ; ' 1 ' J . : The state unemployment com pensation commission trust fund now totals more than $61,j00,000, a new record, the commission re ported o the legislature Tuesday. At the time' of the attack on Pearl r Actual net income of the corn- missfon for 1944 aggregated $17,- 111,839 as against $17,2,71,305 dur Ing 1943. The reduction in 1 contributions j from covered employers1 wai $577,- 732 or approximately 3H per cent. : accounted - for - by the reduction tin the average tax rate frcm 2.3 Pric 5c SoDesoaon Russian Armies Led by 44 Generals Swarm Over Pblish Plains iii Threat to Vaterland v ! V By W..W. LONDON, Wednesday, Russian army groups poured like a red flood through broken ' nazi defenses on the Polish plain south of Warsaw today reaching within 38 miles of the Gathering speed as it went, the gigantic soviet winter- offensive recorded gains of 30 tlefront more than 200 miles southwest of Warsaw, down to of the historic citadel or. Krakow, . ;: Premier Stalin in two triumphant orders !of the day last nisht disclosed that besides that began the offensive Jan. Russian group had leaped into the i assault Jan. 14 and in three days had advanced along the Vistula 38 miles on a 75-mile-wide front The First White Russian group. commanded by famous Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, with at least 44 generals under him, sealed its triumphant drive with the capture at 8 o'clock last night of Radom, powerful. German fortress 55 miles south of Warsaw. In three days this army has taken" more than 1,300 communities, Stalin s orders disclosed as Moscow's sa luting cannon roared. The late communique from Moscow announced that troops of the First Ukraine front led by Marshal Ivan S. Konev, who had begun the winter offensive five days previously, captured more than 200 additional Polish towns Tuesday, racing within 38 miles of the border "of German Silesia lat one point and within 40 at many points. . Konev's men, besides reaching wlthjn 12 miles of Krakow, seat of Germany's government-general for Poland, took Koniecpol, only 23 miles east of the famous mon astery-town, and stronghold of Czestochowa. - Almost lost in the , victorious thunder of Russian cannon on the Polish front was the German high command's acknowledgement that the Russians also were pushing a full-scale offensive in East Prus sia and had taken the railway city of Schlossberg, 13 miles inside the border of that German province. Altogether, the Germans said the Russians now were on the offen sive in 11 different sectors. , Moscow was silent concerning all excent lhe two interlocking major drives in south and central Poland and the continuing clean up in Budapest, where 120 addi tional blocks were captured Tues day and the dwindling and encir cled enemy garrison lost another 3,160 as prisoners, r The Russians ? now hold 4,300 square blocks of the : 4,500 that make up the Hungarian capital. ; I Indicating that the Germani probably were correct about the other soviet offensives, however, a dispatch from Moscow Tuesday night by Associated Press Corres pondent Eddy Gilmore said, "The grand Red army offensive aimed at liberation of Poland and carry ing the war into Germany was in lull swing today through the vast snow-covered ' areas ; of the T long est land front in the world." . ' Choice Apples to " Be Held for Army WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. -UP)- The war food administration- to day ordered handlers of fresh ap ples grown and located in Wash ineton and Oregon' to set aside their holdings of Winesap, New town and Delicious (except Gold en Delicious) varieties to meet military requirements. : . Holdings of the affected var ieties in these states totalled about 6,800,000 bushels on January 1. The WFA said supplies not need ed for war requirements would be released for civilian use. 5? : f -rt - V 1 to 22 per cent because of the ex perience, rating.; .,. , - v -' - : y ? It was predicted that the trust fund would pass $70,000,000 by the end of the current year. Employes reported by covered firms for the first nine months of 1944 averaged 313,624 or about 3.3 per cent fewer than In 1843. Claims and benefits activities showed decreases up to 80 per cent from the previous year of 1943. Payments to the unemployed of $137,84$ were considerably low er than in 1943, total of 210 claimants received ch e c k a, aver aging about $75,' - No. 253 to Hercher Jan.; 17-(AP) Two great German border. , to 38 miles onja twisting bat- ' long, from Grojec, 25 mjlea ' Slomniki, only 12 miles north the First Ukraine army group. 12, the powerful First White , jap Ships on China Coast By Leif Erickson U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. lMJPJr-Adm. WiUiam F. Halsey'a free-roving Thirl fleet wound up a week of the most audacious na val operations of the war by send ing carrier planes Saturday, Sun day and Monday up and down more than 350 xrjiles of the China coast, destroying or : damaging more than 100,000 tons of Japa nese shipping, and heavily smasn ing such choice targets as Canton . and Hongkong. 1 Against amazingly puny enemy. air opposition suggesting Japan's lairforce. has Its hands full over the homeland, and the Philippine the carrier planes ruled the skies as they didj over French In-do-China's shore! Jan. 4 1 and over Formosa Jan. 8. Formosa, once considered a for midable target by itself, was at tacked Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the Same time other carrier planes were sinking enemy oilers, bombing the royal J navy. docks at Hongkong and the harbor at Canton. 1 . In raids dating; back to the Jan. 8 assault on Formosa, Halsey'a planes now have! accounted for well over 300,000. tons of enemy shipping, including several escort warships, &nd fnore than 250 planes the latter figure so low because so few planes have been encountered, the bulk of them on . the ground. 1 Even this is far from the pic ture of devastation wrought be cause Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, in disclosing the preliminary result of the China-riids today, gave only Incomplete totals for Sunday and Monday and none at all for Saturday. Spanish Release Italian Warships ;By Charles 8. Folts ADR1D, Jan. l-(ff)-The Span ish government has released the Italian cruiser Attillo Regolo and four Italian destroyers held in the Baleares (Balearic) islands since the Italian armistice in Septem ber, 1943, and they have sailed for an allied port, it was announced -: - in accordance ' decision . which today. The move was with an arbiter's drew a strong protest today from the German charge d'affairs, Hans Von Bibra. The decision liquidat- ed the last major question pend- ing in connection with an Anglo- American agreement with Spain. Torbet Named to Assist Sackctt on Goos Bay, Times , 5 ; COOS BAY, Jan. 16-(iip)-Shel-don F. Sackctt, Coos Bay , Timet publisher, today announced . ap pointment of Alan Lf Torbet aa the newspaper's pusiness mana ger and, assistant to the publisher. Torbet Will continue as adver tising manager, a post he has held three years. A forjmer journalism major at the University,, of Ore gon, he previously conducted an advertising agency! at Eugene. La ter he was advertising manager and public relations man , for s bus line in Bend. ! v " ! j, Partly Ooudy Forenoon today, with increas ing cloudiness and light rains later in the afternoon in the mid-Willamette jvalley area, predicts U. S. weather bureau at lIcNary Tkldj Salem. : S(D)irdlep r -, v . t , : Planes Blast