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Xj 1 ' i J W i LftD COCO - "This is just the season when churches, 30-40 years ago, used to bold their evangelistic meetings, remarked the Old Time Reporter. The nip to the wind and the film of ice on the walk had put him in reminiscent mood. - r, "Deep in the heart of January, with Christmas well over with, "the preachers used to gird their loins for a joint attack on the devil and all his works. The spearhead of the attack was al ways out-of-town evangelist, like Billy Sunday or Biederwolf or Gipsy Smith. The onslaught last ed several weeks, and .when it wound up the devil was left groggy for quite a spell. The town might even vote itself dry. The preachers and parishioners were groggy too for that matter; and the schools had to do a lot of catching up; for the two weeks' concentration on soul-saving was as hard on studies as a good foot hall season, i I t "These full-scale efforts didn't come oftener.than once every five or ten years, unless the city was, unusually (righteous or unusually wicked, I never could tell which, and shortened the interval. On the off-yearsJthough the individual churches would have two weeks 'of evangelistic services, ' when some preacher, not as prominent a ' pulpiteer as Billy Sunday, of course, but still with a good repu tation for' bulldogging the devil, would go to work t on the sinful and the backsliders who could be induced . to enter the ' church and expose , themselves to powerful preaching. ... i "But the union meetings, the one staged in big wooden taber nacles, with sawdust for carpet Ins; and two-inch planks for seats, they were ' (Continued on editorial page) May Moves to Bill in ' a bid for farm block, support, the house military committee moved voaay 10 reempnasize inworK-or- jail legislation ' the principles of the Tydings formula for deferring farm workers. ... ' , , Although the committee was in recess. Chairman May (D-Ky) Said it would write into the legis- lation reauested bv President Roosevelt a proviso that nothing In the bill shall be construed to set aside the operation of the Tydings act The Tydings a;i blueprints for draft boards the ?vocedure for considering draft deferment of farm workers. ... r, ' The action. May 'said, will be taken Monday when the commit tee resumes its study if the legis lation, which already lias, been changed substantially and faces more revisions before its expected arrival on , the house floor late next week. May's move is de signed to cut in ahead of a farm state group's plan to do the same thing with staffer language, Itickenbacker Says Reds Hold War's Key NEW YORK, Jan.; 20-(;P)-Capt Edward V. Rickenbacker said to day Russia "holds the key to the duration of the .conflict in Eu rope" and "if she has the power to follow through in this push it will help shorten the war in Eu rope by months." , YOUn SUNDAY STATESIIAII BMIIGS YOU BCjiID-BP- . ii'iLL'tLLj! Turn now to the Classified section .... you may find the Real Estata you've been wanting! j ! Protect Farm Labor V ' II NINETY-FOUBTH YEAR Canada Has New 7800 -Soldiers Slated for Duty Overseas AWOL ' i- - - , 4 . By the Asaocia ted Press OTTAWA, Jan. 20 A new cri sis in Canada over conscription for overseas service arose today with official 'disclosure that half of a group of more defense , troops 7800 out of 15,600 had gone ab sent without leave as they were about to be sent abroad. ' ; " Defense Minister A. G. L. Mc Haughton announced : - that- al though 1500 men had since re turned voluntarily or been 'appre hended, 6300 were still AWOL. They will be classified as desert ers if they do not return within 21 days, he said. ' - ' 8300 In Britain - ' . . ' More than 8306 of the drafted home armyhave arrived in Brit ain recently under the., govern ment's new conscription policy, McNaughton announced, plus the "normal quota of reinforcements," presumably men from the regular home training stream. The defense minister issued' a long statement on the situation af ter reports received from all across the country from Quebec, Montreal, London, Ont, Calgary, Regina and Vancouver -had indi cated disturbances in home de fense troops camps over the ques tion of service abroad. Spotlight Rumors , j The Montreal Gazette said that these stories. of insurrection and desertion among the draftee troops "bring into play the rumors that have floated around military dis trict No. 4 concerning the two camps taken over by drafted men returned to . Montreal . from the east and west .coasts. T The conscription crisis revolved once more around a groffp of 60, 000 men out of nearly 1,000,000 taken into .Canada's armed"'- ser vices wholhate declined to serve overseas and now are liable to be sent abroad under one govern ment's new $plicy. Bombers Blast Rhine Bridge, Rail Junctions LONDON, Jan. 20 -VP)- More than 1300 American heavy bomb ers , and fighters, struggling through high altitude snowstorms and bitter cold, blasted a Rhine bridge and vital rail. junctions be hind the German west front today. The air assault on enemy com munications was renewed after a one-day lull. Even as reports came in of damage inflicted by the latest raids, the German radio warned that a bomber formation from the south was approaching Saxony. .. j. . v. ; i The renewed bombing was car ried out through solid clouds,, by instrument, by the more than 750 US Eighth air force Fortresses participating. Targets were rail way yards at Rheine and Heil bronn and the three-span, 1200 foot bridge at Mannheim. Ghost Voice Haunts Nazi News Broadcast LONDON, Jan. 20--A ghost voice broke in on a German news broadcast tonight with the cry of Defeats nothing but defeats." ; When ' the' announcer quoted from a statement by Press Chief Otto . Dietrich that the eastern front position had changed, the voice mocked: "Yes, It has chang ed a great deal! We are now fight ing inside the reich again." Crisis Marauders Try to Dynamite, Burn Jap .American9 s Farm AUBURN, CaliL, Jan. 20-H-Sheriffs deputies guarded the hone of - - Japanese-American . farmer and his aged parents to night, after attempts to burn and dynamite one of his packing sheds, as state officials moved swiftly to prevent 'further trouble. , Sumlo Dol, first of some 1000 odd .Placer county residents of Japanese descent to return to his home from relocation centers, re ported that marauders set fire to the shed one night and early yes terclay came back to fire shots over his house and plant dynamite beneath the shed. yr At Sacramento, Gov. Earl War 18 PAGES: Drive At Seventh Fighting 70 Miles South Near Strasbourg ". . I - -. , j By Edward Kennedy - PARIS, Sunday, Jan. 2l.-(JPy-The, reinforced French First army scored gains up toj three miles yes terday in a new offensive launch ed against the Germans' Colmar Mulhouse pocket approximately 70 miles south! of where U, S. ' Sev enth army i troops were fighting to save Strasbourg imperilled cap ital f Alsace. , j S v' The French struck this J blow for Alsatian liberation at a German-held sector that extendi 36 miles into the 'Vosges and Is 55 miles wide at its ! base along the rim. The Germans Jhave been stub bornly defending this large Alsa tion llfootholiil wih perhaps as many as 35,000 troops. 1 ; Planes Grounded ; i . 1 French forces gained at several points along the southern flank although a daylong snowstonrfde prived them of air support.! The French jumped into 5: the. mounting battle, with the fate of Alsace and Strasbourg in the bal ance,, after'; tank-led .Geiinan troops drov2 U. S Seventh army lin.es back five miles and threat ened to undermine American posi tions! in the.; northeast cornet of France. ' ' I ' r " : I The assault rolling out under, the cover of blinding snowstorm fromf the Vqsges eastward to the Rhine in the Mulhouse area, achieved complete surprise and still was pressing forward tonight against thatf tough ; German Itore known as the Colmar pocket from which the enemy : was cenacing Strasbourg from. the south. On Wide Front 1 : Associated, Press; Correspondent Robert C Wilson said the French were attacking all; the way from St Amarin, 16 miles northwest of Mulhouse; east to the Rhine where the French already hold an eightmile stip on! the west bank above the Swiss frontier. f The; Germans jwere pouring more and more troops and tanks across the Rhine north of Stras bourg to eiploit I the" five-mile penetration of American positions. - $,.. ,.. ... , -' " . -, Oregon Second in Per Capita E Bond Sales SEATTLE,pJan. 20 -(JP) Oregon and Washington ranked - second and third respectively in the per" capita sale of series E. bonds in the sixth war loan drive, William C. H. Lewis,' U. S. treasury de partment war finance committee executive manager,?' said today North Dakota led the nation-in E bon4-salesrper capita.- r. Washington ranked fifth in the over-all totals: PvtiOrlinF.Moser Missing in Action SUBLIMITY, Jan, 20 Pvt Or lin F, Moser, army field artillery and paratrooper, has been missing in action in Belgium since Decem ber 22, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Moser, have been notified by the war department He was graduated from - Silverton high school with the class of 1939. ren called ujxin ."every officer and every citizen,, to unite in prevent ing further incidents. The office of Attorney General Robert Ken ny dispatched- agents to help Au burn officers Investigate. . dr "I can't conceive of people who claim to be good Americans trying to further, the; war effort doing a thing : of that kind" Governor Warre said at a press conference, j , "Such incidents not only give California a bad reputation throughout the world, but might cause our own boyi and civilians in enemy countries to suffer ad ditional injury." i f Golmar Pocket Salem Oregon' Sunday Morning Jcmuary 21, 1945 ; h- t-- r- w ---! ' MacArthur Lands at 'Backdoor9 of Bataan : . t r i Gen. Douglas MaeArthar,' aceompanled by members of his staff Is from his LST on the beach at Ltngayen, Luzon, "backdoor" to the I (International) j .-; j ---( ' ; i RooseveU Dedicates 'Fourth i . '-I Term to f Total fJust and Durable Peace9 M - By Heward Flieger ! i , ';r WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-VIn a ceremony of solemn sim plicity Franklin Delano Rqosevelt term as praiaem oi a uiuieu oiaies aeaicaiea 10 victory ana last ing world peace. M.; L:V.i;' : ' " Standing on the south portico of the White house, he repeat ed! the 37-word oath of the president for the fourth time, and set 3598 Families Use Canneries In 1944 Season Fourteen community canneries put up a total of 339,899 cans of food for 3598 families this last season, the vocational department announced Saturday. Cost approx imated 7 cents a can. The total was down slightly from 1943. . The canneries are sponsored by Oregon schools and the state divi sion of vocational at Salem, Al bany, Corvallis, Boardman, Cot tage Grove, "Halfway; Grants Pass, LaGrande, Lakeview, Molalla, Myrtle Point.Redmond, Silverton and WoMbWn. , : " Salem, Albany and Corvallis canneries each served more than 500 families. . ; Italy Diplomat Coming to U. S. ROME, Jan. XHft- Alberto Tarchiani, Italy's new ambassador to toe United States said today that his first task in Washington would be to seek modification ofl Italy's -armistice terms and ac ceptance of Italy as a full mem ber of the United Nations. The terms "under which Italy made, peace with the United Na tions, he asserted, have made so lutions of the cation's economic and political problems more dif ficult "The United States alone can give Italy substantial help in re construction after the war," Tar chiani said In an interview, "be cause the rest of the United Na tiona will have a big job helping themselves." . Soviets Will Protect British War Prisoners. LONDON, : Jan. 20 -(fl3)- The soviet - government l has assured the! war office that British com monwealth prisoners of war lib erated in the Kussian army ad vance will receive protection and care. 4 - . Appro vimalely '40,000 British prisoners by - unofficial estimate may be liberated, shortly in five camps .inside, Silesia in the path of the advancing Russian armies. Clear Today- except for local ; valley fog, partly cloudy by afternoon In the mid-Willamette valley area, predicts U. S. weather bureau at'McNary field, Salem. MM QsiaamsEfb : -i - '!. 4 I i . - " Victory9 Plus embarked today, on his fourth the theme of his new administra tion in these words: s i "In the days and years that are to come we shall work for a Just and durable : peace as today we work and fight for total victory in war." ! ' j; . ' f A select crowd of 7806 by the official count at the gates stood in the snow on the White houselawn to witness the inaugural ceremony --stripped of its usual glitter and pomp by the grimness of war. The wole thing , was over in 15 ; minutes!, I climaxed ; bjr- Mr. Roosevelt's 551-word fourth in augural address' !'' i I ; A few minutes before the pres ident repeated the oath after Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, bespec tacled Harry S. Truman of , Mis souri was sworn in as the third Roosevelt vice president He took the oath from the man he suc ceeded, Henry A. Wallace. ; , " "We have; learned that we can not live alone, at peace, he said, "that our j own well being is de pendent on the well being of oth er nations, far away! We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger." r Chinese Force Takes Wanting CHUNGKING, Sunday, Jan. 21. -(flThe Chinese central news agency reported today that Chi nese troops Saturday recaptured the Burma road town of Wanting, last major obstacle to reopening of an overland supply route to China.. - i The Chinese ' had. captured the town on the Burma border Janu ary 3, but lost it again next: day 4 At that tune it was not the last major barrier to the India-China route, b"ut since then Chinese and Allied gains in Burma had en hanced Wanting significance. The recapture came after: two weeks .of bitter, bloody fighting, the Chinese agency said. . Nazi Aircraft Warning System Has Breakdown LONDON, Jan. 20 The German radio. Intimating a break down in the anti-aircraft warning system, told civilians tonight they might hear gunfire, before an alarm sounded. t We" must ask the public to be patient with the staff of obser vation posts, who may sot have slept the night before and are over-burdened," the Berlin an nouncer said. v - i Price 5c 1 o , if pictured as he walked shoreside peninsula ei Bataan en Luzon. " j ; - 18-Montlis-01d in LEBANON, Jan. 20 The 18 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hoeraus burned to death Saturday j forenoon' ,in an old house back of ; the store in Soda ville, four miles from Lebanon on the road to Sweet Home. -, The fire was started from an overheated stove and the house burned like paper. Two little boys had been left alone In the : house ; with their grandfather while . the mother went" to the store. The grandfather saved the three-year-ld boy but was unable to get back into the house to save the baby. Saturday n jght the ashes were still too hot to recover the childs body. I ... China Troops Flown South By U. S. Pilots CHUNGKING Sunday, Jan. 21. -Thousands of Chinese -troops were flown down from the north by American pilots in the greatest mass movement by air ever made in China when the Japanese drive began to threaten Chungking sev eral weeks ago, it was disclosed today. . i ) Z !. '.V;- Seasoned pilots of the air trans port command, who ferried troops and ' their equipment to Yunnan province, declared the job they successfully tackled was tougher than flying the hump from India. The transfer-, came at a tune when the Japanese, racing through southern China, split the country in half and then veered west in a drive threatening either Chung king or the terminals of China's aerial supply line In Yunnan. Freeze Ends Monday WASHI NGTON, Jan. 20 The three-day "freeze" of lard, shortening and salad and cooking oil win be lifted Monday, the OP A reminded today. ' Beginning then these commodi ties will be rationed, at two red points a pound, v-s-1 Sodaville Fire Nazis Order. Every Man Into Effort to Stem Soviet Tide I , By Kcnruiey Wheeler 1 LONDON, Jan. 20 -P)- Admit ting the Russians had -; crashed across -the Silesian border and were within SO miles Of Breslau, their once "safe" dry, the Nazis tonight ordered "every man Into the breach." The Moscow radio said Heinrich HImler himself had gone to Silesia to speed mobilization of .the volks sturm (people's army) and that nuister of ; ; tnunitions ; Albert Speer was there to expedite evac uation of movable Industries. Nazi front line dispatches broad cast by the German radio said all Nippon Defenses Crumble Japanese Forces. In North, South Practically Split By James Buteheson ' GEN E R A L - MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, . Luzon, Sun day, Jan. 21 -ff)-Gen.! Douglas MacArthur today 'announced the heaviest series of staggering blows against the Japanese . in j central Luzon Island since' the Lingayen gulf landing 12 days ago. i - The genral overall picture of the - military situation as gleaned from the official communique and field dispatches was ( 1 ) j solidifi cation of the left flank and (2) consequent resumption j of the drive, south toward Manila, ap proximately 70 miles beyond col umns approaching Tarlac, . Highway Cleared ; M - Thirty-seven miles of the prin cipal north and south highway havebeen secured between Sison, on the left flank of the campaign down the central Luzon plain, and Paniqui to the south, the commun ique said. , i - "This practically cuts the enemy in., two,' severing his forces Jn northern Luzon from those in southern Luzon," the communique declared. V'- Nip Flank Crumbles , 1 -MacArthur said enemy, resis tance was crumbling and breaking into disorganized groups on .the left . flank, where the Japanese have shown their only strong re sistance to date. ; . "Enemy resistance in the Ca baruan hills has collapsed," the communique said. These hills rise from the center of the Luzon plain midway between two Invasian highways. - . J Sixth army troops also captured high ground northeast of )Ro6ario Friday. Rosario, heavily j shelled by both Japanese and American artillery to keep ground troops of both sides out of town, is in the mountainous narth sector of the left flank. I Hungary Signs Allied Terms ". -. j1 WASHINGTON Jan'. 20-flP)-The allies signed an armistice with Hungary today, narrowing Hitler's list of European cohorts ; Announcement of the pact came first from Moscow where the do cument was signed by Marshal Klementi Voros Ilov for the United States, Britain and'Rus sia. -.;-:' ' ,:;- i ' - Although the armistice strips the nazis of a major ally, the Ger mans still are sponsoring Hun garian government, undfj Count Szalasi, and there temlin Ger man satellites in Slovakia, the Bohemian-Moravian : protectorate and in northern Italy t4 bolster the German case. Weather Max. 5J Mia. RaJa i4 ;-jte";e ise f aa Francises- Eagaa . , SaUm PrUaa4 S-tu S7 4 JM WUla-etU rtvtr T ft la. classes of . civilians had been thrown into the fight and that ev en miners had been marched from their pits to the front ) 1 - ' ! "Nobody in. Germany needs be told any more that this is a bat tle for life or death," said Hans rtitsche, political director for the German radio. -;" . ;"'-:V P: "'" ; The air over Germany (Crackled with one of the war's greatest psy chological ;:. warfare offensives. From Allied transmitters the Ger mans were told of their army's re verses and urged to give Up. Mos cow warned, "This Is only a taste the worst is yet to come." ZOU Miles t i.- . -.'' . : - J.' To Berlin ; loredsV l -'rv";ti"i":;'"VV"'.'.;'i iiusHiuns tapiuro Tilsit in East t Prussia Advance J By Richard Kasischke LONDON. Sunday. Jan. 21-jn- The Red army, killing or captuiw ing 50,000 Germans in a week eg Its lightning offensive across Po land, yesterday forced the Warta river 210 miles east of Berlin, and I the German radio said early today, 1 that other Soviet spearheads to -the J. southwest . had crossed the embattled Silesian frontier, only 200 miles , from . the reich ' capital ; lvpproximateing the airline dis- ' tance.from Salem to Medfnrri : r. 1 . mm ... . .. oaiem 10 oeaiuei. ,t Simultaneously other Soviet! forces invading German East Prus- " sia to a depth of 48 miles in ai 17-mile advance toppled the great ' strongnoid of Tilsit and reached I to within 45 miles of Konigsberg, ' while " another arm j coming up from the south reached th east Prussian frontier in a wide front . . -' ; , -- Berlin Alarmed r . ,' . Berlin said the Russians had crossed into southern East Prussia - on a 37-mile front in a great pin cers t movement that carried to within 65 miles of the Raitio K hind Konigsberg and which was aimed at , loppmg off that entire German province. -In eastern Slovakia the strong- ; holds of Kassa, Presov, and Bar- ' dejov fell and the Russians also seized Nowy Sacz in southern Po- iana southeast of Krakow. , Berlin indicated that the cross ing into German Silesia, the "Ruhr ; of the east," was made by the Russians in the area of Namslau, six miles inside Silesia, 27 miles east of Breslau, the provincial capital, and 200 miles southeast of Berlin. Situation Critical The situation at the Silesian frontier Is "critical" Berlin uM with schoolboys, businessmen, cierics ana others of the Volks sturm, or home army being thrown, into the struggle to save Breslau once .considered . a ; "safe city by tnosefj wha fled there from much- oomoed Berlin. Moscow did not mention a cross-' mg into Silesia, but said that Marshal Ivanf S. Konevs first Uk raine army had reached the fron tier or was within five miles Of It on a winding 65-mile front fmm captured Mieleszyn, 45 miles east or Breslau, down to occupied Luo iniec,:! strategic road luifction 22 miles east of the German indus trial city of Oppeln. Cold-Snap Hits State to End Mild Weather PORTLAND, Jan. 20 -P)- A cold-snap today nipped Oregon's comfortable temperatures of the past week, slowing traffic on frost covered roads and icy pavements. Portland temperatures dropped from mid-forty to 29 this morn ing and remained at near freezing points until noon in airport read ings. Baker recorded an 18 degree low early today; Klamath Falls 20, Bend 23 and North Bend 32. , . The state motor : association warned , motorists headed for the , mountains to take chains while -the Blue mountain highway ' be tween Pendleton ond LaGrande was rated most dangerous. Twenty inches of snow was reported'at the summit The weather bureau reported Increasing clouds in northwest Oregon but continued cold. Paul Goyette Dies in Action Lt Paul Goyette, husband of the former Barbara Jean Saunders, 1175 st, was killed in action in Germany December . I. r Lt Goyette went overseas with a replacement unit following com pletion of training at Camp Adair and other later stations. He was born 24 years ago in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he spent most of his life. He was inducted in the army in 1941. . Mrs. Goyette and her son, Paul, Jr., who is 18 months old today, make their home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Saunders, 1175 B itreet Other survivors include his mother in Los Angeles? Naad Officer Remoyed LONDON, Jan. 20 -ff)- The Moscow radio said tonight , that Ritter von Schleich had been re moved as commander of the Ger man air force in Norway and would be succeeded by an S3 (elite guard) officer. ''' - legislation Roundup ON PAGS t