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- "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." ,
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NINETY-FOUBTH YEAR
Canada
Has New
7800 -Soldiers
Slated for Duty
Overseas AWOL
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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
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Drive At
Seventh Fighting
70 Miles South
Near Strasbourg
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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.
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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
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MacArthur Lands at 'Backdoor9 of Bataan
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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.
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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
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if
pictured as he walked shoreside
peninsula ei Bataan en Luzon.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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 ;
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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
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