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U EDITION CITY EDITION: LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. "W0 SECTIONS 20 PAGES EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1943 ON STREETS 5e NEWS STANDS 5e NO. 113 FLEEING CRIMEA P EMMS M Bombers Batfer Leipzig- inks Blast Factory Center LOpw, n the ei hth time this month, smashed L Germans sew rf Ruhrs L- the Dig t4v r- - ELiit industries have moved. JMrA time this week while other bombers ranged the tniru w p-i-v. . Undespreaa . bombers, the Iiminum-Clay jjecf 4gon xedbyWPB ..... nr was elven rune county luminum L with the .pproval Thurs- r . li.llM llASMf 4 the ww pruuv.. -.traction of an aluminum' KlW demonstration plant nhere in the northwest. i, jbout-face ot the board 3, l previously ordered discon i .ii oluminum-from-clay cto in the country, came after sen of congress from Oregon, nton and Idaho, headed by ,n'j Representative Angell, sted the action. !a was gathered to convince ward that ample labor was kble in the nortnwesi to con f init operate such a plant at lariouj places being consid er the site. n and his committee pro to the board that the sup- of bauxite from which alum is now made would be ex- :ti in this country in less three years and the nation i be entirely dependent upon ra supplies. e objection of the war pro m board to the construction ich a plant had been based alleged manpower shortages It northwest and an over ly of existing aluminum, The I of the board now assures oture of the aluminum Indus lor the Pacific northwest, 11 raid in commenting upon PPB approval. proval for the aluminum means that Oregon has won M round, the battle now be- to have the plant located at oi the Oregon sites. Repre live Harris Ellsworth has ex ad confidence that the alum- toy deposits at Hobart Butte Cottage Grove are among the la the northwest It is also the largest deposits. rl McNutt, president of the he chamber of commirp n tag of the WPB approval of illot plant construction said was a thing of great merit fce whole northwest and the I rap was to see that it was kgically located. "W .hnu thank our representatives AMMTMJM CLAY STORY ta Seize Two ir Load of Liquor cases of whiskey ? Fu8h freight truck J from California were it te ei,nesV afternoon frtf .r" deputy sherl" Weral officers, and the oc- of the truck. Earl W Willi, A. Lund bo nav jvere placed under ar 3?2 importaU" u rislOn 01 lfnimr tiritl,-.. i. K nen were to appear in the K court Thursda Rack j "a Bna lna' ho , 8 ne ,ome li in the rarted out on the wm.m- Rt'r1 ,ound "e truck wthof,. r , Ul 8 o clock. ' Cfci ndthetwomen "ki ,5SThen"0-E-Crowe. W he "nd both were 4 '7 posted $1000 I vii. v ua ""ii nas a Air Signal eeiS', every ! 'Smaw,.'0"' u"- taueltMtlmt same number as in the last big raid on Hannover Monday. Eight bombers were lost in yesterday's raid by Flying Fortresses on the. metal plants at Dueren. These losses indicated the nazi destruc tion ot 60 Fortresses over Schweinfurt a week ago may have been only a break ot luck for the German defenders. The big attack on Leipzig, un- bombed since the sixth raid ot the war November 23, 1940, came while the Germans, in sharp con trast, sent a tiny force of bomb ers over England to give London its fifth successive night alert and kill six persons with a handful of scattered bombs Leipzig, Germany's sixth indus trial city, is situated in the middle of the country, 100 miles south west of Berlin and almost on the Czechoslovak border. Leipzig has one of the world's largest railroad treminals on lines linking it with other important industrial centers like Berlin, Regensburg and Kassel, also re cently blasted by Britain-based allied bombers. It was the first big attack of the war on the city and represented a round-trip lUght of more than 1000 miles for the raiders. with a population of more than 700,000, the city manufactures air planes, munitions, chemicals, tex tiles, rubber products and ma chinery. The American daylight assault on Dueren and the collateral bombing of Gilze-Rijen airbase in Holland which led the Leipzig at- lacic yesterday in a round-the- clock double blow . at Germany, brought out the largest escort of American fighters ever put up and was supplemented by RAF Spitfires. ' , The powerful guard took the starch out of the Germans' de fensive atacks, returning fliers said in an enthusiastic report of the results ot the bombing. - Brown Resigns As OPA Chief WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. r President Roosevelt accepted to day the resignation of Prentiss M. Brown as price administrator. Brown turned in his resignation in a six-page letter dated last Tuesday, in which he said he thought the price control program was well defined in laws and in presidential orders and the main task now Is one of administration. The president is expected to send to the senate soon the nom ination of Chester Bowles, general manager of the office of price ad' ministration, to succeed Brown. Bowles prior to becoming gen eral manager of OPA was the agency's director for Connecticut. Brown, former senator from Michigan who was defeated for re-election, took over the reins of OPA from Leon Henderson less than a year ago. . . . City Manager Plan Found Besf-Etter The manager plan leads the trend towards administrative cen tralization which has been going on for generations, Orval Etter, bureau of municipal research, toll the League of Wpmen Voters in meeting Thursday afternoon in discussing forms of city government Particular Interest centered In the meeting and program in view or the appointment of a commit tee from the city council by Mayor tusna Large to study city man ager plans for a report later to the council. On this committee are Councilmen A. . C. Farrington, Louis Koppe, and Calvin C rum baker. Etter quoted how authorities on government rank city government plan's, this tabulation listing the manager plan as best, followed by the strong-mayor plan in second place, the commission plan in third place, the decentralized or weak mayor plan, fourth. He pointed out that the manager plan has succeeded elsewhere than in city government in business corporations, In schools, in colleges and universities, in the Eugene Utility system as a local illustra tion, in institutional admins tra tion, and in state and federal bureaus and agencies. "By a number of tests the man ager plan is best, even if It is not SEE CITY MANAGER 8TOEY PAGE . FLAYS ARMY CONTRACTING OFFICERS Presenting a long list of Items, such aa false teeth, liquor and Juke boxes, Lindsay Warren, U. S. comptroller general, told the house military committee In Washington that army contracting officers had allowed hundreds of erroneous contractors' claims. He blamed practice of contracting officers "wining and dining" with contractors for making them more liberal in some cases. War Contract Padding Charge Stoutly Denied by Patterson WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (AP) Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson stoutly denied at a house military com mittee hearing today that war department contracting offi cers are "inept and inefficient" and are "dishing out the prop erty and money of the United States with reckless abandon." His statement was in reply to charges on these counts made by Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren, who testi fied in opposition to proposed legislation giving the war de partment final authority to negotiate settlements of termin ated war contracts. I : Patterson said with respect to the Warren testimony: "l ma committee ana tne nation j Outnumbered Yanks Taunt Timid Japs Into Air Disaster HEADQUARTERS, South Paific Forces, Oct 20. (U.B Marine fighter pilots, "bored with the recent docility of Japanese airmen," taunted 40 Zeros into a fight over Kahili airdrome on Bougainville island October 17 and shot down 14 enemy planes without loss to themselves, it was announced today. Mai. Gregory Boyington, 30, Okanogan, Wash., accounted for three Zeros to bring his total bag to 19 and make him one ot the rank' ing aces of the South Pacific. A dispatch from the front said marines circled Kahili until tne Japanese accepted the challenge and came up with two-to-one odds over the 21 American planes. The enemy failed to knock down a single allied plane. Meanwhile Australian , troops, veterans of the north African By Vnlted Presa - ; v A new Aawrlcan bomblnt at-, tack on the Gilbert islands waa reported today by Tokyo radio, which has predicted an all out United States attempt to clean up the Japanese Pacif lo outpost system. Tokyo's version said that six bombers madV the assault and were driven off before they could Inflict damage. No de tails of the attack We given and there - waa no official American announcement. desert campaigns, have broken up repeated counterattacks in 'the Japanese drive to recapture their fallen base at Flnschhafen, it was disclosed today. A spokesman at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said more than 200 enemy dead have been counted on the Huon penin sula in northeastern New Guinea. The Japanese drive was de veloping from two directions. One column, comprised of troops who fled Finschhafen when the Aus tralians captured the port on Oc tober 12, and dug in at Satelber, 10 miles to the northwest was striking eastward ' toward the coast. A second force had driven across the Song river and was attacking the main allied defenses at Katika, three miles north of Finschhafen. MacArthur's headquarters ac knowledged that the Japanese at Katika fcad made "some progress," and repsrted that 14 enemy planes attempted to support their troops with a raid on Finschhafen. No damage was caused in that at tack, it was stated. Far to the northwest of Finsch hafen, Australian and Japanese patrols were clashing along the southern approaches to Madang, the enemy coastal base overlook ing the Dampier straits that sep arate New Guinea and New Britain. Latest reports Indicated the Australians mav have reached a point within 10 miles of Madang after killing 72. Japanese in a series of minor actions between October 12 and 17. , Moscow Urges Second Front MOSCOW.vOct. 21. (U.B The foreign ministers of thr United States, Britain and Russia held their third session today against a background ot renewed appeals in the soviet' press for a second front and post-war recognition of Russia's 1941 boundaries. Though1 secrecy surrounded the conferences, two versions of their work spread among Anglo-American circles here with the truth probably lying somewhere - mid way between them. These two versions are: . 1. The three foreign ministers 'merely contemplate the fullest possible exenange 01 views pre paratory to a definitive meeting among President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Marshal Stalin. 2. The conference is standing on its own feet and is authorized to adopt certain political and eco nomic decisions. U. S. Secretary of State Hull, British Foreign Secretary Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov were revealed to have submitted separate agendas for discussion with the understanding that no subject would be taboo. Renewed emphasis in the con trolled Russian press on the urg ency of opening a second front and the inviolability of Russia's '1941 boundaries including half of pre-1939 Poland, the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and Rumania's Bessarabia gave a possible clue to the top ics submitted by Molotov. CASHIER PLEADS GUILTY GOLDENDALE, Wash., Oct. 21. (U.P) C. N. Kuttner, cashier for the Seattle, Portland and Spokane railroad, today faced a sentence of 15 years in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla after he pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling $4137 In funds of the railroad. Subsidy Dispute Renewal Looms WASHINGTON, Oct 21, W Prospective full-dress renewal of the dispute oeiween tne buiumiio tmtinn and the congressional farm bloc over general government use of subsidies to Keep aown 100a prices today awaited delivery of a presidential message on the subject to capitol hill. There were indications, how ever, that the message might be further delayed for several days, pending a review of its contents by the agencies concerned. Whether the subsidy issue is to be joined again may depend large ly on the tone and contents of the message. However, President Roosevelt is expected to ask con gress to give to the war food ad ministration a signal to proceed with the genera: use of food sub sidies, at producer, processor, wholesale and retail level. department waste and mishandling bf public funds. Unanswered, these charges might shake the con fidence of the people in the integ rity and ability of the officers who are charged with supplying our armed forces. The facts are the best answers to these charges." Majority Approved He .then stated that Warren's general accounting office had ap proved 99.95 per cent ot the vouch ers submitted to it by the war de partment for audit, in the four months ending with August, 1943. "But the record is even better than these figures would indicate, he added. "The majority of sus pensions by the general account ing office are merely temporary, until further supporting docu ments are submitted, and do not involve any real question as to the propriety of the.paymant." ' Aside from items called to its attention by the war department disallowances by the general ac counting office have currently to talled less than 10 cents per $1000 of expenditures under war depart ment contracts, Patterson told the committee. He asserted that 90 per cent of the money amount of cases sub mitted to the committee by the comotroller general represented either items subsequently allowed by him, or items brought to light hv th war deDartment itself in its regular audit ; nA-.procesi'.i of SEE WAR CONTRACT PAGE 8 V -- STORY New Polio Cases Are Listed;. McCloskey Issues Statement Nine new cases of infantile par alysis, four of them from neigh boring counties, were reported to the Lane county health depart ment during the week ending Oc tober 21, Dr. C. R. Llndgren, coun ty health officer, announced Thursday, as Dr. John McCloskey, critic Of the polio handling, issued a statement of his position. The five Lane county cases in cluded two from Eugene, one from Junction City, one from Spring field. The others included two from Douglas county, one from Linn county, one from Benton county. Attendance at Edison school continued to show some increase, despite a campaign carried on by a minority of the parents to get others to keep their children out of school and avoid possible con tacting of pollomyelils. Attendance at other schools was listed as "normal" (meaning that only a normal number of absences were registered) or showed defin ite improvement according to the city schools office. ' At first of the week, approxi mately half of the pupils at Edi son were absent, result of the tele phone campaign carried on the past week-end by some parents in World Peace Plan Approved WASHINGTON, Oct. 2100 The senate foreign relations com mittee approved without change today the Conally resolution pledging the United States to join with tree and sovereign na tions in the , maintenance of world peace. Senator Shipstead (R-Mlnn), who came out of a closed meet ing, said the resolution was adopt ed after proposals by a group of senators to "strengthen and clarl. fy" its wording had been re jected. As previously approved by subcommittee, the resolution reads as follows: .- "Resolved by the senate of the United States: "That the war against all our enemies be waged until com plete victory is achieved; "That the United States co operate with its comrades-inarms in securing a just and hon orable peace; "That the United States, act ing through its constitutional processes, Join with free and sov ereign nations in the establish ment and maintenance ot inter national authority with power to prevent aggression and to preserve the peace of the world." Senator" Clark (D-Mo) .. said -the resolution-was approved by a 20 to 3 vote, after an amendment by Senator Pepper (D-Fla) in be half ot those seeking stronger commitments, was defeated, 16 to 5. Another similar amend ment offered by Senator Wagner (D-NY) also was . rejected. Majority Leader Barkley -a nounced immediately that the senate would begin debate on the historic resolution Monday. No Boys, No Whiskers; No Whiskers, Then No Whiskerino Dance ' There will be no sophomore Whiskerino dance at Univer sity of Oregon this year. . You guessed it. The gals can't grow whiskers. ' And the soldier students are . under army regulations against chin fuzz. So there will be a Harvest Moon dance instead, according to Marilyn Holden, McMinn ville, dance committee chair man. In previous years sophomore boys stopped shaving several weeks before the annual Whis kerino dance, and carefully nursed their beards, for a pur pose. The bushiest chin at the dance earned a prize, presented during intermission. The sissies who shaved were dunked in the millrace. Another wartime casualty ot the annual affair is one,' "Joe College," Betty Coed, chosen as "typical sophomore girl," will preside at the dance as sched uled, but there are no Joe Col leges around. So the class will select a "GI Joe" from the army students. ;New Italy Drive By Allies Looms SEE NEW POLIO STORY PAGE S Hitler Being Brushed Aside By War Lords, Parley Hints By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst It looks as though the Prussian military clique has a foot in Hit ler's stirrup, if indeed the high command isn't already In the all highest's jaddle. This column some time ago sug gested that the Prussian war lords were likely to take' over control when the military situation reach ed a point where they saw little or no chance for victory. I said they would maneuver for a peace which would enable them to sal vage all they could from the wreckage of Hitler's dream of world domination. We already' have passed the point where Germany's defeat be came certain. Now the official German news agency (DNB) re ports the holding of a conference which was attended by ranking officers of the high command, many commanding officers, and by "leading personalities ot the state and party." And that con ference was called not by the fuehrer but by Field Marshal General Wllhelm Keltel, chief of the high command and essence of Prussian militarism. European observers said the conference appeared to be trying to shore up civilian morale and devise means of meeting the mili tary crisis. Hitler made a speech after the conference, but what he said wasn't disclosed. At about the time this meeting was being held, Swedish news paper correspondents were re porting and their dispatches were passed by the German cen sor that the Reich was seeing its blackest days of the war thus far because of the major break by the reds through the nazi line in Russia. The correspondent of the Stockholm Aftonbladet said If the soviet forces can follow up this success, the "Germans realize it can't meant anything but a catas trophe that would put Stalingrad in a shadow." Over in London meantime south McIIary Spurs Economy Pledge WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Senate Minority Leader McNary (R.-Ore.) voiced opposition today to an increase in individual or corporation income taxes "until after congress stops the adminiS' tration's profligate waste of public funds." His action was followed by a report that the administration will try to cut expenditures. McNary told a reporter he did not believe there will be any new tax bill this year, adding that some economies in expenditures should be made to cut the gap between the government's outgo and in' come. Similarly Senator Vandenberg (R.-Mich.), of the finance commit tee, said he thought it much more important at this time to preserve the national economy than to sad die an additional tax burden on citizens. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the house ways and means com mittee said he had been given as surances that the administration "will make eveVy effort to locate and eradicate all unnecessary ex penditures" in the government. The statement was interpreted at the capitol as 0 move to save proposed new tax legislation from defeat. The announcement followed the first ways and means meeting be hind closed doors to consider tax plans on which the committee completed public hearings yesterday. The chairman did not say from whom the assurances were re ceived, but said they pledged that "everything reasonable" looking toward economies would be done, and that they came after he had been "urging, questioning and de manding with them." "They have assured me they will make every effort to locate and eradicate all unnecessary ex penditures," he said. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Oct. 21 (U.B Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark massed his fifth army on the Voltumo plain today for a frontal assault on the new German defense line . guarding Rome, and - the British eighth army pushed, two miles through the rugged mountains of central Italy in a bid to roll up the ene my flank. As a possible indication - of things to come, the official Ger- LONDON, Oct , 21 (U.B German soldier are deserting by the detent and selling their pistols, rifles and uniforms to Polish patriots, Josef Klondow skl, a frail Polish Jew who ar rived from Warsaw after five months on' an underground trail, tald today. He waa the first Jew to es cape from the Warsaw ghetto and reach London. Hit wife and five-year-old daughter still are tome where in Poland. man DNB news agency reported there were signs -that the allies were planning an assault by air and sea on Rome soon. It said air-borne 1 troops were concen trated behind the. front and ship ping activity oft the coast of Italy had Increased. As the eighth army stabbed through the towns of Oratino and Busso on the approaches to Iser nia, key junction above the upper end of the German line, the left wing of the fifth army moved up to make contact with the nazis before Massico ridge on the coast The northwest African air force threw big fleets of bombers and fighters into Its most wide spread assault of recent . days. Flying Fortresses, Liberators, Mitchells, night bombers and as sault planes pounded the German defenses behind the front and again visited the Balkans to bomb the Nis rail junction in southeastern Yugoslavia. The main weight of the aerial onslaught hit the rail and high way transport lines throughout the battle zone and northward beyond Rome, After days of steady gains against stiff opposition, the fifth and eighth armies generally con fined their operations to patrol- ing and moving up men and supplies for the impending attack on the German line. ULfii Reds Smashing ! Ahead in Drive To Circle Foe . LONDON, Oct. 21. (AP) The German armies in thB Crimea have begun a mass withdrawal from, the penin sula via the Perekop land bridge, Moscow advices indi cated today, to escape entrap ment by a powerful Russian advance threatening their line of retreat. . Battling furiously to stem the steady progress of the red army troops pouring through the Kremenchug bridgehead west of the Dnieper river, the German command was said to be throwing all available re serves into the breach. ' But the soviet drive, hourly in creasing in momentum, smashed further to the west through the Ukrainian steppe country to over lap tne Crimea on the north, a Russian communique disclosed. A secondary army column was racing south toward Krivoi Rog, Important rail junction and center ot the south Russian Iron indus try, and today was reported to be within 35 miles of that key Ger man stronghold guarding the last escape railway route from the Crimea. . . More than 1500 nazis were slain in this advance, the Russian com munique declared. Face Encirclement ' Capture of Krlvol Rog would virtually seal oft, the tens ot thousands ot Germans huddled in Dnepropetrovsk and in the Dnieper bend above Melitopol, where the Russians were reported to Be methodically cleaning out last-ditch nazi units who have been stubbornly holding out tot mora than a week. Some ot the bloodiest fighting of the war was going on inside the city, with the red army .spearheads inching slowly forward at bayonet point front dispatches laid. Nasls Counterattack . North ot Kiev and. south - ei Rechitsa, the Moscow war bulle tin said, the Germans were fall ing back, before determined red army thrusts across the Dnieper. The natlt were counterattacking in the Kiev area, perhaps to cover reported preparations to evacu ate the Ukrainian capital, but these assaults were all beaten back, the soviet communique stated. With the collapse of the entire German Una based on the Dnieper river now possible, the next natural barrier to the west is along the Bug river, 100 miles southwest of Krlvol Rog at lt nearest point, where the nazis are said to have installed an elabor ate "defense in depth" to pro tect the Bessarablan frontier. SEE HITLER BEING STORY PACK Douglas Fir Wage Hearing Opened PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. The long-awaited attempt to set up industry-wide wage scales in Douglas fir logging was under way here today. The west coast lumber commis sion opened hearings on the pro posal, supported by AFL and CIO unions and opposed by employers on the grounds that the industry is too complicated for standardization. Springfield Flyer On Exchange Ship ABOARD THE HOSPITAL SHIP ATLANTIS AT GOETTE BORG, Sweden, Oct. 21 WO Staff Sgt August E. Tornow of Springfield, Ore., tail gunner In a Flying Fortress which was shot down oft Lorient, France, March t, was among 13 wounded Amer icans who boarded this vessel yes terday for the voyage home in the war's first exchange of disabled military prisoners between the al lies and Germany. Tornow said their Fortress plunged into the ocean 60 miles offshore killing two of the crew. The others climbed Into a rubber life boat, which had been punc tured by bullets. "A couple of the boys not wounded kept the dingy afloat by constant pumping," he said. "Af ter 10 hours a German boat found us. We landed at Brest I spent four months In a hospital 35 miles from- Munich for treatment ot hip wound." War In Brief - By United Pres ' ITALY British eighth arms captures towns commanding Is ernla road In threat to turn flank of new German line; General Clark's fifth army forces move ahead through difficult country; allied planet shatter rail lines and knock out bridges north of Rome; Germans predict air-sea . assault on Italian capital. JUGOSLAVIA Partisans smash German counterattacks and take offensive in central Bosnia; heavy fighting near Centinje. RUSSIA Red army advance guards cover one-third of distance across Dnieper river bulge mov ing to cut off 1,000,000 German troops; Russians within 27 mile of Kriol Rog; heavy forces move into position to last five miles Into Kiev. WESTERN EUROPE British bombers attack Leipzig and make fifth raid of month on Berlin; sev enteen planes lost; American bombing fleets lose eight in raid on Duren. PACIFIC Japanese report American air raid on Gilberts; Australians repulse repeated Jap anese attempt to retake Finsch hafen; 14 enemy planet shot down In Solomons. ' Weather U. S. WEATHER FORECASTS Oregon Scattered showers today, continued cool today and tonight with heavy frost or freezing temperature tonight, east ot the Cascades. LOCAL STATISTICS: MinN mum temperature Thursday morn ing, 47 degrees; maximum tem perature, Wednesday, 59 degrees; precipitation over Wednesday to 10:30 p. m., .37 ot an inch. . SH'Sl AW TIDES (PWTt rrlSif Huh ., t J a. at, la p. m. Low s:it a. m s:as a. ro. Stlartiir . U a. m.. Ml . . iu a, a, :M a,
