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4 CapltalJournnl, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Sept. 21, 1944 CapitaljJournal SALEM, OREGON IRTABMflllKD MARCH 1. IHI An Independent Newipaper Published Ever? Afternoon except Sunday at 444 Cheraeketa St- Phone BualDMi Offlct 3B71i News Room 1611; Soeloty editor tilt GIOBGI PUTNAM, Editor and PublUhar 81 ASCRIPTION RATMi BT OARRIRRl Weekly. l.lSt Monthly. .75i One Year, 19 00. BY MAIL IN OREGON) MoDlhlT, t HO; Sli Months. 13.00: One Tear. 10 00. UNITED STATICS OUTSID8 OHEOONi Monthly. I 0i Six llonthB, 13 W; Year. 17.30. The Associated Press U excluatvely entitled to the uae for publication ot all newa aispstehei credited to tl or otherwise credited in thu paper, and also local news published herein. Line Against Inflation Crumbling Election is nearing. For the second time in a week the War Labor Board panel has declared that the "Little Steel" wage ceiling freezing wages at 15 percent above January 1941 can be broken to keep earnings abreast of the cost of living, and that the president has the power to modify wage controls. The latter ruling was in the case of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, CIO, demanding a 17-cent hourly wage boost. A week ago another WLB panel, reviewing a wage increased asked by CIO steel workers made similar findings. These rulings are preparatory for the president to per sonally make a political decision before election day grant ing some appeasement from the "Little Steel" formula and grease the skids for inflation in the interest of the fourth term. If such action is taken it will amount to a repudia tion of the policies and promises that the administration has hitherto made. In his executive order of April 8, 1943, Mr. Roosevelt said: "To hold the line we cannot tolerate further Increases In prices affecting the cost of living or further increases in general wage or salary rates except whore clearly necessary to correct sub standard living conditions. The only way to hold the line is to stop trying to find justifications for not holding it here or not holding it there. No one straw may break a camel's back, but there is always a last straw. We cannot afford to take further chances In relaxing the line. We already have taken too many." On the first anniversary of the "hold the line against in flation" order this year a joint statement signed by Fred M. Vinson, director of economic stabilization, Chester Bowles, OPA administrator, Marvin Jones, war food ad ministrator, and William H. Davis, chairman of the WLB, declared: "The general level of the cost of living has not been permitted to rise. Indeed, the cost of living as a whole is slightly lower than it was a year ago today. . . . Only by decisive action to halt the rise of wages could the pressure of costs on prices be kept within manageable limits." Last April Mr. Vinson stated that if labor unions were successful in their effort to smash the Little Steel formula it would be a "short time winner at the economic roulette table" as everyone would be the loser in the price rise and inflationary period certain to follow. And testifying before a senate committee he said: "As far as I am concerned I have no intention or purpose to break the Little Steel formula." It will be interesting to watch whether the president, for political reasons, will precipitate a dangerous inflationary situation, thus adding another to his long list of broken promises. Philippines Next It is no violation of censorship for military security to point out that the Philippine Islands are the next likely target for American forces in the Pacific. The current air, naval and land attack on the Palau Islands and on the other direct approaches to the Philippines indicate that Gen. Mac Arthur is preparing to take the last step on his "way back." That is so obvious that even the Japs cannot be but fully aware of our intentions. The coming battle for the Philippines is not dictated solely by sentimental reasons. For strategically this group of islands represent an important goal. Already the open ing punches from the air are being delivered by land based as well as carrier based planes. D-day wilh its landings may come any day now and its results may well be decisive in the final outcome of the war. Nothing, with the exception of Russia's entry into the war against Japan, could be a more overwhelming blow at the Japs than the capture of the Philippines. The enemy knows this and can be expected to put .up a desperate all-out de fense. Their stakes are the vital resources of the occupied sections of the Dutch East Indies, French Indo-China and Burma. A glance at your map will reveal the importance to the Japanese of the Philippines, which dominate the sea routes between the Japanese home islands and all of her possessions south of Formosa. Through the South China sea now flows all of the enemy's supplies of rubber, rice, iron, hemp, tin, cotton, tungsten and other vital war mate rials. It is also the highway of supplies for the Japanese armies in the occupied lands to the south. American occu pation of the Philippines would close all of these lines of supply to the Japs. Besides its fleet which is presumed to be hiding somewhere in that vicinity, the Japs are reported to have around 200,000 ground troops in the Philippines and are said to be con stantly reinforcing their defenses there. The looming bat tle for control of these strategic islands may well be the greatest and most decisive of the entire Pacific war. Legal But Revealing Disclosure that democratic organizations are campaigning for soldier votes by direct letter is illuminating but not illegal, nor even unethical. Any candidate for public office or his partisans has as much right to appeal to servicemen as civilians through the mails. We have not yet pretended to dictate what our citizens may 'read in the way of political literature simply because they are wearing the uniform of their country. Hut the origin of the letters being circulated is revealing in its expose of the interests seeking President Roosevelt's reelection. The first of the letters reported were circulated among the servicemen by Boss Hague's henchmen of Jersey City. Now it appears that Boss Kelly of Chicago is up to the same tricks. The letters being addressed to the soldiers are accompa nied by an application blank for a soldier ballot. The letter wastes no time in preliminaries but gets right to the point in this language: "Franklin D. Roosevelt has been nomi nated for reelection as president of the United Slates. Feel ing that you wotdd like to vote for him in the forthcoming election of Nov. 7, 1911, we deem it not only our privilege but our duly to aid you in doing so. We enclose herewith an application for a ballot." To make sure that the party gets full advantage of every soldier's vote cast, the letter outlines the procedure of casting a ballot in this manner: "The simplest and quickest way to indicate your loyal support is to make a cross (X) in front of the word democrats at the top of the first column on the ballot. One single cross in that circle means a vote for every one of our candidates." Thus the big city machines are applying their proven tactics of getting out the vole to the absent servicemen who might not otherwise go to the trouble of securing and casting an absentee ballot. All this to assure the retention of the "indispensable man." 'OtTe roam ?,";.l'g''!!I"y J J' I'ppiudi BELGIUM j&Knct 2i - JEm. J HieWar Today By DeWitt Mackenzie An Interpretative analysis ot war developments by a fam ous Associated Press war correspondent. German Flank Menace Grows uh Arrows locate allied drives, including a union of British Second army and allied airborne troops reported near Nijmegen in Holland to increase the threat (broken arrow) to the German right flank. American First army guns shelled German towns of Duren (A), and Prum (B). ror By Don Upjohn Supper David Eyre, vice-president of Ladd & Bush branch of the Uni ted States National bank, came into possession of a $20 bill yesterday which caused his eyes to pop .out a little. He took a glance at the bill and saw his own signature looking up at him and on the other side of the bill the signature of Linn C. Smith. The bill was issued by the old United States National bank of which Dave was presi dent and Linn was cashier and has been passing around for Novelties In the News (By the Associated Press) No Ideas? Hartford, Conn. Whether or not the pace was too swift, they didn't say, but the Idea-a-Month club of Norwich acted on their latest idea and have filed papers of final dissolution with the secretary of state's of fice here. Firewater Grand Coulee, Wash. Water dripped from a truck up on a grease rack just a drop or two. It struck an extension cord lamp bulb, which shattered, igniting nearby gasoline. The entire garage went up in flames. Soured Boise, Idaho Letter from Harold J. Liicke of Gooding to state republican headquarters: "Enclosed find sight draft in my favor in amount of $9.10, being a'mount of my milk sub sidy from the democratic ad ministration. I have never be fore drawn on the milk subsidy or any of the money to which I was entitled under the triple A program, but from now on, I intend to endorse them over to the republican party, to be used as a boomerang on the democrats. Make good use of it." Hep! - Kmgsburg, Calif. Young Donald Danielsen noticed the cadets at St. Mary's preflight school drilling with wooden guns just what he and his gang needed. Yes, said the school commander, the school had some old ones w h i c h weren't being used any more, but he didn't have authority to dispose of them. So Donald wrote to President Roosevelt. Now the gang is hard at drill. well over 10 years, anyway, as it had to be issued before 1933. Dave opines he'll hang onto this one, and carry it around for identification purposes as to his signature. It must have been nice in the good old days to be able to sign a few twenties after breakfast. It'd be fun, even if they did belong to somebody else. It seems that the S. B. Mills umbrella marathon which we started off so blithely last eve ning to run at least 30 days, blew up In our face this a.m., when a good old time Oregon soaker deluged the streets and caught people with their rain coals hanging on the pegs at home. Incidentally today's rain is a rather stern and timely re buke to the guys who have come up again with the one that the climate around here is changing. We received from an anony mous correspondent this a.m. a cucumber over a foot long and about six inches around the tummy. But he didn't remain anonymous long, as we set our staff of special operatives at work aod in no time found same came from that busy, and versa tile barber, Len Gibbons, who gets his wife out at 1:30 a.m., to can peaches. At any rate, the cucumber is a masterpiece, even worthy of a place in Dom inie Swift's watermelon patch to deceive the night callers. And as to said melon patch of said dominie. He confided to us yesterday he estimates ful ly 500 people have approached him in one way or another the past few weeks with inquiries as to how his melon patch is coming on and he opines he has the best advertised melon patch in this fertile and well watered vale. Gosh, if there are 500 people worrying about the prog ress of the dominie's melons it looks like we're going to have some tough competition when the moon gets right. The good old downpour to day should have things Dewey enough for even Cliff Lewis, grand imperial potentate of the republicans hereabouts. Carl Beatty, who operates the delivery run for our favorite paper between here and Inde pendence and way points, has taken on a full membership in the FT & BA and holds a unique place among novitiates as he's let himself grow a full beard, the clapboards and sidings cm his face being too tender to monkey around with a razor. From where I sit ... & Joe MarsK Keeping American Homes Intact Deserted Moscow, Idaho Robert Eu gene Jordan, 22, couldn't get Into the nnvy any other way, so he told authorities at the naval radio training station at the University of Idaho that he was a deserter. Jumped the cruiser U. S. S. Lipton in Aus tralia two years ago, he sniri, now he wanted to "face it." The navy said, well, we'll look at the record ... He still isn't in the navy. We're great home lovers In our town. Family folk like most Americans. So when war came, and the boys left In uniform, and the girls went into war plants, folks began to shake their heads. Take lien Ryder's family, for Instance all doing something different. Young Ren's In tha Navy, and his sister's in the air plane plant. Ren's foreman at the tool shop, nnct Mn spends her days al the Canteen. A broken home? Pont yon be lieve It ! When Ben relaxes with his evening glass of beer, and Mom and Sis sit down to write their daily letter to Ben Jr., they're closer together than ever . . . bound by a strong and com mon purpose to keep their fam ily, their America, Intact. From where I sit, the strength of America lies In that family spirit In the tolerance and ma tnal respect and understanding that haTe made the American family a strong and vital force for Good! By J. M. Roberts, Jr. rsnbstilutlnv lor DeWitt MrKenile) The battle for Germany, which for a time appeared likely .to take place at the Rhine, has actually begun in the Siegfried line and watery Holland and will be decided there. That the Germans can take another terrible beating and yet retire once more in suffi cient strength for any real fur ther stand appears unlikely. Reports from Arnhem sound grim. Our troops are reported surrounded by a bitterly deter mined enemy. But they were trained for Just such fighting. The allied commanders have yet to blunder in western Europe. This morning's news that all airborne units south of Arnhem have linked up with the British is a strong indication that the battle to turn the northern end of the Siegfried line is still go ing, as the generals love to put it, "according to plan." Crucial Battle Raging The Germans are fighting to save themselves in the very ter ritory where they began the to tal war in May, 1940. Two plans of action, which may merge, seem to be open to the allies. Holding tremendous German forces by strong at tacks south of Holland, every thing else can be thrown into an invasion of southwestern Germany, across the coastal plains to envelop the great Ger man ports as those of France and the low countries have been enveloped. That would be the Russian system, with truly de cisive blows farther south held in reserve. On the other hand, the allied campaign has developed to oversimplify, almost like three separate wars. They may have the strength to continue that way. 7th Before Belfort The seventh army on the ex treme right flank has conducted its own private ipvasion, has cleaned up southern France and stands before Belfort, ready to invade southwestern Germany, probably the weakest nazi area of the reich and where there has been talk of forming pro vincial governments for seper ate truces. The American first and third armies have operated all along seperately from, although in most c o.m p 1 e t e co-ordination with, Montgomery's mulli-allied forces nearer the coast, and are pointed toward the Cologne Coblenz area. Arnhem is the first job. It is the key to the border and the grat north Germany highway system. A gap there would per mit the allies to flow both east and south behind the Siegfried and Rhine defenses, providing an anvil on which Patton, Hod ges and Patch could pound the life out of Germany's entire western defenses. Truman's Mother, 92, Helps in Campaign Kansas City, Sept. 21 Wi Mrs. Martha E. Trumap, 92-year-old mother of the demo cratic vice-presidential nomi nee, isn't too old to do a little campaigning. Mrs. Truman served as chair man yesterday of a county group meeting for women party work ers and was the first to pledge that she would assist in the reg istration campaign by telephon ing her neighbors and war work ers who have moved into the community. Pericles was born about 490 B C. Crash Victims Formerly Hera Three of the five officers Kin ed near the Redmond army a: base Wednesday when their C 45 transport plane crashed, wen stationed at the Salem air base early this year, it is recalled b Brazier C. Small local attorney who introduced the headquar ters group at one of the closing luncheons of the Chamber Commerce last spring. Killed in the accident werel Lt. Col. Ernest C. Young, Still water, Okla.; Lt. Col. William T.I Moodv, Glenville, N. C, and Chief Warrant Officer Clair K Bensr, San Bernardino, Calif.l The other two were not known here nor was the sergeant who was injured. All the dead offic ers were members of the staff of Col. Earl L. Naiden, Monroe, La., commanding officer of the 317th wing, 4th air force, who was also killed. The officers, Small said tatlay, were highly pleased with' the Salem air base and did not rel ish the transfer to the base just east of the mountains. Ancient people imprisoned fireflies in coconut shells tCj furnish light. Aa. 95 of StUt us & I : , Kuppenheimer JwiS ! W', s- ' 5FJ:yt mmk ! AN INVESTMENT IN GOOD' APPEARANCE ... AS NATIONALLY ADVERTISED THIS MONTH Oome men have the personality to go to the top in a barrel. But most of us would welcome the lift given the man spotlighted here when he made a Kuppenheimer appearance. It's a combination of qualities that does it. Qualities'you can see and feel designing, tailoring, style, fabrics. (And they're all finer than ever today.) Topped off by a human quality Kuppenheimer's pride in maintaining a reputation for smart craftsmanship older than many a grand-dad. Kuppenheimer Suits $50.00 to $60.00 Kuppenheimer Topcoats $42.50 to $60.00 The Man's Shop MOXLEY & HUNTINGTON The Store of Style, Quality & Value 4 16 STATE STREET SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. PAPER DAY IX SALEM City-wide house-to-house pickup of bundled newspapers, magazines and old'books by Boy Scouts. Place your bundles on curb in front of residence or business house before noon Sunday, September 24th. Sponsored by Marion County Salvage Committee and Boy Scouts.
