In View of Labor Scarcity, Candidates Seeking Farm Votes Might Have Better Success Campaigning With Spade and Hoe than with Cheroots and Soft Soap
All-American Call
INDIA
Will she gain a self-government
status from Britain In return for
support against Jap Invasion?
Churchill's next speech will sup
i!y the answer. Wateh for It in
the NEWS-REVIEW.
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Facing Fight
Opposition in Congress
Makes Attainment of
New Goal Doubtful
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10.
(AP) House ways and means
committee opposition to Secre
tary Morgonthau's new tax pro
gram became so widespread to
day that members began to pre
dict that his goal of $7,610,000,000
in new revenue would not be
achieved.
They said' that no one could yet
tell whether the committee would
accept the treasury secretary's
principal recommendations for
raising mora than $6,000,000,000
in greatly-increased individual
and corporation taxes, but they
said clear-cut opposition had de
veloped to less important sugges
tions. Hearings on the program
continued tnrlav.
Apparently there had been a
considerable change of heart
since the program was first pre
sented, for then Individual mem
bers of the committee indicated a
generally favorable attitude to
ward the broad principles of the
treasury's proposals.
It was learned, however, that
President Roosevelt has been ad
vised that overwhelming opposi
tion already had developed to
Morgenthau's renewed request
that married persons be compel
led to file joint Income tax re
turns and that congress end the
practice of "permitting oil well
operators to deduct up to 271 per
cent of their income annually as
a "depletion allowance."
Morgenthau told the commit
tee those two changes would
yield $380,000,000 in new revenue.
Sales Tax Mentioned
Two members said privately
that preliminary indications were
that "this cutting away" would
lnnrl til nllmlnntinn nf ctill nthm-
treasury recommendations with
the result that the estimated
yield of the new tax bill would
be reduced sharply from original
guesses.
"Unless we go to a sales tax,
the yield will not be anything
like $7,610,000,000,"' one of them
predicted.
Treasury experts have said that
a 5 per cent manufacturers sales
tax covering everything would
raise about $3,500,000,000, but if
such things as food, clothing,
medicine, fuel and state and fed
eral purchases were exempted
the yield would drop to $153,
000,000. In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
p USSIA is urging the swift cre
atlon of an Anglo-AMERI-CAN
front in Europe, arguing
that Germany can be smashed by
fall, thbs for ting a short cut solu
tion of the F icific war.
(This argument Is based on the
assumption that If Hitler falls
Japan will fold.)
Late dispatches tell us that
well-placed AMERICANS and
British in London support this
view.
Recent dispatches also have
told of the arrival of large ad
ditional American fighting forces,
with full equipment, in northern
Ireland.
IT is obvious that things aren't
going too well for Hitler in Rus
sia. Reports (rumors is really a
better word) from Switzerland as
sert that Germany is even build
ing a fourth defense line in Pol
and, clear outside Russia.
What Russia is seeking to do is
to make It so hot for Hitler that
he won't be able to get his much-
advertised spring offensive under
way.
TTOS writer's advice is to watch
and keep your fingers cross
ed. If Hitler ISN'T ABLE to
launch an offensive in the spring,
you will be justified in believing
he has been badly weakened.
If he smashes down through
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Columnist Will
Be Contributor
To News-Review
P I
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John W. Kelly, pictured above,
Washington, O. C, columnist,
will be a regular contributor to
the columns of the Roseburg i
News-Review, starting Monday, !
March 16. Mr. Kelly, for many
years connected with newspa
per work in Oregon, began
service as a Washington corre
spondent several years ago.
His syndicated column has been ,
growing rapidly in importance
among readers of the Pacific
northwest.
In view of the important hap
penings in the national capital
today, the News-Review, In its
effort to keep its readers in
formed through the most re
liable channels, has contracted
for the column, which after
next Monday will be a regular
feature. ,
Mr. Kelly particuarly , pre.-
sents fhenews of event affect
ing the Pacific northwest
states and is alert to legislation
or administration policies af
fecting this area.
Jap Destroyer
Sunk, 3 Cruisers,
Carrier Disabled
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (AP)
-The navy announced that U. S.
submarines in the western Pacific
had sunk a Japanese destroyer
leader and naval tanker and put
out of action an aircraft carrier
and three cruisers.
The submarine actions covered
the week ending March 6. They
raised to 18 the total of Japanese
vessels sunk by United States sub
marines and to 138 the total of all
types of enemy ships sunk by the
army and navy in the western
Pacific.
A destroyer leader was describ
ed as a large destroyer which
served as a leader of a flotilla of
such vessels.
The aircraft carrier was not
identified as either a regular
warship or a converted merchant
ship. Previously the navy had
reported sinking one aircrait car
rier and the probable sinking of
another, and the army had re
ported that a third had been dam
aged.
LONDON THINKS U. S.
PLANS BIG NAVAL MOVE
(By the Associated Press)
rii-itish naval circles, comment
ing on the assignment of Admir
al Harold R. Stark to London as
commander of American war
cMrKs in F.iirniipan waters, specu
lated today that the United States
might be planning to increase us
naval strength across the Atlan
tic. ttioqo nuarters declared It was
obvious that an officer of Admi
ral Stark's high rank would not
ho ten ta London unless some
new development of naval im
portance were in me oning.
other nhsprvers saw the pos
sibility that powerful units of
Americas rapiuiy r.ipaiuuiiK
navy might be sent abroad to
counter any shift in the Euro
pean naval balance through ab
sorption of French warships into
the German fleet. Such reinforce
ments mlpht also be used in pro
tecting a British counter-invasion
of the continent to estamisn a
"second front" against Germany,
as repeatedly urged by Russia.
Authorized quarters in Vichy
denied that 40 French warships
had been turned over to Ger
many, as reported yesterday by
Tass, the soviet news agency.
Axis U-Boats
Increase Toll
In Caribbean
Survivors of Torpedoed
Vessels Land at 3 Ports;
Brazil Asks Reparations
By the Associated Press
The arrival of survivors from
torpedoed merchant ships at
three Caribbean harbors under
scored the persisting menace to
day along the sea lanes between
North and South America as the
loss of Brazil's third ship pushed
that equntry along the road
which led her into the first
World war.
The three ports where rescued
crews put in yesterday were:
. In northwest Haiti 22 surviv
ors, including the captain, of a
United States steamer reported
to have been sunk last Saturday.
The vessel was identified as the
5,104-ton Lykes Bros. Cardonia.
Baracoa, Cuba All 39 crew
men of a vessel described as a
Standard Oil tanker who were
picked up by a fishing boat after
their ship was torpedoed and
shelled about 20 miles off the
eastern tip of Cuba. The ship was
mentioned in Cuban reports as
the Nanead, Handeact or Han
dead but Lloyd's records none of
those names.
Kingston, St. Vincent, British
West Indies 39 survivors, among
them many who were injured,
and the bodies of two men who
perished In - the lifeboats after
their ship was torpedoed. No de
tails of the torpedoing were dis-closed-One
man died after reach
ing shore.
Brazil Asks Reparation
In Rio De Janeiro, the Brazil
ian government announced last
night that Germany was being
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Blind Tillamook
Yeteran Organizes
Guerrilla Force
TILLAMOOK, Ore., Mar. 10.
(AP) A guerrilla band, 1,000
strong organized by a blind vet
eran of the first World war, per
fected plans today to support the
army in fighting off any inva
sion attempt on the Oregon coast.
Stewart Arnold, the veteran,
who lost his sight but not his
spirit in the first A. E. F., said 24
companies of guerrillas had been
formed. Only a few more are
needed, he said, to complete de
fense plans for this rich coastal
dairy community.
"We're just sort of backing up
the army," Arnold explained.
"This Is a big country and a
rough country, and we can help
guard it."
Woods-wise loggers, farmers
and townsmen have joined, each
swearing on enlistment to defend
until death the green hills and
valleys stretching back from Til
lamook bay.
The provide their own rifles
and ammunition. They have no
uniforms and they do. no drilling.
They Intend to fight, as the In
dians did before them, from the
sandspits and cliffs along the
ocean and In the timbered moun
tain passes leading inland.
Four retired army majors have
helped lay defense plans and once
a week the companies, organized
by groups of 30 to 70 men, meet
for target practice.
. "Not that these boys need
much practice, said Arnold. "It s
Just to keep their eyes sharp, so
we won't waste powder."
Farm Aid Included
Almost as feared as invasion is
enemy Incendiary bombing of the
forest back of the bay, one of the
last great virgin timber stands in
the country. The guerrillas have
mapped off sections for each
company to guard.
They have pledged also to help
farmers get in their crops de
spite what threatens to become
the worst agricultural labor
shortage in history.
But first of all, Arnold said,
they are brush fighters.
"The army probably will take
care of the Japs If they try to
land on the beaches, he added,
"but our boys will be pleased to
meet any who might sup through
Into the woods."
Wholesale Pork
Prices Frozen By
Federal Order
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10-(AP)
The government temporarily
froze wholesale prices of 90 per
cent of the nation's pork products,
Incuding ham and bacon, today at
the highest levels prevailing be
tween March 3 and March 7.
The ceiling, effective March 23,
applies to dressed hogs and whole
sale pork cuts, and Price Admin
istrator Henderson declared It
was expected "to help Important
ly In holding down the cost of
living."
Last year, consumers spent
more than $2,000,000,000 for pork
and other hog products.
Neither farmers nor retail out
lets are covered directly by the
emergency price schedule., but
Henderson asserted both would
feel Its effects. When prices are
fixed on dressed hogs or pork
cuts, prices which the packer may
pay for the farmer's hogs auto
matically are limited.
"Pork prices to the retailer are
fixed under the regulation," Hen
derson continued. "OPA will step
into the retail picture immediate
ly, should present retail price
margins rise beyond possibly a
slight Increase to reflect changes
in replacement costs, thus adding
to the consumer's burden unduly."
Parity Now Exceeded
The OPA said that, with top
prices of $13.75 a hundred pounds
currently prevailing for hogs in
Chicago, prices received by farm
ers exceeded 110 per cent of par
ity. The 110 per cent figure Is
the highest of four levels, in the
case of hogs, which limit Hen
derson's discretionary power to
set cdillngs on farm products un
der tW -emergency-' price "control
act. '
Products covered under the new
celling include regular hams,
fresh or frozen regular hams
cured, smoked, boiled or baked;
baked and boned skinned hams,
picnic hams, shoulders, pork loins,
canned or packaged spiced lunch
eon meat ipade entirely from
pork, slab bacon, Canadian bacon,
sliced bacon, fat backs, spare ribs,
and canned or packaged spiced
ham. "
Sausages, canned meats, manu
factured meats except canned
spiced ham and luncheon meat,
and edible offals, are excluded
from the celling. Officials said
sausages contained various meat
products and that it would be ex
tremely difficult to arrive at a
fair price formula for them.
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Five-hundred-pound demolition bomb gets final Inspection and,
apparently, goodby kits in Philadelphia ordnance district plant.
Fins are shown here, but the usual practice Is to attach them later
at airfields. Bands around the bomb facilitate handling.
Essen Ablaze
fAfter Fresh
RAF Attack
Six Nazi Planes Downed,
Three Italian Ships in
Convoy Set on Fire
LONDON, Mar. 10(AP)
RAF bombers sot fires, some of
them of "great size," In a heavy
attack last night on the German
industrial city of Essen, site of
tile Krupp munitions works, the
air ministry reported today.
It was the second successive
night attack on Essen.
Three British bombers were re
ported missing from operations
which included attacks on other
objectives in the war-important
Ruhr valley. " "
MThe German high command
acknowledged that British bomb
ers were over western Germany
last night and said that there
were civilian casualties. Berlin
reported only one British plane
shot down.)
An intensification of daylight
air operations was seen in the an
nouncement that six German
fighter planes were shot down
over northern France yesterday.
Five were credited to RAF fight
ers and the other to a British
bomber.
Italian Convoy Blasted
;British torpedo bombers set fire
to an Italian cruiser, a merchant
vessel and a destroyer in the cen
tral Mediterranean yesterday, an
official announcement from Cairo
said today.
. An RAF .communlque-said-the.
attack was directed against an
enemy convoy "escorted by units
of the Italian fleet."
Attacks on the islands of
Rhodes and Leros and on Piraeus,
the seaport for Athens, also were
reported, but no details were giv-
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Theodore Conn Named
To State Game Board
SALEM, Mar. 10. (AP)
Theodore Conn, Lakeview attor
ney, was appointed by Governor
Charles A. Sprague yesterday to
the state game commission, to
serve out the term of Francis
Olds, Klamath Falls, who died
several days ago.
Our Enemies
Support Against Japs Rests
On Attitude of London Govt
U. S. Naval Operations Concentrated
Under Command of Admiral King
Following Army's Reorganization
WASHINGTON, March 10.
(AP) The supreme command of
all United States naval operations
was concentrated today in the
hands of Admiral Ernest J. King,
a triple threat specialist in sur
face, air and submarine warfare.
King, who was already com
mander-in-chief ot the U. S. fleet,
took over the duties heretofore
entrusted to Admiral Harold R.
Stark as chief of naval opera
tions.
This consolidation of authority
a possible hint of further
streamlining In the navy's organi
zationgave King control not
only of combat activities but also
of the general planning and fleet
maintenance, formerly the prov
ince of the chief of naval opera
tions.
Secretary of Navy Knox an
nounced trfo change In a formal
statement last night which dis
closed the assignment of Admiral
Stark to a newly created post of
commander, U. S. naval forces
operating in European waters."
The navy changes followed
closely the army's reorganization
of its general staff into a small
er, younger group, but It remain
ed to be seen whether the two
moves would quiet congressional
agitation for a greater unifica
tion in the direction of the na
tion's war effort.
LAIC JFflrcjLMeniQ..Econi,
The army reorganization which
became effective yesterday, re
duced the general staff to a fifth
of its former size and gave great
er recognition to air force men.
Excepting the chief of staff, Gen
eral George C. Marshall, who Is
61, the streamlined staff has an
average age of 48.
Justice of Peace
Appointment Due
Appointment by Governor
Sprague of a justice of the peace
for Deer Creek district, to succeed
the late Judge R. W. Marsters,
was reported today to be awaiting
a recommendation from the coun
ty republican central committee.
Attorney Paul Geddes, who was
named by the county court to fill
the office during the absence of
Judge Marsters, has informed the
central committee that he is not a
candidate for the appointment.
His temporary appointment by
the county court, which was for
the period during which Judge
Marsters was Incapacitated, auto
matically expired at the lattcr's
death.
Reported as possible appointees
are Attorneys H. A. Canaday, Ira
B. Riddle and Thomas Hartfiel.
The appointment, however, will
be only for a brief period, as it
will be necessary to fill the posi
tion by vote elections to be held
this year.
Multnomah Officer
Accidentally Kills Self
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 10-
(API- Charles ltichton, 07, chief
deputy sheriff here since Decem
ber, 1930, was killed this morning
by a bullet from a .32 caliber au
tomatic he was cleaning.
Fellow workers found him In
the private office of Sheriff Pratt.
He died before medical aid could
be summoned.
Chief deputy Chrlstoffersen
said an investigation clearly In
dicated the shot was accidental.
Electric Cord Pull Kills
3 Children in Bathtub
ODESSA, Tex., Mar. 10-(AP)
Three little girls were electro
cuted In a bathtub last night
when they pulled an extension
cord loose.
They were Eulon, 8, Klomnh
Jean, 5, and Anna Joyce, 3,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. V.
Harry.
The father away seeking work
i s iin cil driller, had not leen located.
Admiral E. J. King
However, congress was urged
by Senator LaFollette to order
an Investigation to determine
whether legislation was needed
to produce closer coordination of
army, navy and air corps.
Senator Austin felt that great
er coordination was needed, and
Senator Hill, while crediting the
army with much progress, said
he hoped for the ultimate crea
tion of an "over-all staff" to unl-
great machine."
The navy changes were consid
ered a necessary preliminary to
any such strategy board, for It
ended the division of authority
that existed between King and
Stark and put King in absolute
charge under President Roosevelt
and Secretary Knox.
Oregon Evacuation Only
If Raided, Sprague Says
SALEM, Mar. 10. (AP)
There will be no evacuation of
civilians from Oregon unless
there Is an enemy Invasion, Gov
ernor Sprague said today.
He said civilians would be ex
pected to remain at home during
light and sporadic bombing raids,
but if there are heavy raids, In
vallds, the aged and children will
be moved to safe areas.
Sheriffs mounted posses, or
ganized In several Oregon coun
ties, will not be Included In the
state guard, but they undoubted
ly would be used in event of
enemy Invasion as sheriff's depu
ties, Governor Sprague said.
Europeans, Asiatics Victims of Jap
Atrocities at Captured Hongkong
LONDON, Mar. 10. (AP)
Foreign Secretary Eden charged
In the house of commons today
that the Japanese army In Hong
kong had been guilty of whole
sale atrocities In the occupied
crown colony and declared that
the Japanese emperor and gov
ernment and "the whole Japan
ese people" were to blame.
Fifty British officers and men
were bound hand and foot and
then bayoneted to death follow
ing the capture of Hongkong;
women, both European and Asi
atic, were outraged and murder
ed, and one whole Chinese dis
trict was declare a brothel with
out exception for the status of
any of the Inhabitants, Eden de
clared. These happenings, previously
reported to the government, were
not made public until It had con
firmation from reliable eye-witnesses
recently escaped from the
colony, Eden said.
Nanking Horror Repeated.
"Their testimony established
the fact that the Japanese army
at Hongkong perpetrated agalnt
their helpless military prisoners
and civil population without dls
Unci Ion of race or color the same
kind of barbarities which arous
ed the horror of the civilized
world at the time of the Nanking
massacre of 1937," Eden con
tinued. He referred to the Japanese
Rangoon Left
Ablaze; Java
Wholly Lost
Vigilance of Australia
Increased as Japs Land
3rd Unit in New Guinea
.By the Associated Press)
. 1 hreats of a "revolt" by British
ruled India's 77,000,000 Moslems
further complicated the allied ef
fort In the far Pacific war thea
ter today as Japanese troops
surged on westward beyond fallen
Rangoon toward the Irrawaddy
oil fields and the fabulous riches
ot India.
Rangoon Itself, the Burmese
capital, was a city of fire-black
ened ruins.
The situation in India hung In
delicate balance.
Dispatches from New Delhi said
apparent delay In Prime Minister
Churchill's statement to parlia-
mcnt on India had resulted in dis
appointment. Mohammed All Jlnnah, presi
dent of the All-India Moslem
league, predicted that Moslem In
dia would revolt If the statement
were detrimental to Moslem In
terests, particularly any plan to
divide India Into self-ruling Mos- ,
lem and Hindu states.
:ea. JnUi.;uiclds--2,0000000 , HIndus out;
number the Moslems by three to
one.
Java Entirely Lost.
On other fronts: '
The battle for Java was appar
ently a closed chapter, with Ja
panese forces occupying Ban
doeng, former allied military
headquarters, and presumably the
big Soerabaja naval base.
Blackcd-out communications
hid the extent of any fighting
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Brig. Gen. Means Named
Northern Defense Chief
WALLA WALLA, Mar. 10
(AP) Brig. Gen. Lewis M. Means
has been named commanding
general, northern defense area,
with headquarters at Walla Wal
la, Major General Jay L. Benedict,
commanding general of the ninth
corps area, Fort Douglas, Utah,
has announced.
General Means was formerly
adjutant general of Missouri and
has been on active duty with the
army since December, 1940.
capture of the former Chinese
capital on December 13, 1937.
Substantiated accounts at that
time suld a reign of terror exlstw
ed for days, with thousands )ot
women outraged and murdered
and other thousands of the In
habitants killed during the burn
ing, looting and pillage of Nan
king. Japanese statements at the time
described the disorders as a
"mopping up" operation.
CHUNGKING, Mar. 10. (AP)
Recent arrivals from Japanese
occupied Hongkong reported to
day that Vaughn Meisling, Asso
ciated Press correspondent, and
two other Americans had been
confined to Stanley prison under
conditions of privation.
The report said that persons
confined there were given but
one bowl of rice and a bowl o
watery fish or meat soup daily,
and that many were suffering
from dysentery and stomach ail
ments. The Japanese refused to
supply medicines, It was said.
Meissing and his two compan
ions first were allowed to live In
the Loucestcr hotel where a Ja
panese army Intelligence officer,
formerly a Domei correspondent
In Manila, tried to Induce them
to write and sign stories saying
they were getting good treat
ment, It was reported. When his
efforts were useless the men
were transferred to the prison.