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NINETY-FIBST YEAB Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morninai January 10 IS42 Prlci 3cx-Newsstand . 5c; No. 243 On Prices ,ii,Wickard Given Control Over Farm Ceiling WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP) By a 48 to 37 vote, the senate late Friday reject ed a personal appeal of Presi dent Roosevelt and gave the secretary of agriculture a vir tual veto power over wartime price ceilings on farm prices. '. Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) attempted to avoid the direct administration defeat by offering a last-minute compromise amendment to the broad price control measure but leaders of the powerful and bi-partisan f a r m bloc held their lines to reject this, 48 to 39. Then they demonstrated their power again by rolling up the 11 .' vote margin in fayor of an amend rment by Senator Bankhead (D- Ala.) which would require "prior approval" by the secretary of ag- riculture over ' any price maxi - mums on agricultural commodi . ties fixed by the price administra tor. - ; -' Sensing defeat earlier in the -debate, the senate democratic leader offered to require "prior consultation" with the secretary. This brought an Immediate pro test by Bankhead that there would be nothing "binding" about such consultation. ' The second roll call found 31 democrat. 18 reoubllcans ' and , ene .progressive voting ; for . the ; Bankhead proposal while t& I democrats 10 republicans and, s one Independent opposed it. Barkley; immediately notified senators they must attend an un usual Saturday session in. an ef- 4n ' lunnnlafa Q-f inn nn the . general price control legislation in tended to save . the government billions of dollars in war costs and at the same time put the brakes on rising living costs for the mil lions of ordinary citizens. - President Roosevelt,- in a tele gram to the senate Thursday, had asked defeat of the proposal to di- vide the: authority over farm prices. ! ' Bankhead. who had led many - senate fights for new deal farm - legislation, said the originator of the idea! of giving the secretary of agricnlture control over farm prices, was former President ,'- Herbert Hoover, who was food i administrator during the last Senator Brown (DrMich), floor manager for the legislation, point ed out that farmers already had been given special ' treatment be cause the bill limited the price administrator's power to fix maxi 'mum prices on their output. Senator McNary (K-Ore), re . pablican leader who seldom en (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Corregidor -fruited States troops are pictured operating an aerial height finder on the island fortress of 'Corregidor I rat the entrance to Manila bay. Pounded with bombs and strafed with machine gun fire,-the courageous men ot Corregidor have accounted for more than two score Japanese planes. And the island's great artiXery rifles, aided by those ef adjacent forts, have kept Manila bay clear of the enemy while Ameri- . can and Filipino land forces under General Douglas MacArthur braced themselves shoreside for a large seal general attack by the Japs. Named Aide - 7 f - , JAMES M. LANDIS ' 1 FDR Quashes Defense Row Harvard Law Dean Will Share Job With LaGuardia WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 President Roosevelt responded Friday to arguments that the task of administering civilian defense was too big for a part-time job by appointing. Dean James M. Land is of Harvard law school; to serve with Mayor Fiorella H. La Guardia of New York and handle the executive problems. The peace-making eompro- ' mise eame as a swift aftermath to the house action ' Thursday In voung 10 flop i uuaraia oi much of his authority. The chamber passed a measure riv ing the war department control over expenditure of $100,000, 000 to provide defense equip ment. Influential congressmen, some privately and others on-the-record, expressed conviction that the president's move would pave the way for approval of the legisla tion in the form approved by the senate, leaving the purse strings in La Guardia's hands as nation al civilian defense chief. The White House, in announ cing the partial reorganization, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) ( Sleepy-Head9 On Altar of Patriotism WASHINGTON, Jan. The author of the bill to set clocks up an hoar, which the house passed Fridayadmitted she Is "a sleepy-head." , "No one knows how I hate to get up in the morning," mourned r Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers (It-Mass) who Intro duced the daylight savings measure as a war-effort. Men Bag Many ' 1 M f4 ,!--.:. ??i VI -, ' s -v -1 ' 7 v J US Planes Aid Raids In Libya Guard Bombers As RAF Smashes African Units CAIRO, Egy p t, Jan. 9 (AP), Guarded by Ameri can-built Kittyhawk fighters, RAF bombers a r e dealing smashing new blows to axis sea' and land supply lines in the Mediterranean and North Africa while British mobile columns are keeping General Erwin Rommel's r retreating forces under constant attack. Outnumbered more than 5 to 1, the Kittyhawks were credited Friday with downing seven axis planes and damaging others in their latest clash with more than 50 German and Italian craft in the area of Agedabia. These Cur tiss models, an improvement over the famed Tomahawks, were manned by Australians. General headquarters here an nounced that RAF bomber squad rons scored direct hits on coastal shipping bringing supplies from Tripoli, the chief axis , North Af rican port, to "beached at various points on the Gulf oft Sirte" as well as pn transport columns .on the , coastal highway. Axis troops covering Rom mel's Withdrawal on the 70-mile stretch southwest from Aged- (Tum to Page 2, Col. 6) NW Industries Board Formed Bonneville Power Body Bills War Action With Oregon and Washington PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 9-(JP)- A Pacific northwest war indus tries board, representing Oregon, Washington and the Bonneville power administration, was organ ized here Friday. The board, established as a development of s conference at Olympia last week of Gov. Charles A. Spragne of Oregon, Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington and Paul J. Raver, Bonneville administrator, set as its goal the unification of ef forts to obtain war and peace Industries on a regional basis. Members of the, board include Ivan Bloch, chief of Bonneville's market development section, chairman; David Eccles, Oregon's budget director, and Fat Heath' erton, director of the Washington planning commission. Bloch will leave for Washing ton, DC, tomorrow to confer with OPM and other, federal agencies on the regional development plan and to obtain information on the president's war industries expan sion program. Jap Planes it Bloodv Posh Toward Sin Noted Pacific Freighter Hit By Submarine Most of Crew Saved By Dutch Air Boat; MacArthur Waiting WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP) The navy announced Friday night the destruction of an American ship by an enemy plane in Far Eastern waters, while the nation awaited word of a renewed attack upon the gallant de fenders of the Philippines. The vessel was the Ruth Alex ander of the American Presidents lines. She was f ormerly owned by the Pacific Steamship company and was once In regular passen ger service between Los Angeles and Seattle. One member of the crew was killed and four. Were injured. The remainder of the ship's person nel was said to be safe in a friend ly port The air attack apparent ly did not sink the vessel but inflicted such damage that she had to be abandoned as a total loss. (A Dutch communique on Jan uary l reported that an Ameri can freighter was attacked and set, afire .by Japanese planes. in East Indies - waterr'&nd;-;that' a Dutch naval, flying boat had rescued 48 of its crew. It said one crewman remained missing. (The navy said Friday night it did not know Whether this ahip and the Ruth Alexander was the same, but added that from avail' able information this was assumed to be the case.)" Making- this announcement, the navy added that operations against enemy submarines hi the central PaciflcVere continuing, and that off the west coast the activities of undersea raiders had been reduced. An investiga tion of reports of an enemy sub marine off the New England coast had produced nothing def inite. s Meanwhile, the weary fighting men of Gen. MacArthur were steeling themselves to withstand another savage Japanese effort to drive them off their rocky, grimly held peninsula and into the sea. The enemy was obviously gathering his strength and force for a major attack, moving fresh troops and equipment into the areas ol direct assault. The actual fighting had reduced itself to sporadic jungle skirmishes, the apparent result of chance en counters between advance patrols. (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Legs Broken In Collision Blaming their collision with a heavy truck on the Pacific high way south of Salem Friday night to the slippery paving on which their lighter vehicle spun when they attempted to pass another car, William B. Muetze and Wil bur Fuller Ensley of Lebanon are in a Salem hospital, each with a broken leg. Muetze, driver of the passen ger vehicle, who was rushed to the hospital by Salem taxi am bulance, told state police he was unable to control the skidding spinning car in the path of an oncoming Portland freight truck driven by Ray F, Pound. The ac cident occurred in front of the Alder club six miles out of the city at approximately 9:30. V Nazis Rushed ... ' t i-J v. To East Front J. - KUIBYSHEV, : Russia, Jan. -(-Germany was reported1 Fri day, by the. army newspaper Red Star to be rushing . reinforcements by " airplane from western Eu rope in an effort to stop the Rus sian counter-offensive. ! -; One hundred i German officers' were brought , from .France Dec. 23 to the Kalinin , front, but most of them now are dead, the news paper 'said. " Another case was cited where 0 nazis were flown from Ger many. ' Battle' '1 Where Far Cheered by word that reinforcements were ea route, British armies struggled to hold back Increasing hordes of Japanese on the Malayan peninsula. Violent fights raged in the west and central areas below Ipoh, tin center, new In enemy hands. ' On the etast. coast, defenders were locked in battle with, the Japanese near Kuantan, 190 miles from Singapore. This map shows the areas producing rubber, iron, tin and gold, all of which Japan covets, and the railroads serving the area. Inset shows the strategic position Singapore holds in relation to the Dutch Idles, Australia, the Philippines and China, OPM Policies Outlined To Salem Plant Owners Defense Contracts on Competitive Basis, City Group Told at Meeting; Pooling of Tools Advocated; Office Service Offered No governmental bureau, no promotion organization can get defense contracts for Salem industry, representatives of Oregon's new office of the division of contract distribution from the OPM told business and industrial leaders at a luncheon session Friday. As in the pre-war era, contracts for all business must still be rus tled," they assured the more than 75 men who gathered at the Quelle; "7' : - j .' Development of programs lor conversion of plants audi indus tries from civilian to defense production with government fi nancial assistance if necessary is, however one of the purposes of the DCD, John G. Barnett, acting manager for the Oregon office, .explained. . j Advice to manufacturers and other businessmen as to proce dures and practices of the procure ment divisions of the armed serv ices; provision of engineering and technical assistance to contractors who may need such help in : or der to produce war materials; fa cilitation through regular com mercial I banking channels, the RFC and the - Federal Reserve banks of the necessary financing of facilities for contractors, wheth- - (Turn to Page 2, Col 5) I Wow -That; Worst ice storm here since 1912 was what struck Tuesday over' the Willamette valley, resulting in untold damage. Military ; permis sion for., disclosure of the .weather information was givn Friday after it had : been requested withheld from radios and newspapers, . Extensive disruption of com- munlcatlons, brought about not only by weight of Ice on wires but also by toppling trees and falling limbs, was the worst damage inflicted. It had been only partially remedied Friday H -l ges in G7 JL East Struggle ConcntrUtes W $ 1 , - .... 7- $ X-Synm- C . .-:..te 4 ' - ' Sprague Lauds Newspapers on War Censoring EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 9 -VP) Gov, Charles A. Sprague of Ore gon warned newspapers " Friday against publishing of misinforma tion. - He told editors and publish ers at the annual Oregon pre s conference that the nation wrs indebted to newspapers for their cooperation in disseminat ing Information . during the . war, but advised them to guard against . rumors and misstate ments of fact. " ' Gov. Sprague said newspapers already had erred several times, but blamed persons in high au thority as -well as journalists. . . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) It's All - night. - - Electric, power " was largely restored.' f - Many trees, ' especially "ever greens, giving up their load of ice suddenly, ' broke during; the' day and Caused additional line trouble. As many extra' linemen as could be provided awitS equipment were added" to repair - crews, all work tag long hours;; " ' - -"We all appreciate the fine spirit in which the public" has accepted the. catastrophe," stated iVf, , M. Hamilton,, "district "manager ' of Portland General , Electric com- Mala ja .nzbn Draft Boards Get Warning National Director Says 'Hysterical' Action Would Be Disruptive WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-(Ph-Local draft boards were cau tioned by Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey Friday against "hyster ical" reclassification of men for military service now. that the United States Is at war. The selective service direc tor, speaking at the National Press club, said that it was the duty of these boards to see to It that the armed forces were supplied With all the men needed to win the war, but that care must be taken to avoid disruption of armament pro duction! " Hershey predicted that the men from 20 to 44, Inclusive, who will register for the first time on February 16 would not be called to ctuty for several months since there is still a large reser voir of man-power in class 1-A. He did ; say, however, that the time, might not be far distant when men with slight physical defects who are now .classified as 1-B ' would be reclassified for active service. . :.- There: will be no drastic change , in selective service rules and regulations v because '.the country is at war, he asserted. "We must still have defer Turn to Page 2, Col 2) Ovei:,It::May pany, : who said nearly . everyone had been patient in requesting aid; About 200 individual ' lines ' in small areas are still out mostly in Salem Heights' and on Center street east of the, city limits. As much of the system Was down as is' usually" added in a year, Ham ilton declared. " - ' ;! Telephone lines were clear to ; the north, and Albany and Cor- vallis were.' reached' Friday.! - Harry V. Collins, distilct man-j ager, tali Eugene would prob; ably be attained by this mora- 'f-i". ,1 1 - - 1v ! - r . if As Japs Is Qraett Nazi Position Grave as Russ Extend Lines f Berlin Admits Serious Condition ; Sieges of Soviet Oties Lifted J By The "Associated Press .The British imperial forces above Singapore were under enormous Japanese pressure Friday .and although S the in vader's blood was deeply staining- the forests and foot hills and miasm al swamps of western Malaya he apparent ly still was creeping forward. The disturbing allied posi tion in this most vital and currently most active of the Pacific theatres was somewhat compensated, howeverfby the fact that, the enemy lay all j but Idle ueiure uk uiaomiiaDie American Philippine line in Luzon and still was not able to loose that second major offensive which had been foretold. ; In Russia, too, as the fifth week oi me extension oi ine war to a global conflict drew near ah end, the German arch-enemy appeared about to lose his key:positiona be fore Leningrad, as he already had? lost them before Moscow, and 'twn in growini peril in tthe Crimea in the far south. The German" armies in Russia late Friday night plainly were in the gravest position yet to befall and official nazi accounts showed an extraordinary, cumulative mel ancholy unparalleled since the be ginning of the war. While new Russian successes at north, south and center were being announced in Moscow, Adolf Hitler's personal . press chief, Dr. Otto Dietrich,? declared in a bald and somber broadside published in all nazi newspapers: "Germany's military opera tions have entered an extreme ly serious and Indeed critical phase. But Hitler will know how to overcome this crisis.' The authoritative Berlin com mentary Dienst Aus Deutschland, which often speaks for the Ger man foreign office, warned the1 country that Hitler's retreat in Russia was far from ended and that the nazi forces of the east had been forced to "the unac customed task of a stiff defense, withstanding the storming soviet masses and givmg way step by step, while covering prepara tions made for a winter combat line.." Where this line was to be was of course not indicated, but it was made plain that It was to the. west and beyond any area in which the Germans . now are struggling. . ' , J Before Leningrad, the Rus sians claimed to have substan tially lifted the six-months-long siege and to have turned the vast Leningrad garrison in to a powerful offensive force which was heavily assaulting the nazis In cooperation-with drives by other red forces along the Stalin canal near the city. ii,:,,.r: , ,: In the Crimea, a German army of seven or more divisions 100,000 men or more was under growing threat of envelopment, for the erstwhile besieged garri son of Sevastopol was strongly on the offensive in aid of other thrusts by soviet troops landed at a number of , points on the peninsula. 4. ' v - . - On the central fronts the Bus-. (Turn to. Page 2, Col. 1) Be Told ing or by late afternoon. 'Local service is a little better, with probably 700 phones useless, but regular crews and men from other parts of the state' will prob ably have the system mostly clear in a few daysr ;"' ''-' iv; 1 - Most of the trees and branches which fell "on lawns and Streets have been gathered bitd 'piles, clearing the way -"for traffic Cleanup' men continued -hard at work,' according to City Engineer T U Tts.Tia Kit' 1-fJTV Vint hp com: pieted lor probably tw weeks.