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form Ruin Pryor VS Ordnance i -, -i riant but ""'-- mi Little Hit PRYOR, Okla., April 27 f AP) 4 brief, violent torna do reportedly killed at least 100 persons and injured 250 late Monday in this war boom town, and left the main busi ness district in ruins. First reports from rescuers containing these figures were received by R. W. Stinson, Muskogee district manager for WPA, in a telephone call from his workers on the scene. .The storm struck at about 5:50 p. m. (CWT), roaring down the main street, tearing down buildings and leaving the street filled with debris and the dead and dying. Three persons were reported killed and at least 15 injured near Talala and another person was killed at Tiawah, southeast of Claremore, as the tornadic win!s fanned out over this northeastern Oklahoma area. One eye-witness reported he saw 11 dead and scores of injured after the brief, furious storm Struck. The town was in darkness and phone communications within the city were disrupted, hampering rescue work. F. - C. "Dick" Dickinson, a Grand River dam worker at Lane ley, Okla., said he had just driven into town when the tor nado storm struck. "It was ever in a matter of minutes," he said. "I think I'm safe inlaying there isn't a two story building left along Main street" The wind storm was accom panied by hail and rain which witnesses said "fell in buckets." Dickinson said he counted 11 bodies in five blocks of mam street and. saw about 50 persons he believetf seriously wounded and 50 others less seriously hurt. "I couldn't attempt to estimate the number of dead and injured," he" said, "because I saw only one section of the town." Hospitals here, at Vinita and Claremore were Jammed. About -20 , carloads of doctors and nurses from Tulsa and many ethers from nearby towns were siding in the rescue work. The mult 1-m.l 1 1 i o n doUar Oklahoma ordnance works south of here escaped serious damage. The storm's fury struck down main street with a freakish de structive hand, Dickinson said. "Across the street from a filling station that was left a heap of - rubble, a trailer and its occu pants were unhurt," he added. Dickinson said that he aided in rescue work along main street, and that while some single storied buildings may have escaped seri ous damage, every taller building was battered. Charles Barde, city editor of The Daily Democrat here, said he wouldn't attempt to estimate the number of injured. "We've just come through the wrath of god." he added. He said a shuttle train, which normally carried defense plant workers between Muskogee and Pryor, was used to carry two carloads of wounded to Vinita for hospitalisation. "About 2000 workers from the powder - plant are aiding in the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Keep 'Em Flying The army wants 100,009 men to take flight training. Turn to page three for details of the new air cadet program. Hope Held for More Gasoline DALLAS, April 27-( Special) -t Orders curtailing gasoline deliv - tries may be eased in Salem and other communities in the Camp Adair construction area , if nego tiations now under way with the Pacific coast petroleum coordi nator's office are successful, H. C, Johnson, Four-County Canton ment council coordinator, report . ed at the April meeting of the council here Monday night . "We should have a less dras ; tie cut in our gasoline supply la the four-county area because f the great Influx of workers." Johnson said. ?A redaction - based oa consumption some time last year would work a hardship.', v y a- - Johnson said the petroleum co NINETY-SECOND YEAR TTT, o . FDR Declares For More Tax, Ceiling On Wages, Prices Says No Need for Added Legislation Except for Taxes and Farm Prices; . Latter Starts Battle in Congress WASHINGTON, April 27 (AP) President Roosevelt outlined to congress Monday a broad anti-inflation program which would fix general price, ceilings, freeze most wages "at existing scales" and syphon into government coffers all in dividual income over $25,000 a year. These steps, with taxes tion profits not necessary to continued production, with a reduction in the present legal maximum prices for fann pro ducts, with increased war bon buying and debt paying, and with rationing of scarce essentials, would, he predicted, avert Highlights of FDR Speech WASHINGTON, April 27-) Here are some sailent statements from President Roosevelt's mes sage to congress: When the cost of living spirals upward week after week and month after month, people as a whole are bound to become poor er, because the pay envelope will then lag behind rising retail prices..., We must. adopt as one of our principal domestic objectives the stabilization of the cost of living. Profits must be fixed to the utmost limit consistent with con tinued production. In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has. paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year. Most-workers in munitions in dustries . are ' working far more than 40 hours a week, and should continue to be paid at time and a half for overtime. As a national policy, the ceiling on farm products in other words, the maximum prices to be re ceived by the producers of these products should be set at parity, Every dime and dollar not vitally needed for absolute neces sities should go into war bonds and stamps to add to the striking power of our armed forces. We cannot fight this war, we cannot exert our maximum effort. on a spend-as-usual basis. We cannot have all we want, if our soldiers and sailors are to have all they need. I am confident that as to many basic necessities of life rationing will not be necessary, because we shall strive to the utmost to have an adequate supply. Our standard of living will have to come down. Some have called this an "econ omy of sacrifice." Itis more true to call this total effort of the American people an "equality of privilege." ordinator's office had 'asked him to make a survey of foreign auto mobiles and other factors that might show how many new resi dents are in the area. - The , coordinator . also reported that efforts are being made to obtain the release of 12 busses ordered by Oregon Motor Stages to serve the cantonment area. The busses have been manufactured but delivery has been delayed by war restrictions, - . ; - "When the peak hits at Camp' Adair, I dont believe there are busses enough in our communi ties to handle the traffic," John son declared. Interested . especially T in the transportation . problem, , - Pres. Carl , W. Hogg and Business Man MAW that would lap up all corpora the cost of living hardships of the first World war. "We cannot fight this war, we cannot exert our maximum effort on a spend-as-usual basis," Mr. Roosevelt said in a special mes sage to congress. "We cannot have all we want, if our soldiers and sailors are to have all they need." By implication he opposed any change in the ware-hour-law, asserting that most defense workers were now working more than 40 hoars a week, and that they should be paid time and a half for overtime, lest there be a redaction in their weekly pay envelopes. . ":; In addition to slashing higher salaries down to $25,000 by taxa tion, he foresaw a process of sta bilizing wages through protests to and decisions by the war labor board, which would "continue to give ' due consideration to in equalities and the elimination of sub-standards of living." Exist ing contracts between employers and employes should, he said, be fully honored "in all fairness." The office of price administra tion is expected to announce to morrow a general price order, freezing prices as of some time in the recent past, probably (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Dealers to Return Forms Sugar Sales Are Over Until Rationing Starts May 5 Sugar rationing "registration of the trade" forms are to be re turned by wholesalers, retailers, institution heads and industrial users, today and Wednesday to the registrar's office in the Salem sen ior high school building, it was pointed out Monday by A. H. Zinz ley, trade rationing advisor in Sa lem. Proprietors or managers must bring in the forms personally and sign them in the registrar's pres ence, he explained. The registrar's office will be open irom iu 10 u a. m., rrom l to 5:30 p. m. and also from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. each of those days, Zinzley said. In the other Marion county rationing districts, blanks are also to be returned to the Wood burn, Silverton and Stayton high school buildings today or Wednesday but Zinxley had not been advised Monday of the hours they would be open. Seventeen volunteer; registrars, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) !.'. ager Clay C Cochran .were pres ent at the meeting here to get additional information. That bi-weekly listing of hous ing facilities is already a neces sity if cantonment workers are tq be located - satisfactorily and rents to be kept within bounds was asserted by Johnson. Mayor H. W. Hand of Corval lis, council chairman, said he had been , advised that 8000 families of soldiers and civilian workers would be settled in the vicinity o the cantonment by next falL The council members, repre senting Marion, Folk, Una and Benton counties and their Bias principal elUes, were also told by Johnson that prospects of (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Salens Oregon, Tuesday Morning. April 28, 1S42 is Ilillliii 4 11111 W iilM . .. a a a aaf a M-mtm a awav a !;!!: SamP I ENGLAND MILES mini. JiilLpjW piilKjjr BERLIN English Chinntljn!pw w V t HHlHiHjHpiHjjji TSri W PllSEN BTli ft,uj W I TmANNHIIM flJV !!!!K!lltSl Fx. MMS ir"U.. f $) lilil 1 FRANCE unr O idol PARlSVgy I Bombers of the RAF continued its widespread and destructive attacks on the German coastline over the weekend and Monday, making Rostock (2) a worse shambles than nearby Lnebeck. The raids also hit Skoda munitions works at Pilsen S) and Calais and Dunkerque (1). The nazis in return raided several times, but in less force, at Bath (A). The RAF reported Monday It met the strongest opposi tion so far this spring. Besieged Fort Blasts Enemy Corregidor Artillery Breaks Up Twops;" tVuck Formation , WASHINGTON, April " 27-(P) Besieged Corregidor dealt the Japanese sharp new blows Mon day, nearly three weeks after the fall of Bataan. Replying to a four-hour cross fire pounding by enemy siege guns, the artillery batteries of the Philip pine island fortress broke up a hostile troop concentration in the nearby peninsula and set afire a group of parked motor trucks. The enemy shelling came from batteries on the peninsula and on the south shore of the bay in Cavite province, some 10 miles distant, in continuation of the cross-fire to which the harbor forts have been exposed since Bataan was lost The communique announced also that Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, jr., is commander of the army force which has arrived on the Free French island of New Caledonia, strategically situated on the supply route from the United States to Australia. Arrival of the force was an nounced Saturday. MacArthur's headquarters reported Monday that Japanese observation planes attempting to scout the island, which is some 800 miles east of Australia, had been forced to flee. Official List Of Prisoners Is Released WASHINGTON, April 27 -)- The first official list of Ameri cans held as prisoners of war by the Japanese, containing 120 names, was published Monday by the war department Most were navy and marine corps officers and men who were captured at Wake island or at Chinese stations early in the war. Included was Commander Win- field , Scott Cunningham of the navy, who was commander on Wake. island when the navy , and marine garrison there was over whelmed after a heroic fight .The names were obtained by the International , Red Cross and turned "over to "the army provost marshal general, Maj. Gen. Allen W. Gullion. Officials stressed that it was incomplete. - - -The prisoners were in addition to 219 civilians Interned by the Japanese whose' names -were- pub- Iished March 1C. The prisoners; with . the namej ana aaaress oi nexi oi Kin, in cluded: Marine detachment, : USMC, Wake, Island " ' , - Oregon:' ' ' " 2 Hyxer," Morris Forgery, private first class Mrs. J. H. Hyxer, box 82, Canyonville. -- Winslow, Robert Erwin, private Mrs. H. A. Winslow, 558 Jef ferson street, Eugene ' 5 .Blasts Thousands of Tons of iaaBUUBauuBuauuuuaaBmauaaaBuaaaaaaaaaaaanaaaauufcaaam Canada Given Free Jn tp Soldiers Anywhere Quebec Is Only Dissenting Province; Others Poll Overwhelming Majority To Chance Dominion Conscription OTTAWA, April 27-P)-The given a free - hand by plebiscite Monday to send conscripted soldiers outside the dominion and into battle anywhere in the world. With only predominantly French-Canadian Quebec province dissenting, as expected, the electorate was shown by incomplete returns Monday night to favor overwhelmingly the release of the MacKenzie King government from j prior commitments promising only domestic service for drafted men. A tabulation of the vote in nine provinces at 12:30 a.m. show-1 ed that 2,233,115 persons voted in favor of releasing the govern ment from previous commitments which kept conscripts on Canadian soU. A total of 1,306,782 voted "no" in 23,481 of the 31,203 polls reported at that time. The Canadian Press an nounced flatly at 7 pan two hours after the polls closed in the eastern provinces, that the prime minister's appeal for a free hand in the use ef man power had won out The vote in Quebec, where the draft was violently opposed in the last war and where riots broke out in consequence, showed 339,329 negative votes to 109,596 affirma tive in the first 2795 polls report ed out of 7962. The cry of "A Bas Conscription" (Down With Conscription) was raised in recent disorders among the French-Canadian populace during campaign demonstrations. In contrast to Quebec's opposi tion, Ontario province voted at the rate of 588,545 to 193,768 to release MacKenzie King from his previous commitments. The vote fa 11.9W pells out of 22426 tn six provinces showed 1,031,957 for and 716,669 against the proposition. About 7.IM4M civilian voters were "eligible for the balloting Monday which will be totaled up with the soldier vote takes $ between i April If (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Our Senators 'it.- VTca 5-1 New Bombs Dispatch Canadian government was Bonesteel Is Iceland Head Succeeds Curtis as Commander for United Nations WASHINGTON, April 27-(dP) The war department announced Monday that Maj. Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel, commander of the American troops in Iceland, has taken over the command of all forces of the United Nations in that northern Atlantic island. Bonesteel succeeds Maj. Gen. Henry Osborne Curtis of the Brit ish army, but there was no indi cation in the brief announcement whether British troops were be ing withdrawn from Iceland. It was recalled, however, that both President Roosevelt and Sec retary oi war btimson are on record as. saying it was the pur pose of the United States evenLu- ally to take over the garjisoninh of the island from the British. Eth of these statements, howe-.r, were made last year, before the (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) Oregon First In Protection Of Pedestrian WASHINGTON, April 27 Pittsburgh, Pa., took first honors among larger cities' in the third national ? pedestrian protection contest sponsored by -the Ameri can Automobile? association, the AAA's' special judging committee announced Monday night ' Oregon won first place among the states, Oklahoma,- Nebraska, Kansas and Minnesota . getting honorable taentfon:v i r-. . Among cities . named as .win ners were: ' - - ; 10,000 to 25,000 population Aberdeen, SD, - first; - Klamath Falls, Ore., second; Watertown, SD, third. - ; -: AH states and 573 cities were entered in the' contest. ' -'- Price 5c. Coast W 000 Families Homeless Rostock Six Sweeps of Planes Gross Channel to Bomb Airdromes, Meet Heaviest Defense Yet STOCKHOLM, April 27-;p)-Ten thousand families in Ros tock are homeless as a result of the four raids there by the British KAF, the Berlin correspondent of the Dagens Nyheter reported Monday night. He said the damage in Rostock was worse than in Luebeck, previously raided by the British. The Berlin correspondent wrote that the British had dropped leaflets over Stralsnnd, about 45 miles northeast of Rostock on the Baltic warning that similar raids would be made there. He told of planes flying low over Rostock, using machine guns and cannon. By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, April 27 (AP) British bombers and fighters smashed violently at German air bases across the channel Monday and encountered their heaviest op position of the spring, indicating the RAF was begin ning to achieve one of its main objectives by forcing Hitler to divert his aerial strength from the eastern front.1 . , j : .' '.'"f " , - j VThe size and quality of the opposition was empha sized by the loss of 18 British craft- 16 fighters and two bo rubers agaim I 11 nazi craft destroyed, and by- Enemy Thrusts Ahead, Burma Reds Strive to Knock Finland Out of Axis Fight By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor Again Monday night it seemed that the' great decisions of the war were being slowly developed in the European theatre; for maj or action in the Pacific and In dian oceans was limited to Bur ma. There the allied left, defend ed by Chinese troops under com mand of the American Gen. Jos eph Stilwell, was in steadily growing peril. A late night Chinese commun ique disclosed that a Japanese column had thrust on 75 miles east of the town of Loilem, on the eastern Burma front, and a supplemental British announce ment stated that this force had then turned north in a 55-mile drive that put the Japanese spearhead within about that dis tance from Hsipaw on the Man-dalay-Lashio railroad. The event ual purpose appeared to be to cut Stilwell off from China. This spectacular advance was complementary to other enemy offensive action due north to ward Mandalay from the area of the town of Tannery i, which is to the west of Loilem. The Chinese had reported earlier tn the day that after recapturing .Taunxgyl they had consolidated : this local victory by , retaking the nearby town ef Jlopong. Subsequent information .made it clear, however,, that the strug gle for that, area . still was fierce and that the enemy's powerful, continuing counter-attacks , had left the issue in doubt - In central Burma the British had fallen back about 35 miles above the burned oil field center pf Yenangyaung.' - While the showdown - thus was approaching for Burma and outer-India, even larger issues seem ed to be shaping up in Europe. On the Russian f fighting front the most significant action - re ported during the day was that against the Finnish-German lines in Lapland and Karelia. .Thejtmsslans, said front dis patches, had opened a strong : , (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) - Sunday's Weather ; Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request Elver Mon day .1 foot. - Max. tempera tare Sunday S5, Mia. 47 Service Men Oar boys of Salem and vicinity arc ta uniform with Uncle Sam aver the face of the globe. FoUow them daily m The Statesman's "Service MenVooIumnv-rp- - No. 23 Assault reports of RAF pilots that their cnaiiengers were enced and their more experi planes better offensive hat to withdraw than heretofore. If the British cknpelled Hitler considerable formations from the east to meet the RAF in the west British sources said the massive British aerial offensive was paying a big dividend.. They added however that it would be the end of the week before it is known definitely whether this purpose has been accomplished. Hundreds of British planes -roared over the chanael la six major sweeps from dawn antil after dark during Monday's operations, cutting away at the naals air trenth aad daria them to make good Hitler's threat ef fall-scale retaliation. The Germans did strike back. raiding a town In east Anglia Monday night, but there were no immediate indications that this was anything like the furious RAF assaults which nromDted the Hitler threat The day's jraids, centered on Mardyck and Le Touauet. fol lowed the fourth consecutive overnight Attack on Rostock, German Baltic port from which German men and supplies go to tne Russian front. Rostock now lies blackened and seared by an aggregate of 1,600,000 pounds of British bombs. . The Hurricanes roaring across the channel this morning to these new attacks on the German semi-circle ot coastal (Turn to Page 2, Cot 5): Coffee Use To Be Cut By Quarter Washington, April 27-fl3)-The war production board Monday announced a 25 per cent eat in the consumption of coffee, be cause of "uncertainties about fa tore supplies." The cat was brought aboat by an order reducing the amount . "mm li.l 1 " m . t ered by roasters and . accepted by wholesalers tn any month to 75 per cent of deliveries la the, corresponding period ef 141. The government will not. at-, tempt to ration .coffee- at the consumer level, WPB said, bat the wholesalers are "expected to ' pass - the , eat . along , to telr customers as equitably as pos--sible." . 'it'sX i-"1 "This action .was takeVto eon-; . serve supplies new aband for, the army, navy uitfrii1; supplies go as. far as pessiblef the board's aameaaeement jalA $ Area