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PAGE TWO- Tha OHEGOH STATESMAN, Solera. Oregon, Wednesday Horning, September 9, 1312 Council Talks Of Mill Fumes -" ' -.'.' . '-'. - Dixnout kJ Gutter " Violations- Are - Penalized - - - . '' (Cec tinned -from, pags 1) the cost of keeping the city swim ming ?ools open 'from August 21 to Labor day; approved formally' the previously --authorized pur chase of a pickup truck for use of the police department as a part of dot pound equipment, -and auth- orized 4ke city - reoorder to seek, bids on a 750 gallon pumper to replace a fire engine recently damaged In collision. - Repairs to . the damaged truck - would arnount to--41500 without Consideration of costs of labor, Boss Goodman, chairman of the jouncfl-fixe committee reported,; explaining that there is $5000 in the fiie tax fund .available for the purchase' of equipment and that other -saoneys may. be anticipated , from insurance. An erdlnance firing city fe- llce authority to enforce - army, and an types el federal emer gency war orders as municipal law -mad '- providing maximum - enaltks ef4SM flae aader sht amtti ia tall fw HkmU vi- latlen fheae regulations was passed after sasaensten el the rales aflewistfr the third reading at a atagie council session. Police have indicated that there lias been 'some, -although, no long standing argument over; dimout rules. The new ordinance, drawn by US Attorney. Carl Donaugh, gives them authority to enforce the regulations and provides the city court with the right to de -mand penalties. : V Passed on final reading were " ordinances providing, a $25 fine andor five days in Jail for brush ing of leaves, lawn trimmings or .garbage of any type into gutters or-city streets, an ordinance as- 'sessing costs of Improving Mad ison between Church and Fifth ' streets to abutting properties, and an ordinance regulating hauling of logs, poles and piling through city streets. " ' Military leave for Robert Wayne Johnson, "employe of the fire de partment who is Joining the navy, was. given council approval. To-Alderman L F. LeGarie the council by resolution extended condolences upon the death of his wife, expressing -as an organiza tion and as individuals sorrow at tUS I06S. ODTGontrol Slated 0veiv: Veliicles WASHINGTON. Sept. .-JP) "The office of defease transporto-tfon-aEccuncei Ttieidaynht t - would -?rume aweeplng - control 1 1 ever uHions -of the nation's com- mercisJ vehicles November 15, in- eluding,' rationing, of 1 gasoline, tires, 2 tube-and accessor! to such' ve- hides. " .;-.,-'':2(. 1 .. Described by ODT.s " drastic move to obtain further conaerva ' tion cf J such eautpment for war -purposes,'' the order will lupple . ment eonservstlon regulations- &- ready jn effect. x ;' Approximately -4,dO,00Q trucks ; 150,000 -busses, Hipwrd of 50,000 taxieabs and similar vehicles will be required to earry certificate - of wax. necessity -in -order to ob- .tain fuel, tires, tubes and access ' aoriea." " -4-- The certificate will .govern ' the maximum mileage that may he operated or the minimum loads that may be carried or both,. The order applies to all types ef . trucks and all other vehicles built primarily for the purpose of .. transporting property, except mo , torcycles, and all vehicles used in . the .transportation of- passengers . or wluch are available for public rental including ambulances - and . hearses,' but not including private ; passenger cars. - ;; All-Star Show PlaiallsSinl1 - . ' - '.) : ; - . . ;; ' ' Merchants of Salem must not be asked .to provide the support, for the Camp Adair all-star show to be held at Salem high school audi- . torium next Monday and Tuesday bight, members of the committee sponsoring the event decided Tuesday. - -t' That the show must be sold on Its 'merits and that tickets must be merchandised - with the idea of getting a crowd was emphasized by Frank Earnest, chairman. Funds from the sale of tickets are to go to Adair and Salem rec reation funds. for service men. Mrs. T. J. Brabec ' was named chairman of the committee in charge of downtown ticket sale booths. ' ' Two TToinca Slain TOMAII, Wis, Sept IHTwo women welfare -workers were fa tally -wounded -Tuesday - by tin' known asraHants ; who robbed them cf their car and left their nude bodies lying in a heavily wooded area near Oakdale, eiht miles east of here. Tea Lzls to Qnssify T A X or AVOMAN -wrth car. Must v tf-'.'.irg rxpeilanc. Six or iglit - - or. Goo4 vy lo right person. ; ; Clark, Cue Mgr. aUUsmaa. One Jmndred seventy seven tanks, then, are aemr back to the wan."' The arc being smashed tale Wkesi reduced to piles of saetal up where they alt to HI. As i. in i . i.i mi .ii iii in- i iiiiii ri- with tth i I l m L f i s " ' t ,,jiT;, :':.-v;..;::.,.r.v,, f--' . " . - -. tV , :- ! ., ' - -fti'S::-- :,!.: - U iv. . - : , - - , t Ah Ontoeers daring manenvers ta Anstralla, these IIS soldiers g after a nse.lTtog as a Ubis ler-weir Senate Group : lkes -5 Per -Cent Levy J WASHINGTON, Sept 4-(JP)-A 5 per cent "victory'' levy on in dividual incomes of more than $624 a year won.li td approval Tuesdey -of the senate--finance jbdmniitteev which immediately di rected the treasury to report on the possibility ot combining, this proposed new impost - with the regular income tax.' ' 1 , The conrftnittees action had the effect of -mttding $3,500,000,000 to the amount the treasury would re ceive fremrpresent and 'prospec tive taxes. I - The ! "victory,J: levy would be in addition to the-tharp-ly increased income- levies--and other imports already- -approved by the house.- - V.. ; . Proposed. by Chairman George (D-Ga), the new program would call for the collection at the source, wherever that was possible, of 5 per cent of all income over $12 a week received by an individual from wages, salaries, interest, di vidends, rents, royalties, annuities, business or professional net pro fits, partnership earnihgv fidu ciary yields and "other income in cludable in gross income.-'. ' ' tt .Of the total amount collected, the treasury would retain $2,400, 000,000 as-direct tax receipts, al lowing credits or post-war rebates amounting . to $1,100,000,000. an nually. . u AD individuals would be "sub jected alike to the tax, regardless of their marital status, but at the end of the year - single persons could claim up to 29 per cent of the tax liability, or a maximum of $500, as a credit Married persons would -be permitted to a credit of 40 per cent, ot; a ; maximum of $1000, plus 2' per cent, or a maxi mum of $100, for each dependent 140 Frenchmen Die , In Raid on Rouen VICHY. .Unoccupied France, Sept tH-The French infor mation office said Tuesday , 140 Frenchmen were killed and 420 wounded Saturday in the raid by American Flying Fortresses on Rouen, . in the German-occupied tone,-a sharp increase over the previously announced figures. .. The raid brought a protest Mon day rom Pierre Laval to the US charge -d'affaires. Sabotage Charged k NEWARK.1NJ. Sept MV-A 21-year-old war worker was held In $15,C03 - bail - Tuesday on charge of attempting sabotage aft er . he disclosed a powerful time bomb in the Western Electric com pany's Kearny plant Back to War Again ' veterans of the last war and residents they'll wind ea ha f urnaees, erentaally dated rress Telemai. Mess Time for Yanks in Australia u fseo - ASsocuiea r res xeiesaau ? Qty Contracts l Above Average - ; PORTLAND, Sept V()-War contracts in Portland in the last 25 months have, totaled $405,000j 000 or $1140 per capita, the Fed eral Reserve bank reported Tues day. .- -t- ; f,r . L . The national per capita average is , $590. In the Seattle Tacoma area it ; is $2770, San Francisco $980 and Los Angeles 1140, the same as Portland. '-. OPA Assures Oack Down' NEW YORK, Sept MPHPrice Administrator . Leon Henderson Tuesday warned "ignorance" no longer could be an excuse for price control evasions and prom ised to crack- down on violators who "apparently" had gone ' un punished, -ci ..- 'r ; Henderson said, "Every wilful violator ot price regulations, every landlord who seeks to evade rent control, every' trader in : black markets of goods under rationing or under limitation whatever his motive or station -challenges the war effort of the nation, -t-' "To the limit of our ability we in the office of. price' sjdministra- tinn urDT ni..i -..Uiu... We propose to enforce price regu lations .wherever it is necessary to enforce them to enforce them to the hilf, . . . Petrilld Ban -deTaMusic NEW YORK, Sept S-iPrThe National Association of Broad casters said Tuesday that James C Petrillp, president of the- Ameri can Federation of Musicians, had broadened, his ban on canned music by revoking. -union permits to make electrical transcriptions which are used once in broadcasts and then destroyed. : r The association declared in a statement, adopted at a meeting to consider the action, that - it was "another act of aggression against warime morale and communica tions in the United States. Indian Interpreter. : Dies at Pendleton '- ; . PEXDLETOTT, Ore, Sept Fred Parr,' 7L one-time Indian Interpreter, was buried here Tues day. t"::; , ' . - A native it Yakima," Parr ti lived in Umatilla county for C3 years. He was Indian Interpreter for the late Judge James A. Fee when ha was on the circuit bench. of a Fert Bieade junk sue sue scrap in a Baltimore scrap yard. to taka new shapes and pick! J 'I aaeal with guto. 8ente thes - V Voters Urged On Election Responsibility .. Declaring the republican parly has important , responsibilities the war emergency, Robert SlFar rell, jr, the party's nominee: for secretary of -state, urged i 4uali fied voters to go to the polls on election day, in an address before tha Marion County Republican club at tha Marion hotel Monday night Plans for the. : statewide- repub lican club, convention to be held at Eugene-October 2 and S were outlined by Robert Fischer, state president The county club named as - Its convention delegates, in 'addition to its president and; secretary, Joseph B. Felton a n d Barbara Benson, the following 20 members: Frederick S. Lamport, Mrs. R. L. Wright C. A. "Clifr Lewis, Chris J. Kowitz, Murray Wade, O. DeWitt, Mrs. George R. K. Moor head, v Henry Werner, Dr. O, Olson, Rep. ; John Steelhammer, Rep. Hi R.' Jones, Robert Sears, George Manolis of Silyerfon, Law rence Spraker and Harry Humph reys of Stayton, Mrs. Ray Glatt of Woodburxf,. Fred A. WiUiamaT Ir S. McSherry, Herman Wt Lanke, and R. J. Hendricks, : i - k Two Bij Features ewaMaBauaBBiBaMaaaaaBBBBBjKB ( m hmiw V Bus Problems Face Schools Team Transportation , Probed; Teacher Changes OkeLed (Continued From Page 1) squads may be transported was put up by Ah board to the super intendent and clerk. - ; T ' With the school basses oper ated for tha district scarcely snare than In prespeet af : last ing through the anticipated war period, the beard took ne final action an a request from Cel. George H. MeCey. Casop Adair eenunander, that the eoaipment be ased la eff hears to carry soldiers to and from Salem, The beard asked the superintendent to suggest to army authorities that pocslbDities ef commercial bas ; lines', obtaining: sufficient equipment far" Adair be first exhausted before reunest for use ef the scbeei basse was re newed. , vXlv The cooperative educational programs were: approved by the board. In one, teachers will be provided to conduct six-week re freshed f courses for youths pre-, paring to take air corps examina tions, the students to pay suffi dent tuition to defray costs. In the other, the board is to provide di rection on an informal basis to the educational program at the state -.tuberculosis hospital, with the understanding there shall be no cost to the district Faculty changes were announc ed after the meeting as follows: Henry Otto, senior high chemi cal instructor, resignation to en ter radio service; with the armed forces; no successor named; Mel vin H. Drake, to superintendent of buildings, succeeding.; A. W. An drews, resigned; Charles Gustaf- son, Stayton, appointed industrial arts instructor at - Parrish junior high, replacing Roy, Foster, on military leave; George N. NIemi, general science instructor, trans ferred, to Parrish shop - classes; Doris Ifeptune, Parrish,- physical education, transferred . to general science; Dena Aim Davis, to Par rish, physical education; Robert Keuscher, Grant sixth 1 grade, transferred to Parrish, physical education; Vincent Johnson, Inde pendence, appointed, to Grant sixth grade; Stella McKay, sub stitute for Elizabeth Deyo, Gar field, fourth grade; Helen Mielke, substitute for Ella Deyoe, Wash ington. :-; ' -; (For sports coaching - assign menU, turn to page seven.) " Senators ate un iniiauon WASHINGTON. Sept... a-P) Senaton .Brown (D-Mich and Wagner (DNY) Tuesday prepared for introduction a bill covering President. Roosevelt's -request for power to stabilize livipgosts, and Brown said it would include ex plicit aut&rity for stabilaeation of wages as well as' farm prices. - - The5 wage provision; was con sktared'ln some Quarters: a con cession to those who have demand ed the legislation cover wages in addition to farm prices. Mr. Roose velt indicated in his message of Monday he already had authority to. stabilize wages, and said he WOUld do SO. " .' . : - :;: Brown, floor manaier ot the present" price stabilization law when It was going through the sen ate,1 predicted prompt action on the legislation. ' He was - of the opinion, he said, Mr. Rooaevelt had ample authority to deal with wages, but thought U we wan! to get this thing through congress we had better take care of both sides." . . Film Actor Enlists LOS ANGELES, Sept The growing ; list of - Hollywood celebrities in the - armed service Tuesday included Lyle Talbot, 38, screen -actor, - who signed up as; a buck private in the air forces be cause,, "l " see no ? reason why should have commission ;" . . i i i T r i Toaitet mnd Thursday flC& enricli pnr nenories! ); pur heart! Maae more1 Glorious in Color : Plus Zni Feature irc;:-7 cl , r:-i:!-'j': w . .""with -John nOWAUD' Margaret Ll7&SAY m Japs9 Milne Bay Forces Destroyed; Planes Strike (Continued From Page 1) ' ' But the Japanese have not iven up in that area. Nine heavy enemy bomberswith five escorting, zero fighters 'attacked allied installa tions, "causing slight damage and casualties. . The ' allies; nave an airdrome-uv the. Uilnbay iarta and had otherwise prepared for the anticipated Japanese landing two,weeks ago so the-enemyjfell into a trap. . 'y . -"- '--Allied pa t r 1 s found three grounded Japanese dive bomb ers. Mitsubishi f9s, near Mulllns harbor, and these were believed to have been disabled In aa al lied raid August 27 about the time the Japanese -were putting their shock treops, taaks and planes ashore there.-''. : " Kokoda-Myola "Ground situa tion static.' Allied fighters again were in action bombing and straf ing enemy, positions." . ,;. '(' Heayyallied boinberr also ;, hit 'a group of beached barges, caus ing destructive fires,' at Buna, . the coastal base when c e "Japanese troops struck overland to . reach the Kokoda-Myola area an op eration that already has ' caused the Japanese to suffer more ihan 1000 casualties. Normandy rTrobriand: These are a group of islands -Stretching from 50 to 100 miles north of Milne bay, and the allied torpedo- bombers and fighters made three separate attacks on Japanese war ships in V this. area Monday and Tuesday. Ia the first rahl aft Norman Stassen Leads Election Race (Continued From Page 1) mont republican, appeared cer tain of returning to the seat in congress . he has held for nine years on virtually complete - re turns from his state's quiet pri mary. In Maryland Gov. Herbert R. O'Connor, democrat' , and Theo dore R.' McKeldin,' republican lawyer of Baltimore, felt so cer tain ot landslides in the respect ive gubernatorial primaries that they issued Victory statements with half the returns In. In the second congressional dis trict in Baltimore where ; Rep. John A. Meyer's opponents cited his vote against extension of the selective service - act. Joseph M. Wyatt Baltimore attorney,' de feated Meyer, on the unofficial count " -.. .- Seni. Ed - C Johnson took an early lead in Colorado over! Jus tice Benjamin. C Hillard for the democratic senatorial nomination. Sen. Eugene D. Millikin, xepub- lican, and James A. Marsh, demo crat had no opposition for nom ination to fill a short term in the senate to complete the unexpired term of the late Sen. Alva Adams. ' Seeking his fourth term in con gress, Rep. John R. Murdock took an early lead for the democratic nomination for one of the two seats t targe in Arizona. A close second was - Richard . F. Harless, Phoenix attorney. The early count gave Gov. Sidney P. Osboni more votes than his three opponents combined. SEATTLE. Sept. KH f Wasbiugton'a five toembent emecratic cemgressmau faced a grewmx threat to his reaemtoa tUa Tuesday night aa returns sneunted slowly fram the pri- mary dectlen. . Rep. Martin F. Smith- of Ho quiam, fell narrowly behind Cecil Callison. 39-year-old ' Chehalis business man, in the early returns. Callison had campaigned vigorous ly against the five-term congress man, letelinj , his attack . on Smith's pre-Pearl Harbor voting record against the Roosevelt ad ministration. J In the only district in which an incumbent was not up for election, former US Senator Clarence C Dill took a gradually widening lead over State Senator Joseph DruraheQer, also of Spokane,: for the democratic nnminatlonin northeastern Washington! fifth district -j" GEORGE RAFT PAT O'BRIEN - '- - to 'T2321DI7AY r StarU Today Si: ii dj Island two eneVay warships were attacked by torpedo bombers. Poor visibility pre vented an Immediate check oa aay daamace lnflleted. - righter . planes however dived lew to strafe the decks ef the twe ships. All valued planes returned to ' their bases. ; " Allied medium and heavy bomb ers then "made two attacks on en emy warships, probably damaging a destroyer'': off the. Trobriand is lands.'' These enemy ships may have been the same units which slipped 'into MDne bar, Sunday and Monday nights to bombard al lied positions and relieve pressure oh enemy units now apparently wiped out . , - Mubo This sector is in upper New ' Guinea about nine' miles south of , the big Japanese base at Salamaua. "dashes have occur red; between " forward elements, the cornmuniojue said. Indicating that allied guerrilla - forces have "been fighting In the Jungle ever since the Japanese first landed at Salamaua. -..-' ' With the Japanese annlhllateil at Milne bay, the danger to ' Port Moresby, from the Kake- da-Myela sector Is the snost pressing one far allied leaders. There Is no indication that the Japanese, however, .have reached the-gap which leads, through the mountains -above Myola, and Wednesday's communique in fact indicated the Japanese had,, been stopped short of that goal after advancing eight miles from Ko- koda. Reds Battle, Novorossisk ? (Continued From Page I) driven into Russian ' positions. They repulsed a German attempt to encircle one Russian battery. the communique said, and in an other sector one entire German infantry company was wiped put At Mozdek in the Caucasian faothOIs the Russians said S50 Germans were killed and ten nasi tanks destroyed er dis abled in a successful counter blew against ; enemy - areups which had crossed a river (prob ably the Terek). Annihilation af the ' remnants of the German group was continuing, the cesa muaique said. :y ' Soviet airmen were credited with destroying or damaging about 30 German tanks and. armored ears, and more than 150 trucks with troops and supplies during Monday on various sectors of the front wer Board' Shows Powers In Job Freeze WASHINGTON, Sept . 8-(ffJ xn war manpower commission disclosed Tuesday the .govern ment's powers over payrolls of plants producing war materials would be used to enforce' Mon day's order under which non-fer rous metal and lumber workers in 12 western states were virtually "frozen" in their jobs. Government procurement agen cies, such as those of the war and nary departments and maritime iwiimiwiwi,. nave power to ap prove or disapprove payrolls of war materials plants. Hence, was explained, . plant which "Pirated-, workers awav from an occupation where their skills were needed badly might find its pay roll disapproved. Before the manpower commis sion usuea its freezing order, d- Wd to stop "wasteful pirating and migration of workers engaged IT, i-uun oj mese essen- "a maienais," u depended on vol untary compliance with its direc uvea. fllayops to Convene - r WRTLAND, Sept -(PHMay-w i of OregonV Washington t and Cahforni. cities wfll confer here Friday and Saturday on civilian f5robletoa "Jer auspices Vs conference of mayors. mmimm if I M I war: it las, 4:1. T2S, Backer: y sat, aa r ' " I74J's Ci-.'.k.'Jeil.- . "unnounnn " ' trri 'T .-- la T- J . ..,4 - LTXG CROSBY. Fund Allotment fext Step on USO Center (Continued From Page 1) . - council and. member of the was public buildings board. - - 4 Construction work is not to bw done by the WPA; that agency ia only a clearing house, Stoops told the USO committee, which met -with him, his own agency's Ore gon, field representative, Don Or- put and Faber . Stevenson, re gional representative in Washing ton and Oregon for the USO. - L. R. Durkee in Portland, in his capacity as regional engineer . for the FWA and not as WPA en-, gineer for Che state of Washington has handled some phases of tha work and approved the project. Stoops said. -7 S .Whether actual work of reno-- vation will "be undertaken by the Federal Works agency of Public Building authority may be deckled in a week's time, he indicated. On the other hand," Stoops pointed . out,-interested agencies" are heav ily burdened and 1 delays - should not be surprising. A week ago, he said, he learned of approval of Walla Walla's project and notifi cation that an agency, to do the I work had been selected and was ready to start came Monday. Whatever the size of the build ing, finally available as a recrea tion center here for service men, ' it ; could not begin to house the activities needed, Stevenson told the . committee. TYour own com munity resources and . not tha building . are eventually going to decide what type Of program you can offer here," he declared. 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