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TL OUTGO II STATESMAN. ScJan Orson. CTodnts&ry I'amiag. ITovomLar S3. lSi2 PAG2 TCI -Groups 'Plan.. Rebufldingr: Carl Barn v' WOODBURN Committees to serve a channels .through which. contributions of -money -may flow and services be offered "for the rebuilding and restocking of Carl's "Guernsey Dairy barns, Aurned Wednesday night, were at work Tuesday here and in Hub- Jbard. , . - , , Not merely as a tribute to Mrs. Ellen . Carl" mother of two ' sons in the service and a daugh ter away at college, who has man aged and continued to develop . the farm since the death of her husband, were the - committees organized at a meeting in the city hall here Monday night i - Members of the group in ses sion here emphasized that their interest was of a dual nature: They and their families needed the milk proivided by the dairy Just as the community needs the industry, and, in addition, they believed in western neighborli aiess. Materials will be available to Mrs. Carl to rebuild the barns . and silos, it as declared, but manpower she will probably be smable to attain in any quantity unless the neighbors join togeth er and make a barn-raising of the occasion. Offers of , contributions of mon ey and labor were coming in vol untarily today, members of the two committees declared. Chair man of the Woodburn group is Mayor Harold Austin; serving with him are Dr. E. S. Donnelly, Frank Burlingham and John Ramage. Mayor O. Voget heads the Hubbard committee, with Herman Bontreger, J.-W. David- son and George Grimps serving also. Senators Talk Potato Prices WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-UP) fear that OPA ceiling prices for Oregon and California potatoes would, unless revised, result "in growers going out of business this season" was expressed Tuesday in telegram from Senator Downey D-Calif) to Senator McNary R Ore.). Downey, in Sacramento, asked McNary to intercede with the OPA. He said farmers in south ern Oregon and northern Califor nia were "greatly disturbed and discouraged," by the order , fixing the price of potatoes at $2.05 per hundred pounds, less sacks and - commission. "I feel the price .ceiling should be fixed at $2.50 and net the grower . . , probably $2.25." McNary . talked with the chief of the OPA fruit and vegetable section and wired Downey that the OPA would go into the situa tion at once. Londoners Thank Hero's Parents LONDON, Nov. 2-P)-A cable from grateful Londoners went - Tuesday to the parents of an American army pilot, telling them that their son "died a hero" by - crashing his faltering plane into a football field to avoid smashing into a row of small homes. LL Harvey Dalton Johnson of Westville, NJ, was killed Sunday after his engine failed. Thousands of residents of the suburban Wal thamstow district saw the plane head for a row of close, packed houses and then saw the flier bank the falling craft sharply and- dive it into a football field. The residents of Edward Road, . Walthamstow, sent this cable to Johnson's parents, who live in Philadelphia: ' JWe, the undersigned citizens of Walthamstow, London, tender you our deepest sympathy in the tragic loss of your son. "He died a hero saving the lives 1 of our neighbors. It may comfort you to know this and that we shall -always treasure his brave act." Ranger '- - - - V " I I ' v .-.- f I - " ' ' ' " . - - " - - . L - : 4 -i1;-.,' . - . u W - . ' ,w ' , ?4- - - ' - , 1 - 1 . f i , i . - ? - ; -! ; - k ' : -. v - V i - : . - - f- -y -...:v. ! -..;'":"--; ,vi-- v , v . '!' i ( ' "it ; . . . , , : . -' " . o1. t f " ,t ' " . J " " O'-i j. ' . ; " .-. J", ..: . s'v ' : .... v .J-y, A Vr.:iei Elates Rangers gun crew scans the African coastline as their landing boat nears a viHare a r ' :rt Clslznet from Oran, Alreria, during the American operations In north Africa. This picture, from i-i 1 ZInrsrecLi association, was sent by radio from London to t USwAssocUtcd Press Tcluaat When 1 n..v rP; f ir .iiiW 'iM mim' i ifl 'i'm fivV 'firrrir,ri Capi. Eddie RIckenbaeker (center), ' l - ' for three weeks. Is helped ashore from a nying oeat 07 vo. Keoert 1 uruim, jr, usaiu fiert) ana a crewman. Six ether members of the crew of Rickenbacker's plane, forced down while on an Inspec tion tour, were rescued. Another died before rescue came. This picture was radioed from Honolulu to San Francisco. Associated Press Telemat - 7 The War J By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst for Tb Statesman With the axis salient at Stalingrad tottering because of red army penetrations irom trie generalship seems in for its most Counter measures are m process, the nazi high command bulletin said in acknowledging the penetrations. That strongly hints at preparation of the German pub lic for wide and deep retreat in Russia. ! It remains to be seen, however, whether Hitler s back tracking order may not have been delayed too long again this year. At no time last winter was nazi peril in Russia as great as is now indicated in Moscow reports of further pressure from both jaws of the red army vise closing in on the Stalingrad salient Estimates of axis forces within that huge pocket of the Don and the Don Volga corridor range from 250,- 000 to 500,000 men. There remains an escape corri dor westward, however, unserved by railroad and not more than 30 miles wide. Assuming that Hitler has order ed evacuation to establish a win ter front on the Donets, giving up hopes of taking Stalingrad, that would be a dangerously nar row bottleneck for withdrawal of so large a force. Another step for ward by the Russians could fully command the retreat route. It 1 seems clear that only a massing of nasi air power and the reversal of the westward march of reserves forced by the Anglo-American coup In Africa - could Insure against an axis dis aster la Russia. And with every sign , pointing to an air crisis in the central Mediterranean, Hitler hardly dare bring back to Russia air forces he has been marshaling In Sicily, or Sar , dlnla, even In southern France. Winter caught him napping in Russia last year. He has boasted that it could not happen again. Yet it is happening, and the full scope of the possible nazi disaster in Russia, in Africa, and perhaps in Italy, cannot be even guessed. Highest British authority has repeatedly proclaimed that U bocts, not the luftwaffe nor axis armies, were the most dangerous weapons in Hitler's arsenal. As a result of enlistment of Admiral Darlan, in the allied cause, however, the war picture in the Atlantic is potentially changed strongly in allied favor. Dakar, the great French naval base in west Africa has ceased to be a threat' as an axis attack bridgehead. , Darlan has aligned it and all French Africa with the Gun Crew Nears Africa Captain Eddie Came Mm i- - s - r J.V. - rfti fir nrf-furiiTir s"v' -A - .-... famous American flier rescued after floatinr en a raft In the Pacific News rear, rimers Doastea intuitive crucial test of the war. allied cause. That it is. closed to the axis for any purpose and open ed to allied use in the anti-sub marine campaign goes without saying. Youths Admit Assault, Theft PORTLAND, Nov. 2 -Detective John Abbott said Tuesday that two 19-year-old Portlanders had confessed beating and robbing a Hillsboro woman store attend ant November 14. Merlin Spillman and Harry Cor- field admitted, he said, beating Mrs. Louis Pezoldt, 54, and tak ing $1600 from the safe. Corfield, who Abbott said was an army deserter, and Spillman were arrested near Camas, Wash., after a stolen car was wrecked. Abbott said they were charged with car theft and carrying con cealed weapons but would be turned over to Washington autho rities. He said a third youth, Rez A. Carnes, Hillsboro, had ; been ar rested . earlier and charged with assault and robbery in connection with the Hillsboro incident. Farmers Fear Lack of Gas CORVALLIS, Nov. 24-(flJ)-Ore-gon farmers fear mileage , ration ing allotments as approved by the office of defense transportation will be inadequate for essential needs, Chairman R B. Taylor of the state USDA war board said Tuesday. He reported receipt of whole sale complaints that the ODT had cut drastically farmers mileage estimates which had been figured carefully by county transporta tion committees. Taylor said emergency arrange ments have been made to' permit farmers to apply for temporary rations to local rationing boards. Under this plan,; he said,- fanners could request additional allot ments to take care of essential truck and pickup hauling; ; until December 31. , ' . Back .....a at.-.. s.i.....-, Three Thought Dead 111 Crash ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 24.-()-A. dog team rescue party was being organized Tuesday for a tortuous trip to - a mountain spot where an airplane crash was believed to have killed three prominent employes of the civil aeronautics authority. The crash apparently occurred last Thursday, near Moses Point on Norton sound. A wing section was sighted from the air on the mountain peak Sunday, with no signs of life nor tracks in the snow. The pilot of the crashed plane was Dan Victor of Anchorage, a veteran Alaskan airman, who has been with the civil aeronautics authority since January. With him were Noble T. Bass of An chorage, CAA maintenance in spec tor, and Henry A .Weir, Fair banks, assistant CAA airways en gineer. War Activities Interest Pupils WOODBURN The pupils of St Benedict's school started work on a war activities program Novem ber 16. The lower grades are giving a radio program once a week to re port what they have done for the war effort at home. They are al so buying defense stamps, saving school paper, and giving little skits on good citizenship. The third and fourth grades are cut ting and raking lawns and crack ing nuts. Out of all the money they earn they are giving a few cents a week for defense stamps. The president of the war activity program in the third and fourth grades is Elmer Klamp; and the secretary, Richard Uphoff. The grades from fifth to eighth are constructing model airplanes, collecting fat and scrap iron, con serving school paper, and making patriotic posters. The fifth, and sixth graders are working for the Junior Red Cross and have formed the student saving and war stamp organization and elected Donald Kemerick and Irma Lee Lanag han, class managers. Donna Son nen and Evelyn Becker, salesmen. The seventh and eighth grade pupils are also saving in. order to buy war stamps. In charge of the organization for buying war stamps.. In charge of the organi zation 4or buying war stamps are Donald McNulty, manager, and Julia Roller, treasurer; for the eighth grade. Lorraine Hanauska, manager; and James Gorman, treasurer, for the seventh grade. Former Whitman Instructor Dies DALLAS Funeral service fr George Winfield Gould, 74, who died here Sunday, will be held Wednesday at 2 o'clock from the Presbyterian church. Rev. Ralph X. Wagner will officiate and bur ial .will be in. Belcrest Memorial park. Masonic services will be held at the grave. 5 Mr. jGould had been manager of the 'Majestic theatre in Dallas since-1923. He was born in Ionia county, Mich, May 12,' 1868, and coming west to Denver he taueht school there and was eradnatcvi from the University o Denver in lass. He later taught in Cripple Creek, I Telluride and Durango, C0I04 and also in Blackfobt, Idaho. He was a member of the famltv of Whitman college, Walla Walla. . tic was married in 1892 to Mary Frances Laycock who died in 1839. Two children survive. Thev are Irene Gould and George Winfield uouid, jr., both of Dallas. . Greater Effort Urged Masons . PORTLAND, Nov. 24 . () Master Masons from all districts of Oregon were urged to greater efforts to win the war Monday night by - Henry P, Boy en, San Francisco. "Japan never attacked Ameri ca with the thought of losing he warned a state-wide rally. The call to the future is imperative. Ration Amount Errors Bring lbiithGraiil:'--- Temporary gasoline ration will be granted to operators of com mercial vehicles whose certificates of war necessity owing to clerical or other errors obvious .on the face of the .certificates provide for less fuel than the operators should have "been granted to conduct operations under .office of defense transportation regulations, it was announced Tuesday. . - Through an agreement between the ODT and the office of price administration, such operators will, upon presentation of - the erroneous certificates to their OPA war price and rationing board, be given gasoline ration sufficient for one month's operation. ' " Operators of commercial ve hicles who have filed applications for certificates may also obtain temporary ; rations sufficient to operate through December 31. , The holder of such a temporary ration of any holder of a certifi cate who is dissatisfied with the amount of gasoline that has been allowed him may appeal at once for a modification to his i OPT district office,. after which a cor rected certificate will be issued if due cause for making such a correction ,is shown." Farmers and other operators of commercial motor vehicles, en gaged in the transportation of farm commodities . and supplies should make such appeals through their county agents or directly to their county department of agri culture i war board. The war boards will review the individual cases and send their recommenda tions to the appropriate ODT dis trict offices for correction. Gasoline allowed in temporary rations 'will be subtracted 'from the gasoline allowance in the cor rected certificates. Canadian Logs To US Urged WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-!P) Speedy completion of negotiations to lift a Canadian war embargo against shipment of logs into the United States was urged Tuesday night by Senator Wallgren, CD Wash), a member of a Senate committee investigating the war program. ' Elaborating on testimony given the committee Monday by William B. Greeley, Seattle, manager of the west coast lumbermen's asso ciation, Wallgren told an inter viewer he had been attempting to get the embargo lifted "for more than a year." The special defense committee, grappling with a problem of pre venting j an estimated production shortage next year of six billion feet of : lumber, planned to call WPB Lumber Coordinator Ben Al exander to the stand Wednesday. School Program Is Presented CENTRAL HOWELL Mrs. Dorothy- Carpenter and the boys and girls of the advanced room at school entertained the mothers Friday, i The program contest between the girls and boys ended a tie. Numbers by girls were: Welcome by Bette Jo Haverson; song, Doris Roth, Joanne Williams, Shirley Roth and Phyllis Steffen; reading, Joanne Williams; piano solo, Max ine Werner; reading, Helen 'Ed wards; play and song by all. Numbers presented by,"; boys, were: reading, Carl Vice; play by Philip Simmons, Bruce BeaJs, Ir vin Roth, Robert Vice, Clifford Herr, Harold Watts; play by Irvin Roth,' Bruce Beals, Philip Sim mons, Carl'Vice. A special num ber was a : playlet. Thanksgiving Party, by boys and girls. Follow ing the I progam : luncheon " was served to the mothers by- the girls. , U ; , w ir- . Mothers present were Mrs. Wal ter .Haverson, Mrs. Ernest Roth, Mrs. D. i A. Steffen, Mrs. Henry Roth, Mrs. - Henry ' Werner, Mrs. C. L. Simmons, Mrs. John Beals, Mrs. Ralph Herr, Mrs. W. A. Roth, Mrs. Eton t Watts, Mrs. Gilbert Haury. Grew Avers Japan Growing Stronger ' PORTLAND, Nov. 24 (P Japan is getting ' stronger every hour, Joseph C. Grew, . former ambassador to Tokyo, ; warned Tuesday. Only hope of a short war, he said, in an interview,' is for the united nations to crack the Nip ponese before they can consolidate their conquests. ' . - Ccnlral Hovcll Nows - .CENTRAL HOWELL Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Haury were : badly shaken tip and their car damaged when a car rammed them from the rear as they stopped for .the light to change on a Salem street last week., , , " . Mrs. Adam Hofstelter and the Taury's son, Dan, was with - them. Mrs Hofstelter, who .was in the back seat was the: most severely shaken and required a physician's attention. 1 i i ' ' :''-'r':' Miss Margaret Simmons of Ore gon City has been a guest of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Janz. -' ' " Gettin9 w f. Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNlder, former American Legion commander and assistant secretary of war, sits on a pile of rocks In lien of - a barber chair, and gets his hair trimmed by an American soldier at a US base In New Guineas Montana's Attorney General Gains Promotion at Adair CAMP ADAIR, Ore., Nov. 24 Montana's attorney general, said to be the only state attorney general in military service, has just been promoted from major He is now Lt. Col. John Woodrow Bonner. His wife and four daughters are living at present in Salem, his parents live' at Mis soula, Mont., and his professional connections are centered in Hel ena, Mont' ' Recently Col. Bonner was ad mitted ; to practice before the United States supreme court and except for this war he would be appearing there in - important cases nowadays. But last May he offered his services to the nation kin a military, way and shortly he found himself in a combat divi- Ision here." The. colonel has been president of the Montana department of the reserve officers association of the United States and president of the Helena reserve officers associa tion. He is a former president of the Montana bar association, a former ex-officio member of the American law institute, and a member Of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the legal fraternity. Phi Delta Phi. 1 He has been attorney for the Montana state highway ..commis sion, board of railway commis sioners, , public service commis sion and Montana trade commis sion and has acted as attorney in cases before the state courts, United States district court and circuit court of appeals. Also he has appeared before the interstate commerce commission, federal power commission and interstate commerce committee of the Unit ed States senate. At the time he entered the ser vice. Col. Bonner had been at torney general of the state for two years. His military training . be gan with the ROTC, University of Montana, in 1923 and he was commissi on ed in the judge advo cate general's department, USA, In 1934. He went to Fort Lewis, Wash., in that office, in 1940. Last May he became an examiner at Washington, DC, attended a school there for two months, then' was sent to the commanding general's staff school for new divisions, at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. From there he came to this camp, where he Is happier than ever before, be cause he likes to serve with troops in the field. i- - -; . ; - Col. Bonner was born at Butte, Mont., in 1902. The family moved to the Flathead Indian reservation when it was opened; In 1910, be ing among the first white settlers. It was cattle country, near Purma, Mont, and . the colonel attended high school at Butte, then went to the University of Montana. Later Tracers Throw (Top) A fllfht of American torpedo planes In formation circle their carrier before eomlng la to Ur. I followLns a raid oa Japanese forces la the Shortland Harbor phase of the sea battle off Guadalcanal October 5. (Lower) Tracer bullets from an Americas warship trace pattern as they speed toward s, Jraaes terreia ivt bossier a CaaU Cms Island October 2S XIN Eonnhoto. ; Clipped r " 4 ; ''' i - Associated Press- Telemat. to lieutenant colonel. Law to Army LT. COL. JOHN W. BONNER he was an athletic coach and also taught history, politics, hygiene, physiplogy and literature, i v He has academic and law de grees at the University olj Mon tana and he practiced law in Butte a year before moving on to Helena. Latourette Not Pledged, Marshal; PORTLAND, Nov. 24-(P)-How-ard Latourette, . democratic . na tional committeeman, said Tuesday he expected to submit two' or three candidates for appointment as US marshal, but added that he was not yet committed to anyone. An appointment will be made to fill the vacancy created by the death last week of Steve F. Hamm. : Portland Turkey Demand Greatest "l PORTLAND, Nov. 24 JP An unprecedented demand for Thanksgiving turkeys swamped Portland wholesalers and retail ers Tuesday. Aided by" the meat shortage, turkey sales reached their great est volume in history for the pe riod immediately - preceding the holiday, Northwest Poultry; and Swift & company retported. ?o ' ,5 Pattern fif Light Over Assault Planes Navy Pre-Fliglit Schools Call for Added Teachers ! Two new programs calling- for experienced teachers and recrea tional directors for duty -at naval pre-flight schools were announced Tuesday by Lt C. Laird McKenna, USNR. ' officer-in-chare of the Portland branch of, the office f naval officer procurement f 1233 American Bank building, Portland,-where applicants may obtain further . information, ; -. f ' Instructors under - 50 years of age who have had college teach ing experience In history,' ma the matics, .physics, political science, and engllsh, are desired under this program. ' Experienced Instructors with graduate degrees and a back ground of sports activities will bo given special consideration pro- 'J - J 11. A - . t vmeu uiey meet uie general quali fications of naval officers. An applicant must have a col lege degree from a recognized col lege or 1 university and college teaching experience br Its equiva lent He must have no physical disqualifications thai would handi cap him in instructional or ad ministrative duties. He should have participated in sports and exhibited an interest in athletics and should haye qualities of lead ership and organizational ability. ' Candidates for commissions in the recreational . program should be qualified by education and ex perience for administration and supervision of wide variety of rec reational programs including the traditional sports and athletics. They must be between the ages of 30 and 44 years and must bo generally qualified for naval sex- p All interested applicants must branch office of naval officer procurement by' November 30. Klamath Resident On Trial, Morals SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24.- (JP) D. Homer Spencer Klamath Falls, Ore., business man, under indictment here on morals char ges involving two girls, 12 and 13, -woir a, postponement of his trial Tuesday until December 1 in superior court . i I " jThe little girls, runaways from Portland, Ore., recently testified at a series tf liquor control hear ings that men bought them drinks in some of the city's most fashionable bars, and spent nights with them. Spencer is charged with contributing to , their delin quency and with lewd and lasci vious conduct Involving a minor. - - - . .,.:.p --i i Oregon to Fare f Better, Butter PORTLAND, Nov. 24-Cip)-PrOT duce distributors said Tuesday that Oregon would fare better in . the coming butter shortage than most of the 'country. They estimated govern ment requisitioning of - 50 per cent of butter in storage, plus dwindling farm production would reduce by 40 per cent the amount offered on sale. I ! But they added that a substan tial proportion of the butter pro duced in the state normally hi shipped east Until individual ra tioning begins, they said, a part of this butter can be used here. ) 1 Heirless Indian Problem Solved ( WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-KV day a bill (HR 4533) assigning the property of Indians who die without heirs to the tribes to which tney belonged. f . tn the event the tribe is extinct. the property goes to the succes sor-tribe. And If the tribe to which the Indian belonged has not been succeeded - by another tribe, the property goes' to the government for use In aiding neo- dy Indians.