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The OIUIGOn CTATECMflJL Calem Oregon, Sunday Morning. December S3. 1312 'Rick' Depicts Pacific Fight Tells About Drifting ; Says Soldiers Need More Home Stimulus . H (Continued from Page 1) H of Japanese pilot are Inexper ienced and green." ' Telling of Guadalcanal in the : "Solomons, where soldier and ma rines have been battling the -Japanese since August, he said: "If only the people back home could know what those boys are doing for us what they are put- ting up with I think they would take this war more seriously" Rickenbacker added that be lieved "If It wasn't far their tremendous successes In combat . t h e y couldn't possibly last, physically or mentally, very long. But, due to the great stim ulus of their successes they are all happy and anxious to keep .going. ' - " Japanese ground troops, he said, are the hardest he had ever known "The Japs have no regard for their own lives. They won't be taken prisoner. If you want 'em you have to kill 'em and our boys re doing it very well. His inspection tour took him also to New Guinea where he vis ited Geh. Douglas MacArthur and to Brisbane, Australia, where he visited Brig. Gen. Hanford Mac Nider, who was in a hospital re covering from wounds suffered when splinters from a hand gre nade struck his face while he was leading a night patrol. But it was the story by Ricken backer, of his 21 days in a rubber boat, that particularly gripped the cores of army officers and news paper men who heard him. "Frankly and humbly we prayed , lor deliverance," he related. NIghly and morning prayer meetings were held- beginning on the second of the 21 days with each of the elgh men in the rubber boats taking turns reading- passages from a Bible carried by a member of the crew. Four oranges provided food and drink for their first eight days in the boats (they had been forced to abandon their plane so hur riedly they left behind food and water rations.) RickenDacker told of cutting the oranges into equal portions, divid ing them carefully over the eight days. Then they prayed for food and within an hour after prayer meeting a sea gull came in and landed on my head, and you can Imagine my nervousness in trying to turn around and get him, which I did." Later they caught a little mackerel and a small bass. In beginning his story in as , great detail as he could give with out revealing military informa tion, Rickenbacker paid high trib ute to Capt William T. Cherry for expert piloting the land-type plane down into the trough of the waves. They went down after overshooting their island destina tion in the Pacific, an error which Rickenbacker said was the pos sible result of a tail wind that reached better than 30 miles an hour instead of the 10-mile wind that had been forecast. He also said they had radio and compass trouble. It was on the 11th day afloat mat he took into his arms Sgt - Alexander Kaczmarczyk. The youth had gone overboard when '; one of the small boats had over turned and had swallowed sea water again when no one was watching him. The sergeant be came increasingly weaker. "In spite of the fact that the temperature was 78 to 80 and the water was warm, the waves were breaking over us continually, and because of the; combination of - wind it was like being doused with ice water," Rickenbacker , said. "So I moved him over from the little boat into our boat and cuddled him like mother trying to give him the benefit of the warmth of my body. ' The night he died, la the eve aing, he wanted to get back into the little boat, and we switched. At about 1 a. as- I heard his final gasp. In spite of the tact that I had takes amen out of burning race can and airplanes, I have never, had that expert eaee beforr and I - was afraid to make any decision until day light. Atla.rn.we pulled to . .Xether. - I examined him thor oughly sad pronounced him . dead. I asked two of the boys - to double check me, witness and verify my decision. Wo lifted him overboard gently sad he disappeared. -"That left -seven, of us.. Endless talk went on as.- the j two boats, tied together drifted across the Pacific "I say to you that I know things about these -men's lives that prob ably no other living -ooul knows," Rickenbacker- told -the press -con- ference. "Any sins of commission or lomission were confessed. The .; only thing that saved me was that : I didn't get time to get started on my own fSe or I would prob ably be 'talking yet" " Rickenbacker, accompanied by bis- -wife- and-, two--children, Te . turned to New York city by air plane late Saturday. He was met ty Mayor F.' H. LaGuardia end ' a host of employes -of Eastern airlines, of which he is president. Cozl 'line Repaired LIARSIIFIZLD, Dec. 19 -P . "ork cn the former James Flan-i-jt ccJ mine south of here is -: ri-vM ni te rrane is ex. " ; i to reopen ia a few weeks. No 1943-45 Tax Seen; Budget Reveals Surplus F (Continued from Page 1) F child welfare. Administrative cost of the welfare program is shown at $1,963,950. - All of the state's share in the welfare program, for the current biennium is being financed from net profits of the state liquor com mission, which this year has re tired all certificates of indebted ness. Of $2,343,000 provided in the general fund budget two years ago for welfare, $ L3 13,000 remains unexpended and available to sup plement liquor fund ' profits if needed. ;.,!.. ,. An estimated surplus of $11, 639,67131 in the income and ex cise tax funds is also anticipat ed as of June 30, 1943. This sum. Gov.- Spragao will point out in his legislative message. Is avail able for future offset of proper ty taxes.' School districts' taxes would be offset by this part of this surplus, under terms of an initiative bill passed at the No vember election. Revenues available for legisla tive appropriation are listed in the budget as follows: Income and excise taxes, $15, 053,002.21; unexpended balances, $1,400,000; tithing funds, $207, 479.56; miscellaneous receipts, $6,017,913.56, or a total of $22, 678,39533. - The budget director said he had eliminated $1,823,241.69 in appro priation requests before arriving at his $21,989,576.16 general bud get. The latter sum includes the $732,918.29 In deficits left by lack of full appropriations by the 1941 legislature when the fiscal year was changed and an extra six months added in effect to the "biennium. On paper the director's gener al fund estimates exceed the $20,327,735.28 total la the 1941 43 burget by $928,922.46, but actually,: he pouts out, propos- Fifth Blast Victim Dies LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 19 VP) The death of John C. Murdock, 22, a sailor from Ren ton, Wash., brought to five Satur day the victims of a freak high way gasoline explosion early Fri day in Compton. Murdock succumbed in naval hospital, where earlier his two sailor companions, James Glen non, 26, Dorchester, Mass., and Ralpe W. Doe. jr.. Pelham. Mass- had died of their burns. The sailors were passengers in a taxi which was seared by an ex plosion as it passed a parked tank trues; wi! which the driver was trying to fix a leaky valve. A spark, possibly from the taxi's ex haust, ignited a pool of gasoline which had run onto the road. Wit nesses said flames flashed 100 feet in the air. Clothing of all the victims was burned off. The taxi driver, Lewis Thomas, 50, of Bell, Calif, and the tank driver. Bud Benson. 21. of Santa Ana, died of burns soon after the blast Questionnaires To Be GijsrBed WASHINGTON Dec. 19 -(JP) Budget Director Harold D. Smith created Saturday a censorship to curb some of the complicated questionnaires sent by federal agencies to businessmen. Smith said that after January 1, no government agency will be permitted; to send out a question naire unless it has been approved by the budget bureau, both as to necessity and simplification. He advised businessmen, before an swering j government question naires after January 1, to look for budget bureau approval on the quiz sheets. Smith disclosed the system in a letter to Erie A. Johnston, presi dent of the United States chamber of commerce. Ship Launcher Is Youngest PORTLAND, OreDec 19 Ninryear-old , Marian Ann Rob erts, youngest person ever to break a champagne bottle over the bow .of an Oregon-built Lib erty ship, christened the SS Ezra Meeker Saturday at a launching honoring the pride of Washington state's school scrap collectors. Sharing the attention at the ceremony sending the 112th Lib erty built jbOregpn Shipbuild ing corporation, were Richard Mc Cully, 8," of Almota school, which took first plaeetorjtheasjung ton 'school' scrap drive, and Dar- reU FbwJer, 13, from-Shaw. Island school in thrf San Juans. . Marian is from Fertile Valley, near New port, Wash. Oregon's Batter. Supply Inadequate . . PORTLAND, Dc 19; HP)- Ore gon" butter' production Is inade quate to supply ; the state's con sumer - needs for the first time sin eo 1320,- dairymen said "Satur day, j tr r They said the supply is being drained to fill the army's needs in this area and that mid-western butter, mostly from Minnesota and Nebraska, is appearing in lo cal markets. . ' d 1943-45 expenditures are $3272,753.45 greater. The reas on is that $2,343,831 was appro- -priated for public welfare from the general fund for the present biennium, while no general funds are asked for the assist-, ance program during the new two-year period. . - Breaking down state ' salaries and wages in the budget reveals that increases: already ; granted average '11.5' per - cent and those provided for in the new estimates an additional 5 per cent. Individ ual raises in pay vary from as much as 40 per cent for some of the extremely low brackets in which attendants at the Eastern Oregon state hospital fall, to only 2 per cent for the state engineer's office. Payroll increases for employes in the mental hospitals, where salaries have been equalized, ave rage approximately 30 per cent, The new budget also carries $902,421 for the six-year state building program, at present in effect largely a sinking fund op eration because limitations on use of building materials j prevent most structural v improvements. The " fund includes $400,000 in building improvements for ; the state hospital in Salem, of which $325,000 is the unexpended bal ance from a - 1941-43 appropria tion.' , ' ' f -' Food, clothing, fuel and oth er commodities purchased by the state will cost 35 per cent more during the next two years than in the past two, the bud get division was - informed ;, by the state purchasing depart ment. A law for the education of han dicapped children, enacted by the last legislature with the apparent expectation that a -relatively small sum of j money would be needed, will actually I require $651,186 during the next two years, the budget points out. The request is submitted with the recommendation that the law be revised, and that a definite sum be appropriated for the in itiation of this meritorious pro gram," the budget division state ment says. Printing of the new budget is now in progress. USO to Help At Christmas National USO will help ten Ore gon communities provide Christ mas hospitality to soldiers and sailors stationed in the state, it was announced Saturday by Frank Lonergan, state USO chairman. USO clubs are now operating in Portland, Salem, Medford, Alba ny, Corvallis, Pendleton, Hermis ton, Ashland, Astoria and Mon mouth. In addition to these communi ties in which national USO clubs are being operated, a dozen other local committees have established servicemen's center and hospitali ty houses under local auspices, Lonergan said. While the USO clubs and units do not all provide sleeping accom modations for men of, the armed forces, recent reports show that 235 of the nation's USO units of fer such accommodations and pro vide sleeping accommodations for approximately 250,000 men, a month. . During Christmas furloughs this service will be. taxed to its capac ity. In many instances USO club directors are able to arrange with private families to invite service men as their overnight guests, and in normal months an average of 12,000 men accept such hospitality through the effort of the USO. Murder Case Principal Dies f NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, Dee 19 (fl3) Mrs. Frances Stevens Halt the aristocratic principal of the Hall-Mills murder case, one of America's most celebrated crimes, died Saturday She was ; 79. , ' The- murder 20 years ago of her husband the Rev Edward Wheeler Hall, , and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, attractive young choir sing er in his fashionable New .Bruns wick church, evoked . enormous interest in the nation. The trial four years later of Mrs. Hall and her two brothers, Willie and Hen ry Stevens, - was a sensation. The three . were acquitted and the Hall-Mills case remains one of crime's major unsolved mys teries. Soldiers . Allowed -To Draw Savings ' WASHINGTON,. Dec; ,'19 CP) President Roosevelt signed into law. Saturday, a " bill permitting soldiers who have deposited their savings with the government to withdraw them prior to final dis charge from the army ' Under the old law money placed in the deposit system, may not bo withdrawn b the .soldier until his final discharge. -'The - deposits bear 4 per cent interest Cathedral Dean Named - PORTLAND, :Dec 19-()-Ap-pointment of the Rev. Charles U. GuHbert, vicar of St. James mis sion of Coquille and other Coos and Curry county missions of the Episcopal church, as dean of "St Stephen's cathedral hers was an nounced Saturday. ' Wavell Enters Burma 40 Miles Japs Withdraw for 40 Miles; Offense Seen Flanker. Advantage ; G (Continued from Page 1) O servers . noted the reference to "some of our troops" and .won dered if other parts of the huge army which Gen. WaveU. has drilled and equipped in India might not be ready to strike else where. Ever since US Lt Gen. Joseph Stilwell came out of Burma at the head of a few score men and American officers from his Chin ese army with the acknowledge ment that he had taken a "hell of a beating," the recapture of Burma and the restoration of the supply link with China has been high on the list of objectives of United Nations strategists. The thrust down the difficult Jungle shore of northern Bur ma through a land inhabited by red-skinned Naga headhunters was accompanied, the eommun ique said, by aerial sweeps la which the village of Rathe daang, slightly more than half way between Maungdaw and .Akyab, was bombed and the Maya river swept clear of Jap ' aneso boats and other craft. Akyab itself was bombed at night by big Wellington bombers. Fires were left along the Rathe daung waterfront, it was said. Before the beginning of the of fensive, British and American planes carried out a series of in tensive day and night bombings of numerous objectives in the Arakan area, and for many weeks have been hitting at railways, stations, bridges and airfields along the Mandalay line of com munications, and docks, airports and barracks in the Akyab zone. With the start of the Burma campaign, a half moon of allied positions around the vast con quests of the Japanese was ex erting steady, increasing pressure against enemy outposts in the first moves of a concerted allied effort that one day will drive the Japanese back to their home is lands for final annihilation. The extent of the Burma oper ation was not immediately appar ent for Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, the British commander in India, said only a part of his million-man army was used to thrust within 60 miles of Akyab. The Chinese long have insist ed that the recapture of Barms is essential to Japanese defeat if for no other reason than to reopen the Barms road through which, weapons may be ' si phoned to the valiant armies of Chiang Kai-Shek. Three important results could be expected from the opening British gambit however. - 1. Pressure probably would be eased on the Chinese in Yunnan Province where the Japanese launched a faltering offensive last week, which the Chinese thus far have successfully stemmed. 2. The British had seized the initiative and it was. the Japan ese now who must wonder when and where the next heavy blow would be struck. 3. The inherent threat to In dia itself, its unstable 390,000, 000 divided peoples and tho vital ly important arsenal of Calcutta was eased. -' Moot of Wavell's army is oc cupied within strif e-tora India itself, bat sufficient striking power has been earmarked for the campaign la Burma. Tho Japanese are believed to have aboat six divisions of perhaps 12S.9Q0 men In that crown col ony from which they drove tho British Just before the ntonsooa started six months ago. They have six other divisions near Tho mountainous terrain with its poor roads and almost total lack of railways posed a tremen dous military task, but one for which the reward was rich. Bur ma in British hands againrwould flank tho whole Japanese position in Malaya, the treasure islands- of the Dutch Indies south China and the puppet states of Thailand and French ' Indo-China. Many mili tary men. consider Burma the key to -the defeat of the Japanese. : Johnson Declares Draft Unbalanced WASHINGTON. Dec. 19 -(J?) Senator Johnson (D-Colo) said Saturday night the nation was "unbalanced" in building up the armed forces and that it was un necessary to draft men over 25 years of age.. : r!TWe .havo .too many men in the armed forces, he said in an in terview, "and not enough at home to- take care of the farms and the shops." He added there were "plenty of men" in other age groups without, taking those over .the middle 20s from industry and agriculture. Coquille Man Dies COQUTLLE, Dec. 19-GP-State police Saturday night investigat ed the death . of John Kenneth Henninger, 23, Coquille grocer, following - a bridge party Friday night Sgt Irving Larson f the state police said George Maynard, 43, a retired marine corps major, was held in the Coos county-jail but that no charge had been filed. US Discloses 1919 Proposal To Deal for Pacific Islands B (Continued from Page 1) B . Nations mandate with the under standing that i Japan . would not fortify them an . understanding which Japan violated. The two volumes include hun dreds of other documents, many of them never before published, shedding light on various phases of the preparations for the peace conference. x , t Letters and cables disclose how some of President Woodrow Wil son's advisors tried to persuade him not to sit in person - at the peace table. C6L Edward M. House wired the ' president No vember 14, 1918: "Americans here (in Paris) whose opinions are of value 'are practically unanimous in the be lief that it would be unwise for ON the HOME FRONT By DAETL CmLW Here's a chance for some of us late Christmas shoppers to make the yule bells ring: Says R. R. , "Bob" Boardman, genial director of the Salem USO, "There will be a number of boys at Camp Adair, who because of Christmas mail rushes, distance from home, sudden moves or just because they have no close fam ilies, will not receive a Christmas gift of any size on the tree at Adair Service club No. 2." Small items, whether useful or merely funny knick-knacks, Christmas wrapped, could lend much' joy on that occasion. So, hie yourself to tho 10-cent store and pick up some attractive toy or gadget (pay for it of course! but don't pay a great deal because the USO isn't asking for expensive gifts to outshine the simple presents other lads may receive). Organizations may send the gifts from the Christmas parties; individuals may purchase two or three and who doesn't like to buy little things! Take 'em to the USO, ; Cottage and Chemeketa streets, before Thursday and they'll be sent to Camp Adair to what may thus become a festive occasion. ' My suggestion is that you gift wrap the items yourself. You see, the USO has 15 girls working daylight hours, had seven on duty last night gift-wrapping and wrapping for mailing, weighing, figuring insurance, etc., for men from . the camp. The Job saves the postoffice, local stores and the men, themselves, consider able confusion. Girl Acquitted Of Murder BISBEE, Arts, Dec 19 -VP) Margaret Herlihy was acquitted Saturday night of the murder of Capt David D. Carr, 27 -year-old Fort Huachuca antitank officer, who was fatally shot in the girl's home last August 14. The jury of miners and ranch ers was out only 37 minutes. The 21-year-old defendant daughter of Lt Cot Edward G. Herlihy of Fort Benning, Ga and a former commander of infantry at Fort Huachuca, where he was Carr's superior officer, waited in the courtroom, surrounded by members of her family and army officers. ' Negroes Flay Auxiliary Plan PORTLAND, Ore., Dec, 19 (Pi Spokesmen for 150 negro ship yard workers at Vancouver, Wash, Saturday charged a pro posed AFL bailermakers auxili ary union for negroes was "down right open discrimination.. "We will not have any part of it", seven of the negroes, most of whom were hired in New York, told Tom Ray, union secretary, in a letter that said they believed membership in tho proposed aux iliary would bar further promo tion. , They added they were forming a council to combat formation of the auxiliary, and would call all negro employes of the Henry J. Kaiser shipyard : to a meeting Wednesday. A demand for mem bership on an equal basis - with white workers was repeated. The auxiliary was proposed by Ray following a recent conference of shipyard, union and federal of ficials, ;-- who i announced there would be no discrimination at the yard. Sweden, Germany Sign for Trade STOCKHOLM, Dec. 19-VP) Sweden ' and Germany concluded a new trade agreement for 1943 Saturday after negotiations lasting two months. Germany, largely cut off from her normal sources of supply, is most interested in Sweden's high grade iron: ore- and wood pulp, while -the Swedes need German coal, chemicals, structural steel and asLficial fibers for making clothes. '-' ". you to sit in the peace conference. They fear that it would involves loss of dignity and - your . com manding position." The next day the late Sen. Key Pittman warned him of "grave diversity of opinion" In the senate regarding the advisability of his attending. On November 18 the president replied to House: . . I infer that French aad En--- llah. leaders desire - to exclude me from the conference for ; fear I might there lead the weaker nations against them Some ' of - the - documents echo the long-vanished! enthusiasms of the first Armistice . day. Ironic among these is the congratulatory message of Japan's foreign min ister to Secretary of State Lan sing: "Accept my heartiest and wann est congratulations on the trium phant conclusion of an armistice which ; we trust will lead to a peace, glorious for the forces of human civilization and :; fraught with happiness to the world. . . .' Contrasting with these are doc uments which might have been written today.; November 8, 1918, House cabled the president: "Probably the greatest prob lem which will be presented to us upon the cessation of hostili ties is the furnishing of food and other essential supplies to , the civilian populations of Ser via, Austria, Bohemia, Ger many, Belrium and northern France. This relief work, to . gether with tho reconstruction of devastated regions, will have to be done almost entirely through American effort and with the use of American food raw materials, aad finished products. Difficult Questions of priority and tho allocation of tonnage will bo presented." The two volumes will be fol lowed by others covering all phases and problems of the peace conference, economic as well as political. Publication of such doc uments at this time Is justified, a state department commentary as serts, by "the realization that any intelligent approach to another world settlement must take into consideration the errors and suc cesses of the last" , Guinea Cape Taken, Allies D (Continued from Page 1) D with the taking of Cape Endaia dere.) ' " To tho left of Buna.' Allied troops mopped up enemy remnants near the Amboga and Kumusi river, mouths, 40 miles up the coast from Buna, the noon com munique added, and "198 enemy dead have already been buried there by our troops and many more bodies await burial." These Japanese trooDS were landed last Sunday despite heavy aerial attacks that took a heavy toll of enemy men and supplies. The cruiser sinking occurred, off Madang. which is on the New Guinea coast above Lae and Sala maua. "The enemy's naval forces are active off the northern coast Gen. MacArthur reported. "Near Yitias straits.; severs! hundred miles northwest of Bans our heavy bombers at- : tacked aa enemy convoy of two merchant and five warships, scoring four direct hits on the deck of a light cruiser which sank following the explosion of its powder mars sloe. "During the attacks, our Diane shot down two Zero fighters. - The enemy entered the harbors of Ma dang and Finschafen during the night and then departed to the northeast before morning. In the vicinity of Portuguese Timor, other Allied planes strafed and sank a small cargo ship. Doolittle Confers Air Decorations ALLIED HEADQUARTERS TV NORTH AFRICA. Dec lfWTV. layed) -fcP)- Three distinguished xrymg crosses, two silver stars and 79, other awards' were conferred on airmen of the 12th US air force today by Maj.-Gen. James H. Doo little for outstanding perform ances in the North African com. paign. Cot Paul L. Williams of An. geles. . Calif., and CoL John w Hawkins of San Antonio, -Tex, were among those decorated with tho DFC by Gen. Doolittle nn Ha. half of Lt-Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, Allied commander-in- chief. Forty-three nflots and rmmun of the . troop-carrying planes also were given air medals f or rw formance of an extremely hazard ous ozxensive in the transportation of paratroops Into Tunisia Novem ber 23.". .. . .. El Strike Canceled - 'CHICAGO." Deev la-f3 wn. liamr, Levander announced Sat urday night that his union of ele vated railroad workers had called off a strike that would have crin- pled Chicago's transportation sys tem at one minute after midnight 7riter Succumbs : PORTLAND, Ore- Dec 19 -UP) James G. Duff, 32 Portland free lance writer, died Friday of pneu monia at a hospital here. He had been ill a short tizne. ? -. BritisH Troops Pass Agheila By 120 Mfles C (Continued from Page- 1) C ber 10,000 reported trapped be tween " Marble Arch and ; the Wadi (gulch) Matratin indicat ing the Germans - might have broken the block and enabled at least some : to continue -' their flight west with the main body , of Rommel's force. , . ' Reuters, quoting a radio oberv er in Cairo, said some of Rom mel's rearguard broke out of the net by means of superior weight of armor. e--H'K - The observer said the Germans already, were ploughing up their airfields far to the west of the advancing British. The Berlin radio declared that "Rommel's - rearguard, in high fighting fettle, has linked up with the main body of the axis army." US heavy bombers, in another damaging raid on the big Tunisian naval base of Bizerte Friday, were reported to' have hit an enemy warship and to have shot down three, enemy fighters. At axis-held Sousse, bel Tunis, oa the eastern coast of Tunisia, other allied craft scored ; hits on a railroad station and . other targets. Ia all five axis fighters, and an Italian bomber were reported destroyed ia the day's operations, as against the . loss of four allied planes. British submarines, continuing their ceaseless warfare against the nazi supply line from Italy, were credited by the - admiralty with -sinking three more axis vessels on the Tunisian sea route and dam aging another. Adm. Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, allied na val chief in north Africa, declared that the enemy is losing an aver age of a ship a day in desperate efforts to bolster forces in Tunisia and Libya. . Rent Control Slices Costs SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19-(P) The federal bureau of labor sta tistics asserted Saturday that the practical effect of federal rent control had been not only to sta bilize rents, but in fact had re duced rents in western areas. The bureau said it had just finished a survey. ; for quick action in stabilizing the rent situation, had already proved its value despite the short time it has been in effect" the bureau said in a statement released by the OPA. "In the Seattle area rents have dropped 9.4 per cent since rent control went into effect last June, while the survey in Portland showed a reduction of 0 .2 per cent for the short period rent con trol has been in effect in that area. "San Francisco, however, has generally had a lower rental lev el than the other regions." Poland Called Death to Jews LONDON, Sunday, Dec 20-JP) The inter-allied information com mittee declared Sunday that : the Germans have transformed Poland "into one vast center for murder ing Jews" by mass shootings, elec trocutions and lethal gas poison ing and that 99 per cent of the Jews who lived in Yugoslavia or took refuge there are dead. The statement by the commit tee, which represents the allied governments in London gave a country-by-country r e s u m - of nazi measures against Jews in oc cupied lands. The allied govern ments - recently protested against crimes against the Jews and warned: that those responsible would bo punished. . The committee's statement re peated tho estimate by Dr. Steph en 3. Wise American Jewish con gress president that since 1939 2,000,000 Jews In Europe have been deported or have perished, and "another 5,000,000 are in dan ger of extermination. . Greetings Allowed WASHINGTON Dec 19 Christmas greetings may be ca bled to American prisoners of war and civilian internees in the western Pacific, Germany and Italy through American Red Cross chapters, , Chairman Norman H. Davis announced Saturday, All you circlo around your HOTEL 1 w r-. . - Mrs. George Pedrce Dies A (Continued from Page 1) A Paul Wallace and the late Joseph H. Albert she was a member of the building committee of three under whose supervision the Pres byterian i church structure was erected at Winter and Chemeketa streets in; 1927 and 1928, ' - Survivors include, besides tha two daughters, widely known in the Salem rea, where Dr. Helen Pearce is a Willamette university professor, . and Miss Dorothy Pearce teacher of piano, a sister, Mrs. A. S. Brasfield of Berkeley. Calif.; nephews,' Clifford A. Bras field of Portland and Robert R. Brasfield of California. ! For many years she had been a member f of the Presbyterian church here, active in other phases of its work besides the business imtuuu. .u. i itc iiciu mem bership also in the Thursday club. Leisure Hour club and Town and Gown club. Services are to be held Tuesday, December 22, at 1 p. m., at the First Presbyterian church, Rev. W. Irvin Williams officiating, and W. T. Rigdon company directing ar-t rangements. Concluding services' are to be at the I OOF cemetery. Eatern Gas Rations Cut E (Continued from : Page 1) E shown "the necessityj for a com plete study ' with the purpose of keeping the nation informed i of just what lt must expect in the future." I , Henderson's announcement was made in a statement which also disclosed plans 'for tighter super vision and stricter enforcement of the gasoline regulations, ' in cluding, for the first time, a re quest that the petroleum Industry be alert for suspicious transac tions at every stage. A reporter asked whether tho new plan was to be permanent and Henderson quipped back that there was "no permanency in , government," He pointed out that he was leaving the ( post of ad ministrator soon and that his suc cessor was In no way committed to folloWhis program. ; Bolivia Holds Rebel Plotters LA PAZ, Bolivia Dec. 20 VP) The government held several leaders of the- leftist revolution ary party in custody Sunday and j announced that a plot designed to culminate i in revolution" had been frustrated. i - Other leaders of theL party are being sought the announcement said. :.. ...- - J m . : Those held, the communique said, included Fernando Sinani. leader of the party; Moises 'Alco ba, president of the federation of syndical workers, and , Waldo Al varez. :-;Vi , ; The government said it i had found in Sinanfs possession tho text of an agreement reached by the party's recent congress, cal ling1 for a series of strikes and demonstrations! "to culminate in revolution" , against the Bolivian government The J party planned to scatter the Bolivian army into ' many. groups by strikes and other activ ities in mining and agricultural centers to facilitate the revolution, the communique said. V NW Aceess Roads Many SEATTLE, Dec 19-Ws)-William H. Lynch, district engineer of the public roads administration, re-t ported Saturday that access roads costing a total of nearly $2,000,000 are being built in the Pacific northwest to tap new mineral and timber resources. He advised I L. R. Durkee, as sistant regional director of " tho federal works sgency, that seven timber access projects are being pushed to completion in Washing ton, Oregon and Montana. Total ing about 100 miles in length, they will cost more than half a million. He said one-way roads with turnouts are being built to 38 min eral deposits in Washington, Ore gon. oMntana and northern Cali fornia, totaling 379 miles at a cost of close to $1,400,000. want in a small Tho mnj thooghtful. services of a hotel relax yoa after trip. Comfort, safety, aed reliable ioformatioa put yoa at esse. Hotel "ceatralacss" saves steps, enables yoa to see more do more, and enjoy more on font vacs-' Cioa or trip. Good food and a sense rtf -HlLhiin Mrk TOO ut- t AMI SIC AN HOTIl ASSOCIATION X .iti',-'?! .cart' VV:-) jvh' f :...nq,