The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 16, 1943, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDimout Complcto YeaH find m newspaper can give more real satisfac tion than f oar local mora toe paper, with fta WORLD NEWS plus BOMB COM MUNITY NEWS. ; Saturday ranset 53 p.m. Sudarv nrls t:4S a. m. Weather: Ttinn. max. temp. 47, mla. 27. Fri. river 4.5 fU Weather daU' restricted br army request. PCUNDDD I 1C1 IIUlETTf -SECOND YEAR Scdoxn. Oregon. Saturday J MornliKj, 'January 16, 1943 Prlc 5c No. 218 t 1 Fay-As-Go Proposal; Pondered Integrated Taxation Plan Assured by .Legislature By RALPH C. CURTIS - Pay-as-you-go income taxes, I collected through payroll de duction, will receive serious consideration in the Oregon legislature. Copies of proposed federal - legislation . incorporating the Rural plan soon will be in the - hands - of house taxation and revenue committee members, for - study as to the plan's applicabil ity to the Oregon situation. Rep. French (R-Sherman) is chairman of the committee. Members of the committee are not definitely committed to the plan. At their first meeting Fri day its advantages were pointed out but there also was recogni tion of disadvantage, including the additional payroll deduction book work to be imposed upon employers; Chief advantages are easing of ' the load upon taxpayers through gradual collection and certainty tt collection from workers who are not ' permanent residents of Oregon. , Belief that enactment of a tales tax law, regardless of Its possible ; merits, would merely "solve the legislature's problem but not the state's problem," al ' to was expressed by committee members who pointed out that several sales tax proposals have been rejected by the voters, that the inevitable referendum would delay collection for al most two years, and that mean while there could be no effect-: Ive eolation of the taxation problem. Uttle support for a sales tax was in evidence at the : - meeting. : f - . , Incidentally the public need not become excited over tax hills proposing piecemeal changes . in the present structure, for the committee- indicated that it probably will report out none until an in " tegrated program is devised. ; Elimination- of double " liability for. state- bank stockholders will be sought again through a reso lution for a constitutional amend- ment. Rep. Howard Turner- (R : Jefferson) reported Friday. He is chairman of the house banking committee. Sen. Fred Lamport (R-Marion), banking committee chairman in the senate, will join In its sponsorship. Only 16 banks are affected. Turner explained; but double liability Is discrimina tory against state banks as it no longer applies to national banks. The house of representatives passed, unanimously and with scant debate, the bill extending the life of the state guard to a' date six months - after 'the war :; ends. The senate must pass It by next Thursday to avoid in- , terrnptton of the guard's lerI r existence. Both houses of the legislature decided to make up, to whatever extent possible, for the delay in organizing, by continuing in ses sion Saturday though sessions will be brief. Normally the legislature knocks off Thursday or Friday for the weekend, in . the opening weeks of the term. Meanwhile there were some chuckles over the manner In which democratic members- had stolen a march on the majority party by submitting measures in corporating four of Gov. Earl W. Snell 's inaugural message recom mendations. Rep. X D. Perry, " partly with the purpose of call ing attention to his advocacy of the same objectives two years ago, has introduced bills to substi tute a single tax commissioner for the three-man commission and to consolidate the state banking and corporation departments; Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney has a bill to abolish the milk control board, transferring its functions to the agriculture department; and Sen. Lew Wallace has , introduced a resolution relating to the econom ic welfare of service men upon their return to civilian life. f However, the actual admlnls . tration measures on these snb Jects have not yet appeared. Wilber Henderson; legal ? ad visor to the governor, is draft bur bills incorporate some of the recommendations. Rep. H. R. "Farmer' Jones in troduced a bill to permit the sale - ;of natural Oregon fruit wines in places where beer is sold by the drink, provided entertainment in such places is limited to radio and phonograph music and no dancing is permitted. The bill is similar in objective to one Jones cham- . pioned two years ago. Just at present, he declared, there Is spe cial need to aid the small fruit Industry as canning will be re- stricted next year : by " the tin shortage. - , 4 (Additional legislative news to day ca past 104 Jap. Planes 1ST Coastal Fish Bill Planned State Fish Board Prepares Measure To Set Seasons By STEPHEN C. MERGLER - The bill that sports fishermen are watching, for fear it may raise the highly-disputed steelhead is sue, is expected to reach the state senate early next week. The- new measure, prepared by the state fish - commission, would give that body authority to estab lish seasons and deadlines on com mercial fishing in -coastal streams that are not reserved by; law-exclusively for game fishing, Sen. Merle Chessman (R-Clat-sop), who reslgnedl from the fish commission upon his elec tion as senator, said Friday the jrishlna industries committee which he heads would introduce the bill "at the request of the cornmisslon. Not entirely in agreement with all of Its pro visions, he is expected to pro pose amendments to meet ob jectionable features that might hinder its passage. Sports fishermen who supported the 1941 session's SB - 53, restrict ing steelhead fishing in coastal streams, which was subsequently J (Turn to Page 2 E) 12 US Planes Forced Down In Portugal LISBON, Portugal, : Jan. 15 fT (JP) Twelve American Airacobra fighter planes, beset j by - storms lashing the Iberian! peninsula, were reported to have landed in Portugal Friday, 11 at the Lisbon airport, an an armada of SO others was sighted winging over the neutral country toward the Medi terranean war theater. ; Tht crews of the 11 planes at once surrendered tal Portuguese military authorities, who arranged for their internment and the stor age of their planes for the dura tion, i . Y'-' " 'v- A four-motored bomber the planes were escorting flew on to the south. 1- w A 12th fighter was said to have landed at Aveiro, in north Portugal.- y y - v. i . (A Madrid dispatch! said a two motored British plane crashed on ; (Turn to Pago 2 G) Take a Car Hide' Around Nazi Army NEW YORK, Jan. 15 P The' Moscow radio broadcast Friday night that Russian army colonel Jost returned from Stalingrad had said that -you can go for a car ride1 around' the remnants of Z2 Bitter divi-j sions trapped by the KnaBians In the Stalingrad area. The radio, as heard by CBS, ; quoted the colonel as saying the red I army has bound the divi sions In -a solid ring, built' trenches and "wired them In on : that liiUe strip of land beside the Volga, They are doomed," - y : . : Ferry Service Set PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. ' 15 iF) - Kaiser shipyard officials said Friday night that the oft-delayed' ferry: service from down town Portland to - the shipyards would begin, Monday. , . ; Swarm on the Hornet Av.: ..:.7. : i v . is - , " - - In upper picture, Japanese dive bombers and a torpedo plane (left) swarm over the US aircraft carrier Hornet In the battle of the Santa Cms Islands October 2C, In attacks that finally forced US sorfaee forces to' link the mortally wonnded ship. The dive bomber heading into the ship a moment later crashed into the signal bridge. That bridge, after the crash, is shown In the lower photo, as twisted steel, flame and smoke and death. But the stars and stripes still rippled from the gaff. Associated Press Photos from US navy. Co urity Seeks Teachers As 13 Schools Closed Advertising today for services of teachers who will take con tracts in one and two-room schools of the county, Mrs. Agnes C, Booth, Marion county school superintendent, has declared that the situation which last fall held up opening of classes in several districts now threatens to become critical. "f Thirteen schools in Marion county are closed now because of lack of teachers, children of those districts either boarding in others or. being transported. Eight other schools are one or more teachers short. In 15 schools of , the , county, substitutes are teaching regu larly, Mrs. Booth said Friday. That Is, persons who would rather be at home or working elsewhere are in the schoolroom performing a favor for the pub lie and others who . for some reason would not under ordi nary circumstances be accept able for the task in 'those par ticular "'districts i are ' teaching school. . UA Last week, Mrs. Booth re vealed, she received reference in quiries concerning ; 31 Marion county teachers from wouldbe teacher , employers in one other district of the state. That district is organizing to care for an emer . (Turn to Page 2 B) WCTU Confident ' Of Prohibition EVANSTON, TJL, Jan. 15 (flP) The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which : will observe the 23rd anniversary of the effective date of prohibition Saturday, professes to be confi dent that its return "is just a mat ter of time." 1 :t "Public demand is increasing that the waste of the liquor traf- fic be stopped," -said LUly Grace Ma theson, national secretary. ; "Either through halting the sale of liquor as a war conservation measure or legislative decree, we will soon find the country dry again perhaps within a year, -JW s- V . x : J A 9 9 ' Minister to Move PORTLAND, Jan. 15 riff)- Dr. Frank: E. Carlson, superintendent of the Oregon conference of the Congregational church, said Fri day that he has accepted the pas torate of First Congregational church, Oroville,f Calif , effective March 1. Hobnobber Clerks, pages, ; stenographers and other employes in the senate are drawing, for the most part, daily, pay $1 higher than was paid for similar services in the 1941 session. : -::'y- --yl Jri i,- y Employes in the house of rep resentatives, on .the contrary, re-i seived no "raise". Naturally, they don't like it. - Rep. J. D. Perry is reported to have in his pocket a resolution to increase the house employes' pay, making it uniform with that in the senate. There were reports that it would be introduced Mon4 day l There also-were "predictions that it .would be turned down, in asmuch as the idea of boosting pay already - has been - once re jected. - ; , , The fact that, the senate de cided otherwise doesn't impress the representatives; the two hous es have disagreed before. The men in the lower house are thinking about public reaction and they don't believe it would be favor able, ' everything considered. : House employes point to the I Leaders Urge Uliner Return Lewis Wins as WLB i Refuses Ruling Ttfitliniit Wfti 1 WASHINGTON, Janl 15 -VP) United Mine Workers headquart ers' announced Friday night that a meeting of anthracite local union leaderjs voted unanimously to urge the return of all strikers to their jobs on Monday. . ' ' ;:y The announcement was made by a spokesman for John L. Lewis, international president of the unionj after Lewis and the anthra cite group bad conferred for two - upon the ; decision . of the : war labor board not to rule on the merits of the miners grievances untli they .had returned to work and g exhausted ' all methods ,of settlement under their contract ' short of -work; stoppage. . Lewis spokesman said that Leo Filipj fof Plymouth, PaT submitted this motion at the meeting with Lewis: - ; " ; . ; "I j move that it is the sense of uus : meeung uiai we au remm and ' tell our membership to put the mines back to work next Mon day. Lewis won a victory over miners revolting against . his leadership whenj the WLB ordered strikers to submit their grievances to the processes provided in their work ing, contract. This order was exactly the stand which Lewis, in a defiance-breathing jsbeech to the board, had con tended was the only one that WLB could take. , Andrew Yevehak, president of if (Turn to Page 2 A) , Lcibahm-Mill Se6lds LEBANON, Ore, Jan. 15 P) The strike of 500 AFL" workers at the Evans Products company plywood plant here remained un settled Friday night Thre men refused to return to work despite a request of the Portland war labor board that they:- resume operations pending arbitration of the dispute con cerning an employee the : union wants the company to discharge. Quips, -Angles" And . Personalities At the Capitol advanced t cost of living. Repre sentatives don't attempt to deny that living costs have ; gone up, but -they declare these employes weri rather better paid in previ ous sessions than ' other .persons doing -comparable "work in .Salem, and ;that the old salaries are now abotlt right , - focideotaDyt the - econoBoics the two houses might have tn sUttcd after their membeTs pay ,.wa. increased, economies suggested by newspaper editors throughout the state, are not yet clearly visible. Each member stffji has a fall-time stenograph er j the pooling system used In ; the Washington . legislature has not ; been .instituted. One .reason Is that with a few excep tions, each stenographer also is clerk of the committee of which . her. employer Is chairman. An- ether reason Is that no effort wis made between election time and the: opening of the session to: Institute, the chance, with the j (Turn to Pase 2 C) Sniirg r . ' t .Railway; Gamcasiis Army Oil' Hetels ;of ! G'ermaeg Allied Troops I Break Throush At Sahananda i i - 152 of Enemy Slain ; ; , Allioil PlanM WMort i v - Range ' of Targets j ALLIED H HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, Jan. 16 (AP) Allied grottad troops have scored a break through at Sanananda, the last point held by the Japs in. the Papuan peninsula of x N ej w Guinea, and have killed at least 152 Japs, General MacArmur an nounced Saturday. ! . .Other allied ground troops have Inflicted, further heavy casualties at Mubo, inland and south j of Saiamaua. x '": ., -, - ,.1 - y-y . t "Our forces -have concluded a three-day raid . on enemy j posi tions,": Saturday's communique reported on activities at Mubo, "during which heavy casualties were, inflicted and much damage done to installations, including the destruction of headquarters, a radio station and supplies." ; At Sanananda, "our .ground forces broke through and destroy ed enemy forward positions, cap Turing quantities of arms and equipment., ' U. ., j': The; range of allied planes, which has widened perceptibly this past week, was enlarged Sat urday in the Dutch East Indies. A reconnaissance plane ": flying over the Celebes was set upon5 by twaapTiighteFa, and shot ; down ohe-fr r ?: -SI sy'-r. ' 1 5 Another .t comparatively f ? new target was the .Tanimbar ' islands, which are directly north of Dar win. Bombs dropped on the Mat kus island airfield.. j I: j' At Cape Sena, New Irelandj an enemy - merchant vessel ; was bombed with unannounced re sults. - ;" ' T I . Much-bombed New Guinea targets, at Madang, Finschhafen and Lae were given a hew going over. 1 Ship Workera : Union Prexy j GKarges AFL) PORTLAND, Jan. 1 5--The CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of Am erica has less than 19,000 Pacific coast members, John Green, 1 in ternational president, testified late Friday under hot cross . examina tion by Henry J. Kaiser attorneys. The CIO charges three Kaiser shipyards, hereabouts with illegal ly, signing closed shop: contracts with the AFL metal trades 1 de partment. The charges : are being heard by - Robert N. DenhamJ an NLRB trial examiner. j The Kaisers and the' AFL at torneys concentrated on a . line " ; of questioning designed they said to show that the CIO rep-1 resents an unimportant segment of coastal shipyard I workers. They hold that the Kaisers dealt with - the : traditional and pre dominant union and the only " strong' one.; ' "A"- .y V : . . ' l ;; . Green said the CIO had agree ments with four Los Angeles yards but admitted that only twd of them held certificates of applica bility from the WPB shipyard stabilization committee, j These ap plications - are granted where agreements conform with the j Pa cific coast zone standards of wages, hours and -working conditions. Green, who also is -a member of the stabilization committee, claim ed that all four of the CIO agree ments conformed with zone standards.- . . : ; -- Green would not estimate .CIO r (Turn to Page 2 D) . J - Cold Today Predicted ; . SAN FRANCISCO,! Jan.! 15 ()-The weather bureau warned Friday a cold wave would be felt In Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho Friday xuht and Saturday. . r '.'-' Temperatures of from 25 to 28 degrees were forecast for the valley west ; of the Cascade moan tains, and It degrees, or lower east ei , that racre, t Liberalized Draft For Farin Labor Gams Sanction ' ' WASHINGTON. Jan. ' 15-ff) A IfberisaUoa of draft defer ments for essential farm work ers ; was I agreed upon late Fri day at a conference of admin fatraUve officials wit h farm state senators. r . -; ' Senator Bankhead (D-Ala.), spokesman ''. for the group, an nonncedj that selective 1 service officials would Issue a new di rective to local draft boards Im mediately, It will make the "lt unit" formula aa objective, rather than a requirement, and the boards wUl be granted broad power - to deviate from this objective, even to the ex - tent, of , deferring a producer of only eight i units. - -. ' Earlier, k Secretary Wiekard told farmers there would not be enough farm labor to go aronnd . this year because of national manpower shortages and the best government agencies could do would be . to meet the most . pressing; needs. . : This appraisal of the situation was given by the food adminis trator In a . radio talk In which farmers were asked to report . their 1943 labor requirements to their local agricultural war boards.' ' ' Darins Subs yy-- -iOy : .;. : t BriUsh Craft Sink t Grotmrl Saidnietg- LONDON. Jan. . 1 5-PVStronff and effective attacks . along the Mediterranean sea front by Brit ish submar!ne which ' anV tnttr Axis ships, and probably' three more, and shelled the southern shore of the nervous Italian main land highlighted the North African campaign Friday. ; J y Attacks by Allied Dlanea on both the Tunisian and Libyan -ends of the line Were announced. Aground. no action of conseauenee was re ported from Gem Eisenhower's Al lied headquarters. : "1 .The new . successes' in. tSe im.' ending Allied war of i attrition against Axis shipping were dis closed b the admiralty. Three small supply and am munition ships Went down under British torpedoes. Three other cargo ships, one of them a large vessel, whose forward part was blown off, were hard hit and - believed sank. y. .. -.r;, A ; A submarine under the comand of Comdr. B. "Bearded Ben" Bry ant, DSC, Crippled an Axis mine- '"L- Crurn to Page zF) New ;Defense , Council to Be Proposed Appointment of - a new Salem municipal defense council to serve as the governing body for the civilian protection program will be proposed at next Monday night's city; council meeting, Mayor I. M. Doughtob announced Friday night The mayor's announcement was issued after he and ten aldermen, along with . County Judge Grant MurphyJ had attended a meeting at the city; defense control center at which J the capital's defense plans and needs in personnel and financial support ' were - outlined. The; appointments will be in the form of nominations : which ' the city council will be asked to ratify. Mayor Dough ton said. s . How the control center func tions.'' and, the protection services it directs, ' was described to . the offldals by Bryan Conley, county coordinator; Paul . R. Hendricks, dry CDC commander; 'jack Hayes, state civilian protection director, and Howard Grimm, chief of the center. Schools to Shorten -' ' PROVIDENCE, ' RL Jan. 15 (Public, parochial ; and trade schools throughout Rhode Island will be closed Monday, Gov. J. Howard McGrath announced Fri day . after- the general assembly had passed unanimously a ' bill giving him additional wartime powers.! - The schools will be open four days weekly for the remain der of the winter. - SHellMy Slice Mid-Don Drive Provides New Rostov Threat 1500 Nazis Day's Toll - In Caucasus; Much Material Taken . By HENRY C CASSIDY ." MOSCOW, Saturday, Jan. 16 --(AP) A red army surging across the Kalitva river cut tho Rostov-Moscow railway Friday at Glubokaya and reached ' a point 90 miles northeast of Ros tov, nazi communications cen ter serving southern Russian, it was. announced- officially early Saturday. This' fresh spurt by Col. Gen. Nikolai i I Vatutin's middle Don forces, came simultaneously with NEW YORK, -Jan. 15i!p The Germans admitted' for the first time Friday night that their garrison at YeUkle Luki, vital railway center 90 miles east of the Latvian border, was cut off but still maintained that the town Is held by German troops. sweeping Russian gains in tho Caucasus where the Germans failed to halt the red tide, and the communique said the enemy there was "in complete rout." - Approximately 30 towns and railway '. points . were reported seized by the Russians during the day,'" "''i ) . . Little had been heard from General Yatutin's forces lately. ' The break-through In the mid- - die Den' bend sector gave Rus sia's big winter offensive great- - - er ' momentum and increased - - the threat to Rostov whose cap- , tare would be a severe blow-to . Germany. Rostov Is the com- ; munlcatlons peg for all the nasi armies operating In southern .'Russia. ". , -. . The communique mentioned for the first time the fighting in tho Donets river, area ! which covers the northern-approaches to Rot tov.s. :.;- i .The., red army apparently had not yet: crossed .the Donets, but it . occupied the region above uV between. the Kalitva river and the Moscow-Rostov railway. Crossing the Kalitva around Litvinovka, the Russians pushed - (Turn to Page 2 D) CaU 9101 Savo Time! Savo Monoy! Servo Effort! Uco Statesmen Want Ads for "Uanl Ads. FIjs!" j 4 ' v.