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Newspaper Page Text! - ! Dimout Rhythm Benefit The President's Birthday ball Is here again, tonight at Crystal Gardens. The grand march starts at 9. Proceeds go to the Infantile paralysla fond 1 Friday sunset C:X2 p. m. Saturday snnrlse S:3S a.m. Weather: Wed. max. temp. 45, min. 28. Wed. rain .IS In. Thnr. river 1L2 ft. Wea ther data restricted by army reqvest. PCUNDDD tCZX rmnTY-SECOND yeah Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. January 23. 1S43 Price) 5c. No. 227 sp- r .. t i i i :" " " . I Executive Proposals vJI II SI KJ Snell V Consolidation, Plans Questionf4 i By RALPH C. CURTl V Gov. Earl Snell's legislative program. - Item: Opposition to his pro posal that the state banking and corporation departments be -pokesroen1 for banks, corpora tions and savings and loan asso ciations. - Item: His' recommendation that the department of mjri cul ture take over duties of the milk control board which would be abolished hit a snag Just as the bill was about to be passed by the senate. The measure was tabled at the request of its auth or, Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Multnomah, who indicated he would substitute a milk control ; repealer but was beaten to the punch by Rep. John Steelham mer. Marion. Item: His suggestion that a re serve fund be created for emerg ency use or for a post-war cushion was discussed sympathetically by the house taxation and .revenue committee, but no concrete pro - posals as to the source of such a reserve developed, and some members expressed fear that ex istence of. such a fund would be an invitation to acquisitive pres sure groups. . Bakers fear that a consolidated banking and corporation depart ment might be headed by some one not familiar with banking problems, declared B. H. Green wood, secretary of the Oregon Bankers'-association, at a meeting of ; the house committee on ad ininistrajn& in their, turn, do not want a banker nv' charge ot ad ministering the state's security laws : was the testimony of John Van Boskirk, Portland investment banker.: - - Both men said little financial saving would result from the con olidation. Others who attended the meeting included Charles H. Stewart of the Portland Trust and Savings bank, William C. Chris tensen of the Commercial National Bank of Hillsboro, and Hugh Ros son of the Equitable Savings & Loan association, who was an ac tive worker in Gov. Snell's elec tion campaign last year. - Meanwhile evidence . devel oped that the movement started , more than a week ago in the senate, to seek repeal of the ini tiated law distributing surplus income tax funds to school dis tricts and thus pave the way to a two-year Income tax "vaca tion," would. If it got that far, run into a hornets' nest in the lower house. Influential members of the bouse taxation .and revenue com mittee raised these objections: . 1. Failure J to collect income taxes for two years would permit out-of-state contractors and work ers to conclude highly profitable employment In Oregon and de part without having contributed anything to support of this state's government. 2. Repeal of the voter-approved surplus distribution law, if suc cessful in the legislature, would be challenged by referendum; its original sponsors . had already - so indicated. If referendum petitions were sufficient, the present law, universally recognized as faulty, would remain the law at least un til November, 1944, with conse quent havoc to the state's financial alructure. . . -; , -. It was however reported legal ly possible, though politically im probable, that the : legislature might both amend and repeal the existing law so that the amend ments would become law pending outcome of the repeal referendum. Though it was purely conjec ture, there were reports that . Sen. Mahoney : was "unhappy r over Rep.. Steelhammcr's action ia introducing- a milk control re peal bill, Mahoney having been the spearhead of a previous at tack upon that law. Rep. Steel hammer said be was -tired of monkey business" over milk control, and added that control by the state was made iaeffec : tlve by federal wartime ration--: in . and price control, whereas : the state law . "only serves to discourage and retard milk pro duction at i Hue when in creased production Is essential to the war effort. Speakers at the house taxation and revenue committee's "serial" meeting to study tax f problems mentioned that the now large un employment compensation fund (Turn to Page 2 Story U) Kanstis Won't Tax Webfeet - TOPEKA, KaaV Jan. tg -4P) Oregon army officers stationed at Fort Riley will not have to pay i the Kansas income tax. - James D. Dye, attorney for the state tax commission, issued . that statement Thursday deny- tar charges by Rep. F. M. Dam masch of Portland, Ore., who ; mM tb tax was being- assessed against the soldiers. . Only Oregon can tax its sol diers, wherever they may be ' stationed, and Kansas will taar Soalr soldiers from Kansas, o master where they are serving,; Djefxplalned. Aiiim Budget Raise Okelied More Kitchen, Ward , Employes Granted By Committee By STEPHEN C. MERGLER A considerable measure of re lief for the Oregon state hospital, institution harried by employment problems and a mass accidental poisoning last November, was pro posed by the institutions sub-committee, of the legislature's joint ways and means committee Thurs day ; afternoon. The committee recommended appropriations for 32 employes in addition to the 333 listed in the budget, $38,700 extra for capital outlays and approved a land pur chase deal that had been under consideration by the board of con trol. The augmented payroll was aimed directly at the hospital administration's repeated pleas for more ward attendants and at the questions raised by the poi soning . catastrophe's emphasis on lack of non-inmate workers in . the Institution's kitchen. Of the 32 additional employes the committee would allow, ; Is 4 would be charge attendants, four . kitchen workers and : 12 -niseellaiieousV':r, A total of . 280 employes " was recommended In the 1941-43 ex ecutive budget and 333 for 1943-i 45.; Dr. J. C. Evans, superin- ..tendent, had asked for 346 em ployes this year; he will have more than that number if the committee's proposal is adopted. The hospital building, fixtures and equipment funds, set at $461, 300 in the executive budget, were lumped by the committee at $500, 000. Including more than $350, 000 allowed in the 1941-43 budget for i these purposes, little of the fund can be utilized until after the : war. But it follows through (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Lloyd Girod Sworn In as Navy Ensign Lloyd Girod, principal of Rich mond grade school in Salem, an nounced Thursday that he had asked for leave from the sytem to enter the navy. He was sworn in Wednesday as an ensign and ordered to report immediately for training at Dartmouth college, Hanover, NIL He is leaving Sa lem today. No arrangements to designate a successor to Girod, who had held LLOYD GIROD the Richmond post for four years, have been made, Supt. Frank B. Bennett said. ! '".!.. A graduate of Willamette uni versity in 1932, Girod had taught at Shaw ; and Gates, served as principal of ; the Aurora grade school and taught social science and coached, the football team at Leslie Junior high school. His was the, first Leslie team to defeat Parrish junior high on the grid iron, in 1937. f. Mr& Girod will remain at their home in the Fruitland district un til j her ; husband has completed three . months training at Dart mouth and Princeton university. rr ...... ;A i r 1 ' 4 ; " ' ' I , t U 1 Roosevelt Baff in ' Americas its Presidents Of Liberia, Brazil, . Sees Rubber Ranch v ' ; W ASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (P-President Roosevelt .was disclosed in an official an nouncement from Natal, Braiil, Friday to have returned, to the western hemisphere following the historic Casablanca confer ence Shortly after the White House released a dispatch from Mon rovia. Liberia. Thursday night which said Mr. Roosevelt had xtonred in the Negro republic to -greet President Edwin Barclay, a Natal dispatch said the presi dent met President Getulio Var gas of Brazil there and that the interview .4 occur ed; ; Thursday. -v Amid the pieturesaue ' sur roundings of Liberia, a repub lic founded by negroeV .freed fat the United States, President Roosevelt stopped off e the way back to America from his momentous conference in Casa blanca to inspect American ne gro troops and a rubber planta tion supplying a vital war prod uct. A disnatch datelined at Mon rovia, capital of Liberia, Thursday and released at the White House Thursday night said Mr. Roose velt has paid his respects to Pres ident Barclay at the third stop on his return trip homeward. He saw negro troops, engineers and a part of a defense detach ment, he drove through African villages of round, straw-thatched huts, and he viewed a Firestone Rubber company plantation with its thousands of acres of new rub ber shoots and mature growths where latex was running into cups. . The dispatch was the first to reveal anything of Mr Roosevelt's movements following ? the Casa blanca conference at which he, Prime Minister Winston Church ill, and American and British mil itary chieftains worked out plans to force "an unconditional sur render" upon the axis enemies. Monrovia is approximately 2000 miles southward, by straight airline, across the west ern hump of Africa from Casa blanca. The president and Churchill concluded their par ley last Sunday, and the dis patch said they had motored 150 miles southward to Marrakech, an old Berber and Arab town at the foot of the Atlas moun tains where they spent the night. They parted the next day and President Roosevelt flew to Li beria with one intervening stop, which was not identified. The dispatch from Monrovia said the president and his party, traveling in two four-motor army transports, landed at Roberts field about 50 miles from Monrovia. They were greeted there at the officers mess hall by President Barclay and Clarence L. Simpson, Liberian secretary of state, and by Frederick P. Hibbard, Ameri can charge d'affaires. After lunch the two Dresidents. the disnatrh said, bounced out to a parade ground in a jeep -and reviewed the 41st engineers and a part of a defense detachment command ed by Col. A. A. Kirchoff. A band played the American and Liberian national anthems and rendered full honors and the (Turn to Page 2 Story G) i Dairy Co-op Acquitted of Trust Charge PORTLAND, JanL 28-(iP-Fed-eral Judge Claude McColloch Thursday acauitted the Oreeon Dairy Cooperative association of charges that it violated the Sher man anti-trust law; He based his decision on the Clayton act, interpreting it to mean "that a farmers coopera tive association shall not be sub ject to the anti-trust laws." The opinion followed arguments by Charles S. Burdell of the fed eral anti-trust division and CoL A. E. Clark, defense attorney, as to whether cooperatives could be punished even though they be came monopolistic, f Burdell contended that congress did not grant cooperatives com plete immunity from regulation and that cooperatives become sub ject to the Sherman act when they put themselves in.' a position to control prices of production. : -; The association and its officers were accused of conspiring to mo-, nopolize the production and dis tribution of milk I in this area. Prosecution testimony was heard in November. The court then ad journed the trial to consider the law and evidence.' Defense wit nesses did not testify. '0 V j These men were among aides to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill when they met at Casablanca in .the historic conference disclosed Tuesday. They also are the principals in a session of "military brains? at Gen. Eisenhower's headquar ters in north Africa, expected to result in a unified Mediterranean command. From the . US are (top row, left to right) Adm. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of US fleet; Gen. George C Marshall, chief of staff, US army; Lt. Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding US army air forces. Representing Britain are (bottom row) Adm. Sir Dudley Pound, first sea lord; Gen. Sir Harold Alexander of the Middle East command; Vice Adm. Lord Louis Mount batten, chief of combined operations Associated Press Telemata. H Mediterranean Council Seen ! " ... .j Military Chief s of - Allies Said Planning - Imminent Offense ( ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 28 The formation of one huge allied Mediterranean theatre, command, bristling with troops pointed to ward Greece, Italy and France, appeared in sight Thursday as a result of a Mediterranean war conference held here among American and British military chieftains. j .For 48 hours the military brains of the allies conferred here at Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters close upon the policy-making conference of Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis ter Churchill at Casablanca, it was announced. j The fact that so many top flight military leaders of ' 'the allied nations met on African soil so soon after the decisions reached at Casablanca was tak en by military observers as an almost sure sign that the allies rate a Mediterranean offensive as tops in their plans for 1943. Military experts pointed f out that there are six . allied armies in this- theatre now; which form the nucleus for a vast and power ful striking force against Europe. These are the British Eighth army in Tripoli, the Ninth and Tenth armies in the middle east, and the First in Tunisia, the American Fifth army in Tunisia, and the French, army. :, ; .The welding of these armies into one military force was rap idly becoming a military neces sity as the army of Gen. Sir Har old Alexander and the Fighting (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Lobby - First on-the-scene barrage from the state's higher education sys tem is due to be laid down before the ways and means committee this afternoon. The system de scends ' upon the legislature With its big names and its experts each session seeking to convince f oft times skeptical purse-watchers that . its budget requests are in line. State - general fund appro priations totaling $8,788,484 have been asked for, $8,551,024 recom mended by the - budget depart ment, y f The higher education delegation will be led by Chancellor Frede rick M. Hunter and Board Chair man Willard L. Marks, with Dean W. A. Schoenfeld of Oregon State college speaking for the extension service. Rep. Dammasch's sub committee, which tacludes Sens. Carson, Stray er and Gibson ( and Reps. Rennle and Chase, will lis ten to them.' The Marian county - delega tion admits that It expects to Plan Allied Strategy in regon ueputy in TatQuestioh Confessed Slayer of Navy Wife LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28-(-An Oregon deputy; sheriff, Clay Kirk,' of Linn county, arrived here late Thursdayj and expects to return home Friday with Robert Folkes, 20-year-old negro dining car cook, who has confessed, Det. Capt. Verne Rasmussen said, that he fatally stabbed Mrs. Martha James aboard a California-bound train last Saturday. ; f Rasmussen said Folkes confession, made orally: in the; pres ence of himself and several other officers, had been taken down and transcribed by a police stenog rapher and that whether or not the negro4; signed it was immaterial to; him. I "Folkes has made the con fession that he stabbed Mrs. James in her lower berth No. 13 aboard the train and a transcript of that confession was presented to Mr. Kirk of Oregon upon his arrival here, said ! Rasmussen. f'lf Folkes wanted to sign that confession in the presence of the Oregon deputy, lt may mean that Los Angeles police may not have tos go to Oregon to testify. ;MSo far, he hasn't been asked to sign - the ' confession, but whether he signs it or not makes no dif ference to us. He has until to morrow, which Is when the Ore gon deputy intends to take him back there." " Before returning to Oregon with Folkes, Kirk plans a lengthy questioning of the negro, , who Rasmussen said, told many con-, flicting stories before admitting his guilt ' - Rasmussen earlier had planned to take Folkes to a railroad sleep ing car in an effort to determine whether the negro could reenact the crime, but the prisoner ob (Turn to Page 2 Story A) "-- Quips. "Angles" And Personalities At the Capitol introduce a bill to raise the sal aries of the county's treasurer and its' recorder, but empha sises that the county court and the employes interested will have! to carry the ball. The bill -will bear a "by request" nota tion. It is proposed to increase the two' salaries from 11800 to 32109 a year; they went up to the former figure front f 1500 this year. Two members of the court the sheriff, the school superintendent, , the clerk and. the treasurer and the recorder an waited upon the delegation at the capital Wednesday after noon, asking for the change. 1 The handicapped children's act of the 1S41 session, it will be re called, appropriating only $15,000, surprised its sponsors : when a survey by the state superinten dent revealed that $S31,CC0 would be required if its provisions were fully carried out. Calling it a meritorious" pro gram, Gov. Sprague in his message : (Tum to Page 2 Story. F) i : Africa ! ; JkV":::-:::'';S':'- ; ..... t , - - """" in i South Youth Admits Stabbing of Nurse Here . Allen Robert Aplet, 18, was in custody Thursday night of Salem police, who! said he! had admitted attacking Mrs. Dale; Moon, Special nurse at Salem General hospital, with a knife the night of January 20 as she stood beneath the lights at the hospital gates. He; was booked on a charge of assault with7 a dangerous weapon, j A signed statement to the effect that he had in similar ' manner, although without the knife iplay, approached other women and girls In recent weeks was held by of ficers, who said the youth would be sent to juvenile court, I : Following his v apprehension at his home on Childs avenue, Aplet was taken by police - to Salem General hospital, w h e r e Mrs. Moon,. 21, is recovering from the knife wound, allegedly Inflicted (Turn to Page 2 Story E) 1 Allied Airmen Raid Widely ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, Jan. -i') Gen. Douglas MacArthuri ever busy air arm has struck the Japs in 10 places, the noon communi que reported Friday;' r fj-v - Long range fighters strafed the Fuiloro airdrome on Portuguese Timor. In Binnen I bay, an j ailed bomber attacked a merchant ship and shot down one of five Jap planes. f In the Arce island area, fighters strafed enemy float planes. One was destroyed. f ' ' -H ' In New Britain's' wide bay, an allied heavy bomber scored near hits .; from a low 'altitude; on a Jap cargo vessel and capsized a nearby -- boat. It also strafed a coastal village. ! '.' M- At Gasmata, , New Britain, a medium bomber raided the 'air drome, v The airfield at j Cape Gloucester was attacked by a heavy bomber. a 1;;- 'y i Over New Guinea, heavy bomb ers wrecked Installations near the airdrome - at Wewak. A t heavy bomber raided . the Finschhaf en area and attack; planes struck at ovietts Kastornoye Seized; Reds Swaim Into Maikop Area, Surround Railway Points 1 By EDDY GILMORE " i MOSCOW, Friday, Jan. 29-(5J-Ther red army was develop ing its. threat to Kursk, "one of the starting points of Germany's 1942 offensive, Friday after capturing the railway Junction of Kastornoye,- 75 miles to the east, while in the Caucasus th Russians were menacing .Tikhoretsk and Kropotkin after out flanking those two railway- junctions below Rostov. . Yanks Escape Alley Drive to 33 Miles From .Coast ; French Threat Mareth Line LONDON, Jan. 28-P)-Ameri-can troops were reported to have narrowed Marshal Erwin Rom mel's escape corridor to 33 miles and a combined Giraud and De Gaulle French column threaten ed the southern end of his pro tective Mareth line Thursday as indications grew . that the allies were beginning a major offensive in Tunisia.. 1 Among these indications was a full-dress 48-hour military - con ference among the highest mili tary officials of Britain and the United States which was conclud ed at LL Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's headquarters ' . in north Africa. J ",-. .The Algiers radio, as heard by-. Renters, .said American troops had reached Maknassy, only 33 miles from the Golf of Gabes, m an advance toward the rear of the Mareth line only 75 miles to the sontheast. Simultaneously, the broadcast said, British troops to the north were showing marked activity in the Medjez-El-Bab and BOu Arada regions facing Tunis and Bizeret, and a French communique an nounced' that the Italian garrison had evacuated Gadames, in Trip olitania, some 195 miles south of the end of the fortified Mareth line, and that the fort had been occupied by the combined forces of Gen. Henri. Giraud and Gen. Charles De Gaulle of toe Fight ing French. : - : . Twenty miles closer . to- the southern anchor of the . Mareth line at Foum Tatahoune, the French occupied Fort Saint in the extreme southeastern corner of Tunisia, the communique said. The American thrust, obviously aimed at either Sfax or Gabes or at the coast between, put these troops in a position to. sever" the connection between - Rommel - to the south and the axis forces un der Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim around Tunis and Bizerte to the north. : The , radio broadcast -; said the enemy troops retreated to the north and a number of them were captured. ' . . Maknassy was the scene of an American raid early 1 this week when the Americans answered a German , dare to "come out. and fight and captured 80 prisoners, x . At Maknassy the Americans were separated' by only ; miles from the British in Trip- oUtania. .. "'".'."7' " The Ankara radio said, mean while, that the axis was evacuat ing the port of Zuara, 70 miles west of Tripoli. RAF Blasts Duesseldorf LONDON, Jan. 28 -Pf Hund reds of tons of explosives and firebombs were delivered in blitz style : on Duesseldorf Wednesday night by a heavy Z force of the biggest RAF bombers flying the night schedule ,of ; a stepped-up aerial offensive on Germany. It was the 51st raid on ' the great industrial center. The air ministry, t terming the attack "Duesseldorf s quickest blitz, said most of. the thousands of bombs carried were dropped within 10 minutes of the 20-minute raid. -' The report of one pilot Indicat ed it was a "satuartion raid." He noted that anti-aircraft fire, in tense at first, gradually thinned out. . . : Only six bombers were lost out of a force officially designated as "heavy, indicating several hund red planes were in action,. Meimace Gillies A special communique Thurs- day night announced the capture of Kastornoye, Junction on the Moscow-Donbas and Voronezh Kursk railways, and the mid night communique told of swell ing Caucasian victories. The red army, pounding hard after the battered Germans, were said to have entered Gulkevichi, only eight miles southeast of Kro potkin, and to have captured Kal nibolatskaya, withing 20 miles of Tikhoretsk on the northeast. Other Russian nnlts were swarming Into the Maikop oil rerion striking virtually from all sides. The Germans last fall, had appeared confident that they would be nsing Maikop's wells as a f nel base for their "Caucasian conquest." ""War materials and prisoners were taken" in the capture of Kastornoye, the - special bulletin said. The occupation of this Junc tion now has given the Russians an important center for their push toward Kursk and the railway connecting it with Kharkov, Ukrainian capital to the south. Other developments Thursday as given in the midnight commu nique: ' ;' i' -- -; The red army" seized Novopo krovskaya, pnly 2J7 miles .east of Tikhoretsk " where the Rostov Baku line connects with the Sta-lingrad-Novorossisk railway. On ly 28 miles to the southeast the Russians occupied Ilyinskaya as they closed in on .Tikhoretsk. Thirty five miles below Tikhor etsk: the red army began also to encircle Kropotkin, which is the Junction for the Rostov-Baku line and another east-west railway running from Novorossisk on the Black sea to the Kalmyck steppes. Here the red army took Otra-da-Kubanskaya, IS miles south east of Kropotkin on the main railway line. They also seized Fetropavlovskoye and Mikhail ovskoye, 27 and 3t miles south v .vt n i . a va uimuii, auuud u d i l m , were abont 25 miles to the east of the Junction. With the occupation of Petro pavlovskoye and Mikhailovskoye the Russians disclosed their troops now are rapidly overrunning the area north and south of the Mai kop oil fields. The former is 87 miles northeast of Maikop, and Moscow announced the capture Thursday of Apsheronskaya, 19 miles southwest of Maikop, in a drive apparently launched by red army units pushing from Tuapse on the Black sea coast General Surrenders NEW YORK, Friday, Jan. 29 (P)-The Moscow radio In a broad cast heard by the FCC said that LL Genv Repke, commander o the 297th German division trapped along with other troops at Stalin grad, had surrendered himself and his men, thus being ' "the first German officer, who had the cour age to oppose Hitler's orders. ABCs The Statesman's new system of identifying stories carried ever from the front to Inside pages has attracted considerable favorable comment. Here's how the system works: At the bottom of the story on page one is an Inscription bear ing a number referring the reader to the particular inside page and a letter denoting the particular story. An example: (Turn to Page 2 Story A) On the inside page, the con tinuation of this story, would be labeled: A (Continued from Page 1) A The system was designed to save time in getting the paper to press, time that helps yon ret your paper earlier; many read ers are saying, too, that it's a better plan than the old one of referring to inside columns alone rather than to the inl Mnil itariti It the letter method.