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Tho Inside Tear complete morning newspaper. The Statesman, offers yon pertinent eem ments en war newt of . the day by Kirke S I m p s e n Washington analyst. v. Dimout ! Sunday sunset C:15 p. m. . Monday sunrise S:33 a. ra. Weather: Tri. max. temp. . 40, mln. 32. Sat. river 11.7 ft Weather data restricted by army request. I NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem Oregon, Sunday. Morning, January 31, 1942 Price 5c No. 223 Roosevelt Stops At Trinidad Inspects Military Installation, Didn't Visit at Dakar WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-(-The White House announced Saturday night that President Roosevelt stopped off in Trin idad, British (West Indies, Pan ama Canal defense outpost, en route home from the Casa blanca war conferences and was given an enthusiastic reception by the populace during an inspection of American defense installations on the island bordering the Car ibbean. A dispatch .datelined Port au Spain, capital of the British col ony, was made public by the White House. It said the presi dent was met by his personal chief of staff, Adm. William D. Leahy, who was waiting at Wal ler field when the president's big plane landed. . The dispatch, filed by Capi. George E. Durno, of the army . air corps flying command, a former White House correspon- dent, said that Admiral Leahy had started out with the presi dent for the Casablanca confer . ence, bat was forced by an at tack of influenza to stay in Trinidad until the president's return trip. "After assuring himself that the former United States ambassador . to France was well," the dis patch said, "the president ex pressed .regret that Admiral Lea hy had not been able to attend the Casablanca conference." The stop at Port au Spain, where the chief executive visit ed once before on his trip back from the Buenos Aires peace con ference in December, 1936, was the' fourth he made since leaving -'for French Morocco., The scene of the first has not been disclosed, The second was in Moravia, LI , beria, where : visited . President "Barclay and reviewed American troops. The third was at Natal, Bndl, Thursday and early Fri- day, where he held important war conferences with President Ge tulio Vargas of Brazil. PORT AU SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan. 3(MP)-President Roosevelt paused at this island, site of a United States base, en route home from the allied war council in v Africa Saturday and was sur prised to find lmost the entire population waiting to give him a spontaneous reception. When his motorcade passed through Port au Spain thousands of people lined the streets, wav ing and cheering. He spent the night at the US naval base while traveling by clipper on his way to north Africa, so this was his second felt this month. Mention ofhe first stop was not permitted for security reasons, however. On both stops he slept at the Macqueripe hotel, formerly a fa mous Trinidad seaside resort which has been taken .over by US naval forces. On his second visit the presi , dent took the opportunity to in spect the US army and navy es tablishments and also entertained at tea Governor and Lady Bede Clifford, both of whom are old friends, at the Macqueripe hotel. The president was accompanied by Harry Hopkins, Capt. John L. McCrea, his naval aide and Rear Adm. Ross T. Mclntyre, his phy sician. The party arrived by US army transport plane. Rear Adm. Jesse Oldendorf, .commander of the Trinidad naval base; Ma j. Gen. Henry Pratt, commanding general of the Trin idad sector; Brig. Genu ' Owen - Summers, commander of the Trin idad mobile forces, and CoL Biard Johnson, commanding officer of Waller field, joined Admiral Lea hy m welcoming the chief execu tive. After inspecting Fort Read ' military installations,' the pres idential party, escorted by fight- er planes, motored along the Churchill - Roosevelt highway, ' bnilt by the US army through : Pert an Spain to the US naval base in the - northwest i corner ! of the island. 7 There they inspected naval In- stallations and went to the hotel .where the night was spent. After entertaining the Cliffords at tea, the president dined :, late ;with the commanding officers. j A few supplementary details re .' la ting to the Casablanca confer i ence were learned here. The president's tour in Africa ; was more extensive than has been ' previously reported. He visited j some of the beaches where Amer ; lean troops made their landings and also inspected military ceme . teries. It also was learned that he flew ' low over Dakar to inspect the harbor but did not stop. Navy Finds New fBHnd9 WASHINGTON, Jan. 30-) Ton can see throagh green glass. Ton can see through red glass. Bnt yon can't see through green glass and red glass at the same timer " On this - simple principle of light filtering, the navy an nounced Saturday, a new tech nique of blind flying Instruc tion has been developed which eliminates ' the hooded cockpit and Its blinding of the Instruct or as welT as the student ; Now a green windscreen Is nsed. The instructor lean see out. The student wears red goggles. lie can't see oot, bat he can still see his Instruments Inside the plane. Fplkes May Act Out Slaying Cook Arrives Today At Albany; East Probes Picture ALBANY, Ore., Jan. 30-;P) District Attorney Harlow Wein- rick said Saturday night he would ask Robert Folkes to reenact on his arrival here Sunday the "low er 13" slaying of Mrs. Martha Vir ginia James, 21, Norfolk, Va. Folkes, 20-year-old negro cook on the train on which Mrs. James was stabbed as she lay in berth 13 of a Pullman car a week ago, is charged with murder. Wein rick said Folkes has confessed the crime. The Pullman car was removed from the train at Klamath Falls and returned here. Folkes was ar rested in Los Angeles as the train neared the end of its 1800-mile run. He is returning here in cus tody of a "deputy sheriff. Weinrich is empowered to call the grand jury into session at any time for an indictment. The mur der trial would be in circuit court, which 'is scheduled to open its next session here February 15. -L1NN. MaW Jan. SO-VD-ln-spectors who have followed hundreds of groundless elues in their unrelenting search for the slayer of 19-year-old Frances (Turn to Page 2 Story F) FDR Thanks Nation for War on Polio WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 -UPk- President Roosevelt, 61 years old Saturday and absent from the capital on a trip which has taken him to allied war councils, mes saged his thanks for the nation wide series of birthday parties to raise funds for the war against infantile paralysis. "Tonight we are waging two wars, both in the service of hu manity and both of them headed for victory," the chief executive said in a message read to the na tion by his wife. He asked Mrs. Roosevelt to please tell all of those who are helping so much in the great fight against infantile Daralvsis that. even though the visits I have been making in certain distant parts prevent my return to the capital today, they are giving me once again a truly happy birthday." This brief message was read by Mrs. Roosevelt on a nationwide radio program on which Basil O'Connor, president of the nation al foundation for Infantile paral ysis, said: "On this night in our land and in all lands, wherever the love of ? liberty burns with unquench able flame, a prayer is rising like a mighty hymn for the man who leads the American people in the war to preserve that libertv the man whose birthday has become a promise to every bov and srirl in the nation that they shall walk the earth as God meant than to, head high, body stalwart and straight, feet firmly on the ground." - This is the tenth time the nres- ident's birthday has been the oc casion -for a series of birthday balls, . march -of -dimes campaigns tTurn to Page 3 Story G ; i . ' " . " ' Deposit Required On Milk BotUes WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -flPV- Beginning Monday milk dealers must collect deposits on bottles and other containers and may not deliver pints or half pints to homes or sell them in retail stores. iThe order, issued by agricultur al secretary Wickard, is intended to conserve materials and man power and permit distributors through resulting economies ' to pay dairy farmers more for their milk, where necessary, while holding the consumer price to a minimum, Russians Capturif Mail:. Fall ol Also May Be Trap For Nazi Troops By The Associated Press LONDON, Jan. 30 Russian troops have captured the im portant railway ' junction of Tikhoretsk, 95 miles below Rostov, and also the oil city of Maikop in the western Cauca sus, threatening to trap the remnants of a German army once numbering 300,000, a special Moscow communique recorded by the Soviet radio monitor said Sat urday night. These -Red army victories were announced as Russian dispatches said the Red army was steadily rolling westward on the Voronezh front less than 55 miles from Bel gorod, and 60 miles from Kursk, two axis bases that supplied the momentum for the 1842 German offensive. Front dispatches received In Moscow said the Russians still were annihilating the remnants of nine German divisions trap ped between Voronezh and Kostorneye on a 44-mile front above and below the railway leading to Kursk. (The German high command communique reported still anoth er menace to their front, south of Lake Ladoga in the Leningrad area. The nazis said soviet at tacks there were "bloodily re pulsed" but said violent fighting was continuing with the Russians hurling massed tanks and artil lery formations into the battle Hand-to-hand fighting also was reported in that area.) Tikhoretsk in the Caucasus was a major Russian objective both to increase the noose being drawn about Rostov and to trap sibable nazi forces between there, the Maikop oil wells 5 miles to the south and the Black sea and Sea of Azov on the west. The railway running southwest from Stalingrad to Novorossisk on the Black sea meets the main Rostov-Baku line at Tikhoretsk. Now the Germans anchored south and west of Tikhoretsk have only two risky avenues of escape. One is a hurried re treat northward from Krasno dar along a spur railway paral leling the Tikhoretsk-Rostov line. Krasnodar itself is (0 miles northwest of Maikop and about 80 miles southwest of Tikhoreetsk. The other chance of retreat for the nazi armies is by sea to the Crimea across the Kerch straits west of Krasnodar. Maikop was captured by the Germans last August, but it is doubtful if the enemy ever was able to exploit the wrecked wells. The fields have a normal output of 2,500,000 tons annually. Chile May Jail Japs BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 30-)- Information reaching here Satur day from Santiago said members of the Japanese legation staff who were placed under house ar rest Friday night in retaliation for Japanese treatment of Chilean diplomats in Tokyo are likely to be taken into protective custody. This is assumed to mean -that y Aoretsk the Jaoanese will co to iail eSkinaally at war. Altogether the Bra less the Chilean government is advised of a changed attitude in Tokyo, where the Chilean envoy has been arrested. Advices said the Chileans are anxiously speculating on what moved the government to adopt such swift reprisal. Optional fCorninunityi Property9 Law In Search for Savings to Income Tax Payers . By RALPH C. CURTIS . "Community property" is des tined to-become a familiar phrase around the legislature this week as the taxation committees delve into the possibility of saving, not for the state but for certain of its residents, somewhat in excess of a million dollars a year in federal LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR v Third reading Monday: In Howe: ; KB 15, 92, 129, 135, 154, 181. In Senate: SB 4, 68, 87. HB 55. taxes. Depending on the federal tax bill, it may be two million or znore next year." - - . - By adoption of "community property", lawbut not "simply by adoption" of such a law that RAF 250 Japs Slain In Fight for Salamaua Yankee Subs Sink 6 Jap Ships, Pacific! -Including Destroyer ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday, Jan Zl-iJpy-Two hundred fifty Japs have been killed in the Mubo area, near Salamaua, New Guinea, Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's noon communique an nounced Sunday. ! It was in the Mubo area that Saturday's communique had told of an attack by strong Japanese patrols which was thrown back by an allied outpost after which the fleeing Japs were pursued in the direction of Salamaua. I A death toll of 250 bears out in dications of intensified fighting in that comparatively new battle sector, inasmuch as recently Only about 150 Japs were killed in an allied raid there which lasted three days. ' Allied planes resumed their raids on RabauL New Britain, heavy bombers . giving the town and harbor area a pasting which caused explosions in a Jap .Ves sel and started fires in wharf sup ply dumps. ; In New Britain's open bay, southwest of Rabaul, bombers scored two hits on a 2500-ton transport and troops on the deck were strafed. j WASHINGTON, Jan. SoP) The navy reported Saturday (Turn to Page Story , E) US and Brazil Military Men Talk Sub War j RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 30-vS3) United States and Brazilian naval, air and military chiefs conferred Saturday on means to defeat the U-boat menace in the south At lantic and further expedite the overseas deliveries of war sup plies and thus to implement the complete accord reached between Presidents Roosevelt and Vargas at Natal last Thursday. After the meeting of the naval leaders at the marine ministry, a spokesman said "affairs of j high importance were discussed.' Adm. Jonas Ingram, command er of allied forces in the south Atlantic, told the Associated Press afterward that the conference discussed intensification of the program to clear south Atlantic sea lanes, "on which the US and Brazilian navies were working to gether constantly. "If we want to shorten the war we must arive au suummmca from the Atlantic." He added that Italian subma rines generally were easier w overcome than German U-boats "because they can't take it When we go after them they usually surrender." r t In defense against attacks on shipping, Brazilian air forces started sinking axis " submarines even before that nation was for- zilian forces are crecuiea j wwa sinking four U-boats, in addition to the four sunk in a month. by Admiral Ingram's forces. The press devoted big displays to Vargas' return from Natal with the greatest news story in Brazil since the beginning of the war. money could be saved. Congress has enacted - into - law its belief that where property and . income are owned equally , but severally by husband and wife, each may file a separate Income tax return declaring half of the totals thus each may pay . the . tax at lower bracket rates. ; A couple inf Ore gon with $100,000 net income might pay about $58,000 in fed eral income tax; a couple with the same income in a community property? state would pay less than $45,000. , However, ; on in comes under $5000 there j isnt much difference and bejowj $3600 income, no difference worth men tioning. . On gift and estate: taxes the discrepancy - is even greater, but there state taxes also are in volved. ! Why doesn't Oregon "simply" 'mams Jap Bomber This Japanese bomber resembles s flaming meteor at It skids through the darkened sky after being hit by anti-aircraft fire from US warships In the South Pacific. It crashed into the sea a few seconds later. Smoke from shell which hit. the ship k seen at right of plane Associated Press Photo from US Navy. .,r.-:. ' , .- ." Walter Pierce to Retire To Eola Country Home From 57 Years Politics Walter M. Pierce is retiring Eola after ten new deal years in So he indicated when he stopped in Salem Saturday morning seeking to arrange for telephone service to the country home of Mrs. Pierce, the former Cornelia Marvin, state, librarian from 1905 to 1928. The eastern Oregon democratic congressman, unseated by Repub-. lican Lowell Stockman last Nov ember, scarcely looked , his nearly 82 years, said friends. His 82nd birthday falls next May 8U He isn't, planning, he indicated, to go back to his white-faced calves at LaGrande, where he held his legal residence for so many years.' The Pierces arrived In Salem Friday, their plans to winter hi California upset by their dis covery that while the sonny state may still open its arms to visitors, it has few homes, apartments or hotel rooms to offer them. The resort state ap peared too crowded for comfort, with its naval and military es tablishments, shipyards and air plane plants all going at war time pitch. The name of Walter Pierce has been heard in Oregon local and state politics for 57 years. It all began in Umatilla county when he served as county school superin tendent from 1886 to 1890. Next four years he was county cleric He served in the state senate from 1903 to 1907, casting his vote in the 65-ballot three-way fight in the upper house over its presi dency in 1905, only record by which the 1943 senate's 45-vote contest between Sens. Steiwer and Lee is surpassed. . Down through the years Mr. Pierce also became an attorney and practiced law, farmed, raised livestock and operated a public utility. He popped back into pub lic office in 1917 to serve again as state senator for four years. Two years after this term expired, he . returned to Salem as gover nor, in 1923. A year after leaving this office, he was . married on December 31, 1928, to Miss Mar vin, who gave up a long career in' the library . world to become Mrs. Pierce and a few years later private secretary to a congress man husband. She is still listed in the Oregon Who's Who as a republican. Elected congressman from the (Turn to Page 2 Story C) adopt a "community property" law? There's nothing, or nothing much wrong with such a - law; many persons consider it fairer and, by itself, simpler than the Oregon law under which, unless held "in entirety", property ac quired after marriage is Jointly owned and income is Indivisible except by court action, as in avIi vorce action : or probation of an estate. .' V ' v--;. . The tronnie Is thai shifting from the present Oregon law to -a, genuine "community proper ty" law would be prohibitively complicated.; . No state ever has attempted it. The seven south western states which have "eemmraity property started that way aeeanse that was the law in France and Spain, from ' which their 'settlers chiefly Trails Flame in Death Dive to the quietude of Polk county's Washington, DC WALTER M. PIERCE Salary Boosts Sought, Court . Salary increases for the Salem district justice of the peace and constable, and extension of the court's civil jurisdiction to matters- involving not more than $500, are asked in bills introduced in the legislature Saturday at the Marion county court's request. Court members pointed out that these officers pay was : not In creased two years ago .when the salaries of all other Marion county officers were advanced; and it also pointed out . that the Salem justice court returns to the coun ty about $8000 in fees each year, its activity having increased great ly in recent years, i The bill proposes an increase from $2400 to $2700 for the jus tice, and from $1800 to $2100 for the constable. : Studied Washington and Idaho "got that way" because of In fluence prevailing' ha their ter " riteirial period. ' 1 Oregoav went the other way by copying from, an Iowa law code, the only one available. - IV r.l; ;.u -,; However -there Is before the legislature a bill, ; introduced by Sen. Lew Wallace, which would Institute " in Oregon an optional "community property" system for those who accepted to come un der its provisions. It is said to be an exact copy of an Oklahoma law which federal income tax ex aminers have recognized. It pro vides that only such proprety as is acquired after it becomes law, shall be "community property." That would 'include income and (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Gomiiia Here WM,llLlil.iJUI.H"....MJHMi...u.jKL.H.iy: s KJ jpganBannnHasaemmMIIW ml British Units Cross Border Allied Planes Pound Ajris Convoy, Land ; Supply Lines f ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 30 -()-Advance units of Gen. Sir Bernard L. 1 Montgomery's Eighth army have made their first thrust across the Tunisian border in pursuit of German field marshal Erwin Rommel, . a British .. communique disclosed Saturday as allied aerial attacks stabbed at communications and supply lines of the retreating Africa corps. "-' With these, forward elements penetrating the central sector of the Tunisian front, it was expec ted that it would not be long un til the. main body of the Eighth army swings into . action, y In an apparent effort, to cut off Rommel's supply lines as well as farther avenues of es- . cape, American and RAF. planes rained explosives on northern Tunisia, accounting for 13 axis planes in the process. A middle east communique re ported bad weather had hampered their activities, but '12th air force bombers, striking from the west, set fires in the Bizerte dock area and left two ships in a big Tunis ian bound convoy in flames. The British communique spoke only of a penetration in the cen tral sector of the front, indicat ing that Montgomery's patrols crossed the border some 15 to 25 miles from the coast. . ;.. There was no indication of how; close the patrols approached to (Turn to Page 2 Story H) v Penalty Asked On Non-Voting Public opinion frowns upon the citizen who falls to . register and vote. It remained for Rep. Vernon Bull, Union, to propose legal pen alties in support of public opinion on this matter. Rep. Bull's measure, dropped in the hopper prior to Saturday's deadline but not yet up for first reading, - proposes that ; citizens otherwise qualified who fail to register, or having registered fail to vote, be notified by the county clerk that 'he has observed such failure. Then they would be given a reasonable time in which to file a valid excuse. . ; '.:.,'..; Unless such excuse was filed and accepted, the erring citizen would be subject to these penal ties: If he applied for a motor vehicle operator's license, a liquor permit, a fishing or hunting' li cense,, in each such case , the cost to htm, by reason of his neglect to exercise tho franchise, would be an extra dollar. : '. .. n Republican ; c c CI lib to Meet Here Salem was selected as the meet ing-place for. the next annual con vention of the Oregon Republican club and Alan Brown, Portland attorney, was appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of the treas urer, when the club's executive committee met here '.' Saturday. Robert Ml Fischer, Jr., of Eugene is president - . , Brown succeeds as ' secretary Robert Mulvey of Oregon City, who has entered the armed ser vice. - I TTN 3) J M'MJ 2 Raids Upset v 10th Anniversary of - Hitler's Power Gets , Delayed by Bombs LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 31-, (P-The RAF put the finishing touches to Adolf Hitler's 10th anniversary of his rise to power by bombing Germany again Saturday night in a swift fol lowup to twoL daylight attacks on Berlin Saturday. j J V The raids brought to a smash ing close the first month of the new year, . which witnessed 14 RAF night raids on the Reich and the first all-American bomb ing of Germany proper. The tarffpt rt KattiT-rfav ;0va O - 4.4p ( assault "and the size of the raid ing force were not immediately disclosed. .British planes making their first daylight raid In history on Berlin Saturday twice crashed Hitler's gloomy tenth anniversary party, and their bombs upset the broadcast ex planations of Reichs marshal Goering and Propaganda Minis ter Goebbels as to why the Ger man armies are meeting revers es In Russia. Hitler was reported off some where "with his soldiers' when the RAT'S fast masquito bombers struck precisely at 11 a. m. Ber lin time, as the be-medalled Goer ing was ready to talk at the. air ministry in the heart of Berlin. Explosions could be heard over the Berlin radio here in London. There were shouts,; too, indicat Goeri ing turrnoU within the, ministry . as, the plump Goering and his au dience -scrambled for shelter. The Berlin radio remained on the air to advise listeners from time to time that "there will be a few more 'minutes' delay In MarshaK Goering's speech. The delay lasted until noon, an hour later. Then at 4 p. m. the mosqui toes struck again, this time as ' Goebbels was beginning to talk in the Sportspalast. Tho Pro-, paganda minister had been dele gated by nitler to read a proc lamation on one of the rare occasions when Hitler hao not personally spoken to his people '. on the anniversary of his rise . to power In 1933. , j No British planes were lost in -the first raid, and only one was missing after the second attack. ' The RAF pilots roared over , Berlin at a high level instead of usual rooftop height employed by these swift bombers that can car ry four 500-pound bombs and at tain speeds up to 400 miles an hour. The British raids apparently were heavy only In a psycholo gical way. . Berliners were kept busy running to shelter and keep ing an eye, on the sky while lis tening tog their leaders simultan eously spur them to total effort and threaten death to1 shirkers. Neither Hitler, Goering, nor Goebbels tried to . predict when the promised German victory wduld come. Goering dwelt for some time in his 90-minute talk on why Germany ever attacked Russia in the first place, finally attributing it to Hitler's "intui tion." - Friday night the RAF blasted Germany's submarine base at Lorient, France, for the sixth time in 16 days. In retaliation, a flight of four German planes bombed a town (Turn to Page 2 Story B) i Swedes Gall Raids Symbol ' STOCKHOLM, Sunday, Jan. 31 ()-The Swedish newspaper- Da gene Nyheter Sunday described as a "symbolic episode' the Brit ish air attack on Berlin which delayed Reichsmarshal Hermann Georing's speech Saturday dur ing the 10th anniversary of Hit ler's rise to power. The . paper recalled pointedly that it was Goering who prom ised before the war that enemy planes never would be permitted to bomb a German city. Characterizing the anniversary as "a jubilee without Jubiliation", Dagens Nyheter said: "The fanfares of victory were replaced by the bursts of bombs from planes sent by a people wno to the last moment tried to come to a peaceful agreement with the nazis. 1 , '