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Vf" DImout Tho Insido . . ". Tour complete morning newspaper. The Statesman, offers yo ' pertinent - cms meats on war news ef the day by Kirk 8fmpsoa Washington analsi. ... Saturday sunset 6:23 p.m. . Sunday sunrise 1:21 a.m. .Weather: Thur. max. temp. 5y sain. 4L Thur. rain .15 In.- FrL river IZi ft. Wea ther data restricted by army request. . PCUNDQD MUSTY-SECOND YEAR Salem. Orvgoou Saturday Morning. February 6, 13i3 Price 5c No. 234 I WW II II II II II V Ulj79i fe-;cv 7 II I V I V III! lilt vM-iMi "a X 7- "7. N. Ill Politics Measures Approach : Multnomah Elections ; Bills Expected to Rouse Controversy 4 By RALPH a CURTIS . Just what it will take to start a fight in this 42nd Oregon leg islature, is a question that, has some members and a great many onlookers guessing, but they may not have to guess for long. Milk control, civil service, fish,'- pensions on these issues public hearings were held Thurs day and Friday. Meanwhile there was indication, however slight, that there might be action soon cm the two wine bills on which - the senate alcoholic traffic com mittee has been sitting. The in dication was this, that the com mittee has a meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon. It- has heretofore held no meetings at all. .. But if all else fails, a fight is almost guaranteed upon one sub ject: politics. Chiefly Multnomah county politics. The house committee on elee - tions promised Friday that It definitely would report out early next week, one way or another. Rep. Leo Smith's bill to repeal the explosive "investigation of voter registrations' law affect ing Multnomah county alone. If It had been reported out Fri day it would have been "do pass, but one member of the committee was absent. Rep. John. Steelhammer, Marion, commit tee chairman, said in that case he would bring in a minority report. Today the committee will re port out "do pass" a bill repeal ing one of two statutes on the subject, but this one is non-controversial since the present law's "directive has been carried out. It .involved" a general cleanup . of registrations, . in w h i c h : some 47,000 names .were erased from the county's voter lists. The con l troversial . bill to come out later would repeal the law requiring a continuing investigation of sim ilar nature. - ' Rep. Smith Insists his sole pur pose is to save Multnomah coun ty money. He says the two inves tigations " to date have cost the county about $61,000 though he - claimed in 1941 In opposing the : bills, it would be only $40,000. Proponents of the measures at that time, he charges, estimated the cost at' $10,000. Smith also . avers there is no . evidence that any of the "dead" registrations canceled was found to involve fraud. Republicans of the Multno . mah delegation are expected to oppose the repeal. Rep Stanhope ; Pier said that of the registra- tions canceled, only about one third were renewed, showing i that the cleanup was necessary. , lie and Ralph Cake, republican - national committeeman for Ore gon, said It was impossible to : determine how many of the reg istrations were fraudulent. : Passage of these two laws in spired one of the hottest fights of the 1941 session. Elections com mittee members agreed Friday they probably wouldn't have passed, had not Rep. Monroe Sweetland, Multnomah democrat, opposed them. . But these two bills are not the only ones related to politics, upon which controversy may arise. Rep. A. W. Meyers, Clackamas demo crat, has a bill designed to elim inate "dead wood" from county central committees. It provides that if a precinct committeeman does not attend the first meeting after election, his office "may be declared vacant and a substitute chosen. . v;. ,t National Committeeman Cake (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Hitler Costs World 400 Billions WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -) Adolf Hitler's lust for conquest has already cost the world more than $400,000,000,000, . the com merce department estimated: Fri day, and the cost ; may, exceed $500,000,000,000 if the fuehrer is not brought to his knees for an other year. The department based its es timate on the staggering financial toll of Hitlerism on known and estimated military expenditures to date of Germany and her victims and the nations allied against her, and the loss in national income to the axis-conquered lands. Five hundred billion dollars is ; , half a trillion. That sum of --- money represents $230 for every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, since the popu lation of the world is estimated at 2469,000,000. It would buy an automobile for every family. Giraud Forms New Council ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 5-(Jpy-CJen. Henri Giraud, French high commissioner, abolished the i "imperial council' created by the late Admiral Darlan and Friday set up in Its stead a body called the "war commit tee." The newly , created body was considered net so much of a pre visional government. . and while , the membership in the .war committee', was the same as that of thai abolished imper ial i council . General Giraud jleft the door open .or the entry f ether . members- presum ably representatives of Gen. Charles De Gaulle, " Fighting French leader. Con Heard Milk Control Repeal Argument Is To Remove Limits From Production Milk control's primary purpose is limitation of production and therefore no need for it exists in Oregon at this time when greater production is sought, speakers favoring the law's repeal argued LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR Third readings Saturday: - In Senate: SB 100, 113, 114, 97. HB 54, 78, 79, 141, 150, 153, 157, 162, 173, 175. In House: HB 91, 147, 149, 186, 277, 286, 288, 312, 317, 318, 321, 324. SB 45. at a hearing Friday afternoon be fore senate and house committees of the Oregon legislature. "What we need is more encour agement for the producers and a little less control," said Lewis Judson, Salem producer-distributor, who declared he had sold most of his dairy herd because, between fees required by the milk control board, increased production costs and frozen prices, he could not fafford:to continue, rf Judson's contention was chal lenged by William W. Henry, manager of the Dairy Coopera tive association, who reviewed (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Cancellation Of '42 Tax Little Backed WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-P) Members of the house ways and means committee appeared agreed Friday night after four days' dis cussion of a pay-as-you-go tax plan that some portion of 1942 income taxes would be abated but many of them looked with dis favor on the Ruml plan. Supporters of the proposal ad vocated by Beardsley Ruml, New York banker, to wipe out all 1942 income tax assessments conceded that they could not muster a ma jority in the committee but still hoped to win new followers. . Rep. Crawford (R-Mich) ap pearing as a witness Friday, ex pressed the view that any tax cancellation, in view of the gov ernment's wartime needs, "is al most . economic blasphemy. . He proposed that the 1942 taxes be collected in full, through the amortization over several years if necessary, in attaining a current payment basis. I Ruml argued the merits of his approval for five hours Thurs day, contending his plan would improve the well-being of the treasury. r Thus far he has been the only witness to advocate all-out abate ment of the 1942 obligations. including the denlsens of dark est Africa, or equip each family with an electric refrigerator, a radio and a lot of other com forts, or permit each family to send a boy to college for a year. If spent on real estate, it would provide the world with 100,000,000 $5000 homes. It would relieve un told human .misery since it is 56 times the United States relief bill, estimated at 10 billion dollars in the depression years. A man with half a trillion dollars could endow 3300 universities like Harvard, the country's wealthiest. " ' k - While most of the financial bur den has fallen on the nations op posed to the axis, "the cost of Hitler has been shared - by the Germans themselves and, more particularly, by the ItaIiariS,, the department reported in its weekly publication. Foreign Commerce Weekly. - Jbers Heels f flitting; Allied jps Gain On Both Islands By MURLIN SPENCER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, Feb. 6-iflP)-Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur hurled his aerial might against Japanese shipping over a wide area of the south Paci fic Saturday. In one attack on Ambon, west of Dutch New Guinea, -four-motored Liberators bombed 20,000 tons of ships, de stroying or seriously damaging the three vessels. Thgjplanes also sank a small beet and damaged a second at Lorengan and sank a 1900-ton merchantman in three minutes at Talasea. Meanwhile our ground troops in New Guinea also dealt punish ing blows to the Japs, killing 129 in actions on the Kumusi river, and in the Way- area, below Salaznaua. Ambon, Lorengau and Aru is lands south of Dutch New Guinea, Rabaul (New Britain base raided for the seventh straight night), Talasea, 'Gasmata, also in New Britain, and Lae, New Guinea, all came in for attention in one of the busiest nights the allied air men have had in recent weeks. B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses were used. The Liberators caught three transports in the harbor at Ambon. In the face of intercepting fighters, they set a 10,000 ton ship aflame from stem to stem and seriously damaged two motor vessels of 5000 tons each. To complete the day, they shot down five fighter planes for certain, possibly a sixth, and returned to their base without los ing a plane. At Rabaul, which was harassed by, our planes for three hours be fore the big attack was -staged, the Japs lighted up the Vunakanau airdrome . for their own bombers. Flying Fortresses took advantage of this to drop bombs which start ed fires visible for more than 100 miles. , The newly formed squadron of Dutch filers, using American B 25s (Billy Mitchell medium bombers), staged its biggest raid since its organisation against the Aru islands te the southwest of Dutch New Guinea. The Dutch dropped bombs squarely on Jap ammunition supply dumps, start ing fires visible for 30 miles. A Japanese ground force which (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Blast Kills 5, California SAN PABLO, Calif., Feb. 5-yp) Five persons died and eight oth ers were injured in an explosion at the Chemurgic Co. plant here late Friday afternoon. The dead included four, women and a -man, all employes of the company. The explosion occurred in a room where workers were packing railroad torpedo shells. The dead are: Samuel Cizmich, Richmond; Ann Sertich Vital, San Pablo; Edith Hass, San Pablo; Ella O. Johnson, San Pablo, and Mrs. Johnny-Lou Rake, Richmond. Deputy Coroner W. P. Drummey said he thought the explosion was caused when Cizmich, foreman of the packing room, accidentally drove a nail into a torpedo while nailing a lid on a box. The box of torpedoes exploded, Drummey said, and set off five other boxes filled with torpedoes. Damage was estimated at $5000. German military expenditures since Hitler came to power were estimated in excess of $100,000, 000,000, -while Italy was said to have spent about $8,000,000,000 "since the date, June, 1940, of her deluded entry on the side of the nazisV;;; ..f ;. '., i j--. J :Jrii ': While a late entrant into the war against naxilsm, the United States has already spent more -than any: other power fighting Germany, the article continued. Taking only expenditures al ready used - or ; appropriated for military purposes during the last three years, the cost of Hitlerism to the United States so far was placed at $11200,000,000. Expenditures by the United Kingdom since the rise of Hitler ism , were estimated at $58,200, 000,000 and of Russia at $96,000, 000,000. : : . - ; - Bora Sweep Pacify Italy General Said in US j BERN, Switzerland, Feb.! 25 -0P)-Gen. Annibale "Electric .Whiskers" Bergonsoli, : former Italian black shirt corps com mander who was captured j by the British in Libya in 1941, was reported Friday night to have been sent te Washington as a prisoner of war. A dispatch from Canhobbie, Italy, to n Fopolo Dltalia re ported that t the ; Italian Red Cross had notified dotlJde Ber gonsoli, sister ef the pictur esque little general, that he had been sent to Washington re cently. ? v.;-'.. " " I", . In Washington, the provost marshal general's office de clined to make any comment on General Bergonsoli or J his whereabouts. ! The general was dubbed "Electric Whiskers" by jthe British, who .were Impressed with his bristling beard and handlebar mustache. ! . 'Father Draft' Meets Snags Deferment Priority For Family Men Sought, Congress WASHINGTON, Feb. 5(JP) The war manpower commission's plan to draft fathers of families unless they switch from "non-essential" jobs to more essential oc cupations encountered strenuous opposition Friday in the house, where members of the military committee moved to block , the program. j Chairman May (D-Ky.): an nounced that hearings are sehed- WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-f(P) Advice of war manpower com mission officials to me in "non essential" Jobs Is to stay there until they have a place in jwar work lined up. uled for next week on a bill by Reo. Kilday (D-Tex.) to tive de ferment Driorities to men with de pendents and to put 'draft quotas on a state basis. Under thiai pro cedure, all eligible mn in n ctata. Who are without denendents wrailri nave to be drafted before heads of families could be called. ! Simultaneously. Chairman Ful- mer (D-SC) of. the agriculture committee drafted a bill toicom- (Turn to Page 2 Story j F) FR Requests Four Billions For Sea War WASHINGTON, Feb. 5f -UPi Mounting costs of the war at sea brought a request from President Roosevelt Friday for an addition al $4,000,000,000 in cash! and $210,000,000 in contract author izations for the navy. 1 In submitting the request to congress, the budget bureau terse ly explained that .the funds,: were necessary to "provide for Jaddi tional requirements for thee pro secution of the; war," and, "for contingencies, which have arisen since the transmission of the bud get for the fiscal year 1943 The "contgencies" were unex plained but it was believed that a substantial part of the money would be used for naval vessels commissioned earlier than antici pated and for training and equip ping the expanding personnel. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) said the naval committee would: start hearings next week on another new bill to authorize expenditure of $1,500,000,000 for naval shore establishments with the possibil ity it might meet stiff objection. Vinson told the house earlier this Week that he ' was opposed to building-up big naval shore es tablishments and expressed; belief that navy funds should be con centrated on "fighting ships and fighting men." r i Foss Ties Score; Rick Felicitates! NEW YORK. Feb. 5-P)l-Capt Eddie Rickenbacker, who downed 26 planes in World war I( Friday sent congratulations to.! Marine Capt Joseph J. Foss of I Sioux Falls, SD, who recently shot down his 26th Jap plane in the : south Pacific.;. i "Just heard that you i have brought down your 26th enemy airplane Which equals my record of victories in World war fl and I hasten to offer my heartfelt congratulations with the hope that you will double it," i the World war I ace said. "But 1 in trying, use the same cold calculating technique that has brought you the results to date for we will need your kind back hero after the war is over." . - j . OnuFclhill oviet Yank Airmen Destroyed -Axis Planes 8th Army Reviewed On Surprise Trip ; Americans Lose 10 CAIRO, Saturday, Feb. 6 (APWPrime Minister Win ston Churchill visited can. tared Tripoli where he re viewed troops in the main piazza and made a sneech at British . Eighth . army head- Quarters, and left hv nlane early Friday for an. unan nounced destination. He made a ceremonial entry in to the city Thursday mornins aft er spending Wednesday night at ine neadquarters caravan of Gen. oir Bernard I Montgomery, com mander of the Eighth army. In bright sunlight he reviewed British tanks lined up along the street, from the sea front to the mam piazza. . Their pennants flying, the line oi tanks stretched for a mile. Crowds lined the streets to greet Churchill's procession. " The British prime minister landed at Castel Benito airdrome south of Tripoli after flying more than 1000 miles from Cairo late Wednesday afternoon. Speaking from a hilltoD he said he had come to thank all men of the British Eighth army, allied air forces and other units who had taken part in the campaign in the name of the king of Eng land, the British government and j whoJe'rplev c':. 'TThei. deeds. :Ju 1 Widi 'would gleam and glow in the annals of History. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in north africa; Feb. 5- (P-A brilliant aerial victory in which American airmen de stroyed 26 axis planes . and damaged ethers, with a loss ef ten allied craft, was announced Friday while land action re mained minor and the British Eighth t army probed Field Marshal Rommel's defenses along the southern Tunisian frontier. A headquarters spokesman an nounced that US armored forces had withdrawn from the Sened railway station in central Tuni sia, 65 miles northwest of the axis-held port of Gabes, after "accomplishing the purpose of their mission." The allied com (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Planes Slash Nazidom as More Assured By The Associated Press Allied planes went over in day light Friday to pour it down upon Hitler again, while British pilots who had made a great overnight attack extending from Italy to the Ruhr and the German sub marine base at Lorient in France were turning in their reports as members of the night shift. This .overnight attack, which involved four separate raids, cost only three British bombers. The Turin royal arsenals and the Spe zia naval base in Italy were hard hit, as was Lorient, one of the most . menacing of all the nazi U-boat nests. : The fact that this air war against Hitler was really just be ginning was made known in Lon don by Lt Gen. Frank M. An drews, who during the day suc ceeded LL Gen. Dwight Eisen hower as commander of US forces in the European theatre. . " General Andrews, an old air man himself and a consistent ex ponent of making the maximum use of the great shock power of ' , (Turn to Page 2 II). Conciliator Due Today on Strike J. CTuntt. Portland, commis sioner of conciliation with the fed eral department of labor, is due in Salem this morning to meet with representatives of employer and employes in the dispute which sent 100 employes of the Keith Brown Building Supply company out on strike Thursday night Convinced. Pay US Bombs i.Vv r I II v V. - -t Yankee airmen upheld their reputation again, in the raids pictured above. Top photo Is of bombs laid smack on the target, the railway repair depot at Sfax in Tunisia. Dense clouds of smoke poor from the burning main repair shop. Bottom photo shews "calling cards' dropping toward Wilhelmshaven, German naval base, daring that January 27 all-American attackv HN Radlophotos. Sale m Defense Council Authorizes Cooperation Only with .the cooperation departments can fire and police required standards, Salem's new civilian defense council de clared at its initial meeting Friday night as it authorized chiefs of the two departments to provide that cooperation.-h If and when Salem can list 120 men who have met certain speci fied training requirements as auxiliary firemen, the city may secure a share oil the emergency fire fighting equipment now in process ; of distribution ,bytne federal government, Paul Hen dricks, civilian defense com mander,, told the j committee. Bat a vicious! circle 'was re vealed by representatives ef the . a axillary firemen who said they could net secure that training because city department offi cials did net feel they eenld jeopardize city qnlpment by al lowing green men te use it fer. training purposes. ' -v ' Underwriters'-h reports T have consistently revealed that Salem fire department is undermanned and over-equipped, at least, that it has too much ' equipment for the personnel to handle efficient ly, V. E. Kuhn, former mayor and member of the new defense coun cil, ' declared preceding 1 his - mo tion which is to send PL O. Lewis, chairman of the dty council fire committee, to the fire depart ment with the authorization from the powerful defense council.'' Both fire and police department heads were instructed to consider their civilian defense auxiliaries as .(Turn to Page 2 Story .- Mlies- :Visilt to s Drive Over Nazis Going Dotch Fire, Police in Training of existing city fire and police units under civilian, defense reach Three Oregon Men Missing WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-(P)-The navy announced Friday 67 .casual ties in navy forces, Including seven dead, 13 wounded and 47 missing. The casualties included for Ore gon: ' ' " - , Frazier, "Jack .Rollins. Missing. Mother,, Mrs.. Annine Mathilda Frazier, 5924 NE Flanders street, Portland. Guardian, Norton B. Fall as, 3054 NE Glisan street, Vort land. . - ' . ' ; . Quetschke, Henry Rudolph. Missing. Father, John Quetschke, Philomath. ". " ...' i ' : Sutton, Harold Lloyd. . Missing. Father, William' Harold Sutton, Bay City. . It Takes All 13s . PORTLAND, Feb. S-0-wil-lamette Iron and Steel corpora-' tion's shipyard win laanch its 13th minesweeper, the CSS Con- else, Saturday.1 It will be spon sored by Lorraine Kennedy, one of 13 children of Gay Kennedy, a machine shop foreman, who drew the lacky number IX. She win be the 13th daughter of a ' Willamette Iron and Steel em ploye te sponsor a ship. to WiiJi Tripoli; o 9 Reds Approach Kurk, Rostov; Capture Cities Premier Informs FR Of Belief ; Stary Oskol Retaken By The Associated Press LONDON. Saturday. Fh. ft Premier Joseph Stalin has sent a message to President Roosevelt expressing his con viction that "joint military operations .of the n r m A forces of the United SI ifM America, Great Britain, and ine m the near future will ; brine victory over mir common enemv." a HTvrur patch said early Saturday. This message, which replied to Roosevelt's congratulations on thm Russian victory at Stalingrad, was aisciosea as two Russian commu niques recorded by the soviet monitor here continued to tell of sweeping red army gains all along the 1941 German defense line In Russia. - The red army was reported within 22 miles of Kursk, 45 miles from Belgorod, and only 50 miles from Kharkov. These are the three main German po sitions in southern Russia aside from Rostov, Caucasian gateway city which already is menaced directly by Soviet troops who cracked the first line of German defenses about 30 miles to the southeast. -The midnight bulletin said the Russians craith nf Ttnctnr m u.. advancing; and a Reuters Stock holm report said that Bataisk, 10 miles south vof the key city, haf fallen.--' - Stalin's -message to President Roosevelt as reported by Reuters said: ' To Franklin Roosevelt, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the USA: "1 thank you for your congratu lations in connection with the vie tory of the Soviet forces at Stalin grad. - I express by conviction that Joint military operations of the armed forces of. the USA, Great Britain and the USSR in the near future will bring about victory over our common enemy. -Stalin. ' A special Russian communique earlier had announced the capture of Stary Oskol, an important rail way town 75 miles southeast of Kursk, and Izyum, another rail way point in the Ukraine 70 miles southeast of Kharkov. Bat the midnight bulletin also Kaaid that southwest of Stary Os kol, whose axis garrison was wiped eat, or taken prisoner, the red army had swept on to take Skorodnoye, only 45 miles north east ef Belgorod. This town is about midway between Karsk and Kharkov. In the , Ukraine the Russians were said to have captured Oik- hovatka, a district center 53 miles from Kharjsov, and Veliki-Burluk. another district center only 50 miles from Kharkov. Everson Quits At Iinfield PORTLAND,, Feb. 5-UP)-The Linfield college board of trustees Friday accepted the resignation of President William G. Everson, ef fective August 15. ' A committee was named to recommend a successor for Ever son, who had held the office five years. . d The board thanked Everson for "hard work and conscientious de votion and "contributions to the financial stability of Linfield col lege." . - - Tht resignation followed alumni criticism of declining enrollment. Registration at the college once reached 600, but is below S00 now. The trustees . postponed action on a faculty committee rcommen dation to permit dances off the campus., No Safety Pins! HENDERSON, NC, Feb. 5-A1 Jamest Best was flabbergasted. He and his wife came to town looking for safety pins and there was none. Such a thing had never happened to him be fore. Best was expecting his tZth baby and all the c!J safety phis at his home were genet
