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4'-Puzzles
Faced On
ion
How Soon, How Much,
: Formula, Oiling;
Deficit Possible
- By RALPH C. CURTIS
-: Whether reductions in the
state' income tax, contemplated
In the program upon - whose
broad outlines ,-the legislative
tax- committees and Gov. Earl
W. 6nell are in agreement, can
be applied to taxes upon 1942
income payable this year," was
one of the four intricate . puzzles
which : faced the house taxation
and revenue committee Thursday
as- it tackled the job of drafting
detailed specifications.
t Offhand, the answer, is '.'no."
Apparently the emergency clause
cannot be attached to a tax bill,
even if it is one -educing taxes.
Lacking that, the bill will not be
come law until late May or early
LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
Third readings Friday:
In House: HB 107, 120, 140, 148,
166,215, 318, 327. SB 4, 44, 57, 97.
Id Senate: SB 74, 104, 122, 134,
154, 462. HB 15, 48, 49, 50, 95, 181,
231, 246, 277, 285, 297, 311.
June, some weeks after the dead
line for3 filing returns. Already
income tax returns with checks
and money orders attached are
coming into the r tax department
offices. However ; if the formula
for reduction if not too '.compli
cated, a means of putting it into
' effect this year with a minimum
of refunds is considered possible
by some committee members, s J .
The "committee's other puzzles
are .these: -"
L Hew anach Income tax re
; ductlen?
2. By what formula?
S. What celling shall be pla
: ced apon diversion in any one
year of income tax surplus to
school districts?
Though there were approxi
mately eight divergent view
points in evidence at the commit
tee meeting and there might
. have been nine had one member
not been absent in actuality the
problems : were in process of be
ing ' boiled . down to . agreement,
and were this near to it:
Assuming that compromise will
eliminate extremes, the reduction
will be not less than 11.6 per cent
nor more than 20.8 .per cent.
Whatever it is, the reduction in
'- state revenues to offset property
; taxes. will be not much more than
half that for no 5 reduction 'in
corporate excise taxes has , been
considered, and they comprise al
most half of the total.
The ceiling on diversion will
i be $4,000,000 .or $5,000,000 or
some figure In between.
The ,: formula well, that's less
briefly disposed of, but only three
' alternatives have been discussed:
1. A simple percentage reduc
tion of payments without change
; In rates.
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Wood Ration
Not Planned
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; WASHINGTON, Feb. ll.-P)-
i Rationing of firewood in north
western states will not be made
effective before next winter Sen
ator Wallgren . was i normtd
I Thursday , by the office .' of price
administration. - :
' ,The season has advanced so
far it is not advisable to attempt
formal wood rationing this win
ter,"; Joel Denv director, of OPA's
fuel rationing division, said in, a
letter to Wallgren, who had asked
for' postponement r. 5
t , Wednesday the war production
board announced it had author
ized the rationing of firewood in
Washington, Oregon, and J Idah-x
. at OPA headquarters. OPA said
then, however, that before ra-"tioning-
actually was instituted
there would be a registratioitlof
wood - dealers to, .get information
en which "a" rationing - program
might be based.
Dean's letter to Wallgren said
that although the actual i ration
ing has been put off until : the
2943-44 season, - plans must be
completed by May 1, as most
wood is secured in the spring and
f alL and ' dried for winter burn-3.
Taxat
Ships to Be Named
For Dionne Quints
' TORONTO, Feb. ll-(ff)-The
Dionne quintuplets will launch
five cargo ships for Britain at
Superior, Wis next May 9 and
each vessel of the -qutat fleet"
will bear the name of one of
Oliva Dlonne's famous daugh
ters from Callander, Ont . .J
, The ' announcement Jof their
first visit to the United States
'was made to the Ontario legts-;
latare Thursday . by Premier
Gordon Conant, who said -"the
government concurred In "the
:r decision of Mr. and Mrs. Dionne
to participate ln this T interna
tional restore of good wilL"
9 Men Apply,
Postmaster
Exams Here
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AP lists Three From
First Examination
For Salem Post
Nine men have applied for the
second series of civil service ex
aminations for the Salem post
mastership. The Statesman was
advised Thursday night by the
regional service of The Associat
ed Press in Washington, DC
Only three ' of the applicants
listed were among the nine who
applied for the1 $4200-a-year posi
tion last fall. After local demo
cratic organizations had protested
to the postmaster general over the
commission s certification of only
one man from the first list, and
he an independent, new examina
tions were ordered.
. Applicants as listed now by the
AP, arer - ,- -.
Harry Stilwell, auditor, for the
Oregon secretary of state; Donald
LT McBain. personnel office direc
tor t or- the unemployment' com
pensation commission; Paul ' M.
GenunelL auditor for the Becre
tary of state; Anson L. Lindbeek,
head of the Salem bureau of the
Oregon . Journal; Chet L Nelson,
former state NYA director' and
now, connected with the person
nel department of the Kaiser
shipyards, who maintains his
home on Croisan road; Albert C.
Gragg,' salesman for Valley Pack
ing company; Chester Thompson,
believed to be Gordon D. Thomp
son, Salem postal clerk; Kenneth
W. Bayne, local democratic lead
er, and Joseph J. Gallagher, bene
fits supervisor for the unemploy
ment : compensation . commission,
who was the only man certified
from the first list of applicants.
Absence of the name of Paul
Lynch, deputy collector of inter
nal revenue, was not understood,
since he also had applied a sec
ond time, as had Gordon Thomp
son. No Chester Thompson is list
ed in the city directory, r
; The examinations f or : a 5 first
class postmastership for an office
the size of Salem's are not formal,
written tests, but investigations of
the applicants'" experience and
personal suitability for the ' posi
tion, i
Swedes Down
German Plane
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 11
VP-A Swedish warship's anti
aircraft gunners shot down a Ger
man seaplane Thursday' off Karl
shamn on the southern coast, an
official announcement said Thurs
day night. I i r
The; plane flew into Swedish
territorial waters northwest of
Skaane. After it failed to heed the
warning ; shot, the communiaue
said, the warship opened fire.
The plane landed in the water
and the crewmen, unhurt, were
taken into custody by the military.
A second German plane flying
o v e r Karlskroma naval harbor
turned away after a Warning shot
. This was the first German plane
announced shot ' down - since the
autumn of 1940. -
Reds 'Gut
MOSCOW, Feb. 11 The
red army in a methodical isola
tion of the big German bastion
of Kharkov has cut the Ukraine
capital's main -railway to the Cri
mea and the Donets, basin by cap
tarihg .Lczovaya, a junction J$
miles to the south', a: special so
viet "communique " anno ua cad
Thursday night. V-k--''1 H'i-vt
Other Russian units were closi
ing -ia on Kharkov itself : along
a 50-mile sickle-shaped front,
some of, them 22 miles to the
southeast at i Chuguyev and 36
miles to the northeast . at Vol
chansk. -, s - - -
The capture of Leaevaya rep-
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Force
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Airmen Harass ;
By MURLIN SPENCER. '
r-s ALLIED I HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, Feb,
12-P)-A la rg e J apanes e
ground force which on January
30 had attempted to capture
Wau," New Guinea,5 35 miles
southwest of the important Jap
base of Salamaua, has been "de
cisively defeated" in a series of
engagements . and is 'in ' full re-.
treat, leaving behind an estimated
1000 dead. r 'j .. t ;n . ;
Gen. Douglas MaeArthnrs
noon communique . announced
Friday that the Japanese force,
estimated originally 'to have
constituted a reriment, or 280
men, is ! fleeing toward Mubo,
some 12 miles below Salamaua,
after being battered by jungle
trained Australians, harassed by
American fliers and badly hurt
by artillery. '
, Australians mopping up in . the
rugged country southeast of 'Wau
in the vicinity of the Wandumi
trade found 200 " more' Japanese
dead which previously had not
been reported. -
"This brings the total of . his
abandoned dead to "nearly 1000
since the initiation of his unsuc
cessful attack of January 30 " the
communique said.
In addition, - it was estimated
that, other Japanese casualties-
wounded and sick "probably are
many; times, as great" whereas
our . own - losses have been rela
tively light." , , i
Air activity was comparative
ly light in the southwest Pa
cific One Flying Fortress har
assed the big Jap base of Ra
banl. New Britain, for more
than two hours, finally dropping
bombs that started fires near
the Lakunai airdrome.
' The communique also reported
the sinking of an allied merchant
man off the east coast of Austra
lia by a submarine. All person
nel have been rescued. It was the
second announced submarine ac
tion in this area approximately
within a weekVtime.
Food for Occupied
Europe Sought )
NEW YORK, Feb. U The
Greek aid plan has demonstrated
that without interfering with the
war effort food can and : should
be ! sent .. immediately to other
starving occupied European coun
tries, Herbert Hoover and Hugh
Gibson, former ambassador to
Belgium, maintain in an article
published In Collier's.'
Assistance can be given to the
50,000,000 starving men, women
and children in Norway, Belgium,
and Holland by lifting the block
ade of Germany to permit limit
ed quantities of supplies through,
the authors asserted.
2nd Dutch Nazi
Leader Slain
LONDON; Feb. 11 Dr. H.
Reydon, Dutch propaganda chief,
and his wife have been fatally
wounded in the second slaying of
a Dutch nazi leader within a week,
the Dutch news agency, Aneta,
reported Thursday night. The re
port came from Amsterdam via
Stockholm. ; : : ". ' ' :
Aneta said the Scandinavian
telegraphic" bureau reported that
"unknown terrorists" shot Dr. and
Mrs. Reydon and predicted 'strong
reprisals" by the German author
ities. . . -
resented . a . 35-mile westward
sweep from the Barvenkova-Iz-yum
sector., This flying Russian
column -now may turn south ' to
ward the sea of Azov ; in an at
tempt to trap hundreds of thous
ands of German troops in the Ros
tov and Donets basin sectors far
to the east .. -,"-.
.The rail junction's seizure also
gave' the Russians an additional
base for the - approaching battle
for Kharkov, and for a sweep on
westward - to :-, the ; Dnieper river,
65 miles away. The Dnieper' gen
erally is considered the Germans'
best defense line" should Kharkov
fall.
Routed
pailway
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A tugboat serving as a ferryboat capsized in the Columbia river yen route to Kaiser's Vancouver ship
yard early Thursday morning. Nb yard worker-passengers and .'crew members were, reacued.. six
i bodies reeoverfd aitf( four persons were still miss uig. The ' photo'
tut'or Tnriuiajn ii. nnett
Eisenhower
North A frican Fighting;
Top Britons
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
(iT-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
in North Africa, conferred Thursday with British staff officers
from the Middle East on completion of his. unified command of
powerful allied forces for a final, crushing offensive to drive the
axis from Tunisia - .
The array of military leaders serving with Eisenhower, who
commanded the allied occupation
of North Africa, includes Britain's
foremost commanders of land, sea,
and air successes 'in the Mediter
ranean area, battle-tested Ameri
can generals " and French army
generals. K'";, ,l'f '":'?,.,a;"J
To bead this centralized com
mand of generals and a .British
admiral, the popular Eisenhow
er was nominated by President
Roosevelt to become a full gen
' eraL a rank otherwise held only
by -John J. Pershing, George C
Marshall. Douglas MacArthur
-and Malia -Craig.' 'j
As his deputy commander-in-chief,
Eisenhower has": Gen.. Sir
Harold Alexander, former British
(Secretary - of - War"; Stimson
and rrinae Minister Churchill
on Thursday disclosed other
plans and developments In the
war against the axis. Reports
by them are on pace . two.) P
middle east commander, who will
direct all . hmd operations.; Like
Eisenhower,' he is young: an en
ergetic, and ; favors direci action.
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder,
air commander-in-chief 'for the
Mediterranean area, . will . be re
sponsible for all air operations in
this vital theatre.
- Directing the allied . navies is
Admiral of the Fleet Sir ! Andrew
Browne Cunningham. 1; ' ' .
Land operations in north Afri
ca have this powerful lineup: - ...
Under ? Alexander are the
crack British Eixhth amay of
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery," , which ': : chased -. Rommel -
09i miles from : Egypt ; clear
.aerosa Libya; the BriU&h First
army nader. Lt. Gen. Kenneth
A. N. Anderson, Gen. Henri Gl- -rand's
French forces and , two
America corps commanded by
MaJ. Gem. Lloyd B. Fredendall
. and UaJ. Gen. Charles W. Ry
; ierV'v.,:'i;.: - ;: .. ' ' ; '-; :;:
- ' Still directly under Xisenhower
for the time being is the Ameri
can Fifth army of Lt Gen.. Mark
W.' Clark ; In northwest Africa.
In the air: . - u '
Tedder -become "stratecic
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Shipyard Workers. Die
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Associated resa.rn - '
to Command
Under Him
IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 11
hew allied commander-in-chief
fY'Gardei
(mmitfees
Appointed
A committee of seven members
to formulate rules and arrange for
judging of victory 'garden contest,;-
sponsored by The Oregon
Statesman - and the Salem Men's
Garden club, was named ' at
Thursday night's largely-attended
meeting of the club. ;
C. A. Cole," James ' -McGilchrist
Ernest Iufer, G. W.- Ailing, Robert
Shlnn,' E. T." ' Saling and G. O.
HolloweR,"? , who V cbmpriseV that
committee, are to hold a prelimi-'
nary meeting Tuesday night at
8 o'clock at the YMCA. ;
Until another committee' can be
organized to care for that phase
of the -club's newest project per
sons having plots of ground they
would like to lend landless gar
deners " and 1 others interested in
securing the use of garden spots
should call the YMCA to register,
dub officers declared at the close
of the meeting Thursday night
Approximately 50 men, includ
ing 10 new members attended the
meeting, held at the YMCA Cr;
; .More . than 100 colored slides
of camellias, shown by John
Henny, aroused considerable dis
cussion, among camellia fanciers.
'Preparation of a plot of ground
on Highland avenue recently given
to the club for use as a demon
stration garden was . assigned to a
committee composed of Knight
Pearcy, Glen Slentz and K.' S.
WUbur. - . v - ' ' '
C A. Colo won first prize In
the garden quiz, while second was
awarded to Rex Peffer. The prizes
were given by Russell Pratt club
president " . , , - -
Crish Kills la v; -
MONTREAL, Feb." H-(flP-Fiv
crewmen and' 15 passengers of a
royal air force commander Liber
ator bomber were killed in a crash
Tuesday in Newfoundland, it was
announced here Thursday niht
in. River
;,.:. .. " :. '
hows reeovery of t3ie .third -hdf.
6 Known Dead
In Boat
Four Still Missing :
l In Columbia ; Man ; ?
Lauded for Saving "
PORTLAND,! Orfc, Feb. 11.-
(ff)-A diver recovered two bodies
from the sunken Tugboat ' May
Thursday night bringing the toll
of known dead in the. worst Co
lumbia ' river disaster of modern
times to six and leaving four still
missing. r'v!4 . ; ''
; Diver Fred ; Devine - brought up
the bodies of Ben Xt w J s, 47,
deckhand, one of" the tug's crew
of three, , and Benjamin A. Ben
son, 58, one of 18 workers being
transported from, the Oregon
shore to the ; 1? e p y y .J. Kaiser
shipyard at Vancouver, Wash. -
Bodies of ' Phillip Gerstenkorn,
48; James H. Westmoreland, 29;
William H.; Bennett- 54, and Nels
E. Nelson, 82, all shipyard work
ers were recovered earlier Thurs
day. - - ,v j '-
' Still mUsinr were Ray Lewis,
45, deckhand
Ben, and two
and '-, brother of
shipyard work
ers W a 1 1 e r rearsonj Jr 17,
and Mrs. Esther. Chamberlain,
Siv The Multnomah county
sheriffs office; said another was
missing but the name was not
known. "'j - - -Clarence
Harvey, 38, captain of
the tug, and eight shipyard work
ers were rescued- by Harold Gran
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FDR to Speak, V
6-0 Tonight :
By The Associated Press .
President Roosevelt - will make
a 20-minute radio address at 630
pjru, PWT, Friday night over all
networks.. !
The White House said he would
discuss many subjects concerned
with the foreign; and home fronts.
It also was announced he will
speak February - 22,. addressing
George Washington dinners held
under auspices lot the democratic
national committee. The hour is
not yet determined.'
Gap tain, Carl
Named Tilajor 1
rOlTLAN D,. Feb.
Capt Marion Cart Hubbard pi-,
lot ace widely feted on his re
turn to tls area recently, has
been promoted to therank of
major In command of a marine
fighter squadron, according to
word received here Thursday,
lit Is at Santa Ana, Calif. ' '
8-Mile, Advance
MtiiiM; .; M&immel
:: Anieriiisan
Over Genter, WhUe Fre :
Fall Back for Re-Eqnipment
LONDON,' Feb.", 1 l-ffTBritish and French troops were re
ported Thursday,, night by a field correspondent in the Mat cur
area to have set the long-dormant northern front inJTunisia into
action with a continuing attack that has advanced them about
eight miles. ' : ' . . .
The report came from a Reuters correspondent in the Mateur
Salem Included
In Portland's
48-Hour Area
US Chamber Advises
Wait for Official "
Rules on Change , .
PORTLAND, Feb. ll-()-Sa-lem,
. St Helens, Hillsboro and
Oregon City are included. In the
Portland : Metropolitan area ' af
fected by the 48-hour work week
directive, L. C. Stoll, regional. war
manpower commission director,
said .Thursday. j . " v 7 T
f He explained the area embracef
Multnomah,- Clackamas and - Co
lumbia , counties . and parts , of
Washington . and Marion . counties
in Oregon, as well as Clark coun
ty in Washington.
William H. Baillie, Salem of
fice manager of the US employ
ment service, stated Salem's in
elusion was a surprise to his of
fice, and that he would be better
able to advise when official in
structions from. Washington have
been received. Baillie stated that
most essential industries . in ' the
Salem area are already operating
on a 48-hour week. V
WASHINGTON, Feb.
The United States chamber of
commerce ' disclosed Thursday
that It has advised Its members
to "sit tight" and await official
regulations' before rushing7 Into
a ; change-over to the 48-hour
work week ordered by President -Roosevelt
Eric A. - Johnston, president of
the chamber, made this disclosure
Thursday'-: after a White' House
conference. . '. j.---..-
He said he told the president
that the nation was already in a
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Draft to Call
Fathers Now,
SaysHershey
WASHINGTON,. Feb. ll-(ff)
Most draftees within the next two
or three months will be fathers,
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey re
ported Thursday "because therell
be no one else left to induct" "
The selective, service director
declared it necessary to draft men
with children in testifying against
a bill by Rep. Kilday (D-Tex.) to
put the draft on a state-wide in
stead of a' local board -.basis and
Mb require draft boards to consid
er dependency - as a . ground for
deferment - Further hearings are
set for Monday after which; Kil
day said, he would demand that
the house military committee ap
prove the bilL - '' ;
The measure would provide for
this v order of induction within
state limits: Single men without
dependents; single .men with col
lateral ' dependents ' such as par
ents; married men - without chil
dren; married men with children.
In eff ect it would. - prevent the
induction of a married man . in
any state so long as eligible sin
gle" men are available.
Hershey said he had no decJre
to put heads of families into uni
form but presented figues which
proved, he said, that it was nec
essary. These figures showed an
available pool of 22,000,000 men
of draft age of which . Hershey
said only about 14.CC0.00O could
meet , physical requirement and
of those . 14,000,000, approximate-
Iy' 1,500,000 must be deferred foi
essential work, leaving 12,500,000
to meet tia requirements of the
armed. forces -
sector about 15 miles south of
Bizerte who declared that allied
troops , including B r 1 1 1 s h and
French commandos attacked the
Italian-held line in the northern
area at Dawn Wednesday.
The, smash carried, eight miles
deep over an area of about 100
square miles, he said, adding:
"By evening the men reached
their primary objectives. '
"According to information so
far available . the operation has
,1 i a - .11 : 1 a . fi,
Kuuc wen, uut iuu resuiis win
not be known until the . second
sweep, now in progress has been
completed." ..
. There was no word of the at
tack immediately from any other
sources. :.'
: Meanwhile, far to the south
on the vital Tunisian; battle
front the British Eisbth army
was reported fighting 20 miles '
Inside the southern border from
gjsya, : pountwg ae i rtir.z
forces ot Field Marsbai Erwla
.Rommel with artillery fire east:
.of Ben Gardano. KHitf
Dispatches from .the nonh Af
rican front said Rommel appear
ed to have called at least a tem
porary halt to his retreat, and in
the biggest action since El Agheila
had thrown tanks, infantry and
artillery against the British for
ward forces of Gen. B. L. Mont
gomery, mis apparenuy was an
effort to save Ben Gardane, which
commands the roads important to
the British advance.
. Farther south British tanks
under General Montgomery were
probing the more vulnerable end
of the Mareth line. .-..;:
The other arms under Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower were de
ployed along a 200-mile Tunisian
spine 50 to 60 miles inland from
the Tunisian east coast hemming
in the German and Italian forces.
Incessant rains kept the stickier
black soil of the center and north
active.
American troops and Lt Gen.
K. A. N. Anderson's British First
army, veterans of Dunkerque,
took over large sections in the
center from the severely buffeted
French troops of Gen. - Alphonse
Juin, whose obsolete weapons, had
been no match - for the enemy. .
The French moved to the rear
for re-equipment and reorgani
sation and Gen. Juin declared
la an order of the day that they
would reappear "at the front In
the.' near future with modern
armaments." New materiel ' was
arriving swiftly from the Unit
ed SUtes.
US planes hammered ceaselessly
at the enemy supply line across
the Mediterranean narrows and at
bases in Sicily, sinking one and .
probably two small troop ships 30
miles north of Cape Bon. Each
carried 250 enemy troops. .
LONDON, Feb; It (JP) - A
Reuters dispatch from the Ta-nlsian-TripoIitanian
border said
I Friday that Field Marshal Rom
mel's troops had fallen back In
good order on the southern sec
tor of 'the front .
It said this maneuver accom
plished a shortening of the whole
battleline. - 4 ' - " - -
Georgia Senate
Okehs l&Vote
ATLANTA,-. Feb. 11 vf)- The
Georgia senate Thursday voted
for a. -constitutional amendment to
lower ho--voting age from 21 to
18 and Gov. Ellis Arnall averted
it was the first such legislative
action in the country.
Arnall said ' he , believe'd the
house would approve tubmisMcn
of the change to popular vet
too, and he promLd to cErni;, i
for it The governor is, 35.
The governor contends that a
oerson- "old -enough to fight i
old enough to vote."