Th OSEGON STATESMAN. EoIm.' Ongoa, Tddaj Homing, February 12. ISO PACE TWO 6 Known Dead In Boat Loss C (Continued from Pag 1) C vflle. a worker at the ferry ter- aainal en the Oregon shore. He went out in rowboat after no ticing that the" tug's runnln'i -lights were no longer moving. The tag went out of control laic Wednesday Bight aa the chop py river ana" began sbSppsag wa ter when ft was afcoat 4M yards oat It nan in obont IS feet ot water. ' ' ; Granville told how William H. Tills,' 22, one of- the - worker-survivors, helped save tl lives- of eeveral persona aboard. Several awi sad women were clinging to tha aides of the tug In losing battle to keep-from being pulled away by the swift current of the men,- Gran- I later learned was Ellis showed Use all the nerve la the world. He let g twice t pall Umm Um tea . after a nana wlta wi Ing dawn." " Capt. ..Arthur Joachims,- merchant- marine inspector, opened a Investigation of the sinking and James R. Bain, Multnomah county district attorney, said his office was otudying all reports from the sherifrs office. Officials erf the Russell Tugboat and Moorage company, operator of the tug, also opened their own Investigation, but Ti evident Law SasseUsaid Che cease of the tug's sinking had sot been determined. He denied that the tug was used -to carry passengers instead of a laree baree because of lack cf patronage. ,-.-.' Four Puzzles Faced, Taxes A Continued from Page 1) K 2. Elimination of the "split bracket," meaning return to the rates in existence before .1939. It Is estimated that mis would re duce receipts 11.8 -per- cent. u On the first of bet income there would , be no reduction but . the maximum tax would be $1.0. On the next $50o there would be a $0 per -cent reduction, but from there' on up the saving would diminish. 3. Reduction of each bracket rate by 1 per cent, leaving the gplit bracket in. The over-aTi re duction would be 10J8 per cent Rawest bracket payers would en Joy 90 p4r cent Telief but it would diminish, in the "higher brackets. This, fs the formula proposed by .'er, William M. McAllister. Meanwhile one highly per suasive reason why income tax es shoald be reduced, whether there Is clamor for It or net, was rtlastrated In the senate where ways and means committee members fen esnea noon to ex '. plain that the state Is la danger of contracting a general fond deficit. 'They complained that ' porsons and groans reqvestbur appropriations seemed to think the state was relltag la wealth all because of so .mack talk " aboot xamrtfu:,'---.': "':": The surplus, they went on to " explain, cannot be spent- it must " be tised for offsetting property taxes. "The explanation Jtrew ont of discussion while the bill m a ting a nsnmission to tackle post war problems was on final pas sage, after some senators had ob jected to reduction of the ccm- mission's appropriation from f 23,- 000 to $10,000. - ' (Additional legislativa news to day en page 18.) YM Directors Name Sprague 7 Charles A. Sprague, editor and publisher of The Statesman, was elected vice president of the Salem YMCA, to succeed the late H. JL Hendricks, when directors of that organization met Thursday noon. G. F" Chambers and Loyal War ater were elected to serve as Salem representatives on the - northwest area council, next meeting of which is to fbe "March 12 , and' 13 at lngview,Wasb. " 7 The program of the Salem Men's Garden club particularly -as it is related to Victory gardening, was 'explained by 'Russell Pratt, the club's president.' . ' Harold J, .Jtounas, Pacific re gion secretary for world service in the YMCA, a guest at the luncheon meeting, presented . a brief report on the YMCA around j the world. 1 "Some. 7 T!? libnfumtfif 1 ? -. JAMS 1 Added iNewsreel - Cart i: r.J-y Yea Hare a Date with Casualties Resolve to Churcliill Puts Stress oiilSiAs" Japan Pledged in 'Blow Soon " LONDON, Feb. 11-flVWinston Churchill, disclosed that nearly half a million" allied - troeps now stand In Africa at. the freat bridgehead o luroas aad that Casablanca "bad "produced an Im mense and detailed allied offen sive pattern for the rtasxt nine months, .solemnly proclaimed Thursday the allied raaotve to I make the nana bexa and bleed' on other fronts as already .they were over nearly the length ol Russia.' ' f : ' - In aa exuberant aapearaaca be fore 4ke noose of tuasaoM the nrime minister made these dis closures: rs-"We have prises apportionment of forces as well 'aa their 'Orectlen aad this plan we are going to .carry Mt according to oaf poller iar ta Che next ntae aaeadhs, be fore the end af W h 1 e h we Charehfil aan President Koose- vli) will aaake efforts to . arala . V-. Everything In hi man newer Is being wta be lane to bring Brtttsh and Asaerican farees into ac tio agatest the enesay with The. ataaost speed auC wi and: en the largest sealed Second That the allies were drawing steadily ahead toward winning the greatest of all bat tles of this war, and the battle that stoood at the forefront of every other discussion at Casa blanca the battle against the sub marine. - - Third- That the supreme com mander of the' allied armies ot north Africa, was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, USA, ("one of the finest men. 1 ever knew Church ill observed r) and that Britain would gladly and loyally go for ward as -subordinates to this es sentially American enterprise. Great Britain and the United States" the prime minister told the house proudly, "are now war rior nations, walking in fear of their salvation." Again, be made clear that Casablanca bad- reaffirmed the tow of the WMrtwa nines that it was timer' who snnst first be beaten down; bat -agate be pledged to ase all the ntigM of Britain for the straggle against Japan once the victory had been won In Europe. As to the fight against the sub marine, which he described as holding priority only over aid to Russia and as holding even that priority ordy. because a victory at sea was essential to put the full aggressive allied weight at Stalin's side, the prime minister gave out these highly encouraging facts, the most cheering yet issued on either side of the Atlantic: That in the last six months r which included some "heavy op erations" for the allies such as north Africa "Anglo-American and important Canadian new (ship) building taken together ex ceed all of the losses of the unit ed nations by 1,250,000 tons. That is to say, our joint fleet is 1,250, 000 tons bigger today than it was six months ago." That of 3,000,000 soldiers moved under the protection of the Brit ish navy, only 1348 have been lost killed, drowned or missing. That' wt nave decided" Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt "to throw emphasis rather more on prod action of escort vessels' even at the cost of some "impingement on new (merchant ship) building. That fie. rate of killing of U-boats has steadily improved. From Jaanary to October, 1942, inclusive, the rate of sinking . . probably was the best we had seen so far in .this war. But from No vember to the present date, the three anonths Ate has improved more than "half as . much again. While the prime minister agreed that the submarine menace had by jm - means been destroyed, the whole tone of bis speech was. that great strides were being snade in aaeetiag it and that there was no asea for excessive alarm. It was true, he ootid, that sub marine -predacnen was rising, bat was the rate of sabmarme 4e- itraction; and there was, more- over; what be celled a vast flood of ships pouring from the United States. TWO TKATITKES CC3SO? 11 SI jesrdnT ciacx lias New Serial Mall- a I tHamter One - T L 1 S ' Foreseen, Make Nazis Bleed ONtheHOUEfRONT By EAEZL CHTLDS ; -Some, there 'were who smiled at the long-legged lad. whose knobby .'ankles were emphasized "by thif sliortness TSiTTli"blue leans he wore. V Above the open collar of the f4edL fetU tean Maw aMrt ana the regularity of brealDsa on the beaA.' The cheekbenes of hs brown face were high, am of Chat visage snade the oversize, la spite I his youth, lor be was apperentty aim in the "ttLvmiagf stage, the boy's fhha ltnped sneoth was firm. Bt the censer toward me oeesned to turn up a tat, smd bad the cheek been a bit aner ffadl I Khmk I anight at play pporent in fb dark eyes, but Cjere twinkle, ten, as the youfit they served watched the nervous cm. Mdad the ceuntos the lew red She was sorry that nothing less expensive than $22 noatoed an thervolenttoe line, lout she was adso oaueioua to wait tte yoang fellow in the handsome leather jacket who stood beside Some were there who t the rough, red hands tauten ing the (rid leather pocketboofc, snapping and imsnapping It. For an of vs smew by the way the boy questioned in has nm voice that was lust beginning to cnange, croaking like a bullfrog and now and then striking a rich, vibrant note, that the purse held just $2. But no one really laughed. Per haps the others noticed, os I did, the caucuses en the big honas, callouses tbmt might wen have re sulted from much splitting id reus. Qvil Defense to Be Central A normal school' f or civilian defense instructors opens in S lem next Wednesday night as the only feasible system of sending civilian defense training" into all sections of the county, . L. Craw ford, commander of the citizens' defense corps of the county, an nounced Wednesday night. It has been found to be im practical to attempt to send in structors from Salon to various Darts af the county and it will consequently be necessary, at least until further arrangements -are made, for each community to car ry on its own civilian defense in struction," Crawford declared in announcing the opening f the class for instructors. Miss Rewena Jones, county training director, is to be pri marily responsible for the instruc tion, and the "professors" at the school are to be selected from among graduates of the US army civilian defense school at Seattle, Crawford said. One person or more from each community should be selected to attend this master course, defense corps commander urged. Argentina Sends Onion Seeds BUENOS -AIB.ES, Feb. II Twenty eight tons of Argentine onion ; seed Thursday besen to move by airplane to the United States to replace the loss occa akmed by the failure of the US onion crop. The entire ohipment, largest ex port of onion aeed in Argentine history, will take six to oight weeks to reach the US. Xachjde parting ship of Pan-American Grace nd Pan-. American JUr Lines will carry 600 rAuoi of seed. . - : ; ; ' -: 'r ' ' : RAF Hits German? LONDON, Friday, Feb. 12 OP) Royal Air Force bombers ivbd at targets in Germany Thursday night, it was stated authoritative 17 Friday. The last previous night attacks in force by the RAF oc curred last Sunday; night when Ixjrtent, awbaoarine base on the French coast, and the tedustratl Ruhr were tombed. Army Call Slated i BOSTON, Feb. U-(-CoUege students in the army enlisted re oerve excepting certain technical students, will be called to active duty as soon as possible after the closing date of the current semes ter or corresponding academic period which ends after Decern ber 31, 1842, the war department announced Thursday. : Obitriary Lax ' : " ; ' - In this city,' Thursday Febru ary 11, liama Xax, late of route six SaiernY (Fniraand), at the age of 78 years. Funeral announce ment later from the W. T. Risdon conspany - " " - - . Training as. Allie s Guadalcanal To Be Usefnl Islsnd-to-Islsarl Not Plan; Allies Confer VWitH Chinese Head WASHINGTON, Feb. , H ffj fNew 'ained "blows at an the "axis partners were artrongry-'' tuated Tharsday in a aeries of ments capped by a pirn admo sstsna Jrena Secretary f War ateel itself tor casualtiea, perbaps 4a the near future.'" .-';.!:'; i! 4' An BiuioUanT toward orty folding t her otrategy by President Booarrelt and Prime Hiaister Cborcbill at Casablanca to bring about "tmconditionml aur- in nddfQon waraiax: X. ',, y esnination Dwight fjasesdaow of JJL to aw n fun been given cranmand of all allied aea, air and land forces esujaging the maas in Che Tunisian Wsvefl, xtrltMs IaU, and reacbe aa aecard aoj J. Secretary of the Navy Knox aoid that Guadalcanal ! island would be highly taeful as a for ward ease" in the Pacific now that the Japanese have been clear ed out. However, he told press conference that the'navy does sot contemplate an isbmd-to-island oampan toward Tokyo o course of strategy that has been criticir ed by some as too long and costly. Just what the plans are hie would not disclose, saying 'we wont speculate bout our future stra tegy." ; - ,. I V-trt The senate confirmed Fisenhow- ers nonaanatioB as a full general promptly and unanimously. Sthsson also related further de tails of the defeat of the Japanese ot Goudakwnal. , r-.v-.-s.:.. Xeporta from Lt Gen. Millard F. Harmon, commander of orsny forces there, odvised, Stimson asdd that in the last two weeks of January the Americans killed 4000 Japanese and captured. 105 while losing only 120 kiUedJ SftS wound ed and five missing. . T":- ' The final penning ap of the Ja remnants was mt t aniaHahrid thromgh aaoveauent off onsy for- S ees by boat ander naval escort around the island. Oolag ashore agafai. they flaakeC the; enemy with, an overland march. The navy disclosed that Ameri can surface units of unspecified type are in the Aleutians by say ing they were attacked Wednes day by a lone enemy float-type plane but suffered no damage. Elfstrom Awaifded Painting Contract A war contract for all; painting of the Mountain Home air base in Idaho has been awarded to the R. L. Elfstrom company of Sa lem, which will start work with in a month. The governmentem ployment service is -securing la bor for mis job, the cjgfotfc gov ernment contract secured by Elf strom. .:' .-. af 1 -r ?' The only statement which was made In regard to size of the con tract was the assertion by "Eif streea 'that snore than five car loads of paint will be ased. SsJph ayre ana xnxstrom are associated together in the JOfstrom" Pamt company. Most recent tasks per formod by the company ;wre Che painting of the subpart of embar kation at Portland and painting of Camp Adair. J - Speaks to Realtors Mrs. Agnes C Boom. lCnrim county school onpermiendent. is to be speaker at this noon's Mt; lag of the JSalem Eoalry oeard. Mrs. Booth, scheduled to snspear before the organization in Jan uary,, was unable to aitend lho luncheon meeting at that time be cause she was snowbound at w home In Turner, - ; .iMm TO"".: 0 .Vf ar;stt fu ususs wfSt CMsjeaa GeBersJ- Saism Included With Portland B (Continued from Page 1) IE inflationary period; and there is &tme Jeer that the 4-Jiour week would tend to ag gravate the dger. lbor, man agement and other -groups must do every thing in their power to curb increases in . . wages ' and prices, ass &5ad. ' , . Janratmn is a aneinber of the snaosuresaent-iaber advisory 'com- mfttee of ffaevar manpower com mission. ' T h a . chairman of" that commission, Paul V. McNutt, has charge oTTntttlti "the -IrorxrJ week inio operation, and Is e: pected to Issue detailed regula- tions aoth for its application to 22 Vsitical iabor obortage areas." t notified njotii niiitstt agtaclei to place ae awor contracts in 103 areas where controls w!H probably an mhc snonfha. if al- available eisewnere and to renew current contracts la these areas only 11 no . additional he Usted toy the WMC were Tt rities, incliHSiog New York, which bave a auxpius of labor and gdoon asm looatinx pro- duction facilities. Lincoln Plan For Wartime Lauded Were Abraham lincala i alive and, seining as president today, he wonld goPow oa swm policies he did in Civil war days, Xr,: Fred erick M. Hnter4 chancellor of the Oregon state system of aigher ed ucation, told a Uncoln slay ban- et audience at the llarion hotel Tharsday night. Then as now, aaid the speaker, Lincoln would. Insist that rt planning be for a military vic tory, even if it meant putting one an in every, 11 into OHilorm. Second and concurrently, : he would be planning the peace, Which Dr. Hunter declared to be hall the victory. ; v That writing ol the peace would call for capactty operation, of swrica's matchless system of pcoduonon by private enterprise, government regulation to wwan vswrpation of smdue powers by industry er labor, extensive pub lic education, leadeisliip of world affairs and aupport patriotic motives as opposed to aelf- in terest.. . u r -. Dr. Hunter aztoUod what be said was 'Lincoln's-- supresnety fine" ejualties as a practical poli tician, because, he said, . "politics is. public business and Lincoln -so regarded his relationship to the public movements of the day." More than 275 persons, inchad- iag high state officials and legis lators, attended the banquet, ar ranged by the Marion county democratic central committee. Honor guests included Gov. Earl SnelL State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott and Secretary of State Rob-' ert S. Farrel, jr., who served as toastmaster. Music was provided. by the Salem American Legion auxiliary nuartet. Japs Claim Huge Tolls in China : Br The The Japanese cl aimed Thursday that fighting in China in 1942 cost the Chinese 200,803 dead and 124,- 407 prisoners, with only 8400 Jap anese soldiers killed. The report, broadcast by the Japanese -radio and recorded -by the Associated Frosa, aaid Japa- as forces last year engaged 8,- W7JD09 Chinese troops. Aboot 90 Important -Japantse military aaons occurred, tnvolvsng 'Otbout S309 oeparate ceanaats, it asaorL 7 -r-ttfvitawuA, a, J I li f'vmma .. J- Eicenhoizer to oTth0rjcm B (Continued from Para I) S cnieT- of all Mediterranean afr awccs maa air aaviser io zasen howor -osho wall issue ardors for execution by MaJ. Gen, 1 Carl A. Spaatz his deputy , chief of . staff for air. All aircraft, whether from the asdddle-east: or not, 'based' on fbss theatre stni will bo under Gs14sMiti.i;'::- . jr:;f'--i-;::- The ofher ahtl commanders in this ,aMntraced control Air Vice Idarsnal Arthur Coningham, in support of the; British First and Eigktlianniesand. other troops in Tunisia, Air . Vice Marshall R. K. Park, Malta, and Air Mar shal Sir WSEam Sholta Dauglas, middle oast -; h . -.' t "I coruudered said Eisenhower, that I have been xiven the stars. so far as I know therm, of sh-jtaka'a militajy strength. fled. It as sQ one tettlo now an . 4uwascir mmtm Tunisia, and we are fighting to gether in It On our side, we are going to throw every Ameri can oeMier we can got into the fight" v..; For aa Elseabe war now heaas all operations fa ja theatre from Caosdriaawn . to tha TMpoUUn herder, and even Libya as well X3ghth pad supply thai vast laadV Because operations in Eisen- Nveara new theatre win fet RAF- operatioas in, the eatem Mediterranean, it will be neces sary that air work be coordinateid d Tedder, as air marshal, will be commander ,in bis own right of air forces is the Mediterranean Outside the Korth African -theatre. Cunningham will neld a similar position as commander-ln-cbiof of naval forces in the Mediterraneaa. In addition to operating naval forces under Eisenhower's direc tion .as they concern the lYortti African theatre, .Cunningham will be crrnmander of all naval forces in the Mediterranean operation on standing patrols such as do not directly come under this theatre. In the near future an American vice admiral will Join the North African, theatre as, Cunningham's deputy commander of naval . for-; CCS. Science Progress Dimiig Kim Gertrude XMekon, repre-? sentative of the dmPont company, osed America's progress in pro duction ef . dyes, "medicines and chemicals to illustrate her state ment at the Salem Lions efrab meeting Thursday that. ' science makes huge atm during tvarthne. She classed ' the US as a second rate nation In jscientlric achieve ment before the first "World war. 'Miss Itoekenj described the im provements produced during the present conflict. She stated that 10,000 articles are now products of plastic. Synthetic doth, point, and camphor were other' examples which she used. AS EXCITING AS IVMJffi dros: 1LM17HIB CLAUDC ! C0NKA0 a' JTOKTf fhf bj Mm JL nBh $. Escha ssl . i v. r HUMPHREY JTiGRlD . PAULt,Now.Yoy3SJrrj; j T . Ccnpsioa featsre "2?. XlzzzTs Ccrrd" yu Command Fightings War Indiist ry Inweases Safety Work War industry's -expansion in Oregon lias greatly increased the safety department opera tiana -of the state industrial accident cosn oaission, its. biennial report Tiled with the legislature Thursday dis closed. The report covered the peiiwl ending nne -JO, 10421 Xnapectors for the denartmarit investigated 53 fatal and 128 ious acodenis to deteinlrat - the catxses. TjQier favestigatiora tn- oluded 55 complaints of "ansant conditions.. The report showed that man- hours worked during 1841 ih- -oaoad 113 jjer cent over T040, while the number ' of - accidents sustained. Including both lost- time and medical claims, increased 11 per cent This was Jargely duo to the Sow of workers from lasabering Into shipyards; the re port said. Chnaa oasis in the 1040-41 fiscal yoar amoonted to per cent of -the ewntribaaoaa received, whereas in 1S41-42 the ratio Of claim costs to contributions drop ped to ot.4 per rent, Man-honss of labor Increased from 318,832, 672 to 360,74500, or 13 per cent while tor the sunt period, chum costs decreased 1' per cent Officials said the program of cooperation. With, relation to safe ty, is being expanded in all parts of the state with the result that accidents abould decrease 'materi ally during the next few years. Two industrial inspectors devote their entire time to , shipyards, conducting inspections, attending safety committee meetings and assisting in odttcational programs. Mre.H6udLiiu " - - .Tit . . . . ; , Dies on Train LOS ANGELES, Feb. lL-PV- Mrs. Beatrice Houdmi, 09, widow of Harry Kowdini, famous stage magician, died Thursday night at Needles, CalU, on a train enroute to her New York home. Mrs. : Bondini, who had been xritically in for . several weeks in a rest 4ieea sere, was placed aboard the Santa Fe Chief - bore Thursday. Too weak to talk, the 77 -pound woman was ear r led from a stretcher., and pot an a berth in her compartment where i oxygen sneak was applied. Married to Hoodhtl when she was T7, she tried for 10 years aft er his deafit in 1120 to effect com munication with bis spirit. Last week she told reporters during a bedside interview that she had renounced her faith in commun ication after death, and was skep tical about any form of life here after. . "If -I have the power to come back, I will not come, she said. r I I i i SALCM'S LEADING THCATRS HIE LAUDHIG ATJD A SAO Ull I G A ! X i xV ... . A ZVUKZlZi CIST IfaasrJMFiaasrlwaja PanlzGu Talks At LauncZdng in Portland PORTLAND, Feb. lMJJVOre gcai Shipbuilding corporation sent its TWO liberty sTiip, the Owen Sutnmers, down tbe ways Thurs day and Kaiser's Vancouver yards launched ' another Liberty, the Russell A. A2zer. , Guests at the launching of the Owen S ultima a, tunned after the Spanish American .war general who cammanded Oregon troeps Jn the Philippines, included officials of the war production training schools of the state. . The Rev. Atwood Foster, Salem, district superintendont of the Assembly of God, read the Ja-' vocation at the launching ot the Alger. O. X Jaulsoa, Salem acting director of the state board for vocational education and head of the war prodnction training pro gram am Oregon, delivered the principal address at the launch ing ' of the Owen Summers. He pointed out that through coopera tion of lho state board, the. state advisory committee and local school districts and iheir commit tees mora than 129,600 persons had boon trained in the state for war industry jobs. " daat of public insruction, and state and local staff members f the war prodnction training program were guests at the launching and at a luncheon that followed. , C tin as Every -Pay , Xast Times Today HEWITTONPA . Ci&TE TLTSSNET RINGS ON HER r wiNGEStsr : . PLUS : Don TU& Barry In SOlBRERO -KID" StrU Saturday ' A STAR SOLID AT . . . r A SONG HOUDtr A LAVOn HOLIDAY! , . . 1 PLUS '$ ... ,Mli'" " .- .11111 Slzrte I T3 TILL A WXJ.XZTZZZZ STCrtYI f -j.