Complete ; Vault find ae newspapct eaa give mora real tif ac tion than roar local mora lag paper, with Its WORLD NEWS plaa DO&IX COM MUNITY NEWS. Diinout Saturday sunset C:3i P.m. Sunday snnrlse t:13 a. m. ' Weather: Ttinr. max. temp. S9, min. 40. Friday river, 1L3 ft. Weather data re stricted by amy request. PCUND3D 1CJ ; imiETY-SECOND YEAH Satan Orecon. Saturday Morning. February -13. 1843 IMc Sc. No. 243 FIT" r. , "': -'.n' Soviets Drive Westicdrd Aid LiLits-.-aiu RUSSIA mm- ( mm : J SO & : - -, :; 1 . SpZ' t Vl 5 " STALINGRAD DNBEPPhAC2VOROSHltOyGRAD 1 PtTROVSkJf ROSTOV)V vVpOES SA , AAtrrs ASTRAKHAN lKg" W-l JiTIKHORtTSK V . ;;;i; Pllliii 3135 pi iiillili STATUTE MILES BUck area la this map deplete the caina rolled p la two days by red troops threatening the key cities of Orel (1) aad Kharkov (2) r la the Ukraine. The line shows approxlaaatefy the present front, incladint- the corridor northwest of Kostov, which was est to a 7S-mlIe width. Krasnodar in the Caseasa was reported eaptvred by the reds. Associated Press TeleBsat. (Story ta colasra three.) Knox and Norr is Tell Peace Plans Navy Secretary Sees US Power Around World ; SPRINGFIELD, 111, Feb. Secretary of the 'Navy Knox de clared Friday night that the Unit ed States henceforth must main tain powerful, sea and air forces and must have lor them a. system of bases stretching around the world. - ": - "V: - Kara foresaw 'that after "the war . this eeantry most aapply the major part of the. military power needed to enforce peace -"acainst the desires and designs f aay aatioa or group of na tioas beat apoa world-wide aar-':. gression la' the fatare. In addition, the secretary said, We must contribute greatly to the establishment of an economic system which will permit back ward and undeveloped peoples to raise their standards of living and share in the prosperity of a world free from the threat of aggressive war." .. The civilian head of the navy expressed these views in an ad dress ' for delivery at exercises commemorating Ihe 134th anni versary of the birth of President Lincoln. He traced the political difficulties which beset , Lincoln because of his insistence on serv ing larger purposes than those of political expediency, and he said that today we see history repeat ing itself with disturbing preci sion." Our president, our leaden, have .been subjected to all the same familiar charges of 80 years ago," Knox asserted. "We have seen again in these hours of an other supreme struggle the same temptations of partisan advantage obstruct ; our larger purposes.' ; iuiw spvcaucaiiy renundea Jus audience that he is a republican. No Clothing Ration Need WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 JP J3onald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board empha aized Friday that , there was no plan and no need for the rationing I clothing at present. . t .-A;, war..- manpower commission estimate of the number of men needed by war plants and the armed forces led Nelson to, fore cast recently that clothing ration ing would be necessary if the es timate " were correct, but he stressed Friday' that he did not accept the estimate. " In hia recent testimony before m senate committee he discussed tne drain on civilian industries of an estimated 4,300,000 military inductions and . 1,800,000 recruit ments for war plants and , said business casualties would be' in evitable i and more rationing would be ', required even where materials were available. The WPB chief ! reported . that wool supplies now in this coun try are several - hundred million pounds greater than when . the United States went to war, that cotton is abundant and that stocks of manufactured clothes exc ia "pretty lair shape." Ex-Senator Asks Disarmament of Enemy Nations ; CHICAGO, Feb. 12-0P)-Form-er Sen. George W. Norris Friday night advocated a peace plan re Quiring "complete and utter dis armament of enemy countries." Speaking at a testimonial rally in Orchestra hall, the 81 -year-old Nebraska " independent," who ' was defeated fn the- last election, de clared: b?. v ', We must sink evesy battleship, we must send every submarine to the bottom of the sea, we must make his arms plants forever in capable of producing munitions. We must prohibit standing arm ies of any sort." ' He urged also, as a precondi tion of an '- "everlasting page," payments by enemy countries in accordance with their abilities. ' "If we insist apoa oar enemies signing a treaty like that signed , al Versailles last time, we only will i sow the seed of another war," he said. . "We must learn by. the lessons of the past to take things as they are. We have said we are fight ing for peace, but we won't es tablish , it by ., creating another form of Hitlerism." Norris. said that the negotia tions must reach a treaty for "the unborn children" of the future, who "are innocent of any wrong doing." F Bram well i Dies at Home v PORTLAND, Feb. 12-i(ff)-Death claimed Frank C Bramwell, state superintendentof banks from 1920 to 1927, at his home here Friday. Bram well, 60, was stricken with the flu in Salem a few days ago and returned home to recuperate. He suffered a heart attack Fri day morning and died soon after wards. , His widow and" four chil dren ! survive. From the state office, Brarowell went to Washington, DC, and ent ered : the stock registration busi ness.:' ; . Pastor Finds Baby on Step EUGENE, Feb. 12-(jp)-A baby bey and a $1 bill were on the doorstep when Dr. Norman K. Tally, Presbyterian paster, - an swered his doorbell Thursday alghL J r - ;' -: A note asked him to eare for the child because the father had been killed la aa automobile ac cident and the mother was an ,able :iaw:-r -ii-;.;; W-W'Ji ; "The dollar was given to the baby so I am leaving 11 with yon," the note said. . 22,000 to Be Movetl .. - -By .The Assoc) a ted. Press The Berlin radio said Friday night that approximately 22,000 men, .women and children would be evacuated soon from Brest, on the western coast of France,- to protect the population from Brit ish bombing attacks Corridor lieduced By Reds Pocket at Kharkov Tighter; Krasnodar - Said Liberated , By The Associated Press MOSCOW, Saturday, Feb. 13 -P)-Soviet Armies in the Uk raine have reduced the German corridor to Rostov to 70 miles and, captured more towns and villages in drives on both sides of Kharkov, ' the Russian mid night communique reported Saturday. Repeating an announcement made earlier in a special com munique, the war bulletin broad cast by Tass told of the fall of Krasnoarmeiskaya, important rail junction 23 miles northwest of Stalino in a developing encircle ment of large German forces in the Donets basin. German troops anchored in the Rostov sector below the Donets basin also were threatened with the fall of the junction' on the Dnieperopetrovsk-Stalino railway. Only a single highly-vulnerable outlet at Stalino is left to the German forces extended to the east. (Unofficial estimates in London said approximately 500,000 Ger mans in the Donets basin and at Rostov were endangered.) Krasnodar la the western Caucasus also- was declared to have fallen. That' practically completed the liberation) of the Kuban Cossack : uoaatry, with oaly gNeyeressisk 49 miles to the . west and ajunall) area north of that Black sea; Aort remaining in German hands. . Northeast of - Rostov the mid night Russian communique re ported the capture of Krivyans kaya, only about three miles out side the big town of Novocher kassk, itself 25 miles from Rostov. In the Kharkov. area the Rus sians were reported only 20 miles from the Ukraine capital after cut ting railway lines above and be low the city. (The regular midnight soviet communique also told of violent fighting south of recaptured Kursk, 120 miles north of Kharkov, in which 2000 Germans were cap tured along with a large quantity of equipment, including 50 guns and 158 machine-guns.) Planned Order To Leave Less Civilian Meat WAHSINGTON, Feb. 12 tf) The government expects to take steps within a few? days to re quire packers and processors to reserve greater portions "of - then output of pork and lard for gov ernment war needs, officials said Friday. ' - A food official, who asked .that his name -not be published, said that military procurement agen cies and' lend-lease buyers were experiencing great difficulty in se curing sufficient meat and lard for their current and reserve re quirements. : ? - ; t :. :"CT . : Stating that 1 the 'meat supply situation had deteriorated since the government had decided to ra tion civilians, the official said the amount of consumers will receive maybe less than two pounds ' a week, on a per capita basis. Orig inally, officials had hoped to make the equivalent of about 2Vx pounds available. ' : it'i'i - The official attributed the situ ation to black market, operations and failure of livestock market ings ' to ." come tip to expectations. icaht list er The Associated Press Friday re ported two additions to its Thurs day night list of men who have applied for civil service examina tion for the position of Salem post master. -r, 5iirfci Viw" The names added are those of Paul : Lynch, deputy collector of internal revenue, and Chester J. Pugh, : well driller. 2125 ; Myrtle avenue. J -:'y'r?'U- Friday's dispatch ? verified.:, The Statesman's statement that Gordon D. Thompson, postal clerk; , also was an applicant, and not Chester Thompson as listed. in the initial AP report . . ; . Appl by TirVo L.are FDR Coins Pettifoggers WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 President Roosevelt ased the term "pettifoggers" Friday night to describe those who question whether the country cab come through the current eoafliet. with a sound economy and achieve Its "other honorable, reasonable alms.w v r : - He was speaking, he said, "of. these . professional; skeptics -these men of little faith." , "The formal, dictionary defi nition and derivation of the word are neither here nor there," he continued. '"To most of as it brings to mind a man who Is small and mean and tricky and picayune ln" word petty. It is the type of man who' is always seeking to create smoke screen, er fog, for the purpose of obscuring , the plain truth. Today the pettifoggers are attempting to obscure the mtlal truths ia this war." Union Shops Stay for War WLB Gives Policy; Pact Advantage Denied Finns i WASHINGTON, Teb. 12 -P) The war labor board Friday laid down the dictum "that, as a gen eral rule, a regularly-established union shop or closed shop shall remain regularly established for the duration of the war." . The decision, with employer members dissenting, was issued in the case of the Harvill I Aircraft Die Casting corporation, Ingle wood, CaliL, and the CIO nation al association of die casting work ers. An agreement providing for a union . shop there, requiring all workers to be union members, expired last April 15. The comt pany refused to renew that pro Vision and the' case came before the WLB. . j . j Dr. Frank P. Graham, public member, said in the majority opinion that the board, by delay ing settlement of the case, must share part of the responsibility for the fact ' that since April 15 new workers have become em ployes "without the knowledge or acceptance of the conditions of the union shop.1' The board, consequently," he said, "finds in conflict two of its basic policies in this case: "First, that a worker shall not be compelled by the government to join a- union to get a jjob; and second, ' the herewith j j declared policy that a company cannot take advantage of the ho-strike agreement to give up "a union shop previously established by the agreement of ,; the " company and the union. 1 "It is the responsibility of the board to 'resolve - this conflict in basic policies and yet niake clear that, as a general rule,' aj regular ly established union shop or clos ed shop shall remain regularly es- (Turn to Page 2 Story E WPB limits Heel Height, ; Shoe Colors . ' WASHINGTON, - Feb." 12-() The government Friday 'put a ceil ing on the height of heels for women's shoes, ruled out leather covered platform : effects J and re-' strlcted shoe colors to four black, white, - army russet x and town brown. - ' , . . .j. ;. : In the same order the war pro duction board prohibited entirely the manufacture of men's patent leather . shoes, women's ' formal evening slippers and metal-spiked golf shoes. .j.-S - j - Leather, frills, bows' and orna mental, tongues also were banned, in a general .overhauling of , shoe restrictions to conserve leather for army use and to spread U?e avail able supplies for the rationed ci vilian population.' " , This year's Output of civilian footwear will te about one-fourth less than the 1941 production, 335, 000,000 i as : against . 441,000,000, WPB estimated JDespite the re trictions, the agency promised that there would be enough patterns to provide " "ample style ; variety" along with' staple- footwear. f Consumers w&l not feel the ef fect of the shoe-streamlining order to any extent until next fall, it was said, because the spring lines already are being manufactured or axe on their way to dealers.; Diversion Ceiling In Bill , ..Committee Enters Three Pleasures; on Refusals Highlight By RALPH CURTIS Ceiling for diversion of sur plus income tax funds to school districts in any one year was set at $5,000,000 in a bill approved for introduction Friday by the house taxation and ; revenue committee of the 'Oregon legis lature. This action does not in sure that this will be the ceiling, since the bill will be referred back to the same committee. Oth erwise the measure contains es sentially ; the same provisions amending the initiated law, as one previously introduced at request of the state teachers association, but these amendments have been re-stated. Two companions bills were ap proved for introduction by the taxation and revenue committee. They provide for creation of a LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR v Third readinrs Saturday: Ia House: HB 121, 279, 299, 332, 333, 334. , In Senate: SB 81, 97, 107, 129, 130, 131, 133, 142, 149, 165, .166, 167, 64, 95. HB 165, 170, 126, 256. "public school fund": out of in come and excise tax . receipts re maining after - all state property taxes have been, offset Their ef fect would be to "freeze for spe cial school district: tax pff set, all such reeeinis .drfsrd" tit "hm phis-and ffreezt" fit an apt Uim, for it might come to pass that this fund" would remain - in 'existence for such use; in a year , when it was necessary to levy a property tax for general state' purposes. ' There waa some objection to this featare bat It was explained that the - bills were so drawa because, if she -ceDing" idea had aot beea Invoked, school dis tricts weald have .received these funds for immediate tax offset. The issue may be raised again " when the bills retara to the (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Seasonal Farm oyes at 19-Year Low WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -(ff) The agriculture department re ported Friday that farm employ ment on February 1 was the low est for that date since it started compiling - such information in 1924, adding that; farmers were apprehensive over prospects of obtaining sufficient help V next summer to meet war food goals. 'Employment was estimated at 8,369,000 including 6,638,000 fam ily workers and 1,731,000 hiredJ hands. The ; number of family workers was virtually unchanged from a year "ago, birt the number of hired workers was 8"per cent less with the decline being great est' in the midwest ' , -"Secretary- Wickard- has said -that agriculture would need more than 12,000,000 workers when operations reach , a; peak next summer. I The department - stated that many of its local farm labor, re porters anticipate a "severe shortage of seasonally-hired work ers for such activities as the pro duction of fruit and truck crops, cotton, tobacco and sugar beets. ; "Report J. of -i the scarcity ff skilled year-round help for' dairy and poultry farms also persisted," the department said, but total mflk production during January surpassed the record established for the month last year, and egg production was substantially high er than a year ago." . : Money to Provide Ore Access Roads ; PORTLAND, Feb. 12-(ff1)-T h e allocation of about $400,000 for access roads . to tap e vital . ore sources in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, .- Nevada and Arizona was disclosed by the re gional WPB office Friday. . The. roads will , reach 111 re mote deposits of strategic metals and some, will open new timber stands. - - In Oregon, ,227.4 miles of road costing $74725 have been ap Empl Plaits Control r . . . - . -. v., . . : r ' .... "-: l " f V t:;V ; .. . .. .-. . " '. y . " " - s'' : x X ' .0 A . ' - I V i IP '' t Rep. Joseph Martin aa he appear ' ed ia Salem In 1946 for the Me Nary ' aetlflcatlon ceremony, " GOP to Give People Reins . Martin Seeks Curb To Expansion of"" Bureaucracy PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12 Rep. Joseph Martin, minority lead er of the house, said Fridaylnght the republican party intends to "restore control' of the government to. the people and to curb this rapidly expanding bureaucracy by ending the reckless granting of blank checks."!. ." " "irl r He said In an address prepared for delivery at .the Lincoln day dinner . of -the' Allegheny county republican club: " 'i . - , i iI"Congresa-'v has turned ; ..down numerous projects ' only ,to , find later that these projects have been built - with 'black check' funds. This is not only a defiance of the congress, it is a direct blow against our constitutional form of govern ment i , . -: :; "If these power-mad bureaa erata caa defy congress and get away with It, wo have, traveled a long way oa the road to dlo tatorship. We doat want that kiadf a government not even - a benevolent dictatorship aero ; ia America. . . The size of our army of civilian employes is a shocking national scandal; - and each day hundreds more are being added to' the lists. Let's have a reducing diet for this bulging bureaucracy. . "In Washington there are tnou tandi of emnloves with, almost nothing to do; and yet throughout the country, in all lines oz dusi ness, there are constant appeals for more workers. . . "We-fought and won the first World war with a civilian staff of 900,000. Today we have a civilian army of 3,000,000 and the list ex pands with every rising sun. I : "Shall we allow tms system oi tax, spend and elect to continue? We have halted the -elecf part of the plan." ? i-'.: . Discussing ; k free press toe Massachusetts ' congressman .said: (Turn to Page 2 Story D) . ... ? . . Coast Guard ProhesBoat . PORTLAND-Ore.. Feb. 12 -UPi rant. Arthur Joachims, merchant marine inspector for the US coast guard, said Friday night tnai ne would conduct a private hearing Saturday on the tugboat-ferry smking that f claimed seven ana possibly ten lives early Thursday. - Testimony and conclusions reached will be forwarded, to Washington, DC, he said, and any findings would have to come from the commandant there. ' Granolers recovered the body of a seventh! victim. Mrs.. Esther Chamberlain, ' 38, Portland, Fri day afternoon. - - , ?- ' -Authorities said a crane would be used Saturday to raise the tug from the sandbar on. which it rests. Saleml Woman Heads School PORTLAND Feb. 12-flVMrs. Bearnice Skeen of the state de partment ; of education and for mer principal in the Bush ele mentary I, school . in . Salem, has been named principal of the new Vanport school. ' . , ;; The shipyard town school will open in temporary quarters March 1 with an enrollment of between 7C0 and lCOa - ' Quick War End Po licy of A Mies Japs to Be Expelled From China; President Declares Unit T, of Nations Growing '' By WILLIAM ; WASHINGTON, Feb 12-flP)-President Roosevelt, dscribing the allied policy as one of fighting hard everywhere and "ending the war as quickly as we can", Friady night promised decisive ; blows directly at Tokyo together with "constant and unrelenting ' pressure", on 'Germany and, Italy. : , In a nation-wide radio address from the dinner of the Whitt .' House Correspondents association the chief executive gave a broad outline of strategic plans to smash Japan.: Waving aside the island-by-island strategy as too slow, he pictured a vast, ; many-pronged offensive aimed at the heart of the empire. ' - inching Too Slowe ' ;;." "We do not expect to spend the lime it would take to bring . Japan to final defeat merely by inching our way forward from island to island across the vast expanse of the Pacific," he said. , "Great., and decisive actions against the Japanese - will be 4tt1rava- 4a A ritra mrflrlov sviri 4Vi sa. cAal j fsnistea TmrtArf onf ts. tions will be taken in the skies over. China and over' Japan. "There are many roads which lead right to Tokyo. We shall neglect none of them." "... '. . ; :" Otherwise; the president's address was one ef reassurance to those disturbed oyer the policy toward the French, to those fearful that some of our allies may falter, to those professing concern over, what sort of peace Russia may insist upon and to those troubled over what may be the fate of the nation once the war ends. ' Axi Propagandists Busy - . "Axis propagandists, he said, .were "trying akll their old tricks" in order, to divide the united nations, to "create the Idea that tf we win. this war, Russia, England, China and the United States are going to et into 4 atand-dogight." r With this, he paid a tribute to the ! "overwhtelmlng; courage and endurance" of the Russian armies, the genius of Premier Allies Drive In Guinea Bad Weather Delays ; In Africa; 3 Jap Destroyers Sunk "V ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, Feb. 13- (fi) The allies are continuing ' to push , forward on the approaches to Salamaua, New Guinea, the al lied high command . announced Saturday, reporting that In . the Wau area "the enemy continues his withdrawal. The extent of the withdrawal was not stated. Friday's com munique told of . the main, -Jap force. falling back on Mubo, only 12 miles below Salamaua, after suffering losses pi nearly 1000 men in a series of reversals. ; Saturday's communique also reported the killing of 135, more stragglers in the Kumusl ' river area below the Wau battleground where late, last December,, at a heavy cost in men and ships, the Japs put ashore some reinforce ments during their futile efforts to keep their hold on the Papuan peninsula.' . In addition, 90 : other bodies were found of Japs , who had died of starvation and - other causes. ,.. .' . - . By The Associated Press - Bad weather prolonged the indecisive Interlude in the north Africaa theatre, where strong' allied offensive medicine was . being made. Allied eommanl ques Friday reported ao action (Turn to Page . S-Story B) 2 US Planes I T LosteCanadd EDMONTON, sAlta, Feb. ' 12 (CP)-Loss of two United Stales transport ; planes one ' . of them piloted by Lt CoL A. R. Mensing, jr, veteran flier and former North west Airlines official was reveal ed Friday and an aerial search kt under way for the two ships and the total of 13 persons aboard them. . I . The planes have been missing since February One aircraft was ' believed down near Watson lake on the Yukon-British Colum bia boundary and the other . was down somewhere in the Fort Nel son, EC, area some distance south. ; ; Ten- persons were aboard . one plane and three aboard the other. They included military and civil ian personnel and it was believed all were American citizens. Next-of-kin have been notified. T. PEACOCK , ' Stalin, and added. "The tragedy of the war has sharpened the vIsIob of the leadership aad peoples of all the United Nations aad I can say to yoa from my own full knowledge thai they see the ut ter necessity of oar standing to gether after the war to secure a peace based oa principles of permanence. M a : I 1 B l .1 : ... - that they can devise any propa ganda which would turn the Brit ish and American and Chinese governments and peoples against of us. I As for the French policy, he said that with each passing day "a spirit of unselfishness is more greatly uniting all Frenchmen who have ' the opportunity to strike a blow for h'beratlon.'V ' v "It is one of our war aims," he went on, "that the conquered pop ulations of today be again the masters of their destiny . French sovereignty rests with the people of France ... "The right of self-determination included in the Atlantic charter does not . carry with it the right of , any government to commit Wholesale murder or the right to make slaves of its own people or any other peoples in the world. "And the world can rest as- , sured that this total war this sacrifice of lives all over the globe is not being, carried on for the purpose or even with the remotest - idea of keeping the Quislings or - Lavals in power anywhere on this earth." On the question of a split be tween the allies, be said "Yoa can bo auito sure that If Japan should be the first of the axis partners to fall, the total efforts and resources of all the United -Nations would be concentrated oa the Job of crushing Get many." He continued: . " - "And,' on 'the other hand, lest there be any question In nazi or Japanese minds that we are whol ly one fn the prosecution of the war to a complete victory all over the world, the prime minister (Churchill) wished to make a formal agreement that if Germany snouia do conquered before Ja pan, all British Empire resources and manpower would, of course. join with China and us in an out- and-out final attack on Japan. I , told him that no formal statement or agreement alone those lines was In the least bit necessary that the American people accepted the word of a great English gentleman and that it was obvious and clear that all of us are completely In ac cord in our determination to de- uvj wre ivnn yx. uaiuoiuiu ill Asia and in Europe and Africa." In discussing the home front Mr. Roosevelt approached it from the standpoint of what he said he had heard from the soldiers, snil (Turn to Tags 2 Story A)