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Houses May
Not Decide on
'Every Issue
Possible Adjournment
in two vveeKS xias -
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Whether it will be two weeks
from today, or three, that the
lawmakers move out of the leg
islative halls and the renovators
move in, depends upon the. po
litical answer to a philosophical
question: - -" - ; r :
Is it proper or wise to attempt
long-range legislation on issues
so neatly balanced that there nev
er is a final, conclusive decision,
when the world is in the midst
of revolution?
Talk privately and off the rec
ord with most any legislator and
the answer hell give you is "no."
That's ; the philosophical answer.
' Question, for publication, any
committee chairman and hell
swear he isn't "sitting on any
LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR v
Third Readings Monday:
- Ia Senate: Special order 10:30
a. m., SB 12$ on "do not pass" re
port. SB 74, 177, HB 93, 318. r
In House; HB 101, 135, 193, 271,
320, 336, 337.
controversial bills. That's the po
litical answer for publication.
Actually; there's always chance
that; whether from philosophical
or political motives, he is sitting
on them. r.L:r; V
Practically speaking, the legis
lator will adjourn sine die when
a. majority la each house Is more
fearful thaa hopeful of what
sight be accomplished by re-
trary to the usual rule, it's al
most certain that some bulky
issues will be left to die ia the
files of committee secretaries.
Major items of unfinished busi
ness fall into three categories:'
1. "Must? legislation: The taxa
tion program, and appropriations.
2. Controversial issues likely to
be decided: Civil service; personal
property assessment changes; pla
cing fortified wines in liquor
tores; taxing pinball machines
and juke boxes; abolishing veter
ans' aid commission. Right on the
borderline, but still in this cate
gory, are milk control transfer
or suspension "for the duration
the "long truck issue, " and taxa
tion of municipal utilities.
3. Controversial issues which
may be left untouched: One-man
tax commission; merger of corpor
ation and banking departments;
occupational disease - coverage;
compulsory workmens' compensa
tion; unemployment compensation
rates. '(:.;-.
- If the members, by silent mutual
consent, let category No. 3 alone,
they may adjourn in orderly fa
shion two weeks from-last night
Privately, most of them would pre
fer doing just that Almost cer
tainly they will leave untouched
the- unemployment rates,' having
learned that few employers favor
reopening thisk subject
There is another political con
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Sub Of ficer
Gains DSC .
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific Area, Feb. 14
(fly- JX Cmdr. Dudley W. Mor
ton, whose submarine Wahoo sank
a destroyer and' a whole Jap con
voy,' was awarded the distinguish
ed service cross by Gen. Douglas
MacArthur Sunday.
The Wahoo recently returned to
Pearl Harbor, a" broom lashed to
her periscope to signify the clean
sweep she achieved over, the con
voy which included two cargo
ships, a tanker and a troop trans
port carrying an estimated 6000
enemy troops to help the Japs
cornered by ' MacArthur's troops
in New Guinea.'
Morton, .35, and a Kentuckian,
displayed extraordinary I heroism
in ordering his submarine into the
harbor at Wewak, New Guinea,
a narrow body of water in which
the ' sub cornered and sank the
destroyer, the citation said.; ?
It was after "disposing of the
destroyer that the Wahoo came
upon the enemy convoy and sent
It to the bottom In 14-hour
battl
ower Heads
Only Irreplaceable jen
In Essential
Outside 18-38 Miss Call
WASHINGTON, Feb. lMWith cold, hard figures, the
top manpower officials told the American people Saturday night
that 12,000 men a day-are going and must continue to go . into
the armed forces this year and that no man 18 to 38 can be de
ferred, regardless of dependents, unless his work is essential and
he is irreplaceable.
0WI and CIO
Loss of Time on Jab 5
: 1 Said Doubled Since
Start of War
WASHINGTON, Teb 13.-i-The
CIO and the government ap
pealed to war workers Saturday
to stop absenteeism, saying that
the Ill-take-a-day-off practice
had doubled since the start of the
war.
Philip Murray, president of the
congress of . industrial organiza
tions, wrote ; to all affiliates - re
questing that "means, be worked
(ntMcm to n min imnm n
- The nation," he said, "cannot
afford the loss of , man hours re
sulting from workers absenting
themselves needlessly or for triv
ial: reasons from their Jobs. Hours
lost cannot be regained and hours
lost mean production lost"
: Murray .noted, that "absenteeism
is i also contagious,' that " "when
one man takes day oft Irrespon
sibility, others are Jikely to fol
low and the effect on those who
do remain at their post is some
times demoralizing."
- Normal absenteeism in indus
try, Murray said, is 2.2 per
cent; since the beginning of the
war absenteeism of men has
Increased to 4.5; among women
the percentage is C5.
The office of war information
issued a report on studies by the
war manpower commission, war
and navy departments, maritime
commission, war production board
and labor department From these
studies the OWI concluded:
"There are no statistics which
give an adequate picture of the
problem because of the many
factors involved in job absences.
Before" the war industries got un
der way, a job obsence rate of
about 3 per cent was common in
industry. New job absence, on a
monthly basis, may be twice this
figure, and in some plants under
difficult working and transporta
tion problems, the rate may be
even higher."
The OWI statement contained an
appeal by the manpower commis
sion for close cooperation among
government management and la
bor to "do their utmost to pre
vent" absenteeism.
: Representatives of manage
ment, labor, federal agencies and
' the ; public formed a 19-man
, committee to cut the spreading
tumor of absenteeism from war
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Promoted
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Herbert B. Glalsyer, Jr (above),
sob of Mr. aad Mrs. H. B.
Glalsyer, 773 Stewart street,
: Salem, has been promoted to
eaptala at VFUlIams Field,
' ; Chandler, : Arix, according to
I The Associated Press Saturday.
Capt Glalsyer received his first
commission la the army air
corps la May, 1948. After grad
uation .from Salem high school
he attended Oregon State col-lta.
Indrjey.
Paul V. McNutt, chairman of
the war manpower commission,
and Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
director of selective service, dis
closed the actual rate of inductions
in outlining the draft outlook in
a ' joint broadcast over the Blue
network. Heretofore, this rate has
been a closely-guarded secret but
in the telling there was no comfort
for the axis.
' Emphasizing the tremendous
siae of this mobilisation, Mc
Nutt said: Tn a week's time, we
are putting Into uniform seven
fall divisions in a month 2S
divisions. This "year alone, the
number of men inducted will
approach ; In sise the entire
American army ia the first
world war." In directing the in
ductions ia terms of divisions
he .referred to draftees for the
navy, marine corps and coast
guard as wen as the army. -
v m a .
nersney . summed r tms up as
meaning "the great majority of
the physically fit, except the far
mers, between 18 and 38 years of
age must go into the armed forces
this year. It is most important that
those -who have jobs in our war
industries be left until they can
be replaced in order to maintain
production. , . The majority, of
men this -y$ar must come from
those with: dependents. 1
Statistically, the picture ' pre
sented by these and.; past pro
nouncements was this: a total of
about 22,154,000 men 18 to 38 with
14,000,000 to 15,000,000 able to
pass military physical require
ments. About 2,500,000 deferred
for vital farm work and other
highly important war jobs. About
11,200,000 in the armed services
by the end of this year.
"The need for men has now
reached a place,' Hershey de
clared, "where we must be sure
that no registrant is deferred if
he Is engaged In ; work which
can be suspended or which can
be done by an over-aged man,
one less physically fit, or by a
woman."
McNutt said he was presenting
the facts "clearly and frankly" be
cause he believed the American
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Hit-Run Auto
Hurts Father
Of Senator
Victim of a hit-run accident,
WilUam Walsh, 71, father of Sen.
William E. Walsh of Coos county,
was reported in ; Jadx condition
early mis morning at Salem Dea
coness hospital. .
Walsh, resident of ' 640 South
Winter street, was struck at State
and Commercial 1 streets at ap
proximately 7:30 Saturday night
City police said htis morning they
were still attempting to locate
the still unidentified driver of the
car. . -,- '
At the hospital, attendants said
the elderly man had a broken
shoulder and that five ribs on his
left side were fractured. His
daughter, Mrs. E. J. deary, Rob
erts apartments, was. with him.
Sen. Walsh was in Portland and
had not been reached, with. the
notification of his father's injury
late Saturday. 1; ;
Blowout Wreck
Injures Two
' Blowout of a front tire on their
car was blamed for the accident
which Saturday night seat Mr.
and Mrs. James RiddelL jr., of
route one, Monmouth, to Salem
General hospital, both severely
and one seriously Injured. -
The accident occurred at ap
proximately 8:30 1 near the west
city limits of Independence, and
the ear had apparently taken a
complete somersault throwing
both occupants out state police
who investigated said, i? 1
RiddelL -about 24, with a pos
sible skull fracture, was in only
fair condition, hospital attendants
reported. Mrs. Riddle, 20, sus
tained a dislocated hip.
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U of 0 Gets
raining
Specialized Training
Approved Also at
Eastern Oregon
WASHINGTON, , Feb. :13 -P)
The war, manpower-1 commission
Saturday: announced a list ,,of 51
additional' college 6 and universi
ties approved for usiby ihe war.
and navy departments fMotr spe
cialized training programs. , L
The list is supplemental to the
group of 283 schools announced a
week ago. The . actual contracts
for the training of specialists in
technical courses will ' be let by
the army and navy to institutions
whose facilities prove acceptable
and which are willing to under
take the training programs under
the terms of the armed services.
WMC said it would continue to
approve other institutions and in
some cases additional training
programs for schools j already ap
proved. H
"Therefore, no Institution not
approved up to the present time
should conclude that 1 its facilities
will not be used," WMC said.
"Representatives of i institutions
are advised not to make special
pleas for their particular insti
tutions, as all available facilities
are being canvassed."
Among those on the new list
ing are: - .
To the war department for ba
sic training in - the army special
ized program: ij
Oregon University of Oregon.
To the war department for the
training of army aviation cadets:
Oregon Eastern Oregon Col
lege of Education, i.
Hoarding May.
Bring Poison
.WASHINGTON,, Feb. 13.-UPh-
A warning that some boarders of
canned : goods may be . poisoning
themselves .was posted - Saturday
by : the ' agriculture department
Dr. Russell M. Wilder medical
advisor of " the - food i ' distribution
administration in the department,
said that ' reports . received here
showed that many.; housewives
who when v rationing of canned
goods : starts must report their
stocks were buying canned goods
and ' transferring the contents to
glass jars," intending' to claim
them as home canned.
Most foods' that are removed
from cans, Dr. Wilder said, must
be reprocessed before htey can be
preserved in glass- jars- and- even
then the products becomes u- sou
py mess with decreased, food .vaU
ue-and "may be unsafe to cat" '
Industry Guards :
To Use Skates ;
CHICAGO, . Feb. 13-P)-Use
of roller skates, motor-scooters '
and skis by guards at the Chi-
cage Aircraft Assembly plant
bow - under' eoastructloB, "i Is
called for in a union contract to.
be presented to. the maaagemeatr
by and AFL, local. . '
Shoe rationing and the desire
to save man hours were given as
reasons for the clause.
Army i
Bombers Assembled at
One group of workers puts the final touches Into the basic construc
tion of center wing sections of B-24 Liberator bombers (fore
ground) moving down a production line at the Ford Willow Run
' plant near Detroit Meanwhile ethers start to Install wheel mount
wheel and tire as the two basic lines merge Into one assembly line
which moves until it meets a second, just like It coming parallel
down the plant on other side of a center partition (top right), thus
making" four basic lines, two mala assembly lines. Associated
- Press Telemat N t , ,
Allied Fighters Press
Guinea Japs: . Tunisian
' i .' vV
Front. Forays Heavier A
By The Associated Press f -
On New Guinea, allied ground, fighters; continued pressure
against the Japanese on the approaches to their bases of Sala
maua and Lae, wiping out a patrol of 32 of the enemy in the Wau
sector, the noon communique from allied headquarters in Aus
tralia reported Sunday.
Allied aircraft bombed and
Fire Destroys
Large Part of;
Dawson Creek
DAWSON CREEK, BC, Feb. 13
ify-Tire which for a time
threatened this war-booming nor
thern railroad town Saturday de
stroyed a hotel, a lumber company
and . other establishments and set
off a terrific explosive blast be
fore being brought under con
trol. First reports said one per
son was . dead and an estimated
50 others injured.
Origin of the blaze, which ra
ged for three hours, was unknown.
Military ; fire f fighting ' equipment
was brought into play and engines
of the Northern Alberta railway
shunted water cars to the scene
to help fight the flames.
A short time after i the fire
broke out, an explosion occurred,
breaking . many, windows and it
was believed the flames had
found "and set of f a store of ex
plosives. - r r '.' -"
Extensive medical and hospital
facilities. In this southern termin
us of the Alaska highway were
brought " into play to cope with
attending the injured Unconfirm
ed reports said medical assistance,
including supplies, doctors . and
nurses, 'might be flown from Ed
monton if needed. : V " -s-
- (Provincial,; medical authorities
at Edmonton could not be jreached
immediately for confirmation). :
The fire was reported j to have
started in a barn at 8 p. m, PWT,
It swept through a building hous
ing a hotel, the dominion gov
ernment telegraph office, whose
service- was disrupted, the Fron
tier Lumber company and reached
a warehouse, setting-off - the blast
Rationing Helps
1. Fuel oil registration, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday,
x February 15,. 18 and 17. .
At Parrish and Leslie junior
; high schools in Salem 4:30 to
- 8:30 p. m.. ' - ' ,"
- West Salem public school build
Jng, 3 to 8 p. m. ;
. Silverton, Stayton and Wood
,y . burn high schools, 3 to 8 p. m.
Blanks secured , through oil
dealers ,onIy.C -. . -
2. Details of Information required
. in registration f or v war ra
. tion book No. 2 (canned goods
and later : meat) appear- on
; ; page 9 of today's Statesman.
Huge Willow Run Plant
1 I
strafed the Mubo area southwest
of Salamaua, and again raided
RabauL Japanese ,base on New
Britain, in a three-hour attack.
Rams slackened 'fas the Tuni
sian tip, where aa allied spokes
maa said there was more ac
tivity ia 48 hours than there
had been fas a week previously.
The British First army threw
back a strong German attack
east of Oasseltla, 75 miles south -of
Tunis. At the southern ead
f the line, the British Eighth
army exchanged artillery - fire
with Kommel 2t miles Inside
Tunisia. -To
save at least some face, the
Japanese issued wholly uncon-
LONDON, Sunday, Feb. 14
JPf British bombers , were"
mntn over i enemv territory Sat- ;
urday night It was stated au
thoritatively Sunday. '
:' BERN, SwHseriaud, Suaday,
Feb. 14 -iJPy- Air raid alarms
sunded In Bern Just after mid
night Sunday.1
firmed naval claims to have sunk
98 allied warships and 33 mer
chantmen in six ' months which
ended- In their retreat from Guad
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Special Meet
PORTLAND. Ore- Feb. 13. -UPl
The national labor relations board
Saturday scheduled a special ses
sion Sunday to complete Its case
arainst three Henry Kaiser ship
yards,: charged with discriminat
ing in favor of the AFL. . , ,
Georce Smith. San - Francisco
civilian-navy employe - and once
president of the now defunct, CIO
shipyard union here, will testify.
Trial Examiner Robert N. oea
ham has indicated' he will order
a recess oft ten days or more on
completion I of : the NLRB case.
Kaiser 'and AFL attorneys will
offer their defense later. , :, .
In the hearing the CIO seeks
have have Kaiser-AFL closed shop
contracts invalidated-
Collision Kills One
PORTLAND. Ore- Feb. 13 JP
An automob lie-truck collision, on
the Mount Hood: loop , highway
Saturday night, killed . Clifford
McGill,. 88 Gresham, and injur
ed his mother, Nancy Met; ill, 70,
and another passenger in his car,
Francis Myers. -
Hearing
Ways, Means
Against Limit
FR Decree for Top
Income of $25,000
Struck in House
WASHINGTON,. Fe b ..13-(ff)
The house ways and means com
mitteoJSamrday approved a meas
ure to wipe out; President Roose
veltV decree limiting" salaries to
$23,000 after taxes and substitute
a more liberal ceiling. v
' It was the first formal move in
the new congress to challenge an
order Issued by the executive un
der the sweeping war powers acts.
Rep. Disney (D-Okla.), its spon
sor, called the action fa ' revolt
against government by directive."
The ; plan would peg salaries
which exceed $25,000 net to their
level of December 7, 1941, while
stipulating that salaries which did
not exceed $25,000 before pecem
bber 7 could not rise above that
now. It was attached as a rider
to a bill raising the nation's legal
debt limit from $1 10,000,000,000
to $210,000,000,000. . .
The committee adopted the Dis
ney proposal 15 to 10 after re
jecting a move by Rep. Gearhart
(R-Calif.) providing only for out
right : repeal of the president's
limitation. The Gearhart amend
ment was defeated, 0 to 15, on
party lines. Five democrats joined
the 10 republicans in supporting
Disney's rider;" in addition to the
author they were Representatives
Mills of Arkansas, West of Texas,
Camp of Georgia and Wasielew
ski of Wisconsin.
' The legislation probably will
reach the house floor next week
and . its' backers claimed bi-partisan
support The senate finance
committee already has approved
a bill merely increasing the debt
limit but Chairman George (D
Ga.) said he would ask the mem
bers to. review the house' action
before reporting to the floor,
The jubilant republican mem
bers of the ways and means com
mittee joined in -a statement de
scribing the outcome of the six
week controversy as a ' step to
ward "recapture of prerogatives
that belong solely to the legisla
tive branch of our government
Under the Disney plan, the sal
ary order would be retroactive to
October 2, 1842, the date when
the second emergency price con
trol, act became "effective.
Eastman Opposes
Rigid Speed Law
; WASHINGTON, Feb.
Joseph. B. Eastman, director of de-
fena ; transportation, -' Saturday
urged state legislatures to adopt
flexible speed limits rather than
a rigid 35-mile an hour standard.
Eastman said that while 33
miles an hour is now the recom
mended limit for cars and trucks,
it Was desirable to authorize gov
ernors or, other stale officials "to
change the speed limit if this ac
tion should be found necessary at
any 'time. f ' - -
An ODT spokesman explained
that it might become desiraLIa to
allow certain carriers of war ma
terials to maintain faster sched
ules in some sections and that
there might be need for reducing
the speed limit for private cars
and "other similar vehicles. '
All Main
Railways
Stopped
Town Falls Within
11 Miles; Soviets
. Take Novocherkassk'
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 13P-Khar-kov,
Germany's defense hub
for the ' entire eastern Ukraine,
was within reach of Russian ar
tillery from three sides and all
its . main railway communica
tions were cut by red army ad
vances pounding into the sub
urbs, two communications record
ed by the Soviet radio monitor
Indicated Saturday night
: The Red army drove to . th
northwest -of the city where the
railway tot "Bryansk - was cut 20
miles outside the city limits, am '
battered down barriers on tb
north, northeast southeast and
south where it advanced to withir
22, 15, 11 and 24 miles respective
ly, the communiques announced. .
Kharkov's main railway com
munications to the north and
sooth and northwest were , cut
Only three smaller lines branch
ing to, the west and southwest
were left open. .'.
The ' Russians also clamped a
tighter hold on Rostov on the Don,
where the Germans were reported ,
to have applied the torch to the
city in apparent preparation to
withdraw their forces.
In a 35-mile drive to the' south
west since capturing Belgorod, the
Russians took Zolachev, only
about . 20 miles to the northwest
of .Kharkov,: where they cut the
Kharkov-Bryansk railway , line
for the f irst time, a special com
munique announced. "
With . Kharkov thus more than
half -encircled, t h e" ' Russians
smashed forward in an arc about
the city, capturinig Liptsi, IS
miles to the northeast Rogan, 11
miles to the southeast Kamen-naya-Varuga,
17 miles to the
southeast and Kazachye-Lopan, 22
miles to the north.' These victor
ies were announced In the regular
midnight communique which was
broadcast later.
- This announcement also said
that Taranovkm only 24 miles
sooth of Kharkov had fallen.
Taranovka is en the railroad
that rnns toLosovaya, already
In Rasslan hands.
1 On the front menacing Rostov
in a tightening net the special
war bulletin reported : the capture
of Novocherkassk, only 19 milt
outside the city and the last large
town on the railway to the north,
The cutting of the railway to
Bryansk severed one of Kharkov's
more important commumcauon
lines to the northwest
Lebanon Firm
Overtime Gut ,
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13.-0T)
The officeof price administration
Saturday revoked the right of 48
Oregon .and Washington logging
firms to make overtime additions
to log price ceilings. j
. The firms failed to file, required '
reports on ' overtime operations
from December 15 to January 13,
the OP A said.
:t Included were:
Benneville Logging company,
Seattle; DeGroot Logging com
pany, Bremerton; Drake Logging
company, Bellingham; Lane-Linn
Logging company Eugene; Lyle
McNeil , Logging company, Bel
lingham; M & G Logging com
pany, Springfield, . Ore.; Mt Ba
ker Timber company, Bellingham;
Frank . W - McCullock, . Eugene;
Olympic Logging company, Seat
tle; Robinson Logging company,,
Seattle; A. W. Salmon, Aberdeen;
Timber Logging company, Aber
deen; : Elmer Waiters, Lebanon,
Ore. ' ,'
Oregon Birthday
Feted at Banquet
PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 13-(V
Sons and daughters of Oregon
pioneers . observed the 84th birth
day, of Oregon's admission to the
union in the annual banquet here
Saturday night
" More than 250 attended, Includ
ing a half-dozen settlers of pre-' :
statehood days.
- Eighteen-year-old -Marilyn
Truby Crawford, daughter of Cir
cuit Judge James Watson Craw
ford, and great granddaughter of
James and Emily Watson, pio
neers of 1CS2, was named Mirs
Oregon cf 1213. s