PAGS TWELVE The- CUTGOII CTATECriAIT. Ccltn. - Crayon. Sunday !.ar&!a3, Fclmar IL lZZi Participants in Liberty Christening E LJ IVhere They Are What Second Lt Clare Hilton Jarvis, Jr., of 3615 La Branche street, Sa v lem, has won his commission and (old wings as a marine corps pilot. The Salem Leatherneck flier has completed his advanced flight -training at the naval air training center at Corpus Christ!, Tex . and, following 13 days graduation , leave, has been assigned to duty with an aircraft squadron of the marine corps at a naval air sta- tion. ' 1 -, : ' He underwent elimination flight t training at the naval air ' school, " Los Alamitos, Calif-, and was ap . : pointed an aviation cadet in Aug- , .list. - . .... . . ' 'i: ". He attended Pacific university, ' Seattle,' prior to his enlistment as a "Flying Leatherneck." : : MARFA, Texas-Paul I Har rison,' son of DrrandTtfrs. J. C. Harrison, 638 State street; Sa- jlem. Ore, has won. his wings and has . been commissioned a second lieutenant. It was an noonced by CoL Gerald Hoyle, -r commanding officer of the army air forces advanced flying school here. - " Lt Harrison was a member of the first class graduated from this 1 new two-engine advanced pilot training school. He gradu ated from the Grant high school. Portland, Oregon, in 1937. ' Otto M. Bowman, Salem attor ney recently inducted into the service, writes that he is stationed at Camp McCain, Mississippi, at tached to a new type .of outfit, a military police battalion planned to be used in policing of occupied . territory. James T. Reidy aviation mach inist's mate second class, returned Thursday night to the naval air at Alameda, Calif., following a leave spent here with his father, P. F. Reidy. His brother, Cpl Paul Reidy is "somewhere in north Africa. .Byron Ray, gun trainer aboard a US cruiser, is home on leave visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray. Lt Verne Adams, former Wil lamette university student, and Mrs. Adams were in Salem a part of the past week visiting the lieutenant's parents, Mr., and Mrs. B. F. Adams. They left Saturday to return to Sacramento, where Lt Adams has been an instructor at Mather field since July. : Pfe. Ralph D. Meyers has been graduated from the army's medical department enlisted . technician school at O'Reilly general hospital. Sprint-field Mo. and is now stationed with the medical corps at Leesville, La according to word received by his wife, Mrs. Helen Myers, C75 South 19th, and his brother, Rodney Myers. Since graduation Pfc. Meyers is now eligible for corporal " T-5 rating. He was - drafted through Salem's board October 26 and spent one- month in the Camp Barkley, Texas, medical training school after induction. Two Salem men and two men from Grand Ronde were sworn In for general service with the US marine corps Friday at the recruiting headquarters, and are en route to the recruiting depot in San Diego for basic training. From Salem are Thomas A. - Roberts, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Roberts, 494 North Winter street, and Robert Hard ing Palmer, son of Mrs. Mildred Palmer, 189 North Liberty street Both were seniors in Sa lem high school. From Grand Ronde are Anton Joseph Hass, jr, son of Anton Joseph Hass, and John Alford Ross, son of Willard ' N. Ross. . Forbes Mack, " who spent part of last .week in Salem visiting relatives, will: report this week for 'duty with' ski troopers in Col- ' orado. Mack,' a Salem high school graduate " and swimming - letter man, was commissioned a second lieutenant before coming to Sa lem on furlough. Lt Mack has been serving in Georgia and Mas sachusetts. Francis Bomber of Jefferson Is -now a bombardier, having completed his course at bomb ardier school at the San Diefo naval station -Bomber is the son' of: Sirs. Anna Bomber and the grandson of Mrs. Anna It chy. '- . . James M. Miller, 37, formerly barker operator at the Oregon Pulp and Paper company, Salem, has been promoted to corporal at the Blytheville army air field at 'BJytheville,.Ark. j. - - James Allen Brown, seaman lecond class who has ' served 18 months in the South Pacific, left Silverton, where he had been vis iting his sisters, Mrs. Ed Lambert and Mrs. Otto Lais, to go to Ba ker to see his parents. His sisters accompanied him from Silverton to Salem. .' ; ... . Hoy Rice, jrn son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rice, route three, is now an aviation - c a d e t 'at Nashville, Tenn. He soon will be sent else where foru basic flying' training. Roger Stench,- second class sea man who- has been stationed - in Iceland, .has r e t u r n e d, to the United States. Stench lived at the rice home while working in Sa- They Are Doing r Xt Robert Y. Dean, son ef Mr. and ' Mrs. C J. Dean of Woodburn, has received Ids ap pointment to the army air force general staff and is new sta tioned at the long range fere- easting and research headquar ters at the California. Institute of Technology. Untn recently Lt. Dean has been meterologist -at the Portland army air base.' IA. Dean was a Willamette uni versity graduate in 1942. Mr. and Mnu James Nicholson have learned that their son. Pvt. James Nicholson, jr., has i. been transferred from' post in Okla homa to the administrative offi ces of the air force at Chicopee i Falls, Mass. OAK POINT Mrs. Ralph H. Kletzinr. Jr., received a letter' Thursday from her husband. Staff Set. Kletzinr. who Is In the ,s quartermaster corps over seas. ; When last heard from In November he was stationed . in Australia. He said things had been happening so fast that he hadn't ; had time to write but greatly' looked forward to. let ters from home. Bernard F. Rice, yeoman sec ond class, US navy, was ordered j to the induction center in Portland Saturday. He has been stationed ) in Salem at the navy recruiting station. Staff Set and Mrs. Raymond H. Simpson are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Baker, . 3810 East Center street They are former residents of Huston, Tex as, but he is stationed at Camp Baird, Calif. They will visit for three weeks. ' WOODBURN Mr. and Mrs. S. Barrett have received a letter from the navy department con-1 firming the telegram received last week about the death of their son, Charles Barrett, and telUing more ed school superintendents and vo details about it The youth was ca tional coordinators of waf pro instantly killed during an engage- duction train in tr from local school ment with the Japs in the Pacific theatre of war. .The letter tells where the fight took place but does not say when. ' Cecil Brown, noted war cor respondent who has written the new book, "Sues to Singapore", has devoted one chapter of the book to feats of IA. Elwyn Christman, navy flier of Wood burn and Mt AngeL "Sues to Singapore is just off the press and has not yet been received here. Lt Christman flew Brown from Java during the evacua tion of that island. ctt inrr'r-xT w . - - t,.k. V,. kaah ,a.fOW tr San Bernardino to Fort Huachuca, Ariz. He is with the quartermas- ter corps. Mrs. Riches and their I two sons make their home at Sil- verton. Ross Arthur of the army air force was transferred from Lin-1 coin Field, Neb., to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Arthur. Lloyd Johanson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Johanson, has been amij suvilc onu vv"1 1 ll"",:,r: Pvt Leo Lund has been trans- f erred from California to Warner Robins f ramn in r.poria tm Lund, who is an airplane mechan-1 ic, is a son of Mrs. Anita Lund of the Brush Creek district Capt Frank Alfred has . been I assigned to Fort Leavenworth, I Kan for a new course in offi- cers training. He had been locat- ed in Alaska. Capt Alfred is a brother of Capt Lee Alfred in toe south Pacific area and of iiiuumuti jvuiic naroia Aiirea I at Bremerton. The three are sons of I. B. Alfred at Silverton. Charles Walker- son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Walker, has been called to army service. He was inducted at Fort Lewis this week. .ALBANY Leaving this week for Hew York to visit Robert Spence, who is taking officers' training there and who will be assigned to duty on a subchaser in the near future, were his ar ena, jvir. ana Mrs. C E. Spence, his sister Wilma, and Mrs. Earl Brandberry and daughter Ruth. It is .understood that Miss Brand- ZtL fyi? seas duty" " Paul Todd, former Albany lino- type operator, is now taking spt cial training at an OkSh I my camp. - William M. Bower, son of Mrs. Mar Rovir nf Aihan v; mother that he is now stationed at the Alameda air base, where he is engaged in ihe installation of radio equipment Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fuller of route four, Albany, have re ceived word that their son. Bill Fuller, was one of the US ma rfnea of the Second raider bat talion to receive a citation from Major General Vandergrift for outstanding service In action en Guadalcanal island.- Fuller en listed In the marine corps in January, 142, and has been away from i the -United , States since last May. He also saw action in the battle of Midway, and Is still ta, the sooth Pacific. The citation reveals that for 30 days the battalion pursued and re peatedly administered surprise attacks upon the enemy force, inflicting- heavy losses the enemy- In the way . of - mexu equipment and sapplles, and showed- exceptional- skill, train- tax. stanuaa -and aaorale J;? Principals In official launching party Thursday at Oregon Shipbuilding corporation yard In when the Owen Summers was duction training program. From left: Todd Woodell. ',. Kaiser administrative : assistant; Mrs. Robert Hamill, matron of honor; O, L Paulson, director of war production training and ,of the state board for vocational education; Mrs. . O. B. Badger, who christened the vessel; Rose Marie Lee Bolme, flower girl; R. E. Daedal e, Portland school superintendent; Winifred Badger, maid of honor, and Bishop Bruce R. Baxter. Paulson Speaks To Honor Production Training Launching of the Owen Summers, 134th Liberty ship at the Oregon Shipbuilding corporation, day of a program honoring the ing program at the St. Johns christened by Mrs. O. B. Badger, I wife of the Portland " director of vocational education, and the prin cipai auuress was given Dy u. i, ramson, state director lor voca- tional education. . , Guests at the launching includ- districts conducting war produc- tion classes. Superintendents from every part of the state were pres ent Todd Woodell, administrative assistant to Edgar F. Kaiser, made an introductory talk. He stated that vocational educators were the unsung heroes of shipbuilding and that they had contributed mater ially to chip production. Woodell then introduced R. E. Dugdale, superintendent of Portland public schools, who acted as chairman of the launching ceremonies. Director Paulson stressed the value of cooperation in the war ucuuuiK Vi 01 mil u a means to record breaking produc Uon- 8UCCSS.. of, training was aitnouxea to tne co- operative efforts of local schools, aDOT ana management He praised t"2 contributions of the state ad visory board, the local school dis- tracts, local advisory boards and many public agencies, to the vo- cational war production program, The US maritime commission, the US enrolovment war mammwer mmmimn named as public agencies cooper- ating in the work. Bishop Bruce R. Baxter offered luneon in honor of the 1?' .Mrs. Badger, was held in we luncneon room oi the man ume commission building in the shiP yrd immediately following me launching. Maurice Bullard, training supervisor at Oregon Shipbuilding, acted as i toastmas- ter. Special guests introduced in eluded CoL Percy A. Willis. Rev. E. A. Smith, corporal, and J. H. Black, sereeant who Mrvxl in th. second Oregon regiment under The War News By BURKE L. SIMPSON. Wide World War Analyst tor The The hour is close for the concerted allied attack to drive the Germans out of Tunisia, bv the words of Prsidnt Secretary Stimson li--ti w -- - t - T: - . President nor .prime 7h " eise in au- JT "sealed much about fxed plan of action worked out at Casablanca to crack "p theaxis Europe and then turn all resources against Janan. 11 ws not to 1x5 tpected that the f etaJ3s would be disclosed even by "toowe. . . : : Circumstances of the strucaie at sea or in Russia as they develoo always must govern i the timina and direction of allied attacks within the four corners of the general strategic design adooted. A prime requisite - of ; any long view strategic conception always must be flexibility, the power to change the direction and readjust priorities as the battle trends dic tate from month to month or week toweek. . r , ' . That does not apply to basic objectives, however. And lav the British drive from. India Into Burma, In developments In the Solomons theatre and MaeArth urs steady push northward to. New Guinea, ultimate recapture' .of lostVu .fields la a fnndament- ; al facet of allied strategy sew just as their taking Jin -Burma and the Dutch Indies was the Pre Minbter ChurchUl in hb - ft 'sent down the ways as part of a at Launching was made the occasion Thurs vocational war production train yard in Portland. The ship was Gen. Owen Summers in the Span ish-American war. . f Other guests called upon for short talks included Ormand B. Case, member of the Portland school board; Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruc tion; R. E. Dugdale, superinten dent of Portland public schools; and James Arentson, special agent, US office of education, Guests included shipyard offi 2S L"4 w" woiucUoD .KiW;EEQ Boat Raised; Eighth Body Found Inside -A marine crane raised the Co- lumbia river ferry tur May urday and revealed the body of xo-year-om waiter Pearson, jr., one of the heroes of the tragedy. trapped in the cabin. Eight bodies have now been re covered. Still missing is Ray Lewis, crew member. Authorities investigated a report that a 10th person whose identity is unknown, remains mis sing, too. The tug was ferrying Henry J. Kaiser shipyard workers from ; the Portland side of the river to! the Vancouver yards when it cap sized shortly after midnight Wed nesday. Nine persons, including the captain and one crewman, are i known to have been rescued. Raising of the craft gave no im mediate clue as to . the cause of the sinking. Pearson lost his life because he j remained in the cabin passing out life preservers, authorities said. The youth's mother, Mrs. Walter Pearson, z, was among the res cued. She watched the recovery of her son's body from a diver's barge and accompanied it to shore on a coast guard boat . Statesman f aV: hk, v& r inn ai .pa LAaua iLir. ..... . . . . . : - I review to commons, key to Janan'a miimmI HMt I Mr. Roofirft nmm:wi ,,! "important actions will be taken in the skies over China and over i Japan itself The supplying of ruex lor the planes which will un dertake that action is a prime consideration. Air. Churchill pictured the British purpose in Burma as the reopening ;of the Burma, road to China. Implicit in that is ultimate reoponing 0f a Burma ofl source i, to power the planes, tanks a nH other oil-fueled war ' weapons to oe suppuea to China and to be launched at Japan. . : s At the moment American planes operating in China's aid must be J largely, fueled with gasoline flown I a in over difficult routes as Mac-1 Artnurs weapons are powered by I slow trans-Pacific ba shipments; Given ultimate access to Burma or Dutch East Indies oil sources and the " . allied I transportation strain In the Pacific and Indian ocean theatre could be greatly je- duced." Tokyo does wt need to be told that Jt knows that eariv e-f capture of a sources must be a controiung moUve In ! the, allied war -design in the Pacific. s. 'J"doa novo it.' Portland program dedicated to the war pro Women's Reserve Of Marines Not WAVES, Stressed "Don't get the wrong Imnres- sion," the two marine officers of the . Salem recruiting station said Saturday. "We're accepting ap - plications here from women who wi&a xo join we marine reserve, but the marines aren't the WAVES. The onlv ennnoctum I. that the two happen to be trained at the same spot back east" As a member of the reserve, a woman will not 'belong' to the ma rines, but will actually be a ma rine. The officers explained that a great many women will be ac cepted for service, probably more that in the WAAC and WAVES at tVl A nAonl V. . At I skilled and efficient as the offi cers and men who. made up the marine corps before the feminine I contingent. was admitted. Complete information is avail able at the marine recruiting of fice, 510 'Guardian buUding," but i women - must . await acceptance from the Portland marine office. Coilllty Petitioned Sat-i? fc I O Vacate -Streets . xvr i rl - At W aCOnda bite Asking Marion county court to vacate the streets and. alleys of the town of Waconda, in which not just grass but potatoes have long been growing - according ' to the attorney, in the case, a '.-peti tion was filed Saturday with Mar ion county court. The townsite at the intersection of the Pacific highway with the Parkersville-Fairfield r road was platted by John Feaster and Mar--tha Ann Feaster but never, became a town in more than name, ac cording to Charles Heltzel, attor ney who filed the petition. ; : '' Signers include Frank Adel- man, Lena Adelman, Helen Hu- ler, Jarvis E. Cutsf orth and Ca therine Cutsforth, all the land owners in the town with the ex- ception of one who is a resident f Eugene; Marie Schwab, Martha Reiling, Nellie Smith and Maud-1 ine - M. Wall, adjacent property owners. The petition is to be heard March 25. Unrelated to the peti tion-and the hearing is -Waconda station on: the Oregon- Electric line. Unemployment Gontoibution'Higli; Contributions to the Unemploy-J ment insurance, trust fund thus far in 1943 have reached. 13,705, 320, an increase of 59 per cent over last year, and more than .iar -jTllJZl IlZTj anir nprirai aiau? uiicmuiu r ment compensation commission ' . - . . announced Saturday. , Recent cohections, wmcn were mostly on payroll lor, tne iourtn urtr o 1942 brought the trust fund to $30,585,064, a gain of 66. 5 per cent over last year's $18,- 369.612. Although exact figures wul not be available for several weeks, officials estimate the 1943 "ceil ing" will be slightly over $19,000,- 000 insuring that no penalty rates win be. paid this year unless there is a sudden unprecedented, bene- ... . . 4 it.. n.Ani.n lit loaa. Last year .uic kcuuie, which was set at 6 per cent of the : average .of the latest five years' covered pay roll, was $15,519,000. i NEWARK, N. J.--Ira Miller, ramenter. has solved, his war- time transportation problem by buyina a pair of dogs, "Laddie and flsse, half Tox Terrier and half Beagle hound. - Miller hooks his dogs to a little cart, and they haul his tool chest frcm noma -tol job. The dogs also transport groceries for the Miller family. Miller.- figures they, can null 270 nounds on4evel grpnoVor 1343 pounds when their harness Jj ; attached - to 'a sled.. lie says . tna :1 the 'government j rationed shoes, just after his two sons enlisted in tthe; marines, .Dominic Fighera found-. the, work in.his two. shoe repair, shops too much for him. .' So Mrs. Fighera .is swinging ,' a broad-nosed hammer now. ,' " "I-watched my husband and the boys work for years," she- said. "and I guess I can do just as good a job as a man":.',:. 1 i :' LUBBOCK, TexHtfVA. pa0t rrom tne South Plains, army , fly ing school landed out of gas in a pasture seyefal, counties from his destination. - -: ; i w vv:r; ,-, . , A farmer on whose property he landed offered him eight gallons oi gas .- 1 .:..- u-:-''- , ".But - won't. you have, trouble getting more, gas out pf your ra tion board,, protested, the pilot- .TU get the. gas back," said the farmer, I think the ration, board will understand. I'm on it. LEWISTON, ; Idaho-.(P)-B r 1 g. Gen. Claire Chennault, command er of. the Allied air forces in the I Far East,, wasn't exactly the mo del s t u d e n t while i in school. though he was j graduated from high . school at 14, his brother, Chief Gunner's Mate Joe Chen- nault, recalls. ' "Claire was a regular "Peck's Bad Boy as far as outdoor activ ity was concerned, his brother, who is here on assignment from the 13th Naval district said. "It kind of ran in the family to sneak away from school and go fishing. The General, who was captain of the boxing team while he at- tended Louisiana State university. Quite often-"played hookey from I school to go fishing, and used to ibeat up on the kid next door, his brother recalled. PARKV ILLS. Mo.-PV-Dr. Harry G. Parker, retired Park college chemistry professor, traps coffee vapors for that second cup. From: numerous experiments the professor concluded he could get twice as many cups from the usual portion of coffee by boiling it an hour and as .tasty If he could capture the vapor. He rigged up a chemistry flask joined to a glass funnel by a hol low cork. .As the coffee boils the vapor irises into .the funnel where lit condenses against a cover and drips back into the coffee. GRANTS PASS, Ore.-(flV-At 72. Mrs. Ethel Banta says she feels that a 25-hour, 6nce-a-week hitch in an aerial observation post is little enough contribution to the war effort - - . "It makes me feel good inside to help,? she explained. , , . , Asked if the 14 mile ride plus -1 - .. ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' i: - - - t - , tr M: nth mrmmmAAmA . .. svwaw wm.r ..v w i i. cigarettes were popular with the FinST'AU57r4AHAIi-CUILT . , cesrVK.TLA.3. tTarraKrsra in thm Nmttm the long shift didn't tire her, she replied: - ' - . " : "I think the work part shouldn enter into it, if one can do some' thing for her country . - Mrs. Banta captains the "horse back canteen unit" of Illinois val ley and would have spoken on the nation-wide "army hour broad cast a week ago had not flood conditions, made it impossible to bring proper equipment here. U COFFXYVILLE, ;?Kas,-Pf-Ivt Wesley E. Lundeen. of--St Paul Minn, was walking along eating an ice cream xone.; . ' . - ;i An officer passed in a car.-Lun deen, ln shifting it from- the Tight to left-hand,- dropped, the , cone, but made a snappy salute. Not - to", be" outdone .in military courtesy, the officer ' stopped and handed Lundeen a nickel for an other cone." " " ' " . """" "". ' ATLANTA;P)-Ben WilUams Is on time again for his first class at Emory 'university. - .'": Not long ago" he slept through an important chemistry test - When the alarm clock rings now he gets up immediately The wind ing nanoie ox tne alarm has - a string attached to a waterfilled can. xne can- is suspended on a wooden frame over the head of the bed. As the handle of the clock revolves" the can isulted. The arrangement gives him just 13 seconds to clear the covers. , WASHINGTON-P)-T h e army quartermaster . corps . is . using dis carded liquor, barrels . as .dog houses,' ' ..- - .Some 250 barrels have 'been converted into kennels for i war dogs as an economy measure. The barrels are cleaned, lined with paraffin to insure sanitation and mounted on cradles. As a doggy touch, porches are being added. A MARINE BASE Df . SOUTH PACIFIC-W-Capt John Erskin, USMC, Uhrichsville, Ohio, an in terpreter who was born in Ja pan, spent ten minutes In recent fighting in the Solomons, Using his best Japanese in an effort to talk to a group of trapped Japan ese soldiers into surrendering. Capt Erskin's Japanese argu ments were not persuasive ber cause one of the Japs finally spoke up in equally good y English, shouting: "Go to helL Marine, causing the captain considerable embar rassment before his fellow Mar ines. . - v -,-;.; . The Marines threw hand gren ades into the cave in which these Japs were trapped, : but the Japs uuen uinn vufc ma uui ma . uic I grenades were thrown in. Ulti- Jap Prisoners Interest US Soldiers "rf':!'1' i , , , ' ' ' "4" -: ' . :, ? , . Mu arltk lalM-t .( 4hLi w.M .vi " . munrcw vsc i captives. Associated Press Photo T-T "DCSTCOYCR -rs u hi tun r ti Ar nu- Crst Aer'r!! t'-t i'.r7r C.rtws a i '; tw n are. ; TWO PIECE This two piece outfit of black and white striped woolen jacket and black woolen skirt was shown with a spring collection la New York "v,i,:iv. c"- - - ..'i mately, it' was necessary to seal the cave.with dirt to prevent their escape. 1 ( : , DURHAM, NC-iPr-Andy Bor land walked into the crowded, re corder's courtroom and sailed his cap straight at the judge's head when the probation officer toldj him I to take it" off. And what's more, he saucily walked over and took a seat on the bench beside the judge. Court was recessed long enough to take him down. Andy is only three years old and the judge is his father. FORT GEORGE WRIGHT, Wn. (iP)-Twin brothers who look so much alike they have been asked to wear different types of head-. gear are Lts. Marshall F. and Earl Crawford -of Port Arthur, Tex. Lieutenant Marshall wears an Officers' garrison cap; Lieutenant Earl the traditional , "overseas' cap. : ' The boys said they contracted pneumonia at the same time and endured typhoid together; they have a mutual hobby photography- and their arm serial num bers differ by one digit, one end ing in 927 and the other 928. The Lieutenants are with a chemical warfare unit . - - 1- 4 . : . . VvV;; V t t-'e :'w " t : . "'-rJ; - . Mm awmua rwuH area Amencaa from US Navy. n"