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NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salenv Oregon. Tuesday Morning. February, 23. ,1943 Prlco So. No. 243 New PtoitiomU rngTrmck' BMBefeati- issue JlJisiDOsm Mai Duration-Plus Plan Offered For Senate Spending of Railways Cited in - Opposition " To Motor Requests By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Salvage parties; dug in Mon day afternoon in the state sen ate and from the lobby seeking to save something on the truck ers side of the issue following a 45-15 defeat administered to the "big truck" bill in the house of representatives. v They came up with two proposi tions: From the senate roads and highways committee, a bill to authorize, the state highway commission, with the consent of the governor, to permit oper ation of longer and heavier tracks throughout the war and for six months after. From the truck lobby, a pro posal that 60-foot, 73,000-poond oil trucks only be legalized. -The defeated measure would have authorized operation on a statutory "permanent" basis of all trucks up to 60 feet in length and 71,000 pounds in weight. They are now permitted to operate within these limits under a war emergency "duration" order by the state highway ; commission is sued -last "June. , : Y: . , f Sen. L. W. Wipperman of Grants Pass, who - accepted at full face value testimony of military and office of transportation witnesses at a rehearing last Friday night declaring an authorization such as the "big truck" bill' contained to be indispensable to the war' ef fort, told the senate committee Monday he considered those re quests reasonable. The new senate measure, to be drafted by. Sen. Dorothy . Lee " of Portland for the committee, would let the highway commission decide the vexing question of truck size. It is to be. ready for introduction yet this week. The senate committee reject ed a request of spokesmen for the Oregon Motor Transporta tion association that the house (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Yank Clipper Crashes Into JU13UU11 lUYCl LISBON, Fb. 22.-)-A Clip per flying boat arriving here on a flight from the United States crashed in landing on the Tagus river Monday, and four were killed and 20 missing of the 40 persons aboard.' '. ' The remaining 16 passengers nd crew members were brought ashore alive, but many were in Jured. , The score of persons missing were believed buried at the bot tom of the river. , , There were four women pas sengers aboard, and . all were saved. J The transatlantic flying boat was the Yankee Clipper, under command of Cap t Sullivan, and had come here by way of the Azores. It carried 27 passengers and 13 crew members. The Yankee Clipper, now bur Is the same one which inaugura ted Pan American airway's New York to Lisbon line. ; Captain Sullivan, an experien red senior pilot, is among the In jured in the hospital. He was un able to explain the "cause of the disaster. NEW YORK, Feb. 22,-iflVPan- American Airways said Monday night the crash of its trans-ocean ic flying boat at Lisbon In which four were reported killed and 20 missing was the first accident on Its trans-Atlantic service, estab lished May 20, 1939. SEATTLE, Feb. 22. - OP) - The Yankee' Clipper, which crashed at Lisbon Monday, was one of a se ries of a dozen great aerial Clip per ships bunt at the Boeing Air craft plant here, and a company representative said Monday, night it was the first ever to meet with disaster in more than 1200 Atlan tic crossings.'. ,' - Murphy Looks To Philippines LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11MJP) Frank Murphy, associate jus tice of the US supreme court, expressed fear Monday that the American people do not fully appreciate : the gravity of the Pacific war situation. "I shall feel uneasy and ret- less until oar flag has been raised again in the Philippines, said Justice Murphy, who was the last governor-general of the Islands. "There an empire of 16,000,000 inhabitants and 7, 000 Islands has been taken from FDR Warns Of Reverses Compares Reactions With Washington's Fight for Nation WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -(JP) President Roosevelt warned Amer icans Monday night that they "still face reverses, and misfor tunes." T In a Washington's birthday ad dress, he compared the reaction to "the great successes on the Russian front" to that following the American victory over Gen eral Burgoyne's army at Saratoga in 1777 which "led thousands of Americans to throw their hats in the air, proclaiming that the war was 'practically won and thatthey could go back to their peacetime occupations and "normalcies'." "It, is not enough that we have faith and that we have hope," Mr. Roosevelt declared. "Washington himself was the exemplification of the other great need. "Would that all of us. could live our lives and direct our thoughts and control our tongues as did the Father of Our Country." The president's forum was a series of democratic dinners cele brating the completion of a fund raising drive for the party, to which Mr. Roosevelt's .words were broadcast. The $100-a-plate dinner at the Mayflower hotel here was ad dressed in person by Vice Presi dent Wallace who said that if the j people of the United States and England "put forth the same unified, all-out effort that now is being displayed by the magnifi cent Russians, Germany can be defeated in 1943." Maj. Gen. Alex ander A .Vandegrift, who com manded the marines at Guadal canal, also was invited to speak. Wallace criticized advocates of reducing the personnel goals of the armed forces, and. struck out at any attempt to use "the un avoidable shortages . and restric tions j of wartime as a basis for a partisan campaign to undermine confidence in the government." Mr. . Roosevelt said there would have been no successful outcome to the American revo lution had it not been for George Washington's faith, which "overcame the bicker ings and confusion and the - (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Gandhi Weaker NEW DELHI, Feb. 22-;p)-Mo-bandas K. Gandhi became ."progressively-weaker" Monday night on the 13th day of his fast after living through a sharp crisis Sun day that left his old heart feebler for the enabiing eight days of his greatest trial of endurance. To many; it became increasingly evident that the Hindu spiritual leader of millions might die if he did not break the fast undertaken to force the British to release him unconditionally from his luxurious prison in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona. ': Late dispatches from Poona said, however, that Gandhi passed a quiet day and slept several hours. As the crisis deepened, the gov ernment of India published an 86 page white book which amounted to a prosecution brief to fix the blame for an outbreak of violence which started - after Gandhi had initiated a -."non-violence", cam paign to force the British to grant. India immediate independence. Gandhi was arrested August 9. The white book offered Gandhi's own writings to support its con tention that the 73-year-dd loader Follow 1 Mint Control's V Suspension Up , House Committee Against 1 ft Banning Penalty, Compensation Rate By RALPH C CURTIS -1 "Clean things up and go home. Don't dodge issues; dispose of them." Such is the legislature's present mood. Today, unlesl some faction seeks and gains postponement, the issue of suspending milk control "for the duration" will be threshed out insofar as the low er house is concerned. Today also, the house may dispose of the con troversial issue of unemployment rates; and in this case the pros pects seem excellent that all con troversial matters related to un employment compensation will be wiped out in one decisive vote. Rep. John Steelhammer's bill proposing to suspend milk con- LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR Third readings Tuesday: In Senate: SB 210, 232, 225, 241, 52, 150. HB 135, 146, 263, 310, 302, 327, 147. In House: HB 144, 266. SB 129, 133, 136, 175, 217. trol until after the war was re ported out with a "do not pass" recommendation by the house committee on food and dairy products. There will be no mi nority report. That, according to his statement before the com mittee, . Is satisfactory to Sep. Steelhammer. He said all he asked was to "get it before the house." The commitee held up a related bill by the same author, which would permit the state department of agriculture to which milk con trol j was transferred in a bill signed by Gov. Earl Snell to set minimum milk prices. Dairy spokesmen told the committee this biU was not "adequate," insisting that pooling is essential. Rep. Steelhammer said if the suspen sion bill was approved he would (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Congress Approves TelegrapK Merger WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-jp)-An oft-debated proposal to permit the Western Union Telegraph com pany to absorb its rival, the Postal Telegraph & Cable system, won final congressional approval Mon day when the senate passed it, 42 to 17. Over scattered protests from Senators Aiken (R-Vt), Langer (R-ND) and others, a conference report compromising senate and house differences over the lan guage the legislation should take was sent to the White House. The legislation permits a merger of the two companies if they reach an agreement to which the federal communications commission as sents. - and his all-India congress political party intended and expected vio lence to t result from its move mentthis at a time when the Japanese army had overrun Bur ma to the eastern frontier of In dia. A government bulletin signed by six ' doctors said Gandhi had a crisis at 4 p. m. Sunday in which "he was seized with severe nausea and almost fainted and his pulse became nearly imperceptible" ' I He rallied and sipped water and lime juice and then slept well into the night. ; .'; - The' government stood - firm in its resolve to hold Gandhi, who had been offered his freedom for the duration of the fast LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 2ZiJP) The News Chronicle,: saying edi torially Tuesday that "Gandhi is dying i in captivity,!; called upon Prime Minister Churchill '-to free the Indian nationalist leader "as an act of high moral courage at a ' time when the world's stand ards of morality are at a very low ebb." - Today v w Ainm Med Army Weight' v: Stalin Finds Lack 1.. Of Second Front, . Tells Battle Toll By The Associated Press M LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 23 Premier Joseph Stalin asserted Tuesday that the. "red army alone is bearing the whole weight of the war" in the "ab sence of a second front in Eu rope," but d e cl a r e d his red army had inflicted 9,000,000 casualties on the .Germans 4, 000,000 of them killed and that time now is running against Hit ler's Germany. The start of "the massed drive of the enemy from soviet lands has begun," Stalin declared in a momentous, confident order of the day commemorating the 25th an niversary of the red army. . He asserted Hitler's initial advantages in manpower, arms, and experi ence have now been wiped out, with the soviet . union "becoming ever stronger" and with the initia tive in Russia's hands. Stalin in his order called on his troops to give the Germans "no rest by day or by night," to "annihilate them If they re fuse to lay down their arms,, and sounded the rallying cry of . "death to the German Invad ers!" : - "Time is working against fascist Germany" and she is - "becoming more exhausted and weaker while the soviet union is more and more developing its reserves" and be coming ever stronger," the warrior-leader of Russia declared in a broadcast recorded by the soviet monitor. In the last three months alone, he declared, 112" axis divisions had been routed; 700,000 of the enemy had been killed; more than 300,000 had been taken prisoner. But, he warned, Germany is "not yet conquered" and the soviet victories over the nazi army "do not yet mean that it cannot re cover." In another place Stalin indicated that ' the red army goal was to free the Soviet Union of the in vader he said - that " Russians should not now become overcon fident and assume that the red army now has only to pursue the Germans "to the western frontiers of our country" but on the other hand he referred to the red army as "an army of avengers." Thus Stalin once more, while mentioning freeing the Soviet Un ion of Germans, did not indicate any further goal, the Russians might have., t (Turn to Page 2 Story C)s Fourth" Term Predicted CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 22.-P)-West Virginia's democra tic governor, Matthew M. Neely, flatly predicted a fourth term for President Roosevelt In a speech Monday night to 300 party lead ers gathered for a George Wash ington dinner.: i ' ' Neely," who served in the US senate during the first eight years of the new, deal, made his fore cast in proposing a toast , to the nation's past- commanders - in chief, naming Washington, Jef ferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Wil son.: - -.' : '- " He then referred to "the fa mous third term president, who next year will be elected presi dent for a fourth term. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who "never sold the truth to serve the lie. -"May this great man continue to live and rule and- confuse his country's foes," the. governor said in conclusion., 7 -" . " v Bombers Surprise Nazis at Bremen LONDON, Feb. - 22-iP)-Big British bombers rained more than 100 two-ton bombs Sunday night on Bremen, seconds largest . Ger man port and an important pro duction center for submarines and the prized Focke-Wulfe bombers. ' Then every one of the large force sreaked back -across Holland and the North sea to base without loss. ' The Germans apparently were - surprised, the air ministry said, ' because not a ' gun - opened fire until -the first bomb bad exploded.' Bearing 'TTh American Aerial Gunners Pictured in Action G : -v Somewhere w the Euronean theatre of war this American ftchte several Germxti planes. In the belly ef his plane, Sgt. William Watts of Alexandria, Ia, trains his " machine gun to bear upon a nasi ship below while, behind Sergeant Watts may be discerned the knees of the waist gunner firing his machine gun from the side of the plane. IIN Photo. Price Foods; 5605 Registered Here Vegetables Held; Point Values Told WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-P)-The government Monday night clamped emergency price ceilings at' present levels over five of the country's major fresh vegetables tomatoes, green and waxed snap beans, carrots, cabbage and peas. It said the action was necessary to head off . speculative p r 1 c e boosts caused by the , tremendous demand generated by canned goods . rationing. -t Effective Tuesday no distrib utor of those vegetables may - sea at a higher price than he did in the five - days between last Thursday and Monday of this week, February IS to 22. The surprise price action ap plied to all dealers except the , grower. A few hours earlier the OPA had announced the point value Of dried peas, beans and lentils, and dried and dehydrated soups, and asserted there was a possi bility of more liberal allowances of rationed foods in ApriL t- " During March,5 however, the previous announced allowance of 49 points per consumer will re main in effect.' . The' price' freeze on the five fresh vegetables will last for 60 days." ' p . ' As. an enforcement measure OPA disclosed it was making cample price checks In retail out lets in every major population center. , " . Point values announced Mon day night included: ' Dried beans, peas and ' lentils: up to 2 ounces, 1 point; 2 to 4 oun ces, 2 points; 4 to 6 - ounces, 3 points; 6 to 8 ounces, 4 points; 8 to 10 ; ounces, 5 points; 10 to 14 ounces, 7 points; 14 to 18 Ounces, 8 points; 1 lb., 8 points. : Dried and dehydrated soups: up to 2 ounces, 2 points; 2 to 4 - (Turn to Page 2 Story E) ' Quake Rocks Mexico City MEXICO CITY: Feb. 22P) Veteran observers believe that only ' the .porous nature of . the ground on which this sprawling capital city is- situated saved it from earthquake disaster Monday as the worst shock in two years rocked a large area, causing one death and several injuries. . One person was killed outright in the collapse of an apartment house In the -thickly, populated workers, district ; Four others at first reported fatally injured were later found, alive. The " quake followed reports of renewed activity by a volcano known as the "Rock Oven" in the state of Michoacan, south of here, which was " said : to be emitting smoke. Preparations were being made to remove 8000 persons from a town near the volcano in ease of a lava outbreak. Ceilings Put on 5 Fresh Leaders Called v Rickenbacker Avers. His Attackers Are ; Labor's Enemies ALBANY, NY, Feb. 22 -(J3) Capt. Edward : V. Rickenbacker, declaring "the men who attack me are labor's enemies," called Mon day night on the national leader ship of industry, labor and gov ernment to set an example of war time unity. In a prepared address to the New York legislature, delivered as senate and assembly leaders re ceived more than a score of pro tests from labor unions against his invitation appearance, the famous flier said: "You cannot demand that the (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Allied Planes SW Pacific ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, Feb. 23 (JPy- Allied war planes, in a wide sweep of New Guinea' and New Britain, dropped bombs on at least five Japanese centers Monday; the allied ' high ' command reported Tuesday. . - The noon communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head quarters listed Lae, Buin, RabauL Gasmata and Lorengau as having been hit by the bombers. : The raids on the Buin-Faisi were described as small-scale night operations by medium bomb ers. The airdromes at Kahili and Ballale were hit again and fires, visible from a distance of 40 miles, were started among aircraft in the dispersal bays. ; ; Lorengau, in the - Admiralty islands, was attacked by a heavy reconnaissance unit The airdrome and surface craft' in the harbor were bombed. - U Heavy- bombers, ; ,;. swinging in over Rabaul, New Britain, just before dawn, unloaded their mis siles on Lakunai airdrome and shore installations at the north end of the harbor. -'-. ... The airdrome at Gasmata,' New Britain, also was pounded in a night attack by a flight of heavy bombers. Medium bombers carried out a "strong' coordinated attack" on the Lae area in New Guinea, the communique said. The bombers were covered by long-range fight- Allied attack planes also bomb ed and heavily strafed the trails and villages from Wipaining to Guadapasal. - , - , A small formation ' of "enemy planes lightly raided the Port Moresby area, the communique said. There was no damage nor casualties ' .-- - Tp Show Unity Sweep Widely plane Is in the, thick of battle with Fifth of City Signs; More Hints Given Registration crews that worked at top speed for 2 ' hours Mon day afternoon and then, in most elementary school buildings of the city, had time on their hands, had issued 5605 war ration books of the No. 2 variety in Salem by 9 o'clock Monday night, Supt. Frank B. Bennett announced.. The figure was one-fifth of the anticipated registration for the week as based on issuance of war ration book No. 1, Bennett point ed out. ' Bush school registrations to taled 1004 to lead all districts in' the city; at Highland there were 883; Englewood, 821; Gar field, 726; Grant, 607; Wash ington, 571; Richmond, 557, and McKinley, 436. j v No county-wide tally was tak en, although in almost every school district of the county, reg istration commenced Monday. , Only persons required to wait for service at the registration ta ble were those ' who arrived at ; To be registered today at ele mentary, schools in the city for war ration book No. 2 are per sons .whose . last names- begin with letters from D to H, in clusive. . Registrations is from 3 to p. m. Those unable to. register on the day assigned ac cording to alphabet may register another day, but should plan to do It early in the week, school officials suggested. the school buildings prior to the 8 o'clock opening hour, with, the exception of those who stood in line at Garfield ahd Washington schools.-' r.yl '"-'v': ' At those two registration points only three sets of registrars worked, compared, with five at other centers in heavily populat ed districts. " ; In addition to the three : regis trars at each table, recommended by OPA, Salem used one student helper with each . crew, while members of Hi-Y, Girls Letter elub and the Honor society of the (Turn to Page 2 Story F) . OWi Reorganizes Target Areas'. r WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-(5P)-In a wholesale reorganization of its overseas branch, the office of war information divided the world into seven geographical regions or "tar get areas" nd gave a single offi cial- sole responsibility for , the psychological offensive in each of the groups of countries. Officials of the branch, which is headed ' by " Playwright Robert Sherwood, predicted Increasing ef fectiveness In this country's edu cation and propaganda - effort abroad,, declaring they now can "aim with a rifle rather than a shot gun, 'Mulcts Junction ; Vfa mi UJ A hafa N eared Russians Sweep On Toward Dnienen A, . Chinese Hold By The Associated Press . The most dangerous attack yet thrown in by the Germans in Tunisia a tank assault, un der Marshal Rommel's com mand which had broken through for 16 miles to within four miles of the tactically im portant road junction of Thala and was accompanied by a re newed infantry thrust westward toward the allied base of Tebessa in Algeria menaced the allied positions Monday night. The lat ter, drive had been beat back earlier in the day by American troops. ' -; ' i; Although an allied observer announced toward the end of a day .of sharp enemy successes, that the Thala operation was "showing signs of exhaustion" and , that the British and Ameri can' armed forces now appeared "to have the situation , in hand." ii was tii a in I r 1 0 n 11 L 1 n 11 x wmb viewed with some eravltv at al lied headquarters. By reaching Thala, Rommel would command highways that could lead him north to threaten the rear of the main allied forces before Tunis and Bizerte. This . would require a vastly bigger force . than L that . now In motion late estimates from al lied headquarters put at . 40 tanks , the strength of the col umn directed at Thala where previously It had been estima ted at 70. Reports from the field,, however, significantly mentioned that Kasseiiao .Gap through which Rommel had sprung northwestward toward Thala was being "very heav ily held" by the nasls and that heavy guns had been brought up by the enemy there to sug gest that he was going to In crease the power of the attack. This seemed likely, for if the allies should be able to hold and block the gap,! Rommel would risk the isolation in the moun tains beyond of his present col umn. In Russia, where the greatest of all fronts was again over shadowed by the sharp, recurring? military storms of North Africa, the soviet armies were pushing on slowly toward the Dnieper river, beating down German counterat tacks that were increasing In vi olence jhe nearer the Russians ap proached to that strong natural defensive line. V The - soviet communique was mainly in general terms, but re ported the recapture of two more towns , west of Rostov along the Azov sea and of others in the western Caucasus and below Orel to the north which, it appeared probable, would be the next Ger man base to fall. Red army troops have driven to within 25 miles of Novoros slck, where the last German remnants In the Caucasus are caught In a tightening pocket, by capture of Akhrirskaya, For the first time, the German communique mentioned fighting In the Dnieper river region. They aai4 Y?iiara!on fnrmaftAno Vvaam Maioia w mi Mviis sietu wui widely- encircled ; between the Donets and Dnieper and shatter- cu wiui uib jubs ui. nussian tanks. The Soviets were reported attacking south and northeast of Orel in a heavy snow storm. Rus sian attacks were reported beaten back in the Kuban region and west and northwest of Kharkov. In the Pacific, the Chinese com mand reported that the most im portant oz ine current Japanese ouensives mai aaong ine Ola province still was being held In check along the line of the - Sal ween river, where three enemy attempts to force a crossing had been thrown back. - ' v ' In the Solomons area, the US navy announced that fires had again been set off by an Ameri can air raid on the -Japanese posi tion at Munda on New Georgia Island, xone of his best bases now that Guadalcanal has been wrest ed from him. Pease Elected ! PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 22 -(A) The Oregon society of the Sons of the American Revolution Mon- day night electea Jiari v. -e Salem, president.