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Salem, Oraanu Wednesday Morning. February 21T IS 43
Price Sc.
No. 249
Benefits
Measures'
'Pulled'
Jobless Compensation
Closed Issue; Milk
Control Ban Loses
By RALPH C. CURTIS
Unemployment compensation
followed close on the heels of
milk control in entering the
limbo of "closed issues" in so
far as the 42nd Oregon legis
lative session "was concerned,
late Tuesday when all bills on
;this; explosive subject, were
withdrawn by their sponsors.
A group of employers who had
sought elimination of the "penal
ty" payroll tax rates, withdrew
the measure which had been re
ported out "do not pass" Monday
by the house judiciary committee.
Consideration of . the report had
not been set - over , until , today,
when it came before the house
Tuesday morning.
f Making good on an offer ten
dered early in the session, repre
sentatives of organized Labor, both
rAFL and CIO, their withdrew -the
' bills proposing more generous ben
efit payments, elimination of sea
sonality and other changes.
" ; It was , generally agreed that
elimination of this issue will short
en the legislative session by sev
eral days. ,
J . The house will have before it
5 today a bill providing for an op-
tional "community property"
law, under which married eou-
4 plea- with large Incomes may
gain equality in federal Income .
tax payments with residents of
ether western states. The bill, -
introduced by Rep. William Nta--
kaaen and Sen. Lew Wallace,
has been amended to conform '
to Oregon's ether property laws :
and was reported oat do pass"
unanimously by the house com ;
. snittee on taxation and revenue.
'' Rep. John Sieelhanuner, Mar
ion county's senior In service-junior
in ; age legislator,! had a "big
LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
Third readings Wednesday:
In Hoase: HB 131, 349, 356, 380.
SB 73, 7V169,-187r 191, 228, 243,
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la Senate: SB 155, 209, 233, 236,
239. HB 89, 194, 223, 10, 327, S.
day" Tuesday. In each" branch of
the legislature one of his bills
lacked three votes of approval.
Hbwever, by attracting -28 house
votes in support of his bill which
would have suspended "for the
duration" operation of the milk
control act, Steelhammer won a
moral victory since he opposed
single-handed not only the for
midable resistance of the organized
dairymen's lobby but also "the im
plied preference of Gov. Earl
Snell, at whose recommendation
milk control has been transferred,
with no other change in the law,
to the state department of agri
culture. , Rep. Steelhammer insisted' that
milk control is unnecessary now
that milk is scarce and prices are
controlled by the federal govern
ment. Reps. H. A. Kuratli and H.
H. Chindgren replied that dairy
men wanted milk control retained
'as their only protection.". Speak
ers supporting Steelhammer's
stand based their argument upon
.the consumers Interest Rep. Wil
liam Niskanen said that in Des
chutes county milk control pro
tects a half dozen dairymen, is of
' no benefit to other farmers, and
. "gyps" the families of mill work
. ers who must drink ."watered
milk." He referred to the enforced
reduction of milk's butterfat con
tent y :
The vote Indefinitely postpon
ing, Steelhammer's .milk control
suspension bill was 32 to 28. He
bad the support of all other Marion
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Allies Rush
New Tanks
" ; i By ROSS MUNRO l;'
, CMian Prns War Cmpaocn
ON THE TUNISIAN FRONT,
Teh. I 22-(Delayed)-W)-,orty-ton
Churchill' tanks, newly turned out
of British factories, have been
brought up secretly to this front
and - rushed into action to help
stop German advances in the
south."' .
These infantry tanks, similar to
: those used by the Canadian forces
were suddenly turned out on the
in the Dieppe raid last August,
plains before Sbiba. ;
It was a surprise to the Ger
mans, who had no idea the Brit
ish First s army had ' Churchills
drawn up and ready, for a critical
moment like this. ,
Nine Churchills engaged 14
nazi . tanks - and in a sharp tight
destroyed four against the less of
ene. of their own.
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Oil Rationing Brings
Heating Changes ;
. Teachers Resign
Four deletions in city school
bus routes, saving a total of 10
miles a day for the two trips, and
cancellation ..of several stops- as a
measure to save gasoline and tires
were authorized by Salem school
directors at their regular meeting
Tuesday night.
In bo case will any of the dele
tions ; require - any child to add
more i than 4 of a mil to his
morning and afternoon walk,
Supt; Frank B. Bennett explain
ed as he presented the suggest
ions made by T. E. Mc Clean,
owner and operator of the : bus
system.- - - - -'
m. Meeting the requested H
' InS feel U u$Vwnr: repairs
greater engineering, Bunt tt
explained, and directors ap
proved an order catting tem
peratares to a minimum 61 de
g r e e s, thermostat to 88 and
Miwsn of 78 deffrees at Far
rtsh ; hmior high, senior high
modi Bosh schools, only, three
ell-heated Institntions.
i By! lessening somewhat the air
flow .through the buildings a fur
ther cut may be obtained, it was
explained. Still another saving in
the school's allotment of oil may
be effected, Bennett suggested,
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Rolth, Snell
On Farmers
Union Slate
DALLAS, Feb. 23 High spot in
the three-day convention of state
Farmers union locals in Dallas,
the speeches of Gov, Earl Snell
and of James Patton, national
president fro m Denver, . were
dimmed a little with announce
ment that Patton will be unable
to attend. The vJce president, Mr.
Rolth Of Joplin, Mont., will sub
stitute, first at 10:30 a. m. today
and again with Snell at the 6 p. m.
banquet. ' ''
First day of the 33rd annual
convention was devoted to - the
junior organization. Curtis Lamb,
Dallas, was elected president of
the Oregon : Farmers Union jun
iors, i succeeding David Ramseyer
of Marion county. Howard 'Mad
den, Marion county, was named
vice president and Marion Buet
ler of Central HowelV secretary.
The oratorical contest was won
by Jean Booster of Gervals; the
skit contest by the Polk county
junior organization from ML Pis
gah. The day's business was clK
maxed with a banquet at - the
Methodist church at which Ron
ald Jones, Brooks, was speaker.
Approximately 100 delegates at
tended the first session, which was
opened by Ammon Grice, state
Farmers union president Appoint
ment : of committees filled the
day's schedule. ,4
India Anxious
Atiout Gandhi ,
POONA, India, Feb 23-(Al
Mohandas K. Gandhi completed
the second week : of his planned
three-weeks fast Tuesday nigh t
and all India anxiously followed
reports showing the 73-year-old
nationalist !: leader w a s growing
steadily worse. , " - ; '. t
Authoritative sources said
Gandhi's physicians were keenly
concerned now with the growing
weakness of his heart and kid
neys. ' ir7.-::-:- - ;
Among ; many of Gandhi's
friends, however, a note of hope
appeared where Tuesday there
was only gloom.
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canned, bottled and fresen f raits and vegetables; dried fruits and
vegetables. Juices and all canned soups with war ration book No. X.
This poster wil be circulated throusii the nation. Associated Press
Telemst. .
Troops to Pick Cotton;
FR Says Requests Need
Individual Attention
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23-(iiP)-The urmy ordered troops to
pick cotton in Arizona Tuesday, and President Roosevelt indicated
he hoped this action would still the clamor in congress for the
armed services to furlough all experienced "farm hands.
The chief executive commented at his press conference on
the order which climaxed a- series of administration moves on
Knox Foresees
Bigger .Fight
With U-Boats
WASHINGTON, Feb. ; 23 -iff)
Development of a showdown fight
next spring between allied naval
forces and German U-boats in the
battle of the Atlantic was foreseen
in informed quarters here Tuesday
nieht. Secy, of the5 Navy Knox
reported Tuesday that merchant
ship losses have been greatly re
duced this winter but that the
submarine menace continues "very
grave.'
The secretary's report was
prompted by disclosure of the de
struction of a German submarine
by an American destfoyer in the
Atlantic and of a Japanese sub
mersible by an American armed
merchantman in the Pacific.
The destroyer discovered the
submarine on the surface at night
and sank it with a barrage of five
inch shells after dodging a torpedo
which the U-boat fired in a des
perate effort to save itself. The
merchantman was torpedoed at
night In the south Pacific without
warning but survived to fight and
sink the sub with its deck guns.
This was the first reported inci
dent in this war in which a sub
marine has been destroyed by fire
from a merchantship.
The secretary made clear that
the two subs destroyed were not
isolated cases. A percentage f of
others attacked have, to be listed
as "only "probably sunk in the
absence of positive information. .
Knox said every possible meas
ure ! is being employed to combat
submarines. : . With new j surface
craft coining off the ways in con
siderable numbers, the authorities
here predicted that . the . battle
probably will reach a showdown
stage in a few months, probably
by late spring.
Labor-Seekers
Raid Theatres
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BERN, Switzerland, Feb 23-4P)
Police squads have launched raids
upon ; motion picture theatres-in
French cities in their latest efforts
to conscript French workers for
labor in Germany, a dispatch from
Paris reported Tuesday night. ;
I Pierre Laval's government has
found It so difficult to meet a na
si demand for 250,000 more work
men that it has threatened to re
fuse food cards to men who do not
register for work, other reports
said. '
A Paris dispatch "to the Geneva
Tribune" tonight declared that
lights are turned half way up dur
ing motion : pictures while , police
make rounds checking ages of men
patrons, and taking those from 21
to 31 for questioning and decision
whether they , are liable for work
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the food production front, includ-
ing also the lifting of marketing
quotas on wheat.-
- Without referring directly to
the congressional controversy, -Mr.
Koosevelt said many people
did not think thlnts throuth. Tt
would not be wise, he said, to
assign farm work to a dlvislen
needing only four weeks mere
t training before going over
seas. But there wore sosm troops
which could well be employed
for short times at agricultural
work. '
Every instance, he Indicated,
ftrould have to be treated as an in-
dividual case.
The army disclosed that white
and negro soldiers would move
into the. long staple cotton fields
to help harvest this "indispensa
ble war material,'' and that sim
ilar action would be taken if nec
essary with regard to vital crops
elsewhere In the nation.
The lifting of the restrictions
on the marketing of wheat was
announced, by Secretary of Agri
culture Wickard. He said the aim
was to assure adequate wartime
supplies for human consumers and
livestock. .
In Other actions bearing on the
food situation:
Wkkard and John W. Stude
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Oregon Moves
To War Again
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 23-P)
The old USS Oregon started on
her way to war again Tuesday
this time as scrap metal for more
modern weapons. v :
The famed battleship,-the pride
of : Uncle Sam's : navy during the
Spanish-American war, lost her
25-ton foremast and other parts
of her superstructure as contrac
tors began dismantling operations
under a navy contract.
u.The foremast of the barUewag
on, which has been, an historical
relic and museum at her Willam
ette river berth for many years,
will be turned over to e city
as a park memorial. it ; l ' .
Soon , she will be moved to a
dock at Kalama, Wash-, for fur
ther stripping, said Guy W, Won
der of the William O. McKay com
pany, Seattle, co-holder of : the
scrapping contract.
FDR's Answer
Brussels Sprouts
WASHttlGTON, ' Feb. 2 JP)
How would you like to eat brus
sels, sprouts twice a day, every
day, as 40,000 people in the Brit
ish Isles are doing?
That was President Roosevelt's
comment Tuesday on the question
of food supply lA reporter asked
the president whether he would
talk about the food supply Mr,
Roosevelt said he didn't think so
and asked why he shouldV He in
quired whether -anyone at v the
press conference was starving, and
then propounded the question
about brussels sprouts, z8
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Signup 7256
7 Exceeds Estimates;
Statesman Supplies
; Additional Blanks
Number of war ration books
No. 2 issued by Tuesday night in
Salem had topped the anticipated
40 per cent of ' the sugar ration
total by ,1061, and once again the
light ; hours were those after 5
o'clock, declared 6upt Frank B.
Bennett, whose school staff is
handling, the - registration.
Tuesday's total was 7256, with
Bush school again topping the list
of registration centers, this time
closely followed by Highland and
LEnglewood. ,
One problem in the registration
was met Tuesday night when The
Oregon Statesman supplied free of
charge several thousand consum
er declaration blanks to - supple
iaent thase, printed-last Week in
newspapers. SchooK offices had
mimeographed some to aid in the
registration. The blanks are to be
available at elementary school
buildings in Salem and at the
West Salem school, but should not
be used when the newspaper dec
laration form is available, it was
said Tuesday.
Persons whose last names be
gin with letters from- I So M,
inclusive, are scheduled to reg
ister at elementary schools of
the city between S and t p. m.
today.,
Tuesday's registration statists s:
Buch, 1231; Highland, 1105; Englt
wood, 1077; Garfield, 804; Grant,
866;McKinley, 790; Washington,
725, and Richmond, 558.
Lava Flows
In Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Feb.23P
All but a few of the 3000 residents
of the little town of , San Juan,
south of here, had fled from their
homes Tuesday night to- escape a
lava flow approaching the village
from a newly - opened volcano
that J was belching out red-hot
rocks as big as automobiles.
Inactive for many years, the
crater known as the "rock.oven
began erupting several days
ago but it was not then consider
ed serioui 4 ?-;'!
A second lava flow appeared
late 'Tuesday after the original
stream of molten rock -apparently
had " stopped some-, distance
from the city, two miles away.
Tremendous explosions within
the earth were heard late Tues
day, replacing a rumbling of the
past" 24 hours which could be
heard 20 miles away.
' A 2000-foot ' plume of smoke
pours from the crater.
Kelly Gains
Demo Vote
CHICAGO, Feb. 23.-(iP-rern-ocratic
Mayor Edward J. Kelly
won - renomination x with ease in
Chicago's, mayoral primary Tues
day while Republican George B.
McKibbin, civic 'leader pledged
to "destroy the Kelly machine,"
earned the right to oppose him in
the April final election.
Kelly, seeking his third full
term and running on his ten-year
record, established a margin ' ; of
four to ' one early ; in the vote
count .over his closest challenger,
Alderman John S. Boyle, entrant
of the V self-styled "free - democrats.'-
Billy Patts, virtually un
known politically, was far be
hind. . J'
' On the;basis of these reports,
the democrats were outvoting the
republicans more than two to one
in an election watched widely for
signs of current political trends.
TuesdayR
Beds. Speed iiri t Uloaiiie
1:0 Take 3 Strom Alds
Rommel Spears . Melax
Tunisian Tank
Drives Hurled
Back, Stalled
Allied Aerial Forces
. Raid Coiltinuously;
Fightiner in Lull
By DANIEL DeLUCE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 23
(JPy-Hutled back in one sector
and stalled-in another, the Ger
man armored units ef Marshal
Erwin ' Rommel relaxed ; their
pressure ; alons; - the Tunisian
front Tuesday; giving th stub
born allied defenses forces- tboir
first rest of the bitter, tareeday
struggle to keep " nazi spearheads
from cracking their lines. -
"The fighting has died down,"
said a terse dispatch from the
front,' and both sides apparently
prepared to make the most of the
lull by regrouping and bringing
up supplies and reinforcements. 1
! In the hills north of the Kas-'
serine gap; Rommel's most dsng
ereos thrust had been halted by
British and American tanks an4
infantry' fear miles froaa Thala,
the gateway to the strategic
Kremansa platean near the Ta-nlslan-Algerian
frontier.
' As the Germans tried desperate
ly to gain : the Thala road junc
tion 25 miles northwest of Kas--serine,
British tanks and ' Ameri
can gunners held on stubbornly in
one of the bitterest battles of the
Tunisian war. v r
'Artheletimebmmenf it
tack toward the west in central
Tunisia was beaten back by allied
troops which were supported by
strong American air units.
A nazi column of 40 tanks, mo
torized infantry and mobile guns,
driving ' from Kasserine pass to
ward Tebessa, 12 miles west of
the Tunisian-Algerian border, was
turned back by American fire late
Monday on the winding road near
Djebel Hamma.
While American guns poured a
stream of shells into the advancing
column, American war planes
bombed It in ' continuous . relays.
The force withdrew after losing
many tanks and suffering, a "con
siderable number" of casualties.
Fighters and bombers ef the
12th US air force participated
in more than 29 missions Men
day in an all-da jr attack on the
Kasserine battleneck.
At least six tanks and 10 trucks
were destroyed by Boston bombers
which left many other vehicles
burning. Lightning and Aira cobra
fighters shot up enemy; guns,
trucks and troops. ,
' Billy Mitchell bombers also at
tacked an important bridge ' near
the Kasserine gap but clouds ob
scured the results. , "'.
As the fighting died down after
the, Germans had been dealt the
severest punishment of the Tuni
sian campaign, . some observers
speculated that Rommel might be
forced to give up ; his plans for
establishing a forward line on the
Kasserine pass. . , .':v;'.
He now has made three armored
bids to take Tebessa, all of which
have resulted in a mauling of his
spearheads.
Railway Wage
Not Settled
CHICAGO, Feb. .23 -(-Chairman
George A. Cook: of the na
tional mediation . board announced
late Tuesday "that efforts to me
diate the wage dispute between
the major railroads and 350,000
members : of the five operating
brotherhoods - had ended without
an agreement. .. ;,v V1 ..",.
Shortly after Cook's announce
ment D. B. Robertson of Cleve
land, president ? of - the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen, said "request : for , an
emergency panel would : be sent
to Washington immediately in the
name of the five brotherhoods.
Robertson added that the bro
therhoods bad been unwilling to
agree, to arbitration. A rail man
agement spokesman said the man
agements, also, had declined. . ;.
64 Survivors Found"
PONTA DELGADE, A z o r e s,
Feb. US.-i&HA m 6 1 or - launch
Tuesday towed into porti four
lifeboats with" 64 survivors- from
two British freighters reported
sunk off the Azores,"
Two Trains
On One Shot
LONDON. Feb. 23-JP)-llus-slan
guerrillas recently wrecked
two German trains with one
bnrsfof gunfire, the soviet mld
night communique reported
Tuesday.
: The guerrillas, . operating in
the Ukraine, fired on a German
troop train and killed the loco
motive crew, said the eommuni-
que as recorded here by . the
Soviet Monitor,
-With no one to drive,' said
the announcement,' "the - train
rushed past the station and col
lided at full speed with another
train coming the other s way.
Damage
Jap Warship
'Allied Airmen Hit
Ships and Bases
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, Feb.
24.-(ff,)-A Japanese cruiser or de
stroyer has been bombed ' and
damaged at RabauL New Britain,
the allied high command announ
ced Wednesday.1
"Our heavy bombers attacked
enemy shipping and shore instal
lations just before dawn, scoring
three direct hits with 500-pound
bombs on a cruiser- or large de
stroyer and hits within 25 feet of
a "7000-ton cargo; vessel Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's noon com
munique reported ion the Rabaul
"Fires" were started along: the
waterfront and, in - Ataliklikun
bay, two schooners were strafed
from low altitude. Intense anti
aircraft fire was encountered
throughout the attack. ' V-
A slnrle heavy allied bomber -fought
tt cut with It Jap fight-'
ers, shooting down ' twe and
perhaps three, over Portuguese
" Timor, and successfully carried
out its task of bombing the i
Penfoel airdrome at KeepangJ
The waves of allied bombers
started fires among buildings at
ToeaL a Japanese occupied, town
on the Kai islands.
Other planes carried out morn
ing and afternoon coastal sweeps
in the vicinity of Lae, New Gui
nea. MacArthur's "mobile artillery,"
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56 Injured
In Delaware
Traiii Wreck
WILMINGTON, 1 DeL, Feb. J4
(Wednesday)-(iip)-At least 56 per
sons; many of them service men,
were injured " early Wednesday
when a nine-car Pennsylvania
railroad passenger train, south
bound from Philadelphia, was
struck from the rear by a two
car train as it waited for a signal
near toe .Wilmington station.
Forty passengers had been taken
to Delaware hospital, six -to Wil
mington hospital and an unknown
number to Memorial hospital, and
an hour later six ambulances and
seven police cars remained at the
scene. , ; 1 v-'.'
Ambulances from the New Cas
tle, Del., army air base' - were
among those summoned. The' po
lice sent out a general call for
physicians. .: . X'
First reports said that only one
person, a sailor, was known to be
critically hurt. No deaths had
been reported, hi. " '.
Reporters at the scene said the
passenger .train, bound for , Cape
Charles, Va, was struck by ; two
coaches pushed by .locomotive.
It was not immediately established
whether there were passengers
aboard these coaches, which pre
sumably were - being switched - v
Many passengers standing in the
aisles waiting to disembark were
thrown rto the floor.
. The derailment blocked -the
Pennsylvania's main line. ,
Crewmen on the train included
Morris ' Kifer, conductor; J. H.
Burns, brakeman, and G. W. Phil
lip, trainman, all of Philadelphia.
The engineer of the' smaller train
was J. F. Rash of Philadelphia.
.The railroad public relations of
fice said, it understood thai 20
sailors were among those injured.
It withheld an official version of
the accident pending an investigation.
March to Kiev
Smashes Into
Rail Centers
- Germans Say Soviet
Aim Fails, Attack
Shifted North
By The Associated Press V
LONDON, Feb. 23 The trt
umphant red army," spurred by
Premier Stalin's praise and ex
hortation to drive the Germans
from Russia, marked its 25th
anniversary T u e s d a y by ac
celerating its smash westward
through the Ukraine, recaptur
ing three important nazi- strong
points lions th route leadings
from Kharkov to Kiev.
Answering Stalin's order to
give the invaders no respite, the
"army, of avengers, as he termed
them, marched Into Sumy, 100
miles nojrthw e s t of Kharkov;
Akhtyrka, 42 miles to the south,
and Lebedin, about half way be
tween them and 30 miles farther
west..; " '
Lebedin lies only, 175 miles
east of Kiev, and the reeaotare
, of the tare, towns,, announced
in a special communique broad-
j jwcow ana recoroea
here by the soviet monitor,
marked advances of from St to.
50 miles in the red army's con
tinuing offensive, freeing hun
dreds of square miles more of
the rich, productive Ukraine.
. The special bulletin also an
nounced the capture of the town
of Mala-Arkhaiuzelsk. on the main
fkursk-Orel railway t 40 1 miles
south of Orel,' In an operation
some distance to the rear of the
advance' forces." r
The Germans have continued to
hold Orel despite the fall of
Kursk, Kharkov and other points
in their old strong defense line,
and despite the fact that the Rus
sians have closed in from three
sides and stand only . a little mom
than a score of miles away.
oymy, a provincial capiiai, fies
75 miles -east and slightly south
of Konotop and on a railway to
that stronghold Which appears to
be the soviet army's next big ob
jective in that region. . ;
The mid-day Russian communi
que recorded by the soviet moni
tor , announced the recapture ef
several : towns up the Kharkov
Sumy railway in an area : only
about -30 miles short of the latter
city, which in that region com
mands lateral communication be
tween the . Moscow-Kiev and
Kharkov-Crimea lines.
The . Russian armies of the
far ' south meantime reported '
continued advances, respective
ly west of T&ostev and southward .
wwwi mbo amt sem ib ine con
tinuing effort to throw up an
envelopment ef German troops
in the lower Donets basin.
. The German high command,
that had been taken for several
weeks, asserted In its regular com
munique that "the . far-reaching
aims of the enemy" that is, the
entrapment of vast German forces
had : been frustrated .", on the
southern 'Russian front, and
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"Since : weather cdftditions ; al
ready are alternating' between
blizzards and . thaw and in the
near future large-scale operations
will be impossible, the. enemy Is
shifting his attacks to the region
north of Kharkov and to the cen
tral and northern sectors of the
eastern front. ; t
Moscow dispatches ' reported
that the people who had been
told by Stalin In his order ef
the day celebrating his 25th an
niversary of the red army that
that army alone was "bear lag
the - whale weight of the war"
In the absence of a second front
In Europe had ' gone to work
this morning through streets In
whkh : the military, display ef
' ether years was. lacking. " ' "
The tone of information from
Russia indicated : that Stalin's so
ber appraisal- of the vast work
yet to be done in defeating Ger
many had found firm lodgement
among the Russians.
Tillamook Tot Killed
TILLAMOOK, Ore.; Feb. 23.-()-Donna
Jean Beaty, 5, ; step
ped in front of her grandfather's
automobile Tuesday as he was
driving away. She was fatally in-
4 V. " ' ,