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NINETY-SECOND YEAR
v SciWm. Oregon. Thursday' Morning, February ,25.' 1943
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No. 250
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Reduction
Of Taxes
Up Today
House to Act on How
Much, When, How;
Farrell, Snell Urge
By RALPH C. CURTIS
How much, and Jiow, and
-when," state income taxes in
Oregon shall be reduced, is the
I weighty question scheduled for
. determination in the legislature
today in so far as the house of
representatives may determine
it.- , - i
.Majority and .minority ' groups
.r in the house taxation and revenue
: committee were lined up Wednes
f flay for the kickoff in this lively
- tussle, further enlivened by the
. intervention of Secretary of State
-Robert S. Farrell and Govs Earl
LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR
Third readings Thursday:
In Senate: SB 179, 246, 249, 256,
262, 263, 12, 230, 235, 236. HB 144,
346, 313, 335, 331, 142, 101, 217,
236, 166.
In House: HB 201, 240, 336,345,
847, 348, 352, 355, 362, 363. SB 66,
73, SI, 88, 141, 176, 180, 207, 227.
. Snell, in that order. Both issued
; statements favoring income tax
reduction this year;
The committee minority's pro
: tram was accordingly revised,
to provide for a 25 per cent re
daction in income tax payments
this year, to be followed by a
redaction in subsequent years of
, 1 per cent In each income1 brack
et, estimated to reduce total re
ceipts 29.S1 per cenC '
Secretary of State Farrell's en
try into the fray had no visible
effect upon the majority, but the
change in the minority's program
did; it caused Rep. Burt Snyder to
hif t from the minority to the ma
j Jority side. That leaves on the mi
'.nority report only Reps. John
; Hall and Stanhope Pier, both of
I Multnomah.
The majority recommendation
is unchanged; no income tax re
duction this year, .elimination of
the "split bracket" next year thus
returning the rates to their 1938
status. The total reduction in re
ceipts is estimated at 11.6 per
cent ' , :--
In contrast to its division on
this issue, the committee reported
out without formal dissent, though
with Rep. E. W. Kimberling not
concurring, a bill increasing the
personal property tax offset in
the corporate excise tax from the
; present 50 per cent to 75 per cent.
Reduction in receipts expected to
result is 8 per cent.
Denial of Secy, of 'State Far
yell's charge that the state tax
commission had actively opposed
a change in income tax payments
this year was made by Commis
si oner Earl Fisher and be was
corroborated by members of the
committee majority. Fisher said
I that ; in ! response to committee
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Gandliito Stay
Imi
Said Better
" NEW DELHI, Feb. 24 -JPl
prime Minister Churchill made it
; clear Wednesday that the India
government , would continue " to
hold in confinement Mohandas K.
Gandhi, who now is expected by
his doctors at Poona .to live
through his 21-day hunger strike
against detention.
It was a matter of one eminent
; invalid dealing with the case of
another. Churchill's message ap
parently came from his sickbed.
Churchill, in a message sup
porting the India government's
determination to keep the nation
alist leader under detention dur
ing wartime, stressed security as
a prime consideration and said
that India ""still is menaced'! by
. the threat of invasion.
The previously held fears that
Gandhi might die a prisoner in
the Poona palace of the Aga Kahn
'were dissipated In the 15th day
of his fast " by an authoritative
medical opinion that "there is no
reason why he should not man
ege six days more." r
The 73-year-old ascetic was
more, cheerful and showing less
distress, and bis followers felt that
their prayers for him were being
fnswered. "
prisoned
Cre w Bails;
Plane Soars
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -JP)
Astounded officers told Wed
nesday of an army transport
plane which flew 2000 miles
with no one aboard, finally
crashing on a Mexican moun
tain side. " '
The C-87, cargo version of
' the four-engined Consolidated
Liberator bomber, took off
from j Florida on a flight to
South . America. . Eighty miles
oat a tall flatter set up vibra
tions which threatened to tear
the craft apart. The cargo was
. toned out, but that failed ' to
remedy the trouble. The pilot,
Lt R. C. Ulxaer of Atlanta, set
the plane on a seaward course
and fixed the auto ma tie pilot
for level flight so the ship
would . not endanger life by
crashing ashore. The eight army
men aboard all bailed out. Two
. are missing; the others were
picked np by coast guardsmen
off Florida.
, Next day, tanks - empty, the ,
C-87 crashed in Mexico, She
had gone tOfO miles. The' army !
said loss of both cargo and per
sonnel apparently Improved the
plane's aerodynamic Qualities
sufficiently to keep her aloft.
There was no explanation how
the plane could have reversed
Its seaward course and headed
back i to Mexico.
GOP Support
Given Ruml
Passing of Year's
Tax Predicted
For House
WASHINGTNUFeb.
Advocates of the Ruml plan were
cheered Wednesday as strong re
publican support appeared to be
gathering behind the proposal to
abate all of one year's individual
income taxes to put taxpayers on
a pay-as-you-go basis.
An j informed Capitol Hill
source said that when the house
ways and means committee pass
ed on a modified form of the
plan f originated by Beardsley
Ruml,: chairman of the federal re
serve bank of New York, all 10
republican committeemen voted
for it.
However, the plan was put
aside ' for the time being when
the 15 democrats on the commit
tee voted against it. The vote was
taken : last Friday in a secret ses
sion but not disclosed until Wed
nesday. " The committee rejected all
pending pay-as-you-go propos
als, 1 'including the modified
Bum! plan, and turned over to
a sub-committee the Job of
drafting a compromise.
Rep. Carlson (R-Kas) has mod
ified the .Ruml proposal to pro
vide that each , taxpayer would
remit on the one of the two years,
1942 or 1943, in which he had the
largest-taxable income. JThe' orig
inal Ruml plan provided directly
for by-passing the 1942 tax year.
A prominent .republican, - who
asked that his name not be used,
predicted the house would adopt
the plan, that "strong republican
support will be thrown behind it,
and for every republican vote we
lose we will pick up o demo
crats." There are how 222 demo
crats J to 209 republican house
members.
Some talk was heard that a
petition might be circulated to
discharge ways Jand means com
mittee from consideration of the
bill embracing the Ruml plan, and
thus bring it up for immediate
consideration in the house.
Spain to Call
More Troops
MADRID, Feb. 24-)-The of
ficial I government bulletin an
nounced it will publish Thursday
morning a call to the colors for
the class of 1943, for service be
ginning March 7.
Official sources said the , call
had been scheduled to come, at
about this time.
. It was reported also that it
would increase the size of the
Spanish army to t approximately
150,000 men. , ! - .
Logger Crushed
DALLAS, Feb. 24 " Arthur
Snyder, 50, of Portland, was kill
ed instantly ' Wednesday ; morning
at the ? camp of i the Willamette
Valley Logging ; company near
Black Rock when a log rolled, off
a truck and v crushed him. He Is
survived by his wife. "
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Spinach, "
Lettuce
Ceiled
Prices Held; Sugar
Ration Less; Food
In Restaurant Set
WASHINGTON, Feb. ; 2A-(P)
The office of price administra
tion Wednesday night establish
ed emergency price ceilings on
lettuce and spinach. "
Effective Thursday no retail
ers, wholesalers, terminal mar
ket receivers, or country ship
pers may charge- more for fresh
lettuce or spinach than he charged
in the last five days. :- Farmer
prices were not affected directly.
The action - followed a i, similar
"freeze" Tuesday of the prices of
fresh cabbage, carrots, snap beans,
peas and tomatoes. '
OPA Wednesday night also gave
its local offices authority to in
crease the ceiling prices of these
vegetables and lettuce and spin
ach as well, wherever necessary
to remedy any local inequities.
All of these actions on I fresh
Needed seriously at Salem
war price and rationing board
headquarters are more volun
teer helpers. Women who can
offer even one-half day ; per
week should report between 10
a. m. and 3 p. m. to Mrs. Ringle
at the board office In city hall
council chambers. Rationing
Board Chairman John Beltzel
said Wednesday night. Tele
phone offers of aid ever the al
ready crowded line will not be
welcomed, he said. t
vegetables are aimed at prevent
ing sharply Increased retail
prices, resulting both from frost
damage to southern crops and
from an anticipated switch in
public demand from canned vege
tables to fresh varieties because
of rationing of processed foods.
Wednesday's action brought the
percentage of foods under price
control to 96 per cent The prin
cipal foods still unregulated are
apples, sweet potatoes and fresh
fish. Indications are that apples
and sweet potatoes probably will
be regulated when their prices
rise to parity levels, the prices
considered by some authorities as
giving a fair return to producers.
The authority given local OPA
offices to increase some prices is
necessary to adjust prices of frost
damaged vegetables, which have
depressed prices abnormally in
some localities, OPA said.
All of these vegetable ceilings
are temporary, with more uniform
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Gas Renewal
Forms Ready
There is no need, to telephone
the war price and rationing board
office in Salem concerning renew
al of B and C gasoline rations, Ra
tioning Board Chairman John
Heltzel deohtred Wednesday night
as he explained that the applica
tion forms may be secured from
service stations, of garages and
may be filled out and mailed to
the rationing board with; the re
quired tire inspection records.
Telephone service at the board's
office in the city hall here is
crowding the line, Heltzel said.
New ration books are to be mailed
out to motorists and no call, ei
ther in person or. by telephone,
should be necessary to secure the
renewal. . i ... ,f.-, ) v : , .
Tire inspections must have been
made prior to February 28. No re
newal of A ration books is re
quired now. '
RAF Bombers -Raid
Germany
: LONDON, Feb. 25Hf)-RAF
bombers returned to the attack
on Germany again Wednesday
night after a two-night lull,' the
British announced Thursday.;
Neither the size of the raiding
force nor the targets were imme
diately disclosed.; T - .
i LONDON, Feb. 24 -(V The
German radio station . Deutsch
landsender and the Kalundborg
station in Denmark went off . the
air Wednesday night, possibly in
dicating another RAF' strike . at
northwestern Germany,
China Sends Troops Into India
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These Chinese troops are part of a task force assigned to India where
the allies have been massing land and air forces for an assault
' against the Japanese In Burma. They are marching' to a railway
station in India. AP photo from US Army.
Danish 'Chutists9 Aides
Sentenced; Radio Links
Moeller With 'Sabotage9
LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 25-P)-The Danish radio reported
early Thursday that "a number of parachutists" had been dropped
in Denmark, but gave no indication of their nationality or
wKethrtbey,had been ptured,Jpr?;interned7 : 5 j i,rJ
i "The statement, broadcast
hagen and recorded here by the
Presidential
Reqi
uests Cut
By
Committee
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24
The house appropriations commit
tee sharply rebuffed the admini
stration Wednesday by denying a
series of requested appropriations.
In reporting a $6,298,530,435 de
ficiency appropriation bill, chief
ly for merchant ship construction,
the committee refused: j
$2,454,000 which Paul V. Mc
Nutt had proclaimed as essential
if the war manpower commission
is to discharge its duties. "
$337,000 asked by Secretary of
Labor Perkins for work in curbing
absenteeism in war factories and
improving working conditions.
$200,000 requested by the na
tional resources .planning board,
headed by Frederic A. Delano,
the president's uncle.
Jn what amounted to a rebuke
to the executive' branch of the
government for initiating propects
not approved by congress, ; the
committee also declined . requests
for $2,973,000 ' for " payments to
states for care of children, of em-
ployed " mothers; $3,182,000 ' for
payments on . costs of - the high
school i Victory corps headed by
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker; and
$1,200,000 for' emergency grants
for maternity and infant care in
enlisted men's families.
- The committee said these pro
posals lacked "the sanction of en
abling legislation," meaning con
gress should have been asked to
approve the projects before ap
propriations were requested.
It expressed sympathy - for the
Ideas although suggesting costs of
child care and the Victory corps
should be left to the states.
Shafer- Depicts Hiige
"We are not making sacrifices,
but there are harder days ahead!"
Thus A. L. .Shafer, Pacific coast
manager for the American Red
Cross, . summed up his : presenta
tion of the wartime expansion and
plans of the organization ; he
serves, speaking Wednesday night
at the annual meeting of Marion
county chapter, ; Red Cross, in
Salem . chamber of commerce
rooms. " -.'""
. In a nation where 1000 paid
Red Cross workers operated three
years ago, there are-10,000 today,
he said; volunteer workers have'
multiplied by the thousand, their
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tinnifc - i -nn i A n1 limn in
from - German-occupied Copen
British ministry of information,
said that some Danish residents
had sheltered the parachutists,
provided facilities for erecting
radio transmitters, and supplied
money and information to the
agents.
The radio . linked Christmas
Moeller, former Danish com
merce minister who escaped, to
Britain last year, with the par
achutists. This indicated the
parachutists were Danish agents
working against the axis.
(The federal communications
commission reported that the
Copenhagen radio statement told
of the sentencing ' of 27 persons
for helping the parachutists, co
operating with Moeller and pub
lishing a clandestine paper. This
would indicate that the para
chutists landed some time ago.)
The radio statement as record
ed by the ministry here said:
"It has been ascertained that
Christmas Moeller, a former mem
ber of the Folketing who escaped
to Britain,, has been in communi
cation with the parachutists. Be-
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Britain Urges
War Cabinet
LONDON, Feb. 24-iP)- Prime
Minister Churchill's illness, now
reported for .the first time as pneu
monia, has again brought out the
suggestion that a small, office-free
war cabinet should be established
Edgar Louis Granville, one of
Churchill's most persistent critics,
indicated Wednesday, he , would
raise the question in commons, ar
guing that . if the prime minister
had been ill for t a long period it
would ; have been of the utmost
importance that such a war cabi
net be ready to take over the reins.
" The prime minister, confined to
his bed for the past several days
with what had been described as
acute catarrh, was reported im
proving Wednesday.
tasks by the million, he presented
statistics to show. ; , ' v,-.
Through Its representatives
, at army, camps and posts and
j Its ;: home: ' service workers : in
chapters over ; the country, the
Red Cross has aided : 1400,000
service men hi the past year, :
Medical supplies, have gone to
all corners of the world front
- its storerooms, the speaker de
clared, pointing to the use of
sulfa drugs and bloody plasma
: as two great improvements In
' medical , science : arislngduring'
the current war and explaining
that the task of securing blood
Japanese
Warships
Bombed
Vessel Run Aground;
Rabaul Shipping,
Lae Area Raided . V
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRAL LV Thursday,
Feb. -- 25-(P)-A Japanese war
ship, fleeing ; frantically - from
attacks . of , American1 . Flying
Fortresses, was driven aground
off Cape Gazelle in New Britain
Wednesday, and7 allied bombers
soared over Rabaul to damage two
small 'enemy bombers and a 10,-000-ton
merchantman. - -
, It was the second successive raid
on Rabaul shipping. Wednesday's
communique told of direct . bomb
hits on a Jap. warship, possibly a
cruiser, and of near misses on Jap
merchant vessels. ""
"Our heavy bombers execut
ing a p re-dawn attack on enemy .
shipping ' Jn the harbor "area
scored a direct hit ' from ex
tremely low altitude on a 10,-000-ton
cargo vessel and several .
damaging near . hits . within 25 ,
; feet of two small enemy war-',
, ships," the noon communique
related concerning the latest Ra
haul raid. -
"A larger warship southeast of
Cape Gazelle was attacked . and,
in its violent, efforts to escape,
ran aground on reefs. Heavy anti
aircraft fire and dense searchlight
screens were encountered ; but
there was no interception. All our
planes returned." .
, Five hundred and, 1000 pound
bombs were dropped in particular
ly heavy raids on and around the
Jap-held New Guinea base of Lae,
starting fires visible for 20 miles.
These raids represented continua
tion of a strafing and bombing al
lied assault on a region toward
which ground troops have been
moving from the vicinity of Wau
to the southwest
The bombers started fires visi
ble for 20 miles.
Over Open Bay, New Britain, a
big allied bomber on a reconnais
sance was swarmed upon by 13
Jap planes. The bomber sent four
of the Zeros down in flames and
got home safely.
Cooperation
Advised for
Farm, Labor
: DALLAS, Feb. 24 By coopera
tion without interference in or
ganizations of others, farmers of
the United States may save their
country from fascism, Herbert B.
Rolph, national vice president of
the Farmers union, told members
of his organization gathered at the
state convention banquet here
Wednesday, night.
Rolph, who became the featured
speaker when Gov. Earl Snell an
nounced he would ' be unable to
attend, Is a native of Montana.
James Patton, of Denver, national
president, had previously announced-
inability to attend . the
meeting, and Rolph had been
asked to take his place.
Throughout the history- of .the
world, Rolph said, farmers have
been drifters, migrating to . this
country from Europe; and from
the east to the west coasts of the
continent. Now there is no place
to drift to; the farmer today must
face his problems squarely and
work . them ,. out. Nor-- are these
problems limited to farmers, or
to- any particular , geographies lo
cation, but arc rather common to
all people, and all countries. The
Farmers union is trying . to meet
one of the largest problems of the
world the food situation. Pres.
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Med :Cro
. plasma is peculiarly ,. the re
sponsibility of the Red Cross..
Relief work undertaken by the
organization : was illustrated by
stories of the jiundreds of Polish
children who form troups march
ing into India to become respon
sibilities of, the British, empire but
often are refugees in need of im
mediate aid from the Red Cross.
; , Great, strength; of' the Red
Cross comes from : its volunteer
aspects in a world where many
actions are compelled, the speaker
declared, as he referred . to an
nual reports from Marion county
committees, showing that more
Italians Keep
White Handy
WITH US FORCES IN TU
NISIA, Feb. 24-iAVIlallan sol.
diera In Tunisia are careful to
keep a - white . handkerchief
handy for emergency these
days.
- The reason was explained by
an . Italian prisoner to Pvt.
Nicholas W. Giordans, 24, of
Brooklyn, NY, who gave him a
cigarette. -. -
. When the : prisoner said he
was happy to be out of the war,
Giordans, who studied art for
IS years In. Italy, asked, "Well,
how about the .ether. ' Italians
v whol. are still out there f ight-
ing7 . ; ; v".
C z "They . all . have white hand,
kerchiefs In their pockets ready
. to show them at the right time,"
declared the prisoner, smiling.
"When we saw yon Americans
coming we were . glad to give
np. . V. , ' .
v We haven't had -. anything, to
eat .for.' more, than . two . days.
The Germans - pushed us - np
ahead of the attack. If we don't
. fight the Germans will kill us
from behind and if we do fight
yon will kill us. We don't have
. any way to go."
Russians Race
Against Mud
Several; Nazi Holds
; Broken" on Long '
Western Front -
1 By The Associated Press
LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 25
The red army, surging westward
over .a 300-mile front in a - race
against spring mud was reported
early Thursday to have toppled
several jnore axis strongholds in
the -drive: toward Poltava and
Konotop, Vkra I n e positions
guarding the approaches to the
nazi Dnieper river line.
. The regular midnight Moscow
communique recorded by the So
viet Monitor said another .large
populated place west of Kharkov
had fallen, reported fresh gains
in the effort to encircle Orel,
hinge of the southern and central
fronts, and told of the trapping
of two German battalions (ap
proximately 1600 men) In the
western Caucasus.
The Russians said those two
battalions now were, being an
nihilated after refusing to sur
render. Heavy German counterat
tacks with tank and plane sup
port were acknowledged In the
Donets basin. While claiming
the repulse of most of these,
the Russians admitted German
units had driven a wedge Into
their lines southwest' of Kra
matorsk. This town is about
50 miles above Stallno whence
the nasi escape railway runs
out of the Donets basin. ,
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19,451 Signed
For Rationing
Third' dav of registration for
war ration book No. 2 In Salem
brought total of books Issued to
19.451. SudL . Frank Bennett,
whose public -- schools' staff is
handling the . work, announced
Wednesday night v
Persons whose last names be
ffin with letters from N to S are
to register at elementary schools
between 3 and 9 p. m. today. Not
all of the S group is expected to
register : today since Friday also
is to Include some of that alpha
betical category- ' ' -
By school buildings, the regis
tration which totaled 6950 Wed
nesday, was as follows:.
Bush, . 1197; Englewood, 993;
Highland, 967; Garfield, , 889;
Grant, 732;' Washington, 665; Mc
Kinley, 660; Richmond, 487. ;
War Task
t-than 1000 volunteers engaged In
work here the past year.
r Justice .George Ross man of -
the state . supreme court ' was .
reelected unanimously as chair
man of the - chapter; William
Hamilton . as vice chairman;
Linn C Smith, - treasurer; Mrs.
Ronald. Jones, secretary; Milton
Meyers, r Mrs. C 8. Hamilton .
and Miss Elizabeth Putnam,
members at large. '
-A11 nominations presented by
the nominating committee con
sisting ' of Flyod Miller, - Mrs. L.
V. ' Benson and Mayor . L ' M.
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Artillery,
Aircraft V
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11-day Offensive
Ended; Enemy's r
Casualties Heavy
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. 24
VPhC ombined British and
American ' forces threw Field
Marshal"' Rommel's' tank col
umns into full retreat from the
outskirts of Thala Wednesday,
handing them their first defeat
in Tunisia, and Wednesday night
allied, artillery lobbed tons of ex
plosive 'steel into German posi
tions in the narrow Kasserine pass
and on the beaten rear-guard ,
column withdrawing through' it.'
' ; (Reuters ' reported; in London '
that latest information indicated
the bulk of enemy forces were
retreating through the pass, with
only a rear-guard left to hold the
mouth of the gap against furious
continuing allied attacks.
(The British -news agency, al
so said increasing numbers of
fighting units were now reach
ing the. British Eighth army be- .
for the Mareth defenses 1b
southern Tunisia, and that sup
ply was the main preoccupation
at the moment.) ,
The big guns were ' giving the
German tank columns twisting
through the pass no chance to rest
and reform, and hundreds of al
lied planes racing overhead left
a trail of smoking axis transport
and dying German soldiers all the
way from Thala's approaches to
Feriana far south of. the opposite
end of Kasserine pass. .- . , , t
"Hunareds Of atiied ''planes . and
allied ground forces began hitting
Marshal Rommel Tuesday morn
ing, inflicting the first major set
back on the axis troops since they
lashed out on their offensive 11
days aga ; ,
Then the allied artillery has
tened the axis retreat into the
mouth of the pass.
The American-British ' aerial
smash far-overwhelmed the ini
tial German Stuka efforts in the
recent fight at Faid, and was con
tinuing.;., i ,
Rommel's retreat--and it wag
by field accounts a full retreat
began Tuesday and by Wednes
day af least 300 axis prisoners and
large quantities of German ma
terial had fallen into allied hands.
This, however, was believed
to represent only a small jart
of the nasi casualties and losses
of equipment inflicted when al
most every allied bomber and
fighter on the front splashed
tons of high explosives on Rom- '
mel's retreating columns twist
ing through the hills and out
' of the Kasserine pass southwest-
o ward toward Feriana.
American, armored forces had
hammered back his thrust west
ward through, the Kasserine to
ward Tebessa, which lies inside
Algeria; ' British and American
units together had Inflicted heavy
casualties in the battle for Thala
Rommel had burst through to
within three miles of that tacti
cally important point before his
attack began to collapse, and with
it the whole of his offensive to
the west . - " " , J
With the coming , of daylight
Tuesday,1 Marauders, " Mitchells,
Bostons, ; Hurribombers and even
the great Flying Fortresses began
to strew explosives upon the re
treating - German - columns under
cover of Spitfires, Airacobras and
Lightnings. ; -
Canada Probes
'Bomb' Blast
CHARIX3TTETOWN, PEL Feb.
24-flJ)-A h e a v y explosion, ap
parently caused by a bomb drop
ped from an unidentified plane.
tore a 10-foot crater in the earth
on the outskirts of Charlottetown
late Wednesday night and shat
tered windows over a wide area.
Royal . Canadian mounted police
and officials of the Royal air force
began an investigation. ,
No one was injured by the blast, ,
which occurred in a field on the
Mount Edward road, near the
Charlottetown airport and about
a mile from the city. The explosion
was heard for miles around. "
An hour after the blast, . the ,
crater was located. It was be
tween three and four feet deep.
Residents of the area said bomb
fragments also were found. x