PAGE TWO
Tb OHEGCI? STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. February 3, 1S13
Aged Benefits
Increase Gets
Committee Vote
C (Continued iron Page 1 ) C
excise tax reduction will all be up
for decision .in the house Monday
if there is time to set them all in.
The fortified wines : decision will
be final, one way or the other, and
so will that on civil service unless
..a two-man minority of the judi
i ciary committee can upset the ma
jority "do not pass" vote. The mi
nority, Reps. Leo Smith and Ro
bert A. Bennett, favors a rewrit
ten bill, much simpler than the
original draft and with a few more
key offices exempted.
- The senate assessment and tax
ation committfte has the surplus-
. distribution-to-schools bills ready
for final disposition on the floor,
. with amendments- not so signifi
cant that a deadlock with the
house is probable.. The house will
consider supplementary legislation
proposing a permanent state-sup-
port-for-schools program which if
Approved will be submitted to the
, -voters. - , ' . . ' -
. Bnt when it comes .te. the In-
I come tax reduction bill which
I
occupied - the house two days,
anything- may happen. The sen
ate committee started study of
the bill early Saturday it has
in fact been closely in tench
with it all along. Bnt it prob
ably won't be reported out un-
' til Wednesday at the; earliest
I since the committee is expected
' to devote two days to the task,
i and the house-approved om
! inanity' property bill will be Its
I concern on Monday-
j This much may be said, that the
senate committeemen have some
ideas of their own on the subject.
k Predictions that the reappear
nce of a "long tnicfc bUr pre?
sages' another bitter fight cio -not
seem justified. ,The bill, passed
TFriday by the senate, would mere
Hy legalize beyond question - the
jpresent policy of the highway com
'inission. Ajid ; the. ; house, which.
fgot its back up" . when the more
controversial . bill was before it,
will scarcely find in this the;sub-iject-matter
for lengthy debate. It
(Can merely say "yes" or "no."
T The, house had before itSatur
iday a resolution for fimitation of
'debate to five mihu&es ' for each
speaker except a' bill's" sponsor.
who would have ten minutes. The
resolution was tabled but may be
'considered Monday. ,
. (Additional legislative news to
day on page 16.) '
125,000,000
i Ratibnces Signs
: - F (Continued from Page 1) F
use. "You may learn facts some
unexpected to guide buying."
Choose the ' size can most eco
nomical for your use. "It's not hard
to become proficient in" doing
quick sums when buying ....
as "a rule, 16 ounces, or one fluid
pint, or one pound, will fill two
cups of the kitchen measuring
raize. - j ' . ;,
I ; Grade A. or fancy, fruit is not
needed to cut up in salad or pie.
Put the processed foods
where they will keep best un-
til needed. Store tinned foods
' '1 where it's dry to prevent rust;
. Class-contained foods In a dark,
',, dry. and cool place. Keep qnlck
froxen foods frozen; once thaw-
ed, don't try to refreexe them.
. ; Cook all foods quickly to hold
, vitamin content. ' .
Use all good juices waste none.
Liquids in can or jar contain
.much of the vitamins and min
erals of the food.
Ames Shepard,
Pioneer, Dies
Ames R. Shepard, pioneeVfarm
er in the Zena district, died Sat
urday at the age of 88 years. He
xarmed the present Frank Craw
ford place. '
Survivors are seven children,
i-Mrs. John H. Lewis . of Portland,
; E. R. Shepard of Washington, DC,
Ralph C. Shepard of Zena, Alice
Partington of Missoula, Mont,
Robert J. Shepard of Valdez. Al
aska, Fred C. Shepard and Ruth
Hosch of Bend; 25 grandchildren
,nd 13 great grandchildren.
J Funeral services will be Tues
day at 11 a. m. at the Clough-
MtarncJc chapel with burial at Zena
cemetery. . : . . .
Obituary
. Shepard
. Ames R. Shepard, age 88, of
ruand, February 17. Survived
- by the following children- Mr,
John H. Lewis of Portland, E. R.
, Shepard of Washington, DC, Ralph
C. Shepard of Zena, Ore, Alice
(jrarungxon or Missoula. Mont, Ro
bert J. Shepard of Valde. Alaska
Fred C Shepard of Bend, Ore.,
ana Kutn Jtioseh of Bend. Also 25
- grandchildren and 11 mat miwt.
children. Services at the Clough-
Barnck chapel at 11 a. ro. Tuesday,
March 2. Interment a't Zena cem-
etery. ;. . ; r...
.Nelson -'-..'
Sherman Nelson in a local hos
pital Februarys 27t at the- age of
9. Late resident of 1811 Cheme
keta street, Salem. Survived by
his wife, Marie JL Nelson An
nouncement of services to be made
later by Cloush-Barrick company.
Has Nine Children
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Mrs. Emma Van Coutren, 5S, (above) of New York has sine children
- in the armed forces. Of her 12 children, six sons are In the navy,
one In the army and two daughters are In the WAACs.--Asse-e
la ted Press Telemat ! ''"''',. 'V - i
Role of Churches in Campus
Military Training Discussed s ;
Problems of religious work in institution of higher learn
ing where military training programs are and may be estab
lished and interest in developing a strategy to meet new demands
drew to Salem First Methodist church Saturday approximately
40 adult and student leaders from
eight Oregon colleges and univer
sities.' j ' ; -
Dr.- E. W. Warrington, profes
sor of religion, at Oregon . State
college, .presided, over the ConsQl-'-ative
Conference on Religion,
which was opened at 9:30 a. m.
by President C" Herbert Smith of
WDlamette-' with .aq explanation
of the military college training
program.
Responsibility of the"YMCA and
YWCA, the Wesley and Westmin
ster foundations and similar, or
ganizations on. the campus meet
ing needs of service men who are
in the peculiar position of being
students and at the same time un
der strict military discipline which
will limit their time for participa
tion in student activities was dis
cussed. '
By joining forces, Oregon col
leges and universities can sponsor
outstanding speakers in the reli
gious' fields, it was decided.
' Speakers of the day, in addition
to President Smith, included Lt
Col. Frank J. Worthington, chap
lain I; at Camp' Adair; Dr. Paul
Means, professor of religion at
University of Oregon; Jim Max
well, area secretary for the YMCA,
Seattle, and Howard D. Willitts,
national student secretary for the
Pacific northwest for the YMCA
and YWCA. - -
Attending also were: Dr. Carl
J. Hollingsworth, Uof O medical
school and a member of the area
council YMCA board; C. S. Bots-
ford, director of recreation, Reed
college; Winston Taylor, ' director
of religious education, First Meth
odist church, Salem; Catherine
Thomas and Harriett Monroe, pre
sident and past president, respec
tively, of the Willamette Method
ist Student council; Miriam Ferrin,
YW treasurer, WU; Anna Merle
Hohenleitner, president of Chris
tian council Eastern Oregon Col
lege of Education; Sybil Tucker,
director of Wesley foundation,
Oregon State college; Alice Jacob
son, executive secretary Round
Table, OSC; Mre. H. E.- McLean,
director- Westminster foundation,
OSCr Margaret "Ewing, secretary
of associated students, WU;"C. W
Reynolds, Corvallis Christian
church; Herbert F. Kuehn, direc
tor of Wesley foundation, UO; A
F. Holmer, executive secretary.
YMCA, UO; Helen Dower and Ro
berta Johnson, Oregon College of
ducation Campus Christian Youth
movement- Alence Ringo, - OSC
Women's federation president;
Beverly. JPardham, YW president.
UO; Olive M. Dahl, WU dean of
women; Jane Dale and Mary A,
Donaldson, OCE religious guidance
committee; Dr. Daniel H. Schulze,
WU dean of men; Kenneth A. To
bia, assistant pastor. First Bap
tist church; Eugene; Dr, J. C. Har
rison, pastor Salem First Method
ist church and president WU trust
ees; Robert H. Dann, OSC advis
er, YMCA-YWCA; Mrs. Frank J,
Worthington, Corvallis; Mrs. J. D.
Bryant, director student work,
Westminster foundation, UO; Hoi
lis Huston, Willamette Methodist
Student council, and Don Tasker,
Pacific Northwest regional YMCA
chairman.
Legislature Adjourns
BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 28 -(Sunday)
: Differences, between
leaders of the house and senate
delayed adjournment of the 1943
session of the Idaho legislature
for several hours Saturday night
but the lawmakers finally agreed
to call it quits early Sunday.
Catholic Writer Dies
NEW YORK, Feb. 27-;P)-Moth-er
Margaret Bolton, 70, director
of religion for the Cenacle con
vents of America and a prolific
writer' of religious books, died
Saturday in the New York Cen
acle. '-!.....;.;.:
Train Service Set
PORTLAND, Feb. 27.-(ff)-The
US maritime .omimissioQ wUl, in
augurate its commuter train sctv-
in Armed Forces
t
1v
Congress Acts
Rebuffs to
FR Requests
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-J)-Two
fresh rebuffs for President
Roosevelt were strongly indicated
in the senate Saturday but the
White House was authoritatively
represented as not greatly per
turbed over the current congres
sional dissidence.
1. Informal nose counts by ad
ministration leaders indicate that
a majority of the senate is likely
to support a modified version of
the bill by Senator McKellar (D-
Tenn) to require senate confirm
ation of federal appointees paid
more than $4500 a year over Mr.
Roosevelt's strenuous protest that
this would be "a tragic mistake."
2. At the same time, adminis
tration canvasses indicate consid
erable opposition among demo
crats to the president's nomina
tion of former Gov. James V. All
red of Texas to the fifth circuit
court of appeals. Allred resigned
a federal district judgeship to
make an unsuccessful campaign
for the democratic senator! al
nomination.
The fight against Allred appar
ently, threatens to assume the
proportions of that which preced
ed the withdrawal of Edward J.
Flynn's nomination to be minis
ter to Australia. Because of this,
there was talk among some sen
ators that the Allred nomination
also might be withdrawn.
Minority Leader MeNary of
Oregon has opposed the McKellar
bill but the republican ranks ap
pear split on the question with
Senator Vanderfberg of Michigan
backing the measure because of
a desire to force a congressional
review of jobs being created
jvitUin the government.
Navy Acquisition
Of LaniS Totaled
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -(Jf)
Between July 1, 1940, and Janu
ary 15, 1943, the navy acquired
approximately 80,000 acres of land
in the Pacific northwest, Rep.
Maas (R-Minn) told the house
during consideration of a' naval
public, works bill (HR 1692).
The tracts, in Washington, Ore
gon, Utah and Idaho, ranged In
size irom le-nundredths of an
acre to 68,666.89 acres and in
cluded 38 pieces. The total amount
deposited for payment for the
land totaled $7,430,136.36.
The sites included the follow
ing:
Oregon Tongue Point NAS
141.45 acres, $12,852 (reficit $24,
475) : Portland plant expansion.
13.04 acres, $65,200 (deficit $24,-
800); Tongue Point addition, 7.68
acres, $12,852; Tillamook LTA sta
tion, 1598.07 acre; $263,89 1.
Western Fairs '
Restrict Shows
SACRAMENTO, Feb. I 27-(ff)
Santa Barbara was selected Satur
day as the 1944 convention city of
the Western Fairs association. '
Closing a two day meeting here,
75 delegates reoresentinx' Oreiron.
Washington and California expo
sitions reelected E. G. Vojlman,
secretary of the San Joaquin coun
ty lair, as president - -
.ueJeeates decided that anv
shows which mieht b -conducted
in 1943 will be local in character
to comply with the government's
program to restrict traveling.
Ice : between Portland and Kai
ser's Vancouver shipyard Mon
day. Roundtrip fare will, be 25
cents. ;vi::-Y --' :vl
Joint Group
Aids Boeing
AFL, GO Unions
Join Forces for
- Aircraft TVage
SEATTLE, Feb. ' 27-;p)-Farma-tion
of a joint committee of both
Congress of Industrial Unions and
American Federation of Labor or
ganizations, for the - purpose of
aligning organized labor on the
Pacific coast - behind the aircraft
workers' plea for more wages was
announced here Saturday night
Harold J. Gibson, president of
the Aeronautical Industrial coun
cil (AFL), the controlling body of
the aircraft workers' union here,
made the announcement and said
he had- been elected president of
the joint committee. '
' The organization : was formed ;
following meeting1 of approxi
mately 75 union representatives of
both AFL and CIO. groups, he
said. Others elected to the joint
committee were listed as: -
Charles Meyers, executive sec
retary of the Seattle CIO council;
Robert .Hawkes, National Mari
time union (CIO) ; Dewey Ben
nett International Longshore
man's- and warehouseman's Local
19 - (CIO) ; Grover, Tracy of - the
Cooks and Assistants union (AFL),
Hollis Matheny of the Ship Scal
ers union j(AFL), and Harry Carr
of the Seattle AFL Building Trades
council, who attended as an al
ternate for Ed Weston, president
of the AFL Pacific Coast Metal
Trades council. :
The committee drafted the fol
lowing telegram, which was sent
to President . Roosevelt, Economic
Director .James -F. Byrnes, mem
bers of the war labor board, Wash
ington , congressmen ; and high
ranking union officials:
"As the war labor board has
seen fit to delay the decision of
the Boeing .workers' request for a
reasonable wage adjustment and
therefore after 10 months has
caused a situation that has created
national notice of the injustice
being dealt these workers through
this .delayed decision.
"A 'joint committee' of the CIO
and AFL representatives met and
they were unanimous in their de
mand that the WLB immediately
render a decision pertaining to the
aircraft workers.
"The public sentiment as 'ex
pressed in this locality feels the
WLB is showing an undemocratic
spirit in delaying this important
decision and thereby causing un
rest undue absenteeism and slow
ing up production in the aircraft
industries on the Pacific coast in
this critical hour of our war
needs."
Earlier Gibson said a war labor
board member advised him the
board may decide on the Boeing
Aircraft company employes wage
increase case Monday or Tuesday
Gibson said the-council decided
Saturday to have the council open
a 24-hour meeting at 12:30 -a.nl.,
Monday and invite any unionists
to attend only while off shift The
meeting will be held in the labor
temple, which accommodates sev
eral hundred spectators, instead of
hiring a large downtown auditor
ium for the thousands of off-shift
workers, as was done for Thurs
day's "general meeting."
The council warned unionists
not to quit work to attend the
meeting.
,
Kharkov Scene
Vandalism9
By The' Associated Presc
Kharkov itself was a' scene of
matchless German vandalism. As
sociated Press Correspondent Ed
dy Gilmore visited the great
Ukrainian city and sent back Sat
urday a story of brutal destruc
tion left by the retreating Ger
mans who ruthlessly applied the
German occupation, the Ukrain
torch. During the first days of
tans said the Germans hanged
Kharkov citizens along the street
for a mile and a half.
That brutality, however, was
but a fraction of the human car
nage all over tortured Europe;
The inter-allied information com
mittee said in a statement in Lon
don . that 3,400,000. persons had
been executed or had died in nazi
prisons in the nine countries en
slaved by the Germans. Poland
led the list- with 2,500,000 and
Yugoslavia was next with 744,000.
Judge Commutes
Objector's Term
PORTLAND, Feb. 27iiP)-Fed-eral
Judge Claude McCulloch Sat
urday commuted the sentence of
David W. Hoyt, 43, Corvallis, sent
to a DuPont, Wash., federal road
camp December 2 for failing to re
port to a conscientious objectors
Camp. ;.: ;"- " - ,.
Hoyt has served two months and
25 days of a two-year sentence.
The court said the commutation
was based on the presidential or
der deferring men over 38 from
military service and on a supreme
court decision providing a sen
tence can be recalled under cer
tain circumstances.
Records Not Called
PORTLAND, Feb. 27.-flyThe
securities exchange commission
ruled Saturday " the Bonneville
administration does not have to
produce its records for inspection
at the Portland Electric Power
company reorganization hearing.
Ciaho Arrival ,
Said Delayed
By Peace Aim
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Yet all that came from Vat
ican city was declaration thai
"one eontinaes tm retain the
grealest reserve. .
Count dan is expected te
appear Monday to hand ever
Tate papers to the papal cent ef
Internationa diplomacy. .
, FereUra '.diplomatic observers
were convinced that the delay
la his appearance scheduled, for
Saturday and , the departure of.
the German envoy were con
nected with aa addresson
peace hopes sal alms Ciano
had planned .to deliver before
the pope. '
: The best Judgment Saturday
night among Vatican observers '
was that Archbishop 8 Bellman's
visit somehow was connected
with the peace,, hopes of some
factions in Italy and Balkan na
tions allied U the axis. Yet
none here, professed ; to know
whether there was any official
support' for these hopes la any
of the axis -nations. :". f-
; The Geneva Tribune told of
the shifting of Italian ambassa
dors. i:J.,lr.';;Vr -A -.:-;
Ciano's predecessor at the
Vatican, Baron Raffaele Gaar
iglia, was named ambassador to
Turkey. Francesco Lequio, am
. bassador to Spain, was repla
ced with the -announced ap
pointment : ef Marquis Faulaeei
Dl Calbeli Barone -
Stimson Backs
-All Draft
B" (continued from Page,"!) B'
ing program. As -a further result,
proposals have been made to give
blanket deferment to groups of
workers thus limiting greatly the
manpower pool on which the army
depends for its soldiers.
Austin, who made public the
letter,' said . he interpreted this
portion of it as opposing proposals
by Sen. Bankhead (D-Ala) 'and
others to provide for the furiough
ing of men in the army to do farm
work, as well as pending pro
posals for the deferment of farm
workers. v
The Austin-Wadsworth bill calls
for a' national registration of
women and provides that these
women, along with the men regis
tered under selective service who
have not . already been v drafted,
shall be available for compulsory
assignment; to war factories and
farms where necessary.
Shores Said
Not iri Danger
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 27 -(P)-CoL
Robert R. McCormick, editor
and publisher of the Chicago Tri
bune, asserted Saturday night that
"danger does not threaten our
shores any longer" but" that he was
"afraid, and deeply afraid, of the
destruction of our republican form
of government under excuse of
war."
In an address prepared for a
meeting of the Indiana republican
press association, Col. McCormick
said: "If the Japanese had been
able to change their long laid plans
to take the empires in the south
western Pacific, and instead had
sent their entire navy, air force
and a sufficient army, they could
have overwhelmed the Hawaiian
islands. From there, at that 'time,
landing on the mainland might
have proven as disastrous as Ho
mer Lea had predicted it would 34
years ago. .
"Our salvation,, he' continued,
"lay in , the Japanese meticulous
general staff plans .which could
not be rapidly changed, when the
attack on Pearl Harbor succeeded
beyond expectation. All the em
pires In the Pacific which we had
gone to war to save, fell, but in
falling gave "us time to recover
from our early terrible naval and
military blunders."
Sledford Copilot
Killed in Crash
rASPER. Wvo- Feb. 27 - UPi
The names of, ten men killed in
the crash of an army bomber from
the Casper air base were an
nounced Saturday by the public
relations officer of the base.
The victims included: Second
Lt Joseph -N. Hirshman, bombar
dier. Long Beach, Cam.; secona
Lt Ned J. DeVries, co-pilot, Med
ford. Ore. - - ,:
Around Oregon
By Th Associated Pre
; The University club of Portland
announced the cancellation of all
private banquets, effective March
1. because of the difficulty of ob
taining food under current war
time conditions . . .'The Baker
chamber of commerce indorsed the
rearjnointment of Herman Oliver
of John Day to the state highway
commission P . .
Joseph J. Meyers, 7, was killed
by an automobile in Portland . . .
Cirrm Shinbuildinc Corporation
launched its 142nd Liberty ; ship,
named the E. H Harriman for the
New " York - bankers ancT , western
railroad masnate . '-'V
A Portland familr of three per
sons declared 2148 cans of food and
170 pounds of coffee In registering
for ration book Ijo. z, a roruaw
rationing i board reported to the
OPA.
Over
TTLSo vyc?
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON V .
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Wide World War Analyst tor The Statesman
Implicit in Chinese agitation for quickened allied aid, head
lined by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's Washington appearances,
must be a Chungking conclusion that there is an exposed, flank
of Japan V conquest zone which can be hit and hit now with
telling effect l;- "'v.:v"' 4.
The first lady of China did not
deal with strategy, only .with urg
ency for more planes, guna and
fighting equipment. Her brother,
Foreign -Minister Soong, has now
come, much closer to Indicating
just what chance Chungking sees
to deal Japan a blow without de
lay and without requiring any ma
jor change In the clearly indicated
Anglo-American purpose of hit
ting first in: Europe. .
Soong holds that with "less than
1000"- allied planes based in Chi
na, Japan ' can be driven out It
seems obvious, however, that to
fuel, supply and maintain any
great " air force in China by air
transportation, the only present
means, would.be a big undertak
ing. ' - .. .'- '-;
It Is to reopen the Burma route
for .supplying China with more
fighting equipment as well as to
regain possession of Burma oil
fields to cut allied transportation
difficulties that General Wavell
with American air help has start
ed his Burma campaign from In
dia. That bids fair to be a slow
business at best Apparently it
does not satiefy , Chinese strate
gists. .
.Assuming that, any substantial
part of 1000 long-range .all ied
bombers were based in central
China and could .be maintained
there for offensive operations, cer
tainly Japanese traffic in. the Chi
na sea would be in peril. Strike a
circle of 1000-rmilei radius, f r p m
deep in the center of the great
eastern bulge of China that, juts
into the China sea and not only
all Japanese supply routes to
French Indo China, Malaya, the
Dutch Indies and the southern
Philippines, but part of Japan it
self would fail within it All would
be in allied "air range. The Jap
anese Gibraltar of Formosa is
within easy : bombing . range of
many good Chinese air bases or
suitable sites within that eastern
bulge never threatened by the in
vader. It seems fairly clear, however,
that Chinese allies think the same
roads leading the other way, from
Japan to the outposts of her far
flung conquest zone through the
China sea to maintain her thinly
held fronts, are the weak flank.
They feel, too, that the quickest
and easiest way to blast Japan out
.of China or out of any other part
of the regions she has looted
around the China sea is to strike
by air from bases in China at
those critical sea lanes. -
Jury Indicts
Tug Operators
PORTLAND, Feb. 27-P)- A
federal grand jury Saturday in
dicted on charges of "misconduct
negligence and inattention to duty"
the pilot of a tug, which took nine
persons to their deaths in a Co
lumbia river sinking February 10,
and the vice-president of the op
erating company.
The pilot was Clarence E. Har
vey, 38. The other was Lewis Rus
sel, jr., 24, vice-president of the
Russell Towboat & Moorage com
pany. Both were arrested last week
on an Information' writ by US At
torney Carl Donaugh charging
criminal negligence and later re
leased under $5000 bail.
Four suits asking damages for
the deaths of persons aboard the
tug, the May, have been filed in
circuit court. .
Women of Church
Hit Legislature
EUGENE. Feb. 27-P)-The state
legislature's .memorials advising
the deportation of all Japanese
and Americans of Japanese ances
try and barring them from the
armed services were condemned
by the Oregon Council of Church
Women Friday.
The council closed a two-day
conference by drafting a letter of
protest describing the memorials
as "shameful, unchristian, un
American, undemocratic and an
insult to the Intelligence of the
citizens of Oregon.
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' We stood" on the. bank and
watched her nose in home. Nor
did it take long for the men' on
the tugs : and the men on the
barge to bring the Gay Marie to
a spot she may .not 'leave .for
many years. v ,
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But to r reach that quiet place
south of the barge, which lies
just below the Salem Boathouse,
and just north of Court street
the Gay Marie made a long, hard
voyage. ' . ' -. .. .
A week or 10 days; ago . she
was taken upriver as far as Wil
lamette from her long resting
place near the ; Ross Island
bridge. .Saturday morning, at 8
o'clock, she left the Willamette
waterfront In tow. of two .tug
boats. One turned back at New
berg and the Hornet from Salem
joined Gale Merwin's Roamer,
sharing the pull the remainder.of
the way. J . "
Bridge-tender Hartley ok the
SP had' waited a month for the
opportunity to open the span and
let the Gay Marie1 through. Life
viewed from "the bridge must
haVe" been ' interesting recently as
Lthe" la i moved downstream, but
tne black: railroad bridge is not
often opened because of traffic. '
Apartments ' on the boat- are
910 complete and "may be oc
cupied by- April 1, according to
Walter Hain, owner. How to heat
her surely though this vessel
is to become an apartment house,
the references will always be to
her" anyway, how to heat
her is a question. Oil and sawdust
burners may be out of the ques
tion, think the Ha ins. -
V
So, from almost prosaic 'task
to decidedly prosaic life the Gay
Marie came quietly to berth Sat
urday night the only relic of the
days when she was intended as
a night club her name 'and- the
still .unfinished, ballroom.
Japs Pushed
In Guinea
By The Associated Press
The Pacific theatre was rela
tive! yquiet Munda in the Solo
mons was bombed by US planes
ofr the 77th time and Kisks in the
Aleutians was raided, anew. , The
British attacked Minbya, 30 miles
northeast of Akyab in Burma, and
Rathedaung. MacArthur'a .bomb
ers from New Guinea kept pound
ing away at Rabaul.
In a flareup of ground patrol
activitiy Sunday in New Guinea,
Japanese elements were forced
backward in the Wau-Mobu area
below Salamaua, leaving many
dead, the noon communique from
allied headquarters in Australia
reported.
It also announced that 660 Jap
anese have been killed and 73
taken prisoner during February in
a round-up of stragglers : near
Buna and -Sanananda in the af
termath of the Papuan campaign.
Aerial activity was on a consid
erably reduced scale.
Takes Tillamook Job
Dallas McCarroI, employed for
a number or years by the Commer
cial Cigar store and formerly pre
sident of the Salem Culinary al
liance, leaves today for. Tillamook
to take a job at the naval air base
there.
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the city is concerned, comes today
with the proclamation of Mayor '
L M. Dough ton urging "all pub-''
lie spirited people of this commun-1
ity to make every effort to support
the 1943 Red Cross war fund ev- .
ery man and woman, boy and girl,
to give their support by contribut
ing through our local chapter . . .
and further proclaiming "that it Is
the sense of all of us who are resi
dents of Salem that our gifts must
be larger than ever this year, in
order to enable this great nation
al ; organization of our to meet
whatever demands are made upon
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: . Over the county, according to
Floyd Miller, co-chairman for the
war fund drive, . four meetings ,
were held last week in which
workers were informed of proced
ure and were given supplies.
Already Jefferson has report
ed S2C5 of Its quota of $450.
Miller said. J. T. Jones Is chair
man in that district
; These county meetings - were
weU attended and workers were
very enthusiastic in spite of the
fact that -the rural districts have
been given , the largest quota ever
to - be assigned to them, Miller
said, -r .- j
Salem's share of the quota Is
$31,000 and the county has $11,000.
Lumber and
Mining Get
48-HourWeek:
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handled by . officials - on " the
ground in a "horse sense" manner
rather than according to dictates
' One grant of authority to the
local directors Is to determine
just where the " labor shartare
area ends. The original 'order
designating them simply listed
Cities. Under Saturday's regula
tions, the local WMC official Is
! empowered to say whether a
plant - lying- outside the. com- -munity's
- corporate limits Is or
is net included.
Any employer or workers dis-
satisfied with a decision by the -regional
officials can appeal to
the war manpower commission.
Employers -who fail to comply
with the 411-hour order may not
hire new employes for replace
ment or expansion. Harper said
an employer would . be in com
pliance if , by - April 1, he files
a statement of how many em
Dloves he can release by a longer ;
work week, or files a request for'
exemption.
Among points brought out in
response to questions were:
There can be no guarantee
that an employe released to ga
te another job will be paid the
same, or a higher, wage al
though he Is not to be released
until federal employment serv
ices have "suitable employment"
for him.
An employer able to release em
ployes in a labor shortage area
by going on the 48-hour week
may not transfer them to anoth
er plant he owns in an area where
there is no labor shortage unless
manpower officials approve.
If an employer can best accom
plish the purposes of the order
production by placing his es
tablishment on a work week long
er than 40 hours but shorter .than
48 he should do so.
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Redmonder Decorated
CORONADO, Calif., Feb. 27-iS5)
Decorations ' and citations for
heroism on Pacific ' battlefronts
were presented to 17 navy offi
cers and men Saturday in a Wall
air station ceremony witnessed by
Artemus L. Gates, assistant .sec
retary of the navy for air. Among
those receiving air medals were
John W. Schliekelman, aviation
radioman first class, , Redmond,
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MEN AND WOMEN
IN ANY TYPE OF
WA R WORK
SHOULD PROTECT
THEIR EYES VS
THEY DO THEIR
HEALTH.
NURSES clear vision is a
first need In first aid! And
freedom from eye strain
keeps you better fit for your
work.
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