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' Today Vews, Pictures ;0f 'Our Boys' 1 (Tun to Page 12) Dimout Tues. sunset 6x58 7cd. sunrise 7:46 (Weather on pagt 7). NINETY-SECOND YEAB SccUa. OfQon, Tvmadaj Morning; March 2. 1943 Price Sc. No. 254 ; n ewers Dtra 7U r Limiting Saved Vote Set Wednesday; Corporate .. Excise . Tax Cut Passed 'By RALPH C. CURTIS Limiting fortified wines sale to the state liquor stores won tentative and precarious ap proval ii the legislature Mon day while the proposal to es tablish civil service for state employes was defeated under circumstances suggesting , Ore gon's lawmakers would .be- more receptive to the idea "after the duration." Meanwhile, the house approved and sent to ' the senate .the last item of the immediate state tax program, a bill calculat ed to reduce corporate excise tax income by 8 or-iO per cent, and the senate proceeded . with ; its own study of taxation prob lems. Sen. W. E. Burke's bill further to control the sale of ' wines in excess of 14 per cent alcohol, championed in house by Reps. H. R. Jones and Joseph E. Harvey; was saved by one vote, 31 to 28, when it was up ,o indefinite postponement. But a motion to put ii on final passage failed and Rep. A W. Meyers changed his LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR Third readinrs Tuesday: In Senate: SB 77, 266, 269, 223, 283. HB 76, 77, 362, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 192.' In House: HB 361, 388, 389, 390, -391. SB 32, 52, 116, 127, 168, 225, 231, 276. vote for the purpose of asking reconsideration. Rep.' Jones , no ' tion to make the bill's third read-' ' Ing a special order of business for Wednesday at 10;30 a. m. wasf approved; :V" J -. :i Representatives who ' voted for thebilland igainsf mdeHniti : postponement - were: Bennett, Chadwick, Chase, Chindgren, Cra- ver, Dammasch, Dickson, Duni- way, tills, Jtngdahl, Francis, French, Frisbie, Harvey, Hesse, Himelwright, Jones, Kimberling, Kuratli, ' Lieuallen, Marsh, Moore, Niskanen, Ramage, Semon, Snell strom, Snyder, Steelhammer, Tur ner, Van- Dyke and Manley Wil son . Rep. Jones tied the measure ta with the war effort by ro- ; docing evidence, that use of these wines contributed to ab senteeism. He contended that the greater measure of control provided by limiting sale to the liquor stores, further - imple- mented by impending legisla tion to require liquor permits, . would eliminate much of the abuse. Rep. Harvey quoted cor- ner's reports on four recent - deaths attributed to fortified wine, and Rep. C. L. Lieuallen told of a recent case illustrating the desirability of protecting young men In the armed serv ices from misuse of these po tent beverages. "i- Rep. Stanhope Pier, chairman of the alcoholic control committee -which had disapproved the bill, pointed out its unfavorable et9 fect'on the 4400 licenses and Rep. Meyers said . these included 1229 stores selling wines only, which would, he insisted, be put out of commission. ' They and other- op- ponents of the bill said it would not correct the abuses. Several pledged support of a bill permit ting, the liquor commission to limit the hours during which these stores may sell wines, and others suggested that liquor permits' be required for purchases from these private dealers. - : . That civil service for state em ployes may merely have been postponed may be concluded, from the circumstance that opposition - was chiefly limited' to two fac tors; details of the bill, and fear that its institution r now would tend to "freeze" present employes In their jobs, to the disadvantage f service men -who might seek such employment after the war. The measure was indefinitely postponed, 34 to 24 ' Reps. Leo Smith and Robert A. Bennett contended : the proposed civil . service, system Z would not actually become effective for two jears, and that its provision for veterans -'preference and rein statement of former employes who entered the armed services over came the one objection, They said the substitute bill, passage of which they advocated as minority members of the judiciary ;tdm mittee, had been drafted by the entire committee despitethe, other members present opposition, and provided an excellent program. Opposition was headed by . Rep. Eugene Marsh, committee chairman, who In addition te the aforementioned objections, said (Turn to Page 2 Story A) l Supported- , - - i z - - ' , E.. R. STETTINIUS, JR. . Lend-Lease Gets Backing Stettinius Praised For Operation of Aid to Allies WASHINGTON, March l-P)-E. R. Stettinius, jr., apparently sold members of the senate foreign re lations committee on a year's con tinuance of the lend-lease program Monday; republicans as well, as democrats joined in praise of t the agency's operations in- providing nearly $9,000,000,000 of materials and services to friendly nations. In two . hours of public testi mony, the white i haired, black browed administrator told the committee that lend-lease had not threatened the nation's food sup ply by the amount of its agricul tural exports, that reverse aid from Great Britain had cut the cash expenditures for maintaining the American army in Great Britain to $25,000 a month and that the ; (Turn to Page! J2 Story B) CburtlRiiles On Milk Sales To Army Camp WASHINGTON' March l(JP) The supreme court Monday upset the conviction of; George Sylves ter Viereck on the ground that "however deserving of punish ment his conduct i may seem," the law -before Pearl Harbor did not require him to disclose (fully his alleged pro-germanpropaganda activities. C Viereck is serving a two to six year, sentence as a result of bis cinviction- etne year ago on a charge ofjmiking incomplete re ports to f the state department on his activities. Justice department officials jsaid the ruling apparently will result in his release on this count but he is under indictment also with 32 other persons and the weekly New York Enquirer on charges of sedition and conspiracy to undermine the morale of the armed forces. I . In two other decisions Mon day the s iprtnt court laid down . the rule that state laws fixing the minimum price 'for milk apply to army camps en land lease from the state but not to camps en land owned out right by the government. A decision by Stone, on which the court split-4 to 3, upheld the constitutionality of the Pennsyl vania milk control law as applied to .milk sold to the government for camp at Indiantown Gap. - A companion decision by Justice Roberts, on which the court voted 5 to 2, held that California could not apply its milk marketing reg ; (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Red Cross Workers Find Ready j Response of Mariori county res idents in the Red Cross war fund campaign, which opened over the nation Monday, is; already "more than gratifying," Campaign Chair man Charles H. Huggins declared Monday night a fund headquar ters prepared to tally first re ports this afternoon, j i j More than ( $4000, representing pre-campaign payments to the fund' had already been received in offices here Mondaly, Mrs. I V. Benson, volunteer , secretary there, said Monday night j j' Representatives j of the 600 workers whq are "covering"" Mar ion county ' told stories Monday night of the welcomes that await ed them in places business, of fices and homes of the area. In many places, they said, they found that checks - bad f already been written and were! ready to be Blai - Outside Po First i Aider's v-x' Raised If the past winter's floods In basements arid on law ni of north Salem residences 'were caused jby over-crowding - of storm sewers in that area, then; owners' of buildings outside the city limits which; are utilizing those sewers should make some preparation this summer to. dis pose of sewage without use of the city system, Alderman David O'Hara warned at Monday night's council meeting. : "Because," declared O'Hara, "I will recommend that out-of-town users be cut off if the Sewers there won't any more than take care of buildings in the city. City dwellers j have financed the sys tem." j ; Question of the cause of the failure of the sewers to carry ff heavy rains of the winter was brought to attention of the council jby a petition signed by 119 residents of the area bound ed by Norway, the south boun daries of the fairgrounds, the elty limits and 17tli streets. Actually Hhe district which suf fered wks larger. City Engineer JL H. Davis declared. formally, David said, the sew ers there are sufficient, but flood conditions durfng the past win ter were; so severe that probably the sewer system alone could not be considered to blame. The petition asking relief was referred to the council's commit tee on sewerage and drainage, as was also i a request for repairs to a culvert! where Oxford joins 22nd street, bearing eight signatures Without argument the council voted to "table indefinitely" an application for a restaurant li quor license submitted by R. V. Carleson." Previously disapproved, the license application could have been reconsidered only at the first meeting after the original action wjas taken, City Attorney Lawrence N. Brown said. The committee on police, traf fie regulations and licenses was handed for recommendation ap plications for beer licenses filed by S. J. iGentzkow, who operated the Broim Derby at 271 North Commercial street, closed when (Turn to Page 2 Story C) McNutt Hits, Stinison Asks Labor Draft WASHINGTON, March MvP) Two Jjpi-rung administration lieu- tenants-t-Aianpower commissioner Paul V.j McNutt and War Secy. Stimson4 disagreed on the issue o flegislation permitting compul sory draft of labor for factory and farm McNutt, opposing the idea, told a" press i conference that "there is too" much talk about forcing peo ple to do many things." He is seeking to apply what he terms a voluntaijy system involving "in direct penalties." - Over jthe weekend, Secy. Stim son endorsed the legislation on the ground. that there is "increasing evidence, of the inadequacy" of present controls. Besides, this disagreement, there were these developments Monday bearing on the manpower situa tion: Undersecy. of War Patterson opposed a bill deferring all agri- (Turn to Page 2 Story G) handed jout to thenw -; JThis year Fm giving double" has been taken net too literally by the generous citizenry, sosae workers declared'; pointing eat that pledges ' of previous years had been more than doubled by persons who were anxious te see Marion county give more than the $42,009 minimum quota set tor it by national Red Cross. , Reports from campaign workers are to be made in much the same way as those of the : War Chest, Huggins ; explained Monday. Elev en teams are working, including that which solicits the county out side of: Salem and the women's group contacting residences. -l Mrs. ! Olive Doak Bynon, exec utive secretary for Marion county chapter, s American Red Cross, Is to publish a daily bulletin to be sent to all workers, recording each day's pledges and payments. ' tried. Fkairt. Assault Prejparedi For Ships i. 14-Ves$els Report Follows Warning ; Of Concentration By VERN HAXIGLANU : ALLIED J HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, March 2-(-One of the largest Japanese convoys yet sighted in the northeastern sector of the southwest Pacific was reported by the allied-high command Tuesday to be heading in the direction of New Guinea. Fourteen Japanese- ships were sighted off Talasea, New Britain, heading toward New Guinea un der cover of an advancing weath er front, said the noon communi ue from General MacArthur's headquarters. I The allied air force is preparing to attack the convoy as soon as the! weather permits. 1 The convoy reportedly con sists of warships and cargo! ves sels, protected by some fighter planes. It was first sighted Mon day afternoon near Ubili, New Britain, moving west. "A l few hours later it was j sighted off the Willaumes peninsula and Is now believed I to be somewhere west of New Britain. The convoy, which passed the length of New i Britain, is not yet in a position to determine ac curately where it isj headed. But it is considerable, larger than i the convoy which was ter rifically assaulted off New Guinea by the allied air force in Janu ary. Four warships and five trans ports were involved in that action. The appearance of the . convoy is in line with Monday's com munique warning of the concen tration of major Japanese forces in this area. Allied bombers, meantime, con tinued hammering at the grow ing Japanese strength in the is land chain north of Australia. A heavy unit, the jnoon communique said, bombed enemy shipping in the harbor of Waingapoe island off Soemba, west of Dutch Timor. Another unit of heavy bomb ers pounded the airdrome at Alexishafen in New Guinea, while attack planes bombed and strafed the trails from Guada gasal to Salamau. 1 i Ground forces, the communique said, surprised and destroyed four large enemy barges in the mouth of the Waria river of New Guinea. 20 per Cent Withholding V Tax Tentative 1 WASHINGTONrOWarch 1-(P)-A plan to withhold 20 per cent of taxable income from the pay en velopes of the nation's 31,000,000 wage and salary earners, starting July 1, was approved tentatively Monday by the ' house ways and means committee on pay-as-you-go taxation. j I M This plan would provide for weekly, semi-monthly or monthly deductions, from income i which would be accumulated and applied to actual taxes computed I at-fhe year end. M It would not be I an additional tax, but would cover the present taxes on first bracket incomes and also the victory tax. All taxpayers- would pay the first two installments of 1942 taxes as usual. These are due March 15 and June IS this year. -.! v I j The committee postponed in definitely any action on the Issue of canceling a part or all. of a tax year, including, the proposal by .Beardsley RumL. chairman of the Federal Reserve bank of New York, to skip 1942 on the tax cal endar. - j. ' i Supporters of the Ruml plan said privately, j however, 1 they would carry their battle r to the hous floor, with the "abate-a-year" proposal to be offered as an amendment to any; current I legis lation reaching the! floor. f ! Mileage Cut Asked; i WASHINGTON, 1 March 1 1-JP) President Roosevelt Monday asked all federal departments and agen cies Id appoint "mileage adminis trators" in an effort to achieve a 40 per cent reduction in the mile age of government iears. ' i 1 ' mumj DUD lM Psksduo American Bomber Razes Forwessn Gio Isle & 5f .7 " This rraphic "shot." taken from a treme fight of this photo, shows wmcn carriea out a oomomg some on Japanese lnstaiiaHons en uiso isiana m ne soiomons group, The raid! was part of a triple-pronged aerial thrust against the enemy during the fight for Guad alcanal. UN Soundphote, I Y !. J : I r,;'., Jy : . Reds Sweep on Northern Front RAF Raiders Bomb Berlin Hard Round-the-Oock Attacks Continued; February Record LONDON, Tuesday, March-2 iJF) Carrying on the terrifying dawn-to-dawn air attacks against the axis, British bombers Monday night raided Berlin for the Mth time and started fires in the reich capital, the Berlin radio announc ed early Tuesday. The broadcast was confirmed a short time later by a terse Brit ish announcement that the RAF had bombed the German capital, but no details of the raid were disclosed. ' Berlin said that a "large num ber" of the raiding planes were shot down, and this was inter preted in unofficial quarters here as an admission that a heavy blew wis struck. The Berlin, Paris, Calais and Danish Kalandborg radios all were off the air Monday night between 8:52 p. m. and 9:18 p. m. Before- they were silenced an nouncers broadcast repeated warn ings for listeners to take particu lar case to Insure tight blackouts. The allied blows at axis strong hold on the continent have been growing in intensity almost with out letup since the greatest blitz of the war was launched on Feb ruary 25. All but two of the previous raids have been at night. British and Canadian bombers dumped more than 1000 tons of explosives Sunday night on the German submarine base at St. Nazaire. The - thunderbolt fleet spread great destruction in the French port in a half hour of concen trated attack which swamped the nazi defenses. Five bombers were (Turn to Page 2 Story F Tonight Ends Gandhi Fast POONA, India, March 1 -P) Mohandas K. Gandhi went through the 20th day of his three-weeks fast Monday with his strength no weaker and bis., spirits 'good, at tending physicians said, The Hindu spiritual leader and politician is expected to survive the remaining two nights and day of his fast,; undertaken in a vain attempt to force the Indian gov ernment to release him from the Aga Khan's palace -where he has been held since . August when he inaugurated his "non-violence, non-cooperation - campaign - tor immediate Indian independence. ' ' - X navy Flying Fortress whose starboard Wine tip is discernible at ex j the fire and destruction left In i f ami - i f Plank Gtirilen ; WASHINGTON, j March , 1 P) The Whltl House; will grew a demonstrallon Victory! garden,' .Mrs. Roosevelt said Monday, if the agriculture department finds the ground is fertile enough. The department discourage the idea rastyearj-Jtenojlersat Mrs. Roosevelt's presi confers ence commented that ; rose I grew we on the White House -' south lawn. Mrsf'RooseveH said she'd askf about the soil, add ing It is important that people ! find out about their settV and tj also leaii the i how ; and what ! of Victory gardening, beforeH undertaking vegetable growing ! The first lady said it's about! time fori an American woman's I land army tef help with the crops and she'd! like te see it ! 'en a basis comparable with eth- j er work and service.: She doesn't see a need for military status : for such a unit, , but she dees want a government; basis, for benefits and uniforms such ssT ether war workers get. 13 Found Dead In Montana Coal Mines;.:'.' BEARCREEK, Mont, March 1 (ff)-Thirteen men were known dead and 61 others were unac counted for Monday night as res cue crews pressed farther into-the sloping tunnels of the Smith coal mine where an unexplained, ex plosion trapped the men Saturday morning. H "7 Ten bodies were found Monday night -- I ir An invisible wall of "white gas, deadly carbon monoxide, held back i weary rescue j crews struggling- to reach rniners entombed two miles under-ground here for morel than 53 hours. A suction fan was put' Into ac tion at an airway I opening near the adjacent Fostei- mine in an effort to discharge the carbon monoxide fumes which lingered after an explosion caused a series of ca veins and trapped the work ers Saturday morning. . J. Lobdell, Salem,! now employ ed in the automobile division of the - state department, has read with extra interest and a feeling of personal loss stories of the Bearcreek mines disaster. For IS years a. foreman for these mines he left after an injury a few years ago. His brother-in-law is ownef of the mines, and numerous friends, . are believed includird among the victims. ! ! their wake by US spying Fortresses 8th Offensive bverrunsArea Demyansk Captured As Big Toll Taken; er ineareci ted Press 6ggedTRussians, slowed downjf in the south by the ap proach of spring, were on the march in the northwest Monday nightlwith a new offensive, be tween; Moscow and Leningrad, reporting that 302 towns and set tlements already had. been over run and 11,000 axis troops killed or captured. , . The most imjortant city recap tured! was Demyansk. 48 miles southeast of Staraya Russa. This new and powerful! inrust, ine cigntn major eiicn- sive. I thrown in by Stalhi since last iNovember, was announeed in the first special communique of Jje; soviet command te be ls ; snedjln mere ihan a week, and the Inte of the operation was -Indicted by the diselesure that an entire German -army the Hth I was ' under attack com muted by the ace Red com-, mander, Marshal Semeen Tinvl oshenko. : .; ,-.;,, ' The! soviet ommand declared that the nazi lijnes had been brdv ken in I several sectors and , that "a serjous threat of double encir clemeat , for ,the German fascist troops" had befn created. It was (Turn to Page 2 Story D) : ' IjU . I .:. - Workers Begin i I' . ':. C'; SAN! DIEGOj.Calif March 2.-(Tuesday)-i(ipl)-rConsolidated Air craft Corp. workers began at 12:30 pk. nC Pacific war time, Tuesday what junion leaders said would ibe a -24-hour special meet ing '"pj-otestingj the long delay in settling inequalities In aircraft wage totes.--:. I ' As the session started, H.-t C. Browrtl district lodge . president, warned that "No employe should dismiss" his or J her regular shift of work to attend this' meeting as it will be in progress 24 hours. He ca; led for a full attendance of night shift wojrkers at 10 a. m. Tuesday and if . day, shift em ployes fat 70 Tuesday night ; P Union leaders said the meeting would fbe advised of the present status of . the aircraft wage "case. which I has been pending before board since last July. If the wB's decision is an nounced during the : progress of the' meeting, members will con sider it at that time, Brown said. (Sea Boeing story on page 2.) 'if- 3 unlet The d un Tunisian Enemy- I Pursuetl .' -. - 1 r - . ,L ' - ! ... I, ' 'Magnificent'. Help : Given by Air Arm; V German iLoss Hish ' ; '-t-l- - ! 0 f V L By WES GALLAGHER . v,; :t '. ; 1 "'! .- '-i- 1 I! -' 'j ALLIED j HEADQUARTERS ; IN JORTH AFRICA, March 1 i (P)-Beaten ' back in five local i attacks in northern Tunisia, the i Germans were disclosed Morn day to have made a three-mile gain in a sixth assault at) the ! cost of heavy casualties: . This' - thrust was toward Be ja " and - had carried to three miles j beyond the,, town oft Sidi Nsir, I which itself 1 is 18 miles northeast of Beja and 40 miles west of Tunis. ": j? I?:"--f':1 .'"'''' i'T' .''-.I''. To the south. In Central Tu nisia, allied forces - continued ' their advance beyond reeaptur- , ed Kasserine pass, and toward the enemy, position of Sbeitla ; were meeting no opposition In their pursuit of the retreating forees of Marshal RommeL ' Irr southeastern Tunisia, patrols of the British Eighth army were probing the axis line. ; ) Tlie fighting ii the rnfth which' had not seriously threat ened' the allied, positions -. ) ned three days ago. . Repulsed five times, jCol. Gen Judgen Von Ar mm threw in a concentrated , tank and 'Infantry assault in the Beja sector to score his local gains. He suffered heavy Josses, allied head- ' quarters announced, "both in, men, and tanks. ''v' -'' j . f (The- allied communique re ported that enemy attacks in the Beja sector continued all day Sun-; day, adding: "These attacks were in ' every j case, thrown back." It thus I appeared thatVori. Arnim's gains were made in action Subse quent to those mentioned in the communique.) - 1 1 : ! ' . A French Communique reported renewed enemy attacks were re pelled in the,Medjez-El-Bab sec tor ana that other fronts held by French troops generally were quiet exctf,t for artillery ex changes and patrols ' - ' The support given the ground,, forces by the allied air arm was describe as nothing short f magnificenfj allied pilots 'reported scores of hits on German armored cars, tanks and trucks and on enemy ..transport . crowding ) . the roads in the Beja, Medjez-FJ-B&b, Bou Arada and Pont Du Fahs areas. f "; 4 - j ;j . , l: Aside from all these attacks, ; allied airmen j struck,- hard t . enemy, landing: grounds and troop concentrations in tho vl- x cinity of the axis-held Port of ' Gabes and at ' cemmunieaUons between Sensee and SfaxX Five enemy fighters' were shot ; down . in allied bombing opera tions; and from all operations 12 allied planes were missing. I. The heaviest allied air assault of 1 all was, delivered against, the axis i supply 'port of Gagliarl, Sardinia. ; Two waves of Flying Fortresses f went oyer jthe town under: escort of lightning , fighter planes. The : first wave met no opposition but.' the second was challenged by nine , German Messerschmitts - and a group of Italian 'fighters. One Messerschmitt .and two' Italian , planes were shot down there. Four ' axis .ships in the harbor were hit and. large ires ytrt set off. indotvs To Be Shrunk WASHINGTON, March L-(AVWell-fed legislators and ethers In 1 Washington carrying "bay wmdews'1 were promised a bit of shrinking Monday by Rep.' Wilson (R - Ind,), in a -I ' speech before the house entit- 1 led "We're Over the mil U' the Poorhouse. n : , - ,- Pleading for greater produc tion te meet this country's and the world's growing food ; de mands, Wilson said farmers are already doing their utmost and ' must have" further assistance, adding: ; " ' ; ' "And while most of the farm ers I know cant afford to lose many pounds, there are thou . sands ef bay windows In Wash lntton that will look better for - a little controlled Cltl, tr.J I s Ueve yea me, tleyll gz HV Bay