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.;. . 1 1 ". i ..... , 1 1 1,1 . 1 -. 1 ' - . ,. '. - - .u, , ... - , : ' i . 1 i i i i i .,.,! . , . " ; IHTIETY-SECOND YEAB j . Scdem. Chcorv Thursday Morning. March 4, 1S43 f , L , I JWe 5c - - Ho. 253 Aircraft Labor Ann nrgg Shipyard Boeing Gets 4rk Cents on WLB Ballot WASHINGTON, March 3-) The war labor board, splitting 7 to 5, rejected Wednesday night a general wage increase to bring west coast aircraft workers' pay up to shipbuilders' rates. Chairman ! William H. Davis declared such raises from a basic 60 or 62 k cents to 95 cents an hour "would only lead to a new cycle ol wage increases end a new general wage level jon the; coast." ' Instead, tha board gave a gen eral increase of 44 cents an hour to 30,000 workers in the Boeing Flying Fortress plants at Seattle, end an average increase of 7 cents to about half the 220,000 em ployes of eight southern Califor nia airframe companies. The labor members and Wayne L. Morse, a public member, dis sented Vigorously. The labor members express- . ed resentment ever the part . they ald James F. Byrnes, the economic stabilization director, played In framing the decision. Referring to Byrnes, the labor group said: "It is clear that the (executive Stabilization) order does not re quire the board to 'consult the director before it makes its de cision in a given case. That pro cedure . has, until lately, been carefully adhered to. However, during the course of js delibera-? tions on this case, 'several mem bers of the board, have- consulted 5srith theirector!abpiit ft. i;: - fThereforey mm rannnt, , escape the conviction that these confer ences have affected the final de cision, and, it. is our opinion that the independence : of the board cannot be preserved so long as , such a practice continues," Morse, dean of the Oregon school of law, who split with his fellow .public members on the board for, the first time in a major case,' commented: f Undoubtedly there will be some grumbling and some expres sion bl 'disappointment but pro duction will proceed because the Workers know that in the interests-of the war effort it must proceed. . . . , "If It should come to pasa that any (reap of workers shoald exercise such bad judg ment as to stop work In protest . of ' the majority decision, this . Writer will Insist, as. he always has when he has been In the majority and others In the mi nority, that the war labor board. mnst stand as a united, unani mous body against any defiance of its decisions by any labor or employer group. . - Morse said the minority "have jreached . the conclusion that be (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Corrections Asked9 Buying Of Adair Land - Reexamination of land pur- . chases for Camp Adair and cor-; rection of errors and injustices: would be asked of the federal! government by a joint, memorial introduced in the senate Wednes- day by Sen Dean Walker of In tiependene and Reps. Rennie of Corvallis and Finseth of Dallas. -f i The memorial makes six charges cf inequities resulting from4 the - burried Adair deals: , v ' . ; 1. Properties were appraised at : less than value, : considering in- . 'creasing farm prices, the eeonom Jc cycle; and losses involved in farmers 'finding : and moving to stew farms. '- - j 42. Lowest rather than-average of Several appraisals- used. - : 'j 5. Farmers not given, adequate JJVWW w w .vas a. sv-v w w - .where- In time . to plant . crops; yeasonable time to vacate not : i - - 4. r Refusals for ' extended per ' Sods to make available the con sideration stated in the purchase options ' in order to enable the farmers, to plan the purchase ol ether farms. ! ' 1 I 5. Delay hi making payment for land, which forced paying inter- est on money borrowed to acquire . giew farms. . ,it . 8. Requiring te sellers to pay ' property taxes which had accrued but were not. payable at the time the government -took possession. - 'i Scale i Dissents DEAN WAYNE L. MORSE (See story column one) Unionist (Flays Inconsistency' No Worker Opinions Given on 4Vi-Cent Raise at Boeing SEATTLE, March 3 - (P) - The leader of the AFL Aeronautical Mechanics' union jat the Boeing aircraft plant Wednesday night charged the war labor board with inconsistency in - granting Boeing workers an increase of only 44 cents an houln . their starting pay ratew--- ? "- ,I Harold Gibson, president 'of the union's district lodge, said it fell far short of the 13 per cent in crease formula established by the board, based on the cost of liv ing index, in - the! - policy-making steel case. j Gibson declined to predict what the response of the; Boe ing workers would be to the 4i cents increase f ram Ltheir present C2 honrly hiring-In rate. ' j He said the union's district council had no comment to make on the case immediately. "It's e very hard blow," he de clared. There will be displeasure over it. Expressions of the mem bers before hand showed there would be much dissatisfaction if only a small increase was granted. "I feel that the decision is un just The board is not consistent Labor, board and government representatives told us out here that they would j allow increases if they would further the war effort? ' i ! The formula et in the steel case was 15; per cent .The 4H cents doesn't even comi up to that A 15 per cent rsif e would have been 9 , cents an hour, and even that wouldn't have been re ceived with any enthusiasm." (In Washington, DC, ? Senator Mon C. Wallgrenj (D-Wash.) said Wednesday he was leaving at once for Seattle, to address a mass meeting of Boeing workers Sun day;7 adding: MI 1 hope to be of some assistance in averting a ma jor - strike") k V . i ' , , ' ... ' - -: The ! mass meeting- had net (Turn to Page 2, Story K) Legal Action y .More -employes i should be made available at the Oregon state-hos- i pital for the insane, the- Oregon law should be changed to require labeling as "poison" such materials as the roach powder which caused the death last November of 47 of the hospital's patients, - and. the rule that no patient Is to beghren keys by any employe of the insti tution should be prominently post ed at the hospital, Marion county grand jury recommended Wednes- t In a single-spaced typewritten 2 page : report of its investiga tion ' of the hospital : tragedy,' di rected to : the circuit - court ' here, grand jurors also - mentioned as "unfortunate' two aspects of . the hospital management: "Among other things," it j was found that the head cook iri the kitchen i Mrs.jHary "CHare, could neither read i nor- write, except to sign he own -name which is ' most unfortunate condition . t . and "While it may be de to lack of j t , ,w - s . LwHUB,.' Wtfjfcdliii n tr sr'sr u -sr-t More Hospital L,mpl U k r r -i cjj yu u u urj 5.ip s j; u u Vii Vii y ce IJLCS 1 i i : '- hi," ik'-r '--'I Yariable Ratio Loses Tax Board's Size ? In House Today ! On 'Do Not Pass' ; By RALPH C. CURTIS .! "Variable ratio of- assess-i ment,",, that Multnomah county political volcano of yesteryear,! shrank to a molehill of eight votes in the house of represen-j tatives Monday. Forty eight votes were cast against Rep. Robert E. Duniway's bill, out-! growth of that controversy, which proposed a 25 per cent property tax reduction on owner-occupied homes. j ; Though that bill's fate might be considered a moral victory for the! state tax commission,' which was the dispute's storm center, a more! direct test is forthcoming today; for the long-forgotten bill pro posing to substitute one tax com-j missioner lor me present ooara of three is coming out onto the' LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR Third readings Thnrsdar: In Senate: Special or deX at 10:30 a. m., HB 342, 343, 344. SB 123, 238, 292, 05, 115, 108, 287, 261, 267, 268. HB 102, 195, 218, 240, 284, 302, 339, 388, 389, 390 349, 152, 266. In House: Special order at 10 JO, HB 263 . on. majority and minority Teptorts; HB139; 209 j 387 397. SB 15, 16, 54, B5j 67, 92, 140i 147, 151, 161, 173, 186, 221, 222, 236, 239, 249, 256, 257, 258, 264, 266, 270, 281. house floor on a 5 to 2 "do not pass" report from the! administra tion and reorganization commit tee but with Rep. Dean Bryson primed, it is averred, to cham pion a contrary minority report The bill was said to have been reported out at the request of Gov. Earl Snell, who had recommended such a change in his inaugural message i : Today will be "tax day" In I both houses. In the senate the ; assessment and taxation eom : mlttee's income tax-school aid j program, embodied j In three " house bills of which two carry ' senate amendments, was re ported oat unanimously Wed nesday. The bill amending the Initiated law distributing In : come tax surplus to schools has not been changed since it left the house, bat the senate com mittee's formula for Income tax reduction on a graduated scale has been incorporated in i to one of the two companion house bills which originally provided the mechanics for seg regation of the school support - fund. i . These bills have been made a special order of business at 10:30 a. m. today. At the same hoiir, the house will start consideration of the sales tax billj on opposing majority and minority reports of the house taxation land revenue committee. - j 1 (Turn to Page 2 Story ) oyes, Urged, Jury funds, nevertheless, it is very un fortunate mat some of the recom raendatiows made in this report (A Survey of the SUte Mental Institutions of the State of Ore gon Conducted by the US Public Health Service) to the state board of control . v . weroj not followed as outlined." ' . :; --f-: Carelessness by some of the -employes eenht ne4 be eonsider e4 criminal negligence because of such defects ln the Oregon ; law as that which failed U re aire labeling of the reach pew ' der as poison, the; report sug gests. . j -The' fact that labor of patients has been required because of lack of other employes -vas noted by jurors, "wWch .c never have been permitted to ex ist" the Tport declares, j . The current legislature, grand jurors remarked in .the report, has had before it e measure to require that all poisons be labeled as such (Turn to Page 2 Story C) T Low j tide on the Tagns river revealed this wrecked cockpit and motor of Pan American Airways' Yankee Clipper which crashed on landing at Lisbon February 22. The plane, coming from New York, carried 39 passengers, 24 of whom were reported dead or missing. This picture was sent by radio from London to the United Statesj Associated Press Telemat Reds Tak0 Allies Regain Half Limit of Wine - Sales Passed Committee Sending Bill Thought Aid To Reconsideration i Though restoring fortified wines' exclusive sale to the liquor stores was enacted into law in so far as the legislature was concerned Wednesday when the lower house approved, 32 to 28, Sen. W. E. Burke's bill which so provides, the last trick in a bitter two-session battle has not yet been played. From the house alcoholic con trol committee today will come ; a bill, in itself unobjectionable, pro viding that fortified wines shall not be sold during the hours when the state liquor stores are closed, and that liquor permits, be re quired for the purchase of such wines anywhere The play, friends of the Burke bill said Wednesday night, is to pass this bill as a possible aid in obtaining reconsideration of the Burke bill. Sharp maneuvering featured consideration of the Barke bill Wednesday morning, and house business was stalled for most of an hour by a "call of the house" prolonged by the absence of Rep. J. D. Perry. At the time, a vote was pending on Bep. H. H. Chindgren's motion to re-refer, the bill to the alcoholic control committee for the purpose of eonsiderlng It Jointly with Sen. Irving Krand's bill which would limit sale of such wines in liquor stores to holders of liquor per mits. , Rep. Stanhope Pier, committee chairman, offered to support an amendment in the Rand, bill, I if the Burke bill should fail, requir ing liquor permits for purchase of such wine anywhere. With ref erence to the Chindgren motion, Pier pointed out that if the Burke bill was approved the amendment in the Rand bill would be mean ingless. ; 'fA " . -; Just before noon Rep. Perry ar rived and the-motion to re-refer wis defeated.: 4 to 29f On this motion Reps. Bryson, Callaway, Landon and Gfle, who ' opposed the bill, voted against re-referring it." Rep. A. W, Meyers then moved to table the bill , but this motion lost 35 to 25. ' - ; (Turn to Page 2 -Story H) Wickard Suggests Student-Release WASHINGTON, March 3(P) Secretary of Agriculture Wickard suggested . to t h e - 48 governors Wednesday the release of students from, schools in small towns and rural areas to help with the plant ing of essential crops this spring in labor shortage areas. j Wickard said there is an urgent need to make available immedi ately all "possible aid in -spring planting.' ' First Picture Crashed v."';;: . ' : ' . -f ,;, : " '. '. & Rzhev, South Cities; Nazis Shorten Lines. Fall Back on Napoleon Route By WILLIAM The red army storming Moscow, crushed the nazi stronghold on the Russian f central front Wednesday, sending the invader reeling back oyer the snowy steppes where Napoleon's army perished long ago. This soviet triumph capped a great day. for allied arms around the world. f In Tunisia, American, British Specif ic Meat Ceiling Price In OP A Plan WASHINGTON, March 3.-()-Urtif orm, dollar - and - cents price ceilings on beef and pork for ev ery meat market in each commun ity are being worked out, it was disclosed Wednesday, t o g e t h er with a license system for all slaughterers in a program to com bat black markets. ' Price Administrator Prentiss Brown advised a senate agricul ture subcommittee that . the new pork ceilings would go into effect in a few days and be followed a short while later by new beef ceilings. Later, he told a press con ference that the agriculture de partment is working out the''' li cense system to extend down to every slaughterer of meat for sale, including individual farmers. Prom other sources, not will ing to be quoted by name, it was reported that meats, cheese, but ter, cooking fats and oils will be rationed beginning April 1, with every person limited to about 14 pounds of meat a week. Brown declined at his press conference to . confirm these re ports,' but did say that ( when meat rationing begins the allow ance per person . will have to be less than the 2 pounds a week originally estimated by govern ment , food authorities. Firemen Hold -Early Blaze r Fire discovered at UJt a. am. today In the second fleer, of fices ef Dr. Harry Sender, State ' - and Commercial streets, was -controlled by city - firemen at 2 a. am, bat extent ef the dam age - was undetermined, - , The blase, confined -4e the rear part ef the offices, broke through, the reef la two places. Bsttlneases i below, - principally Karl's shoe . store, suffered wa ter damage. Clippe 1 i n r.D f t iv . .... u - . m ii r i in Tunisia SMITH' WHITS into Rzhev, 130 miles west of and French troops continued to dog the retreat of Marshal Rom mel's forces. f shev's collapse the Russians said they killed 2000 men and captured enormous- amounts of equipment left the Germans the alternative of falling back to Smolensk, 150 miles to the southwest. j The Germans announced its fall ahead of Moscow in an attempt to represent it as a clever nazi evacuation "to shorten the front." Presumably the nazis also were giving up Vyazma and Gzhatsk to the south and southeast,! potential jumping, off places for an attack on Moscow. Coordinated with Marshal Timo shenko's drive northwest in the Lake Ilman "region, th Russian push at Rzhev threatened all nazi defenses from Smolensk north ward to the Baltic sea. ! In the south the Russians were beating forward more slowly, tak ing Lgov and Dmitriev-Lgovsky In an area northwest of ; Kursk and only 45 miles from cutting the Kiev-Bryansk railway. . This . was a continuation of : red army ef forts to encircle Orel, arid Stock holm dispatches said the nazis al ready were preparing toj abandon that link between the southern and central fronts. Developments in Tunisia .sug gested that Rommel wasj going to give up great areas on the central desert after bis recent offensive (Turn to Page 2 Story T) King George In A rmament Factory . fcONDON,- March S-HP-Xwf George has become a part-time worker in a war factory, standing at a bench two evenings a week turning out precision parts for RAF guns,- it was disclosed Wed-nesday:iug1it;-;,';.i.i,.'-r 'vtrt Fellow workers say he "clocks In, regularly at 8 p. m., wearing overalls, and ' leaves about S:30 p. m. : His foreman 1 said he is "clever with bis hands and the use of precision tools w iV ; ' Recently the queen,- accompa nied by Princesses Elizabeth -and Margaret, visited the plant ; and watched the king at work. He was able to answer all their questions about his- task, the foreman said. -. Several members of the: royal staff were -doing, similar work at the factory when the king went anes- ictorv IT 1 Aircraft ILost 'm - - it i ALLIED ! HEADQUARTERS aaaiTcn; e-vr-A peaaiy, ciiiicieni iutuwt kwuitiiacij! ucuvjrcu a pvwcuui wnuaiicse convoy in oneof the greaiest triumphs of the war, sinking or disabling all .1..1 u vi iu -warsiups !uj u uz ox us transports, iping out 10.UU0 troops jjaboard iahnost toj a man'! and downii ig 55 protecting Nipporiese fighting planes, allied headquarters announced Thtosday. j;:,f , , 1 1 - 1 v( ; ; ;Ail 22 ships f the convoy, totaling 90,000 tons, were sunk or sinking, iththJ "major disaster" inflicted upon the enemy t the astoifishingly Slow cost of only one filled -bomber and three fighters lost, the allieq noon communique asserted. he battle was! believed here at headauarters Ito be the greatest victy ever achieved anywhere by sur: force.' ttclf L Atsvu Defied Pad, Weather convoy! was smashed in Wednesday desDitd bad weather to reinforce Japanese troops at J 1 L) A - Il J - ! lit ueuuco mat uu uie snips arej the,fesies. I ..- j i A ; spokesman at headquarters estimated that - possibly several thousand Japan'esf naValj personnel died in tls , wreckage of the conoyj, in addition to jthej 15,000 troops aboard, as the allied planes huri$d down more than 106 tons of bombs upon the ships. " ifffl? have achieved a victory of such completeness as to assume the proportions p a major disaster to the enemy JT the communique declared, and thef whole omvoyl "was practically destroyed. If all the 22 'shops find their way to the botjom of the Pacific, it willj raise I the Runoff iciaJj total of Jap losses since' Pearl Harbor to Sflt ships of all typeS, according to thei Associated Press tabulation.) . All categories of allied I air strength Joined in the mighty assault thai smashed this icon vby, bitting ship after ship, with bombs loosed lrorojijow ltitude J ' . ; ' ' .' La&Bountl ii tut hoi 4 ted - ' r:i-;- ' mj - J:.- '- ' v .: -: - , : : .- tEnemy air overage became weaker and weaker;- his forces morttered soddipersd; end finally his remhants. Isolated: and bew&dered, ivejej gradualli annihilated by " our Successive air for mations as we sent them into combat,' the Communique declared in graphic account -"Lri v":'- dtvnited States losses; of merchant ; ships and warships in the Pacific; based on a tabulation of 6ur lossesf wWe lighj and, number of fcthers damaged General MacArthur himself declared that "a merciful providence must, have guarded us! in this great tn communique assented that to hafe most important results on planik His campaign for the time located. . I .1 This was the j convoy . j ? which from New Britain toward. New weather that kpi allied planes fulKday. k. . L L L j-r " El ship Join Convoy w 'On Tuesday f allied aircraft smash at the cqnVoy, which at that or damaging four of thent flight more essels joined the, noon, the communique saia, nunng u one ox convoys ever dispatched bring battlefronL i With $8523.41 city, minimum -g Cross war fund! campaigners Saletri had met! 27 per ( cent of their their quota Wednesday noon as second ful dayj of qsolicita- tion closed, ; ju n qnairman Charlies H.. HUggin8 Saidj Stifl not i. declared eiaciaiiy when; the War! Fund . ReDorter. campaign bulletin, went jjto press late , Wednesday afternoon, the county outside of Salem was spin ning toward the end of its! share in (Turn to Page 2, Story G) Takes Job l i to tflsit them.:: fie .watched them a -whileand 'then, iaakad if be could' have a Jdbv-. .- f- ' Th foreman Minted out to his majesty that hel would need some training. e 1 1 - rHow long?asked th king. The ; reply,, vas that that ' de pendedton the aptitude ojt Uie ap plicant. : S f I j .. . I V iV' ;f I rather,. lapncy I v might . be pretty good at (be job, he mon arch respondecLi MI think 111 start at; bnte ,-jA f': ;i ? :? "t 'TM - in doffed J his Ccoat, donned a pair5 of pveralls and joined the shift. His first lesson lasted1, one hour. Withire a week he ,was pronounced proficient. r , The Daily lail, j which first published the Story, said the king accepts no payj for his work. 8 - . ' .? S . fi. mrFMHits Oil 2nd Da v ) of the j $31,000 al attained. Red 'ver-Ships 'Greatest'; IN AUSTRALIA. Thursday aerial armaaai oi allied planes. m.' T - ' ' purely air action against a naval' assaults throughout Tuesday and as it' headed toward New Guinea Lae, and although! the communique . . . M It . ' . . ... . nuu or tuuung, ii uia noi aiviae ,V v. ... ' M ' i ' ' ' " - navy announcemehts, total 94 ships). one bomber and three fighters shot down but returned to pase." victory." "our decisive the enemy's si success cannot fail strategic and tactical being at least Is completely dis- had been sighted Monday advancing- Guinea,' protected then by foul from blasting at it for more than a braved the ra ns and clouds te time consisted jof 14 ships, sinking: enemy column Wednesday, after-' (the most powerful troops to the New Guinea land ' I -! . ... ..' ...... "The battle of the Bismarck lea now has been decided," the com-, munique saidj j i - such completeness ss ' to ' assume the . proportions of a . major dis- . aster to the enemy. His entire force was practicallyjdestroyed. , :. "His naval romponent consisted of 22 vessels, comprising 12 trans ports and 10 vi arships cruisers or destroyers. . . " '. ' . '. They repr fsent tonnage 'esti mated at approximately 90,000 tons. AH are punkj or sinking. - ?His alir eeverage of this na " val ; force has ' been-' decimated and disnersed, 55 1 of his planes - having been hot eat ' combat . and many others damaged. Ills ground forces! estimated at prob ably 15,tS destined to attack In . New Guinea jhave been sunk er killed almost! to a " "The. original convoy of 14 ships was joined during the afternoon . by eight othr vessels. Our air force In all categories constantly attacked throughout tha day and Kiv sfler arVill v mrmm rtn again hit with heavy bombs from low altitude. . .'-,-.: ,, j . , "Our decisive' success cannot fall to have jmost Important ; re sults on the ohemy's strategic and tavueu pioj . ,j - - . . . U.TI . " .'. . ing at least Is completely dislo- eted." . I i..-.;- ! The convoy was attacked as it scattered In i wide area off Fin schhaf en, New Guinea, and sup posedly was, bound for Lae, on the Huon - gulfj now. being slowly threatened by allied ground forces coming up from the Papuan pe ninsula, j ' ';. . I The assault on the convoy was coupled with smash at the enemy airdrome at jLae, 1 a possible base for the Japanese to sen dout aer ial protection fori the convoy. 'Is i pre-dawn; raid, the com munique said, attack units Lomb- (Turn to jPase 2 C'cry A) mm I ;i -4