I
l -
Today's Games
V 3:00 En gen e (6) vs.
Klamath Falls (7)-
, . 4:15--Oregon City (4) vs.
Pendleton (2). - - . .v.
7:30 Salem (8) vs. As-.
, toria (5) .:. - . .
v 8:45 Baker (1) vs. St.
Helens (3). - ,v -
Vik-Astoria
Tiff Tonight
. - Oregon's 24th annual state
.basketball tournament raises '
I the curtain en its eolorfnl race
-. . show. en. Willamette pavilion at
S p. m. today. Eight class "A
. and .four class B" teams hoop
V 14 m.f fm 4U. .4.4.' Man V
Friday and Saturday, with the
championship ;tipe scheduled
-.. for Saturday nightJ
. . - Salem and Astoria, whose
teams are almost as annual as
L the blue ribbon classic itself,:
i- clash tonight at J-Ji. ' Other
fames today pit Klamath Falls
: against Eugene at S p. nm
Oregon City against Pendleton
at 4:15 and Baker against St.
. Helens at 8:30.
Full-coverage ef the cage
dcrbr wUl be made by the
z f Is 1 1 n. including stories and
m- pictures. :
(Seeetery on sports page for
complete details.
Desert Fox'
Montgomery Assures
Showdown; French
Squeeze on West
By HAROLD V. BOYLE
- J ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ' IN
NORTH AFRICA, March
Gen. JSir Bernard L. Montgom
ery's British Eighth army began
testing Marshal Rommel's crippled
tank forces Wednesday prelimin
ary to a Tunisian showdown in
which Montgomery promised to
giv the enemy a "bloody nose'
now that he is "caught like a rat
far at .trap." . . : . i, .
-'Rranmel was on the defensive
behind his Mareth line in south
ern Tunisia. He had lost 52 more
precious tanks in vainly : lashing
out -against Montgomery over the
weekend, and now was feeling thf
rising counter - strength of the
Xighth -army . which was probing
and harassing for a blow expect
ed to roll back the axis into a
tighter pocket in central; Tunisia.
y French troops were menacing
Rommel's western flank be
tween Teseur and Gaf sa, and al
lied pressure also was exerted
on the axle lines ef CoL-Gen.
; Jarxen Ten Arnim in the north.
f Before Rommel's six attacks
collapsed last Saturday against
the Eighth army. General Mont
gomery had told his troops j that
Kommel was preparing to cripple
himself and that :then "it will be
cur turn to attack him'
, "And having been crippled
tkimself, he will be unable to
tand up to our attack and we
will smash - right "'through him,'
the general was Quoted as saying
In a dispatchby Don Whitehead,
Associated Press correspondent on
the spot.
- Thus the allied squeeze play on
the cornered axis troops holding
the eastern end of Tunisia ap
peared to be under way
v. Allied patrols also were . "ex
tremely active"- Sn northern Tuni
sia where the British First army
Is stationed, particularly tin the
Eedjenane area,: a high command
communique said.
In the area between these see
tors US troops' had recovered
most of the ground lost recently
to Rommel : before ; ; the latter,
witched suddenly to the south
a g a i n s t Montgomery's poised
troops. , yyy -
An official announcement
aid that another : large axis
aaerchaatmaa in the convey at
tacked " by American bombers
between Sicily and Tunisia
,-three'days age had been destrey
. ed, railing the total te three
vessels " sunk and four set en
flrey . .
, ' (The RAF hit three places in
Sicily Palermo, Agrigento and
- Ucata ' causing fires, a Cairo
communique said.)
Giennault Leads
New Air Theatre r
t -By The Associated Press i
r Wednesday's outstanding, ' de
rfopment in -the Pacific war was
- the disclosure; that Brig. TGen.
Claire L. Chennault had been put
In command of a newly created
China air - command of the. US
air force, thus making China an
air theatre separate from Burma
and India and strongly indicating
that" Chennault's ; arm f would be
. much reinforced. 'y Jc1 'cii
- r The US navy : announced an
' other series of air, raids on Jap
anese positions in the - Solomons
area, two of them heavy attacks
; that left large fires on j the im
portant enemy air base of Mun
cla. An ineffective Japanese raid
on Guadalcanal was reported. '
Tests Tra
pped
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NINETY-SECOND YEAR' I . . ' . : Salem, Oregon,. Thursday Morning, March 1L 1943. . . - mJSi 4 Price No. 282
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Firm in Souitli
Push Toward Smolensk Cuts
Holes; Fierce -Nazi Attack j
On South Sector Repulsed j
.-?-rf'- j) By the Associated Press j-.
LONDON, "Thursday, March
i
Bely and scores of
tral front drive to
the south Moscow said Thursday
men and. 35 tanks,, in attacks
army defenses beljw Kharkov.
The Russians also punched new
holes in nazi positions below Lake
Dmen on the front I northwest of
Moscow, capturing J jseveral more
localities on thej approaches' to
Staraya Russa, nazi 16th army
headquarters, a midnight bulletin
disclosed. i
German recovery of approxU
mately 100 miles jofj strategic ter
ritory . ' in the Ukraine ' around
Kharkov, admitted1 by Moscow
Tuesday night, had threatened to
overshadow the continuing red
army successes 'on; the central
front, but the latest bulletin indi
cated the Russians iew were
holding iirm theijej i -iji 'i 5 ,
South and southwest of thar
kov, said the eeasnuiUf ue jre?y
corded bythe !sjvlet mjnltorv'
"eur troops repulsed fierce 'at
: tacks of: enemy tasks and ! in- -fautry,"
. 1 jj -
Nine of the 35 destroyed Ger
man tanks were knocked out in
one sector of jthjs front by a
soviet artillery J sjmbush, others
making "a hasty retreat," and in
another area one red army forma
tion alone killed: the 800 Germans
and destroyed 26 more enemy
tanks in a successful stand. :
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Army to Call
More Doctors
CHICAGO, March 10-iJF-Dur-ing
1943 the annjf plans to com
mission 6900 physicians, 3000 in
terns ' and resident doctors from
hospitals, 4800 i dentists and 900
veterinarians, the! Journal of the
American Medical association an
nounced Wednesday. - !
Under a new! procedure, the an
nouncement said J none will be
commissioned until he has been
declared "available" by the pro
curement and assignment service
of the war manpower commissionr
The surgeon general of the army
has discontinued j all medical re
cruiting boards '
Most of the inew army doctors
will be obtained! from 20 states
and the District o Columbia, some
states already having filled their
quotas. ' i j '
The 20 states where physicians
will be procured were; listed as
California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Illinois, Iowa, j Maryland, Massa
chusetts. Minnesota, -Missouri, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Ore-
gen, ! Pennsylvania, Rhode l Island,
Vermont and Wisconsin.
VictoryFund Committees
Of 4 CountiesfMeet Here
Meeting in Joint session at the
Marion hotel tonight, approximately-
5 members of the Victory,
fund and war savings bond com
mittees of Marion, Linn, Polk and
Benton counties; are to lay plans
for the April bond drive, j quotas
for which are tjolbe assigned, short
ly to the mid-galley counties, J. J.
Ward. Marion; icounty chairman,
said Wednesdayf night. '
y Edward C.j iSammons, chair
man ef the victory fund commit-':
tee for Oregon,' rated as ono of .
the west's most dynamic and
well-informed j speakers eu war '
' finance problems, torether with
J. C. English! and L. J. Wrsch-"
ku regional J and r assistant re
gional managers for; the j fund, .
are te attend the session, while
Wilbur Carl; of Portland is te
' represent the state war saving
bend staff.
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j
11 Russian troops captured
other, towns Wednesday in a smashing cen
cnock out Smolensk, 80 miles away, while In
the Germans had lost 800 more
which collapsed against new red
j j
Allied Bombers
Hit Jap Ships
Two Merchantmen
Heavily Damaged
In SW Pacific
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Thursday March 11
CPV-Allied heavy bombers dealt
punishing new blows t the . Jap
anese merchant marine -Wednes
day over a wide area of
west Pacific, attacking
chantmen and heavily
two of them, th high
reported Thursday.
the souths
five-mir-
damaging
command
Fortresses
Liberators and Flying)
ranging from the Celebes to We
wak in northern New Guinea
probably destroyed a! 7000-ton
enemy ship at Boetong; island j on
the southeast end of the Celebes.
It was left burning fecely fom
tne snauermgf explosion or a
heavy bomb, the noon communi
que said. (
Another plane bombed two
ships off Boeroe island, but re
sults were not observedj.
At Wewak, Fortresses sailed
ever two vessels la the harbor
and one ef 5880 tone was smok
ing heavily when the bombers
left. - I
Still another ship, a coastal
vessel, was strafed ueiar Keg'ota
Senna ta island In the iTanunbar
bland group.
The raiders of Newak, striking
at dawn, ran into a heavy anti
aircraft barrage but weathered It
and all returned safely
to base.
Off the Trobriand islandsj al
lied fighters shot down
a Japanese
bomber which was on
reconhais
sance.
Meanwhile, grim evidence of the
Bismarck sea battle was observed
north of Goodenough
off New Guinea. f
island: and
Floating rafts and
lifeboats
carrying dead Japanese moved
slowly along on the two-mile-an
hour current which Cows toward
Goodenough. A spokesman at
headquarters said only a few such
rafts and boats had been see:
h, all
that remained of the
22-ship
Jap
sunk Bis-
anese convoy shattered and
by allied airpower j
marck sea.
in the
The meeting will be attended
also by A. L.' Powers, 'president
of the state ; bankers' association
and assistant vice president of the
United States Natiohal bank of
Portland, and i E. Hi . Greenwood.
secretary of the association ; who
witn wuiiam tznrlstlanson. presi
dent of the Commercial National
bank of Hills toro and a state vic
tory fund committee fnembeij, have
organized bankers of the state to
runner war bond sales by serving
in ; the victory fund! oraanization.
I Chairmen; of the victory! fund
committees from the four icoun
ties are Elmer Williamson, presi
dent of the Bank of ! Albany!: J.
Booth; vice presidenjt of the Ben
ton County ' State ibank; :F. E.
Chambers, caiiiier of the First Na
tional : bank of Monmouth, and
Card, vice president of the United
l a urn 4to jrafo i-k-oury "aj
Oregon to Get
Midwestern
Families
OKLAHOMA CITY, March
le (;p)-One hundred Oklahoma
farm families within the next
two er three' weeks will bo of
fered free trips to Oregon and
Washington for resettlement in
labor shortage j areas, f arm se
curity administration officials i
disclosed Wednesday.
Ted Watson, regional FSA of
ficial, confirmed by telephone
from Dallas reports the federal
agency planned te recruit "un
der employed": Oklahoma farm
labor for transfer te the west
coast.
Watson, adding he had ' au
thority to recruit 3M Texas
families also, said the F8A be
lieves Oklahoma ' has enough
farm labor If It is used In max
imum production rather thou in
so-called 4 subsistence er sea
sonal fr work.
Thevvernment plans te pay
expenses ef moving the famil
ies and probably wil allow
them to take a "reasonable;!
amount ef household furnish
ings. Fifty families are to go te
Washington and St te Oregon, i
Watson added. 1 j
"The head ef the family will ;
be guaranteed a minimum of j
SSe m month for nine months ef
the year," the Official explained.
"Other members of the families
will be able to find seasonal
employment, and probably " te
boost the average earnings' to!
$99 er fief a mouth. The fam
ilies will be furnished with;
housing, a garden, chickens and
a cow. Fruit will be given, themj
or furnished cheaply."
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t aster JJralt
Of 3-A Hinted
In Committee !
WASHINGTON, March lO-T")
A hint that the current rate not
draft inductions may be speeded
up came Wednesday in a state
ment from Charles P. Taft, assist
ant director of the office of de
fense health and welfare services,
that all 3-A registrants may be in
ducted by mid-summer. l
When Chairman Paul V. Mc
Nutt of the War manpower com
mission disclosed last month that
WASHINGTON, March j It
(iP)-The senate agreed to vote
Thursday (at 11 a. m. PWT) on
legislation to defer essential
farm workers from the "draft.
The vote wilt occur on a substi
tute offered jby Senator 0Ma
honey which would direct se
lective service boards te defer
full-time farm workers who
produce stipulated quantities of
vital crops, j
the induction rate was 12,000 a day
it was indicated the 3-A ! class,
composed of knen 18 to 38 with
dependents, would pot be exhaust
ed before thi later part of the
year.- - f j
Taft's estimate, based o fwhat
the selective j service people tjld
me," was given a senate appro
priations committee last week,.
It was reported to the! senate
Wednesday as that body debated
proposals forj deferment of frm
workers coincident with these de
velopments elsewhere on the -labor
and manpower situation: y .
1. Senator Downey ; (D-Calif)
said "while there is talk of about
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Salem, ktuniyiile
Soldiers
WASHINGTON, March 10 Mfi)
The war department , Wednesday
announced the! "names y of y43
American soldiers listed ; as miss
ing in action in the European,
middle east, jnorth African, Njprth
American and south Pacilie areas,
and at sea in the north Atlantic.
Next of kiri live in 42 of S the
states, y, . "yyt
V Wednesday's list Included for
Oregon: ' yiy b i-yy i;-y jy y ;'y
-i European area: v ; s :
f - Staff .Sgt.! Carl E. Dlson;i ir.;
sister, ; Mrs. ) Donald M- Hatch,
route: one, Aumsville.y -iyy ; -
Pvt Rkhard P. Damm; mother.
Mrs. Alma M. Damm, ! 1465 Cen
ter street, Salem.- ij'-;
Pvt. Charles A. Hitsco; father,
Haydenu E. Hitson, BomanM i
y CpL Robert S., Perdue; mother,
Mrs. Ethel Perdue,- box 17, Rose
burg4,:-:-yl;4,y --ife M
FR Shows
h .y.- i -:yy-'-i.-y .yy
Security
lilt
nesources rjanning
Board Proposes .
'Patne8hip,
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
WASHINGTON, March 10
CflP-Pr,esident Roosevelt Wed
nesday laid before congress a
vast new cradle-to-grave pro-,
gram of social; security and' a
blueprint of a post-war Ameri
ca in which t h e government
would be in partnership with
many businesses and labor would
share In industrial management
(See also story on page 2). '
The far-reaching proposals are
products of the national resources
planning board, which contended
that with proper planning the
nation may hope ; for a life - of
abundance unparalleled In all his
tory. - i ; .
Mr. Roosevelt asked "full con
sideration" at this congressional
session of the steps proposed. In a
letter of transmittal, he told the
congress:
"We fight today for security few
our nation and at the same time
we can endeavor to- give our cit
izens and their families security
against attacks from, without, and
against fear of economic distress
in old age, in poverty, 'sickness,
involuntary . unemployment . and
accidental injuries. We need to
look forward.' ter the, .accomplish
ment "of these j objectives world
peace democratic society : and a
dynamic economy," y '"
But there was little immediate
enthusiasm manifest in e e n
gress. Chairman George (D-Ga)
of the senate finance committee,
which would consider such leg
islation, said he did not believe
congress would be ready to pro
ceed at this session with broad
ening the social eecurity system.
The national resources planning
board is headed by Frederic A.
Delano, the president's uncle. The
board - recently ; has encountered
difficulties in congress, where
funds to keep it going after next
June 30 have been rejected by the
house and by a senate committee,
The proposals are contained in
two reports. The one dealing with
social security Is entitled "secur
ity, work and! relief policies."
Somewhat larger in form than the
average metropolitan telephone
directory, it is 640 pages long,
printed in double columns on slick
paper.
The second document was entit
led "National j resources develop
ment - report for 1943" and in
some respects j took on the nature
of a supplement to the first. Thus
It suggested that "equal access? to
education"! should be a post-war
aim, adding that on the college
level this j might be attained by
grants to Students or work oppor
tunities. . . ' .'
'Security, work and relief pol
icies' reviews: the general history
of relief and Social security for the
past 10 years,
'.Highlights of proposals Wed
nesday by the national resour
ces planning' board:
SOCIAL SERVICES .
Benefit payments to workers
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GOP to Seek
Riiml Passage"
tv- -: . j -,.:: -- .
:v WASHINGTON, March 10 HP)
House republicans will hold a
conference Monday, to array, party
strength in an effort to' pass the
RumI pay-as-you-go. tax plan, it
was . learned Wednesday night. -..
Rep. Martin ; of " Massachusetts;
the republican leader, ".announced
the conference, and other prom
inent republicans said it will seek
to put the party's representatives
behind the plan - to skip an in
come tax year in' arriving at a
Current-payment basis. s
The republican meeting was ar
ranged " shortly after ' the house
Ways and, means committee, fol
lowing weeks of study, approved
a compromise Income tax collec
tion plan putting "pay-as-you-go
on an optional basis for each tax
payer, without any tax abatement,
and imposing a 20 per cent with
holding levy against the taxable
portions - of pay envelopes and
salary checks." -
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Okeh; Social -
Security; Barred
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
S3
Labor's long - sought
OCC
pational disease law passM
both houses of the legislature if
the closing hour Wednesday
along with the much-disputed
automobile drivers respon
bility act, the barbers minimum
price bill and a series of les&f
workmen's compensation propu
als. -y- '
The state social security fiifi
which the house passed, possir
with the expectation that it wonm
not - get through the senate, fa
tabled in the upper house with ynk
explanation ' that its proponents
agreed it contained "serious- 4e
' fecial '--;-ry ' !
.W Consistent; employer- sentiment
in opposition to the .limited Jur
trial provision In the. occupation
al disease law resulted In its hf
ing stricken from the' bill in She
house. Sens.-Walsh and Wall'Jfee
receded from their demands rffir
retention of the Jury i trial pff
viso and the house yielded to sen
ate pressure for determination! f
injuries by : three doctors, qo
named by the employer, oneby
the injured workman and e
third " neutral, in lieu ol a psfel
Of medical men. ' $ i
Walsh, author of the bill, e
dared "three quarters" of 3t
value had been saved. The MSI
defines occupational diseases was
accidental injuries for whftS
compensation may be collected
under terms of the workmen
compensation act. A meass1r
with similar purpose lost out"ln
the closing hours of the lf4l
session. .' i. '
. The barbers thought their bat
tle for price-fixing as gooct h
won until it' reached final passage
in the senate bearing hcioe
amendments. Sen. WalHce,
spokesman for the bill, neglected
to ask; a call of the senate 4hd
failed by one to muster the neces
sary majority of 16 j votes. .The
senate refused a few minutes later
to reconsider Its action, but, re
versed its" position j Wednesday
night, suspended the rules
voted 18 to 12 in favor of they'll.
, The act provides mat upon pe
tition of 70 per cent of the bar
bers . within , a specified locality
the barber board shall hold hear
ings and set minimum v prices for
the various - barber shop serfiCes
within that area. , -1 '
Attacked by : Sen. Walsh1' is
"rotten" and an . imposition of
penalties on innocent perss,
the motor vehicle responsftd
ity . act passed the senate, XI to
'9. . It' would .require motorists
, Involved m an accident to lve
proof; such as by bond, of their
- flnaneial responsibility, to like
- secretary of state, -who wltttd .
be required, If they, failed tf do
so, to revoke their lleenses.y
Lesser workmen's compensation
measures passed included:
Levying of A small percertage
cbjurgi. on r employers, subject to
the: compensation - act to pap for
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IricqmeTaXr
Grace Given
.ft.
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Sales
1 '-'M
nesi
siDiiitvr?
11 - w
Bill Enacted
Fifteen daysr grace was given
state ' income taxpayers yfceni.
the e enate - and bouse , agVed
Thursday to change the due ate
on first payments and fnin of
returns from April 1 to Apr$l5.
A proposal to give: a dlscnt;
to taxpayers paying for arar
la fuU was eliminated. -J-V:-
Quarterly instead of semian
nual payments also were aufl:or-
ixed. P -:7't "'fi -:- :"'
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v. y-:". : : '. y -:'y
- "f'K'y'
Max:
Mill idipiprbved
WW I o J
Haujaii Gains
BatMPowets
nONOIJLJLU, March j lt-P)
War-struck i Hawaii advanced 1
another r S;tep toward j normal
Wednesday with the restoration
to civil j agencies of 19 govern-,
mental fanetiens that haVe been
under the control of the mili
tary sine the attack oa Pearl
Harbor jby the Japanese.
Martial law, however, ro
sains in effect, along with the
suspension of civil rights of ha
beas corpus. .
The ireatoration became ef
fective af a ceremony Wednes
day mj historic Iolanl palace.
A warning was voiced at the
ceremonies by A dm. Chester W.
Nunlts,h iommander-In-cblef of
the Pacific fleet, that the ene
my "still has the capacity to
attempt a destructive raid." He
said, however, that HawmH had
been "greatly strengthened."
irms
"' YearExtenBioti
. Renublican Rider
On-Payment Denied
WASHfNfcTQN, March 10H?)
A year's extension of the lend
lease act; was voted overwhelm
ingly by the house Wednesday af
ter it blocked a republican-sponsored
attempt to sUte specifically
that mrniVMa ahall have the final
say on 'what this nation (will seek
The 40? to 6 house votf sent the
bill to! the ; senate, whose foreign
relations committee ednesday
unanimously approved a! compan
ion measure but with 4 warning
that thej Senate expects major
post-warj economic agreements to
be submitted to it as treaties. "We
don't recognize the authority of
the lend-lease organisation to
make commitments binding the
United States as to postf-war eco
nomic; policy," Chairmaii Connelly
(D-Tex) said.
Houselapproval of thej extension
rnm iut a few minutes after
jection Jf a rider, which might
have had, in months anid years to
come, la faifreaching effect on for
eign policy, Vv: I I
Defeat df the riderj-a . major
victory W the administratiori
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Abneal Voiced
. JL! M. a ;, . - - i
As Red Gross
Funk Short
An appeal to the people of Sa
lent tov consider seriously the Sit
uation; fating the American Red
Cross war fund campaign commit
tee was f sounded Tuesday jby
Judge George RossmaiL chairman
of the Mrion county jchapterj y
" Said Judge y .; Rossman: Our
driv fori funds needs ilarger ccm
tributionJ many, many larger
contributions not only from the
thousands who have not given, but
also from hundreds who have giv
en Only dollar or tvfo and who
can afford to give mdre! r
' Th4 Bed Croao-badty- needs the
amount lire - are endeavoring t
raise. Every dollar of; it will be
spent, wbely and frugally in hu
manitariin work. But j the requir
ed amount will not be raised un
less; those of us who can give $5,
S10 and similar amounts do so,'
"I . sincerely hope that every
friend of the American Red
Cross, and of the bbys . In-tini-
fornv villi 'give oncef more.";The
solicitor are obtaining plenty of
memberships; but this Is .wartimej
and what we need and need badly
are wartime contributions." . I - j
Salenit is short S 11 .23 1 of it
quota 'ef $31,000 while 35 f per
cent of the solicitation' field re
mains So be covered. War Fun4
tlouseAii
S i
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l rniry nirhfrn irvrhim
Tieup in House
Delay
s:
Tax Vote Set
Session Shortest
Since 1937; All
Business Cleared
By RALPH C. CURTIS
Dramatically as it has opened,
Oregon's 42nd regular legisla
tive session ended Wednesday
night, of ficially at 11:30 o'clock
but actually at 11:41, having in
it closing day submitted a sales
tax measure to the voters but
failed and therein lay the
drama to provide for . a special
election. . -. ' 'y
Throughout the final few hours.
save for adoption of a few con
ference reports ironing out di f
ferences between the two
branches, the legislature was
deadlocked as it had been on the
two opening days.:: But this time
the deadlock . centered in the
house of representatives and the
senate cooled ttr heel. V
. . . . m At. - A
versy was the special election 1
bOl. passed Zl te S In the after-
jBOoa by the senate. It had beeu
amended there to provide for
the vote on November 2, 1943, '
Instead of September Zl. after
Sen. W. E. Burke had objected
to holding the , election In the
midst of harvest -work.
The house battle began the mo
ment the bill was read for the)
first time in that branch. A mo
tion to exDcdite it to second read
ing, by suspending the rules, waa
blocked for lack of a two-third
vote; the count was 32 te 28 in
favor of the motion.
Thereafter the opponents, ani
mated by a belief that the war
effort should not be impeded by
a political campaign this year,
fought off a half dozen motions
to suspend the rules but failed
three times to win indefinite post
ponement. This group was. led
more or less by Rep. Giles)
French, J. IX Perry, H. H. Chind
gren and Leo Smith. . Reps. John
Steelhammer and John Hall were
most active in pressing for the
bill's passage. ' ; : y
. The count fluctuated; on succeeding-
ballots and proponents
managed f get the bill. to second
reading by a 40-20 vote but-was
balked again there until oppo
nents were j convinced they had
enough votes to defeat the meas
ure. Then f they permitted ! the
rules to be suspended and on the
ope "third reading" ballot, pre
cisely at 11 p. nL, they won out,
31 to 29. Proponents still had an
other trick in reserve. Rep. Steel
hammer changed his vote and -after
the customary group singing
which marks the session's end
moved to reconsider.
The clock was then ticking
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. BOCA GRANDE. Fla March 10
JPjrJ P Morgan rallied Wednes
day xrom a neart . attack which
caused great concern, to associates
of the 73-year-old financier. ,
latest word from his sickroom
in a cottage at the ultra-exclusive
Casparilla Inn was of "a slight but
definite improvement" He had
passed a good night.
-Late afternoon bulletin from the
banker's New York office said:
"The improvement reported this
morning in Mr. Morgan's condi
tion has continued during the day."
.Two of his daughters were at
the bedsifffe, but Morgan's condi
tion had improved ij i "ch in the
past two days that hlj i n, Henry
Sturgis .Morgan, and a Tampa
heart specialist, yDr. - AVillLam C.
Blake, felt, safe In leaving t' ?
island where the Interne'..: 1
banker had planned to rest.
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