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PAGE TWO " Thsv 02GON STATESMAN, Ccdem Oregon. Tuesday Morning, March IS. 1S43 Hoover partis Farms Failing F (Continued from Page I) F "The home front is as important as the military front. he said. The home front of the greatest staying power, of the greatest re sources, of the greatest will to en dure and work will give the great est strength to the military front "A weakened home front will weaken . the military front. Wars can be won or lost ' on the home front in this war as in any war.. 'We have weaknesses , on the home front . . ... One of these weaknesses is in the food sector. And indeed, of the different sec tors of the home front food is the greatest. "It stands next to the military effort in importance. Food serves on both the home and the foreign fronts. We have not only the job of feeding ourselves, but also our allies. "And if we would have peace after the war instead of the an archy of starving Eurepe-we must be prepared to meet. , that also. Therefore our food production must be strengthened for a huge and: long sustained effort. "Moreover, while our civil pop ulation can be deeply deprived of most other consumers' goods there Is a sharp limit to what it can en dure in food and still-be physical ly effective for its part in the war." Hoover said there now existed "fire certain" drains or deficits in our normal larder, and listed them as: -"'?"; " 1. This is ne longer a rreat feed surplus nation, having a ' surplus only, hi cereals. "With this exception, cereals., he said, the day after Pearl Harbor ear national eapboard waa potential ly partly abort af its normal food." 2. "We are compelled to open our larder, already depleted by blockade of our imports, to help Britain, Russia and others through lend-lease." 3. The nation's armed men eat more than civilians and must have a priority on. ' the larder. . 4. The increased numbers en gaged in hard physical labor need more food.-. . .. 5. "The fifth and most disturb ing thing about four nationwide larder," he said, "is the prospec tive decrease in our food produc tion. Secretary (of Agriculture) Wickard has- repeatedly warned we will produce less in 1943 than in the last year." Red Cross Reaches 50 Millions Mark NEW YORK, March 15 JP) Contributions of $50,000,000. to the 1943 Red Cross war fund so far was announced Monday night by Waiter S. Gilford, fund chairman. Gifford told a rally that pros pects are encouraging for reach ing the $125,000,000 goal by the end of the month. ON the HOME FRONT By ISABEL CHILDS ; When, and if, I learn to read the Chinese language, the first bit of literature I ashall seek is the classified page of a city newspa per. : v Leaving the hometown advertis ing art untouched (as good taste anould dictate), I turn to Jhat of metropolitan' papers when I want , real reading recreation. All sorts of visions come with description of New York apart ment, "suitable for single business woman, $1500," or the ST Chron icle's "attractive front studio, mar ine view, $22.50, private home.' jquaiiy suggestive or greener pastures are the employment -st,ij u3 luuicaimc mat, wita out experience, a woman, college graduate can ask up to $200 a month fpr "newspaper work" . . nd get it! Of course, by the time uiat paper had arrived m Salem some college graduate should have snapped up the JobJ Any how, I couldn't meet the require ments, for I've had experience of a sort. . ' ; but for sheer relaxation give me the "Personal'" column. Next to an ad which says "Scratching wont am fleas" Is one that tells where and how "Charming Es corts" may be secured, no prices mentioned. But if you are a young lady, 21 to 35. you may get intro ductions free through the next ad vertiser. t " ' -V- - J ;.l - Prize of the lot was that of a "Gable type" man, "with Autry Voice," who was, I believe, inter ested in correspondence with a view to matrimony. I kept the ad in my desk for weeks, and now IVe lost it. Oh, well, he was prob ably snapped up long ago by an feighfh grade graduate with ex perience! - - . I; Do this' Try pmaaaa Ve-cro-nol. it ill t (2) soothes irritation, (3) relieves transient nasal cone&taa . . . And "trim greater breathing .-SVV crtniort. xcuu uze r c j JIT dlst Ruml Reminds His Proposal Would Have Tax Pcud Now I , f SAN FRANCISCOJ March lS-Beardsley Ruml reminded American taxpayers Monday night that although they have paid a quarter of their 1042 Income tax they still owe the government nearly a full year's taxj while under his pay-as-you-go plan they City Eine Selv Broken Glass k C (Continued from Page DC a claim from Mrs. Bertha Conx lin for a $70 doctor's bill, result ing from a fall km a downtown street corner during snowy: weath er. She broke hr arm; and: was unable to ' work i for - six, weeks, Mrs. Conklin declared in a letter to the council but would not ask remuneration for! work missed. City , employes cut grass and weeds on 221 parcels of land in Salem last year; for 108 such jobs 1- f A " 1 - J A A , 5 uie ciij rcvrri vcu pay 1 1 rig $187.58; delinquent payments for work on 115 lots amounted to $312.98, according to a report by pity .Engineer 3 H. Davis. f Notices af needed grass eat ('Ung were seatjte 471 property ; owners, and M parcels of, , property were trimmed by their ; owners, .Davis fsald, sagrestiag that If the werk af the street department in caring far this task was not satisfactory It misht be turned over la another - office. j 1 j Sale of 11 and a fraction lots for sums totaling $2125 was authoriz ed in a series of ! resolutions adopted in one action, and a reso lution providing, for official clos- ure of the never-opened north- south alley in I block j 4, Capitol Park: addition, was adopted. ! Hop Mating Cons Ceiling i - j j ! SALT LAKE CITY, March 15- (fl-Representattves of (growers of 89 per cent of the nation's hops discussed with brewers and gov ernment officials Monday proposed imposition of ceiling prices on the 1943 crop. ; E. G. Even of j Washington, DC, acting head of the beverage sec tion, office of price aeiministration, presided at the closed hearing Participants declined; to comment on progress. I'M No ceiling price was imposed on the 1942 crop. j Brewers said a deficiency in the supply of hops appeared in pros pect since imports from foreign countries had been cut off. Growers from Washington, California. Oregon and Idaho which together produce" all but one per cent of the hops grown in this country--attended the! conference which continues Tuesday. Rubber Picture Said Brighter DETROIT, MarcH 1$.-JP)-Wil-liam M. JeffersJ national rubber coordinator, Monday pictured the outlook in the rubber situation as brighter, but asserted that it would be from a j year to IS months "before we know where we stand on synthetics." "We will be close toj the danger point in November or December of this year,' Jeffera; said at a press conference. He added that from' that point on the curve should move steadily upward. The reclaimed; rubber program. ne said, was "going on! very well," with, enough scrap on hand for Prof. Kelly Died Curits Kelly, professor of bus iness administration at Oregon State college, died at Corvallis Monday morning. Match 15. Sur vivors include the: widow, Corval lis; two sons. George D. -Kelly of Salem and Clinton Kelly of Bos am Mass.: three sisters. Mrs. C. E. Clowe of Dexter, Mo4 Mrs. W. H, Dunkm of Portland and Mrs. E. T. Reid of Salem. Funeral ser vices are to oe neld at 2 pjn. Wednesday at Corvallis. Volcano Threatens URUAPAN. Mexico, March 15 UP) Ashes from the volcano at San Juan Parsgaricuuro, which became active several weeks ago, began falling Upon j this city of 10,000 Monday, and borne inhabi tants evacuated, immediately. The volcano is 30 miles from here. Taxing US Favored t. ATLANTA, IMarch 1&-WVA bul to tax federal Agencies com peting with' private enterprise in Georgia, on the; same scale as the private business is!. assessed. passed the state house unani mously Monday. L Wee J Fred J. Rice.! at the residence. 950 Market street. March 15, aged sa. trtirvived oy three, sons, F. a. Rice and Glen K. IRIce. both Salem, and Paul Rica of Everett, wash.; one brotherj Cw Oj Rice of Salem; six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral an nouncements la ter by Clough Barrfck compaay. i:Mn-: i -f Too Late todassify Due to fire in km Inchon w would be all paid up. The payment would 'j be the same," he explained in a nation wide broadcast, ? "but our, finan cial situation would be much bet ter. Being free of income tax debt will increase our security .and re duce our fear of loss of ; income from whatever cause." Ruml, -who is chairman of the federal reserve bank of New York, treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co' of New York and a director of the na tional bureau of economic re search, said he was" optimistic about the chances of getting 1943 income payments on a jjj current basis although the house ways and means committee has twice de feated his plan to skip an income tax year to accomplish this. Income taxpayers want to pay their taxes on a current basis," he said. They want to be free of in come tax debt and they; know it can be done without hurting the treasury and without paying two years' taxes in one." As to the method of changing over from the present ft system. Ruml said that was "as simple as daylight saving time." i Ruml said much confusion had been caused hv reference to "for. ;'fgving, one year's taxesj Ruml said, "that this year the tax payers will have a year in which he pays no taxes and'; that the treasury will have a year in which it gets no revenue. Nothing could be further from the truth. "We will avoid this error if wa think of the plan as a change in the method of assessment, as the turning of the tax clock ahead, not as the stopping of the clock. We shall all go along paying our taxes as we have before, only they will be on a current basis. Nazis Corral French Labor BERN, Switzerland, March 15-4 (iP) -German SS and regular troops; were reported Monday night to be rounding up Frenchmen for forced labor by house-to-house raids in Lyon and other district, in some cases seizing Frenchmen and shipping them off to Gerf many by freight carload lots withj out allowing them to' communi cate with their families. The nazis led details of French police in house-to-house night raids, and fear was expressed that even women 18 to 35j years old might be mobilized for work in Germany, advices reaching Bern reported. German and Italian ! occupation authorities meanwhile (kept hands off the troubled Haute fSavoie dis trict, where the Vicfiy govern ment had sent more than 1000 mo bile guards equipped jwith rnach me-guns to rout out I more than 5000 youths who had taken to the woods and the mountains to evade forced labor. I Roosevelt Leaves i NW Hospital I VANCOUVER, Wash, March lS.-C-The Vancouver barracks public relations office disclosed that Maj. Kermit Roosevelt ' was released Monday from the army hospital here after recovering man several weeKs or serious 1X1 ness. I i " In a statement to the press, the office said Major Roosevelt con tracted the illness, which was not described, while on duty with the army in Alaska. . j 11 Major Roosevelt, 1 53-year; pld son of the late Theodore Roose velt, is a veteran of j the last; war, served with , the British in Nor wegian and Libyan f campaigns! in this war and rejoined the United States' army when entered hostilities. this country Two Children Die In Vancouver Fire . I .-. VANCOUVER, Wash., March lS.-)--Two children died Mon day night in a fire jthat destroyed the farm home of jMr. and Mrs. David Brown .six miles north of here. Jj j- - ! - The Browns returned from a nearby store to find the house in flames. They ran inside to rescue their two-year-old son, Allan,! but he was dead on arrival at a hos pital. The body of) Diane Berger, 4, who was staying! with the faun-fly,- was ! recovered after the flames, subsided. ? I ' h Ends Tenlte! . "Flying Tigers": - -; John VFayne - Anna Lee "MUG TOWN The-Dead End Kids w -and Tharaday I J j P1 a . I 13 11 v- xa; hi And - s i 'Of the CAP; Elaririsr'.EeaAlJ Tieagxn Court IJpholds ICC in Rail ; Reorganizing I WASHINGTON, March 15-P) The interstate commerce commis- sion was upheld in general by the supreme court Monday in two railroad reorganization plans, both of which excluded stockholders from participation, and one of which excluded! unsecured credi tors. The reorganizations were in' stituted in-1935 under the federal bankruptcy aet. f . Numerous other reorganizations had been held up to await the Court's pronouncement as to the validity of the i ICCa Trocedure. Counsel for Investors who opposed the plans said rthat the decision had a bearing on the reoreaniza tion plans of aft railroads in re ceivership or trusteeship, consti hating 29.5 per fjeent. of the coun try's entire railroad znileace. The court upheld in its entirety M reorganization plan for the Western Pacific railroad in a de cision written by Justice I Reed. The plan for the Chicago, Mil waukee, St. Paul and Pacific rail road was affirmed except for two minor points- involving thai treat ment of genera mortgage bonds and 50-year bonds which were remanded to the district court for settlement; this decision was by Justice DouglasL : Justice Roberts dissented in part to both decisions and Justice Frankfurter in part to the Western Pacific. Justices Jackson and Rut ledge did not participate. ) In both cases the manner of the ICCs finding that the: eouitr or tne existing stock had no value was specifically upheld. On this basis the ICC found that no secur ities or cash should be distributed to those claims under - the reor ganization, gi r f In other actions the court re versed itself and granted a re view to three alleged members of Murder, Inc.," sentenced to death in connection with the slaying of Brooklyn, NY, storekeeper. The court, which denied a re view a month ago, did not explain its unusual action Monday. The three prisoners, Louis Lepke" BuCh alter, Emanuel Weiss and Louis Ca pone, contend ed there was reasonable doubt that they had a fair trial because of strong publiq sentmeint! against them. - t The court refused to reconsider its recent decision upholding the conviction of Enoch L. ;Nucky" Johnson, former Atlantic City, NY, republican leader convicted j of evading income taxes, or to review the conviction of Orman iW. Ewing, former democratic nation al coinnutteexhan from Utah, on a charge of raping a 19-year-old government worker here. Cot Loan Sought Soldier IDormitorv ? -if Block leaders of Salem are cur rying their assigned residential areas to locate cots which might be used in tie city's soldier dor mitory project, Miss Hazel Har per, head of the county block leaders' organization said Tuesday night i I Five hundred beds are needed, the citizens . service corps has been informed, with those of the collapsible- variety given a' pref erence rating. j j Cots borrowed will be perman ently marked with the owners' names and (addresses for return after the war, Miss Harper said. Portland U Students See 52 Leave, Army PORTLAND, Ore-, March iS-iff) -The University of Portland stu dent body turned out Monday to see 52 students entrain fori active service in the army. Classes were dismissed for the rally in which the band ahd glee dub partici pa ted at the depot The 52 are the school's first big group of army enlisted reserves called to outyi - Argentine Break Seen j DETROIT, March 15-fJpV-Dr. Ricardo Joaquin Alfaro, secretary general of the American Institute of International Law. and; former president of the republic of Pan ama, predicted Monday that Ar gentina soon would Join the Other nations of Latin America hi break ing relations with the axis powersJ Lewis Warns Mines NEW YORK, March 15-MP) John L. Lewis Monday i advised northern soft coal mine operators they could assume that 'failure" to negotiate a? pact by March SI giv ing wage boosts to 450,000 miners would keep those men out of the mines April 1. As much 'entertanl-t ment as one screen can hold! VThat": Bssraa Scares.! A triaaapn W '. Techni color. .. j 1 J Capital-Post Celebrates . Legion's 25th Anniversary i j A capacity crowd was in attendance at the 25th anniversary party celebration by Capital post No. 9, American Legion, in Legion hall Monday night. Twenty five-year membership cards were presented 5S Income Tax Payers Rush OnLgst Day, E (Continued from Page 1) E us two to three weeks to cah up. ; ! - K . .1 r. ; . M "It's impossible to estimate the number of people filing income tax returns 'with us," the acting deputy internal, .revenue collect or 'announced in Salem late Moo- day night as the midnight dead line drew near.' "We're swamped. We're so far behind, we've just been throwing the returns into a drawer for future sorting." i j j Meanwhile, postal clerks with jaa afterataaa closing hear heaved a sigh ef relief after be ing besieged for money orders far the past week. While the queue Into the internal revenue office lengthened lata Monday, postal clerks got the jump en the crowd by opening windows 15 minutes early an Monday and, with four windows open, naajtaaeel te beadle traffic rxne last minute rush was blamed partly by Postmaster Henry R. Crawford on the vacil lating 1943 income tax policy in congress. An extra full-time worker was available at the deputy collect ors office this year, and open of fice 'hours were lengthened. Definite information as to the amount of tax receipts filed or the number of persons making re turns could not be estimated due to direct mailing to the Portland collector. Giraud Invites French Union ALGIERS, March 15 -(JPy-Gta. Henri Giraud cleared the way Monday for negotiations to end the disunity in North Africa by ex tending to Gen. Charles de Gaulee, Fighting French leader, a formal invitation to join all the French together under one banner. This move followed auicklv Giraud s announced house-clean ing of pro-Vichy North African of iiciais two oi wnom were re ported Monday to have already handed in- their resignations. i The invitation to de Gaulle was issued in the form of a letter to den. George Catroux, Fighting French delegate general to Syria, who is expected in Algiers soon to serve as liaison agent between Giraud and de Gaulle. j (A spokesman for the Fighting French in London described the Giraud invitation as "encourag ing." De Gaulle declined comment immediately because he had not yet received the message through Catroux.) Iron Fireman Ranks High for Engines I PORTLAND, March 15.-jp-T. H. Banfield, president of the Ipon Fireman Manufacturing company here, told his workers Monday the firm now ranks as the third largest builder of Lib erty ship engines.- j He spoke at a ceremony at which the plant was awarded the maritime commission's "M Bur gee and the victory fleet1 flag for outstanding achievement. TX trTTXt HOif C WTX f WT TC Big WT n aa hike FOB THI House LMues j . eeeend CJr Ct 1 " 'r BZJ6NVS r . e m ixiciuuers o wnwr. in v. ru cher. A timely feature- of the meeting waa the induction of two new members, both veterans of the present war Clifford Mudd and Cleo Hiatt. K, J Among - the guests - were three members of the royal air force af England, en route from Calgary to their home ; base in England. The three were Kenneth Turner of Kennelworth, Herts,! P. Lovegrove of Shoreham ) and Av Acca of Beckenham, Kent. Alt three described flying experiences of this war against the Germans, The principal speaker was Carl Abrams, who attended te first meeting ' on March 15, 1913, dunng which the American lit gion was organized in PafM France. An interesting phase j of that meeting; CoL Abrams said, was the; manner In which the name was chosen. A committee on names had failed to present an accept able name .when an army officer from Massachusetts suggested American Legion.? - - t? -The suggestion, the j speaker stated -was received with' such in stantaneous v approval that not even discussion or vote was called for. Th organization. Col Abrfima added, spread so, rapidly thai it was already a nationwide serf ice men's ; fraternity long before its founders returned from Franca in 1918.. -. v.. - ; i ' ; . . y That it was a necessary eut growth of how members of ! the American expeditionary force; felt is today borne out by the fact that it now. is the largest single military man's civilian organlza tion in the world. ' ' Immediately, following Monday night's meeting the crowd retired to the women's auxiliary hall fori a banquet in honor of the occa-j sion. Entertainment from Camp Adair was a part of the celebra tion. Jffi Train Crash Injures 77 KENOSHA, Wis- March l$HJPi Seventy seven persons weNLin- jured Monday night when three-car limited express north bound on the Chicago, North Kore and Milwaukee railroad crashed into a one-car local train six miles south of here. I The more seriously Injured Were taken to hospitals here and- at Waukegan, I1L Attendants said 18 were treated at Waukegan and 3? at Kenosha. The other 22 suf fered minor cuts and bruises and were given first! aid treatment at the scene by a mobile Red ross rescue squad. ' I Hospital attendants said ?hone of those treated was in cE&ical condition. - 1 , Officials ofrthe railroad's ;iain offices in Chicago said the local had stopped to repair a faulty air line when the limited crashed into its rear. '4 Apply for License Charles L. James, Sacrarttento. Calif, and Lois M. Dabbs, Mem, were listed among the mSfriage license applicants at Couer;' 1728 license applications at Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, Monday. LASTTIMES TODAY - twiwwmvi a 9.'. .r m wings rrf .f;, .':V wCh-Gny Kibbee CXTMZL Vt7JCAWp. Uypsfs :1, A A cwacaoorra nut m COFEATURE Octeost of Terror - Lonely Li-hthous I "7 IULES fZOX AUCATRAZr with . James - CrJj - Eonita Grznrille ;. j ; PlanisaiSlasl Grmrfng J,,p Ship Ppicer D (Continued from Page 1) D f Hupeh province, aliounesespokes- - fmsn iaid tha lanini inMrMll , J r rtrj-T were aiming at Chang&ha, where they suffered three previous de feats. The Chinese victory not only erased that threat but inflicted severe losses .on the Invader. i i KUJutf Munda Raided A WASHINGtONl 1 March Kiska in tile lAleutians, lopg hid den" in North iPicific log! again has been hit by American planes, With fighters swooping low to strafe Japanese positions there. The attackVannounced by the navy Monday, was the jelghth made this aaeath- and presaun ably indicated a. lifting of heavy weather . jwbfchf has postponed any major feffert te kaoiek the Japanese from their only peti tion tat the western hemisphere. Several I grounded Japanese planes were damaged by the low flying planes which roared over the rocky island. -f -:, j , : : It was the: first time in recent communiques dealing with the Aleutians that Japanese; planes have been riumttoned. Their: pres ence causedj sorne speculation, but nayal spokesmen expressed .the opinion the planes; should! be con sidered aa nothing more than the complement of aircraft t$ be .ex pected at an outlying bascf The latest in the series ot raids which began March 2 was carried A CA 'I . . . . sturay evening, me-; navy -. ?. H-.- . ' ? - mere was no mention of any (iposiuon eiuer m tne from anti-aircraft fire, f iA.s , -j r t - . " Stntflajr and bemblng attacks' centinne ha the : SomthWest Pa cific, the savyj reported Manda was hit! again for the9tnd bat ne report was made of . damage mflicted. Liberator heavy bombers; also carried out; minor attacks against the Shorttand island areajand Vila on , Kolombrangara island. All re turned safely.' f: , ' I .. The nayialso reported; destruc tion of a j small Japanese Vessel by strafing planes which sighted the craft of fj Rendova island In the New Georgia f islands 170 miles northwest 'of GuadalcanaL": il;rf; ! hr-- Famed Ferry Pilot Kuled muxmtkjcal. March 15 -iJf- -P- v1"00! Alvlnj TTJuke" Schiller,! 4Sf Internationally known pilot of the RAt ferry conimand and coiorfol veteran of Inumerous mercy- missions,! was killed 'Sun day in a crash at Bermuda which also took; the lives of an unan nounced; number of his crew. Details of theiacciden were not included te a brief arm nin cement by the J RAF ferry coipmand, in which Schiller ranked as a senior capUini .fi, 1 '. i -; . ; -r A native of Oonowa. f Ia the Vetera fjier; was widely known. For man? years he was engaged in commercial flying infthe United States jaikl served for a time as pilot fori Gar Wood, Detroit boat builder1 ahd sportsman, s Schiller was best known for his 1928 resucei flight to (the lonely Labrador; Greienley island on which a transAtlantic plane, "The Bremen,! h4d crashed On an east- west flight front Ireland! with three men aboard; Schiller made the last BOO mile hop of thf rescue trip witnout a mapj Northwest rremiere ; Beblnepe'si Latest JIttI STAD7S USD. yoatl ter ssoa cf fcer in d fkfua IlIcNutt likes Job Furlough WASHINGTON. March 15-f4n Waij Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt Isaid Monday ha favored the granting of "Indus trial furloughs" to war workers at unstated intervals as one means of j Combatting , absenteeism. McNutt told a press conference that workers would be stimulated toj greater effort and would stay ' f s a a. . . . m . - on, uieir joos regularly if prom ised vacations, as an incentive. In response to Questions. hm mmtA t t.U I dM . i - , um. up to u employer" toj decide whether workers should be I paid fori the vacation Kn added that pay would be neces sary to furnish real incentive. McNutt also reoorted that th number .of (, workers complying wua requests to transf er f rom non-essential work to more nere. saiy tasks had risen from 10 per ceni last, summer to 40 per cent rtr :eaA . . . . w ituc hwu numoer requested. He said, the 40 ner cent fimn-A established in a sample ! survey conducted by 1 the employment service in January. tty Hardy Sifrna With Beaver Nine Ipoby Hardy, left handed pitcher, said Monday he had mB;it .. signed contract to the , Portland Beavers of the coast baseball league. Hardy was purchased from Beaumont of the Texas league. j ., ContlnnoBs Every Day HE'S IGJjJtCUJ topsI j LmJOjAN IISLII i-PLTJS- TOVR AFRICAN FRONTIER L la Teehnieeler Starts 2 Featnres CllZlL-CLAZUZD DATTia WARNER DROS. ACTION. PACKID DRAMA niCHARO GREENE Tare rty S Castaf TkVaitI i CO -FEATURE - (J i. ' If mm - BIG PICTURE THtKIMG ' $Oflitt& ! taspictaraastls as Its safety set. aetiee, tahtr I 'sssitfsAWVW VaV .fa 1 v ) v r 1 - 1 wi.i t. : The Sons Cf am cioseo mu oayrrueMajr. open Wed- ftW"ivwW.-iW.WW- - i-a ri3 seers- f : Mill iihiiim i Hi ii -mmt u ( l J'j ' .j. mj