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Mi ' . ' : 4- ' - Dim out Fri. sunset 7:31 Sat. sunrise 7:00 (Weather on Pace .7) rf i iv Salem, Oreejon, Friday Morning. March 23, 1943 Prlc 5c No. 273 Today-'. ! V-f 'I- ; Kf) Vs TkS fth a""""'""''""'"1 . mHamm"MmmmmammmmimammKmHmmm j mmhmmmmmmhmmmhmmm -..-I , .jM ,,.IM. -, M'-''i:'-:'- NINETY-SECOND YEAB M 6,i J """ - """""" New Point Values To Be Told Sunday Table Slated; Changes Expected to 4 Be Generally Lower WASHINGTON, March 25 (Jfy-The of fice of price adminis tration announced Thursday .night that a new table of point ' values for processed fruits and vegetables believed substan tially lower than present cou pon costs will be announced in Sunday morning newspapers. 'The disclosure was made in a statement advising storekeepers, wholesalers and others in the food business to apply at their post offices Monday morning for copies of the new chart, which will go Into effect April I. While OP A officials declined to discuss Just what chances' .have been made, they Indicated that numerous redactions will fee- made in the 'point values of rations kinds of cans, bottles and. packages especially fruits and large sixes of other products. These changes have been based on the first few week's experi ence with actual consumer pur chases of rationed fruits and vege tables. Canners and store keepers have complained generally that the public has not been buying canned goods since the rationing began because the point values re -too high. - However, it is ' likely that in a law cases, - point values may be increased because some items are selling faster, than they can be replaced on store shelves. OPA officials said the adjust ment of point values is a normal thing, which may be repeated from time to time as conditions change. The first adjustment, however, may be more general than later ones because the ori ginal . point values, . which went into effect March 1, were based ooly on statistics and "estimates, whereas now OP AUxas actual ex perience to guide it Because of these imminent rhangesT most housewives may refrain from using any of their April fruit or vegetables coupons until the new, points become, ef fective. The April stamps the blue stamps lettered D, E and F to ration book two became valid 'Wednesday, but 1 do not have to be spent until the end of April. For the next six days, con . Burners are permitted if they wish, to use some of their April stamps along : with the rest of their March stamps to buy fruits and vegetables. The March stamps must be used by the'end of this month or they become worthless. . The new point value chart be ing prepared for stores will have printed on the back the new point values for meat, cheese, and fats and oils, rationing of which be gins next Monday. I Meat rationing starts with the red A stamps in the same coupon book, but the first four weekly allotments of meat stamps will remain available until April 30. Thus, in the second week of meat rationing, leftover A stamps can be i used along ' with J3 stamps, with f similar carryovers in the - third and fourth weeks. No expi ration date has been set yet for the stamps of the fifth .week, which will start a few days be fore the stamps; of the first four weeks expire. j ' Duchess Visits ' Oregon Today -' PORTLAND, ' Ore., March 25 (iPy-Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg arrived here Thurs day night on her Pacific coast tour - eager to witness her, : first; ship launching Friday, i - "I never, saw a. ship launched," she told a, interviewer: "I will be thrilled tomorrow. , , f- -' i The , grand duchess was wel- 4 coined by Oregon Gov. Earl Snell . and Mayor Earl Riley of Portland. Later she went to a reception in her honor. Her schedule Friday includes an address before a civilian defense group. The grand duchess is not ex pected to stop in Salem, Oregon's capital, attaches of the governor's office said Thursday. McNary Slayer Free -. SAN QUENTIN, Calif; March SS-W-Bark glasses covering his sightless eyes, ; John M. - Holmes was released from ; San- Quentin prison Thursday after serving 19 months of a 10-year manslaughter sentence for killing Wilson Davis McNary of Portland and Pendie-' 'ton, Ore. . . - - - v -..- - - m Japanese Fishing iri Rm Again Agreed; Soviets Raise Price LONDON, Friday March 26. - (P Japan and Russia, not at war against each ; other but fighting on opposite sides , in the world struggle, have iigned an agree ment extending Japanese . fishing privileges in soviet far . eastern waters, it was announced Friday. A Moscow s broadcast recorded by the Soviet Monitor said, how ever,' that Japanese fishing com panies must pay; between 4 and 5 per cent more jthan during last year. The payments are to be in gold as before, j . i ; :J - j' Under the : 1942 agreement which ended last December 31 the Russians had exacted a 20 per cent, increase in rentals over the price paid by the Japanese the previous yearv I: , . . : s. A. Lozovsky,"; vice commis sar for soviet f preign affairs, and Naotake Sato, 'Japanese ambas4 sador to Russia, signed the 1943 protocol: in Kuibyshev Thursdayj the Moscow broadcast said. j olor parade Fetes Madame Chinese 'Thousands In San Francisco "Welcome Heroine SAN FRANCllSCO, March 25 (jP) Vivid, sunlit colors of flags and costumes flashed against the lush green of Sain Francisco's civic center as thousands of Chinese paraded for more than an hour Thursday past j a jflower-banked cjty hall balcony j to welcome Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. j The wife of the Chinese general issimo told them and additional thousands in the square that the welcome 'h a s j literally left me speechless and breathless. Led by units of the army, navy, marines j and! ROTC, and trailed by Red Cross nurses units. Chinese of all ages march ed with eyes up on their here-' - M" i s-i.i? v 4si Ct. For weeks they had"drrlled. for this event. Bands drew applause from Madame Chiang when they played Chee Lai, the guerilla song. She smiled at the hundreds of children, some io small they tod dled and had ti be led. j A representative unit of (British naval officers and men took part. j Gov. E a r 1 Wafren wished Madame Chiang "success for you and yours." j Mayor Angelo J. Rossi said that San Franciscoans wanted more help sent to Generalissimo, Chiang and to Genera MajrArthiir and they "want it done it once.". In a brief talk accepting the key to the city, she said the Gol den Gate, whose 'ftwo bridges looked from west jto east and spanned from north to south, was a symbol of eternal friendship and understanding between our two peoples." i Madame Chiang added that China, like a phoenix, would al ways arise anew from its ashes and tha$ the new-China for which they : were fighting and building would be a friend of America. iSolo Would IIS Debt Ceilings WASHINGTON, March 2i-(JP) Congress figured Thursday to swap ceilings .with j Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1 ! - " : In effect, it told the president It would lift the national debt ceiling if he wiuld forget his ex-; ecutive order for a $25,000 net kalary ceiling, j. ; ,) .. .i- ! The deal was up jto the presi-S dent after the senate passed a tan dem measure lifting i the national d e b t ceiling to $21 0,000,000,000 from 1123,000,000,000 and repeal ing the president's limitation on salaries-. , '"Vvj--- :. t : . The house Wednesday approved the measure overwhelmingly. ; It was a take - it -j or - leave - it proposition, because if the presi dent ; vetoes the measure, it will be in the face of the treasury's warning that the present statutory debt ; limit is :being . approached rapidly and that . i second war loon 1 drive is set for April. , If he accepts! it in its entirety, jit will be in spite of his assertion to the house ;wayt - and means committee several weeks ago that the salary ceiling - should be re-t tained. j : I . ' I Western Drive Seen ' , - LONDON,; Friday, March: 26-P The German radio j sak Friday that' nazi circles . think that, the Nnited Nations! will ; try to in4 vade Europe's Atlantic coast des-l pite i rumors which it said were "launched from Washington and London that invasion would be through the Balkans. ; ' ; Swap Salary 1 Renewal of the Japanese-soviet agreement generally jis regarded as a gauge of relations between the two countries who have a neutrality agreement! despite the fact that Japan is j allied with Germany, and Russia1 is a mem ber of the United Nations group. Last year's agreement! was signed after Germany had j at tacked Russia, and Japan had at tacked the United States. At the time British and American bffi- Area shown in above map In eludes the soviet waters where Japanese may continue to-' fish, according to agreement signed Thursday. The Aleutian Islands, including Jap-held Kiska, Jut lute the eastern edge of the re gion, j. Restaurants - - i i Plan Cut In Meat Plates The department of agriculture won't have to limit the size Of in dividual servings of! meat so far as one Salem restauranteur is! con cerned, for when thie new three- fourths ration; based on December use of meat, goes into effect this next weekend, at least thai one concern is prepared to cut the size of servings- if necessary. j However, the operator of the restaurant pointed nit, the price differential may lead many per sons to select, macaroni and aim Oar meat-saving dishes much of the time' if they eat out regularly, leaving the choice cuts and. larger servings of meat for "occasions." I - Substitute dishes may loom large on Salem restaurant men us, with eggs, first ieholee in re placing meat, on thie downswing in price, and the lenten season already here, restaurant operat ors contacted by representatives of The: Statesman said Thurs day, ; And if the meat portions are cut, they will be the first such no ticeable cut to be taken by the res taurant diner, although : has paid a higher price for his pneals during war monthsj it was said. When coffee andj sugar ration ing were adopted,; desserts and coffee were still served, although one. cup of the beverage became the rule, and some patrons thought the piece of pie a sliver smaller. Restaurants merely added! more fresh vegetables to the menu jwhen processed foods joined the ration list Butter has been; doled out in single pats with full dinners in most Salem restaurants forj sev eral weeks, not in preparation for the ration but because butter has been scarce. There, will probably be little or no difference in the amount of butter served on the restaurant table with rationing, some restauranteurs believe.; These establishments which, since last December, have cut meat menus won't be as ly affected as others, tt pointed out. If persons who usually eat at home now commence to take an extra dinner downtown, always ordering steaks, they! may expect them to be about the' size of those on the home dinner plate, one waitress suggested Thursday night as she served on a dollar dinner a steak the size- of a; child's; hand. Rationing, unofficial but effective, had already hit the meat business, she opined. . " i ; . i Pope's Health ; ! Said Improving By The Assoeiatod PTessi The Rome radio Thursday night quoted the Vatican city newspa per Osservatore Romano as an nouncing that the health of Pope Pius was improving. ;-u-:f rl-'f . The pontiff, who was stricken with influenza several days ago, "despite; his illness continued ' to look after his affairs Thursday morning, and received ; Cardinal Maglione, the papal secretary of state," ; Said the broadcast, re corded by the Associated Press. ""All other audiences have been postponed until the pope has com pletely recovered, the radio said. lb) PAN cials termed the renewal a pure ly routine matter," and' did not! at tach any international - signifi cance to it. A failure jto renew, however, would have j bedb "re garded as indicating soviet-Jap anese tension. - T ' I The lateness of the signing this year is not significant) sine jthe! same tardiness occurred; last year, In 1942 the terms restricted j the Japanese to bidding for conces sions in only seven of the 12 fish ing grounds, most of them off the Kamchatka peninsula, j ' r A soviet refusal to grant fisb ing rights would be a severe blow to Japan, whose food supply de pends to a large extent on her catch In Russian waters. . Japan received the basic right in the Portsmouth treaty of 1905 ending the Russo-Japanese War, Later a long-term convention was agreed upon, but it expired! in 1936. Since then the negotiations! have been on a yearly: basis, i Reds Capturje Strongpoint Axis Effort Repulsed On Sectors Below,: Above Kharkov j By The Associated Press j j LONDON, Friday, March 26 j Russian troops have overpowered another German strongpoint and captured additional villages in the central front drive toward ; Smo lensk while repulsing axis efforts: to crack their defensive line east of Kharkov in the Ukraine,! Mos cow announced early Friday, j One soviet column pushing! on Smolensk was near Dukhovschino, 32 miles northeast of the central front anchor, and another was op erating near Dorogobuzh, 50 miles east of the big base. 1 The bulletin, recorded by ; the soviet monitor, said one soviet unit outflanked a n a z i strongpoint. knocking out ita- garrison in a short skkirmish which j ended in the ' capture of an undisclosed number of prisoners, an ammuni tion dump, three guns, and " a quantity of rifles and hand! gre nades. j In the Belgorod-Chuguev ; sec tors above and below j nazi4held Kharkov, the Russians said Ger man attacks had collapsed. i Around Belgorod, ft miles north of - Kharkov, the j commu nique said, more than 100 Ger man automatic riflemen were killed when a company of them attempted to cross a water bar rier. Soviet artillery also dis abled five tanks; five anti-tank -guns, and dispersed and anni hilated part of an enemy infan try battalion. I North of Chuguev, 22 miles southeast of Kharkov along ;the Russian-held Donets river defense line, the" Russians said their mor tars disabled or set afire seven! nazi tanks and five self-propelled guns when the Germans; threw 201 tanks and a regiment of infantry! into an attack. Youth Group To Head Gty Salem city officials will take a back seat today and see how youth can administer municipal affairs; Today has been proclaimed by Molay Local Government day, 'and in accordance with past custom. members of Hhat order will j as nunc the positions of the regular ly 'elected or appointed city; of ficials, with the latter watching over their shoulders in case their need assistance. Mayor for the day is Bill Habernicht Presentation of a key to the city to Pat Fish, DeMolay sweet heart, at the city hall at :30 this morning will open! the day's program, which, according to the real mayor's proclamation, is in tended to "familiarize the junior citizenry of this . city with local government.'' Cuffs Star Off; t More CutiSeen, WASHINGTON, March 2Vjf) A proposal to put the cuffs back on men's, trousers, has; beeni re- jected aftc discussion clothing industry, the- withthe war pri- duction board reported Thursday, and instead of lifting restrictions jit is likely that all frills Sand "Use less, trimming . on women's j and men's sweaters and other knitted apparel will: be eliminated. ' l L Thecimen s and boys" ciouung industry advisory committe, con cluded at "; a meeting With WPB officials - that the wool " situation did not warrant relaxation of any present restrictions "; on - men's clothing. - , ; ,- ; j. r n New Food Pirector Selected 1 '.f.. . - i. . ... . Davis Duties Many; Brown Flays Pace, Banklieacl Bills By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK WASHINGTON, March 25 (iflP-President Roosevelt Thurs day drafted Chester C. Davis, 55-year-old Federal Reserve banker with an agricultural background, to head a new food production and distribution set Up in what was widely inter preted as a reply to charges of confusion in the .wartime food program. ! In another farm move, Price Administrator Prentiss ML Brown undertood to halt the movement in congress for higher farm prices, declaring that enactment of the Bankhead and Pace bills would Send food prices up 17 to 18 per Cent,' cost consumers $3,570,000, 000 and destroy the anti-inflation program by compelling relaxation 01 wage controls. Both measures are aimed at increasing far prices. I The measure by Rep. Pace jD-Ga) to include labor costs When figuring parity prices for farm crops came up for debate Thursday in the senate, where Senator Lucas (D-Ill) read Brown's declaration, made in a letter to congressional leaders. Lucas moved to send the measure back to the agriculture commit tee for hearings, and after lengthy debate a vote on this motion was deferred until Friday. The president established the new farm agency within the agriculture department as the "administration of food produc tion and distribution." The White House announced that all food production and distribution activities would be centered In It, Including the agricultural ad justment administration . . and food distribution powers and farm labor - recruitment , activi ties transferred from 'the war (Turn to Page 2, Story D) Willkie Plans To Arouse US To Leadership i NEW YORK, March 25-(F) Wendell L. Willkie said here Thursday night he is dedicating his life "to arousing the American people so that the senate cannot prevent the United States from taking its place in world leader ship." j The 1940 republican presiden tial nominee, addressing a Greek Independence day ' dinner of the American ' friends of Greece, said that "failure of the United States senate to set up a peace recovery program 23 years ago is the cause of today's chaos. ( After the present war, he said, the senate and the American peo ple must initiate a post-war re covery program. "Every place you go in all the world," Willkie stated, "millions are looking to America. They hope and pray that America will lead them to freedom. What is going to be the American people's answer? I have no sympathy for persons who say domestic 'issues come first and-that, we must have ho foreign "entanglements. . ; . "America must see the light "this tune,' and lead the world to it." Judge Learned Hand of the United States circuit court of ap peals, another speaker, said that the Greeks, whe have, "given a gallantry unexcelled by their an cestors," have not lost and will not lose. , : I , : "It. is upon us behind and front on whom it depends, Judge Hand said. ; "We , can depend on our young men who die and -suffer mutilation. The -only question here is whether we shall fail them. Do we know that half a victory is no victory?- - . - Unstirred Sugar Brings Penalties FOKT DCC. NJ. March 5-(r) When Staff Rgt. John : Bocbo, headquarters company mess ser geant, found unstirred sugar la the bottoms of 17 eeffee cups fa the five mess halls he super vises ne reported It to a 1 eons pany ef fleer 7 r..;. ' 'i Thursday the officer told the 17 soldiers, five of them j non commissioned, officers, that the nexi offense would btingj con finement to the company area. , They can have all they 'want te eat, Bee be said, "but they hav te eat IUn Bishop Toura r 'X ADNA WRIGHT LEONARD Visit Slated To Chaplains Roosevelt Suggests Bour-Continent ' Protestant Tour " WASHINGTON, March 25-;p) Bishop Adna Wright Leonard, 68- year-old resident bishop of the Methodist church, announced Thursday he would leave within three weeks to visit the Protestant chaplains and service men of the United States on four continents. Bishop Leonard said that while he had been commissioned to make the trip by the general com mission on army- and navy chap lains, President Roosevelt broached the idea Informally dur ing a recent courtesy call at the White House by the Methodist council of bishops and suggested that Bishop Leonard undertake the mission. The chief executive, the churchman told a press confer ence, expressed great Interest fat the welfare of the chaplains and service men of all denomina tions and said he wanted all the churches te "onderglrd the mor al and spiritual . life" of the fighting men and their spiritual leaders wherever they may be. Theresideht," he added told the, bishops- that the time had come for the Protestant churches to send a representative abroad te render a service for the Protes tants as Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York had done for the Catholic church. - Bishop Leonard said he will be gone about ten weeks and would go first to Iceland, Ireland, Scot land, and England. He will also visit north Africa and "if possible" India and China. The return route has not been definitely determined, but he will try to visit American forces in Liberia and South America. The high Methodist leader said he will also represent the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and the national coun cil of the Service Men's Christian league on the trip. He is presi dent of the latter. Silverton Flier Killed TAMPA, Fla March 25-VPh- Two army lieutenants from Drew Field, Fla were killed in an air plane-crash last Wednesday near Venice, Fla., the field public re lations officer announced Thurs day. , - . The dead were:- Second Lt Myron T. Dirickson, 22, of Silverton, Ore. Second LL Joseph V. MichL Jr, 25, of Bettendorf, Iowa. ; The 'bomber crashed while on training flight- ; . SILVERTON,- March 25 The war department Thursday notified Mr. and Mrs.- Troy E. . Dirickson of Silverton that- their son- Lt Myron Dirickson, : was- killed in an airplane crash at Drew Field, Tampa, C Fla, where- Lt 'A; H Wrightman died; in a crash last December. Funeral arrangements await further, wordv - ' Lt Dirickson ws n graduate of Silverton high school and attended Oregon .State college before en-. listing in ' the air corps. He won his wings " last February " 6 at Luke Field, Arix and visited here briefly before - going : to Florida. He was 21 years eld last Decem ber. C--r'7; V Montgomery Says This Final Battle LONDON, Friday, March 26 On the . eve of the battle now sruging along the Mareth line. Gen. Bernard Lv Montgomery sent a message "to .hie Eighth' ermy troops declaring that the action about to begin . would "mark ' the dose '. of the. . campaign in north Africa," Reuters reported Friday. "We will not . stop nor let up until Tunis has been captured and the enemy either has given up the struggle or been pushed into the sea," Montgomery was quoted agsayics. - EightJi Army in Stalemate; Berlin Admits Troops Fall Back on $ Tunisian Sectors By EDWARD . ALLIED UARTER$ 2MP)-Arherican troops throwing mel besieged Mareth line forces; won control ;of the last mountain barrier overlooking the axis coastal lifelio only 28 miles away.! j - Field ilispatches said the troops of Lt.-Geri. George S. Patton, jr were ranning out on ootn siaes of the. highway a few rules short of . Mezzouna, whose a rf ield al ready has been pounded by : Amer ican "Long ! Toms,", the 155-milli-meterrTiflesf j . i--;' 14 Seventy five miles to the south east in the iMaVeth line, axis ar tillery was dueling wth British Eightk army gune in a6 apparent stalemate :. after German troops had wiped out 'i large part of ear ly British penetrations j of an of fensive begun last Saturday night On Monday German tanks and mf an trymenj. launched a powerful counter-attack fWhich by Tuesday 1 LONDOV, March 2f(jP)-The Morocco radie reported Friday that rteree fightins- 4 fat pro gress ea the! Maretlr line In seathera TnnlsU witlf "bloedy engagements knd hand-to-hand fighting atl several plaees. At almost the samel time the Vichy radio said that attack and counter-attacks were fol lowing each other on the Mareth line and : southeast jof Gafsa, where American ' forces are driving v toward Gabei In the ' Maknassy . region to the north where . another Ansortean eol- sur'i i .Is euitip,K across - central Tunisia' "allied pressure is be- coming stranger,1 the Vichy radio said. tf. - 't:,.?: The Algiers radio said Vatt ed States forces hadadTanced to 4 point about seven- miles east of Blaknassy. had erased ,ar 100-yard British roadway thrown across the Wadi Zigzaou at the eastern end of Mareth line; f A delayed dispatch from Don Whitehead, Associated Press .correspondent with the British, disclosed that this setl back hd prevented the EighUji army from f eiploitind its earlt breach Into Ithe Mareth fortifka tions. t;fj . ' (The Vichy iradie quoted Ber lin reports! late Thursday night admitting an kxis retreat at an unspecified jpoint saying r the) Germans were then attacked by British forces "coming frou the desert. " This kunounee ment may refer to the EI Ham of the Wadi Eigsaou, Where one British eeinntn has outflanked the lower eid of the Mareth This brof deist recolded by trie Associated jPress- said American troops also had . penetrated naii posiuons in tne? Maxnassy region, but claimed; axis counter-attacks rewon the lost tgroundt (Direct German broadcasts ack- (Turn to Page 2 Story. F) .' -- i f ii -. - ; , ii. Bend WASHINGTON, March 25-$f) A new engineer replacement cen- Uer Camp Abbot will be opened May 1 near "Bend, OreV Secretary or War Stimson;: announced Thurs day.. . - It will consist of 15e officers and men in; the original -' trainuig unit They wil move to the camp rrom rort Xbaoaara wooa,, o. rBcer will be CoL Frank S. Bee- son, now at Foft Wood. "' ' - The 'first canp of trainees "at CampL Abbot fwiU be the Slst training.' battalion, , Vhich wU start a 12week basic 'course May 31 Thereafterhe said, new train ing battalions kill revert at two week Intervalsi ' "" -j - : The new camp wag named lor Brig. Gen. H f n r y jL Abbot, j a topographical engineer who help ed survey the route 4f the Paci fic railroad in pie vicinity of Bend. . ' . , 1 Eden Speech Aired WASHINGPN; Mrch The address pf Anthony Eden, British foreign affairs secretary. before the 2arylrd legislature at Annapolis Friday hixht will be broadcast by the ColurnbU Broad- casung System, CBS : announced Thursday night Eden'a speech TdOte will begin at 9 pxj.'""1 tain ;v y:'t;'i: ;-:: ::;- KENNEDY IN NORTH ; AFRICA, March a cordon around Marshal Rom were reported Thursday 4o have Airmen Pound Two Jap Bases - Rabaul Fires Large; Two Cargo Ships ' Bomb-Damaged j ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IH AUSTRALIA Friday March 28. (JP-Allied airmen attacking two of the strongest Japanese bases in', the southwest Pacific scored, hits ; on two enemy cargo ships at Am- -boina, and dumped a great weight of explosives!, including one-' on bombs, on; Rabaul where six hours later 'smoke plume's still . were rising 3.000 feet above the burning wreckage, the allied command announced Friday. - Liberators j were used in both , attacks, and jthe smash at Rabaul , found the four-motored bombers raining explosives on the base for two hours without encounter Ing: any ' fighter Interception .al though anti-aircraft fire was in tense. - - - ; ;- ' ; . ii . ." "Large fires and heavy: explo slons were"seehJ' along - the 'north ern chore of jthe harbor," the com munique said of this raid. - "She hours later one of our -' reconnaissance planes over the ' area observed smoke and flames from waterfront fires rising te SOOv feet" Amboina island is in the Bane da sea some! 600 miles north of Australia and its principal har bor once was a big Dutch naval basel,.-.;,;; ' : - ' 4. : "Our heayy bombers attacked the " enemy -j occupied town : and shipping jn the harbor," reported the noon communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. -"Direct hits with 500 - pound bombs were scored on two enemy cargo vessels of 8000 and 000 , tons and large fires were started in the wharf building area." itumi tr r Debate Uses Vocabularies WASHINGTON, March 25-T) The battle on the- Ruml plan. opened on the house floor Thurs day In a storm of adjectives and invective, with ,the skip-a-tax- year proposal alternately praised as the only "fair and practicable" ' pay-as-you-go plan and con demned as T an Immoral "tax heresy." -- : : ' Rep.- Doughton (D-NC),' ?- year-old chairman of the ways . and, means committee, lambasted the! Ruml proposal for two hours with all the I words and wit at his' command, af one time calling it a 'super-super monstrous moostros- .-. ity." It bears the same relation te sound tax policy he said, as . "infidelity does to true Bible re- . iigion."r :. .- :,..v: " " Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), lead- . Ing-the republican fight for the plan, countered by describing the no abatement"., tax collection bill . drawn by the committee as "a wondcrous concoction of guile, bile and rile." - . . :. While the speakers exhausted; their- vocabulary, ' cloakrooms buzzed with; talk of possible com promises. BJonde Rep. Clare Boo the Luce! (R-Conn), came for ward; with ;a plan under which taxes for 1942 would be canceled on income up to 125,000 but not above that figure. . "Tier Till Tilers Rephanls." Curiosity arcctlg title for a story. Isn't It? Even more so when yen know ' that . Frederick Ilaxlitt Crennan Is tbe author. 1 .; . This nw serial tliry t'.r'.j oposai - I