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PAGE TWO T1i ; OREGON STATESMAN. Satan, Oregon, V7dnesdar Morning March 31. lZi3 it li i 1 ! : j 1 '1 I' it (bermans Raids Of Invasion B (Continued from Page 1) B tinent. - The spokesmen were choted as saying "we have no il lusions any more about sleeping undisturbed.' LONDON, March M.-(F-ExtensJve preparations ' for the , promised allied tarasioav of Eu rope were takinr shape Taes day In as offensive sprtajkoard belt restricted after April 1 to military operations all along Britain's south and east eoast- . line and inland to a depth of 10 miles. Herbert Morrison, home secre tary and minister of heme secur ity, announced in commons that authorities had taken an option on the coastal strip in anticipa tion of the possible "use of this country as a base for offensive operations' and said that begin ning Thursday it would become restricted area. , i Although the allies have massed the best-trained and best -equipped military force ever assem bled on this side of the English channel, the time and place of the Invasion remains the most closely guarded military secret in Brit ain. , CThe opinion in some well-informed quarters of the United States that a successful end to the Tunisian campaign would be the Signal for an immediate assault on Hitler's European fortress it self is a matter of dispute here. At home, Prime Minister Chur chill's declaration that he and President Roosevelt had drafted complete plans for the nine months ending next Armistice day encouraged the belief here that the invasion of Europe will be undertaken this summer. Americans most not presume that large US field forces are ; waiting in Britain to spring on .the continent. Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commander of ; American troops la 'the Euro pean theatre of operations, and 'other--generals hare Indicated .that the principal United States ' effort' here will be ' eoneentra- ted in the air. (38 words cen sored here.) j. Canadian troops long have been eager for battle and the British obviously are at a high peak In both training and num bers. The RAF is gradually en forcing its superiority upon the harassed and depleted luftwaffe. Ground and air cooperation dem onstrably has reached a high lev el in the western desert and in Tunisia. News of great strides in glider and paratroop training and equipment ia leaking out gradu ally. New Weapons such as tank busting planes and tractor mounted guns are coming Into use. The all-out air offensive is being hailed as the prelude to In vasion. But despite the report of A.-V. Alexander, first lord of the ad miralty, Tuesday of a 2,000,000 ton gain . in shipping tonnage, the U-boat still has not been subdued and Churchill placed that .first among, the British-American ob jectiveseven before Invasion. Russians Blunt Nazi Offense ' C (Continued from Page 1) C , On , the important Smolensk front west of Moscow, now bogged in thaw, the : soviet communique reported that, the Russian drive nevertheless pushed slowly but Steadily ahead with the capture of another "strongly-fortified popu lated place" in thex long-prepared defense : semi-circle guarding the nazi base. The Russians did not mention the Kuban area of the Caucasus, where, the, German high command said the red army had renewed heavy assaults, nor the northeast am fronts south of Lake Ladoga, where the nazi said the soviet ar mies also were on the offensive In force. - State Bike Ration 1086 in March SAN FRANCISCO. March 30 (A-Tner will be 14,131 new bi cycles for rationing in five western states in April, the OPA regional office announced Tuesday, . The national quota is 83,200, : against 87,100 in March. Bicycles .art rationed to per sons doing work essential to the war effort and to students who need , them for transportation . to school. Western quotas include: Oregon, 835 and 251 reserves; Washington, I80S ,. and , 542 re- Coast iWarnirigs Up - KELATTLE, March 30.-Fr-The US weather-bureau reported the hoisting of storm' warnings at . 10 a. m. Tuesday along the Washing ton co5t and at the mouth, of the Columbia river. Small craft warn ings prevailed, over inland 'wa ters Of ATangtoft and the Ore- ton coast south to Newport, : ; - Start ; BLC 3 j f Gilinbre Finds US Equipment Well-Tested in Russian War ,i -I i1 - . . M .'j. :i : By EDDY GILMORE : , MOSCOW, March 30-P)-United is receiving its greatest test of German front, a mass of mud and ery. ' - " " : . I ! I Last year some American spring fighting under severe con ditions, but American - made trucks in use then were few com pared to the number here now. Russian generals have said United States trucks bor the main burden in the offensives south west of Stalingrad, on the Don and in the drives in the Ukraine. It is reasonable to assume jthey still are playing the same role. I live not far from a road which connects with the front and day after day I ; see long trains of tracks with familiar American names going to and returning from the front. A groupiof-20 stopped near the house and the drivers were await ing arrival of a commander for further orders when I asked, "how are your ' trucks behaving j in this mud?" "Very good," said one; fellow en thusiastically. "They go every where, so far. I told the driver I was an Amer ican newsman. i "Then you tell yourj people many thanks for these trucks. Tell them they may be foreigners but they quickly are making them selves at home in our mud," he said. : Approximately 5 0,0 0 0 heavy trucks and about 20,000 Jeeps are being used in Russia. State Draft Heads Meet WASHINGTON, March 24-P)J Reports that a revision in draft classifications is impending were spurred Tuesday with; the disclo sure that state selective service directors will meet here next week. Th rnnfprpnre emild kpt-vp for discussion of proposed revisions or for explanation of some al ready decided upon, but national headquarters said merely that the meeting would be the regular an nual get-together for exchange of information and ideas.! Nevertheless, reports persisted that a revision would put child less married men and father into separate classifications and lift the ban against induction of the lat ter. Instructions permitting the drafting of fathers with children are expected soon since several states have reported they must begin calling this group about July to meet quotas.! Changes may center around the 3-B classification, which now in cludes both childless men and fathers. I Reasonable Sugar For Home Canning Assured by OPA WASHINGTON, March Z0-(JP) Home food canners were assured a reasonable amount of ; sugar for canning this summer by Prentiss Brown, in a letter to Rep. Brown (D-Ohio) which was made pub lic Tuesday. 1 j The price administrator's assist ants1 immediately interpreted the letter as meaning that1 not only would the home canners be able to get sugar but that they would not have to pay in ration coupons as well as with cash ' for what they get." 1 The OPA is working on a pro gram which will govern issuance of sugar for home canning,'' the letter said. "While details of this program are not ready for re lease at una tunc, i can assure you that reasonable amounts of sugar will be made available for the requirements of home canners of fruits and vegetables. OPA technicians have suggest ed that from 8 to 12 canned goods points be taken from ration books for each pound of sugar sold, but Prentiss Browne's, aides interpret ed the letter as indicating the price chief had vetoed the sug gestion. Explosion Kills Eight Army Men CAMP SWIFT. Tex-I ! March 30 One lieutenant and seven en listed men of an engineering regi ment were killed, an enlisted man was seriously injured, j and four otners less seriously injured in an explosion here Tuesday, Col. L. A. Kurtz, camp commander, announced, i , CoL Kurtz "said the ! explosion occurred during demolition exer cises inside the reservation, about lour miles from the main camp. names or. uie casualties will be announced after the next of kin have been notified. The details wui pe given when a board of officers completes its investnra- 2nd Bomber Mifsin&r """aia, wasn, March 30.-W-A widespread aerial mrrh for a missing army bomber plane was Deuig conducted Tuesday out of ; the ! Ephrata - air base- wttioh Monday disclosed another four motored plane had crashed. killJ Ing its crew of II. The bomber left the base Monday mornine on a routine training Audit and had not been heard from since it re ported to the base by radio a short time later. ! States transport equipment the war as the whole soviet slush, challenges man's machin trucks and jeeps took part in the Meat Supply Satisfies PORTLAND, March ,20-Bl Meat supplies and shoppers came out about even Tuesday, the sec ond day of meat rationing. There wasn't much of either. Retailers said their stocks were scanty but seemed about enough to take care of the few buyers. Meanwhile, a new trick to evade rationing regulations was report ed by regular traders at the stock yards here. Groups of individuals, they said, go in together and buy a single animal, then one of the group slaughters it and the meat is divided. OPA regulations don't apply to persons who do their own slaugh tering providing the meat is not offered for sale. Plant Delivers Steel Bullets EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 30. -JP)The story of the Evans ville ordnance plant's successful pio neering in the development of steel cartridge cases, hitherto a closely guarded army secret, may now be told. Newsmen were permitted to see at first hand this .week the production of .45 caliber steel-en cased ammunition at the rate of approximately 10,000 rounds a minute meaning the conserva tion of brass for other needs. The production figure was given by C. L. Jacobson, general manager Secretary of War Stimson an nounced in Washington last week the Evansville plant's successful substitution of steel for brass. saying that the resultant savings in brass amounted to 1774 pounds for each 100,000 cartridges. The plant, which got into full swing only a few months ago, already has turned out many million rounds of ammunition, Jacobson said. Thus it has saved thousands of tons of brass to date. Use of steel for small arms am munition long has been attempt ed but no manufacturer succeed ed in producing a steel cartridge that would meet war department tests until the Evansville plant delivered. Police Seek Abandoner CORVAULIS, Ore., March 30. -jP)-Police searched here Tues day night for a woman who thrust a two-year-old girl in the arms of Mrs. Ida Turney, Roseland, Ark., then disappeared. Mrs. Turney, about to board a bus for home after visiting her son here, told police she became confused. She entered the bus with the girl in her arms and the bus pulled out before she collect ed her wits. She then had to ride to Eugene, 25 miles south. Police returned her here to look for the young mother, who, Mrs. Turney said, promised to send money for the child's care. Redmond Critical Area For Defense Housing j WASHINGTON, March -Redmond, Ore., was one of three towns listed Tuesday by the war production board as a defense housing critical area. The desig nation entitles the town to prior ity assistance for housing pro jects for war workers. PORTLAND, March 30. -(JP) The federal public housing au thority has approved construc tion of 22 family units at Red mond to accommodate civilian personnel of the air- base there, Fred A. Cuthbert of the national housing agency office here was informed Tuesday. Construction will be completed within 90 days. Lifeboat Baby One , NEW YORK. March 30-fyp) Jesse Roper Mohorovicic. who came into this world in a lifeboat and spent the first perilous 24 hours of his life in the wave-tossed craft, celebrated his first birthday Tuesday. To Jesse it was just an other routine day of meals, nap and play. But Dr. Leonard H. Con ly of New York, snip's doctor of an American cargo vessel torpe doed on the north Atlantic, re membered the anniversary of that harrowing t experience, I and sent Jesse a gift and hearty birthday', congratulations. 11 rii Portland Plane Sought"- OREGON CITY, March ZttMjPl -A twin-engined army 'pursuit plane' from the Tortland air base; missing since last Friday, -was sought Tuesday in this area.; A plane of the same type was re ported I seen flying tow between Canby '; and Woodburn at about the time base officials believed it would have been forced down after radia contact was lost. - ; Lone Bomber Turns Back 4 Destroyers A (Continued from Page 1) A vy bombs, causing great daaa i are and starting- snany fire, i Barges and beats in the harbbr were also effectively machlne- sunned. The enemy made no at : tempt at interception. . I "It is believed that any attempt to deliver, supplies failed. The Huon gulf enemy bases of Lae and Salamaua were pounded by allied bombers while some 200 miles to the southeast at Oro bay enemy planes were active for the third straight day. Three Japan! ese planes dropped 10 bombs "harmlessly in the bay. Above Finschhafen, an allied heavy bomber bombed and stra fed barges and personnel along the coast in the vicinity of Mai dang. j Between Madang and Finschj ha fen, coastal trails were strafed, In a series of activities around the island of New Britain, an en emy coastal vessel was bombed to the bottom of Rottock bay. Another coastal vessel was bombed off UbilL Elsewhere! on the island, the Cape O r f o r d coastal area was strafed and j the airdrome at Gasmata took a thousand bombs which started fir-s. Off New Britain in the Bis marck sea, a heavy allied bomber en reconnaissance "sha dowina enemy shipping-" was : attacked on three different oc casions by formations "up to nine enemy fighters. "In a series of running dog fights, our plane shot four enemy machines out of combat, finally completing its mission and re turning safely to base. P-51 Becomes Bomber Too INGLEWOOD, Calif, March 30 (JP) - New death-dealing qualities have been instilled into the P-51 Mustang fighter, North American Aviation announced Tuesday, and it is now being produced as a ground attack plane bomber as well. and dive J. H. Kindelberger, North Amer ican president, said the new plane. known as the A-36, retains the familiar lines of the Mustang fighter, and is the fastest dive- bomber in the world. The A-36, he said, has a flying speed of more than 400 miles an hour, can dive on a target at j terrific rate, blast enemy installs tions or troops with bombs, then soar into the sky and battle it out on even terms with the best of the fighters. The ship is powered with a 12-cylinder Allison engine, and engineers said that less than 200 pounds in dive - bombing equipment was added to the nor mal gross weight of the fighter version. Jane Huston Wins Contest MONMOUTH, March 30 Win ners in the regions two and three oratorical contest sponsored by the American Legion and held at the Oregon College of Education in Monmouth were Jane Huston, un opposed, of Salem high school, region three, and Roy . Dancer, McMinnville, region two. Miss Huston took as her topic, Keeping Faith," based on the 19th amendment to the constitu tion, relating to women's suffrage, while Dancer chose "The Consti tution and the Fifth Freedom" Runners-up were Virginia Min- cent, of St Helens and Richard Smurk of Beaverton. Judges were Ivan Milhous, E. A. Stebbins and Mrs. . F. Barrows of the OCE faculty. Price to Farmers Climbs in March WASHINGTON. March 30-0P1 The general level of nrices re ceived by farmers advanced four points between mid-February and nua-March to reach 182 per cent of the 1909-14 average and the same level that prevailed in mid- January, the agriculture depart ment reported Tuesday. ; The price level had declined four points between mid-January and mid-February. The department said prices of all groups of farm products moved upward during the month ended March 15. Fruit prices led the until rn with a 1ft nntnt G-rain rose five points but was still omy about 89 per cent of parity. increases in prices received for all meat animals raised the index ror Qua group four points over mid-February and 38 points high er than a year ago. p mm 1 1 TMC HOUSE THAT WTS Imf I ONtheHOMEFRONT i By ISABEL CHTJLDS This recipe for. rationing (shoe learner or gasoline) came to me by remote control from an elder ly, hunter in the Lebanon area. Now, : hunters, - unlike fisher' men are. given to telling the truth when they are not talking about bear hunts. They are, - without doijtbtl ; the ; greatest kitchen ro mancers known - to civilization. Seated before a crackling fire, they I p e a k -with authority on things culinary. And standing over an outdoor fir thv drm'i do such a bad job witSt the flap jacks, the. venison liver and the salt pork. The; huntsman, who told the story is, as I have mentioned, getting along in years. Stalking his game some three miles away from u the highway, the hunter neardj m rn.se u being stalked. Yes, you know who he thought was following him. Now, I'm an admirer of the state police; I like the way their game wardens handle business. but- I'm not at all without sym pathy with the thing this partic ular hunter did. First, he pretended he did not hear -the man behind him. Second, he shot his deer a fine young creature, but too heavy for the hunter's back. Third, he looked surprised and was Unable to find his hunting 11 cense when the warden asked to see it Fourth, when told to "Pack it out.' he said to the warden "You want it? You pack it out." How- everi with the venison lashed to a pole, he did help the warden carry it out to the highway, where conveniently - - Fifth, the hunter found his II cense as they approached his car and nicely Sixth, he thanked the warden. i; . v I do hope that the warden got at least a steak. After all. the hunter believes in enforcing the law,: else why would he have car ried ! the license? Scoiiters Set Two Meetings Scoutmasters and assistants of 18 Cherry City district troops and ships, comprising the Scoutmas ters Round Table, will meet to night at 7:30 in the Rotary cabin at Leslie junior high school to complete plans for the council Camporee May 14, 15 and 18, Scout Executive L- L. Leighton announced Tuesday. Leighton also announced that Thursday night at 8 o'clock troop committeemen of the Cherry City district will meet in the chamber of Commerce rooms to complete nrnn ization of the district The local district is the only one of six in the area which is unorganized, Leighton said. Election of men to fill district positions will also be held Thurs day night Six positions are open, namely: advancement camping, finance, health and safety, organ ization extension and leadership training. Toastmasters Elect Gille President Albert H. Gille, administrative assistant to the state forester, was elected president of Salem Toast- masters club Tuesday night at tne Marion hotel. Other new officers chosen were D. J. McLellan, state reclamation engineer, vice presi dent; Marvin Clatterbuck, super intendent of the state school for th deaf, secretary; Denver Young, ctiief criminal deputy sheriff, ser-geant-at-arms, and Stephen C 1 Mergler, retiring president. deputy governor. The new officers will be install ed next Tuesday night Mrs. Topping Sues WEST PALM BEACH, Fla March SO-irV-Mrs. Gloria Baker Topping, society's former glamor girl, filed suit for divorce Tues day against Lt Henry J. Topping, , of the navy air force. Topping, her to a large fan-plate fortune. was charged with mental cruelty. T 2 Bis Hits A Fighting f picture of American . I tVv lt sim..i 1 v- mm Biifi ifiUQl! 'I la TLCilNICOLOxt US War Train Gets Supplies To Teheran TEHERAN, Iran, March SO-iAP) The first ail-American train car rying US war supplies to Russia has steamed' into Teheran . after a . 650-mile journey, from a Per sian gulf port, where it was landed by Americans from American ships lying . at : American-built docks. ; The train was operated to Te heran by .American crews, .and! from here on to Russia : will be under soviet controL ; Maj. Gen. Donald D. Connolly, j commanding the Persian gulf ser vice command, and Maj. Gen A. N. Korolov, chief of soviet trans portation in Persia, greeted the train when it arrived. ; Connolly expressed pleasure at handing the train over to the Rus sians, saying "it constitutes an all American, enterprise starting with the manufacture of supplies and continuing through sea and rail transportation to Teheran. Loaded with thousands of tons of materials for the red army, the train pulled Into Teheran yards Monday. ' In the cab of the lead locomo tive were Engineer Sgt Howard Blair of Breckenridge, Minn., for merly a Great Northern fireman, and Cpl. Chester Clark of Musca tine, Iowa, formerly employed on the Muscatine line. Receiving the train. General Korolov declared that "I'm glad to say the impact of the United States supplies is now being felt on the war front" Norway Nazis Hunt f Antis' STOCKHOLM. March SO-Wi German police and soldiers have been dispatched into the rugged mountain districts of central and southern Norway, apparently to seek out saboteurs and other anti nazi groups now in hiding there. reliable reports from Norway said Tuesday night Traveling in three special trains. between 3000 and 4000 of the Ger man occupation troops left Oslo on March 23 for the upland regions in Telemark and Buskerud provinces, these sources reDorted One tram headed for Riukan. where saboteurs recentlr were re ported to have blasted the Norsk hydroelectric plant and where "a partial siege" was reported In ef fect A plausible reason for an In crease in dissatisfaction through out Norway is given In the under ground Norwegian newspaper "Fri Fagbevegelse (free trade unions).. This paper revealed that 'be tween 15 and 25 per cent of Nor wegian labor now stays at home because of illness." much of which is induced by undernourish ment Air Ace Foss To Take Rest WASHINGTON. March 30-4P1 Capt Joseph J. Foss, marine corps fighter pilot who destroyed 26 Japanese planes in three months of fighting in the Solomon is lands, is coming home for a rest The navy said that Foss would arrive in Washington on April 15. Foss, whose bag of enemy planes duplicates Capt Eddie Ricken- backer's first World war record. lives near Sioux Falls, SD. The marine ace whom a naw statement described as "one of America's greatest heroes of the current war' arrived on Guadal canal October 9 in a Grumman Wildcat fighter and four days later shot down his first enemy plane. in tne succeeding three months he destroyed 25 others five of them In one day, October 25. Idaho Rations liquor BOISE, Idaho. March 30.-Mn -Liquor was ordered rationed in Idaho Tuesday, but the restric tions were too liberal to cause anr immediate- alcoholic drought Le- land Rawsoh, ' superintendent of tne state package aeency svstem. said beginning April 9 individual purchases per week will be limit ed to a niart each of whiskey, ein, rum and liauer. Wine was not ationed. - -.-- Teaia-ht Tfaarsday .n4 1 1 f a a- T i -J w mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmMmmmm mmmm - - ....... , ,-mmt.M,MurAf9w m I New'Majmum Veal Prices Announced'' SAN FRANCISCO.- March SO. -OT-Wpw maximum - veal prices to be paidj by western - packers and wholesalers, effective April 3. were announced Tuesday by "the office Sof price i administra tion regional office here. (See full story on page 10 today.) . Until a. new retail f price order Is issued, the -OPA said, butch- vta smw m w . vo - more than the present March' 1942 ceiling prices. . u. Bie ost-War Armf Favored. PORTLAND, March '30.f;rV Maj. Gen. Gilbert R. Cook urged Tuesday; tat the United States maintain af post-war army i large enough to "keep us ifrom falling victim to aj booby trap.! j The commander of Camp Ad air's Timbfr Wolf division told a Kiwanls cfiib lunchebn: We putpip a peace to end war at the conclusion of pur last bat tle and it itripped us up through appeasement into another war. We must Be prepared. That's the message ' I j want to bring to any group that wants to retain the four freedoms. r( - On making American soldiers, he said, "jFlrst, we .must remove all his ide&s of working on a pro fit basis for there's no place on the battlefield for the man who works fdi himself; f and second, we must remove his ideas f of an eight-how?, five-day week" and put him on a 24-hpur, seven-day week. - ! Guayiile Lands' Freed for Food WASHINGTON. March iUUJPI The government announced Tues day it was curtailing its guayule rubber erhergency Program to leave the great possible acreage free for fjood crops. :$ j The decision w a s announced liointlv fc& RuhhAri TirxW Will. iarrr- MV leffers artd Secretary of Agriculture Claude.3 R. Wickard. Most of the high grade, irrigated land leased but not ilreadv nlant- ed to gufyule will tfe turned back to the owners at onbe, if possible, or subleased for f od production, the officials said. Th land i most ly in California, f 1 . : Madame Entertains! SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 (n-Mafiame Chiang Kai-Shek re ceived Jthe president's ycjungest son, Naval Lieutenant John Roose velt, anil his wife, the former Sal. ly Clarfj of Boston,; at teajin her hotel suite late Tuesday before leavingby train for Los Angeles after at? five-day ; yisit here. ' Lt Roosevdtt is stationed at the near by Oakland naval base. tarriTfa.ri THC LITTLE HOUSE ''a: , - - I--4 "" i r-TV----,- nr it t . - I IL.3leMaKiLL1 w , XKW ---2iST-- . W : 1:1 Second Blk ThiCer i a '. lj:. r i f t - - m mmmmm a e i w mm i - 1 I .? 4 .. " a mk. u.La... . Jh I I mm -WW am 'V 5 1 1 Seal Retiniis Oyer Record Marion county's sales of .1942 Christmas seals to finance the fight against j tuberculosis topped by more than $3000 the record seal sale of 1941, statistics to be taken, to Portland, today by rep resentatives of the Marion County Public Health association reveal Money from the sale of I94j seals is .still coming in and will be used as a pest egg for the 1943 sales,; Mrs. Leif Bergsvik, execu tive secretary of the association, said Tuesday,' However, when th books Were closed this month re ceipts totaled $11,223.02, compar ed with $7914.42 recorded the same date last year. Twenty per cent of the jnbney raised goes to the National Tu berculosis association to finance its educational program and sci entific, research; five per cent goes to the; state health department to be used in battling the disease, while J75 per cent remains in Mar- ,; ion county . to be used by the , public; health association through the health department in cutting' the ravages of tuberculosis here. To meet with C L. Newcomb, ' national seal sale director who is holding . , a seal sale conference ' there, Mrs. Bergsvik, Mrs. Stanley Krueger and Miss Retha Pomeroy are to be in Portland today. WITH THE BKS HtTS I cvravOMC knows thosc cotup snov 1 f I I 1 o-i y -S NToi I ' Ls. J I Crawford j j - ojjt ..'J John: Wayne j , ) M( Philip Dorn I " j urn a - i : Ifunion I KiVVfiV- i- - i I " Tcday J fS M&i' 1:00 -x ' - '.I -rb i ' i