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Mickle,
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Retiring
Coos Judge Appointed
- Agriculture Chief;
. Silver Promoted ,
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
' Changes in two appointive
state offices,' director of agri
culture and director of parole
and probation, were announced
at the capitol Monday, first of
several that may be anticipated
within the next few weeks.
r The new director of agricul
ture will be Ervin L. Peterson, 33
;: year-old county Judge of Coos
county, Gov, Earl Snell revealed
.Thursday afternoon. J. D. Mickle,
.whom he succeeds, was known
: f fr some time to have been con
sidciing asking to be released
from- the $5000 a year position,
which is held at the pleasure of
the governor. He was a holdover
from the Martin administration,
a campaigner for Gov. Sprague in
the 1942 primaries.
The state parole board an
. noanced its selection of a new
parole and probation director,
Joseph R. Silver, 34 who had
been serving; as a field assist
ant. Fred Finsley, first man to
of May 1 to reenter law prac
hold this office,! has resigned as
tice at Fossil, where he once
served as Wheeler county's dis
trict attorney, the board said.
" Appointment of Silver was not
directly dictated by Gov. Snell,
but it was understood that he had
not approved of a desire on the
part of the parole board to ele
vate the chief deputy director, IrJ
C McSherry, to Finsley's posi
tion. No immediate changes in the
parole organization are contem
plated, the director-elect said
Thursday night.
; In returning to Wheeler county,
Finsley has in mind running for
circuit judge next year for the
Wheeler-Sherman -Gilliam coun
ties circuit long presided over by
. the late Judge Carl Hendricks.
Judge Peterson's appointment
as director of agriculture gave rise
to speculation over the filling of
another berth on the state high
Way commission, the position now
field by Huron Clough, Canyon
vine , who wishes to retire. The
Peterson appointment could be
Gov. Snell's answer to southwest
Oregon demands for representa
lion , on X h e commission. Ben
Chandler, Marshfield banker, has
Deen proposed as Clough 's succes
or, it is known.
The governor's field for desig
nation i a third member of the
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Spies Combing
US for Nazis;
Talk Warned
NEW YORK, April l.-p)-Rear
Adm, Harold C. Train, chief of
naval intelligence, said Thursday
nignt the axis is gearing for a
desperate last-ditch fight' and
lias its spies in this country
"combing the bars, restaurants,
and shipping centers for every
tray bit of information that
might fit into the nazi or Japan
ese espionage pattern."
.. In, an address prepared for de
livery over the Columbia Broad-
easting system. Admiral Train
said he had definite information
that axis spies "are still operat
ing in this, country."
It is no secret, he declared, that
: before Hitler marched into Po-
land he boasted that he knew
more about , that country's mili
tary strength than most members
f the Polish' "high command. ,
'"Hitler, he continued, "Has
.made similar boasts about Amer
: Sea, and about the army of sab
oteurs his henchmen had built up
here - while we ostensibly were
aleeping." Since America entered
the war, Admiral Train saidtmost
of these boasts have been proved
empty words," but the state
ment itself was a "revelation that
- he' is depending an nazi- hirelings
in this country to relay useful in
formation back to where it can be
used against us."
He warned .Americans to be ex
tremely cautious, especially in
discussing letters - received from
their relatives in the service, lest
the enemy obtain information to
use "against your sons and bro
thers and , husbands who daily
ere risking heir lives to preserve
our country and the freedom
bought at such a price by our fa
thers before us."
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ALBERT Ej ROSSER
Rosser Freed
After 4 Years
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Union Leaders Sent
To Prison! for
Factory Fire
The Oregon parole board
Thursday ordered the release
from state prison next July 6. of
Albert Earl Rosser,! central figure
in a wave of labor -terrorism -that
swept' the state hi 1937-3.-
Rosser, former secretary of the
AFL teamster's union Portland
local, was conviqted of arson in
connection with the destruction
by fire of the Salem box factory.
Sentenced to i 12-year ;term,
he will be released after serving
four years because of good beha
vior, the board said.
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His conviction ! was uphetd by
the Oregon supreme court in 1939
and the US supreme court re
fused to review the case.
. Rosser is the (last of 12 men
sentenced to state prison for par
ticipation in the terrorism to be
released. if
April FpqVs
Tricks Fete
April fool's past land yon;
wrong, for the first day of April
found few pranksters in down
town Salem. ( j
City fireaoen and police, us
ually besieged With fake calls,
thought perhaps the war sitaa
Uon had something to do with
the appreciated consideration of
haroorisls. : j
Only April foolishness which
vcame to the ears of Statesman
reporters was staged for bene
fit of a member of their pro
fession, employed on another
newspaper.
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Nazis Can't Halt
Danish Sabotage
NEW YORK,
April l-aj-A
German broadcast heard Thursday
night by CBS said that "British
parachutists' and Danish citizens
have been committing acts of sab
otage in industrial iplants in Co
penhagen, capital of j Nazi-occupied
Denmark. , '
"Things have I got ' to such a
pitch,' the broadcast said, "that
armed British parachutists can
force their way into Danish indus
trial plants, and persuade - the
guards to keep quiet while they
plant bombs. , j "
State Hospital
Aides Get! Raise
The? wage scale for attendants
at the state hospitals at Salem and
Pendleton and the Fairyiew home
was boosted by the board of con
trol Thursday to $72.50 a month
for men and $70 for women. The
wages are in addition to full main
tenance. . j 1
The board approved a $5 month
ly raise for the Pendleton institu
tion, and $7.50 for those at Salem.
The increases were allowed to
relieve the serious shortage of at
tendants. The increases are effect
ive as of today
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Split On
Tax Skip
McCormack Asks
Some Abatement;
Doughton Tries Balk
By FRANCIS LeMAY
WASHINGTON, April 1-(JP)
The democratic leadership in
the house split apart Thursday
night on the issue of tax abate
ment, with Majority 'Leader
McCormack (P-Mass) ca
for quick action to skjtppart
of 1 9 4 2's income Idxes, and
Chairman DoughJfT (D-NC) of
j . in
ine ways anmeans committee
sharply brusfang aside the sug-
gesuon. y .
Doughton refused to call the
copamittee for immediate consid-
Leration :oi pay-as-you-go legisia
tic
tion, indicating that the subject
would not come up again until late
spring or. summer.
During the day McCormack had
issued a statement calling for a
quick pay-as-you-go compromise
abating part, but not all, of 1942
taxes. He said a pay-as-you-go
measure, with a withholding levy
on wages and salaries, should be
come effective July 1.
The democratic leader's action
directly conflicted with the
: stand of a majority of his party's
ways and means members who
: opposed any tax abatement, and
i he drew a sound rebuff from
the 79-year-old committee
chairman.
i "I did not have any advance in
formation about Mr. McCormack's
statement regarding tax matters,"
Doughton , said in a formal state
ment. "He did not consult me as
chairman of the committee on
ways and means. Neither, so
as I know, did he consult
majority member of theowmmittee
before issuing Ms-'ftatement.
These deprirJpments came short
ly after-nine republican ways and
ns members issued a statement
demanding immediate reconsider
ation of pay-as-you-go legislation
and gave notice they would con
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Most Riyers
Evade Flood;
Santiam Drops
PORTLAND, April l-(vP)-Wil-lamette
valley flood conditions,
improving by the hour,, will per
mit the Willamette and Colum
bia rivers to carry their crests
without going over flood stages,
the weather, bureau reported
Thursday night.
i The Santiam, Luckiamute and
Yamhill rivers, all "Willamette
tributaries, are receding, ' said
Weatherman E. L. Wells, revising
Thursday morning's predictions,
j The Columbia swelled to flood
stage at IS feet at Vancouver
Thursday but Thursday night's
forecast said no further rise was
expected.
I The Willamette measured 11.8
feet late Thursday at Oregon City
and Wells said the crest would
pass there Thursday night with
out going over the 12-foot flood
mark. The same was true of Port
land, he said, where the river
was 16.5 compared to flood level
of 18 feet.
The Santiam at Jefferson was
still ever flood stage by more
than three feet but ft dropped
a half-foot since morning to
16.3 late Thursday.
Portland's rainfall totaled 6.51
inches in the week ending Wed
nesday night, the weather bureau
reported.
Roads in the Portland area
blocked by slides were reopened
Thursday.
Harriett Monroe
Named WU Queen
Harriett Monroe, senior from
Parkdale, was elected Wednesday
by Willamette "university students
as 1943 .May queen. Princesses
"Will be Dorothy Tate of Sublimity
and Olivia Olson of North Bend,
other nominees., from the senior
class. May weekend is slated for
May 7 and 8. ,
Miss Monroe, a blueeyed bru
nette M an independent and is
past president of Lausanne hall
and of the Willamette Methodist
Student council. Both princesses
are members of Alpha Ph Alpha
sorority.
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bornlng fiercely daring a Germ air raid en the port German bombers strike hard at convoys off
north Africa and In Algerian prts In an effort to eat off allied supplies for Tunisia Associated
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Planes Pound Germany, Guinea
Jap Positions
Strafed; Town
Hit, Tanimbar
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Friday, April 2-(JPy-Gcn.
Douglas MacArthur an
nounced Friday that allied planet
have made new raids on Mibo"
Finschhafen and 'Saunuaki. . h
Medium bombers attacked the
Jannneo-nrrunied town of Saum-
UaJd, which is on Tanimbar is
land, 300 miles north of Darwin,
Australia. ' ;
Finschhafen, New. Guinea,
where earlier in the week fires
started on the waterfront by al
lied planes flamed more than
eight hours, was visited by a sin
gle four-motored bomber which
dropped its bombs in the same
harbor area. 1
Attack planes bombed and stra
fed Japanese troop positions in
the Kitchek area around Mubo,
which is 15 miles south of Sala-
maua, New Guinea.
In northwestern (Dutch) New
Guinea, a medium allied j bomber
was intercepted by two Japanese
fighter planes and shot them both
out of the sky.
Churchill Gets
RAF Wings
LONDON, April l.-;p)-Prime
Minister Churchill, who has fre
quently taken over the controls
on long flights and first ) learned
to fly in 1913, was given the hon
orary wings of the RAF S Thurs
day on its 25th anniversary,-be
coming the first commoner to
wear them without passing mod
ern pilot tests.
In a letter to the premier an-:
nouncing the distinction. Air
Marshal Sir Bertine Sutton re
called that since the outset of the
war Churchill has undertaken
more htan 30,000 flying miles on
duty. . ;
Churchill replied "I am hon
ored to be accorded a place, al
beit out of kindness," In that com
radeship of the air which guards
the life of our island and carries
doom to tyrants.
Lane M. Weinberg,
Scio, Killed at Sea;
SCIO, April 1 Lane M.l Wein
berg, 25, was reported here as
illed in action while in the navy at
sea in south Pacific convoy serv
ice as a gunner's mate. He attend
ed. Scio high school ' while resi
dent of the Riverview community
near Scio. He was outstanding in
school athletic and other i activi
ties. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Weinberg, are on a .farm
on,Sc1ooutethTee,His sister Eva
also attended the local high school
and worked at the Scio telephone
office. The young man enlisted" in
the US navy less than six months
ago. i-,,- - j,
The sister now is. Mrs. Lee Mc-
Intyre, Albany. Two other mar
ried sisters, one at Lebanon and
the other in. California, together
with four brothers at the Scio
farm home, survive, .
Soviets Drive
In Caucasus
Several Localities
Captured ; Donets
DefensesHold
- By .The Associated Press
LONDON, Friday, April . I.
Russian, troops have captured sev
eral localities in the continuing
drive to wipe out the nazi Cau
casian bridgehead at Novoros
sisk, have reduced another
stronghold on the Smolensk front,
and held firmly on their Donets
river defense line, Moscow an
nounced early Friday.
The midnight communique also
reported that German troops had
penetrated to the western out
skirts of one populated place in
the Sevsk area, 170 miles north
west of nazi-held Kharkov, but
said a Russian counter - attack
threw back the enemy and killed
200 Germans.
The Germans announced the
capture of Sevsk, 80 miles below
Bryansk, some time ago.
The resnmed Russian Cauca
sian drive presamably was In
the area of eaptared Anasta
sevskaya, 33 miles north of
Novorossisk.
Other Russian units operat
ing in the Abinskaya area are
only 20 miles northeast of the
former soviet Black sea fleet
base. -
South of Bely on the central
front, the Russians said, one of
their units forced a German gar
rison Into a hasty retreat after
threatening to encircle It.
Soviet artillery also supported
an infantry operation which top
pled another stronghold on the
same front, and the communique
said German officers taken pris
oner reported that many forma
tions of the 367th nazi infantry
division had lost 70 or 80 per cent
of their men in recent fighting on
the exhausting front where heavy
rain and mud has hampered the
red" army advance.
In the sector east of axis-held
Kharkov the Russians continued
to hold their defense line along
the upper Donets river.
Air fighting picked up ; in the
south, where 11 raiding nazi
planes' were destroyed and six
were damaged. V
Furloughs for All--Remember
the Day
COLOSADO SPRINGS, Colo
April 1-JP)-A banner headline
in the Camp Carson newspaper,
The Mountaineer, startled sol
diers.
"90-day furlough for all Car
son men soldiers overtrained,
discipline must be relaxed, say
camp officials, It read.
Then the soldiers remembered
It was AprU Fool's day.
76Aen'Goiolbayton
. PORTLAND, April l--A
contingent of 381 farm and dairy
workers from , Mississippi and
Oklahoma were moved to the Day
ton farm labor camp Thursday.
There they will receive short-term
instruction before being assigned
to labor-shortage areas of western
Oregon.
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Mosquitos
Surprise
Nazi City
LONDON, AprU 1 HJP) The
RAF celebrated its 25th anniver
sary by attacking two towns in
western Germany where startled
Germans stood gaping in the
streets at- swift- British Mosquito
bombers which dipped as low as
50 feet to plant their delayed-
action explosives on industrial ob
jectives, i .
Squadrons of fighters also at
tacked railways and other axis
held transportation in France and
Belgium by daylight, the air min
is try reported .
The Mosquitos, the RAFs
fastest bombers, which twice
have attacked Berlin by day
light, blasted .a power station
and Important railway work
shops at Trier and Chrang near
the German-Luxembourg fron
tier. With bombs fused to explode a
few seconds after the Mosquitos
were safely away, the airmen at
tacked at altitudes from 50 to 200
feet At Ehrang the crews re
ported their bombs caused a "ter
rific explosion," - and it was be
lieved a gasoline dump was hit.
Nazi anti-aircraft gunners ap
parently also were caught flat-
footed because none of the planes
was lost and only two German
fighters were sighted.
Four British planes were miss
ing from the sweeps over France
and Belguim and a fifth plane
failed to return from a daylight
reconnaissance over northwest
Germany.!
Eden Declares
Peace Bases
OTTAWA, April l.-(p)-Three
basic principles for an enduring
peace were laid down by Anthony
Eden, British foreign secretary,
in an address Thursday to a joint
meeting of the house of commons
and senate. ,
They are:
I. Total disarmament of Ger
many, Italy and Japan;
2. Maintenance by the United
Nations of sufficient force to en
sure that none of the axis power
can ever again plunge the world
into war;
3. Close understanding among
the British commonwealth of na
tions, the United States, Russia
and China, with full cooperation
of all United Nations.
Eden recalled he had been ' a
soldier in one war which he had
hoped was a war to end war and
now his son was preparing to take
part in a second.
"It is our duty to see that mis
cruel and inhuman lot Is not also
Jho. -heritage '"of our: children's
children,' he said. .
Flight Strip Awarded 4
The state hignway commission
awarded a extract Thursday to
Vernie Jarl, Greaham, for clearing
the approaches and side clearances
to the Marion county flight strip
project. Jarl submitted a low bid
of $5850.
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Possible Use of Sardinia
Port for Evacuation Base
Ruined; Americans Gain
j . By DANIEL DeLUCE
AtLIEU IIEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 1
(ff-Thje axis s desperately flying fresh troops into Tunisia, it
was disclosed! Thursday, and the allies have thrown a mighty,
overpowering perial fleet into a campaign, to forestall such re
inforcement, to wipe the enemy from Africa and to destroy his
potential meas of escape.
The presence of air-borne reinforcements for Marshal Erwin
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Axis Attacks
North Troops
Af ter Flight
Mafiy Prjsoner8 and
Much Material Fall
To, Allied Advance
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B WILLIAM B. KING
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IAN F$ONT 10:55 A. M., April 1
(AVA&s troops attacked British
positions a fewmiles east of Sed
jenane early .Thursday after be
ing thrown into precipitate flight
Wednesday and losing huge quan
tities of equipment.
The scale "o' fighting was not
immediately reported. It appear
ed to be an attempt by the Ger
man and Italian troops to retrieve
big stores of material they had
abandoned' in af little mining town
near Sedjenan.
After being harled out of
Sedjenane the; axis troops had
been observed moving Wednes
day toward, pre v loss positions
10 miles eastf of Sedjenane. so
rapidly that Contact with , them
was lolt temporarily by their
British and French pursuers.
Sedjenane itself is about 40
miles 8quthwe$t of Bizerte, big
axis-held naval base, and Mateur
is an intervening point on the
road to that pbrt
In an apparent effort to- create
a diversion to fpermit more "time
for the : flight along the main
roads, some German forces at
tacked the allJfrd flank Wednes
day. But the attack made no pro
gress, and the force broke off
the engagement to join in -the
retreat of othef units. .
Meanwhile allied troops mop
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Nevi Standard
Decreed for -
Women's Hose
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WASHINGTON, April l-P)
The war production board Thurs
day decreed niw standards for
women's hosieay which, it said;
would improve ethe wearing qual
ities of most stockings. Not that,
the real sheer ones are out they
be made 1 if comparatively
long-wearing yrns are used. .
WPB Issued, (effective May 15,
a yarn conservation order cover
ing aU types of hosiery and de
signed to save about 15,000,000
pounds of wool rayon and cotton!
yarns annually; - In the care . of.
women's hosiery, however, slight
ly morsJ rayom than previously!
will be Required. But this will be
a lonf'vterm saving, ..WPB said,
because, the stockings-will be gen
erally f more .durable and wear
longer." ;j ' "
All gauges of women's hosiery
now produced inay be made, but
the order prohifets manufacture of
50-denierjn fulf-fashioned hosiery
of ordinary quality the sheer
est and also th poorest wearing
type.- Stockings 'xt equal sheerness
may be made, however of" semi-
high tenacity yarns, which have
greater itrengtljL -.
The following types are not af
fected: , ... v '9 --' .J
TTTun-proof rayon mesh hosiery,
lace and tnesh hosiery, and com
binations of cotton, wool, continu
ous filament,' and spun rayon yarn
stockings. ; 3 . '
Each manufacturer may make
only seven colors, but these may
be any colors te chooses.
A
tresses Hit
Rommel's hard-pressed troops was
revealed with the capture of more
than 700 Italians' and German
grenadiers' during a renewed
American push east of El Guetar
toward the coast. Some of the
prisoners said they had been in .
Africa fewer than 10 days. i
Nearly 100 Flying Fortresses,
the greatest force of the big four
motored bombers ever massed for
a war operation, bashed the im
portant axis supply base at Gag
liari on Sardinia Wednesday, ser
iously crippling its usefulness to
the enemy, while swarms of other
American and British planes turn
ed Rommel's retreat up the east
ern Tunisian coast into a night
mare of destruction.
Telling of the great blow at
Cagliari, an American pilot saidi
"If there was anything we did not
hit then it must have been buried.!
"I saw thousands of bombs burst
ing, said another. "They seemed
to be exploding on every bit oi
the harbor. t
- Any hopes the axis might -have
entertained of using Cag- -liar!
as the base for i a "Du
kerque" evacuation of divisions
now enclosed in a great allied
trap apparently were wiped oat
by the concentrated assault of
the Fortresses, which hit five
merchant ships and 21 smaller
craft, damaged or destroyed 71
enemy planes agroand and in
the air, and spread acres of fire .
across the city's port area. Not
a Fortress or an escorting
Lightning fighter was lost.
The bulk of Rommel's forces
trying to beat their way north foa
a junction with Col. Gen. Jurgen
Von Arnim's troops were reported
Thursday continuing their tortur
ed retreat under a rain of bombs
and bullets while a rear guard .
dug in about 24 miles' north of
Gabes in an effort to fend oft
the pursuing British Eighth army.
Although slowed down by thou
sands of mines strewn by the re--treating
enemy, armored Ameri
can units, of Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton, jr., were reported pushing
steadily eastward from El Gue-
taria Pass for an imminent junc
tion with Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's Eighth army forces.
After having been held up for
more than a week by rock-ridged '
enemy positions on hills com
manding the roads to the coast
eastward from Maknassy 1 and
southeast from El Guetaria Pass,
Patton directed a series of attacks
Thursday. ,
American spearheads of tanks
: and infantry plunged fiercely
. into wavering enemy defenses
and' rounded ap German and
Italian prisoners less than 50
mlles to the west of the British.
The American attack was pre
ceded by an artillery- barrage '
'which one - observer said was -"one
of the most terrible and
v wonderful sights I ever saw. .
It was officially announced that
31 enemy planes were shot dowm
in combat over north Africa Wed- '
nesday, while 12 allied planes
failed to return. American P-40
warhawks destroyed 10 axis
planes against a single loss . of.
their own while supporting Pat-
ton's . ground , troops in the EI
Guetaria Pass area. . ; r
In an attack almost as des- .
tractive. as that by the 100 Fort
tresses, two waves of American
Billy Mitchell medium bombers
escorted by Lightnings twice
? truck at an axis convoy in the
Sicilian Narrows, sinking at least
three large merchant ships and
leaving others burning furiously
and settling. Six German fighters t
which attempted to intercept were
shot down and others damaged.
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