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and bomber ships and downed 29
them,-19 bombers and 10-figbt-
Jera. ' -'
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)r batteries destroyed ;,tw addl-
tlenal bombers and probably de
; strayed six more; feeVtetal of
i 1 enemy ahlpr "destroyed or so
' .badly crippled that ibey, eoId :
never reach- base. Osr twn loss-r
?es were relatively ughi. j
11 It was the second ( successive
;? heavy raid on allied positions in
I New Guinea. Sunday too Japanese
?' sent 45 bombers and fighter over
It Oro bay on the eastern Papuan
t coast. Twtnt y-t h r e e-of those
? planes were shot out of action.
, "Darin- the ; daya action In
all p a r t s of the ertfceastern
sector; the enemy lest fewer
' if ' than 52 aircraft. Ineladrar Scn
y. day's losses at Ore bay, we bare
now shot oat of actio to battle
& It enemy combat craft. It Is be-.
i- lleved the enemy' air offensive
if ' bar been United aadVbJa taune
'.' dlate plan dMeeated." . -
st While the Japanese were raid-
ins Port Moresby, allied bombers
were busv elsewhere. The RabauL
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.J tacked. " ' . "
:C i "Our heavy bombers executed a
'-: dawn v attack : on. the enemy air-
dromes at rVunakanaua, : Lakuna,
and Rapopo, scerinfr direct hits in
dispersal areas and, starting num
erous fires which were visible for
; .50 miles," the noon communique
said. -' , : - '
v "An anti-aircraft battery was
destroyed and an escorted enemy
' submarine on the surface in St.
& George's channel; was bombed at
I'low altitude and aink. - -' -
k '- "In the course of these attacks
! -iine enemy fightera'attempted in-
j 'i: perception and three were ? shot
; down
"AIT oar planes retarned."-
i Set Tiieay
i PORTLAND, April 12.-(iiP)-The
funeral of Dr. Wilson D. McNary,
.former superintendent of the East
ern Oregon "state hospital. wDl be
"held here Tuesday; Dr. McNary,
who died Friday, was president of
the Pendleton Round-up associa-
;tion for several years.
i Episcopal Bishop William P.
'Remington of Pendleton will offi
ciate. Vault entombment .will fol
low in the Riverviow cemetery
mausoleum.
Accident Injures
Car Occupants
When an automobile belonging
to G rover C Goodlow, 244 Marion
street, took oft over the gully side
of the curve at Eola, landing on
the railroad. tracks,, occupants of
the car were taken to the hospital
but no one was seriously hurt, hos
pital attendants reported. The car
was removed from the tracks un
der supervision of state police.
Ends
Tonight
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t nArM nilfla. :t mr old daoxhter of a deceased ex-
service man. The curly-haired
from a Mfehiraa home for widows and orphans of ex-service men.
The annul Baddy roppy sale la eondacted by the Veterans of For
den War to raise fands for relief work, TIN Photo.
Japs Rushing Kiska Field
Under US Air Bombardment
Draft Qass
Revisions
Ordered
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embodied in a bill by Rep. Kil
day (D-Tex) which passed the
house, 143 to 7, today and now
goes to the senate. It would give
deferment priorities to men with
dependents and also place draft
quotas on a state-wide basis, di
recting that no local board should
call married men while other
boards, within the same - state
were able to draft single men.
The selective service objects to
the Kilday i bill on the grounds
it would be too difficult to ad
minister. I
Selective service laid down
for the first time a hard and
fast rale aovernlna who is a
father, as far as It is concern
ed. It directed that local
boards shall classify in S-A
the division for fathers main
' joining a bona fide family re
lationship with a chUd or chil
dren men with a child bora
before last September. 15.
McNutt and Selective Service
Director Lewis B. Hershey, dis
cussing the revisions at a press
conference, gave mis general sta
tistical picture:
Of some 14,000,000 physically
fit men aged 18 through 57, more
than half already are in the arm
ed services. Of the Remainder,
about 3,200,000 will be deferred
for reasons or occupation or hard
ship and the rest, regardless of
dependents, will have to be draft
ed by the end of the year.
But even if deferments are
held to an absolute minimum by
strict rulings, Hershey and Mc
Nutt said, the supply of physical
ly fit men may well be insuf
ficient to; meet manpower de
mands of ' the armed forces this
year.
If that proves true, ;they add
ed, it will be imperative to take
at least one of these steps: Low
er the physical standards of the
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A FAR WESTERN BASE IN
THE ANDREANOF ISLANDS,
April S - (Delayed) -(-Bombing
notwithstanding, the Japanese
are pushing to completion a long
fighter field on Kiska and a long
bomber field on Attu, the eleventh
bomber command headquarters
revealed Monday.
The Kiska runway, which may
have - Zeros zooming from it to
meet our American bombers
within two weeks, has been bomb
ed six times and man-made light
nings have plugged Jap workers
and kicked up the frozen gravel
repeatedly.
Attu has been pockmarked with
bombs twice when 10 Liberators
unloaded 20 tons of explosives.
And after the bombing, appar
ently, the Japs crawled from their
trenches surrounding the fiedls
and used the loosened stone.
These runways may indicate:
First, the Jap is getting ready
to repel a naval bombardment
with Zeros.
Second, to repel any landing on
the few existing beaches.
Third, to harrass our advance
bases if possible.
Fourth, to hit our shipping lines.
Fifth, to launch an offensive of
his own against Alaska. The use
of transports June 4, 1942, indi
cates that he has had this idea
in his mind.
To outfit these two airfields will
require technical equipment which
will have to be flown in or sent
in by surface ship and submarine.
The Japs have tried surface ships
and lost 15 to navy guns, tor
pedoes and army bombers.
Their last effort at this writing
was March 26 when a two-to-one
outnumbered and out-gunned
American task force turned back
three cargo ships escorted by two
heavy cruisers, two light cruisers
and four destroyers. It ia not
known if the Japs used subma
rines, as they did at Guadalcanal.
When Attu and Kiska runways
are working, fighter planes will
be able to fly from Paramushiro
to Attu, 735 miles, and on to
Kiska, 195 miles.
armed forces; raise the age limit
to take in men who have passed
their 38th birthdays.
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Follces Trial
Defense Opens
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Lewelling said the trial would be
adjourned untnj Wednesday morn
ing at the request of Lomax
physicians. He went immediately
to a hospital to rest.. The ..trial
was adjourned Saturday until
Monday because of Lomax Ill
ness. ' - - i C : ; v.. TcU -v;
Despite his weakened condition
and with a voice that was low and
husky, Lomax questioned Wilson
relentlessly this morning on state
ments made previously to investi
gator and at the trial in direct
and cross-examination. - v
He forced an admission trom
Wilson that he once had said the
man he : saw running down the
aisle wore a brown pin-stripe suit
and later testified wore a dark
overcoat. Lomax asked: Wilson if
he changed his 'story because District-Attorney
Harlow Deinrick in
his opening, statement said - Mrs.
James' killer had on an overcoat.
Wilson denied the prosecst
r statement! had anything to
do with his testimony. My de
cision that the man were an
overcoat camel after the excite
meat had snbslded and I had
time to give clear consideration
to what I had witnessed," the
marine said.
Wilson said he talked to inves
tigators at Eugene and , Klamath
Falls, Ore, where the train stop
ped on its run to California after
the slaying.
"Did you ever! tell any of those
officers that the man who left the
berth was a white man?" Lomax
asked. :-
"No, I sever did," said the
marine. ' .
"Was he a white man?" Lomax
followed.
"I don't know."
Lomax questioned Wilson about
a blood-spattered towel which had
been. turned over to officers and
was introduced in evidence today.
Wilson said he had found the
towel in a sleeper behind the
diner after the train left Eugene.
After the adjournment Wein
rick was asked
how many wit-
nesses the state
would call after
Wilson's testimony had been com
pleted. He said there would be 15
or more brought to the stand.
Court Rules
On 3 Cases
WASHINGTON, April 12-tiP)
A draft registrant, convicted of
failing to keep his selective serv
ice board properly informed of
his address, obtained a supreme
court review of his case Monday.
The court, however, turned
down the appeal of Rufo C Ro
mero, U. S. army captain in the
Philippines who was convicted of
taking secret maps of Manila de
fense from Fort William McKin-
ley, photographing them and dis
closing them to persons who, the
justice department said, "were
not entitled to receive such in
formation."
The draft case: involved Homer
Lester Bartchy, alias Homer
Brocks of Houston, Tex. He join
ed the merchant marine and sign
ed at New York for a foreign
voyage when, the justice depart
ment said,' his induction was im
minent. .For two! weeks before his
ship sailed he remained aboard.
the department said, and failed to
advise the national maritime un
ion in Houston or the draft board
of .his whereabouts. Bartchy
claimed that he had told the
board that his mail could be sent
to the union. I
In a unanimous opinion, the
court also upheld $4,000,000 tax
assessment levied on the Chicago
stock yards company on the
grounds that the company, to
avoid payment of surtaxes, per
mitted its profits to accumulate
during 1930, 1932, and 1933, in
stead of distributing them on its
stock. The revenue act of 1928
provides a 50 per cent additional
tax on the net income In such
cases.'.""" r ' -
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Navy Reveals
WASHINGTON. April 12-W)
The navy announced Monday 21
casualties in navy forces, includ
ing 4 dead, 4 wounded and 13
missing. T-' f ' : h-.J??
This brines to 24.737- the total
of navy, marine corps and coast
ruard casualties reported to .next
of kin since December 7, 1941,
The1 grand -total Includes 7,078
dead, 4,864 .wounded and 12,997
missing.
The casualties announced Mon
day included those listed are na
vy and non-commissioned person
nel, unless -otherwise specified j :
Oregon-Adama, Heraia aeaa
fnreviously reported missing Jan
uary 23). Father, Walter Adams,
1024 Floss Ave, Milwaukie.
Prnsar. Bruce. TJaptain.' Ma
rine. Safe. (Previously reported
missing October 27, 1J wue,
Mrs Bruce Prosser, Athena.
Reds Repulse
Five Attacks
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by a counterblow and completely
restored the former situation.
said the communique, adding that
all the Germans' subsequent stabs
also were repulsed.
"According to incomplete data.
ft continued, "over 2000 bodies of
nrmsn officers and men were
counted on the battlefield and in
trenches where hand-to-hand
fighting had taken place. Several
dozen Hitlerites were taken pris
oner. Trophies captured included
three guns, 46 machineguns, tune
radio transmitters, a large quan
tity of rifles and other war ma
terials."
The Volkhovo sector has been
quiet for months, but the German
attacks brought some of the
heaviest fighting reported in re
cent days.
The Germans continued their
attacks against soviet positions
along the thaw-bogged west bank
of I the Donets below Balakleya,
with 160 Germans reported killed.
The Germans drove at one point
into the advanced lines of soviet
defenses, but were turned back
by a counter-assault, the war bul
letin said.
pn the Smolensk front, 200
more Germans were killed as Rus
sian artillery and machinegun fire
peppered nazi positions in an at
tempt to clear the way for further
advances.
Despite these actionsthe com
munique repeated the familiar
phrase of recent days that there
were no significant cnanges
along the huge front.
Keeping up the aerial offensive,
Russian Stormovik planes destroy
ed or damaged 30 German troop
and supply trucks, blew up am
munition dumps, and silenced ar
tillery batteries, the - midnight
communique said.
Soviet guns rumbled in the
Caucasus, destroying two enemy
guns, six blockhouses and one
ammunition dump, the communi
que said, but it did not mention
any ground fighting in this area.
First Aiders
Get 3 Calls
Brian Lee Hanson, two years
old, of 624 South 12th street, ac
cidentally located some rat poison
late Monday afternoon and samp
led it, city first aiders who were
called to his immediate assist
ance said. The lad was taken to
the Salem Deaconess hospital,
where Dr. Gussie Niles said he
would recover.
A salem bride-elect, who faint
ed in a downtown jewelry store,
was taken home by the first aid
car Monday afternoon.
Pvt. Walter Durkiewirsky of
Camp Adair, who became ill
downtown in Salem on Sunday
was taken to a nearby army hos
pital by the first aid car, and
James Cosgrove. who became sud
denly ill at 3430 Portland road
Monday morning was given first
aid. . .
Kaiser Attorney
Denies Conspiracy
: ! PORTLAND. April 12-PV-Gor
don Johnson, a Henry J. Kaiser
attorney, declared Monday that
national labor relations board at
torneys have failed to show a
conspiracy ; existed between the
Kaiser shipyards in this area and
AFL unions in the negotiation of
closed-shop labor contracts,
f He' made th e charge during
argument in support of a Kaiser
motion made last Thursday for
ri;niaT of CIO charges that the
shipyards aided the AFL to obtain
closed-shop agreements.
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Opens Rally
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bitter time when wehad to take
blows without returning them, be
cause we weren't ready all of
that Is past.
"Now we're ready to deal a few
blows ourselves; and , they'll be
blows; " I canromise you, that
will rock nazi - Germany to ; its
rotten bloodstained foundations.'
Discussing the - financial needs
of the war at the rally where the
other speakers included Governor
Thomas E.', Dewey,: Mayor F. H.
Laguardia, AFL President William
Green and jCIO president Philip
Murray, Morgenthau said:
. Ten per 'cent is no longer
enough money, to put into war
bonds. - "We : are ; asking every
one to buy extra bonds this month,
even workers who are now partic
ipating in the payroll savings
plan,- Morgenthau said.
Dewey said that the bond drive
was made real and vital because
Americans were "giving up things
so fighting men can use them."
"Let no one think he added.
"that when he help put the $13,
000,000,000 victory drive across he
is just giving up dollars.
' Declaring that "the working
people of America are in this war
heart and soul,1- Murray said that
there were 172,000 payroll sav
ings plans in operation which pre
sented a "picture of labor-management
cooperation in support of
the national war effort which
promises great things for the fu
ture welfare of this country. -
: Speaking for more " than 6,000
member of the AFL, Green
pledged "every last dollar above
what it costs us to live for war
bonds."
If present taxes are unchanged,
the treasury estimates it will have
to borrow $25,000,000,000 in the
period from May to August and
another $25,000,000,000 in the pe
riod from September to December
The goal set - for the January-
April period $20,000,000,000-
will be reached with successful
completion of the second war loan
drive.
Indicative of the tremendous
public response to this campaign
was one subscription of $25,000,
000 reported from . Philadelphia.
In hundreds of newspapers today
every line of retail advertising
was devoted exclusively toward
selling government bonds.
ICC Revokes
Freight Rise
WASHINGTON, April 12-(P)
By a 6 to 5 vote, the interstate
commerce commission Monday
suspended, effective May 15, rail
road freight rate increases, aver
aging 4.7 per cent, which were
authorized a year ago to offset
.higher wages granted railroad
workers by a presidential media
tion board.
In a decision representing a
major victory for the office of
price administration, which had
fought the increases, the com
mission also revoked, effective
the same day, a 10 per cent in
crease in commutation fares but
ordered further hearings on
whether this revocation should
stand. It refused to change stan
dard passenger fares which, with
the commutation fares, were in
creased 10 per cent on Feb. 10,
1942.
Ninth Flier
Believed Dead
WALLA WALLA, April 12.-JP
-Mute evidence that Staff Sgt.
H. C. Van Slager, South Bend,
Ind, was drowned after he para
chuted from a Walla Walla army
bomber March 30 has been found
on the Greyhound river, a tribu
tary to the middle fork of the Sal
mon river in central Idaho. Ma
jor Harry E. Gilmore, command
ing officer of the air field here,
was informed Monday.
As reconstructed by evidence
found by searchers, Van Slager
spent several days at an empty
cabin in which he found food, then
built and launched a raft to float
down the small but swift stream.
The raft was discovered 300 yards
downstream from the cabin but
no trace of Van Slager's body has
been found.
v ATI eight other crewmen of the
plane, ; which crashed near Chal
lis, Ida have been found safe aft
er parachuting. V:"-.:v.;--:.-::s
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ILWACO; Wash- April 12-(iP
This city's sea monster story is
turning out just like all the others.
It's an interesting story, but, oh,
what the biologist do to It. .
' Th xtnrv: started . with a huf e
carcass washing ashore. Villagers
decided - it was the remains , of a
two-ton terror with leg-like flip
pers, a mean head and a meaner
looking 15-foot tail.
: Fishermen had never seen its
like before and were considerably
awed.
But a biolocist. Dr. F. J. Kohl
russ of .the University of Portland,
arrived today, peered and prod
at the carcass and then ex
claimed, r "Why, 1 t's a n elasmo-
branchiL" ;;f ' A - ' " -. .
This, he explained, is a rela
tive of the shark, a survivor of
olden1 day, j It didn't have, leg
like flippers i and what everyone
thought was a mean, face was only
the snout Kohlruss added. But
he conceded It probably did weigh
in the neighborhood of two tons.
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House Fights
Ruml jQuestipn
WASHINGTON, April 12 -flP)
Republican Leader Martin, . flatly
rejecting Speaker Rayburn's pro
posal for bi-partisan support be
hind a 26 per - cent withholding
levy without any tax abatement,
moved Monday to. bring pay-as
you-go legislation to a new house
vote by a petition discharging it
from the ways and means com
mittee.
If th republican petition ma
neuver succeeds, the house will
vote again, on the Ruml plan, to
skip an income tax year, defeated
two weeks ago 215 to 198.
; A bill canj.be pried out of the
committee by 218 signatures of
house members on a petition. Mar
tin is hopeful democrats wanting
a "compromise,' abating a part of
a year's j taxes, will join the re
publicans, supporting the -Ruml
full abatement proposal, ,and di
vest the committee of further con
trol over! the! legislation. . -
Coalmen Rap
Conciliator
NEW YORK, April' l-(fl)-South-ern
coal operators complained to
President Roosevelt Monday night
that John R. Steelman, head of
the US conciliation . service, has
persisted in j- an effort to obtain
wage increases for soft coal min
ers, despite the presidential wage
freezing holdthe-line order.
Former Nebraska Senator Ed
ward R. Burke, president of the
Southern Coal Producers associa
tion, made public a telegram sent
to the president, declaring that
"without violating your executive
order, no agreement can be made
that would grant a single one of
their (the miners) demanded
wage increases."-. He asked that
the president take immediate fac
tion to "cause the dispute to t be
heard on its merits by the nation
al war labor board. - . ?
Crash . Kills
Medford Flier
SAVANNAH, Ga, April 12-ff)
Names of seven US army air
corps fliers who were killed when
their medium ' bomber crashed
near Ridgeland, SC. Monday were
announced by Lieut. J. H. Casey,
public relations officer of the
Savannah army air base.
The plane was on a ' routine
training mission, flying from Wal
terboro, SC, to the Savannah air
base, he said.
The list of dead Included: "
Pilot, First Lieut. Lester W. Shep
herd, next of kin, Alice E. Shep
herd, 608 Clark street, Medford,
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Just in Time t :
For Stockhien :
PORTLAND, Ore April 12-CP)
fear of a heavy loss, in Pacific .
northwest livestock herds ended
Monday as ranchers turned sheep
and. cattle onto .the range In in
creasing numbers.'' v '
' ' A ' long winter - hadaunost ex
hausted feed . supplies. A late
spring retarded grass growth and
the range was In no. condition, to
support livestock..;;:-:;;- .
Losses in the ' early lamb crop
consequently -1 were heavy, and
Stockmen feared r their . cattla
would starve if the situation con
tinued. ' , , ;"
Then spring came in with
rush. Almost over night grass ap
peared on the range. For " some .
stockmen it came just in time.
Their animals were thinned down
to the danger point. Range grass
is. fattening the stock now, though, -and
livestock 'experts predict the
market will be up to normal at
selling time next falL 1
There is still a hay shortage,
however, and agricultural experts
advised farmers to Increase hay
plantings to avert further trouble
next winter. j. ' ', ', : ; .
Russ Raid Rcicht
wnwN, Apru -19. T n7 xne ;
Berlin radio, in a broadcast re
corded by the Associated Press, re
ported T ue s d a y that - "enemy" '
planes were over northeast Ger- j
many last night and British quar
ters unmeaiaieiy specuiaiea inai .
the Russian air. force had struck ,
again at the reich.' '
While the German broadcast did
not specify the nationality of the
pianes, we lacx 01 any unusn an- -noun
cement ' concerning RAF ac
tivity indicated strongly, that they
were Russian. ,'r
i Only last Saturday . night the
Russian air; force' heavily raided
Koenlgsberg in northeast Gti-!many..;.;j,V'f;--,-t-"':.":-
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Pioneer Surgeon :
Dies in" Portland ; I '
, PORTLAND, April 12.-iP)-Dr.
Andrew , C. ..Smith, S7, physician
and surgeon who came to Oregon
in 1884, died in a Portland hospital
late Monday, after a three-week
illness.' " J ' ' :' . V.
Dr. SmifJi was first. prestdent ef
tne state board or neaitn and or
the Medical Arts Building com
pany here, a past president of the
State Medical society and a for
mer vice president of the Ameri
can " Medical association. :.
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