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Japanese Navy
Masses for
Assault
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range, are within easy .striking
distance of Australia.- .
(In Washington,- Secretory of
the Nary Ksox, comacnUnr
en- General Blarney's observa
tions, had said: " mast re
'mejnber that aa attack en Aus
tralia awt be ictiiwilri by
a : tremendous - sea I force , aod
there la no tedlcati of a cen
tra tratten pelntlag to that.")
1 . ' Commenting upon the strategic
potentialities of the war In the
, southwest Pacific. General Mac
Arthur said,-"The Japanese, bar
ring our submarine activities
which are not to be discounted,
have complete control of the sea
lanes, in the western- Pacific and
of the outer approaches towards
- Australia.. c-
"Control of such sea lanes no
longer depends soleiy or even
. Derhaos - primarily upon naval
power hut upon ir pswer oper
ating from land bases held by
ground troops all supported by
naval power.
; "If the enemy w4ne eeatrel
srf the air, his naval anils eaa
at once bring forward conveys
f grevnd forces to tenttnae
hU attack to the at ward te
a limit Imposed only by the ef
fective range of his land -baaed
lair sopport.
A primary threat to Australia
does not therefore require a great
Initial local concentration of land
based aviation. As a matter of
- fact, Japanese naval forces In
treat strength, although now be
yond our bomber range, are witn-
ln easy striking distance of Aus
tralia.
! IThe vital factors therefore in
the southwest Pacific with itj
countless island groups and in
numerable archipelagagic reaches
re the air forces to strike
and the ground forces to conquer
and hold. The allied naval forces
can be counted upon to play .their
own magnificent part but the bat
tie of the western Pacific will be
won or lost by the proper appli
cations of the air-ground team.
Attorney Sums
Kaiser Brief
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I PORTLAND, Ore, April 1S-JP)
Gordon Johnson, attorney for the
Henry Kaiser shipyards, wound up
arguments to dismiss a CIO charge
gainst the ; shipyards Tuesday
with a threat to "parade witnesses
Into this courtroom all summer."
- The CIO accuses the shipyards
of signing illegal closed shop
contracts with, the AFL. The Kai
ser interests seek dismissaW of a
specific complaint that the ship
yard management asisted the AFL.
In gaining the contract,
Johnson , told a national labor
relations board examiner, "We'll
answer the testimony of board
witnesses with evidence that will
blow their testimony to bits if we
nave to. We'll bring in witnesses
that they interviewed and then
were afraid to bring into court.
1 "It will be a shame and a dis
grace to the war production board
if men have to be dragged off im-
portant jobs, to answer this silly
nonsense and tommy rot."
" -, Charles J. Janigan, AFL attor
ney, joined Johnson in asking the
dismissal, commenting that the
NLRB case was "completely bar
ren" of proper evidence.
He added, "If contracts are to
be set aside on such slim showings
(hen we have built up a Franken
stein to destroy organized labor."
; ; Two other AFL attorneys are
scheduled to speak' briefly Wed
nesday, then NLRB attorneys will
begin a rebuttal. "
Labor Problem Cited
! PORTLAND, April ia-JP)-The
next six months will determine
whether American war production
can continue with voluntary labor
or whether some form of com
pulsion must be adopted to fill
Jobs, Dr. William Heber of the
.war manpower commission-said
Tuesday,;:: ;:t-:'Vv"C:;r:::--,
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Genevieve Sallivaa. sister of the five 8alllvaas who lost their lives
in the slaking af the cruiser Janeau. Joined the navy as a WAVE
at San Francisco. Bliss Sallivaa, right. Is helped with her new
uifersa by Ileal Teve U Petersen (left), procurement officer.
After cosaplcttng a tour of war plants and navy yards, she prob
ably will report to the WAVES training school at Hunter college.
New York, officials said. Associated Press Telemat.
ON THE HOME FRONT
By ISABEL
A woman's page writer for the San Francisco Chronicle
recently turned the tables as she criticized mildly Junior Leaguers
for misspelling proper names in their magazine.
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More difficult to get than news
is the proper spelling -of proper
names. I
.Because I am not now a wom
an s page editor I may note the
strange fact that the woman who
"writes up" party or club meet
ing, sometimes spelling the same
name three different ways, is
quite often the one who criticizes
the fact that her own name "just
never comes out right In your
paper." ,
On the other hand, it is true
that most persons, are perfectly
willing to .spell out names over
the , telephone, if a s k e d. Even
then, the understanding may be a
task.
Native-born Salem may -some
times be troubled with poor tele
phone connections, but it has no
Mrs. Andersons to compare with
my Mrs. A. :
Why she had been named pub
licity chairman for a suburban
PTA was one of the riddles that
haunted me my first week on the
society desk of a newspaper in a
town that was totally strange to
me. Our only regular contact was
by telephone, and she spoke not
only brokenly but rapidly. When
she told me disgustedly for the
third time how to spell a good
Finnish name, she added this ex
planation that it began with "V
as in flower."
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Although I never' learned to
speak Finnish there came a time
when I found Mrs. Anderson easy
ro unaersiana, wondered at my
own earlier lack of erudition. In a
hospital far from family and close
friends, I looked forward to her
laugh, charming, ringing and
musical. The potted plant with
purple flowers and rough leaves
she left on i my office desk one
gloomy winter day gave me some
thing resembling itch but did bet
ter things for the spirit than the
skin.
Not the easiest person in the
world from - whom . to learn the
spelling of names, she did have
one field in which she excelled:
As a giver of the "cup of cold
water" my Mrs. A. is i probably
a champion 1 . . "C as in friend."
Tonight and Thursday
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Speech Club
Takes Second
In Tourney
Salem Toastmasters walked
or better talked off with first and
second places in their two-way-
tournament with the Eugene
Toastmasters' club in Salem Tues
day night.
Robert Nixoxy Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph ' manager here,
speaking on "Too Much Democrat
cy," was declared winner, while
Harry . LaDou, Salem restaurant
operator, took second place with
his speech on "Power."
Eugene "Bill" Wheeler, Eugene,
used as his subject in the compe
tition, held as a feature of a joint
dinner meeting of the two clubs
at the Marion hotel, "Boys Who
Fight for Freedom." Capt Roy
Seigen thaler of Eugene spoke on
"A Little Lesson in. History."
judges xor tne contest were
Ralph Murphy, speech teacher at
Salem high school; Ll Col. Carle
ton E. Spencer, former law pro
fessor at University of Oregon,
and Dr. G. Herbert Smith, presi
dent of Willamette university.
Sixteen Eugene dub members
attended the session.
Milk Rationing
Is Expected
s CHICAGO, April 13--MilX
rationing, may be established in
some parts of the country this
year. Dr. T. G. Stitts, chief of the
dairy and poultry division of the
food distribution administration.
told the American Dairy associa
tion Tuesday.
"There is an adequate supply
In right for this summer, he said
"But there is a definite possibil
ity of a shortage of fluid : milk
supplies In many areas In the
fall or sometime after July 1." :
Dr. Stitts explained that ra
tioning, '"If undertaken, would be
planned with the purpose of in
suring adequate supplies of milk
to hospitals, ' children and those
who need It most.
Toars of practical experience
and study hare made the
Mnr 9akots loaders hi their
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Red Attacks
Drive Nazis -From
Forts
BULLETIN
f MOSCOW. April 14 -JP)-flerce
fighting far Donets river
positions soath of Balakleya con
Uamed Taesday night with aboot
20t Germans killed la the ac
tion, the Soviet noon common
Iqne said today, r
LONDON, Wednesday, April 14
(AVRussian patrols; thrusting for
ward on the Smolensk front dis
lodged the Germans "from forti
fied positions of great importance,'
Tuesday, while to the north on
the Leningrad sector the Soviets
have turned back in outbreak of
nazl tank and infantry attacks
with "heavy losses" to the Ger
mans, Moscow announced early
today.
Several score Germans were
killed by Russian patrols that
pusnea Across a river ana snaked
through mine fields! In the heavily
fortified sector west of Moscow
to seize the strategic but uniden
tified positions, said the midnight
communique as recorded by the
Soviet Monitor. Two companies of
German infantry were wiped out
by artillery and infantry fire, it
added. ' . v " r .
On the Leningrad front, "Ger
t -
man infantry supported by tanks
attacked our positions continuous
ly during the day," but all these
charges were driven back, with
the Germans losing . heavily in
manpower, the war bulletin as
serted, i . - t
On the Talkbov front ahent
ft miles to' the soatheast where
the Rosslans yesterday had. re
ported repalse of five bloody
nasi attacks Soviet artillery
fire destroyed 17 pillboxes and
dugouts, and a patrol captured
sat enemy trench seising pris
oners and returning- to the Rus
sian lines. i
The Russians took the offensive
on the now relatively dormant
Donets line south of Balakley,
charging in enemy trenches and
killing more than; 100 Germans,
the communique said.
The Russian air force, which
has raided Koenigsberg in East
Prussia twice within the last four
nights, continuedj carrying the
fight to the enemy, and destroyed
five planes on a jnazi airdrome,
the Russians said.
Soviet guerillas In the Smolensk
ragion derailed a! German troop
train March 26, smashing a loco
motive and nine cars, and killing
20 Germans, the communique re
ported.
Two days later guerillas on an
other sector mined a rail line and
blew up an engine and IS cars,
killing or injuring 300 Germans.
Agriculture
Fund Slashed
WASHINGTON, April 13.-P)-
Extensive restriction of agricul
ture department activities was
recommended by I the house ap
propriations committee Tuesday in
approving a $707,040,844 fund
$240,093,647 below budget est!
mates for its operations in the 12
months beginning next July 1.
In a statement, James G. Pat
ton, president of the National
Farmers union, charged that ab
olition of the FSA was part of a
plan by the American Farm Bu
reau Federation for "complete
balkanization of American agri
culture.' President Edward A.
O'Neal of the farm bureau had
urged at committee hearings that
FSA be abolished. .
The committee recommended
that the farm credit administra
tion. In taking over FSA functions,
be given $12,000,000 for rural re
habilitation and ' $40,000,000 of
RFC for loans, j
Tax Payment
I With the deadline for receiving
1943 state income tax returns to
expire tt midnight Thursday,
April 15, plans for handling the
eleventh hour taxpayers were an
nounced by the state tax com
mission Tuesday. L "' -
The Portland office of the com
mission is opei evenings to re
ceive returns while the Salem of
fice will remain jopen until mid
night Thursday. Returns placed in
the mails before midnight Thurs
day will be received by the com
mission without penalty. , - i.
l a x commissioners reported
heavy incoming mail during the
past few days. Only a small per
centage of the income taxpayers
have taken advantage of the 1943
legislative session law allowing
quarterly payments, j-1,-
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Hunting Complaint
Panned by Ji
PORTLAND, April lJ -ftPV-As-
sistant US Attorney : William M.
Langley sought permission in fed
eral court Tuesday to file com
plaints against a half dozen hunt
ers for shooting ducks after sun
down last falL'; C- " r ' .
"What's that got to do with win
ning the war?" Judge Claude Mc
Collocb demanded, i - : - i ... :
i Langley explained he was mere
ly - following instructions of - the
attorney general's office.
"Better keep f the complaints
awhile and think It over," the
judge said. :. "
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Navy Official Visits Front
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Ready for conferences mn progress of the war In the Pacific, the Den.
Ralph A. Bard, assistant secretary of the navy. Is shown being
ereeted by Admiral Chester W. Nlmlts, commander In chief of the
US ractfle fleet, foUowing his
Board Probes
Wair Leaves
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superintendent said, had indicated
their interest In the various ser
vices.
One resignation tendered Tues
day! night was from Miss Marie
Houguez, commerce teacher at the
high school who has been serving
i a substitute replacing a man
in the service. Miss Houguez de
clared In asking .to be allowed to
resign that she could obtain
permanent position and could not
Jeopardize her future chances for
employment by remaining on-a job
which would be taken away from
her at the close of the war, an at
titude Bennett said he expected to
find more common among substi
tute! teachers.,
Also accepted were the resigna
tions of Walter Bowman, typing
teacher at the high school, and
Martha Jane Adams, Englewood
teacher. The resignation offered
by Miss Esther Arnold, m edict!
corps at Camp Lewis, was held
in abeyance until the military
leave policy could be more defi
nitely determined.
Mrs. Jean Beutler was named
to replace Mrs. Ruth Hockman at
Bush, granted a leave of absence,
while Mrs. Grace Schmidt was ap
pointed to replace Mrs. Mildred
L. Query, on leave from Highland.
Mrs. Pauline Cohen was named a
substitute to fill Bowman's place.
A one-year leave was granted
Mrs. Hazel Bean; the one-year
leave of Mrs. Martha J. Pinson
was extended for another year.
New contracts were offered Miss
Isabel GilL Newberg, for primary
teaching here, and to Mrs. Ellen
Speerstra Foster, also Newberg,
for intermediate work.
When
and If the military
of the TJoiteA 8ti
need typewriters badly enengh
to reqnlsltioa them they will be
welcome to one-fourth of these
In nse in the Salem school sys
tem, -board members indicated
Taesday night as they voted
down a reqnest to sell the gov
ernment 25 per cent of the dis
trict's typewriters.
Typewriters In use in Salem
high school s commercial depart
ment are used each of the six
periods of the day and some of
them are utilized for an after-
school class for which the system
pays a teacher extra, Supt. Frank
B. Bennett told the board. Some
school systems, he said, use class
room typewriters for one or two
periods a day.
. Typists are sousht in various
war industries and their training
has been declared a war need, it
was pointed out.
The Board Tuesdav nltrht vot
ed to accept $862-56, insurance
representing 100 per cent navment
of loss Incurred in the Englewood
school fire, im
possibility . that Leslie iunior
high and Salem, high school cafe
terias may be used as communi
ty canning centers operating un
der. Smith-Hughes Instructor su
pervision, was expressed by Ben
nett, who explained that the nlans
for t operation of such a: center
would not be adopted if they con
flicted . with - commercial cannera'
plans.i T ; I- ". , '
Mobile Farm Army
Difference Fixed
Washington. Apra is.-up
Senate and house conferees set
tled differences Tuesday on legis
lation creating a mobile army of
farm workers. They agreed to re-,
duce the appropriation from $40,
000,000 to $26,100,000 as originally
drafted.' j -; ---.
The measure retains the senate's
provision permitting recipients of
old age assistance to be paid for
farm labor without losing their
benefit payments, l, ;
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FR Praises
Hemisphere
Solidarity
WASHINGTON, April 1S-P)-
President Roosevelt declared
Tuesday the - United States Is
proud to be "working shoulder to
shoulder" with the republics of
South and Central America to
ward "the world-wide concert of
free nations which will constitute
the International society of the
future."
In a message commemorating
Pan American day tomorrow, Mr:
Roosevelt told the . governing
board of the Pan American union
that the Increasing observance of
the day reflects the progress that
has been made "in converting the
dreams and aspirations of the
founders of our continental Inde
pendence into effective and har
monious means for international
cooperation.
Plane Crash
Kills One
CHICAGO, April A
flight of five service type navy
planes ran into adverse weather
conditions Tuesday while making
practice flights from the deck of
the training aircraft carrier, Wol
verine. Two of them crashed into
Lake Michigan, killing one pilot,
and a third was still missing 12
hours later.
Ensign George Henry Bartlett
Green, III, 25, of Boston, a re
cent bridegroom, was killed when
his plane crashed several blocks
off shore on Chicago's north side.
The best man at Ensign Green's
wedding, Lt Arthur Hyde Phil
lips, 22, of (61 West Vernon) Bos
ton, crashed about a block from
shore and was rescued by a city
life guard In a surf boat He suf
fered minor injuries.
Incentive Pay
Is Suggested
WASHINGTON, April 13-(JP)-Incentive
payments to labor for
increased Individual production,
on an industry by Industry basis,
would help the manpower short
age problem, Almon E. Roth, al
ternate employer , member of the
war labor board, said Tuesday.
Roth, president of the San
Francisco employers council, also
told the house military affairs
committee , he "fully- supported1
the Austin-Wadsworth bill per
mitting the drafting of men and
women for war work, adding that
"the country is prepared for . a
measure of this sort."
He said incentive payments
would - be "inflationary in one
sense because it would fatten the
individual pay envelope, but that
It would be no more inflationary
than hiring additional workers to
produce the same amount.
Snell Requested -
To Name Judge
MARSHFTELD. April
Gov. Earl Snell was urged by the
Coos county republican central
committee Monday to appoint one
of these seven nominees to the va
cant county judgeship: - ":-K
Ray McNair, Bandon merchant;
P. W. Culver, county commission
er; J. P. Beyers, former county as
sessor; Harry Slack, president of
the Coos County Bar association;
Levi Bunch, merchant; Dr. Ralph
Milne, former Coquille mayor, and
J. E. Norton, former acting county
judge. ,.-: -i-.w:'i
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Funds! Assured
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for a second USO unit In Salem,
had failed,: Doughton declared.
Senator McNaTyste1egranrrneans
that the whole main floor and the
basement of the Breyman-corner
will be leased, furnished In an
up-to-date manner and operated
as a general recreation center for
soldiers by the Salvation - Army,
under the USO." . ,:!-'F; v,
! Doughton " declared "himself
"highly pleased with the action,
adding : that "Even then Salem
will not have enough recreational
facilities fdY IsoldSersJ'-:
The' city's 'second USO center,
a temporary I setup,' : going into-
operation Easter weekend In
store building, is' to be used only
until the larger clubrooms are rea
dy, it is currently planned. The
temporary quarters are to be lo
cated In the S00: block on Court
street.' ? '1 1 j'V: '
First USO tenter . In the city.
-that operating in Legion hall at
Cottage and Chemeketa, "bulges1
on weekends, volunteers working
there with the paid staff declare.
Funds . for the enlargement of
that structure were sought last
year unsuccessfully, although re
creation authorities here have de
clared they would ask again. '
Although USO, or United Ser
vice Organizations,- operated cen
ters are maintained for non-commissioned
men in all branches of
the service, and the Salem cen
ters are: no exception, those here
are most heavily : patronized by
the army. ; i
Rent for the first center is pid
by the federal security agency.
while the staff,' USO-appointed
and paid, is from the YMCA.
Staff of the second center, like
wise selected and paid by the USO,
is from the Salvation Army. Adj.
C. H. Thomas, who with Mrs. Tho
mas, will direct the second "center.
is to return to Salem next week
from New York. City, where he
has been attending a USO training
school. . ; i -. ' - ,
Much of the equipment for the
second center lias already arrived
in Salem; some of it will be used
In the temporary quarters. .
Albany Lab
Planned Soon
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13
(P) Transformation of the aban
doned Albany college buildings in
to $500,000 electro-metallurgical
laboratory will get underway soon.
Sen. Rufus C. Hohnan (R-Ore)
said Tuesday; , ,
The bureau of mines plans to
assign an architect to the Oregon
site when the 'budget bureau re
leases funds for the project, ex
pected within , a; few days, Hol-
man said.
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25 Year Jail
Sentence Is
In Balance'
SPOKANE, Wash Aprn W-P)
The delicate scales of Justice, were
balancing 25 years, of Elmer' EL
Cox's life Tuesday with one bottle
of wine as the counterweight. 1 ' '
Cox, on parole from the Idaho
penitentiary where he served less
than five years of a 30 to 60 year
sentence for rape, was accused in
federal court of transporting the
bottle of wine ontoi the Colville
Indian reservation. 1
"If I sentence this man he may
be taken back to Idaho as a pa
role violator and required to serve
23 years, said Judge Lewis B.
Schwellenbach, adding, to Cox:
"A man who has that much time
hanging over him should not be
monkeying around with wine on
an Indian reservation."
' Sentencing was deferred until
the court could-confer 'with the
federal probation officer.
Federal Aid
For Oregon
Schools Asked
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13
(iflPJ-Federal aid for Oregon's war
crowded school system was sought
here last week by Rex Putnam,
Oregon, state superintendent of
public Instruction, and Mrs. Will
iam Kletzer, Portland, president
of the National Congress of Par
ents and Teachers.
. They asked support of Oregon's
congressmen for two pending
bills. One calls for $2,390,000 In
federal assistance for state school
systems until June 30 and $3,500,
000 per year thereafter. An alter- "
native measure would provide
$2,884,000 and $10,000,000.
Sen. Rufus C. Holman said he
favored the federal aid program
If confined to the war emergency -
period. Schools should remain un
der local control, he said, to pre
vent government dictation of what
should be taught ,
Pan-American Award
Given to AP ,
HAVANA, Cuba, ' April 1S-JP)
The Colombista Pan-American so
ciety, an organization which
works for , Inter-American unity.
Tuesday announced an award to
The Associated Press and Its af
filiated organization La Prensa
Asociada for bringing about an in-.
creased Interchange of news
among the American republics.
The society announced that It
had voted the AP and La Prensa
Asociada a scroll of merit "in rec
ognition of ' the ' perfect organiza-
tion which has permitted them to
bring about a greater Interchange
of news about Inter-American af
fairs, thus contributing to the mu
tual knowledge of the peoples of
this continent.1 i
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