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H J PAGE TVVO The OSSGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning. April IS. 1243 ft' J fV4 f l " Rice Gets aioy County Post E (Continued from Page 1 E his time to" farming.-; and "real Estate. " In 1805 he married Muw Theo- '.'date Hobbs.,They have one son, ' Boy Rice, Jr.; in "the US ' air corps, "stationed- at Montgomery, Ala ; - and one' daughter. Mrs. F. " T. Wright" of; Stayton. Rice's residence, representing a central portion of the county, was one of the large deciding factors ,in his selection. Judge Murphy declared Thursday afternoon - as .he prepared to sign the appoint Z ing order. In the field, Murphy made it f clear, were a number of "excel lent men, most of them well Qualified to fill the position.' He and, Smith considered Gus Moisan, "Gervais; Tom Armstrong, Salem; Elmer King, Silverton; Hailey : 'XJbby, Jefferson; Ed Rogers, -Quinaby, and .J. C. Siegmund, Salem, former "County judge. Es ' pec i ally impressive were the peti tions filed for Rogers -and Arm strong, jr ' .t; Girod, who enlisted five months " ago in the seabees, has been com ;missioner since 1941; prior to that 4 date he was for six years an em , ploye of Marion county as oiled : road expert and before that he l was with the J. C. Compton road y construction company, McMinn " ville. . Navy Yard Sets Labor Campaign SEATTLE, April 15-fl-An in ' "'tensive recruiting drive for civil , lan workers for the Puget. Sound navy yard at Bremerton was v launched. Thursday. Officers said "thousands of additional skilled 3 and unskilled workmen are need -, ed desperately. "A navy yard -employe is as -'close to the front as a civilian can get," declared Lieut. Commander ' H. L. Mason, yard employment . officer. "The government has pro , vided every necessity and conven ience for them." ' . . Willys Strikers Back to Jobs TOLEDO, Ohio, April 15-T) A strike of 150 CIO unionists at the ; Spicer Manufacturing com pany which halted assembly of ' army jeeps and made 2500 work ers idle at Willys-Overland Mo tors, Inc., ended Thursday night, . Frank Rossiter, unit hairman of the CIO United Automobile Work ers local at Spicer, said the strik-. ers agreed to return to work and vote later on the question of ask ing the international UAW to authorize a strike. It grew out of a wage dispute. Why When You Can Get The Best Men's Young Men's SPORT COATS, SUITS and SLACKS FOR LESS at JJHJ'JLj : Upstairs Clqihcs Shop Large selection of 100 wool fabrics new Spring and Summer styles all the latest designs to choose from. Walk upstairs and see how easy it is to - , ; . WM M So $5 ca SPOUT COATS ! Mi $s: so $10 On 1 Saner Quality SUITS cad TOPCOATS s SPORT COATS PRICED $0.C5r $!2.S5 16 $14.95 Regalar Priees 11LS f fit j" SAVE $2TO $3 ON SLACKS Snib a! $29, $22.53 $25, $39, $35 Cx $(3 Regular $270 to $50 Values ic-zzzls d $12.85, $17.53, $20 $220 $25 $33 Cr $35 . - Keaular Pricia $23. $25. $30. $35. $40. 4 $45 - . OPEM SATURDAY NTTE .TTX, ,9 O'CLOCK i ' ; Shop Joe's for Better Clothes at Great Money-Saying Prices"1 . . Tor the Best Qothlng Buy la Oregon, Come Up to ' : 442 .STATE ST. lVili tTp Oae Short KI;lit Entrance Next Doer t CaeU Ofe ' Lo3e far tie Neea Zlza Orer Doorway T7En& Wan. Meyd By GLENN BABB AP -War Analjrlst for The Stattomaa Secretary: Stimson a -assurance that a constantly increasing flow of supplies, especially planes,, will go to General MacArthur -should dispel some of the anxiety aroused by the ' recent 7 news from the southwest Pacific , V -: There is, however, no reason to believe that ? his statement dis closes any fundamental change in policy, just as there is no reason to interpret the recent Japanese aggressiveness as denoting ' any basic change in the always per ilous situation in the Australian area. ; " ; ' -,., ; f': v, Certainly there is no departure froni the United Nations master plan of dealing with Hitler first. It is conceivable that General Kenney's persuasiveness 'during his recent mission to Washington had something to do with increas ing the flow of planes to MacAr thur's command, but that is a mat ter of degree not a shift of em phasis. ' ; . Mr. Stimson attempted to lift the discussion above the plane of controversy by his remark that "Vigorous" public officials in the areas close to the war would be remiss in their duties if they failed to press their demands. . He rec ognized the propriety of the Ken ny mission and recent statements by" General MacArthur and Prime Minister Curtin, and gave the only reply possible, the assurance that their needs were not forgotten and would be met in increasing mea sure. The series of 100-plane raids in the New Guinea and Solomons areas in the last few days leaves no room for doubt that the enemy has opened a new tactical phase. It is marked by increased aggres siveness .and an obvious readiness to expend planes and pilots in rel atively large numbers. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining or strengthening our present line of air bases above Australia from which the bombers must fly to hold that invisible line beyond which he Japanese can not move major forces except at suicidal cost. Only in that way, in the current phase, can the allies offset the greatly superior strength in sea and land forces the Japanese are concentrating along the arc of which Truk, in the Carolines, is the control point. The advantages in this position. which enable Japan to replace her losses in perhaps one-fifth the time and with one-fifth the trans port needed to repair ours, were among those on which Japan counted when she took the gamble of war against the United States and Britain. They were handed her in 1919 when the allied and associated Paw powers assigned her the mandate for the former .German : islands .which stretch, across the equator ial Pacific from the Philippines to the international date line. These, in breach of her pledges,; Japan converted into a 3000-mile row of unsinkable aircraft carriers capa ble : of -dominating . nearly . all movement in the western Pacific between' the Tropics . of Cancer and Capricorn. " : " , It will take much time and a tremendous; effort to ' break through that line. Perhaps it can be nullified only by turning it as the Germans turned the Maginot line, by a strategy not based on the Australian area. - What has changed in the south west Pacific is the Japanese tac tics. Washington authorities, quot ed in Associated Press dispatches yesterday called the- new phase "aggressive defense, which seems a sound description. The Japanese command apparently feels ; that a series of strong local attacks, un relenting pressure,, will prove the best , means of accomplishing its strategical mission. ' " OPA Threatens Hog Price Cut WASHINGTON, April 15 -(ff) OPA and the war food administra tion Thursday summoned live stock and meat industry represen tatives to Washington to - devise ceiling price on live hogs, which officials announced, they will im pose if "an adequate downward adjustment j in hog prices is not realized within a reasonable time. Hog prices have dropped some what since ; the two agencies, de clared on iApril .10 that: there would be a '"ceiling unless." To days announcement said .. that prices had to come down all the way indicated at that time $1 to $1.50 per hundredweight. Columbia to Get Control Station SEATTLE, April 15-;P) -Coast guard : headquarters announced Thursday a traffic control barge would be anchored in the Colum bia river, and all vessels moving in or out via the west channel will be required to stop' for ex amination and permission to pro ceed. The barge will be west of the channel, about. 1300 .yards from the Baker bay jetty, light. A green light will show at night. A bell will show its position on days of .poor visibility, 442 STATE ST. Walk Up : Oae Short FISsht Entrance Next U Qaelle Cafe 'LMk t er the New Sirai .Oref Three Jap SMpffit A (Continued from Page 1) A At Mubo, 15 miles -couth of Sal amaua in a region where enemy ground troops are , menaced , by allied ' land! forces, allied attack planes made 11 low . level bomb Ing and strafing runs over enemy positions... ; ".. . - - In the sector northwest of Aus tralia, a medium - bomber attack ed Japanese installations at Tab erf ane on jTrangan island of the Aroe group. Coastal shipping was attacked on Jamdena - island in the Tanimbar group. The village of Ossu on Timor was bombed and strafed. North ef New Britala, a fear- - metered allied bomber en re- eenaissance daty over Karleaav New Ireland.: was- engaged by It Japanese fighters. The allied plane shot three of the enemy eat, of action and then safely reached a eovering of cloads. ' Carrying forward the series of alarms concerning Japanese in tentions, the spokesman added: "Aa regards merchant shipping, a (Japanese) concentration of ap proximately 250,000 tons has been maintained in or around Rabaul alone or; the past several months. "Other Japanese bases on the arc Palau, Manila, Soerabaja-r-are within easy concentration range of the 2,500-mile battle line which envelops the upper half of Australia. ' y yyi: - "Constant convoys operating beyond! the range of oar air for- ees are! being pushed forward to reinforce the enemy." - (The MacArthur spokesman': reference to the presence of Japanese fleet at Truk had -the effect of answering a recent dec laration! by Secretary of the Navy T&aox. that there was no sign of the presence in south Pacific wa ters of an enemy fleet big enough to carry an Australian invasion. County Drive Hits $700,000 D (Continued from Page 1) O Douglas S. Yater as vice-chair man, j' 1 Chairman Gard said his $700, 000 report Thursday included Marion! county's share, $30,000, of a $1,000,000 purchase of bonds made by Oregon Mutual Life In surance company early this week. WASHINGTON, April With a third of their 13 billion dollar second war loan drive hi the bag, Americans Thursday were figuring oat fancy birth day presents for Adolf Hitler next jTaesday in the form of still more war bond purchases. As ideas to "Hit Hitler with war bonds' popped up around the na tion, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, jr., said: "The push isn't over. Our prob lem is to reach the man in the street with bond sales, and that's still ahead." He said the man in the street had bought only $320,000,000 of the 5 Vi billion in government se curities sold thus far in the drive. "The big fellows - always come in quickly," he explained. The treasury has indicated that it hopes to sell the ordinary bond purchaser around 2 billion dollars worth or bonds in April. Meanwhile, apparently origina ting in Washington, Pa., an Amer ican idea went the rounds. Wouldn't It be nice, suggest ed Editor Austin V. McCUin of the Washington Observer, If Americans bought war bonds as birthday presents - for Adolf Hitler. .. Adolf didn't plan it that way. but his birthday falls smack in the middle of the second, war loan drive next Tuesday, April 20. Hell be 54 years old. Butter, Eggs, Lard Holdings Increase v . WASHINGTON April . 15 Thef agriculture department r ported Thursday that cold storage holdings of butter, eggs and lard increased during March but that supplies of other perishable com modities declined. i: Apples and frozen fruits and vegetables showed a normal sei sonable , decline, it said, while stocks of frozen meats and douI- i try j were reduced more rapidly than usual. Cheese holdings which normally show increases at this period were said to have been reduced by significant amounts during ; the month. Too Late to Classify rOR SALS: 193 Plymouth Coupe In tin condition. Good tires a, Kmm- S32S cash. Phone 21631 ar call at 186S Barry All-Soldier Boxing t : Show - s 10 Scrappy Ecds PLUS Famous Clown -rriday. 8:15 P. M. -. P - Llngsld Seats 75e General ; Admission" 53c Advanced Ticket Sale ' ' Cooke's SUtlenery Store Sponsored By," -... American Legioa OHflieHOUEFRONT By 13 AXEL CIIZLD3 ' He wul make an excellent Eas ter present for the baby and after she has grown, tired of pulling, his long pink ears we may use him f or lub sandwiches, i. .. After alL with meat- what it is today. there may come a time when we will want to experiment with the edibility of whatever stuffing the blue bunny from the ' drug store shelf may have! " V Never do I see an Easter rab bit or a dyed egg without thinking of my first experience with a re ligion other than the faith of my fathers. ' v,: -; f -, Both brother "and sister had red hair and freckles, but. their noses were slightly hooked, and "their names were, I think, Jessie and Abraham. Someone whispered at school a word our - mother : had taught us i was used only in the gutter .but we found no differ ence oetween the new family and those we had known all our short lives . .'. until the day we colored Easter eggs , when the redheads came to play. . Jessie was in tears late that Saturday afternoon, as she came to return the eggs they had deco rated and so proudly taken home. Some religious connection was causing her this ' grief, - she gave us to " understand, murmuring something about being different. There was red hair in our fam ily, too, but it lay above a broad. high forehead and warm hazel eyes. I was very young and I wondered : for some time before the purpose of the overheard tele phone conversation dawned on me. V ,r She had taught in a Jewish or phanage, now and then fed us the food she had first sampled there, why should she call to ask for a recipe? Other things were said, too, ' about spring and the fact that the tulips would soon blossom, that we were going shortly to visit Uncle Guy, on whose farm there would be young chicks. Some magic even those of us who loved to hear her talk must have gone over the telephone wires, for that night the redheads came joyfully to bring to us chocolate bunnies, just like those our own father sold in his store! Second Escort Carrier Slated PORTLAND, Ore, April lS-(P) Henry J. Kaiser's Vancouver-shipyard announced Thursday its sec ond aircraft escort carrier will be launched Monday, just two weeks after the Alazon Bay took to the j water. The vessel, will be turned over to the British navy under lend- lease. It will be christened the HMS Ameer by the wife of Rear Admiral Moreell, chief of the navy's bureau of yards and docks. SSdlesSiKiDw Odd Angles On . Day's News SEATTLE-(JP -A contribution to the physical as well as the mor al re-armament side of the coun try's needs will be required short ly from Wilber S. Huston, one time dubbed the "nation's bright est boy. Huston said he had been ' ad vised by his draft board to be ready for induction April' 19. He is 30. Fourteen years ago. the son of the Rt Rev. S. Arthur Huston. Episcopal bishop of Olympia, was selected -as the nation's brightest boy and awarded the Thomas A. Edison scholarship to Massachu setts Institute of Technology. Aft er doing research work for a short time in the Edison laboratories. he gave up science for work with the English Oxford group. Last year he returned to Seattle to continue his work in moral re armament with a small group nere. "I do not expect treatment oth er than that accorded others." was nts only comment. . OMAHA -y- A 17-year-old youth, held for incorrigibility, was oemanding his rights under ques- uomng of Omaha police Caotain Marry Green. "I know my rights and my law" ne snouted. "I want a lawyer.' "What kind of a lawyer do you want?" Green asked. With a knowing look the youth repuedJ "Don't give me that stuff. You know the kind I want The kind that; can get me - a ' horpus corpus but quick!" ; Bay War Bonds, Stamps TODAY and SAT. EUETIII' UWffiSUU CO-FEATURE The Fuehrer's Supermen couldn't figure It out!, . . . How could one mortal being with a little V on his arm elude the Great Gestapo!... tri Government Exempt Men Are Rapped ' WASHINGTON, April 15.-(rV Saying 'that government should "set the example" with respect to draft- deferments, the house- mili tary committee Thursday assert ed that federal agencies generally had followed "a - hit - or - miss" policy in hiring men eligible for the draft .. . - In a report to the house, the committee recommended ' that . lo cal draft boards throughout' the nation review theirfiles witha view to eliminating all deferments of government employes not thor oughly justified , by supporting evidence." ' - ,' The committee reported it had Incomplete' Information showing a total government personnel, ex clusive of field workers, of 2,370, 166, of which 1,625,162 are males. Of the total males, 840,578 were of .draft age. ) V r ' -.: The committee did not say how many of the; workers had been given " occupational deferments, but said many of those deferred had received that status on their own initiative and many, others had been deferred by departmen tal request. Woman Admits Killing Baby PORTLAND, Ore, April 15-(JP) Arrested on a petty larceny , com plaint, Mrs. Evelyn F. Lovelady, 23,- former Cement,; Okla, resi dent, calmly told police Thursday that she strangled her 17-months old daughter last November 4. , Deputy Sheriff Forest Hudnut said she signed a-statement, de scribing in detail how she twisted a strip of hem from a bedsheet around the baby's neck, tied it, and left it .until the baby began to struggle. Then she cut the hem away with scissors. The baby died next day at ' an Oklahoma City hospital She was told the baby's glands were : paralyzed, Hudnut said "I didn't aim to tie the string around her neck. I just couldn't help it something makes me do those things, Hudnut quoted her. The baby Was crying, she added. because she , wouldn't let her go with her father when he left the house. - Mrs. Lovelady, whose husband. Eugene, is a shipyard worker, said she came to Portland three weeks ago. She told' officers, Hudnut said, that she was married at 18 and bore four children. The first died one day after birth, the sec ond was born dead, the third she said she strangled, and the-fourth died in the night when 2V months old. She said her husband did not know that she strangled the baby. She was held in the county jail without charge while authorities investigated her story. LA Police Find Body LOS ANGELES, April 15-4P) A young woman whose nude and ravished body was found Wed ; nesday night in a , bakery truck was identified Thursday as Mrs. Margaret Kelley, 28, mother of three children. Her husband, James D. Kelley, 32, a defense plant worker, iden tified his wife's body from police photographs. He said they were married in . Milwaukee, Wis., her nciu lur auesuonuu in - ner wr 1 M a.; i i death was Henry Sanudo, 25, a recently discharged army private. Police Detective E. C McGruder said 'Sanudo admitted having sat in an automobile with the woman last night shortly before' her body was found, and declared they had an argument but denied he had killed her. Tonlte Sat. Two Big Features - I Tho FuanUat Comedy Ever TOznadl '2-One:of st A7oatoma Ever Made! i mm. f - Johnny ttoclc I 1 7A i J News Our Gang" Comedy 'Grove Owner . Begins Sentence BOSTON. April . lS.-()-Night Club. Owner' Bamett .Welansky, his face as j expressionless as it was during the four weeks of his trials Thursday night began serv ing a 12 .to 15 years sentence "at hard libor" on. manslaughter charges resulting from the Cocoa nut, Grove holocaust that took 49 lives- last Nbvembet- 28. ?; f L - -A few hours earlier, when We lansky -appeared in Suffolk- super ior court for Imposition of ..sen tence, ' a defense counsel motion for a stay was denied "and Attor ney Herbert 'F. Callahan immedi ately Indicated he would appeal. Slain GirlTs Eat:?:g ueamrcnaity PITTSBURGH, April 15-6?) The anguished father of a four year-old girl who was raped and slain made; an Impassioned plea for. the death of a neighbor youth accused of the crime Thursday, after the coroner reprimanded the youth for grinning at an inquest. ' The coroner's jury, upon bearing testimony , that Earl Perry,: 17, strangled and buried curly-haired Theresa Williams in the cellar of his home last week, recommended that Perry be held for the grand jury on a murder charges-; Adolph Williams, telling the jury : how he dug up the body" of his daughter, cried out:' ; " "May God strike him dead for harting soy little one. 1 trusted him and I treated him for 11 years like! one of my own. He used to eat with us when he didn't like what they had in their own 'home. . ' "I want lithe r law to give him the worst i punishment so others like him can't hurt Innocent chil dren and bring grief and heart aches to their parents.. . - Perry, a candy factory worker. sat grinning and smirking 'during the hearing, bringing the rebuke from Coroner William D. McClel land: -4 . - ; T "This Is ho laughing matter. ' The weeping father, a mail truck driver, testified: . . , I started to dig la the cellar dirt with my owa hands. I dag up some newspapers and thea I eamo to jj somethlag which I thought waa a little balL It the palm of her little hand . Record Farm Income Seen CORVALLIS, April 15-)-Anr other record income year for Ore gon farmers, providing they have good yields, was predicted Thurs- day by Oregon State college. ex tension specialists. Farm income in - the state last year was at an ai-time high of $220,000,000. This was 37 per cent above the jl94L figure and almost aouDie tnej 33 income. A .sur vey last month showed farm price levels generally 42 per cent higher tnan a year ago. ; THE LIVE 10YES or JEH WHO tUlTAN Laa Todj h CAROIHO Box-OfncAi r-o.ic.A- 1 .: fa lteWia4tlt Awaail &! uvinc...iovinc... ( i nor oooc no 'Klehard .Kent ; Dtx . ' Taylor -MEN AGAINST TnE SXY" I . - -:. . - : !. 7 Added v wDick : Tracey" vs. , Crime, Inc."" KAF Smashes XTar Plants: M B (Continued from Pag 1) B firing Typhoon fighters were re ported to have severely damaged . three armed axis trawlers caught off the Dutch coast . i Germany bombers' were over towns In East AngUa and on the Thames estuary Wednesday night, causing a brief alert in London, but dropping no bombs in the cap-' itaL Some4 damage and casualties were reported from other dis- tricts. Tour of the attacking planes were reported destroyed, one of them as it was preparing to land back at its home base in France. : Trade Treaty Hght Flares C (Continued from Page 1) C - TYoo are too contemptible for mo to speak to farther.' ; j Thereupon Sayre said, "I ob ject, and I have nothing further ' to say." ; ',,-. .--' :j .-;;:," Gearhart previously had de scribed as "scintillating absurdi ties." and "sweet scented bunk the contentions that reciprocal trade pacta contributed to world peace He said those administer ing the - t r a d e authority - had ' thought more of political advan tages .than of developing trade. "Did yoa help Hitler to san ity." asked, "when on all sides of him yoa developed these trade pacta, deaytng him all the advantages? Dent yoa think there-were power pontics In volved: was there no thoaght of qaarantlalng GermanyT" . - Sayre told the ccnmittee ear lier that if "this country, did not trade with other nations and en tered on a policy of isolationism it inevitably would lead to a third world war. . " r LAST TIMES TODAY A NIGHT ToH : REMEMBER Co-SUrrins- Lore tU . YOUNG Brfaa AHERNE ; -FLVS- THE MAN IN THE TRUNK- STARTS SATURDAY The most powerful,' gripping, romantic: story ever brought: to the screen by Walt Dlfnev! i IUI - Length Feainre- II SUSHIS miimiif ncuitiui -COMPANION FEATURE Another Thriller, from the Pen of . DASIIIELL; j - HAMMETT: i Mast!' est , JTrtn if-W h Gave You "Maltese 'Falcon" and "Thin Man." ill . tiziii t J 2y n Of 1