Mmise; kdfe. Pay-As-lC Bill : (Eaimcelltim
Senate . ;.'
May Pass
Old: Plan
Showdown Battle
Sees Close Vote
On 'Skip-Year'
By FRANCIS M. LEMAY
WASHINGTON, May A-(JF)
Terminating one of the bitterest
party battles of recent years,
the house Monday passed, 313.
" to 95, a pay-as-you-go bill wip
ing out the 1942 federal income
. tax liabilities completely for
approximately 90 per cent of
the taxpayers and imposing a
20 per cent withholding levy
against the "taxable portions of
J, wages and salaries, effective July
J.
'. , The action came in a dramatic
t aeries of steps in which the dem
' ccrats barely - battered down, 208
'. to 202, the modified Ruml plan
, which would have skipped a com
. plete tax year.
', Against the: Ruml plan were 192
.'democrats, 11 republicans three
minor party members.
." For it were 188 republicans and
14 democrats. .
- When the Rami bill failed
- the republicans swans; ; almost ..
; to the man to thl compromise,
and a measure supported by
' demoeratie leaders never came
to a vote.
" In the debate, tempers flared,
' at one time reaching such a pitch
' that Speaker Rayburn got out the
Washington roll call vote by
; which the house today rejected
v the Carlson-Rami tax bill In
cluded: Republicans for the bill An
gelL Ellsworth, Holmes, Matt,
Nerman, Stockman.
: Democrats ag-alnst the bill
Coffee.
Republicans aralnst the bill
Bonn.
The roll call vote by which
the home passed the Robertson- ,
Forand tax collection bill ln-
- eludes -
Demoerats for' the bill Cof-
; s fee ' -, . ' - . '":
V Republicans for the bill An
; gell, Ellsworth, Holmes, Mott,
Norman. Stockman.
- Republicans against the bill
Horan. . . ,. -
house' rule, book to decree that
no member could call another a
' 'demagogue,"
The approved bill, offered by
.Reps. Robertson (D-Va.) and
Forand (R-RI), abates the 6 per
cent normal and 13 per cent
first bracket surtax on the 1942
Income of all taxpayers, wiping
, out approximately $7,600,000,000
rf the $10,000,000,000 of federal
tax assessments against the last
5 year's incomes.
- It now goes to the senate
- where republicans and some
- demacrats are prepared to open
a new battle for the Ruml sklp-
. a-year plan.
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125 Donors
Give Blood
To Red Cross
One hundred twenty five resi
dents of the Salem area contrib-
. uted blood to the Red Cross blood
' plasma bank as the mobile unit,
working out of Portland, operat
ed here for the third day Tues
day. : One hundred forty persons had
, been "registered, and workers t
the First Methodist church, blood
:' donation headquarters, explained
that examination had proved a
number of would-be donors either
In physical condition which made
such a contribution at that time
seem unwiss or had revealed their
blood to be of a type not satis
factory for use as plasma. - :
v No examination prior to ap
pearance for the donation of blood
is required, Red Cross workers
declared, .explaining that the army
. doctor and staff of nurses who op
erate the unit here will examine
every volunteer. -
. Thursday the unit operate again
at the state penitentiary, where
last Thursday 141 pints of blood
for use in providing transfusions
for fighting men overseas were
given.
; China Leader's
Son Is Student v
In Portland
PORTLAND. Ore, May 4-JP)
The 12-year-old sea ef young
Marshall Chang HsuehIJang,'
Manchuriaa military - leader,,
- who kidnapped Chiang . Kal-r
- Ehek la 193$ la a prelude to the
! Seine-Japanese war, was dis
closed Tuesday as a student la
' a private military academy
here.
f, , The boy, Chang La Ling, said
f hls mother brought him to this
! country three years ago, , then
returned to China where she
and his father remain.' lie has
teea a student here two years.
- j :' ' " ; V ' C$3 ! POUNDaD 1651
IJEIZTY TIXCD YEAH , A : : J
Gerwrnrnm Grim
US Tank
Three tank destroyer soldiers of the
protected by an overhanging ledge
Sovndphoto. '
Publication
Of Community
Prices Slated
WASHINGTON, May 4 -JF)
OPA Administrator Prentiss
Brown said Tuesday that publica
tion of ."community-wide" dollars
and ' cents maximum ' prices on
foods will begin Sunday In about
150 cities. -
Local: OPA officials will issue
lists of. maximum prices, effective
Monday, on poultry, , fluid milk,
bread, : egg butter, packaged
cheese," sugar, cereals, evaporated
and condensed- milk," flduishd a
number of other grocery--items.
Additions to the list , will be made
later. . -
These prices will not ordinarily
be any different than the top le
gal prices now in effect in these
communities but their publication
in handy pamphlets is aimed at
facilitating enforcement and en
abling : consumers to avoid black
markets and other illegal prac
tices.. "
The price lists will be the ab
solute maximums in each com
munity. Many stores, particularly
chains ' and large-volume stores,
will be required to keep maxi
mums which are lower than the
prices on the lists'.
Brown said the second week's
group of prices will include canned
fruits and vegetables. Specific re
tail prices on pork already are in
effect, and will be joined by beef,
veal, lamb and mutton prices on
May 17.
"Extension of dollars and cents
ceilings to all important foods,"
Brown said, "is the most import
ant step we have yet taken in the
control of food prices."
US Bombere
Raid Antwerp
A US BOMBER STATION IN
ENGLAND, May 4-)-F 1 y i n g
Fortresses of the 8th US air force
bombed industrial targets in the
Belgian city of Antwerp today in
their . second daylight attackon
nazi-held Europe this month. .
Returning fliers reported that
the mission was "perfect.1" The
bombers met their fighter escort
on the dot, dodged between the
Germans light anti-aircraft bar
rages and counted only a few en
ery fighters.
They saw their bombs go right
into the target and arrived back
within 30 seconds of the scheduled
time. ;
(The Berlin radio, telling of the
Antwerp raid in a broadcast re
corded by The Associated Press
before It was announced in Eng
land, ; said 45 Flying . Fortresses
came in at more than 24,000 feet.)
Day Attack
Blasts Japs
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, May 5
J(yThe allies have delivered
their heaviest raid, made daring
ly by daylight, on Babo, Dutch
New Guinea, the high command
announced today. '
Six Japanese float planes at
tempted , to intercept the' raiders
over the Aroe islands and two of
the enemy were shot down, r
' Babo is in the Maccluer gulf in
northwestern Dutch New Guinea,
some 1,200 miles west of the allied
base of Port Moresby
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Destroyers Wait
mm i
' .
United States second army corps tn Tunisia find cover in a foxhole
(above) as they lie in wslt for axis tanks to come within range. IIN
Those 'Eggs9
Pack a Wallop
SOUTHWEST OF MATEUR,
Tunisia, May (DeLayed)-(iT-A
number of Italian officers were
enjoying breakfast today in the
line of the American-French ad
vance toward Bizerte on the Med
iterranean flank. They were ap
proached by a group of goumiers,
native Moroccan mountain troops,
who calmly asked the Italians if
they wished to buy some eggs.
The Italians roughly ordered
the natives away, whereupon the
goumiers spread open their djella
bas brown, black and yellow
striped garments which, look like
beach robes. The Italian officers
found; themselves-; looking into a
row ox American Tommy guns.
Their next breakfast .will be jk
an allied prison camp. '
Draft Exams
Discover TB
Early Diagnosis Is
Combatting Dreaded
White Plague Here
Selective service physical exam
inations are providing the basis
for one of the greatest early diag
nostic programs in the battle
against tuberculosis ever carried
on in this area. That statement
was made here early this week
by Dr. H. M. Erickson, assistant
state health officer, - who with
Capt. R. F. Kaiser of the US pub
lic health service district office
and Dr. W. J. Stone, Marion coun
ty health officer, is working out
details of tuberculosis control in
Marion county.
Although more than 500 Ore
gon ' men have been rejected by
selective service : because they
were actively .tubercular when ex
amined, they have been in most
cases , in the early stages of the
disease and represent a salvagable
group, Erickson pointed out.
Oregon is comparatively low
in the list of states when tuber
culosis death rates are - tallied,
only 25 ant of 100.00S deaths
being attributed the whit
plague ' here, he said.
The fight against tuberculosis in
this s t a t e has ; been conducted
largely in I the public schools, but
with, the selective service X-ray
examinations, a type of examina
tion not used in the last war, the
battle Is moved up to the draft
age, he stated.
Men found actively tubercular
are sent back to the public health
departments in' the various states,
Dr. Erickson added.
Davies Reported
Bound for Moscow
NEW YORK, May 4.--The
New York .Times says in a dis
patch from Washington that -Joseph
E. Davies will leave-Wednesday
on a second "mission to
Moscow" -as a special representa
tive of President Roosevelt to pro
pose to Premier Joseph Stalin a
meeting between the heads of the
two governments.
' The Times said the information
was "learned definitely on author
ity that is not open to Question,
although no comment was made
at the White House. .
Named to Council
PORTLAND,. May 4-(P)The
Rev. George H. Swift, Salem, was
named to the Episcopal diocesan
council Monday -
Cclem. Oregon, Wadnasdcry Morning. May 5 IS 43
for Foe
US Production
Reaches Teak,'
Knox Reports
WASHINGTON, May 4.-Jty-WPB
Chairman Donald M. Nel
son, said Tuesday that America's
war plants increased their output
in March 11 per cent above Feb
ruary while Navy Secretary Knox
reported the nation has "arrived
at the peak period' of war pro
duction rand that navy ' plane and
ship completions In April set new
records.
Knox ; added that 'April "was a
good month m more ways thai
production J with merchant ship
lossea-down--con8iderably as coca,
pared with March.
Both ; men cautioned that the
rates of increase cannot be con
tinued much longer, citing limita
tions of steel supplies, skilled labor
and other factors; -
The WPB chairman listed these
new production records, establish
ed in March:
Airplane output reached 6,200,
with heavy bomber productions
passing the 500-a-month mark for
the first time.
Delivery of Liberty ships ex
ceeded 100 a month for the first
time.
Labor Says
Lumbermen
Ask for Army
PORTLAND, Ore: May i-iJP)-Charges;
that lumber, operators
have asked the army to take over
logging in . the Pacific northwest
came from labor Tuesday and
were denied by employers.
Worth! Lowry, CIO Internation
al Woodworkers - president, and
Doyle F. Pearson, assistant sec
retary of the . AFL lumber and
sawmill ;w o r k e r s northwestern
district council, accused the West
Coast Lumbermen's association of
attempting to bring about army
control of the woods, as in the
last' war when soldier work bri
gades were moved into logging
camps. - ,
.The labor charges also describ
ed the WCLA as neglecting to do
its part ! in boosting log produc
tion, major bottleneck In the in
dustry which Is lagging, the War
Production Board says, 200,000,
000 board feet behind war needs.
Lowry said in . his possession
was a letter from Col. W. B.
Greeley, WCLA secretary man
ager, to J. P. Boyd, chief of the
War Production Board's lumber
division, inviting the army to
move in.
Student Wins
Mexican Tour
"- '
DENVER, May 4-(P)-A speech
on inter-American affairs by Oli
ver A. Johnson of Linfield college,
McMinnville, Ore., won for him
Tuesday - night an expense-paid
tour of -Mexico.
Johnson was- victorious in, the
Pacific Regional conference of the
national discussion contest on Inter-American
affairs at - Denver
university- 'Before, going on - the
Mexicon tour, he will participate
in the 'national contest in New
York City, May 22.
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Berlin Admits Allied
Attack ' Imminent ;
II Duce Shaky
By JAMES M. LONG ' ;
LOUDON, May 4-flVThe
n axis acknowledged Tuesday
that the grim prospect of an al
lied invasion of Europe is so im
minent it might by-pass the
Tunisian bridgehead and come
in the form of an amphibious
assault on the Sardinian and
Sicilian stepping-stones, even
before the collapse of Tunis and
Bizerte.
Broadcasts, by . the Vichy radio
and the chief military commen
tator of the Berlin radio sug
gested hastily mounting axis ap
prehension that the allies already
may have men, and boats ready
for the blow, against which Pre
mier Mussolini was reported re
newing urgent appeals direct to
Adolf Hitler for fighting assist
ance. .,
The 1 Russian front was being
watched closely by observers here
for a ready clue to the actual
weight of Hitler's fears. The Rus
sian barometer was based on the
belief - that iHiHer' - would hardly
Lu,f e 1 u . attempt . the usual . full-
scale spring onslaught on the east-
it faced with the immi
nent menace of a British-Ameri
can invasion,
i With the, Vichy radio adding
daily to Its reports of recent
concentrations . of allied lava-sion-type
barge fleets at Gib-'
raltar and the Algerian coast,
the Berlin commentator Capt.
Lndwig Sertorlns evinced nasi
worry over the preparations be
ing made by the US Fifth army
apart from the Tunisian action.
"Huge British and American
armies are massed in Algeria and
Morocco," he said "enough to
form not only one but several
armies . . . Therefore the' ques
tion must be asked whether the
allied high command is keeping
the bulk of its army reserves in
Tunisia in the western region be
cause it is planning a landing ma
neuver on a large scale."
Sertorius, like the German high
command radio commentator, Lt.
Gen. Kurt Dietmar, suggested that
such a jump to the stepping-stones
of Sicily and Sardinia might not
await the Bizerte cleanup:
UBattle Rages
In Kuban Area
Of Caucasus
LONDON, Wednesday, May : 5
-iffJ-Heavy and bloody fighting
in the western Caucasus which has
cost the Germans "serious losses
in' manpower and equipment? was
announced early today by the sov
iet command, several hours after
the Germans acknowledged a forc
ed withdrawal in that area some
20 miles above the port of Novor
rossisk i and the loss to the Rusf
sians of the town of Krynskaya. I
. The Russians war bulletin, for
the first 'time confirming indicaf
tions that the Kuban region of the
western Caucasus had become a
focal point of major struggle,
made no claim, to any specific ad
vance, saying that in some seek
tors hand-to-hand fighting was
raging. The German bridgehead
at Novorossick - was endangered
whether directly It was too early
to telL - - ,
The Russians reported air fight
ing on a tremendous scale,- an
nouncing that ; 65 German planes
had been shot down at a cost of
11 Russian craft. -
Axis Radio Says "
US Took Island ,
LONDON, Wednesday, May 5()
The German-controlled Paris ra
dio reported today, that the United
States, with the consent of Chile,
has occupied Easter, island in the
south Pacific, a move which the
broadcast said had given the Unit
ed States an "important air and
naval base." ' "
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ines Gel
Six-Day '
Week .
Wage Controversy
SU11 Deadlocked
Despite Truce .
-WASHINGTON, May 4-P)
An order for a six-day week in
all coal mines was issued Tues
day by Fuels Administrator
Ickes, while the miners' wage
controversy appeared to be as
deadlocked as ever despite re
sumption of production under a
5-day truce,
Ickes, government boss of the
mines, said he ordered the six
day week to assure coal for war
industries. Some labor men took
the - view that its assurance of
overtime pay for miners opened
an avenue for John L. Lewis,
the United Mine worker's chief
tain, to, retreat from his -present
wage - demands, but others mini
mized its importance. Operators'
representatives and officials in
Ickes office said that most mines
have been on a six-day-week for
some . time. '""v
Xewis 'had no comment.
Meantime,' with virtually all
the miners back at work, , the
War Labor Board announced
hearings , w aid be resumed
, Thursday by the , panel It ap
pointed to find the facts of the
soft coal wag .dispute. The '
same panel was directed also
ta Inquire Into,, the anthracite
dispute.' &"t' -', -e-yJ'-jf -. , w
" Hearings were - stopped when
the "board referred the case - to
the White House last week, after
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Prisoners
Face Draft
Under Plan
Prisoners at the state peniten
tiary will have a chance to get ear
lier release if they qualify before
a prison draft board which has
been set up to review cases of men
of draft age who might be inducted
into the armed forces. The board
consists of Ray Stumbo of Mar
ion county local draft board No.
1, Roy S. Keene, chairman of the
state parole' board, and George
Alexander, warden at the prison.
The procedure will be to get
from the local draft boards where
the men are registered the ques
tionnaire material and review it,
together with the prison and per
sonnel records of the men, and se
lect those' whom the board would
recommend to the parole board for
favorable consideration for parole
for induction only.
Since the war broke out prison
ers have offered to join the armed
services if permitted to do so.
While some have used the plea as
an excuse to get out of the "pen."
with others It was a sincere ex
pression of patriotism. The rule of
induction bis been that except for
most serious offenses men who had
only one conviction against them
would be taken by the army when
their prison service was conclud
ed. Final decisions oh releases will
rest with the parole board or the
governor. -
PUD Obtains
Facilities
- NEWPORT, May 4 -JP) West
Coast Power company facilities
in Lincoln, Coos,- Douglas and
Lane counties' will become the
property of the Central Lincoln
County peoples utility district
Wednesday.
A.$733,CC0 check from John
Nuveen. and company of Chicago,
purchaser of district bonds, will
be signed over to the company
at Portland by PUD officials.
YTomen Supply Heavy
Scrap Nylon Stock
PORTLAND, May H-Ore-gon
women provided 327 pounds
of silk and nylon hosiery to the
defense supplies corporation for
the month ending April 15, giving
the state third place In the nation
on a per capita basis, the state sal-yzz-
committee said Tuesday.
M
Fries Sc.
Crasli Victim
LT. GEN. ANDREWS
Plane Crackup
Claims life
Of US General
r LONDON, Wednesday, May S
(JP-LX. Gen. Frank M. Andrews,
distinguished flying general and
commander of all US forces In
the European theatre of opera-
WASIIINGTON, May -() .
The death of ' Li. Gen. Frank
M. Andrews leaves at least tern- -penury
command of army forces ,
in t Europe io his. deputy. Ma J.
Gen. Harry C. Ingles.
tionx was killed - Monday in an
airplane ' accident in Iceland, his
headquarters announced early to
day. V
Methodist Bishop Adna Wright
Leonard, who was representing 31
American Protestant denomina
tions in a global tour of US mili
tary bases, also was killed in the
crash, his son announced In Pitts
burgh. Eighth airforce 'headquar
ters here however, said It could
tnot confirm" the Teport.-
Bishop Leonard' was chairman
general of the commission of US
army and navy chaplains. V
(The bishop's son also said he
was informed that "only one en
listed man survived' the crash.)
The. tragedy on the bleak island
claimed the life of the eighth
American general to be killed or
missing in this war.
The 59-year-old Andrews was
the highest-ranking United States
officer lost.
Miner .Reports
Seeing Plane
-GRANTS PASS, May 4P)A
miner's report ..Tuesday centered
the navy's search for a missing
dive bomber in the mountainous
lower Illinois river country.
Pete Neubert reported he saw
a light grey plane circling in the
area of his mine about March 14,
barely slumming .the mountain
tops. Its engine- misfiring. The
plane made two attempts before
gaining sufficient altitude to clear
a rim of mountains, and disap
peared, he said. '
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Axis Retreat Still
Continues as All
Fronts Advance
By WILLIAM B. KING
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, May 4-()
Bizerte now is within heavy ar
tillery range of American and
French troops driving alor& the
northern shores of Lake Ach
kel toward the big naval base,
dispatches reported Tuesday
night
This allied column pushed
forward two more miles over
night to occupy more than half
the northern shores of the lake,
and now has swung toward Bia
erte, meeting "some resistance"
in rough country, Associated
Press Correspondent Harold V.
Boyle reported from the front.
Meanwhile, American troops
fanning eut from captured Ma
teur were striking toward Ri
serte and southeast toward Tu-
The nazi retreat east of Mateur
continues, Boyle- said, and the
Americans are mopping up axis
soldiers, apparently in large num
ber, who were by-passed and then
pocketed between the Jefna posi
tion 'and" Xiateur when the U3
troops plunged hi a lightning, if-mile-
advance into the strategic
rail center.
German guns to the northeast
of the town are pouring occasion
al shells into Mateur.
(The French communique,
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Powcter Plant
Blast Kills
15 Workmen
ELKTON, McL, May 4-P)- A
shattering explosion, followed by
fire In a number of buildings of the
Triumph Explosives, Inc., caused
the death of at least 15 workers
Tuesday with scores injured and
indications that the death toll may
mount even higher. . i
" Company officers said Tuesday
night officially 15 persons were
known to have lost their lives in
the disasterwhile atleast 54 were
injured.
' Twenty A our of the injured were
taken to hospitals where five were
said to be in critical condition.
Thirty were treated for less ser
ious burns and injuries at various
emergency first-aid stations set
up . throughout this small war
booming town.
Benjamin F. Pepper, Triumph
company president, said the ar
my, navy and federal bureau of
investigation officials quickly took
over direction of relief work and
started checking the cause of the
blast. ...
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