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o r: ; v -T!-.oy; Ml&t MMmsm Battle tf . x a TTTN A (0iit;; -k Ml) porn; . ' At (am itfCa Wm 1 Said; ; Fierce ;:. No Confirmation : Is Announced by - Us War Leaders C FVi. sunscr 0:35 UWljMV: Sat tunrisc 5:39 tmiSTT THZSD YEAB IB PACES . . s o,.- Solan, Oregon. TAlsj I lerrfng. May 14. I2i3 4 IMc lC 41 All I w sT y u vv s t'V: yJ : -fy n j . , &? . ,- 'NEW, YORK,' May 14-(ff) The Tokyor radio reported ' to day that strong United States . forces had landed on Attu is land in the Aleutians on May 12 and that severe fighting is How in progress. I " The broadcast, which was re corded by the federal commu nications commission, said' the landings .had been announced by . '-Japanese Imperial headquarters., " .. Attu is one of the two princi pal bases of the Japanese at the western tip of the Aleutians and has been bombed repeatedly by - US airmen. ; ; , There was no immediate con firmation of the 'Japanese re r. port. There hare been Indies-:" tiens, howver, that the United ! - States has been building up s powerful striking force In the Aleutians : and the strength of ' American aerial attacks en tho Japanese bases has been meant , fag steadily. "The Japanese have been re ported constructing a large air base on Attu, presumably for the purpose of launching attacks on the American mainland. .1 Tokyo claimed last June 25 in - a communique that their forces had occupied Kiska June 7 and -Attu a day later, and that they then were "consolidating their po sition in neighboring islands.; ; -1 Japanese Imperial headquarters also announced that Attu would be renamed Atsuta island, . after 4he Atsuta : shrine at Nagoya, Ja . pan, and that Kiska would be named Narukami. - - Salem. C of C Starts Farm - Labor Drive ' - . m , - "Our boys are on the bsttle Xield -You should help them in the harvest fields." T- 1 This and other slogans are. in cluded in the material mailed out this week by the Salem chamber of commerce to employer-mem bers, who are requested to dis tribute questionnaires, which are provided, among their employes. On the questionnaires the em ployes are-l, asked to - indicate whether tor not they will be avail able for part-time harvest work in the coming summer. The program whereby per- i sons already regularly ,emley will devote half-days, or more or less,: iei assisting In the har- est of crops, is under direction - of the chamber's farm " labor committee. Members are I M. Bamage, chairman; Jesse Gard, (Turn to Page 2 Story F) 1 OPA Raises Veneer Top WASHINGTON, May 13.-VP-,To increase the production of prime " grade hardwood logs for aircraft veneer, the office of price administration Thursday raised the price ceilings effective next Wednesday . on s mall diameter logs and also brought air lengths of yellow poplar, water r tupelo and sweet gum under ceiling reg ulation. ' : " Previously logs less than eight feet in length or over Iff feet were' not subject to control. . Reds Smasfc Through Nazi's filovorossisk'.' 'Seconda ry-Line . MOSCOW, May 13.- (ff)- The red armyr attacking undergo tre mendous barrage of hundreds of big guns, has smashed its way iatn aecondarr German - defenses northeast of Novorossisk in tho4 Caucasus, dispatches said Thurs day. . 1 . The agency Tass also reported tonight that long-range Russian bombers touched off fires and ex plosions amid German ammuni tion dumps, stores and railway Installations at the Polish capital of Warsaw in a series - of raids teaching far behind the lines to disrupt German offensive plans. Bryansk and Orel also have been attacked repeatedly in this stra tegic pattern. A P r a v d a dispatch reported that hundreds of guns had paved the way for an infantry and tank wedge in the new German defense line near Novorossisk after the gad sxry had smashed its way British Free JJS Pruoners J From Axis WITH THE AMERICAN ASMT IN NORTHERN TUN ISIA, May U.-Delayed)-Cfl-The British capture of Tunis freed ttt allied soldiers. In cluding 234 Americans, from an axis prison ship, which allied planes had bombed and strafed nine times daring attacks on the harbor to block any mass withdrawal of nasi troops. We 2 waved white flags and everything else we could at them trying to get them to quit bombing OS. bat they didn't ret oor signals, said Ueot- Cot Charles J. Denholm, of Morris town, NJ. The ranling I officer aboard the ship. n4d been set-, sed with 15t of his men after bayonet ' charge during the battle f or Matenr. Seriate; Plans Tax Showdown For Today WASHINGTON, May 13 - (P) The senate's decision on the con troversial issue of granting a full year's abatement of taxes or of limiting:, this "cancellation to 75 per cent of, a gear's liabilities appeared Thursday night to rest on the turn of about five votes. - A showdown is expected Fri day. It will come on a proposal by Senator : George (D-Ga.) to -provide for cancellation for most taxpayers of 75 per cent of the - amount they owe for 1942, ap ply their first two quarterly ln ' stallments of this year to their 1943 liability; and -pay current ly for the remain Jer of the year. , For lowr-bracket taxpayers, a t per 'cent" withholding levy ; on . wages and ; salaries would ac complish the current1 collection. Others would pay qaarterly en their, estimated 1943 income. : The administration - swung its strongest support behind the pro posal Thursday and strategists said an informal canvass indicat ed the senate was almost equally divided on its acceptance or re jection, with about five senators listed as doubtfuL Conceding that the decision is in doubts Senator Vandenberg ' (K-MJen.), one of the leaders tm ' the fight for adoption of the finance comaittee-approred bill, which in general weald cancel an 1942 or 1943 taxes, whichever is smaller, said he saw no room for compromise between the two plans. - .x - "I'm not interested in any com promise, he declared. "We either adopt ! the ; committee bill or we don't. I If we go down, well -: go down fighting for the principle of 100 per cent forgiveness and equal treatment to all taxpayers. Corvallis Man Gets New Post "' WHITEHORSE, Y. T May 13. riPhCol. C. R- Hazeltine of Cor vallis,! Ore., has been appointed deputy chief of s t a f f for the northwest ' service c o m m a n d which operates the Alaska high way and other routes to the north Pacific area,: it was announced officially Thursday. . He succeeds Col Harry f A. ; Montgomery of Tulsa,' Okla who has been post ed at ,Washington. - through4 the first' enemy line. " The' mass shelling of the Ger man positions was on such a scale as topresage a final big push aimed at throwing the enemy into the Black see, "." . - - (The; midnight Moscow- com munique, recorded by the Soviet Monitor In London, said Russian artillery . mounted above Novor ossisk ' had destroyed 19 German artillery batteries, 54 machine gun nests, two German tanks and a number of blockhouses. : . ; ; (The red army also was report ed to have wiped out another German infantry battalion of ap proximately 800 men, and anti aircraftsmen downed four nazi planes.) Front dispatches said the Ger mans and their fortifications were being blasted to bits by the Rus sian guns eating -toward Novor cssisk . Charges Reopened Some Staff Members Accused of Anti Christ' Teaching 1 Charges that Baptist-sponsored Linfield college at Mc Minnville is harboring oh its faculty "two or three members t') not only not Christian but actually anti-Christian" arose again, at this year's state - Baptist convention Thursday morning as the three-day meeting drew to a close, here. . - The convention had earlier the same day adopted a resolution de claring itself "out of -sympathy with the program and doctrinal implications of teachings' ' spon sored by the Federal Council of Churches' and severing relations with the council. ? t - There is a lack of faith and confidence in ULnfield from the ; very top of the executive board down," Rev. Alfred Danlelson of Bend, retiring president of the ' convention, declared as the res olatloa which had opened the way for the discussion was put to a vote. '. ; : Unanimously adopted,. that res olution expressed the convention's appreciation of the J two-months' work of investigatory nature done by a special committee of the col lege's trustees, urged that the task be continued as rapidly as possi ble, that the entire situation dis cussed at last year's Bend conven tion be studied and cleared and that a report not only of the in-ionmtknt-obtained but rf, 4he ac tion Tetjommendedi "be2 returned to the convention's executive board: H Principal charges were those pressed by: Dr. Alva B. John son, Ilinson Memorial chorch, Portland, who declared the col lege a "sick" institution, needing "radical surgery or it win die. (Turn to Page 2 Story D) . Oregon Gties' iie Names New Officers PORTLAND, May 13-()-The league of Oregon cities Thursday elected John H. Houston,; Klam ath Falls mayor,1 president He succeeds Mayor Earl Riley of Portland. v The Oregon finance officers' association chose Will E. Gibson, Portland city - auditor, president to succeed C C. Ware, clerk of the Salem pnblle schools. Fred Inkster, O s w e g o, was named first vice president of the league; Howard Kramer,! Milton city manager, second! vice presi dent; J. w. McArthur, Eugene water ; board, treasurer; ? Mayor Riley, Portland, ! C A. Meeker, Medford, - Orval i Eaton, Astoria, and George Stadelman, The Dal les," executive committeemen. The finance officers elected William Sylvester, Hood River, vice president; Gault Patton, Sea side, second vice president; C. C Ward. Salem, Rile y, ; Portland, Charles Burnett, Pendleton, Ruth Hoagland, Marshfield, and Floyd Bowers, Salem, executive com mitteemen. The German .commanders cling ing tothe Caucasus were said to be shifting their six -barreled mortar units from one point to another, in an - effort to give the impression:' of h u ge concentra tions of artillery; but lie Russians methodically surged forward into the gaps chewed up by their guns. ' Air battles increased in violence over ; the Novorossisk t sector, the Russians raining down heavy ex plosives on the Germans dug in on the hills surrounding the city. The soviet air force was cre dited in these dispatches with a vital part in soviet advances, and the Germans were said to be in a desperate plight because of infer ior air power, . German Infantryment were at tacking fitfully, but, these dispat ches said, there were signs of a devfloping weakness in the axis ranks. J Lid Allied ' - - US, British Airmen Only Few Blinutes ; " From Enemy Bases By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HE A DQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 13 -iPy-The captive toll of Ger mans and Italians neared 175, 000, including 16 be-medaled generals, Thursday in a Tuni sian triumph which put allied airmen only a few minutes' un challenged flight from Italian Sicily's already devastated ports and military installations.' The victory, which in one week had cleared the axis from this springboard to Europe, was termed by Gen. Sir Harold Alex ander "one of the most complete and decisive in history. ""V , A military spokesman said the and a mass of trucks-and equip ment Of all sorts werecaptured. General Dwight D. Eisenbow . er's deputy said the booty was so enormous it "probably will take days, if not weeks, to eOUnt it, -Marshal Giovanni Messe, Ital ian First army commander, was among the last to surrender. He gave up to the British Eight army in the mountains below Cap Bon. In the Ste. Marie Du Zit sector, farther north, ' the . Prussian Col. Gen. Jurgen Von, Arnim, axis, su preme commander, also had given up yesterday along with thousands of Hitler's finest. fighting men veterans of the Balkan, French, Polish and Russian campaigns.. In defeat. Premier Mussolini elevated Messe, and the Italian high command said the captive (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Anti-Strike Law Blasted By CIO Heads CLEVELAND, May 13.-iA-CIO President Philip Murray and other : members of CIO's execu tive board, arriving here for- a policy-making conference Thurs day called upon congress to en act "immediate measures toward stabilizing ' our ; domestic econ omy, ancl the adoption of a truly equitable tax program. In a telegram sent to all members of the ' house of rep resentatives and the sens tee the CIO leaders attacked the Con nally bUl seeking to outlaw wartime strikes, now pending7 before the house, as "ope of the . most dangerous threats against , the nation's war program. The executive board formally convenes tomorrow to decide CIO policy in the face of President Roosevelt's recent Aold-the-line order and to discuss other .war time policy matters. ."This : proposed ntasurejcoa ceived by a few Irresponsible con gressmen who are hellbent on de stroying labor unions, would be a stab in the back of labor, which Is sparing no effort and which is making heroic sacrifices at home in the interests of winning the war, the telegram said. ; ICaiser, Hearing Costs Mount PORTLAND, May lS-K-T-The official record in the Kaiser ship yard labor hearing has reached 7,882 pages in 55 days,- court at taches revealed .Thursday. " Observers, estimating costs have run Into many thousands of dol lars, said the record alone, at 60 cents a page, would be $4,792. 20. Booty total; of nrisoneri would at?rroach'. .-r:"" ' ; t 2. . said that 1,000 guns,, 250- tanks, J. fj Jfl.ll ILL Cd9 OH Seamen Cling To Raft "It take 'guts to go to sea -Torpedoed, then smacked around by -' cold, rough seas a, they perilously cling with numbed fingers to ; wave-swept raft. These British merchant seamen still courag eously manage a half smile when a US coast guard combat entter - tosses them a line. A few moments earlier the men thought they , were doomed when the coast gmard ratter disappeared. It returned, however, alter driving off a nasi U-boaC (Official US Coast Guard photo from International News Soundphoto.) ChurcWII US Congress WASHINGTON, M a y 13-P For the second time since the war began. Prime Minister Churchill is to' address congress. . He will speak Wednesday, and most leg islators anticipate a major analy sis of the global war situation. The British leader, here . for a new series, of strategy, talks -with President, Roosevelt, ae--eepted an Invitation from Speaker Kaybura to make the address. It will be at 12 JO p. at Eastern war time 9St ' m. n4 fWT), before a Joint sessisn of senate and house, and Is expect ed to be broadcast 4 . ' Mr. Churchill last spoke to con gress on December 27,. 1941. .The bitter shock of Pearl j Harbor weighed heavily on the jcountry, and it could only watch in angry impotence as the Japanese over ran American ' and British Pacific outposts. -"',-. Confidently he told the legis lators ; then ., that although hard days lay ahead the allies would be on the offensive in 1943, and promised that the German-Italian armies in Africa would be de stroyed. ' Those prophecies have been borne out. His second address will come a against a -backgronnd of heady snecess in Tunisia, growing- re volt la naxi-eeeupled , Europe, and accumulating allied power.' which carries the certainty of eventnal defeat of the enemy. It was widely expected that Mr. Churchill " might, have much to say about the meaning of the victory, in Africa which both Sec retary "of State Hull and Secret tary. of War Stimson hailed today as a . forerunner of additional blows at the axis. Middle East Heads Meet CAIRO, - May 13 HTr- A full dress conference, of the -powerful allied middle east council of mili tary and civil leaders was ; con cluded Thursday with announce ment that agreement was reached on the shape and . sue of the problems under discussion and recommendations for dealing with them.: Whai these problems are was not disclosed . YoulI?t-T7in3 Award -; INDEPENDENCE?. 3-t?T The Polk countyJersey Cattle club- has awarded George Noyes a prUe i calf, as - the outstanding Future Farmer of America senior student at Independence high school. ' g):-UJ Italian Armor. - IirWijiMOut - AIXIEO ' HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May IS Three . of : Germany's best and oldest armored divisions and ev ery - Italian armored division that ever existed are among the' five axis - armies wiped out In the " African campaign which ended in Tnnisla.. A total of SS divisions have been annihilated. - House Okehs Roosevelt's Trade Power WASHINGTON, May 13 -(ff) The house voted 342 to 65 Thurs day to : renew President Roose velt's reciprocal trading , powers, but only for two years, -t Republicans sueceeeded la cutting a third ; off the three-: year -extension asked by the ad- ministration but democrats bat tered down a republican - pro pelled effort to bring the trade pacta under a veto power of . congress. The bouse .also re jected a series of other amend ments that supporter oontend- ed would destroy the whole reciprocity program. ' 4 The vote by parties; ' r " For the extension - 195 demo crats, 145 republicans and. two minor parties members. ' Against the extension 11 dem ocrats, 52 republicans ' and two minor parties' members. " The legislation now goes to . the senate. - , 4 - ' Allied Air ; LONDON, Friday, May 14 -fl) The mightiest allied aerial offen sive of the war rolled on in high (ear as the RAF struck at Ger many again Thursday night .fol lowing a day and night of record breaking assaults on the continent by both British and American airmen. . .. . The RAFs target was not im mediately disclosed, but a Stock holm report that telephone com munication wiUv Berlin had been suspended "during the night gave rise to speculation that the Ger man capital might have beenhe objective.- night of April Zllas siesfrow to a smashing EATrrald -on Tettia and Costoe Quickly following up the JlAlTs blockbuster-' assault on Duisburg Wednesday night, which the air IttMi&altoirs Of .HIollsLind Revolt European Patriotic Bands wKjj Key ; Rail Heads; i Dutch Workers Strike . v, By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE - Associated PreM War Editor . The first riot in Berlin since the beginning of the , war an angry demonstration before the German army information office by men and women demanding newa of their relatives in north Africa -was reported in roundabout but plausible fashion last (Thursday) night. ; From Moscow to Mexico the allies celebrated a turn in the war that left the Germans and Italians faced with a rising spirit of rebellion in occupied Europe and trying painfully to guess the decisions being taken behind the pleasant facade of a colonial mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue in Washington, DC the White House. ....;. . . ; . L The attacks on military establishments in the low countries and the reported movement of German troops into them were taken as signs-that an allied. invasion, of the continent may be imminent. . -, :-... ...... :a . -. DutcliPopulaUonWarriCfl-." " -r The Dutch news' agency Aneta reported, that radio Orange, the Netherlands station in London, had warned Holland's popu lation Thursday night the the Germans were trying to provoke a premature revolt,-: e ' " - The broadcast charged that the Germans were distributing forged calls-to rebellion to provoke the Dutch people to violence and added:-'"--' . - . ..- . . .' ";JL, -- . "Resistance is only good if it is carried out in concert. Do riot be provoked." " ' " - - .-- - " - . . ;. The report of riots in Berlin was carried in a Reuters dispatch from Stockholm which was based on an account published in the Goteborg (Sweden) Handelstidningen. .' -.x. i r It said thousands of women and old men gathered outside the information office of the German army in Berlin Wednesday in efforts to learn the fate of their men in the beaten Afrika Korps; - ' .. Questions Rebuffed ' Z . The correspondent of the Goteborg paper was quoted as say ing their requests were turned, off brusquely with the ad vice that they would be given the information at a more opportune time. ; ."" y. h '.' Then, the report said, the crowd began rioting And SS Elite guard troops were called. They were said to have broken up the riot without resort to arms. The Reuters dispatch said frorA.other parts of Germany. i - From the low countries to the Balkans rising patriot bands were reported concentrating and increasing attacks on vital rail arteries for axis troops and supplies on a scale strongly suggesting that the underground war now emerging is guided by central orders to help clear the. way from within for invasion of Europe. Uprisings Spread " The newest attacks, forcing tually all trains, were reported spreading to Belgium from Hol land, where two weeks of martial law and at least 43 executions have failed to restore order. (A Russian domestic broadcast recorded by the US govern ment's i foreign broadcast intelligence service said mass strikes of Dutch workers are taking , place in many large cities of Hol land in protest against the recent nazi order that all former Neth erlands soldiers must go to concentration camps. (Quoting a Stockholm source, the Russian broadcast said railroad men and metal workers in Utrecht refused to work and' that rail traffic has been stopped on many lines. . I t . . - - (Turn to Pago 2 Story B) ... Offensive rSmqshe ministry called the heaviest raid of the war, Americaaheavy bombers yesterday pulled off their own 'biggest' by' dual . forays against., Meaulto and St. Omer in France,: .TfjT,-.: .. f' Meantime, long range Eas sUa bombers, putting i.'e a sqaeese from the other side of the nasi domain, blasted com munications ia Warsaw, capital f occupied Poland, Wednesday night.-' - z.-vT. : " ' The RAF ranged"oVer-4arXtts1 in occupied FrsnaerThursday BoulognsTtteviUe and Cher- bourgr v The j once-powerful nazi air force, attempting a retaliation, placed London ' under its .first night alert for 18 days soon after midnight, , but the invaders failed to get beyond the outskirts of the city. , .. n n mails Said; similar incidents were reported the nazis to arm and guard vir ' : Thursday's, dual American raids effi76yeda"greater force ct US heavy bombers than has ever be fore attacked"Euaopetin targets from British bases. It was an nounced officially. T"" ' f Keturning p Hots said the'tig : besbers showered tons ef ex plosives on aa aircraft facforr at Eleaolie with sjch??ect that 'flames and snioie res t?:t feefe i Mdess ttAnI3 enemy fighters were -StCt down durLig all the day light raids. The Americans lost three bombers and five fighters over the French .targets and the British five planes at Abbeville. The Warsaw attack was one cf the heaviest on the Polish capital since It was virtually pounded to pieces by nazi airmen at the start of the war in 1833. Because of the stered-cp (Turn to Page 2 Ctcry A) f