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rnr 'UtD LDPlS . Dlmcut , i Sun. eunset C:37 ' ; f.Ion. sunrise 5 136 ; (Weather on Page S) PCUNDDD rmirrY TffiiiD yeah 23 PAGES Colezor Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 18. 1S43 IMca Is, XIo. 43 II II III 1851 y ' - : ", IT SEEMS TO ME that roy f el low ex-governor,. . Walter .Pierce, sounds the wrong note when . he revives agitation against the yel low peril While he refers direc tly to the Japanese, the Chinese, now our- allies in war, are also of - the Mongolian or yellow race, and our American Indians are prob- - ably of the same ethnological or igin 'Japan has been ; trying "to " consolidate the yellow races under r Its agents, so such .rabble-rousing as Mr. Pierce indulges in puts wa ter on Japan's wheel." .1 recognize that the Japanese are - a "problem" because of the : . . war,.? not because of their - color. - So were the Germans at the time of the last war. This time we have ,'not had the hysteria against "pro Germans we had in 1917-1918, but the Japs have been the object ' of distrust and condemnation. That Is ' the natural consequence of Pearl Harbor. I recognize also that concentrations f Japanese creat ed local problems before the wart but on the whole those problems : '-were not acute, and fair working relations had evolved. ? ; - It is absurd to paint a picture of Japanese breeding at so fast a '. rate that this coast will become Japanese. We had in Oregon in 1940 in our population of 1,089,000 only 4,071 Japanese of whom 2, 454 were native born. In contin ental United States there were . only 126,947 Japanese out of a to tal of over 131,000,000. Qompare that : with the negro population, which 'was 12,865,000. The Japs would have . to multiply like gui- - nea pigs to become a dominating - factor in this state or on this coast. .The fact is that foreign groups Irish, German, Italian, Japanese, t Chinese tend to come to the American ' family - pattern after " ihey have lived in this country for . ' a time. We do have a Japanese problem In this, war, but the action of Lieut. Gen. DeWitt in ? evacuating all Japanese from the western coast, while harsh, did remove .chance for sabotage or contact with the enemy. The question of his right to remove Japanese Americans is now before the supreme court If upheld, it will be on grounds of military necessity, even though it did result in invasion of . the d- vil rights of American citizens un . N?er the constitution. ' ' . - ".'"Hut . when the war is over what? - la his address in - congress -last Nov. 19 Mr Pierce said: t . Nowr is 4 thf v time, toj' announce ."-I that-' the Japanese mus return to their native land and, .cannot live to -any part of the United States ' after this .war is over" -1 am , sure he includes Japanese ..-; 'Americans "because 1 he ; does "not believe children .- of races non-? eligible for citizenship acquire it - by birth here.' r I am in strong opposition to any - (Turn to Page 2 Story B) , V Honor System Is Plan For;? Sugar Ration ; WASHINGTON, M a y 15 4The OPA decided Saturday to put its extra allotments of sugar for more canning on an ;"horir sys tern," up to 10 pounds per person. While seme details remain te be worked eat, the agency an noeneed its Intention to desig nate twe coupons In ration beek No. 1 as "heme eannlnr sugar - coupons. Anyone will be able : with these twe stamps to buy lt peands of sugar. Since : the home canning rules permit a maximum of 25 pounds per person, home canners may ap ply to local ration boards for an extra 15 pounds per person in ad dition to the 10 pounds to be ob tained from book No. 1 coupons. The new plan was adopted, it was understood, because most, ra tion boards grant 5 to 10 pounds of canning sugar for the mere asking .The coupon system is ex pected to simplify the handling of applications without, officials estimated, any appreciable differ ence in the amount of sugar ob tained. . Scholarships Offered 136 CORVALLIS, May 15-iiP-The names of 136 Oregon high school atudents who ' have been recom- . tnended for state board of higher : education scholarships ! were an nounced Saturday by E. B. Lem on, chairman of the boaxd's coro- ' ; mittee on high school relations. Among them were Oregon State college -scholar- . ships: John D. Capias and James - Nicker, beth of Salem: Earl Ber- I tholdao, molalla; Heward Mader, " SUverton; Jean Clark,' Dayton; Barbara J. Dewey, Lebanon; Ruth Wahlgren, McMinnville; Delores Boss, Willamina, and Ruth Duval, Sweet Home. j University Of Oregon: Phyllis Graham and Florence Lewis, both of Salem; Donald Jeppesen, Doug las Moore and Ruth Cox, all of Eugene, and Betty Pracht, Sweet llome. ' " ' Oregon College of Education: Muriel Haraldson, Woodburn, and iCeUa J. Spuxling, Junction City. n i i Smashed ' Nazis Try Bombing . Flying Fortresses f From Air and Fail J LONDON, M a y 15P-T h e greatest ) American heavy bomb er fleet ' ever put into the air over Germany showered incen diaries and explosives Saturday on. the naval base of Emden and vicinity, j in sweeps through a novel smudge-pot smoke screen defense which only served to out line the target for the widespread fire-bombing throughout the har bor, city. , In further desperate defense at tempts the Germans tried again without success to bomb the big attackers out of the air. By setting up the smokescreen, the Germans apparently were ex pecting to foil the American spec ialists in daylight high-level pre cision bombing. . Instead, the naval: base was deluged with fire - tombs tn . clusters blanketing the target with flaming destructive effeet. "They had Emden all clouded over with smoke-pots, but that just showed us where to dump the bombs," laughed Lieut Mar tin Sanford of Kokoroo, IncL, bombardier of the Fortress, "Mr. Five by Five," pfloted by CoL John G. Moore of Las Animas, Colo. $ : " . Carrying the record-breaking pre-invasion aerial offensive through its third day, the Ameri cans flew 500 ; miles, , roundtrip, to 7 attack : naval, transport, ; air drome and industrial ; objectives without . an escort while 8th US air force fighters mad, -diversionary sweeps. -... " ' The ;eseorted b e am e r s. which dropped aeaae explesives -. as well as .hummer able- laeea- . diaries, Traja fatte the largest : : suunber ef eaesay fighter planes ). they ever had eaeeantered ever lUndea and many fierece com bats developed. It was the f ear th American raid en Emden. "Many of the enemy were des troyed and damaged by the bombers," ; said the official com munique.. It p 1 a c e d American losses, at six bombers. , InteUigenee- officers concluded that . the ' Germans have strongly reinforced their fighter protection in- the .north coastal area.: The largest previously 'announ ced bomber ; force was made up ef around 130 planes. : Saturday's attack fleet, probably numbered upwards of 150. The Germans came close 8at .mrday in their renewed attempt to bomb the big planes eat ef the sky. ; One bomb dropped from a Ger man fighter, prowling above ex (Turn to 'Page 2 Story . D) " German Planes Hit East Anglia LONDON, May 15 rWY- Low flying German, planes attacked two coastal towns in East Anglia with Saturday night bombing and strafing I raids, ; causing . damage casualties, some : of them fa tali . , : At one of the towns seven Focke-Wulfs swept I over ' the streets , with , their machine guns blazing. Several persons were be lieved trapped in wreckage. One of the attackers was shot down into the sea by fighters and another enemy plane was downed by the RAF over the southwest coast in the afternoon. &jfO Naval Base C- of to i''MtdlrffdrM.I6r By RALPH C. CURTIS If Marion county farmers had no other source . of seasonal r la bor, every man, , woman and child in Salem could' drop regular em ployment and find full-time work at the peak of the harvest season. - Fertmaately, that's net expect- -ed. Bat It illastrates the magni tude ef the farm labor problem, :' which will be the topic for eee--slderaileai ? at Moaday'a laneh-' eon of- the Salem chamber "of : 'commerce. ' '; '' The need is expressed in man days; the problem's significance in dollars and - cents runs into the millions - and for that matter, so does the harvest and food-process-' tog payroll. More " than " that, the problem's solution involves suc cess or failure of Marion county's major source of livelihood, sot to mention a" tuge contribution to the "food for victory" supply. r ob. Director IRL S. McSHERRY , Spragiie Gives War Fund Post To Parole Man Appointment of Irl S. McSherry of Salem as executive director for the national war fund in Ore gon was announced Saturday by Charles A Sprague, state chair man. In accepting this assignment McSherry is leaving the position of chief , deputy director . in the state ; department of parole 1 and probation,' which he has i filled since, 1939. j "The task of erganizfaaLg the whole state se that the fmmda required for she USO and vari ous allied relief agencies may be ' obtained as economically as pos sible calls for a state office which will be maintained at Salem," said Spragve' "former governor and now editor of The Statesman. "McSherry has had experience la this field, having directed the Salem community chest ; campaign ": one year. BY was also manager of, the Salem . centennial br 194t, nd has m . wide aeqoalntanee ever 4he-4 state.' lie 11 a prominent mem- ber of the American- Legion, shaving served la the navy dar ter the first Werld war j f McSherry will leave ' on Wed nesday for .New York to attend a meeting of state representatives where plans for the campaign to be conducted in' the .fall will be considered. Winthrop W. Aldrich, New .York banker, is president of the national war fund.. ' State offices- will, be opened in the Ladd and Bush benat building within a few days. - FBI Reports Draft Arrests Reached 638 , WASHINGTON, May 15-Wr-A crack-down on draft law violators has brought 638 arrests, director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bu reau of investigation announced Saturday night . " f The widespread series of arrests started yesterday and the number seized was the largest ever appre hended under criminal law in a single day, a justice department official said. The'' arrests' took place in 20 cities. - The largest T bag r was in New T York City, where, 144 per sons were arrested. These totals were announced for other areas: San Francisco 91: Detroit i 43: Baltimore 34; :Los Angeles 50; Birminghom , 26: Cincinnati 26; New Orleans 22; Chicago 19; Bos ton 21; Newark 23; St Louis 19; Philadelphia 17; Charlotte, m C 15; Jackson, Miss., 14; Washington, 10r Huston, Tex B; Seattle 13: Cleveland 7 and Miami 14." rH s1: According to a farm-te-f canvass Jsot eesnpleted by Rob ert E. Kieder, - eeenty , agrlcsd tarist. and his staff, the eeni ty's eaarterly farm labor needs are: Jaaeary : threngh March, 144fi April threesh Jane, t9T2; " Jaly threoxk September with the peak la September when : - bean harvest overlaps the bar-1 vest ef nope and prunes, 34.72s; Oeiober throecsi December S34C." These figures are on a full-time employment basis. Officials of the United States employment service office in Salem point out however that : the -; actual solution of. .the farm labor ; problem r has ' three phases of which part-time work on the part of persons , otherwise employed, is the - last to be in voked., - " . The other phases are first, the platoon program for mobilizing young 'people; second, the enlist- Qpisliing; Baii Npryegiaii "MA Confidence Is Still Voiced WASHINGTON, May 15-(P) e i Bad -weather may lae hampering the American drive to wipe out Japanese positions on Attu is land, authorities familiar with conditions in the Aleutians sug gested Saturday, but confidence mounted that the foe soon would be crushed. ! ' .There was ' no official word on the. progress of the fighting to add to the announcement by Sec retary Knox Friday that it was going satisfactorily. Since the high command has adopted a policy of not revealing details of the action until - it clarifies, it was assumed here that the battle which 'began with the, landing of army troops on , Attu I Tuesday must be con tinuing through its fifth day, . . From . axiasearces, however, came clear InttmaUena , thai, Japanese leaders expected de feat and ; were attempting to prepare their people according ly -i - j. t ; '-.i;:-:.; . A German broadcast quoted General Sadao Araki, former Jap anese minister of war. was de- (Turn to Page 2 Story A) - CIO Leaders Blast Lewis' MinePolicy CLEVELAND, May lSJ-Tht CIO- executive board Saturday urged ' "equitable - wage - adjust. ments!' for the United Mine Work ers, .and then asserted their pres ident John L.' Lewis jeopardized their "just 'demands' by "exploit ing the injustices in the mining industry In furtherance of his per sonal and political vendetta against the president of the United States, our- commander-in-chief." r The actions were contained in two resolations adopted wa anlmeesly at closing sessions ef the board's special wartime pol icy' meeting.' '"-v.-W-s; . " "The CIO must condemn the ac tions of John L. Lewis and any others who reject established pro cedures for equitable adjustments of labor's true -grievances," the CIO leaders declared. The executive board concluded its special policy meeting after approving a letter from CIO Pres ident Phillip Murray- to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, expressing congratulations on the African victory, and approving a telegram sent by1 CIO officials asking con gressmen to defeat the pending Connelly' anti-strike bill. i. Murray told - a press corner -ence ? :"It was ? the considered . jadgmeat of these conferees that the mine; workers are '.entitled to better ' treatment : than has been accorded them.We dent ' think the leadership of John L.'' Lewis has helped their case. ' -We express the hope" and be lief that If the mine workers', case is taken uo throueh the 'proper channels as provided by the gov ernment,; that : concessions of ' a substantial nature can be won," 4 ' ---! ; - v - - - ment of housewives through the various women's organizations It is estimated that 10,000 women will be needed for Jiarvest . . and food processing tasks. They are to be enrolled on a 'precinct basis; The chamber of s eemsneree- lancheeav on Mandar will be bs ' charge of the farm labor toa-;' mlttee ef which L. M. Ramage Is chairman. By meeting time,' the cemmittee hopes te have in its hands the returns from ques tionnaires distributed te all em ployers v last week,'-' Indicating how many employes from each esUblishment -wU be avalUble for part-time harvest work, and aat what times In the weekv T The original questionnaires fill ed out by employes are to be re tained by the employers, but the Information is to be summarized on the blanks provided for the (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Gty Budget To Stand Gut Of $47,015.56 A proposed budget which would require a tax levy $47,015.58 In excess of the maximum permitted under the six per cent limitation law - goes, before .the Salem city budget .commission for its first barbering Monday night, ' To meet all expenditures esti mated in that - document a tota levy of $420,660:51 would be need ed, while the total possible levy IS $379,644.95. The permitted levy is actual ly less than one percent la ex cess of that ef 1942-43, because of the fact that a sizeable por tion of the city's tax coUeetloB goes Into the general bond sink ing fond. This fund Is unaffec ted by the six percent limitation measure and this year drops from $111,360.54 te $97,747.71. On the other hand a fire tax levy of $12,624.76 is proposed, this year, whereas there was no fire tax fund expenditure last year.' Largest eats most come this year, as always, from the gen eral fond : expenditures which cover most of the city's oper ating expenses, and,' of the 'salaries. :' ; V ;'- Already promised, '.it. was de clared Saturday, was cancellation of salary Increases, in the higher brackets. t .. At .least one .new appointment to the citizens'' committee is an ticipated to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Roy Harland. which came last' week,. Harland's resignation followed the declara tion tnat ne and two . other ap pointees' of the council, personnel were ineligible because' they held membership on .other . municipal boards. Harland is a member ' of the district school board. ' Charles Heltzel and Lester Barr, the other two cited in the eligibility discus sion, are on the City library board; neither ; had 'submitted a resigna tion by Saturday night. 100 Japanese Airmen Bomb New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, . Sunday, May 16 () The Japanese hurled' more than 100 planes against allied troop positions in. New Guinea Saturday, attacking American and Australian force five miles south of Salamaua with one - of the heaviest dive bomber forces yet employed.5 - ' ""), The raiders, including 49 dive bombers, strack after dawn at Bobdnbi, a v 1 1 1 a g e recently seized by the allies tn an at T tempt to est off enemy snpplies to their troops at Mubo 12 miles below Salsmana. They also seat . 34 : planes against J Waa, allied ' base with an airdrome JJ miles sosthwest of Salamaua. Therintt no opposition at either point from allied planes. I Indicating they have recenUy re-enforced their h a r d pressed forces at Lae and Salamaua for ces 'reported near starvation for many weeks the Japanese at tacked sharply on the ground ; at Bobdubi while the dive bombers harried allied , troops T from - the air. ' But the allied ground troops ' ' (Turn to Paee 2 Story G) - " -. - " ! Pulp Labor . Said Essential WASHINGTON, Mt'y !$-( Designation ot pulpwood cutting and the manufacture, of certain types of pulp and paper as "essen-r tial activities" has removed a "se rious handicap in the paper mak ing industry,',, Arthur G. Wake- man, director ,oi vne war proauc- tion board's pulp and paper, divi sion, reported Saturday, r - Wakeman said that publication of the war manpower commis sion's bulletin No. 27 which list ed the production of pujp, paper board and certain converted prod ucts as essential activities would "materially reduce": many of the Tianpower problems . which have troubled his division. nrs iteaticDiiL oe Attn . JMMiC Honored ' DR. MORTON E. PECK WU Savant's- Long Work Recognized Honored as "outstanding scien tist of the state of oregon," ; Dr. Morton , E., Peck, for 33 years i professor at. Willamette univer sity here, was presented with a plaque' at the -: joint banquet of Sigma XI, and Phi, Beta Kappa, national scholastic honoraries, mm . . ' i . A " M- v. J . aauoty nigni ai ugene. ; . The University of Oregon chap ters of the two honoraries, which represent high scholastic rating in the arts and sciences, in recog nizing Dr. Peck's , achievements and 'personal record of , research echo the citation which .accompa nied, the honorary doctorate con f erred, upon hinv in -1940 by his aline mater, Cornell college, Mt yernonila. f-., ' - .... : Distlngaished a 1 a as a a a of the class f 1895, faithful teach er 'for 45 years, aeted' stadeat of ;FbiBt4llfe;;.lB Jatra Soath America and the aerth westf anther, poet - aad author ity te seseatlfle research, new ber of Phi Beta Kappa, aad pro fessor in Willamette anlversity since 1901, Cornell spokesmen then' proclaimed him. Since that time. Dr. Peck has published his "Manual, of the Higher Plants of Oregon," recog nized - as - the most authoritative and complete volume on that sub ject yet issued. Since that time. too. he has retired from his po sition as head of the biology de partment at Willamette, , but con tinues at that institution as cura tor of the large herbarium be col- ected and gave to the university. la the her barium are approx imately 25.00 specimens of Ore gon flora, largest aad most com plete collection la existence. ; Fellow of the Iowa Academy of Science; member of the Botanical Society of America and the Coop er Ornithological club, ' Dr. Peck has not limited his interest? lo the sciences to which hehas, devoted much of a lifetime in stud, and teaching, but he is also a pdet. recognized in the Pacific north west particularly for his "Book of the Bardons." Bey of Tunis , Is Deposed . : ALGIERS. May 15 UP) Sidi Mohammed . Al Mounsaf, the bey of Tunis, was deposed . Saturday by Gen. Henri Giraud and It was reported Jiere that the .7Iryear-old temporal and spiritual leader of Tunisia's 2,000,000 Moslems - had been sent to the French island of Madagascar in the Indian, ocean. It was assumed - that the bey, who remained in Tunisia through out the six months of axis occu pation and was promoted y to king" by the Germans, was ac companied Into exile by his har em ot 25 wives. . " The action . followed French "in vestigations to determine the ex tent to which the aged leader col laborated with the axis after his failure to answer a note from President Roosevelt six months ago" signifying American inten tion of entering Lis land. ' - - L.J L- RedAirmen , J ..... . Set 30 Fifes .LONDON, Sunday, May 16-(P) Russian .long . range bombers set more than 30 fires and explosions In the,-- jammed - German rail de pot of Gomel in. White Russia and also attacked Orel Friday night in , swelling aerial - offensive that has cost the enemy 111 planes in three - days, ' Moscow ' announced early today' Cy ' -t The? red air force dropped 'their bombs amid several dosen - trains" loaded with ammunition aad ether equipment, at Gomel, 'feeder point for the central and southern Russian f rente ea the railway from Warsaw, said a .broadcast recorded by the soviet monitor. V In other operations 39 German planes r were shot - down or de stroyed on the ground Friday, the midnight communique said- This was in addition to 72 enemy air craft destroyed since " Wednesday in attacks ranging from the Baltic to the Sea of Azov. 1 MOSCOW. May 15-v7)-The - Germans have' laaached a ser ies ef sharp new attacks against Russian positions tn the, Lenin grad ; area, employing ; asaaaed artillery and waves of Infantry, bat it aid was. too early to say , whether this Was the epeBbsg gaa la a general nasi offensive. Red Star, army newspaper, said the Germans , first laid . a heavy barrage on soviet lilies and Ithea sent "chains" of infantrymen ad vancing toward Leningrad in the face of i heavy 1 fire. Eight waves beat . against . the defenses - in a single day. , . - At only one , point, the news paper- said, did the nazis break into )the' main fortifications, and this enemy group. was said to have been., "e-xterminated" hrr TUlxsimr reinforcements f, that WerC rushed into the breach. Bui the: German were . reported to be still attack- ing. despite heavy -losses. V To military " observers the re newal of fighting before Lenin grad indicated that the Germans at least have been able to accum ulate considerable offensive pow er in that area, despite the furious day and night 'campaign being car ried on by, the soviet air force against enemy transport and sup ply centers. - -: Fighting was reported to have slackened somewhat in the Kuban delta of the Caucasus, though the Russians continued their intensive artillery bombardment of Ger man-held Novorossisk. - 250 Enter Silyerton Pet Parade SILVERTON, One of Sil- verton'g i most colorful events each spring, the annual pet pa- j ade sponsored by the American legion, was held Saturday morn w 1 1 h .253 . youngsters entering. ing for, the Hth consecutive year Walking off with' the grand prize were Beverly and Eartara Gross-1 nickle. 7 and 4 years of age; re-1 apecUvely, daughters oV Mr., and! Mrs, Victor. Grossnickle, All of the ' children were 'nre" senied "with free tickets to the Palace theatre, and "some cash prizes and .treats were donated by Silverton merchants: in addi tion. About 2009 people lined the streets as the parade started. The- prizewinning -entry of the Groosnickle children was a minia ture'" victory -garden, bouse and lawn.. The garden had been plant ed this Spring and tended by. the children lifted bodily and placed in the center of -the display.;The girls were costumed in overalls, sun bonnets" and carried, hoes, rakes and other gardening equip ment, i " ".' -i - Phillip Simmons was marshall and M a r 1 i n : Reed flagbearer. Dadis Dickerson, drum majorette, led ' the Silverton high school band. - - Working to make this , year's I parade an outstanding event were I Turn to Page 2 Story w) At Rail Depot UVXGJ U 9 o Jnoly9i Turk Envoy Goes Home For Newsr t' LAnuun, juay as Un in - w AatflAM mm m. same Algiers; radio, aeting what 1 said I was a reliable - aeatra source, said today that the en-, tire Datch coast Was being evac- aated te 15 miles Inland. - ' . The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, was not confirmed by other: searces. LONDON, May 15-f)-Fear of imminent attack on the con tinent has led the nazis to order confiscation of an estimated 1, 000,000 Dutch radios in an at tempt to keep Hollanders from hearing and heeding allied in vasion Signals, the Dutch newt agency Aneta reported Satur day. ' V:' . s ; Dutch circles in London said ft was an admission of failure of a previous decree, backed by heavy penalties, forbidding listening to non-German stations. Thousands of radios apparently have been in secret operation, they added. : k Meanwhile a Berlin radio broad cast, recorded by ; Reuters, an nounced the Germans had lifted martial . law imposed in Holland a week ago, purporting that the BERN, Switaeriand. May IS' W-ATuxi dispatch to Tr 1- ane 5 Cav. Geneve reported Sat- - .aiday that aaaeuneements had been posted warning all able-; bodied Frenchmen te report at .speotfle eeetors within am hear ta . evestt of allied Invasion. Theee- faCing to report within the time; limit raa the risk of . being eoasidered gaerrlllas, II- able to the death penalty, It said, . aad the placards ha v - been posted threegben the former-' wapied soae, aad may be ex tended to the former free seae. . arUiatton ' was, now : in i hand.4 Re ; mon wctMonsf the. Netherlands; government In exile said the number of persons' killed; In the first days- of : martial laas (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Mail Allowed For Renewal Of Gas Books ; WASHINGTON, May 15-iT) Motorists will be allowed to re new their "A" gasoline rationing books by mail, it Was announced Saturday. Renewals of "D" cou pon books for motorcycles also will be handled by mail. Aaaoancing adoption of this ' system. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown said it Is in tended to save the public time aad trouble by eliminating the aeeeosity of another regiatra-' tioa at school er ration board ' sites. Mall distribaUen pre viously had been ordered for is suance of war ration book No. ' t aad for renewal of foe! ell ra- tloas. : Except in eastern states, the "A ration books will expire July 21. In the east, the books will last longer because OPA, due to the gasoline shortage directed that "A-5" coupons must last for four months instead of two as else where. When the easterner's "A' book expires will depend on how long he is required to make the "A-T coupons 'last These be-' come valid July 22 in the east. 2C0 Injured ! By Tornado FORT RILEY, KAS, May 15-1 (A1) Approximately 200 men were injured, five seriously, in a vicious tornado that whipped through this cavalry replacement center Satur day, destroying or damaging 41 frame buildings Including 20 bar-, racks, valued at 5175.C0O. Mess JIalls, were lifted in the air and dumped yards away, leav ing tables and kitchen equipment still standing upright and undam- aged. Rifles, bunks, clothes and food lockers were scattered over a wide area. -v;