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fhr I If, 4 fi I fri y Dimozzt . i i Ved. Bunsct C:41 Thur. Eiinrise 5:33 4 (Weather on Page 3) PCUNDnD 1651 KEirry third year 12 PAGES Golem. Orecjozu Wednesday Morning. May 19 1943 IMc Sc. , 1 f I 1 . X - .... - V IT SEEMS TO ME that there re two attitudes toward Russia among American, 'w hich , are grotesque in their extremes. There is the attitude or Vice President Henry Wallace; a sort of "hush, hush, dont' wake the baby" attitude, which he reveal ed in an address in Ohio some weeks ago. Then he remarked, you will recall, that if we didn't ' cuddle up to Russia we would have to fight Russia. That is bosh. - About the same time our am bassador to Russia, .Admiral Standley, ' set the , state depart- ment by the ears, and the Rus- " sian well-wishers, when he .mAcA Aff that the Russian press had made no mention of the ex tent of American aid to the USSR. His attitude wa sort of kick Joe Stalin-in-the-groin and tell him "Say thank you; damn you." That was rather rough from a man in a diplomatic office. While we do not need to go daffy over Russia there is no need to be in aultine. This is a preface to comment en the new Warner Bros, film, Mission to Moscow," supposed to be a dramatization of the book by Joseph Davies, former Ameri can ambassador at the kremlin. -The way Warner Bros, have worked the book over It certainly follows the Wallace line. It is frankly packed .with ; propaganda for Russia. As such it is getting criticism on all sides except from the Stalin faction in the USA. , v Dorothy Thompson concludes a -" biting criticism with ;the final bite: "The film ought to be cut Indefinitely." , - John Dewey, radical philosoph er, who presided at the Trotsky ' hearings here and in Mexico, and adjuged Trotsky and his crowd innocent of the treason charge of the Stalinists, has written a long letter, along with Suzanne La- Follette, cousin of Sen LaFollette, sr., and herself a left-winger, be rating "the film as "anti-British, a n t i - congress, anti-democratic and anti-truth." The film frank ly distorts both the book V and history in dealing with the Mos cow purge trials of 1937-38. Since ' Dewey was- chairman - and Miss iaFollette secretary of the com mission of inquiry they are alert to the facts about these,; trials. The film" frankly takes the Stalin aide, which excites the ire of these students who say: & -y Y here that the commission rafter painstaking :. investigation, 'c o n cluded that the Moscow trials were frame-upsa conclusion en dorsed by intelligent world opin ion at the time of its announce ment," They concluded: ; . v ""Mission to Moscow' is major defeat for the democratic cause. In putting out this picture, far from rendering the patriotic ser vice on which Mr. Davies com- -pliments them, they have assailed the very foundations- of free- A. sober- review (Without the preconceptions of Dewey and La Follette is that given by Bosley Crowther in the New York Times. He goes right after Warner Brothers for making a politi cal . tract ouV of (Continued cm editorial page) Police Find P. M. Gregory Alive, bate , Approximately 38 hours after he bad left his residence at 350 Bel mont, telling liis daughter that he was going downtown, P. M. Greg ory, former mayor of Salem' was "d iscovered" Wednesday night by city police near the Liberty and Court street intersections. , , Gregory, plainly ill, officers de clared, told a coherent" story of having gone to the coast and re turning because it was . windy there. He has been in ill health for several years, recently had shown some improvement and is able to get about, walking short J distances with aid of a cane. A Auf Kaiiiii Ka ri " trMTt V. -ww aawa 9 wavi rw a9 vuitW city police were informed that Gregory had been seen Tuesday ' morning at the city bus terminal. Logs' Price Ceiling Set f WASHINGTON, May liHAt The OPA established Tuesday de livery p rice ceilings, effective next Monday, for west coast logs to destinations other than in tow able waters in Washington and Oregon. : Using as s basis the published minimum tracking rates far Washington, the OPA set prices la accordance with mileage and the grade of read ever which the lor are hauled. : Starting with a base ' rate of $1.06 per thousand board feet of logs, the sliding scale per thou sand feet per mile is: Class A roads, SH cents; class A-l. roads, $H cents; class B ; roads. 13 cents: class C roads. I IS cents, and class D reads, 27 CtStS. ' - 'S. .life -'. V J CV l' - Aerial .Photos Show Flo(p j. in Iii Nazi Junior G of C Members Paint Gty V-Center Five Salem junior chamber of commerce men swung the paint brushes Tuesday night as they put the first coat on Salem's Victory center, which has waited approxi mately 10 months for the profes sional i painters. "When ; it ? was fair weather they had big Jobs to da and when they got around there to the courthouse lawn, it invari ably started raining," declared Junior Chamber President Pat Crossland of the "little men who were not there.- Another crew plans to put a second coat and finishing touches on the outdoor platform Thurs day night, preparatory to the jun ior chamber's first Saturday night entertainment scheduled there this week. ?" The Victory center ; will be used for the purpose originaHy intended sale ef war bends ; and stamps, and, in addition, the programs there will be de signed to entertain the city's soldier guests, members of the sponsoring Junior chamber have ; .announced. 1 Amateur contests for men in uniform, with prizes, are among the; features ; planned, Chairman Don Black said - Tuesday night Professional entertainers among soldiers stationed in this area will not be denied the right to com pete, he declared. . Members of the Tuesday night painting crew were Crossland, Black, ' Howard Walker,- A. C. Newell and Irwin WedeL wS Social Meet Eyes Youth Delinquency PORTLAND, May lMJ-Ju-venile delinquency and the prob lem of youth in wartime claimed the attention of delegates Tues day at the closing session of the state conference on social work. Portland social worker tald In a' panel diacw bow near ly 70t yaatha of kImcI Ui came into the city this year ta war workers' families, yet hich school attendance dropped.' They said approximately 8000 children are skipping school, pos- siDiy ior war work. Other speakers urged closer su pervision of children -and Stanlev Earl, secretary - treasurer of the uregon industrial council, said that the moment the war ends, wo- want the women out of in dustry and back into the homes.' Nips Continue China Drive CHUNGKING, May ll.-p)-The battle for China's big rice bowl continued unabated west of Lake Tungting in North Hunan pro vince, a Chinese communique said Tuesday. i - In another battle second only in Importance to the fieht for rice Chinese claimed successes in the Itaiheng mountains, advancing to the outskirts of the ' important North Honan town of Linhsien, former stronghold which the Jap anese captured early in their drive. The communique predicted Linhsien and other key points would be recovered in a day or two. " LaGuarclia Tells Of; Spud Waste NEW YORK, May 18-i(P)-While many New Yorker! went potato less, Mayor LaGuardia said Tues day - that Commissioner of Mar. keU Daniel P. Woolley had re ported to him that a great part of 438,000 pounds of ootatoe con signed for government use is on the verge of " spoiling in a Brook lyn terminal market warehouse. ' They are supposed to go to de hydrating plants for lend lease and ; army purposes," the mayor said. OCE Commencement Scheduled May 28 MONMOUTH, May 18-(JP) Oregon College of Education an nounced Tuesday that commence ment exercises would be held here May 28.' Justice George Rossman, Portland, of the state supreme court is the scheduled speaker . YMeys Many Cities Inundated; Loss High LONDON, May lMflVDe structive flood waters loosed by the RAFi blasting of two of Germany's , largest dams were shown by ? new aerial photo graphs Tuesday night to be surging unchecked down the Ruhr valley, creating havoc in the heart of Hitler's war industry. I The : latest reconnaissance pic tures of spreading torrents rolling beyond the broken Mohne and Eder dams were taken Tuesday as allied air units carried their non-stop pre-invasion bombard ment into its seventh day with lightning stabs at Europe. A Reuters Stockholm dispatch quoted a secret German radio as saying that a state of siege had been r proclaimed through out the province of Westphalia in the Ruhr valley. ' - ' The Eighth US air force, whose heavy bombers pounded Bor deaux, Lorient and the submar ine pens at Keroman Monday, sent its Thunderbolt fighters to patrol over nazi - occupied i Belgium in force Tuesday. They engaged one of two enemy formations sighted and shot down one Messerschmitt 109. A US "communique said one American P-47 failed to return. British bombers attacked an en emy airport at Abbeville'in France in nother daylight foray Tuesday and escorting (fighters brought down a Focke-Wulf. Ear lier in the day, RAF . Typhoons bombed a plane dispersal area at Poix but five planes were knocked down by intense anti-aircraft fire. 1 ".These operations ;foll wed' a heavy night operational ached ale daring which the JCAF hit elcht nasi blockade runners and , shot ap continental . rail ? lines and air base. Enemy planes struck at London during the night, killing at least ten persona in the city. A Welsh town, -which the German radio identified as Cardiff, had one: of its heaviest raids since 1941. Rescuers had recovered several bodies of victims by noon and it was believed at least 20 others were in the wreckage. The- ne$r pictures showed the - (Turn, to Page 2-Story C) Churchill Speech Set This Morning WASHINGTON. May f 18.-UPI Prime Minister Churchill's speech to congress Wednesday will be one of the major addresses of .his ca reer, it was indicated Tuesday night when aides disclosed that he would speak for about 50 min utes. ,. . Vy l.H ' f All the four large American net works will broadcast his speech, starting at 9:30 sm Pacific war time. ; , " Previously it was thought he would speak about 20 minutes. . Senate and house, will meet in joint session in the house11 cham ber to hear the prime minister. Meanwhile, Churchill continues to confer with President Roose velt, ' The" latter ; told reporters Tuesday that the talks are going along very satisfactorily. ' f . School Closing Is Defeated RICKREALL By a vote of 57 to 28 the proposal to? suspend Rickreall higV school's operation next year : was defeated Tuesday night at the special school dis trict election. Proponents of the plan- main tained that money would be saved by paying tuiflon' and transporta tion for the student; body : of ap proximately 35 for i whom three teachers have served this year.' State Butchers -To Bleet Here The Oregon branch of the Amal gamated Meat Cutters and Butch er Workmen will hold its annual meeting In Salem on Sunday, May 24, Dan Williams, president of the Salem local of the AFL union, an nounced here Tuesday night. Seventy five out-of-dty dele gates are expected to attend, rep resenting 31 locals. It's All Wet, Brother.... All Wet! LONDON, M a y 18 - (iT1) - A London news vendor lumnur hted the RAF destruction of two German dams this way on his notice board: ' How wet is my valley Hit- Xmr i i- :" - " 4 Tax Measure Delegated to Conference WASHINGTON, M a y 18 - (JP) The Ruml plan to skip an income tax year went down Tuesday for the knockout count, as the demo crats won their most , impressive victory; of the 78th congress. " Assured that President Roose velt would veto , the full-year-abatement bill,' the house voted 202 to"l 194 against accepting the senate's modified Ruml measure. ; It 5vas the third house defeat' for the Rami plan. NineJ republicans and three mi nor party j members joined 190 democrats against the senate bill; 187 republican and seven demo crats supported it. The; action, climaxing a four month battle, left the future ef pay-as-yoa-go taxation in doubt, bat Chairman George of the senate finance committee voiced confidence a senate house conference committee can devise a bill that Mr. Roosevelt would approve. - "The Ruml plan is dead," said Chairman Doughton of the tax framing house ways and means committee. "We have killed it. As long as Franklin Roosevelt is president of the United States it will stay dead. . Tuesday's action came on a motion for the house to instruct Its house - senate conference delegates to accept . the senate ' sklp-a-year measure. Those appointed to the confer ence committee declined to dis cuss the kind of. bill that might finally emerge, but- indications are.that-& will -abate at least.'. 15 per cent of ,1942 and provide - a 20 per cent withholding tax against the" taxable parts of wages and salaries, r Peacemakers' Stop Violence In Congress WASHINGTON, May 18-UP) A threatened fist fight on the house floor between Rep Gene Cox, fiery Georgian, and young Will Rogers, Jr., lawmaker-son of the late humoriji, was averted Tuesday by peace-making col leagues. " ' It developed, agreed both par ticipants, when Cox walked over to Sogers seat, Quoted him as saying in a radio address that be (Cox) had taken a -bribe" and. In the best southern tradi tion demanded: Ton owe me an " .apology, salu ' At that point, however, the agreement ended. Rogers denied 4feat he had ever said that Cox i. , A a i - . r j . a. "aithing more than words were exchangetV called the whole af fair just a tempest in a teapot'. But representatives in ringside seats near the two democrats dif fered. They said they saw the 63-year-old Cox, - pale with anger, stride to Rogers' seat and start to put his arms around the 31-year-old Californian's head before neighboring lawmakers rushed over and interceded. Ickes Stands : Oii WLB Rule WASHINGTON, May lS.-3) Secretary ; Ickes told John L. Lewis Toesday night that any contract in settlement of the . coal I mine dispute "must have the approval of the war labor board, whoso authority Lewis has refused to recognixe. NANTY GLO. Pa- May 18.-0P) The. first break from the coal truce i pledge of John L. : Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers,: came tonight when a mass meeting of miners employed in three mines 12 miles north of Johnstown voted to walk out. -: Approximately ' 1,800 work in the affected pits, where the reg ular midnight shift did not report; Six Fliers Found "VlGO, Spain, May 18.-P)-Six American and British fliers ar rived Tuesday aboard a fishing boat ivbich rescued them from a dinghy 80 miles off Cape Finis terre, where their plane fell into the ocean. Riiss lans Repulses Attack " Reds Blast Enemy With Artillery At Novorossisk LONDON, Wednesday, May 18 -VP)- After having f thrown back and inflicted heavy losses on Germans attempting to crack the Red army's siege' lines around the Caucasus Black Sea base of Novorossisk, Russian troops blasted the enemy with ar tillery fire Tuesday in a day ; of relative quiet along the entire eastern 'front Moscow announced todays-v -ji- . h, The Russian . noon-day com munique reported that the Red army, had beaten off a series of violent counterattacks at Novo rossisk during the night . It was the second successive bulletin dis closing German attempts to break out of their narrow bridgehead. - - These blow apparently end- ; ed the .immediate nazi. threat, for the midnight commnnlqne . this morning as recorded by the Soviet . monitor - here reported . only an . exchange of artillery : fire at Novorossisk. : ' The Russian gunners, the bul letin said, silenced four German artillery batteries northeast of Novorossisk, . demolished nine blockhouses and dugouts and de stroyed two guns and several mo tor trucks with supplies. On nn (Turn to Page 2 Story II) Middlewest ! Floods Cover Million Acres Flood waters ; the worst ? In some, areas in SO years ''.have burst levees, inundated, sections of cities, flooded farmlands and caused at Jteast . lour deaths : in midwesterrf Itnd i?amitherhstates: In Illinois and Indiana ram paging waters broke three levees, washed out several bridges, drove hundreds of families - from their homes and covered more than 1,000,000 acres of land. Four In dianans drowned. ' J - -- The "big ; toelr pipe line, carrying fuel from Texas to BllnoU en the first leg of the eastern seaboard, was broken ' by preaanre from tho flood swollen Arkansas liver. ! Although t he Arkansas river was falling generally in Arkansas, from Muskogee, Okla came warnings of floods rivaling last week's record breaking overflows in which " seven were drowned, and 19 are missing. Flood damage was reported in Missouri. . VvtVLx central and central In diana experienced their worst flood In 3 years. J. H. Arm ingten. government meteorolo gist predicted the crests would almost equal those of the dSs asterous 1913 inundation. Parts of Kokomo, Marion, Long ansport Noblesville, Wabash, In dianapolis and other cities were submerged by the Wabash - and (Turn to Page 3 Story E) British Raid , Japs in Burma .NEW DELHI, May 18.-(ff)-Brit-Ish troops which withdrewilast week from Maungdaw in western Burma to meet a Japanese infil tration threat struck back at the port in" a commando-type raid Sunday night and inflicted cas ualties on the enemy in hand-to-hand fighting. - Two small detachments made a landing despite strong Japanese resistance, a communique announ ced Tuesday, and killed all but two of a force of Japanese who char ged at bayonet point . j v Salem Rancher -Buys Record Ram GALT, CaliL, May 18-P)-The record ram purchase at this year's California sheep exhibition and ram sale belongs to R. W. Hogg. Salem, Ore., who bought a Hamp shire ram from Straloch farms of Dats, Califs for $400. , : g In the sale of two other rams the Red Cross received $460. Wal ter B. Hubbard, Junction City, Ore.,' made one of the purchases. Chile, Vichy Break SANTIAGO, Chile, May 18-GT5 The Chilean government Tuesday broke diplomatic relations with Vichy France, Hungary and Ru mania. - Chile severed relations with Germany, Italy and Japan January 23-. j.", u m iZew LPS Allied Bombers Blast Sardinia Airfield, Port .- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AFRICA, May l&H-From their north African, springboard ; allied. planes dealt a heavy blow Mon day night to the port and airfield of Alghero in Sardinia, and else where asserted their mastery of Mediterranean skies with harass ing raids, i ' ' ' . RAF Wellingtons plumped bombs npon the town and pert areas of Alghero, on the west ern coast of Sardinia, and then pounded their targets with ma chinegnn bullets in strafing at--tacks as low as 200 feet from the ground. . " . "V'' At least one big fire started, in the center of the town, pilots re ported. Bright moonlight aided this latest of many r smashes at axis power in the , island guard ing the Italian mainland. ; The British navv meanwhile re ported rounding up 23 Germans who had succeeded in fleeing Cap Bon and reaching Zembretta is land, near the tip of the cape. But there they ran out of food, " and painted an SOS on the lighthouse. When Britons arrived by mo torboat - the Germans com plained that "We're waved at Spitfires and naval boats for the -past four days trying to attract "attention ;: - The allied communique report ed minor successes in routine pa trols by allied pilots. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of allied forces in the north: African theatre, announced that a final count of axis soldiers capturedin,rthe,.Tc6isiaAi cam paign showed a total of welover 200.000. The. figure - previously had been .set at around 150,000, AFL Hearings May( Is Warning : WASHINGTON, May 18-(AVA maritime commission represent ative declared -Tuesday that the National Labor relations board charges against Kaiser company shipyard threatens" recordf We s t coast-ship production.' l - D. S. Ring, director of the ship yard labor relations division : of PORTLAND, May 18-;P-Ir-win De Shetler, CIO shipyard organiser, said Tuesday , his nn toa , favors the NLJtB proposal to abrogate closed shop provi sions of the " AFL-Kaiser - com-, paay contracts here. - The NLRB premised it would drop unfair fabor practise charges against the Kaiser com pany If the closed shop clauses were stricken. the maritime commission, told a house merchant marine subcom mittee it was his "personal opin ion that a breakdown of existing closed shop agreements between the AFL and the shipyards would "seriously . hamper production. - - He continued "It is also our fear that the same result will fol low if the NLRB forces the is sue. x -. v. .'.: The NLRB is conducting a hear ing at Portland on CIO charges that the closed shop agreements with the AFL were signed when only a small number of employes were on hand. - Censjis Slates Travel Survey ' SAN FRANCISCO, May 18-P) The office of defense transporta tion Tuesday asked train and bus passengers in eight western cities to cooperate in travel survey to be conducted by the bureau of census from May 21 through May 27." - - ' V-;.:-" Census representatives will in terview passengers at ' terminals in San Francisco,- Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma, along with 93 other cities in vari ous parts of the country. F.IacArthur President Quh Incorporated SPRINGFIELD, III, Slay 18 (p) Incorporation of the Gen eral Douglas MaeArther for president dab, a non-profit cor poration, was reported Tuesday by the office of secretary of state Edward J. Esghes. Yanks Seize Key Heights Commanding Holtz Bay; J Bombardment Continues 1 NEW YORK, May 18 (AP) A Japanese broad cast declared Tuesday that the Americans were "con tinually landing fresh forces" on Attn in the Aleutians "under (protecting) gunfire; from' naval units and with the help of air forces. " - i ::4 , The broadcast, recorded by the federal communi cations commission, followed an earlier one for home consumption claiming that United States losses had been heavy, ' , :A'-:.- - Pacific Theatre ;3MlTi . . ":. MIDWAY t 1 rTtSSi v.; waki Hawaiian - , iTi -a& '5- , TRUK CMASHAll IS. ir 5SguiiaJ c9-r --. -JZm ' KsLsolomon . NCfHtRUNOS - , ?ViH5f4$. : - f 1 ' I ' Fui - India Ocean " AUStRAUA- CAllcON,A " 0 '00 ! " - Jd' - ZEALAND" " Here's the straterie situation In the Pacific, apparently one of the top ics of discussion araonc allied leaders' In Washlnjton. Japanese . boldinss are shown In black. Flags Indicate major bases alone the ; are that bounds Jap conquests. Presence of allied chieftains from tbo-Xndla-nnrma theatre in Washlnrton has led U speculation that the ' iltlM mv tmr A f wMcIn r Tcull Tou for onerailans (irrowal i ; clear a path ihroorh Burma to China where US air force (plane, 'C symbol) ta aJdins Chlnav Associated Press' Telemat. . .j ilrASHmGTOrVMay loHflFVrh bayonet-spiked jaws of an American army trap were closing on the main Japanese forces on Attu island Tuesday niht. The enemy's plight appeared hope less. ' . ' Provided the Aleutians' bad weather does not interfere too greatly with our coordinated land, sea and air blows, the con auest of the embattled, island may be completed in a few days. according to the best estimates of the campaign available here. As the second week of the fight opened, the navy disclosed: - Jap Defense Smashed v -.1, The main Japanese defense positions along a rocky ridgo south of their tramp on Holtz bay were smashed in violent com bat Monday, and United: States troops. took possession of the heights last night. . - , ; 5 ; , l 2. American warships .which supported the initial landings a week ago are continuing to bombard the Japanese positions Planes, probably from the American base of Amchitka island 23? nautical miles to the southeast, are bombing the enemy whenever weather permits. ? - : 3. Despite stiff Japanese resistance and the hazards of oper ations among the uncharted snow-capped mountains of Attu, the casualties among our troops have been light. Great significance was attached here to American seizure of the heights south of Holtz bay., From positions there our troops, are believed able to pour heavy fire into the Japanese camp on the coastal lowlands rimming Holtz bay. Wake Island Raided t The story of the battle thus far was told in two naval com muniques and by Secretary Knox at a press conference. The sec ond of the communiques also reported new air blows against the Japanese in the Central and South Pacific. Army Liberator bombers, on a round trip flight of more than 2,000 miles from their base at Midway, -raided enemy-held Wake island, and shot down, two of 22 Japanese Zero fighters which attempted to intercept them. One other fighter was listed as probably destroyed. Bad weather prevented observation of 'bomb mg reaultav----t ;.:lv.-i -r;., v-'t.--- '"'., In the South Pacific, navy and marine corps dive bombers with army, navy and marine fighter protection struck at the Jap anese seaplane base at Rekaia bay on Santa Isabel island in the Solomons. Results of this action were not reported. , Landings Made Secretly; Secretary Knox said the initial landings on Attu a week ago Tuesday were accomplished in the greatest secrecy. No enemy resistance developed until our forces were on the beaches. .. The initial landings were effected at two points. The north ern force landed on the western arm of Holtz bay where they es tablished a beachhead from which to drive south around the bay, toward the enemy camp. The southern force landed at Massacre bay on the side of the island opposite Holtz bay and struck north ward across the lava-carpeted The enemy troops meanwhile held positions in a rocky ridge immediately south of Holtz bay, blocking the access of American troops to the Japanese camp. . ;..r .... .Tuesday's first communiaue said the Jananese had entrench- edt themselves along this ridge and that our soldiers were encoun tering "stubborn resistance from numerous machine gun nests., About an hour later Knox announced that the ridge had been taken. He said its possession "would bring our troops into di rect contact with the main enemy positions around Holtz bay. At the same time, he added, the northern and southern American forces were approaching each other to join strength and close In ' with'the Japanese over the hih ground. Massacre Bay Chief Aim Knox said the main American force was landed at Massacre bay. Indicating the northern group was a force of lesser strength. The bulk of all "the troops, he said were infantrymen, the others probably including some light artillery and engineers. The opposing directions of the two American advances ap parently were designed to cut off the entire eastern end of Attu and bottle up the enemy in that area. The bulk of the island lies west of the American line, but Knox said he knew of no Japa nese forces in that part of the island. The secretary was asked about the ability of the warships and planes to support the American land drive. 11a treed with (Turn to Pase 2 Story A) 7,710- 7c: of Operations Cask a I passes of the mountains. '