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fur Dimout Thur. sunset 0:42 Fri. sunrise 5 :32 (Weather on page 7) tCUNDSD 1C3I rnr,TTY thed year 12 PAGES Salem, Oregon, Thursday I lcrrlr,?,. llay 23. IS 13 Pries 5c No. 3 ft it i i . TV X y y N. X Y . y v .T W -a---. j" yy y ' V IT SEEMS TO ME, as it must to all other friend of the Unitea Nations, that Winston Churchill will rate as one of the great lead- : ers of history, one, of the greatest of -British prime . ministers., jum strength lies not so much in his Intellect, though he Is a well-informed, man; nor in his general- f t I. I. militate. experience from his early youth; i nor in his personality, for it never won him the premiership until the crisis' of war arose. His greatness lies in his political leadership as expressed through his eloquence. He' gave a fresh example of his - power to sway the minds of men in his address to the congress, to the country and to the world Wednesday. . V 4 As an orator Churchill will not rate ; with the elder Chatham whose periods Were typical of the polished oratory of another: day. He does not have the powers of logic of Edmund Burke, nor the fire and vigor of Charles Fox. But in his ability to move the hearts and minds of men Churc hill, using today's style, of ora- tory, i ranks with the masters. of iEnglish speech. He came to the office of the king's first minister, with a varied and rich equipment. He was born into the ruling class, of the fam ous house of Churchill of which the : Duke of Marlborough : was formerly its most illustrious mem ber, the victor at Blenheim and Randolph. Churchill, once chan cellor of the exchequer and sec retary for India. Winston himself jaw military service with the Spaniards in Cuba in 1895, with the British in India and the Su dan, and later in South - Africa during the Boer war. He has been newspaper correspondent and au thor, and has been in and out of the British cabinet on numerous occasions. In the last war he was first lord of the admiralty, and served as chancellor of the exche auer hi the Baldwin government His foresight in having the Brit ish fleet in home waters in 1914 was an important factor in pre serving control of the seas when the first world war broke. His star lost luster with the failure of the Gallipoli campaign of which he was the author. Between the wars Churchill was as often out or official favor as in it. He was -opposed to appeasement and - ut tered many warnings against the rising strength of Germany. The iirWArM war f mind him a rain fUVUU " in the admiralty office, and when the Chamberlain government fell under the weight of allied dis asters on the continent to May and June of 1840, king and coun trv turned to ChurchilL I In that dark hour, perhaps the darkest in British history, at least the -darkest since the Spanish ar mada sailed to. crush England, when British armies were oeaien and demoralized, the remnant rescued heroically at Dunkirk lacking tanks and guns, and with only a gallant air force to do so much with so little," Churchill assumed the duties of prime min ister. In his initial address to parliament he promised blood and sweat and toil and tears, but he promised also that Britain would (Continued on editorial page) Dayies Safe In Moscow With Letter MOSCOW, May 19 HTPf- Th letter from President " Roosevelt to Premier-Marshal Stalin i- ar rived Wednesday in a briefcase carried" by Former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies on his second and perhaps more f atef ully significant mission to Moscow. He is expected to deliver the letter .Thursday. ; - Davies will be in Moscow only a short time and probably will carry back to Washington a letter from-Stalin to Roosevelt in reply. The plane carrying him and 14 other Americans landed in a site of destruction at Stalingrad Tues- ev Tksvl . irAA a rrc rnnfpr. enee. - He laid a wreath of lilies of the valley on the grave of the un known soldier in the heart of Stal ingrad and then made an im promptu speech ..before, a crowd of soldiers and citizens In which he declared the flowers were a token of our homage and death Jess respect" Nazis Bomb London Again ; LONDON, Thursday, . May 20 (ff")-Gunfire was virtually contin uous in one London area for some time after midnight today as the enemy came over the city for the fourth consecutive night '1 During a second alert of the night, the "raiders, few in number, dropped bombs in two places near the Thames estuary. From one point there was a report that sev eral persons were trapped under debris. . . rtnmh also were loosed on an- Cther area is southeast England.. County L. : .; . . I Half done! Before Wednesday sunset this long gondola and another like ft were filled and heaped v with the 80,000 pounds of cleaned tin cans, prepared by the homeaaakers of Marion, Polk and eastern Yamhill counties, gathered by school children collected ad loaded by tracks and drivers of members of .the Oregon Bottlers association. Valuable salvage for the war effort," the shipment goes to the San Franebco detinnmg plant where It will net S0 pounds of tin and enough of another type of material to precipitate 0,000 pounds of copper m Alison's mines Statesman Photo. US Bombers In East Burma NEW DELHI, India, May 19-iPi Heavy and medium bombers of the 10th US air force cascaded more than 100 tons of bombs on Japanese supply bases and com munications in eastern Burma Tuesday, dropping the heaviest weight of , bombs ever delivered by the force in a single day. The deadly rain of bombs was poured down . on , enemy bases along a 175-mile stretch on the Irrawaddjr river valley from Prome northward. Prome Is a railhead ISO miles above Kan- B-24 Liberator ' bombers "in strength" struck the Japanese with 67 tons of bombs, and. medium bonvhers "operating , in coordina tion increased - the total' tonnage to well In excess of 100 tons for the day. a ilOth . air force com munique annWnedtedajl M romM attacaea were sappiy center; 4t Minbs northwest of Magwe, railroad Installations at Prome, - Thayetmyo, SO miles oontneMt of Marwe, Lanjrwa on the Irrawaddy river and Chaak. All the American planes and crews returned safely from the powerfully j destructive raids. which smashed enemy supply stocks, fuel dumps , and . railroad installations leaving- fires a n d smoke visible- for 50 to 1 00 miles. Japanese fighters jumped one formation of medium bombers, and one of the enemy .was de stroyed, the communique added. State Rests Lotka Trial MEDFORD, May 10 iA Ef forts to prove that Sgt. Bernard J. Lotka, 23, Cleveland, O, was AWOL the night of April 1 when his 10-week-old son . was smoth ered to. death were parried Wed nesday by several Camp White officers. Lotka is on trial on a first degress murder - charge. The state closed its case Wed nesday. Lotka, a surgical technician at a Camp White hospital, is accused, District Attorney George W. Neil son says, of smothering the ille gitimate child of himself and Tillie Michalski, also of Cleveland, whose trial on a similar ' charge will start May 24. Brady Loses $9500 in Suit PORTLAND, Ore., May 19-(JP) A jury of 10 women and two men awarded Mrs. Marion - Whitmer $9500 damages Wednesday in her breach of promise suit against Phil Brady, Portland labor lead er and state representative. The jury was out seven hours. Mrs. Whitmer, former housekeep er for Brady, had . asked $25,000 damages. New Driving . - Ban Announced WASHINGTON. May 19 -JFV- OPA announced Wednesday night a new ban on non-essential driv ing to "be backed up by all pos sible : enforcement. The ban f Is effective at noon Thursday in 12 eastern, states plus eight western counties of West Virginia and the District of Columbia. "This action was taken to meet a gasoline supply crisis resulting from tremendously increased de mands, and to assure adequate gasoline for the transportation of food." an OPA statement said Attack Japs Cans To 'Can9 4? I " "Z. Tin Salvage Twice Former Collections i . Tin cans totaling in weight ap proximately 80,000 pounds, more than twice the quantity gathered in the first collection here, moved into and through Salem : Wednes day as the public schools of Mar ion, Polk and a portion of Yam hill county completed a strenuous campaign to gather the salvage for the nation's war effort. ' Heaped above the walls of two long gondola ears en the Oregon Electric tracks by drivers of bot tling concern trucks who had brought the tin , from . school yards over the territory, the flattened cans are to be sent to the San Francisco ; detuning plant There Set pounds of tin will be realised and sufficient of another type of content sep arated to bo used in precipitat ing 40,000 pounds of copper In the mines of Arisona. v jr Boy Scouts, Camp Tire girls, 4H clubs and school children,-organ ized within their classes and thou sand of interested parents made possible the collection which kept bottlers' trucks and drivers busy throughout the day. ' - "We noted a great difference In picking P the tin thin time; everywhere there was more of . it" declared Lowell Jones, pres- ideal of the Oregon Bottlers' as . sedation, organisation aiding In the tin collection over the state by providing trucks and. men . who not only drive be load and unload the salvace material. v "Most stifying.''; C. W. Paul us, Marion county salvage com mittee chairman, found the large collection. Appreciation for . the work of the bottlers' aBociation, the public schools and the youth organizations was expressed by (Turn to Page 2- Story A) Home Defense Not Enough For This Gal It was all part of the day's work for tiny Georgia Ramage McCor mack, who's out to do her, bit in the war effort While her husband, Dr. Rod win McCormack, is serv ing with the army in the south Pacific, she's holding down a full- time job in the state department of agriculture and ' giving ; some time to the Red Cross. ; I But when solicitors canvassed her office for part-time work-;, en In the canneries to saVo the spinach pack, she - volunteered. Monday night she- worked the regular four hour night shift Thursday night when . she re ported to the TJS ' employment service where busses picked up workers to transport them to the canneries, she fainted. . ; Joseph Wilson, ' employment service worker, taking rs. Mc Cormack home, learned that her Red Cross work Tuesday consist ed of donating a pint of blood. - Dutch Warned Of fAirHcU' LONDON, May ; 1 19-iTV-P1eter S. Gerbrandy, Netherlands pre-; mier, Wednesday night broadcast to his countrymen from London a warning to stay away from Ger many, which, he said, would be made a "hell" of incendiaries and explosive bombs in the coming days." -- r.- ': I Speaking over radio Orange, the Netherlands-station here. Dr. Ger brandy urged the Dutch popula tion to use "every means at your disposal' . to hamper German ef forts to exhaust .the strength of the occupied countries, until the allies were ready to invade the continent ; the Axis "-- i - -t J Fortresses Blast Axis Sub Bases LONDON, May lMJIVNewly- reinforced American flying fort ress units smashed through a hea vy German fighter screen Wed nesday to set fires in the Kiel and Flensburg submarine yards or northwestern Germany.': Flying 1000 miles unescorted, the big bombers knocked down many of the challenging fight ers during a two-hoar running battle from which six bombers failed to return. "Bombing results were good,' said the headquarters announce ment' "Both targets were left in flames." ." ynited States fighters carried diversionary sweeps over Eu rope, but the "enemy, refused ac tion," said the announcement - At Kiel the Germans pet up a defensive smndgepet smoke- screen both' front land end froass . ships ia the harbor, bnt the fli ers reported good hits there and ,, at Flensburg as- welt The- Germans G had tried the smudgepot plan last Saturday dur ing an American raid on Emden. The smokescreen from ships in Kiel's harbor was another inno vation. The raid disclosed for, the first time an organizational expansion of the fortress forces being built up in Britain for the great aerial offensive now in its eighth day. There were indications, mean while, that the RAF was attack ing over the continent again, as the Berlin radio went off the air during the night. While the Kiel attack was made by a fortress wing commanded since January by Brig. Gen. Hay wood S. 1 Hansell of Atlanta, Ga, it was announced that the attack on Flensburg on the German Danish border was made 4y an other ,. fortress wing ; commanded by Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Ander son of Kingston, NY. A wing is an administrative un it consisting of a number of fort ies 1 groups based on various fields. Anderson's arrival and his organization had been kept se cret until Wednesday.' v China Holds Jap 'Attacks ; CHUNGKING, May 19-rh-Se- vere fighting is continuing in the Taungting lake area of north Hu nan province where the Japanese seek ; to break into China's "rice bowl," and the enemy has been fought to a standstill at the out skirts of the key highway town of Tsingshih, a Chinese high .com mand ': communique . announced Wednesday. . Fighting . eonUnaes north of Lihsien. it added. . The Chinese were reported put ting 1 up stiff; resistance against reinforced Japanese columns striking : at Hohshangtung. and several - hundred enemy troops were wiped -out . 4 Salem Pupils 1 High in :Cont est PORTLAND. May l-(VHelen O'Keefe of Klamath Fails high school won the Oregon American Legion f auxiliary's . Americanism essay contest, department head quarters said : Wednesday. Martha S tension of Parrish junior high. Salem,-won honorable mention. Teddy Busch of Salem won in the division for students In ' the fourth-fifth-slxth .; grades, Sally TerrlU, Salem, in the seventh-eighth-ninth . grade division; Dor othy A. Saul, Salem, in the divi sion covering the last three years of high schooL . - Paj-A-Go Peadlock een Blartin Holds Out For Original . . House Plan WASHINGTON; May. 19-(ff) Pay-as-you-go Income tax leg islation was threatened Wednes day night with a'' deadlock, as republican leader Martin, of Mass achusetts, champion of the mod ified KumI skJp-a-year plan, said he opposed any compromise. ."I , am for no compromise,' he told newspaper men." "I am still f for . ' the senate-approved ' Carlson-Ruml bill, and expect this'bUl flnaUy to be passed." iC Democrats remained rigid in their; opposition to ; the Ruml pro posal as modified In a bill by Rep. Carlson (R-Kas), and the firm opposing stands raised a question mark over the efforts of a house senate conference committee which meets tomorrow in an ef fort, to devise a compromise. ;" Defeat of the skip-a-year proposal-reverberated earlier today in a declaration . by Rep. Halleck (K-ind) that the office of war in formation had spread propaganda against' pay-as-you-go proposals. . OWI Director Elmer Davis re sponded: "I cannot understand what purpose r Congressman Halleck Intended to accomplish by his unfair charge, unless It wu to eocrce this office into withhold ing from the American people ' facts to which they are entitled." These developments came as the pay-as-you-go issue became so confused that ' some legislators were predicting privately there would be no legislation at all,' in time to become effective in 1943. The house republicans " appar ently were planning to battle with out letup for the Ruml-flavored senate bill, despite the threats of a veto by President Roosevelt The senate-house " Conference committee has been . named to ' seek a compromise between the s m a t e Jn 1 1-yetr . abatement measure au4 tbo howse-appr br ed bill that would cancel ont about 75 per cent of total 1942 income taxes," abating the bills of air persons, below, the second surtax' bracket 4 ir-S Hallack's statment accused OWI (Turn to Page 2 Story H) . 7 Jap Planes Hit at Timor ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday, May 20 (ATwo Japanese planes were de stroyed and two damaged on the ground and three were shot down in an allied raid on Koepang, Dutch Timor, the high command announced today. Three of our planes are missing. v ' The Japanese, continuing to ' show their resurgence of air ae tivity, raided : Ore hay, New Guinea, ' M mOes , below Buna. Nine were he the raiding party and anti-aircraft downed one Koepang is one the southwest ern tip of Dutch Timor some 500 miles northwest of Darwin. - Long range ' fighters delivered the initial, allied punch at dawn. attacking Penfoei airdrome ; The planes destroyed ? or . ; damaged aground included three bombers and a fighter. .The raiding fighters strafed buildings and personnel from tree top height. .Then big allied bombers came over, starting fires among build ings with their bombs. Eight Jap anese fighters rose to Intercept In addition to the three shot down, two other probably were destroyed.'- The missing allied planes were fighters. Young GOPs Meet Called A meeting of. the executive committee of the Young Republi can clubs' federation of . Oregon has been called by Chairman Sam Speerstra, Salem, for 1:30 Sunday afternoon at t state republican headquarters, 201 ; Morgan build ing, Portland. . ,;r,. :-r:: BIcNary Election ",.' Said- Praiseworlliy ! PORTLAND, May 19.-P)-Har- old Le Vender, former, law part ner of Harold Stassen of Minne sota, told .the Multnomah chapter of the Oregon Republican club Tuesday that Oregon should' be congratulated for returning Charles I McNary to the senate term after term. ByIKedRaid .Lewis Meteures to 6F 7iuli-Back to (CMelhia Surrender -! . Or Death ! Face Nips j WASHINGTON, May 19-(B) Advancing United States troops appeared Wednesday night to be driving hard-pressed Japa nese forces on Attu island into a pocket around Chichagof har bor, where they can only sur render or fight to the death." -The Aleutians' trap set up last week by two American landing parties, one of which drove into Attu from the north and the other from the south, has been closed, a navy communique reported Wed nesday. Forward- patrols of the" two units met south of Holtz bay. Japanese positions on the: bay's southeastern arm have been ren dered virtually Untenable- and while exact course of the battle was not clear on the basis of re ports made public by the navy, it was considered probable that the Japanese would draw most of their strength back to Chichagof if they have not already done so. A navy communique report ing latest details of fighting In " the westernmost of the Aleu tian islands disclosed three de velopments: 1. Tuesday morning the Ameri can northern force which - had landed - a ; week earlier on the northwestern rim - of Holtz bay "were in ; possession? of a high ridge southeast of the bay;. 2. The southern force which had landed on the shores of Massacre bey: advanced ': northward during the day through a pass which was held i by . enemy troops. Advance patrols from.the Jloltz endMass- acre units joined.. .. .' , "3. Tuesday afternoon .. the "pass was finally cleared of enemy troops which withdrew, . toward Chichagof harbor,? leaving only snipers behind to retard - the American advance. Considerable significance was attached hero to the fact that retirement was La the direction of Chichagof harbor rather than toward ' Holts bay. Secretary Knox had said Tuesday that the enemy's main installaUoits were he the Holts bay area obvious ly tb place where they would make a -stand if possible. The fact that it probably was impossible was indicated in Wed nesday's communique, which re ported that high ground flanking Holtz bay positions had been cap tured , by American troops after tTurn to Page 2 Story C) Ex-Statesman EditorVWife DiesinSoutK Mrs. - Edesse Irvine, 74, widow of Clare B. Irvine, who-was edi tor of The Statesman for a period In the early 18908, died May 17 at the home of a daughter,, Mrs. Ru by LaGuardia, In Los Angeles, ac cording to word reaching Salem on Wednesday. "-:-: ' Clare Irvine " edited - The Statesman at av time when R. J. Hendricks was pabllsher bat also was serving as superintend ent of the boys reform schooL Irvine later was for a brief period editor of the Capital Journal, then started In 1897 a. weekly newspaper called the Salem Sentinel, which he oper ated for several yeads. ' : ; . He is recalled as an energetic. enterprising newspaperman whose writing once involved him . in a fist fight with a prominent citizen who Is still living. Later be pub lished newspapers In California. In addition to the daughter, Mrs. Irvine is survived by a son, Clarke Irvine, publisher of Let's Live magazine In Hollywood. Ration Book Three in Mail SEATTLE, May 19-JP)-Appli cations for war ration book No. 3 went into the mail Wednesday, the office of war information here announced. - " Book 3 will provide new stamps to replace' those running out in existing hooks. Approximately 750,CC0 application forms, which will eliminate the necessity of standing in lines for registration, are moving to families through out the state from the Seattle post-office. . - ' Red Troops Shatter Nazi Defense line LONDON, Thursday, May 20 (A3) Red army - troops shattered two more : nazl attacks In the - Cau casus Wednesday, .killing: nearly 350 troops and blasting 14 boat loads of nazis attempting to re treat over the Kuban river, the Soviets announced early, today. -v Lunging out In an attack In the lower reaches of the Kuban, the Germans drove Into a Junc tion of Russian units, bat lest nearly 209 dead and were forc ed to. retreat said the communique- recorded by the soviet nmnitor.''-r-'r-; ". "Surviving Hitlerites tried to escape oil . boats. Our. artillery opened ' fire and sank 14 boats, the occupants ' of which were drowned." Another tank-led German thrust northeast of Novorossisk against the soviet lines throttling the nazis tighter in their Caucasian bridgehead also was halted, with the enemy losing 150 dead and two tanks, the war bulletin added. ' (The Caucasus was still the fiercest-! out tat battlefield, and a Moscow broadcast reported more than 509 German planes had been ' downed in air com bats In the last three weeks alone. -' (The Germans would send 20 to 40 fighters and an equal num ber of i bombers against Russian troops, 'but the Soviets mustered more planes "which gradually be gan ' : to i oust the ' enemy aviation from the ' Kuban skies," said the broadcast, recorded by the As sociated Press '" . .".- V..- (The Russians sent 399 bemb . (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Troops Labbr To Stem Flood In Midwest Ap army of troops and workmen labored yesterday; (Wednesday) to bulwark levees and protect plants menaced by rampant rivers in a 500 mile wide flood zone In the midwest Engineers coast rnardamen, and policemen Joined hundreds of I soldiers In patrolling and : strengthening sea walls In the five state area where a dosen swollen streams halted opera tions In 89 mines, threatened factories and power units, broke through dikes and swished across thousands of seres of farmland. 'About 2000 persons were home less. Roads - and bridges were closed and rail traffic was Inter rupted. The floods were the most ser ious in a generation or longer in some sections, but the loss of life was comparatively - smalL Nine personal five in Indiana, three in Missouri, and one in Oklahoma were reported drowned, w'.- ; . Warnings that the worst floods fat, Oklaneasars history were impending . drove hund reds from their houses in Ar kansas and Verdigris river val leys. Manager Douglas G. Wright of the Grand river dam, gigan tic federal hydro-electric pro ject in northeastern Oklahoma, commented: "The greatest flood of aR known records Is pouring Into the reservoirs." Former Salem Pastor Dies Dr. Thomas 1L Temple, pastor of i the Amity Methodist church and one-time superintendent of this district for the church, died Tuesday night at a Portland hos pital. ,:! : :V ... v-- - Service in churches at Marsh field, Medford and The Dalles as well as the district superkiicnd ency here and the pastorate at Amity comprised his church rec ord in Oregon following his ar rival here in 1222. He was district superintendent here late in the Named to Staff CORVALLIS, Ore, May lZ-iJT) Betty Lu Nixon, Salem; Margaret Buswell, Sherwood, and Virginia Carl, Woodburn, were named to staff positions on the Daily Bar ometer, Oregon State college stu dent newspaper. 1 n . - - i i UMW Asks For Charter WithAFofL By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS WASHINGTON, May 19-) John. Lv Lewis, the unpredict- able, Wednesday night led hi United Mine Workers , back te the American Federation of La bor, which he tore asunder in labor's great schism eight years' ago. "0 I . " AFL President William Green disclosed the news in a matter-of-fact announcement that the UMW had made "formal appli cation to the executive j council for reaf filiation with the AFL' and that the, council' was con sidering it in an "orderly and sympathetic way." ; Admittance Expected Thus Lewis was not yet ac- tually back in the AFL fold, but it was considered a foregone conclusion that he would be re admitted since Green : had re peatedly asked him to "come back home." In New York, Lewis sent out word from his hotel suite, where he has been residing since the bituminous coal conferences be gan March 10, that he' had no comment to make on j Green's announcement. , ' Miners Approre j j A UMW spokesman s a 1 d. however, 'that- "epparently there has been general approval in the UMW" of the move'. When John Mates, a member of the UMW international exec utive board of district: 9, read Green's statement, he remark ed: "Oh, the secret is out." Two Opponents Left The healing of this ; historic breach, however, s t ill leave two opposing national labor or ganizations, the AFL ahd CIO. Lewis led in the formation of the latter organization after he left the AFL in 1933 when AFL leaders could not see eye to eye with him on his plans for organ izing workers by industries rather than crafts. But he and the United Mine Workers broke away from the CIO last year in a quarrel with Philip Murray, its president. Walkouts Spread JOHNSTOWN, Pa., May 19 -(fl-Organizcrs of the United Mine Workers were directed Wednesday night to halt a spreading walkout of miners in central Pennsylvania as three more mines were shut down, bringing to more than 4,000 the number now out. James Mark,' district presi dent, sent word to the organiz ers that he was coming person- ally from the New York confer ence of officials to take charge. Lewis Defied The stoppages were in defi ance of the extended truce or der given by President John L. Lewis of the UMW, pending , further negotiations for a new wage contract. A total of nine mines were closed Wednesday night al though workers in one had vot ed, toi return to their jobs to morrow. Siren Ban Causes Bcatli PORTLAND, May 19 -P)- IIos ital attendants said Vednesday that the taboo on ambulance sirens in Portland may have ecrt the life of Harry Ehrhart, Boring child. ' ; .. 1 The child, ecarcely alia to breath from pneumonia, was brought to the horpltal lst nl;ht and was almost dead trx lack f oxygen on arrival, and suc cumbed shortly t fUrwsrd. The driver, Earney T. tk, said he had to travel at xncJerate speed be cause a recent c rt decision ha 1 banned use cf i'icns on ambulances.