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Newspaper Page Textnn n V Mf 'I iQj CBQS inrrrnr nnm yeah IB ? Salem. Orsejon, Friday Morning, May 21, IS 13 Price 5c. No. 47 r 0 V few - . IT SEEMS TO ME that there 'was reason lor variations in ap plause which punctuated the ad--dress of Prime Minister Churchill before congress. . " Did you notice that applause was loudest and longest when he pronounced doom on Japan and pledged British aid to accomplish it? Partly it was due to general sen timent which is more bitter gainst Japan than our other axis "enemies. After all the Japs ti tacked us, gave us an initial whip ping that hurt our pride. And the Japs have been savage and ruth less enemies, killing our gallant Airmen, torpedoing the mercy ship of Australia without warning. So we do hate the Japs and applaud s when Churchill declares there can be no peace unUl their cities lie -gnashes. - But I believe there is another reason for heavier applause to the thrusts at Japan. The America f inters, who still populate con gress, have been using the Japan- ' ' ee menace as means of dividing war effort and of attacking the t Administration charged with re ' sponsibility , f or determining war - strategy. ; N : ; ; - t Japan offers an escape from " 1 4Vwmt nrnvn ineotitude. their con- mivin with the nazi ami, fascist rmuoL their -opposition to lend , . leaser their near-defeat of extern skier of the national guard mobil ization. Exposed as false prophets - by (Continued on Editorial page; Much Maligned Taxing Relief Seen at Last By RALPH C. CURTIS . Realization of the ' tax relief . provided for property owners by the 1943 legislature, which . drew some unearned brickbats for its failure to afford relief this year to' income taxpayers, is Just around the corner. ;Y' Schoolthrughout the state are closing and attention turns to the -vnattor tt hnriVet-makin for the next school year, most budget BoeeUnes beina scheduled " within the- next month, r Taxpayers at tending: these- meetings will dis- cover merely as a matter , of in formation, for it effects no change in 4hedistrict'a budgeting proced ure that their special district tax levies are to be substantially re duced no matter what the pro posed outlay for the coming year, ' except in the unlikely event that costs have doubled. If costs re fcMkfc the same the special district tax- will, in' many eases,- be cut in : half."- . .-. ' ' Curiously,- in all that was said in the legislative halls and com mittees rooms anent the $5,000,000 . provided for school districts out (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Meeting Here Shown Valley Fossil Parts Fossilized bones and teeth of, a prehistoric mammoth, unearthed on the Otto G. Lair farm in Evens valley, were displayed at . the Sa lem Geological J society meeting Thursday night at which Dr. John C. Merriam, noted geologist and paleontologist, was the ;- featured speaker. The fossils were not newly dis covered 4 but had just- been called to the society's attention by.: Mr. Lais, arfonrier owner "of the prop- . erty, who discovered, them while digging a well having failed to i ex port the' find. . ; pV;t; , Present efforts of Dr. Merriam, president emeritus of the Univer- . aity of California and of the Car negie Institution, : are ; aimed at creation of an organization to be know nas "John Day Associates' to carry on research in eastern Oregon's outstanding fossil beds, he declared. 1 Tying in scientific research with current world conditions. Dr. Mer riam said the problem of the Pa cifif, for example, would be solv ed only by men who "see the pic ture whole," Including the physi cal geography -. and racial history ef the region. AFL Is Denied Record Subpoena ' PORTLAND, May 20.-iP-Trial Examiner Robert N. Denham of the NLRB Thursday refused an AFI., request for ja subpoena to force the labor board to produce records , and '.' correspondence as evidence in the hearing of unfair labor charges against, three Kai eer shipyards hereabouts. In announcing refusal, Denham tdvised Charles Janigian, AFL lawyer, that he might take the jnatter direct to the labor board. " II " All Planes Fl a k Scares Away; German KeprnsdJls: Nazis Put Antiaircralt Flatcars on 3Io8 1 MunitionVTrains as Engine Losses in Reich Become Acute LONDON, May 20-(P)-On the heelr of the US flying Fort ress raids on submarine and shipbuilding yards at Kiel and Flens- burgj the Royal Air Forceeesajr night carried the allied air offensive to Berlin for the 'fourth attack on the Reich capital in An efe miniofrv vmmtmUnsi -ggg VXgv IIUISU VV11U:IUUKMV .DeathiTbid L ' ' - I i v i . ADMIRAL , YAMAMOTO - r. Jap Admiral Said Killed During Action NEW YORK, May. 21-P-The Tokyo radio, announced today that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the . combined Japanese- fleet, who was -reported to have boasted he would dictate peace terms in the White House, had been killed in action in April. A domestic broadcast record ed by the federal commanica tlons commissien said that Ya mamoto had met death aboard a - warplane "while directing general strategy ee the front line,' bet gave ne details. - Yamamoto was -Japan's fore most advocate, of combined sea and air. power and war known as one of the most able naval strate gists in the empire. ; . -; As spokesman far the Tekysr naval , command he torpedoed the Loadost naval conference ef . 1934, smishtar the whole stree tere ef naval limitations and ending the building trace that . (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Lotka Convicted In 2nd Degree MEDFORD, Ore, May 20.-JP)-A verdict of second degree mur der, which under Oregon law car ries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, was returned Thursday night by a circuit, court jury; in the trial of Sgt Berna rd J. Lotka, 23, ; Cleveland,' O, ac cused of smothering his 1 0-weeks-old son m an auto court cabin here; April L - "7 " The state, charging Lotka - with first degree murder; "had " asked the death penalty. v British Complete A ' BRITISH BASE ON THE INDO-BURMA FRONTIER, May 18.-(Delayed)-WP)-A super - raid by British and provincial troops that 1 for three months, swept through Burma on a 300-mile f r o n i wrecking railroads and bridges and generally 4 harassing Japanese occupation forces, drew near its close today as the weary raiders, many of them disease ridden, struggled out of the jun gle. ; ' . v (The end of the raiding eper- atlon was adiouneed officially In a special communique issued early this (FrI) morninr In New: DelhL .W A liet uiraiis TKtirtrTaif tfiU ifiif Wift r?AF fAIM WMWJ Mosijuitoes attacked . targets In Berlin; but gave ne details. Thurs t day night me air fninistry iiewi service reported that, seven trains l railways- between Challons- Sur-Marne end Nancy, Prance, were shot up by a single Mosquito during RAF sorties over occupied territory last night ; S costly have beea the RAF attacks ea hard-pressed . axis ralbreads that the enemy has LONDON, Friday, May Jl-tff) RAF fighters carried eat tntrad er patrols J ever France last night. It was disclosed today, thus continuing British ; offen sive operations ever the conti nent through the ninth succes sive night. pet flak cars behind the engines . en most monitions trains. All'-the Mosquito planes re turned, and later, during daylight, a big formation of allied aircraft thundered t over the ; channel td ward'northerri France.They-?ere toa high - to determine r whether they were fighters or bombers. ": Meaatime, German planes, in another-" feeble attempt - hy the enemy ' to strike back at Eng land, Beared a seath coast town, bat they were greeted by a fierce anti-aircraft barrare and they searrled off before they ceald drop any bombs. In night sorties along the coast of Europe from The Netherlands to southern France, Whirlwind bombers of the RAF attacked ene my air bases at Poix, Amiens Glisy; and Crecy En Penthieu. They-also made raids en rail tar--4 gets at Gamaches end u. - A concentration of barges in the Ghent region became the vic tims of strafing by Mosquitoes which also shot up a factory at Tangerbrugge. A violent explo sion on five barges in ' the Lys river was touched off by. Beau fighters which also attacked three trains near Poisy, Sen and Bon niere. . : Pt"1" An alert was sounded ist Lon don : Thursday nlrht for the fifth- consecutive night bat the (Turn to Page 2 Story H) USO Contest Attracts Six Six men In the armed services already have entered the contest for soldier-entertainers which will be a feature of the initial Victory Center program of the season Sat urday night, members of the jun ior chamber of commerce announ ced after completing the painting job at the Center on Thursday night . :i . :-M "L.": In addition to this contest, r a number of entertainment attrac tions have been lined up, it was announced. Five WAVE recruits who are leaving May 27 for train ing will be introduced. ' 'Any soldiers wishing to enter the contest who have not yet done so are advised to get in touch with the committee in charge by in quiring of any. member- of the junior chamber. , ("An operation which lasted for more, than three months has now been completed by a force com prising British," Burman, Gurkha arid Indian troops," the commun ique said. This force has cam paigned In the heart of central Burma since the middle of Febru ary, i in enemy-controlled terri tory east of. the Chindwin and Ir waddy rivers.") For three months this fight- . Ing force ef 'English, Burmese, Indians and Wangle , tribesmen marched and' counter-marched : through the jungle, bobbing up ' everywhere 'from ' Uandalay ' northward te Myitkylaa te pea. lEppch Reds Sink German Barges todooori Staraya . kA Russa .' Ifalm'U I 7 l - V'""-- Orel Kiev Kharkov Dniepero- x . - petrovsk .Odessa Sevasropo 9 .1 a-ffisssvtr "CLj iil?vtrosi$AAaikop Moxdok ::::::::::::: i:UH:::H:i::i:H: LONDON, Friday, May 21-P)-The Rossians today announced an attempt by the Germans te move troops by water In the vicinity of the Kerch strait between the Caucasus and the Crimea, without Indi cating' Immediately whether the nasis were attempting te reinforce their narrow Caucasus bridgehead about Novorossisk er evacuate forces from It. t, . 'r';;v; . ' Reporting an action uosaal In , the ' long f ishtlng at this key point, the j soviet midnight commaniqna as recorded by the soviet monitor said that ships of the red .fled aad planes sank six self proponed bar res 'carry ins enemy troops. The action eecerred let the Black sea fas the area ef Kerch at the tip of the Kerch peninsula of the Crimea, and ef Anapa, en the Cau casus coast 45 miles southeast of Kerch aad 25" miles northwest of Novorossisk. (See map above.),-; '-- At the same time the Russians reported what may-have boon yet another attempt of the besieged Germans te break eet of their Novorossisk trap by land. - - 'r ' - "Fighters ef one unit moi the enemy with s pewerfaf barrage Are and then launched a counterattack, the late bulletin added. The enemy suffered heavy losses and waa thrown back, The soviet units captured war material and took prisoners." Thousands In Midwest Floods f1 By The Associated Press An exodus from a stretch of territory along the menacing Mississippi was under way last (Thursday) night as fresh troops were rushed into the battle to hold levees against the pressure of rising rivers. - Illinois, southern Indiana and Oklahoma 'were the chief danger areas in the six-state mid western flood 'map while seething streams approached or exceeded record levels; ' . ' Red Cross estimates indicated that more than. 90,000 person had been driven from their ! homes. Crop land property damage was calculated at more than $30,000, 000. Field work in many farm re gions :of great Importance to the Food-f or-Victory campaign w a s at a standstill. The death list stood at 10. Almost 5,000 soldiers and sailors and .uncounted civilians were enlisted in the. fight against swirling waters. , 1: : p -, The Missouri river broke from its channel In St. Charles coun ty, Missouri, and poured ever land te meet the overflew ef the Mississippi near : West - Al - ton, SMo. y-, V i X- The midwestern area office of the Red Cross in SL Louis said latest information was that flood (Turn to Page 2 Story C). al Burma Raicl ter she Japanese, while net a ' word ef their exploits waa al lowed to reach the world. . Now when most of them have completed the hazardous, heart breaking climb back oyer a half dozen mountain ranges to re-enter India, the story of their ex ploits' has been 'revealed. ' ' The raid was an epic struggle against the jungle, with death, valor, despair and victory march- ing along with Britain's fighting men i as they flung : their weight against the Japanese. o : ' Fighting side by side with their heat -tempered, ' brown skinned eqsnrades, a regiment of Eng RUSSIA Q . : lop STATUTE MIUS VoUtfcJa. I kins cf Fcrfhzsi if acrrr.zn Advened j Saratov ZL.' MillerovaXTAI IKlVlD An xoro smiovgracj Kotetnikovslti Elista m 9 I OrdzRon Grorrv tkicze Homeless Nippos Bomb 4 New Guinea Air Bases ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, 5 Friday, May 21.-r-The Japanese air force kept up its offensive against New Gui nea Wednesday night and Thurs day' by sending 21 planes against four Rallied ; bases, .bringing to nearly 250 the number of planes used in raids within a week's period..--. ' , " ' . . While the enemy was distrib uting his attention among Port Moresby, Milne bay, Dobodura (near Buna) and Cape Ward Hunt, the allies concentrated their air efforts against an airdrome at RabauL New . Britain, where 18 tons of bombs were dropped. - land's city-bred tinkers, tilers and bookkeepers matched their wits against the Japanese and the jun gle and! won not decisively,' but won., 'w-.'-vy -r . Several colamns traveled near ly 1,689 mQes sad endured the . bitterest hardships. - - The raid began Feb. IS when a force of whom a third were Eng lish crossed the Chindwin river on the Burma side of the frontier. It was 'at a somewhat critical hour, as in North Burma on the Sal ween front - the, ; Japanese were pressing hard against the Chinese. A" band of approximately 5.C00 (Turn to Page 2 Story E) V . XCetkl : .7 (S9 Cannery Wages Okelbedl: Pay Hiked Ten Cento ; V Local Firms Approve ! Regional X71B Move SEATTLE, May 20-W-A re gional war labor board decision for a" 10-cent hourly , pay ln crease for 40,000 cannery work ers Oregon ,nd Washington was announced , here today by Dr. George Bernard Noble, chair maru . - .. -. - - The'decision is subject to review by" the national war labor board, but, Dr. -Noble, said be was - in formed - by top .officials of the board that fthis important, ease has the green light signal" be cause of .the urgency of assuring a record' pack of , fruits and veg etables this year. He said the re gional, board was in' communica tion by. telephone with, the nation al WL3B, " before . the decision was announced . , . rr;""' . Dr. Noble said the case weald : not have te go before the office of price administration and' the -director of economic stabiliza . tion, James F. Byrnes, If can ' ners da not Insist on price . In creases. , He - said - canners bad ' ioined with CIO and AFL an ions In asking for the wage in creases. The board chairman said the hourly wage scale for western Washington and the Portland area under the decision would be: Men 80 cents; women 66; piece workers- 7li4. ;V : ', -V' , For plants in the Walla Walla, Yakima, -Wenatchee and - Willam ette Valley areas, the scale would be: Men cents; women. 83; piece, workers 68 . '."Jt& t , The decision coveres 4S.00S workers ia Washington and nearly 20.900 in Oregon. J'-J-ip Dr. Noble said the decision was expected to bring relief to Ore gon 'canners who reported immi nent prospects of crops rotting in the ' fields because of the lack of workers to pack and can them. -. . . The regional- war- labor , board's decision was hailed by persons ; active In the Marion county program to solve the farm aad food-processing- labor problem, as - the removal of a serious barrier- to their pre- The increase is in harmony with a decision- reached previously by (Turn to Page 2 Story I) Coal Miner WaUcouts Spreading WASHINGTON, May 20 Strikes began to spread again in the coal mines Thursday, even as the war labor board aimed for a clean-up decision which may give an indication Tuesday whether peace or turmoil shall follow in the mine, wage controversy. ' The miners' chances of get-: ting WLB approval of their de mands for a flat $2 a day In crease are net generally regard ed as bright, bat a majority of the WLB's fact-finding; panel Is reported te favor their call for extra pay to cover all the time they spend ' underground. ' Even the United Mine Workers leadership concedes that nothing is due under the little steel for mula, as it now stands. The min ers want to discard the .formula but even under existing stabiliza tion rules they are not necessarily precluded - from . obtaining . some concessions other than a straight wage boost . v . 1 Whether such concessions are made and, . If made," whether " they will satisfy UMW rresl . dent John L. Lewis and his followers remains te be seen. , ' Altogether, 11 of the government-operated pits in Pennsylvan ia and one each in Ohio and Kentucky were closed by miners expressing dissatisfaction over de lay in their contract negotiations. , A problem unrelated to the con tract dispute a sudden shortage of railroad,, cars had a .more severe effect in West Virginia, the nation's leading coal-producing state. Twenty six mines closed and coal output, in ' the state's northern section was curtailed be cause no cars were available in which to load coaL Fri. sunset 8:43 Sat. sunrise 5:31 (Weather on Page 9) - Navy: Departmenf Reveals Casualties Ixw in Joint vAir Land, Sea Action J -Vi . ; , By GAYLX TALBOT ' t- .. , ' Associated Prose War Kdnor . . The last Japanese resistance; on Attu island In the Aleutians was flickering out slowly but surely as. hard fighting. American troops backed the remnant of the enemy garrison into, the north eastern extremity of the island utnd under ; pointblank fire oi American naval guns. - .. t ? , rAf ter capturing the enemy airfield on Attu United States forces completed their encirclement of Japanese survivors of the nine-day battle,' the navy announced. . The trap snapped shut with the capture of Sarana pass, leading to the Chieagof. harbor area. Only isolated-enemy sniper activity was reported from other parts of the island. . .-; -. i , ' ' : Completion of Field Seen - ' .Completion of the -airfield .which the" Japanese were building on Attu will probably be one pf the first American projects in development of- the island. It would give our forces an air base about 2,200 statute miles from Tokyo. "T The field would be usefuT in helping to cut off the enemy's main' Aleutians base onKiska from reinforcements and supplies j and in softening up Kiska defenses for the eventual drive to an-i nihilate the enemy garrison on that island also. " J' - Latest reports of the ten-day old battle came from the navy department and Secretary of War.Stirnson. , These disclosed that the American forces, under Major Gen eral Eugene Landrum, a veteran of Aleutians operations, have executed successive pincer maneuvers to drive the Japanese into their last stand position at Chicagof harbor at the island's north easterti extremity. The last move was accomplished Wednesday when our troops captured Sarana pass opening in the foes' southeastern flank. Tuesday they had completed clearing a pass .between Massacre and Holtz bays to join American forces advancing from the south with those driving from the north southwest. . ' US Planes Control the Air To1 the north the enemy is fighting with. his back to the sea from 'Which naval guns pour shells into his defenses. Overhead; when! weather permits, army bombers from Amchitka islands, 233 nautical miles to the southwest, control the air and complete the entrapment. The death or surrender of the remaining Japanese was ex pected to come shortly. Crowded into the Chicagof area and bat tered, from the sea and air as well as land, the enemy faced cer tain "annihilation, However long he managed to. stave it off. - Secretary of War Stimson told a press conference the Amer ican; f oce, trained especially for the Attu job, approached the island under a dense fog last 'week to surprise the Japanese com pletely The troops had little' difficulty in ; establishing, strong beachheads and holding them against Japanese counterattacks,' he related, though the same fog pered subsequent aeriaL operations, ' :u Stimson corroborated Secretary Frank Knox's statement that American losses had been relatively light in knocking the Japa nese loose from the strategic island and winning the airfield. Axia Airmen Beaten 18'to-l 'For the first time since, the in force to try to defend Italy against the allies' bombing assault, and took a fearful beating. During heavy, raids on Sicily and Sar dinia allied airmen destroyed 73 enemy planes while themselves losing only four aircraft an unprecedented 18-to-l ratio of victories.-- , iv ; . - ' uJ- ... -:-, :,. . .. - Constant air and land action of the Russian front, with the fiercest fighting around Novoros sisk in the Caucasus and near Izyum, on the-Donets river 70 miles southeast of Kharkav. The Russians said German counterattacks in the Caucasus, backed by fresh reserves of men and tanks, had been smashed by Soviet artillery and planes Russian Troops Moved German military circles reported that the Russians were making big troop movements in the Taman peninsula of the Cau casus, above Kersk and south of Leningrad. ' Early today Moscow announced that six barges "carrying enemy troops" were sunk, by the and Anapa which are above Novorossisk. The communique did not indicate whether the Germans were trying to reinforce their troops in the Caucasus or were evacuating them. t Secret Letter9 Delivered , Meanwhile Joseph . Da vies secret letter to Premier-Marshal Stalin in Moscow. There still was no hint as to its contents. Its transmission to the Russian leader followed British Prime Minister Churchill's speech Wed nesday in Washington in which Churchill expressed hope that he and the president might confer with Stalin soon. , - , '"Allied heavy 'bombers let yesterday pass without a major raid over; Germany, but the RAP'S their third attack on Berlin within a week on Wednesday night. All the bombers returned. . Das Schwarze Korps, organ Germany would never be brought to her knees by aerial attack. The allies must tear the European land from "us piece by piece." it said. . ' V. " - l' The war in Asia saw American heavy and medium bombcts drop a record weight of more nese installations in Burma destroying workshops and starting many huge fires, including one in the Paduakkan oilfields 25 miles southeast of Magwe. r But the British in an official communique reported that a large raiding force, which had been operating within Burma for three months had been withdrawn inside the Indian frontier, and the Japanese appeared at last to be in complete control of Burma. Neiv Post War (Zrcmciry Plmi HOT SPRINGS, Va, May 21-(JSy-A British declaration of sup port for 1 an international policy of price stability raised talk at the United Nations food conference Thursday of . a post-war, world wide "ever-normal granary" sys tem. ; v - ; ; Kichard K. Law, chairman ef the CriU&h delegaUen, told a news conference that his coun try bellved International action should be taken to eliminate wide fluctuations La prices of . basle agricultural and non-agricultural products. . Such flne- tuatiens, he said, are in r time and flank the Japanese on the that assisted their landings ham-' fall of Tunisia, axis fliers rose was reported along the length : , ': o Red fleet and planes off Kerch delivered President Roosevelt's speedy mosquito bombers made '.-''." of the nazi elite guard, declared - . .. . ; . than 125 tons of bombs on 'Japa- 'Ever Normal9 Considered equallr ruinous te producers aad consumers. . The ever-normal granary idea, calling for storing surplus crops, is aimed at assuring ample food supplies In years of short harvests as .well as preventing price de pression when crop surpluses ex ist. -: . - -V Belief that the world faces a post-war period of short food sup plies was expressed by Paul II. Appleby, undersecretary of agri culture an an American delegate,, who told a press conference he thought, the United States should prepare to continue food rationing for several years after the war.