PAGS TWO
Thm CnTGOri CTATZZMAII. Caleca. Oregon. Friday Morning. May 21. 1S:3
Strikes Close
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arplants
!V- DETROIT; My 2tHT-Three
twarplanta- of the- Chrysler Cor
f poration wereclosed down Thurs
iday in a wave of strikes which
' saw more - than. 11 000 -employes
" leave their Jobs and corporation
1 spokesman expressed fear that all
85,000 Chrysler worker in the
f country might be affected.':.
r. : The stoppage was the most ser
tlous since Pearl Harbor.
: The walkeat began at the
Jefferseav- - Kercheral plant,
with United Aateaeofclle Worfc-ers-CIO
leaders claiming that
collective barssinhig bad "eem-
pletely brekea down." Within a
, short time workers at the Dodge
main plant and Dodge Lynch
: X road plants Joined the walkout.
:v-.. ...
: Several thousand workers at the
: Dodge truck plant also were Idle
; because of lack or materials. ,
A Chrysler spokesman said the
L tank arsenal might be forced to
p close Friday if the strikes coo-
tinued. He estimated that n total
Vf 129,000-man hours of work
were lost today.
i Carl Shedler, ueoaty exeeu
tire director ef the national war
: . labor board at Washington, late
'' .today telegraphed heads of the
i two local anions " Inrolred as
. follows: "The national Interest
'4 demands that the -strikers em
, ployed at the Jefferson-Kereh-eval
and Dodge plants of Chrys
' .'ler Corporation retnrn to work
' Immediately."
' . A union statement charged the
strikes were a result of "agita
tion' 'by the management and con
- atitutcd , a "spontaneous - demon
" tration." - The company : apokes
, than insisted that the strikes were
planned and "undoubtedly author-
Ized" by the union.
A dispute over -a new-company-jmion
contract to replace an agree
ment which expired last Novem
ber is in the hands of the war
" labor board. The strikes affected
Chrysler's production of "medium
'bomber planes,, anti-aircraft guns,
tank engines and other war ma
vterial. .
SCU Headquarters
Gets New Leader
CAMP ADAIR, Oregon, May 20,
, 1943 Lt Byron Wright, recently
made - Company Commander of
T Headquarter'a Company SCU 1911
has been promoted to the rank of
captain, it was announced here
'.today. - -
-r" Captain Wright was :S second
lieutenant in the first world war.
J In 1930 he accepted a commission
7 in the officers' reserve, and was
made a first lieutenant in 1937.
On March 11, 1942 he was called
to active duty at which time he
entered in that capacity.
OFFICIAL
U. S. AKJ4Y AX2 COZP3
39th Ffebter
Squadron Instjne
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War Stamps
bought this week at
SUDeaers
s end Shell Stations
' Get your U.S. Fighter and Ob
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the kind youngsters are collect
x ing now I In full color on dothf
they're just right to sew on
' pockets, caps or sweaters. You
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: - whfle the supply lastsevery
' time you buy War Stamps from
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ON THE HOME
By ISABEL
"Some of them have-never
on the other side of the city from
that in-whfcfa they were - born,"
said the nice-looking soldier, and
by "the city" he referred to ihe
great American metropolis. New
Yorkers, ihe maintained,. who tell
westerners they arc living In the
sticks do not know- what broad
liTint wally iwsim.
- - i v ' - ;
' And I sometimes wonder if,
when the v war ' is; over and the
Victory parade is a' spontaneous
expression of the relief we all
shall feel, if our service men and
women will come home from Aus
tralia, New Caledonia, Africa,
England,' Germany, France and
Italy and find us . provincial be
cause we could not travel during
these years if we would.
' Occasionally, even in quiet ail
American Salem, we have an op
portunity to glimpse another
world, j
The music of Russia "really
takes you places," declares Mar-
Floods Cause
High Losses
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conditions would be increasingly
severe in Illinois along the Miss
issippi below St. Louis within the
next 24 hours. The Illinois river,
meantime, was reported at levee
peak from Peoria south.
Red Cross officials said that
in the inundated acreage in Illi
nois, Missouri, Arkansas an d
Oklahoma 20.8 1Z families were
; affected and 16,602 persons
were being cared for in 48 shel
ters.
More ' than 15,000 civilian de
fense members have been called
out for flood duty in the mid
west, OCD Director Iandi said,
and many additional thousands
were reported standing by.
Lieut. Col. J. A. Adams, deputy
district engineer, announced eva
cuation warnings Lad been issued
for the Fort Charters, Stringtown,
Ivy Landing and Grand . Tower,
111., levee areas. But engineers
expressed- the - belief they could
hold all other sea walls h the
Illinois and Missouri sides of the
Mississippi river if crests don't
surpass expectations. "
Two thoasand soldiers from
Jefferson Barracks, Ms an d
Scott Field, HL, were assigned
to Bolster levees, at Prairie Da
Pont, Tit, ClaryTille, Me
other nearby points.
A military force and volunteers
also labored to build up the sea
wall at Beards town. 111- where
the Illinois river - inched up to
2A feet, on all-time peak, and
a little- more- man a -foot from
the top of the dike. The same
river waa only .A of a -foot under
the record level of 27.3 feet at
Peoria, , where high water forced
several plants to close.
A record -shattering crest of
473 to 49 feet was forecast for
Maakogee, , Okhu. where the
Arkansas river flood stage is
28 feet, two inches. The Okla
homa board ef agriealiare plac
ed crop losses to date at -$25,-OOO.tOf
. while property, road
and rail line damage was fix
ed at (5,000,00. The army mov
ed 1,800 from two threatened
towns.
The Verdigris river levee broke
at Coffeyville, Kas., driving 2,000
persons to higher ground.
The inundation kept 5,000 min
ers idle in the Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma
region.
Conditions Improved, and
many factories resumed opera- -tlons,
hi northern aad central
. Indiana, bat communities In the
southwestern portion of the
state braced to meet onsweep
ing crests of the Wabash and
White rivers.
Levee breaks sent the Wabash
gushing across thousands of acres
in the , Terre Haute vicinity and
over 22;000 acres -around Vincen
nes. The breaches gave both cities
at least ; temporary respites but
struck hard at the towns of Mon
tezuma and Clinton, on the Wa
bash above Terre Haute.; I
Army personnel were on duty
in - many Indiana communities.
The., Bunker Hill naval air base
put a number' of cadets and 1,000
enlisted men to work in the Peru
district Planes were used to spot
marooned families.
East Hit by
Gas Shortage
WASHINGTON, May 20-(A
The gasoline shortage on the east
ern seaboard halted tractors on
thousands of farms, caused many
filling ; stations' to doseC1 a n d
brought talk Thursday of further
restrictions on automobile driving
in the east and middle west
The war food adninistration 1
Jl . i . jm rr . . j , i.
tion had developed from Virginia :
through New England due to lack
of gas to operate tractors and oth
er farm machinery.
Unless there Is quick relief, it
said, some farm lands will not be
planted at all this year.
V- v
FRONT
jerie Church of the Russian War
Relief committee, speaking, of that
which is beard nightly aURWR
headquarters, TJtf North Commer
cial street, from T30 to 1030
o'clock.- That music and the other
features of the "open house" there
will remain as attractions through
next Tuesday .night. ; -; .
One of the reasons for -exhibit
ing the small - and interesting
pieces of Russian work, for bring
ing Mimi Dimondstein to the head-
auarters here to paint your .por
trait if you want the $5 it will
cost tou to eo to Russian relief.
is the hope mat you may have
around your house an old watch
or clock, or for that matter
newer model. . to send to Russia.
Many persons do not know that
the only two watch factories in
the -USSR were on the outskirts
of Moscow and are now in ruins,
but the need for watches for red
soldiers and nurses goes right on.
Public 8emhiy
Regulations
Unchanged r
i
There will be no change : in
regulations under which ; public
gatherings may be held in Ore
gon this year from those which
were outlined by army officials
for 1942, it was announced Wed
nesday by Leo Spitzbart, who
has the task of receiving and
acting upon applications.
For all events at which attend
ance of more than 500 persons
is expected, applications must be
filed at least 30 days in advance
and not more than three months
in advance.
After passing on these applica
tions Spitzbart sends them to
army officials at Fort Lewis,
Wash., for final approval.
Gatherings and events for. 1943,
already approved by Spitzbart
and army officials, include the
St. Paul rodeo, Hillsboro fourth
of July celebration, Calapooia
roundup at Crawforsville, Grey
hound dog race meet in Portland,
Portland' Rose Festival and Port
land Baseball club.
Cannery Pay.
Up Ten Cents
I (Continued from Page 1) I
the state wage and hour commis
sion, the- interpretation at the time
being that cannery work was ag
ricultural" and therefore not froz
en. A contrary ruling later made
it necessary for the case to go to
the war labor board.
Within the last week argent
telegrams were sent to Sea,
Charles L. MeNary and federal
officials concerned with produc
tion, In an effort to obtain
prompt action ' on the ' ease la
' view of the crisis then existing
in the proeeosing of spinach.
Some of the crop scheduled for
processing in Salem and vicin
ity went to waste before a spe
cial appeal brought the neces
sary number of workers to the
canneries.
A house-to-house canvass to
sign up women for harvest and
food-processing work was launch
ed in Salem on Thursday by
groups organized - by Mrs. David
Wright, chairman, Mrs. H. R.
Woodburn, assistant, and ' Miss
Frances Clinton, home demonstra
tion agent. Two hundred sixty Sa
lem- women are participating, in
the survey, after having attended
six meetings at which leaders
were organized and trained. It
has been estimated that 10.000
women will be needed in the har
vest and processing work. : Mar
ion is the first county in which a
canvass of, this nature has been
undertaken. r-rH
Program to End
CORVALLIS, May 20.-(P)-The
government's 1S42 seed purchase
program will close June 1, the
state AAA office warned Thurs
day. The seed program . will be
continued for the 1943 crop on
substantially the same basis as
last 'year. ;
Taken by Death
PORTLAND, May 25-WV-Mrs.
Arthur A. Goldsmith, a member
of the state public welfare com
mission since 1939. died in a Port
land hospital Wednesday night af
ter a short Illness, Survivors in
clude her husband, a Portland
lawyer, and three sons. s -
Shoe Stamp Dated: -
- PORTLAND, Ore, May5 20 -4Pi
Stamp 18 in war ration j book 1
will become valid L June I S tat
the purchase of one pair of shoes,
the district O P A announced
Thursday. .
.... ,
-Named to Honorary :
- CORVALLIS, May 20 . (-
Among five pledges initiated re
cently into the national sociology
honorary,' Alpha Kappa ; Delta, at
the University of Oregon .was Sal
ly Spencer; Salem.
Much Maligned
Taxing ReE
CI
Seen at Last
A (Continued from Page 1) A
of incomer tax surplus, there 'was
no clear statement, as to its ap
proximate' effect upon school dis
trict budgets. Rep. Carl Hfll of
Josephine .county . asked, but no
one seemed to have a definite an
swer. " " ' ' "
: - For that matter the- aaathe
anatlrany exact answer is 'wt
yet available aad will not be for
more than a month. But the ap
preximata answer, Jast- as read
ily available la March as
ithing like this:
Those 15,000,000 are to be ap
portioned! on the basis of total
days of actual school attendance
throughout the state. And if total
attendance in the school year now
ending did not differ greatly from
that of the previous school year,
your child and ours earned . for
the school district approximately
17 cents each day he w ant
"creeping; like snail, unwillingly"
or distinctly otherwise, to school.
That 17 cent figure is the - best
available estimate, and school di
rectors who already know the to
tal number of days attendance
have a fairly- accurate idea of the
minimum amount their districts
will receive from this source.
But the chances are that most
districts , will receive more. The
fund is to be divided on the days'
attendance basis among the-coun-ties,
but those districts which levy
no special taxes will not partici
pate. Their- pupils' share will go
to those i districts in the same
county which do levy such taxes.
And contrary to one interpreta
tion, of -a possibly ambiguous para
graph in1 the "school bill," they
will receive that additional in
come the first year. .
Incidentally, the distribution
is to bo' made in October and
April, but since the state has a
large amount of snrplns income
tax funds on hand, much more '
than half tho total may bo dis
tributed: on the earlier date.
If multiplying 17 cents by an
obscure days' attendance figure is
burdensome, it's possible to esti
mate the; amount of tax relief in
this way:
Total cost of public elementary
and highlschools in Oregon in the
1941-42 school year was a little
over 119,190,000. Thus the $5,000.-
000 shifts more than one-fourth.
vne toiai cost lo tne income tax
payers. But only about half of
the total support of public schools
was raised through special district
taxes. So in a typical school dis
trict, the special tax will be just
about halved. : v ::
As a-matter ol fact, byffcbini
back another year or so for a basis
of .comparison, it may.be said that
the income taxpayer is now as
suming more than one-third, rath
er than one-fourth, of the school
cost; for the 2-mill elementary
achool tax which formerly raised
about $2,000,000. also ha w
absorbed; by the income taxpayer.
pernus . anyone to
say there has been no tax relief.
TaxJ Deadlock
Break Seen
In-Order
WASHINGTON.
Hope for a break In the pay-as-you-go
income tax deadlock was
revived sThursday night, and it
was disclosed that th
had ordered 12( carloads of paper
to prepare forms for putting a
current ax system Into effect
July 1. I
A senate -house conference
committee held its first meeting
In aa effort to Iron out differ
ences between the two cham
bers. ) :, - -
Democrats nnii ; rmi,M:....
cruuuHui
voiced ODtimism at th. nrnnU4
that the: committee would find a
compromise between th
modified RumI skip-a-year bill
M - j4 4-1- . ; 1
?nouse-approved measure
abating fthe per cent normal
and 13 per cent bracket surtax
on all 1942 incomes.' ;
Senators Geonro fDCa i hi '
man of the senate firiano
mittee, said the treasury had ad-
i a t ...
nun ox its order for paper
which would be used to install a
20 Per i cent withholding levy
against the taxable portions : of
wages and salaries.
Treasury otfidili uM m.ii
deductions could be started with
in two or three weeks after the
president signs a bm, although
they emphasized they would like
more time if possible , rf a
The Georgian told newspaper
men he was hopeful the conferees
couia reacn an agreement Friday.
15 Companies
Called to Blaze
PORTLAND. Ore- Mar' WW
Fifteen fire companies were call
ed put jto extinguish' a stybborn
blaze In the L. C ianset Bmnm
company plant: Thursday night
Fire: rnvestigator ""llarrir? Helse
said the-JlameS. apparently started
in 'an Overheated drier. H - Mil.
mated damage at between $8000
and 110,000., ,
Too Late to Classify
D III! ! f ..1 : Mm1m4.M mi it J
Ex. cond. 943 cash. Ph. J-2773 or see
Mx. Emmert, Kt-X Box 81. N. Sir. Ri.
FOB SALX: 4 daz. mixad Imvirxi
Imbs. also S bales straw. W. V. Chjun
barbn, Rt S. Bx. SI. Salem, about .i
mi. souttj of Salem Supply gravel pit.
fNvj Platoon
UcedLto Bait
US Trainees -
FORT KNOX, Ky, May
A platoon of goose-stepping, German-speaking.
d t rt y-tricking"
soldiers dressed In nazi uniforms
is being organized at the armored
force replacement training center
here to make life miserable for
trainees in Uncle Sam's tank units.
tXaJ. fTOIard Bass of Los Aa
geles, Calif commander of the
. battle training department, said
tao. aalasiea af the Germas
Is to? make the soldiers so mad7
at the nsado that they will bo
anxlone fer combat."
The-"nazi platoon Will operate
all over the battle training area of
this, huge -army- reservation s and
will capture as many trainees as
possible, using all "the: dirty
tricks" its members can concoct.
-will be
Interned for as indefinite pe
riod in -ShJckeUruber's Pokey,'
a large ."eoncentraUoa ' camp'
surrounded by a If -foot barbed ,
wbre fence. They will be sub
jected to all kinds of hard la
bor and "Insults.
If sail for the good of the train
ees and it may save many lives,
Major Bass explained. It is de
signed to make soldiers realize
they must be alert so they will not
be killed or captured by real nazis.
British End
Raid in Burma
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loyal Burma! tribal fighters were
surrounded in North Burma and
threatened with annihilation by a
Japanese punitive expedition,
v Bat the man who led the ex
pedition , had a further end la
view. He Is . Bricadier Charles
Orde Wlngate, 39, tho man who,
at the beginning of . the Ethio
pian campaign three years ago,
led Z.tOS Sudanese and M0
Ethiopian warriors ia opera
tions ' that resulted in the cap
tare or disposal of 40,000 Ital-
' Wingate wanted to demonstrate
that he could take relatively sec
ond rate troops and turn them
into jungle fighters who could
beat the Japanese. -Most of the
troops had -six months of prelim
inary jungle training, but others
had as little as one month of prep
aration for the big raid.
- The raiders entered the jungle
with nearly 1,000 mules loaded
with supplies. B u t once - they
reached ' central Burma the bulk
of their supplies were dropped to
them by a small squadron of American-built
planes operated by
British crews. The planes shuttled
back and forth from a. border
base, defying Japanese fighters-aa
they sought . out their rendezvous
with the raiding columns' on the
ground.
In ejgait columns the raiders
creased the CMndwiav river aad
headed ISt miles through the
Jangle aad. ever the mountains
toward the Irrawaddy.
Before they returned they- ate
most of their mules and horses
and came to look upon corned
beef as manna when it was drop
ped from the supply planes. '
They knew what it means to
see Japanese' troops in complete
panic, firing machineguns in ev
ery direction and, racing truck
loads of troops up and down the
highways, not knowing where or
when they would tneet the Brit
ish, -.i
'. For a short time the Japan
ese apparently thousht the In-
vasioB of Burma had begun.
Wars Councils
Continued as
Bombing Eyed
WASHINGTON, M a y 2HJPh
President Roosevelt, Prime Minis
ter Churchill of Great Britain, and
Prime Minister MacKenzie King
of Canada surveyed with members
of the Pacific war council ..Thurs
day all the aspects of the World
war, and one member said after
ward that the picture looked "op
timistic." v
There was" e evldonoe, how
ever, that : the president or
'CharchlU disclosed any specific
plans they may have for new
;f blows against Japan.:
Discussion of the war in the Pa
cific was in the most general terms,
and the British Ambassador, Lord
Halifax, pointed out that "as al
ways, one of -the main elements
in the problem stands out: shipping.-,.
,
Tonight and
Saturday -
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' Plats liews W Color Cartooa - Arid JFiasJ Chapter
. - . -OVEHLAND MAILT . c
I VU Present
Education Conference Flans
An Increase of 63 students for Willamette university's naval
training program which gets underway here the first week in
July is not the only thing President G. Herbert Smith brought
back to Salem with him -Thursday from a conference on the war-
Hobby Show :
To Feature
Army Talent
.The city -wide, hobby- show.
scheduled for tonight ht the gym
nasium . at " the YMCA' from 8 to
10 o'clock and sponsored by. the
Girl Reserves of the-YWCA, will
Include a- special Coorshow ' at
730 o'clock. Entertainment Is for
adults as well as children.. -
i Pvt. Irving; Kosher, a profes
sional entertainer, will be master
of ceremonies, and other soldiers
from Camp Adair to appear are
CpL Douglas Johnson, concert ' pi
anist, CpL John Barburski, ac
cordionist. Pvt. Lewis Velarde,
clown, CpL Herbert Hay, vocal
ist and Sgt Kenneth Woods, un
icyclist. "Eight Gorgeous Huskies, .m
which soldiers wfll appear as bal
let dancers, wfil be under - the
leadership of Cpl. Rex Watson,
assisted by Pvt E. Emmons. '-'
The remainder of the Coorshow
will include numbers by students
of the Meisinger studios, a triple
trio 'and mixed chorus from Par
rish and a tumbling act by Vir
ginia Huston and Delia Saabye.
The high school victory corps and
a boys quarter will complete the
Coorshow. "
' Other interesting features of the
evening are motion pictures
shown by Jmt Jioder, and a
swimming exhibition by members
of the Tri-Y club,: :.,v' " s
The hobby show proper, will In
clude a large number of displays
of collections, needlecraft and art
work.
The public is .invited to attend,
proceeds from a small admission
charge .will be given to the Red
Cross.
RAF Bombers
Raid Berlin
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all clear sounded after an Inter'
val daring which neither enemy ;
planes nor gunfire were heard.
German planes dropped a few
bombs in far-separated points, in
England ; Wednesday night a n, d
early Thursday but damag was
reported to be slight, and a-small
number of persons were injured.'
In London Wednesday night and
early: Thursday ffb on bi j were
dropped at two places, but the
raiders were driven off by intense
gunfire before they could do any
extensive damage.
- "The Netherlands news agency
Aneta - reported that the aasl
eon trolled J Nethertands BUrer
sasa radio gave Its reralar daily
report Tbarsday bat for- the
second time avoided any aaea-
, tion of the Shine ' water- level,
which heretofore had been ' a
daily practice.
Aneta : said it was pointed out
in London that the floods released
by the recent breaching by the
RAF of the Eder and Moehne
dams ultimately would reach the
Rhine and raise the river's leveL
MeNary Fishery
Bills Approved
WASHINGTON, May 20 -VP)
The senate passed and sent to the
house Thursday two bills by Sen
ator MeNary (R-Ore) to provide
for coordinated -fishery manage
ment in the Pacific and a study
of all .- crustacean food resources
intended . to conserve -'- the supply
of fish. " .
One biU (S74) would authorize
the fisheries bureau to join with
California, Oregon: and Washing
ton in a program for conservation
of salmon through regulating off -shore
fishing. The other (SJR11)
provides for a survey . 1 of rsrp.
shrimp, common ' lobster, - spiny
lobster, clams and oyster resources
In the Atlantic and. Pacific oceans
and the Gulf of '. Mexico. .
Polk County Farm
Priced at $22,000
PORTLAND, Tsayv Z0-(P) T b e
government " must pay ' Jessie S.
Hamilton $22,000 for a 475-acre
farm In Polk county condemned in
the construction of Camp Adair,
a federal Jury ruled '- Thursday.
The government offered that sum
to Mrs.' Hamilton hut she asked
$30,000.
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Bits iv.
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Retur&TM
educational setup h e 1 d in . New
York City. ... :" ; -;
Enthusiasm, he declared, " was
taken home by the presidents ef
the more. than 160 colleges
throughout-, the United States
selected as participants: in t h e
trainixurprystem.- "The navy - has
gone, to great lengths to.' project
a fine coUegiato program,' Presi
dent Smith eaid. '
The increase of the navy's share
of the f student body from 195
to 238. was approved while Smith
was on- the 11-day leave 'from
campus duties here. Nine-of those
days, he added as an aside, were
spent in' travel, while the increas
ed enrollment was on his. request
' Participating: In, the two-day
conference .. were navy office
bureau personnel .from Washing
ton, DC, the officers now In train
ing at Columbia university to act
as commandants on the various
college campuses and . the presi
dents of aU the selected schools.
" No announcement as to the ships
company ' officers has . yet been
made, he said, but added that a
lieutenant (senior , grade) would
be in command, with a yet un
named : n u m b e r of assistants.
These men 'will be assigned to
Willamette as soon after the June
1 completion of their Columbia
training as possible and may be
expected here before July 1. Un
der current plans, Willamette
classes will start July S, but those
plans must . be tentative to meet
the navy's momentary needs.
. . Eighty percent of the navy
trainees assigned to Willamette
will be men now in that univer
sity's student. body and or those
in V-t and V-7 training at other
institutions. rThe other 20 percent
will be' youths who passed the
ApriT 2; examinations, coming di
rectly from high schools. Smith
said. . -;
The program calls for four 15-
weeks semesters for all men -except
the pre-medics students, -who
will attend classes for five such
semesters and study, too,' for the
navy requires ' a scholastic record
of such candidates for officers'
training. : :
Pre-medics students take medi
cal college work later, but the rest
who meet naval requirements will
be sent on to -midshipman's school
for officers traintog.
Jap Admiral
Said Killed
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gs've the Paeifie ocean two dec
ados of peace.- -
The announcement of his death
was . contained in a terse ' com
munique issued . by Japanese im
perial headquarters. '-
The broadcast added that Ad
miral Mineichi Koga had been
named Yamamoto's- successor and
"already was in command." Koga
formerly was- commander of the
Japanese fleet in Chinese waters.
Tamamoto, who had boasted
that he .weald dictate terms to
the United States in the White
House, had served as commander-in-chief
of the. combined
fleet since August St. 1IS9.
He previously ' had served as
vice minister of naval affairs and
as chief of general staff for the
naval air force.
- FCC! monitors who heard the
Tokyo broadcast i said ' the " an
nouncer appeared overcome with
the import of the news and that
his voice : was choked with emo
tion as he finished reading the
communique reporting Yamamo
to's death.
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ge
Hearings Set
, SEAtTLE, May 20-AVA . re
gional I war labor board hearing
on what ; constitutes "sub-stan
dard" wage for Oregon workers
wUl be held at Portland Saturday.
Dr. George Bernard Noble, for
mer Reed college professor and
regional board chairman, will pre
side. A similar hearing was held
in Seattle earlier this week.
The purpose of the hearings Is
to determine the-minimum for a
fair pay scale, below which would
be classed, as sub-standard.
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CIKCAGO, May ZSKTy- A B-21
army bomber rammed into the
world's largest lUuminatini ' gas
storage tank Thursday with a
burst rof Came "that transformed
the ggsntic'structure inti a roar
ing funeral pyre for the 12 fliers
aboard. . - ..
The 600-foot tank surmounted
by a 50-foot air beacon was 'des
troyed la an inferno so intense
that authorities feared the bodies
in the wreckage never would bo
recovered.
The f our-engined L 1 b e r a t o r
bomber left the Fort Worth Tex.,
army air ' field Thursday morn
ing on a routine flight. Witnesses
saw it flying low from the north
west, ' skimming oyer the office
building of the Peoples Gas Light
and Coke company office at 3623
West 73rd street, on the south
west side.. It 'rose slightly, then
crashed into the side of the 20,
000,009 cubic foot tank.
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