n n -r 1 Tues. sunset 8 :47 A7ed. sunrise 5:27- (Weather on Page S) n DimouJ L 1 JiniM1 SJiTTlOS 'UtD DDDUS i IT SEEMS TO ME that if Gov. Snell lets Secretary of State Far rell grab the ball ' and toss out two members of the state tax commission, as - Ralph - Watson, Oregon ; Journal political ; news hound, says Farrel wants to do, he puts himself 'right behind the eight-ball. For then he would be just a t too" member of the board of controls He would lose the 'Initiative which he as gover nor -and chairman should retain. -. If the governor wanted to oust Galloway - and ' Fisher or either one, he should have-proposed it early in his term, with names of successors. To be silent these sev eral months and - then have Far rell take the spotlight would be just poor politics, and no on has ever accused Snell of being a poor politician. ' "- t Farrell's maneuvers," if , Wat- - eon's account is true,- and he is the best ' political writer in: the trade,' bear some of the earmarks of personal vendetta. The gover nor can't, very well afford to ride on that kind of a hand-car with his secretary of state. When the last legislature de cisively turned down the gover nor's own proposal for a one-man .tax commission it was in effect an endorsement, not only - of ; the three-man commission, but of its personnel. The legislature in that action, reflected, the attitude of the great ' majority of informed peo ple all over the state who know (Continued on editorial page) US Delegates Suggest Mass Relocations HOT SPRINGS, Va., May 24-A5) Millions' of people may have to be moved in order to make this a better-fed world, the U n i ted States delegation to the food con ference suggested Monday. - A summary of memoranda, A v circulated to delegates, explains these . . popiUatiea -Adjustments - might In some ease involve em- - txrailon of surplus workers, in ternal settlement projects, a - shiftinr of farm labor into fae- -series, er a combination of all : A three. ' . .;" " --" ' A-Ai Whtat points to. such population . adjustments, . it asserted, is that the fact that- "the areas of the world in which food is produced by rather highly developed tech nology are limited chiefly to those within the - temperate zones, and they include only one fifth of the . world's population." - Ia Washington, meanwhile, Rep. Bradley (K-Mich) demand ed a congressional investigatiea of the food eonfereneev declar ing the: American officials are ."invading the constitutional rights, privileges er Immunities f citixens of the United States." -It looks to me," Bradley told the - house, "like they might be ' effecting some kind of a super world state and I wonder just ; how far we may be going in com mitting our government to such programs." . Bradley, who with Rep. Smith (Turn to. Pace 2 Story G) Work Resumed At Chrysler DETROIT, May a r material . output" from Chrysler corporation - plants swiftly :.; ap proached normal - Monday : with erstwhile strikers back on the Job and machines again humming. : A corporation spokesman said there were no untoward incidents and that "the men walked in and started their machines without de lay." Some 24,000 had been idle because of a strike by CIQ-United Auto 1 Workers which began last Thursday. - ,, Flood By th Associated Press Recessions upstream nar . j rowed the midwestern flood sone yesterday (Monday) but : torrents of water poured ,- through and over . dikes . and ' forced hundreds of families to Join the homeless multitudes. ' , The Mississippi apparently reached its crest' at Grafton and Alton, I1L, and St. Louis, Mo. The Illinois fell at Peoria and to the north. The Missouri eased down toward its bed. The : danger thus was concentrated along a 125 mile stretch of the Mississippi from St Louis to Cape Girardeau, Mo., and along a 100 mile reach of the Illi nois Irom below Peoria to the confluence with the Mississippi. . The Bed Cross estimated that , more than 40,000 families f roughly, about 169,080 persons r were routed er otherwise f- Record Bombing;. Hits Ruhr i . . -. . ... I Total Explosive 1 Weight Reaches I 100,000 Tons i : 'V ' ' ; LONDON, May 24(flJ-Beat- ing down the world's thickest anti-aircraft defenses guarding the primary source of Ger many's war power,- the RAT dumped more than 2,000 tons of bombs on 'the industrial city of Dortmund Sunday night in the heaviest and most concentrated air attack in history. j The unprecedented assault also carried the RAF to another mile stone in the aerial battle of Eu rope, for, according to the "air ministry news service figures, it brought the total weight of explosives-dropped on Germany by the RAF bomber command since the war began to 100,000 tons. Other Points Hit ' " .British . heavy 1 : bombers - also blasted other objectives in the Ruhr, ranging up and down the vital industrial valley which they flooded only a week ago by their breaching of the Moehne and Eder dams. i The Vichy radio fell silent just before midnight,, indicating pos sible new raids upon the contin ent. .,, ', ; (The Budapest radio also shut down after giving air raid pre caution instructions, " the federal communications commission re ported in New York.) Raid Lasts Hour s In a shattering inaugural of the western : half of Prime Minister Churchill's experiment to bomb the axis into submission, an ave rage of over 33 tons of high ex plosives and incendiaries plunged down on the eastern Ruhr city of Dortmund every minute for a full hour. ' - The Irresistible fire and destruc tion was delievred at the ratio of more than eight pounds for every one of the half million residents of the iron, steel coal and trans portation center. 37,000 Homeless (CBS Correspondent Howard K. Smith said in a broadcast from Bern, Switzerland, that the raid left an estimated 37,000 persons homeless in Dortmund. He said the German civilian defense and fire-fighting forces were caught comoletelv Off niard." ? To reach Dortmund toe RAF sky fleet, three-fourths of which i (Turn to Page 2 Story A) WPB Acts to Ban Suits 1 - For Women 1 WASHINGTON, May 24 The War Production Board Mon day decreed a ban on the manu facture of women's double breast ed suits and some special types of garments, limited cuff buttons to two, and instituted a two-way control of use of fabrics aimed at trimming the sweep of evening gowns. - : At the same time, the WPB lifted its original ban on the use of wool for linings and pockets and said it was "acting to en courage increased unit 'output of Women's and children's clothing out of available cotton, rayon and wool fabrics. ' ' " The "body basic," or the basic silhouette of the un trimmed dress, and the "trimming allowance," at restrictions on the size and desim of . fabric trimmings, constitute the new double control of fabric use. :-.:; ' ; fee ted by the inundation. The I army reported that almost 10, 000 troops had been assigned to ' rescue, relief and other duties i la. the imperilled areas. : A focal point of anxiety ; was Beardstown, 111. The Illinois river there inched up to 29,45 feet and continued to rise toward the top of the dike a seawall topped by a ' temporary barricade that : will protect the city until the water reaches the level of 38 feet, eight inches, if it holds. . ; . Already 4500 of the C500 resi dents had left, and all remalnmg women, children and the ared were ordered to evacuate. Ty phoid inoculations were provid ed for emergency; workers. : AI aest ail the stores were closed. Militiamen patrolled tie com-; enmity to preclude looting, v Zone NINETY THED YEAB Continental Raids Focused 100 STATUTE MtlES North E deo I-;- wuneim$hav'vi!( Ajwitofdawdb:' r NETHERLANDS t nf 1 ,wnwklELCUM CltHavr ; PARIS FRANCE Shaded sector covers the area la which allied air might Is concen- trating heavy air blows in what Prime Minister Churchill terms - . . . aa experiment to bomb the axis Into submission . .' . " Son day sught's attack focused on Dortmund east of Duisburr- Asso ciated Press Map. , Pulverizing Blows A im at Pantelleria ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 24 -JPy-PanteUeria, which may yet win from Malta the title of world's most-bombed island,' was given another drastic going over by American and British bombers Sunday and the number of axis aircraft destroyed in the Mediterranean theatre in the last five days rose to 317 officially tabulated. - r US medlom bombers and Warhawks blasted Pantelleria three times within five daylight boors with results described as 'excellent and the RAFa Wr; two-engined Wellingtons f ollow f ed ap by night to pulverise the little i Italian Island with two ton block busters." Pantelleria, which rears to a height of 2000 feet above the sea midway between Tunisia and Sic ily, has undergone such, a terrific pounding by allied planes and warships in the past two months that its, military air field appar ently has been put completely out of commission. Again ; yesterday and last night the bombers . met no fighter opposition, i 1 r - i: Though the attacks on Pantel leria and other widespread allied raids against Sardinia 'and the Italian mainland brought no an nounced destruction of German or Italian planes, Sunday, delayed reports boosted to 305 the num ber' of axis craft wrecked by the northwestern African air . forces alone since last Wednesday. Mid (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Adair Dedication Slated CAMP ADAIR, OregonFinal arrangements have been made for the post dedication ceremony today at 3:45, when civilians will be admitted at the camp gates and directed to parking lots where they may observe the ceremony, it was announced Monday by Col Gordon H. McCoy, camp com mander, v - h. : The event, which wOl officially mark r the completion for service of the huge' camp," will include a formal retreat by all troops of the station complement, and official presentation of the huge new gar rison flag..- - a A " I r :: : The largest military band -ever assembled in Oregon, more than 100 pieces, will play for the oc Narrows As Four soldiers, on duty near the town, were thrown Into the water when their row boat capsized, and one of them drowned. That raised the Illinois death toll to four, and the total for all flood sectors to 17. . V A break in the Preston levee ; north of Wolf Lane, EL. sent the Mississippi river gushing Into m " 'strip ef territory 20 miles long -and three " mQes wide. T h e I breach east inundation, of , Wolf Lake. Ware, MeClir e, Keynoldsville and Gale, IU. A flights of some 4500 residents' ' was' under -way, aided by S50 .-: soldiers a n d 100 - amphibieusv : A barge loaded with 50 evac uees was pushed by jeeps from Gorham, 11L . The havoc was in creased when the Big Muddy river spilled over a strained levee near rgf -.; ... : : 10 PAGES Salom Hamburg J Br'm& (BERLIN f Muenster I wer p LUX. Reds Wipe Out German Force Near Rostov - , LONDON, Tuesday; May 2S-(JP) Still sparring in preliminaries to an expected great summer offen sive. Red army troops made a feeler thrust Monday Into German positions on the western front, and smashed a strong German battle reconnaissance group near Rostov, the Russians reported early today, i Elsewhere along the fluid bat tleline, Soviet artillery and air planes hammered at concentra tion of enemy tanks and troops moving, np to the front, and two German' air attacks lannched npon prime Soviet military ob jectives at opposite ends of the long front were shattered, the midnight eommnnlane and a separate broadcast recorded by the Soviet Monitor declared. 1 Thirteen nazi bombers were downed in a raid upon : Bataisk, Just south ' of Rostov, and only a few. of the raiders broke through Soviet defenses, the Moscow: ra dio said. The important rail sta tion at Bataisk feeding Russian forces to the south in the Novo- rossisk area was not damaged, ' it added. Three Russian planes were lost Russian airplanes drove off 28 German craft attempting to raid Soviet military installations in the Rybachit peninsula area on tiie arctic front near Petsamo, and 10 enemy planes were destroyed, the midnight war bulletin reported. f Two handred Germans were allied on the western front be fore Smolensk and enemy gun -v; replacements and pillboxes were i blasted, and a 4 scooting wait raided German trenches, taking prisoners for Information - on dmI bttle dlspeslttons, kJllina- ef the enemy and destroying : six blockhouses, the eonusmnl qne continaed. Waters its junction with the Mississippi. Across the seething Mississippi, Oaryvflle and McBride, Mo., were flooded, and evacuation from Point Red, and -. from Belgique, Mo., was proceeding. Army engineers reported every levee on the Illinois side of : the Mississippi was out from Colum bia south to Chester, and from be low Chester to Gale, and that four levees on the Illinois river below Beardstown had failed. They an nounced all ; lower Illinois river districts were being evacuated as a precaution. ;;;;.:;:: , v'.- - A military field headquarters was set up at Manchester, KL, In r Scott county. Three thousand.; .troops i were- operating from there, and 42 amjpULious jeeps, Leipzig f I i Frf.u i I Q Cologne v MUX. k . GERMANY POUNDDD 1651 Qrogonv Tuosday Morning, Workers Advised To :ait- ..Goodyear Local Told :.No ViolenceV After Li Fight Wih PickeU ; AKRON, May 24-P-The executive board of the Good year, local, of . the .CIO United Rubber Workers Monday night advised its members not to force their" wayw into- plants of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. t 'The officials of Goodyear lo cal No. 2 desire that production at Goodyear continue unlnter rupted but in order to keep down violence and until further notice we ' advise our members not to force their way into the plants,' the statement said. William L Taught, secretary -treasurer of the union local, said the board made the decis ion at a meeting late Monday night. Several . thousand rubber work ers reporting for the 10 , p.m. (eastern war time) shift at Good year plants were turned back at the ' gates by pickets who lined up shoulder-to-shoulder. . A few skirmishes between " workers and pickets occurred ' but ; were quelled - quickly by other - members of the picket line.- Company spokesmen an nenneed only a few men made theirs thronrh -the - gates while union representatives de clared not a worker passed throagh'the pickets. ' As the" number of idle rubber workers protesting a 'war labor board wage decision increased to 44,000, an official of the ware de partment demanded an immediate resumption, of. production at the three major rubber companies af fected by ; the work stoppage-?- Goodyear,' The . Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and the B. F. Good rich Co. . H ; ' . -' War production had virtually stopped at the Firestone Tire Rubber Co where ICOOt were absent, at the It. F, Goodrich Co where 14,000 were out and j (Turn to Page 2 Story B) 2 OP A Aides Resign Posts ; La Policy Tiff WASHINGTON, May 24 Administrator Prentiss W. Brown acknowledged Monday that two of his aides have quit OPA in s dis pute over policy, but denied mass resignations and declared tthe agency is "going - about - its busi ness." Meantime fresh criticism of the OPA developed on Capitol HilL -. . . Four other members previously had resigned, Brown, said, for reasons not associated with the reorganization. They were John K. Westberg of the cereals, grains and agricultural chemicals branch, and Max Conn ; of the feed sec tion, both returning to private business; Athexton Bean, head of the , flour section, entering - the navy, and George ; Montgomery, head of the feed section, returning to Kansas State university. with women eivUlaadriv r ers, were dispatched, w :---f l."-" l; The loss of livestock along the Mississippi was described as "ap-H palling. The Gulf," Mobile and Ohio railroad rushed building equipment to Tolsen, Hl in an effort to save a railroad shop. : . Downstream, at Cape Girar deau, M the Mississippi attain ed 40 J& feet, a 100 year record, and a crest of 4 L6 was expected. Part of the business district was under water. The power plant was isolated. . At -j: ,:;-x v At Peoria, HL, 12,060 men, la boring in ,t two 12-hour shifts, reared a sandbag wall to pro tect the Caterpillar Traeter company's war plant from the Illinois river and Farm creek. The river- receded slixhtly Cere ta ZZT.l t:tt. Recede May 25 1943 Kiska Faces Blockade ATTU C&hoeaf AC ATTU ' a,i KISKA t 1- VUICAM- s PI - iu . . 1Z KISKA The expected fall of Jap-held. Attn where trapped Nipponese forces were beginning to evacuate according to an axis-controlled Tkhy broadcast, threatens to result in complete blockade of Kiska. (See . above in circle.) The Japanese are reportedly readyfaig an all-oat v eounterattack to stave off any each eventuality Associated Press Heavy Botnbers Hit Jap R abaul 'Dromes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS May 25-P)-Twaormation of tacked Japanese airdromes at Rabaul, New Britain, where a large concentration of enemy aircraft: had been reported, the allied Anti Poll Tax Issue Raises Ire of South WASH INGTON, May 24 Over almost solid southern oppo sition and amid threats of a sen ate filibuster and political repris als against the New Deal, the house went on record Monday as favoring , abolition of J poll taxes as a. prerequisite to voting in any election involving a .federal office. By. a roll call vote of 20S to lit it took, from its rules com-: mfttee jurisdiction over a' group of bills aimed at outlawing the. poll tax reauiremeata of seven southern states and then ' orders ed two hours of debate tomor row en the legislation Itself. Privately conceding the hope lessness of their case in the house but confident another senate fili buster such as has halted the leg islation in past years again would develop, leaders of the- opposition brought into Monday's twenty minutes ; of debate the name of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of the sponsors of the bills. Mrs. Roosevelt's name - was coupled with those of John I Lewis and communist Leader Earl Browder by Representative Col- mer (D-Miss), who told the house it had received its "orders" from Lewis, Browder,- the Association for the ' Advancement of Colored People, and "from the first lady of the land. - . Colmer's statement was chal lenged by Representatives Bald win (K-NT) and Bender (R Ohio). The latter asserted sup port for the lesi&latien easne from organizations - thro bout the nation and from 250 Protes tant ministers, f ' The roll call vote found 176 republicans supporting ' the legis lation and only ten opposing it, with 88 democrats voting for it and: 100 opposing. The bulk of the democratic opposition came from delegations from - the- poll tax states, Virginia, Arkansas, Geor gia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas and Alabama. Ration Board Hours Changed l The ; Salem district rationing board offices in the Nelson build ing will remain open cn Tuesday nights- until 10 o'clock hereafter but will close at 12:30 pjn. on Sat urdays, it was announced Monday. Authority to - institute these changes was' received from the re gional office Monday." The Tues day night schedule was arranged in order to accommodate persons who have difficulty in conducting their business with the rationing office because of their daily work schedules. .:J; - "'.-..' -; The ' office Is regularly open from 10 ajn. to S pjn., weekdays. Prico 5c No. S3 ALEUTIAN ISLANDS tvln OUlOtR iiev X ttXV rrry AMCHITKA 50 IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday, allied heavy bombers Monday at command announced today. In an early-morning raid, 16 tons of explosives and incendiar ies were dropped, starting fires which were visible 100 -miles away a half hour afterward. . - ; ...... f Reconnaissance before, the : raid had disclosed what was de scribed 'as "a large toncentra i tion" ef enemy medium bomb ers and fighters. Flying Fortresses attacked first shortly after midnight, remaining over the target three-quarters of an hour. B-24's came in 20 min utes after - the B-17's left and stayed a half hour. . The Sulphur creek' seaplane base a slips way for flying boats in Rabaul harbor was attacked in addition to Vunakanau. Laku- nai and Rapopo airdromes where fires were started among parked planes, v A .. , : ; . ,; , : A formation of Mitchell P bombers hit New Britain's eth- ; er main base ' at Gasmata af midday, i. ; ' In the northwestern sector oth er B-25's bombed the Penfoei air drome at Koepang, Timor, after darlb Fires which were visible 20 miles away were started. In New Guinea two . Liber ators en a daylight reconnais sance flight and av CataUna on a night mission bombed Finseh hafen and the adjoining villa ges of Kakakoe and SIaobaa-. Boston A-20's raided Lae - at dawn, causing: large explosions and fires. An anti-aircraft shell exploded in -one of the Bostons, killing a gunner, and injuring an other member of the crew. : , Further reports on the raid on Port Moresby Sunday, which was disclosed in yesterday's commun ique, said that two enemy planes, probably medium bombers, at tacked the base, instead of one as originally announced. The raid ers dropped 12 bombs from 20.- 000 feet Their single pass lasted onlytwo minutes and caused no damage or casualties. -.- Senator Raps Roosevelt's Trade Power WASHINGTON. Hit 24-UPV-l Opening a fight in the senate to authorize congress : to ' terminate the administration's reciprocal trade agreements six months aft er the war, Sena tor" Vandenber g tl-Alien) declared Monday that "we may find some of these com mitments highly irksome and em barrassing." . : : Vandenberg said the adminis tration was using fantastic" ar guments In its drive for renew al of the house-approved trade agreements authority wit hoot restrictions. The controversy, which thus far has produced no protest against extension of the trade authority for two years, was carried over to Thursday with administration supporters anticipating a vote by Friday.. Japs Try 2 Maids Ob YanI US Figlilera Win Against Long Odds Battle WASHINGTON, M i y Desperate counter-attacks bjj; the Japanese in an attempt t regain control of Attu appeared in the making Monday as tha navy announced a second larci scale enemy air assault on th litUe Aleutian island. ' Twice great flights of twin engine enemy bombers have roared Into the Attu area. Twice they have been turned back.! Each time, presumably, they were pre vented from accomplishing their objective battering of Ameri can land troops who are steadily wiping out Japanese forces on Attu. Raids on 2 Days ' i1 , , The raids came on successive days, the navy reported, w i t H about 15 bombers participating Saturday, and 16 Sunday. In each Instance they met op position that apparently was so strong that their missions were interrupted. Two naval units, at tacked by the first flight of bomb ers, turned them back. Army lightning .fighter planes rose to battle when the second group was reported nearing Attu. The light nings possibly came from the American airfield at Amchitka, some 200 miles to the east, in dicating that efficient systems have been set up on Attu to call for air support when needed. Fighters Win ' The fighters went into the aer ial battle on the short end cf a long odds engagement, but came out definitely on top. Five of the 16 bombers were shot down in fierce fighting. Two American fighters were lost, one shot down, the other listed as missing. One pilot was rescued. . " Whence-the bombers cams re mained In doubt Many observers believe -they-were based at Para- mushiro, a Japanese sea and air base 630 miles to the west in the Kurilo islands. The possibility ex ists, also, that they might have come from Japanese carriers hid ing behind fog banks in the north Pacific, j i " 1 - Sea Battle Possible In the event they were, carrier- based, a naval engagement is at least a possibility, for it is un likely carriers would ' be'; there without escorting, warships. The extent of US naval forces in the area never has been officially disclosed. However, the Japanese in broadcasts have claimed with out confirmation to have damag ed seven United States vessels in air and submarine activity. Those, claims assert that one battleship, two cruisers, a destroyer and two warships of unspecified type have been damaged and one destroyer sunk. ; Land Fight Pressed Meantime in land fighting on Attu, the navy said, American brces are continuing hard pres sure on beleaguered enemy units. "A number of enemy points of resistance have been liquidated, the communique added. Two Naval Craft - V ' -: Given Ecuador UNITED STATES NAVAL HEADQUARTERS, Canal Zone, May 24 -JP)- Rear Admiral Clif ford Van Hook, commandant cf the Panama sea frontier, turned over to the Ecuadorean navy Mon day two naval craft In the name of Navy Secretary Frank Knox, Bulletin NEW YORK, May 24 -A-W. Alton Jones, president ef the Emergency Pipelines, Inc., an nounced tonight ell is again flowing toward the petroleum starved northeastern seaboard threurh the "E!j lath" pipe line, breached last week by flood waters of the Arkansas river. ', "OH started north arafa through the E!g lach ilpellne at 7 pja," Jones announce J i.1 a telerram sent to Petrclecm AJ- minisirator Ickes sr. 1 r.a Zs pmtlle here. . ...The 29-inch taUnt lat by passes the flood break, er eers estimated wocIJ La-He abost 2I3,C:3 lzrrt!j a t":y. The patch Li "Z'x IntV vvss completed 1 S tiys I 21 hours after tl a 1 1 . r t J the line.. r