PAGS TWO
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Xast Caucasus
JMdselieadls
Smacked Hard
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Tuesday i night but - the Italians
were given no respite, American
, heavy bombers, medium bombers
and fighters continued to pour it
on Mussolini's island sentinels
from their bases in North Africa.
- , Flytar Fortresses -zlm de-
- livered the crusher when they
: f eaght their way Uweagh 50
Germsa fichten to makt a
wreck of the W SteQUa air.
field at Combo, the base from
wfaicb axis bombers lonr bat
tered Utile" Malta. Three Mes
sersehmit t-109 were shot
down without loss to the Fort
resses and other aircraft were
destroyed on the ground.
The attack by other American
formations rased at many other
widely scattered points on Sar
dinia. Sicily and PanteUeria, add
ing steadily to the destruction of
previous days. Docks, shipping,
, airfields, cower stations, trains
and : sun emplacements went up
'fax flame and smoke. British, light
bombers -sweeping the -e a s t r n
Mediterraneaa sank an axis
steamer off Greece and damaged
three others.
Gen. Charles De Gaulle, on the
eve of his departure from London
for Algiers and an intramural
peacemaking with: Gen. Henri Gi
: raud, told the -French people by
: radio that "Union of the empire
will be accomplished. We have
paid heavily enough for our ab
surd division."
74 Shot Down
In Single Day
. LONDON, May rr-CffRJnited
States heavy ' bombers based in
' Britain ... were officially declared
today to have established a record
I by smashing 74 nazi planes out
of the sky on a single day's bomb
ling mission. , '
' They made it May 21 during
the shattering raids without es
; cort on the submarine building
i yards at Emden and Wilhelms
; haven. fi -
The action cost one dozen Amer
ican bombers. :
" The record tally of enemy air
craft, which boosted to 297 the
number demolished in eight raids
embracing 18 targets so far this
month, was 10 higher than the
previous top set May 14 in the
attacks on Kiel, Antwerp, Cour-
trai, and Velsen. These raids, made
by heavy and medium bombers,
"; cost 11 heavy .bombers.
fsSave
Fees
Drivers of automobiles in Ore
gon will save approximately $625,
000 as a result of the 1943 legis
lative law eliminating the renew
al of automobile operators licen
ce for the period Jury I, 1943, to
June 30, 1945, Max Flannery, head
of the state motor vehicle depart
ment here, announced- Thursday.
riannery also said there would
be a substantial savin to motor
vehicle drivers because of the law
reducing the so-called hospital
contribution from 50 to 15 cents.
This hospital-fee is collected -when
Olivers' licenses are issued.
Funds derived from this source
are used largely to reimburse hos
pitals lor the care of indigent per
sons injured in motor vehicle ac
cidentx.
Tower Clock
on t
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,"
?ij '.-t7-unu4 peace comes.
wo rourinouse tower Clock will
waxen tune go by unmoved.
; The hands .on the - timepiece
nailed at 8:30 o'clock becauso of
broken" cable. There they'll re-
main ror the duration. It's Im
possible to get ra. cable , replace
ment because of material res trie-
Tulips Tasty,
Soldier Finds
' KANSAS CITY, May 7.-flp-
rvu uougias Elliott, visiting
girl at her Leavenworth. Kas
home, wasesked if he would like
some fried .onions as - part of a
funcheon. He agreed and ' she
prepared the luncheon. -
The next day the girl's, mother
telephoned ; Elliott .. ;.
The couple had 'eaten -the fam
ily's choice tulip bulbs.
Coffee Is Not All .
Declared so Cafe
Draws Penalty.
. PORTLAND, May 27 The
OPA, through its chief hearing
commissioner, Everett . C Mc-
Ileae, today ordered the Portland
c a f e to t top serving coffee until
I lay J. The -order .was for de-.
? Taring crJy 15 pounds of ; coffee
ith ration board when 25
loxir.-ls v. ers.Li stock, McKeage
rOJlTLAirD, I.Iay 27 The
. rt'.-" i i -fccsrd today low
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Marvin , Jones (seated), temporary president ef the United Nations feed conference, meets members
of the press at the Homestead m Hot Springs, Ts, where the conferences are being held. If. Keeaigs
C berg, reporter who has been partlcnlarly. active la protesting restrictions agalast the press. Is talking
: with Jadao Jones.- "1. r '
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Raids Tougher
Royalty Told
By US Airmen
By ROBERT RICHARDS
(Distributed by the Associated Press)
US BOMBER BASE IN ENG
LAND, Friday, May j 28 K ing
George and Queen. Elisabeth in
formally discussed the problems
American. Flying Fortresses face
in blasting axis cities in daylight
raids in talks with American fly
ing officers at this bomber base
and met America's new sky ter
ror, the .Thunderbolt -..fighter, in
their first visit to a United States
fighter station. ;
The royal couple heard the
story of raids on Wilhelmshaven,
Paris and - Emden and studied
photgraphs showing , the results.
Col. Stanley Wray. of Birming
ham, Ala v who personally" led
the first three raids of bis group,
told the king that the raids-are
tougher? now - than they "used
to be. 'yi:V" K,r.y" -1:'
"The first time over Wilhelms
haven we took them by surprise,
I think, because we didn't run in
to much trouble, but from then on
it has been much tougher, Wray
saidV ..- i-' l'. - ; x
MI guess the best thing is to keep
them guessing, and not let them
know where they will be bit next,"
the King suggested. "
"Yes, Sir,Wray agreed. That's
the best Idea. t .
Queen 'Elizabeth ventured tiiat
'of course, later an, you will have
more -weight and be able to split
up your forces, won't you?" and
Wray said. "Yes, that's true.
Earlier at a -fighter base the
Refinery Inundated by Kansas
t:
As far as the eye eeeht reach, flood
" vweyvuie, suu, a we sue ei- a rennery - (abevs) ef
(Asooeiaied Frses phote from VSAAF.)
Illinois
U . .
niectrle tiftiors anJ psucrs are raised- o&t tf
visnZi.ii3it tr te everCowLir II"
Jones Lleets the Press, Food
:T::' 'i I 'V.i'--i h.i
king had examined the first P-47
Thunderbolt to shoot down a nazi
plane. It was -piloted by Major
James J. Stone of Plainfleld, N. J.
and bore a swastika painted on its
side, mute testimony of the vic
tory.
The king was extremely inter'
ested in the -"business end" of the
Thunderbolt : and examined its
guns closely. r . i" : 1LJ
Queen Elizabeth asked Lieut
Martin Chaves of 980 Resort at.
Baker, Ore about the mall ser
vice and inquired if he were lone
ly. The mail service ' Is fine.
ma'am," Chaves replied, "and I'm
not getting lonesome to speak of.
But I sure would like to go home
Oregon Road ;
Fund Boosted;
01,000,000
State Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock Thursday - was I advised
that a bill has been reported out
favorably by the house roads com
mittee releasing , approximately
$1,000,000 of federal -funds to the
Oregon highway commission for
post war operations.
Against this I amount the state
highway commission would match
$250,000 of its funds.
Baldock said most of the fed
eral money would be used for the
purchase of rights-of-way. j
Officials declared that purchase
of rights-of-way during the next
few months would make it possi
ble for the highway commission
to start road operations, Including
both new construction and heavy
maintenance, immediately follow
ing the close of the war.
waters from the Yerdlsiia river
By
River Floods Water works
wiir at tl.e f:!
a: si . str-
tc?rJ c-raUa cf the
Conference
Polk's Women
To Mobilize
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labor program, BaHlie and W. C
Leth, county agent
Most desirable scheme for har
vesting the fruit and hops and
vegetables, Bafllie declared is the
family group system, which has
ceased to be the largest source of
workers since migrant workers are
no more. Platoons similar to those
organized through schools last
year may be judged second to the
of study offered in the schools to!
prepare youthful harvesters wffl
provide 4000 to 5000 pickers he de
dared.
Women must be . ready to re
place men in ; mo ugnter Jobs of
commerce and industry so that the
men, in turn, may work in the
crops, dux memoers ox xn xair sex,
wo, win nave to go imo me xiexas
tojargw imrabers than ever be -
fore if the food the county is pro-1
uuwuo m wjcu, oaiiiic main-1
a leuenmoo, wim repre-
seniauves rrom every woman's or
ganization in the county could mo
bilize an army of feminine agri
cultural workers capable of ban
dling all but the heaviest portion
of the work, he declared.'
KUn n,: ' am L
Ikltten iteqilires Aid k
PORTLAND " Mar 27-tiPV-There I
was no way of telling how Puss
got between the aiding and plas
ter lathing, of Mrs. Anna Screen's
home today but it took two po
licemen and a crowbar to get the
three-week-old kitten out
Floodwaters
eovered the Kansas ooeatrysldo
the National Keflaery
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CLlIcolLe,
'wat:r wcrLs artsr
rlact.
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Strike at End
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would take over the plant Four
ballots were taken before the de
cision to go back to work today
was made, Hugh Tonspson, 'CIO
regional director, said that on the
first three ballots the workers re
fused .to heed pleaa from the un
ion and government officials. The
tiralVnn pW9i 4riKnt1 KV Yin
union international representative
to "delay of the war labor board"
in considering
a wage increase ;
demand. ,
In Washington, ' the day's ma
jor labor; development was an
nouncement by the International
association of Machinists that it
is withdrawing, effective May 31,
from the American Federation- of
Labor. It said the ATL executive
council had failed to protect the
union's jurisdictional rights. The
oat cjj LilLjw
machinists and the carpenters work the graveyard shift in this
have been in frequent disputes frame of mind would be interest
over which union had the right ing persons to know,. I set out to
to handle certain work,
Proof of Fish
Story Scanty
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, May 27.
--rrank Walters, as he fished
in a mountain stream,, was tell
ing his companions of the big fish
that just got away with his spin
ner- and leader.
Suddenly Walters - got a nother
strike and pulled in a small trout
Hanging from its mouth were the
lost spinner and leader.
The- "trig- Ush that got away
measured six Inches.
OnlyAFLin
T-olrl fit TPitYlg
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Morton Avers
r PoaTLAND. Ore. Uv n-fjps
I when 7the Kaiser r"p"y ( was
I gurveying the Portland area as a
potential site for shipyards in 1940
I it found the ATL controlled the
available shipyard Ubor,
tmrn r ut tnti Th...
dav
ltand t KLRB hear-
in- intn nn rhirw. t ,mf.if l.
bor. practices against three Kaiser
; yrearda hereabouts, Morton, Kai
ser's west coast labor expert, said
he found' all other yards in the
district obtaining all their- help
from the ATL: . . , . ,
Morton testified. that he and Ed -
oar aiser. current head of Kaiser
gar aiser, current head of Kaiser
operations . hereabouts , for his la-
ther, Henry .Kaiser, visited Port
land in December of 1940. They
investigated the Ubor supply after
leasing the ground where the Ore
gon Shipbuilding corporation now
is located.- -Km-'v
At the time, he said, the Kaisers
planned to construct only one yard
here-using between 5000 and 8000
When. the -company signed
dosed shop ' contracts with AFL
j shipyard unions it did not know
its Portland-Vancouver, operations
' would expand to three yards em
ploying around 100,000 men.
Edgar Kaiser was expected
to
testify tomorrow.
85 HI After
Picnic Dinner
OLYMPIA, May 27iT-Food
poisoning at. a rural school's year
end picnic sent six persons to a
hospital here today after an esti
mated 85 persons were stricken ill.
County School. Superintendent
Marvin -- Stevens said the: Illness,
causing varying degrees of violent
nausea, was caused by a beverage
; mixture. Be said a commercial
I beverage had been mixed with a
I fruit Juice. , , ,
Men, women and children be
came ill soon after the. afternoon
picnic lunch amid a scene of con
fusion in the McLane school base
ment, about three miles west of
Olympia. . !'- r : ' '
Attendants said the persons sent
to a hospital did not appear to be
i in a dangerous condition, but Dr.
1 Reed Ingham, attending victims
at the school, said worse after
effects might appear tomorrow.
depending on the cause of the
! poisoning. -
Soldiers Aid
Quest for tad
REDMOND, Ore- May 272-i!P
. Soldiers from nearby Redmond
air base joined today in the search i
for Kenneth -Lee Urie, 8, who dis
appeared Tuesday while on a fish
ing trip with his father in the rug
ged Metolius river area.
The soldiers, state and county i
police official , and civilians pa-j
troled the river bank - and the
dense Woods without finding'
trace of the lad; The father, Al
bert .Urie, - said he and a com
panion left Kenneth at the group's ;
automobile for 15 minutes, re-j
turning to find him missing. Dorr.e j
fear .was held that the boy fell
into the stream while attempting
to cross it on a let jam.
Mr and Urs. Urie have two i
other children, Edith Anne, 4, and!
Jackie, 6.:-;
1 I"tJCOAT. I.
rh. 4.-I.
FfeP
Queer, how - some . small, thing
will take one's mind off the sub
ject at hand . .". such as, for in
stance, talking to shipyard work
era who walk ahead of one down
Salem streets almost every .night
These two were neither young
nor old, out they walked ' with
springy step, and the blond wom
an swung her metal helmet as we
to wteg,oul
i "lf mw. xrom eencw xne
oy uki narK.ecr.ue. ma. ot. xne
spring semester and the beginning
of long days of barefoot fun.
- As she turned her face up to
ward that of the tall man at her
side, there was a certain glamour
1 cas by shaded streetlights on
strong, laughing 'features ad dear
cast by shaded streetlights on
I complexion unchanged by cos-
i meucs.
I Sure that they who set out to
meet them.
, There is a place where shipyard
workers gather, a rendezvous mat
week by week includes mora old
er folk and less of the younger
set of welders and sweepers. And
there I halted a moment
fit was a brief stop, and all I
heard was a portion of one
tence. But that phrase was ut
tered by a man who walked ana
leg such as Long John Silver had
Oregon made from an Oregon
tree. What he said that portion
I heard was " - - er . squeak!
Lets em know Tka comin and
he moved around briskly to prove
the truth of his statement
All I had seen was a group of
men and
in overall, with
metal helmets. and
d lunch contain -
era, among them a slender chap
on a wooden leg, whose face
wore a grin. All I had heard was
half a sentence and the squeak
of the peg leg, but I forgot com
pletely the man and woman I had
followed.. Don t know as it makes
much difference: All three of
them must have been endowed
with the same "something," and
I suppose they'll be there-again,
though I doubt if they, or I, can
put into words what that "some
thing" is.
FDR, Winston
CloseParley
f - r -
needs, he said, for both the
ground forces and tiie air forces,
it
"" . & a m k uiv ur-
ground
coopers tioa attained in
J North Africa would be necessary
: m all operauons. There u. no
change at this time In our man
power requirements.'
Except to say that all allied
! casualties ia Tunisia. totaled less
than 70,000 ' the' secretary made
1 no reference to British and French
losses. The Germans and Italians,
however, were said to have lost
30.000 killed, 25,400 wounded and
266,600 taken - prisoner in Tunisia
! alone, excluding other. African
campaigns.
Southwick Faces .
I Disturbance Count '
Rome Southwick, Salem- car
penter, charged by R. B. Miller,
elderly downtown, paper salesman
with disturbing the peace, alleg
edly shouted "Hitler papers!" at
the street corner where Miller was
selling . tile Townsend National
Weekly. : Miller swore out a- war-
rant and Southwick comes to trial
on Friday morning at 10 o'clock
in the court of Justice of the Peace
Joseph Felton.
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Tonight and Saturday
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ences had arisen between General
DeWitt and a faction in the war
department over - DeVitt's vigor
ous opposition . to any . relaxation
of the rules against a - return of
excluded Japanese: to" the ' West
ern- defense areas. , Because- of
those differences, Welch asserted,
General DeTVitt was to be trans
ferred to a jiew post with General
Emmons replacing him. At Wash
ington Secretary, of War. Stimson
said at a press . conference . that
such report of differences i non-
General Richardson was trans
ferred recently from the Seventh
training corps at Jacksonville, Fla.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
commander-in-chief of the Pacific
ocean areas, in pinning the medal
on the general today, said Em
I mona took over his post while
c1"108 tiIlreI2nd but wfll leave
mons took 'over his post: while
the islands well defended.
' General Emmons said he would
leave with "most major defense
projects completed or near com'
pletion."
There's plenty to eat on the
islands, they are well defended
and our worries about attack are
dormant for . the moment' the
general observed. -
"It ia foolish to think we are
not on the front line or are not
subject to attack. There's nothing
Detween us and Japanese island
bases." '
Planners Get
Furtlier Funds
WASHINGTON. M a y 27 - UP
Administration forces in the sen
ate won 44 to 31 today a bitterly-
contested fight for a $200,000 ap
propriation for the national re
I p-nninx ooara arwr p-
1 45 to h "
ooo. .7.
A $2,621,000,000 independent of
fices appropriations bOL contain
ing funds for the planners, was
men passed, put only after anoth
er amendment was adopted di
recting the home owners loan cor
poration to submit final liquida
tion plana by July 1, 1943.
The planning agency, of which
President Roosevelt's uncle, Fred
eric A. Delano, is chairman, was
assailed by Senator Taft (R-Ohio)
as a f ountainhead of philosophers
"partly socialism" and partly the
product of S "dangerous imagina-
Overcharge Draws
Penally for Packer
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P1 OPA district office safd to-
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I Bro Packing-, company, Golden-
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The OPA charged that the firm
overcharged seven retailers be
tween January and March ef this
year. -: - , ; :-y
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