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lickes om. ' Miser .9 .Rail Travel FT - 9 ;- ii - 'ITT' tfMMu. .aWMoaao ,-aa&mmm. mmmm anL. ik. .hbi. IT SEEMS TO ME that atten tion should be called to the south ern states for their record in hav ing the lowest percentage of reg istrants deferred for occupation al reasons. The states of the couth ere, all too often at the bottom of the lists in such comparisons as per capita wealth, funds spent for education, etc. In the table re ferred to, twelve states, all south ern, are at the bottom with fewer than 3 per cent of their men on the draft list deferred on account of their occupation; while the nor thern states are at the top of the list, with North Dakota, a strictly agricultural state, leading at 11.25 per cent. Compare that with Mis sissippi, -likewise agricultural, with only 99000 of one per cent The south . has a reputation for being a fightin' section. During the civil war Confederate officers and men proved their fighting quality. For decades a military career has divided honors with law and poli--i . tics in attracting southern youth of ambition and promise. I have met so many army and navy of ficers whose nativity was southern (revealed by their speech and an nounced with commendable pride) that sometimes the percentage of southern officers has seemed dis proportionate. The south has kept alive the military tradition. For ' youth who can't make Dest Point there's the great Virginia Military Institute - Stonewall Jackson's school, and General Marshall's; or The Citadel at Charleston, SC, now headed by Gen.C P. Sum meralL And in the southern hills its singular code is sustained by ready reference to firearms, which preserves both skill and the lighting instinct Here is the list of southern states, with lowest percentage of occupational deferment: Missis sippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Geor gia, South -Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana. ; Here are the states with the highest percentage, beginning with North Dakota, 11.23 per cent, then .Minnesota, South Dakota Washington, .. Idaho, Wisconsin, Montana, Iowa, . Vermont, Kan sas, Nevada,' Nebraska. Washing ton alone of thescstates is crowd ed with war industries. Others are largely agricultural or min- ing. - - . When I first saw this table I concluded it proved both the pa triotism and the fighting spirit of the south. Perhaps it does. But other ' selective service statistics throw, doubts on such a conclu sion. " " i i For in other tables showing per- centage of population registered and percentage of population en' listed, only three of the southern states, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas show a higher percent age : of enlistments than of registration. The score of the south on deferments for : (Continued on Editorial page) Pulp Labor Wage Parley To Be Resumed Negotiations between the Pacif ic coast pulp and paper manufac turers and the International union of sulphite and paper mill work era, an AF of L union, will be re sumed. in July, according 'to c s. Davis, president of the local un ion. A. W. Baker of Salem is a member of the union bargaining - committee which has been meet ing with a committee of employ ers, i. rl ' ' ;; y The parties are in substantial agreement, but were not able to get together on the language of the contract, so operations will tontinue under the present con tract which expired June 1st, un til the new one Is drawn up and accepted,'! said Davis. ' Our union is an AF of L affili ate, and not a CIO organization as was reported in a dispatch to The Statesman published Sunday." W Is Naval ' Training Base Salem once a port of Importance k on' in now for" the. first time naval training statfon with headquarters at ; Wmamette uni versity. .' ' - : :ri ':-:- - Lt G e o r g e C. Bliss (s.g.), USNR, commanding officer, and Capt George W. Shepard, USN, arrived in Salem Monday to take over their permanent duties at Willamette university. ' At the moment the two officers are organizing details of naval routine for the cadets who will arrive on the Willamette campus before July L 7ed. sunset 0:55 Tliur. sunrise 5 :22 (Weather on Page 5) NINETY THIRD YEAR Yankee - j . Assist; Foe Thrust Back on 300-Mile Front in Disastrous Fight J By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, China, June 1 -CtfThe Chinese, ' expanding one' of their greatest Victories of the war, were thrusting forward Tuesday night over a great cen tral China front," . enveloping Japanese troops falling back in north Hunan province and an nihilating a Japanese regiment and additional mixed cavalry and engineering forces which had sought to cover the enemy's re treat in southern Hupeh province. The invader, suffering as well from extraordinarily powerful al lied air action which was official ly declared to have driven him from the sky over the Hunan-Hu-peh frontier . region, was being thrust back generally along a 300- mile arc running from the Tung- ting lake region of northern Hu nan . westward around the main Japanese base at Ichang and then northeastward to the Hupeh-Ho- nan border area. : Vl Southwest jpJL Ichang, , five Jap anese divisions" earlier- had 5 been declared completely route dn fatally encircled and erased as a military force. - Following up this initial major triumph, a communique of the Chinese command announced: fin southern Hupeh, the en emy's 116th regiment and a por tion ef the mixed cavalry and engineering units covering the retreat of the 13th (Japanese) division were surrounded by em forces : at LJshntanr, six miles east of Tnyanskwaa, and com pletely annihilated. The Chi nese troops . captared an im mense quantity of war supplies." It was added that enemy rem nants bad been thoroughly mopped up" west of Ichang and that the Japanese there were "facta further encircling as- "In North Hunan, Japanese troops who retreated toward Wangchichang have been sur rounded and the battle of annihi lation is proceeding." The Chinese-allied (American) air forces were said by Chiang Kal Sack's command . to have been in strong, mending actios along the Hapeh-nanan border, having Inflicted Immesie dam age on the enemy." - "The enemy's air strength," the communique went on, "thus has been greatly reduced and his plans practically made no appearance today." i Only in Shansi province, well to the north of the Hunan - Hupeh action, was any Japanese progress reported, and even there it was at high cost. i.T here the Japanese were said to have hurled more than 10,000 reinforcements into a counterattack , west of the Taiheng mountains. An enemy advance against violent resistance was con ceded, but 800 Japanese casual ties were reported during the day. Kaiser Hearings May End Today " PORTLAND, Ore, June l-T) Testimony of several Seattle AFI representatives Wednesday may wind up the Kaiser shipyards la bor .hearing, here. . - u,t : Kaiser attorneys presented their last witness Tuesday, and Robert N. r Denham, national laborl rela tions board trial examiner, said only a few AFL witnesses from Seattle remained to be called for testimony on the AFIs claim to a eoastwide bargaining unit. .... Return to Jobs " LEBANON, Ore, June 1-tP) The full crew, of 55 CIO employes of the Powers Davis Lumber com pany relumed to work Tuesday, pending settlement of a week-old strike by the War Manpower com mission. " ' ... ' The union protested firing of an Airinen employe. - 12 PAGES Salem Bombers Continue Attacks . . f- 4.".. "" f ' ' "- . " ri" - " ' - - ; " -r . . Allied Heavyweights -Held as Light Ships Maintain Offensive LONDON, JunV lHVBrit ish light; bombers and fighters carried the allied air offensive to western Europe Tuesday aft er the RAF" s heavyweights had remained inactive for two nights following their busiest week of the war and American heavy bombers were kept at their British bases for the third con secutive day. . - i. -v i--j RAF planes shuttled over the channel throughout the day, at tacking enemy shipping in coast al waters and railway targets in northern France, and scoring a nve-io-one victory over enemy fighter craft. Typhoon bombers escorted by fighters, damaged five small ene my supply ships in an attack off the coast of Holland in the fore noon. ' - - i: " . Squadrons of fighters shot up railway installations in northern France in afternoon operations. The fighter pilots shot down two Focke-Fulf 190's and three Mes serschmitt 109's during the day light sweeps and lost only one of their own planes. : : 3 ; Germany's dwindling air .for ces again made light jabs a! the soothjeastem and soot hep oas . tal regions of England this af ternoon : but paid i a high priee for the attempts. British fight ers knocked down five of 12 Focke-Walf fighter-bombers and two more probably were de stroyed by anti-aircraft fire. y Other ; fighter-bombers raided a soutn ; coast village, where a number of casualties were caused by bomb bursts on a hotel and oth er buildings. One southeast coast ' town was (Turn to Page 2 Story B) OP A Approves Pants Cuffs For'Shortys' WASHINGTON, June l.-VPt-The war production board Tues day lifted its ban: on cuffs for men's trousers, but hastened - to explain that short men probably will be 'the only ones to benefit from the action. Restrictions on 'the length of trouser legs a 32 waist regular is allowed a 35-inch inseam remain unchanged. Thus, WPB said, Very few men will have the necessary five inches at the bottom of the trouser leg to turn up for a cuff. Some may be able to get a simu lated cuff, however, since that takes only a three-inch turn up. ' The WPB said the cuff restric tion had accomplished its prime purpose of recovering enough ex cess wool cloth from 19,000,000 pairs of trousers to make an extra 300,000 wool garments this year. Algeria Head Resigns Post -ALGIERS, June 1.-XP)-Gen. Charles De Gaulle today accepted the resignation of Marcel Peyrou ton" as governor general of Al geria. ' ; t- : .( Peyrouton asked to be assigned as a captain in the French- infan try' to prove he was willing to fight for the redemption of France. De-Gaulle then named the gov ernor, whose appointment had aroused much controversy among De Gaulle supporters, to the posi tion he asked. . . - - Mclntire Arrives In San Francisco ' SAN FRANCISCO, June 1-JP) Rear , Admiral Ross T. . Mclntire, surgeon-general of the United States navy who is on a tour of naval facilities, arrived here Tues day, night r ,:f " Admiral Mclntire, who is Presi dent Roosevelt's personal physi cian, scheduled a press conference tomorrow morning. He came here from the pacific northwest. ' . POUNDDD 1651 Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Jane 2 1943 Some Fawn IfYaDoe-n Wanna Obey - PORTLAND, June l-(iP-Tbe state - game commission Tues day asked Oregonlans to re frain from making pets of fawns foand wandering in the woods.. It's . against the law to take fawns heme without obtaining a permit, and besides, the little deer are getting along all right .anyway, the commission said. Just because a fawn is found alone is no Indication It has been deserted, officials explain ed. The doe probably is away for a few minutes browsing for food.; 0PA Orders Canned Milk On Ration List WASHINGTON, June l-(JPl Rationing of canned milk was or dered Tuesday night by OPA, act ing without warning to conserve diminishing supplies for babies. No ! actual restrictions were placed upon the purchase of evaporated and condensed milk for adolt use, bat canned milk will take red coupons, and most adults are expected to save the coupons for meat, butter : or . cheese. . J, '. - V : " The 'point, value was placed at one per pound, which means that the common tall can, 14 ounces, will cost one spoint The common small size, slxnteSvrilMtwTj for V point Since the minimum rationed purchase is one point however, anyone who buys a sin gle small can will still have to pay a full point , . ; ' -The order was made effective at midnight Tuesday. OPA said it was Issued at the request of the war food administration be cause production of canned milk has fallen ' 25 , per cent below expectations and because of huge army; navy and lend-lease requirements. ; ..';;,-; , wA saia specifically that no extra points, beyond the standard J 6 per person per week, will be made available to ordinary con sumers for the purchase of canned milk, since babies are eligible for their own ration books, and gen erally parents have been buying meat for themselves with the ba by's red coupons This will still be possible for parents of breast fed babies and infants drinking regular milk, and even those in fants who feed on formulas re quiring canned milk will not use all their points. The latter usual ly use one tall can per day, which would taken seven of the child's 16 weekly points. Eastern Gas Ration Gut WASHINGTON, June The office of price administration ordered a 17 per cent slash Tues day in the value of "B" and "C" coupons in the northeast and took other drastic steps which Admin istrator Prentiss M. Brown de scribed' as "tough." Beginning at midnight these gasoline rations will be worth 2 instead of three gallons from Maine to Virginia. L- Bus Strikers S till Adamant LONG BEACH, : Calif, June ' 1 (Py - Striking bus drivers whose walkout early Tuesday virtually paralyzed the public transporta tion system of this center of war industries, voted at . a meeting Tuesday night not to return to work pending negotiation of their demands. - Joseph M. Literall, strike lead er, said the action of the men was Unanimous. ; ' , Emmons-Hesinns Commission Post ' Resignation of C S. "Pat" Em mons of Salem . as claim . super visor for the state industrial acci dent commission, a ' post he has filled for two 'years, ; "was an nounced Tuesday,' . ; - - Ti Emmons said he would return June IS to the attorney general's staff, with which he was associat ed before taking the position with the accident commission. ... - n ; -' ' : a).icUfo)S US Subs Sink 7 Ships Japs Lose 400 Men In One Night Fight s On Attu Island WASHINGTON, J u n e Destruction of seven Japanese ships by American, submarines, striking vigorously: at the en emy's supply lines, was r an nounced by the navy, Tuesday as land . fighting on Attu moved toward a final cleanup of remain ing scattered pockets of , enemy resistance. A communique on the waning battle of Attu disclosed that more than 400 Japanese were killed in a . single night's fighting. This clean-up in the Chichagof harbor section apparently left only weak, comparatively minute groups ' of enemy soldiers to be cleared out of the northeastern end ; of the north Pacific island around Cape Khlebnikof, to ma k e conquest complete. , ' -, . A second war bulletin report . ed on submarine operations, an nouncing a destroyer sunk and the following auxiliary vessels also destroyed: one large tanker, one large cargo ship, two me dium sised cargo ships, one small cargo ship and one me diam sised transport In addi tion -a large tanker was listed as damaged and probably sunk. LThese successful submarine ac tion raised toZ40 the number of Japanese 'ships sunk or damaged by American undersea craft in- the war to date. The total consists of 169 ships sunk, 27 probably sunk and 44 damaged. Naval men here consider .the submarine campaign against ene my supply lines to have the clos est relationship with island fight ing such as that which has been in progress on Attu, since three weeks ago Tuesday. They empha size t h a t the enemy's steadily weakening maritime strength di rectly controls his ability to main tain farflung island outposts while on the other hand the American assaults on such places as Attu tax his overseas supplies facilities to the limit A navy communique reported (Turn to Paee 2 Story G) Convicts' Gun Victim Is Improved Robert E. Shields, 50, shot early Saturday morning when he defied a pair of fleeing Oregon state penitentiary convicts at his home near Mehama, continued to "show improvement at Salem Deacon ess hospital Tuesday, attendants there reported. : Shields. s timber faller for the Roaring- Klver Lamber com pany, was shot through the ab domen s few bouts before the two youths who had escaped from gu gangs in prison flax fields . here Friday afternoon were apprehended. ; V Still at large is George W. Dur ham, S3, who walked out of the flax yards after two guards had been disarmed by Merlyn Gene Kensler and Doyle Clark McCann. German A In 'Light LONDON, June l-i-G rowing feeling was evident Tuesday that Germany, : suffering . from : such wounds as those of Stalingrad and Tunisia, is reluctant to risk a new summer offensive in Russia while the British-American threat is poised. j::'v- . That feeling was supported ty Inferential acknowledgement of a aaaf commentator -that Hitler had lost the initiative, but there was some suspicion that German propaganda might be at work ta , all this. As the London Star pat it Stalin himself "believes tlt the enemy, plans yet esc mere grand assault upon the Had ar my. We la the west would be wise to take the same line and to remember dat IHHtr ruy still Price 5c No, 57 Okeli, George, Sure, George, Yeah; George! .: Naval cadets who wish to pass the buck at the Willamette uni versity naval , training center win be putting matters. Into ef ficient hands if they say "Let George do If and . then they ' might be getting Into trouble, George's on the . Willamette L camps are Lt George C. Bliss (s. g.), commanding officer . Capt George W. Shepard ef the naval ' medical corps . and George Herbert . Smith, presi dent of the university. Third Forest Fire Attempt Is Revealed PORT ORFORD, Ore, June 1 (JP)-The story of the third enemy attack on the Oregon coast a vain attempt by a lone plane, pre sumably Japanese, to start a for est fire was disclosed Tuesday. The attack occurred Sept 28 last, year, but was not announced for military reasons. The western defense command cleared the story Tuesday after : forest officials re ported the raid in congressional testimony. 7 A forest service fire lookout perched on a lonely, fog drenched mountain, had a ringside seat for the attack. " Lauren ; S. Giebner, whose tower commands a vast stand of Douglas fir east of this seaeeast village, said he heard an air plane motor early . September zf saw a flash through a fog haae, but was unable to see the plane. Two hours later be spot ted a fire, which was controlled without difficulty This was the second attack In September. On .September 9 a tiny seaplane dropped two incen diary bombs near " Brookings, - the first attack was on June 21 when shells were dropped, - probably from a ' submarine's guns, ' near Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia river. ' Unlike the Sept t attack, wit nessed by. several persons In. comparatively clear weather and spotted by air raid watchers almost as soon as the plane reached the coast line, the Fort Orford raid was obscured by fog. Giebner reported to his superior, Herschel' ObyeV supervisor of the Siskiyou- national forest at Grants Pass, as follows: Shortly after 5 a. nx, he heard the sound of a motor, northeast of his tower on Grassy Knob. At 532 a. m. he saw a flash of fire and heard a single blast He reported immediately to for est headquarters, and kept a sharp watch for flames. At 7:55 a. m, he saw them, in the deep, heavily timbered Dry Creek canyon, about (Turn to Page 2 Story D) ; Hoy Oregon's Congrcj icsmen Voted r WASHINGTON, June l.-(P)-Republicans A n g e 1 L Mott and Stockman of Oregon and Norman, Horan and Holmes of Washington voted Tuesday in the house to ad opt the conference tax report - In the senate Republicans Hol man and McNary of Oregon voted for a finance committee amend ment to the reciprocal trade agree ment legislation permitting con gress to terminate agreements six months after the war ends.' The amendment lost ttack on R ussia Said of Tunis, be stroag eaeagh to strike back at as." ' - With this qualification, a variety of reports and circumstances sug gested 1 timidity and uncertainty among German leaders: . Advice from creditable sources were that Rumania and . Hungary axis satellites have been esti mated by Prime Minister Church ill to have at -present 28 divisions on the Russian, front were stub bornly resisting further participa tion in the Russian campaign, ' ' Statement ever the Berlin ra- Cl cf Lt Gen. Cart Eletrr, leading nasi military eonntn tator. ibt those who mast at tack are ear opponents and not. -rsclvtJ." - May Save -Coal Unions Propose Temporary $1.50 a Day Portal-Portal Pay, According to Leivds ' ' . By the Associated Press :,j A walk out by 500,000miners paralyzed the nation's coal W dustry Tuesday night while a stormy battle raged In Washing ton over the negotiations in the wage controversy: i 1. Secretary Ickes, as fuel dministrator, called the work stoppage a "strike against the government and asked "that John L. Lewis, their president order the miners back to work. Ickes also accused a "few powerful operators' of deliberately opposing a compromise and demanded that both parties to the dispute do everything necessary to reach a speedy conclusion. . 2. The operators made known that they had telegraphed the war labor board that the United Mine Workers were "adamant in their .demand for $2 a day, no more, no less," and added that f'the operators await further directions from the board. 3. Lewis replied that the operators' statement was "a fla grant misrepresentation of fact,' and asserted the miners had proposed a temporary agreement providing for an increase of $1.50 a day portal to portal pay while a commission decided the actual length of underground travel time. He proposed to make the $1.50 payment retroactive to April 1 ? The operators, Lewis said, ob jected both to the amount of money and the retroactive fea ; ture." There were reports Tues day' night that the , operators had offered to pay for 48 min utes travel time a day. ' Lewis said Ickes had advanced the idea for a commission study of underground travel time with a temporary agreement mean time. He said Ickes had not sug gested a specific amount of pay ment -." . Bluntly, Ickes told Lewis that WASHINGTON, Jane ' 1 - (JP) Secretary Ickes : Tuesday rein stated . a "freeze" on coal la transit by railroad,, barring de liveries to consumers who have more than a fen-day supply of soft coal, or a five-day of an thracite on hand. -; - ' . the miners' head could not escape responsibility' for tbj cessation of work. '' "Without e o a I in adequate quantities we cannot win the. i war, Ickes, la his capacity as fnel administrator, said in a ' telegram to Lewis. "It is In tolerable that there should be a cessation of work for so much as one day." Ickes, in a like telegram to Ezra Van Horn,' chairman of the operators' committee negotiating with the union, denounced, too, "a few- powerful operators' who he said, had deliberately opposed compromiser, and demanded, that members- of both groups do every thing! necessary to reach a speedy conclusion. : Ickes stepped Into , the situa tion after it was apparent that the administration had arrived a the gravest domestic crisis of the war with the entire coal Industry virtually shut up tight There was no hint what the government Which is the opera tor of the industry, might do next if the miners' chieftain failed to comply with ' the Ickes request -; Preparing for the worst offi cials ' made ready ' orders for a sharp reduction - in train travel and a nation-wide dim-out should It beeomt apparent the strike would be protracted. ; ' -An 'official said the office of defense transportation was ready to clamp a ban on non-essential rail travel and order train mileage cut 25 percent if this should seem advisable. ; J The War Production Board's office ef war utilities said a . nation-wide dim-eat -ellmlna-Ung . all MB-essentlal use of ' electricity was a possibility al though estimating power com panies have a US-day supply ef coal oe band. The work stoppages, slowing (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Stali ngra Emerging, fact conceded dur ing the day by a high Spanish of ficial presumably friendly to the axisthat axis submarines had failed . to halt allied sea traffic which would be essential to Eur opean invasion.- '. -. Both' through Dietmar and . the neutral, press Germans were pre sented as an army standing on the defensive through 1943, and ob servers here concluded that if : a decision really had been made not to attempt a grand assault upon Russia this year it was a victory for the German generals over, the "intuition" with which Hitler has been conducting operations. Lim ited German aggressive action in the nature perhaps of a "defensive offensive"' intended to anticipate Pay-as-You-Go Tax Measure .WASHINGTON, June 1 -;p-Pay-as-you-go for America's 44, 000,000 individual income tax pay ers became virtually certain Tues day as the house passed and sped to the senate a compromise mea sure providing 75 to 100 per cent abatement of one year's taxes and Imposing a 20 per cent withhold ing levy against the taxable por tion of wages and salaries, ef fective July I.- . - 1 Quick passage was expected in the senate, and administration leaders said President Roosevelt would let lt become law. The 356 to 114. house vote rel egated to history the bitterest par ty legislative battle of recent years in which house republicans sup ported democrats opposed to var ious versions of the Ruml plan to skip an entire income tax year. I The bill received the votes of 89 ( democrats and 167 republicans, .' while 99 democrats, 12 republic ans and three minor party mem bers opposed it I i Tuesday's action was on a compromise devised . after leg- , IsIaUve . machinery ftll late a four-months stalemate on the Kami Issue. Kep. Kautson (K mhrn.) described the cotnpro- mlse as 25 per eeat of the Kami plan.- - .('. The bill provides: 1. 100 per cent abatement foe (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Davies Lands In Seattle SEATTLE, June l-i-Fonnei' Ambassador Joseph E. Davies fleW back to the United States Tuesday from his second "mission to Moscow.'- ; . ' ' ' - The surprise arrival In Seattle' was announced by Maj. Frank B. Williamson, army air transport de tachment commander here. . He was scheduled to remain here overnight. In his only statement issued through Major Williamson, Davies said:',-,,.,-. - '' "I am flying to Washington Im mediately to report to the commander-in-chief. President Roose velt : , . ' I Davies was In seclusion here. Major Williamson said he declined to be interviewed or make any ad ditional comment d defeat the real thing- by the Russians was seen as one likely course. r Berlin dispatches to the ' .- .... . . ( Stockholm newspaper Tldaingea l la neutral 8 wedea attributed to , : "mfermed Berlin qaartersw ad ' missions that Germany could ae longer deny the crippling ef , facts ef . defeats In Russia and Africa and the allied air attacks, and that she reqdred "a calm ' year" to restore herself. . Dietmar himself in his broad cast somewhat supported this mo tion. ':;-' y s "We can now reap the fruiij cf previous successes, he said. "We have won an area whose effective use makes it ever more difficult to attack us. Unlikely