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- r - 1 f ' War "Neves :. Allies Attack ; Near Italy's Boot (See Page 2) y i Dimoul Fri. sunset 8:56 -i Sat, snnrise 5:21 (Weather on Page 5) -: JflDQS TJ tD HGQ t SEEMS TO ME that the pio neers in flax growing In this val ley would rejoice to know, that this year twelve processing plants "will be operating here, , the orig inal state plant at the peniten tiary and eleven others, eight co operatives or farmer-owned, and "three private corporations. Many of these pioneers have passed on , Mrs. W. P. Lord. Tom Kay. Julius Meier, ; R. J. Hendricks. Walter Pierce, who as governor helped establish the state plant, lives to note the development. Of the eleven ; private, plants. three are the original coopera tives started some five years ago; . Canby, ; Mt. Angel, Springfield. Later plants, 4 farmer-owned ; ana operated, y are St. Paul, Harris burg, ,Molalla, , Dayton, Monroe. The ; three private corporation "are: one at Irving, near Eugene; : another northwest of Eugene; a third, the Leonard plant near SU ' verton. r-i it' i. The r"0-ylrr"1TT capacity of these plants -. would aggregate between 2400 and S000 tons of linen fibre a year. This "-would call for some OOO ton of flx, the produc ;tion of from 18,000 to 18,000 acres. That mill production will not be ' attained this .year. The season has I - been backward for retting.- Plants ; are having trouble keeping a full labor force. But there will be a large production, far in excess of what was dreamed of a few years ago. -.Crop prospects are, reported only fair, the cold spring retard - ing; straw growth. ' 'J i r -c , The two local mills, Salem Lin- - eh and Miles Linen, will not be . able to consume the valley fibre - nroduction. but the surplus is in .. strong demand - among eastern mills, for making of linen twine and cordage and for mixing with cotton in crash toweling. Linen fibre is a wartime "heces sitr. It is used in laree Quantities particularly, by the navy and the Salem Linen mill has had many navy contracts through the years. One great use for flax : fibre is for parachute harness "and web bing. This must be of ' great strength a n d .toughness, and there ' is no (Continued on editorial page). Free French'; Committee Is : S .iS . I;. - Established A r'vr rXJ":"'- t "', '.' ' ...ALGIERS; June 3 -r Of) -A .. "French committee of national lib eration" headed jointly by Gen- - erals Charles de Gaulle and Hen ri Giraud Was established formal ly Thursday to pursu the- wax 4t tBC side ot tb allies until total victory ore all enemy- powers," , including Japan. . . Fwrautin of this strong een t teal aatherfty to oppose Pierre Laval's axis-committed re rinse - gad to rally the French masses awaiting an allied invasion ef - Europe eame after almost seven . months patient effort to bring the two French groups under a single banner. Signs of tension began disap , pearing here immediately, re placed by a new spirit of concilia r tion in all official quarters! En thusiastic demonstrations occurred ; as the news spread. , , The seven-man committee, which is to be expanded to nine, : will direct the French-war effort until France is freed and able to . elect its own leaders. Besides the co-presidents G 1 r au d and De i Gualle, the other committeemen - are: Gen. Alphense J. Georges and Jean Monnet, named by Girand; I Bene Massigll and Andre Philip, (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Japs Lose Two Planes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, June 4-AP) Two Japanese planes were down Zed and another damaged '- in air activity Thursday w h 1 c h was -limited to minor engagements be cause of adverse weather, the high 'command announced. x One wen down as four enemy fighters unsuccessfully ; sought to intercept two allied four-motored , bombers which raided the harbor ; t Lautem on Timor.;" The other, a float plane, was 'downed and still anotherr-float . piano damaged out of six which tried i: to intercept heavy allied . bombers over Dobo, on the A roe Islands, 500 miles north of Dar win. Lack of Coal : ; Forces Shutdown CLEVELAND, June 3-CflVRe- ; public Steel xorp the nation's no.. 3 producer, notified ' govern- ment officials,. Thursday we are ' being forced to shut down one ; of our two blast furnaces in Bir- xningham," Ala, immediately be cause of inadequate coal supply which at present amounts to five days for full operations. We will have to bank the second furnace ' within another day or two." - trCftTTT TmiD YEAH Writing a Million Names on Ration Boolto i " , L 4 -L - ' , 1 i , - :" .. " - 1 J- . r : i ? I .. ... : ! mrn-i .annniWnwr -s -s i- - smiiii insn lr Sniiissf nmn ..r.. OJdl Sns ssV jfe -Tw. v .iJJJSsVi- -c r- w-a -f sspsssssisssspwsmossisssss 1 , . ,f i:pssssnaasssossssssssspiwiMsssssoffi i.ipsuii iwossnsnssasnsssoMBSisnsissoaassoass 'wy. japss VolanUrily, .'as a patriotio eontribation, inmates of the Oregon penitentiary are -filling In the names - of: more than s 'minion applicants olmost every person living in Oregon on copies of v ration book S, and preparing them for mailing. Upper picture shows inmates busy at this task In the big - - workroom Uhlch formerly was the prison dining JuUL Below; the work of two tscb volunteers b tnspsMKl lar CCA; WffeUlsiwbe ore, f ross the left. Snperrtsor A. E. Lefor, District Director Kichard a MUsmery, an Assistant State Kationfasg Officer W. Jt. EHjuUL Stotesaaan pnotos. ' r Penitentiary Inmates Begin Ration Book 3 Addressing Volunteer Workers To 'Sign' 1,235,000 . Separate 'Editions9 By RALPH C CURTIS j. - - Inscribing the name of every non-military-y resident of Ore gon approximately 1,235,000 names all told on separate copies of ration book 3, and ad dressing them for mailing to more . than 350,000 addresses throughout the state, is the task voluntarily undertaken and this week ' enthusiastically begun by inmates of Oregon's penitentiary. What's more, they are doing a competent, accurate Job oi it, ac cording to OPA officials superin tending the task. One inmate, a man of broad experience in office management and routine, volun teered to assist in planning the routine of distributing the appli cations .among the individual workers and assembling the pro cessed ration books for mailing. His! floor plan for the big work room the old prison dining hall was adopted, it was revealed by Richard G, Montgomery, district OPA director, who was in Salem on Thursday to check up on pro gress to date in this gigantic project. Willingness of the inmates to perform, this . labor has made it possible to avoid placing an ex traordinary burden upon the reg ular ; volunteer workers : at this time, leaving them available for routine tasks which are numerous- enough, Montgomery pointed out. - - -. :vv" ; The state's wards are taking to the task enthusiastically, accord ing to W. R. Edlund assistant state rationing officer for OPA. who is In general charge of the project This is a busy season at the "big house," only 50 to 75 men are available for a day crew but each night 150 or more men who al ready have put in a normal day's work, devote several more hours to processing the ration books. LTbey have accepted it as a patri otic contribution they are able to make though as a matter of fact most, of them likewise prefer a task of this nature to h a v i n g merely "time on their hands." .About 25,000 ration books dai ly are now being processed, said A. F. Lefor, OPA supervisor un der whose direction the books are routed and the work checked for (Turn to Page 2 Story D) 18 PAGES v7 Mayhe They Had fA-V Priorities - KANSAS CITY-iSVThe Lawrence Die holds always bad wanted a baby girl since their marriage eight year age. : Bat the first child was a boy, so was the second and so was the third. " ; .. Wednesday: they had triplets all girls. Rumors Rife As Davies Ends Mission WASHINGTON, June! Z.HPi Joseph EL Davies completed his "second mission to Moscow" Thursday and set this c a p 1 1 a 1 speculating whether it meant a meeting has been . arranged for President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill. - ' :.. ; .; . - . The former ambassador to Mos cow,' returning from a special mis sion there, arrived in Washington by air at 4:51 pm. and went at once to the White House, where he delivered a reply he brought from Stalin to a confidential let ter from Mr., Roosevelt. ; Then he spent about two hours conferring with the president " ; WLB Hearings Bogged Down PORTLAND, June Ef forts of the national labor rela tions board trial Examiner Robert L. Denham to wind up the Kaiser shipyard r labor hearing i bogged down Thursday as rival attorneys failed to agree on stipulations.. Declaring the afternoon session a total loss, Denham warned coun sel to be prepared tomorrow to stipulate or put witnesses 6n the stand." The stipulations concerned testimony which would be offered by rebuttaf witnesses ! for the NLRB and AFL should they be called.' . r. s - -; u. ;;- v. .. s Cdena. Father Draft Expected Soon By Executive PORTLAND, Jane FaUiers who have bnt one child may be called for military ser vice soon, Lawrence A. Apoley, Washington, DC, exeentlvo di rector of the war . manpower commission, said Thursday. T "I ; think they wiU be called in large numbers within a short time," he told an Oregonian re porter. "We're not looking for the drafting of men over 38, but of course there's always a possibil ity. The " manpower commission isn't f expecting this because the war has turned in favor of the United Nations . . .. but the axis isn't defeated yet, so we have to continue drafting men." . : Appley, who spent two days in vestigating the manpower situa tion K here, ' described Portland's labor situation as "critical. He left for Seattle Thursday. Salem Man Gted WASHINGTON, June 5 -VP-First Lieut Leroy V. Casey, Salem, was ; among 10 Oregon men ' cited Thursday for exceptional aerial performance in the Tunisian cam paign. He was awarded the oak leaf cluster to the air medal, t ' CHUNGKING, China Jane t (JPy Supported by an American Chinese air force which donuW nated the central China skies a a dr waa shooting Japanese . planes down at the rate ef If 'to L the Chinese armies swept: Thursday night, to , the sonth bank oT the Yanstse and were separated only - by that great river from the mala Japanese base of Ichang in Hopeh prov--7 ince. r.".-' '"'- vS ; Farther down the ritter, other Chinese troops were declared in a special 'communique of Chiang Kai-Shek's cornmand to ; h aye trapped 4000 of the Japanese In vaders 30,000 of whom were -of Oregon, Friday Morninij. June .Bsiclk m 300 Germans Killed 2000 Are Wounded ' In Ghetto Pogrum v - STOCKHOLM, June 3 -ff- Desperate J e w' a, " defending themselves at barricades in a pitched battle that lasted three weeks, killed 300 Germans and wounded more than 2000 when German elite troops fought to 11 quidate the Warsaw ghetto re cently, a secret Polish radio sta tion heard here said Thursday night - " The station, Radio SWIT, said the action began April 12 when the Germans marched on the 35,- 000 Jews still left of the original 4,000,000 crowded in the walled ghetto. The Jews fought at the barri- . cades an til April 24. Then street and house fighting began as the .Germans pressed in with the aid -of artillery, machine ; guns, flame-throwers and even lisbt bombing planes, the broadcast .'aid;;---;. ' . l- - Blocks of buildings were blown sky high by mines. Sections of the ghetto were set afire. ; 7" But even after water, gas and electricity were shut off the Jews Continued to defend themselves. -Two tnoiJsandwStfeir In " tba street fUbttor and 300 were ' killed by the fires the report aid, The Gernufia, finally wlfi ning oat, deoorted H.OOt to the - It was the same station that on April 21 broadcast: "The last 35,000 Jews in the ghetto 'at Warsaw have been con demned -i to execution. Warsaw again is echoing toj musketry vol leys. ' The people are murdered. Wo men and children defend them selves with their naked arms, -"Save us . . . The station then suddenly went dead. - (Rabbi Irving Miller of New York, ' secretary general of the world Jewish congress, asserted in London May 14 that 40,000 Jews had i been murdered or forcibly removed from the Warsaw ghet to in the preceding ten days. V ; (He said the action was taken when the Jews revolted against in human treatment : and killed 60 German officers and men.) Daily Coal Loss 2,000,000 Tons PITTSBURGH, June, 3-(iP)-The three-day-old walkout of the na tion's miners is causing a daily tonnage loss of more than 2,000, 000 ; tons, unofficial reports from 18 coal producing states disclosed Thursdays as industrial , supplies diminished and curtailment of pro duction, appeared probable in the foremost war metal steel. , Firm Gets Contract WASHINGTON, June 3 UP) Henrr J. Carl. Salem. Ore has been awarded a war department contract for construction, of tem porary frame' buildings and ap purtenances in Benton county. Ore. The contract was for less than $50,000. ficially declared already to have fallen as casualties. Jn - yet another drive in .the counter-offensive now . throwing the Japanese back all ' along the upper Yangtze fronV-Chinese col umns; crossed Into Hupeh from Hunan ' province,, 'said the. , high command, and surrounded - the Japanese position of Jungan, this some 70 miles southeast of Ichang. The main .drive on Ichang, . which had advanced 32 miles ' within less than a week, earlier had overrun and reoccupied the towns of Changyang and Chfh kiang, , respectively 12 ' and 35 miles south of that base. : So complete was American-Chinese mastery aloft that ia two 4L 1S43 .- One Miner Carries On Tor His Boy9 . UNIQNTOWN, Pa Jane tj (A) Charles Hartman, Si-yoar-eld strapping six footer, carried - en his self-styled "one man rebellion"., against the coal strike Thursday, going Into the . mine-aU the Palmer works of the IL C. FrkkCoke company near here for the third straight day. - . . - , . . . ' . Leaving te.go' to work on the 3 p. nLf shift he has been the only coal, digger . to report since the walkout started on Tuesday he said: -' r . "My boy was sent to Africa to do a job- and Tye got a Job to -'do here. " : " : '.v'; " Mrs. Hartman, a kindly, gray haired woman, expressed some .eoneern over her husband's-e-termination to work.- H I -But, she said, -He's work ing because eur bey is , over there." Stimson Hints Blow Agaiiist Japan Readied WASHINGTON, June 3(P) Secretary of War Stimson gave an offhanded indication Thursday of attacks to come on the terri tory -of Japan'propert and the na vy "emphasized it shortly . after ward .. with a report : of further mopping up on Attu island in the Aleutians and an air attack on the now-isolated Japanese b a s e at Kiska. ri-v , . ' ' -v-v;, Secretary Stimson's comment, limited to the eaonal, matter-offset remark that the virtnolly completed recaptnre of Attn pats 'American forces Mln strik ins; distance of Japanese terri tory . cum in Ms recnlar press eonference. He would go no further, turn ing away requests for elaboration with the remark that "it's a pretty- long distance' from the re gained American position in the (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Back From Bond Meet Irl S. McSherry, executive di rector for the Oregon division of the National War Fund, arrived home Thursday from a trip I to New York where plans for organ izing the country for the drive for funds next October were dis cussed. Representatives were pre sent from all the states, with Win- throp W. Aldrich presiding. One of the ' important . addresses, ' Mc Sherry reports, was that given by John'D. Rockefeller. --i v - - - A state naeettnar to perfect the Oregon organisation will bo held la Salem next Wednesday at ten a. m. in the public hearing room at the state eanltei, called -by - Charles A. Spragne, stale jchairman. Frank J. Lonergan, state chairman of USO, one ef the agencies to be supported by the fnnd, will speak, also Jess Card,' representing .United Chi ne Relief. State offices will be opened to day in rooms S and 8, Ladd and Bush building, with Mr. McSher ry in charge. Mrs. Carle ton E. Spencer will be office secretary. days allied pilots had destroyed a minimum of 28 Japanese planes, and probably 38, against two al lied planes lost. American,' bomb era got , 20 Japanese, planes in a single action., -'. ' ' ' . This sir support, the most ef- feetive ever given the Chinese armies, waa carried on to evt np the retreating invader. On a' single avenue of Japanese re treat, the road back from Changyang, Chinese dispatches estimated t h a t- allied planes alone had killed more than 1589 enemy troops struggling on the ground. , :- . The enemy's behavior under this lethal fire convinced alL'td airmen that this waa his first rt&l McSherry -' - ... .. t ' lJ ::f n - ( - o..Hr VUJUL- SSU UU UJ Drire Aimed at Nazi Kuban Bridgehead Near Temryuk LONDON, 'Friday, June 4(JP) The Red army has sprung a hew; offensive "near ' Temryuk on 'the Sea ,pf Azov in an ef fort 1 to "split 'German forces" clinging to1 the swampy' Kuban bridgehead, but has not achieved any "lasting success, the Berlin radio said Thursday night: A Tass report quoted front dis patches as saying that air forces of both sides were making "thou sands of flights per day" in ac celerated skv -fichtin? over tho Caucasus, but there we? e few So viet details on the land struggle. Moscow's midnight bulletin recorded early today by the Soviet Monitor vsed the week old phrase wfightlng con tinned' to : describe operations in the Taman peninsula between Nov orossisk on the Black sea coast and Temrynk on the sea of Asor. . -. : - German broadcasts recorded by the ; Associated Press said the at tack on Temryuk, on the ; Ger man left .'.flank, i was launched without any cessation In red army attacks on, Krimskaya, a point be- tweenTemryuk and Novorossisk. ' ..."This is meant to " be not, only a diversion, but is aimed to spilt the- German forces." - " , It k In this area that the Ger man radio 14 boors ago . ac knowledged that "weak rem nants' of soviet forces had bro ken through to the sea ef Asev in! an obviona effort to oetso. thin Important nosnt msr tho' Kerch strait aeroos wnlefet Ger man supplies are ferried from the CMmea One German broadcast said so viet airmen were repeatedly at tacking the few supply roads leading back to the Kerch strait, and also were strafing German cargo boats" in the strait. The heavy' air action was net confined to the Caucasus. A Mos cow broadcast said long-range Russian bombers flew 250 ' miles west of Kharkov in the Ukraine to faid Kiev Wednesday night, and .also attacked RoslavL a rail way Junction between Smolensk and Bryansk on the central front. In addition a transport and tog were sank la the Gulf ef Finland " by soviet ail nun, the. midnight eommnnio.no said, and ships and aircraft combined to sink an enemy transport, mine sweeper and two patrol ships in the Barents sea. Blood Donation Hits 500 Pints More than 500 pints of blood had been donated by -Thursday night through the Red Cross blood plas ma bank by prisoners at the Ore gon state' penitentiary here, offi cials at the prison said. One hundred twenty volunteers were on hand to give to the blood bank Thursday when the mobile unit rolled between the guards at the prison gates. An army doctor. assisted by Red Cross nurses con ducts the "clinic which has be come a weekly event at the pri son, i 5. experience of heavy assault front the air. , .. -lV;'t-- :;. Japanese " communications to Ichang were in imminent danger; the . city Itself appeared directly threatened.- -.'-:.-'.; v . . As dispatches from the front pictured unbroken Chinese suc cesses in this greatest victory of six years of war in the China the atre, the spokesman announced that 100,000 Japanese troops had been' turned back in the . battle and that of this number 30,000 had fallen as casualties. , ; 'He pointed 'out, however, that five Japanese divisions, previous ly : reported to have been encir cled. Lad a line of retreat std open. 3 9 No. 53' TPT Refusal Blay Bring ; Troops, Drafting : (x Of All Strikers : . WASHINGTON, June S -UPl'? Prlcs Sc. liiii President Roosevelt; acting as war-time wmmander-in-chief, Thursday flatly ordered some " 500,000 striking mine f workers to return, to work Monday and drastic measures were re ported in store in case'they dis obey. ... ,:'. '.-- Backing to the limit the war labor board which John L. Lewis has defied. Mr. Roosevelt when "the miners return to their "war duties" the disposition of the dismite "will forthwith. ceed, under the jurisdiction of the J war labor board and In . accord- ance with the customary and esl tabllshed procedures governing all cases or this sort," " There was no early conclusive indication of what the miners may ao. William Hargest, secretary- Treasurer of the United Mine Wor kers, district S, said at Pittsburgh ' VTASIIXNGTONr Jane I -VF) Aatborities on the selective ser- t vieo net paid 'Thnrsdop night Fresldent moooeroIt cI o a r I y ' -coald nse It, if he fonnd advis able, to prat pressnre en the stri kinc coal miners to retnrn to ha didn't know but his first guess Is that they won't go back" un ess ordered to do so tlirouarh imm arrangement of the UMW oolirv committee. A Kentucky union of ficial, who withheld use of his name, expressed doubt the pres idents order would have much ef fect vv,; .. ! . , The president made no mention of what he would do if the strike continued in fact his terse state ment did not seem to recognize even a possibility that the order could be ignored.' Responsible sources said he was ready to resort to use of troops, the draft laws and other measures if-necessary. P Moreover, it was stated on hlah authority that the sovernment m considering seriously the Question of whether men who have struck (Turn to Page 2 Stary A) In Explosion CUMBERLAND, Md., June lUPl Between 35 and 40 persons were injured, at least rive of them ser iously, when an explosion virtu ally wrecked one building of the Celanese corporation of America's plant Thursday. No deaths were reported. .-. j l. Ten persons were admitted "to the Memorial hospital and eight to the Allegheny general hospi tal, while other were treated at the1 plant's first aid station. The city health department dis patched four boxes of blood plas ma to Memorial hospital, where the more seriously injured work ers were taken. f . ' "The ward encirclement had ' - been interpreted in a liberal ' way. The Japanese were driven ' .back along an arch shaped line. We did not mean they were be- ing annihilated. They are being " cot np and dispersed with small- -' er anlta being lianldated. The ) v enemy moved back in confusion and disorder, he said. . (The Japanese, although assert ing that a Chinese army had been "annihilated, in a Tokyo broad cast obliquely employed the lan guage of defeat, saying .that Japa nese operations in central China had been "successfully concluded and all Japanese forces who par ticipated have been brought back to their bases." Many Injured .......... ' -. ;.