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11 o Hyp cm?0 in. SI. itaHiam- 'IKD POOLE; n a a. n i-ii n ix, in v xii v. i r, IT SEEMS TO ME that legis lators hardly get . home before some one starts ttTagitate about a . special - session. Whether. It comes from the "third house" who thrive best when a legislative as sembly is in progress, with its clerkships, lobby errands, etc- or from the hope of individuals or interests that in another session some special legislation may be obtained, X don't know. But the talk always 'bobs up, even when political skies are almost entirely clear. - Just now the "wise guys' fore see a special session because of . the throttling down of liquor sales to one-pint-per-week-per-person. That, it Is predicted, wm so re duce the 1 profits ; of the liquor mmmhitrvn that the funds for old age pensions will run short Hence a special session will be required to devise ways and means to dig up substitute revenues to take care of the old folks. ; .' ; Saw one" legislator Saturday who predicted a session and the cancellation of income tax reduc tion enacted by the session Just closed. But Sen, Coe McKenna would be on hand to argue for a special election sfb pass on his sales tax proposal. So there would be a battle from the time the gavels of presiding officers fell. 5 Maybe so; maybe so. But let s not jump to the 'special session idea immediately on announce ment of the second halving of the liquor ration. The revenue drop has not yet been realized. For Anril. : the last month for which reports are ready, the profit was up a hundred per cent over tne preceding April. The catch ap pears i to be in tbis Dquor per mits Issued jumped nearly twice -the former number. Which means that in many case two instead of one member of the family are permit - holders, which Insured legal purchases of at least two quarts per week. Now, to be sure, it will not be so easy to have four members of a. family holding permits to protect" "sup- ' tlies. - i ? .-, " The test . is going to come on . the commission s - ability to get merchandise for resale. With pro duction stopped and consumption looming distillers a r e limiting their own sales, even though they started out, with several years supply on hand. There is still the possibility that WPB may permit the resumption of whisky-making afte r - (Continued on Editorial page) J ; Roberts Dairy Barns Razed In Huge Blaze " With a loss estimated between $50,000 and J75.000, the big milk ing bam, horse barn and machine : shops of John J. , Roberts Sun shine dairy on the South River Road burned to their concrete " foundations late Monday and ear ly this morning. The fire, believed to have start ed by a short circuit in cooling equipment, was first noted at 9:15 after the 70 cows had been milked and turned out again to pssfure. No livestock was lost, but all the milk wagons and modern , dairy equipment went up or melted down in the blaze as Salem city firemen and dairy employes fought until dawn to save the residence buildings. Late Monday afternoon the res idence on route four, across from Indian Hill farm, occupied by Mrs. E. L. Hamline and owned by Mrs. Eva" Hogan of Lyons burned to the ground, with loss ' of everything except furnishings from down stairs rooms. City firemen went but found only a shell of the buil ding standing and - a shortage -of water to fight the blaze.' . OPA Advises Wo. Pleasure Driving9 PORTLAND, June 7-Py-Ore-gou motorists were advised by the district OPA Monday to cease all pleasure driving. "No one has a moral right to do any . pleasure driving at all," said McDannell Brown, chief en forcement attorney for the agen cy. The family driving allowance of 0 miles a month was not intend ed for: pleasure trips, he said, but for such necessary purposes as visiting the doctor and hopping. - . Brown said that ration boards will be notified when cars with B or C stickers" are found at fish ing stream or summer resorts. . Jilan Is Honored - ' EAN DIEGO, Califs June 1-JF) Aviation rdnanceman V. N Col lins, from Central Point, Orcj was named honor man of a class of 35 bluejackets graduated Monday by the aerial free gunnery training school at the naval air station here. - ' ' Collins topped the class with a hli dark of fiL2. TA .VilUinM(t? ;:tuTdDrDDS Enemy Bombing9 LONDON, June 7-dP- The axis! was at pains Monday "to suggest that Spain might be the path of allied invasion of Eu rope dispatches from both Ber lin and Rome taking that line. The allied leaders drew ene my nerves 1 yet tauter by ' the bland mask thrown over their plans, and the best available in formation dedicated that confu sion was spreading in Italy. One of the most interesting cir cumstances was the fact that the Germanswho so far as could be seen . here were doing nothing to reinforce 4 their, Italian partner seemed to be doing nothing to dis courage the belief that Italy was reeling. ; -. The organ of Relchsnurshal Goerin. , th Essener ' National ZelUmg, svvclalmedirThe Ital- WASIONGTON Jane The ".war department- Monday ' sdchi ajuioneed the retsra. from ' overseas of Gtn. Georce C Marshall, army chief of staff. " No details were given, but Marshall was reported to have accompanied Prime Minister Winston Churchill to North Africa for an on-the-spot re view of plans to carry the war to the European continent. lans must stand up under bombings; they have to do it to win ihe war or they can't ex- ist.-, x : - From Stockholm, the Associa ted Press correspondent remarked that acknowledgement of Italy's shaky position was being accom panied by an apparent attempt to divert attention in the direction of Spain, and: it . was recalled that accusations that the allies were about to attack, this or that, country- have often been 'used by the axis to cover up a planned attack of their bwn. y .:. Neatral : observers ' travoUna recently in German 7 said In Stockholm that responsible Germans had readily conceded their belief Italy was in sx bad way and that some had even1 predicted the Italians weald be sable to last another two months. 4 ;;l.s"-. Here in London where Prime Minister ChurchUl's round of war conferences was continuing and the i time- and place , of the next major allied moves remained thorough secrets, the British press seemed agreed on two points: j; That detailed orders have now been given to the commanders who will carry them out, and that the nature of those orders will be known only when the guns open un. ' Anti-Strike Bill Whetted l WASHINGTON, June 7--A Joint conference committee sharp ened Monday the teeth of an anti strike bill- designed to prevent j recurrence of the walkout In the coal fields but postponed a final decision, on some of its provisions until tomorrow. Members said the conferees agreed to write into it a section which would provide a fine and imprisonment for any person In citing a strife in a government operated war plant or mine addi tional language s which would make such penalties apply to any one who agreed with another per son to aid a strike which inter fered with production. . - J . Ambassador To Russia Gets Riled Over Visiting Diplomatic 'Firemen ! By EDDY GILMORE , MTVV YORK. Jane 7-P-The United States ambassador -to- the Soviet Union Admiral WfiUam C Etandley was planning no immediate resignation when I told hlra goodbye on a Snssian airport a few day ago, bat: fa probably will not go throagh another winter. .This is pot because of the chin ing blasts of Moscow and Kuiby shev but because of a little f rigid diplomatic air which breezes - in from time to time' from his own country. -"-l Y. - : -:; As the admiral (for most" of those who know tliis distinguished man of the navy call him that) said recently: "You know, I "don't feel that I'm trying to make tr.j tz.r r. I yjyniR' I V : ; I V) 'i 'A I fit 1 KIT '-;v5. iiD YEAH .A. A. V N Axis; Base aided. Heavy Air Action Marks Resumption : Of Soviet Battle , LONDON, Tuesday, June 8 Strong German i ; feeler thrusts into Soviet lines were smashed back Monday on three main sectors, the Russians re ported early today, but the main action on the long front still ap peared to be in the air, with red army and German airmen trad ing especially heavy blows Sun day, night a. . . '; ; - - Soviet bombers smashed at the nazi-held railway junction of Un echa in the Orel district, pounding ammunition, fuel and arms dumps and " : concentrations of enemy trains moving troops up to the front, a Moscow : broadcast de clared. x ... ;;. 1 1. ; - "Many fires broke out : and heavy explosions .wore ob served. said the broadcast, re corded by the Associated Press. It reported only one . Russian plane lost The radio declared 12 German planes- were shot down out of a force of about 100 that struck-at Gorki, industrial center on the Volga some 250 miles east of Moscow. : The Germans declared the raid was the third successive night at tack on Gorki, and that their planes set huge fires with 500 tons of explosives and 100,000 Incendi aries. The Russians said bombs hit in residential areas, causing damage and casualties, while the Germans, reported widespread - (Turn to Page 2 Story I) . Wonder Hoic He Got the Idea? ? . LONDON, Jane 7-(P- As American soldier presumably ; the son of. the nun who bought the Brooklyn bridge purchased London barrage balloon , for I1S0, Scotland Tard reported : Monday , night. h t ; ": ;: k -The soldier told police that 'a man came np while be 'was walking through Hyde Park and said "Would yOa like to take a barrage balloon home as a sou venir of war?" flow mwh,' asked the sol dier, thinking of the folks back home. 5 , - ?; "One honored and eihty dol lars, cash. - : t "How soon can H be packed and ready? "Calf back In an boar. The soldi.fr is trying, to Iden tify the salesman from Scotland . Yard photograph files. ; - feel I've already made It I made it In the navy. I don't have any ambitions over here.' I'm not try ing to change any world's I am Just trying to serve my country In the only way I know how The admiral gets along - fine with the Russians." lie's a plain speaking, blunt man and the Soviets like that He has had no major7 differences with them. They like and respect him. The admiral likes the Russians. He likes -particularly Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin and Mikoyan. The thmsr that Is freezing oat the admiral I the visiting dip ; lomatic firemen men from his own country who f!y Into his -diplomatic preserve wi:h spec ial missions and special mes i?ics, most f Uch tLe Ur,::;3 JR 14 PAGES Air Ar; Lashes Island Outposts Take Severe ? Pounding A T.I .TED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 7 -F) Tearing apart the axis air oppo sition at the rate of 19 enemy planes - destroyed to one allied craft lost, thundering . squadrons of allied bombers and fighter- bombers held the Italian islands and Italy herself under almost unbroken attack over the week end. . Communiques issued Monday here and in Cairo briefly told a story of shattering assaults all along the Italian' Mediterranean island defenses, against both sides of the .Messina Strait of Musso lini's homeland. : : r v . Allied planes sweeping out from North Africa and the middle east threw their .greatest raids against the long- punished island of Pan telleria, but Sicily and the main land supply ports of Messina, San Giovanni and Reggio Cajabria al so were hard hit. .The allies threw in virtaally every sort of plane In the' great force built up- along the' shores . of Africa .Wellingtons, Fortres ses, Liberators, BalUmorcs," Dos tons, Maranders, Mitchells, P- 40s, Spitfires. p:'-:. " They -again met considerable German fighter strength, particu larly over f Pantelleria, but they smashed : through every enemy formation downing , an aggregate of 16 fighters, two bombers and one ! transport at the cost of single allied plane lost over Pan- telleria. : ...;,;-; :vl . 1 The biggest single blow ; dealt the enemy's fighter strength was struck by 50 Liberators of ... the middle east command which went over to pound Messina, Reggio Calabria and San Giovanni. They destroyed at least eight axis plane s, and in all probability three more, of an enemy force of about 30. None of the 50 American raid ers was lost Pantelleria was hit first by heavy bombers and then by medium . and fighter - bombers, eight enemy fighters being shot dnra;r':-:t' ? '' ... .. At Messina, the railroad yards were , sprayed with bombs, and explosives fell also in the vicini ty i of the power- station, naval barracks and - oil tanks. Bomb bursts lighted up Reggio Cala bria's harbor area." The ferry .ter minal at San Giovanni was squarely: hit ', Free ; French : Name Cabinet ALGIERS,, June 7-(P-The French, committee of national lib eration officially announced for mation of a cabinet of 11 members Monday night to act as the gov erning agency, until a provisional government is established upon liberation of the home country. " State ambassador doesn't know . abont and doesn't have explain ed to him. ; Since Standi ey has been ambas sador there have been several pro minent visiting firemen such as Wendell Willkie, Patrick Hurley, Averell Harriman and most lately Joseph E. Da vies. - " v-; ; In more than one case the first news the United States ambassa dor to the Soviet union got of these gentlemen .was - when he heard, it over the British broad casting system. - In one case" he cabled to ask what it was all about and In at least one case he never did get a reply. - - , ' The admiral waited, and it might be added, fumed fumed - (Turn to Pfie 2 Story D) Italy PvUNDHD tCZt C!esx Oregon, Tuesday Mornlnc;. Junsj 2. 1313 Chinese Continue Gains CHINA I UBMeCT h honInT" CHUNGKING V 0TJfcn' ' Atf Chinese forces (black arrows) have captnred Nanhslen on the Vaartxe river front and are fighting tn the streets of Itn, below the Japa ; nest base at Ichang, the Chinese high command announced Jane 4. Underlined cities have been recaptured by the Chinese, while shad - lnr indicates Japanese salient Associated Press Telemat. . ' ... . a , ' - " Yankee Warplanes HamriwrlChinqM CHUNGKING, June' 7(')-United States warplane lashed out at the Japanese all along the upper Yangtze' battlefront Sunday in support of heartened Chinese troops who continued to hurl the enemy back La one of his biggest defeats in China. " - . The Chinese high command said more than 1000 Japanese See Court Decides Mail Address Obeys Draft WASHINGTON, June 7.-Pf The supreme court ruled Monday that t a draft registrant satisfies the - requirement of keeping . his draft board informed: of his whereabouts when he provides a chain, of forwarding addressees through which he can reasonably expect to receive an - induction notice In time to report for serv ice. . The I'l decision, delirered by Jastiee Reed, npset the eon vie- -Uon of Homer Lester Bartchy. Honstonv Tex on a charge; that ; he knowmgly failed to keep his draft board advised of the ad dress where mall ; wonld reach him. "-'" Bartchy, . who joined the mer chant marine while his induction was imminent, contended that he had told his draft board that an induction notice sent to the Na tional Maritime union in . Hous ton Would reach him. He later went to New York, and, he said, told the union office there that he was expecting a letter from the board. ', In another case affecting mili tary service, hte court held that legislation providing ; p o s t pone- men t of civil suits involving sold iers or sailors should be "liberally construed,' but that it does not apply to a soldier stationed In Washington when - the ' evidence indicates be has not ' sought a leave from service to defend him self in the court The decision, the first by the eo art interpreting the soldiers' and sailors' civil relief act, had - (Turn to Page 2 Story J) Chile Cabinet- it by Crisis ii.1L SANTIAGO, Chile, June 7 Quickly resolving a sudden cabi net crisis, President Joan Antonio Rios Monday night named a new group of ministers who immed iately took the oath of office. -', The president however, an nounced that his trip to the Unit ed States, which was to have be gun June 15 or 17, was indifi nitely postponed because the gov ernment needs him at this time and he "should net tbandon Vr.t country and shall not do to. r v j .-..- ing in all 4irecUons from Itu, Yangtze port IS miles r below Ichang, were killed or wounded Sunday In a ' mopping operation at that place,, and that a number of strategic points were seized, in the area south of the Yangtze be tween Ichang and Shazi. . - The Chinese contained toward the river all night along the Une la sen them Hapeh and northern . Hanaa provinces and reported snore than , 296 of the ' enemy killed Japanese communications eat and garrisons raided. ' The Chinese" central nees said the American air force was giving strong support to this drive; cov ering many key Japanese positions around the town with explosives Sunday. Fighters of the 14th US air force of Major Gen. Claire 1 Chennault swept the 70-mile stretch of the Yangtze between Ichang and S na si on Sunday, strafing Japanese retreating in junks and other small craft '. Mitchell bombers and Warhawk fighters scored hits on runways and revetments In an attack on Pailoki, a Japanese air force head quarters 140 miles down river from Ichang; and the Warhawks hit a second airdrome at Shasi, de stroying a plane, a truck and an operations shack. - . - The Warhawks smashed more than 15 tracks and shot np bar racks and shelters in a snrprlse attack on a motor pool at Tang yang, dive-bomber a bridge near Pachi, and destroyed two loco- -motives between Paehl and Yo chow. .-v;-.-: v.;. The United States communique I said no American planes were lost 1 Committee Drafts Budget For Hearing On July 6 A city . budget remade for the third time last night goes to pub lie hearing Tuesday night July C. Adopted, it would require the total possible levy of $379,C44.5 or $20,000 more than this year. -By deleting the unusually large emergency fund left by the spe cial. taSoring committee, members of the citizens' budget committee Monday ' night managed to give an added $10 boost to five groups of city employes, put back into the budget funds to retain a city building inspection department as such, but cut appropriations in the engineer's office by the amount of the salary proposed for his depu- the srcdal ccnuziitcc's surges XLt. Cs s: ry in r i r. i , i KisEca'Hit By; Meayy Bombing- Liberators, Venturas Dravc Thick Fog to Blast Jap Base - - WASHINGTON, Jnno American pilots, flying throagh . perpetual fogs of the Aleutians, hav pennded the Japanese on Kiska. again with their heavy bombs, the navy . aanoaneed Monday. ; . . -Big army Liberators ' and : the new and highly effective Ventura medium bombers joined in the at tack. Not even anti-aircraft oppo sition was reported. "Due to a, heavy overcast re sults of the attack could not be observed, , the navy's commun ique said. ..,. However, It could bo assumed t that a large portion of the heavy .bombs found tbelr marks, con tinuing tho campaign to weaken the enemy positions on Kiska and ultimately to force the Jap ' anese ont of that major base. . - Renewed aerial assaults in the South Pacific also . were, reported, including another raid on Munda which has been bombed countless times by American planes. ' Dauntless dive bombers, Aven ger, torpedo planes and Wildcat fighter escorts took ' part in the raid on Munda, an enemy base on New Georgia Island in the central Solomons. Results were not ob served, but all American planes returned safely to their base. . , Another group of fighter planes flew - out to . strafe Japanese . on Choiseul island just north of the New . Georgia group. . Fire from the Lightning and Warhawk fighters silenced enemy gun em placements on Choiseul, and all planes returned. ; . Olson Seen As Nevead- Of Legion Unless other nominations are made at the next meeting. John Olson, who is first vice command er of Capital Post No. 9, Amer ican Legion, will succeed Ira Pil- cher as commander. Olson's name was the only one offered for this office at 'Monday, night's meet ing. .The election will be held at the first July meeting.- Mem Pearce, adjutant for sev eral years, ' declined to seek . re election. Ralph Campbell was the lone nominee for that office. Nominees for first vice presi dent were B. E. "Kelly Owen and Stanley Krueger; for second vice-commander. Rex Kimmell and I. N. Bacon; for finance offi cer, Harry. Caldwell; for chaplain, C. V. Richardson, incumbent; for sergeant-at-arms, Paul Gemmell; for historian, Irl S. McSherry, In cumbent; for quartermaster, - E. M. Phillips. "'''J!.' ' Nominees for places on the exe cutive committee were . J. Scel- ; (Turn to Page -2 Story II) spector be placed in the health de partment . budgeteers declared such a move might endanger and would surely; remove the services of Batty Cooper, sanitary inspec tor, from direct supervision. of the counciL " The $19 additions to salaries went to men la r ark, pclice, street trsf fie signat warehouse -and fir fighting service, and are. en top of previously approved,' 19 per cent Increases. They wilt for Instance, bring the average group of experienced firemen to $173.35 a month. Yred D. Gleichman, representing the In-' ternational Tire Tighten' asso ciation, rrescnlei salary re .pcrlj frcra tw.cr Crejci t-vns (Turn to Pare 2 Ctcry C) Dlmozit Tucs. canset C :59 . 7ed sunrise 5:20 (Weather on Page S) , Vo. 12 Fkhfs Southern Appalachian Operators Ask WLB i To Take Deadlock 1 WASHINGTON, June 7 -VP) The llinois section of the soft coal industry agreed Monday to give . John L.T Lewis United Mine Workers 'an Increase of 1.50 a day. An Illinois union leader immediately hailed this as setting the pattern for the resf of the industry, but a representative , of operators in Washington bar gaining negotiations, conducted separately from those In Illinois, aia any agreement there "certain ly will not bind us. . 1 At' tho same time Secretary 1 Ickes estimated that last week's idleness la the mines cost lly 00.00S tons of eoat and called on Lewis to seek an end to seati , tered strikes which remained In effect today as most of the 868. . SO miner went back to tho pita nder a two-week trace.,:; .. , t ;': The Illinois 'operators offered to make the $1.50 increase retro active to April 1. While the miner originally demanded S2 a day m- r WASHINGTON, lone 7 -.Jtj Edward K. Barke. spokesman for the seotnera Appalachian bitominens coal opersUrs, said Monday night there was no chance' of agreement between the Indaotry representatives and 1 the ' United Mine Workers ia conferences here, lie proposed, the wage dispate, which has twice halted production In the nation's coal fields, bo submit ted to the War Labor Board. crease in this and other fields. Lewis said last week that the mine workers had offered and the Ap palachian and southern operators rejected a compromise on a tem porary basis of $1.50 while a com mission considered the miners de mands" for underground travel pay. The Illinois offer was accepted as , the basis of negotiations by Ray Edmundson, state UMW president who said at Chicago that the Illi nois operators have coal interests in eight other states, covered by, tho Washington negotiations. These (Illinois) , negotiations should serve as somewhat of a pattern for the rest of the indus try," Edmundson observed. " But Harry Moses, an official of United States Steel corp. mining companies, said the Illinois bar (Turn to Pago 2 SJtory F) Grange Urges t-xtension of MaU Ballots EUGENE. June 7-GP-EstenW of the absentee ballot system to Capita Gfoo.jp permit all registered voters to cast their ballots by mail was ad vo- . cated by Morton ; Tompkins, mas ter of the Oregon State Grange, at the opening session of its 70th annual convention today. ' ( The plan whereby each voter would receive his ballot throurh the mail some days prior to the election date would allow a great er percentage of the people to ex ercise their franchise, Tompkins asserted. - ' In line with tho streamlined program, Tompkins read only a condensed version of his ad- dress. Cor If s of the full speech were d!trilmled to the $17 vot ing delegate present ' .The grange master also urced establishment ef a world court and adoption of a party program adaptable to all agricultural com modities to insure producers 1C3 per cent parity of income includ ing labor costs. He endorsed pub lic power projects and condemned none -dies and pollution of . the