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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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