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: n O o o i iii) mot: TV IT EM ' IT SEEMS TO ME that -while jnost people know that the Second War Loan of last April was a great success, they are also interested in the final report which shows Just how great a success it was. Since it was a popular undertak ing, with millions of people par ticipating, the highly gratifying results should make the chests of 11 true . Americans bulge with pride. Asked to produce 13 bil lons of dollars for .their government,-the people bought 18 H bil lions : worth of bonds. As Secre tary Morgenthau says, this re sponse should convince the axis that we are in this war to the fin ish. Naturally the secretary ' is pleased, because it makes unne cessary for the present at ' least, any forced savings plan which tnany authorities thought would have to be resorted to, in order to provide funds to carry on the war; i Now for the statistics, ; which J will make as painless as possible. In this second war loan the coun try subscribed for 18 billion dol lars worth of bonds. In all five f the old "Liberty Loan drives of the first, world war the total faised was only 21 billions of dollars. In this second war loan the amount was raised in three weeks; In the five drives of the first world war 18 weeks were used for the campaigns. Where did the money come from for this second war loan? j Commercial banks oversub scribed their portion of 5 billions; but they were allotted only that total. The goal set for insurance ' companies and corporations was 5 billions; they-subscribed and "Were allotted 9 billions. Indi viduals made the response which Was hoped for, buying 34 billions worth of bonds against a goal of jfeVi billions. In the first war loan Of last December individual pur chases were only (Continued on Editorial page) School Budget Within Limits Despite Raises Although the war emergency has forced Salaries and costs of maintenance up more than ten percent,'" the proposed "budget ; of the Salem public schools was kept within six percent of last1 year's budget by the officials of the Sa lem schools and was approved by the budget committee Tuesday .Bight. : i ; ; : 'N ) Even with the increased bud get this year, taxpayers of the Salem school district will be paying 25 percent less bees use - accumulated income tax fands . were distributed te state schools en a basis af average dally ai tendance and, thereby lowered 1 the tax levyain mills from 25 te 18. Reserve funds permitted by an act of the last legislature will be established this year and will be added each year pending the end cf the war when materials for im provements will be available and accumulated funds might be spent to the best advantage, Frank Ben nett, Salem school superintendent, said after the Tuesday meeting, i In addition to other war meas ures passed by the budget com mittee an emergency fund was set VP to assure adequate funds for the education of students whose (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Salem . Firm , Given Contract . WASHINGTON, June 8 The war department Tuesday an nounced award of the following construction contract amounting to more than $100,000 (contractor, Job, its location, and supervising army engineer office): i.-l River Bend Sand and Gravel company, Salem, Ore., construction of apron and appurtenances, Ada county, Idaho; Portland, Ore., dis trict engineer. Filing of Referendum Extends State 'Hard Wine' By RALPH C. CURTIS Oregon wine ' stores privil- ' ege of selling wines whose alco holic content exceeds 14 per cent ' fey volume ; was extended bar ring discovery of flaws in the referendum procedure,' er the . calling of a special electlonT-n-tll November. 1944, on Tuesday when petitions containing more than 10.609 signatures w e r e filed, referring the already bat- ' tie-scarred measure to the vo- . ' ' '" -. -? ; :-! '. v . " : , On the face of things it may ap pear that the Burke bill fight is therebjr revived, merely, transfer red from the legislative halls to a statewide battlefield. Careful an alysis of its history to date, leads to the contrary conclusion that the Oregon wine council, whose Secre tary Ralph Staley brought the completed petitions to Salem sev txti i.gurs ahead fit the deadline, NINETY THIRD YEAR VS Loses. 7 Planes In Fight Jap Raid Believed ' Bound for Bases l In Russell Group WASHINGTON, June -JP) For : the second time in three days, Japan's South Pacific air force suffered a severe defeat at the hands of American air men' Monday, the navy report ed Tuesday. : , In a battle giving fresh evi dence of qualitative superiority of American planes and pilots, the enemy lost 10 zero fighters out of a flight of 40 to 50 fighters and bombers apparently attempting to raid United States positions in the Russell group of the Solomon is lands. In addition six zeros were damaged. Seven of our planes were lost but three pilots were saved. A i b a j communique an nounced the latest south Pacifle air victory shortly after Secre tary Knox disclosed at a press -conference that Admiral Ernest J. King, naval chief, had con ferred with Admiral Chester , t. Nimlts, Pacifle - fleet com mander, on plans for the prose-, cation of the war im the Pacific theatre. C.-f'v It was assumed that King had informed Nimitz of the overall results of the recent conferences here among President Roosevelt, Prime 1 Minister: Churchill and their respective military and na val advisors.; . King met Nimitz last week at about ' the same time that .. Gen. George C. Marshall, army 1 chief of staff, met Gen. Dwight D jusennower, ; the American com mander : in the Mediterranean area,! in north Africa. Knox said that he knew of no major change in the. allied strate gy relating to the Pacific, par ticularly as far as assignment of forces goes.. The gradual strength ening of the Pacific fleet i still going on,; he said. . " The navy eonunnnlqne re porting the fight ever the Eos sell Island , also disclosed the latest Information from - Attn island where victorious Ameri can army troops are slowly cleaning up the few remaining Japanese., On Monday, the war bulletin said, 11 of the enemy troops killed themselves with grenades after; they 4 were surrounded in Chichagof valley. Eight others were killed by American soldiers, and the total known enemy dead through Monday stood at 1826 for the Attu campaign. Construction Set VANCOUVER, Wash.; June 8(P) Representatives of Henry J. Kei ser said Tuesday a $200,000 pro ject for 34 homes for executives of the Kaiser shipyard and hospi tal here will begin as soon as the government grants priorities on materials. Fight to November, 1944 merely, has gained ten months' ad ditional grace for the approxi mately 1300 exclusive wine licen sees of the liquor commission whose business, the legislature was told, would be ruined by this legislation. ... V :' ' s'-l) Such a conclusion is supported ehiefly by recollection that in the state senate where scant lobbying effort was expended by wine in terests, f ortified wine were found to have almost no friends; and that even in the lower Jbouse where the bill thrice was saved from death by a single vote,' its de cisive approval bad appeared cer tain until an exceptionally able lobby got busy. It seemed clear at the time at any rate,' that mighty few 1 no votes were . based upon Dublic demand from the "folks' back home. " ! . Sen. Vjf, E. Burke of Yamhill, who In the bill's passage ,w a ...... . , 10 yy-- DUD VS Bomber Scores This B-24 US bomber, -Hell's Belle," roars on after hitting a Jap -: transport (circle) In an attack an the SO 0-ton vessel off Kalrira is . land en the north coast of New Guinea. The transport is left afire. (AF.Telemat from US Army Air Forces.) IT O 1 jiap snipping Pounding by Bombs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS YN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, June -(ifsJapanese shipping in both the northwestern and north eastern sectors of the island perimeter above Australia came with- I in the bombsigh ts or American Grange Asks Price Boosts, New Machines EUGENE, Ore., June S-iD-The Oregon state grange appealed to the federal government Tuesday for higher, prices and more farm machinery with which to increase food production. l J; - Resolutions at the anneal con vention asked ' that prices for farm prod nets be "placed en an equal basis with labor and in dustry" and advocated a floor price for livestock. Faster and more efficient meth ods of alloting equipment to farm ers . also were -. urged. '- ; Dean W, A. Schoenfeld of Ore gon State college told delegates It "may take bread, lines and fighting' over potatoes to bring consciousness of food shortages home ' to federal officials. Harlan Libby, Jeferson. repre sentatrre of the Oregon Farmers Union, added : that farmers be . given a greater ' voice, in . the formation of farm programs. The grange's legislative com mittee brought out a report-criticizing the tax program set up by the last Oregon ' legislature, and characterized , the session as the most reactionary in 30 years. Grants Pass was awarded the 1944 convention.' : - ; (Turn to Page 2 Story J) three-session fight against what he considered to be too little control ever the sale ef "fortl- fled" wines, was represented . recently as : having . threatened to initiate other restrictive leg-r islation If his measure was re--f erred. To the present writer however. Burke recently ex pressed a hope that no other li quor Issues might be raised un til this one was finally settled, lest the Issue become confused. .With this one exception, the ap proximately 340 new laws enact ed by the 1943 session, exclusive of 110 which , carried the emer gency c 1 a u s e, became effective this Wednesday morning immedi ately after midnight. Petitions at tacking Rep. John Stelhammer's bill taxing pinball machines and mechanical phonographs were not completed.. - (Turn to Page 2 Story II) POUND3D Salem, Orecon, Wednesday a ru DiO Gets bombers Tuesday -with the heav iest blow falling on vessels in the harbor of - Waingapoe, Soemba is land, of the lesser Sunda group. There a formation of Liberat ors attacked In mid-morning, . finding a 5009 ton cargo ship and two transports af between 3009 and 4999 tons as well as a gunboat. The ships raised a hea vy curtain of anti-aircraft fire which was supported by some shelling from land positions but the B-24s managed to damage . the largest vessel with two near misses of 599-pound bombs. ; Soemba is an island in the les ser Sunda group more than 900 miles west of Darwin. ; ; Off Ka vieng, New Ireland, above New Britain, a Japanese convoy was sighted and attacked by an allied bomber on reconnaissance but results were not observed, v Catalinas attacked Babo, 750 miles above Darwin, in Dutch New Guinea, setting off explosions and scoring hits on- the airdrome, run way. -V" 'v--; -Allied air attacks en the Sun da islands have been infrequent, entailing long flights without fighter escort, v.? The . Liberators struck at the harbor of Waingapoe. Two : 500 pound bombs fell damagingly near the 4000 ton ship. -On Portuguese Timor, the area of Dili was attacked . by medium bombers. Fires also were started at Koepang. Dili and Koepang are roughly 400 miles northwest of Darwin. ... ' Medium bombers made 4ht at tack on, Babo and also struck at nearby Kaimana. The explosions set off at Babo were so great that they rocked the attacking planes at an altitude of 8000 feet Escort Carrier Crashes Bridge ; PORTLAND, June 8-jP)-An aircraft escort carrier, crashed In to the ? Morrison s t r e e t bridge Tuesday and city officials sa id the span would be out of service for two or three days. -; Only alight damage to the car rier'a superstructure was reported by the navy but a large wooden timber, on the bridge draw which carries trolly wires and some shaft latches were broken. The mishap occured as the carrier was being maneuvered down the Wil lamette river by two rugs. Damage Suit Hied PORTLAND, June S-C-Irwin L. De Shetler. CIO shipbuilders union organization director, Tues day filed an $80,000 damage suit in circuit court against the Port land Traction company. The com plaint charged the company with removing 75 union advertising cards from buses in violation of contract. PS1 Morning. June 9. 1343 0:PA New Subsidy Blasted Rollback of Fresh Vegetables Next On Food List " WASHINGTON " June ft (A) Fresh vegetables were pnt next en the list for rollbacks Tues - day while some congressmen were attacking the whole theory . of food subsidies and repre sentatives of grocery - Interests were- telling a congressional committee that OP A regulations . already - in ; force threaten - te Tbreak 4 e w n". the country's ' feed distribution system." - - - - -Labor representatives counter ed with a charge that inflation minded congressmen e were at tacking OPA to cover their own "stupidity or cupidity ijat both." Shirley' Hass, general manager of the Ohio Valley Grocery com pany, testified before the house small business committee that if the purpose of the office of price administration is to "break down the food distribution system of this ; country," it has "certainly made I lightning speed in that direction." . . v. Judge Joe Montague ef Fort Worth. Texas, carried the. pro-, test te the OPA chief, but said be was Informed the subsidy would go Into effect as planned..' Montague carried his petition to President Roosevelt Monday but "said he was advised to ga back to price and sUbOlxaUon officials. He went : also te see Chester Da vlsT food administra ' tor; but reported I no headway. Dt vis; he said,' "apparently doesn't ; like the subsidy plan,, but these la nothing ha can da : about "it .:; " yV ;:V:;;. The vegetable price . plan , came out in a hearing before the senate banking committee, which was in quiring how far the OPA planned to go in rolling back food prices. Retail butter prices are ; due to drop about 5 cents a pound this week under a subsidy plan, , and subsidies of 2 cents a pound on dressed carcasses, intended to com pensate producers for an average retail reduction of 3 cents in re tail meat prices in a few weeks, began Monday. Coffee is also on the list for a retail price cut.: . ; . Richard Gilbert, economic ad viser to Price Administrator Pren tiss M. Brown, told the committee regulations for additional rollbacks were being drafted, .with vege tables next in line. He said the vegetable project Included no sub sidy plan to compensate producers. . Still another committee In- quiring into prices heard a de fense of the OPA program as "at last beginning te show its muscle" in the rollback. " Donald Montgomery, consumer counsel for the United Automobile Workers, and Jack S. Zucker, Washington representative of the United Shoe Workers, another CIO union; " told a senate agriculture subcommittee ', that opposition1 in congress to food subsidies is block ing the president's stabilization program. Zucker charged that farm bloc congressmen "want in flation." - r Cbast Lumber Price Ruling Is Revised WASHINGTON, June Price regulations: on Douglas fir and other west coast lumber were revised Tuesday by "the off ice' of price administration to consolidate changes made since the original order of a year ago. ' : Principal differences are: ' Voiding of a previous authoriz ation which permitted sellers to add $1.50 per thousand board feet to the ceiling price for surfaced boards in marketing rough boards. Sellers must hereafter apply for specific authorization to' get more tor rough boards, which are pro duced at additional expense, the OPA said.. For surfacing timbers up to 16 inches by 15 inches in size, the OPA permitted an extra $2 per thousand to be added to ' ceiling prices. y;. ;;':::;,';;. -. ', ? The regulation, which takes ef fect Wednesday,: Covers all Doug las fir, west coast hemlock and all species of true fir lumber produ ced in Oregon, 'j Washington and Canada west of the crest of the Cascades, and in ' California ' and Alaska. I'rPilJ;!! Roosevelt Funeral Held In Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jane MiPr-MOitary and civilian friends and admirers paid trib ute Tuesday to the late Major Kennit Roosevelt. 53, sen ef President Theodore Roosevelt, In double services. ' Services were held by . the army and the Veterans of For eign Wars In the chapel of the military post. The eulogy . was - delivered by - Chaplain Joseph Applegate, - Musle - was by the . air corps chorus under Chaplain WUmer P. Fnlmer. , Burial was la Alaska under wartime provisions. lf a J r " Roosevelt died June 4.-In an nouncing his death, the war de partment did not .disclose1 the cause. . ': Nazis Lose LONDON; Wednesday, June 9 (ff-Two sharp f river battles with the Germans driven across a river on the western front and re pulsed : at a waterway below Kharkov were reported by the Russians . early today, while Ger man airports and the soviet in dustrial city of , Gorki were pounded again hi the mighty and unabated aerial war. - i The Germans, meanwhile, broadcast the surprising and wholly nneonflrmed report that nearly, 550,009 Russians had been killed in four great batUcs in the westeru eaaeasns in tho last 45 days claiming losses which would far . surpass ' the German , debacle at Stalingrad. This report was circulated only - through - the ' nasi . propaganda channeU and was net supported by the German high command or even -dlscnssed by the more -responsible - German Mmllitary Quarters" aa dnoted by the Ber lin radio. In the river battle on the west ern front, red army unita at tacked nazi forces entrenched on the left bank, and "as a result of the fighting the enemy suffered heavy : losses and were thrown back to the right bank of the riv er," said the , midnight communi que recorded by the soviet mon itor,, .- - The Germans attacked in the Lisichansk area, some 125 miles southeast of Kharkov,' attempting to cross the northern Donets riv er, but soviet troops wiped out the (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Sharp Fight Near Kharkov Newsman Paints Gloomy Picture of (EitM Baras, AsMcUteS Ptms Correspondent wit America troops who wrest4 Atta te the AKittau frooi ta JspaacM. stsea tho Jap -flshtlar ana te.tha following- acconnt. Bnrna bm Men tho Jap te action at Pearl Harbor a4 th SotoaaoM as wU tho AlenUaas). By EUGENE BURNS ' Associated Preas War Correspondent . SEATTLE, June 2.'-(Delayed)-rm scared of the Jap. After fly ing more than 25,000 miles in 15 days over and around Attu and landing at both Massacre and Holtz bays' fronts, I - am convin ced the Jap is the toughest foe in the world. The nazi doesn't come any tougher. - Essentially. Attn was the eas iest Jap-held or Jap-owned is land In the Pacific we will ever take away from him. It took us, with overwhelming force; three weeks and yet the Jap Is fighting In the hills te the last man, Kiska-l-where the - Japs are about five te It tunes as strong will be harder. Many strategists have said "The Japs will fold up in six 'months once we have unquestioned air su periority and have sunk the Jap fleet" : X -: :.;;";:: i If Attu is an example, that is buncombe. ' v f :i; ; '-"v 'At Attu we had the air and we had . the sea and,: with fog. help ing, an unopposed landing. That will not happen -often . t -s. . Air superiority is not enough to beat the Jap. Both Kiska and Attu have been pounded unmercifully. It did not deter the Jap at Attu and it does not seem to faze him at Kiska. He is still digging in. Naval sup e r I o r tt y Is not enough. We had the sea to our- selves except for a few submar ines. Our Invasion fleet was per Dlmoul j 7ed. sunset 9iC0 Tliur. sunrise 5:29 (Weather on Page 5) tV.co Ic X7o. C3 Mines' ' Conclave Tied Up. ' UHrW, Operators Are Doth Adamant on Wage Terms " ? ' WASHINGTON, June t-(i) Soft coal contract negotiations broke down Tuesday night, with roperstors ' and miners ae-' easing each other .'of turning their conference Into a "farce' and the operators planning to report failure to the war labor board Wednesday;''.', yrf : John Lewis, psesident of the United Mine Workers, emerged fronr arr afternoon bargaining ses sion declaring that' it was "a far cial proceeding in every way" and "a stultification of collective bar gaining."; -CJ:'":. -: ' "The sullen, morose attitude of the operators is ah insult to the coal miners "and the national in terest," he. said as be made his way through a crowd of reporters. ' Shortly afterward former Sena tor Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, president of the Southern Coal Operators association, said it was "a farcial procedure"', because Lewis made it so. ."No attempt was made on the . part of the miners to discuss the Issues," Burke said. "There was no purpose In having a meetlnr anless the miners were prepared to make an offer. But thty stood fast to their original ' Burke said the UMW delegation "went through the farce of hold ing a caucus" in the Joint con ference Tuesday., He said Lewis announced : that . "the miners would now like to hold a caucus, but dbnt. yoU ;jnUemurCjeave, well hold the caucus while you're right here." . . ; ,;' 1 "They went through the forms of discussing the operators in the caucus and then Major (Percy) Tetlow (of the UMW) formally reported to the chair that the caucus was over and that ' the miners advice ' to , the operators was to stay away from the War Labor ' Board because, no good (Turn to Page 2 Story I) y (Jen. Marshall Reports to FR - WASHINGTON, June 8 -P)-Gen. George C. Marshall reported to President Roosevelt Tuesday on his recent visit to the Mediter ranean theatre of war. - r " " The army chief of staff went to the White House for a noon con ference, but - neither he nor the commander-in-chief Jiad anything to say afterward.- ' Jap Fighter haps the biggest we nave ever i assembled In " the Pacific - for such a Job. Too, the naval bom bardments of Attn did not lift the Jap out of his revetments as we might have wished. ' At Attu the Jap was whipped at the point of the bayonet. When I left Holtz, May 22, two Jap 'prisoners had been taken. Even with Chichagof in our hands, the Jap is fighting in isolated out posts although the resistance is hopeless. Is there anywhere a pos sibility of a mass Jap surrender as at Tunisia? Lt Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck ner, Jr, head of the Alaska de fen i c command, told me: "We must take a corkscrew and Jerk each Jap out of his ra thole." .That prediction was true at Attu: ' - --yy-r-r ' ' Considering what we had to throw at the Jap at Attn our casualties were severe. ; Battle casualties do net tell the com-' plete story because we do not Include those who were" evacu ated due te frosen feet and ex posure, i . If Attu,' Guadalcanal where I saw him fight in the jungle, with equal determination, and New Guinea where I was bounced in an airplane by bis flak, are ex amples of Jap tenacity and will to fight, then we must expect sim ilar resistance elsewhere and more. These were recently ; ac quired outposts cf his empire and least defended. " , That scares me. . Lampedusa Attack uucuuiiriucu J Allied Sources ; " By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE An allied invasion very soon in the European theatre ind sea attacks of "a peculiar com plexity and hazard on a largo scale were promised Tuesday by Winston Churchill in sober language suggesting that It might come at any hour. . The . Germans and Italians, who claimed without confjrma- mv&a uHik iubi, iciimiuiiij OA- lied - thrust already . had been thrown in against Lampedusa is land in the Mediterranean and re pulsed, were marshalling their de fenses around a continent-wide perimeter.. .-...,. . -; i, Hitler, with thia great threat upon him, still hung back from : the lunge against Russia en his eastern flank that nevertheless -still was expected In some of the hhrhest allied onartera. President Roosevelt. ' disclosing receipt of reports that the axis na tions' were making "significant preparations" indicating they in tended to use poison gas, solemn ly warned the enemies that resort to "such desperate and barbarous" methods against any of the allies either in Europe or Asia would bring instant retaliation in kind. This was the president's third ' J such warning; Ch archill as well has more than once , Issued a similar one. -:'- ,i: ' Churchill's" declaration that the allies were now ready to , springy in smnhihlmic H rmmtinwM wa made .in the house of commons; and he went out of bis. way to say that these planned actions already had been "fitted Into their proper place in relation to the general war." . v"-"1- ' ; He made a point, too, that tho Pacific - China, Australia, New Zealand was not being forgotten for: a moment in allied planning. ,The prime minister stood proud and confident before commons reflecting, as he had put it in an othjerv;connection14 tbst "mellow light -jpf k vjctory which ha r saw playing - over the allied cause and rave to the memhers tho moat confident review in the-years of his war leadership. , ; ; TeUlng of an Aanerlean-Brit- . . Ish ; strategy and unity ef war ; purpose "brought lute full fo-; ens and punch" In tho Washing-1 ,ton negotiations recently con-; eluded with President Roosevelt, Churchill thus proclaimed that tho time ef decision was new at : hand: v ; ' li - h : -. "It is evident , that amphibious operations of a. peculiar complex ity and hazard on a large' scale are approaching. i . "I can give no guarantee- any more than I have done in the past of what will happen yet all the same I have good hopes that nei ther parliament nor the congress of the United States will find Mi a i il.i. m uiciuBCivn juj ci vcu uj uicir lor ces, whether in the British Isles or on the American shore." More than once he made it plain that this coming offensive, grand though its conception, was but si part of what had. been planned for the three axis enemies.' German and Japanese air forces is proceeding remorselessly ,w ho said in this connection. '"The ene-; my who thought that air would be their weapon of victory are now finding in it the cause of their ruin. ; "It Is necessary for me te make ' lt plain that so far as the Brit ish government and the govern ments ef the dominions and also . the gevernmenia ef tho .United States and of the Russian soviet republics are concerned nothing will turn ns from our endeavor and Intention to accomplish the ' , complete destruction ef our foes V (Turn to Page a Story C) Youths Okeh For Certain : Lumber Jobs WASHINGTON, June 1 -yp Youths between the ages of 16 and 18 may be employed in cer ir, -.1 1 .L . . . jww in uie lumoermg in dustry under an order of the children's bureau of the labor de partment published Tuesday. -The liberalization of employ ment regulations is the . result. said Martha M. Elliot, acting di rector of the bureau, of advices from the war manpower commis sion that there are critical short ages of labor in the industry. , Youth within the specified ages. the order says, may be employed in the following occupations: re pair and maintenance of equip ment; fire patrolman or watch man, log scaling on trucks when performed away from landing dumps, peeling or loading posts for fencing, driving cf.cnimals, construction and repair cf roads. rt n .i . -