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r "Ii7.i-ij ITALY jiiiacidra CoeniaA's SICILY Palermo S MiH;"r:-;Vfr. TfSPani a fV. 1V Sjv" 3 I' I IJ tuuj iJBj? V IT SEEM TO ME that critics f the war labor board's actions in "tfteYon v agaln-off again coal . strike -do not give proper weight . to the functions and procedures ' assigned the board- As to the question of its" legal : authority I 1 have no opinion. Dean Morse ' quotes statute and executive or- !er to prove it does have authori- ty; John L. Lewis waves his arms , and denies the , claim. It would .take a " court to decide--and it may be significant that Lewis . The duty assigned the board was to take jurisdiction when la bor disputes were : officially re ferred to it, to hear the cause, render a judgment and issue an order. In the few. cases where its ' authority was ignored the board mm' A J A. would rerer inem 10 uie presiaen for executive- action.. In the great majority of cases decisions, of the war labor board were respected and complied with. Y I believe, ; however, ; that Dean Wayne L. Morse, one of the pub lic representatives on the board!. is trying to do more than merely settle present disputes to main tain production and prevent in ternal strife in wartime. I think he is trying to establish a method of orderly settlement of indus trial disputes. As a lawyer .he would Tnaturally stand by forms and procedures. But he is also looking ahead, hoping by the suc cess of the labor board to demon strate the wisdom of such meth ods of settling disputes between labor and management '.When the labor board marched down to tne wmie nouse ana threatened to resign when Seerer . peacemaker it was- not merely because of wounded pride, but to maintain orderly process which Is indispensable to the success of an agency ruch4 as 5 the , war f labor board. When a- new -agency is set tip an aggrieved : or 'suspicious tjartv often claims - that it lacks powt f7:Qxe '? firsts thing the - tacvviJ . ntuih-r jaw - r Mm . v - ra ljjo Its, authority. That is what the '(Continued on Editorial rag e) Soldier Hurt 1 t m Aiito Accidehit One i Camp ; Adair sergeant, whose name was known to police at. an early hour this , morning simply as ?Mund," was seriously ; injured and his - five 'companions in a car driven by . another J ser geant were scratched -and bruised 'in an 'accident near the J".Holly- wood- curve - on North . Capitol street at 10:20 Friday night; y. T .01 VU.- sMa-w MJ . which involved twa parked ears,' . aac automobile driven by Sgt.- Melvin JXaff ef Adair. aad,w- carding U Haff and . Set. Reeve. s aaather vehicle which has net been identified. , , The mystery car . sldeswiped theirs, the soldiers stoutly main tained. Huffs f car swerved ' and aideswiped automobiles belonging to Hugh Greer, 1925 North fourth street, and B. E. Rings, 1125 Nor way, which were parked in front of Bill - Davis place while their owners were at the nearby the- atre.; "- ,-:l,":' " c--.fr ' - r J "- ! J! ALcSV .iJa of the Huff car, which had been traveling south, on Capitol street, - aid station in the Salem area and . there was declared seriously in ' Jured. An ambulance from Camp hospital. Sybil Sell wood, 850 Brers avenne, and Olga ' WestphaL (Turn to page 2 Story F) Sweet Home 4-HIsffigli ' CORVALLIS. June 11 Sweet Home 4-H club members established a high score of $9.92 'per cent at the 11-day summer school session at Oregon State col lege ' which concluded Thursday TDight " , ' f Local leaders, a warded 10-year pins were Mrs. Mabel Horton, Sweet Home; Mrs. L. D. Horner, Illatchley, and Mrs. Albert Girod, Corvallis. Art Ohling, Linn county won first place in crop judging. Seriously Szl. sunset 9:02 ::n. snnrise 5:19. C::izihex on Page 5) - NINETY TKISO YEAR DlSFUlIDlt ' t NcV Walkouts Act To Aggravate WLB . Wage Settlement . i. WASHINGTON, -June !1-P) -New Walkouts aggravated the soft coal dispute Friday; night, even as Secretary -Ickes quali fied his plan' to levy fines on soft coal miners who struck last week and the war - labor board prepared a decision in the dispute. A United Mine Workers local at - Windber, Pa., voted to strike because, said Hussell Foltz, its-secretary, the board ref used to sanc tion the $1.30 portal-to-portal pay and because of Secretary Ickes proposal to deduct S3 from - the men's pay... -.yl'jt' L Nearly 1600 mea at three pits voted and approximately TOO workers failed ta show vp an the first shift sehedaled ta re port after, the vate. Earlier tm i the 'eyeningj Ick.es announced " that ' the " miners who struck last week will have a chance to escape - the ' payments through collective bargaining with government i managers "o the mines. K' ..'.;. -' ' '.v -. -; -Ickes- had- announced the plan Thursday, -drawing from John L. Lewis the declaration that: it was "an unwarranted, illegal act which takes -fiearly - $.3,p00,000worth of foodlfsom the mmers and mouths of children of ;he mining' camps.' The secretary's" announcement Friday , night . came ' after . three Alabama mines, employing 615 men,- ' shut down because of a walkout which was ' described as a ; protest against the $l-a-day strike levy. It came, too, as war labor board sources indicated . a decision la the coal wage contro versy will be handed, down, early next week, with the possibility that he portal-to-portal pay- issue may eventually--wind up in - the courts - i -a . ' : -tr - v WINDBER, Pa, June 11 -ff) Nearly: 1600 miners at three .Windber pits voted Friday night ta strike in protest against the war labor board's refusal ta ap- prove the $L3 portal.to-portal pay agreement and against Secu re tary narold H Ickes' iatposi tlea of a S3 fine for absences tn the Jane 1-5 strike. - ; The mines are Nos. 30, 37 and 40 f the Windber-White Coal Co., all located at .Berwind, - and the workers are all members of scalp level local 5229 ( of the United Mine Workers. .Miiies Educator's Conference Adopts New Schedules For Curricula Sports Adaptation of curricula to war needs,' cooperation in .'the training of -war workers and in supplying emergency labor, a physical fit ness program retaining competi tive" sports and to :l the extent possible inter-school sports as well as body-building exercise these were some of the items in a gen eral school program for Oregon adopted through acceptance of a series of policy , recommendations at the closing session - Friday of the- statewide . educators' confer; ence, first of its type to be held in Salem. -- r' ,.-'- Final act of the snore than 400 educators who attended was adoption of a resolution of ap preciation for Salem's hospital ity and for the advance plan ning ty officials af ,the state department af edaeatlon, - the' state system af higher education and the state teachers associa tion. There was Special mention ef the work of Donald A. Em erson of the state education de partiaent . ' ' - Recognition of the need for young, people's participation in war work and of the contribution the schools can. make in training these, workers and making them Salem, 'L Gal Just ..'i Can't Be Too Careful!!! V ST. LOUIS. Jane ' U-(P)-It ' wasn't eatsap oa her dress that -irked Mrs. Edith Ellis, a special process server, when an irate : housewife who had received a ' eonrt summons launched a sur-; prise attack with a eatsap bat-1 Ue. Mrs. Ellis testified in court: i The first thing I thought ; when the' eatsap bottle hit the: sidewalk and splashed on ray r dress .was : 'My : goodness, 19 points.' " Free Service Set For Soldiers - ' Legal advice will be - provided without charge to soldiers at Camp Adair by attorneys of Marion, Polk,' Linn and Benton counties, they agreed at a meeting Friday night in Salem. The program had been proposed by the Oregon SUte-JBar.r Circuit .-.Judge i Walter Tooze of ; Multnomah : county, chairman of thejrtate bar's war work committee presided..," :it Similar servieata saldiersr at; F the" Salem air base will be pro-. vlded by members of the Mar ion county bar, it was decided. i Alternating'" among . members of the; four county bar associations, one attorney perhaps twice week ly . wfflypend a - few; hours at Camp. Adair hearing the soldiers' legal, problems, and those which require further attention will then be apportioned among' attorneys or tne lour -counties, me program provides.--' Judge Tooze told the attorneys that this service was important (Turn to page 2 Story D) Red Envoy : On His Way To-Mexico , SEATTLE, June ll--flV Con- I stantine Oumansky, former Soviet Russian ambassador to the United States, passed through - Seattle Friday "en route to become his country's ambassador in Mexico City, thereby ending a rift of 13 years in Russo-Mexican relations. 1 : "I personally am very glad. to touch again upon American soil, he told a Post-Intelligencer .re porter in brief interview. "I have always kept the best memories of my stay in your country, and I have been very happy to see the friendship between my. country and yours grow stronger . and stronger. - available, was stressed in the re port on this division of the con ference study, presented by Supt. Frank B. Bennett. The report rec ommended that with respect to emergency farm labor; each school system devise a program suiting its own community's needs; that school calendars ' be adjusted on the basis of careful - study; that supervision, preferably by teach ers, be provided for young chil dren, sent to harvest fields; and that-the present student genera tion's educational needs never be overlooked. Opportunity to make up misSed - school ; work, rather than gratuitous school credit for work not done, was pointedly ad vised. ' ;v':':; ,. l J!:':' Both the war and pavy depart ments and the national office of education recognize that in com petitive sports there are psycho logical values not otherwise ob tainable, the '"physical fitness" re port presented by J. Leslie Sparks of Willamette university pointed out- Development of courage, teamwork and agility were some of the benefits mentioned. The committee recommended a Judi cious combination cf conditioning (Turn to page 2 Etory E) Attorney Oracjon. Saturday Morning:. Juna .12. 1343 Mo-Striked Measure ;i: Passes t House Approves Nevr r Legislation .With -Sharp Teeth ; WASHINGTON, June lMP) -Sweeping anti-strike legisla tion was passed by the house Friday and - sent to the senate for expected : quick approval, J -v.- The. -house vote was 219 to 129 on the compromise measure written by a senate-house com mittee after disagreement on ear lier' legislation. . For passage were 101 democrats and 118 republi cans; against it, 77 democrats,' 48 republicans, and four minor party members. -v,,.- ' . The. bill v eutlaws . strikes In government-operated plants and prohibits them in other war in dustries without St d V notice and a workers vote .It also strengthens ih wt r' labor boards (WLB) power ta settle labor dispates and the presi dent's authority ' to take aver, plants, and ; prohibits : , unions I from eontributlng ta political campaigns involving ' s . federal ; i Just before, house , ; pasarg. Chairman May;; (IV; K?) ,ot the military-rommittee,- read a "tele gram from ; the American ;" Farm Bureau federation endorsing ' the compromise bill and declaring it did hot come "a moment too soon," Left ite the bill was a provision under Which anyone - agitating or directing a strike in a government operated plant or financing it with union funds could be Imprisoned for one year and fined 85000. Un der this section, f May said, John L. Lewis could be jailed if he or dered av resumption of the coal strike June 20.- J - -' Tbo vote af Pacific northwest congressmen included: Republicans; for, Ellsworth, Mott and Stockman, Oregon; -' Against, AngelL Oregon. - . Jap Bases Take Heavv Pouridings - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, June 12 (P)-Allied bombers dropped ? 42 tons of bombs on Koepang and 19 tons on Rabaul Friday, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's .headquar ters announced in its noon com munique today. . Koepanr is on the southwest tta of Dutch Ttmor, l- 5e miles northwest of Darwin, Australia. Rabaal is the big Japanese air and naval base an the northeast Up ml. New Britain Island one of the enemy's aaost powerful strongholds. Fifteen Liberator bombers left the Koepang town area a mass of flames. Two airdromes on oft bombed Rabaul were left scarred and' burning as the result' of a two-hour pasting. The powerhouse at v Koepang was destroyed and gasoline and oil, supplies were set afire in this record raid on Timor. Widespread destruction along the, waterfront was reported in the communique, which,, added that three of eight enemy interceptors were shot down and 'another was probably destroyed! - , " One Liberator failed to return. Service Men's Column - Follow the men in the na tion's service throosh The Statesman's - original "Service Men column, first special col umn about men la uniform to "be published in Salem. Send la items cf Interest about service men. And why not subscribe r to ' The Statesman for delivery to TOUIX man in the service? Only :3e a month by jcaU, U's aa appreciated gift. Noip They'll Wear i 'Em . . : Actually . CINCINNATI, June 11 With a reat pleat and a ream seam, a man's clothes are not even his awn these days, j At the Cincinnati art museum a group af women are enrolled in a , wartime clothes clinic conducted mainly for those with husbands ar brothers in the armed service sa that they may . eat down left-be hind masculine "civics" and convert them lata dresses, skirts and ether apparel for themselves. . V 2C Ends 70 th Annual Convention EUGENE, Ore, June 11 -(AP) With one final protest against the federal subsidy program, the Ore gon State Grange closed its 70th annual convention here Friday. ; ' Delegates, who adopted ft res-s alution apposing subsidy : pay ments, heard E. 1. Peterson, di rector af the slate department - of agriculture, declare, a mess has aeen made of the attempt : ta control prices in agriculture." , Delegates also voted opposition to return of Japanese from relo cation centers to the coastal area. V Post-war planning - eccvpied mvch. attention with ft reeela-' ti'j; advecatingt 4 1. That conquered nations be per mitted to sit with the United Na tions in judgment of the axis' na tions. ' , : ; . 2. 'An organized, international po lice force keep the axis nations under control for at least 23 years. 3. A-court of international Justice be formed "to try fairly all axis leaders and- henchmen guilty I wanton 1 cruelty , and f mete "out suitable pnishment . M 4. All I cartels and secret agree ments between - huge corporations in - axis and' United Nations be destroyed. , ': - 5. Natives in backwafd depend encies be educated for an increas ed ' share in government and for great economic freedom.' 6. Agriculture and labor be rep resented at the peace table. 7. All munitions plants in the ag gressor nations be dismantled. .. The "resolution opposing . re entry :of Japanese in the coastal area was hotly debated. , ' . . The problem of Japanese ex tension ef land holdings, a topic brought up by Master Morton -Tompkins in his annnal' address ; at the start af the annual ses sion, was sidestepped in the res-v olution. . r ,-.;; i An i interim committe - of ' three will be named,' however, to work with the executive committee in determining action, on other Jap anese problems that may . arise. The organization reaffirmed its policy of . supporting . the forma tion oi public utility districts and endorsed current policies of the Bonneville, power administration. Cubans Sink Enemy Sub ; . ; ' f s . .. '. HAVANA, June 11--Cuba announced officially Friday -'night that a patrol vessel of the Cuban sub-chaser fleet had sunk an en emy submarine in battle off the Cuban north coast, in the Atlantic, ft few' days' ago. . i . ;i y ; : .. ' The announcement, made through War Minister. Aristides Sosa De Quesada, was the first of ficial ' claim that the Cuban navy had scored, in its patrol activities around the 2,000-mile coastline of the republic. 1. ... r The ; Cuban navy recently ob tained 10 submarine chasers from the United States government for use in the West Indies waters. Neiv Shoe Stamp Valid June 16 WASHINGTON, June 11 -(,!-The new shoe ration stamp, No. 18 which becomes valid June 18, will be good for the purchase of a pair of shoes V until ; autumn, probably in October, oflice of price administration officials said Friday ni-ht Price Sc. No. 3 Bbmlberff Hit Nazi Bae . ; - Yank Heavyweights ; Lash 7ilhelmshavexi, Cuxhaven Shipyards LONDON, Saturday, June 12 -PhA formation of more than 200 American heavy bombers renewed the allied aerial of fensive against western Europe Friday by smashing at. German shipyards and port Installations at Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven. . The big four-enginered bombers flew a round trip of more than 600 miles without a fighter escort, and an 8th US, Air Force com munique said eight of them failed to return. ..' ', One large section af the Amer ican sky fleet smashed through. swaiuis af enemy fighters ta blast the submarine ; yards at Wilhelmshaven. The'-- commu nlque said the bombers shot down a "large number" of chal lenging enemy planes. ' '' "The German . ports and ship yards of Wilhelmshaven and Cux haven were attacked in daylight LONDON, Saturday, June lV VPy-RAV bombers ft Hacked Germany last Bight an the heels" of the United SUtes air fores raid 'oa v WUhelmshaven and Cuxhaven, which. brrVe ; Jo-, weeks' lulL it was' auUieriUor" Iy announced today. , late . Friday by more than - 200 bombers of the 8 th air foree,wsaid the official communique issued early today. - - -JX 'V- 'T";s'f V Unescorted by fighters,' a large force, penetrated to . the U-boat ;.(Turn to. page, 2 -Story E) Puts Of f Word On Courthouse - Leaving the courthouse . Friday night, subject to call for final in spection of the . 1943-44 Marion county budget, -members of' the budget committee indicated that they would make, some- recom mendation concerning proposed construction of ft new courthouse. . To come, without question,, un der, legislation enacted the past winter, the budget committee pur posely was called into 'session June jO. i Probability . that this year's committee,- comprised by county court 'members, M. G. Gunderson , . of , ; Silverton, ' Ray Glatt of vWoodburn and Leo N. Childs, Salem, would recommend that next . year's committee ; be called to meet more than 70 days prior to, adoption of the budget, This Is One of the requirements for levying a tax to be used in courthouse construction. ,jj . No objection to building of a sew building to house the county offices and courts as a postwar project was. voiced by . any com mittee member,, and definite ac tion In form of a recommendation was proposed late Friday after noon. -.. - - . Eisehliover J Braves Shells .ALLIEDl HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June W-Wf General Dwight . D. Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, army and ; navy chiefs in the Mediterranean, stood side by side on the bridge of the British cruiser 'Aurora last Tues day when the ship led a squadron under the noses of Italian shore batteries at Pantelleria to test de fenses. ' .- " : - An official announcement Friday- said the-ship w deliberately sought to draw the shore fire in the .teaser- raid. ;:; ; '. .. - . :-- - ' ' . -- TToa Hearings Open At Astoria, the regional war la bor board opened a hearing Into a i ware ? dispute - - between - nine salmon canneries cannery workers. and Astoria Budge Group R aMl TUNI FJUNISJA I. jrKsM'ouonvM. - - tAMSfOUS 'Overwhelming "Air and Naval Forces admitted by Home r4iip caused the surrender Friday af Italy's "Gibraltar. the L land ef Fan telletia guarding the sea passage between f ' " sr.l TunUIs. Ar rows indicate allied air rails la this area cT tie rie-IIerranean. Ship symbols Indicate swval bombardment af Fantcllerla and re cent naval reconnaissance at JLampedosav Associated Press Klasv - Eialian Comnnnauzd Shows : White . Flag As Attack Roosevelt Invites Foe to Turn On Mussolini, Let Allies - - : Churcnill Echoes FR's Deniand " STRATEGIC: AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS IN I NORTH AFRICA, Jane 11 (AP)-Maj. Gen. James IL, . Doolittle in a statement Friday night declared the con-i quest of Pantelleria by air power "is definitely a land- , mark In the history of military aviation j V i .v' LONDON, June. ll--T1 der airand ,sea bombardment alone has exposed 'the remainder of Italy's island fringe to intensified assault from the invasion . bent allies, and provided a small scale, but significant test for the exper'mert tJtrxO joinjbthe axis out of the war.- : . ; iliiese werecsidered In -London quarters as the immediata r.zZc-Y. fiUxs cf 'a victory Iwoeep benef iti" ire both military 7 and psychological. These quarters - pred icted furtlser successet soon: ; y i;t;'v. 1 When the defenders of Mussolini's vest-pocket Malta raised T the white flag after crushing "aerial attacks and six'or more naval . bombardments, it was the first time .any. war that a fortress of this importance had fallen under air-sea attack before a soldier set foot on its shores. . . "'"" '" V ; . The"surrender made-the initial crack in the European fort ress and gave the allies the first stepping stone between north . Africa and the Italian mainland itself. White flags were flown at 11:40 a.m. (2:40 a.m. Pacific war time) by the tortured Italian island outpost. It was the 20th day of history's greatest air' assault. - ; '- 'J,. ... ' , British troops landed at. noon. - . Occupation was complete at 12:22 p.m. m an allied invasion rolling on southern Europe. ." "- Nazi Dive Bombers Strike , From $0..to 0 .German bombers struck at British troops and warships oft shoreat 12:4. pm. -" -.They were scattered promptly by-American Lightning fight- " ers on,the alert for just such an attack. ; -1 ' ' - vv . - ;.- ; - c ' . Allied airmen now are poised for bigger prizeicfly,Sar- dinia, and Italy itself.; J5' '.1 - v-. 4"' " ,' ' ? . r T':tj,;r? ; The dazed' garrison 1 quit after three allied ultimatums-- backed up by an overwhelming deluge of explosives which -smashed the Italian "Gibraltar" guarding the approaches to Italy, r Beg to surrender through lack of water," said an. Italian) -message, which thus made Pantelleria the first metropolitan axis , territory to yield to the Casablanca formula. . Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, allied commander in chief, al- ready had told the Italian commander that further ' resistance) howeverheroic; is utterly. hopeless.. - . .. -::. y. - :-- An Arnerican-aiirnan dipped through a deathly pall of smoke lying over the twisted little isle 20 minutes before noon, saw the) white cross of surrender, and notified his base. , 1 Shock Troops Move In British warships standing in the rain off Pantelleria lowered invasion barges, shock troops clambered into them just be for noon, and headed for the coast, despite the strong but futile Ger-Vv man' air 'attack. 'r f.v' y -"";'.'7. v-'' " ..;Vv "". " '; "; t -" The Germans used from 50 to 60 dive-bombers, a force which suggested they had been awaiting such a development. ' "But the ever-present American Lightning fighters tore into the German formations, forcing them to jettison their bombs hap hazardly.' -.y. - T - - t ' " ' ; , " ' - Dispatches from a US fighter base quoted airmen as saying: they didn't see a single German bomb hit either a barge or war ship. t: v- -; - .; -v.-; - - By 12:22 pjn, the British troops had occupied all points. ) " First axis mention of the surrender occurred in a broadcast from the German-controlled Paris radio Friday night. The broad- : cast merely , quoted London reports1 of Pantelleria's collapse Lcicji ofWeder'Excute " V;V' . Admiral Paresseni, senior Italian officer, on 'the island, sent a message to an American air base saying: ; ':'-' "-T-. ; " 1 v "Beg surrender throush lack of water, ; . ' ; 'U, ' "An American fighter pilot flying over, the splintered Italian ' fortress also saw white flags draped at the wrecked harbor -e'rea, and the gaping airfield. ; - ' : : That was at 11:43 a. only 20 minutes before the expiration, of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's ultimatum. ".V ; f Lieut.-Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, commander of the northwest Africa air force, had sent Pantelleria the first surrender demand , Tuesday, and a final one Thursday afternoon on behalf of Gen eral Eisenhower. r :. ' . - . ! . "In order to avoid further useless loss of 1'Ta, the commander in chief f Eisenhower invites your exctllenc:' to ceasa all re- sistiince end surrender the garrison of the island to the forces un-, (Turn to rss 2 Etory A) Loom capitulation of Pantelleria. tin ' . - ' , " 'r -