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'" - -' "- ' "' ' '- 'UCD MM Vlmczit : 7cd. eunsct 9:0$ Thur. sunrise 5:19 (Weather on Page 5) PCUNDSD 1651 i IT SEEMS TO ME that the war is an, ill wind which nevertheless blow a little good. It has, for in stance, accelerated the liquidation of new deal agencies set up to scatter 'money among the popu Jace. WPA, the biggest almoner in all? history, . has . been disbanded. The CCC, which was probably the 'most popular . of the alphabetical brood, is a thin of the past. FSA rwas threatened when the lower house cut! off Its appropriations, but was rescued in the senate, and will probably survive. FSA had a mixed record. It did extend time ly help to farmers largely outside "the beneficence of AAA, but its ventures in resettlement (largely inherited from Tugwell) and in farm-home projects like the one over near Dayton were almost a total loss. Just . now it is justify ing itself .in handling migratory 'labor.- "i?ry,:;. . ' . ., Now on the spit for congres sional broiling is .the NY A.- This .was the new deal philanthropy lor youth. Without a doubt many worthy .young people were aided in getting an education by this agency; but in many respects it was a phony. The . money dis tributed was not really earned. There was a lot of play-work of . made-work with the $15 a month grant coming without any sweat or particular effort. Right now -when a junior high" school boy -can earn $33.75 for seven days 'work picking gooseberries, when there- are two jobs for every healthy boy, there surely is no need for subsidies to youth. Their earnings are actually too big for their own ultimate good. r J ; But NYA wasn't satisfied with being a money-dispersing agency. It had the call to get into educa tion itself. So it expended large sums of Cits appropriation in school-camps that threatened a duplication- of public school edu cation. One such camD was built ud at Eugene. Of course it got a ride on - the training of workers for war 'industries. This Eugene residence -center - has dormitor ies and work shops where the various trades are (Continued on editorial page) CO Battalion Home, Safely..;, From Aleutians SEATTLE, June lS.-fPj-Back on United '- States soil, a . rugged, weather-beaten battalion of naval Seabees home from overseas duty in the Aleutians, described their job Tuesday as "building things, anywhere,5 anytime. Leaders said they were the first naval construction battalion to re turn from work overseas. The thousand or mere men rctaried here m an army . .transport. They had been away from the states more than s ; yetr.":; ';.l;:C-:i':- v; 7 ' -'': Chief Carpenter's Mate H. D. Markley of Canton, Ohio, told in terviewers: "Our" job was to build things, anywhere, anytime. It wasn't as tough as they make out, or maybe we got toughened up to it." f Carpenter's Mate 2d Class Woodrow Wilson, 31, Belington, W. Va, explained: - "We were at Dutch Harbor and most , of those places vp there. I rues Amchitka, was the went. There were darned few lays w h e n w e didnt get bombed. It's only abent 60 miles from Kiska, you k n o w. and (Turn to page 2 Story G) Oregon-PGE Power Rate ; Dispute Over PORTLAND, June 15-(P)-The long-standing power rate dispute between the state of Oregon and - the Portland General Electric company has been settled, it was reported unofficially Tuesday af ter a meeting of the state board of control. ;-y.f:A - la the absence of an official , announcement, it was learned - that 8-5 mills had been agreed - upon tentatively as the basis for a new contract. The differ ence between this rate and the - aid contract ef ll.S mills will t1 mean a saving ef approximately $1580 monthly to the state and re foods totaling about f2Z,S0e. The new contract would be for the duration, or not to exceed four years from its effective date. . More Strawberry r Pickers Needed ;, SILVERTON IpLLS " Straw berry growers district were asking for. almost 100 more . pickers early thi3 week; The ber-j yies began, ripening rapidly and ' the shortage of pickers was no- ticed at once. Some appeal was being made to Silverton business j rjacn early this week. NCJXTT THIRD YEAH US StoJb Moiitnt . Activity in Pacif Held Forerun' New Blow a WASHINGTON, June 15 -(JP) Secretary of the Navy Knox reported ! "a steady growth of our submarine operations in the Pacific" Tuesday, and by im-; plication forecast major blows against Japan. "I can't tell you, except that it takes an awfully long while to get ready for any kind ' of sizeable movement," he answered a press conference question on why the current "lull in Pacific ope rations had lasted so long. . The ."lull? of several weeks has included the amphibious operation against ; Attu island in the north, widespread aerial operations, and submarine - patrols climaxed by yesterday's report of 12 Japanese ships sunk and five more damag ed. I '".;'(. ' Knox disclosed that American submarine losses in the war have been replaced "many times over." , Eight United States undersea craft have been reported de stroyed or missing and presum ed lost in the patrol operations. The secretary was asked wheth er new sabs had .been bailt to take their place and he told a press conference that "we have replaced ear losses many times ever., - His comment was considered especially significant in view of the navy's announcement of Japa nest ship Josses ' Monday, which raised the total-of successful at tacks by submarines hammering at J apan's I extended supply JUnes to 25&. ships- -destroyed :ior damaged. .Knox said , that yesterday's Re ports, the- largest in terms of suc cessful submarine action so far in the - war, evidenced "a steady growth of our submarine opera tions in the Pacific.' A small number- of new submarines go (Turn to page 2-Story F) Geo rge orted in North Africa LONDON, Wednesday, June 16. ' iff) -In a dramatic announce ment, ! Buckingham palace dis closed today that King George VI had arrived in North Africa to visit the victorious allied armies there after a secrecy - shrouded trip from the British Isles. The i king was accompanied by Sir Archibald Sinclair, secretary of state for air, and Sir James Grigg, secretary of state for war. It was the monarch's second visit- to an active war theatre since the beginning of the conflict in September, 1939. i , In the early part of 1940 he visited the British army in France and saw part of the Maginot line, making 8 the journey across ' the channel aboard a British de stroyer. 1 The I present trip, however, is the longest overseas journey he has made since his memorable tour of Canada- and the United States before the war started. VastSilence Transfer to That silence you hear is the re percussion, to ' date, of milk con trol administration's transfer from the milk control board, abolished by 1943 legislative act, to the state department of agriculture. - - Ervin L. Peterson," who recent ly began his duties as director of the agriculture department, one week ago today replaced the for mer three-man commission as the milk control ? executive, but to date 4 the . only i evidence thereof which . has come to public atten tion has been: a one - sentence mention in news stories on the general subject of the new.laws Director Petersen indicated en Tuesday that although he has given careful study to the prob lems of this transfer since he assumed his new position,, he b not yet ready to make any statement as to policies. However, informally in address ing dairymen and other groups he has several times voiced the hope that the fluid milk industry would formulate an acceptable program for the application tX Oregon's Rep 12 PAGES Seas Guarded ancuhxa , "Sf ST.MATlM 'Ocean. : .IAIIIU0A ST.ITT$ ; Hf vi$ . .ANTIGUA" JttONTSCRRAT oCUAOELOOPt ' EEWARD w - cAN ' n r. MAK I INIUUI w f . I - - - AKiir of i to on I, iivu . See ,0 SARI - . " 9 I WINDWARD ISLANDS GRENADA j TOtAOO lyJENtZUELA According to a Beaters, British news agency, dispatch,- Great Britain has bolstered defense of Dominica by sending new troops from . Barbados. The islands guard allied sea lanes in the sooth and are used as a focal point in attack on the axis .sub marine menace. -; Associated ; Press Map. Russians Hurl Back 4 German Counterdrives LONDON, Wednesday, June 16. -if)-Four new German counter attacks in the reactivated Orel re gion were hurled back Tuesday, it was announced today by the Rus sians, who declared that enemy troops ceased their attempts to retake lost 1 territory at sundown after two , unsuccessful; days." . One of the German thmsts, carried oat wider the cover of s smoke screen, penetrated to the eatsklrts ef a popnlated "place northwest of Mtnilk which was eaptnred recently by ' the Russians before being beat , en off,- the so v I e t midnight commHnlque annonnced. ' ' ' i The war bulletin, recorded here by the Soviet Monitor, ' said rthe Russians killed about - 400 Ger mans, destroyed r or damaged a number of tanks and captured some materiel in staving off the sharp German drives. The day's unsuccessful attempts followed s i m i lar counterattacks by the Germans Monday night northeast of Mtsensk, t which the Russians said were turned back with heavy losses. :f 4 :J - Earlier, the Germans claimed that the principal fighting, was in the Kaban area of the Can- - casw. .They told of new soviet drives which they ' said : were ensaccessf nL . . . FR Approves Subsidy Plan WASHINGTON, June 15 '-&-President Roosevelt backed Tues day the idea of subsidies to hold down food costs to consumers, and suggested that . if congressional critics of such payments know of a better way to combat inflation they should come out with it. He told a press conference he did not know of a better way. Mr. Roosevelt made clear, too that he has no intention of creat ing a czar with over-all powers over food matters a proposal tak en to the White House first by a senate group yesterday, and again today by a bi-partisan committee of house members. - 1 U Port of Soain P?"lTRINIDAD I fwJ0 . TOO Greets Milk Control Board Agriculture Department milk control law, rather than hav ing enforcement imposed from above. He stated further that any such program should take cogniz ance of the interests of producers, distributors ' and consumers, and attempt to do equity to all. t The transfer involves to date . no change in routine of the milk control office in Portland, ex cept that Its records are to be incorporated In the d e p a r t meot's records here. The Port land office is new the milk con trol section of the department's - division ,of administration. . It was announced Tuesday that the state agriculture department through - its milk control section and with the assistance of the ex tension service has arranged a se ries of conferences throughout the state with the purpose of afford ing Office of Price Administration representatives an opportunity to discuss with persons "engaged in the milk industry various matters related to that industry with which OPA is concerned - pri marily costs of milk production and distribution. i Solent. Oregon. Wednesday Morning, June 18, 1343 London Sources Silent Ankara Report Gives New Fuel to Talk - Of Allied Invasion LONDON, June 15 -VP- The spotlight of the Mediterranean war shifted dramatically Tuesday from the center to the east, where the allies were reported semi officially from Ankara to have closed Syria's frontier with Tur key. ; : ; London sources ' left the report without confirmation, .' denial or comment, but unofficial observers said the implication was that the British ! ninth and tenth armies and US troops that have been training quietly and building up strength for months in Syria, Palestine, Iraq and Iran might be on the move. The Daily Herald quoted Ger man reports that the allies were massing an "invasion army in Syria, i Thus! new fuel was added to the first of axis invasion anxiety. During I the day the Italians re ported 'an ' allied fleet massing near Sicily, the Germans warned of a possible new Russian offen sive, and the' Germans were said to haver reshuffled their top gen erals a long the edges of the European fortress. p W - 1 Closing: of the Turkish-Syrian frontier, nearly 350 miles . long, might be intended ' to cover tip moves by .allied . troops in the border f area 'where ' conceivably they could be massing for sea thrusts towards Crete, the s Dode canese, : or Greece itself. ; f Axis radios told of new attacks against allied warships, ; trans ports and landing barges reported gathering off North African ports and threatening Sicily. A Rome commentator called upon the .Italian people to prepare for "the decisive phase approaching." Jap Denied Bail Pending Qiirt Verdict PORTLAND, June 15.-;P) -Federal Judge James A. Fee Tuesday denied Minora Yasui, Hood River Japanese, freedom on bail i: while his conviction , under the alien curfew is pending be fore the US supreme court Yasui offered through his at torney to re to n war relocation center for Japanese no til the ; court rules. The court suggested, however, that Yasui could apply to the high tribunal for release on baiL Fee some time ago founJ Yasui guilty of violating the western de fense command curfew on grounds he had shown by his ac tions to be an alien ' despite his American birth. ' r Director Peterson in comment ing on the conferences remarked that this was an instance in which representatives of a government agency have Indicated a willing ness to go into the field to learn for : themselves what local condi tions are. "1 appreciate the fact Direc tor Peterson said, "that those in : responsible authority In the f- flee of price administration will , afford our producers and dis tributors and ethers in the fluid milk industry an opportunity to give first-hand Information. " The itinerary v of meetings . in cludes: 'j Thursday, June 17, The Dalles 10 a. nx. Bend 7:30 p. m.; Friday, Corvallis 1:30 p. m.; Saturday, Maxshfield 1:30 p.... m.; Sunday, Tillamook 1:30 p. m.; Monday, Astoria 10 a. m.; Tuesday, Port land 10 a, m. ' OPA will be represented by a Mr. Rolph of its San Francisco of fices. J. H. Ma pes will represent the department of agriculture. Truck Makes like Homing n;. ... - When a "U-drive truck rent ed from a Salem operator made like a, homing pigeon, it meant .a lot of extra work i for Capt Ray Betser of the state highway department . i , , What with wartime transpor tation difficulties, when -Betser was transferred from the high-' way department headquarters ; to the Klamath Falls office he felt himself : fortunate' in ob taining the rental truck, so spent a busy day packing - his apart ment furniture'for the long haul to Klamath Falls. ' Then came the trek sooth. Upon arriving in the Lake country Captain Zetser was dead tired, so phoned between yawns Instructions to two work ers to come take ever while he (Tabbed off needed sleep. The workers came all .right bat they had misunderstood the orders apparently. Anyway they brought the' track, still fully loaded, back to Betsers Ambas sador, apartment . in Salem. . Tuesday Betxer was back - at the wheel of the "TJ-drlve" en his way to Klamath Falls this time bent on unloading- the thing himself in Klamath Falls. State Schools' Budget Sliced By;$130,COO PORTLAND, June lS-fA-Ore-gon's state system of higher ed ucation will get along next year on-$180,000 less money and 104 fewer ; staff members, a ; The cuts were approved Tues day by the state board of higher . education which set the annual budgets tor instruction, re-, search and extension and seme miscellaneous activities at S3, 698,172 for the six institutions. Budgets totaling $1,334,150 were approved for designated gift and endowment funds, federal co operative extension and agricul tural research and some general extension! Much of this sum comes from the federal govern ment. : . Oregon College of Education at Monmouth took the most drastic budget slash approximately 20 per cent from $148,000 to $120 000. Among the staff members dropped was Dr. A. S. Jensen, : Oregon CoDege ' of ' Education psych elegy professor, who Monday pretested his removal. Be contended it violated the tenure richts of the profession. , President Willard L. Marks, an nouncing that board has upheld Chancellor F. M. Hunter and C. A. - Howard, OCE president in Jensen's case, said:- -.;-,' 1 "We regret that it is necessary for Dr. -Jensen and a number of others to be released : because of the financial situation and the necessity of economizing in ac cordance with reduced enroll ment We want to? commend Dr. Jensen, however, for his many years of "service on the campus. The : board set up special re serves including $25,000 for more summer school work to speed, up student training. . Food Pack Curtailment Predicted PORTLAND, June 15-P)-Can-neriind processors - predicted Tuesday -curtailment of the 1943 fruit and vegetable pack because of an office of economic stabiliz ation subsidy plan. The government ordered its purchases of . beans, peas, corn -and tomatoes to provide adjust ment far increased labor costs while placing thtt clyUlan pack in ine nanus 01 inc vnuno&ity . ; Credit corporation for resale at ceiling prices. The corporation would subsidize processors so their f return would correspond to the pre-war average despite Increased costs.. The ; processors objected, how ever, that they would have to prove thai an emergency exists and .that payments would not be made until the end of the season. Pigeo Exodus Causes Alarm r j? " .. V " .ti -. V 'Non-Essentials : Are Moved to Safer Country Homes' BERN, Switzerland, June 15, OT)-All persons who are not re quired for the war effort' are being evacuated - from German cities, according to German newspapers reaching here, and, on the basis of nazi-controlled press reports . up to Tuesday night, Germany Is a victim of war nerves. The allied air forces, which have caused 600 air ; alarms and carried out 180 heavy aerial at tacks, have caused widespread evacuation of civilians to safe rural areas. German newspapers, by their admonitions and appeals, were in agreement on important points: That allied air attacks, espe cially In western and north western Germany, have caused heavy damage both in homes .and in cities; . - . ,That many evacuees are leav ing the cities for the country, a factor- spreading discontent And the Mulhauser Tagblatt said these evacuees 'insist that German anti- rfaTrcraf t 'fire is hot sufficient . pro-? tectlon. They? iaSJdThelnewspaper, are the""ns who doubt that the cities of . western Germany can hold out against ,: the violence of the bombardments and are really defeatists; ; - f That farmers who, were ex pected to open their homes to the evacuees resent npsetting . family life. Many . newspapers -pointed out, however, that he - must ' remember that he might be a refugee himself seme That ' city people shunted into the country miss street cars, mo tion picture, bathrooms and the buzz of city life in general; That officials plainly acknowl edged the 'dangers to morale brought, about by the necessary evacuations. 4th of July Plans Slate 2 Ball Games A parade and two baseball games on Sunday,, patriotic mes sages possibly also preceded by a parade on Monday, will be high lights of the Fourth of July cele bration In Salem, it was decided at a meeting of the American Le gion celebration sommission Tues day night at the chamber of com merce. The ball games will be at George E. Waters park and Sweet land field, the patriotic exercises in Willson park. - ' r In addition there will be a street carnival at Marion square from June 2S through July 8. It was annonnced. J. H. Holt is chairman of the Fourth of July commission. Col. Carle Abrams vice-chairman, On as Olson second vice-chairman. Sub-committee chairmen are uy Weaver, finance; Dr. H. A. Guef froy, first- aid; I. N. Bacon,' Eoy Scouts, police' and grounds; Ethan Grant, publicity; Don Madison, carnival; Ira Pilcher, ball, games; Rex KimmelL dance; Oliver Hus ton, sports; John Olson, auxiliary. a ote Temblor PASADENA, Calif, June lS-P) A strong earthquake,' whose epi center was' estimated to be 2400 miles distant, was recorded on the seismograph of he California In stitute cf Technology at 117:53 aan. (PWT) Tuesday. ; BERKELEY" Califs June lSH The University of California' seis mograph recorded an earthquake beginning ' at 1158 a Jn. Pacific war time Tuesday, and lasting for one hour, Dr. Perry Byerly, seis mologist,' reported. The disturbance originated at a distance of about 72500 miles in a southern direction - . Seismour ph m :: .... n D D3 -if2" Oh, Boy! Just Like Election Day! JOHN DAT. June 15 -AV Grant county will reach its nets of $37.o0 in war bonds this month, or Orval Tokom of John Day win scrub Portland's sixth avenue in front of the new victory center. ; And If Grant county makes Its ueta, state war bond adminis trator David Eeeles will milk a cow on John Dsy's main street and drink the milk. - 4 The wager was agreed upon after ! Eccles came here to pre sent Mrs. Bertha- Dixon John Day theater owner, a certifi cate for outstanding sales. Some time during the visit Eccles and his group' were overheard to speak disparagingly of Grant county's sales efforts generally something to the effect that Grant's quota ought to be given ' to a better county. Allies Drop 23 Tons on Rabaul Base ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, June 1 P) The largest fore, ef Liberators to be sent against the big Japanese air base of Rabaul. New Britain 19 feur engtned raiders. blasted at grounded aircraft .with 23 tons bf bombs ' in a tw. hour raid which began the night of Juno 14 and extended int. Tuesday. It wax the fourth assault in six days by General Douglas MaeAr thur's air force' on Rabaul. . All ; but one of the. Liberators concentrated the weight of their fragmentation and incendiary bombs on Lakunai where subse quent! reconnaissance showed the Japanese were hard at work at tempting to repair the damage. Despite intense anti-aircraft fire and the efforts of seven enemy fighter planes to inter ' eept, all the American bombers -got back to base. ' , The Japanese broke a compara tive luH in their own air effort by sending 2? bombers with an escort of 30 fighters to bomb and strafe villages around Bena Bena, 90 miles northwest of Lae, New Gui nea. There are known to be a number of emergency landing fields mere built in pre-war days. Bena Bena is on the Purari river. The enemy also sent nine planes in their ninth attack on Dobodura, New Guinea. Kiska Volcano Is New Threat C ToJapBtise HEADQUARTERS, Alaska De fense Command, une 14-(Delay-ed) Returning bomber pilots re ported Monday the Kiska volcano has become active, adding to trou bles of Japanese occupying that Aleutian island. , Pilots who have used the vol cano on the north, end of Kiska as a navigation point, said the crater is smoking and they saw some lava flowing down sides of the peak. ' , - The first report of the volcano's activity was received . June : 8. Since, the pilots have reported it possibly may be causing actual danger to the Japanese, perhaps dropping rocks or ashes on their positions. -" - . It is considered unlikely, how ever, that it will force- evacuation of any portion of the island. The volcano is on the extreme north end of Kiska and Japanese , con centrations are in the south por tion, several miles from the peak. Lady: Beveridge Christeris Sliip t PORTLAND, June lS--Lady Janet Beveridge christened Tues day the Liberty ship John .B. Steffen, 202d of its type launched at Oregon Shipbuilding corpora tion, j . '-'v -; Che was accompanied by hef husband. Sir William Beveridge, here to explain the British post war social security program of which he is the author. rrlcs) Zc No. tO RAF. Hits Again Monday Night Raid Smashes Oberhausen 4th Straight Time LONDON, Wednesday, Jun IMtfVStill digging out inva sion paths by air toward axle Europe, waves of RAF big bombers were heard thundering1 out over England's southeast coast toward Germany early to day, as the German radio went . dead in the middle of a pro gram. V Meanwhile, the German air force, which has been concentrat ing on the defensive of late, sent a few raiders over two southeast coast towns of England. The nazt attackers made a feeble stab, caus ing slight damage. No casualties were reported. In the continuous day and night attacks, the RAF Monday .night piled up new destruction on the heavily suffering Ruhr valley, especially the steel and communi cations center of Oberhausen. -While great bombers ground down upoa steel and coal tar gets in Oberhausen oa the Rhine Hern, canal tor tho fourth con secutive night raid on Germany j lighter' planes, rged far' over ' France and the 'lew countries, attacking railway targets and barges near the Rhine, Dixmud. in Belgium,-' and - Konbafac and Abbeville In Pranoe. Almost before they were back, cannon-armed day fighters of the new tactical air fore, went roar ing out to slam scores of targets along the western rim of Hitler's defenses. )K ' ' Waves of RAF fighters and light bombers shuttled back and forth across the channel in the direction (Turn to page 2 Story B) Turk Premier Amazed' at Allied Might ANKARA, Turkey, June 15-iT) Premier Sukru Saracoglu, in an interview Tuesday night, left tho impression that within the frame work of the allied war and peace plans Turkey is playing an im portant role in the development of Balkan affairs and that) she hopes to contribute to the post war reorganization in the Bal kans. '.J V The premier warmly acknow ledged American interest , in Turkey and Indicated that the Turkish government, impressed with American conduct in the war, returns the interest whole heartedly. . Asked what were his Impres sions of recent events in the Mediterranean, Saracoglu told thai Associated. Press that they left him surprised that events had moved with such swiftness. US Air Score Four-to-One WASHINGTON, June 15hJP) American four engined bombers over Europe have been shooting down German planes at a ratio of nearly six to one, a war depart ment summary disclosed Tuesday. It showed . that in 18 heavy bombardment missions all day light, high.: altitude precision bombing - forays four engined bombers made approximately 1600 sorties against German targets and shot down 571 German planes, probably destroyed 187, and dam-. aged 231 In aerial combat American losses - amounted to 108 planes up to and' including tho attacks Of the past weekend. Europe Finland Pays WASHINGTON, June 15-(A1 The covernmept of Finland re sumed payment on its war debt to the United States today, turning rr over to the treasury $1C3,C IS.