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mr Dimout Sat. sunset 9,:06 . Sun. sunrise 5 :22 :: (Weather on Page 5) PCUNDDD 1651 i v,s IV- IV IT SEEMS TO ME that retail ors have succeeded fairly well In 'adjusting their operations to war 'conditions. Despite curtailment in manufacturing in many lines of " 'merchandise, despite . annoying regulations and handicaps of lack sot help,-stores do manage to stay in business.' Each fresh impedi ment isa challenge which some how seems to be met. ' ; This is observed: stores come , to' look more and more like vari ety stores. As old lines no longctr ; are available, merchants turn to those which are chiefly items in glass, china, fabric, or wood. Met al products are Out, and "heavy", : goods, like refrigerators; also elec . trie goods. So if you see a bard !ware store with stocks of dishes, .cr' an electric store with a coun ter of gift novelties, donl think rit.has turned into a variety store. 'It is doing its best to meet the ' situation and survive. See what the tire and automotive supply stores have done to stay in busi ness. '- i :-: "' : ' One of the ladies attending the press meeting in Eugene last week bunted all over town for a paper of Dinsno luck. She hadn't been able to find any in her home city. one of the best small cities , in t Oreeon. A friend helped her out . -f rom herhome stock, sending her , a paper of . pins that was sur - ' clus." So it goes small Hems, . that have been indispensable, that have been available from tne tune - that peddlars traveled the roads with packs, are "out," at least temporarily. Let's hope there is ' I no curtailment of the output. of : safety pins for babies! : L " In loUowlng statistics of retail trade, "one is surprised how dollar T volume holds up. Big chains gen- erally; show plus marks in their T comparisons with a year ago. This is in part due to price increases, but they must have had goods to sell ; to maintain dollar volume. ' '- stores entered the manufacturing ; dimout 2 with , huge inventories. They have been eating into re serve stocks at furious rates, but still they manage to have (con- tinued on editorial page) Pvt. Wliealdon Dies in Action f i .BoxVUh Tliousand T 1 Mothers Killed in J . -North Africa Personal bereavement may be Jelt by hundreds of women who - attended Oregon State college In , the '20s,vover the news that Pvt. Rowan Robert Whealdon, 2 1, was killed in action April 30 in Africa, ; even though the young man had lived most of his life in JMew ' York and New Jersey. For Pvt. Whealdon, who was born to Corvallis la 1922, was for two years Reared for " at Practice House on the state col lege campus and became widely known :u "the boy with a - thousand mothers. His father : was a mathematics teacher in the Corvallis high school;,. his jnother was - an invalid .- and i passed awar while Robert was being eared . for by tho home making students. - Robert's father subsequently was married to Miss Margery Mul heron, sister of Miss Ann Mulher , on who was for many years city librarian of ' Portland, and the ; family moved to the east Robert r enlisted in; the signal corps soon after Pearl Harbor.' Word of his . death' has just be, received by his ? grandmother, Mrs Emma Wbeal i don of Salem Heights. - Glaring Sun Causes Wreck : Cars driven by Murel O. "Hick man, Royal Court apartments, and Roy A. Jones, route six, " Salem, collided shortly after 5 p. m. Fri day at the interesction of Liberty and Market streets. Jones, driving west on. Market, was blinded by the" sun, he said. Hickman told in vestigating police that as he drove north on Liberty .he failed to see the ' other car r approaching. The front of his automobile and the entire left side and the right rear wheel of the Jones car were dam aged. How Oregon's Congressmen Voted . WASHINGTON, Jue 2-P) Oregon Senators voted as fol lows Friday when the senate overrode President Hosevelr'a . veto of the Connally -Smith-Harness anti-strtko bill: " For overriding: ' Bepobllcans Holman and JicNary. Congressmen voted as follows where the vote was overriden in the hoose: ; . : , irepoblicaiis for Ellsworth, Creson; Slott, Oreron; Slock? I "sn, Oregon. -", TrriitMcans against Angell, KEJETY TIIiaD YEAR Coal Mine Walkouts Four More Furnaces Shut Down as FR .Scans New Move 1 " - - " 4 - -- -. 5.--- -- i - -.. - ; PITTSBURGH, June '25-iS At least 20,000 additional min ers quit work Friday, making about one half of the nation's 21,00Q i coal workers idle, as four more steel blast furnaces were closed, . increasing to 14 the number down in the Pitts burgh area due to fuel short age. ' : v-; . v ' ' . ThVrank and file of the United Mine Workers, already in heated debate over their policy commit tee's instructions to return to work without i a contract or their, de manded extra j pay for . under ground travel were further excited by the : president's statement , that he did not accept the Oct 31 "work deadline set by :the committee., - The United States Steel cor jPoratieii announced it had been 5 farced im hmt dwn for more J . furnaces and slow down opera-1 .tien of its huge by-product coke , plant at Clairton, Pa near Pittobwrb, from 7 per cent of capaciiy to M per cent. Four- . teen of its 37 furnaces in the dis- trlct are closed. i r . j WASHINGTON, June 25 - (JP) 4 President Roosevelt saying -he would not recognize the United Mine Workers', Oct 31 deadline for continued coal production, de clared Friday that many people seem to forget we are at war and the life! of the nation is at stake. I The president's grim remind er at a press conference that a prolonged stoppage of coal pro doetion could throttle the na - tion's : war effort, came - against the backgronnd of these other developments: r ;..".. A spread "of .absenteeism in the Pennsylvania coal fields had some 165,000 of the state's 200,000 min ers idle, Pickets were attempting, too, to shut down other mines A survey of all major coal mining states indicated about half of the 52 1 ,000 miners were still out of the pits. Union leaders said they had sent out organizers to try to get the men back to work on Mon day, and it appeared the opening of the mines then would furnish the crucial test of whether " the miners will .'accept the back-to-work order ; adopted Tuesday by the union' policy committee. An apparent, sharp . controversy boiled , within the administration over whether disciplinary action should be attempted against the United 1 Mine Workers. The War Labor board took to War Mobili zation Director James F. Byrnes a ' request that the government . (Turn to Page 2 Story J) Orcgon-PGE Contract To Be Signed Members of the state board of control ' and officials of the Port land . General ; Electric company will sign next . Wednesday a new contract whereby the state of Ore gon will purchase electrical en ergy for its group of buildings and institutions in and near Sa lem on a basis of 8.5 cents per kilowatt hour, as compared to the 11.5 cents rate under the old con tract , ; ' State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, i who cond acted negotia tions for the new. contract, said " Its various provision had been agreed apon by power company officials and the beard of con trol members. The old contract expired on September 1. 194 L i Under the new contract the cost of electrical energy will total ap proximately $48,000 a year with an annual saving to the state of $17,000. In addition to this saving the state will receive a rebate retroactive as of April 1, 1942. This rebate will amount to ap proximately $21,300. - ; Scott estimated that under the new contract the state would save a total of $30,000, including the reduced rate and rebate. The new contract runs for the duration, of the war, plus one year, but not' in excess of four years. New Medals 'SIated- . - LONDON, Saturday, June 26-(P)-In a message to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, .? commander :v in chief of the allied North African forces. King George VI announced today ' his decision . to issue two new decora tions---the Africa star to the victors of North Africa, and the 1939-43 star to all ser vices who have fought in other theaters,. , Spread 10 PAGES H2ey9 Japo Plnyiuo! ILay ffl. 5T Victory center program er. bast!! yS jo- words Don Black. c?' ' ceremonies for tho Jr rm-. ber of commerce y . pro grams, is mntterf r? O'sehed-'" vling six cow' t outdoor programs and ai, tng wash ed ont by Oregon s "unusual weather all bat once, when the navy-WAVE r e p r e s e ntatlves were able to brave It' Bat even liqald sunshine can't 4 dampen Black's enthusiasm, for .he's prepared another program.' for presentation : tonight at ." 7:3 o'clock, this one designed "to make Bp for all the others which never came - off. New Battle Rases Near Kalinin r LONDON, Saturday, June . 26 (fy-A resumption of local but bit ter fighting on the Kalinin ' front northwest : of Moscow, "in : which the Germans were, hurled from a settlement and three , tiroes .beat en off as. they counterattacked,' was "reported early today by the soviet command, along with sharp air activity in several areas. -In one sector of the Kalinin front, said the midnight soviet eommuniqae recorded here by the s oviet monitor. . 600 . nasi troops were killed and six ene my mortars and two wireless t stations , were captured, along with other material. r 1 - ' Soviet scouting was reported on the front west of Moscow, where Russian infantry and artillery fire destroyed about a company: of Germans and silenced several nazi mortar and artillery batteries. Aloft announcements both by the soviet command and the Mos cow radio told of the destruction of six German planes in the south in . the' Lisichansk sectoy . and west r of f Rostov and of heavy Russian raids on nazi airdromes and railway ; junctions at Orsha and Karachev, in wnich a "large number"! of German planes were destroyed. -ylA. Orsha is about 250 miles north west of Orel, and Karachev is be hind the Orel . front where for weeks there has been intermittent activity suggesting the prepara tion of major action by one side or another. i i ' Woman's Body Identified Comparison of the teeth of the body of a young woman fished from the Willamette river near Independence early this week with the records of Dallas den tists led to a tentative identifi cation of her c as Ruth Hildebrand, missing from Dallas since June 7, reliable authorities revealed Fri day. ': l'-:y Relatives of Miss. Hildebrand viewed the body at the Smith Baon mortuary In Independence and at least two Dallas dentists who had performed extractions - for Miss Hildebrand cheeked the teeth of the victim.. : Other comparisons made were the hair texture, size and charac teristics of .the body. State police indicated that the indentification was only partial and that they are still following up clues, all as sub stantial as this one. However the partial identification is a very strong one, being based upon a physical characteristic as differ ent in each Individual as finger prints, authorities stated. ; Oregon Judge At Meeting j DENVER, June 25HflP-A com mittee of United States district Judges meeting in Estes park this week recommended reduction of the number of US commiss ioners and an increase in their earnings. ; The conference report will be submitted to congress. - j. . " v The f committee, appointed by Chief Justice Harlan Stone of the United States includes Judge A. Fee of Oregon. , Ship Sinks In Pacific GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, June 25 -.tfA message from Puerto Man ia said Friday night that the motor ship Santa Maria, en Toute fron Panama, with 120 passengers, har. sunk last night in the shark-in-fested - Pacific waters off Cape Pasado,, 45 miles north of Manta -Ho details ' concerning the i fate of the passengers were available immediately. The area is a dan gerous navigational -ea t Tentatively Salem, Oregon. TraMm s h L0M WASHINGTON, Jane 25P)Loss of the submarine R-12 while engaged In training exercises off the east coast was announced Friday night by the navy, , 1 The R-12 had a normal complement of 28 men, but the navy indi cated some of these were saved after the sinking. The navy said the loss was probably due to accident and not enemy action. . The sinking, the time of which Was placed as "recently,,, raised to nine the number of United States submarines lost since Pearl Har bor, either through enemy action or accident . i r Thenavys announcement said: ' ' ; ) "A number of officers and men were unable to escape from the ' vessel before it sank. The depth of water makes it Impossible to sal-", age the submarine, and hope has been abandoned for recovery of the bodies of the missing personnel. The next of 'kin have been In formed. ' v , "Announcement of this incident was withheld until attempts" to locate and raise the R-12 were discontinued, in order that enemy sub marines might not be given information that would enable them to attack the salvage vesseL : t " The R-12, commissioned in 1919, had a displacement of 530 tons afloat and 680 tons submerged. She was 179 feet long with beam of 17 feet six inches. Her armament included one three-inch 50-caliber gun and four torpedo tubes. ", ... . -U The previous submarines lost since the war began include six . overdue and presumably lost due te enemy action. These were the 'Amber jack. Argonaut Grampus, Grulnlon,' Perch and Shark. :. . . In addition to these the submarini Sea Lion was destroyed tc prevent capture in the Philippines, and the submarine S-26 was sunk in January, 1942, in a collision off Panama. j " The names of the R-12's officers and men were not disclosed. Congress Scuttles FR 's Veto to Pass Anti-Strike Law WASHINGTON, June 25-fl3)-CongTess overrode President Roosevelt's veto today and slapped on the statute books legisla tion providing fines and imprisonment for persons instigating or aiding wartime strikes in government-operated mines or war Bomb Drops Near.MpShip;- Medium Bombers' Raid -: SW of Madang in New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, June 20- XfP)-K Beaufort bomber scored a near miss on a mechantman in a small Japanese Convoy off Cape St George Friday, the high com mand announced. . . . Cape St George is on the south eastern tip of New Ireland, r "One of our medium bomber reconnaissance attacked a cargo vessel In an escorted en ' emy convoy of three small ships, ' scoring a near miss,' the noon communique said. In a report of extremely limited activity, the communique told of a sweep by medium bombers south west of Modang, New Guienr, where five Japenese-held villages were strafed from tree-top height Native structures r were set afire and a machine gun post silenced The ships spotted by the Beau fort off New Ireland were escort ed by a destroyer. . r Meanwhile, reports were - re ceived from fliers who have 'been on reconnaissance over the big Japanese base of Rabaol New Britain, showing concen trations of aircraft and shipping. Rabaol Is the base which allied bombers recently povnded with more than 16. tons of bombs in - six raids. - Ambassador Grew Says Japs Attacked Too Late Because of China Fight BUFFALO, NY, June 25 HJP) Japan attacked the United States and Britain too late former Am bassador. Joseph C. Grew said here Friday might and the reason for this fatal error in timing was the unexpectedly stiff - resistance of China. - In an address for delivery un der the auspices of the office of civilian i defense, Grew 4 recalled Americans for a while - were so impressed by this Chinese resist ance to Japanese aggression they over-estimated - its : effectiveness and imagined Japan bogged down and bled white in a futile struggles to conquer 400,000,000 people. i ;i After Pearl Harbor and Slng : a pore, opinion swung to the op posite extreme and there was a tendency to assume "China's efforts had been In vain, and that Japan was "stronger than ever." '.: :: W 'y:-y. - - Actually, Grew asserted, ; what happened was that China's stub born defense weakened the . mo mentum of Japan's military ma Saturday Morning. June 25. 1943 Sub at Sea plants. . : - , - The measure, hammered out by the legislators during the strikes by John L: Lewis' coal miner's, was, rejected by Mr. Roosevelt on the aground that some of -itrtrovi-sions , would foment . rather than deter strikes. Some union leaders had protested it would "crucify" labor. . , ' - , ; Mr. Roosevelt asked that con gress give him instead the an-; thority to Induct persona np to the age of (5 for non-combat military service - an authority which would allow strikers to be put into tho army uniform ' and , sent back to work. " ; The legislators bowled Over the veto with breath-taking speed, completing action on the measure scarcely two hours after the chief executive's message reached the capitoL It became law immediately.- . . , ' First the senate voted 58 to 25 to override, acting five minutes after it heard the message read. House action was delayed an hour and a half by the fact that the veto arrived when that body was in a parliamentary situation where Immediate consideration could not be given it Oneo tho question .was put, (Turn to Page 2 Story II) , Ercel Kay 4Fair Condition of Ercel W.- Kay, at Salem General hospital where he was taken following a heart' at tack Thursday morning,"; was re ported as "fair early . today. Kay was resting "fairly well hospital attendants said in a report more favorable than that given 24 hours earlier. , - chine to an extent that "the Japa nese started their wider, aggres sion too late for it to have even the slightest hope of ultimate suc cess.,; A : tv; C-' At the same time, however, this resistance had the effect of accele rating the full mobilization, of Japan and of hardening Japan's troops in ' the furnace ' of actual war, with the result that it was a veteran army which lunged out at- the Philippines, the Nether lands ; East Indies . and . Malaya. Japan also utilized this period of long-drawn-out campaigning in China to build up its stockpiles of strategic materials through heavy imports of oil, cotton, chem icals, scrap iron and "other . war vital -i-- products ! offered on the world market by future enemies. . Such' systematic preparation . for war and anything which war might, bring came natural to the Japanese, Grew pclBteJ", out for preparedness Xas &1-. ways been an obsession (Turn to Page 2 Story G ) CD Nazis Massim At II ED lice's RAF Bombs Yank Airmen Hit German Bases During Day LONDON, Saturday, June 26 ( AP) The Royal air force bombed Germany again Friday night, rounding out a week of allied , heavy air at tacks on Germany, Italy and German-occupied Europe. The RAFs Friday night ob jectives, were not immediate-1 ty identified, t r ; - r " The bombers " continued their around -the- clock forays after fleets of US heavy bombers pounded .northwestern Germany; In. daylight attacks Friday. .: It was the seventh night of the current aerial offensive which be gan last Saturday night with the RAF-smash at tho Schneider ar mament works at Le Creusot, 170 miles southeast of Paris." The- RAF delivered -another; town-erusher attack Thursday night npon the bomb-shattered Suhr industrial' valley,' where upwards - of 5,e,e0O people ' were reported evacnated to es cape the air offensive, v ' The big American' bombers hammered undisclosed targets : in adverse weather i against strong fighter opposition, and lost 18 ships for a total of 173 allied bombers as the cost of more than' six days and nights of tremendous attacks. Thirty-eight were AmerM can and 135 British. Flying Fortresses made up at least part of the raiding force, and Fortresses from one station alone destroyed J24 enemy fighters and probably 14 more. This group lost six bombers. j T v - r .Crewmen said Friday's attack waa made inUhe worst weather and against -the fiercest fighter ' opposition they .had encounter- ed In six raids. The Germans, . they said, t sent l fighters , against them. The daylight assault followed the RAP'S renewed ' attack - with perhaps 1.500 tons of bombs on Wuppertal in the Ruhr- Bombs were concentrated upon Elberf eld in the western section of the am (Turn to Page 2 Story I) Hope Given For Safety Of General LONDON, June 25 -P)- Hope for the safety of Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, missing since the bomber on which he was an ob server was shot down in the June 13 raid on - Kiel, , Germany, was advanced Friday night by the US 8th air force which announced that at least eight pefsons of the 12 aboard were seen to parachute from the crippled plane. The 38-y ear-old great grand-! son of the famous confederate leader of . thel same name was f In the leading Flying Fortress, y which waa hit before it reached the target but made Its bomb-" ing run with the no. . 4 engine ; smoking." ' Z , v ' Four German fighters then pounced on the bomber, pumped explosive shells in Jo it and- sent it down. The Fortress still wasr under control, however, on the way down, 8th army air force headquarters said. No one saw the plane hit the ground but Capt Harry M. Tom lin of San Francisco,' pilot of an other Fortress, said he was posi tive he saw eight parachutes from Forrest's plane open after it left formation. . i House Kills r Subsidy Plan ; WASHINGTON, June The house voted to end the ad ministration's food : subsidy . pro gram Friday, only a few hours after two labor leaders declared the rollback must be fully effect ive by July 15 or ; workers will insist on . higher pay to meet in creases in the cost of . living. " , Tho house action came while 'tho senate was debating a slml lar curb, . and shortly a f t e r , President Eoosevelt commented . t h a t congress ' will have ; to . shoulder the responsibility If it takes the path toward Inflation.1 Waters Home Safely . ; : Frank W. Waters, 78, former mayor of Salem, whoi had -earlier in the day been reported missing from his home, returned there Friday night, members of the fam ily reported-The elderly man had been in failing health for several months. Pile Sc. Tee JB re o n Sardinia Gets Air , Blasting ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, - June 25-tf More ; than ' 300 American' bomb ers and - fighters sweeping 4 out from bases ' of" the Northwest Af rican afr force sprayed the big Italian, island of Sardinia Thurs day from-its air fields to Its har bors and -cut deeply again into the axis fighter strength-In this theatre. ' y- .j ;, - -f General, - Elsenhower's . head- quarters announced Friday that ; In these widespread attacks,' a j heavy assault upon the Import- ', ant port of Catania In Sicily the night before ,by British Welling. i ton,, bombers and other, opera- -' tlens 21 enemy planes had been shot from the sale at the loos oTnlno allied erat.. - .? .. ' 'The British: squadrons based on Malta were active, too, a Valletta communique announcing during the day that fighter-bombers had smashed at ' war plants in Poz zallo, Sicily, while British naval airmen had made a similar at tack at Augusta, Sicily. A chal lenging German Messerschmitt was destroyed by RAF Spitfires. The ; heavy assault upon Sar dinia was led by B-25 Mitchells, which bombed two enemy supply ships at Golf o -Afanci, a port in the northeast of the island, and smashed the docks. - v New Homes At Lebanon : . : .SEATTLE, . June . . 25j-JFy-Thc national housing agency in Wash-? ington, DC, has approved housing accommodations for i 310 families of loggers in three Oregon logging centers, George H. Coplen, NHA regional representative, said Fri day. . ,; . . Fifty, new homes will be built and .. existing, quarters altered at Lebanon, Ore., through private concerns. Also the federal public housing authority has assigned 50 furnished trailers there. At Sweet Home, Ore!, 25 homes and 50 trailers were approved, and 100 trailers and , 20 new; home at Grand Ronde,. Ore. ; Again Active, Attorney Says PORTLAND, Ore., June 25-P)-Liquor rationing has brought a re turn of lootlegging to Oregon, Er nest M. Jachetta, Oregon liquor control commission attorney,- as serted Friday night. - -t- ' He told the western probation and parole conference that, liquor commission agents have been in structed to crack down on the bootleggers. At leart 25 are operating in one five-block area of Portland, Ja chetta declared. Stamp Dates Announced WASHINGTON, June 25-(y?V Validity dates of four new series of red stamps, used in the pur chase of raUoned meats, fats, oils and cheese, were announced Fri day night by the. Of flee of Price administration. . The stamps are good through July 31. . . The dates the stamps will be come valid: O, June 27; Q, July 4; R, July 11, and S, July 18. Dates for- stamp T will , be announced soon. Each series of red stamps is worth 18 points. : - ; . , . - - Eire Parliament To Meet Soon : - DUBLIN, Saturday, June 26iJT) Eamon De Valerr. whose party lost - its working f parliamentary majority in Eire's first' wartime election, said .Friday , the . Dail would be "convened at the first practical time to nominate a prime minister his job, for the past 11 years. . '--US ' New ' York -born , De Valera would not comment on the set back suffered by his Fianna Fail party in Tuesday's balloting. He said he thought no statement was called for. . Goiitt Bootlegging Ho. 73 EPivnsEohs er . Pass; inent' Again Berlin Says 8th Army in Syria , For Invasion LONDON, June 25 (AP) The Germans were reported unofficially Friday night to be massing about 10 divisions? of up to 150,000 men in north ern Italy to guard the Bren ner pass, southern portal to Germany against invasion, J while the Berlin radio itself said the f a m o u s British Eighth army, had been ; sent to Syria to spearhead an allied at tack from there. , , i The German troops movement was reported by an unofficial source with dose continental con nections, and it was . suggested that the . nazis were concerned! o v e r : the possibility that Italy might collapse In event of an al lied landing. ' ' ' This source, wbe eaaat be . Identified!, 'said aboat five di visions were fakinr. ap new po . ' sitiens, bcUw the paaa. and the remainder wmM form a mbile troop reservoir that eoold be sped to the Sivlera or southeast ; into the Balkans in ease of ' emerceney. v Except for the German eir force and special service forces, virtually all the 'other nazi troop strength was reported . already pulled back from the crisis zones Sicily, the toe Of Italy, and ! Sardina. , V . 1 Transfer of the Eighth army, flushed by Its victories in Libya and Tunisia, to Syria, was re ported - by a German military commentator in a broadcast re corded by Reuters. ' Some London observers at tached particular significance to -1 the surprise raid of US Libera tors ' Thursday upon the ' nasi alr base , at 'Scdcs, six miles southeast of Salonika. The most likely reason for talis In the area would be- to knock oat bases.; from which Geraaan planes ' aaichi operate' aaanst any allied, amphibious- operar tions aimed at the Dodecanese and other stepping: ' stones to Greece, It waa said. On the opposite flank, the 300 plane US bombing showered upon Sardina reminded Italians sharp ly of the allied forces gathered on the north African coast. ; , Further indicating Italian ner vousness, the Jtome radio broad cast ' an - order from Mussolini to fascist party followers that party membership would be withdrawn from" "all .those fascists who do not' serve the country and tho fascist regime with a religidus fer vor according to the directives given by the Duce. The Rome radio said that al lied planes in recent raids over Naples had dropped leaflets call ing, upon the Italian population to surrender, but the. broadcast did ' not- Indicate what reaction they received. East Coast i May Receive A-Card Ban WASHINGTON, June 23-A1 Suspension of A-card ' coupons in the east is one of the steps being considered by the office of price administration in view of increas ingly tight supplies of gasoline for civilians, officials, revealed Friday night. ' : v ' They emphasised, however, - that this wenld be done only as . last resort because they eon , sider that many A-card holders se. their gasoline for essential purposes. . t "Secretary of the Interior Ickes, in his .role as petroleum adminis trator, set aside for civilians daily allotment of 328,000 barrels . for.. July, August and September. Meat Supply Sufficient .-.-;. PORTLAND, June 25-CP)-Port-land meat markets still have suf ficient supplies to redeem all out-, standing June "rationing stamps,, a isurvey made by the Portland, Oregon, Journal showed Friday. . Meat packers were quoted as saying, however a "clear cut de cision on subsidy ' payments', is needed to bring . more meat to markets..-: . Temblor Recorded ,s .HELENA, MonL, June 25-(AV Helena residents experienced two sharp earth shocks Friday, one at 4:20 p.m., the other at 6:56. .Beth were of between one and two sec onds duration. No damage was re I I ported. a i