.Figure in Fight : . ' ' ... X ' ' - ' rr- - Harley Libbf y, Marion county farmer who served several yean as state president of -the Farmers 'Union, has an article in the June issue of the Union paper about the ? families from" the scouth who have tome into Oregon to take Jobs on farms. Harley has been working : with FSA in getting these fami lies located; and his story of his ' work with these immigrants from ' the southland is interesting. He : says they came west, first that they might do a better job at food i production; and second, to go ' where there was opportunity for better living and a better future for their children. Most people caine west for about the same reason- hope of improving their economic status.' But there is one quotation that Mr. Libbey makes ' which we do not often hear. He writes of these families: i "Many times I've been told, We wanted the kids to have a t better chance There wasn't much ! back thereNot for poor folks like us." : That phrase "poor folks like us" - is not at all uncommon in other .parts of the country. It cuts the ; eardrum. It is not only an accept . ance of the lot of poverty, but , aort of advertises "it. "Us poor folks" is i phrase frequently heard among those who are both , poor and defeated. - . In the west we have poor folk l to be sure; but as a rule they .do ; not admit they are permanently licked, for themselves and for their children. No siree. They may ' fee Door, but things may be better, and by jiminee the kids will get a chancel And as a rule they help to crovide them with a better 'chance.' -.;. - Opportunity is not dead in the : west Libbey proves that in the following Daraeraphs from .! his article: (Turn to editorial page.) Forest Fire Plan Working ' - , 820 Youths Assist " In Oregon "Woods , Patrol Program With 820 youthful fire protec tion workers now in the field un der supervision of the regular for estry department personnel, Ore- gon's first fire protection program is now in full operation, Ncls Ro- -gers, state forester reported to the ' state forestry board at Its annual 'meeting Tuesday. -j? As further notice to the pub lic that the season of forest fire danger b t ' band. Gov. Earl Snell oat the same day Issued a proclamation providing for reg- -slated closure of all national forests. -The proclamation was requested by the federal forest service doe to' the existence of , fire hazards resulting from re cent warm weather. - - The proclamation requires any person traveling in i the national ; forests - except on regularly-tra ;veled roads, to carry an ax, buck et and shovel, and to refrain from passing through tbe timber. Set ting of camp fires, other than in a posted camp ground or under a permit, is prohibited. A large percentage of the fire protection workers serving under the forestry dpeartmenvs program .are stationed in coastal areas des , ignated as "target districts, Nel son said. Their services supple ment those of the regular fire war dens. ' The youthful ffeld operatives were trained during the past winter months. In addition to (Turn to Page 2 Story E) " - Italian Plane Plant Tied Up By Strikers ; . MOSCOW, June SS-VTass, official soviet news agency, said .Tuesday night it had been report ed reliably that a mass strike had .flared at the Turin aircraft plants in Italy in protest against labor conditions, and had shifted to an -anti-war demonstration. The reports were quoted as saying' the strikers demanded i the release of workers of the Flat works who - were arrested last March in connection with a protest strike, and also demand ed one month's wages as travel expenses promised by "the sov : eminent as a result of evacua- tlans. .... . .... ..... . It was said that some 5,000 workers were on strike. Stale Hospital capee Caught Thomas Bruce Mitchell, 58, who escaped from the f state hospital for the. Insane here during the noon hour -Tuesday, was appre hended Tuesday night in Albany t the home of his mother and was returned to the institution here. : -." . r ! ; E till at large at an early hour i" is norning were Ual;h Jsmes C'eer.iliriv 14,' and' Jsxr-js Velos C .!;.r.i, 13, who an away from t - : t? training school et V.'ood-:-t3 Tuesday rc " "i . . w.- v.. . ... 1 . . . . v , " " " . .. . a : -Vv.a - : . , . . ., - ... . k. mii,li.niii. W-.-Jt- - r un - 1. mil . v4)ud j HENRY A. WALLACE Wallace Feed CaBital i . : JL - 9' yice President Accuses "Secretary of Hindering lyital Material Stockpile WASHINGTON, June 29.-(P-In a red hot "quarrel, Vice President Wallace accused Secretary, of Commerce Jones Tues day of obstructing important phases of the ' economic warfare program.' Jones snapped back that Wallace was guilty of "malice and misstatement" and called ; The head-on clash, climax virtually without precedent in men occupy in the government they usedi j Coming a day after War Food Administrator Chester-Davis resigned in disagreement with administration policy, the inci dent confronted President Roosevelt with the biggest row yet to occur within his official family. , ; ' z ; -j Kir. Roosevelt said it took the headlines five minutes before, consequently could not comment it did not violate his instructions of last August that agency heads should come to him with their differences, rather than air them publicly, the president related that he had not read the. Wallace statement, but that he thought his suggestion of last August was a good one. - , Rote Flares Suddenly - ' .r -''-.-' .JThe row? flared' intdttie! open suddenly, , ' i First, Wallace, in a statement to a senate committee, accused Jones of "obstructionist tactics" of : hamstringing ' work t of the board of economic warfare in importing strategic materials. Wal lace, who heads the BEW, said Jones "failed dismally,". in the pe riod prior to and immediately after Pearl Harbor, to carry out instructions from congress and the war production board to build up reserves of strategic materials which this country must im port. ; ' 1 - ' I ' I : , i Since the job of arranging for such imports was turned over to BEW on April 13, 1942, he said, Jones has "Done much to har ass the administrative employes of the board in their single-minded effort to help shorten this war by securing adequate stocks of strategic materials." - Jones Answers Accuser I Jones replied with this statement: ? ; ("The release given out by Mr. Wallace today is filled with malice and misstatements. He makes two serious charges: l. That RDC had failed in the purchase and stockpiling of strategic and critical materials. The facts are that not more than 10 per cent of our purchases and commitments for these mater ials; have been initiated by BEW. RFC -commitments for foreign purchases have been approximately $3,500,000,000 of which not more than 10 per cent was originated by BEW, We have actually received and paid for materials to the value of $1,600,000,000 of which less than 5 per cent can be credited to BEW initiative. .. ."2. ThatRFC and I have obstructed and delayed programs of development and procurement initiated by BEW. There has been no serious delay by lis of any vital program. ' - Asks Investigation "I will answer the statement in detail and be glad to have a committee of congress fully investigate the facts." ' ' : Wallace leveled his charges at Jones in asking that congress . -- . : (Turn to Page 2 Story F) - . ' : Lawmakers Agree on Bill To End Reta WASHINGTON, June 29.-JPt- Lawmakera striving to iron out differences in senate . and , house anti-subsidy bills agreed Tuesday night on legislation , prohibiting further exDenditure of covernment funds to compensate for a rollback in retail food prices. The restriction, designed to stop - the administration's sab- . skiy program la Its tracks, was written into a bill extending the life of the Comm vnlty Credit eorporatioB two more years aad adding S759,BOO,O0t to its pres ent lending authority of S2, C5M08,e. ; .;: This action came as Judge Mar vin Jones, subsidy advocate, took over the job of managing the na tion's food production and the war labor board spoke out strongly in sucDort of the subsidy program to keep down the cost of living. The CCC , extension measure, which will be tested first in the house tomorrow,! would permit government payments up to $150- C0.CC3 to retain the present pro gram - cf suDSKiizinS tocreasea , JESSE JONES - Jones X tuirs Rwedl for a congressional investigation. to a long-smouldering feud, was view of the high places the two and the sharpness of the language him by surprise. He had only read. he told a press conference, and On Wallace's charges. Asked if il Subsidies transportation costs and produc tion of critical metals and stimu lating necessary output of war essential food products. After nearly sevea eenseeo five boar tm weld In the two measores together, the boaso and : senate eonf ereoee committee de clared the bill would erase the subsidy rollback oa retail prices; , of meats aad patter, which the office of price administration al- -ready has Inaugurated. ' ' It would permit payment, how ever, of commitments made by the administration' up to June 15 and allow government agencies until August 1 to liquidate the accrued payments. ' '-''.'' While the senate measure would have transferred subsidy powers from" the office of price adminis-? tration (OPA) to the war food administrator, the conference com mittees version, Senator Taft (It Ohio) said, would emphasize and reassert" present provisions of law requiring payment of the limit subsidies only with approval of (Turn to Pai 2 Etcry G) 3 UWL- Seiaatte Pass it Protests Accompany Parage of Giant Appropriation ; Washington; June 29.- -A storm of protests - that the army and navy are guilty of "waste and extravagance" ac companied unanimous senate passage Tuesday of the $71,- 500,000,000 decisive budget war department bill. Senator Maloney (D-Conn), member , of of the appropriations committee, told his colleagues he was "certain" the measure embra ced, "waste and extravagance,! but that he "didn't know where to cut if - - . -. . - - Senator Byrd (D-Va) announced that his joint economy committee would conduct an investigation into army-navy spending. Declaring that experts should be assigned to congressional ap propriations committee to assist eongTeasmea : in analyzing the needs for all requests for funds, . Maloney declai:;"'" . 44 We can not much longer delay such a step, without a great dan ger of disaster." . - "; -; v',:5V f :.Thel house-previously : had ap proved the measure, 345 to 0, and the senate made ' only minor changes which did not affect the total. - The bill went back to the house for action on these changes, As approved, it contains funds for an outlay of, more than 50, 000,000,000 for army aviation, in cluding the purchase . of ' 99,740 new airplanes. r " " - f J t . The appropriations commit tee made public this week test!- ' : moay from Lieut. General Jo seph T. MeNamey, deputy chief of staff, that the .United Nations . are "rapidly approaching final . victory' and that the Japanese empire' soon will feel the war's impact "In t most violent and destructive way." While he said he would not deny the military leadership a single dollar needed for the prosecution of the war, Senator Byrd declared enactment of the bill and a pre-viously-passed navy m e a s u r e would leave a total of $203,782, 009,264 on hand at the treasury for army and navy expenditure. ; This total of unexpended ' bal ances from ; appropriations voted this year and previously, he de clared, is "more than twice as much as has so far been disbursed for our war activities." - Japs Driven From Another Key Position 'CHUNGKING, June 29.-V The vanguard of Chinese troops who have been slowly encircling Owchlhkow (Lotus Pond inlet), near the Yangtze river, have bro ken into the town, a Chinese high command communique said Tues day. . ' - : la the attack ra the town, which Is 41 miles south of Shasi, the Japanese "suffered severe lossea aad are showing signs of collapse," the communique said." : The Chinese were also reported to have retaken many strategic points in the suburbs of Hwajung, the only other county seat south of the Yangtze and west of Tungting lake still in: Japanese hands. : The Chinese are now vigorously at tacking Hwajuag, which is 16 miles southeast of Owchihkow. : Owchihkow, one of the- towns which United States bombers have attacked in - support ; of ' Chinese ground troops, was reported -completely encircles five days ago. Iclies Slates Radio Addre WASHINGTON, June Secretary of Interior Jckey, said Tuesday night "he would make: radio address on the coal situation Wednesday at 7:05 p. m. (Eastern War Time) over the blue network; It was understood the govern- ment mine custodian's 25-minute speech would be directed particu larly to the miners, some of whom have remained out of the T;ack-to-work movement following the third general coal strike, v- " 12 PACZ3 " - wm w imihwi i ii i mm i n ilm Oo A I - v f , f - l r - . f Hey, Joe! Your Boys Started It! LONDON, Wednesday, June 39 : (A-Nasi sob propaganda bread easts attacking the allies - for alleged bombing of the .Cologne cathedral prompted the. Daily Telegraph to print today under the head "Damaged British CatherdraU" a list of a , few Lit by. too German air force. , ' They included St. -Paul's and .Westminster Abbey in London, the cathedrals at Coventry, Norwich, . Exeter. : Canterbury and Klandaff, and the abbey at Bath all famed for their cen turies old architecture. - Daring Night Bombing Raid Lashes s: WASHINGTON, June ISHft-K daring night bombing attack on a small group of light Japanese na val vessels caught on the move in the central Solomon islands was reported by the navy j Tuesday along with punishing new raids on enemy island installations in both the north and south Pacific. The raids Included six attacks . against ' Japanese positions oa ' Kiska island in the 'Aleutian chain Sunday and one attack on ' Kiska and nearby little Kiska island Monday. . . The Sunday forays resulted In hits on the main camp and the de fensive installations at North Head and brought to 22 the number of aids against Kiska on a four-day period of. heavy pre-invasion op erations. t;V': . , -;r-.v.- - Apparently ; bad weather set in Monday and reduced jtha number of raids to the single- attack dur ing which bombs weredropped on both Kiska and Little Kiska. A navy communique said that weath er prevented complete observation of results but that hits were re ported on houses at Little Kiska. (Turn to Page 2 Story I) Control- Board Rejects Sale Of Building Purchase of the 'Spaulding building at Third and Washington streets in Portland at a proffered price" of $550,000 was rejected Tuesday by the state borrdpf control. Owners of the building had proposed that the state take it over for office purposes and had agreed to take the Mulkey build ing, which the state now owns, as $50,000 toward the purchase price. The - Spaulding building covers a quarter block. Owners were said to be members of the Spaulding family.. The board signed a contract with the Portland General Bee trie company, under .which elec trical energy for state buildings and . institutions fa the Salem - .area wfu be furnished on a gradaated rate equivalent to ap proximately SH milles per kilo watt hour. Under the old eon tract the state paid 114 mUls : per kilowatt hour. Officials estimated the savings under the' new contract at approx imately $17,500 a year, exclusive of a rebate of $2193. - The new, contract', runs for -a maximum of our years but may be cancelled upon one year's no tice after the war. ' The electric " energy bill, now ranging, around $65,000. a year, win be reduced to approximately $48,000, officials said. - WAAC Really In Army Now - WASHINGTON, June 23.-(5V Legislation dropped an "A out f WAACS and placing its members in . the United States army until six months after- the war was passed by the senate Tuesday and sent to the White House.1 - , The senate adopted a conference report - renaming1 "the "Wo m e n's Army Auxiliary C. o r p s ' as the Women's Army Corps, raising the s"e limits for membership from 45 to 53 and placing the WACS under army regulations. Dirnout 7ed. sunset 9:05 Tliur. sunrise 5 i2 i (Weather on Page 8) , Jap CzLzza, Ortsoa, 7daesdo7 1-Icrc!ag, Greeks ' Eiol ' . Outbnrsts Follow American Raids " On Nazi Bases . ANKARA, June 29P)-Seri- ous disorders broke out in Ath ena- and ' at least three' other Greek: cities Sunday following American air raids on axis ' air bases at Athens and Salonika, informed Balkan, sources, report ed Tuesday. ., ' Axis troops were said to have ar rested hundreds of demonstrators and a number were reported shot. A' Greek source here said the riots undoubtedly were' connec ted with the heartening effect of the American air , raids. ' r Other reports indicated the Germans were strengthening their forces 'in the Salonika region to meet, the threat of a possible in vasion r thrust at that vital port. A German motorized division was reported moving into the area and taking up posts - along the Salonika Peninsula. - NEW YORK. June 19 -P) Large-scale riots broke out ia the streets of Athens. Salonika, ; Laiissa and Volos following the weekend American air raids on Greece, an NBC eorrespondeat reported from Ankara tonight. . -It is , believed beyond doubt that these riots were the results of heartening American raids,'! he . reported. ."The Greeks ; saw in them a great opportunity and lost no time in striking a . blow . for themselves... i ; "Axis occupation troops went out to meet the demonstrators and arrested , several hundred. Of the many hundreds of Greeks arrest ed, scores have already been shot and more probably will be shot" Liberators from the US ninth air force in the middle east shat tered hangars, pitted runways and started first at two airdromes in the Athens area in a powerful followup to the Salonika attack which opened the trans-Mediterranean; aerial offensive, against German and Italian bases in the Balkans. "7 Despite fierce efforts by de fense forces to break, up the raids, the four-en gined bombers execu ted their missions without a loss. Seven enemy aircraft were des troyed and eight others were list ed as probably destroyed. tJ:z- -' While the size of the Athens bombing group was not revealed, the raid on the Sedes airdrome at Salonika was carried out by 50 heavy planes. Duce Purees Party With Castor Oil " By the Associated Press' 1 The German Transocean corre spondent in Borne ' reported in a dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio Tuesday that a purge of the fascist party was "wide open and that the "castor oil cures"- of the party's early days again were in vogue. ' . " Commenting on measures taken to defend Italy against . what lie termed the allied "war ' of nerves." the Transocean rep- . resentattvo attributed to "Ko-. mans" the statement thai alone t of the party stalwarts U Duco remained untouched by a great ' ."purge., ::n-v; f ; The Berlin broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, quoted the Transocean correspondent: "Everywhere I was told that the morale of the Italian people was strengthened after a '.few... weeks duration of this (purge) action. He said Carlo Scorza. new sec retary general of the party, was directing the purge. Heavy Death : Toll XFcmed- WASHINGTON, June rJ.-WV A " warning that casualties cf the war; will be larger and the country should be prepared for, them as part ot the price of victory and freedom came Tuesday nightJrom Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information. , . , - Scheduled to speak to a dinner meeting of the Women's National Press club and its guests on what he thought of . the Washington press which he criticized in a re cent - speech in Eoston, Davis briefly poked. fun at himself and then turned to war, . - Jus ZX 1S3 Through. ..Ht Heavyweights Baiter Nazi Rhiheldnd Industrial and Hamburg : LONDON, June 29.-(fl-Great fleets of British bombers bat tered the Rhineland industrial city of Cologne and the U-boat center of Hamburg Monday night to hit a new high In the devas tation heaped .upon Germany's war machine in a single month' although June still has two nights to go. f " ' ' . r ObserVers said the raid on Cologne was comparable withrth previous heaviest: attack on the Ruhr in which more than 2,000 tons of bombs were dropped. , ! - . 1 -. Other waves of allied planes roared over the channel lata Tuesday, afternoon, carrying the war's greatest sustained bom bardment of fortified Europe! through iits 11th consecutive day, Watchers on the southeast coast of England, who reported tho re turn of the daylight attackers after 45 minutes, said that they believed the force included heavy bombers but that - accurate identification was impossible because of the height at which they flew. ' Cologne, target of the first 1000-bomber raid that pulver ised 00 acres ia May. 1942, bore the brunt of tho double-barreled night assault which cost the RAF 25 four-engiaed planes. It was the RAT'S-:. 13th heavy bombing operation of the month and was believed to have boosted tho June bomb load well over the record, of 12,000 tons dumped on Europe during May. Each heavy- assault Is estimated to deliver around 1500 tons. Nine such ' raids . have : been made on Ruhr targets alone this month, for a . total of 13,500. tons. The RAF has lost 269 bombers in tho recojd attacks this month. Weather kept the heavyweights on the ground until June 11. ; - The RAF also laid miaes ia enemy waters last night la the delayed-action warfare that, ae- (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ; Land To Be Closed By Maneuvers PORTLAND, June 29 Army maneuvers in central Ore gon will close some of the state's best big. game lands to hunting this year. State Game Supervisor Frank Wire predicted Tuesday. . Military authorities have re quested that fishing and hunting be prohibited in the maneuver area approximately one-sixth of the state , in ... Deschutes, Crook, Harney, Lake and Klamath coun ties. Wire said.-. Maneuvers will start soon and continue through tho - hunting seasons.. !.-,'; Wire said the commission vir tually was certain to-comply with the army request. ".- -... . i. , ' At a meeting Monday, the com mission . approved hunting regu lations previously announced for the entire state with two minor exceptions. Pheasant regulations were altered slightly for Klamath and Hood River counties. Presi : WASHINGTON, Juno 29 - (JP) President Roosevelt expressed be lief (Tuesday that things are going along pretty well on the domestic front, and asserted that newspa per writers had stirred up some of the . controversies among offi cials and agencies cf his adminis tration. ::':-;,. .-; ' - Asked to name specifically the "internecine affairs started" by newspapermen, ho told reporters at his press conference that there were flocks of them. 1 " Read , any columnist, P r e 1 1 y nearly,- and go back to the files, he added. -" , ; f lie went on with some blunt criticism of some newspapers ; and eoxitenIe3 at cne pcL;t t it reporters on eccaslca had ta writs x.r.ltr orders. Ij at laxst one LiSlince, he said, the war e::rt was kcrt. He salj fhtt wis when : sevrrs ! i zv, r; r r owners, tad .1 rer :its about the riorals cf lis T7AAC3.'- The prer! ent said Hit v,iis -a-tl -::l1 thing Huntiiig News MoloringPplicles 'ica sCt , C 'i:o..,ci. h. CD r U-Boat Centers c rop Still Needs Many Pickers By RALPH CV CURTIS " Peak of the cherry ' harvest, hastened by recent warm weather, is just around the corner rand so Is the Fourth of July. They are, frankly, in ' danger: of coUidinsj at the , intersection,.' Such a col lision may not .be a catastropha however, if the matter , is , viewed hv tho proper light. . . r - .- (r With an dxs rosveetor la dependence day and the Ameri can Legion's celebration plans, what eould bo more patriotic ; than salvaging "food for Vic tory" oa the Fourth? Aad act uaUy there need bo ao conflict ': Salem folk may attend tho 'celebration events and still get in rood maay hours of cherry picking. The Salem chamber of com merce farm labor committee, of which L. MRamage is chairman. is scheduled to meet today with Robert E. Rieder, county agent. and Walter Snyder of the emer gency farm labor service, to dis cuss possible means of augment ing .the- force of cherry pickers. Cherry The idea of an appeal for a gen S era! weekend turnout, ocm par able to that of last Sunday but spread over two and one-half days dur ing which, many persons will bo free from their regular tasks. aouDuess wiu be discussed. , But it's a long time until Sat urday, and meanwhile the cherry harvest is 400 or 500 pickers short. There are large quantities of cher ries which must bo picked before Saturday if, they are to be sal vaged. Spokesmen for the farm L - 9mA ' ..- laror committee, are not com plaining they report that re sponse has been "fairly good to date" and recognize that many pickers are motivated primarily by a desire to assist one of tho area's ' key Industries and aug ment the nation's . critical , food supply., But tho damad for cherry pickers Is constantly increasing as the fruit ripens In new orch . (Turn to Page 2 Story B) " memcaiv which hart tho war effort aad caused a great many heart burnings, lie termed It a de liberate newspaper- Job. aot nee-; eacaray aecompUshed by . re porters but on orders from the top. We all know that, he said, but it does not make It any less . shameful. , . . ..,; ., Answering another question, ho said he would include radio per sonalities In his discussion but not as high a percentage as newspa permen. - - . Asked whether he. differentiat ed between reporters and column ists, tho chief executive said ho thought they did it themselves ia their daily writings. Ee; :rter5, he said, ere supposed to f i e news but some have to cckr it cr eke are Ltly to lore t!:t jc! knew cf a lot c c 3 r; the room, he v, : -re 1 Ha t in rt- nce ers- had to , write i.i t:.xcr,' n with rders. lis dcbctiled t!j as a t. J situation aad I Vrrs,." t (Turn to r2 2 Ctcry A)