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cording te an official anneunee
BMBt, already has sunk- at leaai
49t axis vessels.
Huge fires were spread through
out Cologne and. although clouds
prevented an accurate assessment
of the damage, the tone of German
complaints about a "terror" at
tack indicated tnai u was equauy
as destructive as other RAF sat
uration raids. " '
.. Cologne, ithird largest .city in
Germany, harbors a large assort
ment of war plants, including
chemical and dye works. Their
importance , is indicated '"by the
fact that the city now has been
raided lit times. ' . - ' " '
German V reported, without al
lied confirmation, that the Cologne
camear&i wmcn mu iu , f " p
- out of a cluster of railway, indus
trial and business- targets, was hit
-by -high explosives. . : v : . - :;
throozh the roof at the cathedral ;
and exploded inside the church,
causing' heavy devastation," said
a Berlin broadcast heard In Lon
- den. '
.The Daily E x press reported
irom Stockholm that the famous
' Hohenzollern bridge spanning the
J" Rhine at Cologne was hit in the
raid. :r: ' -
The bridge, which is less than
a quarter of a mile from the ca
thedral, carries important traffic
between central and western Ger
many including trains and road
convoys bringing food to the Rhine
and the Kunr. - . r
Reports of the . damage were
varied, the dispatch said, one say
ing .the , bridge' had collapsed,
oiners mat 11 ww out ui ouuu
: temporarily but could be repaired.
German propaganda has concen
trated on such stores of destruc
tion of churches and other cul
tural objects and )oiiet to the
"civil population." ' -
Allied Planes
Bomb, Strafe
Salamaua
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Wednesday,. June
tb-iJP)-Allied planes bombed and
strafed Salamaua and Lae, New
Guinea, Tuesday the high com
mand announced- in the noon com
munique today. , ' .'
' Lae and Salamaua are enemy
bases on the Huon gulf only a
short distance above the Jungle
ground front at Mubo.
A single four-engined 'bomber
struck at the Isthmus en which
Salamaua Is located, attacking
buildings.' . . : ;
Attack planes were used against
Lae. They dropped to low altitude
to strafe enemy installations at
Labu lagoon where the Japanese
often attempt to hide their supply
barges.
Over Dutch New Guinea, i big'
allied bombers on reconnaissance
bombed and damaged the enemy's
barracks area m a midday attack.
Bad weather : hampered opera i
tions elsewhere. "" J ;; y ,i
Revised ' figures ' eeueerning
Monday's raid : by It Japanese :
planes en DarwWi raised from f
two-:- to three the - number of I
Zeros definitely shot down by :
the; intercepting Spitfires. One
Zere and twe - bombers were
lUted as probably destroyed.
The pilot of a Spitfire previous
ly listed as missing -was saved 'af
. ter his plane crashed into the
bush. Another Spitfire made a
belly landing on its own field in
the northern area.
Farm Prices
Over Parity
WASHINGTON, June t9.-(kh
The agriculture department re
ported Tuesday that - the general
level of farm prices advanced
fro 15 to 18 per cent above parity
between mid-May and mid-June.
Parity is the price level goal of
farm legislation.
The mid-June level was said to
have been the highest reached
- since reoruary is ju, a year ago,
the level was one per cent below
parity.
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"Oregon's Ccrgcst Upstate Agency
7alIace-Jones Feud Stir
Old Capital Power Dispute
F (Continued
make independent appropriations
fare. This agency develops programs for purchase of -strategic
materials, but as presently set
by the Defense Supplies corporation, a subsidiary of the Recon
struction Finance corporation, which is under Jones. : ;
yWe have recruited what we feel to be an extremely compe
tent group of businessmen and .technical engineer Vith foreign
trade background to carry out
materials, Wallace told the committee. . " Z ; r 1 . !
VI feel that they should be given adequate latitude for a Job
that is extremely difficult even under the best" of -conditions.
They should be free from this hamstringing bureaucracy and
backdoor complaining of Mr. Jones and his employes. -
misleading congress inarge
Wallace accused Jones also of trying to mislead congress into
believing the RFC had supplied funds for administrative expen
ses of the BEW whereas Wallace said these were supplied inde
pendently. :
. On the subject of Jones' purchases of strategic materials,
Wallace gave the committee a table which set forth that no con
tracts were executed, prior to BEWs assumption of responsibil
ity, for imports of castor seeds, corundum (for grinding optical
glass), palm oil (used in manufacture of tin plate), flax fiber
(for parachute webbing), tan tali te (for radio tubes) or zirconium
(for tracer ammunition). , ' ,
i "For the summer of 1940 untU well past Dec. 7, 1941' Wal
lace declared, "The Reconstruction Finance : corporation failed
dismally, so far as the import field was concerned, to build the
government stockpiles authorized and directed by the congress
nearry:18 months before Pearl Harbor. ; V
Private Purchase Continued
' "During the period, of course,
continued on a somewhat increased scale due to better business,
and the Reconstruction Finance corporation entered into various
underwriting agreements with some countries under which we
agreed to take surpluses if they
seems to us to have been a timid, business-as-usual procedure; at
least it was, a 'far cry from the aggressive government stockpil
ing which the congress directed and authorized so that this na
tion might have a margin of security in its imported raw mater
ials inventories." ; , . 1
When the president gave BEW the task of arranging imports,
Wallace said, Jones "Never fully accepted that authority.
Spaulding Firm's Struggle J
To Remain Solveiifrls Told
PORTLAND, June 29.-(fl3)-How the Spaulding Pulp Sc Paper
company of Newberg fought to keep going through the depres
sion and survived to pay off its bonded debt and make capital
improvements totaling some $180,000 was disclosed Tuesday by
Secretary-Treasurer O. M. Alli
son. ; .
' The battle began when the com
pany was trapped in the depres
sion quagmire in 1932 and creditors-'attempted
liquidation, Alli
son, a Portland attorney, said.
Liquidation was averted only by
convincing the creditors to ex
change , their claims for income
bonds totalling $250,000. But this
was contingent upon getting $50,7
000 from the company's stock
holders. Finally this was done by
issuing other bonds.
The J25M0S issue matured In
1937 but there was no threat f
foreclosure at the time- and the
amount has been carried since
as aa everdue issue. Allison an
nounced yesterday that both Issues-
'would be retired as ef
'June SO.
"The earning, position of the
company was such that we had
retired 25 per cent of the original
face value of the bonds, and the
other 75 per cent was retired
through the medium of a bank
loan," Allison said.
He said the company's .prog
ress was due largely to the ef
forts of President J. C. Comp
ton. MeMinuvUle; Fentress H11L
one-or the board of directors,
; who as an associate of the. De
trolt Trust company handled the
initial reorganisation, and E.
Fred Amery, Fortland, vice
president. Since the : 1932 reorganization,
Allison said, the company has put
back 'approximately $180,000 into
plant improvements and additional
land and equipment. Production,
greatly stimulated by the war, has
been increased from 50 tons daily
to 80, tonSs. , -
The company was established in
1928.1
Contract Awarded
WASHINGTON, June 29-P)-A
contract for construction of ; an
airforce installation at Madras to
cost more than $1,000,000 has been
awarded by the war department.
Senator, McNary (R-Ore.) an
nounced Tuesday.
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for the board of economic war
up the money must be supplied
our Job of importing strategic
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private purchasing of imports
were not bought privately. This
AAA Presses
For Repeal
Of-AiitoTax
WASHINGTON, t June- 2
The- American Automobile Asso
ciation called Tuesday for a mora
torium on the payment of the auto
use tax, criticized in congress as a
"pay-as-you-don't-go" plan, but
the treasury said the law is the
law and .new $5 windshield stick
ers roust be displayed; after
Wednesday, ; .
Guy T. Helvering, commissioner
of internal revenue, issued a for
mal reminder that the tax is due
and said motorists not paying it
would be subject to "severe penalties.-
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Senator Mead (D-NY) saying
the tax ought to be repealed since
the gasoline-rubber shortage re
stricts use of cars, dubbed it the
"pay-as-you-don't-go" plan.
Police Seek
State Training
School Boys
1 PORTLAND, Ore, June 29-(JP)
State and county officers searched
the Canby area Tuesday night for
two escapees from the Woodburn
training school for; boys .who
crashed their stolen automobile
into a second vehicle on the- Can-by-Molalla
highway.
State Police Officers John
D'Angelo a n d Clayton i Tomlin
identified the youths as - Jimmie
Greenslitt, 14, Oregon City, and
James Copeland, 13, Grants Pass.
They said the boys took the car
in Oregon City. : . ;
Clayton Voder, Canby, driver of
the other car, was given hospital
treatment for, an arm injury.
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By 13 AEZL CIZLD3
Organizing a bicycle club in Sa
lem, (in addition to that already
sponsored: by Willamette university-
students) shouldn't be diffi
cult
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' There's Ralph Campbell, hust
ling attorney, who looks like a
slow-motion film perched on top
of a high-water bicycle.
With his. nice figure he should
be able to do better than Sonny
Bentson, but, so far, he doesnt
seem to. Sonny even perches his
small tow-headed son on the front
seat of a bicycle built for two and
goes swinging it around the block,
D. D. Ootson, senior employment
officer, regularly pedals back and
forth to work from his home on
route three.
i County Recorder Herman Lanke
cycles in from 940 Garnet street
or did the last time I asked him
about it.
V
But, I suppose the most popular
cycle dub in the area is that with
out officers: I refer to the soldiers
and lasses who bike out on sight
seeing trips on Sunday afternoon.
Gas ration can't be cut too soon
to please mem.1 n '
New Policies
Anger FDR: 1
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many people but be said the
livelihood of soma of then de- ;
pends on- taking orders.
A reporter, coming back-to the
question, of controversies, re
marked that Vice President Wal
lace's statement criticizing Secre
tary of Commerce Jones had been
distributed to the press and had
not been sought out by anyone.
Mr. Roosevelt remarked that it
took him by surprise, too.
The: whole discussion was
touched off when a-reporter asked
the president for a- philosophical
talk or background information on
the thought that "we . are doing
okay on the foreign front but not
too well on the domestic front"
On the point of progress on
the heme front, the president
suggested that reporters get out -around
the country and get .
their illustrations. . He a s k e d
whether they did net think the
war was running pretty well at
home and whether we were not
getting the stuff out pretty well.
His questioner said' he was
wondering fa b o u t other things,
such as controversies. ' Mr. Roose
velt asked who was encouraging
them. :
"Everybody," some one piped
up in the rear of the room.
Nearly everybody in this room,
the president added, and went on
to his general discussion of the
press.
Silvcirton Man
Jap Prisoner
WASHINGTON, June 2.-(ff)-
The war department today made
public the names of "257 US sol
diers held as prisoners of war by
the enemy. The list included 24
Pacific northwest men, all held
by Japan. They wer.e'from Oregon:
Baxter, Pvt. Harry; mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Baxter, 1348 Camp
bell street, Baker
Bruce, Pfc, Charles T.; father,
Clinton M. Bruce, 5845 NE Pres
cott street Portland.
Coshow, Pvt Robert K; mother,
Mrs. Egley Coshow, Prineville,
, Morrisette, Pfc Frank M.; moth
er, Mrs. Olive Morisette, box 139,
Weston. '
Moullet Pvt Joseph B.; moth
er, Mrs. Mary . Moullet, route 2,
Silverton. . . t i'.,. '.-;v; ;
Wood,, Pfc Lloyd X.; brother,
Ralph Wood, care Melvin Leach,
route 1, Clackamas
OWI Fund Okehed
WASHINGTON, June 29.-BA
senate -appropriations 'subcommit
tee voted Tuesday to allow the of
fice of war information "a little
more than ' $3,000,000 for its do
mestic branch. The house had re
jected entirely a recommendation
for $5,500,000.. .
TONIGHT AND
THURSDAY
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Clieriy- Crop
Still Needs
ManyPickers
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ards. A special appeal has beea
made for families and ether
groups to drive out to nearby ,
orchards and pick far as many ;
hours as they eaa spare." Xaas-
much as day light continues un-f
. ta past 'clock, then Is time '
. after the" normal working day
te get la several hours of bar-
vesting. . - - ;.:vV--f
Each morning at 7" o'clock
cherry growers trucks and cars
report "at - the United States em
ployment service headquarters at
Cottage and Ferry streets. Some of
them have had to return without
full loads -of pickers. ; ; . t
Reports 1 of excellent ,: earnings
In the orchards continue to come
In though It Is recognized that In
some orchards the picking is not
ideal. Fifteen-year-old Kenneth
Free counted up Monday after
three days ot picking and found
he had earned $25.27. Monday was
his biggest day with 348 pounds
off the trees to his credit. -
- - Three beys, working la Miss -Keed's
platoon made eutstand- ,
Ing records. Duane Rawlins
earned - Itl, Allen' Bellinger.
$175 and Duane Graham $5.40.
The platoon's fifty young mem-
bers have - worked - constantly
v since school closed tm the - ber- '
rles; oaktns and cherries.
MtslT yVs '' platoon which : is
made Jup "of 25 youngsters : rang
mg in ages, from 10 to 13 picked
1214 ; pounds, on Monday. Melba
Tracy, Frances Williams end Joe
Vaxj r cleft were the' pace-setters.
Tirst request ."ot the season : for
cane: berry pickers was -recived
ot the. employment services suffi
ces Tuesday. The call was for 10
loganberry pickers to start work
this morning. -
Nazi Agent
Admits Work
In Espionage
NEW YORK, June 29-(JP A
small man with a goatee stood be
fore' a US commissioner Tuesday
and "calmly admitted, with a
slight trace of a foreign accent
that he bad . been part of the
espionage system feeding the' nazi
high v command wit h American
war- secrets " 5t; ' -,
The prisoner jvas Erwin Harry
De Spretter, 53,a German-educated
consulting engineer who was
arrested as the accomplice of
Ernest Frederick Lehmits, 57; Sta
ten Island victory 'gardener and
air-raid warden. Lehmitz en'tered
a simJIa plea of guilty yesterday
to violating the wartime espionage
act. j- r : : v -
; US Ckwnmissioner Martin C, Ep
stein held De Spretter In $50,000
bail for grand Jury action as he
did in the case of Lehmitz yester
day. It convicted of the charges,
the men face penalties of from
30 years in prison to death. - -
E. E. Conroy, chief of the New
York office of the FBL said that
De Spretter, also a Staten Island
resident had supplied Lehmitz
with ; Information concerning na
tional defense plants. - -
Court Upholds
Linf ield Will
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29-(JP)
Mrs. f Frances E. R. Linf leld's
transfer of Srjokane property --to
Linfield co 1 1 e g e, McMinnville,
Ore, 20 years ago was legally
proper and members of her fam
ily have no rixht to recover now.
the US circuit court 1 of appeals
ruled Tuesday. -i
The' decision upheld findings of
the federal, court In Spokane. Mrs.
Linfield, nee- Ross, was dean of
women at McMinnville e oil eg e
from 1921 to 1928. The school 1st-'
er was named for her.
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Travelers Tilay
Be Stranded
PORTLAND, June 23-(P)
Fourth of July weekend train and
bus travelers may find themselves
stranded. Herman O. Sites, office
of defense transportation district
manager, warned Tuesday, tactile
northwest lines are handling the
heaviest volume in history, he
said.
Paring Night
Bonbing Raid
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No American planes were lost
either Sunday or Monday, k i ;
y The communique described the
air action against the naval force ;
in these words: "During the
night (Monday, Solomon island
time) ?JS planes bombed a small
Japanese naval, disposition In
the central Solomons area. Re
sults were not observed.'
- Little significance was attached
to the action here and no partic
ular importance was seen in the
presence of. such enemy forces in
the central Solomons, presumably
in the Munda air base area. Some
naval men said that the phrase
"small Japanese naval disposi
tion" might mean simply . a cargo
ship and destroyer or a group of
motor torpedo boats. : k .
Subsidy Ban .
MoVe Okehed
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the administrator and when be be
lieves it necessary to encourage
production. -
The conferees declared that no
additional funds for . subsidy
payments above the $15O,0O,eSt
eould be obtained without con
gressional assent
The war food administrator also
would be empowered to supervise
what the conferees termed a buy-ing-selling
procedure that would
allow a subsidizing agency to buy
food at a loss from the farmer or
on the open market to stimulate
production. -; " :
The government -would be per
mitted to continue incentive pay
ments on canning ' crops such as
tomatoes, corn, beans, and peas;
on specialty crops such as peas and
beans and on potatoes, hemp and
sugar.
.The price -support program on
domestic vegetable oils and fats
likewise, would; be continued as
well as payments permitting - sale
of wheat for feeding purposes. '
Mrs. McFarlane Trains
To Teach Observers -
TJNIONVALE Mrs. Glen Mc
Farlane, principal of the Union-
vale school, has completed one
week of instructions in airplane
observation at Portland and will
instruct all of those interested in
the service. She was on . among
the many from1 Dayton and sur
rounding localities who enloved
the t maneuvers of the two air
planes evidently in practice here.
Superintendent Dies
uunvAXJLaa, vre June zs.-isF)
E. P. Jackson, 67, superintendent
of buildings at Oregon-State col
lege since 1914, died of a heart at
tack Tuesday,,
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serving as fire protection cur
atives they will construct trails
and telephone lines and repair
lookout stations.'
The board approved It o g e r a
proposal for the annual tax levy
for protection of private lands un
der his Jurisdiction. ., i
The annual meeting. In the state
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Leo Ilahn of Antelope.
Ceiling Vioktcd
PORTLAND, June 2M-Price
regulations require retailers to
sell fresh vegetables for not more
than 43 per cent above their cost,
the district CPA warned Tues
day. Numerous violations "w e r e
noted in a survey here. .. t
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