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Din cut
Thar.' sunset 9 :05
IT CZZMS TO ME that ; the
rpectacle of fee vice ptoesident of
the United States and the secre
tary cf commerce engaging in a
verbal public brawl is the. depth
cf something or other. Added to
the previous collisions between
prominent administrative heads of
government it shows that Wash
ington suffers not merely from
war-time nerves but ; also i from
grave deficiencies in organization.
Jimmy Byrnes, the new chief mo
bilizer, has had nothing but a se
ries of pop-offs and headaches
among his ill-assorted underlings.
The president himself, in what
must have been a tone of weari
ness expressed "surprise'1 at .Wal
lace's attack on Jesse Jones. , .,
This lack of cohesion on the
home front is more than the-j
tiral result of a democracies ti
pulted into war. After allwe have
Vaa A4finf vaaflv 1 4r vara a
uvcu -a, wau - a, us. n w.
since 1939. And we have had re
organization after f reorganization
in this four-year interval, each the
reorganization to end reorganization.-
' - ' -v-'-'
The prime difficulty is t h a t
President Roosevelt is not a good
administrator. He never has been.
He grew, up in politics, not busi
ness. His ; term as governnor of
of i spending which left a huge
. deficit which took his successor,
Governor Lehman, years to : ex
tinguish. As president he con
tinued the policy of spend, spend
;n a vaster scale, with succeeding
nightmares of NRA, SERA, FERA,
WPAi ETC'
In the 1940 campaign I was In-
viied to give a number of ad
dresses in behalf of the - Willkie-
McNary ticket. I accepted the in
vitation and spoke at a number of
north- and mid-western cities. At
that time the general tone of cam
paign speeches of both candidates
was that of keeping out of the
war. I took a different slant, say
ins plainly that we were' head
ed for ' war; that the president
- was not a good administrator;
mai we snouia -mue tn cnange
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Senators to
Visit Fronts
. .Five. Chosen for
Coveted Seats In
- Inspection Group
: WASHINGTON, -June 30 H&lr
Amid predictions that ."they won't
see enougn ia sucsr m tneir eye,
five senators got unofficial clear
ance from the senate Wednesday
night for a trip, around the globe
. ia ?an x army bomber to :i visit
American fighting, forces in the
battle ' zones and . inspect P- their
equipment. ' j ; ' ;
i Ending a three-montbs back
stage controversy ever the per-
Kennel ef the Inspection groan,
- Democratic Leader - Barkley - of
Kentucky told the : senate he
- had reluctantly picked the men
bers after eemferenees . with
Gen. George: C. Marshall, chief
: f staff. Secretary of War Stim
seoo and Minority Leader. Me
Nary of Oregon.
Barkley named Senator Russell
D4Ga), a dark horse, a chairman
of the committee and- split the
' other four places between the
- Truman war investigating com
mittee and the senate military af
fairs committee, which had been
battling with boyish enthusiasm
for three months to carry off. the
coveted assignments.
Kossell. was named as a rep
" resemUUve ef - the appreprla-
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S Late Workers
Get Pay Boost
Pay increases averaging $10 . a
month : for virtually all employes
cf the state department were an
nounced by Secretary of State Ro
bert S. Farrell. r Jr., Wednesday.
The new" wage scale becomes effec
tive today.
Senate Revokes Domestic
Branthof OWlFundBan
' WASHINGTON, June 30-(T)
The senate Wednesday night vot
ed to revoke the death sentence
which the house had decreed for
h domestic operations branch of
the office of war information but
placed a $S1,499 limit on tne
tmount the division may spend for
its home front activities during
the new fiscal "year beginning at
midnight.
. A lew moments earlier the sen
tt completed legislative action ou
the $7100,000,000 war depart
ment appropriation bill, by far the
largest in history. -' --v'S C.
A $rj,ea9 Item for OWTs,
everseas operations branch, plas
-vsrisus administrative apprsr
priations, bronght the inferma
tlan cf .'Ice's total appropriation
fsr t!;e 1S14 fiscal year to $35,-
Before voting the $3,581,499
fund for OWl's domestic opera-
tEcns, the senate rejected. 40 to
Z 1, a move by Senator O?.fahoney
fD-Y.'yo.) to grant $S,5C3,CC0 for
c-TIce's home front wcrk. The
tai been approved by
:r
tnrimr tiled yeah
(Chief :f $fh rtiim ique
Jo
nm Wry,
Admiral Requests Envoy ;
To : Fix Terms for Change '
Of French Isle I Authority :
NEW .YORK, June 3 0-(r-Admiral' Georges Robert, .Vichy
French high commissioner , of Martinique, has .asked the United
States : government to send an envoy "to fix the terms for a
change of French authority, on the Caribbean island, the Mar
tinique radio reported Wednesday
night in a broadcast recorded by
the federal -communications com
mission, .j ; 'p; C -.' '-
The broadcast declared that Ro
bert had taken the step "to avoid
bloodshed' and had made his re
quest to the United States "under
the double condition of their , re
newing the guarantee to 'maintain
French sovereignty in these is
lands, and "of "the non-intervention
of American forces. : -
The broadcast, . in the French
language, presented Robert's
statement as a communique to
the population. - ' 1
" " There have been several recent
reports of disorders in Martinique:
The FCC text of the broadcast,
which was marred by poor recep
tion, follows:
"Communique , to the; popula
tion: ,
-Ia erder te avoid bloodshed
between the French and . . . the
. . , I hT asked the govern-'
meat ef the United States, wi
der the doable condition ef their 4
renewing the guarantee te main
tain French sovereignty in these -islands,
and ef the non-inter-
vention ef American forces, te
send a plenipotentiary te fix the
terms for . change ef French
aathority. .: : 1 T. , ; ?
: I ; my duty ,jhe people and
the. marshall". -'.y ,
" ""(Signed) Admiral Robert ,
. Presumably Robert's allusion to
a change of French authority
meant that he was willing to per
mit the island j to divorce itself
from Vichy and associate Itself
with' thie .French national commit
tee of General Giraud and Gen
eral DeGaulle which .has been set
up in North Africa.",
Diplomatic . relations , between
the United States and the French
island were severed by Secretary
of . State Cordell Hull, on April 30
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Norse Saveid
$92,000,000
Bullion Store
, - " ' - -T , - '!: '.i-1-;
LONDON, Thursday, July 1-W
Norway saved $92,000,000 gold re
serve by sneaking it out from un
der the noses ofi the ' Germans in
ammunition . trucks and . fishing
boats in the spring of 1940, it was
disclosed today. -'
. The conn was made pnblie
when awards - were snneeneed
for l two : British naval officers
' who helped rescue King Haakon
and the gold hot a step ahead
ef the Invading Germans. ,
: The gold, which has since been
shipped to the United States, was
moved under constant bombing of
German planes, the Daily Tele-?
groth disclosed in telling the story.
From a vault in east Norway It
was j packed in 1500 boxes and
shipped by train to AndalsnesT
i
the house appropriations commit
tee, but on the floor of 'he house,
the whole domestic fund had been 1
wiped out. ", 'I
OWl's operating money is con
tained in a $2,936,000,000 omni
bus appropriation measure which
includes funds for 17 ether war
agencies. The : senate .worked
wearily into the night in lan effort
to get the bill to a conference with
the house and reach a final agree
ment before the end of jthe cur
rent fiscal year at midnight , --
The-senate finally passed the
bill by a voice vote bat becanse
the hense already had nlt for
' the sight,' congress failed In Its
Intention el clearing all the big
money bills before the end ef
;- the fiscal year. . - j
Apparently in i more liberal
mood than the house, the senate
earlier had . voted to restore the
full $177,335,000 which the office
of price administration had asked
to carry on its work for the com
ing twelve months. The house had
knocked out $47,000,000 and OPAj
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14 PAGZ3 , AJ'Calanw
A. .A.
Twilight-Plan
In Operation
; Evening Parties Pick
; Valley Cherries to
Ease Labor Lack ,
By RALPH CV CURTIS ;
Twilight cherry "picking par
ties' are all the .rage this season.
Other sources of harvest labor be
ing exhausted and the supply of
cherry pickers still at least 300
short of the demand in the Salem
area,, this means .of meeting the
crisis - Is being stressed by the
emergency farm labor service. .
- Twilight sufficient, light for ;
cherry p!cking4-last antil t p.
' m. That . leaves - several noors
after most daytime workers? no
nal altting time, within which
they may contribute sabstan
UaUy te this critical harvest and
like wise , angment snbstantlally
t h e I r day' earnings, Grenps
planning a Mtwillght cherry
picking, party" may call the em
ployment service earlier nt the
day for directions and for sneb
assistance as Is possible In the
matter of .transportation. : No '
busses are available : for -" this
program, at present. .
Representatives of the emer
gency farm labor service surveyed
the situation in Polk county Wed
nesday and ' reported . that only
about one-third of the number of
pickers required were on hand in
Ernest Brunk's orchard at Brunk's
Corner and at Wes Elliott's or
chard near Dallas. It was an
nounced that Polk county pickers
need not call the emergency farm
labor office in Dallas before driv
ing to these orchards -since the
need for pickers is known. These
and . other large orchards are
threatened with Considerable loss
from "sunburh" if the cherries are
not harvested ; soon.
The registration lists ef vol- :
nteer part-time workers ob
tained by the Salem chamber ef -commerce
are producing a con
siderable number of cherry
pickers, it was reported; for this
particular harvest the women's
registration Is not so productive
. Since many wonca Mi feel
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Five Games :
At Carnival
Declaring them in violation of
the ordinance dealing with gam-
Ming and gaming ; devices, city
police "closed" five games operat
ed by the American Legion-sponsored
Browning carnival Wednes
day night in Salem.
The carnival, a feature of the
Legion's plans far Salem's
F en r t h of July celebration,
opened Wednesday a five-day
stand on Marion street between
Front, and Commercial, beside
, Marion square. .: . .-. -
. Representatives of the concern's
management, ' told by police to
cease operations of the baseball
throw, tmovingl target, ring over
peg and similar games, paying oft
in merchandise, e 1 o s e dthem.
However,1 representatives i of . the
Legion maintained that the games
were not Illegal under the city's
ordinance and : whispered threats
of damage action against the chief
of police, - who, - they 'said," gave
the closure order. .
Wavell Gets
LONDON, Thursday, July I.-C?-No.
10 Down ing Street an
nounced today, that King George
VI had 'conferred a Tiscountey on
Field Marshall Sir Archibald . P.
Wavell as intenden when be was
appointed the new viceroy of In
dia. fii-;:t:M-y--.-i.:t;
It Is understood that Wavell will
retain his family name and be-
ccme Lord Wavell.
Viscountcy
pcundud ; 165!
Oregon. Thursdcry llornincj. July 1. 1343
Pinball Law
Indictments!
Dismissed
. One grand jury ' indictment
against John Moore and Pop Wolf,
allegedly operating pin ball ma
chines, was dismissed from circuit
court Wednesday because- the- in
dictment filed by District At
torney Miller Harden ; failed to
state that the machines were the
"games of chance" forbidden by
a series of Oregon laws passed
from 1901 to 1937. -
" Hayden has made a second
motion for ' Indictment te ' the
grand Jury charging the same
' defendants within a second
similar charge, it was learned
Wednesday. .
According to the Oregon code of
laws any -machine which requires
the deposit of money, in a game
of chance, and offers prizes of mer
chandise or slugs to be redeposited
in the machine is illegal and
makes its owner and operator li
able to a fine of not less than $10
nor more than $1000. 1
Two high court officials stated
Wednesday that . 23 - Jurors were
brought to the court house at an
expense to the county of approxi
mately $100 plus the salary of
court judges, clerk and other of
ficials, all to try a case which car
ries a maximum penalty of 1000.
Fliers Strafe A
Locomotive :
v Jlore Than Twenty
; Naxi Engines Hit ; 1
By AlUedlRaid t
LONDON, June 3 0-P-Allied
flyers on offensive patrols against
axis transportation in France and
Belgium Wednesday shot up more
than 20 locomotives to . boost the
bag to well over 30 in the last 24
hours.
'The air ministry eommanlqoe
said Mnstangs, Typheens and
Spitfires participated in these
' forays, which have played hav
oc with continental transport
services. ;
Royal C a n a d 1 a n air - force
"trainbusters" were credited with
getting 19 of the "more than 20
locomotives' .reported in a sup
plementary bulletin issued by the
air ministry news service.
The bulletin said that two Can
adian fliers, Flight Officer A. Col
lins of Renfrew, Ont, and Flight
Officer Frank Hanton of Kenora,
Ont, a former minor league hock
ey professional, damaged 14 of the
locomotives In 85 minutes, h
We feend the first train a
few mutates after - we crossed
the coast and gave It several
long bursts ef fire," Collins said,
rrnroaghent the sorties .we
didn't have a shot fired af as. :
"Many people were watching
from the fields,' Hanton said, "and
one or two of them waved."
t Dome,
ElkiHiUs Deal
Said Similar
. WASHINGTON, June 30
Comptroller -General; Lindsay
Warren " Wednesday termed the
Standard Oil - n a v y department
contract for development of the
Elk Hills petroleum reserve MiUe
gaV ; and "strikingly similar in
Its provisions to contracts in
volved in the Teapot -Dome oil
scandals. He said, however, there
was no evidence of fraud in the
Kk Hills Contract, which was re
cently abrogated by the navy.
Assistant i Attorney x General
Norman U. LltU'l, who has In-
formed the bouse pnblie lands
T eemmlttee he also believes the
the contract went "beyond the
H scandals of the Harding ad
ministration, s a 1 d Wednesday
the navy; department had fur
' nlshed him With an "Ineerreet
, map ef the keserva. -: -vi;
"The west boundary of the pro
ductiori area on the map sub-
mitted 'to the committee was in
i i
error" Littelil stated, based upon
a - map subnjJttcd to me by -, tht
naval petrol sum reserve staff.
"Only after three days of testi
mony, when a congressman asked
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Teapo
Garaiial
11
Renewed'
7allace-Jonea Fight
5 Flares: Anew After
'. Conciliatory Talk :
WASHINGTON, June 30 -(P)
The capital's hottest controver
sy ' flared again'. 'Wednesday
night as Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones issued a new state
ment accusing Vice President
Wallace of ( making ."a : "dastardly!
and "untrue . charge against the
reconstruction finance corporation,
which is under Jones jurisdiction.
: Earlier in the night, Wallace had
said he intended no reflection on
Jones! "patriotism or : his Interest
in the war efforV, by accusing the
RFC' of hampering work of. the
board Of economic warfare. :
Jones replied that "This das
. tardiy charge against the KFC)
Is as antrne as When he first
made it" . . .
Jones and Wallace who is chair
man of BEW, had been called to
the white house during the day to
explains their . feud over . imports
of strategic materials and had con
ferred there for two hours with
War Stabilization Director James
F. Byrnes.
Wallace then said he had agreed
with r Jones that "fori the tune be
ing the BEW would continue the
present arrangement under which
it draws funds for .its activities
from the RFC, but would later
press Congress j for direct . appro
priationa. He added, that Jones
had made no objections to this de
cision. Jones declared sharply.
however, that ,"Mr. Wallace. was
not authorized to speak for, me."
' .WaQace's statementr ' -J
! "I have talked with Mr. Jesse
Jenear Be and I havejagreed for,
the time heing to centlnne the
- present arrangement, n n d e r
which the beard ef eeeaemle
Warfare Is fmnctlenlng, Prepar
atory to the cengress reconven
ing, the board of eeeaemle war
fare ,wlU Initiate steps thrench
the budget bureaa . which will
result; In proposal to' eengresa
that there be made available ,
to BEW the necessary' program
tends fee the preenremeat and
development- of all Imported
strategic war materials under
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Red Artillery
Wipes Out
Nazi Charged
LONDON, Thursday, July 1-0P)
-Massed Soviet artillery fire
wiped out a company of attacking
infantrymen" Wednesday in the
Leningrad sector, 1 Moscow an
nounced early today, while the
German radio suggested that the
Black Sea-Caucasus front ' was
stirring ooncemore; :?"y::?t: "
; In f the air Jhe Red air force
maintained a vigftover . the long
front, where the communist news
paper Pravda; said 211 German
divisions .were concentrated des
pite allied Invasion threats in the
west. Nine German planes ' were
declared shot down in the last 24
hdurse.. - ' - . ' ..,-.'!-
The midnight bulletin; record
ed by the . Soviet monitor, f an
nounced that i;000 German troops
were killed during a Soviet alri
attack on Pskov near the Estonian
frontier June 23, when a German
military headquarters, munition
and fuel dumps, and 12 parked
planes were destroyed. - '
Wednesday's noon communique
said ' Russian' scouts had over
whelmed a strongly defended hill
in the Kjdinin. sector below Leri-
ingrad, killing 200 Germans, and
the midnight : bulletin reported
scattered fighting on r- the front
west of Moscow and near Bel
gorod in the south.''-'.
Slaiigliterer
CheckupSet
Portland; Ore June 3o.-vP)
The USDA war board said Wed
nesday, the permits of all butchers
and slaughterers In Oregon will be
reviewed within the next few
weeks to determine if the slaugh
ter quota Is based accurately ; on
arh firm's historv. :..-'.';-'!
j C R. .TulIey, state meat market
ing supervisor, said the checkup
is necessary to regulate "the flow
of. meat - to- ';the-'- groed ' services
and provide e-uitille civilian 'dis
tribution. Th$ f jrvf7 --l te rr.zcs
j by county w
Jraittcca. j
r tear J r-.cst com-
Feud
'' -2-.. ' r, T.;VV-jf;-.. " ''frT
Hanging Near
MAX STEPHAN
idav
' Only Hope Left Is
Reprieve by FR;
. Gallows Built
-. DETROIT, June -(flVUnless
President Roosevelt V intervenes.
52-year-old Max Stephan, convic
ted of treason for aiding the flight
of a German flying officer from
a Canadian prison camp, will die
on the gallows before dawn Fri
day at the Milan (Mich.) federal
correctional institution! .1: '
:::lirleegT8nted stays ef exe-
cation by the United States --
preme eonrt la order that he
? might nffllae all avenaea. ef ap
peal, theXserman-bera former
Detroit restaaraat owner has
lived nearly eight months be
yond the November IS date first
: set for the hanging. L
Three times the supreme court
has refused to review the case, but
Stephan's attorney, Nicholas' Sal
owich, expressed belief yet Wed
nesday that presidential reprieve
would again postpone the execu
tion, i
t Hope for clemency visibly faded,
however, as . workmen : prepared
the gallows lor the nation's first
convicted traitor of the? century.
Plans provide for completion, of
the hanging in time for evidences
of the execution to be removed
before the regular .prison routine
starts at l a. m. Friday.
Salowlch .Insisted I stfll
think the president will eem
mate the death sentence.
v Stephen' had boasted shortly' af
ter his conviction last summer that
Germany j will never let ' me
hang. . - ' - ,
OUCIoupons
Value Put at
10 Gallons
WASHINGTON, -June 30
The value of Keating oil coupons
for the ! first heating , periods of
next season, good from July 1,
1943V to January 3, 1944, was set
today at 10 gallons a coupon "in
the 33 states under fuel oil ration
ing. The eeapons are these num
bered 1 en the new ration sheets
- and represent about 1t of the.
; householder's' total - heating ra- '
tion, the office ef price admhuV
tratfon estimated In making the
ralae snneaacement. 7'
' Period 5 coupons remaining
from last year's " allotment are
still good and may. be used along
with the new coupons to till tanks
during the summer months. -
Yamhill Seeks
Cheriy Pickers. :
McMINNVILLE, Ore, June SO.
-n-Yamhill county sherry grow
ers asked Wednesday for 600 addi
tional Dickers to prevent fruit
from rotting on the trees. ...
New berg area growers said 250
are needed immediately and more
than SCO are wanted In the Mc-
ilinnviUe-Amity district .
21Ct!i I3 Launched v
The Dinger nermann, named
for;, an. old time Oregon (.congress
man, was launched Wednesday, by
the Ore-rn Shipbuilding ' ccrpor-
ction; it was the yard's 21Cth Lfb-
tz'.j frc.'.btcr.
To Die Fr
5:25
. (Weather on page 5)
Prlc Sc.
No. C2
New Tax
Today :
First Payroll Period
' Starting in July.
To Take Cut
WASHINGTON, July 1 JPh
Pay-as-you-earn -income taxes
become reality toddy for some
44,000,000 Americans.
1 ..For the first time since the
government began taking a bite
out fNincomes 30 years agev a
currenibollectiou system based on
a - 29 per cent . withholding . evj
above personal exemptions goes
into effect with the start of. the
new; fiscal year. The. first actual !
cut comes oui ox pay zor xne xirst
payroll period beginning, in July.
For "persons on a - calendar week
basis that period begins Sunday,
juiy,4; 'i:-?;; -Ar ?'yii ,
' Enacted after a bitter, four-1
month congressional battle that,
raged chiefly ever one word!
"forgiveness -the plan wipes!
ont an estimated J33.0wM Ot
la present tax liabilities, yet the :
treasmry expects it te yield 33,
COO.SIO.OOO more In the fiscal l
year 1944 and 91.S94.00S.SSS
more In 1945 than the. present
law, which weald have bronght
In JS400.OGO.000.
' Hence, although onpaper from
73 to 100 per cent of each taxpay
er's debt to the government was
cancelled, actually i; the j highly
disputed "forgiveness will not
save him any money currently.
- H his 1942 tax bill was $5 or
less and his income unchanged, he
will pay the same amount - he
would have! paid .under the exist
ing law But if he owed the gov-Y
eminent, more than 3S0 her must
pay all that he wculd have paid
anyway.Xplua " VMt unabated por
tion of that debt, which will fall
due in equal ' installments next
March 15 and March 15, 1 945.
f The '20 -per o cent ' withholding
levy v which applies above exemp
tions "of $624 a year fos a single
person,- $1,248' a - year for a mar
ried person and $312 for each de
pendent, is intended to cover only
the sx per cent normal and .13
per cent first bracket surtax plus
the three per cent.net victory tax.;
As a result single persons earning
more than $2,700 a year and mar
ried' persons whose ' Income i ex
ceeds $3,500 those who fall : Into
the second and higher ' surtax
brackets will have an additional
tax liability, to be estimated and
paid in. four equal , installments.
Carson Named
To OP A Post
WASHINGTON, June 30ffV
Ivan D. ,. Carson Wednesday was
appointed acting deputy adminis
trator of the rent department of
the office of price administration,
succeeding Paul . A. Porter, who
resigned Monday to . become as
sociate administrator of the war
food administration .-
Bombs in Cathedral
. NEW YORK, "June SO.-ffV-Th
Berlin radio, 'in a, special broad
cast ! from - Cologne . Wednesday
night; said that four large British
time bombs are known to be still
buried in the Cologne cathedral..
. The broadcast, recorded by
Fri. . sunrise
Reality
Off
trials Predict '1944
Berry Crop
Though insisting that prices" to
growers for cane fruits,, soon to
be announced, will reflect the-war
f ood ; administration's "endeavor
to ' establish grower ; prices ' that
will generally assure, a 'fair grow
er return," a letter sent by C W.
Kitchen of that agency: to Sen.
Rufus C, Holman intimate that
next iyear there may be a. ten
dency to discourage berry pro
duction because of its high labor
requirements. ...::;'s'--4 : '"'';
The letter, a copy of which
Sen, nalman forwarded te tTTJ
. 11am J. tinfeet, secretary ef the
- Oregon Cane Frn'ts Centrcl
beard, said that la setting grow-
- er prices which will be sed la
establishing processors celling
prices far the IS 12 pack ef can-
' aed and frosen berries,, "it Is
not possible for s te establish
grower prices that will fully
coctensate growers far .all
losses ress.!t!r.g frcsa ticz. Cara-'
;'srej" - r ; ; . . ' -.:'
Iui me iuiure Vie jeiier saia;
"As you know, terries are a
v et; - ' m m 9 - t x ta.
Tl.
i
Trobriand, 7ooclIar
. Islands Captured
Without Fi!it
ALLIED IIEADQUARTER3
IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday,
July l-Py Allied land, naval
and air forces under the person
al direction of General' Douglas
MacArthur have occupied, the
Trobriand and Woodlark island
groupg between New Guinea
and the Solomon islands and
are attacking the neighboring
New Georgia islands and are en
gaging Japanese land forces near
Salamaua on New Guinea, it was
announced today, M :
The occupation of the .Trobri
and and Woodlark groups was ac
complished without opposition,
apparently unknown to the enemy,
a communique said. In the New
Georgia group American forces
have successfully landed on both
New Georgia and Rendova islands
and are engaging the enemy's de
fenses, it added.: '
nnuuui vi H uuuu, Its-;
yal and air forces are being em
ployed la the closest synchroni
sation." the eemmnnlqae said. ,
"'. (Announcement . of these new
landings expanded greatly on the
score of the operations in the
Southwest Pacific for it followed
closely on an earlier navy an
nouncement that American forces
had landed on Rendova f in the
Solomons.)
. iuuu waa ta pi unless at
Nassau bay, a few miles from Sal-,
amaua, where American forces af
fected a landing shortly after mid
night on the heels of concentrated
bombing by ; attack planes and
medium bombers.
The planes also carried ass
"strafing raids against enemy,
positions en the bay shore and
along the Bltel river, the eom
- mmniqoe said. - -
The operations took place during
the last 43 hours.
They i placed United 'Nations
troops onlyl2 miles south of Sala
maua, and on . the Trobrjiand,
x v ooqiptk ana .xmcw rvieorcja
groups which are between the ex
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Suggests
Labor Umpire
Collective Bargain -
Breakdown Seen .
h In Petty Tiffs
WASHINGTON, June 30 CP)
The war labor board foresaw Wed
nesday the breakdown of all col
lective bargaining unless labor and
industry write ' binding umpire
procedure into their contracts and
stop the tendency J of running to
the board with every grievance.
Implying that the board misht
find It necessary te order uch
procedure, vice j chairman
George W. TayW remarked at
a ) press eenf erenee, It would
be mnch better for the parties
te do that than for the board te
de It" - ' i 1 .
Board members emphasized -they
were not talking about the
negotiation of contracts, but about
the Interpretation and application
of contracts after they are made.
"Collective bargaining," Dr.
Taylor said,- "is tending to break
down because to often the parties
say, when a grievance arises. Take
it to the war labor board.' The
board cant handle the vast num
ber of grievances. It can't do it
with the limited facilities, and
shouldn't do it if it could. One of
our jobs is to preserve as much
collective bargaining as possible."
Curtailment
crop havixig exceptignally high
labor requirements. This has re
sulted In greatly increasing the
cost, of producing these berries
this year since agricultural W8
rates in the Pacific coast area
have, increased very rapidly since
the beginning of the war.
- nrcether It win be pes? : '
; fee the war food aimlaUtri'. t
te'' estatll&h prices;. far tsnl , 5
' dsarlag the 1211 seasan, that v. 1:1 .
; encourage cenSlaaed pro! a j
. and allow berry growers f
secure labcr at. the txrt.e f
ether erc.i that tnore
effklent tse c I cr, n& i.kl.
are more .1,-rerit la the
effort, will 1 curmlneili st
the th-ae C. :'. are btlng
midt rciOr the national
' food prorruv tor the 1SH sea
son. .. , ' -
Lin foot report Uiat packers tre
showing gra hitereit in I , -berries
f the control board p. ;
cf 12 cents, snd tlat many 1"
berries lave teen eolJ at t
r -