;1i 3 YTeallier Saturday. nuxLnum tem perature 57, x minimum 49. Precipitation .1J. 3 Klver --5 it. f -v : !;"- 1 Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday, with f scattered showers .Sunday 'and rala west and north I portions Mondays bos much change . v V W vv XPGU N DS D - -1651 la temperature. UBIETY TH&D YEAH 3 PAGO Salem, Oregon. Sunday Moxnlnj Korember 21, 1943 Prlc 5c Mf nr " - :k W-nvviTYi r Mini 7 .-, a-a' r i li;j:,iTo.ji2:s'- -j -l :i - 'ii V.I r ill The hall in the British houses of . parliament used for centuries by the house of commons was de stroyed in one. of -the last heavy raids ol nazi aircraft, on the night of May, 10, 1841. Since then the commons has, on invitation of the house of lords, sat in the latter chamber. Recently the government moved to appoint a committee to proceed with plans for reconstruc ting the ancient house. The possi bility of changing the shape of the house was discussed, the sugges tion being made that it be made semi-circular, with members oc cupying , desks within the semi- - circle as is the case in other par liamentary bodies. In opposition to "this suggestion and in support of the government's' motion, Winston Churchill made a short but potent address, ' launching out with this trenchant sentence: "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buil- dings shape us. , His objection to the semicircu lar rather than the old oblong pattern was based on what he con sidered the difference between the party - system -and jthe bloc sys tem of parliamentary grouping; He said: ".-;-.-' The semicircular ... assembly which appeals to political-gbfi; ists enables every individual or every group to move about" the center, adopting various shades f pink according to the weather changes. -j - "I am a convinced supporter of the party systenTin preference to the group system. I have seen many earnest and ardent parlia ments destroyed by the group system. The party system is much favored by an oblong form of chamber, it Is -easy for an indi vidual to move through those in sensible graduations from left to right, but the act of crossing the floor is one that requires serious consideration. I am well informed on this matter for I have accom plished that .difficult process not only once but twice." In England a member may shift from support of the. government to the' opposition, or the reverse but to indicate that shift he rises and crosses the floor to take his seat with the members on the other side. If many members de sert the government, the cabinet may fall (Continued on Editorial page) House Attacks OPACoalOa Management By ALEX H. SINGLETON - WASHINGTON," Nov.: 20Ar The administration's -price control machinery collided with ' another challenge todaya threat to re-' move coal "and "oil from OPA jur isdiction as President Roose velt; stalwarts waged an appar ently losing battle- to save the consumer . subsidy program. - With the subsidy showdown due Monday in the house,' a blocTof lawmakers from coal and oil pro ducing states, announced that 209 signatures just nine short of the required 218 had been collected on a petition to force action on their proposal. , "Well collect the rest of. them Monday," asserted Representa--Uve ; Calvin Johnson (R-Dl). The. petition calls for committee : discharge of the Disney bill t tarn control of oil prices over to Interior Secretary Ickes. John son plans to offer an amend-' merit to include coal. ' . The move another in a ' series of rapid fire developments on the nation's economic front left the Bdministra.tion.--, confronting this Situation as it strove desperately to preserve the program it has ; (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Samos Said v To Have Fallen "LONDON. Sunday. Nor. tl (Jpy-Tht Morocco radio. In : a broadcast recorded today by the Associated Press, quoted the German agency DNB as an noancing that "the allies, have withdrawn their forces from; Samos," the Greek Island north of the Dodecanese group In the Aegean. . - v ;- S; ". '- ir.: . Although the Dodecanese Is land of Leros fell to German In vaders early in the week, there has been no Indication from any allied source of a withdrawal from Samos." (S) SHOPPING m UAto Ucr-1- -to oct of r THOSE . TO JlN 'ri : Bay Cfuisi&is SeaJs & Missies ' ': t ; , - - ' -t- Employ Tanks Move Or 4 JnHiUUry Of Ne (P ainea - By WILL .4 F. BONI SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Sanday, Nov. 21 (AP Tank - paced Australian sol diers are continuing to move slowly. . ahead against Japa nese entrenched, in hilly coun try around Sattelberg. on tne Hood neninsula of northeast ern- New Guinea, , Gen. Doug las JIacArthur's spokesman said- today.- r . t- (Tokyo nad Broadcast ciaims that the tank attack was repelled.) Previously; the 'Aussies in their jungle drive northwest of Finsch hafen to Sattelberg, which, over looks the allies' positions because the Japanese are on a plateau, naa been reported within- a mile of their ! objective." The amounts of the latest gains were not speci fied. ! .-; ' In addition to the light tanks, the Australians drew support for the second straight day from bombing and strafing planes. : Michells and Marauders ranged north of " Sattelberg along the coast, concentrating bombs and machinegun fire on enemy supply dumps. On Friday" morning, at tack planes swept the same sec tor as well as Japanese camp areas slightly southwest of Sattleberg village. In the northern Solomons, the furious onslaught to blast be yond all use the enemy air bases n Buka continued with libera tors dropping 72 tons of bombs and rendering the runways nn- . serviceable.: Within the past few days, American " warships have blasted those bases with 101 tons of shells and .bomber have p-ninded jthem with upwards of 200 tons. . Buka is on the northern tip of Bougainville, the big island ; on which American forces now have a beachhead at Empress Augusta bay. ; On Bougainville's south coast. Liberators have dropped 43 more tons on the. Kara airfield to keep it from being used against the in vaders.' ' , Increasing Japanese patrol ac tivity was reported on the eastern flank of the Empress Augusta beachhead. (Turn to Page 2--Story C) Chinese Kill 4000 Japs At Tzeli i By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Sunday, Nov. tl -P)- The Chinese high com mand announced today the Jap anese lost more than 4000 kill ed oat of a force of 18.004 men . h continuing battle In which the f Japanese seized Tseli, a. highway town 90 miles sooth of . the Yangtze river port of Ichang. Describing the action there as one of the bitterest fiehts for &nv point in China since the fall of Hankow and -Canton in October, 1938, the high command announce ment said the Japanese ' opened the Offensive : Wdnartav witH 6000 i infantry and cavalry troops ana suosequenuy Drought up re inforcements of 3000 and 9000 men and ' sent wave after . wave of planes ; to augment the artillery bombardment of the Chinese po sitions. The Chinese were said to havei wiped out several hundred invaders in plainclothes. The annonncement came amid signs that the Japanese drive along a 100-mile tig-sag front westward from Tungting lake might be extended as a prelode to the fourth battle for Chang sha whose fall would have par ticular significance In the ex panding air war In China. Friesen Files Suit Against AFL PORTLAND, Not. John S. Friesen, owner of the former Salem Box 3Ianafactnr- : lag company, whoso West Salem plant was burned In November, 1937, today filed s federal court , suit for $13246 JS against the International . Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL). . Albert Bosser and AI N. Banks, members of the teamster's un ion, were convicted of arson in connection with the fire. . The box company's attempt to collect $20,089 riot and civil commotion Insurance for the burning of the strikebound plant was defeated In the US circuit cauiai Saa FraacUee k 131 To Launch Christmas Seal Scd& Monday Planning the campaign for sale of luncheon, are Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar, executive secretary or tne uregon xuoercuiosis society (right), and Mrs. Jtuby Bergsvlk, secretary of the Marlon county public health department. The women dis cus plans for the campaign with Governor Earl SneU. French Assure Settlement In Lebanon LONDON, Nov. 2H)-French authorities in Algiers, faced with the possibility the British might bave to take control of Lebanon, promised speedy settlement to night of their conflict with the Lebanese over that little repub- lie's independence. ' . The. Morocco radio broadcast a communique in which the French committee of liberation said it now ; was able to define its ; position with a , view to speedily" settling the dispute arising from the ar rest' last week of Lebanese offi cials after the chamber ' of dep uties had . voted to throw off French control granted through a league of nations mandate. "A solution must be found within the framework : of the mandate ' received ' from the league of nations and in accord ance with the promise of Inde pendence made by the, French, in 1941 when Vichy control was overthrown, the communique said. Meanwhile, conflicting views of the gravity of the situation were expressed by British and French representatives at Cairo. ; "The tension in Lebanon hasn't relaxed, a serious situation still exists," said Robert G. Casey, Bri tish minister to the; middle east, after a visit to the Lebanese cap ital of Beirut On the other hand, ; General Georges Catroux, French commit tee representative ' sent to inter vene in the troubled Arab state, told correspondents in an inter view: l . " ' j '. V ?- . . . "You can see it is calm now. There has been much inexact news sent ouf of here about the revolt. Myrtle Point Students Riot ' MYRTLE POINT, Ore., Nov, 20 (fl3)- Chief of Police Bert Pearson said today he planned to arrest none of the Myrtle Point high school students and ' members of a religious sect who rioted briefly on downtown streets this morn ing! . . -: . - .; ,-'-: - - The fighting, accompanied by barrages of ripe tomatoes, started when a member of the sect slap ped a student, 'Pearson said. " He . said the students accused the sect members , of distributing religious literature to the detri ment of war bond sales at a stu dent booth. The sect charged the students with Interfering with dis tribution of its literature, he said. About 25 members of the sect and 50 students engaged in the melee in which loggers and other passersby ' participated, Pearson said. State police were called but arrived after local authorities had stopped the disturbance, the chief said. Several persons were treated by physicians for superficial In juries. . ; ;.,", Oregon War Oiest ' Quota Nearly Filled With a total of 11,101,000 al ready pledged or paid, Oregon war chest Saturday bad received its full quota from s 11 - counties. Goal of-the chest ki the state Is IU41.000. - .. : - -;. : " : Counties over, the top officially are Wallowa," Gilliam, Wheeler, Benton, Grant, Wasco, Deschutes, Baker, Chexmap, TJoq 4 CrooJu Christmas seals which opens on Monday at the chamber of commerce 3 -Power Meet To Be Set Soon LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 21 (A) . A Reuters dispatch from Washington early today said an announcement was expected soon In Washington on a meet- , lng j of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier" Stalin. Cairo has been hinted as the conference snot. ' . Speculation In London has suggested that one result of such a meeting . would be a psycho-, logical offensive aimed to attract bomb-shaken Germany's surren der . when . the allied. ariwles strike In the spring. - " - - An allied declaration of prin ciples for treatment of defeated' Germany was ; suggested as a possible means of hastening the end of the fighting. A similar appeal was made to Italy before her capitulation by - - Roosevelt and ChurchUL backed up by dire threats, of destruction. . There have been fresh rum ors of German peace , feelers seeking a definition of what "unconditional surrender" would mean. ' - Slavs Grapple For Islands Near Fiume By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE LONDON, Nov. 2 0VJP)-Yugoslav partisans under Gen. Joslp t Bros (Tito) grappled desperate ly with the Germans tonight for . the Islands of Krk and Crew, which command the approaches to Fiume through which Hitler has been pouring reinforcements in the long, costly effort to beat down the ever-increasing men ace to his southeastern Europe Hank. ' - Nazi sea-borne - troops " gained initial lodgements on both islands and heavy but as yet indecisive fighting erupted. This was the most important of half a dozen Yugoslav fighting fronts. In central Bosnia the par tisans were -pushed back slightly, but in the Croatian coastal area they threw back all nazi attacks. The Germans fear of an allied Balkan invasion to complement the Russian offensive appeared to be rising - hourly and reports from Ankara told of nazi troop and supply trains moving down the, Belgrade-Nis railroad at the rate of 12 a day: A report from Cairo said the nazis already had begun attempts to invade allied- held Samoa, less than a week after reconquest of the companion Aeg ean island of Leros. Added, to the: German worries was the growing might of the al lied air. power In the south of Eu rope. . . Red , Cross Learns Yanks Transferred WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-(h The Red Cross received word to day that : about 800 - of the 1000 American prisoners of war who were In Italian Internment camps cast September have been trans ferred t6 Germany, , , j It said names of the men , were not .included in advices received thus far from the International Red Cross committee in Geneva, and that no official Information has been received on the where- ab.vtt.ta cf 1L sec C2 prisonx, House Group Firm Against More Taxation By HOWARD W. FLEIGER WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-(JP) The . powerful house ways and means committee, in bi-partisan chorus, declared today the public can stand no more taxes and told the administration to cut down spending if it wants to block in flation. The committee said its second wajMime - revenue measure, call ing for $2, 140,000,000 in new taxes is all that "can reasonably be borne by the taxpayers at this time. The total was only a splash in the bucket to the $10,500,000, 000 the administration asked to fight the war and inflation.- Although firm in its opposition to further taxes, the full commit tee report, hardly went as far as a separate statement by republicans on the committee who told the ad ministration it must stop its tax demands. , ."For too long the over-burdened taxpayer has been - the 'forgotten man," the republicans declared. "For too long the watchword has been 'spend and spend, tax and tax. v "The time has come, he contin ued, "when henceforth the ad ministration, instead of insisting upon squeezing more and more taxes out of the public, should at long , last give , some concern to. the elimination of. unnecessary and wasteful expenditures.. The republicans pointed to ' recent action of the war depart ment in turning back to the treasury ' $13,000,000,000 more than the government asked In ; new. taxes as "abundant evi dence of the fact that ihe gov ernment cannot spend, the amount previously estimated. They said they, would listen to no more treasury pleas for more taxes -until the government cuts its own spending. . They suggested congress set up its own corps .of experts to police federal spending. j "Even " if a savings of only 10 per cent could be made in the total war program, they said, "it would result in lightening the fu ture burden of American taxpay ers by approximately $35,000,000 000, which is ho small amount." Yiile Seal Sale Opens londay .A luncheon to open the annual campaign for sale, of Christmas seals will be held at the chamber of commerce Monday noon. Ma L. V, Harmon, chaplain at jCamp Adair, is the scheduled speaker and will talk on the meaning of the Christmas seal. 5 ; A special guest at the luncheon, sponsored by rthe Marion County Health association, will be Wallis Atkinson of Lebanon, who was aboard one of the tankers which collided and burned .off the coast of Florida in ; October. Atkinson, the only , survivor who - saw Uie collision, escaped without Injury after being in the water for three hours. He is a . signalman third class, and was on the gun turret at the time of the collision, Other guests at the luncheon will be Mrs. Atkinson, wife 1 the seaman,4 Gov. Earl SneU and Dr. Grower Eellinser. UU0S-::-..L British Eighth 4 ' Lunges 5 Miles ' i ToTakePerano By NOLAND NORGAARD ALLIED: HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers , Nov. 20 (AP) Breaking through German forward positions in the first heavy i fighting on the- Italian - front- in recent days, the British Eighth army longed forward five miles. to ! capture Perano,, it was an-! nounced today, thereby threaten ing an important Inland sector of the nazis' heavily fortified line be hind the-Sangro river. jf-? .1 Against h e a vyT artillery' fire wretched .weather and - difficult terrain, the Fifth army also made some gains- above yenafro along the northern sector of its front. The capture of the village of Perano put the troops of General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery with in less than a mile of the only bridge crossing the Sangro 'river between the coastal road and a i point ten miles from' the Adriatic. i - aTl. J A " A rom meir vamagepomis in and near "the village eighth army units could look across the river at a short section of an extremely important lateral road upon which the Germans are dependent for supplying large forces entrenched In the hills overlooking the San This road extends from Sanvito Chietno . On : the Adriatic coast along a winding course inland through Castelfrentano, Ca soli and Palena to Roccaraso, Along most of its 'distance it is well behind the river land screened from the Brit ish, but opposite-Perano i it .loops down into a valley to within less than half a mile from the stream itself. - - , 1 AU gains were made against sharp opposition. Big guns on both sides kept the ' fifth army . front ablaze.- Heavy .rains, deep mud and swirling k floods impeded - all operations. . , ; . - . The storm of the past week has washed out hopes of an al- . . lied entry Into Rome at any time in the near future, particularly. . in view of the time that has been given the Germans to deep en their defenses In the present: winter line to. such an extent that , swift exploitation of a. breakthrough at any point would, be difficult If not Impossible. . The capture of Perano on Fri (Turn to Page 2 Story D) SlOll Demolishes London Club By E. C. DANIEL LONDON, Nov. 20 A mys tery explosion wrecked a xive- story building In London's night club belt of Soho last night and fnr a while had 'Londoners dia- ,in the nossibiUtv that the Germans had nployed one of their oft-threatened "secret wea pons." . During the day enough evidence was accumulated to dispel the sup position that noiseless invisible projectile might have caused the blast or that it ' was due to any kind of ; enemy .; action, but the exact cause nevertheless still was obscure tonight and seemed like ly to remain so at least, until Monday. . - :::;!-- . ' Authorities made an investiga tion of the blast soon after it occurred but did not -announce their findings,- and today every body concerned with the incident apparently had gone weekending. The explosion London's third, mysterious ; blast in ; a week knocked out the walls of a build ing on a narrow street where the sales rooms . of most major, film companies are situated and shat tered windows for a quarter of a mile arouncL y ; One report ; was that film had caOght fire In the cutting room of a company which makes docu mentary movies for the ministry of Information.' Another" was that the blast might have been caused by a faulty gas main the reason which has been attributed unoffi cially for the two other recent explosions. t , Pays Off in .Points PORTLAND, Nov. 20-j"P)-The city water bureau sent a Portland housewife the regular $3.34 water bill. - viv, - - , - She mailed back three dollars in currency and 34 raticgi pciats. Explo n( 3 FfQKg RAF Bombers Pound Plant At Leverkuseri By ROBERT N. STURDEVANT: LONDON, Nov. O--BfiUsh heavy bombers, striking for the third night at the sources of vast; quantities of " Germany's -w a r chemicals ;! and poison ' gases, last; night pounded "Leverkjisen," an in-; dustrial suburb of Cologne, and today lighter allied planes follow ed .up r with a daylight ? foray! against other , targets;' ; .; V,, -r" - f The "principal goal for. the RAF last -night was a group of plants belonging to the great I. G. Farb- enmdustrie Chemical trust, known to produce ingredients used in the production of poison - gas al though not the - gas - itself. The town's importance as a source of explosive chemicals is rated along side Ludwigshaf en, which the RAF has blasted heavily on both the preceding nights. - j In peacetime it is the center of a great dye works employing as many as 1 0,000 workers. It had been bombed four times before by the RAF. It was estimated unofficially that as much as 1000 ' tons of bombs may have been dropped on this Khineland town and oth er objectives In western Ger many during-the night's opera tions. This Indicated that the RAF, force involved was some thing less than half of that ree (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Laval Bloc Thought Due To . ; By JAMES F. KING i LONDON,' Nov 20P)-Belief grew in Londoh' tonight ' that Col laborationist Pierre . Laval's Vbloc might, collapse in -the face of the reported defiant determination of the Vichy chief of state Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, to lead con quered France back to democratic government. ;.Vy lifting a week-long blackout of all mention of Petain, the Vichy radio went to elaborate lengths today apparently to quiet mount ing French home front unrest -to create the impression that, the 87-year-old I marshall ; still was functioning." f A Berlin foreign office spokesman . was quoted in a Swiss dispatch as having given! guarded confirmation of reports ' of a crisis at Vichy, The spokes-! man added, however,' that ru- t mors that Petain has resigned,! "so far as Is known at the VTU- i helms trasse, are nonsensicaL t t 'The Morocco radio in a broad- i'ast recoraea Dy tne Associaiea tress saia mat a . woman s vuicr announcing, that "Marshal Petain has ; resigned was heard on the Vichy radio just , before the 7 30 a. m. news bulletins. . V 1 s ! Out of the conflicting welter of rumors , from unhappy Vichy, the report of an open break between Petain and , LavaL. his German supported chief of government, appeared to be substantiated. l?resent Postwar j Program Advised, I Stricldin Reports ! ! A; comprehensive program, in yolving both immediate and post war projects, will be recommend ed ', by the advisory committee of ihe Northwest States Develoomenf association, Charles E. Str icklin, state engineer, reported here Sat urday ioon his return from Spok ane Wash, where he attended a two-day meeting of the committee.-; - State Highway Engineer R. IL Baldock also attended the meet in jr.: Strlcklin said . the; program, when completed, will be inbmit ted to the governors of the five northwest sates, including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.'"''".1" ' :.v Considerable discussion , center ed on proper safeguards for the protection of salmon in the Co lumbia river and its tributaries. ' : Most of the projects to be rec ommended by the committee In volve future power and reclama tion projects. Collap rvn f MS 51.' SS12 'i -Si Crusli 1 1 iians AIas$etl Infantry East of Zhitomirr Byl JAMES D: LONG LONDON, Sunday, Nov. 21 1 ( AP) Hed army t r o o n k M crumpled !a massed German I; tank and iinfantry attack is ! bitter fig&ting east of Zhito mir ;yesterday 6laughterirf-; 1000 nazis,' overran German defense : 1 positions to wided i i their newly; won' bridgehead f at Cherkasi, - and ,; gamed in their t drive towaijd the manganese cen S ter of Nikopol, Moscow announced i early .today vu- '" jf ' . . ;j -: f The Russian midnight bulletin" f j said a total; of 4000 Germans were r killed in fighting which saw sov i let . troops beat: back G e r m a ' l counter attacks at two other main' f points and) gain ground in the i lower Pripet river rea west of Chernigov; j and to the north ift : the Rechitsa region . west of air U most - encirtled Gomel. In the Rechitsa area alone 1200 German : were kUledlas the Russians went ; ; over tot the attack after blasting t nine consecutive nati countet-ati' I; tacks. l si-H--- I II - i i &ii Hoping ltd capitalize to the full i fMst Vtn 1h I nermanS canlnre Will i: day of the strategic rail and high i way junction of T Zhitomir, Mar v shal Frltx! Von Maniistein launch i an assault n the area of Koros- y tyshe-,nl5 fniles to jthe east. : i i S y I e forces, f lghtlnc nearg ll the scene lof the greatest Rus-J ; sian setback of the 1943 esm-j r palgn, met a thrust; of 000 Ger- man Infantrymen and 60 tanks ; in one sector, the war bolletinj 1 recorded !' jhere , by the soviet: 1 1 . monitor, said. 1 ' - ' J.,-..-fe ii . i: ,! I. j 5 1 t i . Nut I In : the "fierce j. engagement i . that followed the Russians burned v out 32 enemy tanks, killed 800 Germans' and "forced the Hitler ites to ; retrat, the communique said, indicating that h the initiative f' in the a r est had passed again ti ,', the red; array troops . , j l -A'J(ocl perman 'tactical errof I. also was Reported in another sec- (Turn: tdj Page 2-n-Story A) .3 s; -4- Wilsnpkehs Alumuia Plant In Salem l4rea ? -I t- - Word; tMt -: Charles E. Wilsonj i execuuve vice cnau-man 01 j umj- f.-. war production board, had signed f the order designating' Salem as the i locality in which ah alumina-froml clay pilot plant shall ;be built, was lj received jSajturday by the Salerpi chamber of commerce in tele-J grams from Congressman Harrif ! Ellsworth, pre D. 1 E. Woodrin who Is 'secrfetary to- iCongressmar f James W. Mott, and Sen. Rufu g: Holmani j , r j v - r. ;: Wilsoh wfas not at the nationai capital when the order was pre-: pared Wednesday by Arthur H g Bunker chfirman of WPB's alu-f minum f andj magnesium division? M and final signing was delayed un v. til Wilsons return. ? Approval by the war depart ment now s required as well as arrangements for financing by th4 defense :platt corporation, an AsS sociatedt i'.Pjr e s s li dispatch saidlll Meanwhile O. Gallagher, presi5 If dent of Colombia Metals corpora-; f tion. In: a letter written prior t4 i Wilson's action said prompt step toward construction would be taki en as soon t as me company was j officially advised of! the decision?! Speculation as to t the probable site , to be selected has been cur f j rent here ince the Wednesday ii ': t-.. i ufluuncenuji dui cnajnoer 01 com merce officials, ha ve indicat'ecl I there if ! little likelihood of a.' authoritative announcement in thi.f f connection mtil the; .property ha been purchased. It (vas reported i that the initial - operation would t require about 40 acres but tha'f t about 240 240 woi ould be; heeded even4 tually Legislator May Serve As Lerat Advisor For. Slate. Board A member of the, ture also rday serve state legislaj as legal ads ' viser for the, state Aboard of opf tometry'exacminers wjthout violat ing the: state constitjution, Attorf y ney General I. IV held here Saturday, f ' Van Winkle said a Van: Winkld legal advisof) for the i optometry board is not considei'ed i lucrative officer un-j: der the:;con$titutior4 j The opinion was sought by Secf-j retary of State Robert S. Farrc. ' 1 I