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Newspaper Page Text1 1 9 U-S vw mm i I v Following a conference in Seat tle last week participated In by representatives . of ; the , federal fish and wild life-service of the Washington fisheries division of the department t of conservation and of th Oregon fish commis sion,' it was announced that sal mon hauling . operations at Rock -Island dam in the Columbia be low Wena tehee would be discon tinued In 1944. Salmon will be .expected to pass .the dam and so up into . headwaters of ; streams emptying into the Columbia be - low Coulee dam to find spawning (rounds. v If this . 'expectation proves.' but, the problem of , fish - propagation posed by the great dams, on the Columbia may be . regarded as solved. , ' It Is recall edthat the army en gineers spent around $7,000,000 providing fish ways and a fish elevator ; at ' Bonneville to help salmon on their journey upstream for spawning." The fish patronize the fishways but few ride the ele vator. The results are very satis factory, for the runs have not di minished In volume since cross the river was completed. The .next hurdle wis 1 Grand Coulee, wtih a wall so high that HO attempt to suirdount it was considered. Even if the fish could be lifted over the dam it was feared : their seabound offspring would be killed in the 'fall over the dam or in the waters going through the turbines. How to' pre serve the salmon runs was a Question which gave authorities nd individuals interested in the salmon industry serious concern. The federal bureau of fisheries Wanted to build " a hatchery near the base of Coulee dam and ter minate their responsibility with that.' The Oregon fish commission insisted that the federal govern - rnent which built the dam had a continuing responsibility. Finally . it was .agreed that the 'gravid salmon should be "collected it Rock Island dam and hauled in Irucks to the hatchery, at Leaven Vorth. The" young . fish should then be liberated in the waters of Streams (Continued on editorial yage) '7 : v. Flu Epidemic Causes WU tTo Close Early Y Willamette university; will close for the Christmas recess ... today ioon. The ; time of adjourning Classes was moved forward a day nd a half because of an outbreak fit influenza in mild form at Laus anne hall, where the navy unit is domiciled. Some 30 of the appren tice seamen are confined to quar ters by illness. These will remain tin til their fever Is broken and they can safely be discharged. , According to Pres. G. Herbert Smith -' none i of the patients Is seriously ill, but the absences were interfering with class work, and the university and navy phy sicians agreed the early closing .was advisable. VNo early closure of public schools is contemplated, Supt. Frank B. Bennett ' declared Monday night.. Absences were slightly above the average, he said, but nothing was' reported ' that -indicated anything like an ' epidemic. .s:n- ....... Y Far too many cases" of influ-r enza are existent in Marion, coun ty, according to W. ' J. Stone, county health ' officer: " His " ex perience agrees with' that of the state board of health: Most at tacks are so mild that physicians have : not : reported them,' both ' . (Turn; to Page 2 Story B) Japanese ' To Be Released , 1 SALT LAKE CITY, Dec." 2 1-A : Ttelease of loyal Japanese Axneri -eans from war relocation centers will be resumed on a large scale ' in the spring, Ottis Peterson, re location supervisor for the inter' piountain-Pacific region, said to f Vetrraan exnlained that release s retarded now because of winter end overloaded transportation la- ClHties. ! There now are approximately 84,000 persons of Japanese ances try in nine WRA camps in. seven western - states and 18,0000 at v' Tulelake, Calif., compared with a w teak of 110.000. Peterson re- " ported... . ; SHOPPING Buy Gtfsfcs &s m I f 11 c - It i . MUNDBD 1651 NINETY THED YEAR British Force Takes Air, US Hits Bremen By ROBERT, N. STURDEVANT j LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 21 (JPh British heavy bombers smacked undisclosed targets in ermany.last.mght after Am erican Liberators and Fortres ses hit the u-Doat center oz Bremen in daylight, the British announced officially early to ady. '- - Axis radios also told of an al lied air blow against Sofia by day. A Berlin broadcast said points in southwest Germany were struck by British squadrons before mid night. English coastal observers had heard large forces of bombers heading out ! across the channel soon after dusk, indicating another big night attack. The German report as usual said the British bombers hit "res idential quarters," causing damage and losses to the civilian popu lation. A number of the night raiders were said to have been destroyed. j . - US Flying Fortresses and Lib era torn, aided by American and allied fighters, plastered Bre men with high explosives and in cendiaries and shot . down 42 German figrhters at a cost of 25- bombers and . eight fighters. The latest American aerial blow coincided with . an axis-reported attack on the Bulgarian capital of Sofia at noon, 1 and- followed yes terday's 'American heavy bomber attack from Mediterranean bases on . two objectives, j Augsburg t in southern Germany and Innsbruck, above the Brenner-pass in Aus tria. "' A blackout of continental ra (Turn to ' Page 2 Story I) McNutt Stakes Claim on Job, Rehabilitation By MAX HALL WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (JP) Paul V. McNutt staked a claim today to the many-sided job of absorbing millions of soldiers and saOors back into civilian life. He did it by announcing a de mobilization program based on the 1500 local offices of the United States employment service, a part of -the war manpower commission which he heads. ' The manpower phase of the na tion's conversion to peacetime is a Job in which at least 14 govern' ment : agencies have an interest There has been speculation oyer who would coordinate, it- . L : Placing veterans in jobs. About 1 00,000 persons now are leaving the armed services every month, - WMC officials said , Placing them how is "simple,' Mc Nutt said in a statement, there fore, the program during wartime will be designed to gain exper ience for the .huge assignment when peace, comes. ; ; :. ' - 2. Counselling veterans in all their problems. McNutt said the employment service office, in each community would serve as sin gle place where the veteran can go to get all the answers and ser vices to which he is entitled. S. Coordinating government ac tivities. - i-'-i , McNutt told a press conference he anticipates no f jurisdictional struggle ' in handling demobiliza tion. -' Montreal Workers -Decide on Strike v MONTREAL, Dec. 20-WWhite collar workers bf Montreal decid ed at e mass meeting tonight to go on strike to back up demands for wage increases from the Quebec municipal commission, which con trols the finances of the city. . The city ball workers, members of the National Syndicate of Mu nicipal employes, voted 950-40 to cease work, with Ohe stoppage to be effective tomorrow morning. Lampman Included PORTLAND, Dec. 20 "Blinker Was a Good Dog," a short story by Ben Hur Lampman, as sociate editor of the Oregonlan, has been included in the O. Henry memorial prize stories of 1943. . ' The story: appeared hi Atlantic Monthly last March. 12 PAGES Salem. ml Eisenhower In Bethlehem i - - -- r -CAIBO, Dee. It (Delayed)- . Among the first soldiers to pray in Bethlehem daring the Christ mas month was Gen. Dwixht D. Eisenhower, who said immed iately after he arrived in Jeru salem from the Teheran con ference: "My main desire is to go to Bethlehem.' The supreme commander of allied forces in the north Africa theater visited all the holy sites la the town and prayed in the grotto of the nativity. Yank Bombers Stage Heaviest Pacific Raid By LEONARD MUXJMAN Associated Press War Editor American bombers brought hints of new invasions today with the heaviest raid of the Pacific war a 414-ton bombload poured on Cape Gloucester in New Britain and four attacks in two days on Mili atoll in the southern Marshall islands, 300 miles from the Amer ican-held Gilberts. American troops advanced three miles in the Arawe sector of New Britain to capture their first air field on the island' which the Jap anese have encircled, with .airports and. barge liases. On "the nearby Huon . peninsula of New Guinea the Japanese were in full retreat across ine Aiasawang river, aoan doning much undamaged artillery and i equipment to the pursuing Australians. And there was more sheer terror wrapped op for the Nip ponese in the quiet words Mon day of Field Marshal Lord Wa vell, viceroy ff India, who said India is organized to receive and launch against the Japanese "a mightier force of warships, armies, and air squadrons than has ever before been gatherd in the east." The 414 tons of bombs blasting Cape Gloucester caused many fires and explosions on this most heavily bombed spot of western New Britain. The single attack far exceeded the heaviest bomb load ever dropped on . the much larger target of Rabaul, key fort ress of the island. Cape Glouces ter, junction of the enemy's barge Rickenbacker Sees Victory in 1944' . . NEW YORK, Dec. 20-ipP)-Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, In his annual Christmas greetings to his many personal friends,, today pre dicted victory over the Germans in 1944 . ' ? -:"- ' -W '; (Turn to Page 2 Story F) WW Commission . r; .- - .i -: -. 1 '. - . Back Tax - The ; Salem city water mission has authority to pay the 127.517.95 back taxes ; bffl against water system properties oat of Its funds. That authority," given to it by resolution of tho elty eouncil Monday nlgbt, noakes possible the payment of the long-standing account, be- - fore the deadline date.- of March . L 1944, set by the Marion oun ty eonrL ' , - . It ends, also, the deadlock over the tax question,. . . When the city purchased the properties of the water company here it bought them "clear,' but later learned that the taxes for the year 1835 had been levied and assessed although tax bills were not in tho mail , until after the purchase was completed, r Contending that ' because - the properties were then public: own ed the taxes were not owing or that they were owed by the for mer holders, the water commis sion ' refused to pay. L t e r , the commission reportedly was ready to make: the payment and was held up by the threat of taxpayers that . they would , enjoin it from such action.. ' i ; Taken to court, the case wag de Oregon, Tuesday Morning, December 21 1943 CflSDV US Heavies Hit Goering's Pride, Bag 59 Fighters By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec. 20-(fl3- Reaching for the heart of nazi Germany from new 'Mediterranean hases, great fleets of American hea vy bombers threw an aerial gauntlet into the face of Her mann Goering's luftwaffe yesr terday, shooting down or badly damaging 59 German fighters in twin blows at Augsburg in Ger many and Innsbruck in Austria. The raids, with their omen of greater 'attacks to come, coincid ed with local gains by the allied Fifth army in Italy, which pushed forward in places for two miles in the- west-central area,' and the Eighth army, which .was, busily engaged in chopping to pieces for the second time its bid opponent the 90th panzer grenadier division, near the Adriatic coast. The Flying Fortresses and Lib erators 'were escorted the entire way ' by American fighters the advanced airdromes making i this possible. ' Liberators of the 15th air force flew to Augsburg, industrial city 35 miles northwest of Munich, and dropped their bombs through .cloud patches. Augsburg is , but 80 miles from the nazi shrine of. Nuern berg. Between 40 and 60 nazi fighters swarmed into .attack and were (Turn to Page 2 Story G) ogra End Strike In Capitol WASHINGTON, Dee. 29 -(fl3) Unexpectedly ending a one-day stoppage that crippled publica tion of the capital's four news papers, officials of the Colom bia Typographical union acced ed tonight to a war labor board request that its printer mem bers return to work. The decision, by Jesse B. Man beck, the local, union's president, followed a 10-minute closed con ference with labor members of the WLB. . t Previously, Manbeck told the board he would refuse to recom mend a resumption of .work un less the board was "assure an ex peditious settlement" of wage ne gotiations with publishers. Wayne L. Morse, public mem ber,, told the union's chief. ..that "you think your're stronger than the United . States government" and added that "the only thing that this board can do is - take you on. - - ' . ' Van A. Bittner, a labor member of the board, immediately asked (Turn to Page 2 Story H) 7 Typ pner To Pay Council Bills. cided early this past f all fby". the state supreme tribunal, : which held that the taxes were due and owing and were alien against the properties although, because ' of the municipal ownership, they could not be collected by fore closure. However, the . court's opinion continued, the lien would continue and could be collected If the properties should ever be sold. iS By agreement with the state tax commission and the Marion coun ty court the water commission arranged to pay the principal and to escape the interest which had mounted through the years. Only question left to settle was whether the payment should be made from water commission funds or by a bond issue. The waysr'and means committee of the city council and the city attorney advised the coun cil that the payment from funds is within the law. 5 City Recorder " Alfred ; Mundt should clarify his. request for a clarification of the overtime ; sit uation among city - employes, Al derman Dan Fry, declared' Mon day night and the nine other ward representatives of the city's ruling body agreed, with him. Just who Is working overtime? To what Named by Snell V V GEORGE NEUNER, SR. G. Neuner, Sr., To Fill Post Of Van Winkle George Neuner, sr., of McMinn- ville, former US district attorney for Oregon, was appointed; attori ney general of Oregon to succeed the late I. H. Van Winkle. The ap pointment was made by Gov. Earl Snell Monday afternoon and is ef fective until the general election of 1944. Neuner is a republican. He was in Salem for the funeral of Mr. Van Winkle yesterday but returned to McMinnville last night He plans to return to Salem this morning to be sworn in, but will hot remove to Salem until after the first of the year. As attorney general he will have the distinction of being the third of Oregon's seven at torney generals who formerly prsct; la at iRoseborg. His service will be unique In another respect: one of the present staff of assistants in the office bis son, George W. Nenner; anoth er assistant. Rex Kimmel, was his deputy in the office of fed eral district attorney and later his partner in law practice in Portland from 1933 to 193S The two other attorney generals from Roseburg were A. M. CraW' ford. 1903-1915. and George M. Brown, 1915-1920. " i George Neuner has been active in the practice of law in Oregon since his graduation from Willam . (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Metal Company Delays Contract W A S H I NGTON, Dec. 20 -JP) Overthrow of Bolivia's pro-ally government ; by a revolutionary coup was regarded here . with some concern tonight but diplo matic sources were inclined to think that American-Bolivian re lations will continue without any fmrtortant disruptions. Pending direct; word i from" La Paz, ' however, negotiations, be tween -the -Bolivian . government and the United States Metals He- serve company, a government-fl nanced organization, for a new five year tin contract were sus pended. . : does Mundt's question refer? Fry wants to know, and so does the council. "Specific cases'. Vera re quested. -. - ' - '. , Mundt pointed out in a letter to the council that a recent salary ordinance - had failed . to i provide any-consistent system for limiting overtime, leaving that apparently to the state statute. What Mundt wants to know is how much overtime- Is ; permissible, when 4 does overtime pay start and how much is that pay and all the other an swers to questions which he de clares confuse a payroll clerk. HI and unable to attend Monday night's meeting, Mundt was rep resented, by his assistant, Peter Cleary. : r Under Oregon law, the state highway commission most an-' prove all 'traffic signs la cities ander 59,609 - population,. the streets committee, and city en gineer reported last night. ' ; So. ; City Engineer J, H Davis was instructed to make . a list of all such signs for reference to' the highway department. Thus, the question of what to do with the disapproved ' railroad .stop signs which the city council two weeks ' (Turn to Page 2 Story K) $27,000 No, 233 Bolivian -Socialists Revolt New Government Anti-Allies, ; :: Seizes Tin Mines LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 20-(AP)- A nationalist revolutionary m o v ement led by a slight bespectacled sociologist -today . over threw the government of Gen. Enrique Penaranda in a swift pre-dawn , coup and h o r 1 1 y afterward placed troops In charge of tin ore mines " producing for the- United States and Great Britain. " , " The, new government is de scribed by its opponents as mili tantly anti-United States. . The new leaders, however, all pledged in a public statement to live up to Bolivia's commitments to the United Nations and, scotch ing reports that a counter-revolution had started, announced that the new government had totally consolidated , its position. ? Bolivia, one of the first. Latin American nations to enter the war against the axis, produces a large portion- of the tin ore used in the manufacture of "British and Unit ed States arms.. . . - (Lima advices quoted travelers arriving by air from La Paz as saying that' the. revolution was bloody and that army planes had flown, from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, toward La Paz to aid the revolu tion.) . :; ,-T.. ' . : . Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader ' of the coup,' installed himself in the presidential ' palace where Major Gualberto Villarroel took over the reins ' of government as chief of the revolutionary junta. " " T " - ; ' Penaranda and his brother, Capt. Eliseo Penaranda, are to be es- (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Morgenthau Blasts Tax By TOM REEDY WASHINGTON, - Dec. 20-(JP) Treasury Secretary Morgenthau angrily denounced congress to night for batting down his new revenue bill to one-fifth his recommendations and charged the lawmakers with opening the door to "truly extortionate profits" by war contractors. Morgenthau's heated comments to a press conference immediately raised the prospect of a request for a presidential veto of the en tire tax bffl. -i - .The secretary held out one hope for his- aims, - a reversal - of con gressiohal - - opinion "over the Christmas : recess, which - - isn't Considered Very likely. ; ' Morgenthau' blasted at two ac tions by the house and the senate finance committee on his $10, 500,000,000 tax bill the way it was cut down to $284,000,000, and the" amendments - rewriting the act for. renegotiation of war contracts - to ? recapture x excess profits. - - ... Lady Astor Tells Tales . A UA AKMT CAMP IN BRITAIN, Dee. 25 Lady Astor. told three Cornish dialect stories to soldiers at this post today and thereby won s 40 ponmt pig.' The Vlrrinla-born parlia ment member was a gaest at the camp. The commanding of ficer recalled that he. had of- -fered her a pig If she would en tertain his troops with ' her Cornish yarns.' Lady Astor was abashed at first, bat warmed np after the first drew a hearty langh.' Com pleting ber stories, she dragged the sqaealing pig from the plat- form. - Stewart on Mission A U.S. BOMBEK BASE IN BRITAIN, Dec. 20 CapL James Stewart, former movie ac tor, flew a lead liberator bomber today in the raid on Bremen. It was his second mission' over en emy country. ' . . There was lots of stuff up there today," he said. "The boys really had a good look at , all types of enemy fighters." . Price 5c Takes 70 Towim ggesic iir Multiple; Tlirusts to Polish Lino Brings Territorial Gains J, ; Fo 1000 Square Miles 'V. Bv James M. Long i LONDON, Tuesday, winter-trained first Baltic, lages yesterday in sua offensive nearinar the old Polisb, and Latvian frontiers, and day tbat the enemy is retreating, abandoning :.:a great quantity of arms and ammunition." ' j " Developing their ' big just above the White Russian border, the Russians werj believed to be within 55 miles of both Poland and Lat via in multiple thrusts toward the rail strongholds tit Polotsk and Vitebsk. In less than a .week the Russians have 'recaptured nearly 1000; square miles of territory the Germans had been holding and fortifying for more than two years, including 570 localities, and have killed or captured nearly 24,000 ;enemy troops.;i ij 1 A; German, broadcast also announced that the 'Germans! had , evacuated their bridgehead on the east bank of the ice-bound Dnieper river opposite, the city of Kherfon Suggesting an imminent assault on Kherson itself, on the west bank; the Berlin announcer said "there is no doubt whatsoever that the enemy plans to take advantage Of this." J ' : 1 IM - K A' midnight communique supplement broadcast by Moscow and recorded by the soviet monitor said army had wiped out 1500 Germans attempting to hold an advantageous line south of Nevel, and killed 300 more in toppling one of several strongpointi reduced during the " German counterattacks in the near Kirovograd in the Dnieper bend also were beate'n down b Russian armies of the south, the bulletin said.i . ji )i - - v The Germans were said to one sector . of 1 the "Korosten front place, but soviet counter' blows initial position,. the communique Hurling a regiment of 3000 siege lines near Kirpvograd, the 1200 more men and 39 tanks. Soviet airmen also knocked out 20 nazi tanks.' , ir;. i; r, , ' : v;j A: rt; '.; - ,1 . 'i In reductiorl of. one- German strongpoint on Jhe Nevel front the communique said a" soviet formation - captured-a' considerable number of, prisoners, 80 machine guns, 12 guns, and a large carf column of military equipment. ' ' . V'sj '; - i ' : Soviet advance guards were believed to be about. 30 or 33 miles from. Vitebsk on the, north. - - .. ' , t , - it to Be An OfHcer-- ' . S OME W II E RE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC-iip-A Jap anese plane swooped down and strafed a small boat. The hor rified yoang coxswain brought the small eraft, littered with his dead baddies, to shore and ran down the beach yelling wildly.' A tall bronzed yonnr man, clad only : In shorts, halted the coxswain,' put his arm around him and talked In a calm fa therly fashion. v The coxswain' quieted 'down. Later he remarked, "Gee, that gay was swell, Made me feel better. He should have been an officer." The gay who should have been an officer wos Lieut. Com mander Robert B. Kelly of Ba-7 taaa's FT, beat expendables. - At Pendleton .' PENDLETON, Ore Dec 20-(ff) Cant. E. J. rreesel public relations officer of tho Pendleton air base. announced at" "8 30 (PWT) tonight that a single-motored army plane which left Felts field, Spokane, st 4 o'clock this afternoon was miss-ing-ahd" f eased ; down. - The ship flew over Pendleton field at 5:10 pjn. and radioed It would , make an - instrument let down because of the heavy over east, Freese said. ' - The pilot reported he had three hours' gasoline supply,' Freese said. Tho ' plan was flying east as it passed over tho field, ho added, and nothing has been heard of it since. - '. SPOKANE, Dec. 20 -JP- The identity of a passenger aboard a single-motored . army airplane which was reported missing near Pendleton, Ore.," tonight ' had not been determined -up to 10:30 pjn (Turn, to Page 2 Storjr J) -. OiurchiUStiU : ; Said Improving '. . ' : - LONDON, Dec. 20-itfK Prime Minister Churchill, showing mark ed improvement for the fourth straight day since the 'announce ment that; he had been .stricken with pneumonia in the middle east, was reported -in today's bul letin to be "making satisfactory progressM . . ". The bulletin, issued from No. 10 Downing street, disclosed that the C3-year-old statesman's tem perature has been normal for 48 hours. -'" v : : Medical 1 authorities here said the crisis apparently had been passed, r -. ' ' mQm Missing 71 D e c 21 (AP) Russia's) army captured 0 morel vil Moscow announced early! to push from south of Nevel, ': :. .. i: . : .. ;' ; Gen. I. C. Bagramian's First Baltie ! day. T ; , ; l j : Korosten sector west of i Kiev andi have lost " 600 men and '27 tanks hi They broke into one Dobulated "forced the enemy to rel ire to his said. - - i -y ; .! men and 100 tanks against soviet Germans --were declared to have lost mplate Strike Date V By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS rj WASHINGTON, Dec. ! 20 -(JP) Leaders of a million non-operating railroad employes may set a strike date tomorrow., or Wednesday,' compounding the danger of a na tionwide rail tieup ordered i by five operating brotherhoods,! be ginning December 30, to enforce wage demands..1." . While President Roosevelt ! quietly continued to seek a set tlement and a house committee -delayed action on the issue, Transportation Director Joseph ' Eastman uttered the warning that a rail strike "could de mere harm to the war effort" than anything the enemy might do. ' Sorely ; disappointed by failure! to get prompt house action on the senate-approved resolution which would validate art increase' of! i cents ah hour, a subcommittee pi the non-operating unions ; decided to summon all 13 , chiefs of those , unions to a meeting tomorrow to consider the setting of a strike date. - i.."" - I i : The 350,000 operating railway workers have called a strike for December 30, while . the 1,100,000 non-operating ' clerks, machinists and similar workers have taken a 'strike vote without announcing results. r V - ' Eastmansaid the workers, after (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Lebbld Named Representative Eugene A. Lebold, 2195 MyrU4 avenue, was named ! as labor's representative on Salem's city postwar planning committee; and the name , of Erwin Battermani 1862 South - Cottage' street, con tractor, was added to the roster Monday ; night by Mayor I. Mr Doughton. 'ip" i'.i The appointment of Lebold was made upon the request of Chair man Daniel J. Fry of the com mittee, with the approval of the city council. "If we name' one from the labor group we should nam an employer, too," Doughton sug gested, and ' no disapproval was expressed. I YTeatlier . ' '.';. ' , ; !-.: Xfeaday maximum temperature' 47; minimum S3. XUver -1.2 ft. 1 Partly el e a d y Toesiar and Wednesday; few scattered elouJsj snow flurries in extreme southern part; not much change In temper store, j , .