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Newspaper Page Textjlta CnUCCII CTATrCMAH. Cclera. Oregon, Thursday I Icrrln. Jsnucxy C 1212 " J Si Absorbing ..A ttenti ion ' By W. H. MOBLEY WASHINGTON, Jasv t-VP) The two aspects . ef reeenver . staa to civClan eeooemy hew U head eff m ntfaur pi i ssare for to precipitate action while 4 war goods are siill seeded and bow to make the change swift "shd effective when :.:gvnm I are r stilled are absorbing an la . ereasinr share of official aitea ..Hon. rfv-iv.ltiv-r.v: , , . , The problem's dual ' phases were taken up separately i today, the 'Immediate one in i a Chicago 4 Speech by William L.r Batt, vice rhairman of the war production board who predicted that 1944 changeovers will present more complex questions than those of the shift to war, production, and the Jong-range aspect by Rep.LTo-4 lan (D-Calif.) who offered a-com- - prehensive program f o r blue- mkntinf and directing the ulti mate shift. )Batt told the Chicago Associa tion of Commerce that great pres sures, for return to civilian pro duction will be generated by availability of materials, in some areas and of manpower in others, as stockpiling of certain classes of war goods permits; cutbacks In their production. , Jobs with a postwar future, he said, will pull labor, and peace- - time markets and profits not sub ject' to renegotiation will attract management. Tolan. chairman-of the--house committee on defense migration. offered hisi program as the " an swer to "perhaps the most seri ous economic problem the coun try has ever confronted. It was Tolan's committee which ; early .in the war recommended l centralization of the national In dustrial effort and the appoint merit of a war mobilization di rector, to which post James F Byrnes was named later. Silimarly, as the first item in a 10-point ; program, Tolan's plan provides for creation of a re J conversion czar" to take over the planning Job - immediately. Other measures proposed: A board of directors to supervise th - administration's activities, com prising three members each from the - faouae and senate, and a representa tive each from Industry, agriculture and labor. - . An adriaory council named by the 48 ; governors to correlate sectional ' deeds and provide information on op- portuiuties xor unemployment reuel. Appropriation of funds for employ' -. ment of technical experts . to keep reconversion in step with the slack entnc of war needs. - - ' , A congressional committee to draft i aeeded legislation. ' Immediate local surveys to determ : In community and state unemploy ment and Job prospects. - An sgency Similar to the small war plants corporation to help IitUe Indus trie m ine cnangeover. user of draft hoards as ex men's employment centers. ervice A long-range study of the business and Job possibilities of new products. new materials and new Invention. A study. f government-owned in dustries to determine which should be scrapped, sold, retained, leased, or held In - readiness for any new emer gency. -j , ; - . izmrTsnrfa OPEN :45 IV M. now snouniG! TWO GREAT HITS! Thrill SHANGRI-LA ooin in nm turn mightiest achievement! And! A LCVI -U ::::::ty as i , me ' ' .... - ; 0 l, ... A i mm i r i I t t 4 f (." .r Oil the HOME FROlfT By DATO. CJT7LD3 . Art Perry in his Medfard Mail Tribune Smudge Pot opines that gasoline rationing and the tin can salvage program have made pos sible the great number of char tvareeless - 1943 marriages in the Medford area. , i Ljv - f Up here we've been - crediting the same phenomena to the sugar and OLCC rations. Might also be that the local noisemakers find it lust as much fun to waken the whole town - as : for example the group who Tuesday night shot off firecrackers from their jai lopy in the high school neighbor hood. '. ' i . ' . r-v j . J: V Cans or no cans, when the men have gone to j war, the boys will take their places in the ever-im- portant task f pi disturbing the peace. Yanks Heavy Blows At Kiel Again H (Continued from Page 1) H British fighter;- escorts the fleet in that attack 'consisted of same 1500 planes. Between the two Kiel stabs,' RAF Mosquito bombers hi' smoldering Berlin in a night at tack. British and allied -plan pounded targets in northern Franca and along the French "in vasion coast today, 'r- The Vichy radU left the air tonight. Indicating- that the aeri al battering might be eeatiaa- mg. f The British -based US Flying Fortresses and liberators - w escorted by American fighters on all their missions today except the foray at Bordeaux, . which in volved a -round-trip flight of al most 1000 miles. In the Bordeaux operation they were 'given with drawal support by American and RAF fighters. V Crews returning from Kiel said the target was reached in clear weather. Despite the unusually desperate resistance of nazi fight ers they said their bombs crunched down exactly in the area outlined on the briefing boards, building large fires in a city which once was one of Hit ler's most important naval bases. One group of Fortress fliers re ported, encountering not only the usual j types of German fighter planes but concentrations of rock et planes and twin-engined Mes serschmitti towing what appeared to be 100-pound bombs on 40 or 50 feet of wire. This was the first time such defensive devices have been seen, and the bomber crewmen were unablej to explain how the "tag- along' bombs; were detonated. One was seen to explode behind a Fortress. - Stanwyck Collapses HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5 JPt Barbara Stanwyck collapsed on a moVie I set today for the second time within 10 days and her phy sician said she had influenza and had overtaxed ; herself. fv"t:HynNE notc CW SmcwC CO NT. FROM 1 P. lrL now snotmiG! Three W em e.a and ene banted meat Which knows his secret danger? - O . CO-FEATURE! O UaOM , ruiniti f 3 . , STS SaV SSP - V .--f v -' 'lf- .- - -.--.- Alumina Plant Site Selected 1 : 1 .M i - B (Continued from Page 1) II Blakeslee 1 Barnes, "vice president of the Chemical Construction com pany. New York, which has' de signed the plant and j will super intend construction, that,' ten months to a year will be required for construction. , r .j -I "Dee te the fact that ae soeli plant as this has ever; been built oef ore, a larre part ef the eoli - meat will have to be especially designed and eonstnteted. j therefore we de not expect te be able te de m speedy eeastree tloa job as compared with the eeastractioB t plants which are simply duplicates ef ether plants," Barnes pointed eat.' Operation of the plant after it is constructed and tested will be moiargeoi wyoiuiu- - comDUiT. - in wiuui a uuuucr ui the northwest's leading industrial- ists are stockholders. j Announcement ! of the site's se lection came earlier Wednesday from Congressman Homer Ahgell, chairman of the northwest alumi num, committee in congress, In telegrams to Gov. Earl Snell and the Salem chamber of commerce. In the same telegrams Angell mentioned that he had marshaled the entire northwest delegation for a meeting with j war production board officials io protest the shut down of northwest aluminum pot- lines and had .receive promise that no such shutdown would oc cur at-present, f A : t nave requesiea xuu report on all cost and other factors with re- lation to aluminum production from domestic; plants and foreign from which we are : receiving aluminum,' Angell's telegram con- ftote- : "",1 I ' ! 1 Gov. Carl Snell sent a telegram to Philip Wilson, chief of . the aluminum-magnesium ! branch WPB, in which he stressed that there is no apparent Justification xor closing any oi -ine aluminum potlines -in the northwest because of a manpower shortage. "All potlines. both in Vancouver, Wash, and Trputdale are iri full operation", today," the 'telegram said. These, manpower require ments are in no way taking away manpower from needed war In dustries in the Portland-Vancouv er metropolitan area. - ;" The entire . war manpower re quirements have s definitely eased within the past 60 days and inore especially since maritime ards are on a six. day week basis. am confident that manpower investi gation status of j conditions I will not justify closing' any of the! pot- lines because of xnanpower. The northwest alumina commit tee including representatives of Oregon, i Washington ' and ' Idaho, will meet today in Portland to see what can be-done mi connection with this reported, threat to cur - tail aluminum I production in the I died near Independence on Janu northwestr i .; . j J; aryf J. Officiating will be Rev. Soldiers Take Collection I 1 , . . I i I CAIRO, Jan. 5-( -.American soimers aDoara a troop smpim a Mediterranean 1 convoy, today chipped in $4000 to express itheir gratitude to RAF fighter pilots who drove off two attacks by jene- my planes. 1 ;-f . i The money will go to the de pendents of any casualties. among the air crews defending, the con- voy. . . ' ; ? .:: ! OPENS; 8:45 P. M. i;ou snouniG! Plus Feotball Thrills! CAMPUS CUTIES i T: 'ii rl t "Hi I : iTt. w .mi. 1 n ' ' ' :" : - " ' F ; ' : Advea . r , " -m. ..Wmt " Brel " RAN- 1 DOLPH.f J SCOTT i Claire " I Trevor jS" V V Teehal- S ' I' - : celetr'.-; , . Dcspir- X " v at . . fcaMWS Gleaa , " Ferd y Evelyn jS J Keyes Vs v jras JgdK Martin Calls; For Service Vote Action 1 (Continued from Page l) J states on nailing- time,, and the I following points: L. That applications for m ballot be prepared and distributed offi cially by the war and navy de partments, then sent to the var- lous secretaries pt state for re ferral to state election officials. X That state election officials 1 accept, any tta before election, applications ; for : absentee ballots or wartime registration as a voter. S That voting material be de signed f or j air carriage, not ceeding J& ounce per voter and be placed in an envelope 4Vs by t inches, marked "official ballot." 4. That a service man's vote be acknowledged before a commis- giohed officer not Slower than"a sergeant, or the equivalent navy rating. , . Nazis Build f Siegfried line! Italy I (Continued from Page 1) F mortar barrage had churned the height- ...I .... The new commander of Brit ain's best known army is a 49- year-old aix-footer who.. manded a mt of th Eighth ir. through the North African I nA simian mmniImL n d l. second 'In popularity in that ganization only to Gen. Sir Ber nard I Montgomery, whom he succeeds. Montgomery will direct British ground troops In -the in vasion of western Europe. Indian troops fighting a few miles inland from the Adriatic were officially reported to have advance - several hundred . yards under enemy machine-gun fire and seized a spur of a mountain ridge southwest of San Tommaso. Fifth army infantry of Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark advanced over a mile west ' of Venafro to capture a 2300-foot height In the Samu cro ridge about two miles 'north west of the village of San Vlt tore. An allied officer said the Fifth army now held all heights overlooking San Vittore, which is six miles from Cassino on the main inland highway to Rome. te Set Thursday Services will be held Thursday at 2:30 p. m. at the Smith-Baun chapel in Independence f or Clar- enge Eugene Burroughs, W, who Waggoner, K and graveside ser vices will be conducted bv the In- dependence chapter of the Ma- sonic lodge. Mr. Burroughs, long engaged in farming in Polk county, was borh in Kankakee county, 111 the son of Horace and Margaret Aus tin Burroughs. He subsequently moved .with his parents to Mis souri and Whence to South Dakota, before coming to Oregon in 1901. In' that same - year he married Mary Elizabeth McMillan. He is survived by a daughter, .Margaret Burroughs of Salem; a sister,. Ella Jamison of .Canova, SD.t and . ; two brothers, 'Albert Burroughs of Mountain View, Arkv ami William S. Burroughs of Ta- coma,,Wash. t '4 Neuner Declares Special Session WouldBe Valueless it was "water over the dam in view of Gov. Snell's recent deci sion not to call a special session of the! legislature, but Attorney General . George Neuner, in re sponse to an Inquiry from State Sen. Lew Wallace, declared fn an opinion released Wednesday that such a session could not have ac complished the purpose sought by its advocates; revision- of income tax? payments required this year. ' Such an ' amendment - as was proposed, reducing the percentage forgiveness" set J-rythe state n commission . in " accordance with the Walker plan amendment to the' income tax law enacted by the;: 1943 legislature, eou Id not carry .an -emergency, clause; Neu ner: declared. Therefore it could not become effective before April 15. the time for filing returns, un less the legislature adjourned be fore January 15. - Answering another of Sen; Wallace's inquiries, Neuner said the I feature of the Walker plan amendment delegating authority to the tax corrunission to determ ine the amount of income tax re duction-was constitutional. . ne pointed out that the legislature gave the-cornmlsslon a formula to follow. T ; , Iii rerpbiise to - stm .another question, tie " "attorney general held that counties have authority to'establh- postwar sinking Along Kiirrou f?h s Ri rJarine3 Pusli 37orvard At Borgen Bay C (Continued from Pae 1) C cester toward Borgen Bay opened Tuesday. It. was the first heavy attack launched by ; the Yanks since the original landings De cember 231 Meanwhile the perimeter around the captured airdrome was ex banded and solidified by a June ture of invasion forces at Sag Sag, seven f miles southwest ' of Cape Gloucester. : (At the time of the invasion, one .force went ashore at Borgen Bay and split up, part of it hold ing off Japanese from the east and the other part moving on the Cape Gloucester airdrome. Ap parently it was the airdrome force which moved to a junction with another group which invaded the cape December 28 on the south- twest.aidfc"'C'rQv:X''v Japanese Resistance was direct ed at Target HU1 in an effort to blind American observation. The enemy airforce made four, night attacks" which' caused minor cas ualties. ? j; ,:V ;; '-"C. Z Oa'New GabseaT Aastralians have j. pashed along the Haea petihwala coast to the vicinity f Cape King- William, less thaa St airline miles from the Sal dor iavasioa f arees te the aerth- ; west. ;: '1 ' -;: ; : Japanese Jungle troops are caught between those two points. Cape King William is approxi mately 40 miles north of allied- held Finschhafen on the penin sula. : ; I' In the Madang sector, 55 ' air line miles north of Saidor, liber ators and Mitchells attacked Al exishafen airdrome and Madang township Tuesday. The r Japanese stronghold of Ra baul, on the opposite end of New Britain from Cape Gloucester, was raided. Monday by fighter planes from Bougainville which , swept over Rapopo airdrome and tan gled, with 20 1 enemy fighters. Six of the Japanese : interceptors were downed for certain and five, oth ers probably ' were bagged. - Two raiding fighters were lost.' . Monday night, Australian-manned Ca talmas bombed? Kavieng, 180 miles northwest of RabauL Flagg-PGE Flares Over Trustees A motion by Public Utilities Commissioner George Flagg, whereby the names of Thomas Dalzell and R. L. Clark, indepen dent trustees of the Portland Etoc- trie Power company, . would be enminateq as parues. to a suit in stituted by the Portland General Electric company to restrain a commission emergency order which would reduce' company fees, Wednesday,-stirred lively ar gument between attorneys for the respective parties as proceedings continued before Circuit- Judge George Duncan. t - - ? PGE: counsels contended that since Dalzell and Clark are stock holders and therefore, would be affected by any rate reduction, they should be in a proper, posi tion, legally- and morally, to file a suit of this kind. ' ; ..commission- attorneys c o u n- tered with; the assertion, that stockholders have . no right to bring suit as agents for' a corpor ation unless the corporation ruses to take - action on its own part. They further charged 4 that the Portland Electric Power com pany: is . at present reorganizing under the federal bankruptcy law. ,The : emergency order involved extends over; a period of 120 days. A . temporary restraining order previously had been rendered by Circuit Judge Arlie Walker. " Gordon Geddes Dies Suddenly Gordoni Geddes,-16, , sophomore at Salem high school where ne was prominent in football and Y activities, succumbed, to spinal meningitis Wednesday at a -lo cal hospital. He had been ill since Sunday with : the , disease- char acterized by the 'attending phy sician as of a particularly rapid type. r,V? - 5 r . ; : ' At present j. two. other -cases of meningitis. 'are reported - locally, both mild-in nature. - - ' - : Gordon -was a member -of the Latter Day Saints church. He Is survived by his parents, Mr, and Mrs. f Archie tW, Geddes sister, Mrs. Helena Hawkins ' of Kansas City, Mo.; brothers, Donnie Ged des of SalenV Cpl. David- Geddes of Fort Knox. Ky and Dpn Ged des of La Grande; half brothers, Vem and Lyle Walker of Port land; and grandparents," Mr.f and Mrs. Lb M. Speelman of Haines, Ore. . - ' ' ' ?V V: "J - Funeral arrangements are: in charge of the W. T. Rlgdon' com pany. - , -- f s"" jLaxt f -y-'tf it,nmtm-liiiwiMSHiMjii nie ' ommt n, j, , irir1 v ' '4- if X: - . J J ! Right of Way to Red Ct (Continued from Page 1) O from , the yoke of Polish usurp ers. .. This fresh ladicxtion that Meseew considers these 'areas ef eld Poland to be bow; Inte gral parts ef j the soviet anion was contained la the embassy infarmatlon . ballet la. , It came as the Polish govern ment in London called on its un deixround In Poland- to give the right of way i to the advancing Russian armies and to continue resistance to Germany but with held an order for cooperation with the Russian military. : :' ' r Alluding to . plebiscites I which M.OS cow announced were held soon after the partiUon, the em bassy bulletin said The people of western Byelorussi themselves de cided the, cuestion of the form their state was to take." .- . FR Resubmits Overtime Pay Rail Claims E (Continued from Page 1) B days after their report Is filed. The new move toward settle ment of the wage dispute of the biggest segment of railroad work ers came while a member of the interstate commerce commission was t protesting - at, tne capitoi against drafting railroad men, WASHINGTON, Jan. S -flV- The .war .department said today that j reports received from all parts of the! United States show railroad operations were normal on sll lines! during the fint full week of army control, December 28 through January 3. Broz Partisans Recapture Pag D (Continued from Page 1) D nucleus of a movement to join the rival army of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito), fighting the Germans in their homeland, It was learned today. i ;;;-;,':: A't. Confronted with an unprece dented situation, King ; Peter's government-in-exile here permit ted the men to resign from the royal Yugoslav;! regular army as formed in the middle easL- Goebbels Seeks Design STOCKHOLM, Jan. 5 IP Propaganda Minister Jaul Joseph Goebbels has started competition among ISO of Germany's best ar chitects to design Europe's great est city for ten million persons" on the site of devastated Berlin, it was learned here today.K ; ' r 11 A Giv " " ' mmJ 'aaaa V4rrVJVJ Willi M - $t it. ." - STRONG SILENT MAN I .it City girl thornbs ride into the wilds of romarrce... finds yoa can lead . man . to the altar.. .but it takes a clever girl to make hint link! r JSATJ yURnrnnnm. nv7n- v tub uoitETae UERRien cinv...m rnc UOBE TOE UERRICR SltfO OF A PICTUZZt 1 w-.- -.-y-:; I j rPreoNoraoi -;. F (Continued from rage 1) F tanks 'smashed - La ; en -: a coca' ears lively narrew front. Heavy fUhtlag raged all day and eoa Caaed Wednesday, DerUn ra CLm sail.- . - ' . . Although the area was not Iden tified further it was between the Nevel - Vitebsk1 fighting in the north and the northern Ukraine. The fighting may be in the sec tor, north of Zhlobin, where the Russians long "have been at the upper Dnieper after a drive from Propoisk. . - j ' ' - The Russians, as is customary when a new operation begins made no mention of the area, . - In announcing the capture- of Berdichev Stalin cited ah- "air assault" division, four infantry di visions, ia; tank Jbrigade, fa tank regiment and four artillery; and mortar regiments. A salute of 20 salvoes from ?24 Moscow guns was ordered-to celebrate the Mc- tory. ' : -:. ' j f ' - .-1 f-j . Later details in the r Moscow communique supplement at mid night said the Germans suffered "heavy losses", in the Berdichev fighting and the Russians cap tured large amounts of enemy ma terial and many prisoners.' About 4000 Germans were killed In the fighting to the east, where Tarashoha was taken. Also cap- tared in this area: was the railway station of KrivchimJra. 37 miles southwest of Belaya Tserkov, ex tending still further the great bulge to the south that was pressing: re lentlessly on the German Dnieper bend forces. ; In the Nevel fighting, the sup plement said, 400 Germans, were killed as the Russians pressed to within -seven miles of the rail junction : f of Novosokolniki, . 39 miles northeast of Nevel. j McElroy Dies At Farragut Alfred Louis McElroy, 18, sec ond class seaman,' died Sunday at the naval " hospital at Farragut, Idaho. He had contracted rheu matic fever last fall but had ap parently:: recovered, having been home on leave recently at which time he aided his father in log ging operations. Upon his return to the naval station he again was stricken. Young McElroy: attended Salem public -schools prior to going into the navy. He is survived by par ents, Mr. and Mrs; Harvey G. Mc Elroy of Salem; sisters, Patricia Irene McElroy and Dorothy Fes kins of . Salem; brother, Harvey McElroy, Jr., of Salem; and grand parents, Rev. and Mrs. i W. . J. Johnston of Salem and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McElroy of! Sweet Home. - ; . I t Funeral services-will be held Saturday, January 8, at 10 p. m. from the W. T. Rigdon chapeL " ! D I M O EuAIiXROSS . . presents, V 71 .- -I I ., . ... -v ' : . i .. .r.. ...--.,... .. ..: 'V -. ' ' weaaaBBBBVssa . L J I : ( ( I i . :L ' " -: , f CHARLES 7irIE;C2Ri , PHIL GILVEHS ! VaU aiau1 a. A w - ""a""'1"""""ssaSBBsBBi A' (Continued frora r"e 1) A - consisted of three persons whea ' appointed two years uzo today In cludes 24 active members, with V promise that another half dozea will be added shortly. i Active members of the board, in addition to Ileltzel : are K. E. WCkenson, G. E. Edwards, Geor;s TeSellev IL J. Scellars, J D. Fo ley, Kenneth Wilson, Sam Gillette, J. A, Lewis, Clarence M. Byrd, William 'Page, J. Ed Savage, Jess A. Fehler and G rover Hillman, all of whom serve on the mileage pa nel; Ira! IL Gardner, and Ronald Blischke, who with Wilkenson, form the tire panel; James Hague, jr., and Wayne Kuhl, stove pa nel; J. N. Nash, W. A. Reeves, Elton. Thompson, ' Frank . Spears, Arthur Rahn and Dr. R. B. Blatch ford, r4 oil panel. J 7MC Sugsests Alumina" Agreement 7ith Canada WASHINGTON, Ja n 5-6P) The war manpower commission suggested tonight that the United States try to work out: an agree ment with Canada and England whereby, aluminum production would be reduced there before It is in this country. ' f v ' Today and Friday WITH i Jimmy Dorsey and IIU :;::;': Orchestra ; CO-FEATUgg A Masked Mas Rides fer Vengeance - - Tim Holt fa "Red River Robia Hood" STARTS SATURDAY , They Escaped the Law! But They Couldn't Escape Each Other! i - at with Gall j George . Sanders Richard Denning Patrick Another Great Comedy Hit ! ! ! ! i Slsrb Tciay - x " . CO-FEATURS 0 - i 5 z 'ft i V . Con w ay funds. - -; . ' scoocs v s eit FRAimiH ALEEUT " Mi's Cs Cztxz9 Cl;ry cf tla Ttzil Ten Lziz tGrr ify TLATI3 IfEY.TS C : W71P-JAC1". lecU) motor wanted" Wri.e O. O. C -2en, KuL&ard. o