jlta CnUCCII CTATrCMAH. Cclera. Oregon, Thursday I Icrrln. Jsnucxy C 1212
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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
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. 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.
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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 . ' .
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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-
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For Service
Vote Action
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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
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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.
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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-
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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
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37orvard
At Borgen Bay
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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,
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Funeral arrangements are: in
charge of the W. T. Rlgdon' com
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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
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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
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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
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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 " !
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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
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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 '
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