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PAGZ TWO The CnZCCN CTATZCMA2I. Cclera, Oregon, Cot-ordcry Morning, January 8, ICii Hed Annies BreakThrough Divisions . A 4 Continued from Pass 1) A Konev's ' army eastward and southward of Belaya ' Tserkov. ,: If the two armies had not al : -tieady Joined hands, it appeared they would do so shortly for the Germans seemed unable to stand gainst the might of the two ram pant armies. f' Vatutiijf's forces alone reported - 5000 Germans killed in the last 1 2t hours, and in the past five days official Soviet; count has placed 'German dead at 20,000 along the 'entire Russian front. : ' Once Joined, the; two armies -would not only seek to clear the 4 rich Dnieper bead the Ger--. mans caste rnmet t : salient la ' tltassla ef perhaps Sao.Mt to V758,00 ; men, bat : batter the " ' naxis eat ef all sovthern Kas p sis into Poland and Rumania. -i . The late Soviet bulletin ; gave additional details of Konev's sue- cessful drive that has surrounded Kirovograd, an industrial center between Smela on the north and Krivoi Rog on the south. The town was expected to be captured .shortly as its garrison lost all hope f ' supply. " " The Russians forced the Ingul river, which runs north and south on the west side of Kirivograd, and cut the rail line which runs west to Novo' Ukrainka. f 1 "Developing their! success, our mobile units captured the railway station of Lelekovka (nine miles west of Kirovograd); and south of this station Joined forces . with troops advancing southwest of Ki rovograd. By this maneuver our -troops completely1 encircled the town of 'Kirovograd and German units defending it. The enemy is sustaining heavy losses. f In one day alone:' 28 German tanks were destroyed and the ' Germans lost 13 armored troop i carriers and more than 40 big : guns.' V''' The Russians also captured Ka j natovo, six miles northeast of Ki i rovograd, Adzhamka, ,10 miles I east, and Novgorodka, 18 miles ; southeast. The first Ukrainian army in the ! north continued its successful ad 1 vance, routing German units de ' fending Yanushpol. 18 miles west of Berdicbev. Twenty-six German tanks were destroyed in this area ; alone. In other areas 200 German ; big guns and more than 300 trucks : were wrecked.- while 92 guns and 34 stores of military supplies i were captured, the communique ! said. '. -'. or Return Tojob Soon SEATTLE, Jan. T-GP-The Se . attle foundry workers' strike - spread to Port Angeles and Ever ett today, but union leaders fore cast the men would return to work ' 100 per cent by Monday morning. Earlier they had characterized the ; walkouts aa "outlaw move.V , j . The men started going out in '! four plants here yesterday in pro test over a regional War Labor .board wage increase recommen- V' dation, the nature of which -was ti lt -disclosed officially." ilGeorge Bernard Noble, WLB : regional- chairman said the foun l dry work in this area was basic I to the construction of flying Fort- i iM - Donunoi. piaiwi - ana naval vessels. ! Meanwhile, XAr Sandvigen, 4 business agent -of the Machinists L union (AFL), - local 7, said he ' 1 had called a meeting of union rep T resentences of metal trades work ; era for 1 pa. Monday to consoli . date a united fronts for all metal ; tradesmen lav wage dealings with the IWLB. : ' ' I POKTLAND, Ore, Jan. There wia be "no unauthorized "i strike here If We can help U,"f H. r Mprague. Business agent of the f Portland local of the International Holders' and Foundry , Workers' -: union saii tonight following j i sneeting of members. v .. -JZ. t . Sprague said no action was tak j en toward a strike, but (hat i ; number of members expressed epinions the-men should walk off f from their Jobs. "A few men may : Quit hers ana there,- he added. Foundry Lab May Xdnil Aids; Ij-SMpvProlie JZZAZTIZ. Jan, .7 Rep. r Warren C. Xlasrmson (D-Wash ; said today that Adm. Emory S. : Land, chairman of the. maritime i corrjnissisa, had- in formed him i that the commission was cooper- a tin fuy wZ2 the Truman eom i raittee in the senator's Inquiry in : Llicrty itZpn wUch hava de- velcped faults in Alaskan waters. LC3 J:STTJYT. .Ja3..T HTV Can. Ilea C Wsrca (D-T7ash) ' ssid iodzj th&t th9 Truman com-r-Jitae hzs Iz'.z aa: tsvctlsi ta cf Its r:;rrt;i crac!"3 of Lll -rtj i' rs li SJLzz'za Ci'ri Wi.'2-rcn tc!J reporters thtt tie I x ; 'I r i t :r. I z t is rscd-.Ir. ISA Maj Bdker Credits Saving Life To Pal IS oib Missing in Action i MARINE CORPS AIR DEPOT, Miramar, Calif, Jan. -MaJ. Rich ard M. Baker, 31, of 13iS Saginaw street, Salem, Ore, may well owe his life to First Lt Walter T. Mayberry of Daytona Beach, Fla, for the tatter's heroic action In an air battle near KahilL Lt. May berry is now listed as "missing in action." ' - "We were retaining to oar base at, Maads after escorting seme , bombers to Vella Lavella." the sudor recreated on . his ar rival here after many months ef combat U the sooth Pacific. Six Zeros Jumped us. One Jap got on my tall and was pumping 28 millimeter eanaoa shells at me when Mayberry and shot him off, j "After the Japs bad scattered. I radioed him a hearty thanks. A few minutes later he called back that he would have to make a water landing." The area over which they were flying was south of .Vella Lavella and i then heavily infested i with Japanese troops. V "His plana was lost, from view in a cloud, and I called him for a compass position,'' 1 MaJ: Baker continued, "I heard him call back. Well, pal, it doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference right here anyway." :.' "This was the last we ever heard of him." Mai. Baker's squadron was bas? ed at Munda on two occasions and' is officially credited with 28 Ze ros shot down and 14 probables, as against two marine planes lost. He has two. Zeros and one prob able in his personal tally. "Our. heaviest action, would usually come when supply ; ships were unloading at Munda harbor,' he said. ."Our outfit would go up to form an umbrella -vpver them and drive off Jap dive bombers. "On one such patrol, we spotted 40 Zeros boring toward the harbor. 2& Cadets Are Killed In Bus Crash KINGMAN. Aria, Jan. 7-(P) Flying careers of 25 young avi ation cadets and their tannery lastraetor ended with their deaths In the twisted, scattered wreckage of an army has. The bos and fast Santa Fe freight train collided last night. The death toll la the crash, worst tn Ariseaa history, stood at 27, laetadlag the driver, aa army private, bat Kiagman ar my air field officers feared more of the eight cadets lying critical ly injured m the stattoa hospi tal might die. j Not one of the 38 service men aboard the bus escaped unhurt when the train and bus collided at 9 p. m. near the entrance to the field.; The motor vehicle was returning the young fliers to the air . base from a gunnery range across the railroad tracks. They had been on a night gunnery mis- Five minutes after the crash more than 1000 fellow service men at the base had volunteered their blood for the cadets. A mes sage appealing for donors flashed on the screen of the base theatre and the rush to exits was so. great -military police had to be summoned to maintain order. Army autnonttes withheld com plete information on circumstances of. the accident, but the public re a 1' mm' . . . ! uiuons euicer gave . uus version of ihe - crash as told by C L. Hickey, Needles, Calif, engineer oi tne tram; . : . ine nagman at tne crossuue waved down the bus. which ap peared to stop and then plunged out of control into the oath of tne xrauf which was sncna- at th usuaj speed of about 43 miles hour." . ,s- .s: , . . - One hundred feet of the nht. of-way was strewn with the bodies na tne wreckage of the bus. Lour Income PlamFoimh nr try. -v. vs'v -c o WASinNGTON, Jan, T - (a) - war zooa administration this week endorsed a food stamp 'plan to give low-income families ' food as cneaper prices, but only as a supplement to President Jtunmi relfs price stabilization program emhnaHni subsidies to keep re- uu zooa costs down. i '-Assistant war food admlntctnu. tkm Graver B. Hfll told reporters today that WFA believed it would oe oeairable to set tip a stamn program along : the general lines wPoed la a bmi by Senator wn -VlJ. t--y. Aoopuoa ox such a tjlan." Trm remarked, fsouJd not be ta any war as a substitute for Che mmtstrations prfao stahOizatkm program, We believe It Is dear that the program aufhoHmf h this bin would not prevent in creases fa food prices. On the other nana, tt would at least partly com pensate low-tncome families for fecest ir prospective price m- ereases.";- f - , K Earlier, the senate agriculture committee made public a letter frora,Hia estimating the cost of tie program was outlined in the Aihen bin at $3CO.CO0J0a a year if t U. elilhle families participated. T;ci cuhsidy prccrams now in r . --rtloa and other contemplated v. c:i cost about ioo,oca,cco Stamp .. MA. RICHARD BAKER. Such heavy fighter cover meant the dive bombers were not far behind so we peeled off and dove through their formation.''. It was ori this pass the major got two of his three planes.: - "One of those Zeros nearly fin ished me when he blew up right in front of ;my Corsair. I only had time for a short burst but the slugs must have hit home. ! ' "The second Jap made his mis take by winging oyer too soon and I followed him with a stream of tracers licking at his back side. This one flamed all the way to the ground." 1' 6 : : The new Japaheses in-line fighter called "Tony" is really "hot stuff." he declared. . fWe ran Into a flight of them Just before bur outfit left Munda. These ships looked so much like our own P-40 that I flew by the entire group;' without firing a shot. The Japs had even painted , the prop spinners .white to resemble American planes." 1, Major-Baker was commissioned a second lieutenant In the Maria corps reserve in 1937 and appoin ted to the regulars In 1940. He Is graduate of the University of Washington. I George Strikes 8 Tax Demands E (Continued from Page 1 K additional $200,000,000 plus as it left the finance committee, will be the No. 1 item of senate bus iness when congress reconveneti Monday. George hopes to call it up by Wednesday and clear it back to the house within a week or ten days. -f "There appears to be general agreement .in the congress George continued, fthat raising more than this amount, without resort to new methods, would dis rupt our economy, not only for the present, but for years to come; moreover, we might make it ex tremely difficult fori our returning soldiers-to find employment." George said few people realize that federal tax collections have risen approximately 600 per cent since 1940. To illustrate, he cited the increasing burden on a mar ried person,; with no dependents, and a net income of $3000 a year. In the period 193C-1939, he said, such a person paid aa an nual tax of S3, Intl94 It went up to $3949. In 1941 to $138, In 1942 to $342, and In 1J43 to $405JSS "a total Increase of $397.28. or 4.968 per cent, staee 1939V. : . - - ;' George made no' direct refer ence to the proposed amendments to the war contracts renegotiation act. which have aroused fire in the treasury and in other senate quarters. Toward the end 'of his address, however, be observed: . ; :"I think J can assure you that there is . little opportunity for making inordinate profita out of war when corporate war profits are taxed at 83- per cent and in dividual Incomes are taxed by the federal government alone as high as 90 per cent, as will be the case under the senate finance commit tee bffl." , Congress Asks Overseas; . Furloughs S WASHINGTON; ! Jan. Amid reports that; the army : is moving to relieve troops m iso lated outposts, senate democrats end republicans Joined today In urging the establishment of a furlough system for battle-weary men long overseas. . . , .-? , Sen. Taft (R-Ohlo) told a re porter he believed the war de partment should mike some pro vision for short furloughs far men who had seen at least two years of foreign -service.! He suggested the possibity of 4 rotation sys tem which would let one man out of four in a designated unit home for a month or more. On his return, ; another would be given Sen. Saddiffe .(D-Ui) said he too, felt that arrangements could be made far furloughs that would f not Interfere with the war effort. Congress heard informally that the army already tzs aclad to re- ice many cf 1U rorxLcns la Alaska, tl.e Caribbean. Iceland and other outposts in this hemis Treasury? Fortress 33 BlastNazi Fighters : G (Continued from Page 1) O American - fleet struck December 30 and which neutral dispatches then identified as the great chem ical and poison gas center, Lud wigshaven.' l:With yesterdays bag the to tal number "of German fighters knocked down so far this month la three major American- raids stands' at' XI9.;;7 ; Ot the" seven fighters lost six were US long-range escort ships which covered. the attack the en tire "-distance . of some E00 miles round-trip i while the other was from; RAF Canadian aid allied supporting formations which cov ered the 'withdrawal,"":; ?; ...-JL;-rT Soon after the heavy bombers of the Eighth air force; had re; turned ; Vichy -and German long range radio stations went off the air, usually -on indication of an RAF. night attack on the conti nent.':,: fait ri?i4Z - I Today's bombers, -with exten sive fighter escort, described their raid as "ai good show" and said fighter -opposition was light and anti-aircraft moderate. , . American P - 47 .-Thunderbolts andP-38 lightnings, making their 13th mission flew- the 800-mile round-trip with the heavy tamb ers. Led by MaJ. George Ri Buck el, former Wall street clerk from Nutley, NJ, they.' were unchal lenged by ,the Germans. On their return the raiders were supported by RAF, Dominion and lulled fighter sweeps Intended to siphon' off German r fighter pur- suit. Losses were not reported, but the Swiss said one bomber landed hear Duebendorf after being chas ed by Swiss planes and that sev era! planes flew over Engadin h The medium bombers, irg a Strong force of American Ma rauders, phis many squadrons of fighters, attacked undisclosed Ger man targets on the French coast all day for the 16th day in the past 18. The Marauders suffered no losses. They have suffered none since the I great softening-up of the "invasion coast began De cember 20j -, f .'-ii-v.H I The Swiss radio reported allied planes were over Hungary during the day but their pointn of origin and objective were hot known. More than 200 Marauders, tak ing advantage of" better visibility. participated in the morning - a sault on northern France, extend ing their record for - consecutive sorties : (individual plane flights) without loss to more than 1700. It was the eighth Marauder attack on these targets without loss. ' Typhoon fighter-bombers open ed the day's offensive with raids on several targets including the Maupertus airfield on the Cher bourg peninsula. Typhoon fighters later swept the area without in ddent : t . ; t After the Marauders came 1 formation of RAF Mitchels and Bostons, more than 150 strong. Which crossed the channel under heavy escort to attack military objectives. , - . . , No enemy fighters were encoun tered all morning. The Marauder the mild and bitter," piloted by Capt Paul Shannon of Attica, Kan, became the first ! plane of this type to complete SO combat missions from Britain. - Soviets Oppose By EDDIE GILMORE MOSCOW. Jan. 7. -MV- The Soviets do not welcome, any dis cussions from abroad or from foreigners .here about: Russia's borders. ' r .. T ;h; ---f I The best indication yet of tius wiae the brush-pf f that . Pravda, Communist party Daser. im Wendell Wfllkie two day ago on tne subject. ; -;).'" V The Russians consider that' the borders of the Soviet Union are jtheir own business, and ; as stated once before, are no more a sub feet for discussions by Americans than are the borders of Califor nia by the Soviets. 3 ..rf:; i The Soviets do not consider that the Red army has .moved across any, . frontier or border m . ad vancing toward Sarny or other points In Rovno Province and their maps, which ' have . been hanging oa my wall since I ar rived in this country In 1841, do not show any border there. l"have two large maps, and the Polish border: does not begin on either tmtu a considerahle distance west of where t&e Red army is now fighting, u s , - .. . i Blih Oren Burns I . City firemen responded to calls to the Bligh coffee shop -early Friday morning when Crease in an oven caught fire and to the 1065 North Fifth street at f o'clock Friday night whem v at chimney oiaze was m A -: n 1 c-Xix Corner Hood U Church" Cts. Foreign T alemEmpI Fourtli Tar Loan Campaign Reminded by Larry HUaire, vice chairman of the Oregon war i fi nance committee, that employers have a duty to lend .sympathetic encouragement :; to tuch : cam paigns, Salem merchants went, on record unanimously in support of the fourth war loan and laid, plans for' their firms participation, , at a meeting Friday called by the Salem Retaa Trade bureau. : -Quotas have been established for every business firm in Salem hav ing four ,or; more employes, and within 'each of .these :establish- ments a committee to carry, on the campaign will be- created. Attain ing these quotas will be the con tribution of, the retail employes to the fourth war loan. In addi tion,; each employe will be asked to-account for $200 in war bond sales' either through his own pur chase or. by sale to ; others. 'This phaser of Ime program duplicates a program that was carried out in the third war loan, drive. A Experience of his own firm in the third war. loan was outlined by Mc Hilaire. He said employes in his. restaurant had assumed a goal : of .$9000 but because of the great enthusiasm that was created the" final total was oyer $70,000. it shows wnpt can be accom plished where there is ; the right spirit,Bilaire said. i '-. Those accompanying Hilaire to Salem were Chester Duncan .- of KOIN; James Richardson, special events chairman of the Oregon war; finance committee; At Finke, EartBuni . and ' Moo y Mosherl of Allied Fliers Troop es F (Continued from Page 1) F New Britain, that the saffered the ltt easaaltles two barges were blasted. Fighting in the Borgen bay sec tor of the Cape Gloucester,. New Britain, invasion area fell into a lull, with American marines and the I Japaneses hitting each other only intermittently, the communi que said. The struggle here had been intense, with the Japaneses losing 600 men in one day of re cent action. After a week of sav age attacks and counterattacks by both, sides," the marine line re mained unchanged. It was this line the marines held against superior numbers while another force of leathernecks recently captured the vital Cape Gloucester airdrome at the northwest end of the island. Allied air power continued hit ting- Japanese shipping at Kavi- eng, on the northwestern tip of New Ireland. Royal Australian air force Catalinas and planes from the South Pacific command bom bed? an enemy cargo ship and destroyer in that area, where al ready twa Japaneses cruisers and three destroyers have been heav ily damaged and probably sunk so far this month. : Other Allied fighter planes straffed gun positions and dock installations at Rabaul, which has been visited dally this month by American . and Australian fliers. While no enemy planes were re ported downed in this raid, pre vious January attacks here have brought destruction to 47 Jap anese intercepting planes. American troops on the north coast of New, Guinea, have made patrol contact with the Japanese near - SeL 10 miles southeast .of Saidorfhe original invasion land tag point. ; ; -a. ! Australians advancing up the Huon peninsula coast toward the Americans atSaidor have occupied Kelanoa village and have closed the gap between them, and their Allies to 85 miles. 1 Farm Cooperatives Back Low-Income Plan CHICAGO, Jan. 7-P)-rhe Na tional Council of Fanner Cooper atives today voted to suppott a stamp plan for persons with low Incomes, in lieu of consumer sub sidies on food,, which they termed 'imecooomic.' v , ; The group also voted to ask other farm organizations to operate in the appointment of m oint committee to study, means of disposing of surplus war ma terials. The council asserted far mers, farmer groups and agricul-I turai commuruues could use much of the excess attaterlaLT-;..- Hit Jap Bars 1 TW Ir VI I ULLiU T7- " : 1 1 - - . t t, w( Sar J overs to Supcrw Evergreen theatres of Portland. Each member of this group spoke briefly and outlined' events and features, planned t for1 the paign. cam-1 Ana -scnou M war- program got - on to ; a good start ..with a meeting held at, the school admin istration office with SupL Frank B. Bennett) presiding. Jesse J. Card,' Marion county war finance committee jchairman, explained the schools role In the campaign. Quotas are to be established for eacn; ouem! scnooi ana in many specific items of army equip - raent wiu oe purchased with pro - ceeds of the bonds sold. Quotas also will be set up . for teachers ana employes in eacn scnooi. acn oldish side. j- earth-moving equipment to fill school imrchssing a Jeep, f grass- When the litUe girl with the any anticipated need, have regis hopper". or fflying jeep will re- big suitcase jgets on- he violates tered. There was a steady stream ceive tiauun. mna - pals will . have general , oversight of,the campaigns and students will confine their activities .to the stu dent body. ; Miss Mathilda Gillis is Salem school chalrmanu Quotaa likewise will be estab lished for all county schools. Mrs. Carmalite Weddle, county ; school chairman, reports that Evens Val ley school is first to reply to the quota questionnaire. Miss ; Beryl Fletcher, teacher, said Evens Val ley school will purchase a para chute during the fourth war loan drive. Collectively, Marion county schools willS attempt to underwrite 3 per cent of the county series E &- J Al - . -1. , M . uuna quota, ; wuca wouia aggre- gate $48,128, Physical Exams Are! Revised To Draft Meh D (Con tinned from Page 1) D due for a call to service will be dispatched to induction stations. There they! wm be examined by army and navy physicians. All will be sent back home as civilians with ; those I who were found ac ceptable for: induction for at least three weeks. It is intended, as a pool of physically acceptable men is built up, to afford an even longer per iod between examination and in duction but if a man is hot in ducted within 90 days a new pre- induction examination will be re quired. ; The army and navy examiners also will classify acceptable men in three groups "army general service,' 'army1 limited service' and "navy" (including marines and coast guard) according to their physical condition. The navy demands a slightly higher degree of physical fitness than does the army. The army accepts fdrllmit ed service men with physical de fects barring them from general service. ;f -;t;-;:- Thereafter, calls to local boards will "be for a definite number of army general service, army limit ed service, and navy men Instead of for an over-all ; total' of men. as at present The classification by inducti station doctors, however,', will be simply a tag of the degree of physical fitness. As far as prac ticable, wishes of the drafted men regarding the branch " of ; service he enters will be followed. San Vittore Falls to Yanks G (Continued from Page 1) Q tection by the enemy on the hfll over the town. j On the slope of a hill outside the town doughboys were clean ing out the last German defenders 1 in machine gun nests and the air vibrated with the crack of small and the whack of. enemy mortar shells. Litter i bearers trudged down the i cobbled lane carrying out the wounded, . . -. Over everything was the sour. pungent odor of death.; Alongside the trail lay four dead mules rip-, ped to pieces by a sheU. r As we walked toward San Wit tore our: bombers dived to bomb and strafe slopes of the mountain beyond the! town. Here, near the first line of buildings, our troops had brought up a 17 millimeter anti-tank gun to ' blast German I sniper and 1 machine gunners out of their nests. . 3 I . I - ONtlionOMEFROlIT ThArti'a snmethlns!' about a? uni form. ; ! ' - ir 1 - - - ' And he wears one. It's slate grey and' somewhat shiny j;:; But It lsnt the uniform that has won him his friends.- . Nor is it the youthful gleam in his eyes, because there is no 1 au. - . . 1 - 1 - Time was when the man Behind 1 the wheel of the street bus was I fairly likely to be very young. I Today he is almost always on thejber of owner-operators of heavy 1 the comDanv's orders hv the change and dropping the prop er; coins - into the glass -receiver himself because her free hand would be overtaxed: with such Job.: - "-I j. . . . , .. The mother 1 whose ' baby . is I howling knows that she wont be summarily tossed off the bus if she takes a moment to locate the token in her voluminous handbag. Men and women on their way to work are warmed by the smile of the man in the grey uniform and the grey hair.- . J J He jokes with! the housewife re turning from lier ration point shopping spree and he knows which members of which family are in which branch of the serv ice, although the number of his passengers must be more than tripled in the past two years. I once lived m a community where there was only one bus driver. He used to say that the ox osner . ; people's troubles which , threatened to ; bow bis shoulders was lifted by the Joys some of his patrons shared with him. We heard ( of the gay things in his life; the sorrows he kept to himself.. -" ! And ; I wonder If, while the medals are being handed out for everything from courage to pro duction and bond purchases, there shouldn't be a set of epaulets for the shoulders of many of the grey j uniforms awarded to morale j builders. I Chinese Clear s Burma Road NEW DELHI, Jan. 7 Amer ican-trained, Chinese troops have crossed to the i east bank of the upper Chindwin river in a fresh offensive to dear the way: for the. steady advancement of the New Burma road. It was disclosed to day. V. I r ;,' , ' ; The operation was supported by a four-day attack of fighters and fighter-bombers of the US armv air zorce starUng, Januarv - l communique from I Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's headouar- ters stated. . i -::'--- 'f:- , Exact location of the drive was not given, but it was announced that the ChinM hail thmnm th. Japanese fnimithe jwest bank of! the river in the Yupbang area and occupied some j positions on the east bank. ! STMTS TODAY h LOT OF OIIIG! THE LOVE OF DOTTY! UELopy, uinra, coion, soi::33 I itr ) J: A S r..i. .0 m iS!ZT. ...V- '' ycitvi: cctXdat V U 00 i IT gf r. p .. 1 c 1 r On Pil: PL: D (Continued from rs's 1) D peared that the Issue raised by the salmon packers was whs!!y the result ef a misconception. ' Meanwhile, Albert Brant, busi ness agent for the Salem Building Trades unions; definitely confirm- Mmn arn ta w tn chj.. rtaM - icw h aniMunrmMnt et th tit I lection eariv this week, at least 1 ton laborers. SDDroxImately 43 I eamcntjr and a sufficient num. 1 ot registrants . at the building I trades office -In the Labor temple on Friday. 1 , - On the basis of response so far : I in advance of any definite call for workers Brant said it would not be necessary to bring In any 1 workers- from elsewhere in Oregon or to take them from the war plants. There are, however, soma building trades workers whose I hcanes are in Salem and vicinity. 011 loan- 10 uatsop and uncola county projects wiin tne under standing that they ' may be re called when this project is started. The employment situation def initely; has eased in the last two months. Brant observed, with the result that there will be no diffi culty in .. providing construction workers for mis Job. ! Naturalization QaS3 to Start Persons interested in becoming future citizens of the United States are invited to attend the first of series of naturalization classes which Is ' scheduled for Saturday, at 8 pjbl, at the YMCA. There Is no charge. . Continuous from 1&9 P. SX. NOW PLAYING I CO-FEATURE. Mickey Moose Mai. at 1 POX. ANOTnra ' GSEAT COMBINATION! ,...V--'- ' V"-1'--r 1 1 1 n y phere.'-.."-