. V- r VTe'dnetday nar! i temperature . 42, r"!l. J 1$; ralsfzll JSl;'rirr .S ft. 'Occa&:csaI rala west por tion Ttcrsizy a3 Tiilay and scattere 3 t:aw flrrrlzj cast portlsa lYlIiy; glaw ly rlslar . terrperatareit strong winds aloicg coast. IKITY-TIiniD YEAH 'Skdaia Orecjozu ThBrsday Morning January 13, IS44 Prlco to jiliois 'IMP LOOUa - I - I - I lit iii :i is :" i l r fi iji a. pyy i - u i .;; , P8UND3D - i I ., . f -' ; Just a year ago the congress and the state legislature were both wrestling with problems, of taxa tion. Congress had before it the Ruml plan designed to simplify tax-collecting and to spread out tax-pay ingi, It finally enacted a mongrel plan which satisfied nei ther friends : nor foes of the orig inal proposal. The stata legisla ture exacted what is called the Walker plan. The fruits of the la- bors of both bodies are now be fore taxpayers in the forms for tax returns. And what a contrast they offer! , . 'f t ': The - federal forms - must be ersatz for . Jig-saw puzzles, cross word puzzles, winter solitaire or gin rummy. They offer complete escape from f boredom for the next -two months! Evidently they were framed by IRube Goldberg assist ed by the designer of ladies hats. We are assured if we read and follow the "instructions we will .come out all right, but that pre aumes both ample time and ade quate intelligence. It is safe to 'predict that ; accountants and tax counsellors will be busier than obstetricians over the next few -.. months.' I, Form 1040 for reporting per sonal 'incomes used to consist of a single sheet with " queries fore and aft. It! is double that now, with an overflow sheet for Sched ule B on gains and losses. More over the report is divided ver tically between "Income Tax Net Income" and "Victory Tax Net Income," with lines of "xxxxxx" for baffles to herd the sheep from the wrong alley. ! , Then there is the comparing of unpaid balances of 1S42 and 1943 i taxes to arrive at some "forgive ness" feature, with a postpone ment of one-half of the residue 'for another : year, , I After you- figure these things 'all out you -do not know what you will have to pay next June or September. Presumably you ; will have Uf engage in a guessing ' contest on your 1944 income and ,send in more money on the regu lar quarterly dates. (Continued on .editorial page) t Keith Brown, Wins Contract :ForxBarracks WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 Award of over $3,000,000 in con tracts torthree Oregon firms for pre-fabricated wood barracks to be used in southwest Pacific hos " pital units was i announced today by the army ' engineers. ' . - Ml Keith Brown Building Supply company of Salem received the top contract of $1,232,264 to build 800 barracks ranging in price from $1650 to $1850. . - Prefabrication Engineering com pany, Portland, will construct 700 barracks of : the same type under a $1,311,100 contract, and Timber Structures, Portland, 300 under a $562,800 contract. A $928,840 contract for 2000 small, precut buildings was awarded to the Morrison-Knudsen company, Boise. - Production of the barracks spe cified In the Keith Brown Build-: (Turn to Page 2 Story J) ; Pole Cabinet Drafts Reply On Gurzon Line By JUDSON O'QUINN LONDON, Jan. 12 The Polish cabinet, after a second all day discussion of Moscow's offer of a modified Curzon line as the Polish - Russian boundary, was drafting a reply tonight which was expected to spar for more fa vorable terms but leave the way open for a settlement. . Ttim wa a nHHnmrMfi In Lonaon uui u run rvraiunu; .-would submit to the Russian de claration under guidance of Bri tain and America. - r ' - The Russians early yesterday said they intended to keep most of the Ukrainian and White Rus sian territories Incorporated in the Soviet union in 1939 but suggested the slightly i less drastic Curzon line proposal of 1919 as a work ing basis and said Poland could recompense herself by gaining an outlet to the Baltic sea at Ger many's expense in the west. The initial Polish reply, prom ised Thursday, may deal at length with data designed to refute the Russian assertion that the ; Polish government in Ixndon does 'not control the v Polish", underground resistance to ' the Germans. !"; ' The Poles : also may cite popu lation statistics to support hopes of regaining much of the eastern territory " which the Russians claim is not predominantly of Po ilsh rtce. . ' ' " The tone of the Polish reply, I owever, was expected to be suf ; ':l:r.Uy restrained to permit the ' c::illlity tLat a Polish represen j11vj csuli iliortly seek to re f :.n d.Ic.-atia relations - wiU Red 'QflTeiateiye Takes : Sarev Three Separate Actions Pierce Mozyr Sector; German Lines By JUDSON ; LONDON, Thursday, separate actions the Russians have opened a new offen sive in the Mozyr iectoi of White Russia, captured the railway bastion of Sarny, 35 miles inside old Poland, and fought off a frantic .Gernuui counterattack near the Ukrainian Bug river, Moscow announced today : I More than ' 5000 Germans' were killed I and 144 nazi tanks wrecked in the last 24 hours, said the Mos cow midnight communique, recorded ,by the Soviet Alonitor from a broadcast, . ' i - - - JThe new offensive near Mozyr tor a 19-mfle gap through elaborte German defense lines and in two days the Russians advanced up to nine miles, ' capturing over - SO towns and hamlets. Among them were Davidovichi, 23 miles north of Mozyr on the railway to Zhlobin, and Kozlovichi, two miles west of the railway which had long been cut by the Russians. - The fighting was south of the Bere zina river and about 75 miles from the old Polish frontier. 4 The Germans fought violently to bold their positions, sending many futile counter attacks against the Russians. They failed with a loss of 2000 men, 22 tanks and 40 ar tillery and mortar batteries sil enced. War material was captured and prisoners taken. - Sarny, a major objective within old Poland ' and 130 miles south west of the Mozyr area, was cap tured by Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's first Ukrainian army in an out flanking move which took the town from the rear, routing the German garrison. Thirty big guns and 80 trucks were among the booty captured by the Russians. Russian forees in this area al so advanced te take Dombro vftsa, a district center 2t miles Berth of gamy. This gave the Russians a 2 8-mile front In eld Poland. This front was astride the Yllna - Revne rail war thna fereus the Germans back 135 miles te Brest - LItevsk for their next north - sooth communica tions line in the area. At Dora brovitsa many railway cars and army stores were captured. In one of their strongest coun ter attacks since the Russians be gan their current series of ; suc cessful ' offensives, the Germans lashed out east, of Vinnitsa with heavy forces, seeking to stem Va tutin's left wing pushing south to ward the Bug river and, Rumania. ' A heavy barrage of massed Rus sian artillery met the German as saults and the operations ended after I. more than 2000 Germans were killed and 696 of their tanks destroyed, with the Germans back in their original positions. Between this area and Sarny, (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Warren Denies Candidacy SEATTLE, Jan. 12 -fPy Gov. Earl .Warren of California, often mentioned as a possible republi can nominee on the 1944 presiden tial ticket, declared here tonight that he is 'definitely not a con tender for the nomination of vice president or president.' A ' l have given consent to their pledging the delegation to me," he told a Post-Intelligencer re porter. "I believe it is called be ing a favorite son,' and my name will be on the ballot in Califor nia as . their choice, but I repeat that I am not a contender. ; V ' i - The 52-year-old California ex ecutive side-stepped a query as to the possibility of bis accepting a "draft" call by the republicans. Robert Farrell, r., . Files Candidacy 'r " ; " Eebert 8. Farrell. sr el Port land filed Wednesday with Ids sen that is. In the state depart ment ef which Robert S. rar reH, Jr4 is the head his candi dacy for the office ef Relegate te &e repsblieaa national con vention from the state at large.: Parrell, sr has been a delegate te past conventions fat 1S24, 1Z13 andlSSS. V O'QUINN Jan. lS.-CAP) -In three Park New Ur Chief For Middle East . CAIRO. Jail 12-P)-Air Ttee Marshal Sir Kjtith Rodney Park, air ef fleer commanding;, at Mal . ta, tonight was named air ei flcer commander in chief in the middle east. rf t . He socceeda Air Chief Mar shal Sir Sbetto Dooalaa, ap pointed head! ef the 1; British coastal command last ' Satur day. .'. i nil:! J Americans ; lake Lervaro, Push to Cassino By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers Jan. 12 -P)- The German high command announced today that nazi troops had lost the fort ress Village of Cervaro f after hard fighting," and it was considered possible here that American forces already were pushing on beyond the town toward the : key city of Cassuio, only four miles away." Last official reports reaching headquarters said American troops were closing in on Cervaro from the' north, east and j south, and that capture of the last formid able German stronghold before Cassino was : ezpectedly . momen tarily. There was no official con firmation that the village had been taken. Allied spokesmen ' said to night that so far as they knew Cervaro still was in ; German hands....; y.i : ijTI;-:.?. Cervare's fall virtually weald open a path fori American and British forees ef Lt. Gea. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army; te sween en Into Cassino, a bitterly-defended bastion of the ; present German i defense line 1 across Italy. : Seventy - airline miles frem Some, Cassino is en the main inland railroad and high way that thread a series of val leys northwestward te the Eter nal City. i'lY? , Progress in the Cassino plain was slow as a sudden thaw again brought deep, sticky mud. Part of the comparatively; slow pace of Gen. Clark's offensive has been due to his determination to save American , and . British lives by (Turn to Page 2 Story II) t" OregonWFheatires to Sponsor M Bond premieres' in every mo tion picture theatre in ; Oregon, with "a bond for every seat" the slogan, will be the theatre ope rators' contribution to the fourth war loan, movie exhibitors from every ? section ef the state' agreed at a meeting Wednesday in Salem. Since there are 80,000 theatre seats in the state, if this goal is realized a substantial contribution toward the campaign's success will have been made, it was pointed out by Bob White, chairman of the exhibitors' committee. . The meeting Was called by Gov. Earl.SnelL officials of the Oregon war finance committee and the Oregon war activities committee cf the motion picture Industry,. - All agreed that the sale of "IT bonds would be the evert difficult Gov.-Cncll, pretlJLlr, rrtlcsi UTO0JGJ Resigning? I FRANK C. WALKER Leader Hints Withdrawal By D. HAROLD OLIVER CHICAGO, Jan. 12-KP)Prank C Walker, mild-mannered post master general and close personal friend of President Roosevelt, was said authoritatively today ; to be ready to resign the democratic na tional chairmanship in , favor of Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis, the US ' commissioner of internal revenue. - ? Hannegan is said to have the Inside track and probably will be named chairman when the demo cratic national committee . mets in Washington January 22 to lect a 'time and place for the na tional convention. The !- democrats probably- will meet In Chicago In July . to re nominate President Roosevelt or pick some other presidential standard bearer to oppose the publican candidate. The latter al so will be chosen here in a con vention starting June 26. f :, ;; Republican national committee members preparing to leave here after a two-day meeting at which arrangements were made for the GOP convention, read with inter j (Turn to Page 2--Story F) Slavs Admit Nazi Thrust By ROGER D. GREENE ; LONDON,; Jan. 12-A3- Yugo slav partisons acknowledged today a 30-mile thrust by German tanks southward from Banja Luka to the partisan stronghald of Jajce, but said elsewhere the nazis woe repulsed and their communications raided despite the constantly in creasing forces they are hurling into their campaign to suppress the patriots.' The outnumbered bands under Marshall Josip Broz- (Tito) appar ently were meeting the nazi bid by avoiding major battles and ex ploiting hit-skip assaults on rail ways. )':': y-Y: '.Yr'l . p-f Tito said that 23 miles farther southeast - in the rugged Bosnian country the Prince Eugen division attacked Travnik but was repulsed by the partisans, and that fierce fighting was in progress between Jajce and Mrkonjcgrad. Hitting back wherever they could, - the : partisans announced they had seized the localities of Frebrencia and Vlasinyaka . from the Germans.' ' ; YW Y.f the motion picture industry for Its cooperation in previous war bond drives, but: warned of the danger of too much complacency on the part of the folks at home. . ; The allies have a long way yet to travel s before victory," Gov, Snell said. - -;.: , p.pt ip- Ypp The cost of war and the sacri fices : being ; made by the allied troops were - emphasized by Lt CoL. Worth Wicker, division In spector general at Camp Adair. You should realize that the en emy lines 'are shortening while the lines of the allies are length ening,' CcL .Wicker declared. This makes our job all the more difficult and costly." - rV7ith"yoir industry at tie frost in this fourth war loan c:ir.pa!a It cannot f tH, he concluded. Praise for the nc":a rl;tare 1 - Party iDQD" . .... - Jap Try Sneak Attempt , . At Borgen Bay . Decisive Loss By ROBERT EUNSON ADVANCED ALLIED X E A D Q IJARTERS, New Guinea, Thursday, Jan. 13 (AP)- American ma rine -' artillery smashed a Japanese night ' attempt to land reinforcements : at Borgen Bay, near the ma rines invasion beachhead at Cape Gloucester, New Brit ain, and the j enemy's efforts to halt the leathernecks advance have cost hub more than 2400 dead so far. j The sinking of two troop-filled barges was reported In Gen. Doug las MacArthur's communique to day. It also said that the marines were maintaining steady pressure l 4k T ... 1 i , fighting has been heavy . around hill 660. A headquarter's spokesman said the "marines were !4 advancing slowly, aided which bombed by attack planes and strafed the en- (myrHe: said ttiat 300 ... moreJa had been found. panese bodies bringing the tptal enemy , dead to more than 2400 compared with around 400 marine dead! ' and wounded. j Australian Jungle-fighters have made another advance, this time three miles, along the coast bf the Huon peninsula ' in New Guinea, and the Japanese apparently are attempting td evacuate troops threatened with entrapment be tween the fast-moving Aussies and American invasion troops at Saidor, less than 60 miles to the northwest. . . . Increased enemy barre tral-, fie along the coast frosa Saldar to Slo, te the south, has been reported,- and these craft have been hard hit by day air straf ins and nlcht pT patrol boat at tacks. Forty-three of the barg es, many of hem loaded with troops, were tank er destroyed; ; Monday and Tnesday. The Australians have reached the banks of the Dapugara river. They soon will have the Huon peninsula cleared ) of Japanese, at their present rate of progress, and juncture with the American force will give the allies com . (Turn to Page 2 Story K) - Phil Regan Reveals He Is Grandfather . HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12 -fP- Film Singer Phil Regan, 37, and 1-A in the draft, revealed a se cret s today he's a grandfather, perhaps the youngest In the mo vies. . 1 - - Regan said his son, Joseph, 18, became a father last November, but that the actor's friends were not advised of It until today when he finished work in a picture, be cause he didn't want to be kidded by studio associates about being a . grandfather J L,:p Ar.p 5f Industry also was voiced by E. C Sammons, Portland, chairman of the Oregon war finance commit tee, ppp. j :: ; 4 : -' r- :'P ' Albert Finke, Portland theater operator and chairman of the mo tion picture section of war activi ties, declared that the Industry he represents would accept Its res ponsibility in the fourth war loan drive. YpY. Y p 1 - p r pJi Tfcis gathering here today, the largest in the history of the Ore gon motion picture Industry; Is proof that we will cooperate to the fullest extent," Finke said. . . Technical details of the "bond premiere" . prcrram were ex-. Flilnsd ty.llcrls I.L lltcher, ts tLlint state cllman cf tie Ore Cca.war acti:tlS cc J'.tse cf da rr.otica t' re LsJj;lry. - ." I: ( In Air Raids fcss ss rw in ii Masses 1 1 t t -iejiaMeuNj Capt. Carl. Parker Gies (above), . son of Mr. and Mrs. C Parker Gies, 2500 Fairground road, Sa lem, was chief of operations for the first sroap ef America's new extra long range fighters te go ' Into i action in Tuesday's great raids ever Germany. MaJ. James c Howard (below); who trained the fighter squadron stationed at Salem airbase Jast summer, commanded a squadron in that same first troop, aecerdlng to Associated Press dispatches. These dispatches Wednesday re vealed for the first time to the .public that any of the squadron x front Salem had gone late ac tios) n the European theatre. Hostile Senate StartsAction ' ! I: On Labor Draft - By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 Nationnal service legislation urged by President Roosevelt got off to a halting start in a hostile com mittee of the senate today. Chairman Reynolds (D-NC) of the i senate military affairs com mittee which opened hearings on labor drafts bill proposed by Senator Austin (R-Vt) said sev eral! i more -weekly ; meeting "at least three or - four" - will ' be held before the committee acts. .. The house military affairs com mittee, holding .a , similar bill, hadn't i even decided whether, to take it up. ! - , P - The distinctly chilly committee reception' coincided: with warm praise of the national service plan from Undersecretary of War Rob ert P. . Patterson and strongly worded: opposition from William Green: president of the American Federation of Labor. , Patterson in an interview said such a law would assure service men; overseas that the country is "going all out behind them" and provide a direct morale boost while stabilizing labor, in - war critical industries. He said a na- (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ;. cretary of State Robert S. Far rell, jc, and State Treasurer Les lie M. Scott. A number of persons, prominent in the Oregon motion picture : industry : and ' including Mrs. J. J. Parker, Portland, mem ber bf the national advisory com mittee were introduced Preceding the meeting the mo tion: picture operators were enter tained at a luncheon at the Uarion hotel. i- In more ways than one Oregon's activity In preparation for the fourth was loxm centered la Calera crj TTednesday.'for in a radio ad drers Gov..: Eneil , referred , to : the lan-ichlisg cf the ration's first Vic tory: si!? as a f-illz preluda te C-3 Lr., cnil-j Lci crt-i"x ' '! "As Crc-n U!;cs tis lizi i.i lis Victory ii:? ctz.:n t t .lZ, (Tura ta P. i Cicry I ) - - f - i i - . - I v j - v v - 'i -' J i f j" ;: :Z 4 -'n: r-O- .1 .1 .Mvasioiai- Friiu le Me artts Yirtually All German Figlitero Take to Heaven to Defend Major Industry . Against Blows BY flENRY JAMESON LONDON, Thursday, Jan. 13. (AP) Sustain ing a record loss of 64 planes, an Axnerican aerial tas!; force of perhaps' 1200 heavy bombers and long rang? fighters shot down more than 100 German aircraft Tuesday to carry through a crushing attack at Gen. many9 desperately guarded fighter aircraft industry; wilh results officially described as excellent. The j operation, which struck three assembly; plants in the heart of the reich, was heralded here to day as the opening of the "invasion front" air war. It brought virtually sill of the German air force; into the j sky something Reicbmarshal Hermann Arnold Says . Germans Back On Their Heels WICHITA Kas, Jan. 12-VPr- The Germans are back; on their heels. Gen. Henry R. Arnold, army air force chief; told a press con ference today r releasing details of the 'Tuesday raid on Germany In which nazi plane production suf fered a terrific attack Gen. Arnold said the raid yes terday, at a cost of about five per cent of the attacking force, meant that V hundreds jof nazi fighter planes never would be manufac hired. The huge I American bomb- force severely punished plants at Oscherslebeivi Halberstadt and Brunswick. ; . t ' : Prodoctlott at these plants has been wiped eat for months, he said. Importance ef the plants was shown Ibecaase "the treat majority of the nasi fighter strength Is concentrated around the area Invaded by the army air forces striking en January 11 T , , Final assembly plants, and sub assembly plants for making Focke Wulffs, JunEers . and - Messer schmitt planes were crippled in one of the hardest blows yet struck again the German air force,' Gen. Arnold declared. T" ' "The Germans are back on their heels but we dare not let up. They're going to fight with every thing at their disposal and we've, got to have more and more planes so we can dea them the death blow," he said. - Arnold explained ' that the strategy ta sending eat raiding parties against three objectives was te eeafase the enemy. ' "There: axel only a certain num ber of fighters the Germans can said up, he said. "They' are con founded as to their defense and this enables us to have the Ini tiative. : r ; :. "As we increase the number of bombers :we send out; our losses will normally decrease The army air chief , said "were it hot for continuing attacks (Turn to Page 2 Story I) - ! London Hopes FDR To Be at Peace Table LONDON. Jan. U-C5VThe Lon- dori Star expressed the hope to - day A that President Roosevelt would be at the peace conference whenever it i Is held.: The ' news paper said editorially: . - Allied peoples who have do concern with American domestic affairs : wUl hope that whenever peace is ; made this giant among presidents wUl be there among the builders. ?. " AurrccncZa Ilea Gullly rr.ovirzixi:, rjJza. 12-tT1) Thef Pawtucket plant cf ti.s Aha conda V?ire...;and Calla ccrrpany and :.''four plant' ' cindals were found "cuSty by a f : .:ral zrj to ricM:xl Cpzxzv 'that Cry cca- IrsI ta rufacture and diLv r d:.:'.!v8 wire to e.e trr:y -1 c;rr j . ' ; n nv J OGoering never was able to do dur ing the battle of Britain. Of the total number of U$ planes lost, 59 were four-engined Flying; Fortress and Liberators and five were fighters . - American, losses were less than half the record 124 bombers and 12 fighters claimed by the Ger mans in a. day-long series of propaganda broadcasts. - : They compared with the -'. 63 heavy bombers .which failed to re turn from the raid onl Schweinfurt October 1 4.' The .twin Echweinfurt Kegensburg raid of August 17, which cost the nazis 307 fighters, remained the most : expensive to the enemy interceptors. The . US" communique, delayed longer than any similar announce ment has been, said: "At Ascher leben direct strikes were observed oa machine shops ' and other ' fac tory .-installations maflufacturinj Focke-Wulf 190s. "At Halberstadt a Jnnkers-Sg and Junkers-lSS t component plant was heavily hit. . "At Bmoswkk two ef three -' main assemblj bnildinss prodac ins Messerschmitt lies were de stroyed and the third was bad ly damaged. "Other targets were also hit with good results." These other targets were not specified, but L Swedish reports said one wing of the thundering battle fleet of the skies swung over the Berlin suburbs for the first time in daylight in a diver sionary maneuver. The Swedish reports also listed as a target the city of Magdeburg, (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Navy Report 5 Destruction j 2 Nazi Subs i WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -T Destruction of two German sub marines in the south Atlantic, ona after five -and one-half hours cf battling in which six navy ana army planes participated, was re ported by the navy tonight. Both - submarines were sighted, attacked and sunk by planes fly ing search missions from Ascen sion island, midway across the Atlantic from the South America: . bulge at Natal, Brazil. Seven times navy Liberator bombers roared down on one sub marine, dropping 33 depth charges and strafing the U-boat's decks. Two.army planes also Joined La. the fight, dropping 10 dcmolitica bombs. " The submarine was first sighted and so damaged that it could net submerge and escape, by a plana piloted by Lt. Charles A. Daldwin, 25, Kearney, Neb. It finally went down after another navy Libera tor piloted by Lt W7iHiam r. Ford, 23, Crescent City, Fla., h: 1 attacked, returns :1 t ill t-:a i t refueling,' .and 'cc.""".i! tack wi'Ji a partly new crew f r tl.t f.il kill. :. The second rir.iriae, tie nav.. said, was" Cssirojtl '"a faw wtcl. ; later? by asciier -Lil crater bcr.'.: er pScted by Lt. Cp IZixlcnV, r. - - 4" r - " T Xlzxf vp h:r.' rllcr l-:. l'.;t had V-z.P.l ii v.-i-'i , lz.s.