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Newspaper Page Textvr.cz TWO TL CZZCOII CTATrC:.LHI. Cclsra. Orecoa, Thursday MomL.-, Jsnusry 13. IZ'A Hostile Senate Starts Action : On Labor Draft ' C (Continued from Page 1) C -if 1 ... I , tional service law would bring -flittle i" compulsion" of labor be- yond requiring worker to .stay on job for which they had been trained. "It would be the enactment of v; moral principle -that everyone has always admitted the duty of every citizen to contribute ac cording to his ability,? the under - secretary saia. Green asserted -.that national ' service weald "amdcrmlne ear basl concepts ef tfemocraey.' declaring that .."there Is no real i comparison between draftior ' men far serrlee 1st the armed ' forces ef the-ewuitry and draft- ' Ing them for service In private ' Industry, operating far private profit." He said Great Britain, operat ing under a national service law, experienced in 1942-a number of strikes "greater ' proportionately than in the United States. xne prwiaem. put nauona sex- vice legislation atop a five-point m. . a a. t stabilization programs yesterday in nis message on uie siaie 01 uw - union, and within, two hours Aus-I - tin came into the senate with' revision of a year-old bill. The Vermont senator, steoned 'mto TLX hearing, his bill would not : abrogate la ' bor's right to strike.;; "The tiling that's causing all this talk now is these strikes,' Reynolds said after: the meeting. "If this bill won't prevent strikes then I don't understand it Other senators contended the Austin ' proposal would do the ame thing as stopping strikes, f s. jt"l a . .j j . ii I nowever. unaer m Terms me .-...uu.. vv. to return to a strike-stilled in- 4.... it u . m I to the war, If the workers still refused re placements could be recruited from among other civilians, by conscription if necessary, Austin himself working, as he said, "without one word" from the White House told the com mittee he would do nothing to force the legislation through un til he is convinced there is a pub lic demand for it. "This should not be a mandate 1UU snuu nui . manaate zrom congress to tne neooie n i said, he added, however, "that herTcSmans admitted losing has evidence "considM m- I nas . evidence "considerable seg ments" of the population want a national service act.: Discussion .spread onto the housej floor , .where a republican and a democrat Joined in accusing ii uioiucui ui. cmuns . at i HlSrWi- tre,?B 2 SSILST- er national service legislation Is necessary to control it Rep. Gifford (R-Mass),- first made the. charge in a bitter de nunciation of the prpposaL Rep. Cox (D-Ga), interposed. "This action (national service legislation should have been tak en a long time ago. The coddling ef racketeers in labor now has built a Frankenstein that has frightened the president and the country out of their boots Struggle Over Service rot&: By WILLIAM T; PEACOCK WASHINGTON, Jan. . 12-(JP) Republicans today , tagged Presi- t R,m:f: r gresa, particularly the part ad- ..ii.-uiir.i vawinat a ": vafuvas'. WklTI - . 9 Bomlc rights, as a fourth term bid and., preview or the 1944 1 democratic platform; ' ' r I Th,t m. tw . 1 GOP members in congress and al- so of republican-national commit- teemen going home after their 1 meeting in Chicago. Rep. Martin of Massachusetts, . the 'house republican leader, ob- . aerveH that th-rMvKmit tWm - sage the chief executive "never xor a moment forgot that there is n election aneao." I Republicans , the five pointe enunciated by the president might be interpreted as :: a campaign platform. Irrespective of the president's views on another ; term m the believes the pre-war . program . of J social changes which was called I the "new deal-should be pressed! again once the conflict is over. I His bill of economic "rights pro-r I lected a vast extension ef social I - security; and governmenr aids and I . assurances to, the indvidual. List-, j erl mm hMerthmt wmi rirhta tn a I useful ;nd remuneratice . job, to j earn enough xor rood, clotnmg and recreation, of farmers, t make a fair profit b their crops, of busi ness men to- be assured .of. fair, competition, of a. decent home for every lamHy, of adequate medical care, of economic protection Id old ase,; sickness and unemployment, and to m good, education. - ' ReptJtllcans' viewed it as giving a broad "t5UtXIae -JX- what' aort of postwar dorsesiis program .'the prcslisrt vaats " th democratic convention ti endorse.-1 27t!i Carrier Launclied . VAII CCTJVZZ, -.7asSL, Jan. 12 (7)- Tia , nuijard. Bay, 27th ' :-ociet -airerafi 'carrier , frcra f ? Iliiier ' yard here," slid down j 1" 2 v.-rrs tdy," i3. hull sptachei . ! r ,t ONiheHOllEFROlIT By t3AITL CXXILD3 "Listeners-in, It -seems, are not eavesdroppers. " r - In Salem,- two (iris- organiza tions are- getting .together 'listening-in" groups . to : hear Helen JtB itar SaturdayJanuary 15. in the first of a aeries of 13 radio j you programs entitled "Here to -" Scheduled for broadcast on a nationwide -hookup, it will be heard here over KGW from 10 to 10:39 mjtL . And more 'than the Campfire girls and the younger girls' com mittee of the YWCA should be those t two groups, are helping to pay for the ; aeries of : Saturday half hours. '! :. . ' . The YMCA. Boy Scouts. Junior S1.H C'i NttonJ sCatooUc fl ffj of America, National Jewish Wel- fare Bnarrl. National AssnHatinn I of Settlements and . the Girl Re-1 I f th YWCA and Camnfir J girls are the sponsors. . r - "Yanks Lose 64 I f PlanesinlRaid. Nazi Plants G (Continued from Page 1) G 28 miles from Halberstadt, and site of Krupp armaments factor ies. The bombers wera escorted to their tareets bv clouds of Amer- as lean fighters: P-38- TJhtninM. i . . i p7 t Thunderbolts, and an un- identified tvna -of "loM-raMe . . . - : i I sien of the P-51 Mustang. "Opposition was strong and there, were many fierce aerial combats, said the communique. Many of the returning bombers were diverted to bases other than .i those from which they took off. thus complicating the task of in telligence officers in assembling the communique data. The communique specified that the total of more than 100 Ger- pianes ,hot down still was .- .... i no mora man nine xiEnis. i .While high US officers labored " . i , lanua mix we uuormauon mm toe raid. How ever, returned fliers told of fierce battles !?S d!tM!liia2 .k.. "S whk Germans .fired bombers from the ground.' . v s: The American blow was direct- ed into tha verr hoar rt th rlK Brunswick' is -120 miles west nf Berlin. Oscharslebeii and Halhr-1 stadt are each about 100 milesl southwest. It was the farthest nenetration ever made into German the m: . . . I ugnier escort. i was tne Zirst raia I on Oscherrieben. HalhMt ... last hit in 1940 by the RAF, which visited Brunswick twice in 1941 and once last September. Bank Indicted On nm vul VC3 I vnt;',';.. ... WIVX, 1 -UfY 1U- reputedly the largest tnciair tni T merciai oanklng House in the! -T .:,Lf.r1r " J . I dustrial diamonds in v!liv. I TZZ TTZTr -n . LiL enemy act I ?!! Jf todY by Att0me3r . nn, .. -.. . . I TOr7: " . . " . "" J r7 w1! ?r.Jrr airec. J rrJ IT. ' ? a! iT w" LTnirdi ,2,." "T. 7 . vwvu-1 2?'' - "'" controlled by Smit To dealer pleaded innocent ot arraignment here today and was ir4"1 $500 baU for hearing SOFaaxJ 1 - i 1 CC"J of aiding the transactions bjr carrying i on regular hnn)t creois transactions with El- sanium ana other Smit firms, i -Biddle said an immediate result ' the indictments would be "the xlulun on or what is believed to one of the worst leaks of Strategic industrv county to the enemy." I l II . I &i?9 I . CO- Ai Uif AJ. Yanks Smear JaP Sneak Landing K (Continued from Page 1) E plete control of the western side of Vitiaz strait I . , - ' Madang and Alexishafen, en emy supply and airdrome centers on the- New Guinea coast north west of Saidor, were "again hit by allied bombers, this, time with 128 tons "ot explosives. T ' ..' Nearly 1100 "tons j have been dropped on these bases so far this month; a blasting comparable to concentrating bombings in the past which have presaged ; invas ion. !; 5 J' t:M Bombers ranging north of Ma dang damaged shore installations, Z Tl ed shipping ..in the Uligan har bor area. Destruction of 14 barg- f our luggers and other small fnti warn Trnsr4mA with trianv L Z.r' . ' I ?j , pf.ip.fa,,, boat, ,nk nine barges and damaged 11 oth- ers'in night attacks off the coast l i " . . j. . . .. i nup v,inr Manv Arm immm , JT-. .T I caTod enemy troop.,, and their presence Domerea Deuel max tne Japanese were finding, their posl- tion between Australian and American f orces untenabU.'.i-i.iN Air patrols smashed again at nA rin nnrh . i tK. ! American line on Arawe penin- sula, on the southwest coast of New Britain and 65 miles from Cape Gloucester. 's v'-jf'. ; (A Tokyo broadcast picked up by the NBC at New York sUting Arawe was labeled by a MacAr- thur headquarters spokesman ! as "a ! complete exaggeration.": He said -we are still right there and TiuJiT- 5 , '-TT (Arawe was occupied by i ele-1 . 7 . -J" 1 ZT-irz: i menu ox me sixu armr iecem- . Ahrmrt ? ' toJUvl enfn?a"ent!0n zrom uie ivecemoer o mannt in-1 vasion at Cape Gloucester, ; The! Americans captured the practte- aiiy unserviceaoie susinp norm- east or Arawe peninsula, but sub sequently relinquished It to the enemy and fell back to the- pen- . TT insuia. Rabatd, the important Japan ese base on northeast New; Brit tain, was hit again by medium bombers front the south Pacific si ,ihhm infernal air. nna nt hm thrM frAm IZZX. ZZ- 7Za t.. uuu , tPZLSZ ique made no mention of enemy 1 . . i e t x lnvrppniinn. ninELT .jauanss n1inM v.v O- downed in allied on Rabaul since January L Marshalls Get T T ' ? 7 :pJ JNCW DamaffC r ? V O .;, lYm UAtnhnmi MXMM. JLW UXAMJkJ M. & ' y UUM MlUiUN tEARL HARBOR, Jan. 12 -iff) New damage Jito enemy shipping. P ground installaUons in tne ; Marshall islands in a triple a ffnlr Vw o rm, at niw)vunKMi J J . January 10 and 11 was announced today by Pacific fleet headquart- ers All our Manes returned mi ers. All our planes returned tin- damaged. '-!?; ;!" Heaviest of the three blows was that delivered yesterday by Lebi- rator search planes of fleet wing two against Kwajalein. In a dar ing daylight attack, from low alti tude they sank two small Japa nese cargo ships " and damaged Jour others, started fire, in build- Inn and hnn InEtaHatinrta mnA damaged two planes on the air- f,Jd Thm r Kwajalein I apparently is the pnncipiI emy shipping center in the nrarhan m .hinnt.- OT damaged there US raiders than in any of the :. . : . .. o"1" wu of the group. other atolls f the group. The tnral nnw 1 uv now cruisers, five small cargo ships and nall transport : sunk and . 13 cargo ships damaged. Heavy bombers of the Amerl- can Seventh army air force strut There were no details of this 20th raid on Mfli. where the Nipponese probably two more to previous strikes against a US' loss of three planes. TODAY AND FSDAT a " teve-aiKl. Ie-W?r v Last Times Tonight ' to till I H A I HI Jrr) teve-and.! Ii.,; " Co-reat2re. irri jcra rt rr Re-elected CAPT. WALTER LANSING ; iMnsihg Heads State Employes Til JW? TwTT. MrO- 1 eriH I frann rmnlMm ' Tnn' vulaa- i - , ted Capt Walter Lansing of the I ..tJ.tZZ- uT I . 7r recessive term Wednesday night; .aru7a. ffT - . V wno . v..i assistant to tne f 'oresierA " vice president, Aucics iina m m oepan- ff1 ot donJ ecreta57 " secretary - treasurer, was elected to assist Miss Hanks. Following his reelection, Lans ing named to serve with officers on the executive committee "Joe :JL.?"" staff; Mrs. Bertha BergmaoL of fice of the secretary of state; J. , ,Lmft" I culture, and Hershel W. David- D. Patterson, department of agri- I O . m LSllfaO fikgh -jw v w m - 1 -m- QX iUeOSUTe WASHINGTON, Jan. - 12-JPi The senate today approved most of the important features of the $2,278,600,000 tax increase bill, completely disregarding President Roosevelt's charge that it is not a "realistic revenue measure. ;. The members raced . through hundreds of amendments recom- mended by the 1 l fi, "" f . Technically, the bin remained open for the -most basic changes, but none was in sight and Fi nance Chairman George (D-Ga), said he knew of hone in prospect. Majority j Leader Barkley and Sen. Vandenberg (R-Mich) tanking republican on jthe comJf mittee, even, said that all the principal revenue sections might be considered as approved. Elfstrom Awarded Contract Temporarily extending the i ranffe of Aneratinna V man VF OV kejr men..of ttT"1, rpuzauon !?01. IeaV Withm days for Utah, where the paint, roofing and floor covering contract has just been awarded to "the local concern. The work involves ini tial units of a new housing pro ject at Lark, Utah, 18 miles south east of Salt Lake City. i Ustrom. pointed out, that al though this latest contract in some aeTonet! uon or nis local firm was very gratifying and a tribute to the workmen associated with him on former occasions. t OPENS i.-45 F. nou snomns! As Big As All OntdeorsI Thrill After ThrClt "Jean "Arthur v William Holden Warren WiEIara ;."iinizo:m" . Plus , Two Farorite Stars s Running Riot In Romance . w and Fun! Lcretla Yonr - Ildvyn Docslas ...HX3 STAYED FOP Xr.HAIOJ'AGT- . Demo, Party Leader Hints Withdrawal F (Continued from Page If F est the results of a poll conduct ed among them by the Associated Press.. -'.. - If - . v.--,-:-;- j ..... .. . The Poll showed CtoV. Thomaa E. Dewey of New York, who in sists ' he is not a 1 candidate, and Wendell I Willkie, the 11940 GOP nominee who is expected by bis supporters to announce his can didacy formally in New York within a few weeks, running neck and neck. - with 21 - votes - each. among the 82 committeemen and women who voted. - f - . - - There was a bur unknown tity, r however. In 23. 'committee members who said they were open-minded on a - nominee. The others voted this war: I " Gov. John Wi Bricker of Ohio, a; j. commander Harold E. Stas sen, 4; Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, 2; Gov. Dwight H. Green of Illi nois, 2; Gov. Earl Warren of Cal ifornia, 2: Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur. i: Dewey or Willkie. L Of the 106 committee; members, o were contacted and asked to write fthelr presidential nrefer. ences on a blank slip of paper and .si . as. i arop it m a seaiea ooxJ only five refused to -vote. j : ; The members were asked aim. ply: "What man would you like to see nominated by the republi- can party? I Even while many of the renub- licana were still here, including an arrangements committee . group that visited the big stadium where their convention, will j be held. Chairman Walker of the demo crats arrived in tow with Vice Chairman Ambrose O'Connell to confer with Mayor Edward J. Kelly and hotel men. i Walker would not discuss re ports of his impeding resignation, but it was learned he planned to give up the political post which he never cherished in the first place ana which he accented ; only as a temporary job. . . j Hannegan. who succeeded Guv Helvering of Kansas as Internal revenue ; commissioner several months ago when Helvering went on the federal bench, is a com parative newcomer on the nation al1 political scene. Others who have been considered as Walker's succesor are' George Ej Allen, ef Mississippi, a Washington insur ance executive, who now is na tional committee secretary, and David Kelly, national committee member from Grand Forks, ND. Sargent . Bashes Head In Fall at Ice Rink Russell Sargent. Grand Island.. who struck his head so severely when he fell at the Salem ice arena Wednesday night that he lost consciousness, waaj dismissed from Salem General hospital a short time after city first aid men had taken him there for examina tion...;, . :! ..... HOU PLAYKG! . . . It has the whole town talking! You really shouldn't miss it 1 1 canity. meua Plns Hilariocs Fira! ndly Mary t Erian ; Warren njmer An3 in ths ITews! -CONT. FROM I f. H. j fUM hKStSZKt A m -7-;j. , - , ' I tvririH ; ' n tsm .. ?.... i v ... tisisssf Do 1 Theaires : $o Sponcor 'Bond Prevues B (Continued from Page 1) ' DT let Oregon also take the lead in fullfilment of the. war bond quo ta. Let Oregon live up to her no ble traditions." Gov. Snell, Secretary of , State Farrell, State Treasurer Scott and Chairman Sammons of the state war. finance committee also spoke at a meeting of representatives from each department of state government, at which, the cam paign for bond sales among state employes was outlined. Quotas for he various . departments will be announced later, : ': '' Block wardens" 'attending meeting at the Englewood school called by Mrs.:; Lawrence Lister, zone leader; pledged support' to ward the goal of $110,000, neces sary to sponsor , a Douglas ambu lance plane ; which will .bear a laame indicating that, it was'. fin anced In Salem. 1 C A meeting of solicitors in the Mt Angel district has been called for Friday night by ' James.; Four nier, district! chairman.' Jesse J. Card, county chairman, and other workers from Salem will attend. ML Angel's quota is $100,000, a xigure wnicn that- district greatly over - subscribed in the third war loan. -: i Reds Take Sarny; Start 3 New Moves D (Continued from Page 1) D VatutuVs forces captured 50 towns and hamlets- west of ' Novosrad Volynskf. includina MuzhilovichL miles from Novograd Vnlynski and three miles from the highway Junction of Korets. . West and northwest of Klrovo- grad, ; where! the Germans suf fered one of their severest defeats of the current ramnafra. Gen. Ivan S. Konev s ! first Ukrainian army dislodged: the Germans from several heavuy fortified populat ed places, killed 1000 of the ene my and destroyed 36 of their tanks. A Soviet motorized detachment broke into the German rear, at tacked an airfield and set fire to 40 arounded Dlanes. and routed a German headquarters unit be fore wheeling back to its own lines. 4 South of J Belaya Tserkov in the Dnieper bend,: where Vatutin's forces were nearest a junction with Konevs army, the Russians coptured several populated places. Firemen Called City, firemen were called to .170 South 15th streeT at 9:10 p. m. Wednesday night when a chimney fire was in ; progress there OPENS C:45 P. M. IIOUi FLAYCIG! FUN AND ACTION! ;... -J.'.". 5 ... I .... .a i J1 V - CO-FEATURE STAnrin ALMA ! CAfttOLL . FINAL EPISODE OF "JU-:3LS CTEL" - - 1 ; - i- - ; - . First Chapter New! Exciting! l: yTkrilUPccl&d , Serial!. . , " 'S V m m m ii ii ni.. Eee it fxcra the start . - . Dont miss cne rln'.e adventure of Jinx I Falkenbarg N Bert . I Gordon 7 S - i ..- . . - II ii i.i I It Cat mmmm II lil Americans y ; ' ' Take Gervaro, Push Forward XT (Continued from Page 1) 11 pounding every Jbot of nazi-held ground with big ! guns for hours before each advance. -"The allies new: round-the-dosk Balkan bombing team ' Flying Fortresses by day, RAF Welling tons by night shifted its assault to the big Greek; port of Piraeus after its shattering blow the prev ious day at Sofia; capital "of Bul garia. u : Though handicapped . by poor weather, 'the great American bombers went in unerringly with their Lightning fighter escort and rained tons of bombs : on moles, jetties, warehouses , and '. railway facilities of the port which serves Athens and through which' sup. plies pass to German forces in the Aegean. i .: Fortress crewmen I said many fires were "started in' the ; harbor and that c warehouse blew up, Thirty-eight nazi fighters chal lenged the mission oyer southern Greece, and in the swirling .fight that ensued Fortress gunners shot down five enemy planes and their escorts -destroyed another three. Seven American planes were lost. .. As In thexaid on Sofia. the two engined British Wellingtons then swept in after dark and, guided by fires set b7 i the Americans; dumped another huge load of ex plosives and incendiaries. The Wellingtons, capable lof carrying bomb loads almost equal to those of the Fortresses, were' reported to have started a least nine more blazes In Piraeus -'and - to ; have touched off one mammoth explo sion. l - . ;. (The' German DNB news agency reported, as usual, that all allied bombs landed in "densely popu lated residential quarters' of .Pi raeus and that military targets were not damaged.) :;4v-H'v-'- A broadcast by the Cairo radio today reported i that: Bulgarian government ministries were has tily evacuating Sofia and that the civilian population also was taking to the country on a 1 large scale since Monday's one-two smash at the Bulgarian capital! The city's industrial districts were said to have been heavily damaged. An allied communique on the ground fighting in Italy said the Fifth' army's advance continued. !a great m Ml r nllyJ SPECDAL . IN FAMOUS MAKE IRREGULARS ! Once In a proverbial new moon cm opportunity to buy hosiery, such as mis presents itself OTdinarily in -wartime never. But men here it is. The only thine we can't tell you is the maker's name. : i I. Finest lisle-lined wools: In "Hi-Lo" cnkle styles only. Knitted in1 the authentic English ribs in solid colors in-' dudtocj armyO. D. ctnd navy bloxdc. . i " i Made to'seUlorSlXO pair.- - ". 6Sc - 2 Now 2. Hi-Lo anile stylss or Wdar bngths la light weight usles or line rayons. . i . Mada to sell for Now eZJi.; f - i" s iK ' M lia C:ra ci was seized. H-.crr.y poc!:cts. cf re sistance were cleaned up and our front line straightened out." Front dispatches told how Am ericans troops cleaned out a nazi pocket i of resistance about 809 yards north, of Mount di Pi peri a, which is north of Cervaro, . while farther west other- Yank forces engaged in a bitter struggle for possession of Mount Capraro, a 2000-foot elevaiton about a mile northeast of Carvraro. Another Fifth army unit . occupied 'Mount CicerelH, a ridge parallel to the Via Cassilina south of Cervraro. Arnold Says i Germans Back OnHeels I (Continued from Page 1) I against " the production capacities of German factories, nazi efforts to double their fighter strength might : have succeeded with the result that the difficulties which mil art fa 'AVttfAma) hvi aallltfwl 'amis attacks and also by amphibious, landing forces would be incal culably Increased. : Commenting on the losses suf fered by . our forces, Arnold as serted "you can't measure losses by any yardstick. War is most un economical, but with our produc tion, the loss of ten planes might not be as serious to us as the loss 6f one plane to the enemy." ! Keith Brown . . . . . .. i - Wins Contract "J (Continued from Page 1) J ing Supply company contract will be started as soon as the changes in equipment necessitated by . its specifications can be made, it was announced Wednesday. , . The last large contract under taken at the plant .was completed i about three months ago and only minor activity has been under way there in the interim. Though materials for the : bar racks will r come fromV various parts ot the country, Willamette valley-sawed lumber will be used. t is understood. ' ' 1 I - , 05 : ' IZa and CZc pair. 0'! J-' " - .'.. - : '. crr:3 Lr i-irs. Lt::t . i i. . - 416 '- a T - J Cr TT ? I , - : , 'vL2 cj a navy ccpteia. 0 V Y.