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-v - The board of directors of the
.'Associated Press took the correct
course in' appealing the decision
of the lower court in the case in
' stituted against it by the depart-
: xnent of Justice, accusing n 01
"violating the anti-trust laws. The
final judgement of the lower
- court held that the AP was no
monopoly that : there were other
' . comDetitive news services in the
Afield, and admitted the hiah aual
;ity of AP news service. But it for
Ibade AP members from excluding
- an - applicant for membership on
.the ground of competition with
'-"resent member. ,'--'v
r -This has seemed to AP members
. and to others . an unwarranted
.stretching of the anti-trust laws.
;If,a newspaper were to be denied
;all press services then the cry of
.combination in restraint might be
; made. Such is not alleged. A news-
paper can obtain at least one of
the three great news services. The
.fact that on may not be available
.to it does - not prove monopoly
.The record- showed that some
- newsnarjers i thrive with the ; AP
- service: ethers : with the. UP . ser
. vice; others have combinations of
. cress reports. No proof was offered
, that a paper failed for lack of the
. AP r of one of the other press
services.
.: Thi Associated: Press is a co-
operative whose prestige has been
- built up by performance over : a
lona term of years. It operates on
the nrinciDle of exchange of news
i among members and an equitable
assessment of the cost of col
lecting and transmitting news. .To
y make admission to the AP free
without the right of protest by a
. t competing member would mean
, that the contribution (continued
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Nan Defenders
FromMinturna
l : Br WES GALLAGHER I
' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 20.-i5VBritish troops
i fighting ; doggedly up 500 - loot
f alooes rising from the historic Ap-
pian Way have driven nazi de-
fenders from tha important town
f Minturao,, iaotiC'w-
r Garigliano river, the German high
5 command ' announced today, as a
bitter "give and take" battle raged
- along: a' seven-mile front on the
t Italian west coast. '
' The nazis said that Minturno, a
key communications center, was
lost to Lt Gen. Mark W. Clark's
I advancing forces after having
: been "completely destroyed.'
The ancient town, whose pre--
war population was over 5009,.
' - was a primary objective of the '
sew allied offensive launched
Monday night at three point
, across the lower Garigliano.
While the nazis conceded Min
' turno's fall, the allied command
; announced capture of the villages
i of Argento, at the mouth of the
I Garigliano; Tufo, a mile north
I east of Minturno, and Suio, seven
. miles up the Garigliano from the
coast. - ( ' ".,"!.'
Some of the , most desperate
fighting was expected to develop
around , Castel Porto, a village
about two miles from the Gar
; gilianos western bank and six
i miles inland,, where the Germans
- have' installed extensive fortifies
t tiona on high ground. British re
k inforcements were' pouring across
the : river to join in the' conflict,
'- which , was progressing in clear,
! cold " water. r.-- y - -- ... ." - - - - ,
-German prisoners taken. at the
outset of the offensive belonged
. to the 94th nazi division, and
r many, said they never had been in
action before. They showed strain
from the incessant aerial attacks
and artillery bombardments they
. had- undergone in - recent weeks.
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Zeros Fly Lower .
Because of .Weather
- MUNDA, New Georgia, Solo
; noons, Jan. 17.P)-(Delayed)-In-
clement weatherexcept over the
target caused allied fighter
1 planes to battle superior numbers
of Zeros at much lower than us
ual altitudes In today's devastat
ing blow an enemy shipping at
lUbauL . r i: &:;;s s " v
' Marine divebomber pilots in the
action and credited with hits on
cargo ships included. Harry Det
wiler; Canby, Ore. :, v: "v'r -
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Service lien Exempt '
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' WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-(i?V
Kep. Sauthoff (R-Wis) Introduced
today bill (H. R. 4025) to waive
all income tax liability of mem
bers of the- armed forces incurred
prior to their entry into the serv
ices. - '
VCD Million Xaiil Aside
LONDON, "Jan. 20.-(P)-The
Taily Express said toniiht that
Tritain is , setting aside, at once
r:-rly lC3,CCa,CC0 pounds (ap-j-:xxiir.'ai!y
$400,COO,CCO)- for re
; ;t in countries liberated from
British
IIUirTY-THIHD YEAIl
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Heaviest Raid Launched ;
Against Wewak and Boram;
133 Tons Explosives iDro jpped
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By Robert Eunsoni " ? V
ADVANCED ALLIED
Guinea, Friday-,' Jan. 21
!
down 33 Japanese planes
ship totaling 10,000 tons in blows ranging from We
wak, New Guinea, to Rabaul, New Britain, Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's headquarters reported ' today.
The heaviest raid was
dumps and antiaircraft positions at Wewak and neigh
boring Boram. Fifty Liberator; heavy bombers hit Bo
ram with 133 tons of explosives, without interception
Wednesdays the day before
fighters shot down 12 planes, for sure and probably
two more from the 50. to 60
rose to challengethe attackers over Wewak. The allies
lost three planes.
Hitting again at the enemy
plane and shipping center at Ra
baul, where allied planes from the
south Pacific ' command sank or
damaged eight - ships Monday,.
Mitchell medium : bombers with
fighter escort bombed and strafed
Tobera airdrome, one " of three
fields guarding the center, down
ing 21 enemy interceptors against
a loss of two of the raiding
planes. - '. i.-
A 1 5000-ton - Japanese ' ammuni
tion ship received direct hit and
blew up and a ?000rton freighter
also -was sunk -when -navy Cata-
linsC patrol planes caught a small
convoy off ; Lorengau, on ' the
northeast ' coast f . of Admiralty
island, Tuesday : night.
Night patrol planes operating
off Naman Island, near Hansa bay
on j the - northeast . coast of New
Guinea, sank a 3000-ton Japanese
sWp.;?
Pilots returning from the raid
on Wewak and Boram reported
they found "some of the enemy
pilots highly ' skilled and aggres
sive," a headquarters spokesman
said. He emphasized that the na
ture of enemy air action - against
allied planes indicated that the
enemy air force still has much of
its first team in combat.-
New Burma
Front Opened
, NEW DELHI, Jant 20.-P)-Al-lied
ground forces, moving up be
hind i heavy assaults ; by strong
forces "of American heavy and
medium bombers, have opened a
new north Burma land front in
attack on J apanese positions in
the Chiixhfein area. - .
la announcing the attacks,
launched Tuesday, today's .allied
East Asia headquarters commun
ique said only that "Some pro
gress was made." ;v
: The Japanese positions, in the
Kyankchaw area 18 miles south
east of Tamy on the western bor
der, lie more than 200 miles be
low the Hukawng valley area
where American-trained Chinese
troops are driving eastward along
the route of the new Ledo road to
China. -
Carl A.Porter Prompted
To Warners Norilnvest Chief
Promotion of Carl A Porter, to
northwest district managership
for Warner Brothers theatres was
announced : here Thursday night
simultaneously with the arrival of
V. P. Byrne from Los Angeles to
succeed Porter as resident mana
ger; of - the Elsinore and Capitol
theatres of Salem.
Porter, who came here. 10 years
ago' from Los Angeles to manage
Warner ; Brothers interests, will
retain his headquarters in Salem
where he owns his home. His new
responsibilities include theatres at
Hoquiam and Aberdeen, Wash. In "
Salt Lake City,' prior to his Los
Angeles association with Warner
Brothers, he had been city mana-;
ger-; for iniblix, Paramount cor-;
po ration, which , bought out' the
10-theatre company of which he
had been a member. ' -: f. ;
Byrne until recently has been
manager for Fox in Las Cruces,
NM, but has been learning the
Warner Brothers system in Los
Angeles. Before that he was for
10 years with Fox theatres in rev-
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(AP) Allied airmen shot
and sank three enemy supply
on the fiirdromes, supply
more than 100 escorting
Japanese interceptors that
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Sparks Points
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To Alamo9 in
Letter Probe :
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-W)-C.
Nelson Sparks, whose, writings
about Wendell Willkie brought the
"Hopkins ' letter, mystery to na
tional attention, suggested tonight
thai an investigating grand jury
rememiw-lhe "AhimoTand it win
getjtnat rnucn closer to a solution
tie sam the word !Aiamo'was
the answer to a riddle which grew
around these circumstances:
Sparks' wrote a book in which
he quoted an alleged letter from
Harry Hopkins, principal adviser
to Presidetn Roosevelt, to Dr. Um
phrey Lee? of Texas. The letter,
on t White House stationery, " said
Willkie ' would win the republican
nomination! again. Critics of Will
kie land 'the administration have
said, the : letter . ii.dicated ' Hopkins
desired WUlkie to be the repub
lican nominee. : .
i.nm icixer sxanea witn a ques
tion about what had been done in
the f Alamo" matter. Hopkins said
the letter Was a forgery; Dr. Lee
said he never received it Hopkins
asjcea to a grand Jury probe. Sen,
linger (R-ND) then named
George Briggs, 55-year-old assist
ant to Interior Secretary' Ickes, as
the man who turned tip the letter
for Sparks; Briggs was suspended
wimout pay. . - i
oen. uinger says the word
Aiamo" Was code to mean an A
ministration move to back Dr. Lee
for j the JUS senate against Sen.
uonnaiiyi tD-Tex.)
L Sparks said Hopkins,; Lee and
icaes, "sbould all be auestioned
closely as to the meaning of the
word 'Alamo' appearing in the
Hopkins letter." i w I U
He said he deleted it from the
letter, as published in his book
"at the Urgent request of Ickes.
conveyed to me by a letter from
Briggs at the moment before pub
lication,
This word," said r Sparks, -in
itself may furnish the key to the
frantic attempt on ' the - part of
these men to disown any connec
tion with the letter and any
knowledge of it.
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CAr.L A. ror.Ti
era! Colore do towns and ia Chey
enne, V.'yo. With J.lrsl. Eyrne and
tLelr sniall .daughter La will make
his horse Li Eakrv ' .
Calosxr Or9ozu
coy,
Giin Reward
G6es in Stamps
BETHEL, Jan. 2S . Scene: the
little red schoolheuse Actors:
twe snenymoas state pellcemea
sad lour very excited students.
Jean Porter . and Donna . Kir
acber, second i grade; ' Lorraine
Langeland, third grade; sad
Marvin Kirscher, seventh grade.
Action; the twe state pollcemea
presenting small rewards to the
four, youngsters who discovered
the gun and . slicker discarded
by three AWOL sailors last Fri
day i nixht following a service
station holdup and shooting of
. Officer Karl Murphy..
The money will go Into war
stamps to be applied toward the
purchase of parachute, second
being paid for by pledges of the
Bethel students in the fourth
war i loan drive. !- ? v ."
The three little girls, stroll-
lng home from school, had no
ticed a black slicker in the grass
ear; the pavement. Marvin, cut
ting through his father's fields,
discovered the gun. Sirs. John
Kirscher e a 1 1 e d police, who
picked up the articles, made the
presentation, and have instlxat
ed!j pupils la . a search for the
second weapon. '
RimseyAmes,
Starlet. Listed
For Bond Show
Lest some of Salem's bond-buy
ing admirers of movie stars die
from pent-up curiosity, it is here
and now announced that the vi
vacious, personable blond charm
er (picture on page 2) coming to
this: city for Saturday night's war
bond show at the armory is Jt&te
Ramsey Ames, t-acclaimej ooe rf
the most promising of the current
crop of new screen - personalities.
She is currently appearing in the
Olsen and Johnson comedy -"Crazy
Horsed- ? ' '; - r;.. ,
There is one other item so im
portant ; that it ' deserves . mention
ahead of the day's score on the
fourth war loan: The only way to
get into this show, which starts at
7:45 p. m. Saturday, is to buy
war bond; and the tickets issued
on that basis are going like hot-
cakes; and it's "first come, first
served." " .
Total war bond sales up to
Thursday night In Marion conn -ty
since the opening of the fourth
war loan campaign amounted to
IS341.600, Chairman Jesse J. Gard
; snaouneed. - - ' x:.:
Getting back to Saturday night's
showj the wounded war , heroes
scheduled to be introduced - by
Capt r Douglas McKay 1 include
Capt 1 John S. Young -' and Sgt
Lloyd B. ? Sweeney of the army,
Staff SgL Edward J. Burmab of
the marines and Boatswain's Mate
1c J. J. Roy bol of the navy.
There's- also a male movie star
coming; his identity will be dis
closed today..-:l-.V::i; - ?:f:t
The cavalry band directed by
Warrant Officer i Marion Walter
will give a 15-minute concert, with
vocal solos by Cpl. Mackey Swan,
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Aluminum Labor
Joins Drive . .
Against Wages
PITTSBURGH," Jan. 20
The Aluminum Workers of Amer
ica 'today joined ! other units of
the CIO in a drive to break up
the t government's "little steel"
wage i formula by formally de
manding a minimum pay boost of
15 cents an hour for approximate
ly 60,000 aluminum workers.
In addition the union, headed
by Nick ; A. i; Zonarich of New
Kensington, Pa told the . Alumi
num Company of America it wants
a flat minimum hiring rate of ,90
cents an hour at all the 28 plants
over the country where It repre
sents employes, j
Lbs Anceles Leads
War Contracts
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2$-(JF)
Los Angeles county, with .war
contracts totaling $3,502,473,003,
ranks as the leading war produc
tion center on the Pacific coast, a
report issued today, by the state
chamber of 'commerce" research
department disclosed,.
San Francisco, with & total, ef
$3,813,SC3,CD0 ranks second. In
the nation Los Angeles county is
exceeded only by. the Detroit, in
dustrial area where contracts ' for
supplies and facilities tctl 511,-
O.CCD.CCD, revert, t'.ctsd. .
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Fridar Morning, January 21 1S44
Soviets
ture
; Trap Germans
J In Strelna ;
Corridor
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; ;: ; By JAMES M. LONG
LONDON, Friday, Jan. 21(JF)
The red army toppled the an
cient bastion of Novgorod yes
terday, on the eutn day, of a
northern offensive which has
cost the Germans 44,000 men,
and : also trapped an" undeter
mined" number bt nazi , troops I
in the Strelne corridor south
west of ien ingrad, a Moscow bul
letin announced today.' ! . '
Gen. K. A.' Meretskov's armies :
of the Volkhov front : captured '
Novgorod,': 100 miles southeast of
Leningrad on the road to southern
Estonia, by ,an ' action officially
described as a "skillful outflank-
ing maneuver." Premier .j Marshal
Stalin saluted the important vie-
tory with an order of the day last
night .". , i' ':- ; '':--.
. On the Leningrad front other
armies under Gen. Leonid A. Gov-
orov, attacking southwest of Len
ingrad and southeast of Cranien-
bum on the gulf of Finland, were I
declared to have joined forces to
seal off for annihilation the Ger
mans - caught ' in the 50-square-mile
Strelna corridor, 'which ran
north : from the Krasnoye . Selo
sector vo me guu oi x nuano. ;
xne vwo reu armies tegeiner
were shaping a massive trap for
?53,eC5 ther Germans flghtiar
'id svaaUoMi southeast of Lefa -
grsd. ." '
The latest ; soviet ' communique
disclosed that the Russians under
Govorov were . only nine miles
from Krasnogvardeisk, a rail junc
tion through which most of the
threatened ; enemy troops must
withdraw - toward Estonia: if they
are - to escape : the soviet . steam
roller. - :;.L.:1i'x'
Striking : southwest of newly
captured Krasnoye Schv. 15 miles
southwest of Leningrad,' Jhe Rus
sians during the day moved on to
take Nizhnaya,; four miles .below
Krasnoye Selo and only nine miles
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AFL Council
Sets Monday
ToStudyUMW
I By JOSEPH A. LOFTUS
MIAMI, Flav Jan. 2HJPy- The
AFL executive council today "set
next Monday to consider the pro
posed-reinstatement of the United
Mine ' Workers as news was dis
closed of a secret meeting on the
issue between the estranged, pre
sidents of the two organizations,
William Green and John L. Lew
is.
The council chose the same day
to discuss an invitation to a world
labor- conference in London, next
June. AFL- participation - would
mean, contrary to its policy, set-
ting down, with Soviet trade union
representatives and sharing Am-1
erican representation with the CIO
and some independent unions.
Another I council action today
was a declaration calling . upon
congress to enact a "simplified and
uniform soldier -vote law.'
The Lewis - Green meeting took
place in Washington recently and
is believed to have been arranged
by a third person interested in ex
pediting the UMFi return to the
federation. They talked about two
problems relating to such reaf-1
filiation: . the i progressive mine j
workers of America, which holds
the exclusive AFL charter rights
in the coal industry, and the dis- j
position to.be made of coke and
chemical workers, some of whom
belong to Lewis' district -50.
It is believed, to have been their
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iavy M.vzz.mr ,-
Crash laib 13
SAN ; DIEGO. Calif, Jan. 20.-
(-Thirteen persons were killed
today when a navy B-24 Liberator
crashed on a takeoff at the Camp
Kearny air field, the. 11th naval
district report J tcnisht
The navy i ld four officers and
nine enlist: i men were aboard.
The plane cre-hed in "Carries and
an aboard vre trappei La t!.s
wreckage. ether wcra
avallstle. -;
Cai
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: . , First Citis! Nazag :
! . ' RALPH W. JOHNSON
Ralph Johnson
Wins Honor
For 1943 i
Ralph W. Johnson, S3, assistant
I manager of the Salem division of
the Portland - General : Electric
company and active civic worker.
is Salem's first junior dozen for
1943. The honor was accorded him
Thursday night at the annual jun
ior chamber of commerce citizen
award banquet held at the Marion
hoteL ' Ex-Governor I Charles A.
Sprague announced the recipient
and presented the junior chamber
f plaque to him.
I Mr. JAhnmm. KinM hi. arrival
jiniem in 1941, haa been "active
m community enterprises, during
J the east vear DarticinatiM in the
f Red CroM- eamoaisn and -in the
I third war loan drive. He has been
J active in the Salem Retail .Trade
1 bureau, engaged in Salvation Ar
my work, and served' oh program
and war bond committees as well
as being a leader in the Lions
club.
Johnson is the first non-junior
chamber member to be so hon
ored. He is a .native of Washburn,
SD, and is a graduate of Concor
dia college in Minnesota. He is
married and has two children.
Main speaker was Dr. A. L.
Strand, president of Oregon State
college, who discussed objectives
in postwar, planning how plan
nlng should be not purely of ma
terialistic things such as bridges
and scnool buildings, but also con
cern developing the human mind,
Dr. Strand stressed .that the post
war era must be -one j of coopera
tion rather than exploitation, and
cautioned that the northwest must
hang onto the better brains among
its -young i men, must encourage
tnem to suy on home soil, in nlace
of migration to eastern centers of
industry.
Leith Abbott, Southern Pacific
public: relations man 'from Port
land, was master of t ceremonies
and made the . introductions. Pst
Crossland, junior ' chamber presi
dent, introduced iPaul Lee of
Klamath Falls, state president of
the junior chambers; Floyd Camp-
oeu, junior first citizen of Port
land for the year 1943: and Trent
Jones, president of the Portland
junior chamber. Jaycee key-man
awards - were given by the local
organization i ta: Jim Beard. Jud
j Davis L and Dick Tatro . for lout-
standing work inside the chamber.
-Junior citizen for 1942 was Roy
IHarland,, local .attorney. Donald
j Black was named in 1941.
Foundry Workers9 VotetoCome
Late Friddy Pardd Reveals
SEATTLE, Jan. ; 20 ; -ff- The
results of tomorrow's vote . by
striking: Oregon and Washington
foundry workers on .the back-to-
work issue probably will not be
known until eveniing; Neil V.
Pardo, the Pacific northwest sec-
retary of the molders and foundry
worker's union,. (AFL said today.
A negotiating committee agreed
yesterday at a . conference : with
government and military officials
to call for a vote ona war de
partment offer to ask the national
war labor board to hold a public
hearing cn the union's: protest
against a regional board wag e de
cision. Most of the locals will vote
at meetings set for 10 airu but the
vote of the area will not be com
plcUi until a 3:"3 pJn. xneetics
at XcAinhm. .. . i
Arproximately' CCCO foundry
wcrkers waited out , Tuesaay
mcmir., end an estimated 4 CC3
It3chin5s3 and ether shop workers
. . : 3 rcportf i iils becau3 cf ths
(rlhct LnC3 i: r.l tbe r!ar.l3. ,
Prlc So
MJied Plaim es
Mse Shot Bowii
Canadians Participate; :
j Half , City Razed Despite ;
I German Claim of Terror'
By Ernest Agnew
; .. W)NDON, Friday, Jan. 21 (AP) Royal air
force night bombers hammered Berlin last night, it was
I officially announced early
attack on the greatest of German targets since the ex
termination 'campaign against the reich capital began
November 18, 1943.
.The German radio said that 21 bombers were shot
down a statement which was not confirmed from al
lied quarters, j " ,!
The attack, in which a heavy; force of Canadian
bombers participated, added to approximately 14,000
(long) tons of bombs previously dropped on the Ger
man capital in 1 0 major assaults
which have laid waste more than
half the city, i .
- A continental radio blackout
last night suggested that a strong
force of night bombers was out,
probably hitting more than one
target First announcement of the
Berlin raid came from the Ger
man ' radio. --' - ;; ;
? This; was the : 105th raid of the
war against Berlin, and the Ger
man radio indicated that the at
tacking force had an ideal night
to carry out the assault. v:
x Describing the blow as a ter
ror raid, the German broadcast
declared; "In-view "of the weather,
German authorities had expected
major i bomber formations would
make an attack and as a result the
ackack defenses were effective to
the fullest extent from the start"
f ; Broadcasting 1 its claims early,
the German radio said 10 four-'
engined bombers were' shot down
in the; "first nine minutes of the
raid oyer two districts of Berlin
alone."! .! t-''Tfl's-:
1 The German long - wave " trans
mitter and me Luxembourg radio
station; shut down for the second
time. last night before midnight
' The Rome radio announced an
allied air attack on the outskirts
of the Italian capital at 2:30 p. m.
yesterday the second day in two
days and said the assault caused
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Demos to Take
Troubles to FR
' M - - ' I
. WASHINGTON. Jan.' 20 --(P)
The midwest democratic confer
ence, composed of national com
mitteemen, and h state chairmen
from 13 states who are complain
ing principally about ; administra
tion of the farm program, may car
ry their troubles - direct to Pre
sident Roosevelt , as well as to the
party's; national jeommitteev .
This 1 was disclosed 4 today -' by
James C Quigley, Nebraska na
tional j committee member and
chairman of the conference which
was formed at Omaha in Decem
ber, 1942, with- ten states repre
sented. The group will meet here
tomorrow with Montana, Indiana
and Wisconsin as new members. -
Several bundred machinists
were reported to have returned
te work in Portland shops.
" Throwing new light on that de
velopment, I. A. Sandvigen, busi
ness agent of the Seattle machin
ists (AFL), reported that an inter
national "union official had or
dered the Portland machinists to
cross the molders! picket lines.- v
Machinists, continued in their
refusalr to paS ;the pkket lines
here. . Sandvigen said no interna
tional; crder had been received
hers and the rr.. chinists observed
the picket lines by .voluntary' o
ticn. -Tcrf . - i 'End : Eeattla crtj
are under different international
representatives. ;-'''''
Cindyisen" -.iJjt!.e C:att!s ma
chinists would vote next Llonday
on v. hether to continue' to resect
the fcundrymen's picket lines,
should they continue, tnd how to
act in rcrrd to possible future
At rort'.: .i, i..-cr.'
1,'rs.
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Ho. 227.
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Claim
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today, in the 11th massive
O-
Billion :
Foreign Aid
Is Proposed
- By ALEX H. SINGLETON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - -Amid
- cries that America muV
guard its wnjinteresU, a xt.o e -was
launched in the house today
to curtail a proposed $l,350,00a;
000 contribution to a United Na
tions' "kitty" for aiding the peo
ples of war-devastated lands. 4
A group of legislators critical of
administration policy served early
notice of that Intention and of
a plan to; spell out in exact terms
the score of a pending measure
ratifying participation by -this na
tion in the United Nations relief
and rehabilitation admistration. .
Earlier,! the house heard an ap
peal by white-thatched represen
tative Eaton of New Jersey, rank
ing , republican ; member of the
Foreign Affairs moccittee, for the
house to 1 demonstrate anew its
belief in ; -international . collabor
ation. . :;. - . . ; -Saying
that the United Nations
shares with the world the common
responsibility of siding victims of
Axis aggression, he declared that
ft would be impossible for us to
be sn island of prosperity in tlie
middle of; an ocean of adversity.
- Promptly, representative Je?-is
Sumner R-I11) and representa
tive Gearhart (R-Calif) took th
floor to challenge the measure's
constitutionality, arguing that the
agreement for US participation in
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Stimson Says ;
FigHting Going
WeU for Allies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - JT)
Secretaryj of. War Stimson, "in a
summary ! of the war on many
fronts, reported today that the
fighting is going well for the
Allies. t. s
He rolled off in rapid-fire order
at a press conference reports that
Japanese resistance may be col
lapsing in northern New.Giunea,
that the. great Russian offensive
seems to include a serious effort to
lift the long siese cf Leningre J,
and that substantial progress Is be
ing made, against Cassino a't the
head of a valley route to Rome.
- The secretary , stopped short cf
any discussion of what may ta
the greatest . battlefront of .ell, "
noting merely that he, Presid: t
Roosevelt and other officials I. I
talked wifh Gen. Dwight D. Err.,
hower There .. shortly before il. ?
General showed up in the Unite!
fCirigdom to lead the Allied in
vasion of Europe fvom the wert.
Of the Pacific situation he sc.
Allied forces are makinj stes-.'.
prorr 3 throughout the Eou'hwt
Faci Li northern New Giiinc ,
A . Ii;n veterans have err'-:
Sio tnd are "steadily rchi." :
Jap-jiese ;trocp3 between V
selves and the American. f c
Said or, and have c'-hr; '
amounts cf stores rr.Jt..-'
As procf cf ei " "
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