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1 n-tf VW GOQOB O IE I! IS; : ; . . " - w St :.: . J S; XCS Jt.. Jt: "-i- VLii (Si iiii f-. . . '. r : Early - this month the federal supreme court rendered a deci sion upholding the action of the federal power commission in fix ing valuations and reducing rates for Hope Natural Gas company. I Mr. Justice Douglas , wrote . the t opinion which was concurred in by Stone, Black, Murphy and Rut , ledge. Three justices dissented: Jackson, Reed and Frankf urther, - while Mr. Justice Roberts did not sit in the case. The power com- mission had . followed the rule of -. "actual legitimate cost" . less de- preciation in determining the val-t-- nation. This is commonly called i the "prudent investment" theory - which was the . favorite of Mr. .- Justice Brandeis. - However the : court did not come out and say . that this was THE correct basis , for determining valuation for ' rate-making. Instead Douglas said: "Under the statutory standard - of 4 just and . reasonable, it is the result reached not the method - employed which is controlling . i . ; It is not the theory but the impact of the rate order which counts." ! . Two of the dissenting justices ; strongly disputed this line of rea . soning, contending it was the duty of the court to examine the meth ods to see if they, were logical and reasonable. However it may be said that the trend is definitely " toward the prudent investment theory. This decision may have an ef- feet out here in Oregon, particu- larly in the proceedings for' re " organization of Portland Electric Power company, which is the ' holding company for Portland General Electric company. PEPCO -- is in the custody of the federal - district court of Portland which - has named trustees to conserve its assets and assist in its reorganiza tion. The trustees have endeav- -' ored to salvage values for the - prior preferred stockholders. Since the main asset is the . common - stock of PGE the trustees desire to have substantial values recog--' nized in such, common stock - which would ; in turn ..reflect - value in the holding company's prior preferred: i The ... Securities and . Exchange , commission . held - hearings to determine these val ues. The action of the supreme court in upholding . the federal ... power (Turn to editorial page.) Moores Sees EraC oming , Oregon and, the Willamette val ley i in particular stands at the crossroads; facing the future for which her: people have built the past century, - yet threatened by the deep e rut of conservatism, Chester A. Moores told members of the Salem Board of Realtors and guests at their annual banquet Friday night Describing the past 10 years as the beginning of an industrial era, Moores painted a picture .of ' new manufacturing interests called to this coast by the great change in national activities which has brought to the Pacific seaboard for the first time a population in excess of 10,000,000. "Should we not now," he asked, plan deliberately to blaze anoth er trail to the west not one to be traveled by oxcart and covered wagon but by ships and perhaps great cargo planes to the markets of the great Pacific basin?'. If Russia may best receive lend lease materials by the- Pacific route, why should not she and other nations on the Pacific be so served in peace time? he queried. ' The beginning of the change from an ; almost solely agricul tural Ufa. partially Industrial economy came It years age and en aid be credited to Sen. Char lea L. MeNary, who secured the (Turn to Page 2 Story E) ; Edgar Kennedy Second Star To Appear on War Loan Shore On the screen someone is al ways making a monkey of poor, slow-witted Edgar Kennedy; , his near-apoplexy on finding it K has been the highlight of many a comedy since away , back in the Mack Sennett days.' It takes a smart man to play that dumb; and the Salem war finance committee members who are promoting to night's movie star-war hero show " at the armory promise that when Kennedy gets to ad-libbing "hell alay 'em. For those who prefer glamor theres Ramsay Ames." So everyone's bound to enjoy the ihow. " That is, everyone who buys a war bond and thereby acquires a ticket It starts at 7:45, and Capi tal post No.. 9, American- Legion, Is running the show; the cavalry band and Cpl. Mackey Swan wUl be there, also the Top . Hatters; 8nd Cap t. Douglas McKay to In troduce the war heroes and ques tion them about their experiences. There'll be a free dance later un- ct- Legion auspices. - . v Ileanwhile. the fourth war loan cair.paign Us ...rolling.;, along.' with J 143.CC3 in individual purchases ual!cei vp to date. The "Schools it, rrosrsEi is proving a bis VV fU II m' I I I i J V:.'- AAA:S.'i , .. . f ; :: "i : I AAA AA,A- i : A.A ' -:-A ' I' , NINETY-THIRD TEAR Mga Falls , Freeing Road to Moscow Thousands of; Nazis Killed In Defenses Preparied During Last Two Years By JAMES M. LONG t '' LONDON. Saturday, Jan. 22 (AP) The Russians are rolling back the German fine from Leningrad through one fortified place after another. Moscow announced early today. after the red army yesterday Mga, 30 miles southeast of the freed a roundabout rail line to Moscow. ' ; The red army was in full offensive tide south, south west and southeast of Leningrad, killing thousands of Ger mans as it battered through defensive areas the nazis had carefully fortified for two years.1 I ? ! i "Under continuous blows of soviet;; troops the enemy is rolling back in a southerly direction and abandoning one O FDR Oh' In Answer To 4th Term By D. Harold Oliver and Jack Bell WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 - () -i Democratic leaders today present ed a resolution to President Roose-; velt favoring a fourth term nom ination, but said they heard only a noncommital "Oh" in reply. . The resolution was adopted by a group of midwestern democrats and . its presentation to the presi dent capped m round of activities preliminary' to the democratic na tional committee meeting "toxnori row to elect Robert E. Hannegari of St. Louis as 1 the new party chairman to succeed Frank C, Walker, who is ready to resign to devote all his time to the post- master generalship. The group is expected to decide to hold the na tional nominating convention in Chicago in July. ' A copy of the resolution was given Mr. Roosevelt at a reception at the White House at which the political leaders and their wives shook hands with him and Mrs! Roosevelt, had tea and sandwich es, and talked briefly in small groups and individually with the chief executive. j Minnesotans, on leaving the re ception, reported they had receivf ed the president's blessing on a proposed merger of the Farmer! LAbor and democratic parties in their state, and Wisconsin mem- ; (Turn to Page 2 Story I) What About Bow, Arrow? DES AIOINES, Iowa-P)- The Iowa conservation commission has on display at its offices a "pre view of 1944 ammunition' for sportsmen. I The display consists of a box with a peep-hole in one end and an electric light in the other. Be side the light is a box of salt, j f" Ammunition has been so scarce lately, Commission Chair man Fred Schwob - said, "that I guess . we'll have to get our game birds this year by putting salt oh their tails." i f factor. Schools outside of Salem are already -nearing their $25,000 quota; - 58 schools have reported for an aggregate of $23,980. ' Four schools Salem Heighte was first have successfully sport sored jeepsJ The others . are Mt Angel, Jefferson and Sacred Heart academy. That requires $1105; Sa lem Heights had $1338.20 by Mon day night ' " f ' S Motor - scooters cost $185; schools buying: them to date are Detroit Pleasant Point : Sidney, L Pioneer, Meharaa Central How ell, . Talbot and North - Santiam school has , turned . in $555, ac counting for three. "A Navy floats, which cost $250, have been purchased by Prospect Bethany, Labish Center, St Paul public school, Mountain View, Talbot, Monitor, Gear Lake and Detroit school has bought two. t " Other schools set their sights on the purchase of parachutes at $S5. Pratum, Union, Labish Center and Cloverdals have bought two each, Looney Butte three.xThose ' buy ing one " are Sunnyside, Grassy Pond, Detroit Witsel, St Joseph's of , Salem, McLaughlin, ; Shaw, Harmony, Central Howell, West 'Z (Turn to Page 2 Story A) f V . V I I I II II VI : -JV U II fil l! I'll II S. If I I I I II l k MUNDDD l05I ! '. -J . 12 PAGES captured the rail-junction of great northern city, and thus fortified place after another, the midnight Moscow communique recorded " fby the soviet monitor said. j A late dispatch irom Moscow by Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press correspondent, said that the cap ture, of Mga, announced last night in I special order of the day by Premier Marshal Joseph 1 Stalin, had given' Leningrad its first rail communication with Moscow and the jrest of the soviet union in two years. . . -' ::i a I By taking Mga, the Russians also opened a permanent rail line to tap lease-lend supplies flowing down the railroad from Murmansk through Volkhov. Leningrad has been getting, these, allied supplies only' by makeshifts a railroad built on the ice across Lake La doga and: a truck road freed of Germans a year ago f - 4 " r Tb capture wsJ part of 4' new break-through on a 30-mile front from the Narva river Southeast to the; town of Vinyagolovo. By free ing this area the Russians obtain ed :'a round-about railroad from Leningrad to Moscow via Volk hov, Vologda and Yaroslavl. U ' Still occupied by. the Germans, but under heavy pressure from advancing Russians, was a portion of .the main Leningrad - Moscow railroad through Kolpino and Tosno south to Kalinin and the capital.: i i- . j' ,i Another Russian . farce ; was 4 smashing south ! and soathwest f Leningrad toward the major (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Tax (Measure Fifth Short By FRANCIS J. KELLY WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-P)-A $275,600,000 tax increase ; bUl, criticized by President' Roosevelt as unrealistic and. yielding hardly a fifth of .the treasury's goal, pass ed the senate unanimously tonicht and headed toward a conference) with the hraic ' 1 ': . ! -.. i ' i " u : -- The senate completed its work byjf adopting a series of: amend ments which liberalize somewhat from the standpoint ' of industry, the operations of the war con tracts renegotiation ; law, although not so .much as the' finance com mittee .once . . tentatively decided upon. I " " ' i ; In modifying these, previous proposals, the lawmakers drew the bill more in line with the recommendations of Mr. ; Roose velt who said in his recent bud get message that he was disturb ed by suggested changes which in hii opinion' would restrict if not destroy the effectiveness of the law under which the government recaptures war profits deemed ex cessive. . : -' rK-U'"J The senate, .however, flatly de clined td heed the president's ad monitlon "to send him a tax bill yielding the full $10,500,000,000 demanded by the treasury. - .The finance committee estimat ed" that its amendments added about $130,000,000" to the bill ap prove by the house, bringing total (Turn -to Page 2 Story J) Blercliant Ship Darns ' OXf Delaware Cape 'I ...y t" : . ; ; i . PHILADELPHIA. Jan. tl-ifPi , One f twe merchant ships tn- volved ; in .a coi:LJoa ef f, the Delaware t eae till ' evening caught fire anJ was si iv 'oned Ly her crew an boor LUr, the f earth naval district announced . tnijiit?;" I' -r ' Borne time later the navy said it had received no report ef eas- ffi) fm m Lzmfml-l m 1 1 Solem, Orogozu Scrturdar Mornlag. j i - s Missingl 0 LT HERBERT G, SCHLICKE r After Raid On Bremen Second Lt Herbert G. Schlick- er, Ipilot of a Flying Fortress bomber operating against targets in nazi-controlled Europe, is miss ing fin action, according to word received from the war department by 1 his . parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Schlicker, route 6,. Salem. The war department telegram stated that Lt Schlicker bad been missing since December 20.' That was the date of a powerful rrdxh Bremen, ot which dispatches at the time said: . ' A :AA: . ':l - :-:A --' "United States Flying Fortress es and Liberators, aided by Amer ican and allied fighters, plastered Bremen with high explosives and incendiaries and . shot down . 24 German fighters at a cost of 25 bombers and eight fighters A1 letter following the telegram said; the war department had no information aside from the fact that Lt Schlicker! plane failed to return. Apparently none of those whjj returned saw it falling or in trouble. ' ' ;. ' V ' ' " ' ' v V The last letter from Lt Schlick er received by his parents was dated December 15. They judged from information lt - contained, that he was on his ninth or tenth raid on December 20. ! A graduate of Salem high school prior to his enlistment in 183$, Lt Schlicker was commis sioned last April upon graduation from the advanced flying school at Blackland Field, Texas. He went overseas last September, ,, - r Yank Suhs Get 12 Jap Ships 1 By HAMILTON W. FARON ' 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 - VP) Hard-punching Arterican subma rines engaged in a continuing" bat tle to' ruin Japan's shipping, have sent 12 more of the enemy's car go Vessels plunging to the bottom of Ithe Pacific , " " T The blow, another long step to ward cutting off men and ' ma terials from tee enemy'a , ocean bases, was announced today by thei navy. The 12 ran the . total sunk -by America's" Pacific sub marines to 408. - - - ' s 5 vTwo ships of the transport clas sification were included in the latest bag. A large tanker also was included. The others , were seven medium-sized freighters and two small freighters. ; - The sinkings were announced at the same time the British ad miralty disclosed that a British submarine apparently operating in the Bay of Bengal has de stroyed one Japanese cruiser and three enemy supply ships. ' "V: '" ., ' -"-A a-.. It's Woman's TTorld Even in Service" i- .: . i'-.' A'' . lNDIANAPOLIS-Two de put y attorneys-general Tot Indi anaFrank V. Dice and James D. r Harrisons-have applied - for immediate",:, induction, into": the armed forces even though they have families. . . ' ; AAA ' ' So today they went "shopping for duffle bags but don't men tion the WAVES, WACS, -SPARS, eta. to them. : When they returned to their statehouse offices rthey found the duffle bags were equipped w i t h bobby pins, shower " r caps and powder puffs." And there were rutflcs around the trp. ' p'U( f; tt, 1 ' January 22' 1S44 Nazis iirie :i Gustay Defense f Yielding to 4; Allied Troops By Edward Kennedy' - ' i ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Jan. 21 (AP) Battalions of forc ed Italian labor are rush ing to completion a pow erful new "Adolf Hitler" defense line 65 miles be- low Rome, nari prisoners reported today, indicating that the enemy has scant hope of holding his pres ent GustaY 1 i ne muck longer against the onslaught of American, - British and '. French troops. ; i j; ; The British firmly held the town ... of ! ' Mintumo, two miles northwest of the Garigliano riv er after allied planes and artil lery srr fished an incipient German counterattack on rthaf west' coast communications hub, ; and French forces north of Cassino . captured the foot of Mt II Lasb, a nasi strongpoint across the Rapido riv-j er from the village of Sant Eia. The Gustav fortifications . thus were being shredded J fast, ai- Ever since their landing on the Salerno beaches in September, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's i Fifth "ar my troops have been forced to batter their way through a suc cession of nazl defense systems that exrtacted the last possible advantage from the rough Italian terrain. The name the enemy has bestowed upon his latest fortifi cations would indicate that he considered it the strongest of the lot. 1 A. y ? A On an average, the line is about six . miles nearer Rome; than the enemy's present defenses. 4 Allied headquarters a -nennced t d j that British trees had seised Miatar aft er hard fighting, some .24 bears after the Germans reported they had abandoned the "totally de stroyed" town. A German for mation preparing aat sssanlt to regain the . town was i detected by allied airmen and was torsi to pieces by beaabs and artil lery; shells.. Ajz :' j. x i l A, A -j '-j After consolidating : their hold on Minturo, the Bnusn pressed on against German positions north of the town and were engaged in steady, bitter fighting. Another British force,' apparently; the one that established a beachhead near Suio, seven - miles, up the Garig- "(Turn WPage S Story G) Russo-Pole Effort Steps . - LONDON, Jan. 21 -(JFJ- Efforts to settle the Russian-Polish bor der dispute apparently were dead locked .tonight at least until Mos cow, answers overtures1 made.' by Washington. T-r -:'t'y'::nA:A The Poles, insisting the dispute was matter for the whole United Nations, f were waiting! , anxiously to see whether the Soviet govern ment replies to the offer of medi ation made by US Secretary, of State HulL i :A It was generally believed that Prime Minister Churchill, - after conferring: with -Polish.' leaders yesterflay, " may have i communi cated with' Premier Stalin- in an effort to bring the 'Russians and the 'Poles - together. A ., ; -- - The Poles steadfastly refuse to talk of a shake-up in their London coalition government to make it acceptable ta Moscow f- - 4 . The Soviet government has de- dined to deal directly with the London Polish government, with which it- has severed relations. .V7eat'!:rr,,"i; 'r -' Triway caxljuiiia ' tsisyeratte ' .45; rslalr-'jira-'irrifer JS'ttL Tair.1 ZiUtZij -1 ;is-iy;'' UV.lt cl arre ti t:rrtrtizrs. VAcm Sc P -nn Screwy War! ; Japs Play Too GUADALCANAL, ' Solomons, ' Saturday, Jans 22 ThU screwball' war!' There were 1 drums of oil on the- beach at 1 Empress Augusta bay.-' A storm washed some out - to sea. ' " 0 '" : r : .To prevent them from falling Into Japanese hands,' a' United -States dive bomber was -sent out' to destroy them. - " Before the bomber -could fuI- ' fil its mission,; 'Japanese on the ' edge of the American beachhead ' spotted the oil drums. ' They mistook "them for sub marines, so they opened up with : their artillery and sank ; them. - - . - PT Boats Catch, ICiU X60 Jap Troops By OLEN CLEMENTS ' " . -ADVANCED ALLIED . HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Satur day, Jan. 22-HCA'r-One hundred sixty 'Japanese troops, apparently bent on reinforcing the besieged defenders of Madang, New, Gui nea, were killed when speedy P-T boats cauhgt them in their barges sneaking- down the coast-Tuesday night, allied headquarters - an nounced today. - , ' The American craft . surprised the . troop-laden enemy barges off Cap Croisellesr-less than 25 miles north - of Madang, and sprayed them with rapid-fire guns. All of the barges were sunk and all the Japanese killed or drowned. . - ; Gen.' Douglas r MacArthur's spokesman said; the enemy: troops were well equipped and wore new uniforms, ; indicating ' they were normal replacements for Japan ese in the Madang area-V: Repeated bombings in the last few days - give, some indication Australian forces may be, starting a new drive from their inland Ra mu valley positions aimed at Ma dang defenses. On Thursday, 70 tons of explos ives were dropped by fighter-escorted Mitchell-medium - bombers on the Ramu valley Japanese-be ing driven northward by the Aus tralians. The Aussies were last re ported less than 23 miles from Bogadjim, one of the keys to Ma dang 'a outer defense ring. (Turn to Page 2 Story F) - J apaii Prefers Long War, To jo Reveals NEW YORK, Jan.- 21 . -jqPWP- an prefers ' a -long - war, . Premier Hideki Tojo told the Japanese diet today- in -his annua) : speech on general policy, end ' he called upon -the legislature to -expand the national labor service and im pose higher taxes. ' Tojo's address, corresponding to the annual message on the "state of the union" by American pres idents, reopened the diet after its long i New Year's recess and .was reported in C detail by Tokyo broadcasts recorded by US gov ernment monitors, y " : i According to the radio version. Tojo declared I that . "unrest" in the United States and "increasing exhaustion" in Great Britain had given both countries "a - craving for a short war. v "The enemy is in a fit of im patience, he asserted, adding that the present allied offensive in the. Pacific was a i"desperateV result of this desire for a short war." On the other hand, he said, "if Japan 4s given time, her -strategic position would become i even stronger, - war resources- in " the southern ' region - would be-eoor verted into even more fighting power, the unity of the peoples of -greater east Asia ;would be come more strengthened . than it is now, 'and the prcition of Japan would be beyond their (the allies) power." '. ," V.- ' .?' " "" ' - "There is only a hair's breadth between final victory and defeat," he observed, and added, "in the present war we must be prepared for the most difficult blows that will become more and more se vere. It is but natural that the agony and distress cf the enemy caused t by . our smaihk!"- blows should result ia his increasing C.s 1 0 " Afoimg RAF Night Fliers Tliought : - - "Heading - for Blasted Berlin; v Opposition Reported Light By TTw Hercher . I LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 22 (AP) Britain sent another mighty fleet of - heavy bombers over Ger many and occupied territory last night in the wake of yesterday's allied armada of perhaps 1000 aircraft which hit mystery targets on the French invasion coast, it was announced officially early today; ,, ' Objectives of the 'night, bombers y e r e not dis closed immediately, but the fact that they had gone to Germany suggested that Berlin, still - blazing from an assault of-the previous nighty might bave been' hit again ; . ' The' daylight operations against the Pas-De-Calais area cost the" attacking force 11 planes, six " of them :. US heavy bombers, but 19 German fighters were: shot out of the sky. - ' ' .: The British sky giants deported on their latest foray' two and a half hours later than" their 5 p.m. start- against" Berlin . Thursday when they delivered the largest aerial attack ever' made against the 'German capital, dropping 2300 long tons (2,576 US tons.) On their way over the channel the RAF night bombers met - al lied planes- returning, from the day operation. Continental radio stations clicked off the air in the path of the new RAF attack. V German long wave radio trans mitters left the air last night, pos sibly j indicating that the RAF iwas again attacking the German cap ital for the second J- - successive night 1 ' . Hundreds of - American heavy (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Houses Asked Grant Sliippirig lines vAviation ( ; - I WASHINGTON, - Jan. : 21 -(ff) The house merchant marine com mittee today called' a public hear ing for January 25 to discuss the question ' of ' admitting shipping linesi to the field of overseas aviation. f. L , ' . - . Representatives . of w the - civil aeronautics board are expected to be heard at the session. - The ) committee - is opposing the provision of a pending bill by Rep. I Lea (D-Calif) which would have the effect of barring ship ping companies from entering the field of aviation. Chairman Bland (D-Va) of the merchant marine committee and Rep. Welch (R- Calif ) i appeared before the . rules committee today to object to that provision of the bilL Rear Adm. E. S. Land, chairman of the maritime commission, ap peared before the committee re cently to protest the provision and contended that such a . restriction would i cripple the United . States in postwar competition for ' inter national trade. A A No major foreign power has any such restriction. Land said, and Joint development of , the two types of overseas transportation is necessary to make competition possible. . . . i Challenge Likely on Neuner Ruling on Senator ship Tenure I By RALPH C CURTIS , legislature serving In the armed . . Court challenge , of Attorney forces, the appointment of John General George Neuner's opinion, H. Carson and Frederick S. Lam released. Friday, that State Sen- port of Marion county, as senators atorS ' Frederick S. Lamport and pro tern by the Marion county John Carson of Marion' county court, the inconsistency in the re will continue ' to serve until after port of the senate credentials corrv the 1946 general election, appear- mittee and recognition of the ed probable although the test like-house of representatives that this ly will be applied in Multnomah chapter applies to members of the county where an identical situs-legislative assembly, I am of the tion exists in connection with Sen. opinion that the senate of the 42nd Jack Lynch: '"AAA i ;-J lelative assembly did not de . Though the court test may beclare vacant the offices of state instituted by some individual can-senator -from the first senatorial didate or, by the democratic state district,! Marion county." central' committee, the three sen- In other words, it is the at ators serving "pro tern" In - the torney "general's finding that the military absence "of the elected senate attempted to declare the members - according,, to Neun-seats vacant, but did not have ert opinion - also have a stake power to do so. On this point his in the matter. For If it is not de-opinion said: ' termined in advance it is conceiv- :A "Neither the senate eomriilt able that "write-in" candidates re- tee nee credentials nor the sn ceiving a handful of, votes might ate Itself had power t detlar eventually be declared elected. - this law, as It trr"ed ta oea 'AA nrst news reports ef Neon- bers ef the legislature, la arr"- er's c 7 'rAoa caotei hisi ss .stat fcr list "the senate dU sej declare : a ; vacancy ' ; exists," ' s statestect which Is t variance tials committee report was incon wili the rUln langnsie ef the sistent fin that in one parrir: 'i isesate credentials csmmit4ees It states -Jthat Allan G. Czn 1 revert last January. The text of and Douglas McKay are cntit: J ?:ecsers erlnlon however elar- to sit in this body and in t: 5 f I ., ITiss- tls inesnlrr:' : -:t lowing paragraph - states that ; -"Ja llht ef the rP-rent';appli-Douglas McKay, end Allan C. C,:r CiLIIIty cf charter . tZ. ' Oregon sea are fccliir-g lucrative r ; ;. : L .. ; Lr-.s cf IZ'.l, ta r j cf the Frsiinice 0 - Nazis Stage Biggest Raid Over aa;:-,v-.:,-.:-a: ; By JAMES F. KING J LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 22- In. Britain's biggest air show since the days of 1940-41, the German air force raided London and the, southeast coast last night and lost eight planes the. most shot down in : an enemy ; night raid in -10 months.:!;- :i Z , .v A number of casualties were re- ' ported in the London area, in cluding a mother and two babies who were injured when a bomb wrecked the rear of a house di rectly opposite a well-filled sur face shelter: Persons trapped ' in the shelter were A quickly extri cated - by rescue workers. The mother and her babies also were dragged from beneath the debris 01 tneir home. ; - -The raid was the , longest In weeks and shells bursting over London could be seen from 20 miles away. I. Only a few of the planes, which came across the coast in waves, were believed to have penetrated London's anti-aircraft .-- barrage v (Turn to Page 5 Story II) . Solons Disagree on Mustering-Qut Amount of Pay WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 -iS Senate and . house confreres ; ad- journed their first conference Ton the mustering-out pay bill today as far apart as even on the prin-. cipal item in dispute the amount of j discharge pay that should be forces. I .; . ; j " ' ; ' Senators on the Joint committed assigned the job of reconciling the house and senate versions held out for mustering-out pay rang ing from $200 to $500 as com pared with house insistence on, a payment of $100 for service peoiv pie discharged before 60 days ser vice and $300 for those serving longer periods. cable.". That power, he assert? ", rests solely with the zZl:'.ir7. Neuner held that the creden- (Turn to Tzz 2-