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Amphibious hivaciczz . .. KINETY-THIRD YEAH v Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning. January 23. 1S44 Prlc Sc Ko. 231 HFQD DDDLr.l v .V-Iv-H ; .o:lwl :-::..-;:V: . ' v -!; li PAGES ' v ' War Food 'Administrator Jones has restored autonomy ' of these agricultural -' agencies the farm security ' administration, the ' agri cultural adjustment i administra tion, and the soil conservation ser vice. He did this by stripping the commodity credit corporation, an other federal agency, of policy making powers in the field of food production. But ' two new bureaus blossom where only one bloomed before: the food distribu tion administration is dropped and its powers divided between a new office of distribution and a new office of price. Definitely der graded in the reorganization! are the commodity credit corporation and its chief, J. B. Huston. Now FSA, AAA, and SCS are made in dependent, responsible only to Jones. - ! . ' , This: is another chapter in the battle of the bureaus which has been raging in Washington with particular fury in the department of agriculture. It. began in the early days of the new deal, when the first agricultural relief act 'was passed containing everything in ' the way of panaceas that the politicians had ; heard of from greenbacks to payments for pig killing. Soon Henry Wallace had a purge, ousting George" N. .Peek and a number of others high in the department. Since then f the battle has been going on among the various bureaus and their chiefs. 1 For a long time the AAA was at the top of the heap. It drew fire of the veteran extension service which was strongly entrenched out through the country by virtue of its agricultural college connec tions. Last year FSA was in dan ger of summary execution. It was too "leftist for many of the poli ticians ' and competing bureaus were jealous of its power and hos tile1 to its purposes and methods. Lately there has been a battle between the (Continued on Edi torial Page) ! Marion Bond Figures Climb To $751,000 Augmented by the $102,325 in vested by bond purchasers who at tended, the premiere irt the Grand theatre, sales to individuals? in the Marion county fourth ' war , loan campaign climbed iTuesday to $751,000, approximately one-third of the goal. for this! type of in vestment, as the war finance com mittee turned its' attention to an other special ejvent scheduled Thursday. . - ii ! i -This will be an army exhibit of field artillery pieces and other war equipment the materiel which helps speed victory at mini mum cost in American lives, which war bond money purchases to be on display from 2 to 8 p. m. in front of the courthouse. The exhibit will consist : of equipment of , the Trailblazer di vision," in c h a r g e of . Ma). , H. BIythe, special services officer, for the division through arrangements made through cooperation of Capt Douglas .McKay. The Trailblazer division also will provide a 30 piece band which will be stationed at the Victory . center platform. The public is invited to view the exhibit without obligation to buy bonds. Joe Land, special' events chairman for the Salem . war fi nance committee, announced (Turn to Page 2 Story E) School Board Proposes ':. 6 MiU Levy . . The Salem school board, acting on a recommendation of the school 1 board postwar planning commit tee, Tuesday night voted to sub mit to city voters on March 7 the matter of an annual levy of six mills over each of the next five . years beginning with July, 1944, for the purpose of raising money reservoir to finance general im provements in facilities of the Sa lem' school district.' r ; i Chairman Donald Young named . a 'committee of three from the board to further acquaint the pub - lie with the proposition: Roy Har , land, Ralph Campbell and Mrs. David Wright : Supt Frank B. ; Bennett an nounced that" the composite war bond goal of all the Salem schools from elementary to high school bad been, set at $25,820, with $11,911 of the total already re ported in on last Friday. Each school has its individual . bond drive, campaigning for a jeep or a peep or whatever piece of equip ment it may select. ; Faculty members of city schools nave agreed to deduction of a total ; of 35 per cent of individual month ly salaries, which will add up to a goal of , $12,600. . , . Also brought up for considera tion during the meeting was a re port of the recreation committee f the Salem council of social ag encies, concerning ; child delin-' Quency problems. The board (Turn to Page 2 Story D) A Mies IMesiromw 46 J apt , .Matupi Harbpr Hit; Enemy -Iiiterceptors ' JVIauled j ; By' OtEK CLEMENTS5 f ADVANCED ALLIED il EAPQUARTEFJS,' New Guinea, Wednesday, Jan.' 2& (ADAllied fighter planes, torpedo and dive bombers in second-day visits to Lakunai airdrome at RabauL New Britain,- shot down 46 Japanese planes' for sure, bringing- to 64 the number of enemy aircraft destroyed over the important Nipponese base in two Idays against a loss of 11 allied planes. ) The latest visits,- on Sunday, reported in Gen. Douglas MacArthurV communique ioday, were' mae by escorted bombers before dawn and then later by fighter planes. The previous attacks were made Sat urday. ' In the pre-dawn Sunday raid the bombers destroyed eigKi parked planes, 17 gun positions, started large fuel fires and damih aged a cargo vessel in Matupi harjr bor. Enemy fighters which at tempted to intercept the raider? were badly mauled, 32 of them being ' shot down and 14 mor probably destroyed, while the alj lies lost five planes, the commiH- nique said. . j Later in the day allied fighterk returned to embattled Rabaul and knocked down 14 Japanese fightj ers and probably one more out ojf a force of 60 which rose to : interlj cept. The attackers emerged froni this action without a single loss. Losses - for both; sides in air fighting over Rabaul since Jan uary 1, based on communique figj ures, stand at 243 Japanese planj es shot down against 55 allied aircraft. " i ! nthr medium " bombers ; with escorts ranged to the Admiralty islands, northwest of New Brit tn in xet three ; 1000-Hon enem cargo ships afire" and bnhb anA strafe the Momote . airdrome an jetty area at Lorengau. I , Allied planes have feund thef banting of Japanese merchant- 3 men in the Admiralty , islands i ares profitable this month, staklag- or damaxinr seven ves sels and numerous barges and small craft. These sank Includ- ! (Turn to Page 2 Story A) s I Nelson Says Production Reacted Goal T VASHlNGTOrC Jan. 2S- Donalds Mi "Nelson, reported t to-night 1 that war production has reached ! the volume considered necessary for victory. I ; The " war : production . board chairman did not use those words; and there still will be major riiff of emphasis, but the idea was di rectly Implicit in his announce ment that December totals were approximately the same as those of November, with no over-all inf crease planned for 1944. . '- ' i Declaring that "the nation has definitely solved the major prob lems involved in mass-production of munitions," the WPB r ehieff monthly production rommuniqu disclosed this record -breaking: naval ship construction in 1943: j Two 450,00-ton battleships, el even cruisers, 15 aircraft carriers,- SO-carrier escorts, 12S destroyers 306 destroyer-escorts,' and "3 sub marines. 1 The navy's f oalj for 1944 calls for almost 50 per cent more new tonnage than was I built in 194$ Nelson said. Production of naval ships in December, however, wa 5 per cent under the rovemoe peak. I Four of the six major munition programs declined in December ships, guns . and fire-control eauipment, ammunition, ' comDat and motor vehicles. Two programs; were up aircraft and communi-j cation and electronics equipment Ray burn Sought, Vice President WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-()-A "Ray burn- for vice president" boom is. taking shape In thej house, with one member declaring it already is under way. ' Southern democrats opposed to Vice President Wallace are tne sponsors. They expect backing of southern governors and senatorsr despite a remark by Sen. May-i bank (D-SC) ; that "We haven't picked our man yet." The only thing delaying an ail-; uot campaign immediately most of them agree, is a belief that too-, early action might harm the Tex-. an's chances. - roy Planes o- . i Argentina Said Ready to Sever Axis Relations NEW YORK. pan. 25rUP)-Pre-sident Pedro Rj mirez of , Argen tina concluded s 15-minute radio address to his na ion tonight wi th en t 'making any reference to Ar gentine relations fwith the axis. - It . has been widely predicted that Argentina plans to sever re lations with the axis, and it had been believed possible that Ram irez would announce the rupture tonight . ' ;. -Instead his broadcast as moni tored by the National Broadcast i" S company and the federal com munications - cojnmission, dealt with the earthquake at San Juan, BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 25-4P) Arreaflae Fereira J&Iinlster Al berto Gilbert told a press eenfer eace tonight that Argentina was prepared te Uk "the final step" to eliminate all espienage activ ities which endanger the dignity f the nation. Be did not elab- . erate. . j . (Renters, British news agen cy, said the loreign minister announced Argentina would se ver relations with the axis.' The remark abeat jtbe final step" mlcht appear te mean this.) - Argentina, ten days ago, in which about 3500 perspns were killed. He called it "the greatest catas trophe in the factory of the na tion." ' j : . He then commented on western hemisphere solidarity, particular ly praising ChileJ and. saying Ar gentina and Chile were ."brothers in blood." Then he resumed his discussion . of domestic ; unity . as shown in the reaction to the earth quake. . - ;i '- . ; Ramirez praised his own ad ministration as highly efficient in providing earthquake ' relief - and said his ' predecessors ' were men who had misappropriated national , ;(Turn to Page 2 Story C) 1 ; Rent- Control Considers 30 Applications , ; . . ; . Most of the Approximately 30 applications which came -before Salem's rent . control i committee Tuesday- night -were from proper ty owners- asking - authority to raise rents. -j i , In - many cases, according to Merrill D. OKling, committee chairman, even Ihe renters con curred, declaring: that higher ren tals rightfully should be collected. One large apartment ; house was included. j . No statement jas to the com mittee's action jcould ' be given Tuesray night, phling said be cause of the amount of business which had come before it - and because of its desire to protect both renters and landlords from public discussion! until -such time as J a report could be prepared which would reveal trends. r- ' 'JU 7aves DeslToy IIome At Redondo Beach LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25-(ff) Waves as high as 40 feet today undermined an I entire block of apartment housed and residences at Redondo. Beach and threaten ed the destruction of several oth er buildings alon the Strand as the year's highest tide- of 6.7 feet was reached."' I .:..-., Police said property damage miht total several nunarea thousand dollars. No lives were lost and there were no reports of Li juries. Gain Bail" Junction : -i I I r: ' : j Nazis Yield Last 50-Mile Hold On Trunkline By JAMES M. LONG LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. 26 f-CP)- RussisYi troops j have fought their way into the streets of jKrasnogvardeisk, important rail-junction 30 miles southwest of Leningrad, ' Moscow 1 an nounced today! while other .for-ces-to the east have sent the Germans into retreat from their 50-mile hold on the Moscow-Leningrad trunkline. . ' ' In still a third sector of the nor thern front, 80 'miles ; south of Krasnogvardeisk, the Volkhov ar my i of Gen. Kyrill A. Meretskov advanced to within artillery range of the last of the two German es cape routes to the south, I r Chasing the Germans into Kras nogvardeisk, Gen. Leonid A. Gov orov's Leningrad armies continued the pursuit into the streets of the town where the rail lines from Es tonia and -Latvia , meet. The Ger mans, who have been in 'constant retreat before the power of Rus sian planes and guns, were - ex pected to fall back shortly from the i town which is already out flanked, east and west ! . . Vladimirskaya, 9 miles east of Krasnogvardeisk on thej spur line to Tosno and Chernovo,! six miles west of the rail junction, also were captured. 1 " The Moscow: midnight communi que' reported that 100-1 Germans wcre killed - in the northern vance and a German railway train stocked with tanks and guns cap " (Turn to Page 2 Story G) r One Per Cent Marion Youths Appear in Court By RALPH C. CURTIS , , Difficulties which require their apearance- in juvenile court - in volve only about one per cent of Marion county's young people, Mrs." Nona V. White, county juve nile office,-said .Tuesday in re leasing ' figures she had collected in connection with a ! statewide survey - requested on behalf of Gov. Earl Snell'a comittee study ing the problem of child guidance. Mrs. White agreed with a re cent Statesman editorial," that it is harmful to spread the impress ion i that "juvenile delinquency." involves any great percentage of the-young people. She added that there was too much talk of de linquency" and too little action in the way of prividing really whole some recreation and amusement for youth. . . ! , i t ' u The- report I Mrs. White !com- niled showed that in 1943 the total number of minors involved ' (Turn to Page 2 Story: O) Senator Dies V- J ...v WASHINGTON, J a su t. - W) - Frederick Tan Nays,' scaler sen ator from Indiana and as chair man ef the jadlciary committee eae ef the senate's most influ ential members, died la kiasleea early Uday. lie was O and was serving his 12th year la the sea ate.?. Death spparecily resulted from a heart attack. Eecacse'ef a slight cold, be dU not attend the senate session ; yesterday. Van Nays was a democrat bat was not counted' a "new dealer" and his crrc-Mea ta lone ad ministration t:srvrcs l-zi kept him la eer.r.kt tletls ef &e party La IzIIj ri. -A y Sgt. Panther Is Prisoner SUff Sgt Hubert W. Panther of Salem, who in December was reported as "missing "since No vember 6," is : a prisoner of war of" the German government,' .- his sister, Mrs. Atha ' Allen, Silverton road, was informed .in' a message delivered to her Tuesday through the international Red Cross. " Panther, member of the national guard in the Des Moines, la., unit, is si graduate of Salem high school with the class of 1938. He is the son of O. W. Panther, now employed In AiusS," Calif., i near Los Angeles. . Mrs. Allen's notification .', was' from the adjutant general, who had received his' information through: the international r Red Cross and who assures , her a let ter with more information follows from the provost marshal general." Indict Briggs As Forger i Of Letter j h By TOM REEDY - WASHINGTON,, Jan. . 25-(Py-i A federal . grand- jury, today in dicted .George N. Briggs, confi dential aide to Interior Secretary Ickes on charges of forging the "Hopkins letter,", the celebrated document which implied that the White House is in political . ca hooU with WendeU Willkie. - Besides forgery, the indictment accused Briggs of false pretense and using the mails to defraud. In effect, the jury- absolved all others mentioned in the bizarre case. . , -!:. .- The language of the three bills of - indictment . was that Briggs alone ' wrote the celebrated let ter; that he signed the name of Harryc Hopkins, . close adviser to President. Roosevelt;; that he car ried ' on ' the correspondence - lead ing to its publication in an anti Willkie book, and obtained mo ney from the book's author. The 55-year-old Briggs, brother of the late cartoonist Clare Briggs. who drew "When A Fel ler Needs a Friend," had no com ment! but his attorneys said he was ''naturally surprised" at the indictments. Bail was? fixed at $3000 which Briggs is expected to post tomorrow. - Upon conviction, he is liable to 53 years imprisonment and $8, 000 in fines. Briggs himself had said he. was the. victim of "pow er politics" in the whole, affair and he guessed he'd have to get used to. it, "like olives." - Soviets Want Friendship, Myers Says '- "There . is sincere T intention among soviet' officials and private citizens to establish a long term friendship' with , the ' United States," Fred Myers, national ex ecutive director of Russian War Relief, Inc., told members of Sa lem's RWR committee at a dinner meeting here Tuesday night. . This conviction on the part of "those of us working with Russian War Relief", is . based upon "our experience with - soviet " officials and the -recipients - of American relief supplies," Myers explained. - Two years ago the soviet Red Cross I asked Russian ' War Relief officials to require that all relief shipments - be labeled with the American flag and with a suitable Russian - inscription explaining that this material was a; gift from the people of America, Myers said. ' ;rj v;. ? i : I r i 5 Of the $16,000,000 worth of re lief supplies, sent to Russia in 1943 by the relief organization and not to be confused with lend lease shipments, half went out through the port of Portland, he said. Min imum goal for 1944. is $21,000,000 worth,' - the,, committee . was told, with the suggestion that a. full understanding of the facts would lead Salem to - continue to give and to increase its contribution of aid to the soviet people. . Vealher ! , ? . Tuesday maxlmam tempera ture S3, mlshnam St. Trec!;! tatlon a trace. ..TTIad 'mal-'y 'from the south. Mostly eloc'y. Civer US ft. J . . - Cloudy Wednesday wllh cfi--cslonal rain alor.x northwest, coast; cloady and rala Ttcrs dayon west tils t-1 now ti east portion; LUIs eatre ..la temeratsre. A- Mies MMe: Other Villages ! ;Takeb; Nazi -Resistance Low By Wet Gallagher ' . ALLIED - HEADQUAR TERS, Algiers, Jan. 25- (AP) Fifth army patrols were reported tonight 4o have entered Cassino, long a bastion of the-Germans9 cross-Italy line, and thirl may indicate the beginning of" a German Withdrawal from the southern Italian I front. Allied troops extended their bridgehead south of Rome more than 12 miles inland and apparently forced Field Marshal Gen. Albert , Kesselring to with- i draw units from the bloody Cas sino area to meet the threat to the Nazis two major supply .ar teries from Rome. ' (American i patrols entering the i outskirts of Cassino could see into the "Heart of the town, only 400 yards away, " the London -radio said tonight ! in a broadcast ' re corded by CBS, and Hhe only sign of life was a single German walking down: the street." ' -' ("But even if Cassino has been I evacuated," , the broadcast contin ued 1" "The surrounding heights still are held by the Germans." (A .German broadcast- said the town of Velletri, 24 miles south east of Rome on the Appian Way, i had been destroyed by allied bombs and intimated American troops had occupied the town and cut the highway. . ("American troops are finding i (Turn to Page . 2 Story B) - Britons Refuse To Recognize ; Bolivia Junta . By RCfcER GREENE - LONDON,. Jan. 25-(iiP)-The British government announced re fusal today to recognize Bolivia's military junta but left ' the . door open for . a . resumption of . rela tions if conditions change, - Foreign Secretary Anthony Ed en ' announced in commons that the recently -named minister would not proceed to take up his posth in Bolivia, but' Eden in cluded the significant word "now" and shortly thereafter, a foreign office spokesman told reporters it office spokesman told reporters it did not plan to close the legation at La Paz. . i. - at La Paz. Britain's, action followed a sim ilar move last night by the United States. Eden said he believed the Bolivian coup had been aided by German agents and added ' the British g-overnment was "in step with the United States both, as to diplomatic recognition and econ omic action. ' Sixteen Latin American coun- tries have decunea recogmuon. oi tne Bolivian govtnunenv .ua .u, others excepx. Argcnuna are wr pected to fouow suit, inose ai- ready having actea were Uruguay, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Guatemaia, mm xxxmnican w public, Colombia, Panama, Nicer- agua, Honduras, Paraguay, Chile, Mexico, Haiti and Ecuador. RIacArthur T7oriia On 64th Birthday , ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wed nesday, Jan. 28.-(A-Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 84 today but looking years younger, spent his birthday visiting veterans of the Papuan, New Guinea, campaign and his old friend, Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelber- Reaching the age when "normally American array officers retfre. Gen. MacArthur continued his work policy under .which he has not had a day off since the Japan ese attacked the Philippines. . . With no trace of gray in his r!r and a rpringy step. Gen. IlacArUi ur.is in excellent physical coni tlcn. He has teen a 'funeral c.w- cer fcx S3 years. ' " r With everything rawing smoothly, reads a report ea the progress ef the new Invasion after landinr with fereea ef his allied Fifth army ea the west coast of Italy behind Ger man lines. Center, a British soldier, rifle slang ever his shealder, stands gmard ever the first German- prisoners eaptmred la the drive. Belew. Ffe. Bob Kearney, left, er New York city, and Sgt. Jaek Ma lone jef Modesto, Calif., f oarad the gelnr damp and leek a minute eat te wrlmr seawater from their clothing. - AU AP Wlrephetos from Signal Corps Fhete tU OWI radle.) I w ' r f T7 " " ? ! UUKS LmplOy I -" ;" 1 t ' I . I TdiAdvanceonRoman Plains Associated Press Correspondent Representing- the Combined American Press ON .THE FIFTH ARMY- BEACHHEAD SOUTH OF ROUIL Jan. .25 (Delayed -)-P-6ut in Rome American troops supported machine mnrier from v.O -L-l -1- , -rv - farinhauaa in their drfva ic the Mussolini canaL Hastily throwing up a defense the swift Fifth armv drive inland from their Nettuno beach- Yuemd the Germans - have evacu- ated Italians from their- homes turned each building into a fortress! which the Yanks are at tacking; with tanks 'and machine- guns., j ,. :''.'.:''":'! , -For the first time in ths Italian campaign the Americans are fight ing over country suitable for tanks, and armor is being used effective ly to support infantry advances. Armor aided the doughboys in their push last night into enemy territory. - - -" -:. - ' .1 Late i yesterday r afternoon two units commanded by Capt Bum leih Packwood of W h i t e f i s h, Montana, and CaDU "Footsie" f Britt of - Lonoke, Arfcu, moved across the Mussolini canal to seize two road junctions, v Filtsen minutes after, their at tack besan the fighting started and it continued all ni-ht long but t:.e Yanks drove the enemy i back frcra house to house to reach their c!.jr-cV even though the Ger-rr-r rew in reinforce 1 unltj ta .1 tr i to hsl Cm. - wood chassd the Cerrr.ari MCmk Aim m,' tv J Li. Gen. Mark W. Clark, top, A ' 1 TT AmOred LiTltS " - By DON WHITEHEAD , the flat fertile plains south! ef' by tanks are having to blast ail the way back to the objective," grinned Lt Col. Lyle W. Bernard. The boys went ahead against hea vy machine-gun and armored ccr fire.- .. . , t : - Our men ran the Germans from house to house," said Capt Charles Noble of Santa Ana, Calif. "When things got too hot in one house 'the krauts would drop back to an other ' ' In one house the Germans had five machine-guns set up. Pack wood sent one unit under Lt Phil ip Horan of Akron, Ohio, out to clean them out with tank support and the troops assaulted ths stronghold driving the Germans out ... During the ni;ht the enemy brought troops in by trucks an I dropped 'them behind the dough boys on lateral roads but in ti-Ci case Packwood or Britt would send men back to wipe them out British Raid Fiumo -STOCKHOLM, Jan. 23. -C British bombers have ralJi Adriatic port of Fiurr.?, c "considerable damage," a c! . from Budapest said ton!;'-4., c. ing an official announcer::: :t I. Zagreb.