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peratzre - 57, Eun 3. Precaution .C3 ef aa I-th. TYind from the south. CIon2y. Elver 2.7 feet Occasional i rala ' Ecn-liy aad XZonday but snow high er elevations: not tznth change la tejaperatsre. ------ f - .-: PCUUD3D 1051 8LRJBTTQS 'UtD QODQB- n 1 .ri - Where1" does . religion - end and Insanity begin? That question was before the state supreme court in a recent case. A woman-had made a will leaving her goods temporal to be divided among certain religious bodies. Heirs contested on the ground she was insane when she made the will. Her religious fan aticism was adduced in proof " of her insanity. '. ' . ; " Well, the court didn't draw the line between religion and insanity. but it did decide that in this par ticular, case the woman was in sane and so threw out the will, which meant of course that her estate would pass to her relatives. The woman, it seems, had be longed to a very fanatical relig ious ; gToup. After her husband died she would shout and holler. talk to herself, talk to Jesus as though he were present The way she carried on made her nighbors think she was off "balance. As one of them testified: ' "Well, I figured her mind wasn't altogether fright.'- She - was' just worrying, and fretting. I think she Just mostly went crazy over . re ligion and lost her mind over her husband." Mr. Justice Brand, who-wrote the opinion of the court, reviewed the evidence and; concluded the testatrix was "suffering from senil decay which had developed .Into monomania. Her mental de rangement 'and ; her delusions manifested themselves chiefly as a religious fanaticsm which . had reached a degree of frenzy and controlled her mind. The 1udee however stated' that "the fact of religious fanaticism, be- belief in spiritualism ir in the pos sibility of comunication with de parted spirits of itself established testainentarr IncaDacitr." In other " words- the; court refused to say that talking to Jesus for example croved f continued on -editorial page). ' - - To Domestic ; By D. HAROLD OLIVER. - -WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -P)-. Administration ; democrats .have : switched ;. emphasis to domestic Issues in their current pre-con-vention' campatgwai aW"l'W! get ready to select' next Saturday i in -New Mexico the first delegates to.t either Apolitical j national con .vention. r , .. . ' Both Robert E. Hannegan, new chairman of the democratic na tional committee, and Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming, just named to direct the 1944 drive to reelect! democrats to the sen- ,-ate, areehargmg the opposition with efforts to capitalize on pop ular discontent with wartime eco nomic controls. . Hannegan told a Jackson day ' rally '- ihj Alabama that ' patriotic Americans realize that economic (Turn to Page 2 Story D) RalpH Marshall Wasted Overboard SILVERTON Ralph Marshall, 28, US navy, was washed over board from his ship .while stand ing guard in heavy ; seas, his. fa ther, William Marshall, and other friends .and relatives at Silverton have learned. - Young Marshall was ; reported- missing v several weeks ago and this was the first information - as to how; ; he was missing. Mrs. Lowell Brown is a sister of Marshall. : . ,. He had served in the navy eight years. . , - More than . -230 farmers and guests attended the 10th annual meeting ! of Willamette Produc tion Credit association held in Sa lem Saturday, at the chamber of commerce and : Marion ' hoteL George H. Fullenwider, who has held the office of president con tinuously since 'organization of the association, presided at the meet ing. ! ' -. John W. Ramage of Woodburn, who has served as a director since 1934 when the asociation was or ganized, was reelected. ' " ' A feature of the meeting was the Introduction of 'those members present who Joined the association in 1934 and have held their shares , for the entire ten years. In addi tion to Fullenwider and Ramage, ether directors in the group were E. W. McMindes,- Astoria; Claude Buchanan of Corvallis. Other "ten year members' were Fred W. Wag ner Aurora; A. M. Page, Salem; C E. McDwain, Lake Labish; Guy H. Lewis, ''Junction V City; John Ilolmason, Portland; Ralph D. Gib son, Salem; and Joe M. Ergish, Hubbard. J-T": ' '; Morton Tompkins, master of Oregon state grange, spoke of his recent tour of England as a guest cf the British government. He said that the farmers cf England ere organized in one group only t-.i Cat -the trcni cf Coucht am -Demos Switch Campaign iimnY-TnniD teas - w 1 m, a a m Allies Yanks Knock i Oiit 4 (Jerman Tiger Tanks : By Edward Kennedy ; ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS Algiers, Feb. 5 (AP)y-Americari tank destroyer units and Brit ish infantry successfully beat off the first concen- tr a t e d German assault against the two-weeks-old allied -.Anzio , - beachhead and - Jate I today . were . re ported holding tight ' to a line "north of Carroceto, 24 miles south of Rome. j . v aJ p. m. battle front dispatch from- Daniel de Luce, Associated Press correspondent, 'said allied forces - liad'-abserved a j German tank and" Infantry attack and in bitter counter - charges had re stored breaches in their line. Am erican tank destroyers were cred ited with definitely knocking out four -German tiger v tanks in one engagement. . - --. . 'it ' .- , . ' The ' dispatch by de Luce said that in day-long., support! of f the threatened British i salient v allied artillery shelled the Germans so heavily that scores of nazi pris oners "appeared dazed and giggled hysterically" as they were led to allied prison camps. I (Turn; to Page 2 Story J) "K 'Bad Boys' Saw Way Out of Jail i !: : , , While city and military police sorted drunks out of the heaviest crowd downtown Salem Sj has known since the holidays; two of the community's - newest quartet of "bad boys1 sawed their way out of the Marion county JaQ late Saturday night. -1 At -an arly hour this morning civilian law officers of state, coun ty and - city ; were combing the capital city area for Earl Junior T3 ...... It T.V.i4ii.. Fly nn, 20-year-old sailor, . self' confessed car thieves : and burg lars, who had cut and torn loose two inch-thick steel bars from the north window, of the court house jail to gain their freedom. ! No cars had been reported stolen- from the civic center or the immediate surrounding ' area, j (Turn to Page 2 Story E) ong farmers of the country is prac tically identical with that in the United States. i Otto F. Allgaier, treasurer of production l credit , corporation of Spokane, spoke on the ' organiza tion and history of that organiza tion and discussed the attack made on the' system by the American Bankers association. : ii-f ' ; ' I Following the meeting the board of. directors met - and re-elected officers for the following year. They are G. H. Fullenwider, pre sident; Claude Buchanan, vice president; John G. Bryant, acting secretary treasurer, and Ellen F. Struck, assistant secretary trea surer.-,:-;? -r: - S-l '' : '.."3' ;- : The report ef the. treasurer : shewed that the association had . the greatest volume ef business -: In Its history In 1943. Members : borrowed $l,lt9.000.0S which is a gain ef J50.COO.C9 ever 1312. Daring the last tea years total loans amounted to $7,374,767.00. , Members new. ewn $7340.00 ' worth ef stock ef the association and reserves amount to aver 339,001.09.;;:;;:'-: ; :-;;,..; ; J j Otto F. Allgaier, treasurer of the Production Credit corporation of Spokane, led up to the organ ization of the production credit system by covering the business activities of the nation for the (Turn to Para 2 Story A) Mepe. :asrv;:-: Decorated Cpt. Wllmer F. McDowell, wbe was pilot ef a medium bomber ' more than ' 25 : combat mis - slohs over enemy-held territory l In .China, Indo-China and Bur- ma, was awarded the air medal ;- en January 2f at Alachua army air field,' Gainesville, Fla. The clUtlon states that these P missions . . . he exhibited keen ' preeeption : and : appreciation of -4the' isapertanee i of his .aasicn Hiena ud ls relaUoa,to:the - - eomhaU erew"T a snexnber thereof. The ; exeenlkm of ids duties ? witn- eoo age vnder enemy fire Is worthy, of,; the beat- traditions of the. army air forces., Capt.' McDowell-wa at 'heme von f forleaab : last summer and was married -September; 14 to.: Min -Myra Madsen ef Salem. - j - US Armada Blasts French i lain larsiets i By AUSTIN BEALMEAR i 1 LONDON; Feb.; SHflAa American armada of probably 1400 planes carried oat one of the war's i heaviest ; operations against multiple targets! In France today, w 1 1 h; ; heavy bombers hammerinr six of the .Germans prise airfield; to wind up two weeks ef the most terri fic sky bombardment the world . ever has known. ' --;: - ; . f ; The US Flymg Fortresses and Liberators slashed 'Into France to the outskirts of Paris And Tours. The six airfields ham- 1 mered to I smoking ; wreekare have been used by nasi planes flying to Britain and challeng ing the; allies; retch-bound ; bomber fleets. . f- " ; r. ::. ' fWhile official figures Were lack ing, US army headquarters said the attacks , were carried out by "strong forces';- which:; probably . 1 (Turn to Page 2 Story I) - 500 Million By DON HYNIMAN ; --.i'V ; f WASHINGTON, f Febi Mff)-A $500,000,000 a year program of food subsidy aid .limited to low, income families was proposed today;, by a group of senators opposing the a d m 1 n istration's $1,500,000,000 system of general food subsidies. Designed to restrict ; consumer subsidy aid. to families having an nual incomes under approximate ly $1600, it Is a modification of the Aiken-LaFollette , food stamp bill : which the war food adminis tration estimates would cost : $3, 000,000,000 annually. 4 T Sen Aiken (R-Yt), 'announced the modified version will be of fered as an amendment to the bUl by Sen. Bankhead (D-Ala), which would abolish, food subsidies out right. The senate expects to be gin consideration of the Bankhead measure next week. f Indicating he might support the Aiken . proposal, - Sen, Tydings (D-Md), - said he approved the "principle" of the stamp plan and described, it as worthy of "sym pathetic consideration. , ; Although- Its - objectives were endorsed some time ago . by - the war,: food administration, the stamp plan has been opposed by some republican senators as a re turn of the federal government to "relief business.'. In hearings be fore an agriculture subcommittee, the . Aiken-LaTollettei bill was tack by farm organizations who eppose existing consuznerr subsi dies, but opposed by labor spokes men who want present price con trols continued. . . ' . " 7 Subsdy Prop Salem. Orsaon. Czaday X-Iorclncj, Ftbracry 6.-1S44 oviets weeipj; est ; i Rovno, Lutsk Fall to Reds I i i In Major Drive - j-t By James M. Long" ; v ilX)NDON, Sunday, Feb. 6f-( AP)Tte) red irmy in a major westward aweep has; captured Royno: and Lutsk, S5 mUes inside old Poland, Moscow disclosed last night, while a soviet communique early today announced t h e . Germans had lost (4500 ; more ' -men I and 95 'tanks irf a Tain ef-fort- toy erack the : Russianf trap closing ton; ten.?iazi:d. facings fWiftTdeatii-J or-'su: ions surrender. near wmeper nvcr. 1 it' i ! - The march into Poland i In the lastjf ew-days has reconduered 200 towns and hamlets, along the jnain. railroad ' to Warsaw, carried the red-army to within 50 miles of the Russian - German 1939. boundary, and to jwithin 290 miles :of Ger many -jroperfcrTwo Hungarian di visions were routed and 2000 Ger man and Hungarian prisoners cap tured u this victory.. " -. ; Xf I .TThe .Rusaians in, this sie;wer now in territory. captured; by; he Germans in the first week pf their Russian' invasion in June; f 1941. ; : f There was equal drama in a lit tle circle of Ukrainian:-territory ; (Turn to Page 2 Story G ' i f ... C ' , . . I: Toio Warns ; War Ferocity i Increasing - By JUDSON BAILEY I NEW YORK, Feb. SP) Pre mier Hideko Tojo, speaking to the Japanese "diet, warned today that the war keeps "increasing in fer ocity day by day and we aire now being confronted with, the situa tion where the fate of the GEA (greater east Asia) sphere: and the rise and fall of imperial Japan will be decided',. ; -: r - - j, -The premier spoke-in response to a plea by a member of: the diet for the Japanese people to stand united in the face of fierce battles in the Marshall islands, New Bri tain and New Guinea. .-.1 .' - Tojo also emphasized the need for unity and declared thf way to win the war was "by total mo bilization of the 100,000,000 peo ple ( of Japan) and to concentrate consistently and . firmly j the to tal power, of f the people! on one point -- to win Ihe decisive vic- ... He added that .the government intended -to .adopt measures Jor this purpose. . " . - Indirectly Tojo's broadcast mes-' sage recorded by US government monitors, helped point up Japan ese 'propaganda efforts to . gauge the allied of fensive in the Pacific by different yardsticks f for do mestic and foreign consumption. ; : While the Japanese at home were repeatedly being warned that the situation is serious; efforts were made to show people In oth er countries that the allied drives were of little -consequence, f - Map Collectors Take Note! ; Yanks Capture 19 Islaiids : ; US PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl "Harbor, Feb. 5-(flP)-Note to mapmakera and geography students:!;. The United States' has captured at least 19 islands on Kwa ' jalein group to gain complete control of the northern and south-; ' era tips of the triangular shaped atoll. 5 .. The total number of listed islets In the atoll varies, depending on how mall a piece of coral you call an island,' and whether a cay that is under water at high tide is included cr. left out. Per - haps the figure most often used is 32. t ,; Take a map and start at the western side of the northern tip of the atolL-. Fourth division marines have captured Bosserlap," ' Mellu and r.oi, and reading southeast alons the eastern edje cf " the atoll they have taken Kamur, Ennugaret, Ennumennet, Ennu blnv Edgigen, Debuu, :Edgell azil Gagen. . ; .-"-;;'! ; On the southern point, . Seventh army division troops have ' captured Gefch on the western slia, and reading southeast toward, and around tba t?, thes a ; ether islands Ennylabesan, KinnI, . EnubuJ,. Kwaj-leln, Ebeye crJ LcV - 1 - ' . A few ir-.aU unnan.J Sidney-Talbot Allied Planes acanese J .08 Tons; Bombs i. Arc Unloaded . .Oyer Wewak 5 V 'N rALLTED HEADQUARTERS IN . THE SOUTHWEST ; FAClr ; Fie;. iSnndayrFeb. ' -(flV Ter, ; the second straifbt oay - aiuea . airmen- haverlpped Japaaeae ferial jfstrenrtfcwakr New t'Goine JGen,Ponglas iJTac Ar-. .-ttTeportedrtoIay the-'tVewak : area, was hit; with 103 tons nf ; bembsmlslna-;to taoreOhan JSO? 'the teanare f-xplosrresipoiirr redn 'Tt&ar.vaafiii'Jfew '.Guinea i ; nase in .w uaya. - , " . MaeArthur annoaneed y ester- : day that "fifty air force bombers struck Wewak's f oar airdromes, shooting down eight pUnes and"" destroying 72 ea the ground. ; ; In todays - report; MaeArthur said six more Japanese bombers and one fighter were shot down. ; So intense was the latest bomb' ing of Wewak that fires still burn ing from the first day's attack and those started anew were vis ible for 50 miles.- j , ' Other American - airmen took advantage of a break in the weath er to bring the aerial war back to RabauV ; Japan's oft-bombed bastion on the. northeastern tip of New Britain. - j ' ii At least IS enemy planes were shot down over RabauL the com munique . reported.! At least 440 and probably, 132 . more planes (Turn to Page 2 Story K) Lincoln Tribute To Be Paid - NEW YORK," Feb.- 5.-WP)- Vic President Wallace, peaking from Springfield,' HL, and ihe archbfch op of ; Canterbury, speaking 'from Loridon,'will participate in a: Lin coln's - birthday program to - be. broadcast throughout - the world by "the 'office of war informatiQn and the British Broadcasting cor poration. . i r ' . ' K The ; program, : announced ny OWI, is scheduled: for 10 to 10:30 a. nu eastern war time, next Sat- Wallace is to be heard speaking from Lincoln's tomb at ' Spring field, while the archbishop is to pay tribute to Lincoln for "the democratic ideals for which- he fought." - , J-,- -. Llets tlso Lava t::a Ulo. Guinea ; Area Sets War Bond Pace In jost one hour at the war bond rally In connection with the Sidney t Talbot Farmers Union meetinr at the Talbot schoolhoose, the Sid- ! ney-Talbet district made its 150,000 quota in the fourth war .loan. : The upper plctore is a general view of , the gathertnr; below.i Mrs. '- E. B. Hennlngsen, district chairman. Is snapped standing beside the "thermometer which recorded progress ef the sale. County Chalr- man Jesse J. Gaxd, Salem Chairman Arthur Smlther and Treasurer -v- Rex Gibson; attended the rally.. Dave Scott photo. ; t : Salem Citizens Expected to Buy Bonds, on Avenge Bataart Bay "Avenge Bataan day" on Tuesday is expected to provide ad ded impetus to the f ourthT.war ioari ",. campaign and though no special program has-been announced here, Salem residents at tention is called to the fact that one of the 17 Oregon soldiers known to have died in Japanese prison camps was William E. Calkins, one of Salem's youngest soldiers. Sent to the Philippines WfflametteU; Authorizes Mai or. Changes i PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 5-JP) Jzx a .major change in J policy,: the board . of directors of Willamette university today . authorized Beta Chi, a local, sorority at the Salem school, to petition for national af filiation, ;, . :'y-y. ' The action, recommended by,Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president, will enable other fraternities and sor orities at the school to seek na tional status. ; . - . .; . ; . - Dr.-Smith recommended a 10- year, postwar' program calling for continuanon ox we poucy i se lective enrollment. Improvement of instructional facilities and phy- (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Think Reds Ready, To Land in Nomvay LONDON, Sunday, Feb. -(AP) A DNB dispatch from, Oslo broad cast by Berlin radio yesterday sug gested the Russians m!;!it be pre paring a landing operation ca the northern tip of Norway. ' ' The dispatch; recorded-by the ministry of ; information, quoted the Oslo Aftenposten. The news paper discussed, reports . cf recent U-boat attacks -on Uurmaruk -bound convoys and said landicg barges were, part cf the caries. - "V.tat would the Soviets do with lading barges? They cotl cn!y us;i la creratlons arsinzt I7cr t ;'. . ' Pries. c "ff - - -i-'':- ' -v-.--- y-(.-..-. .-"If - . "r- . !,.' f t O shortly after he entered service, he was : captured when - Bataah : fell and later was reported to j have died of malaria-Tbut recent dis closures suggest a duierent siory. . Bond sales up to Saturday) night amounted to $3,209,000, which left only $1,037,100 to o but the v (Turn to JPae 2-Story iC) u . By RALPH C CURTIS 4 v Long recognized ;; as ;;Tcickoff day"; in campaign years for re publican activity, Abraham Lin coln's birthday which; falls on next t Saturday will have special significance this year in Oregon, for another midwesterner who has captured ihe' popular fancy th a time of ' national crisis will pay this state a visit... ; . " - - I WendeU : Willkie's schedule in Portland on" that date will be a busy 'one. Including a breakfast at 80 ajn. with party leaders, an address at 1030 at the Neighbors of Woodcraft hall, a Victory Cen ter appearance at noon, a lunch eon r with members of ' the state press "at 12:23, a meeting with re publican committeemen to which llarion county central commit tee members have been invited at Z:Z3 pjn. and the Lincoln day banquet in the l.Iasonic teinple at 6 pro. Due to the demands of his itinerary," his address at tiat ga thering will be brief, and early on the program. . . ' L vests in the first week follow ing YTsyne Horse's announcement cf candliacy for the scat Rufus U:. tells tx tla UalleJ Campaign 17a. 71 Foieus ;. 19 Islets Now Controlled ; r By Americans ; By William Hippie ; US PA CIFI C FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pesrl Harbor, Feb. 5 (AP) Clinching America's grip on the biggest atoll of Ja- pan'a i Marshall islands," seventh - division soldiers have killed virtually all de fenders : and captured Kwajalein, Ebeye and Loi islands of the Kwajalein group. C h'A . ' . ' ..Seizure of these three strategic " points -"at the. southern end of the atoll, : announced today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitr,. runs to 19 the number of KwaJalein's SO - odd Islets, now. in -American r hans. -Many of the remaining islands ajre nxUitarUyj.xinimportant. ' i; , The victory - affords1 the allies another .potential airfield on Kwa- ' jalein. Island ; and " seaplane - bases at EbeyCFourth-division marines " earlier had swept Across Roi and . Namur islands to clinch contf ol of iSve north end cf the atoll; I -J" Cnltmuihg'- their steady push up-tii eastward -edge -cf the t? atoll, army troops already are at- tacking,. Gueegwe.' just north : of Loi. 'Adm. Nirnitz.; press rrelelse said. Gugegwe had- been strongly fortified, ' and; Japanese ; artillery - Turn to Page -2 Story II) Tax Collector . f:y--y:i . .. - ' : DENVER. Feb. SQP)-An , army private overseas wrote to Internal Revenue Collector .Ralph Nicholas In Denver pro testing vehemently a federal in ' come .tax statement he received. He wrote: "I hope ! this don't " surprise yea, but I da not owe any tax, ef no kind.' ; T only make 6C9 a year; and I have a wife, also a kid. " And if I - did owe any - tax. . I .wssld pay ; them in my home town, but I am not going to pay anything while In the army, because . I would have to make gXSOt a year before I would owe SI, and how in the hell can. I make that In the army and last be a private? . - "So . take these papers and' (censored).. The soldier signed his name, rank and number, and his cap tain (who; perhaps shared the private's feelings) put his OH - on the; letter, Nicholas reported. JKickoff Bafi States senate suggest that It was a mistake to make it before; he was ; readyj to plunge Into Jthe campaign, or at any rate to an nounce without an accompanying and attention-commanding state ment of principles and objectives. ; It is ' reasonable to assume that when he gets going, Morse as; the challenger will carry the ball 'and in the direction he intends to go. From; this corner it would aprear that his attack will be aimed tt Ilolman's- vulnerable spot hij views on international suhjects. ; But in the interval of silence there has I been some word-cf-mouth -discussion and even news paper comment, and most cf it 1 dealt with the labor isrue. lie: has attacked organized labor v. . -out discrimination and if the i i gets firmly established that 1 is the issue in this center t, V man in .view cf tha I ; ; labor Is wearing, for th 3 i t : : : t unjustly, due to warthr. 2 : probably is on the pepuhr i.'.z. Thus strategically, thrcv 'i c - Jlay in opening his offensive 1 1 r 1 has been outflanked. Ha T'r I able to fioht his v-cy c i -pocket. The carr.rair ' 3 t : wcy to V end Il-h' ' i " : "' (Turn to P: 3 2 :r; .