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' A little less than a year ago
there was a brief communique is
sued by the navy which- said that
an American naval force had en
countered in the vicinity of the
Komandorskie islands above the
Aleutians a Jap convoy escorted
by Jap naval vessels and had
turned the enemy back without
loss of any American ships. The
communique was brief and the
news story . offered little elabora
tion. People were watching the
Alaskan theatre of war then be
cause the Japs held-Attu and Kis
ka, but they paid little attention
to this newt item, regarding it as
another minor brush with the en
emy. After the lapse of 11 months
however this engagement is re
vealed to have been one of the
most thrilling in American naval
history and its result of no' mean
consequence in thwarting the Ja
panese plans in the approaches to
Alaska and the North American
continent. John Bishop in an' ar
ticle. "My Speed Zero" , in last
week's Saturday Evening Post, re
ports the battle with a skill which
captures the drama of that March
fcwhen the forces clashed ; in
the ' grey seas under- the Arctic
circle. The news of the. daring
naval raid on Paramushircf makes
the Bishop story of added inter
est. - ' USrA:.-:-,-
This was the line-up: an Amer
ican force commanded by. Rear
Adm. Charles H. McMorris, com
posed of one heavy cruiser com
manded by Capt. Bertram H- Rod
f era," a light cruiser, which was
the admiral's flagship, and four
-destroyers under ; command -. of
Commodore Ralph Riggs. They
upon the Jap . convoy and escort,
the latter" consisting of two heavy
cruisers, two light cruisers, and
six destroyers. The Jap power
was preponderant nearly two
to one, and the Japs came on to
battle it out.
The battle opened as a duel be
tween the Jap (Continued on Edi
torial Page)
THreeOWI
Chiefs Offer
lations ;
WASHINGTQJ-Feh, X-rPfc
A month - long undercover wran
gle fir the office ef war informa
tion culminated tonight" in -announcement
of the resignation of
three' top - ranking New York of
ficials of the overseas 4 division
which is headed by Robert E,
Sherwood. :f " .
The settlement was - plainly a
victory for" OWT Director Elmer
Davis,': for 'the dispute originated
with his demand mat the three be
dismissed in the interest Of better
coordination of psychological war
fare. Sherwood had refused to car
ry out the order.
Sherwood, it was announced,
will continue as " director of the
overseas branch, but" ; will leave
shortly for a brief trip to London
to make finaj arrangements for
an intensification of psychologi
cal warfare against the enemy.
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Japanese Send First
Food, Drug Shipments
TULELAKE, Calit, Feb. 7
The first shipment ; of food and
drugs from the Japanese govern
ment for use by Japanese nation
als, interned in the Tule Lake re
location center has been received,-
Ray Best, project director un
der . the " war war relocation muA
thority, announced today, : '4
Shipment of the articles are ar
ranged , through the International
Red Cross, Best said, and was
sent to the United States on the
liner Gripsholm which arrived in
New York recently. ;;:..,:
' The food consisted of 16 barrels
of soy sauce, 747 .barrels of a soy
mixture and 30 barrels of soy
bean mash. The shipment also in
cluded five cases of various types
of drugs. .. ..
ResififD
Million Dollar Club to Wind Up
Fourth War Loan With Rally
If there's any deficit in Marion
county's fourth war loan total on
the closing day, just a week hence,
it's sure to be made up that night.
For there's going to be a big vic
tory rally and, the county war fi
nance committee elatedly an
nounced Monday, the : renowned
KOIN "Million Dollar club" will
put on the show, broadcasting the
Marion county windup from the
Salem high school auditorium. ' -
Featuring staff artists from the
Portland . radio station, '' the Mil
lion Dollar club will put on a 33
sninute program for the Salem au
dience exclusively and then pro
ceed with its regular broadcast for
another 23 minutes, thus providing
a full hour of entertainment. But
that Isn't alL . ., : ' j
Through the generosity cf Sa
lem furniture dealers, articles val
ued at $12C3 will be given away
to t;r.i buyers. Firms participat
ing will be Gevurtz . Furniture
c rrany. Good Housekeeping, Inc
C. Z. II-."-Ii2B. rajrjiiiiire cccpany.
j imnrY-TnciD tejib
KEsSfeis .Recoil
IT,
irreroare
laug
Feelers Precede I Smash
Attack Against Firmly
Entrenched Allies
' By Richard
; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN ITALY, Feb J 7
(AP) -Slammed back by American troops in their
latest attack on the Anzio beachhead, powerfully rein
forced nazi divisions recoiled today , and prepared to
launch still heavier onslaughts against the sweat-stained
Americans and British" holding the shell-rakedf area
south of Rome.
I "Each local attack that
Germans was a feeling-out
beachbead'i security," wrote Daniel De Luce of. The
Associated Press in a somber dispatch from that front,
i ; Pointing out that the beachhead consisted of low,
rolling hills and cultivated plain
unsuited for defense, De Luce add
ed that, "the beachhead's security
depends on its men and guns. But
it ,is easier, and lesl ""subject 'to
censorship , to discuss! the strate
gical . fate of this beachhead on
another continent than by tallow
candle light in a black-windowed
room between the enemy and the
sea' "
Reinforced by elements' of the
715th motorized infantry division
from southern France, the nazls
rammed through , the American
lines west of Cistern to a depth
of about 500 yards early Sunday
morning; but were driven back by
a counterattack shortly after
dawn. American artillery was giv
en much "of the credit for repuls
ing , this thrust, which .occurred
some nine miles northeast of An
rlo - ' - "- - '"' " '
T6v more than a week the allies
have made no appreciable gains
at the perimeter of ; the . beach
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4
f Bad Boys'
In Solitary
In County Jail
-Earl J. Bonney, 19, and La
Verne Arthur Flynn, 20, who saw
ed their way to freedom from the
Marion county jail Saturday were
returned to Salem and put in sol
itary e confinement V Monday fol
lowing their arrest in Portland.
The Portland city : patrolman
who arrested the pair there Sun
day night said they were in an
automobile which had been stolen
from Oregon JCity.
' En route back to Salem on Mon
day i the two, claimed they had
spent the night at Flynn's resi
dence, which -Sheriff A. C. Burk
and Deputy Sheriff Denver Young
declared they doubted.: The house
was searched and watched, they,
said, fv v j .,7-i:v .
: Little of what had happened af
ter the two; gained their freedom
sometime between 9:30 and 1020
Saturday night by use of a hack
saw; blade which materialized
from a source still undetermined
by officers. V.';.-'.;-. " ''A
- Fynn, who had said little during
previous interviews, told ' Burk
that he determined to escape when
he understood how many burglar
ies and car thefts (19 and 6) bad
been "hung on" the quartet of
which he was a member.
The escape was made by cutting
and tearing loose two bars.
Hogg ' Brothers, Sears Roebuck
company. Stiff Furniture compa
ny and Woodry Furniture compa
ny. . ' - . .
Announcement of this super :
special event was made by Jesse
J. Gard,. county chairman, and A.
W. Smither, ' Salem war finance
committee chairman, following
conferences with Chester Duncan,
director; and Bill Mean, produ
cer,' and other officials of the ra
dio station. Such featured radio
stars as Johnny Carpenter, Red
Dunning, Bob McCoy, Margaret
Carroll and Joseph Sampietro and
his orchestra will appear, reports
Joe Land, special events chairman
for the Salem committee, who is
making the arrangements here." -
Admission to the show and eli
gibility to obtain a prize will be
restricted ' to series E war bond
buyers. There will be 800 reserv
ed seats and approximately 1CC3
unreserved seats; all regular ag
encies handling sale of series
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12PAGL3
9
it fc - , - - t
hi - r
G. Blasaock
has been launched by the
blow for a real test of the
O
Predict Pork,
Beef F&mine-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7-P-A
civilian tamine' In pork and beef
within 60 to 90 days was predict
ed today by a livestock producer,
while the agriculture department
reported that food, supplied in
cluding - meat, - will , be . about : the
same this year as last.
-.Ane -xanune - preoicuon; came
from jp. O. Wilson, executive sec
retar! of the National Livestock
Producers' association. . wo i
sertedp the shortage is developing
because" "ill advised" government
policies are forcing farmers out
of livestock production. .
."Within a short period of only
60 days this country will be prac
tically on a famine basis with re
spect to supply of beef,' Wilson
said. "By the end of 90 days,' the
pork ':: supply will have shifted
from S feast to a famine basis.
Furthermore, he told newsmen.
it win De late xau beiore j" any
thing like adequate beef supplies'
will be available. I ' .
; Despite aa anticipated Jump
In food prednction, the agricul
ture pepartment said that heav
ier military and lend-lease de-
mauds will keep civilians from
having more food than they had
last year. - v : ... r iy. ," ' : iy
' In fact, the department's bureau
of! agricultural economics- said,
the civilian share may be "some
what smaller. Last year, civilians
got two per cent less than they
had the preceding year. n
Meat production, the' depart-
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Gity Redeems
24 Lots ! J
By v paying $566.72 to Marion
county due it as taxes on the
property, the, C3ty of Salem will
redeem and place on its own prop
erty lists 24 lots -within its boun
daries,, Authority for the transac
tion yras given by the council
Monday night at the same time
sales of several lots to individuals
were approved. ?
A copy of the Bonneville' Power
administration's contract with the
City of Vancouver, Wash, for. fire
protection was referred to the city
fire committee. The Bonneville
administration is negotiating with
Salem for. protection at the rate
of 50 per vehicle called out for
its substation ; two miles ' . out of
West Salem on the. Dallas high
way. i ' :iJ';-J;: ;-r,:- I. i
Purchase of two new 1 beds,
springs -and mattresses for the
east Salem fire station, where two
firemen have been added since the
first of the year, was authorized.
' - i .. - -
Federal Taxes '
DouMe in Slates -?
WASIID7GTOIT, , Feb. l-JPh
Federal tax collections more than
doubled in many states last year,
the bureau of internal revenue
reported today in a tabulation
showing receipts from all states
totalel 31,S24,53016 In t 1943
arainit $18,774,41619 for 1342.
Ccl actions from all sources of
f ef er: 1 taxes in 1S43 and the
receipts by states included:
California $2,2S2,7C3;3 fa
13 13 and $1,CC0C3,170 in 1 1342;
Idaho C53.371.4S3 and $17,C3313;
llcril; r.a $S 173,223 and $23,533,-
743; Orcrtn $245,133,647 h - and
$72.:'!.:::; VraihL-i-ton $472,-
4:2,:. 7 mi $1C2,C 12,401. - i
In 60 Days
A-
Crasli . i
Nikopol" i
' Nazi Garrisons
In'Cherkasy j
- Are Destroyed
By TOM YARBROUGH;
LONDON, Tuesday, Feb.
(JP)- The red army, crashed Into.
the . suburbs of manganese-rich
Nikopol on the lower Dnieper
river yesterday and also wiped
out entire German garrisons in
the Cherkasy pocket 200 miles
to th enorthwest in a merciless
extermination of 175,000 iaxis
troops trapped in both areas, Mos
cow announced early today.
Dispatches filed at midnight In
the ; Soviet capital by - the Asso
ciated Press said both battles were
roaring to a climax with the Rus-
sians effectively blocking the es
cape of five German divisions at
Nikopol. f , , .
In the Cherkasy 'death ring
where the Russians were steadily
beating down the savage resistance
of the survivors of ten German
divisions, these dispatches said the
red army's artillery now was with-
shelling: range of vaxis airfields'
inside the pocket. . r
At Nikopol the Russians -smashed
into its eastern outskirts, captur
ing ; five villages, among thetn
Krasho-Grigorievka and Novo
Pavlovkm,' eight and -three milea,
respectively, from the heart of the
dty which Adolf Hitler-was 't re
ported - to - have told ' his troops
must' be" held at all costs because
of its manganese deposits ad vi
tally needed for steel armor man
ufacture in Germany.
Moscow dispatches- said . the
Germans in the Cherkasy pocket
had been hurled into a tight little
knot of exhausted! men fighting a
losing battle in an area reduced, to
40" square miles. The midnight so
viet communiue also- said that
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Finns Flee
In Helsinki
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
LONDON, Feb. 7 -ffV- Thou
sands of Finns fled from Helsinki
today, their capital still smoking
from a - Russian i bombing which
wrote for their government a fiery
notice to get out of the war now.
The crisis for Finland appeared
n earing a showdown. !
The Russian raids . involving
by official "finnish estimate a to
tal of 200 planes were among
the strongest thrown against Fin
land in the two wars with Rus
sia, and were generally accepted
as the beginning of direct action
by the soviet union to wipe ; out
her northern frontier problems, as
she is proceeding to settle Jn; her
own way the political problem Of
Poland. ,
An eye-witness account of, the
Helsinki raid was given in Stock
holm by the Spanish consul to
the Finnish capital, who flew to
Stockholm this ' - afternoon, j He
said all street cars were out of
operation and the central railroad
station was unusable. : " - 4
The consul said two alarms
sounded this afternoon within- a
half an hour but that no bombs
felL , :r"-- i
The SpanEh offScial said fires
stni were burning' in the capital
today because of inadequate Ifire
brigades, and that squads of la
borers were cleaning debris from
the streets. - i ' ,
Street, Alley
Funds Marked
. . -. ,--- : - . ... . -
Plans for expenditure of $28,-
6358 .earmarked' for improve
ment of street and alleys were
approved Monday! night by ! the
Salem city council, j '
The program for work this year
includes improvements on the fol
lowing routes: .i !
Cherry from Highland to Lo
cust. Highland from Broadway
to Fairgrounds. Front from- Co
lumbia .. to -- Trade; Trade from
Front to Cottage. 1521 from Cot-
tase to 12th. Commercial from
Center to Belmont. Alley (in block
22, Salem, between Highland and
Liberty) from Chemeketa; to
Court Alley (ia block 21 be
tween High and Liberty from
Court to Stats. All y (in tloci 22
between liberty end Ccnncrdil)
from Chen-Jjcta t: Court. Al'.ry
(in Hock between Liberty ir.i
Ccnmerciaiy frcm Court to CL."-?.
AJlrj (in block 21 between liber
ty r - 1 Cc-T-mercial) from Ci-ts
ta I crry, . ' ' I
owiets
Bombing
Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morxlag. Febnxcay 8,
AivardedDFC
1A. John H. Farrar. above, sea ef
Dee Farrar eg Salem, kaa beei
awarded the distinguished fly
ing cress upon eozspletioa ef St
salsaleas against the enemy ia
the seeth Pacific Ha was award
ed the air medal last November.
Lt Farrar, a nephew ief Jala JL
Farrar, former: Salem; postmaster,
waa a students ' several years
age 'at Capital Bealneaa eellece
here. '--."
USPlanesj
DeKver Blows
Jap Airdrome
fRecdve:fll , j -
ectivc Hitoi
f; By ROBERT EONSON ,
.ALLIED r HEADQUARTERS
IN THE" SOUTHWEST PACTF
IC,: Tuesday, Feb. 8 VjJP)- Al-
lied, fighters and bombers de-;
livered two hard blows Satur
day against Lakunai airdrome at
Rabaul "on New Britain, meet
ing strong antl aircraft fire but
agairf -weak Japanese aerial re
sistance, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
announced today. j
Torpedo and dive bombers with
fighter escort went over the air
drome at the- important Japanese
base to deliver ; the first punch
against gun positions, 'scoring 11
effective -hits.' Liberator " heavy
bombers ' struck the second blow,
laying 39 tons of bombs on the
runway and dispersal' areas.
More than 150 " planes partici
pated In the attacks, an from Sol
omon islands bases in the south
Pacific. About , two score Japan
ese planes attempted to intercept
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States Rights I
BaUot BiU:
Reaches Senate
By WILLXAM T. PEACOCK i
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7
In a last ditch move to beat a fed
eral war ballot, its senate oppon
ents got-; the house : -? approved
states rights bill to the floor to
day and so entangled the senate
in parliamentary red f-tape that
further consideration of service
voting legislation was put off un
til tomorrow.
Administration leaders appar
ently were in ' control and ' ready
to push through the Green-Lucas
federal ballot bill in short order
when Sen. Overton : (D La.)
moved to lay it aside and take up
the bouse measure which leaves
the service vote problem up to the
states.'. ." -Tr;
He had been defeated twice be
fore on similar, motions' but this
time a switch of votes, chiefly by
republicans; carried the; motion SO
to" 38 over a vain appeal from
Democratic ; Leader 'Barkley y of
Kentucky lor a vote first on the
Green-Lucas bilL '. 1 - -
Barkley then moved , to amend
the house bill by substituting the
Green-Lucas bill for its provisions.'
Sen. Taft R-Ohlo), fighting -
federal ballot, offered as an am
endment to Barkley! amendment
his plan to limit federal ballots
to soldier - citizens of those states
which do not provide adequate ab
sentee balloting procedure. ;-;
Confused, senators bean rising
to ask what was the immediate
issue before them and, ncne of
fered ' cbjection when; Earklsy
moved that further consideration
be delayed for 21 hours.
By attaching the Green - Lucas
bill to the house measure, the ad
ministration could force , a sen
ate - house conference frcra which
cc -rciruS ra?ht emerge, i
Herd (d Enforce.
l;Tftt:t r?r-i"3a trtu tls
Iczxl cf i . '.'.'S wcrlr:
- "Zl.tzy t:. 7 rrass cn l"t'2
l:::s, tzt t:.;y r-st T.t i" . :
tie r-i c' :rr t!.:i t?ro 1.-.:" - j
frcra tj grci" ! - - "
AtLakiinai
IZll
US, 'NdwtDil Feir'3 StiHkso
Jap Home
NewMarshalls
rged .
For Next Lash ;
. ! Casualties I light ; j
i Yanks Repair
I Airfield on Roi -
i US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb.
7 r -Wh Daring United States
warships have pushed the wax
into Tokyo's home waters, 1200
airline miles northeast of Tokyo,
atrikioa' as other American forces
forged new bases' in the Marshall
isiands from which to hammer
Japan's inner def ens ring, '
- These new bases, at either end
of Kwajaledn "atoll; ? were taken
with a loss of only 28S men killed,
cpmparecT; with j 8122. Japanese
killed, the navy announced today.
American wounded totaled 1148
and missing, -82.'- 1 ;
Japanese ": prisoners - numbered
284, with no estimate of the ene
my's wounded. ' " '-
The i low ' American casualties
contrasted strongly with the bloody
invasion last November of the Gil
berts,' the island group to the
souths i' There, 1028 ? men -were
killed and 2557 at Tarawa alone.
In the- entirer Gilberts operation.
1092 Americans were killed and
2680: wounded. 1 - r- ' ;
The -figures-for . the - Marshalls
were not final, including only cas
ualties reported , as of the: eve
ning of, February. Xt was expect
ed the, complete- figures ' would
vary little. - j - -
j Far to the southeast, the com
manding atoll ef the central Pa
cific afarshaHs was m the firm
grip ef ' Amerleast - forces. Con- -s
traction engineers feverishly
worked te complete a pewerfal
air and naval base at the north
ern end ef the atoll, Kwajaletn.'
That base, on Kel and Namar
Islands, wDI be the springboard
for new attacks ion' the shrink
ing Japanese .empire.
Adm. Chester W, Nimitz, su
preme commander in the mid-Pa
cific and military governor in the
Marshalls,' said , in his latest com
munique that occupation of Kwa
jaletn j atoll was ! virtually com
plete. ; Within less than a week,
at least 21 named islets had been
overrun. Others,1 not important
enough to bear names, had been
occupied also, ': :j "l : v
Japanese bases in the : south
west Pacific came under the lash
of allied air power with improve
ment in weather conditions. - . .
LibrarylBoard
Elects Barr
i,r .. ,r.-, .-.. -r-..t.,..,,.
Re-electing - Lester Birr u
chairman and Mrs. John Harbison
as treasurer, the r Salem city li
brary board held its annual meet
ing Monday afternoon.
The library's rental collection
henceforth may Include some new
and impermanent' types of fic
tion which are not' on the - free
shelves; and "for-l these reserves
may be accepted,! the board de
cided. y v K I " iv:J
Previously, the rental shelf had
held only duplicates of new and
popular volumes also to be found
on the free shelves and no reser
vations were taken for anything in
the rental collection. . ;
During January rentals brought
In $18, while $27,' declared unus
ually high, was paid for lost books.
Such.- sums, always used for re
placement of books but handled
outside the budget,! will now go
into' a 'special fund for the same
use, following approval Monday
night by the council., ."
rulelalzc Jap3 j ; '
Drbufrlit to Jail .
TO-T.LVni FA T.T", Tcb. 7 -iT)
Two ycun .;; r.cse were crc-j; -.it
to th :Zr.'J county jail t-: .t
ty L.'.;rr.il tzzMZ
ty pel;
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Bases Fo
TAcm Se
Paramusliiro i in Kurileo
Shelled; Firea Started,
Merchant Ship Damaged
By Norman Bell
' Aboard a us destroyer ipf the kohtii
PACIFIC 1 Feb I ' 4 (Delayed) The first United
Sutea naval force. to attack; Japanese home territory .is
steaming safely homeward, leaving the flustered enemy
on Paramushiro islamTV Knrabu point firing harm
lessly into the air and sea along their own beaches. '
Our. task force poured shells for 20 minutes into
harbor and land installations on the east and south sides
of Kurabu point today, causing fires and explosions
ashore,1 damaged a small merchant ship, and departed
without suffering; a scratch. u ' j i
It seemed almost too easy, and as we left one
sailor remarked ."Why we oughtO
to so ahead and take that place.
(Paramushiro, lying at the nor
thern extremity of the Kurile is
lands, which include Japan Itself,
is approximately 1200 miles' north
of Tokyo, 948 miles ' west of KIs
ka and 790 mile southwest bf
Attu in the American-held Aleu
tians.) -iff 9 k4::3:J;' I'-
The 'Japanese, unpleasantly ac
customed to United States air at
tack, must have been, looking sky
ward for warships 'in- the task
force commanded by Hear Adm.
Wilder D. Baker should have been
visible as dark shadows as they
steamed in bright moonlight with
in five ' miles of shore batteries.
To add . to the Nipponese -'Con
fusion, planes of Commodore Les
lie & Gehres fleet air wing four
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. :
039,000 Bond
Issue Okehed
City airport business a minor
feature lot -dty council taction in
recent months, bobbed up in I a
refunding bond issue, a new Unit
ed Air Lines: lease and 1 a report
on plans tor establishment of a
stationary lighting system, at
Monday night's council session.;
The refunduig bond issue of
$39,000 'was voted as a matter Of
routine business. The UAL lease
providing for the rights the lines
have .held at the city airport since
it became an army air base was
explained - and unanimously vot
ed. When the army turns the port
back to the city, the old . lease
with greater leaway f or the com
mercial firm will ." automatically
come back into effect, according
to City; Attorney , Lawrence N.
Brown. - . .
Army i engineers will install the
new lighting system ' at the port
with funds which will be provided
by the Civil aeronautics authority
as soon i as -the Portland office of
the engineers has provided an es
timate, Richard T. Puckey, acting
supervisor of . airports, Seattle
CAA;. office, . has notified . the
council. i- , '?- ' '
The CAA schedule of improve
ment f or r the port here includes
three runways, one of which has
never been constructed. Although
that schedule Is quoted by Puckey,
ho. has previously notified ; the
council that the CAA will install
lights on the "three runways, no
mention of current plans for, the
construction of the third is made.
Refunding
Fry Urges Scilxm to De
Improved
The City of Salem must be
able to devise some better form of
city government than the current
mayor-council form under which
aldermen "must neglect either
private or city business," Dan J.
Fry, representative of the seventh
ward, declared as he turned in his
resignation Monday night . I
Fry it leaving the council be
cause he has sold his residence
and is moving into the sixth ward
and has enjoyed workir-2 with Ce
governors cf the city, tut he is
convinced that "Calem Is no loos
er a str.aH town to run in tl-Is
r all-town vr.7, te ; explained.
-UrgL-'- thst 'the council ituiy
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By FRANCIS J. KELLY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7-T)
Congress soit a $2415,200,000 tax
Increase bill today to Presidant
Roosevelt, who had asked for $10,
500,000,000 and had criticized the
smaller measure as unrealistic. .
There is considerable specula
tion that he may show bis dis
approval by Jetting the bill be
come law without his signature. .
A senate-house conference re
port, embodying the final draft of
the - measure, i slid r through tha
senate, quietly on a .unanimous
voice vote,-but it encountered con
siderable opposition before it was
approved by the house, on a roll
call vote of 238 to 101. , -
Rep. Crawford (R-MichJ, and
Voorhis (D - Calif) , questioned
whether the measure would deal
adequately With war-time financ
ing , necessities. Rep Izac lb
Calif), said provisions of the bill
altering the war contract renege
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Kimmins View
MitrslMls
V By WILLIAM HIPPLE
US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl narbor, Feb.
7-0P)Conimander Anthony Kim
mins of the British Royal navy
and veteran of the African and
Sicilian campaigns said tcday the
United States 'capture of Kwaja
ledn atoll in the Marshalls was
the most perfectly executed action
he had seen. r .
.The first military observer to
return -from the Marshalls, the
42-year-old Britisher " said the
Kwajalein campaign was to put
it in American terms, terrific. . .
He offered two reasons why the
invasion was so successful:
1. The seventh army air force,
navy, land-based and carrier-based
planes caused so much prelim
inary damage that enemy ability
to fight, back was lowered. L
2. The bold move into the cen
ter of the Marshalls at Kwajalein
caught the enemy, off guard, the
Japanese having put most of their
strength in more obvious attack
points, such a the eastern atolls.
City&overnmeiit
the mayor's ' original "post elec
tion planks", was the proposition
that a new form cf govenrncnt t
considered.
Councllmen have though of im
provements but hesitated to vclct
recommendations because they
knew they would then be appoin t
ed head cf a 'committee, ta 'f-v '
further consideration cr to unc! :r
Uke the installation cf tl:e r.-
system when they had not th
time ta spare, Fry rrir:-e 1.
Accepting his
rec'r"t::
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cour.cil voted to eeisct Fry's s
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