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t - Tli OSEGOU STATESMAN, Sclera, Oregon. Friday Morning. March 3, 1944 PAGE TWO ) Joint Confab Backs Limited : j Federal Ballot WASHINGTON, March 2 ; x sharply drcumsribcd federal 't ballot bill to provide absentee vot Inf for men and women in the armed services was approved by a loint conference committee of - senators and house members to .day. Restricted even' further in its l application than had been decided i upon yesterday, the federal bal--'if lots would be available for over 4 i ims service members only if they had applied for state ballots by September 1 and had not received them by October 1. A new provision stipulates that i before the federal balloU may be; '4 used, state governors would nave 1 to certify that they were "author-; lzed" by the laws of the state. ( Senator Green (D-RI). one of the principal sponsors of the full federal ballot, voted against the r" final compromise and jjeclinea lo predict what It fate would be .' in the senate. I Bep. Worley (D-Tex), who led ; the fight in the house for the i federal ballot, predicted the com . ; promise bill would be acceptable there. A new provision was inserted in , the bill to provide that "nothing in this act shall be demed to pro hibit free discussion regarding po V litical issues or candidates for "s public office. By another change, a proposed four-member special war ballot commission would be replaced by an. ex-officio commission compos ad of the secretaries of war and navy and the war shipping ad- " ministration. . - "It would be better to have no bill at all than to have one such . as this," Green told a press con- f ference. Senator Hatch (D-NM) agreed, ' ' . declaring that the compromise bill I, would take away from service ; people in the continental United States the waiver of poll tax and . registration requirements, granted v bv the 1842 soldier vote law. The bill will go first to the sen- V V ite probably next week then S to) the house, and if -finally accept- i J by both bodies still must win i A the approval of rYesiaent Koose r7.elt who characterized the orig ' . inal states rights service vote bill ' as "a fraud upon the American ; people." i , H"ufflt WOOSC WITH THE 'C HITS ltirfTir1 Opens :45 P. ML How Playing! ' ft M CO-FEATURE TlX iOVd WOLF TUaIIS SPY to iMi mm mm pale IVir-l'l IVILUAM c3"Ti:i lc::e veir ICCL03 CARTOON ' " N2WS fx r-s-ZZTt3 ij Ca;:i;l '1 IIjhli ' mate5 iUreirtiYM 0 V I ONtheHQMEFRONT By BASEL CHHD3 There being six current maga zines 1 have not yet scanned, I herewith cross my fingers and hope we will not be held for copy right violations. However, this bit of literature (loaned to : me for the occasion) shows .us what the attitude is in parts of the country far away from : army camps and naval training units: 1942: What a man! 1943: What! A man? 1944: What's a man? Funeral Today ForMcNary At Capitol E (Continued from Page 1) B was expected to leave Salem at 4 p. m., on their return to the na tional capitoL All state officers , here, along with stores and shops, will be closed during the funeral hour. The casket will be under mili tary guard of 10 soldiers from Camp Adair, j Another military guard, comprising 38 soldiers, will be stationed outside the main en trance to the capltol buildings. Six men who were fejlow-attor- neys of the late senator before he began his political career will bear the casket to its final resting place. ,. In eastern Oregon, where a federal law sponsored by McNary gave the Umatilla Indian reserva tion ownership of a grazing and hunting area, chiefs of three In dian tribes expressed gratitude to, the late republican leader. ' "Where will we find another man to befriend us, for this one has gone now?" said a resolution signed by James Kanine of the Walla Wallas, James Bill of the Umatilla and Anthony Red Hawk of the Cayuse tribe. Phone Company Declares Dividend SAN FRANCISCO, March 2. (JP)The board of directors of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. todays declared a quarterly dividend of $1.50 a share on com mon stock payable March 31, to shareholders of record March 15, A regular dividend of $1.50 a share on preferred stock, payable April 15 to shareholders of rec ord March 31, also was declared. Officers and directors were re elected. I I OPENS 6:45 P, L . . ( !.. How Showing! BIG THRILL PROGRAM! Euitratit! Aivaataral Tkrilli! Actual Gee, MON7GOMIXY Mary HOWARD CO-FEATURE! nmy BE5 CiiriifClil ai "CAPTMII inoiirrE Iff CARTOON 'TirdC23C.0J)." NEWS FLASHES Tost. No. 9. American Lesion 1 3 4in -ii ill v.. I IRAF Bombers FdlloWiYanlt Blitz on Reich Hi A (Continued from Page 1) A same as that In which the RAF last; night j made a SOO-bomber assault on i Stuttgart with a rec ord low loss of only four bomb- Counting cross channel as saults during ithe day it was esti- mated that! between 2000 to 3000 planes of . all types' had allied been flown against German tar gets! since the l RAF set out for Stuttgart last! night Clouds still covered southwest Germany as they did last night, but the fires set by the RAF serv ed as beacons for the Americans, and flack of visibility failed to shield the targets from the allied overcast-bombing methods. Returning American fliers said thaiji as on .Tuesday's long trip to Brunswick,! today's thrust failed to coax upi the battered German f iehter forcei ! and anti-aircraft fire! was theit only hindrance. -I sew only 19 bursts of flak all day and the nasi fighter pi lots .must have been ont hating lunch," said, U. CoL John : B. Xldd, a command pilot ef COS North avenue; La Grande, Ore. The! night and day operations together cost ithe allied air forces only ! 15 heavy bombers, one me dium bomber and three fighters. The! American ! Marauder medium bombers flew! more than 400 sor ties for the 'loss of one plane. They started several fires, in the Amiens railway yards. The German air force has not opposed any formation of allied 'i,- ! : .ji . ... . ai t. planes in aurengm since me uai phase! of the: campaign to wipe out the German aircraft Industry end ed last week j American heavy bombers pounded the, Pas-de-Calair area of jFrance! and penetrated to Brunswick , in central Germany Tuesday with the loss of: only one fip. Hi i v'.4:-v:.i The RAFsl floss of only four bombers out of 600 in last night a Stuttgart attack was a record for a night operation over Germany, The persistent offensive against targets in northern France to day'! attack jwas the 49th in the last 72 days-4was given weight by two forays of Marauders and ad ditional flights of British Mit chells, Bostons and Mosquitoes the last : of which now are known to be capable: of carrying 2000 pounds of bombs. : The Chartres airfield is a final training base! for nazi fighter pi lots and also! is used as a repair depot for Messerschmitt 109's and Focke-Wulf 190's. ' f TWe hit the target to a damn jelly," said Lt Joe McCarty, a borabardier of 608 West 189th street, New York City. "The whole place was covered with smoke? ! Russians Gain In Estonia F (Continued from Page 1) F f miles southwest of Vitebsk ? it self. I I ' Dispatches ' from Russia, how-i ever; said the Vitebsk operations carried great power and the of fensive was i still to reach its climax. The Germans first lines, protecting the. almost surrounded city, were reported breached Wed nesday. II "K.V The communique indicated that major gains of the day were made in ithe Pskov .fighting, especially to the south where on Wednesday : I lULVAVl I I TODAY AND SATURDAY; IT'S A GREAT -BtONDIE" HIT! 1 l i r A COLUMBIA fICrUtf A HTPK0TIC SPEll... aggluglu EII7C2AI;? Ml mm k API they were nine miles east of Os tov with the capture of Kashino. Among the communities re ported captured were Zamoshve and Rorhanka, 11 and 12 miles northeast of Ostrov and the rail stations Soshikhino and Sergino, 15 fnd 19 miles southeast of Ostrov oa the Pskov-Idritsa line. : The Soviet eemnranlqae said s-eerrinas aide4 tn the flrhtbag fat this area, killing 500 Germans and rescuing 9000 Rnsslan civi lians and considerable live stock, Other Russian units killed S00 Germans and captured 250 carta with supplies. ; In the Narva fighting, the bul letin said,; 1000 - Germans ' were killed. !. -. ' Unofficial reports from i Mos cow said Red : army . tommy-gunners were fighting in the streets of sluburbs around Pskov; and German broadcasts said the bat tle for the city was 'entering its decisive phase. "v , About Pskov itself, the commun ique merely said that the enemy "was dislodged from several strongpoints In his defense. Nazi broadcasts stressed - the fighting southeast of Narva, where it said fresh : German divisions had been brought into action Here the Russians had hacked out a bridgehead across the Narova river south of Narva and swung northeast to cut the Narva-Reval hallway nine miles west of Narva and three miles from the Gulo of Finland. ; The Russians merely announced last night that they had captured several heavily fortified strong points in German defenses "in the Narva direction' and in addition imporved ' bridgehead ' : positions west of the town. esr- 'Labor Draft To Speed War WASHINGTON, March 2-0- Predicting that most ferocious fighting lies ' just ahead, s Navy Secretary r Knox endorsed the Austin-Wadsworth s labor s draft bill today as the. surest and fair est means; of, stabilizing employ ment in plants and shipyards that must; feed the war machine. "The present program for se lective and controlled . employ ment needs immediate tightening up," he told Chairman Reynolds (D-NC) and Senator Austin (R- Vt), the only members of the mil itary , affairs committee who ap peared to receive his testimony. Austin is co-author of the pend ing bill; Reynolds and a large proportion of the other committee members oppose the -compulsory system. Conceding that war production left nothing' to be, desired in any major field last year, Knox con tinued: ''. S '".. "But we face 1944; and output for 1944 must be even greater than for 1943, ; In ; 1944 we , will be fighting mightier j battles ! with heavier losses in every quarter of the world. This means more and more men, more and more equip ment, more and more supplies and more and more ships." Sweeping his arms wide; to de scribe casualty lists "that long' already - pouring Into the i states. the cabinet official said the re sistance the Germans are putting up in Italy demonstrates the kind of" battles that may be expected when the allies' . amphibious troops pound their, gun butts on Hitler's European front door. He said that If people who are net fully employed would ge to work ': where they are heed er, and then; would stay on the Job, there would be no nun power problem. "And that is precisely what i national service law would be ex pected to accomplish," he de clared. "Our manpower! prob lem has, all along, been especially hard to solve because of exces sive switching -from job to job.' The illusion of an early vic tory, caused, by the collapse of Italy last summer, boosted the rate of Job swapping, absentee ism and turnover in Industry to new high levels, he said, ask ing the committee to judge how much more serious such mani festations would become when Germany Is whipped. "We could have ji slump in pro duction that might seriously im peril our fighting in the Pacific, he said. "Japan la hoping for just that sort of demoralization." As for the argument that a na tional service law means "regi mentation and slave labor,? Knox said: , ' CONT. SHOWS FKOS1 1 F, VL IIou Sbwmg! A Really Thrilling Double Bill! . . MYSTERY! 0UTD00E ACTION! COLOR CARTOON. " Latest yrews-- rr TT iuiox urg SENSATIONAL FILMS fTAKEN UNDEH FIRE! 21 'MINUTES OF ACTION ViTni U. S. SIARINES! 1 f "t'mH,ft i t f i ills t Nazi-Won . ; - v t ' Ground Is Rei D (Continued from Page 1) D' forces jammed their way forward at dawn Tuesday along a 1000 yard front in the center of the 10-mile stretch between Carroceto and Cisterna. . , j Before the American troops and their curtain of artillery .Cre suc ceeded in stemnung the nazi power drive, official reports indicated the enemy overran an important, road junction and waa shoving down a highway toward the village of Campo Morto, which is only seven miles' from the vital allied supply port of Nettuno. The American counterattack, launched at 7 pjn. Tuesday, regained the road junc tion. 1 '. - i (Secretary ef! War Stimson said in Washington' that allied troops had repulsed a twe-day enemy attack In force, hot added the warning that "It la oenbtfal whether his "full strength bis yet been exerted.) A steady rain during the open' ing day of the attack aided the defenders, as it soon turned the ground into a quagmire and con' fined the heavy German tanka to the - highways. I Yesterday the weather continued bad, but skies were clear today. Writing from the beachhead, Xdward Kennedy! of the Associat ed Press told of the happiness f of allied troops as they: saw the big Fortresses and Liberators come sweeping out of a blue sky and dump their explosives on enemy guns and' troops. Above and around the bombers, were squad rons of escorting fighters. " " I Troops Added, Admiralty Islds B (Continued from Page 1) B firmly established, restoration work- immediately commenced 'on the airfield i which was pitted ' by bombs unloaded on it during the pre-landing bombardment. f Supporting ground operations of the First cavalry division units at Los Negros island, Fifth army air force Liberator and Mitchell bombers, with fighters and dive bombers manned byt Australians, smashed, at the Japanese .air base at Hansa . bay- with 17a. tons! ol bombs. Ntt me rott satires were started and damage was report' ed heavy.; w . .';.(. :, ''";' J ; , Liberators ranging farther north attacked a five-ship enemy convoy off Hollandia and left 7,000-ton vessel, biggest in i the convoy, sinking after scoring di rect hits on it I In the Madang area,' on ithe coast south of Hansa bay, attack planes and divebombers started fires on airdromes at Madang sand Alexishafen, and blasted gun po sitions and supply dumps. i Mitchell medium bombers and fighters from Solomons bases struck Rabaul, the bomb-satura ted enemy base in northeastern New Britain, and nearby Duke of York island with 38 tons ol bombs. - . - I Jap Nayy 3rd Sunk C (Continued from Page 1) C quent attacks on the big Japanese base at Saipan and nearby Japa nese-held Guam,' which was seiz ed from American forces early in the war. !- ' t With such mobility of the Amer lean fleet, few enemy bases may be considered secure from attack unless the Japanese navy should attempt to intercept United States fleet movements. That possibility exists but the naval authority: said he did not expect such action until the Japanese are forced back, so far that they have to fight, i To inquiries about the duration of the war, he said that the United States Is not overlooking any bets. As an example he cited the inva sion of the Admiralty islands by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. He said the1 action started merely as reconnaissance in force but when opportunity developed became an attack and occupation. v t r 1LJ c-i Ezra Hzzz2 it grained 7eshington State Approves Service Vote ,OLMPIA,. March 2- -The house of representatives approved tonight a moderately amended version of the soldiers' vote bill which passed the senate two nights The vote waa unanimous after the controversial amending of the measure was completed during its second reading. - '; Lepke Gets Execution btav From Dewey ALBANY, NY, jMarch 2-(ff) Governor Thomas I E. Dewey to night gave Louis (Lepke) Buchal- ter and two "Murder, Inc nencn- men a brief additional span of life I pending a last litchi appeal to, the United States supreme court Seventy minutes before the gang-murder chieftain, Louis Ca pone and Emanuel Weiss were to have died in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison for; the 1S38 slay ing of Joseph i Rosen, Brooklyn storekeeper, the governor ordered a sixth stay for, the trio. Dewey, through I h i s counsel, Charles D. Breitel, said he had re quested Correctioh I Commissioner John A. Lyons to postpone the executions, of Buchalter, Weiss and Capone "until later in this week." Breitel's statement added that under the circumstances there-is no need for a respite by the gov ernor at this time."! Breitel explained that the new stay was granted ifter counsel for Buchalter advised! him he had ar ranged for an application to the United States supreme court at noon Saturday for a writ of cer tiorari.- - i(i r M , , Lepke's attorney, J. Bertram Wegman, seeks review, of. a. US circuit court of? appeals decision, made late this afternoon, uphold ing a lower federal court ruling denying the f gangster a writ of habeas corpus. - i Wegman had sought a habeas corpus ' writ on the ground the transfer of Lepke; from federal to state custody last January was il legal because President Roosevelt had not granted a commutation. Lepke was surrendered to the state on condition, he be returned to federal custody U not executed. Buchalter was serving a 14-year sentence on a narcotics charge. The new lease of life for the 47-year-old gang overlord follow ed a report that he had made- a statement Implicating three na tionally prominent persons. Breitel declined to either affirm or deny such a statement had been made.,.-'';.:. PH-tllll Breitel said the further stay would expire at midnight Satur day. It was indicated unofficially, however, that another stay might be granted tif the US supreme court did not j act j immediately ' on the Lepke application. ST. JOSEPH, Mo.-(ff)-Back in prohibition days police searched a St Joseph building and excava ted 100 times for a still they thought was hidden there. They never found It. j ' ' Today they learned they were on the xight track all along. A man who recently purchased the building discovered a 10-gal-lon still while remodeling. It had been built inside a partition. ftft Attend : Mickey; Mouse -1 Club -1. 1 P. M . V , Saturday a sl 1 k kA k1 H rcF( m ; ." at ' 'n.a s 'ite. . v i w m & m m r ' -w a m isb m m I I "'ft I V I 4 A ;4i: MIC j ; : ii: t 1 ,',t " Finland Ready For Armistice, Says Journal " I By EDWIN SHANKE STOCKHOLM, Fridays March 3. Cpy The Finnish newspaper So cial i Demokxatti, mouthpiece of the social democratic party which is the strongest in Finland's par liament, indicated today that the Finnish government intends to make every effort, to negotiate an armistice , with Russia. : It Is to be believed we will try to move along. the road of nego tiation if there is even the slight est possibility to do so with) free dom and i n d is pen d e n c e pre served," the newspaper said; . , v An informed Finnish source said the article was inspired by the majority view of parliament. which gave the government a vote I of confidence .Tuesday, at. a. secret session, . Censorship refused to pais ac counts of the parliament's vote. Earlier Finnish foreign office spokesman said that the Finnish cabinet was -giving the peace di lemma "major consideration,' but there was no official indication that the government had reached a decision on whether to accept Moscow's terms. - "I The Social Demokratti j ex pressed the opinion that the Mos cow terms were '"meant only to form the basis for further nego tiation and that Finland will have a chance to express its I own views." The newspaper said that at first, glance the conditions; pro posed by Moscow are "harsh and even cruel." . , ! . Im noting that "German ; reac tion i will, have an influence on some points," the newspaper put Its finger on one of the 1 main armistice stumbling blocks the presence or German troops In north Finland. The other touchy question is the demobilization of the Finnish army. j The Finnish cabinet continued meantime to study the question liUulix! LAST . j - 11m 7rh Rstmis Own' Story! ! 1MWM LATEST NEWS EVENTS.. ."SEEING HANDS1 i t' . m Uai lAiL-hsi tn;sar.Wiaasi rrxct i ft B0S8EUI? ADEBDE The two gery start ef MY SiSTU f liESN toeether ogatn uiiif.3D the Marines' fighting of peace or continued war on the losing side,, but informed Finnish political sources predicted : that there would be no move within the next few days. U Senator ants OBertyT Ship Building Ended NEW YORK, March Z-C-PJ-Op-position to construction ' of any more liberty ships and opposition to converting them into hospital or ; troop ships, came today from Senator Mon C Wallgren ': CD Wash), a member of the Truman committee. " j ;The senator's statement came at a public hearing of the special senate sub-committee investigat ing Liberty ships.' . A witness, John Lyle Wilson, assistant chief surveyor of - the American bureau of shipping, New York, strongly defended Liberty , ships, declaring they had been the "salvation of the nation's war time shipping. He agreed, however, when Senator Wallgren . asked if the time hasn't arrived to aban don liberty ship building in favor of .faster -vessels. ' j A. G. Bates, vice president of AGWI lines, Inc, New York, de scribed the condition of one of the 43 Liberty ships his company operates. Senator Wallgren asked Bates "if ,1500 troops had been aboard the ship you described, would they not have been in bad shape?" They certainly would, replied Bates. 'V . Bates stated his opinion that Liberty ships are "not as suitable nor as safe as the regular type passenger ship." ' j Senator Wallgreen said he 1 fa vored completion of only - those Liberty ships now on the ways and cancellation of orders j for "several hundreds" others now scheduled In favor of faster ships better able to out-mannuever sub marines. TUi3 TU1IAY - - .. Salnrday I&n Tuesday Extra! In Technicolor ; I 'llarines ai Tarawa' Starts TODAY! F;.:.:r .Tsrf a "flad"! The stnscttM e( & fit I 1 SPECIAL FEATURETTE ! THE REAL THING AT LAST! 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