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1: s '-Wednesday maximum' temperature 54, -minimum 43, Precipitation .15. River ' 1J. Occasional light rains Thursday; partly cloudy? with scattered showers Fri- day; slightly warmer Fri day, POUNDDD i --The action of on of the ship yards in Portland in publicizinf it layoff of shipyard workers by dropping the early quitters, the loafers and absentees should give one answer to the cry of man power shortage not by making men available for other jobs but by serving notice on men re tained that the day of easy loaf - leg is at an end. This will keep tip production because men will .. not want to be laid off. The effect of Albina's erder should be felt ' all through the war industries of Portland. It is-" readily understood that these mushroom industries could not operate as efficiently as long established, smooth - running plants. There was hoarding of la ' bor. and there was a lot of waste - motion and scant production. Yet the record has been one of steady Improvement a reduction in the manhours per vessel, for instance, . which is the best gauge of alt As time goes on and production set ties into routine, the records of efficiency will be improved. In all this talk about shipyard labor, however, we must not overt look this simple fact, that ships got built, scores of them, in new yards, with green hands. It truly has been an industrial miracle In which management and men share the credit 'These ships too have done won ders toward winning the war. The liberties carried cargoes of lend lease to keep the allies fighting, and -supplied our -own forces at distant--bases. The sub-chasers . scoured the seas to knock out the subs. The patrol vessels scouted ' along our coasts to spot the pos sible approach of the enemy, Portland's contribution to victory In the ships turned out there - is Quite beyond measure. And don't forget it was men and women working with tools and machines who put these ships together and sent them down the ways. Some may have been interested only Jn the wag es; but a . great army of . them had their hearts in the work be cause they had sons or husbands or other relatives on fighting fronts.' Ships meant to them food and , munitions lor these rela tives as well as wages for them- . . selves. ' :, t- It was ;- work, not idleness '- which turned out the ships; and the work wasn't done by a lot . f - the cushion-warming critics who scold at the shipyard work erTfie "honeyrnooa'' of lax dis- " eipllneiiTtheyarmay bnVer, . but we mustn't overlook the pro- -1 - duction - record , maintained for ' months in Portland yards. Two Die When Bus Overturns Near Azalia AZALEA, Ore., April 12 HX) State police and Greyhound stage lines officials late tonight were still trying to identify - the two passengers -killed when a California-bound bus -overturned today -1 mile and a half north of here in southwestern Oregon. (- Others of the IS passengers were ; treated for shock and bruises in Grants Pass and Roseburg hos pitals. : - - ' , Of three - passengers - receiving treatment at Mercy hospital in Roseburg only one, Lois Prevo, Roseburg, had been identified. -Two others, a man and a worn an, were unconscious from shock. gasoline burns and exposure to casoline fumes. Physicians said they believed all would recover Rav Brown, bus driver, told (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Black Market May Upset Gas Program t WASHINGTON, April 12 Black market operations threaten to upset the entire civilian gaso line distribution program,- Interior Secretary I ekes declared today In appealing for the public's aid in combatting illicit activities. - The petroleum . administrator aaid the distribution system had "been invaded by the gangster. the racketeer and even the killer.' "The government alone cannot atop black market operators," he added. "The real power to halt these organized criminal gangs lies in the hands of the gasoline sup pliers, service station attendants nd motorists themselves." . i The office of price administra tion has estimated that 2,500,000 gallons are being drained off dally through illegal sales. , Deputy PAW Administrator Ralph X. Davies said the best prospect of increasing allocations cf automotive gasoline for civil fans lies in halting illegal sales.: - Meanwhile, there was a possi bility that congress might under take a new investigation of gaso line rationing! Rep. Brown (R-O) fcsked for an immediate inquiry. and . Chairman . Lea ' (D-Calif) tgreed to take up wtthbther mem bers of the -house- interstate com tsittee the question of a date for hearings. IIEIETT-THI2D YEAH Japanese Pressure Eases Up Entire Nip Forc 0 4fr luuigttmic 11 r NEW DELHI, April 12 -.JF) Counter - attacking British and' Indian troops have eased Jap anese pressure around Kohima in eastern India, it was an nounced today amid mounting belief that the entire Nipponese force invading India is being caught in a gigantic allied trap and may face eventual extermin ation." . -" : 1 Allied air-borne forces, swiftly widening their scope of operaj tions in central Burma, were dis closed to be slashing from the rear at Japanese invasion bases along the Chindwin river near. the In dian border, the only - sources of food and. other supplies for Jap anese jungle troops now investing the allied-Indian bases of Imphal and Kohima and threatening the Bengal-Assam railroad. The effects of these opera tions by the allied "Chindlts,"! which Include American. Brit ish and Indian troops, probably will not be announced for some time, as they are held in the greatest possible secrecy to mys tify the Japanese. Bnt they will be felt by the Japanese once their supply bases along the Chindwin become exhausted. The manner in which the ene my has' sent his forces rec&essly into India, more or less "orphan ing" them, suggests that the en tire operation was a gamble by Tokyo on a throw - away basis an effort to delay allied opera tions in Burma at whatever cost. Prior to their new campaign (Turn to P-ge 2 Story D) ! Cokmer Jury Praises State i Hospital Staff Oregon state hospital officials and employes were commended by coroner's jury here Wednesday which investigated the death of ErVin L. wakeiieia, nospiuu pa tient, during "a riot in the criminal insane ward of the institution last Monday. 1 "The Jury finds, their report read, "that Ervin L. Wakefield came to his death on April 10 as the result of a hemorrhage of the brain, induced by a blow on the skull. ' "It is our opinion that Dr. John Evans, hospital superintendent, and his staff becommended for their caret of the- injured persons in volved in the attempted break, j Tt also is our opinion that An drew Trimpey, in charge of the criminal insane ward,- be . com mended for bravery in risking his life beyond the requirements of his duties." Herman M. Johnson was fore man of the coroner's, jury. r Two other patients and three hospital attendants also received injuries in the riot Wakefield at tacked the attendants with a blackjack, made from a piece of metal wrapped in two pairs Of socks. The riot was subdued after Trimpey struck .Wakefield on the head with a piece of wood. Dewey, Roosevelt Retain Imposing By HAROLD OLIVER ! Associated Press Staff Writer j While Lt Comdr. Harold E. Stassen and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur rolled up popular major ities in , midwest advisory pri maries. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and President Roosevelt retained yesterday their imposing leads in convention, delegate strength for the presidential nominations. The president picked up most of another 10 delegates selected in New York and received a "com promise fourth term endorse ment from his home state's party committee which unanimously re elected James :Ai.' Farley as state chairman. yUy;y ti"':4";. Here's the way the republican delegate line-up stood today sub ject to further tabulating in -Nebraska: ! V "i ,' Total convention votes ,......,'1059 Needed to nominate. 530 Total selected..: : : S55 Pledged to Dewey: Missouri 6, New Hampshire' J,. Oklahoma?, Wisconsin 15 total 25. Claimed for him: Missouri 7, New York 82, North Carolina, a minimum of 20, Deleg 12 PAGES US Navy Task ft Is,: gf ' Japanese ships, caught by a large ' after the attack by carrier-based . Philippines. All Jap craft found Hansa Bay Hit Again by Yank Heavy Planes! I ALLIED HE ADUARTEllS, Southwest Pacific,; Thursday, April 13 -(if) Escorted heavy bombers followed up Monday's heavy naval and air assault on Hansa bay with a 210-ton bombing the next day, causing considerable damage; at that Japanese base on the north east coast of New Guinea. -' Gen. Douglas MacArthur in an nouncing this latest attack: said also that heavy bombers bombed Nomoi island southeast of Triik in the Carolines- and also hit Wewak on New Guinea and badly-shat tered RabauTT New Brjtafti.i-f'-t: Wewak and nearby Boram took a &9-ton nommng centered: in fuel dumps and anti-aircraft in stallations. ;! ' Ten Japanese barges were de stroyed north of Dagua in the We wak sector. i ' i Rabaul's Tobera airstrip . and supply areas: at Talili bay Were (Turn to Page 2 Story H)i Kill Camaeko Plot Revealed 1 ; ., ' 1 . . 1 i ! MEXICO CITY, April 12 -?(JP) Arrest of 13 persons in connection with an investigation of a report ed plot against the lives of Pre sident A vila Camacho, his bro ther Gen. Maximino Avila Cama cho, and former Presidents Plu- tarco Elias Calles and Lazaro Car denas was announced by police tonight' W:- ' S The alleged plot, however, was not officially linked with Mon day's attempted assassination! of the president by Lt Antonio; de la : Lama Rojas, who died today of a bullet -wound inflicted; by guards when he attempted tojes cape. ; , '." ,f I Five of those arrested were ov er 60 years old. Two women were among those held. j I Police said several of those ar rested admitted having partici pated in the conspiracy but denied that it was linked with Monday's I assassination attempt. : ji ate Oklahoma 2, Wisconsin 2 total 123. Grand total 148. t ! i Pledged to Stassen: Minnesota 23, Nebraska 6 (subject : to change), Wisconsin 4 total -33 None claimed so far. Pledged to MacArthur: Wiscon sin 3. None claimed. ; . 1 Uninstructed and unclaimed Florida 15, Illinois 50, Iowa I 23 Kansas 19, Louisiana 13, Minne sota 2, Missouri 17, Nebraska 9 (awaiting final primary i count) New Hampshire 9, New Mexico New York 1, North Carolina 2 total 172. , , - -J i . ine aemocrauc aeiegaie une- upf . i . , j Total convention vntM - , mm Needed to nominat .. '" , 589 Total aelected lil . : ... 238 Pledged to President Roosevelt: Maine 10, New Hampshire 1 10, Wisconsin 28 total 45. Claimed for him: Illinois 50, Nebraska1 12, New York 85 total 1 57. Grand total 203. Jumnstructed and unclaimed Arizona 10, - Louisiana 22, New : , " ; ' -, - ' : t r tr- xoxx. 1 total 33. - i (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Salem, Oregon. Thursday Mornlna. April 13. 1944 Force Hits Japanese at Palua 4. ' if ' "I i navy task force during the fartherest aircraft en the enemy base at Palao, between the Carolines and the at the base were sank. (AF Wlrephoto via signal corps radio) Bricker Loads Schedule For Salem Visit Today Gov. John W. Bricker, three tive's chair in Ohio and now aspirant for the republican presi dential nomination, will find not dining room in Salem today. ! Every chair in the mirror room of the Marion hotel, where tables will accommodate 250 persons, will be taken for the 12:30 luncheon, while another 50-75 men will join the group when the Lions club, holding its own luncheon at 12 o'clock, adjourns at 1 p. m. to hear the Bricker pro gram. Still other listeners will hear the state's distinguished vis itor over radio KSLM which will broadcast the program, beginning at 1:05 o'clock. ) Airiving-lierejat 9:45 a. m., Go4 Bricker-will call first upon Gov? Snell at the Capitol building. Mrs. Bricker will be guest of Pro - America - sponsored re ception at the Snell residence at 11 a. m., to which the public is in vited. At the same hour, Gov. Brick er will : confer with . republican leaders and the press in chamber of commerce rooms, leaving to go to the Snell home, where at 11:45 he will join the receiving line. ) With Gov. and Mrs. Earl Snell, the Brickers will go on to Portland early this afternoon, arriving there at 3:45 for a series of talks, meetings' and radio appearances. Party leaders from over the state will gather at the dinner in hon or of the Ohio governor at the Multnomah hotel tonight, and at 10 p. m. he and Mrs. Bricker will entrain for California. Finns Agreed In Rejecting Armistice Plan STOCKHOLM, . April 12 -(P- The Finnish parliament was re liably , reported tonight to have given the government a vote . of confidence during the day's sec ond secret session after Premier Edwin ; Linkomies ' outlined the cabinet's view of the latest Rus sian armistice prdposals.," ; -. By all indications the vote means that Finland again had ; rejected the Soviet terms.; ; 1. Finnish sources here said that today's ; secret parliamentary dis cussions l, were " simply . a "repeat performance" of -the - sessions March 14-15 when Russia's or iginal peace proposals- were re jected. ; - r However, at that time the Fin nish reply to the Soviet left the way open for a later trip to Mos cow by Dr. Juho K. Paasikivt, who obtained a more precise definition of some of the terms and some moderations. " ' ' ir'-'-t-ll- N o r m a n ' McDonald, British Broadcasting . company's - corres pondent in Stockholm, quoted the newspaper ' Morgentidningen as saying : that there were three groups ' of Finns against making peace with Russia and they could plunge . Finland into .. civil : war. These groups were said to be "the Karelians, who dont want to give up their territory to the Russians, the, Finnish nazir .who; say Ger many has not lost the , war, and some sections of the Finnish ar my." CBS recorded the : broad cast . , .The nature of the Finnish gov ernment's newest reply to Mos cow undoubtedly will be sup pressed in Helsinki until it is cer- I tain the Russians have received A s "A J western raid en March 19, bora times elected to the state execu only a full program but a full Emariuele Will Retire When Rome Falls NAPLES, Aprtt - 12rKing Vittorio Emanuele III - announced today that he had decided "irre vocably" to withdraw from pub lie life and turn his kingly pow ers over to his son Umberto "on the day on which the allied troops enter Rome." The slight, 74-year-old - mon arch, whose 43-year reign has covered the rise and fall of fas cism in Italy, appointed his tall son "lieutenant general of the realm" effective on the uncertain date of the allied entry into the capital. Allied representatives ex pressed approval of the decision. When Crown Prince Umberto receives royal . powers from his father he will in effect be his fa ther's regent The king is said to have no idea of abdicating. The king has been opposed by the leading Italian political par ties mainly on the contention that he had been too closely tied up with fascism, and a lew months ago many of these .parties , had favored abdication in favor, of his seven-year-old grandson, the prince of Naples, under a regen cy. The political leaders insisted then - that the 39-year-old Um berto was tarred with the fascist brush as much as his father. The' king's . declaration to his people today, formalizing 'what (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Snell Write-In May Greet Voters k number of Oregon republi can leaders,- according to reports here Wednesday, - are ' exploring the possibilities of a primary elec tion write-in campaign for Gov ernor Earl Snell for president as a means of preventing a coup by so - called Roosevelt republicans to write in the latter's name and obtain : both the democratic and republican nominations. : . The argument , was : advanced that SnelL because of his popu larity and huge vote at the last general election, probably could attract more republicans to write in his name for. president at the primary election than ; Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Governor John Bricker at Ohio, or other persons mentioned up to this " time. " . : I -; : . , 1- t Under such ' a ' plan, provided Snell received -the republican in dorsement for president; he could release the - Oregon : republican delegates to vote for any presiden tial candidate from the first bal lot Sponsors of the proposals aaid there is a precedent With tbi withdrawal, of Wen dell L. WflOtie from the Oregon republican primary election there Is no republican for -president on the ballot - ' Bombers DealBlow TdAustria Messerschmitt Factories Given Powerful Blow LONDON, April 12-(P)-Am erican 15th ' air force heavy weights from Italy dealt a thun dering blow today at Messer schmitt factories in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, as bad wea ther forced Liberators and Fortresses from Britain to turn back after a 72-hour succession of big - bomber attacks against German Europe, from the west . American ninth. air. force Ma rauders and British Mosquitos from Britain assaulted airfields, rail yards and other' targets' in France " and Belgium during the day, however, and hundreds of American . Lightnings, Thunder bolts and Mustangs made offen sive; sweeps against western Ger many and Holland. . j , ' The Berlin radio broadcast a warning tonight that "enemy i , planes are ever northwest, cen- ( 1 tral and southwest Germany.1 German planes caused a one- hour alarm in London and anti aircraft batteries and searchlights were in action. It was the first alert in the capital since March 31. It was officially announced that some Liberator and Flying Fort ress formations penetrated over the continent from Britain but had to return to their bases as the weather closed in. The Germans named Wiesbaden and Frankfurt as among the localities the big bombers . approached, and said (Turn to Page 2 Story C) ' German Base Of Gradina Falls to Tito LONDON, April 12. - (ff) - The vital German base of Gradina in central. Yugoslavia has fallen to partisan troops. Marshal J o s i p Broz (Tito) announced today, and heavy assaults are being waged against German communications lines on a long, broken front ex tending from below Zagreb on the main Balkan railway southward to the Dalmatian coast Marshal Tito declared also that fresh German troops were being rushed Into Serbia, Bosnia, and Slayonia. Some of these rein forcements were identified as drawn from Hungary. While fighting was heaviest along . Yugoslavia's railway s, Tito's communique today, broad cast by the free Yugoslav radio. said j severe casualties were in flicted on the enemy garrison in Gradina, including a considerable number of troops who drowned in the Una river while fleeing the city. The communique's report of sharply increased attrition against the nazis greatest single posses sion in the Balkans interior lines which they must hold against the threat of allied domination of the Adriatic indicated the partisan attacks are being synchronized with the allies' intermittent air blows from Italy. Congress Set for Action OwHugey Program WASHINGTON, April 12 -) Congress ended its Easter recess today by setting to work on a record $32,647,13436 navy ap propriation bill intended to give the world's largest navy the punch for final defeat of Japan and Ger many. -; ,-: ;.:v-i Warned by the men who operate the fleet that the end of the war is not in sight the house appro priations committee acceded . to virtually every request for funds and sent to the floor for expected unanimous approval the bill boost ing to an estimated $362,000,000,- 000 the nation's war outlay since July 1, 1940. ,c":c;:- Only a relatively small amount, $803,683,164,' was trimmed by the committee from budget estimates, with the explanation that the purse strings would be kept open to meet any future requirements, That such needs are by no means unlikely was Indicated in testi mony by James V ForrestaL un dersecretary of the navy, who told the; committee that the appropria tions were preliminary to . major operations in both Atlantic ' and Pacific. ' - ::, yf -y- He did not say for the record whether he had in mind the in Pric Se Rmssian Race 46 Iii Single Day 3 Red Armies Drive Toward Junction in Fast Crimean Sweep to Sevastopol Goal By TOM YARBROUGH ; LONDON, Thursday, April 13-(iT-Shattering the second deep zone of German defenses in the Crimea, the red army has raced 46 miles in a single day down the central Crimean railway from the vicinity of Dzhankoi to a point only 11 miles north of Sim feropol and 46 miles above Sevastopol, the "sacred goal" of the O a 1 ' ' ; -m m I Ace missing MaJ. Gerald Johnson (above) of Owenton. Ky fighter pilot ere dlted -with downing IS enemy planes in the European theatre of Derations, has been reported missing in action. (At .wire photo) C of C Likes Manager Plan Endorsing the charter amend ment which, if adopted at the May 19 election, will give Salem council-manager form of govern ment Salem chamber of commerce directors Wednesday night an nounced that an authority on the city manager plan and its opera tions in other cities would be in vited to ; address an organization luncheon meeting shortly. The seal of the board's approval was also placed upon the proposed annexation of heavily-populated suburban areas by the city of Salent . J Both modernization of the city's government and extension, of its boundaries were planks in what Mayor L M. Doughton has termed his "post election platform," an nounced in his first address to the council. The managerial form of government was recommended to the council , both by the unior chamber of commerce and the special committee appointed by th mayor to study the problem. vasion or western Juirope, out urged : that no cuts - be made in navy, funds "until the middle of this summer.' By the end of that 90-day period, he said, the major event he had in mind "will, I think, have occurred." : ' The new funds, the committee informed the house," will help fi nance a program ' contemplating ultimate use of 6623 self-propelled vessels, 74,925 non-self-propelled ships and 19,035 naval planes ex elusive of training ships, all man ned by 3,657,467 sailors, marines and coast guardsmen. The appropriation cleared the way for continued construction of thousands of landing barges to carry our fighting men to ; the shores of the enemy, a Job which top naval experts said would be no easy one. :y-'iy ."Destruction of . the Japanese empire, Adm. Ernest J, King, commander-in-chief of the fleet told the committee, is the navy's goal, to be accomplished; by" de livering "the heaviest attacks of which we are capable, as soon, and as often: as possible, where it will hurt the most" ; Difficulties . that - lie - ahead, the - (Turn to Page 2 Story A) si vv-" fit i tSc' y II: A No. 328 Forces three - way offensive to liberate the peninsula, Moscow announced last night . ' A simultaneous thrust from the east; has cleared the enemy from all. the Kerch peninsula, a com munique said, and the speed of the Soviet advance indicated that the German and Rumanian forces in the Crimea, failing in repeated attempts to stand, were withdraw ing ; swiftly toward Sevastopol, perhaps to attempt to duplicate the historic defense which the Russians made under siege there in 1942. On the mainland, the red ar my, demonstrating its ability to maintain - multiple d e f enses, stormed the Ukraine city ef Tiraspol, 53 miles northwest of Odessa; and immediately .hard- . led to the west bank of the Dnestr river; pushed deeper to wards the north Romanian oil fields by capturing Falticeni, hastened the encirclement ' ma- ' neuver against Chisinan in Bes sarabia, and squeezed the Skala pocket en the first Ukraine front around a ragged remnant of 1 10,009 Germans. From April 1 to 10 the Germans west of Skala lost 26,000 dead and 6988 i captured, while Russian - jTurn to Page 2 Story E) Venturas Raid Kurile Islands am US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor. April 12-P)-Paramushiro and Shimu shu, Japanese bases in the North Pacific Kurile islands, w e r e bombed ; on Tuesday by Ventura search planes of fleet airwing 4, Adm. Chester W. NimiU an nounced today. These raids were the first re ported for April, although both fog-shrouded bases were raided' six times during March. On the same day, Adm. Nimitx : said in his press release, a single ! eleventh air force Liberator un- ; loaded bombs at Matsuwa, a Kur- iles base less than 1000 miles from Tokyo which had been a target for a full-sized Liberator strike the day before. In the Central Pacific, a fleet airwing search plane bombed Or oluk atoll east of Truk In the Car olines, another bit Ulul island, 150 miles northwest of Truk, and a third 'dropped incendiary bombs on Ponape, Truk's eastern out post ; -r , 1 u , Seventh AAF Mitchells escort- ed by marine Corsairs also bomb ed and strafed Ponape in the Car olines, hitting buildings, j small craft, the airstrips and the storage area Anti-aircraft fire was in tense.;', " ' -: - " i Three enemy - held Marshall atolls were bombed and strafed by medium bombers, -divebombers and fighters. - ' - . i ' All planes returned from these operations. Adm. Nimitx announced ear lier that army Liberators had bombed Matsuwa and Onnekotan on i Monday. - Both islands are slightly 1 south of - Paramushiro, Matsuwa being $60 nautical miles from Tokyo. . ' - Are Yea DcrjLslcrcd? If you are a newcomer to Marion County . . - - I If you faQed to vote at the last general election ; if you have moved into an other precinct r .! jy 1 I. -. y v r.'- -i-y ; y.'i i-vv Yea llzzi Ecislcr to veto . at the Primaries May 19th. ' SegistraUoa Beeka Close , , April 18th Miles 1 a Tuesday ttbe message. . , - ,f - - - ' ,... .