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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1944)
P AGS TWELVE ThOZLGON 'CTATZCMANlenft. Oi90tu-TiurtdaTo-P3 -131344 t t r v , . ', t .1 t 5 . i. ; Marine Tells How to Save - Glued Stamps CAE GLOUCESTER, New . Britain -(Delayed)-. It' enough to make a marine lose his temper when his envelopes become sealed y equatorial heat that melts .the glue; and causes the stamps to : i smff er similarly. - -t . - That's, where Navy Mail Spe cialist First Class Paul R. Morrow, VJ4, of Slippery Rock, Psl, navy - snail clerk with marine engineers, comes into the picture with the .following handy household hints from the Jungle: - A To unstick the glued envelope. moisten the outside of the Hap with the tongue. Let it stand a minute ' or two , and peel opert slowly. To " prevent flaps from sticking, rub the glued surface with tooth or foot powder. - . If the stamps are stuck to the cellophane backing, hold over a Uehted match. The heat melts the glue. Peel apart carefully and the stamp is OK. Another sticking preventive is to rub the stamps over the hair . when the latter is dry- This leaves a thin film of natural oil -over the glue surface and prevents self -sticking. . - Man Sues Cafe For Overcharging VENTURA, Calif., April 12 -iff) Claiming he was overcharged for 100 cups of coffee,-100 meals and 80 pieces of pie over a periodof five months, R. W. Agnew totay filed suit in superior court against the Modern cafe for $14,000. - Agriew's complaint asks $50 for each time, he was assertedly charged prices in excess of the OPA ceiling. It alleged the cafe billed himvlO cents for coffee, 75 cents for meals and 15 cents for, pie, all of which, it claims, were inferior in size. ' Loyal Japs Will Do Farm Work pqTLAND, Ore., April 12 -(P) The war food administration will use 2500 Japanese from relocation "camps for farm work-in eastern Oregon, Idaho, and Utah this sum mer, the WFA office of labor, Portland, said today. Some have been sent to Walla Walla, Wash.,- and 200 or 300 will go to Malheur county, Oregon, for sugar beet work. Japanese from the Tulelake cen ter in northern California will be excluded from the plan because that center is for disloyal Japa nese officials added. Fewer Paper Wrappings Face Buying Public J . WASHINGTON, April 12 -iff) Customers will have to manage with far fewer paper bags and much' less paper wrappings, the war production board (WPB) said today, announcing the civilian ' supply . of such wrappings has dropped to less than one-third of normal. j . Shortage of paper craft pro ducts "has grown even more ser ious than was the prospect at 'the beginning of the year" when half the normal supply was predicted, .WPB said. Misplaced Cigarette Stub Causes Fire . SILVERTON A -misplaced cigarette stub was the cause of fire in the J. C. Penney awn ing Monday night,shortly after 7 o'clock. The alarm was turned. in and the fire checked in its early stages but a couple of holes were burned in the awning before con trol was gained. Defense Workers Move To Portland Project . SILVERTON Mr. and Mrs, Arnold E. Johnson moved to Port land the i first of the week after IS months residence here. Both are employed in defense work and will occupy one of the new hous big project homes. Mr. Johnson is son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. R. Johnson on South Water street PORTLAND, Ore.-(ffy-A. truck enroute to the city incinerators with cancelled coupons once worth 1,000,000 gallons of gasoline be came stalled on a downtown street. It was out of gas. Celilis create an acidity of the blood and tndneas B.O.. Peer circu lation Is the rale. Uensrrhsub zzi Ccnsiipalisa Is the Underlying Cause To protect." Yeur Health; and , prevent piicauons; t ; . Colitis, Rectal U A Colon ft diiorderV should be C o r rected , without delay.' Why take" chances? . i - Convenient Credit FSES Descriptive Booklet li D Ccynrlis Clinic Court ft Liberty Sit. licse 1 1C3 Ealem, Ore. r - Where. They, Are What " 1 1 - - .. 1 MT. ANGEL LL (it) Virgil J. Cooler, LSNR, left Wednesday after spending a 21-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gooley. He has been In the Sooth Pacific for a year and a half following his enlistment August II, 1942, three months after he was graduated from ML Angel college. He was sent to Notre Dame university for Indoctrination and to North western In Chicago where he re ceived his commission as en sign on November 14, 1942. Since then he has been on ac tive duty on a US destroyer and was recently promoted .to lieutenant (Jg). He had a short leave In January, 1943 but this was his first real visit with rel atives and friends. He expressed his surprise at the few young men in ML Angel and said that In all his time In the Pacific he had met only two Mt. Angel men. ; W. H. Wilson, building custo dian of Salem, has learned of promotion of his son, Leonard Orval Thomas, to motor mate me chanic first class at his station with the navy somewhere in the south Pacific. Dudley Earl Bullock, Salem. was among 33 17-year-olds who enlisted in the navy at Portland this week. EAST SALEM - Home from Camp Roberts on a furlough is Pvt. Clayton Gibb whose family lives on Hollywood drive. Serving as mess sergeant and chief cook at an officers' mess at an air service command replace ment control depot in England is Cpl. Louis R. Fenner, whose wife, Mrs. Helen Fenner. resides at 1136 Fairmount street here. Cpl. Fenner was inducted into the army in October, 1942, and sub sequently attended cooks' and mess sergeants' school at CamD Stoneman, Calif. Assistant station veterinarian at the Presidio, San Francisco, is Captain Carl R. Howarth, former Salem veterinarian, originally of Denver, Colo. Captain Howarth was instructor in veterinary med icine and research on animal dis eases at Oregon State collece prior to entering the army. While in Salem he was active in the Lions club. WEST SALEM Mr. and Mrs. Floyd White have learned of transfer of their son, Vernon White, seaman first class, to the f " t" F - 5 r -v SIS? 1 nw INSTALLATIONS OF : BEAUTY and EIIDURAtlCS WITH THE MAGIC OF ; ,,' : ! (PATENTED) J j ROOFING WELDED INTO A SOLID, '.. LONG LASTING UNIT 171 Chemekela St. - - - - - . - . Dial t221 Gim uciisnth.'iiiiauDn'' ; - They Are Doing Little Creek, .Va naval base from his previous station at San Die go, where he had e n g a ge d in quartermaster . training. Seaman White's wife, Betty, is a second class seaman with the SPARS at Palm Beach, Fla. Staff Sgt. Carl A. Petersen, son of Mrs. Kathe r i n e Petersen, 1370 Ferry street, and attached to an army engineers unit in Eng land, relates in r letter how he and some of his fellows recently prospected over the English coun tryside n search of rock to serve as foundation for: buildings and to be employed in ipaving of roads now , being constructed in Britain by the engineers -one of the pre paratory steps for the invasion. Sgt Petersen stated that he and his pals were particularly enthus iastic in their rock-hunting since a two-day pass was. to be their reward. ., An army veteran of IS years service, including participation in the Solomons campaigns. Staff Sgt. B. A. Seats lis relaxing at Camp Adair on temporary quar termaster duty with the 25th di vision. A native of Portland, Me., Sgt Seats is a member of the Honolulu post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. .- I, MT. ANGEL Pfc Charles Van Bree, US army, has just returned from Alaska, and.: stopped over on his' way to Sari; Francisco Tuesday, to visit with friends and the management and employees of the Benedictine Press. Pfc. Van Bree is a fornier member of the circulation department force of the Press and he has been in service for 20 months, r t - NEWPORT Lt Harry T.Ma son, stationed with, the army at Texarkana, Tex., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Warren:" O. Edwards and Dorothy and Clinton Mason here. ' A ' 44 Men Missing j From Tanker SAN FRANCISCO, April 12-(P) j Forty-four officers and men were reported missing and 26 rescued when the Standard -Oil tanker H. D. j Collier was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Arabian sea in mid-March, the 12th naval district announc ed today. The missing included 33 men of the. tanker's personnel and 11 members of the navy's armed guard. !- Ten .officers and men of the tanker and 16 of the armed guard were known to have been res-1 cued. - - X ' 4 None of the listed missing were ! from the Pacific northwest ! Easter Egg Party . Given at Perrydale PERRYDALE Chucky Strick werda celebrated his ninth birth day Saturday at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Van Staavern. Games and an Easter egg bunt were en tertainment Those who attended were, Dicky Cooper Lorraine and La Verne Byerle,.LueUa Zumwalt Billy McKee, Johnnie Mcintosh and Leland Holland. nnr Arizio Rest Camp Within Sound Of Guns Is Heaven to Soldier s . . . i . By kenneth,l: pixon ON THE jANZIO BEACHHEAD, Italy, - April MflIf r yoti couldn't hear the guns in the not-so-far distance and you didn't look toxrclosely at the faces all around, you'd swear this place was a picnic' party or a boy's summer camp back home.' It's the beachhead rest camp the closest rest camp to the front lines In this or any other war. i It isn't from choice, but from necessity,; But the .soldiers who have been fighting here more"than two months had to have break Somehow and so they set up a rest camp. y ''J...z-.l - ; : :. Now there are football, base ball, badminton, table tennis, vol leyball, darts, and horseshoe games going on. among the trees.' Over near one dugout a barber is do ing a land office business; guys who haven't had time or place to shave themselves in days are get ting a "store-bought shave and a GI haircut ; r ; i Some of the boys are lying around talking or just stretched out on their backs looking at the sky. Others are sprawled on . the ground writing letters home. Some are reading. 1 7? ' -br --r -1 4 'ef w-. f '-. Almost without exception; they look at least 10 years younger than the gang "of" dirty bearded, worn out dogfaces who climbed wearily out of the trucks day be fore yesterday, They have had hot showers nd clean clothes and have been able to ' sleep i as ' late as they want to for the past two mornings. ; -.7'; I ; They have seen movies and lis tened to their own division band send the strains of the latest dance tune. The old song, "Home Sweet Home is 1 drifting h through the tents and dugouts now. : For. many of them it is actual ly the first time since D-day that they have been able to stay alive without having to struggle to do it :,"r- : -it; You can hear the shelling and occasionally a stray one whooshes over the campsite landing not far away, but these war, babies have learned .their direct .hit' percent ages the bitter way and they don't even notice anything so remote as C" V.-'"-. . j Their faces look strange es pecially those of the front line in fantrymenbecause the beards they had until yesterday had pn tected part of their faces from the sun. and wind. Now many of their foreheads and faces- are tanned while their cheeks and jaws are lade, f -ixj-1 .,;!:; u,.-"- : They j are sure of at least two days and nights of, complete rest here,-then most of them will get a chance 1 to "police their equip. ment break in their replacements and sort of get their second wind before returning to combat ? ...They're well protected here. As yet the jerries havent thrown ma ny shells in this sector, but if they should the men ' will be able to take cover in the sandbagged tents and. dugouts which dot the en tire camp. , That's all there is to the camp just a couple of days of peace and rest and protection within the range of German guns and a bath and a shave and clean clothes and a few days to play. 7 ! t Stevens & Sori cordially invite you to see the beautiful and distinctive pat- - - f " ;- I..-----;:- terns in International Sterling. 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The allies announced that the Japanese; had sent small parties west of Blsh enpur, southwest ef Imphal. in an effort te sweep aroond Imphal's defenses. To the north Japanese continued pressure In the Kehima area, where their objective Is to reach the railway running north ward through Dimapnr to Ledo a supply line for allied forces In northern Banna. (AP Wlrephoto). ' i 1 Encirclement