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! I .......... . . - ... ' . , .. '; '" " T & 1 fan ("7 ifXttrfY I'll? SUilTTOB to orpre 7eallier i Masimam tcmptratsurc -Tmesday $ degrees: mini ' ; sawa 43; - preclpttattoa - .if ; river 1.1 feet " Oecasloaal light showers ever valleys and, saew. florries ever; BMuUias Wednesday sad Tharsday. Nst mack chaaga la temperstar. PCUNDQD 1651 I . V .C" T. . ' -V .f i ... .. . "... .J. J '" ' . ' ' fc - . Aviation moves so fast in it uiTavyiucut uiak It. 14 UUU 1W record books to keep up to date. Tne tcnievemtnt of the new transport plane Constellation ' in panning the continent in 6 hours, 33 minutes is a record so aston ishing that it makes the country sit up and take notice. The pre- rtrai ei i mrrn 1 t Ytstiivw 9ft tnln. utes was made by a single-pas senger plane, specially designed. The Constellation is a giant trans port plane planned for duty. It is the forerunner of fleets of simi lar planes which will fly the sky- . iavi of the future." - At -present,.. plane design and operation are chiefly for war pur poses. But the developments will many of them -apply to peacetime operations. Nor is the Constella- j tion the ultimate in performance, fit the daring of aeronauUcal en- gineers. No one is bold , enough to try to set stakes marking the limit f iTr routes will not foUow "wi- ter grades" or Indian trails. They will seek the shortest distances between points, with due regard of course to weather conditions. In I this development the Arctic re gion will play an important role. The Russians pioneered this in their flight from Russia to Van couver, Wash, in 1937. The air way for ferrying of planes from this country to Russia now crosses Knox Discloses Part of Plans WASHINGTON, April 18 American plans for closing in on Tokyo, Secretary Knox said today, call for invasion of the Kurile is lands which stretch in stepping 'stone fashion northward from the 'Japanese homeland - along . .the short rout from Alaska. . - The navy secretary was discus- sing at a press conference the "cur- rent increasingly heavy aerial .bonibardments of enemy positions l in the island chain and was asked l .specifically if invasion is planned, . -sometime, . sura, cut . npooay knows wben,"? he. repliedV i Knox .went, on - .weather is; aa important. portat factor in military operations in the north Pacific. Because of fog, he marked, it frequently is fanpoe- J"- (The best weather ordinarily- is i .found about this time of year be tween the close of the arctic win ter and the beginning' of summer with its -heavy and unpredictable fOgS.) - ' Matsuwa Island in . the Kuriles, attacked five times in as many days by American bombers, is less than 500- miles from the Jap anese ' mainland In t addition to Matsuwa, bombers flying across the north Pacific from bases in the Aleutians, have been pound ing' regularly at Paramushiro, 'northernmost of the enemy bases, and af Onekotan and Shumushu Rear Admiral George S. Hus aey,:. chief of -the -navy's bureau of ordnance sat with Knox at the conference. Without referring spei-; cifically to 'any areas, Hussey said that his bureau now is concentrat ing upon shore bombardment In the Pacific, he said, the enemy is learning to ' fear the effects of shore bombardment" '1 Yankee Subs Sink 15 More Enemy Ships WASHINGTON, April 18 - AmrlMn 'tiiKmarinM nfotflintf at Japanese sea communications have sunk 15 more enemy ships, the navy announced, to run the total to 682 sunk, probably sunk or damaged. The number def Witeiy sunk is S3Z. ; j A medium-sized naval repair ship and three tankers, all of vi- tax imporxance w ine enemy s neet, were mcmaea in tne newest sink- Kurile Invasion ings. ine ouier snips inciuaeaiwar department seven meoium-sizea cargo ves - sels, two medium-sized cargoi passenger vessels, a small cargo ship, and a small cargo-passenger ship..:,, . . i Tha navy did not disclose the area where the ships were unk A aW .M14 sul Ta..zav. wxxVi w m h w in uie -acuic ana ir ess. ... . -i m.. 4 a a i L'' J . me newest report vi luunanne actions followed a weekend report commander in chief, that Japan'i merchant fleet has been reduced I to two-thirds of its tonnaxe at the time of Pearl Harbor. Unit tO-lnTCSUgate Illegal Gas Coupons PORTLAND. Ore. April 18 (At Formation of a special OPA inves- tisating unit in the Portland dis - trict to combat traffic in illegal J sever another link between inva gasoline coupons was announced ( sion-conscious England and neu- today by McDannell Brown, dis- trict enforcement attorney. Jack, L. Davis heads the new unit . imiETY-THISDYEAH Japanese Repulsed Bv A1V A. t. A a ...... Heavy ? r ang Rages Along Irupbal Verrain KANDY, Ceylon, April 18 Mlied infantry and 616 locked in heavy fighting against Japanese invasion troops around the jungle perimeter of the rich Imphal plain in eastern India, with the Japanese either bein stonDed cold or thrown . avorv . f A dm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's I headquarters disclosed today. - The Japanese, shorn of the pro tection of the jungle and hills through - which - they infiltrated from western Burma, were esti- mated to be suffering 10 casual- troops as they tangled with the powerful allied, defenses' around Imphal, the Manipur state capital. Allied authorities consider- Im phal's fortifications impregnable. Gaing over to the offensive northeast ' a f Imphal, allied forces were reported In today's commanlqae ta be making "sat isfactory progress." Other eonn terattaeklnr British and Indians threw the Japanese from a com manding position near the Bish- enpnr-Silchar Jungle trail same 11-2 miles southwest of Imphal and were reported staving off enemy efforts ta retake the paiaU - The Bishenpur-Silchar trail,- or track," is believed to have rep- resented 1 the Imphal . -,- garrison's last overland communication witfc the Bengal-Assam supply rail- road. nghtlnr. raged" la the saile u (Turn to Page 0-Story B) t .,:u Hiii Hospital In London LONDON, Wednesday, April 19 (AV-One of the largest hospitals in London was blasted and set ablaze by a direct bomb hit early this morning as German raiders attacked the British capital for the third time in April's "dark of the moon period. Nearly 2000 patients were in the building, and a number of them were feared casualties. The fire was extinguished quickly, however, and rescue squads clawed" their way into the wreckage to free trapped victims. One ward housing male' patients. was completely destroyed, v. . " ; All available police in the area were ordered to the scene and rescue work continued through, out the night""' v The raid the first on -London in four nights lasted about one hour. ' . Shortly after the sirens sig naled the enemy approach planes droned overhead and ground fire broke into a sustained roar. Vari-colored flares cascaded from a great height followed by incendiaries and a few high ex plosives. Residents in outer London re ported they had heard two planes approaching the capital shortly before the warning. I rfrhlllG r4$HlrhlA AJ-JA1AS I T A JLtICS 111 fVCUOIl AURORA. April 18 Hollis I Fauble. 20-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Fauble, was killed in action, according to Information reeeived by bis parents from the 1 He had been overseas several month. The familv cam here from Eueene and Junction City where he attended school. He is survived bv his narents. two sis- k n. Mrt. Viola Davl of Eusen. Mrs. Iva Hogue of Bend, and a 1 brother, Alton, at home. i v C? 1 liriUUIl SUSpeilUS dUippilm IO JLlre I LONDON, April 18 -W- Cross channel shipping from the south era Irish port of Cork to Britain It. 1 J Vin lumMiu. I trains will be permitted to run Monday wdjrhursdajf be- I nounced today. The order, probably the result 1 of a critical fuel ahortage, will Itral Eire, which has permitted the axis to maintain legation listening posts In Dublin. 14 PAGES Allies Improve Position bo 1ri- V STATUTf MfttS Southeast Asia headquarters said the road from Kohima to Dimapar, where Japs are attacking (ar rows), have been improved. Circled areas were bombed and strafed by allied planes. A communique said allied air-bourne troops were active In those areas bat a later troops at Shwebo had been inserted "erroneously and inadvertently. Allies eontinaed their drive toward Myitkyina. (AP Wirephoto) Congress Agdinst 4F Draft WASHINGTON, April "l8 - (ff) lem back into the laps of executive agencies, today. ' . At a closed meeting climaxing utilize the services of draft-age because of - disabilities, the house military committee decided against pushing 4F legislation.1 - Ta committee, Chairman May government agencies already haveO' ample powers to dewimihe.sit- Tbi action, which May 'said was unanimous,-followed a verbal re port by Representative Costello (D-Calif.), who heads a sub-com mittee that has been studying the 4F situation. Costello said a formal report," embodying the group's views that legislation now is not needed, would be filed Thursday. The Californian earlier had in dicated that the heed for legisla tion to force 4Fs into essential jobs with the alternative of induction into army or navy labor battalions had lessened since congress be gan showing Interest in it Many of the estimated 3,000,000 4Fs of draft age, Costello said, already are in war. Or essential civilian jobs, and many others .have indi cated a desire to get into, such jobs once they find thenv J The remaining few who .would have been affected by legislation, he explained,r can be dealt, .with through selective service mechan ism which permits the recalling of rejected men for induction ex amination and their assignment if necessary, to limited service du ty, i i'v v?.: The war department . through Secretary Stimson, . had told the committee it opposed labor bat talions as such except as a last resort. Selective service officials, on the other hand, had suggested that something be done to force 4Fs to take their places in the war effort, complaining that many of them felt they could do as they wished after their rejection for military service. Corporal in Southwest Food Served Soldiers SEATTLE, April 18 j -JPi- A Seattle mother made public ; to night a letter from her son in the southwest Pacific where, she charged, food served American soldiers was so unpalatable that army censors liyere "now actually encouraging enlisted men to write home - complaining about condi tions." vi:.: ijj.".; ,:; v:.;.'v; The letter was written to Mrs. Wallace Johnson by her son, CpL Beryle W. Johnson, 38, an air- piano mechanic stationed overseas for the past 29 months. The letter was received this l week; (The letter passed regular mail censorship and i was approved for publication by. the office of cen sorship, Washington, DC, in a teiepnonic communication with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) "When we first arrived here, and the food Was so terrible, wo were told by ear groap censors that wa coaldnt mention that fact as it was bad for morale," the soldier wrote. " Salnx, Oregon, Wadnasdcrf Morning. April 19, 1944 1' allied positions at Imphal and on report said reference to the ground - Congress tossed the 4F prob weeks of study of how best to men rejected for military duty . :r : u j(D-Ky.) . announced, felt that yandenberg No. 1 Choice '- ' -, - -. .... For Keynoter ! CHICAGO, April 18-P)- Sen ator Arthur Vandenburg, Michi gan's coiner of catch phrases, ap peared to be the leading candidate tonight for the republican nation al convention keynoter after par ty chieftainr reportedly, discour aged a move to select Rep'. Clare Boothe Luce. The attractive Mrs. Luce was kept in the running by a .one-man campaign ' conducted by . J. Ken neth. Bradley, Connecticut nation al committeeman. The trend among members of the arrangements com-, mittee-who are expected to do the picking -tomorrow seemed,;, how ever, to be running, toward -Van-denburg'" J ""'n -f: 'vi'V A proposal to . delay . selection of the keynoter until the repub lican presidential contest jells more was Vetoed by party leaders. j The Connecticut congresswo man's ability to make a crackling speech ha$ been impressed upon committee I members but some of them were said to feel her selec tion might be ' interpreted as a patent attempt to make the con vention "a good show1 instead of the sober, serious - nominating meeting that National Chairman Harrison K. Spangler has Insisted is called for in wartime. fThen, too, ! really didn't much care, as I do. not like to complain and cause! more worry for you folks. ; i. "But now the base censor tells us it's okay to mention these thmgsperhaps it might help." he. wrote: f ;."."...'-. ' V" At another point in "the letter, 1 "Many times I've gone to bed hungry, simply because say stomach molted at the rmeQ of that chew. Wa still get by, bat what makes all of as so dans mad Is that they deprive yea folks at home of good food sa that 'oar boys' will have the . best "Chea to hear frosa folks, - and they say: "Things are hard fa bay, prices high, shortage of . points, ete, bat we doat salad at all as we knew yea boys are eating weir." Johnson gave an account of the fare which, he said, at first had consisted of bully beef two or three times a day, pan cakes with out butter.' dehydrated eggs, de hydrated potatoes, dehydrated Decides Satawan Air TTa Jt&ase Wrecked Liberators; Lay Out Jap Airstrip, No Opposition ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Wednesday, April 19 Solomons-based Liberators temporarily n e u - tralized the Satawan air base on the southern approaches to Truk Sunday with the first strike in force on the Nomoi group of Caroline islands. . The raiders knocked out the airstrip in the midday strike and returned to base without having encountered either enemy fight ers or anti-aircraft fire. - Rabanl was handed another in the series of blows tearing up that bypassed New Britain v base and off the New Gaines eosst . near Aitape air patrols damaged a 2000 ton freighter and sank two supply luggers Sunday and Monday. .Satawan, in the Nomoi group just southeast of ! Truk. was hit with 34 tons of explosives, a size able weight considering the long overwater hop made by the Lib erators from the : Solomons and back again. Although hitting in daylight the bombers encoun tered neither air interceptors nor ground fire as they hit the air drome and bivouac areas. I RabauL visited almost dally by ; sooth Pacific planes, was hit ta the latest raid ta bo reported by 125 tons of bombs dropped by Mitchells and light bombers on airdrome supply areas. ; " Runways were cratered. Five gun positions were damaged. Sup ply dumps . were blasted. In the same -sector; night raiders spread fire along the wharf. v . , ! 4 Near the' norm western tip of, New Guinea in the; Mapia Islands, 4ed air patrols shot down a Jap ssieswfouTnglned 'flying boat' -Jn the sector northwest of Dar win; Liberators dropped 21 tons of bombs on the i'airdrome and supply areas at Faan in the Kai islands. Eight enemy fighters in tercepted and one was believed shot down. All the Liberators got back. " ; i British Advise French People ToStore Food ..c.v.'i....V--. :4 . .. ..LONDON, April 18 JPf- The Briush advised the French people by radio today to store up as much food as possible in preparation for the allied -invasion from the west because "the time is getting short' and the Germans told troops of the yaunted "Atlantic walV to prepare for "zero hour." c The worldwide guessing game on the invasion date intensified sharp ly in the wake of Britain's sudden extension of censorship ' to the traditionally :" Immune diplomatic pouches, but the answer remained a priceless military secret guarded by the allied command alone. ; ? Upon only pne point did there appear to be agreement: that the unprecedented British step quar antining s the world's diplomats here meant that as "D-day" itself approaches the allies will Invoke every measure possible to safe guard the lives and preserve the element of surprise even at the risk of bruising the feelings of individual countries. Pacific Says Unpalatable cabbage, an Inedible variety of canned fish, hard ' tack and, oc casionally, fresh beets, canned sweet - potatoes and Australian canned fruit j Later, he stated, there was a chance for the better, with Cream of Wheat, ? fresh meat three or four times a week, some fresh po tatoes and tomatoes and canned peas and tomatoes.; ; U "New, v however, wa have seemed to slip for a while, aa we have had no fresh meat for ' a week or 18 days, no eggs for a month or so. - "But it really Isn't so bad any more, as I find that the best way is to eat only one meal a day on these kind of days, and I can al ways enjoy that one meaL and it really doesn't bother ma mush. , . -Bat I know that this is a , dan . poor condition aad - yea ' folks at borne have bees mere than misled as ta ear chow. If enough af aa write this kind of (Turn to Page 2 Story A) It? 8t Icegirl Now 1 - I' : Virginia, Zieroth delivers a hundred pound piece of fee to a customer an the first day of her employment by a New York City ice com pany.jshe says that If she was able to drive anything from a Jeep ta a 10-ton track In the WAC, from which she was recently honor ably discharged because of the could carry a few pounds af Ice." T7 ausL e lanK mr t leet Pounds Berlin Hard . By ,W. W. HERCHER j LONDON, Wednesday, April i-A?)-A force of probably 2000 US Flying Fortresses, Liberators and- fighters broke through comparatively weak enemy fighter forces guarding Berlin and its environs yesterday and rained high explosives on targets vital to the riazl aircraft industry. , I '! Nineteen of the bis- American bombers and six fighters were Sprag ue Eo Farm" Program PORTLAND, Ore, April IMA9) A five-point program for agricul ture including eventual abolish ment' of j farm subsidies was set forth tonight by former Governor Charles A. Sprague, republican who seeks the US senate seat of the late Charles L. McNary. The Salem publisher told a ra dio audience his farm platform is: 1. Provide more practical and flexible ,i wartime controls and closer relation of . feed . supplies and laboz! resources to production quotas. . ' 2. Restrict subsidies now and abolish them as soon as possible 3. Plan to cushion the shocks to agriculture in the - transition from . war, to peace. (Rising costs will be reflected In farm output for months after peace because of the time required to grow a crop or raise a meat animal. Farmers should not be penalized by any drastic deflation of prices.) - 4. Plan to avert land speculation and ill-conceived resettlement pro jects for yeteran. (Profit by our sad experiences alter tne first World wi.) 5. Lay out a long-term program for agriculture to free it from Washington regimentation and re store it to independent self-sup porting status. (This can come through careful planning of pro duction, . expansion of markets, new uses for farm products and sensible general economic poli cies.) Interest Wide In GOP Meet CHICAGO, April 18 -(JP) Inter est in the 1944 . republican na tional " convention girdles the globe.. . ( -;: .y.y ' Acting Chairman Walter S. Hal- lanan today told the party com mittee making arrangements for the June 28 conclave in Chicago's stadium that requests for accom modations; have been - received from members of the British par liament, the Russian news agency, Task, citizens of South America, the British broadcasting system, and newspapers in China, Swe den, England, Latin America and French Africa. Hallanan, suggesting a reason for the wide attention, said: "It is because those who have measured public sentiment : be lieve that I the nominee of our Chicago convention will . be the next ; president, of . the . United States,; and he will ' be . the com' mander-in-chlef who will1 direct the final drive to victory and who will participate in writing a Just I and lasting peace." . - rthS Prico 5c v. illness of her mother, she "certainly (AP Wtrenhotol ' I A m i O lost in tiie attack. At least 34 Ger- man punes - were reported . d4 stroyed. Bomber - gunners shot down 10 nazi planes and the fight ers three. At least 21 others were destroyed non. the ground, return ing fighter-pilots' said. . ; . In addition to - the . forces :.wbich hlt Berlin and the eapl-; tal's - environs. Thunderbolt-1 j escorted Liberators bombed the i Pas do Calais area and Ma 1 raaders, accompanied by Than- i ; der bolts, blasted Charlerei. I bringing the aamber of allied aircraft In operation from the British Isles ta more than 2500. t Three of the Maraaders were i reported misstngl " f Indicating the allied aerial as sault was continued into the night the Berlin radio reported "nuis-1 snce planes" were over north western Germany, and the Bor deaux radio left the air, raising f , (Turn to Pago 2 Story E) '. Yote Signers In Final Rust A jam of registrants thronged the counter at the county clerk's office throughout Tuesday the deadline day for vote registration, even extending down the stairs al most into the lower hall of the courthouse. 4 - Total registration figures were not yet available Tuesday night at the 8 o'clock closing time and it is expected several days will be nec- e i a r y for final .compuauons. Gladys White, head of the regis tration counter estimated that Monday's registrations were above the thousand mark. County Clerk Henry C. Matt- son stated that but nine vacancies were now listed In ranks of Salem election officer. Over the county as a whole, he said, the situation fluctuates : from day to day. A number of persons came forward hi response to' Mattson's plea of a few days ago for additional clerks and Judges. " , ' , - Short Change Artist Flusters Florist, hut Loses Dollar in Deal v I The short-change artist who Monday and Tuesday wafted $28 bills under the noses of Sa lem salesgirls, aad upset their change-making methods with an exhibition ef "absent-mindedness." made better than ship yard wares. Hearing as mach as lit at a deal. . ' But ha met his match at ana florist's establishment. There, a clerk who had seen him work was toe flustered ta call the po lice bat she did; manage ta maneuver the money la such a way that she made a dollar aff .the Iaatir-'-:---.7' -tr A stare employe who said the man "talked well tea welt" told police that Tmesday he were a brawn sports Jacket and brewa sports shirt apea at the tireat - i nm " -L - 4-' i No. 833 Red Arm v turesi Balaklava "3 i -' '-"i .-."'.1.'' ' ' Russian Troops Gut Sevastopol's Defense Anchor By TOM YARBROUGH - LONDON, Wednesday, April 19 Gen. Andrei I. Yere- menko's independent ' coastal troops cracked Sevastopol's lower defense anchor yesterday by jcapturing historic Balaklava and plunged onward two miles, where they seized a village on ly five miles southeast of the prize Crimean ' stronghold, Mos cow. announced last night On a shrinking f 25-mlle semi circle around Sevastopol the Ger mans pinned against the Black sea were fighting desperately, a midnight bulletin said. f V In several sectors the Ger ! mans were aslng Kamaniaas as covering troops with detach ments of aaxl automatic rifle men and machine gunners placed behind them, Moscow said. "At the least effort of the Kamaniaas to go aver ta the side of the red army or re treat the Hitlerites open fire oaf their Kamanian 'allies,' " said the late bulletin. , "The fall of Balaklava, linked with Sevastopol by a seven-mile highway and tramline, opened up the valleys leading into the larger city from' the south and outflanked German troops dug in on Mala ; C (Continued from Page 1) C in ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April It HJPr At least 91 enemy planes, most of them rocket-fir mg, Messenchmitt-410s used for v intercepting . bomber ' formations-- Were 'destroyed . on the ground in twin raids by the US 15th ' air force on. the Tokol and Vecses . airfields 1 near Budapest April 13, it' wss announced offi cially tonight j i Another 22 grounded planes were' damaged in the devastating assault on Hungary which ser iously crippled ' the German air force; power to strike back at American, British and Russian bombers which day after day have been pulverizing Balkan commun ications upon which Hitler is de pendent for bolstering' the south ern front against the Russians.4 Heavy and medium bombers struck Bulgar rail yards at Plov div, 85 miles southeast of Sofia, last night and other planes struck railways and bridges northeast of Rome. In " operations against rail yards; in Sofia and Belgrade yes terday, allied planes destroyed 28 German craft, losing, two heavy bombers and eight fighters. ! On the quiescent land fronts in Italy, ' beachhead troops fought their way in to a German outpost on the western flank In the Anzio sector, 'i , A strong German raid north of Cassino was beaten back in hand- to-hand combat. Some allied troops patrolled deeply west of the Sangro river without encoun tering; the enemy. Nazi artillery and mortar fire was active on the Garigliano front near Mintumo. There was no announcement to night Whether allied bombers had been able to maintain the three- day aerial offensive battering key points in Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Hungary ' to cripple Germany's frantic efforts to j bol ster the Rumanian front against the onrushing red army. : , New Evidence Due OnjPearl Harboiv . . US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS,; Pearl Harbor, Aprtt 18-W-Adm.' Thomas C. Hart has ' returned to the mainland wit h, evidence fn his briefcase ; that may have an important bearing! on the outcome of the long de-' bated -. responsibility for the '. un -detected attack on Pearl Harbor: The. military commanders here at the time of the attack,' Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt Gen" Walter C Short, are awaiting court martial, delayed until the -close of the war,, ': .-; , 'A ; The' navy announced today' that ; Hart had returned to the main land after taking testimony from a considerable number of officers concerning factors of the surprise , Japanese attack on December 7, J84L .K;-NV---;'.v Cap 15th Air Force Ruins 91 Nazi Raid rianes
