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fir 7eather 'Mtilmim temperature Wednesday 59 degrees; min imum 41 degrees; preclplta lira -15; river X ft. Ugbft rain tonight and showers Thursday; snow ever mm tains; continued eeeL - 'LKD COCO POUNDQD f&Bt v a a v 1 i f i UW SB fefl fill TO x iiw f vvvy Economist who arc looking head are no tittle concerned over the difficulties that confront the nations in resuming world trade after the war. Here are the fac tors of the problem: " First, the United States will emerge as a highly developed in- dustrial nation, normally an ex port surplus nation, and as a pow erful creditor nation holding about two-thirds of the world's gold supply. Second, Great Britain will be stripped of most of its overseas investments or those retained will fee largely offset by 'debts owed abroad. Also, its merchant fleet will be xreatly reduced, . and it was the fleet which provided a large share of Britain's income. . Third, Russia will continue to conduct its foreign trade through great state-owned monopolies. . . Fourth, backward countries . in Africa, Asia and Latin America .will need capital and must export to build themselves up economic ally. , .-,--;, s Fifth,5 Germany will be ambi tious to recapture world trade and (continued on editorial page) Cabaret Taxes May Get Cut 20 Decrease WASHINGTON, April 19 -(P)-A movement developed in congress today to take some of the wartime tax load off fun with Re. Knutson (R-Minn) introducing a bill to cut the cabaret tax from 30 to 10 per ' cent - - . i Knutson declared that the stiff levy imposed April was putting thousands of entertainers put of work and closing night clubs. By the "law of dimiiiishing returns," he added, it also is causing a re duction in revenue. Before April 1 when new wartime levies be came 'effective, the cabaret tax was S percent of the patron's bill. , The tax-writing house ways and means committee, meantime, ten tatively: approved a shifting of burdens on individual taxpayers some up some down which the congressional staff of experts rec ommended as necessary to ap proach a basis for simplifying and streamlining" ; the ' income tax Chairman Doughton : (D-NC)' said that generally the increase or decrease in taxes, under the sim plification ' plan, would not be large. The $1,200 a year married - man without children would be the hardest, hit, his tax Jumping from $21 to $61 a year. Some would have smaller increases, and others would have their burdens .lightened. - One Committee source said the overall effect of the simplification measure, if made law, would be - to reduce the annual tax load of the . 50,000,000 income taxpayers . by $60,000,000. ; ; The committee's plan would re lieve 30,000,000 taxpayers from filing any further returns,, by ad justing the witholding levy so as to take the total tax liability from wages and salaries of persona earning up to $5,000. Reds ReceiveFinn Reply on Peace STOCKHOLM, Thursday, April 20-jf)-The Finnish government's -negative reply to Moscow in the latest effort to get Finland out of the war has now been deliv ered to the Russian government through Stockholm, Dagens Nyhe- tor said today. 4-- ;; . '':' The newsnsDer stated it had learned reliably that the note r capitulates the steps during the last Russian-Finnish contact, con eluding with rejection of the terms and assurance, as before, that Fin land still is willing to find a way to peace.. ; , - -. v There was every indication. however, that the statement was ; not very forcibly presented, the newspaper said. Irish Efforts Rome Apparently Futile WASHINGTON, April 19 - (P) An effort by the Irish government to secure assurances from the ' Germans and the allies that Rome will be spared the ravages of war apparently ended futilely ; today. .The ittempt was disclosed with 'publication of an exchange of notes between Premier Eamon De Valer a - of Eire and President Roosevelt De Valera's was a plea , that the belligerents "seek through appropriate intermediary c h a n nels an agreement by which Rome may be saved. He said a similar note .was sent to Berlin... i Mr. Roosevelt's reply was a re iteration of the allied, position that the allies are deeply , con cerned over the possibility that the holy, city may suffer, but Its fate is up to the Germans., "If the German forces were not entrenched in Rome, so question lIEIETY-TinED YEAR mm British Nip India Ijimes . i. Tank Troops Blast Jap Invasion Forces Northeast Of Implial in Counter Move By THOBURN WIANT KANDY, Ceylon, April 19-(JP)-A British relief expedition from Dimapur has cracked the Kohima siege lines and tank-supported British and Indian troops have from three positions northeast hima, it was announced today. 'I ' Breaking through a series of obstacles, British troops advancing southeastward from the railway O line at Dimapur established con tact with British and Indian troops who had been surrounded in the Kohima "BO" 30 miles inside In dia, and preparations for a' final assault to relieve the garrison are almost complete, it was announced in dispatches fram Calcutta. Tanks and mountain guns man handled into position on hills too steep for moles were used by the British. (The counter actions came as Admiral .Lord Louis Mountbatten, commander in chief of the south east Asia command, and Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer of the east ern air command settled in new headquarters far closer to the Bur ma front than their former estab lishments in New Delhi. Strate meyer and US army air force headquarters were established in Calcutta, 800 miles nearer than New Delhi to the fighting zones. Calcutta is separated from Burma by. the . sprawling. Ganges delta. Both these moves were-part of a long-standing plan for setting up an allied land, sea and air offen sive to clear China's lower flank.) Dispatches from two army servers, mm inside Kshima and the other with the relieving force, reported the Kohima gar-; risen had held on against a (Turn to Page 2 Story E) 4-H Club Show Larger Than Last Year's "A larger spring show than 1843" was the report of Amos Bierly, Marion county 4H club leader, .when all exhibits were in the exhibit building at the Oregon state fairgrounds last night The healthiest boy and girl in Marion county will be - selected at 1 o'clock this morning and announc ed Friday morning when all club members will parade through Sa lem streets. -" " Four judges started work on the exhibits late Wednesday , af ternoon and this will be continued this . morning and all ribbons should be in place this afternoon. The Judges include Helen Cowgill, state girls club leader; John Han sen, Linn county club leader; Frances Clinton, Marion county home demonstration agent, and Agnes Booth, school superintend' ent, and Lynn Cronemiller, as sistant state forester. Exhibits include all work of the clubs for the first half of the year, cookery,' sewing, woodwork. ing and other. home projects. The canning, livestock and gardening exhibits 'are shown at the fall fair. ' The present count of clubs in the county is 270 clubs with 2500 members. , to Save would arise concerning the city's preservation, Mr. Roosevelt told the Irish prime minister. ' De Valera's note told the presi dent that destruction of Rome would be "a major calamity for the human race" and added: "Future generations will forget t" "i military considerations which may .now seem to dictate the oc cupation or possession of . Rome but should the city be destroyed, the fact of its dc Iructica would be remembered forever. ' -So : too, should the city .by agreement be spared, future, gen. erations will remember with .en during gratitude those states' and their leaders who will have pre served, for the ..ennoblement of mankind this, great center of Christian faith and civilization." Even as ' the - communications (Turn to Fart 2 Story A) 12 PAGES - A L. blasted Japanese invasion forces of Imphal, 60 miles south of Ko Rationing . it . : C7 Will Ease Less Stockpiling Lets More Food Out for Civilians WASHINGTON, April 19-UP) A new policy bf government food management involving fewer con trols, less stockpiling for emer gency war reserves and for post war foreign relief uses, and more liberal ration allowances for civil ians is gradually being unfolded by operations of war food agen cies. '3 1 ; :! ; " There is less tendency at the war food administration to be concerned abotit supplies a year or so hence' and rbre to limit distri bution planning to short-range future. Less and less emphasis is being placet upon reserves for future, undefined needs, f The new policy has been reflect ed in action of the office of price administration I in liberalizing ra tioning of meat, lard, shortening, processed fruits and vegetables during March and Aprili The more liberal rations were explained in 'official announce ments as representing a temporary expedient to move greater quan tities into consumption because of crowded storage facilities. Plans call; for the continuance of present low: ration Values for an indefinite period. - : Given another favorable farm production season this year, offi- (Turn to Page 2 Story I) EicheriOrders Seditiop Trial Jury Selection WASHINGTON, April' 19 Justice Edward;' Eicher ordered an immediate start today on selec tion of a jury for the trial of 30 persons charged with conspiring with the nazis against American democracy, over defense objec tions that the panel had been sub jected to "intimidating" investi gation. " - ; . . ' The court issued the ruling aft er directing : immediate arraign ment . of Edward James Smythe, the 30th defendant who was ar. rested yesterday at Au Sable Forks, New York, and boosting Smythe's bond to $10,000. Smythe's counsel, John J. Laughlin, had sought to delay the arraignment sot he could confer with his client before Smythe en tered a plea. He said he had not seen the. defendant since he was retained as counsel. He also want ed Smythe's bond of $1000, for feited when the defendant failed to appear Monday, restored The court's answer i to that 1 was the ten-fold boost I OA advice of I counsel, Smythe, who testified hfe had not known the trial was- u start this week, stood mute at I arraignment and the court ordered a plea of inno- ceni enierea lot turn. - Airs. Atchison Rites Will Be Held Sunday PORTLAND, April ; 19.-(-Memorial services for Mrs.1 Qyde B. Altchison,' wjf e of the former chairman of the Oregon PuWi Utilities commission, will be held nere nexi sunday. - ' . - , Altchison, now Interstate com merce commission chairman. arrived Here to attend the servi ces. Mrs. Altchison died in Wash ington, DC, January 4. Salem. Oregon. Thursdcrf Morning. April 2X 1941 T0 Germans Lash Out At Reds Nazis Try Hard . To Save Lwow Base in Poland LONDON, Thursday, April 20-P- The Germans, lashing out fiercely to save their big y base at Lwow, have launched a large-scale attack in the south eastern ; corner of old Poland, and some towns have changed hands south and east of Stanis- lawow, the Russians announced last night but declared the ene--my was repulsed. v The Soviet communique, which for the first time in weeks did not record some notable red army advance, said that in the Crimea the Germans launched several vain counter-attacks on the Sevastopol-Simferopol highway, but the Russians gained several (Turn to Page 2 Story F) ss From Our Guns Is Revealed WASHINGTON, April 19 -LW A second instance of American troop transport planes coming un der fire ; from allied 1 as well as enemy anti-aircraft ri7-i-with: 10 planes shot -down Ind 44 offi cers and men missing was re ported tonight by the War depart ment ' ' A -: ; Reporting on the Incident which occurred at Catania, Sicily, last July 13-14, the department said it was estimated that SO per cent of the loss was due to "friendly" anti-aircraft fire. . The department did not say who manned the . allied guns, but a navy spokesman emphasized that the fire did not come from Unit ed States naval vessels. Recently, the department has acknowledged that 23 transport planes were shot down with the loss of 410 men on July 11 off Gela, on the - southern Sicilian coast when allied anti-aircraft gunners opened fire on . them. ; "While the war department nor mally does not discuss operations In a British area, it may be said in this instance the United States loss in the Catania operation on the night of July 13-14, as taken from official records, was 10 trans port planes and 44 officers and men missing,' of which SO per cent were estimated as having been caused by friendly anti-aircraft fire?: 1 : ' : hv.r--..; n Today's announcement as did the first followed previous publi cation of unofficial reports of such losses. : Drew Pearson said in his Wash ington column today mat after the Gela Incident we lost a sec ond wave of 21 planes with al most 400 three days later also shot down by allied naval din ners." US Troop Lo Big Plane Crosses V. S. In 6 Six hears and fifty eixbt minotes massive new Lockheed 'Constellation," (7-passenrtr transport plane, arrived ever, vvasclnrton, DC, national airport at 1:54 pjtn. (CYST), April .17. Fastest time en record for a transport plane, by three hours and 24 minutes, the great plane was piloted fey Coward Hughes and Jack Frye. Frye Is presi dent or Transcontinental and Western Air, Iae, to whom Lockheed Aircraft delivered the plane the previous day. The four-motored super-transport plane is pictured en Its delivery flixht en route to Las Yeras, Tex. Ca arrival at the ca;itai tie l'x t? wxs tzrsei ever to the amy air transport com mand. (International Eounijboto) , , . TED Captured Nazi Canine r -.- Astor, a German police dog captured in Tunisia and believed to be the first canine captive breaght back Jto this country, with his new master, Capt Martin H. Carlson, at Breekline, Mass. A former member of a combat patrol ef the craek Hermaan Goering division, Astor was vicious at first but now respends to Capt Carlson's cenamsnds when1 given .in German. Capt Carbon came heme to recuperate freua leg wounds received in Tunisia and brought his pet back with htm from North 55tk Birthday Today ' LONDON, April 19-P-Nazi Goebbels addressed an unusual appeal to the German people tonight to rally behind Adolf Hitler, who celebrates his 55th birthday tomorrow, reminding them that "even the greatest lead ers of history will be faced with occasional setbacks and defeats." In a similar but more restrained order of the day to the German army on the occasion of the Hit-O : . . ler birthday. Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering called for steady loyalty to Hitler even . though "A thousand dangers may lie ahead.1!;.'' J.. ":p.,.: The Goebbels message seemed significant in its implications. The Berlin radio broadcast more than 1,000 words of an address It said the propaganda chief delivered on the eve of Hitler's birthday at the German state opera house in Berlin, dwelling throughout ; on the difficulty of the German po sition, the . righteousness of nasi war aims and the ' necessity for sticking together in the hour of trial. . S-'-'-YA'-Crr ' On the theme that things are not as bad as they seem, Goeb bels said: ' - fit .win not be possible to form an accurate and' just idea of the individual war events and factors which have been decisive in the (Turn to Page J Story C) after leaving rrLani, Clif, en (MM ' V : Africa by plane, (AP Wirepbete) Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Oregon Again In Hot Fight PORTLAND Ore, April The old battleship Oregon of the Spanish-American war again is the' center of a hot fight this time over sale of scrap from the his toric vesseL : Rep! Homer Angell (R-Ore) to day pressed demands for investi gation of reports that parts of the salvaged ship had ' been sold to the government for more than was paid for the entire ship. In the meantime the navy prepared to tow the hull from the Kalama, Wash., port docks back here where it laid for many years. - A storm ' of protest has been brewing ever since the ship, long an object of patriotic veneration, was sold for its metal. ; Hr&., 58 Mih. Its nutUea Ionr distance Ritht the T . r i , ' i j - 1 . I f 'mi'1 1 V Pile 5c EAF, AAF Ik-op 9000 Ton Load In Thirty Iloiiii's . BrilWi Bombers Mine 300 Miles of Danube Lifeline In Daring, Spectacular Blow By W. W. HERCHER J LONDON, April !&-(-American and British warplanes de veloped he greatest sustained rounding out a 30-hour offensive against Germany and nazi pecupied territories during which bombs were dropped almost continuously at the average rate of 300 tons an hour, or five tons a minute. ji f . . The allies in more than 6000 flights between noon Tuesday and ' O 6 p. m. today poured 9000 tons of Warren Keyn oter GOFs Pick Bear State Head In Bid for West CHICAGO, AprU 19-(ff)-The republicans called on tall, hand some Gov. Earl Warren of Cali fornia today to sound the key note for their June nominating convention h an apparent, bid for west coast support in the November election. Warren, 53-year-old veteran leader of the California repub lican organization, was the unani mous -choice of the party's 24- member arrangementa committee for the temporary chairman and keynoter. --, House Minority Leader Joseph Martin of Massachusetts was re commended as permanent chair man, a post the convention itself officially fills. Backed by Nation al Chairman Harris E. Spangler and Walter Hallanan, chairman of the arrangements group, Warren was chosen after the names of a dozen other candidates had been brought before the committee's closed session. These Included several gover nors and senators as well as Rep resentative Clare Booth Luce of Connecticut, tor whom J. Kenneth Bradley, Connecticut national committeeman, made a personal campaign.' Although leaders op posed the selection of woman as keynoter, it was reported that Mrs. Luce would be invited to make an important speech at the convention. ! i Warren's choice appeared to be satisfactory to all elements, with Bradley telling reporters he had "no quarrel with the committee's decision. " He said geographical considerations . played ' an impor tant part' since Martin is from New. England and the group wished , to have the west repre sented in its convention organiza tion. Warren, who has the "favorite son! support of California's : 50 convention delegates, has been considered a potential vice-presidential nominee, despite his insist ence that he Is not running for national office. - 1 . W.C. Leth, Polk County Agent, to Make Trip East j DALLAS, AprU 19 W. I C. Leth, Polk county agent and west ern director of the American Jer sey Cattle club, is leaving Satur day bf this week to visit a num ber of cities in the middle west to assist in picking a city to re commend for the main office of the dub. '. v ) There Is a proposal that the main office of this organization be moved, from New. York City to a more rural area where the office can give more direct service and be contacted by oc r e Jersey breeders. Approximately v cities have, been proposed and through the process of elimination there are cow four under consideration, Columbus and Cincinnati, ' Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Lex inston, Kentucky. . ' .- The committee, composed ' of No, 334 aerial assault of the : war today. bombs on selected German tar- gets, the Americans capping the period with a blow by 2000 heavy bombers . and fighters against plane factories and parking fields near Kassel and Hamm in Ger many and installations near Ca- . lais in France. i The US air forces eommunl ue referred to the offensive as "the , air invasion of ; Germany.' , The more enthusiastic pretagon ista ef air power la Loudon be gan speaking of the possibility of breaking the back of the Ger man air fores in two or three weeks If the weather holds out The German air force apparently ' was driven to the earth' today. Although conditions were ideal for combat and the American heavies were: ferreting out some of Ger many's ; moif . vital targets, the Gettnana puV up only token re sistance. - The British for their part dropped a record ene-night total (Turn to Pige 2 Story D) Crews Arrive To Start Dam At Detroit! t DETROIT, April 19 -(Special) Two crews of ITS army engineers have arrived here with equipment for preliminary work on the De troit dam development Fourth of the aeries of seven dams embraced in the Willamette valley flood con-7" trol project, that at Detroit will be the first of the three entirely concrete, dams 'constructed, it is understood here. j ; The dam, as planned: when the project was undertaken prior to the war, would have 185,000 acre feet of storage space, larger than f Cottage Grove, Dorena or Fern Ridge dims, now! in opera tion. . --v; A ) third crew expected here shortly will bring the number of ben on the site to 25. i r r.; : PORTLAND, Ore,, April 19 () Crews sent to investigate the pro posed site of the Detroit dam de-: velopment will make preliminary surveys and test pits preparatory ; to construction immediately after the war, army engineers official said tonight ,u "Two small crews are in Detroit at the request of congress making piiminary surveys," Lt CoL Theron Bean, chief engineer of the Portland district said. "No ' actual ..construction work will be done now the entire pro ject is for postwar work." . Herman Heep, ' Buda, Texas; W. H. Kenan Jr, Lockport N.Y.Dr. H. D. ' Allen . Jr., MiHedgevUle, Geo.; M. S. Hughes, Bristow. Okla. and Leth together with Junius G. Adams, president of the American Jersey Cattle club, will visit these four cities, between April 28 and Way 2, and the meeting of the board of directors in New York City on May 4 the final selection will be made. Ie will 1 then be necessary to submit the "matter of ' moving the ' office to vote of the entire membership of the Ameri can Jersey Cattle cluW - "l 7 Leth states that this will be his first visit to the middle west cov ered by these various cities, and . -he, therefore, anticipates an Inter- ; estmg trip. The ' committee is to meet with chamber of commerce : (Turn to Page 1 Story B)