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PAGE TWO Th OREGON STATESMAll, Salem. Orec Friday Morning April 21, IS 44 Us i , i 11 I-: rr 1 Allied Planes Blast Enemy . OnSiimatira B (Continued jrom Page 1) E carriers while their planes tarried out the second attack on. the Dutch ; East Indies since they fell' to the Japanese in March, .1942. Allied i naval planes took a similar crack at Sabang in December of '42. , Hemrr bombs weigUa as to 1 l.tOt pounds were showered on ' the two bases, leaving many fierce fires burning . Two Japan . ese merchant ships of 4,009-S.OO ' tMi received direct hits la Sa r baaf harbor and two. destroyer escort Teasels were set, afire by strafing. The enemy appeared to hare been taken completely by ; nrprlse, Mountbatten's common- Iqae said, replying to the attack 'S only wtth anti-aircraft fire. : i The Allied task force under , British Admiral Sir James Somer ville suffered no damage, and only . one Allied plane fell into the Its pilot was saved by a submarine K which surfaced under fire from Japanese shore batteries. Allied fighters shot down three enemy - torpedo bombers which attempted to approach the carrier force after i the raid. Sabang is on a little island Just off the northern tip of Sumatra, about 1,000 miles from Mount batten's Ceylon headquarters. ' ' Lhonga is a few miles away on the Sumatra mainland. Sabang has an - Important harbor which the Jap- anese have been employing for naval operations in the Indian r ocean. Yesterday's Allied smash was regarded here as at least forerunner of landing operations ? bound to come sooner or later in the Dutch East Indies. (The Tokyo raido broadcast that " Premier Hideki Tojo held a con- ference with his vice-ministers Thursday morning on "problems ' requiring immediate attention.") Marines Arrive At Klamath Falls KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, April 20.-0iy-The first contingent of marines have arrived here to oc cupy the new marine recuperat ing barracks. Col. B. Dubel, commanding of ficer, said the 60 men who arrived from San Francisco, represent ev ery marine station in the South Pacific. , . Main purpose of the barracks is a recuperating center for malaria and filariasis patients. . Sprague in Tillamook On Campaign Journey Charles A.. Sprague, Statesman publisher, former . Oregon gover nor, now candidate for the repub lican nomination for the US sen ate, is in Tillamook today. He plans to return to Salem this weekend and to go to eastern Ore gon next week, f r'. r fj f r- m t ii I I I I Greatest Mystery as CI ri Remanee of Oar Time! Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine . I I u in ir i Co-Featara . "TKOCADEKO" ti. u - Extral j XMarch of Tlme J -, Vast Times Today- Gary Great and Irene Daaao ta "My Favorite Wife" and -Bed Barry in "CaUforala Joe" GAME Slaris Salcrday Pletaro All Sales Talking About! - CIIAN ... LAEJ Dr.T.TXamJD. ; Dr jO.CaaaJ J CHXNTS2 Gerballsts . 211 North Liberty Cpstairt Portland . Ceneril Cectrlr Co Ctfno - ofMS ' Saturday only IS a to 4 P-m $ to 1 pja. Cm iutUUon. Elood preunxn and ortae tests arc tra of chars.' Practtced iiaco lilt. - in -irt) irni if mm ri " ' a-iretT Brown Takes Oyer District OPA Job PORTLAND, April 20 -JP- Mc- Dannell Brown, an - attorney, be came Oregon district director of the office of price administration today, succeeding Richard L. Montgomery, resigned. Brown formerly was district enforcement attorney. Montgomery on May 1 enters an advertising firm. Leo F. Center, regional OPA administrator, speaking at Brown's induction, said: "OPA is not interested in play ing -'cops and robbers.' We are not interested in business to col- lect money for the federal treas- . . . .. ... . i Vkiat 14 Ufa fin m oinlatnt oml gaging in black market activities aerial attacks against ene we will not hesiUte to bring him my insb faons and stnrcgpoints. to justice.1 Potato Whisky Goes on Sale ltfirw York. Anrii go- jpv-Th 1 first "potato whiskey," a new blend using 80 per cent neutral soirits distilled from culled nota-1 toes, was on the market here to-1 day and thirsty New Yorkers were buying fast and eagerly. I The retailer (Gimbel's liauor I store) said the volume of busi-1 ness done yesterday and today in-1 dicated that Its stock of several I thousand cases might be exhaust-1 ed by the end of the week. . The whiskey, containing 20 perlcellent leadership. cent straight whiskey four years! old, is distilled by Glasworthy, inc., or Idaho Falls, Idaho, which recenuy purcnasea an expert- mental distilling plant from the j umveraiy oi iaano. spokesman said operations taarA ViAfnivt ei v I uu " experimental oasis, using culled I pui-vow oDinea irom iwo neign- ding government-operated de- hydration plants. The whiskey is blended and bottled by Parke Rogers compa ny,, rectifiers, of Perth Am boy, NJ. Thomas Final Rites Set for Saturday o PORTLAND, April 20.-WVFU- neral services will be held at Ore gon City Saturday for Capt Wil liam R. Thomas, for nearlv 30 years a well-known Puget Sound, iU ite nver puou Thomas died at his . home here I yesterday. He was employed on r-ugei sound and on the Colum-1 nia ana on axe rivers as a master I Ppot,and for eight years operated the Open River Transportation - ' company vessels between Celilo ne naa oeen reurea since l30, . , i tag a Portland fireboat AllilS, Aiken Inspecting Washington Institutions Roy Mills, secretary of the state board of control, and George Aik- I en, state budget director, are spending a few days in Washing- ton state inspecting the state hos-1 pitals and other institutions. The Oregon officials also ex- pected to stop at Olympia to con-1 f er with heads of several state departments. Cougar Kitten Thrives On Milk-Meat Diet REDMOND, April 20. (JP)-A cougar kitten, curled up in a cage at a Redmond tavern, was thriv ing today on a mDk-and-raw-meat diet - . The four-week old animal was rescued by two local hunters last weekend after their dogs treed the mother cougar. ooaoTMr LAMOUR ie T . Ad 1 '1m J OssDakyV Y ' r MatBrktoa r0 Ii - i 11 1 I 't lljkSa Marion Carl A 1 1 tvtIj,.. To His Honors (The following story wm writ ten by Sergeant rtougla C Dutz, a marine eorpt combat correspon dentDistributed by the Astociat- ed Pres.) ' " f " ' . SOMEWHERE W THE SOUTH PACIFIC (Delayed)- Marine Ma jor Marion E. Carl,! son of Mrs. H. A. Carl of Hubbard, Ore., has been awarded the air medal : fori his achievements as commander of a "lit of .pilots operating In: the Rntnntrm Mmvulm Fi r f major van uas uawnea nineteen and a half enemy planes. At pre sent, he is ranked with the leading aces of this war. J His citation reads as follows: "For meritorious achievement while participating in aerial at tacks against the enemy as com- manning omcer ore manne ngm juatiron operaun fflfwe Solomon islands area, during the penoa rrom wovemDer n, ms. to January IB, ist. "During this period Major Carl led ins squadron In fighter sweeps and escort missions over Bougain- viHe and New Britain islands. The successful tour of his squadron in destroying enemy planes in the ratio of 15 to one was due primar- ily to his tactical ability and; ex "On December 23, while lead ine a laree fuzhter sweep Over Rabaul, he again destroyed one zero and damaeed another.! His courageous conduct, devotion to dutr. and able leadership, were In v with thA -hiffhest tradi- " .. . . . tions of the United States navay service." M.1fP Carl bad DreviouslT re Uived a navy cross and a gold star i lieu of a second navy cross for his exploits at Midway nd Guadalcanal. His wife, a Powers model, lives in Brooklyn, NY. WPB to Boss Lumber Use i WASHINGTON, -April 20 -(P) The war production board said today it will control lumber con sumDtion after Jury 1 through a TOrtPm nf Snrctase anthnriza- Dased essential consumer needs &nd the avattable supply. in ai i HMiiin for malar consumers to file information on Uvi i i j. I uicir iiuiiun iiccus uuca nut iucou L lreeze m lumber, WPB said in aj;. wn . ti,. i "i",v4""""; ceive lumoer unaer exisung. or- Item is effective, WPB said, unless X have fafled toAle v- I MAv4o 4rvm. tKa litfMkae aiiAOlmif to its intended useJ Lumber controls; now are. ap- plied at the producers level, WPB explained, but when information of major essential; needs is cprre- la ted with amounts' available: that control will be at the purchasers' level by means of specific author' izations. Farm Labor Project Adds 4 New Members CORVALLIS, Qre April? 20.- (VOrgaization of farm labor and war food production project set ups in Oregon was completed here today with appointment of four new staff members. f F. L. Ballard was named super visor for the war: food production and conservation project; Fred M. Shideler, head of Oregon State's journalism department,! was named extension information spe cialist; Clyde M. Walker, exten sion agricultural engineer, assist ant to Doctor Ballard, and Lloyd Larse, associated professor of sec retarial science, wul assist county offices in records and reports. Aviation Gas Rationing Draws Oregon Protest WASHINGTON, April 20 -UPr- The Oregon State Board oi Aero nautics' protest against pladne' i avu aviation gasoline under ra tioning was presented to the office of price administration (OPA) to day. i- 1 ' Sen. Rufus Holman (R-Ore) told an OPA hearing that Oregon ! groups believe the proposal would siow aown tne wareriort. , WPB OK's Employment Ui 5UU Workers in State WASHINGTON, April S0.Pr- The war production board (WPB) today authorized employment of the 500 workers ' heeded on the Deschutes, Ore; irrigation project, sen. Guy Cordon (R-Ore) was in formed by the WPB. A labor limitation rule had re stnerea xne numner or workers to 100.- - -; J i Tonight - Saturday Deitiey Gains More Support In Michigan i (Continued tram Pago 1) A Dewey's delegate recapitulation now , snows aeiegaws -pieogea j outright to him from Arkansas, , 1 .Si a I Missouri,' New Hampshire, Okla- noma, Virginia and Wisconsin. His claimed total, uncontested by sup- porters of other possible nominees, fa 180 and comes from Alaska. Arizona. Maine. Michiffan. Miss. ouri, Wew York, North Carolina, I Oklahoma, Virginia and Wiscon sin. -. : " The republicans have now chos-l en 477 of their 1059 delegates. But 225 of them, almost half, are un- instructed and publicly unclaimed so far. The uninstructed and un- claimed delegates are from Con necticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa; . Kansas, Iiouisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne braska, New, Hampshire, New Mexico, New! York, North Caro lina and Virginia. Hitler's Natal - - ' v , - i Day Goes by With Sflence LONDON, April S0-(P-Adolf Hitler observed his 55th birthday today In silence and the German nation avoided even a pretense of celebration. ; From German radio stations, however, came numerous reflec tions of Germany's heightening belief that the hour of allied in vasion is near. Dispatches ;from Sweden and Switzerland reported Field Mar shal General Karl Von Rundstedt was massing j troops along his vaunted "Atlantic wall" for the Invasion test, and there were nu merous German guesses the as sault would come before the end of May. (Propaganda Minister Paul Jo seph Goebbels followed up his defense Wednesday of Hitler's war leadership with a newspaper article in which he told the Ger- man people "we have jburned our bridges" and "there is no going back." , i - The article in the newspaper Das Reich was paraphrased by the nazi news agency! una m a broadcast recorded by the US for eign broadcast intelligence serv ice.) I US Bombers Hit Carolines; C (Continued from Page 1) C Six American planes failed to return -from aerial assaults along an arc from Dutch Timor, in the Dutch East Indies, east to the Carolines. - ' f - Three, were lost ovef Rabaul, New Britain, in a 100-ton bombing smash Tuesday at airdromes, sup ply dumps and other installations. This was the sixteenth consecu tive day of attacks on this base. Pilots returning to their Solo mons bases from the Rabaul as- sult reported meeting the most intense antiaircraft fire ever en countered over that base. Victory Gardeners Will Get Help From Experts CORVALLIS, April 20-&P)-Help for housewives in planting victory! gardens and canning the victory! crop wul be offered on a state-1 Easing of the war demand lor j new 'ceiling price of $18.05, re wide basis for the first time this) typewriters prompted the move, J gardless of brand. Previous ceil- year, Oregon State college ex ten - sion service said today. ' Fourteen home economics spec - uusts wul be sent to counties which do not have regular home demonstration agents. They will provide advice on planning, pro- ducing and processing the family food -supply. . Ilbw Shawirj Gmxd Theairo A MIRACLE lOF K0T10M PICTURE WlEYEKQiT! FRANZ WERFEfS JENNIFER JONES tux onw mint amtpran . vmju rtri 1 rf L COBS r HENRY KINS . ; IXai. ta I . Feature at: CMia. - 4ae . 1:11 - 3:5S . ?Sc; Child. . " -i 6DJIjD .TOSilaTlS t STARTING TUESDAY irxiTcntFTrtYzn r AS TRULY AMEIUCAN AS TIIE lAL-llTY . i . . THEY roUGHT . Armed Forces Reilew Labor Draft Drive F (Continued from Pago' 1) F directly at i some .3,923,000 men rlacclffed 4-F unfit for reff- oonr - 11 1 mf military duty.. Men of this who soum essential Jobs would be indul forthwith to what Committee Chairman May (D-Ky.) called "menlaL tasks" around anny camps and capitals, Iia elf ect he 3lained. theywxild h h iWi and nnVi A.l meatics.' '. r The army, navy and shtppingr eaaa taaed tailr statesaeaS after conferences aad dlaess sions wtth Gen. George C Mar shall, any chief of staff: Ad miral Ernest J. King, der ta chief of the United States fleet, legislators aad represea- tatires of the . United States of eamaarref, tae Na tional Association of Maanfae tarers and the Assoelatloa of They sketched a foreboding pic- ture of the nation's manpower sit - nation and declared: ; I "We,, as a people, are riot meet-1 ling many ox tae lanor shortages m critical programs in the midst I va oa w su awi aut tit oi at They urged a "war , work serv-1 ice aci prpvuung voiuniary re cruitment of I a b o r for draft- stricken war plants, then said: "la ease seffldeat volenteers do net appear la answer to the call, then the national service ptiaetplo most be invoked te soppty the essential need. That Is our Judgment. It is based upon facts. . All three officials ' previously have appeared before congression al committees to urge national service legislation called for in January by President Roosevelt Labor draft .bills have been hung up in committees of both congres sional branches for months. The military leaders said "Leg islation of universal application is not, in our opinion, necessary but they did not set out how to day's recommendations would dif fer from the Austin-Wadsworth bills providing registration of practically all men and women as I possible labor-draft recruits. Senator Austin (R-Vt) who sat 1 in on the conferences, said he un- 1 derstood they were talking about j his bilL The Stimson-Knox-Land state ment said: ' I "Labor turnover has reached a rate of more than six per cent per month, three times the peace- tim mvmvtL ' "We have yet to meet the major forcw ot XJermany Tuid of Japan conwiandm a large share of the natural wealth and human resour ces' of eastern Asia. For our civil ian labor forces there must be no relaxing of effort "It is imperative that the coun- try realize that the present Amer- icon methods of industrial service cannot do the whole job; that the American people must adopt some systera of national industrial serv- ice which will provide workers for essential war industries wherever shortages in manpower appear. Typewriters Oil Free last WASHINGTON, April 20-vP)- The range of commodities the war brought under rationing was further trnnmed today as the of- fice of price aciministration -lifted all control on the sale and rental of a tew new and all used type - writers. r 1 eliminating the need for a ration ling certificate in all transactions 1 after Saturday. . The relatively few machines in deaierr stocks are released, but manufacturers' I inventories of n e w models are still controlled by WPB priorities, OPA took concentrated citrus 1 Juices off the ration list tonight 2Q We: Service . SSs K. tilt: Service SSe (ntoes Iaelado Tax) T. Ill If I Allied Bombing Attaclts Still r. Going Strong O (Continued from Pago 1) O blasted? nasi ' targets' la north eastern Franco. - Nine US heavy bombers were I" flatters returned safely. The escon punes snoi down pour uai planes in tho-air . and destroyed others on the groiind. -- "Bomber crew reported no German' fighter opposition,; al though anti-aircraft fire ranging from slight to very Intense was encountered, an V air force com srunique stedJ;,:;-;:;-;fef Allied pJaawa by totdght had approximately gasi sorties . agahst nasi targeta is the past St hews, jrnloadmg more thaa ll.e&t torn of. bombs. It was the third m m ml m day that the US force had sent eat aa of approximately 2tM The assault undoubtedly was a gaTDHse for. the enemy, being one of the latest ever made br the Eighth air force and certainlv the heaviest evening Ixwnhardmrnt eye, directed at occupied France. I It was estimated that some of the homba were plummeted to their targets as late as 730 pjn. Britain's double summer time. now in effect, gives the Brtusn bases light m the sky until after t pjn. during the spring and summer months. .1 . .. The I treat attaekma force roared' off to their targets for than three hours as tt flew over, tae southeast coast. Some squadrons still were returning te bases at t ajn. Channel weather 1 was perfect for precision bombing after the mnd naiiK Tiieclav and WH. , m which more than 9000 tons of bombs were dropped on nazi targets in 30 hours. There had been a pause in the American heavy operations until this even ing. Day operations from Britain be gan with American medium Ma rauders and lighter RAF aircraft hitting occupied France, the show starting as more than 150 Maraud ers dasnea to tne nonnern French coast with almost 300 tons of bombs loosed in clearing weather.: Small forces of RAF, RCAF and allied Bostons, Mitchells and Spit fire fighter-bombers made subse quent attacks on the same type j targets. Light Bostons and med- 1 una auicneus naa aa umoreua ox KCAJT bpitnres. OPA Reduces WASHINGTON, April 20 The office of price administration tonight announced a net reduction of about six per cent in prevailing prices far new synthetic passen- ger cir tires. The reductions, effective May 1, j pare to about nine per cent the' higher cost of synthetics as com pared with prices motorists paid for natural rubber tires in Nov ember. 1941. iust before Pearl Harbor. ! Ceilings for synthetic types of tubes and truck tires continue at about the same levels now in effect Teh new schedule also J maintains the current ceilings for the few natural rubber passenger I tires and tubes still being sold. I - Yor the most generally used 1 gfec of passenger synthetic tire, C.00-16, the regulation provides a - 1 tngf on the same tire were S17.1 J fr mamimcturers brands and 1 giST for privat brands.' THE OLD JUDGE SATS... "The var ttories I Eke best. Judge, are the ones by the special writers overseas who lira riiit with our troops, TOeyghre tts a better idea of bow our men react to things coins on over there and bade .tartteaVTO "Iacreewhyto,Sant.IrjeTerin!sscoe cf those stories in the papers or magazines. ' And there's one thing those writenseemto asree on no matter where they are stationed with oar Den.v.and that is that the men who have left their homes and famffipa to go OllthoHOlIEFROllT When City Police Sgt Jack Cutler see a ; certain type blue paper v- pacxage; xasxenea wnn brown' tape be knows that "George Arbuckle has been to St' Louis again.1 Cutler, who hails front Missouri and Is proud of .it although he has been in Sakm' Jonger' than some pretty well-established resi dents of tbe city, even, knows what , the package or packages will contain before he hefts if or them., . Coffee toffees from a .big St Louis store remind mm 01 ms native state as well as of the Sa- em' shoe merchant ; . This spring, Arbuckle was back la Salem before the St Louis candies had arrived. The toffees came Thursday. . .rlA;-;: v . . .;.r:... And for those who think that big stores are heartless we quote Buster Brown Arbuckle: 'When the "girt at this particular counter sees me coming she smiles and says 1 know what you want and they go to Mr. Cutler" : Oregon Tax eney Drops 50 B (Continued from Page 1) B Future reductions, he4 continued. may depend to some degree on continuance of sound business conditions. AH taxes charged on the rolls for the period, 1931 to 1942-43 in elusive, aggregated $475,337,435.45. Galloway said it was furtunate that the legislature in 1941 en acted a law shifting property tax levies and collecting from the calendar to the fiscal year basis. The outstanding benefit of this change, Galloway declared, "was the removal of due dates of prop erty taxes by the widest possible margin from the due dates of oth er major taxes."' The , tax commissioner added that particular ' evidence of the friendly reception of the new schedule by taxpayers was sup plied in the exceptionally heavy tax .payments made oh' November 15, 1942. and in 1943. ' . . Copies of Galloway's report will J be filed with Governor, tan neu and other state officials. ' Stimson Says NaSKpping I (Continued from Page 1) I Stimson said "every day 'Rabaul and enemy centers on New Ire land and the battered Japanese bases on the northwest coast of New Guinea are revisited with destruction." The scope of the American air power, he said, "is illustrated by the frequent at tacks during the past week upon the Caroline islands and the Kuriles." , All parts of the Japanese em pire "are thus coming within our range, he commented. Stimson tempered his pleasure over US successes with the com ment that levery action in the air requires the bravery and sacri fice of our fliers: the casualties of brave men will never be lightly borne. srv --.wo. Ueliiiqii ; Xhk Siwiiirf Q lioi ii ittyCufwmntfAlftitk Kmrnrnff fmiutitm. tm,. Japs Advance To Threaten Rail Junction CHUNGKING, April 20-HV Reinforced by several thousand men, Japanese .forces driving on the important . north . Honon Tail way junction of Chenghsien (Chengchow) advanced today- to within 13 miles of the city from the southeast the Chinese command announced tonight The Japanese, seeking to clear the Chinese-held portions of the north-south Peiping-Hankow rail way, gained ground toward Chenghsien from the northwest as well, a Chinese communique in dicated. . . , . The invaders suffered consider able " casualties: Southwestof Chungmow, which is 23 miles east of Chenghsien the Chinese said. but r reinforced Japanese units which set out f or Oienghsiea from southeast of Chungmow were not intercepted until they reached a point 13 miles southeast of the Junction, and severe fighting still was under Way with these troops tonight ' : ,.. : Japanese air forces supported the ground offensive with raids on many eastern' and northern Hanon targets, including three attacks on Chenghsien itself. M.a X-'-i- rrn rt a - Opens 1:4$ P. M. How Playing! The Great est Flight In History! JM W KOtCERT MARSHALL Co-Hit! Vwj 'wmwee tmt- wrrs tm.fF" V?:.Opeas. .55P.f.3L . i WOMEN- DEFILED lf JtfEN BUTCHEMED ."" ; BT KTJTHLESS JAPS! ! Co-Hit toy ROGERS Aad a New Thrnilag Serial! Chapter 1 -PERILS OF THE NOKTHWEST BIOUNTED jr 1 - k -) - S kit I tTjl j j Ui v itati wkri y away nd fight this war dont want to coma back and find that prohibition has been put over on them while they were away, tilier . the attempts being made and they reseat iitbitterlyr- Y .1 r "1 agree with them. Judge, even though -1 don't happen to drink rnysclL further-; more, I don't think it's fair for ta at home to be making any major changes while 10,000,000 of onrfitiTigTryn ateaway and hare no dmce to express their oBankm."