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ITU' (MEGS WDM Secretary Ickes hit on a novel Idea when he suggested giving the war plants to the - returning 'veterans. He draws on the ex ample of homesteads following the . Civil war, and he could have gone clear back to the Revolution when its soldiers shared in grant lands " being opened up in the west i But wouldn't the veterans of this war be tempted to cash in on their stock by selling it as quickly -as they could, so that soon control would pass to speculators or com petitors for a song? If the govern ment attempted ( to operate the plants what assurance would the veterans have of success of the 'enterprise? If one veteran got 10 shares of stock in an aluminum plant that succeeded while an other got shares in a synthetic rubber plant that fizzled, would there be a complaint of discrim ination? Or if all the war plants are to be operated under one r- ganization would there be any profits to divide? i ' ! I have a feeling that probably most veterans would follow that line in Omar Khayyam: "Take the cash and let the credit go.". They would prefer the money to' buy a home or a farm or a business or a car or a tractor, or some of them " lust to squander. - The Ickes idea is original, how ever, land should not be discarded merely because" , some obstacles appearv They; might be" what JUvnm in hia " "Loeic" calls the nallacy- of objections. Certainly the men who have fought in the war are more deserving of the plants than the ones who stayed home and made money in operav ing them. : 1 An important thing to keep in j mind, however, ' is not merely ownership of the -plants but n - ployment in their (Continued on Editorial Page) Congress Gives Armed Forces' Plea Push-Off WASHINGTON, April 2-(JP) Tbei house military r committee stuck' to its guns today in opposi . tion to labor, draft legislation in the face of a renewed drive by "the army,"the navy and the marl? time commission for a law to con- script war plant workers. ! If anything, the latest plea of . the armed services as expressed ? in a Joint statement by Navy Sec- retary "Knox, Secretary Stimson t and . Maritime - Chairman . Land; I solidified the oft-voiced position of the- committee that , national service legislation is not the an f gwer to the manpower problem. W have spoken and we meant . what we said," declared Repre- tentative May (D, Ky), chairman - of the committee without whose - sanction service legislation can- not reach the house floor. Nation al service legislation has been stalled for months in his commit . tee and in the senate's military committee. May referred to a committee ' Teport, issued yesterday five hours before the army-navy-maritime . - statement, asserting there is- no need for legislation and pointing out that-existing law permits se - - lective service and other ' war agencies to control the job acti ; vities of draft-age men, especially 4-ra. i : The report mildly criticized the army for J what the committee said was a lack of full cooperation in efficiently using manpower -under ; present laws. " ; River Qaims Two Victims. First 1944 spring victims of the Willamette river, a seven-year-old Salem boy and a fisherman ln his early 20's,. were drowned Friday. - . The body of small Jerry Burke, - second son of City Police Officer and Mrs. Edwin G. ' Burke, was taken from the river at the foot of Owens street at approximately 7 pjn, about an hour after the I 'lad is believed to j have fallen in .5 the river from logs xwhere he played with another child. 1 j At an early hour this morning ! state police, rivermen and resi dents of the area four miles south Ycf Independence were still grap pling for a body reported to be ' that of Harold Kienn, young fath er, who with his wife and small "child and Mr. and Mr. Robert Ramage had fished the river dur ing daylight hours. Little was known of the child's drowning. His grandfather, Na poleon Rocque," 195 West Owens street, located .Jhe. body shortly .after he was notified of the acci dent. Resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful. " 1 -; In addition to his mother, Jerry is survived by brothers, Jackie and Steven. He was a Bush school pupil. The body is et the Clough Barrick mortuary.- . Details were lacking also of the tipriver drowning. The call came in to police here at dusk, and men who Joined in the task were be yond the reach of radio or tele- , j hone. : ' ' - Om"i M IU mKETY-THBD YEAR RAF Cologncf, Key Rails British Release 5000 Bomb Tons In Record Blow LONDON. Saturday, April 22 Jpy- A German radio broadcast recorded by the British ministry of information warned early to day of "enemy aircraft which approached western Germany, indicating the RAF might be ex tending the historic allied day night devastation l et Hitler's Europe late the fifth straight cycle. " ; ' ' " - By.W. W. HERCHER . -: ? LONDON, ' April" 21P)-The RAF4n its strongest blow of the war poured more than 5000 tons of bombs last night on Co logne and three other key rail way centers behind ' the - nazis' invasion front, and today American heavy bombers were reported by Berlin to have car ried out a "major attack" on Bucharest and . other targets m southeastern Europe. Mere than 11M aircraft, the largest number ef planes ever sent oat by the British bomber command ripped apart the en emy's faur rail renters, presum ably with last-mlnste prepara tions -far strengthening the vaanfed Atlantic waU against the forthcoming allied invasion. Sixteen of the bombers were Besides Cologne, described by the air ministry as being by far the most important railway center in western Germany, the - RAF shattered and burned Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais "invasion coast" area, pttigniea pn Belgium about IS miles southeast of Brussels, and La Chapelle, on the outskirts c-f Paris.-i'' WJ ':- '-4J - In addition, EAIMosaattoa capable oT carrying two-tea blockbusters delivered a sharp nicht attack on Berlin. . Brom Britain, American light and medium bombers hammered again at the Atlantic wall targets, Marauders and Havocs making i peated flights during the day. Five of the bombers were lost as the nazis sent up lighten for the first time in more than a month in this area. The American heavyweight blow reported by Germany presumably (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Germans Say Invasion Near LONDON, April Zl-.-Tb Invasion-Jittery nasi radio pnt at a report today that the al lien were saassing soldiers and - ships at channel and southern England porta fat preparation fee the Invasion of western Earope. r The German radio said allied soldiers were streaming front Lend - to the -porta -ariule -the United States and British na vies were massing the greatest concentration of ships since Dnnkerqne. . London, said the nasi broad- east, was becoming "more and more . deserted by " British. United States and colonial -troops:: The Vichy radio predicted that the western Invasion would be timed with new allied thrasts la Italy and the Bal kans. Soldier Voting Post Card Will Be Legal in Oregon The postcard prescribed by congress . for - soldier voting may be accepted legally by any coun ty clerk in Oregon as a request for an . absentee ballot,- and . as registration in the county of the soldier applicant's residence un der specified conditions. Attor ney General George Neuner held Friday in a two-page opinion which may be used as a guide by county clerks and other election officials. That opinion, requested by Secretary of State Robert S. Far rell, Jr., will be sent in mimeo graph form to each county clerk in Oregon prior to the May 19 primaries, but clerks will be called to Salem after the primary election to discuss uniform pro cedure in handling the Novem ber soldier vote, Farrell said. The postcard given congres sional approval also may be leg ally accepted as aa application 14 PAGES Bomb Sabang fQUATOK I0O0 ir Indus ITafuM MHfS E3 Units of the British eastern fleet, sweentna ' nearly j ltOO ' miles j across 'the Indian ocean from their base In Ceylon, bombard' ed Sabang. at the northern tip of Sumatra (ship symbols and pointer), the admiralty announc ed. (AP Wlrephoto) Reds Slay Sevastopol Battle In Final Stages As Nazis Staeeer i . i DD LONDON, Saturday, April 22-MP)-The Soviet; high com mand announced early today that Marshal Gregory K. Zhu- kov's First Ukraine army killed 1500 enemy troops and de stroyed 68 tanks yesterday in a violent battle spreading through the Carpathian foothills south east of Stanislawow in Old Pol' and, where the Germans appar ently sought to disrupt a fresh Russian Offensive timetable. Moscow's midnight bulletin, which again did not: mention be sieged Sevastopol where the en emy has been squeezed into a 50 square-mile tip of the Crimea, said - the ifightjuig near Stanisla wow... was'-precipiuied . by re newed German attacks. One Sov iet unit alone repulsed seven con secutive nazi assaults in fight ing that often was hand-to-hand, the bulletin said. A Berlin broadcast, giving perhaps the cine to the current German counter-attacks. . re sorted that hare red arnur re-1 serves" were flowing through the Ukraine Into a 258-mile seetor of the Polish front between the upper Dnestr and the Prlpyat marshes as a prelude to fresh Kusslaa assaults along the most direet invasion route to Berlin. It was possible that these Rus sian reserves had been shifted from the Crimea where Sevasto pol is the only foothold left to the enemy. ' Two Russian, armies (Turn to Pag 2 Story H) Badoglio Reports New Italy Cabinet NAPLES, April aiP)-Marshal Pietro Badoglio announced the formation of a new Italian cabinet today with himself as premier and foreign minister. He told -a press conference tonight that the new government'! would begin ; func tioning Monday. - "The allies wanted me to form a more representative govern ment," Badoglio told correspon dents. "All six of Italy's parties are - represented In this, one. Therefore, I feel the results could not have been better. Asked if he thought the new cabinet would endure until allies enter Rome, the marshal plied, "I'm no prophet" for registration in case the appli cant for the absentee ballot is not registered j in the county of his residence, or has become 21 years of age while serving in the armed forces, and has not had an op portunity, to register but is eli gible to vote. " Neuner . continued that the postcard received from any mem ber of the armed forces should be filed by, the county clerk; and placed : in the registration card index. If. the writer thereof or applicant for the absentee ballot is not registered, whether his sig- nature is sworn to or not, the card should be preserved in the index. The card may be compared with the signature subscribed to me oath of the . applicant elector on his "official election war bal lot envelope" when received by the county clerk, provided any ITuro to rage 2 Story A) THArtANTy CHINA S . 4 Sabang I . y $UMATRAJingaporej Attackers PCUND3D 1651 Salem. Orecpn Saturday Jp TanliS Show Up In India Allies Continue To Drive Back. -Jap Invaders SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS, ; Kandy, Ceylon, April 21 (JP) The Japanese have thrown reinforcements. including tanks, into their in vasion of India, but they still are being knocked back in hard fighting around the hie allied bases of Imphal and Ko hima, some 35 miles . from the Burma ' border, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters announced today. ' ' First appearance, of enemy tanks in the fighting at the edge of the Imphal plain was report-, ed from the Palel area, south east of Imphal where British and Indian troops repulsed a Japanese Infantry ' attack sup ported by armor. The tanks ap parently had been broaght through the mountains and jan gles from Burma at terrific ex penditure of effort. An influx of Japanese troops was noted in the area of Kohima, 60 miles north of Imphal, but Mountbatten's communique said allied forces made further pro gress in their counter-offensive against an invasion column that established road blocks along the supply highway between Kohima and Dimapur station on the Ben gal-Assam railway. Earlier In the week an allied force from Dimapur . broke through to the relief of a tired British and Indian garrison that had held Kohima against day .(Turn to Page 2 Story K) ChurcHill Tells Empire States Tariff Secure LONDON, April 21-i)-Prime Minuter Churchill assured the states of the British empire to day that they would emerge from the war with their imperial pref erence plan of mutually advan tageous tariff rates unhampered by the Atlantic! charter or; by the 1942 h Anglo-American lend-lease agreement. He told an approving house of commons President Roosevelt had assured him that "we were no more committed to abolition of imperial preference than the American government was com mitted to abolition of their pro tective tariff." ; - The prime minister said there need ' be no clash between the unity of the commonwealth and the empire and their associations with the United States and Rus sia, and added: There must be a wholehearted endeavor begun 'in good time to promote the greatest interchange of goods and service for that cess of betterment of the s ar as or living in every . coun witnout which expanding mar keta are impossible and without i which prosperity is a dream (Turn to Page 2 Story J) Allied Aerial Fleet in Italy Pounds Nazis ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April 21-()-The allied Mediterranean "air forces hurled their power at nazi communica tions - in Italy 'yesterday, hitting ports along the coasts and rail networks inland with more ports along the coasts and rail net works inland : with more than 2000 sorties, -j . Targets at the head of the Adri atic sea caught the brunt of the assault, , four-engined Liberators pouring " explosives ? into r Venice harbor and the Monfalcone ship yards near Trieste.- American .fighterrbombers ' In 50 strafing runs across Rieti air field northeast of Rome destroyed 10 rounded Focke-WuU-190 fight ers. Livorno harbor on the west coast ; also - was showered with bombs. Eight allied planes were lost In all acions. . An American- destroyer, pa trolling the approaches to Anzio harbor, ran into a covey of Ger man E-boats and a communique said one of the swift little ves sels probably was sent, to the bot tom. Another was reported prob ably damaged by the destroyer's guns in the night skirmish. ; pro- try (mil fell IfM) Morning. April 22. 1344 Members of a US infantry unit ta northern Ireland go through eontaet course designed to toughen them for the coming tovaaiasi of Europe. 77 - A imtionsmg To Stabilize W orld Finance ; By DONALD KOVACIC . .. WASHINGTON, Aprfl 21--Treasury technicians of 34 nations announced tonight their agreement on broad outlines for a proposed $8,000,000,000 gold-based stabilization fund de signed to restore order to international finance- and promote world prosperity. . (L Soviet Russia dramatically gave its approval at the last minute. Word of Russian concur rence with the money experts of other United Nations was received only, a - short time, before the agreement was made public here and in other allied capitals Secretary JAorgenthau earlier had told neWknen that the joint statement represented . the views of all the nations except Russia, although be added that he was "very hopeful'' of Russian adher ence. : The fund. It was explained," weald ase sack methods of bay ing and selling gold and eurrea- . cles to prevent un healthful gy raUona In the relationships be tween carreacies and to pro snote trade. It cenld provide io country ; with currency of (Turn to Page X Story C) MaponWar Fund Close To $100,000 Marion county's 1944 Red Cross war- zuna nearea tne aiuu.wu mark Friday as contributions re sulting from last month's cam paign continued to dribble in. "The : $99,321.67. recorded , to date is the best testimony that can be offered for the careful plan ning and the continuous drive of Chairman Elton Thompson and his organization, Loyal Warner, campaign publicity chairman who released the report, said. The county's minimum quota:: was $74,000. ;T ' ; - The rural division of the coun ty, mat is the section lying out side of school district 24, raised 135,430.74," largest divisional con tribution. Salem residential sec tion had raised $11,422 by Fri day, or 164 per cent of its quota. Governmental ! contributions had mounted to $7463.45, or 166 per cent of the division's quota. Every Salem division went over the top by amounts ranging from nine to the 66 per cent Salem theaters raised $2094.10; the 40 et 8 dance, $650, and an estimated $1500 came from Camp Adair to the Marion county chapter's creditT - ' Kowilz of Salem In Speech Finals ROSEBURG,? Ore, April 2lQP Chris Kowitz, Salem; Elaine Bud long and Wayne Hembree, Port land, and Bob Powell, Eugene, won their way into finals "of the state Christian Endeavor high school speech contest finals to night . They eliminated 13 other dis trict champions and will vie . for the state title tomorrow night Registration ! for the 33rd an nual Oregon' Christian Endeavor convention passed 400 tonight Tomorrow's pro g r a m includes election of officers and a special recognition service for Miss Viola Ogden ' who recently retired - as state secretary after 20 years' service '. Tougisning Up For Invasion J y : a-' i ree on slum Patton Arrives In England j Forltivasidn ... LONDON, April 21 () Lt Gen. George S. Patton, jr., tough tank -specialist whose American Seventh army swiftly overran most of Sicily, has arrived in Bri tain to take a place among Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief lieutenants " for the Invasion of western Europe. I Out of the public eye since the soldier-slapping incident which almost wrecked bis military, ca reer last year, Patton is known to the Germans as a rough-and- ready foe and veteran soldier. To his troops the general is known variously as "old blood and guts," "the general who never lost a bat tle," and "the man in the gilded helmet" M Patton arrived recently in a natty uniform, including- a new battle jacket, and the censors per mitted disclosures of his presence only ' tonight And the reunion of this salty old campaigner with his victorious chief in . the North Af rican and Sicilian campaigns, General Eisenhower, was taken as recognition by the astute Eisen hower of Patton's proven abili tiesabilities which even the sharpest critics of his personal conduct seldom have questioned. Lt Gen. Omar N. Bradley is the senior commander' of American ground forces marshalled in Bri tain' for the invasion. During the Sicily campaign Bradley was one of! Patton's corps commanders in the Seventh" army.. ' :.'- 1 - The two men are direct oppo- sites in temperament Bradley Is quiet, unobtrusKe, and delivers bis orders in a low voice. 2000 Boys, Here for 4H By FLORENCE LYNDS As nearly 2000 boys and girls stood at attention; on the court house grounds in - Salem Friday morning and repeated the 4H club pledge "I pledge my head I to clearer thinking, myv h e a r t. to greater loyalty, my hands to larg er service, my health to better living, for my club, my communi ty and my country one might well wonder where comes the talk of youth delinquency. .: Qub members from all over Marion county gathered for the third annual 4H parade and rally which was ; considered the best ever held. Amos W. Bierly, coun ty 4H club agent, introduced the platform guests including Mayor L it Doughton of Salem, members of the county court, H. C Sey mour, tiate club leader; Miss Hel en Cowgill. assistant club leader; Mrs. Agnes Booth, county school J superintendent; . and - representa Price 5c t 4 N ) aJLd' work during an intensive Tanrer (AP Wlrephoto) : . liberator Sinks Nip Cargo Ship NearHollandia ALLIED .HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC Satur day, April 22-(yP)-Bombs from a Liberator sank a 1000-ton Japa nese cargo ship west of the enemy base , at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, Wednesday - while - me dium bombers continued to pound nearby sections of the coast. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communi que said today. f, - The fifth army airforce Mitch ells swept low to drop 45 tons of explosives on buildings at Van! mo, 30 miles east of Hollandia. Boston attack planes and fight ers working over the Hansa bay Madang area farther down the New Guinea coast hit supply and bivouac areas, started fires in warehouses and wrecked two barges. - 8 Satawan airdrome in the Nomoi islands. Central Carolines, was blasted with 49 tons of bombs de livered by Solomon-based Liber ators at Midway Wednesday, the fourth raid in a daily schedule started last Sunday. f Other heavy bombers from the Solomons whacked the Japanese airdrome at Woleai, in the west ern Carolines, with 52 tons of explosives. Four aircraft on the ground were destroyed. . Woleai has been raided three times this week. - 4 -: :" f- Heavy bombers struck two Ja- (Turn to Page 2--Story I) Olympia Man Injured,, In Auto Accident J , DALLAS Hallett- Sifer, -5, Olympia,. Wash, received severe lacerations and possible bone frac tures but was; not believed se verely injured when his car crash ed into a culvet wto miles north of Rickreall on the west side high way early Friday" afternoon. : He was brought to the Dallas hos pital. - - - Girls Gather Club Events tives from firms presenting schol arships, In the afternoon club members gathered at the armory for the rally program which included pre sentation of scholarship f awards and the style revue. Exhibits were at the state fair grounds and num bered more than 1000. 1 r - Silver Cliff school was first for one-room schools in the parade awards,-Middle Grove,- for two- room i schools and liberty for three-room schools. A full schol arship went ' to - each school. Schools receiving honorable men tion included Evens Valley, Sun- nyside," Riverdale, Butte ville, Swegle and Auburn, i s Z -.. Ronald Krebs, 12, of Talbot and JoAnn Lake, 14, of Swegle were declared the healthiest boy and girl.. Alma Brown, Aufbra, and Maurice Hammer, Mt Angel, were in second place. Torty were en tered. - - . -i - - Turn to Page 2 Story B) Fund Weather . " , Maximum temperature C3 decree;; minimam 36; so rainfall; river 4 J ft. ' Partly cloudy Saturday with occasional light rain la northwesters part. Sunday partly cloudy with mok tonal ; snow flurries rer mountains of northern part. Nat much change - la tem pera tare. No. 333 Japanese Encircle Rail City , Chenghsien May Fall; Nationals f Ordered to Flee By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, April 2HP The. Japanese, using a force -of between 50,000 and 60,000 men, lincluding crack reinforcemenbi drawn from the Manchuriaa garrison, are swiftly encircling the North Honan railway junc tion of Chenghsien, Chinese ad vices stated tonight. The Amer ican and - British . embassies were disclosed to have ordered their na tionals to flee from the path of the enemy's gathering offensive. ; ; The town of Chenghsien Itself . seemed likely to fail before the Japanese drive, declared by the Chinese to be aimed at closing the Mt-mile Chinese-held sec tion of the Peiping-Hankew railway and, it was suggested by fercla-n observers today, per haps at captaring the great Honan wheat crop now ripening fat the fields. The Chinese command in its communique tonight indicated that the Japanese had narrowed to less main 30 miles an escape corridor through which the Chinese forces defending Chenghsien could flee to the southwest j . A Japanese column striking f toward Chenghsien from the -east brought the junction under belliirc the Chinese bulletin stated, while two other columns from the east tressed the Pelp-lng-Rankew railway at n point aboat 29 miles below Chengh sien and advanced II miles be- ' yond toward the Important highe 'way town of Mlhslea. I .Still another V Urge Japanese force striking down - from : the north wast was engaged only a few iniles outside Chenghsien by Chin k (Turn to Page 2 Story F) '. New Tax Plan Will Withhold Full Liability WASHINGTON, April 21 -m Details of new withholding levies against wages and salaries, which may become effective next Janu ary 1 if congress approves the tax simplification bill now being shap-, ed by the house ways and means committee, were disclosed tonight by a dependable tax source. The new withholding levekt,'- higher for most taxpayers, are de signed to collect the full tax lia bility of persons earning up to $5000 and make it unnecessary for some 30,000,000 persons to file formal returns after this year. ; f However, any of the 30.000.OOt who desired to claim higher de-. ductions, for other .taxes, contri- - buttons and interest paid, than the average allowed for the with holding machinery, could file for mal returns as usual, and make such claims. There would be no change in amounts held out of pay .envelopes and salary checks this year. The new withholdings "would be de signed to take the - full tax for most persons, at about the levels - of the new revenue law recently approved by congress. - - ; - The committee probably will decide tomorrow whether to ac cept the withholding tables pre pared by its staff of experts. Under the new withholding - system, by which the government for the first time would attempt to collect exact tax liabilities by deduction frompay envelopes and (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Bing Names News Staff ! Staff appointments for the newspaper tabloid style overseas news letter which Salem Cher rians will send to ' capital city servicemen were announced Fri day night by King Bing Frank Chatas, and May 4 was set as copy deadline, with publication date to be sometime the second week in May, - v -',-!. ;- Kenneth Perry, Harold .Busick; and Chatas will serve as editors ' in chief, while Douglas Mullarky is to be in charge of composition. Reporters y- are Paul Hale, local news; Ralph Campbell, sports and high, school; Les Leserer, promo tion display; Kenneth Perry, po litical news, and Dan Hay, club activities. Arthur Bates will edit a special column listing names of recent inductees and locations In sofar as military censorship will . permit, ' - ,