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r ' - ! ! . p i;i l i - - teaaperatar ft. degree Wednesday; mba faraaa 41; trace at preclpl fatten; river U feet. Oreasteaal shewers Tbars- -day aa4 Friday; cloudy t rala . . westers part; cooler Thurs day - - -- PCUNDDD ; . '..".!.'.' " i. ' '':"' I -'- !. rv-v f 1 Back in the mid-thirtiet when - tensions In labor relations were acuta most everywhere, California bad an outbreak of labor trouble in agriculture which drew nation i al attention. John Steinbeck wrote -hia "Grapes of Wrath" depicting ; the plight of the Joads and others who migrated . from - the dustbowl tto the pauperism of r stoop, labor in California.-, The Associated Farmers was organized to combat i labor aggression,' and then the La- Follette committee on civil liber ties moved in to hold hearings on whether citizens' rights were be ing assailed. At long last, the LaFollette re- . sort has . been published, and as , might be anticipated St is highly : critical of the employer group in . California, condemning it for un . dertaking to deprive farm work ers of civil rights "with every de vice of repression that anti-un- iinicm rnuld muster.' While sav '. ing that industrialized agriculture in California "has been permitted to continue as an economic poor house for the unfortunate who have no other means of livelihood and as a political breeding ground ' for violence and ; undemocratic philosophies held by employer and employe alike" it made no gener al indictment of large-scale agri culture, asserting that "large- scale agriculture should not be per mitted to operate outside our nor mal system of democratic employ' er-employe relationships." The report is now of historical rather" than oresent value, so swiftly has the situation changed with regard to farm labor. Now employers hunt and beg for farm hands, and wages are higher than the Joads ever imagined could ex ist While one may say that a re turn of hard times will cause reversion to the stresses of a de cade ago, it is not unreasonable to believe that employers have ' (Continued on Editorial page) Salem Tin Can Pickiro Slated Shining harvests of salvaged tin cans will be gathered into school yards in 23 Marion and Polk coun ty district today -as-householders of the mid-Willamette valley once again send tin cans to war." Other schools throughout the two counties will, in turn, clear their yards and buildings of the collections children of the dis tricts have been gathering, moving their stocks to the nearest of the 23 pickup centers. From these 23 centers, trucks and drivers of v firms in the Ore gon Bottlers association will re move the early spring "crop" of metal salvage to the loading dock at the Oregon Electric freight de pot. Front and Chemeketa streets, Salem, today and tomorrow. In Salem, hundreds of private collections of the vital war ma terial will go directly from homes and restaurants to that same dock, where freight cars will be loaded . today and Friday, day and night - Although school children, ac- tual sponsors of the drive, accord ing to a grateful salvage commit- : tee, will pick up collections, the burdens may be too heavy for . some and in many notifications ' (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Craig Reports From Jap Land Dale Craig of Salem, Ore., is "being treated well" as a Japanese prisoner of war, according to a ; statement made over the Tokyo Hose program April 4, which was heard by Ens. R. D. McMullen, US navy. , - '. McMullen has written to Ray and Lillian' Peerenboom, 2640 Brooks avenue, Salem, to report this broadcast, saying "It is our custom to do this when we hear anyone we know or who says he Is from any place near where we live, or have friends." Miss Peerenboom met Ens. Me Mullen at a party in Salem several : months ago and they have corre- s ponded since that time. The Peerenbooms live at 2640 Brooks street and the telephone number is 7208. The Salem friends of Ens. Mc Mullen do not know Dale Craig . nor have they been able to locate anyone who does know of such a person. : Senate, Group Approves Lcnd-Lcase Extension ; WASHINGTON, April 26 The senate foreign relations com mittee "voted unanimously today to extend the $22,300,000,000 lend lease program another year, after a 60-minute session in which it ' was described as a vital factor in the pre-invasion strategy. ; Asserting he will seek to call up the house-approved lend-lease extension bill in the senate next week. Chairman. ConnaUy (D-Tex) said the committee accepted the program as an "established war By Kids Today policy. KmrrY-xninD yeas Mr Raids.;orae Power ?ets Wiltss bo:Mto 13th Day RAF Hits Paris, Essen in Night With Big Force By W..W. HERCHER LONDON, Thursday, April 27 -P- Heavy bombers of the RAF carried the allied air of fensive against German Europe into its thirteenth consecutive day today, striking with mas sive force by moonlight at the German armaments city of Es sen and elsewhere in a method ical follow-up to a 1000-plane American daylight raid on Bruns wick and other targets. " Schweinfurt, ball-bearing man ufacturing center in southwest Germany, was one of the sec ondary objectives attacked by the night raiders, the British announc ed. The Americans lost not a sin gle bomber, but six fighters failed to return from the wide spread and diversified daylight operations. Details of the RAF night at tack were not available, but It was stated authoritatively that the big bombers were oat "in great strength." The German controlled Paris radio said the Paris area where vital railways have been bombed repeatedly by the RAF this month had been attacked during the night Essen, a frequent target, last was subjected to a heavy raid by more than 750 RAF four-engined bombers on March 26, and was hit by Mosquito bombers April 8. It has been called the Pittsburgh of Germany. The major American daylight raid did not encounter any fighter opposition. Between 250 and 500 JPortresses.and libera tors made the- 809-mile round trip . to Brunswick,; dumping 1590 tons of bombs. A commu nique said the escort of from 500 to 750 Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts made no con tact with German Interceptors. other aircraft hammered at (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Anzio Allies Gain Ground With Attacks ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April 26-JP)-Allied troops have broken the lull on the Anzio bridgehead, improved their posi tions and have taken prisoners in several limited attacks launched after a combined artillery and propaganda barrage, allied head quarters announced today. ; - The allies lashed out to strength en their lines as American fliers reported heavy movements of n emy motor transport on the high ways near Rome and as official reports told of enemy replace ments from the Russian front reaching the beachhead front The gains were scored in the past three days, headquarters an nounced, a mile and a half north east of Carano, where the Ger mans launched their latest big of fensive against the bridgehead forces. The allies first directed a propaganda talk at the German lines through amplifiers,' and 50 prisoners were taken. The most recent batch of pris oners, numbering nine, was taken yesterday, four coming in after a persuasive loudspeaker talk. aign Camp 4-Fs in Essential Work WASHINGTON, April 26 Selective service embarked today on an extensive campaign to per- suade men unfit for military ser vice or more than 37 years old to take a job "making a contri bution" to the war. . The Inducement is occupational deferment Draft boards are receiving the first set in a series of regulations carrying out a new policy on militarily-unacceptable men, announc ed a month ago by Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey. ! "Making a contribution" a phrase occurring repeatedly in the new regulations - is ; approxi mately .the same as being en the war manpower commission's list of 35 essential : activities, though In borderline cases the draft board must use its own judgment , The new rules make it manda tory to place men into occupa-Uonally-def erred classes, if they ; v 14 FAGZ3 AVi- 'a V4 Former movie star Tyrone Power, f7 V 1 -7. !' i i i A . . ) " i- ' ' I J A j J corps reserve receives his navy wings of gold from Rear Adm. Charles . Mason, USN, (left), commandant of the naval air train ing eentfr, in a graduation ceremony at Corpus Christ!, Texas. (AP Wirfcphoto) : ' . Russians German Transports r J By TOM YARBROUGH ; LONDON, Thursday, April 27--Blasting at an axis fleet If I' - . i presumabrpr attempting to evacuate large numbers of the be sieged fortes at Sevastopol, the Russians have sunk five Ger man and .Ptumanian transports and damaged two others in the past 24 hdurs, Moscow announced last night- Jf The Soviet daily communique reported once again "There ; ; 1 N ii 1 , .. Ovrre no essential changes at' the Japs Continue Moving Ahead In H6nan Area CHUNGKING, China, Aprl 26 (Jf) A Chinese communique to night indicated the Japanese had advanced i4 the direction of Teng f eng, pivotal point 40 miles south west of Chjenghsien, in the bitter north Honn province campaign in central China. - From Tengleng the Japanese either could try to outflank Chin' ese positions on the Longhai rail way, wnicii runs westward, or could guard their own flanks while seeking to eliminate the Chinese- held gap oh the Peiping-Hankow railway, which runs from north to south. I . The Chinese acknowledge giving ground near Mihsien, 20 miles southwest bf Chenghsien, where they have been fighting to break Japanese encirclement The com munique said the Japanese were invading the Mihsien .area with more than io.000 of the estimated 60,000 troops engaged in that theatre j J ', ;,; ... The Chiaese portrayed as bit terly contesting : the Japanese ad' vance on jdl sectors of the ex panding Honan battlefront They said the Japanese were attacking day and night with air and arm ored support on the Hulao pass in the Lunghal railway region. The pass la ' one of the main obr structions tq a Japanese advance towards Loyang, important rail' way city 75 miles west of Chengh sien. . f ....''- 1 :, Starts to Get are making a war contribution, in stead of placing them in: : - 4-F as physically, mentally or morally unfit; s . " 1-A-L as fit for limited service only, or some class showing the man's age Is 38 to 45 years, such as 1-A (HL Men already in 4-F or 1-A-L are entitled to; occupational defer ments If they apply for them and if they ar . "making a contribu tion j ; , ii-s--'t -tp The new rules also affect class J-C, which includes men in the armed forces and men discharged for physical or mental disability. When a man is discharged he will be given an occupational defer ment if be gets into an essential job. ; The fact (hat a man Is discharC' ed never has exempted him from being drafted again if the reasons for his discharge disappear. (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Salaxn. Oregon, Thundery Morning; April 27 1944 St - s now a first lieutenant in the marine Sink Five front during thfe da, but official German and Rumanian announce ments said the red army had broken the land lull by opening a large-scale offensive on the Ru manian front scoring local break throughs which were sealed off. A supplement to the soviet communique referred to con tinued activity southeast of Stanisllawow 1 n eld Poland, where skirmishing has been re ported the past few days. It said about a company of Ger mans was wiped out and some important heights were cap tured by Russian tankmen. In another sector, unidentified, 800 Germans were reported killed and 300 wounded and 20 tanks or self-propelled guns smashed in one of the bloodiest small en gagements since the Sevastopol lull set in. In addition to the action off Sevastopol, the Russians an nounced that in the Barents sea (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Nazi Raiders Bomb Shelter LONDON, Thursday, April 27 (iP) -German air raiders swept over England three times between dusk last night and dawn this morning and on one of their stabs dropped a bomb directly on an air raid, shelter in a south coast city, causing many casualties. All three raids were brief and London I itself had no incidents. although sirens sounded here and anti-aircraft defenders prepared to battle the enemy planes. The city hardest hit was on the south coast and a number of per' sons were feared dead there. Many fires were started. The di rect hit on the shelter occurred during the ' second of the three attacks. . . All three attacks were directed along the coastal area, following the enemy's pattern of the last month in striking at allied invas ion concentrations rather than harrying the 'capital. The last heavy, bombing of London was March 25. - . - t RAF Attacks Large i Sub Forces LONDON, April 28-VThe RAF; coastal command, with Ca nadian planes playing a promin ent part, ' attacked and dispersed strong U-boat forces during a re cent period of : renewed intensive activity, the air ministry an nounced 'tonight -rK' w " ' The dates were not given, but it was announced the enemy sub marines were attacked day . and night for a ' considerable period. Two were believed destroyed and others ' damaged, ' the announce ment said.' . f . i US . Grabs 2- Airfields Powerful Forces Drawing Gose ; To Key Airfield By C. YATES McDANEEL , ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea. April 2l-JPy- Powerful United States sixth army forces seized two Hollandia airdromes Tuesday and were closing in on a third key airfield, prime objective of the campaign launched less than four days before. One hundred fifty miles to the southeast otheri; American troops pushed northward from the Tad ji airdrome to occupy Aitape vil lage after a short skirmish in which just one Japanese was killed. If Two hundred and eight miles farther south,; an Australian farce occupied the enemy sup ply base of Madang with its airdrome on Tuesday after overcoming an enemy rearguard and - then poshed northward from the coastal town from which the bulk of the enemy force was believed to have with drawn a month ago. In Just three and a half days of rapid, skillful maneuvering, American troops in the Hollan dia area fought swamps, jungles, muddy mountain trails and mos- quitos but few, very few, of the 14,000 Japanese estimated to have been in the area when the great offensive drama opened at dawn Saturday! Gen. Douglas MacArthur said In his communique today that troops which landed at Hum boldt bay "La i an amphibious shore to shore ( operation, cross ed Lake Sentani to Nefarr, seiz ed the Cyclops and Sentani air tVdaj and are moving on the r:- Crurn to Page 2-Story C) Yank Mr Arm Strikes Kurile, Caroline Isles US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, April 26-UPr-The far reaching Ameri can aerial arm struck at Japan's far northern Kurile islands Mon day night, for the second consecu- tive night, and also delivered a 36-ton bombing attack on the ene my s Caroline lsianas ioriress oi Truk, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz disclosed today, Navy Ventura search planes made the long, frigid run to the Kuriles to attack Paramushiro and Shumushu islands while heavy bombers of the 11th army air force smote Matsuwa island, but 500 miles from Japan's main is lands. An earlier announcement today told of raids on the same islands the previous night. The successive strikes in the Kuriles followed a 10-day lull in air operations hi that far northern theatre. The Japanese defenders loosed heavy ground fire at the air raiders Mdnday night over Paramushiro add Shumushu. No opposition was j encountered over Matsuwa. The slash Into the Carolines, delivered Mondiy night by Liber ators of the Seventh army air force, fell on Eten, Parana, Moen, Tol and DubloW islands of Truk atoll. Several Nipponese aircraft were aloft at the time but shied away from a fight The two airstrips on Ponape, east of Truk hi the Carolines, were hit before dawn; Monday by Sev enth AAF Liberators, the an nouncement said. An earlier press release told of raids the preceding day at Ponape and in the Mar shall that kept, up the unbroken chain of attacks on isolated enemy positions there. Interior Workers Have Determents WASHINGTON, April 28.-aV Almost one-thd of the 6.C96 men of draft age employed in the interior department have occupa tional deferments, a house com mittee reported j .today, ; and ex pressed relief that the "great ma jority" could be replaced without detriment to the war effort. " Reporting an $87,672,580 appro priation to run the "department during the 2 inonths beginning next July 1, the house appropri ations committee said 2,221 of the department's male employes aged 18 to 38 had occupational defer' ments. Of these, it. added, 2,073 were deferred at the specific re Guinea quest of the department. War Officials Firmly Disotvn Ifatton Remark WASHINGTON, April 2t-)i Th war department today) pointedly disowned 14. Gea. George S. Patten's remark that Americans, British and Russians are destined "to role the world.; I Reacting swiftly to the state-: meat, which caused a fresh! flurry mt criticism of the gen-I era! in congress. Secretary S Uni son issued a memorandum stat ing: i Gen. Patton was expressing his awn personal views. Be was not speaking for the war de partment' " "This was la response to the following written query submit ted to the secretary by the As sociated Press: ' "Does the' war department ap prove Gen. Patten's Anglo- Russo-American manifest des tiny team to rule the world?" Patton, already in the bad graces of many congressmen because of the soldier-slapping incident in which he figured during the conquest of Sicily, made the remark yesterday at the opening of a service club in England and aroused anew the lTe of legislators. ONDON, April 26-(8)-V Gin. George S. Patton jr. said tof- day he had included Russia along with the United States and Great (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Nazis Arrest s ane Citizens 6 v Hundreds STOCKHOLM, April lSMFfc Hundreds of Danes have been arrested in Copenhagen and Gerj man armored cars are patrolling the capital's streets amid sporadic i m "v .1 V cursis oi gun i ire, uanisn unaerr ground sources reported tonight from that German-occupied and newly-isolated country. j These reports, impossible to check for accuracy,, said wide- spread sabotage against the Gerr mans was in progress despite nazi threats of summary executions, j Telegraph and postal commun ications between- Denmark and Sweden remained broken for. th second day, and only Germans wire allowed to use the ferries: jwen owedisn diplomats were forbidden to travel between the two countries. The German effort to wipe ou the underground patriot organiza tion began. Monday with hun dreds of arrests, the Free Danish press service said, and about 3od more were arrested today, witH all facing a threat of execution if resistance to the nazi rule contin ues. Iazis Escape At Ft. Lewis FORT LEWIS, April 26 -(jH Authorities at Fort Lewis tonight announced the escape this after noon of two German prisoners o: war from the PW encampmen here. Both, dressed in blue fatigui clothing with large white PW on the backs of their coats and on the seats and legs of their trous ers, are the subjects of an active hunt by both the FBI and the military. They are: Walter Theilackeii 241 five feet seven inches tall weighing 182 pounds, blue eyes. olive skin, brown hair and a scar on his left thumb; and Alexander Gintersdorfer. 22. five feet nine inches in height weighing 157 pounds, blue eyes, fair skin and brown eyes. ; j City Budget Estimates $22,439 Above Limit Estimates of expendiieures to taling $333,539.19, approximately 30 per cent more than last year's adopted scale, go today to, mem bers of the city budget committee; By $22,439 J4 the budget in it present form exceeds the amount available under the six per cent limitation, and this despite the fact mat increased - revenues . are re quested from tax funds outside of that limitation. - ' V : 1 ! Aa council and citizen members of the budget-drawing group re ceive the six-page mimeographed summary of the tentative muni cipal budget in the mail from City Recorder Alfred Mundi they, will take the figures . there presented mbf sub-committee meetings .to determine their accuracy in the light of current . and . anticipated costs with a view to defending them before the entire master committee or recommending that they be tailored to fit the city's pocketbookv Price- Sc akes WaM's : Store Officer, A ftni nnlfliti Hours Against FDR Order CHICAGO," April 26-(ff)-The government, with the aid of detachment of troops; took possession tonight of the Chicago uniti of Montgomery Ward and company after Sewell Avery, chief executive officer of the huge merchandising firm, had re buffed previous efforts to enforse a presidential order for seiz ure o the facilities, f Wayne C. Taylor, undersecretary of commerce who was desig- O Japs Die In Droves Nips Desperately Try to Battle Out From Blocks SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon; April 26 -P- Waves of Jap anese jungle troops are throw in g themselves desperately against allied road blocks in central Burma and are "per ishing in droves" as they try to break the strangle-hold clamped on their communications by thousands of airborne "chin- aits", an allied spokesman an nounced today. Preceded by heavy artillery and mortar fire and supported by light tanks, the yelling, yowling Japan ese are - charging into the allied wire : and through mine fields at numerous points on a broken 100 mile iront and. are being mowed down , by .British, ' American and Indian troops ne said. There was no Indication the enemy, moved by desperate ne cessity to try to crush the allied "box" between his two big bases at Mandalay and Myitkyina, had broken any of the allied .blocks on railroad, highway and river transportation. Col. Philip Cochran's commando air forces hold control of the air over the scattered fighting arenas and are giving active support to the embattled allied ground troops, whom they transported by gliders and planes to the original landing points behind the enemy lines, the spokesman said. Of one sharp engagement he said: "The air support came at a time when nerves were getting weary from incessant Japanese bombardment. . The Mitchell bombers went in almost leisure ly fat threes, and Mustang fight- (Turn to Page 2 Story I) Stanford to Disband 9 National Sororities PALO ALTO, Calif., Upril 28 (JP)-Stanford university's board of trustees has ordered discontinu ance of the nine national sorori ties on the campus to unify wom en's housing under school owner ship, President Donald B. Tressi der announced tonight. ; : The board pointed out that Stanford has three large residence halls for women which house 855 students, Tressider said. The nine sororities accommodate 270 and the balance of the university's co eds live in smaller residence halls or with parents or guardians. When , the budget committee as a whole -meets at aao Monday night, the full and more 'explana tory copies of the proposed bud get, with space for revisions, will be distributed, Mundt hopes. His office - personnel,-: for. whom no raises in pay have been asked in the department's estimate, is put ting in rush-season hours "to get its major .publication off the mimeograph, press by that time. -., For that matter, salary increases or adjustments are minor por tions only of the upped budget figures, y 'f-'ty "Almost every department's estl mat shows some increase In es timated cost of supplies. Other estimates reveal the strain of two war years during which replace ments and repairs have been kept to ji minimum. Now, the police department asks $7000 for such equipment as automobiles, com' pared with last year's $2000, and (Turn to Page 2 Story G) No. 339 Over Control. Capitulates Ant l?w 1 nated as the agent to assume con trol of the properties here, an nounced that Avery had left the premises after being assured that business would go on as usual. - .Avery capitulated after hold ing out for almost seven hours ajtainst a directive from Presi dent Roosevelt authorizing the commerce - department to seise the Chicago mall order plant and other buildings on grounds that the management had re fused to comply with White House Instructions to extend an unexpired contract with a CIO union. rhe dramatic - controversy, in progress smce noon, reached a climax shortly before 7 p. m- when 32 military policemen equipped with weapons arrived at the firm's headquarters in, three trucks. There were some boos arid some cheers from a crowd of 1,500 employes and others assem bled in the street, Z jFirst Lt Ludwig Pinchure and three I soldiers went to Avery's office while the other troopers were deployed outside the struc ture, j j . . I Taylor told reporters that the lieutenant informed Avery the place waa in possession of the United State government. Av- t cry, he added, reiterated his contention that the proceeding , Were without legal authority, ' bat donned his eoat and hat and departed when he . was told the business would not be inter rbpted. The maneuvering began at noon, (Turn to Page 2 Story J) Dewey Gathers Strong Support In Penn. State By D. HAROLD OLIVER Associated Prm Staff Writer Pennsylvania republicans In nearly complete returns yesterday from Tuesday's presidential pri mary gave Gov. Thomas . Dewey at ueast 16 times as many write- votes as his nearest contender a field1 of seven and installed him a heavy favorite for the tale's 70 unpledged delegates. The 70 delegates in an organi zation meeting May 20 will de cide whether to come out defi- nitely for Dewey or some other candidate in advance of the na tional convention. Advocates of a fourth term for President Roosevelt saw cause for satisfaction in late returns from the Massachusetts primary.' The forces of former Gov. Joseph B. Ely, fourth term opponent, elect ed delegates with only two con vention votes out of the state's 34, plus an indefinite few mv- pledged but known Ely support- bu a big majority are placed by party leaaers . in uie nooseveit columns. - ' ; ; The 35 republican ' delegates elected Tuesday in Massachusetts also are unpledged, but three, are known to favor Gov. Leverett Sal tons tall for the presidential nom ination. The others are unde clared as to nominee preferences. Colorado republicans did : the only delegate picking yesterday. They named 15 which under state party rules must goAmlnstructed. The delegations is described by paty leaders, however, as strong ly Jpro-Dewey. CoL Henry Leon- (Turn to Page 2 Story H) - Japanese Burn Alive In Fire They Start " SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, April 25P)-Scores, of Japanese were burned alive in their own jungle fire which they set around a hill top p o s i 1 1 o n of West African troops on .the Kaladan front, an account from Burma said today. After the Japanese set the fire they started to rush the steep slope. Sudden, : heavy g u s t s of wind turned back 'the fire on the Japanese and many were silhouet ted against the flames and mowed down by West African machine- em i vi aim S vsaaa-jva aa . y -. '