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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO Thm OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Dragon, Thursday Morning, April 27, 1944 Allied Raids Continue Into 13th Day D (Continued from Page 1) D Hitler's European fortress at many points. The night -raid on Eaten wrea the British bombers' ninth visit to the sprawling Industrial dty, one Hitler's principal source' of heavy armaments. ,. It Is a -short hanl for the bUr planes, the 600-mile round -trip enabling substitution of added explosives . for the extra ' fas lead required on raids over more distant targets. . , v The official designation, "great strength," was an indication the bomb load dumped on tha home of the Krupps works probably was 2500 American tons, bringing the weight of explosives dropped In ;ttie non-stop aerial campaign to ''54,000 tons. Essen once was thought to have been knocked out of the war but the air ministry disclosed recent ly that the Germans had repaired much superficial damage. A sapper-time fleet of light bombers plastered military eb- Jertlves in northern France and Belgium wider Thunderbolt and Spitfire escort. Ninth air force medium Ma rauders, A-20 Havoc light-bombers, and Thunderbolt fighter bombers hit rail centers' at Lou Tain and Saint Ghislain while D Continuous from I P. M- fV Now Playing! I tTz I Rousing True Story of YtYFive American Boys! VJU : ANNE BAXTER L THOMAS MITCHELL Gy Tune-ftd C.-HHI HOo:i07sR ma LATEST NEWS! COLOR' CARTOON WSJ Opens 6:45 P. M. How Showing! DOriBS nriiY! PATO'BRIE 'RA&CLTH SCOTT ' Anne SHIILIY i Walter IEID f r I :X::..:-. . 'MARTIN fiddle v. AlttJT Co-Hit! Eddie Albert "THE GREAT MR. NOBODY "" THC h-x;C TH Mi Ou4T .Opens C.45 P. M.- How Shawirj! ' ( Bo's 'the ; Went Bast 4 , l ' x ; Hall W Charles Cobwra ' Action Co-Elt! ""HGene Antry In Old Monterej Smiley , Bametto Chapter Two Perils of Northwest Mounted" " 1 rjr Nad AaaaMflaW" J AO: ear ..jnaseaSn Joan Leslie Bostons and Mitchells concentrat ed on Sain Ghislain. Another stab at coastal defenses was. carried out before dark by Mosquitos and Typhoon fighter bombers. ; ' RAF Spitfires, equipped with ; long-range gasoline tanks, made their first penetration of Ger many this afternoon, hitting parked gliders. They returned without loss. Extremely cloudy weather over Germany was a factor in the ab sence of defense today, bat the overcast did- not prevent the bombers from finding their tar gets and ; scientifically . covering them with explosives. ; Brunswick, .110 miles west of Berlin, has been one of the cost liest targets on the 'American list CO bombers were lost on a day light attack' on Brunswick and other central German targets Jan uary ! 11 when 152 nazi fighters were destroyed. j. Jaycees Start Ed. Program On Proposal Enthusiastically supporting the charter amendment measure on the May primaries ballot which would change the current mayor council form of Salem city gov ernment to the council-manager form, Salem Junior Chamber of Commerce members have com menced an educational program. The history, purpose and work ings of the proposed form will be explained before, any organization within the city willing to listen, junior chamber officers said Wednesday. Backed by the organization, the plan was recommended to the city council last winter. R. P. Cross- land, Junior chamber president, served as chairman of the special committee named by Mayor I. M. Doughton to study and recom mend a plan of municipal govern ment to do away" with what were declared to be "obstacles in the way of efficient city operation." That committee also I recommend ed the council-manager system. A manager, hired by a seven- man council (representing tne current seven wards of the city, under the new system would be held responsible for business management of city affairs. The council and mayor would continue as the ordinance-making, policy- forming body. War Officials Firmly Disown Patton Remark F (Continued from Page 1) F Britain in his remarks in a speech yesterday concerning future ruler ship of the world. Patton, quoted by the British Press association as having said that it undoubtedly was the des tiny of the British and American peoples to rule the world, said to day his exact words were: "Undoubtedly it is our destiny to rule the world we Americans and British and of course the Rus sians and therefore we should se e more of each other." This quotation, including men tion of Russia, was the version carried this morning by the Daily Mail, the only London paper to report the speech. Russians Sink 5 Transports B (Continued from'Page 1) B in the Arctic, soviet aircraft had encountered "a large . group of German transports sailing under convoy of warships, cutters and fighters" . and v that despite bad visibility the Russian airmen sank four of the v transports totalling 20,000 tons. The Russians did not say which way this convoy was moving. ' ; ' la the tw naval-air clashes 2000 miles apart the Eassians reported a total of nine German transports totalling 23,00S tons snnk, : with numerous smaller vessels sank, and damaged. Soviet planes and warships of the Black sea fleet cooperated to rip apart the axis vessels off Sevastopol, Moscow said. The air force during the night bombed axis -ships and. stores in the port of Sevastopol and in Kazacbya bay a few miles to the south. starting fires and explosions, "in eluding two ox enormous strength,,, y The five enemy transports, with a total displacement of 13,000 tons, Were sunk reportedly with a barge and two patrol ships along the axis lines of communication far ther out at sea. Two other trans ports were declared to have been badly damaged. Salem Ward Store Not in Dispute .The. Salem store of Montgomery Ward JU Co. Is cot involved in the long-standing labor-labor relations board-management-postoffice dis pute which is the subject of an open letter from the company pub lished In the advertising columns of The Statesman this morning, F. G. Leserer, manager of the store here, said Wednesday. Wards man order house and store in Chicago and a Chicago local of the union were the origi nal disputants. Federal agencies and officials ' have eatered the scene but not other stores of the company, Leserer said. Yanks Capture Two Hollandia Key Airdromes C (Continued from Page 1) C - third remaining 'drome; 'Their ' junction with the Taaahmerah invaaloa) column Is imminent.' ; The Humboldt bay spearhead reached the shores of Sentanl lake late Monday, embarked in alli gators, ducks and buffaloes and crossed the lake to land two and one-half miles frim Cyclopsy east ernmost of the three Hollandia's 'dromes. . 1 , Advanced units reached Cyclops and neighboring Sentanl airdromes early 'Tuesday afternoon after crushing slight enemy resistance in scattered fights which cost the Japanese 100 dead. While groandj forces were oc cupying the airdrome area, vir-' tuaUy dosing the assault phase f the Hollandia campaign. Fifth air force Mitchells bombed and strafed trails southwest of Sentanl lake along which rem nants of the elusive enemy gar rison might attempt to flee. Heavy bombers reached 400 miles westward along the New Guinea coast from Hollandia to knock out 20 Japanese planes on the ground at Kamirl airdrome near Geelvink bay. The runway was badly bomb-pocked and sup ply dumps werejignited, sending up huge columns -of smoke. Three interceptors were shot down in 30-minute battle. The first enemy air action of any weight against the Hollandia invading forces was an attack by 12 2Japanese torpedo planes on a destroyer offshore; but Gen. Mac Arthur reported no damage. Sedition Trial Judge Refuses To Step Down WASHINGTON j April 28 -tfV Chief Justice Edward C Eicher of the federal district court late to day refused to step down as the presiding judge hi the trial of 30 persons accused of trying to set up Nazi form of 'government in this country. , He denied, without comment, a motion by 18 defense; attorneys representing 19 defendants that he assign the case to? another judge. The attorneys contended that his conduct had "shown bias and pre- udice against the'defehse and in favor of the prosecution." At the end of the lay's session, the chief justice also denied a series of other defense motions, two of which askell the discharge of the entire venire. This would have necessitated! starting ane in the selection of fa jury. Peremptory challenges by de fense attorneys, however, removed six jurors today but as each juror was removed, a new one took his place. Thus at the jend of the day, 12 jurors were in the; box, the same numebr as at the beginning. Can Collection Slated Tbday E (Continued from Page 1) E will have been gifen by the col lectors. Because of. this,' individu als, families and; neighborhood parties are urged to make their own deliveries toilhe freight cars if school pupil service is not avail able, Gardnes Bnapp,- Marion county salvage committee chair man, said Wednesday bight - Tne Z3 pickup centers are Aums- ville, Aurora, Brooks Gervais, Hubbard, Jefferson, ML AngeL Mill City, Salem, St Paul, Stay- ton, Silverton, Turner. Woodburn, Keizer, Hayesville and Salem Heights school in Marion county; Dallas, Independence, Falls City, Monmouth, Rickreall and West Salem schools in Polk county; i : Big Montana Gusher' Brought Under Control SHELBY, Mont; April 28-OP) A spouting gusher termed by oil men here one of toe greatest ever to be brought in oh the 2000-well Kevin-Sunburst oil field was un der control late today after it had run wild and pver flowed into nearby ravine. 3 ; Located some three miles west of the Kevin field discovery well. the new find is situated on the Kevin rimrocks. $ saan who gave yo "Strfeut Vrk- uMI "Air rare w five y coavrrnt a -22s Starrtar Bakelk Scott, Jimi Srtwa, Mok Smtt. -A, Btar IT Sttacml, Am 4 j Drrlac, Twxxf KBlshL V via Brae, r ! I . II I II -An- Tao V. a. -i-tTmwit prsBts tha trs mm thenUc story; of our fearless fighting Ma. rtaeff la Technicolor "WITH THE MARINES AT TARAWA" Aetaalry filmed uto Mro ky th Marines Photograph) Corps. Mississippi" River Continues To Menace Midwest Cities By the Associated Ptms ' Inland seas of Goodwater, fed by a month of almost continuous rain in the midwest, rolled down the Mississippi river and its western tributaries last, night menacing cities, routing lowland residents and ruining badly needed crops. ) Seven thousand federal troops, of war labored to save levees City Budgets Needs Work O (Continued from Page 1) O the explanation' if any Is asked is that even at war speeds automo biles eventually cease to have the pickup and speed required in po lice cars. ; General printed supplies are up $300 because of November elec tions. The salary of a deputy engineer, cut out of the budget in 1943, ap pears in the "requested" column at $2395 for the coming year, A request for a $12 j monthly in crease for the engineering Office stenographer's salary is also In eluded. s Salary adjustments and provi sion for vacations, this latter cut out of the budget last year, bring fire department salaries up $10,- 000. That sum will meet scale re quirements (men under civil ser vice receive regular small " in creases within specified limits) and will allow the hiring of two extra men denied the department last year, but will provide no rise the scale of pay. ' Fire depart ment expense is up by $1000 be cause of a request for new hose. Police department salary ad- ustments (again on a civil ser vice scale) amount to only $2000. A thousand dollars is added in the public library's budget esti mate to meet salary adjustments already in effect and to meet in creased costs in supplies and pro vide more vacation help or bet ter pay for that work. Park maintenance estimates are up by $1000. The city's share of a playgrounds program is approximately the same as asked last year, $7388.11, and about twice what was grant ed. Organized backing for the mea sure to provide more supervised outdoor recreation for the city's uveniles is planned by numerous civic groups. Public maintenance is more than $2000 more than that granted in the budget under which the dty now operates. A $2000 increase in street cleaning costs, ' bpken down, proves to be largely for aoor although costs of repairs, too are up. Some increase in cost of operation of traffic signals is noted. Missing entirely is any request for money for costs of licensing bi cycles, last year budgeted at $175, Also missing is any mention of the more than $500 formerly derived as income from that licensing, which was last year informally discarded when no city office wanted the job. ' There is provision for expendi ture of $200 for a public market new item in the budget this year. 4-F Campaign Is JJndericay A (Continued from Page 1) A' These war-important men who otherwise would be 4-F, 1-A-L or C will be classified in one "of these groups: 2-A as making a contribution m support of the war effort; 2-B as making a contribution to war production; 2 -C as making a contribution in agriculture. In each case the designation (F) will be placed after the reg istrant's classification for exam pie 2-A (F). His case will be re opened at least every six months, like the cases of other men with job deferments. I Men 38 to 45 years of age who are put into 2-A, 2-B or 2-C will have (H) after the classification to show then- over-age status. Some men In that age group al ready are classed 2-A, 2-B or 2-C, but heretofore such a man had to be a "necessary man," whereas now if he makes a "contribution' to the war it will be enough, Today and Friday s joy feat tiir' vtK M4 ... ToIIow the Fleet . with Randolph Scott Harriet Bmiard Action Bit PPJDj of ras PMtUS v " Starring ; . Bob Uvtngston Smiley Barnette Fred AstahW . 1 Alasi 1 "Sailors AU- militiamen and Italian prisoners along the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers. The Mississip pi topped its levee in the Grand Tower, HL, district, 'slopping over 800 acres of farm land. The river also threatened the . Degognia Fountain Bluff, HLj levee, which protects 30,000 acres. Army en gineers hoped that it would hold, but suggested that families evacu ate the district. f ' ' The flood death toll In the St Louis area climbed to six yes terday when four of 12 employes of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad were drowned as they at tempted to ferry across a flooded area which had isolated the. rail way's roundhouse'. Eight of the men swam to safety after their flatboat capsized. Five hours lat er all of the bodies hed been re covered. Those drowned were Jo seph Rochus, O. Roscoe Kuhn, J. W. Cochran and R- L. Whitte more, all residents jof St. Louis. The Arkansas river, which gave Wichita, Kas its worst floor ear lier this .week, crested yesterday at Tulsa, Okla, and; caused the evacuation of Jenks,! a town of 900 a few miles downstream from Tulsa. Southeastern Kansas tribu taries of. the Arkansas poured in more water below Tulsa to threat en bigger overflow! I in eastern Oklahoma .and western Arkansas. The Missouri river, at flood stage for weeks, was at its high est last night in central Missouri. It was two miles wide 'near Jeffer- son City and threatened to cut the capital city off j! from com munication to the ; north. The flood disrupted Jefferson City's water system and placed residents on short rations. Girtin Finds Full Harmony With Roosevelt 1 WASHINGTON, April 26 Prime Minister Cur tin of Australia said tonight that he and Presi dent Roosevelt in a. review of war and postwar problems in the Pa cific, found themselves in "com plete harmony." In an address prepared for an NBC broadcast Curtin also said that Australia "will look to the United States in the future, as it will look to the other great powers with the greater resources, to, work out internationally, the salvation of human beings" but that Aus tralia's voice will be heard in the Pacific and it will accept its re sponsibilities. 1 i The Australian prime minis ter's remarks appeared intended to give the United States reassur ance on the Australia-New Zea land pact although 'he did not mention it directly. ! 1 This pact signed at Canberra January 21, had elicited some criticism both here and in Aus tralia on the grounds it would limit United States' rights in the south and southwest Pacific. One clause provides that the use of naval or army air bases construc ted during this war In; any terri tory under the sovereignty or con trol of another power does not al ford any basis for territorial claims or rights of sovereignty or control after the close! of hostili ties. ! ' -Doors Open 6:45 L AST TIMES TONIGHT I nr. 11 t : Wallace Decry in uaiivhuiu 1 ! with Marjorie Main and "LOST ANGEL" with Margaret O'Brien 1 James Craig; - Marsha Hunt . Starts FBIDAY i:r and tltt? Fbrtvf TU12V2S ; Companion Feature Vtroxlona Jane! Sinrinr. Dandnr. Der Biggest Hit with Jimmy "Henry JANE . ADDED GEMS OF JOY ! - U. 8. Merchant I i Marine Band j It's Tour War. . TOO"" Allied'Navy Sinks German, es Five LONDON, Thursday, April 27 VPy-A Canadian and British naval force on a pre-invasion patrol in the English channel sank a Ger man destroyer and routed two or three others Wednesday, while British carrier-borne planes about the same time damaged five ships in a German convoy off Bodo in northern Norway, 60 miles above the Arctic circle, the admiralty announced. - The channel force, consisting of the British cruiser Black Prince, the destroyer , Ashanti, and , the Canadian destroyers Haida, Atha- baskan and Huron, encountered a German' flotilla of three or four destroyers of the Elbing class near the Isle! de Bas, off the northwest coast of Brittany, France, before dawn f Wednesday, an admiralty communique said. The Black Prince, commanded by Capt IX M. Lees of the royal navy, illuminated the scene with star shells, and the British and Canadian destroyers opened fire, recording several hits. The Ger mans altered course, made smoke and tried to flee. The Black Prince, a new ship whose existence previously had not been made public, avoided several torpedoes while the de stroyers! pressed home their at tack on j the Germans. 'One dam aged German destroyer, attempt ing to sneak away In the darkness, was overtaken and sunk by re peated hits from all four destroy ers. The other Germans escaped. US 'Assumes Full Control Of Ward's J (Continued from Page 1) J when Taylor and Ugo Carusi, as sistant attorney general, served a copy of the presidential order on Avery. They were rebuffed. Taylori i Carust US Marshal William McDonnell and 11 depu ties went to Avery's sanctum at 4:30 p.nv, after receiving fresh advice from Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones. Taylor reported the head of the continent-spanning concern defied them again and challeng ed their aathority anew. The ander-seeretary said the mar shals were instructed by the dis trict, attorney. J. Albert Woll and were dispatched from camp Smokie; Valley at the direction of BrigJ Gen. John F. Davis of the sixth service command. Avery,! lean, firm-jawed ruler of a vast commercial empire, did not givej newsmen any comment after thei military took over, and did not indicate whether the bat tle would be carried to the courts. Campaign to Kill Sea Lions Underway GRANTS PASS, Ore., April 26. -yf)-A Campaign to kill off sea lions will be carried to the state legislature, members of the Rogue River ' Izaac Walton league here said today. The sea lions take a high toll of fish at the mouths of Oregon riv ers, members claimed, but are protected by state law. F. M. Week Days i UT t TTnVTvr" FOuH BIG DATS! Her Way to Aldrtch" Lydcad WITHE Latest News TErenta... Damas ONtKeHOUEFRONT ;: v . - ,fy DAHX CTTt " ' Fully half of the city firemen believed someone was, to use their terminology, "playin with the hose1 when he sent word to me that a hatching of goose eggs had ceased to be eggs and had become goslings ' under a brooding" fire man! Say they M He must be a fowM minded man who would think up one like that to tell someone who can't keep a-secret any better than you."-: - --,r. -y rV:H- The night dty police sergeant is just as harsh in bis judgment: He thinks "someone laid an egg." But I notice that the old watch chair with the wornout cushions (cou?d use some goose feathers there) has been moved out and I suspect mat if it could be found, so, too, could the goslings and the gooseherd. Pve no'doubt that there is truth in the story. Because every now and then I hear strange noises around the fire station and I'm sure onefireman Is giving another the bird. j Dewey Gains More Support IB. (Continued from Page 1) H ard was reelected national com mitteeman. The addition of Colorado's IS brought the total GOP delegates selected to date to 624 out of a convention total of 1059. The dem ocrats have named 430 -of their 1176. The relative standing today of the; republican presidential candi date prospects in pledged delegates and delegates claimed for them publicly was: Gov. Dewey, 209; Lt Comdr Stassen, 34; Gov, Willis, Ky, 22; Gov. Griswold, Neb, 6; Gov. Sal tons tall, Mass 3; Gen. MacAr thur, 3; unpledged and unclaimed, 347. Total 624. - Democratic delegate standing to date: Roosevelt 363; Ely, 3; unpledged and unclaimed, 64. Total, 430. Salem's Detail Pachiii Maul I INSPECTED MEATS! ONLY j 351 STATE ST. "I" Picnic," " ji i j Young- - I Pork Roast Pork Siealt " : 250 -ib. - 300 ' 1 Point " t Pointo - Smoked Smoked Picnics Bacon Jowls 250 ib. 190 ib. 1 Poini i No Points - 1 J - Salem's only market operating under di rect slale Inspection. Ii guarantees yon " clean, wholesome meat. PARTICULAR PEOPLE PATRONIZE THE IIIDGET. r.. t . , ., II-. 1 '' Jowl : j Loin Sliced Dacon - Pork Chops : 2.450 350 No Points i Points I ' Tender J HomeMade 4 Beef Doasl i Fraiiliinrters 250 ib. 250 ib. j 7 Folnts -Mr 1 Point ' ' -Flavorizedw ' Sugar-Cured : HiUIS Collages Half or Whole rracUeally Boneless 330 ib. 350 ib. 3 Points I I I t Fotnto ' . Smslied Sacszgo and Lunch Heats Deliduslr Temptlnj; . . . From 1 to 3 Points ' 1 ' - 1 - - ' 1 . I ; Smolrcd Pork, Pclisi, Liver, i Bclcgna, lien England Spedal Vcd zii Peril Led, Uieisrs, clc. I . . ' MONET AND POINT: SAVERS Pnrc Lard 1- , Bacon Backs i . .No FoinU- .I! 1 Point India Japs i Die in Droves -I (Continued from Page 1) I era dived to the attack. Mora tag found the Japs la retreat Twelve Baked bodies were on our wire." . .' (The Japanese radio, broadcast ing a dispatch dated from Burma front; i said "Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten now has two isolated units , ,on his hands, the fourth army corps in the Imphal basin in India and airborne trooos in Bur ma. These troops are daily gazing skyward for the approach of the rain, (but with the advent of the rainy! season it will become ex tremely difficult for the allied air force (to transport even supplies and ammunition.") The spokesman said the Ja panese, some swearing lastUy fat English, "rushed blindly bate ear mines and booby traps." : "As they went down machine gun and rifle fire swept into them,"! he said, casualties were counted by the dozen. Nonethe less, wave after wave came through the Jungle, some carrying bangalore torpedoes." While the "Chindits" met this enemy assault in the jungle of British and Indian forces Burma! 150 miles to the west continued to throw troops back Japanese invasion Son the approaches to Im phal and Kobima, Mountbatten's main India.; advance bases in eastern -v.r .!(! Spy i -