While Great Britain has what it virtually a labor draft law that country hat not been free from strikes by any means. The recent work stoppage in coal nines which kept 90,000 workers out of the pita, has been ended with the resumption' of operations, but it was terminated not by force but by the appeals of government and union officials. The strikes there are . not regular strikes called by union leaders,' but cessation of work by the men themselves. ' Part of the trouble in Great Britain is' worker fatigue. For nearly. 'five years workers have been on the Job at the hardest kind of labor, for long work uke . erill wmv ftfl hniirt ind often with civilian defense duties in addition. The strain has had its effect naturally, and the remark' able thing is that the strikes have pot been more numerous. i l - In the case of the coal miners there was dissatisfaction over a wage award. In the case of ship yards t workers the 26,000 youths who struck demanded exemption from being drafted to go into the mines. This was ended when Ern est Bevin, minister of labor, de manded the men return to work. A labor leader himself he has been exceedingly strict in enforc ing the no-strike rule. In spite of Britain's stronger law and greater urgency for war production the record there of strikes is not much better than in the United States. Measured in terms of man-days lost labor troubles in our country since 1938 have been higher in (Continued on editorial page) Navy Opposes One Command For Present WASHINGTON, April Ztf -Vn The navy today opposed immed- : late action on army proposals for consolidating the armed forces and dampened enthusiasm on Capitol run I or eariy cuiitiesuuwu uiuva toward a postwar unified com mand. , . . Aiijr ituuu uun, hmu wuvbv- - retary of the Navy James Forres taL would find the navy "defi nitely in opposition," and anything : 1 4 .ViniMiuinu Mil, sftr r ful consideration. Wood rum committee created by ' the house to blueprint postwar military policy. The same commit- t n t l .J T Secretary Stimson urge that the "general . principle of consolida tion" be determined "as soon as possible." At the same time Lt. Gen. Breron SomervelL head of the army service forces, suggested some phases of consolidation such as procurement of supplies, could : be started without waiting for the war to end. The pipe-s m o k i n g Forrestal bluntly told the committee he was not prepared to say "the navy be lieves consolidation is desirable.' : "We are not trying to be sub tie" he added, "but the idea is not clear at this time." . The navy's position, he explain ed, is: "That the whole question o military organization deserves and - should receive a most objective and thorough study. It believes : the question should be approach- ed by detailed examination with the conclusion to be reached at - the end of such an examination ' rather than acting upon the as sumption that Vt case is already established." - Some committee members, who earlier had looked upon consoli . elation as a cut-and-dried propo - sition needing only a legislative blueprint, predicted after hearing Forrestal that the committee would v take its good time before making ' any definite recommendation. B,' eC? Holders Soon Eligible For New Tires WASHINGTON, April 28 -P) All motorists with 'BT and "C gasoline ration books will be eli gible for new passenger Car tires beginning next Monaay and "A book holders will again be able to obtain - ration certificates for used tires. - . - A substantial . increase in allo cations of new synthetic tires for civilians makes it possible, Price Administrator Chester Bowles an nounced, to extend eligibility to include all motorists using their cars for' occupational driving. Pre viously, only persons in most es sential occupations were eligible or new tires, with distribution generally limited to "C" book holders. - ... May quotas established by the cflice of the rubber director pro vide a total of 1,300,000 new tires for civilians in May. The num ber available in April was 1,500,' CC3. While "A book holders are again eligible for used tires, OPA pointed out that only a few art left. These drivers have been in eligible for tires of any kind since July. tnriETYTBIBD YEAR Air Wcir Bolivia Breaks ir . 1'JJP Conspiracy OC inu A. .4k 3rd if Americans ake 1st Tripleheader . Blow on France LONDON, Saturday, April 29 - (JP) - RAF bombers struck at nasi targets in occupied terri tory early today, sending the eve of invasion" bombing into third straight week, after US heavy bombers blasted air bas es and fortifications in France yesterday in their first triple header blow. Specific targets of the night- flying fleets were not disclosed immediately. German raiders meanwhile feinted at the southeast coast of England, bat were driven off with two shot down. No bomb ings had been reported early this morning. The three American heavy bom ber blows yesterday were part of some 2800 sorties from Britain in the 14th day of intensive bombing. The attacks, . which cost the Americans four bombers and three fighters, followed up a 1000-plane, 3500-ton RAF night assault on the nazi technical center - of Fried- richshafen and other important targets. Since v Wednesday midnight the allies have been dropping an average rate of Vt tons ef bombs per minute, night and day, on axis objectives. Two fleets of Flying Fortresses, each about 250 strong, roared out yesterday morning and hit the big Avoard airdrome 130 miles south of Paris, and coastal fortifications in the Cherbourg area. About 500 Thunderbolt and Mustang fighters escorted one. bomber formation to AvordV while the bulletin made no mention of ; escorts for - the fleet which attacked the Cherbourg sec tor. 70 miles across the channel. An abortive attack by Ger man fighters en the formation that flew to Avoard was broken off by the fighter escort. 1 "This was the only encounter with the enemy daring the day," a US communique saldJ In the afternoon I a fleet of per haps ' 250 Liberators crossed the (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Navy Bombers Pound Guam In First Raid WASHINGTON, April Gnam, former VS possession overrun by the Japanese la the Paclfie, .. was bombed by the navy and despite the . presence of Japanese planes on the Sround, bo attempt to offset the American attack was made. Announcing the April 24 at tack tonight, the navy abo said that Ponape was I attacked by army and navy planes en April 26, later the same day re-attacked bj the army and the fol lowing day again by the army. The town of Ponape and air fields, were hit and fires start ed. Fifty-four tons of bombs were loosed en Moen. Etten, Dubloa and Parana in the Trek atoll by army planes. - Japanese planes aloft made no effort to Intercept the attack ing force. Ne casualties were sustained by any United States force. 8 More Canned Goods Go on Ration Free List WASHINGTON, , April 28-W Eight more kinds of canned vege tables will carry fnot rationed signs In the stores during May, but the office of price administra tion says point values ''will have to be restored later in the year. In a move to clear warehouse shelves for the new season's ve getable pack now, in production, the rationing agency today elim inated, for the period beginning Sunday and ending June 3, ration values ranging from three to ten points on number 2 cans of corn, tomatoes, beets, spinach, aspara gus, leafy greens,1 blackeye peas and garbanzo beans, also known as "chick" peas. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said when the supply of 1843 pack "point bargains" ' is gone, "higher point prices will have to be restored to spread sup- riii evenlv throush the next winter" i The May processed food chart 10 PAGES Opposition LA PAZ, Bolivia, April, The . Bolivian , government ..... an nounced tonight that a vast con spiracy had been broken up with the detention of numerous revo lutionaries and that a state of siege had been declared through out the country.' No details were given, but an announcement by the government said that acting President Major Gaulberto Villaroel acted consti tutionally with the consent of his cabinet to preserve public order in the face of subversive activities. No public disturbances were re ported. Bolivia has been in an uneasy situation . since a revolutionary unta overthrew the government and took control in December. 1943. The new regime, with Ma jor Gaulberto Villaroel as presi dent and Victor Paz Estenssoro as head of its revolutionary party, has not been recognized by the United States and most American republics. (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Nazis Say , a Fleet Now By EDWARD LONDON, Saturday, April today announced that the German anti-invasion command was about to go into action and reported that "another huge allied fleet is forming in the ports of southeast England." as nazi speculation on tne feverish pitch, the Germans said "concentrated allied shippings- massed off southwest England." The German radio previously had claimed bomber attacks on allied shipping Thursday night - A vast eatpenring of specula tion came from nasi and neutral microphones, some eontradie- " tory and some nonsense, with guessing of the date of D day rancfaur from May 2 to June 1 "T 4 and with general prediction that ' allied invasion from the west would be timed with colossal blows in the south and in the east. The report of an air attack -on invasion vessels in western Eng land was sent from Berlin by. the correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen, who added that great quantities of allied shipping were massed in southeast England channel ports. Today's German communique said "Heavy bomber formations -attacked ship concentrations and ether strategically import- (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Stettinius, Jr. Talks Help LONDON, April 28 -ft- The United States and Britain have reached a "large measure of com mon ground" on a wide field of subjects dealing with current and oostwar nroblems, as a result of the conferences of Undersecretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, jr with high British officials, a joint communique announced tonight. Informal talks "have been of great assistance in the task of co- nrdinatinff Dolicies and all those concerned in both governments have expressed great satisfaction with the results," the communique said. . During the three-week period "opportunities have been taken to keep the soviet and Chinese gov ernments' informed as to the course of the discussions, it add ed. ' lists lower point values for all kinds of condensed and concen trated soups, with clam chowder and other seafood varieties cut two points and all other types one point for ten and a half ounce cans. ' ' Scarce supply boosts the ration cost of raspberry and strawberry jam to 15 points for a pound jar, twice the number now required. Two-point reductions are ordered for. pound-sized containers of grape and tomato preserves, apple, grape, mint and plum jellies and several kinds of fruit butter. Other changes hike the value on cranoemes ana cranberry sauce from eight points to 15 for a num ber 2 can, while tomato catsup and chile sauce in 14 ounce bot ties will require 30 points instead of 23. ; Tomato juice in 45-ounce cans goes from 18 to 18 points and the value on a six-pound can is in creased six points to 38. ' Satan. Orvgcm, Sahxrday Navy's Frank Knoxl sV i , v -. - - Dies of Heart Attack . . v - , ! - ' : - - r: J --v f A ' Ym n Mi .s.. .. v ' . - "-"V FRANK KNOX Invasion Forming D. BALL 29-s-The Berlin radio early date or the invasion reached a nazi raiders struck again at Miss Cammaek Dies Friday In Bolivia Helen Cammaek died Friday. t Lapas, Bolivia, of "typhoid "fever from which she had been ill since April 10. Information of her death was received , in Salem by members of her family 'Friday night by cablegram from LaPaz. Miss Cammaek had been engag ed in missionary activities for the Friends mission board since 1932. She was a graduate of Salon high school, Monmouth normal, Port land Bible institute (now Cascade college), and had. taught in sev eral schools of Marion county and then returned to graduate from Willamette university with the class of 1932, later that same year going to Bolivia. She was back in the United States in 1937-38 and was plan ning to return again this year. She bad her reservations on the Pan American plane . leaving May S when she fell victim to typhoid April'lO. ' . During, her undergraduate days she taught' school at Pringle, Wa conda and Grand Ronde. She was born in Salem in . 1904. . Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Mary Cammaek; two brothers Forrest and Paul Cammaek; two sisters, Mrs. John J. Trachsel and Mrs. Howard Rand, all of Salem; a brother, Albert Cammaek of On tario. -. . " - Miss Cammaek had prepared text books . in" the " Spanish lan guage which were used i in the mission schools and had mastered the Aymara language, one of the basic Indian languages.. ' Nazis Cut Off Sweden-Danes STOCKHOLM, April 29-(Sat urday)-(AV-Telephone " communi cations between Stockholm and Copenhagen were completely sus pended today, not even official calls being accepted in the German-held Danish city. It was the second such inter ruption in communications this week, the Germans last Monday isolating Denmark ' from the rest of the world at the start of an in tensive campaign to stamp out the Danish underground and halt sabotage. First Danes to reach the Swed ish port of Malmo after the first isolation were, quoted yesterday by the newspaper Dagens Nyhe ter as saying 40,000 Danes were armed and ready to intervene If the allies should invade through Denmark. . They said 20 American airmen recently forced down in Denmark still were the object of an inten sive German search. Their accounts, however, did not give a clear reason why Den mark was cut- off from the out side world. Morning, April 23, 1944 WASHINGTON, April 2MP) -Frank Knox, secretary of his-. tory's greatest navy and one of the two republicans in Presi dent Roosevelt's war cabinet, died today of a heart attack. He was 70 years old. All. over the world, wherever the fleet he helped to build is operating, flags went to half staff as James V. Forrestal, acting sec retary, flashed the word of - his death by radio. The senate and house recessed out of respect Lawmakers and federal officials joined in expressions of regret at his loss. : In an official message to ships and shore stations, Forrestal an nounced that fiie end came at 1:08 pjbl, - eastern war - time. Knox had suffered a first light heart attack in New York Sun day and a second severe one at his home here Tuesday after a recurrence of what he had be lieved to be indigestion. The final attack came early to day and though friends and rela tives had first hoped he would pull through, the navy announced about noon that he had taken a turn for the worse., r To the navy Knox left a heri tage of physical and moral cour age and a philosophy of vigor ous action which had caused him to take an active role In the three big wars of his life time and helped him to promi nence in newspaper publishing, which was his business, and politics, which he loved. He was one of the "Rough Rid ers" of the Spanish-American war. He entered the last war as a private and came out a major of artillery, later advancing to the rank of colonel in the reserves. He entered the newspaper business as a crusading reporter : in Grand Rapids, Mich.; and ended as a crusading publisher of the Chi cago Daily News. Surviving Knox are his widow, the former Annie Reid; his three sisters Mrs. Herbert L. Fairfield. Dayton Ohio; , Jdrs. , Fred Reed Chicago, and Miss Elizabeth Knox, Grand Rapids, Mich. Sorong Feels Allied Bombs For 2nd Day ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Satur day, April " 29-(3)-Allied bombers have bombed Sorong on the west ern end of New Guinea for the second straight day, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Heavy bombers dropped - 188 tons of bombs on Wewak's four airdromes, badly tearing up the runways and starting fires. Attack planes in low altitude sweeps grounded enemy planes located in the dispersal area,' ique said. . Kabaul en New Britain waa hit by 125 tons of bombs, plant ed effectively en that tottering base's five airdromes. One American plane waa lost. Kav- ieng on New Ireland waa raided by night. Perimeter defenses were stab- lished at Hollandia and the only resistance . to total occupation were a few snipers in trees. The road between Humboldt bay and Sentani lake, over which the east em part of the invasion pincers passed, was littered with aban doned Japanese equipment. While only light skirmishing waa reported for the Hollandia and Altape areas of northern New Guinea, invaded Just a week ago, heavy bombers also (Turn to Page 2 Story JE) Bad WeatHer Slows Action . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, April 28-i(P)-Sharp pa trol clashes were the only note worthy activity reported at the Italian front today while bad weather again held air operations to a bare minimum, Enemy patrols were particular ly active in the Adriatic sector. A force of undetermined strength infiltrated the allied position im- media tely north of Crecchio, but was driven out by counterattack. .Occasional artillery fire punc tuated the lull when rain, damp ening the -entire front, caused cancellation of all but 180 sorties by the great Mediterranean air forces. Spitfires . and Hurricanes of the coastal air force were able to complete one mission an at tack on a. radio station at Cap Ga- cil, south of Durazzo la'Aliaiu- Jy8 Jj i "Be Kind to Animals Weekr Hol lywood dog fancier, petite and alluring Joyce Reynolds, pictur ed here with her pet dog, Prin cess Janle, declared, "We're sure' that any dog lover will agree with us that kindness should be extended to animals every week of the year; that we should concentrate en this kind ness every week, not Just dur ing one week eut of the 82." (International) Japanese In Trap Kohima Forces Launch Smashes Against Invaders SOUTHEAST . ASIA HEAD QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, April 28-P- The powerfully reinforced defenders of Kohima, Allied base in eastern India, have smashed in to Japanese positions west of the mile-high town and captured a number of enemy strongpoints, it was announced today. Allied tanks and Infantry, which fought . their way lnte Komima along the 35-mile road from . Dimapur earlier In the week, were reported making steady progress in "very diffi cult country " as they launched an offensive to clear the area of Japanese invaders. , The Allied ; counter-offensive was forecast in dispatches yester day, which told of reinforcements pouring into Kohima and painted a dark picture for the several di visions rvt Japanese 'troops now more or less stranded around Koh- (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Wilbur E. Birdsall I Vliiefl m ACtlOn MONMOUTH. April 28 (Spec.) The death of 1st Lt. Wilbur E. Birdsall, son of Leslie . G. Bird- sail of Sweet Home, has been an nounced by the navy. The young man, who was in the marine corps, attended Oregon College of Edu cation from 1940 to 1942. He left school to enter the naval air corps and later was transferred to the marine air corps. He was the fiance of Miss Vir ginia Stovall of Marshfield, senior student this year at OCE. While in college he was president of the Associated Men students, and member of Theta Delta Phi and Wolf Knights. Helen Traubel Concert thrills Salem Audience By MAXINE BUREN - , We who attended the concert sung by Helen Traubel on Friday night, enjoyed our greatest mu sical thrill, for never has there been a concert in Salem such as this. , . . - Beginning with an unprecedent ed ovation, the audience continu ously expressed its appreciation through, breathless listening and thrilled applause. . Drawing upon our best super- Iatives, we would fall far short of doing this great singer justice but we say only, that she gave the most thoroughly satisfying and thrilling concert we -have .ever heard. Her voice, her personality and her program lifted her to the top of our list of musical hero ines. Miss Traubel's first , song en-r deared her to the audience," be- c"8,tmlike many first songs, it wits appealing to the audience yet worthy "of the singer. "God Is My Price Se Ward Controversy Rages on Averv Gels Confidence Vote of Firm CHICAGO, April 28 (JP) Board Chairman Sewell Avery received a vote of "full confi dence" from Montgomery Ward and company shareholders to day after he began a widely watched legal battle against government control of the firm's Chicago plants. Avery and the 12 other direc tors were re elected at the jam-packed an nual session of stockholders. The gathering, setting a record for at tendance, echoed it times. with cheers and! laughter and l V heard - some cri ticism and boos. " SeweU Arery Avery was greeted with a pro longed ovation when he arrived, and later the participants in a voice vote marked by only one or two nays, adopted a resolution saying they "heartily approve of the policy of Montgomery Ward and company in insisting upon the maintenance and protection of the lawful rights of the company" and expressing "full confidence in the management under the present leadership of Sewell Av ery." Developments occurred in rapid-fire order in the ease rooted in Avery's refusal to ac cede to orders from the war la bor board and President Roose velt to extend an expired con tract with a CIO union and his subsequent fight against federal . leisure of the Ward properties here. These were the highlights: Company counsel 'evened a- le gal counter - attack In , federal court They contended ; the gov ernment's action in assuming con trol under a directive from the president was unconstitutional. They maintained the property was of. non-war nature' and argued that ' the war labor disputes act permits confiscation only of plants turning out war material. Attor ney General Biddle replied that the president and the WLB had the power to enforce their orders. Avery told the shareholders the firm was "pro-labor and pro union" but "not closed shop," and added: "We say with pride and will fight for it as an essence of liberty that you do not have to join a- union to work at Ward's." Tokyo Claims Plane Carrier NEW YORK, April 28-W-The Berlin radio claimed tonight that "reports from Tokyo state an American aircraft carrier has been sunk east of the Marshall." The navy department in Washington said it haa no Information on such a report. The nazi broadcast, heard in New York by the . Blue network, added that the carrier "suffered two torpedo hits" scored by a Japanese submarine. The Tokyo radio reported ear lier today, in a broadcast to North America that "a number of hits" had been scored on an American carrier off the Marshalls but did not on that transmission claim a sinking. Song, ny Beetnoven, was our gracious introduction to the great soprano. - Miss Traubel took her audience through the first group by Beeth oven, sung in English and followed with "Well You Know" from "Ca velleria Rusticana, sung in Ital ian. Then came a group of five charming ' Germans songs by Schubert and Richard Strauss. For Miss Traubel'a first Wag nerian number, she chose "Elsa's Dream" from Lohengrin in which she displayed the great volume and utter sweetness of the voice. In such roles has she become the Metropolitan opera's favorite so prano. The final group Included "Deep River" and "Swing . Low, Swetf Chariot," an airy number, "Sea Shell", by EngeL sung with won derfully controlled voice and two short numbers by Fairchild and 111 gen fritz. - - (Turn to Page 2 Story A) No. 332 2 Fronts Critics Rake Plant Seizure By Government WASHINGTON, April 28-ff) - A double-barreled congres sional investigation of the Montgomery Ward case was in prospect tonight as angry critics of seizure of the firm's Chicago plants asked whether the gov ernment would now take over "hamburger stands" and whe ther Attorney General Biddle wants to be an "American Himm ler.w. Chairman McCarran (D, Nev) of the senate judiciary commit tee, announcing he already had dispatched an Investigator to Chicago, declared his committee was determined to "get to the bottom of this ease. Across the capitol, a resolution for an inquiry was forced to the house floor by an agry coalition of republicans and democrats who squeezed it through a tumultous session of the rules committee by one vote. .! . McCarran said he sent the Investlaator to - Chicago under authority of a recent senate resolution calling for an inves- -Uratioat of executive orders Is sued by President Roosevelt. He did not disclose the investi gator's name, but said he left ' for Chicago last night. Is an at torney, and "talked with me by long-distance telephone . today. Senator Byrd (Dr Va) earlier introduced a proposal for a special inquiry, saying the seizure raised the question whether Biddle has "an ambition to become an Amer ican Himmler." McCarran called Byrd's reso lution "timely but a little late." . "I suspect," hau added, . "that Senator Byrd was 'not aware the (judiciary) committee had already undertaken ' this investigation.?,. Russian Troops Kill 800 Nazis In Old Poland LONDON, Saturday, April 28 -UF) Red army troops killed 800 Germans and Hungarians in re pulsing attacks southeast of Stan- isdawow in former Poland yester day, and Soviet long-range air craft touched off fires and explos ions . Thursday night in a mass attack on Lwow, 65 miles north west of Stanislawow, a Moscow communique said early today in announcing "no substantial changes" an the land front The only reference to the Cri mean front was a midnight supple ment which said that a 1,000-ton tanker and a landing barge were sunk in the area of besieged Sevas topol by Russian naval planes. A 600-ton tanker and minesweeper also- were sunk in the Gulf of Fin- and, the bulletin said. -" : A German comminique said that fresh Russian attempts to break through with strong forces north of lasi in Romonia had been frus trated, that Soviet efforts to en large bridgeheads across the lower Denster to the east bad been re pulsed, and that local Red army, thrusts at Sevastopol in the Crime had collapsed. Sevastopol has been under Jha fire of Red. army guns now for two weeks. ' ''-" Berlin also told of the repulse of Soviet troops in the east-central part of Poland around Kowel, 170 miles from Warsaw, and told of air attacks on rear-line supply points where the Russians have been re ported mobilizing men and eqiup- ment for a new offensive. ; 'Ike' Tells Fliers Even More to Be Required LONDON, April 28-(tt-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,in a quick tour of airfields from which al lied pre-invasion blows are being delivered, advised one group to day that "as much as you have done in the past, more is going to be required of you." Calling on the fliers for . con tinued .. teamwork, . he said, "ona thing above all you must do, and that la to pull together." uuuuuid lwu ui x iu Collected in Salem One freight gondola was loaded with salvaged tin cans and other - tin was on the platform at the Oregon. Electric loading depot, Chemeketa ana rrom street, uii morning awaiting shipment to the detinning plant at San Francisco, as the result cf the Thursday and Friday pickups' at Marion and tWIV rramtir school. : r V Jj