, ... , , ! I Klfe tsi Mif faliff ft si fmJ 1 J i ! f 7eatlier " . llaxhraa temper atare Tuesday. SS degrees; ntioi snam 42. No Bredpitatiea. Fair Thavsday and Friday., SUghtly wanner east of the Cascades aad eoeler along' the coast rJ rr. . . ... J h i . ! - . jTXW La J I A LI mmbbbhhhh r a m. a f s siciiiiia:.' as aisiii i s i . GUI r They buried Frank Knox, -late secretary of the .navy, to Arling . ton cemetery, and ha certainly waa eligible for interment there. A soldier to the Spanish war (one . of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Rid : era), he served as an officer In . World War L In World War II he held the responsible position of -. head of the navy department, : guiding the development of the navy Into the ; greatest fighting ; force on the seas. So he earned ' a resting-place to a military bur ial-ground. '., I'V ' Knox was a ready spokesman . for the administration on matters . dealing with the war. Sometimes he was not altogether fortunate to his prophecies. Tor instance, to the fall of 1941 he freely stated . that our navy ' was. ready to meet Japan, intimating that the dean up would not be a very difficult task.. To him Pearl Harbor must - have been a bitter blow. The secretary: had hard going to the winter and spring of 1942 when the U-boats were popping torpedoes at tankers and . mer chantmen ' to 1 sight of our coast. . But Knox did not fold under "criticism or crack up with worry He moved to reorganize 'the At- ; f the satisfaction of seeing the sub- 'marine war pushed far back into the Atlantic and finally' virtually ' defeated. - '. While a great deal of space has been given to the work of Knox '.as newspaper man and as soldier and cabinet j officer, perhaps his -' best contribution was the develop- xneht of the foreign correspond - ence of. the Chicago Daily News. - During the i period between the wars,- especially in the '30's when " the lines of force (continued on : editorial page ) I ' Allies Consider ency cation . WASHINGTON May ?"r- Plans.for. an international educa -tion agency, designed to help re build war-wrecked education sys terns and promote a free exchange of ideas among . nations, will be laid before congress,, the state de partment announced today. The department issued report on the accomplishments . of the American delegation to the con ference of Allied Ministers of Ed ucation in London and Rep. ' Ful bright (D-Ark), delegation chair man, said the country had a new cportunity to promote the cause of y peace .through international security.. M.V. ' .;. 1 ,:' T v In this connection Fulbright brought out that the proposed con stitution for the international ed ucation agency will deal with the question of international" press freedom the ideal of a .Tree ex- ' change of ideas among all peoples. "The discussions of the delega tions with representatives of other nations," Fulbright reported, 'were based on the proposition that free and unrestricted interchange be tween the peoples of the world of Ideas and ' knowledge in unre stricted education are essential to the preservation of security and peace..' " '; " , This is translated in the pre ' amble of the constitution to a' statement that "to deprive any part of the inter-dependent mod em world of the cultural resources, human or material, through which its children -are trained; and its people informed, is to destroy to that extent the common knowledge and mutual understanding upon which the peace of the world and Ks security must rest," i At a press conference to, which the state department announce ment was made, Fulbright said the senate and house committees on foreign affairs would have full opportunity to investigate the pro posed agency to be known as the United Nations -Office of Edu cational and Cultural Reconstruc tion. . rv Streamlining oration Tax Due Next! WASHINGTON, May. 3 Confident of overwhelming pas- , sage of legislation simplifying tax laws for 50,000,000 individual tax I payers, Chairman Doughton (D " NC.) announced: to the house to day that the wajrs and means com ' mittee now' will . proceed toward ? streanuming corporation taxa- tion. Opening a two-day debate on the so-called "painless tax" bill for individuals, he called for un- anLmous approvaL f v However, a flurry developed ' right at the start when Rep Cur tis (R-Neb.) asserted the legisla - -tion would reduce contributions to churches, schools and charitable , Institutions, and "anything that ' hurts - these - institutions . hurts - America." . - Curtis made a lone assault on the legislation, but was joined by !:?. rr-i (H-Kas.) in criticizing TXTT T 11 world Ag ForEdu Corpc (Tuxa U Taje Z fitory V) KIXZTY-THI2D TCAB Most Air Tfer 20'? Dav ) Bombs Destroy Ability of Rails To Carry Loads " LONDON, Thursday May 4 Phi The twentieth. day of an uninterrupted allied air offen sive whose thunderous strokes by f official estimate already have finished off the ability of nazi j railroads in northern France and Belgium to carry the full load demanded of them by allied invasion broke over Europe early today. Two huge formations of Bri tain's heavy bombers were heard roaring across the east and south coasts of. England last evening, headed for the continent. The big RAF craft had had a one-night layoff. ' . - The Berlin radio began Jost before midnight to issae warn ings, that hostile planes were ever western and southwestern sections of the reich; then Frankfort and then Stuttgart west eff the air. j r A subsequent British announce- rientJcs if 'wC?y u mere,, wu the RAF was "over enemy-occu pied, territory during the night.' This followed a day " and eve ning of ' widespread thrusts by US Liberators ' and American Thunderbolts fighters and fight- er-borabex. jr? against;, mystery installations of ."Fas de - Calais, across the thin waist of the chan nel, in which ' not ' a plane was ost. Earlier yesterday English Mitch' ells and Mosquita bombers drove in against enemy military targets in northern France. Testerday . was day. Ne. . 19 in the graad assault of stapen deosw almost anciialleiiged pre iavasion aerial operations. Far greater squadrons of Amer lean, British and allied air forces took a breather after 18 days of endless assault that won this ac colade from a spokesman of the ministry of. economic warfare:. Their brilliant actions against doaens of enemy railroad cen ters, he said, had created, chaos in the German - held rail sys tem which piling up on the long, previous campaigns of : bombing and sabotage has j left that system In a state of partial paralysis fas the areas most : imminently threatened. The system could not hope to do Its foil argent Job necessary to repel invasion. The enemy, he said, in a zone 100 miles deep from Cologne to the Bay of Biscay was so short of railway marshaling facilities that his ability to move reserves inside that area was gravely impaired, if not destroyed. Today's new blows fell al most with the regularity of a tol ling bell - after a night of oper ations from Italy north to Ger many itself. - 1 In these night attacks, RAF mos- quitos rode the air for SO minutes over the . German chemical city of Leverkusen near Cologne, drop ping 4000-pound block busters in a steady stream down through the reddening darkness. Pepper Far Hill Easily By the Associated Press t - Senator Claude Pepper, admin istration stalwart, kept well out to front to late returns last sight from Florida's democratic pri mary although his margin over the combined opposition of four oth er candidates slipped as the count neared an end." In Alabama meanwhile, Sen ator Lister Bin, : democratic whip, easily won reaominaUen, piling ap a 25,000 vote major Ity ever his only rival. James A. Simpson, to virtually com-' plete ; retams from Tuesday election. 'rii V Although Pepper held a margin of 7780 votes over the field with only 205 precincts missing, there was still a mathematical possibil ity that a runoff might be neces sary. He needed more than 50 per cent of the total vote to stave off a second primary, - 12 PAGES Mea Ammunition Train Blows Up 1 4 ; v L 1 Viir'ii.if.i iiml SV ..1 An enemy ammunition train explodes to a huge clood of smoke and streamers after a direct hit by bombs from B-25 Mitchells of the US 12th air force daring an attack maln line to Florence, SO miles fromUS'AAF) - . Niizis Give Of Negotiated Peace LONDON, May 3-p-The Germans concluded "with sorrow. today, that there was no chance and resigned themselves to meeting the allied invasion of west ern Europe with an army estimated in London to total 67 di visions possibly fewer than From the day's usual outpouring of invasion gossip by the Italy Planes Roads, Rails ALL IE D HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 3 Northern Italy's! tortured, rail and sea com munications have been given an other heavy night and day past ing by the t allied Mediterranean air force to its determined effort to isolate German armies in the south .from their supply sources, allied headquarters announced to day. 5 i - j The, ceaseless bombing has had such a devastating effect that the nazis are operating these lines only by dint of prodigious repair work.;: 1 Last night Genoa, La Spezia and Livorno were blasted for the fifth successive night by RAF Welling tons. A great rectangular area of La Spezia was set aflame and a heavy 3 explosion rocked the area of the gas works. . V i : Another great fire was reported torthe Piacenza rail yards., 40 miles i southeast of Milan on the main Mont Cenis-Bologna-Rimini route, (following an attack by RAF Halif axes last night Milan also was bombed. - A head While Wins Race The count In 1291 of the state's precincts gave Pepper 164.812 votes against a total of 158,832 for the other candidates. The results to both states were ; viewed by administration sup porters as presaging a democra tic victory to November while critics saw the big opposition -vote as a sign of Increasing aatl- -' administration sentiment. In both races, opponents 'of the senators - attacked arministration domestic policies and criticized the senators as invariably going down the line with the president on major issues. . . - - Senator Lucas (D-Hl). a fourth term? advocate, was one of those who Interpreted the results as en hancing the possibility of Mr. Roosevelt will be returned to the Whit Houst next November. "This Is a pretty clear demon , (Turn to Psje t-ZLj A) Germany Cdtxv Ortoau- Tlwtridcrf Morning, May 4. 1S44 y 1: ft Jr. 1 on Orvieto railroad yards on the north of Rome. (AF WbrepboU Up7ffldbe for a last-minute negotiated peace 700,000 men. . j ; controlled continental radio and press, London observers deduced that the nazis were preparing in dustriously to meet early attacks on the west, south and east and that Hitler had not depleted his Russian-front forces to bolster the Atlantic wall. . . 1 1 ; Military observers here esti mated that : Germany . and her satellites had a total of 219 di visions for the climactic strag gle; dividing them in this fa shion: - "ir-'-. -(,' Russian front-195 divisions. : Finnish front seven. - Italian front 25, including 19 south of Rome. i Balkans 25. r Western Europe, from northern Norway , to southern France-7. . Five years ago a German di vision ordinarily was, counted at a strength of abont 1S.009 men, with some armored divl ; aions smaller. Now, however, a . London Informant ' declared, ' some divisions are "mere sha dows of their former selves' while a very considerable num ber are ander-strength. This military observer flatly dis puted a Stockholm report that 50 German divisions had recently been transferred from the Russian front to the west, dismissing the story as a German alibi for re verses to Russia. i , "It is true,! ho said, wthat some divisions shattered on that (the Russian) front . have j been re formed, retrained and put to the west for further training, but in some cases they have been re placed by outfits moved from the Car Strikes 12-Year Old Boy on Skates . Darrel Thomas, 12, of 2185 North Liberty street, was struck by car near his home at 8:30 o'clock last night while ho was skating to the street The car was operated by John B. Beardshear, y 2235 North Liberty, who told police the youngster made a sudden turn in front of. his Vehicle while be was starting it The- boy was taken to the Deaconess hospital suffering from a fracture ef the left fore arm. ' :k U; ; : ' : rc' ; . . " j Salem' Has Hottest Day! Of Season 7ith fi5 - The hottest day" to date ef 1144, to Salem, Wednesday also had the widest variance of tern peratares, with the " mercmry monnting : from - 42 ?rrees at 5:51 aun. to li at 49 pxw " Officers Cheerful In India t- .. :. ! StillwelP8 Forces May Rout Japs , Say Allied Men NEW DELHI, May American and British officers to day expressed high optimism over the . military situation in Burma and India and said that the hith erto alow-moving invasion of Burma by Lt Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's forces might change any moment" into a major dis aster for the Japanese. One ef Japan's most expe rienced armies is battling to prevent' the . allies from clear ing northern Burma, and the position of this army Is grow ing Increasingly i unfavorable, , these authorities said. There is no question, either, that the enemy had run into a hornet's nest to his invasoin of the India frontier. . In a military sense his three spearhead divis ions still are on the offensive, but all evidence indicates the British and Indians now ; hold the ad vantage in terrain and weight of firepower and may, with the co operation of the approaching monsoon, ' destroy the invading troops utterly. A Japanese general's order of the day, read fat captared docu ments, told his troop that oper ations around, Ims&jLandKe- bima, the two big allied bases in eastern India, were ' ef para mount "'"Importance and might even cod the war," Another 'threat Jhat undoubted ly haunts, the enemy commanders is the possibility of an imminent British amphibious assault to southern. Burma, While the allied campaign in southeast Asia i Is not spectacular at the moment, the implications are staggering. (Turn to Pago 2 Story T) Bishov Issues D-Day Prayer For Invasion NEW YORK, May 3 HjPf .An invasion prayer for use on D-day was issued today by Bishop Hen ry St George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of Church es" of Christ in America and pre siding bishop of ' the Protestant Episcopal church in the United SUtes. ; f- - - '.-' The prayer was made public as the Association of Army and Navy Wives requested j that all churches of all denominations re main open for a "prayer Invasion" when the invasion v was. made known, and as Governor Thomas E. Dewey ' proclaimed D-day as one of prayer "to Almighty God for the success of our armed for ces and the safety of our valiant fighting men." The prayer: "Almighty and most merciful God, father of all. mankind, lover of every life, hear, we beseech thee, the cry of thy children to this dark hour of conflict and dan- ger. " , ' . I ;; "Thou hast been the refuge and strength, to all , generations, of those who put their trust to thee. (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Tuberculosis, Malaria Main Subjects Of Discussion at Marion That the middle aged man Is the tough problem to tuberculosis control and that the Willamette valley may expect some increase to the number of malaria cases upon' the return of war veterans, was reevaled at a meeting of the Marion County Public Health as sociation meeting on Wednesday night- The . meeting, - beginning with . a dinner, was held at . the First Congregational church. . Localization of malaria to the Willamette valley is not new, said LtiPaui; H.V Barrett, : sanitary corps, assistant medical inspector at Camp Adair, principal speaker. "Malaria, came into the valley to 1823. with the first white men, he ; quoted 'from. , a pamphlet on the i study cf the disease to the district V -' " There have been no eases of taal!jnart cibrlj It tie state, i tbera vZl trtUlIy li Six Mosqiiitos Destroy House Of Documents LONDON, i May S-(AHa briUUat Uw-1 e v e 1 preclsloa bombing, six British; Meeqoites destroyed a hoose to The Hagae oootalning thoosaadi of doea aseata "of paramount valae to the Germans,1!' the air ministry announced tonight. '. ' j , The announcement said only one bomb fell wide of the tar get, and that struck! a German barracks behtod the house near the site of the peaeo palace, Reeoaaalssanee; photo graphs shewed the target build ing reduced to ' rabble, but neighboring houses j untouched. The ministry 'gave no details ea the documents, nor she date of the attack. J ''' rj j h - ' Preparations for the raid were made to the utmost se crecy and a scale model was used to help identify the tar get . ; . The Mosqultos circled behind The Hague. Skimming the housetops, the first.1 two pilots dropped bombs with delayed action fuses right at the front door. , Two minutes later the next pair .dropped toeendlariea aad the last two let loose with incendiaries and delayed-action high explosives.' . j .' I' ' Russian Furnish Onlv . 1 L'J' trr fTTaltiei ft aiieaua.-1- -.V m Last - i . LONDON,' May S -(-Wide spread Russian air"raids on axis railway Junctions : and air . fields to Poland and Romania jwere an nounced tonight by the soviet communique, , which; said that on the ground fronts there Still were "no essential changes." It was the 12th day of the land lull- Overnight long range soviet planes hit German! troop trains concentrated at the junctions of Lwow and t Sambor in Poland, while other Russian raiders struck air; fields in - the area of Lwow, Stanislawow, in the southeast cor ner of old Poland, and Roman in Romania, 37 miles jwest of last At Lwow there were s about 20 fires, including fivje . particularly large ones, accompanied by ex plosions, - toe Russians j said. At Sambor, 40 miles southwest of Lwow, explosions and! brilliant flames followed the bombings, which included hits on a train that bad Just arrived. 1 1 It was the second consecutive raid on the Lwowj railj Junction, the Russians having reported that on Monday night they set fire to six loaded military trains there. In the blows 'at "s eniemy air dromes, more than 90 German planes' were destroyed, on the ground, the communique F said, while yesterday 38 Germans were brought down to air combat and by anti-aircraft fire. . , . i Canneryworkers Adopt Blue Lake Gintract Ciumeryworkersj d n e s d a y night adopted unanimously the contract negotiated with . Blue Lake Producers and at the same meeting initiated est classes ever local union.' , one of the larg- taken ! into the Bene, according; te the speaker, bat some steps ahoald be taken : im, guard against ear I rise tn: namber ef cases ef the sen- j mallgnaat ' form which . may An educational program is the best way to guard v against this rise, the speaker said, and can be accomplished by -eliminating breeding areas, use of fly guns and spray guns, adequate screen ing of homes and oiling sloughs where malaria mosquitos breed. -The speaker described several asethods , ef insect eradication which have: been developed . dar!g - tie war, tocladiag a ifpyrethreua bemb and a mix tare which wltiecwltoed with paint, VZ: to2:cs which Lilt ea'srr'aces t? ta facrjmo&lls 'after arsIIeaCsa.'-; . " '. : LLr.'C.T.crcnst!et of theUrJt- . -r VV.I'V- J 1 Activity Only Beef Steaks to Red Points Today ; WASHINGTON, May 3-(ff)-All meat except steaks and roasts of beef became ration free at midnight tonight but that doesnt mean all the points that formerly and lamb can be diverted to bigger and juicier sirloins. There'll be only half as many red points as before. ; The office of price administraUon figures the average con- SalSul US Loses 2 FFs, Planes in Clash By Sight Error " ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTER S, ; New Guinea, Thursday, May 4 -(Jt)-; Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today that bombers and fight ers have heavily raked the Ra baul. New: Britain, pea, at a cost of two planes. : J t V Headquarters disclosed that last Saturday during an attack on Rabaul two planes and two pa trol torpedo boats were lost to a clash through failure of the raid ers to . recognize each other as Ifriendly. There were some casu (Tokyo radio WillMJugay sugns annooncca i m orooacaar monitored by NBC at New York that a squadron of filled motof torpedo boats' made' Sa' fblt and ran" :. raid ' ea. Rabaal recently. The broadcast listed one beat as sank and another j as damag ed. A t aqoadrost ! ordinarily would number about : 12.) A spokesman said that In the latest operations around American Sixth army Invasion Jholdings' -at Hollandia and Aitape ot north New Guinea 109 Japanese have been lulled by patrols. Previously more than 600. enemy dead had been : listed ' to the . same sector, which was invaded April 22. Northeast; ef the Hollandia airdrome 79 eat ef 159 Japanese (Turn to Page 2 Story E) W AC Uniforms LackBeauty WASHINGTON, May i.-iJPh Calling WAC uniforms "irksome, bulky and colorless, Rep. Celler (D-NY) declared today they should be replaced and tossed on the scrap;' heap. 4 ; :- ; Celler wrote CoL Oveta Culp Hobby, , Women's ; Army $ C o r p s commander, expressing jus belief that the girls would sign up for service quicker if they had pret tier uniforms, v The congressman, who lives In Brooklyn knows where Mrs. Hob by can get some ideas on the mat ter. -iU:! " V :-k. "I have spoken to numerous designers and they would be more than happy to confer with you," he wrote. They are most anxious to give you a military j uniform that will be colorful, attractive and comfortable and at the same time dignified, and serviceable.' Health Meet ment, working on malaria control to war areas and stationed in Cor vallis, spoke briefly, stating that malaria usually occurs in areas of rich farm land where hand work ers are used. The cause may be because workers migrate from areas where malaria is prevalent I The speakers broaght eat the fact that malaria only comes (1) -to those bittern, by certain kinds ef f mosqultos, 2 that -- these must have previously bitten a human with the parasite to the 'blood steam and thatj 3) this must to turn be at the proper stage to Its life cycle.' This chain ' of circumstances when broken, eliminates the daager cf Infection te humans.; ' . Speakers on the prcsram also Included '..Mrs.. Eadi Orr Dun tar, ' executive secretary of the Ctati Tuberculosis association, .:" (Tu-a to Tzzi 2 Ctcry L) Pourided T O -r Roasts, Require went into hamburger and pork Osumer can have more of the items still to be rationed steak and beef roast, butter, margarine, cheese and evaporated milk. And of course he can have all the ham- : burger, pork and other non-rationed, meat be can find and pay " The actual effect on each indi vidual will vary widely according to what has been bought with red . points in the past I ; For Instance a person who has used most of his red points' for steak and batter will be cat in those Items. If he has been eating a lt-polnt steak and a S-point quarter' pound of butter every two weeks heretofore, he has had, 17 of his bi-weekly - ! lotmentjof 31 red. points left for other Items, including the meats taken off rationing to night i , ' -.if ,, ; With : the red point allowance .. slashed to 1 15 every two weeks beginning I next Sunday, he will (Turn to Page 2Story C) Ward Co; Files Brief Rappins - f 4; r T CHICAGO, May 3 Mont gomery Ward and company, in a brief filed to federal court today, declared that "totalitarian govern ment" to the United States "is the logical consequence of the govern ment's claim of unrestricted pow er." ;" ;:';-. p-r ---v;. The government also added, to the court record of the dispute, watched; widely as a test of tbo wartime powers of a president by filing three affidavits, designed to justify the government's seizure of the war Chicago stores essential to the general war effort . As both sides continued ' the legal battle, an NLRB official set next Tuesday as the date for an election; to determine : whether a - CIO union stall represents a ma jority of the employes at the local Ward plants basic, question fin the controversy. 1 c The Ward briefs were a reply to attorney 'general. Francis Bid- die's contention , that President Roosevelt "has a great constitu- , tional reserve of power as commander-in-chief of the army and navy,; that his authority was sufficient to place the Ward fa cilities here in federal hands and that "no business of any kind ig immune from that power." Stextart Wins : FlyingCrass A U. S. LIBERATOR BASE, England, ' May J (ff) - Major James Stewart, former Hollywood film star, was awarded the dis tinguished Flying Cross today for. his leadership to the American air raid on Brunswick Feb. , 3. when he flew to the lead plane. ' "I guess I'd best send It home,1 drawled the film star as he finger ed the decoration after a ceremony in an empty hangar. "I'm mighty proud of It" ; v- "vl:'r v The citation, readby Lt CoL . Ramsay Potts said: -M ; 5 -! "Despite aggressive fighter at tacks to heavy anti-aircraft, fire, he was able to hold his formation together and direct the bombing run over the target in such a man ner that the planes following him were able to bomb with great accuracy." s. ' Two Salem Soldiers ; Oa List of TToumlcd 'Among the names of T70 US soldiers wounded to action re leased Wednesday by the war de partment are the names ot 13 from Oregon, two from Salem. One Is Pfc Lloyd Weaver, " whose fa-ther,-Erwto JL Weaver, lives at 2C90 Maple street He has been to the southwest Pacific. Pfc Willis A. Lacey, to the Mediterranean area. Is the second Salem man ca the Oregon list He is a son of Mrs. llarjaret Chapman, .434. '.Union ' a VUVl LLb a. is. V.