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t 1 1 '' S. - ' j " - ' -1 - i , : 7eather " Maxlmnm ttmpc ratare Thursday Si degrees; mini mum 45; m precipitaUon; t river LI ft ... Fair Friday and Saturday: . slightly easier Friday except extreme east portion., u id mm PSUNDSD ...... KyilKf IK V.-Y : -v " -' ' - : - --- ---- OPA has moved, though bit restrictions on meat consumption All meats , except beefsteak and roasts are now ration-free. The change Is made because of heavy receipts of livestock and large numbers of - livestock on farms. The statistics for months have shown this, but OPA, though It made some reduction In point values, held on to; strict rationing of meats. Evidently as it looked ahead it caw a fiirthf fiimiilatinn . that might lead to spoilage. At ' any rate the people will say: "For this relief much thanks." The thanks primarily are due however to the farmers and stock- men who have produced the hogs ' and cattle and sheep. The hog ' and cattle ; population ' reached 1 record-breaking numbers, and it was plain to see, as this column said about a year agoi when the meat question was being agitated, , that there was only one place for these animals to go and that was to the butcher-block, j Now they mr WMnmd n4 DPA lifts All Kflni - except on the choicer: cuts such as steaks and roasts. The announcement I says that smaller quantities are being taken i under v lend-lease. Russian 5 re- - quirements ought to diminish ra- ; pidly now that the Ukraine has been recovered. The year's crops there should go far toward filling Russia's foodbasket, though meats would still be scarce there." In vasion and liberation; of occupied countries would bring a call for foodstuffs, chiefly for cereals and fats. But any tapering off of the armed forces or (Contiuued on ' Editorial Page) New Draft Bill iort Of Officials V WASHINGTON, May 4-P-A work or be drafted" bill designed to force 4-Ts and men between 38 - and 45 into war or essential civil ian jobs drew the united support f selective service and military officials today at b senate mili tary comWttee session,; V J-j : Whiles Chairman R ey n o 1 d f 1 rtMr nii i i . -kj. r(fT vrt know whether 5 there would be " stronger committee support for it - than . for ; the Austin-Wadsworth - national service vlaw which ' bis been under the committee's juris diction for J 8 months, house mili tary committee .members gave it warm endorsement. : : : J. - . The measure,1 which Maj, Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of se lective service;. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, and As ' sistant Navy Secretary- i Ralph - Bard all endorsed, would author i ize induction of any draft regis I trant between 18 and 45 into the ' military service or labor battal ions if he shifted from an essen r tial to a non-essential job without draft board permission. Any 4-F, capable of perform- ing necessary wore coum dc drafted for essential work, and any man aged 38 to 45 if unem ployed or working in non-essential industry. ' V V- ! Bard estimated' that "there are In the neighborhood of 1,000,000 men, who have been classified, as 4-Fs who are not engaged In es sential war work." : ! f He added that he was told by the - war .'manpower commission that ; when the induction of : all men over 28 was stayed, there - was a sharp Increase in the num ber of 4-F's going into non-essential industry. ; i . In west coast shipping there are even turnovers among 4-Fs to one among other groups, he add .V God Has Stake In War Say Methodists KANSAS CITY, May 4 Methodists voted today to support the war because "God himself has stake to the struggle." t ' w 's The resolution, adopted after lengthy .debate by the first "gen eral conference since Pearl Har bor, said in J part: ., . : "God himself has a part in the struggle. We repudiate the theory that a state, even though imper fect . in itself, must not : fight against intolerable wrongs. : , The action - repudiates the the church's, stand taken In J940, which said the church would '"not officially endorse, support or par ticipate in war." i The vote was 373 to' 800. The clergy was divided almost evenly, favoring the resolution 170 to 169. The lay vote was 203 to 131. t Today's, decision - was, reached after more than five hours of ora tory and more than., 30 speeches. So. hot was'', the debate; that at times more than a dozen dele gates' were on their feet shouting "lit. Chairman' Charles- C. Parlin, - Englewood, JTJ, lawyer, led the successful fight r z ccritUe rninority report Draws Sudv 1 1 IIETY-TIinD YEAR Aerial Invasion Roars On Fortresses Hit Dutch Airdrome In Heavy Blow LONDON, May 4-(iiP-American Flying Fortresses delivered a sharp attack on a nazi air drome in Holland today, high lighting the 20th straight day of the allied aerial off ensive- a day in which 1750 bombers striking from Britain and Italy by night and day dropped 6000 tons of explosives on Hitler's Eu rope. :f ,;.:v'-i;::' tr -v.; r-.-; LONDON,' Mar -P)-Large formations 1 of allied raiders headed eat across Dover strait shortly 4 after '- daybreak todar ; to maintain the non-stop aerial offensive against fortress Ea-' repe.- '. '; ' American Marauders and Hav oc light bombers and RAF Mitch ells struck a wide variety of sup ply depots and military. Installa tions in northern France jby day light and American Mustangs con ducted an offensive sweep over Brunswick, Germany. i ; 1 ' All the Fortresses, about 250 in number, returned safely, as did the medium and light bombers. Their fighter ; escort - lost . three planes and downed nine ' nazis, while the fighters over Germany shot down the only German plane sighted. v ' The RAF sent out a fleet of 750 heavy bombers In a series f - a r 1 y-morning ; moonlight raid on France and Ladwig shaven, Germany, losing 49, (Turn to Vage 2 Story G) Red Bbmbeisx Pound Nazis In Sevastopol LONDON, May 4 -(V- A merci less night attack by Russian bombers on the German-Romanian; garrison , jammed - into sur rounded Sevastopol was announc ed tonight by a soviet communi que which said bombing and strafing sttenced many enemy bat teries, started at least ten large fires and caused many explosions. Soviet troops have ringed about the Crimean port for two weeks but have held off from a frontal assault, " apparently - to - conserve manpower."' I The blows by soviet planes, all of which were listed as returning to base, might mean the infantry was nearly ready to plunge in for the kill against the thousands of the enemy garrison. No essential changes on the long land fronts were reported by the communique, broadcast from Mos cow and recorded here by the soviet monitor. It said 47 German tanks were destroyed or disabled yestrday.;--;.;- .-' Red Star, official army news paper, reported numerous Russian units had penetrated deep into, the foothills of the Carpathian moun tains and begun sharp attacks through the forests against sepa rate enemy positions, since the front there does not consist of a continuous trench line. The exact location was not given but It ap parently was ; somewhere, in '; the mountainous corner ; where the borders of Czechoslovakia, old Po land, Hungary and Romania Con verge. . , " - Freak Weather Hits US With Snow By the Associated Press : The weather blew hot and cold along with snow and - floods in a freak display across the United States yesterday." . ' '- A New York City-experienced its hottest May 4. with a temperature of S3.4 degrees while a beat wave on the west coast sent the ther mometer up to SO In Los Angeles and 84, a record for the date, at Oakland; Calif. But in between, a heavy snow fell Sn the Red River yaHey , of North Dakota with a 45-mile-an-hour (wind and a : temperature of 23 above zero. " ;j ' South Dakota and Minnesota al so had wintry weather. . ' ' . The lower midwest was unsea sonably cool, with froet forecast in lowlands of the Kansas City vicinity. M : Many acres f long the Missis sippi river were flooded although the water bad receded. - mi i V f t Left to right are a German .170mm mobile gno and an American 8 Inch (200mm) mobile artillery piece en display at the army ordnance proving ground at Aberdeen, Md. The American run fires a projectile nearly twice as heavy as that fired bf the German weapon and its range Is greater by more fhan two miles. (AP Wirephote from TJU army) FBI Agents A rrest Ward Poster Taker CHICAGO, May 4-jP-FBI agents arrested an of ficial of Mont gomery Ward and Company today; as he was removing govern ment poster in one of the firm's Chicago plants that have been under federal control for. eight days. ! H i ' The official, Paul D. Sowell, assistant mail order, operating manager of the concern, told reporters he saw the poster eographed notice that no workers were to be dismissed without the approval of the federal operating manager and ascertained that it dealt with employe - management relatione He added: MEatner thfft stand Is the hall ' reading It, I was removing the thnmb rUcks i la order U take the poster Into my office and read it In Its entirety, and abide by It ol eonrse. After alt I have : quite a' few employes under my dlrecUon.' i Sowell was taken into custody by the agents, who reported Rich ard Hosteny, acting chief of the federal - bureau of Investigation here, were stationed at the war facilities "at the direction of At torney General Francis Biddle. Hosteny said Sowell was not handcuffed when he was taken from the . building. He was faroaghi to the US district at torney'! office, and then to the US manhail's office. His at torney James C. Lea ton, said he was fingerprinted there "be fore service of any warrant" SoveB was ; handcuffed as he was escprted from the marshall's quarters: to the court of US Com missioner Edwin K. Walker in the same building. He was arraigned (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Berlin Says Allied Planes Bomb Rome LONDON, Friday, May S VP) The Berlin radio declared to day, that . Several - waves of ; American bombers attacked the: . oatsklrt of Some yesterday. ; Thefelty had five, alerts ' one lasting two honrt, said the : broa&cast". .-,f '".. -' There was no Immediate eon-, i flrmation front . allied anthori-4 ties, bat railways In the Rome area frequently . have been the targets?' of allied raiders. ' . in Midwest The deep south reported sea sonable ; weather. 4 But tie Pacific northwest had its fouth day of record heat - I 'Seattle's 84.5 degrees was the highest : ever recorded on May 4 the second consecutive day such a record has been established, and to make ma tiers, worse, - the hu midity vas greater than ever re corded t this time of year. Severia rorest nres were burn ing, but all Were under control. Lumbermen .said, however, that if, the beat continued there was great danger of serious fires. Many : logging ?: camps ?' closed down' because of the weather, i Down the coast' in Oregon, it was even botter. Portland report ed 88 degrees and some coastal communities sweltered under 90 degrees, Some relief was predic ted. . . A small forest fire was burning in iuamatn Indian reservation In southern Oregon, .. &deu OrtoB. Friday IXcndng; l lay 5.' 1S41 BigBueltiu of the Bdttlefronts mint- O Yanks to Have Best Ordnance For evasion : ."-!': ,: 'y r: - L: j-tv '. LONDON, May 4.-P-Ameri-can troops storming Into Europe will have newly developed ord nance, "the finest artillery, small arms (.with performances 4etter than anything the enemy has used and ammunition! with higher ex plosive charges,'"; Brig. Gen. Hen ry Sayler said today. -' . He is chief ordnance officer of the US army in the European the ater, j. vvi i V'X'- j. ' "If you want to call those secret weapons, you can," he said, add ing, "a good deal of our ordnance has been improved also. These improvements ! combine the best features of our own weapons and those 'captured from the enemy." Sayler, in a report published in the . army newspaper Stars and Stripes, emphasized it was "no pep talk : to ' boost morale,' and declared - that ii soldiers standing ready for action had a right to (Turn to Page 2 Story. C) Food Supply May Not Last WASHINGTON, May 4-P)-The war food, administrator, Marvin Jonesl cautioned' consumers to night that the i liberalization of food rationing may be temporary only, Jdeclaring that "because we have plenty now, It does not nec essarily follow 1 that we will have plenty later." - I ' . "Too many are prone to take a food supply ; for granted," he said in-a formal statement citing production difficulties -confronting farmers during - the : coming crop season. "It will; be even harder to meet our needs this year than it was last year." i , . . Jones said nevertheles sit was possible to offer more liberal sup plies to consumers now because recent farm production was "above schedule." Although he ' did not mention them, shortages of ship ping space for moving lend-lease food overseas and a Jack of stor age space In this country : were given; by other food officials as being1 among the reasons for lib eralization, of rations at this time. Dione Doyle Heads Silverton High Class SILVERTON, May 4 Dione Doyle, daughter of Mrs. Ida Doyle, has been made valedictorian of the Silverton high school gradu ating; class. Louise Ryan; Is sa- lutatorian of : the class, which is composed of 71 members who will be " graduated. ! " ' - Commencement will , be held May 31 with James Millar, field director of the board of Christian education of " the Presbyterian church: of America, &s the itzla. -J, - : ' i , . ' i4 A' V- -A -: r ' ' - i i Weakens :: Stim8on Reveals : Planes, Railways In Bad Condition i WASHINGTON, May 4 -O'P) German fighter plane strength and replacement ability, 'has been yhljtled down sa far, Sec retary Stimson said today, that the enemy is now relying chief ly on anti-aircraft batteries for defense against large - forma tions of American bombeTf. : In a news conference discus sion, the war secretary also ex-. pressed the opinion thai damage already done to German trans portation facilities la beyond the nasls ability to repair. Such communications are a vital spot In s the German: defenses. The enemy must maintain them m- v sofar as possible for movement! of armies and svpplles to earn-' bat any allied Invasion. ) : . In order to conserve their re maining pursuit, planes, Stimson said,' the nazis send 'jftem mainly against small, groups of bombers or crippled or straggling planes. As a result, he said, American bomber! formations now! return - (Turn to Page J Story D) Casualty List Rises 5005 lit One Week WASHINGTON, May i, 4rWi A 5005: increase above the total announced last week in casualties in the armed forces was reported today,. bringing the total since the' war began to 197,841; f": W The figure does not mean there were , 5005 casualties in a seven day period I i nc e "reports from distant -theaters necessarily 'are subject -at times to delay. Since last week's report was Issued, announcement h a s been made of the sinking of an Amer ican transport) in Mediterranean waters with the loss of 498 men. Today's figures added, 993 to the roll of army dead, bringing the total to 26,575, and 77 to the navy list, raising it to . 18,892. pther new figures: ' Army wounded, 82,8 12,. In crease of 2 1 4 8 ; missing;' 33,814, Increase ; of 1087; prisoners of war, 30,601, increase of 651. ' Navywoonded, 11,899, Increase of 35; missing, 9192, decrease of 4; prisoners, 4456, increase of 20. The decrease in the total of miss ing was not; explained but could be due to transfer of names from the missing category to the lists of dead or prisoners. 1 Lions Vote in Faror , Of Council-HIanagcr ;; ! Salera Lions ' club members voted . 4S; to $10 favor of the proposed , council-manager form of, government . for Salem In a hastily-taken straw ballot at their regular Thursday noon luncheon meeting. v .. . . , i " - ' The education campaign plan ned by proponents of the measure takes a speaker to this, noon's meeting of the Salem Board cf Realtors. : - . - Germany Japanese :r In Burma Invaders Suffer .: m JIariy Casualties Without Success C ' 1 . . s " SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS, . Kandy, Ceylon, May 4-P-Attacs:in Japanese troops have been thrown back with casualties both in north ern. Burma' and near the allied base of Kohirna in India, it was announced today in m brief communique from A d ml r a 1 Lord Louis Mountbatten's head quarters.' . s I .; i The bulletin said there had been no Important change In the fighting around ImphaL miles sooth ' of Kohirna, and for the : first time In several days did ' ; not mention? the Palel sector, where en Monday the Japanese -were reported: massing for aa . all-out attack r ImphaL 21. miles to the nortbi ' (A Tokyo news broadcast - said that Japanese ' troops were "clos--ing on Palel and steadily 'tight ening their ' iron cordon around enemy forces! entrenched In Im phaL" It estimated the strength of British and Indian forces de fending Imphal at ! nearly 10 di visions. A broadcast claim by the Berlin radio on Wednesday that the allies bad evacuated Imphal was not repeated.) j - j -; Dispatches Indicated that the Imphal fighting was going! stea dily In favor of counter-attack-; Ing allied k troops, whose ad yanred units were said le be near the edge of the open eoaa- try BortkKof ImphaL The high-: war between j Imphal and Kk hlma, however, still was blocked' by th Japanese, ' .; . J Tluid fighting was Reported in the , meuntainqus j .Kohirna area, The- Japanese for' several weeks have held Kohima village the ' (Turn to Page .3 Story F) , Most of China Key Rail line Falls to Japs CHUNGKING, May AJPJap anese invaders in !a multi-pronged offensive in Honan province have seized aU but 60 miles of the Pei-ping-Hankow railway, the Chi nese high command indicated to night. . J' :. . The enemy is driving down and up the rail route, where only a few weeks ago the Chinese had possession of a J 175-mile stretch from Chenghsiert south to Sin yang. i Advancing 23 jmiles northward from Sinyang, ione Japanese force has occupied- Minkiang, and an other swept on to attack Kioshan, 45 miles north of Sinyang, a com munique said, j' . ; , : Vf ! Japanese, forces advancing southward are menacing Yeh cheng, 90 miles below Japanese- held Chenghsien, but the bulletin said this column! had been stop ped in bitter fighting.' Only 60 miles of the rail ine still aire held by the Chinese,! from the Yen cheng area south to Kioshan. At latest reports the Chinese still were holding out .at Hsu- chang, along the! railway! 50 miles below-Chenghsien. .. ! "j. The Japanese; appeared j to be taking ' special; pains ; to - protect themselves froin flank attacks by branching out On both sides, of the railway, especially to the west . May1 Weekend Festivities Open This 'I May. weekend festivities .will open today at Willamette univer sity at 1 1 a. ml with a special stu dent' chapeL" Main event of the chapel wiU be. the mter-sorwity sing competition! under the: direc tion of Seaman Charles Strong. The annual freshman-sophomore tug of war will be held following the 'program on the Sweetland field mill race. Another contest between the . two classes Will be held at noon and wiU be the greased pole climb. -. ' - i'; rd '. - Although the Inter-sorority sing contest is an innovation this year, interest : has ; run high ' and the event: promises ito be one- of the bigsest of the weekend. The win ning group will be announced by Queen Marjory Maulding at cor onation ceremonies Saturday ' The traditional campus cleanup which was held on the Friday of May weekend , In past years .will not be held this year due to dif ficulty in arrar.jlr.j schedules. In Prlc 5s Admiral Koga, JapUdderrr Dies in Action NEW TOIK. May HffV Admiral Kega, Commaader - la chief of the Japanese combined fleet, has been killed in action, the Tokyo radio. Snnonneed to-; day la a broadcast recorded by j US gerernment monitors. ! The broadcast quoted an Im perial headquarters eommunl ae as saying that Sega had "died at his pest la March of this year while directing gen eral operations frees an air plane at the front." Nt further details were given. ' - Admiral. Somca Toyoda, con mander of the Yokosaka naval base, has been named to sac eeed Koga and "already Is la command of the combined fleet," Tokyo said. , - . 1 " A The broadcast added that Ad miral Zenge Yoshida, who pre viously had been la command of the Japanese fleet fat Chinese waters, had been appointed com mander of the Yokosaka naval ' station. ,--.'- Goebbels Tries To Soothe Nazi Frayed Nerves ! LONDON, May 4 -(JP)- Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels fed the Germans sooth ing, syrup for their nerves today with the promise of "trump cards up our sleeves when the invasion strikes. - - --. yAA '' ' . '. ."There exist innumerable de fense measures and weapons so far unknown," Goebbels wrote in an article, in this week's edition of the German magazine "Das Reich," broadcast over ; the Gei man radio. , . :. : :j :Jj',,; Reports from Other , sections of Europe showed the anxiety -of the Germans,' now living In anticipa tion, of arly allied multiple land blows.: , ; i. The Ankara . radio ; said- "The empire premiers' agreement - on myasiori plans' brings .the blow 'evenKnarer. Reports from the Norwegian underground said the Germans are bolstering the far norm aeienses -witn troops tested In Russia.' , ..The ' Belgian , under ground " revealed new Gestapo roundups, a n d the Germans, themselves, " forecast that "Alex ander will strike shortly on i the Italian front.' j" "We know the enemy's prepar ations for invasion are practically completed,'! ; Goebbels wrote," "but : "(Turn to Page. 2 Story E) AFL Demands PWA Program PHILADELPHIA, May 4.-iip)-The AFL executive council called today f or Immediate action on a bousing and, public works pro gram to tide the country over the critical period between the abrupt cancellation of war contracts and the reconversion of industry, f ; Pointing out that the construc tion needs i "no elaborate recon version, the council proposed Im mediate conferences of Industry, labor, and the government to de termine the scope of the program, its timing and financing, the ac quisition of 1 land and flow of ma terials, establishment of demar cation lines .to indicate the field for private Industry and private financing, acceptance by state and local 'governments of the respon sibility for financing public works as far as possible without federal aid. and formulation of .clear un derstandings" between manage menl and labor. - , . U Morning v stead,. softball game will be played at 4 p. m. between the "Old Salts' made up of navy, men who have been at Willamette three terms and the "Boots" or 'those with only two or less semesters there. y":--- "Ladies in Retiremenr will be presented t o n I g h t at the high school auditorium at 8 p. m. Lead ing roles are taken by Lois Phil lips who has starred In major pro ductions during the past three years here and Charles Strong, navy: trainee; and transfer from Linfield college , who played in "George Washington Slept Here," 'Salem high school seniors have been invited as special guests to the coronation ceremonies and, in spection and review of the naval unit Saturday afternoon.' The public is invited to attend the events.-1 ' i The annual YWCA breakfast In Chresto Cottage will be held from (Turn to Page 2 Story A) USMakes Two New" Landin a Yanks Extending ' Guinea Holdings a. Near Hollandia By the Astoclated Press ' ' American sixth1 army troops made " two new landings on' Dutch New Guinea to consoli date and extend their holdings in the Hollandia area, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur' announced today. i ... v . : The new landings were made by the same forces that less than two . weeks age swept SOi miles up the New Guinea coast to seize the Hollandia sector and its four airdromes, within bomb- ' Ing tacge of the Philippines. One force landed at Demta, ex tending American control of the . eoaat 18 miles deeper Into Jap- -anett occupied territory. The other splashed ashore' oa Tors re bay, 12 miles from the town of Hollandia and midway between the original Invasion points. -' Protecting, the seaborne infant rymen, allied bombers " heavily blasted the Wakde airdrome, near est .Japanese base still in opera- tion. . : : i ' , Other heavy bombers smashed at Wewak by - passed New Guinea air base, aad Timor in the Datch East Indies,., while other air sweeps and motor tor- . pedo boa patrols accounted fee eae enemy ship, three planes and nine barges. " , ! Emphasizing the increasing American threat to Japanese con querors in the Philippines, Mitch-1 ell bombers from China have sunk an enemy ship in Amoy harbor, 450 miles northwest of the Philip pines. V 1 MhdOoiaiLars Pour 50 Tons j On Japs Trulc ; s US PACIFIC . FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, May 4-(P)-Far-flying army Liberator bombers followed up the mauling of Truk by carrier A task-- forces with one of the heaviest land- based aerial attacks on the rippled Japanese bastion ' in ; the central Pacific, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz : i Seventh i army air force fliers : poured 50 tons of bombs on air -strips-and adjacent installations in. a raid Monday night ; and ea riy Tuesday morning before the de fending garrison had a chance to recover from the 800-ton assault by Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's car- ,, rier : planes last . Saturday and Sunday. :Jy:i 'r A '-' . : : " 1 Fires and large explosions were seen in the Truk installations. . As evidence of the American success in undermining Truk's defense sytem, Nimitz said anti aircraft fire encountered In the latest raid Was "moderate. Two enemy night fighters were in the air but did not fight ; i , , In other central Pacific aerial - sweeps, a single Liberator swoop ed down i on Ponapt ; Monday night, setting . a fire In Ponape town." Isolated enemy positions in the Marshall islands were bombed ' and strafed ; Monday and Tues day.:;',; -I : ----- - f ; .. ty:. N. Co Democrats Favor Fourth ' Term for FDR By the Associated Press . North Carolina democrats en dorsed a ''fourth term for Presl- , '. dentv Roosevelt yesterday and lined up 30 more national con- . vention ' delegates- behind, him. I This brought to 418 the num- ber of delegates already pledged or claimed for Mr. Roosevelt out of 510 thus far selected.; It re quired .529 to nominate one more than" half the 1178 conven tion votes. , .r':4 - 3' ; i-.ri 1 The 410 figure excludes four? prospective Florida delegates who ' are pledged to Sen. j Harry El Eyrd of Virginia but whose votes may go to Mr. Roosevelt under, the unit system. - ; .. -.;- ;A - Florida r democratic party rules require that the state's 18 nation al convention votes must, be cast as a unit if two-thirds of the delegates agree on a candidate. The belated returns cut tnto Sen. . Claude i Pepper's lead over four opponents, but it still ap peared probable he would , win renomlna tion and jb void a run-oft primary. , , ". . ,