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f 4 . - 7catlier : ' I ! .: "5 i . Uonday 57; minimum 44 de . , - icni M. IwajfftMkAW w. 1 ... . '4 ' : Partly cloudy. Tuesday and ', a - .' Wedaesday bat with eea-.--, .' : , - r skmal shewers -aear- eaasC' , , Cooler Tsesdsy night ' . L'tl1 lIDQLl PCUND3D 1651 1 1 I I " lil ' . VSHSSSSSSSlHH --, V 1 J 'ff.f X . v r.-t 1 - ' - -: '-'-- ,-' '' " ' 1 :" ": .... ' X '-a '- - - ..- ' - " - - ...... j, , f . - - - : - , ....... i s. ; In the put the voters of. the city of Salem have rejected pro posals for; charter changes looking toward a smaller city council and employment of an administrative manager. This newspaper has supi ported these proposals in the past, and' does so again this year. " : . In fact its support is strength "ened by the comments of Dan J. Try when he retired from the city -council a few months ago, and by .Mayor Dough ton who adds his tes timony to that of mayors who pre- ceded him. They likewise found from experience that our present . system of administration through ; council committees so diffuses - authority that the city does not get the best results. ; - There may -be provisions of the proposed charter which might well be changed, but it does set up on ,the whole a practical form of city .government There, would be an " elected mayor and city council of seven who would employ a city 'manager," The manager's job would .be "purely administrative, the city ' .would retain full power to adopt r amend city ordinances, prepare budgets, approve expenditures, and change the manager But the ad ministration which is simply per forming the work which the coun cil lays out," would be handled under the city manager. Members " of the council would - be " spared many interruptions, and they would have one man to hold ac countable instead of some council committee. 5. -There must be good in this city manager plan because so farr as (I know no city in Oregon of any ! size which has adopted such a plan i has reversed itself and gone back to the old form. LaGrande, Bend, " Oregon (continued on editorial 7page) . - WW i ran FDRWillRun, Win 4th Term : NEW YORK, May 8 Jty- Rob ert E. Hannegan, chairman of the democratic , national committee, 'said tonight he was firmly con vinced that President Roosevelt 'would run again and be elected, and declared that despite the ma licious whispers to the contrary. T"caI"ssutvybu the "president is lit and ready for the fight," He made it clear his opinion was a personal one that ' that he had not discussed with the presi- dent "his own desires or inten tions." - .. .. '.; - . " . . -. - ; Hannegan devoted much of an address prepared for a 50-a-plate Thomas Jefferson - dinner at the Commodore hotel to -criticizing ut terances of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, possibly republican presidential nominee, which Han negan charged showed ' lack of foresight. - ; - He described: Dewey as one "who copies down the answers on his little slat after th examina tion is all over." ; In dealing with the delicate problems , that . will arise - among - nations, T the - dangers that may threaten our own and. all other free peoples, in anticipating the ' world of IMS," Hannegan said, "will the governor of New . York ghow the same great lack of com prehension that he has exhibited for the four-year stretch since 1940?" j Hannegan quoted Dewey as saying in 1940 that it was "most .unfortunate" the new deal recog- (Turn to Page 27-Story H) Senate Favors Lend-Lease WASHINGTON, May 8 -JP)-The senate voted 63 -to 1 -today lor another one-year extension of the lend lease program after hear ing, arguments that the United States seek permanent title to Caribbean air bases acquired from Britain on 99-year leases in the .1940 destroyer trade. The brief debate also included discussion of the need for devel opment of a fixed policy on re payment of lend lease aid. ; . Senator Langer ' (R-ND.) cast the only vote against the extension measure. It now returns to the house, for concurrence in a single amendment which broadens ; a house-initiated provision prohib iting the president from commit ting the United States, in lend lease settlements, to any pott war economic, military or foreign relations policy , with the treaty approval of the senate. " Road Commission Will Consider Contracts ; Contracts involving an expen diture of approximately $150,000 will be considered at a meeting of the state highway commission In Portland Tuesday - afternoon tnd Wednesday, R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, an nounced Monday. Several delegations will appear tefore the commission Wednes day, including representatives of t j chamber of commerce. nanne YEAR L.aun.Cn5(From Vacation s Reds Crack IMain Sevastopol Line Of Axis Defense . LONDON, Tuesday, May 8 (JPjf The red army has cracked the main axis defense belt at Sevastopol, killed- more than 4000 Germans and won hilltops dominating . that . besieged Cri mean . fortress, "Moscow an nounced today. v - Russian troops now are fight ing at the immediate approaches to the city, a midnight bulletin said, as soviet planes hurl "thou sands of bombs on enemy posi tions" in the final ail-out - drive to crush the trapped Qerman-Ro-i ma'nian garrison dug into caves bordering the city. x ' The 4000 axis detd were slain In a ' single sector where the' . Russians blew up 34 pillboxes and 27 blockhouses In their vic torious charge, Moscow said. ' Thus the fall of Sevastopol ap peared near on the 29th day of the offensive which has liberated all of the 10,000-square-mile pen insula except the small pocket at Sevastopol, on the southwest (Turn to Pace 2 Story G) Robert Johnson Becomes Ace of Aces in Europe A US flGHTER BASE IN ENGLAND, May HKapt Rob ert S. Johnson, a cool young sharpshooter in a Thunderbolt, bagged his 26th and 27th German planes in sky combat today, unofficially .becoming the first American pilot in Europe to surpass Capt. Edward' Rickenbacker's record of 26 aerial kills. And therewaa.a one-Jn-a-million coincidence about this tri MisSing LT. ROY JAMES RICE, Jr. Lt. Roy Rice Reported Lost From Mission Second Lt Roy J. Rice, jr., has been reported missing in action, according to word received by his parents Monday from the-war de partment . He failed to return from a mission over France on April 25. Lt Rice had been overseas only a few weeks as co-pilot of a Fly ing Fortress. He received his sil ver wings and commission Nov. 3, 1943, at the Stuttgart, Ark, army air field, two years after he entered the armed forces. Later, he was transferred to the armif air base at Alexandria, La, for training in combat flying.. -y Young Rice is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rice, route 3, box $73, Roberts district :The older Rice Is one of the Marion county commissioners. The-, boy gradua ted from Salem high school and worked in the Ladd & Bush bank before entering aviation i cadet training. Sprague Speaks At Klamath Falls ; KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, May 8-JP)-Chrle A. Sprague, ex governor who seeks the republi can senatorial nomination, said today there must be no WPA for returning service men and wom en.:;;..,: i - irf-' ''V'- ; "We must do more than prov ide education and ' hospitalization for veterans,, he said at a luncheon. "We must build up our economy to provide for .them ' opportunity for employment' and independent business M . . the big job In plan ning falls on congress, which must give business a chance to go for-' ward." - ; ks ; y. .' - : 1 ,: " ' V" '. ' : . ; 12 PAGES WASHINGTON, May rUPh President . Roosevelt,: bronzed , and relaxed by four weeks in the south, settled back today into nor mal White House routine ' and a round !of catch-up conferences.: Senate and house leaders trooped into his study this morn ing and Senate Majority Leader Barkley reported they "apprised the president of the status of legis lation! in, both houses, which is getting along very well." ;. No, recommendations for new legislation ' came from . the chief executive, Barkley. said, and there were no indications of any impor tant, legislative - proposals in the near future., C. While the government's seizure of th Chicago . plants of Mont gomery Ward and company stirred up a hubbub and resulted in con gress' ordering investigations while the president was . recuperating from winter illnesses at a George town, ISC, I plantation, Barkley said this was not even mentioned m today's legislative parley, i Speaker Rayburn, House Ma jority;! Leader McCormack and Vice r President Wallace acompa nied Barkley to the White House. The latter, who lingered briefly after , the others has departed for Capitol Hill,; told, reporters that his approaching trip to China na turally entered the discussion. The iother conferences to bring Mr. Roosevelt up to date on for eign affairs and international di plomacy followed the meeting with the quartet from congress. umph in the clouds his . wing- mans father was Rickenbacker a commanding officer in world war one. . ; y I The double victory ever Ger many gave the blond, 24year old flier from Lawton. Okla, a Ue With MaJ. Richard L Bong, Llchtnlnr pilot. In the sontbwest ' Pacific, as ; topmost American ace In strictly air victories. Capt Don Gentile of Piqua, Ohio,;; holds the American record in thisj theater for German planes destroyed, with a total of 30, sev en of which were wrecked on the ground, ' -;' There ' was : little doubt that (Turn to Page 2 Story F) t n wtHitsCpl. SILYERTON. May 8 Cpl. H vin Almquist, son of Mrs. George O. Almquist, who was on his way home on furlough from Ft Lewis, got within range of a gun which was discharged after a fleeing holdup man in a cigar store on Morrison street Sunday in Port land. Almquist was shot in the left leg, just above the ankle.? I He ; was taken first to Provi dence hospital and then removed to the army air base hospitaL Almquist, who is a brother of Paul Almquist who is home on furlough from an eastern j army post CpI- Almquist had just left a bus I after getting in from Ft Lewis ; and was passing the' cigar store. " ' - ; t urlougl US Navy Finds Japan's Weak That It Can Strike By 1 RICHARD TOMPKINS NEW YORK, May 8.--Am-erica's offensive spearheads in the Pacific have found Japan's de fensive perimeter so weak that the navy Is actually being kept under wraps until supplies can be diverted from Europe, according to Eugene Burns, Associated Press correspondent who has just . re turned after covering the entire theater. ' s '. Japan's show ef strength In the Pacific islands has been a blnff lall along, said Bunts. Bums arrived here in four days from Kandy, Ceylon, after cov ering the recent allied air and sur face attack on Sabang, Sumatra, from ie deck of an American air craft farrier. His visit to south east Asia headquarters completed a series of assignments .which have; taken him completely around the Japanese defense per imeter. . . ' . . . ; . . i Ilel was at Pearl Harbor and telephoned the story of the in itial 'Japanese attack .to San rraocisco. Since then he has Salem, Orn, Tuasday Mong. May; g( 1$ i Maker's OfWqzi By EDWARD M ' ALOED .HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May B-JFy-The German war machine, hard pressed by the Russians, facing imrninent allied invasion and possible new blows from the south, has been deprived of three-fourths of the output of its main oil source by, allied bombings of Romanian fields. . : f ; - This was announced today by commander in the Mediterranean theater, in a summary of results of the Mediterranean ' air force's Spring offensive." Not only; have air attacks cut production of the Ploesti fields by 75 per cent, but they have disrupted all lines of German communications to the Russian front, he said. ' The MAAF commander's an nouncement followed ' the sixth " aerial blow at Romania since ' Friday. RAF Ballfaxen - and Liberators, f ponnded the Ro- manlan capital of Bucharest fat ' the face of stiff fiihter opposi tion last night, raining explos ives on Industrial tarrets. The Germans lost 20 fighters in air battles near Bucharest yester day, and nine, nazi aircraft were destroyed in -other operations, bring the day's bag to 29. The al lies lost two; heavy bombers and 12 other planes in more than 1500 sorties.' .. - . " . - .The actions pointed np Gen. Eaker's announcement, . which revealed . that the Mediterran ean air force had taken neb s toll of German aviation, ' both in shoo tint down fighters at- tempting- to Interfere .with such raids, and In the bombings of , aircraft factories, that the Ger man' air force will be greatly : hampered In its efforts to halt the earning 'great attack on En-' rope. , Oh the Italian front, land op (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Wakde Island Gets Poundins From Bombers . i ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS,! New Guinea, Tues day, -May 9-P)-Allied. bombers have heavily pounded Wakde is land 120 miles northwest of cap tured Hollandia, New Guinea," and the Schouten island group 140 miles beyond, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announced today. Escorted Liberators hit Mok- mer airdrome on Biak island in the Schouten group three times, downing ten enemy interceptors. The third i assault on Mokmer within 24 hours was made at mid day Saturday by Liberator squad rons which for the first time had the support f of a fighter cover based on the. newly-captured Hol landia airdromes. ' , . . r1 A total of 295 tons of bombs was unloosed on Wakde island's airdrome and camp and. supply areas and on the Japanese Sarml base on the mainland nearby. Liberators I based in the Solo mons , "sank I three small enemy cargo ships near Truk in the cen tral Carolines. Cape Hoskins airdrome on the north-central coast of New Brit ain has beeri occupied by Amer ican marines without opposition, a headquarters) spokesman said. Gen. MacArthur announced 1 on April 4 that Cape Hoskins itself had been abandoned. , The heavy bombers ranged from Rabaul on New Britain, where 53 tons of explosives were unloaded on airdrome and supply areas. (Turn to Page 2 Story I) 1 sent eye-witness accounts from the battles of Santa Cms. Guad alcanal, the eastern Solomons, Attn, Kwajalein, Watje, Enl wctok, Maine. Wake Island. Sabang. In addition, he has Just published fThere ' There Was One, the story ef the Carrier Enterprise during the first year . of war, when she was far a time . the mainstay of the navy's bit ter battle to hold the Pacific nn- -til the damage of Pearl Harbor could be overcome. -Burns says' American forces In the Pacific now are able to slice through the Japanese perimeter at will, and he expects an early in vasion of the Philippines, where he says it will be virtually a push over to establish bases from which to advance on the enemy in China and his home islands. - : 'Z, . Tit explains that ear knife-; like thrusts In the central Pa : rifle have proved the Japanese, : enable to move qsickly from ; Lland to Uland, makhig them ' easy to cut off and leaving . us free to "throw to much at them If. ! ' en ..Kuiti'M Oil Source KENNEDY Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker,' allied air - Bo: i ijauu'iiascu ua 1 Planes Atliipk - Jap Island Base ; ? US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, May tt -V7- LAnd-based American bombers attacked Guam, former American island in ; the Mari anas, last Saturday for the se cond time in this war,' Adm. Chester V7. Nimitz announced today. ; "' k;::;" ; The daylight strike brought up enemy interceptors, approximate ly half of which were shot down! All American planes returned to their base." Moderate anti-aircraft fire was reported over the target area. -'j I . The raid was made: by navy Liberator ' search planes and Liberators of the seventh Amer ican army air force. H -Pilots said, they definitely shot down seven Japanese interceptors, the press release said, probably downed three more and damaged two others.. ." ; . j -I-""v, " Land -based planes made their first raid on Guam April 24. They did not encounter air interception. "; The first attack of the war on Goam, which is abont 1S0O miles, east of Manila,! was made by , carrler-born planes last Febrnary 22. - 1 'Nimitz also disclosed that on the same day. May 6, other Amer ican planes attacked , the enemy from Paramushiro, in the northern Kuriles, down through the central Pacif ic Truk, in the Carolines, was bombed at night by 7 th AAF Lib erators, starting- several r fires. Anti-aircraft fire was reported moderate." ' ! i- ' Ponape was bombed In day light by army medium bombers and at night by army Liberators which smashed airfields and ; (Turn to Page 2 Story D) 1 Youth Injured In Car Fall SILVERTON, May S-(Special) Vincent Jorgenson, IS, suffered painful bruises about the face and body when thrown from the rum ble seat of a car Sunday . as be stood up to speak to the driver just as the car was turned. Calvin Hildebrand was the driver of the car. " ..- Jorgenson was to report May 10 to the US navy. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Jorgenson of Silverton. Jorgenson. and Hil debrand were in one car and Joe White and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Stamey were in a second car. The group was returning from a day at the coast. Jorgenson is now at the-hospital in , Dallas. ; It is be lieved his nose was fractured in the fall from the car. ; . mbers Defensive Perimeter So at Will Any Place, Time from ear aircraft carriers (ef which we have 4fl : times as , many in the Pacific as during one period he served on the En- terprise) that it Is easy U land." With Japan holding her fleet at home for defense Burns said she now has only a pretense of defense In the outer perimeter. . And the United States forces are no longer deceived Burns added, as they were about Truk.. "We are moving so fast in the Pacific we can't keep . up with our spear heads. If we only had out there the supplies which are going to Europe.,,:;:,;.''!!';r. . Burns warned against under estimating the Jspanese fleet, whose main units are still tn . tact. He saU the Japanese ear rier forces will be used offen - sively In deep thrusts Into ear; positions, bat that the mala en emy battleship fleet will sit it .eat until such a time as eur ships most cone v, V.V.z rz:t of their home air arl naval bases. Burns believes our admirals T -j. v .f " V- Finds Child An Irish Setter recently! found lit '5 tie 22-months-old Jadine Bonch- ton sleeping . peacef ally in the i' nnderbrnsh. It took the dog six minutes to locate the" missing child after1 police and civilians .had been scouring the hillsides of South Seattle for many hours. Jadine Is pictured with the Irish Setter after the sleeping child was found, by the dog. (Interna tional) 4 - r Japs Try Hard To Regain Lost India Positions : SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD QUARTERS. Kandy,! Ceylon, May 8-VP)-Japanese troops are coun ter-attacking strongly in the Man- Ipur valley of eastern India in an effort to regain positions recently lost and are suffering "dispropor tionately ', heavy -.losses,". Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's head quarters announced jtoday. ;J" j : The enemy apparently is mak ing an all-out effort to seize and (Turn to Page 2-HStory E) Bricker Should A dvdrice To Second I S - .' - -' lit S : - , ' I By the Associated Press - - - - Home-state voters are expected to jump Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio into second place presidential nomination today. But the result will leave him E. Dewey of New; York who democratic side appears to be first ballot nomination, although neither has publicly sanctioned the drive' for delegates, j Ohio will name St republican delegates, more i Uytn the 34 pledged votes which, thus far, have held Lt. Cent. Harold IK. Stassea In second place , to Dewey.' Bricker has six dele-; gales from Mississippi. . -: BoUV the president and Dewey are : expectea to lengmen . uieir leads in a West Virginia primary today which will pick .19 republi can and 18 democratic delegates. Most of the republican candidates like Dewey, although some" favor Bricker.: Practically all the demoi crats want a fourth term for the president Y " f4'! Mlssonri denMerata tradi tionally with the president . picked their 32 cenventlon dele gates yesterday, : pledging them all to Roesevelt and naming Kabert E. Hannegan; the demo eratie ; national chairman. -; as Mlsseuii's national jeonunlttee man. Wyoming named IS deme : (Turn to Page 2 Story C) mean what they say about fight ing their way to a landing in Chi na and that Russia will then give us air bases. And he pointed to the American bases in the Aleu tians saying the ' Japanese ' had very little at Paramushiro or in the Kuriles. ! As a matter of fact. Burns added, the Japanese are "operating everywhere on a shoestring."- . 'i -'.4- ,-' . However; he added, "they axe dispersing and digging in. Se the faster -we move; the more lives wa save. ' It would be much better If we eould push ahead now ' ; ; ?- . -.- R '- Burns believes I t h a Japanese fleet will never give up, as the Germans did in 1918, but "will fight to the end." '! .. :-M :k: ? Forced o spread themselves so thinly . in the Islands i "the . Japs would be smart if they would pull out and concentrate their war ma chine at home and in China." he said. "They are smart, but they want to save face.1 i - Burns, gray at 33 after cov (Turn to Paje 2 Story A) " Prlc 5c rl Allies SMdl4S: zis i Offensive Goes Into 25th i Day; Berlin, Bransvick Get Heavy Pasting of Bombers i LONiX)N, May 9w(AP) The allied ierial offend sive blazed into its 25th straight day. with undiminished faryi today as formations of outward-bound planes ' thundered over the British east ; coast shortly after V 8 ft. ni. (2 AEW) and disappeared in the direction of the "pFrencA-BelUh-lorder -p- , ;-::, :':M1 r' ; The daylight raiders set out only a few hours after fleets of RAF bombers had returned to base from night - ' assaults on targets in occupied Europe. 1 ' ' - ; ' ' j j i By W. W. HERCHER . j I x LONDON, Tuesday, May 9-()-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's invasion command for the second straight day hurled 4500 planes against German defenses yesterday, blasting Berlin, Bruriswick, i channel coastal emplacements and key Tail targets and bagging j 119 German planes. r i - 'I" -i&n , A morning attack on Berlin and Brunswick by nearly 2000 US i Flying Fortresses.' Liberators,' and their : escorting fighters cost the Americans 36 bombers - and 13 fighters in great sky battles dur ing j which : colliding axis fighters and! -invading bombers occasion ally! fell locked in flames. : A second formation - of less than Liberators and Fly ing Fortresses In the afternoon attacked rail yards near Brus sels, Belgium, and coast far tiflcaUons In the Calais , and Cherbourg areas ef France. Five bombers were lost ea that mls- ' ' , ' w-'HU . Fighting deep inside Germany and! five miles above the earth in 45-below-zero temperatures the American heavy bomber airmen (Turn to .Page 2 Story J) 5 Place Today in, the race for the republican ; ,. ,'; ; still far behind Governor Thomas like j President Roosevelt on. the rolling steadily toward a possible Nazi Germany AtvaitsBldiv Oflimadmsl LONDON, May g-VNazi Germany, seething tonight with anti-invasion preparations, boast ed i of super-fortifications and drummed, pep talks into her popu lace,, while she tightened her western ramparts against the ex pected blow. - . .,. DND Reporter K a rl Heinz Schulz reported . the' beaches of Nice had been converted by the Todt labor, organization into "the strangest' fortifications in the world," with "guns of all calibers hidden : u nder reddish-brown stones or green nets." - From Bern it was reported that a dispatch from the Italian bor der to La Suisse of Geneva quot ed fascist officers as saying allied commandos based in Corsica and Sardinia had landed on the Lig uiran coast of northwestern Italy within the last few days on pa trols preparatory to invasion. ' ; 1 The account, " unconfirmed by allied quarters, said some of the troops were killed or captured, but others were believed to have returned to their bases with infor mation on German-built fortifica tions. ; -' - ; The same dispatch said - Field Marshal ; Rommel had conferred with Field Marshal Albert Kes selring in. Italy after inspecting French Mediterranean defenses. Blagnikson Attacks Alaska Highway SEATTLE, ; May 8 -()- The much-publicized Alaska military highway j was described as a gross failure tonight In a bitter attack on : the 1 $130,000,000 project, by Congressman Warren" G. Magnu son (D-Wash), chairman of the Alaskan ! international, highway commission. " -. v .c?rn . "As aj military supply road to Alaska' the highway," in effect, doesn't exist at all," he declared In an interview based on a written report containing - the charges, which he said would be filed in congress" tlay -18 . Westerdaj Chinese Pounded Only 14 Miles ; On Hankow Rail Left Unoccupied CHUNGKING, May 8 -(JPh Fighting raged unabated in all sectors of the Honan province battle area today.es the Chinese, J severely pressed at Loyang ia the north, desperately attempted to eep apart . the claws of a Japanese . pincers -i along - tho north-south Peiping-Hankow railway. " 1 i : -: ' The Chinese high command conceded that along the railway the Japanese had driven south ward from Siping to Salping, leaving only a 14-mile stretch f th line In ' Chinese sands, but said a northward thrust at Chumatien by the southern claw f the pincers had been re pulsed. .. 1 ; ;-!-'. ij'--'--With j captured Chengheisen as a northern base, Japanese columns struck past Yencheng and Siping to Suiping,- where heavy fighting progressed, while another' column. pushing northwest 1 of YehsienJ (Turn to .Page 2 Story: K) Manager Plan ; Will Not Hurt tivil service Charges of some city. employes that the proposed council-manager charter amendment, which ' ia to be submitted to the voters May 19 would do away with dvil serv ice were denied Monday by the committee which drew, the meas ure. ': ,. ..-'-I ) : v: . The bill does, provide, it was pointed out, that both police chief and fire chief shaU be removed from civil service,, but the provi sion which place police and fire departments under control of the manager does not remove mem bers of those two departments from civil service. , . - , ; ' "Any city manager; who goes to work during the wartime man power shortage is not likely to undertake wholesale firing: of city employes," Pat Crossland,! chair man of the committee which pre sented the measure, declared. "All of us know that one of the prin cipal ' problems . faced by i execu tives everywhere Is that iof ob taining' sufficient and -j efficient help. No one can speak for a man-, ager not yet selected,; but it doesn't take much reasoning to figure out that he's going to have to be pretty generally acceptable to most ctyy employes as well as to the general public if the muni cipality is to operate efficiently. "He will be held responsible for the functioning of the various city departments, and will, in turn, hold chiefs of departments, fire and police as well S all the oth ers, responsible V him. No one will have any more authority over civil service employes than is held over them today their chiefs simply will know where. the auth ority, to carry out the polk; -i ef the council lies, that Is, if the tit votes for the "council -manager plan." ' .