The Oregon statesman., May 24, 1944, Page 1, Image 1

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t- Those who heard E. B. Mc
Naughton, president of , the First
.National bank of Portland Mon
day noon at the chamber of eom--.inerce
were deeply impressed ..with
the plain business truth that he
Jaid out for them. He warned with
.the prestige of his position and
.with authority from his study of
history and economics that there
are limits to a prosperity based
cn government spending. Though
the "popular attitude may be that
of the character in the book and
jlay, "Suds in Your Eye" who
.said to her friend: "So drink your
' .beer; there's more , where that
came from" the truth Is that gov
ernment deficits are an insecure
base for business.:.
t But while the thoughtful peo
ple may endorse Mr. MacNaugh
ton's preachment how many, will
apply those simple truths to the
. public business? I note for In
stance that R. H. Baldock, state
- highway engineer has gone back
to Washington to join other high
, way officials in urging congress to
authorize $3,000,000,000 for pub
lic road funds in the three years
after the war. Oregon's - share
would be $14,000,000. The state
highway commission has made
the grand tour of the state to plan
a postwar program and the var
ious communities have catalogued
their wants which run to far in
excess of the funds that would be
available if the federal grant is
made.
! Has anyone stopped to figure
out where this! three billion dol
lars is to come from? Our war
expense will decline, but we will
have still a vast military estab
lishment to support and we will
have a huge bill for benefits and
assistance to returning veterans.
, Shall we continue (Continued on
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OnBri.
Opposite Walcde
. ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wed
nesday, May 24. -(AV-American
Sixth army forces pressing toward
two northern " New Guinea air
fields have expanded their
head at the 'mouth of the- Tbr riv
er opposite captured Wakde" bland,
'Gen. Douglas MacArthur announ
ced today.
.Reinforcements have reached
the Americans, largely from trans
port planes which are using , the
- Wakde airstrip.
Heavy . bombers hitting to the
- west dumped ISO tons of bombs
on Biak island in the Schouten
croup to the north of Geelvink
bay, leaving towering fires, .j
In far-reaching aerial sweeps.
bombloads were unloaded also on
Manokwari at the western end of
Dutch New Guinea, the Wewak-
Hansa bay area on the northeast
ern shoulder of British New Gui--nea,
Rabaul on New Britain island
and Buka island off the north
western tip of Bougainville.
: Expansion of the Tor river
beachhead was the first announ
ced move of any consequence since
Sixth army soldiers swarmed
ashore last Wednesday, the day
before the invasion of Wakde. Ac
curate Japanese mortar firt slowed
the invaders until American can
non were wheeled up behind the
Yankee lines to pound enemy po
sitions in the Maffin bay area.
The enemy has two airfields to
the west of the bridgehead, one at
Maffin bay and a second at Sarmi,
farther west. The dromes are be
lieved similar in size to that on
Wakde, wfhlch can be lengthened
to cocmmodat heavy bombers.
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Admiral Reve
Vast System
PEARL HARBOR, TH, May 23
ilpy- Rear Admiral J. J. Gaffney,
' head - of' the navy's vast supply
system in the Pacific, declared to
day that "the turnover and vol
ume of supplies handled here are
seven times greater than on this
area last year" but he's still not
guessing about the future.
Our. job grows by geometrical
progression, the genial South
Carolinian said in an interview
"but we don't guess at future, re
quirements.' We have a hard and
fast mathematical formula which
gives us a pretty accurate idea of
what each new operation wOl re
. Quire. :' ' ', ' " : y
' "It's this: 'difficulty of supply
Increases with the square of the
distance from the, main supply
reservoir to the theatre of opera
tions'. . -' -:' ::-7"---'l
, CMnplicating the supply prob
lem still further," Adm. Gaffney
told War Correspondent Howard
IX Norton of the Baltimore Sun
paper, fis the fact that we must
figure that each successive opera-
, tion as we move westward will
require 53 per cent more supplies
than the preceding operation.? ,
NINETY-rOUBTH YEAH
Bombers
Greatest Fighter
Fleet in History
Escorts Heavies
LONDON, May 23 -P-American
heavy bombers es
corted by . the greatest fighter
force ever sent on a single mis
sion blasted nazi air fields,
freight yards and other targets
in occupied France and military
objectives in western Germany
today, rounding . 18 hours of
assault In which more than 4000
allied planes rained 5500 tons of
bombs on the enemy.
The attack was carried Into
its third straicht nisht by RAF
bombers which were heard
rearing toward fortress Earope.
Later the German radio report-
ed "nuisance raiders' ever
; Brandenburg province territory.
Berlin lies in Brandenberg'pre-
vinee. '
; More than 1000 Thunderbolts,
Lightnings and Mustangs, some of
which did double duty by des
cending to strafe ground targets,
accompanied a force of Liberators
and Flying Fortresses about 750-
strong on the daylight offensive
into France and Germany. The
escort force was described offi-
dally as history's greatest,
j- As the tonnage In fire days of
great pre-iavasion enslaaght
ite teytJ.eosrtheOennin-'
abr force summoned only tok
ea f eree to oppose the. daylight
Mews, which the Gennan-eom-trolled
Paris radio said were
"systematically ; p a r a 1 y sing
communications. One American
bomber and three fighters were
lost
The weather, which had provid
ed cloud cover for the American
Liberators and Fortresses in their
attacks on airdromes, freight yards
and other military targets, im
proved tonight- and air lanes
across the straits again were clog-
ged with attacking allied planes.
America Marauders were
aeea heading across the channel
and another force, believed also
to be Marauders, winced toward
Boalogeaj later. The Vichy radio
network jleft the air early to
night and the Germaa radio still
bruadcasi warnings of allied
planes ever western Germany;
, German fighters in fierce bat
tles before dawn today brought
down 35 planes from an RAF
force jjf 100 heavy and light bomb
ers Which plastered industrial
Dortmund in the Ruhr, Bruns
wick and Ludwigshafen in Ger
many. Orleans and Le Mans in
Franc
gium.
and nazi airfields in Bel-
wo nazi fighters were de-
stroy
fwteh
out
bomber formation encountered
I fighter opposition, which was
I routedj quickly by the escort
Is Navy's
Supply
ey, whose, home . Is In
ton, SC, and who la the
of ten supply corps ad-
serving outside the contin
ental United States, illustrated the
materfal problem of fighting the
Japanese thus:
4 Tor instance, we've got to pro
vide eight tons of supplies every
WwwttlJ tyistli 14 iv es AsrAaw4lkfse9 taw
ammunition to underwear-for
each man we bring to the central
jracmc. That s o tons per man
per year . . . v, v-v
"In the Aleutians area, the job's
25 per ; cent greater. . Because of
severe weather up . there,.- we ve
got to haul 10 tons per month per
man." :i . I j'l' . i.. I "vS"
On the basis of eight tons per
month, it would require a Slmile
line of 960 ships, each carrying
10,000 tons, to supply 100,000 men
for a year.
To Insure the smooth "flow of
supplies to the fleet and to island
bases farther west, Adm. Gaffney
keeps a staff of nearly 7000 men
busy seven days a week, handling
stocks including 33,800 Items
and "a single item might amount
to as much as 10,000,000 pounds
of beef," he said.
Rain
ionid
Oh
Nazis
i GafL
Charles
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Marcus island fa) was . attacked
heavily for two days by carrier
borne planes, a Japanese broad
cast said, and a US ' army I air
force mission was reported to
have struck at Shimnshiri and
Ketol islands (b) in the KurUe
chain north of Japan proper
(AP Wlrephote).
Chinese
Cut Road
New Move Cuts
Nip Supply Line
In Chefang Area
CHUNGKING, May 23 JP)
Chinese forces on the offensive
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along the Salween river have
cut the Burma road at Chefang,
blocking the principal source of
pJ.,sptr'''toooiis
in southwest China, the Chinese
command announced today. -
Chefang is only 28 miles east
of thf north-south Burma border
toward which the Chinese are
I driving, and it is only 10 miles
north' of !the Burma frontier as
it runs east-west across the Bur
ma road. I' " " i
The Chinese, apparently strik
ing at Chefang after circuit
eus and possibly secret march
ap the Elowa mountains, first
encircled: the Japanere garrison
ta the town and then completed
tta deatruetfoa yesterday, a Chl-
aese cemmunique said.
More than 200 Japanese dead
were counted and much war ma
terial was csptured the bulletin
saidV'-f';.:vj ' . " ".'Iv"" ! il:
The Japanese have an alternate
route In the trail between Teng
chung on! the Salween front and
Bhamo in Burma, but this is far
inferior to the Burma road. :
On the Salween front to the
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Daring Soviet
Patrols Jump
MoIGermaiis
LONDON, Wednesday, May 24.
-(.P)-Daring red army patrols are
jumping right into German tren:
cbes in search of information for
the coming offensive, Moscow ire-
ported today although there were
few other signs of a major new
break on the eastern front. .
Southwest of Tiraspol a Russian
reconnaissance party wiped ' out
nearly a company of nazis in hand'
to-hand fighting and took dozens
of prisoners, the Moscow radio said
in its midnight supplement to 1 the
regular communique, recorded by
the Soviet Monitor.
In "another sector - red artillery'
men battered concentrations - or
German troops and "inflicted hea
vy losses on the enemy said the
"V U dde4 Z?n
wesi oi iviozjr reponea i suuing
"dozens of HiUerites." !
Two hundred more- Germans
were declared killed southeast of
Stanislawow, in old Poland, when
red rmy units captured a height
'dominating the locality and beat
off German counter blows.
Most of 'the ground activity re
ported in I the supplement was in
the south,' but airmen of the' red
banner Baltic fleet on Monday
sank: two German transports-tone
of 8,000 tons and the other of 3,-
000 tons in the Gulf of Finland.
The- Germans reported cOmplet-
Ing popping up operations in the
lower Dnestr in which they said
they took more than 2,000 .prison
ers, 47 tanks, 71 guns and much
war material in addition to in
flicting heavy casualties. -
Salem. Oregon, Wednesdar Momlng, May! 24, 1944
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Honan's
Japanese
Re
Chinese : Launch!
CounterBlows j
In Vital Region I
CHUNGKING, , Wednesday1.
May 24 -()- The, high com
mand announced today the Chi
nese had launched a counter
offensive on all sectors in em
battled Honan province Mon-
..... . t;
day and had driven the Jap
anese back -thus alleviating the
menace to China's agricultural
northwest. I i
It was announced that Loyang,
encircled in the . center of the
sprawling battle area and with
ts garrison lacing wholesale
massacre if the Japanese entered,
still was in Chinese hands.
The Heaaa counter -effen-sive,
the announcement said,
has removed for the time be
ing the possibility of a major
frontal clash between the Chi-;
nese and Japanese armies,
Japanese threatening the
northwest area both along ' the
Lunghai railway and farther
south fell back.
Chinese attacking the Japanese
flanks east of the north-south.
Peiping-Hankow railway already
have breached the enemy lines at
half a dozen points and are makf
ing further headway, the high
commana saia. . .
44
Xushilv Bonaa province
It miles from the snensi bor-1
der and some. 45 miles south
and east of Tangkwan, was lost j
to the Invaders for a few hours
bat was recaptured by Chinese)
shock troops, the high com
mand announced.
(Roy Porter, National Broad
casting company reporter, radi
oed from Chungking that the at
tacking Chinese had found the
Japanese lines fyery thinly
manned" and the Japanese "are
in retreat in all sectors in Honan
province.") - 1
Dulsed i
Si
Net Levy of $401,968
Set for School Budget
The citizens' school budget committee Tuesday night approved
net levy of $401,968 for the Salem school district; for the
1944-45 year after the state apportionment of $120,000 had been
taken into account. The net leyy represents an increase of $18,
413.50 over the 1942-43 net levy when th? re was no state appori
tionment, and 122,000 more than
the levy a year ago.
Included : in the figure is the
post war construction fund of
1108,237, based on the new tax
levy of six mills authorized by the
special election of March 7, 1944.
This amount will be used exclu
sively lor the construction of new
buildings and building additions
when the war is over, to take care
of added school needs in the event
the school population continues to
rise and to replace buildings now
in use.
Expenditures for the new school
year are estimated at $98,559. Less
the estimated receipts of $401,588,
this leaves an amount of $498,96$
necessary to balance the budget.
Adding estimated tax delinquen
cies of $25,000 brings the total tax
levies to $521,968. Of this amount,
$350,481, representing the amount
of the general fund proposed for
the 1944-43 budget. Is within the
six per cent tax limitation. The
balance of $171,487, outside the
six per cent limitation, is mad up
of $63,250 outstanding in the bond
fund, and $108,237, the approved
post-war construction item.
v Total estimated expenditures
for the coming year are placed at
$652,069, an increase of $37,727
over the current year's budget
General - control items, totalling
$19,485 for administrative salaries,
legal services, travel expenses and
miscellaneous items represent an
increase of $2,480 over the cur
rent year. - The ; superintendent,
salary will be raised from $5,240 to
$6,000; the salary of the clerfc-
business manager goes from $2,763
to $3,600; office employes ? will
receive a total Increase of $789
over this year's figure of $3,180.
- Some $60,200 has been allotted
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Under Fire in Italy
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American Infantrymen run for cover across the to
: Italy, after capture of the place
, waa still aader enemy fire. Sabble fills the street.'
buildings show effects of war.
Radio). '
Germans Taking
Tune Now on Invasion
f , By WILLIAM
LONDON, May 23-fl3)-German propaganda reached a i deep
pitch of gloom today, perhaps in
confidence on the eve of invasion. 1 '
In a broadcast from the nazi-controlled ParisS radio, the French
commentator Robert de Beauplan declared jthat as a result
of the allied aerial offensive against commtinications targets,
"the French railway system is inO-
complete chaos."
It waa the fifth anniversary
.of ;tht iaxla snilitary aUiaBce
aad there , was sobriety evea la the
message Hitler seat Musso
lini oa the occasion: T want to
. express f. my unshakable belief
that despite all difficulties that
have to be overcome, at the ead
f this strusgle the trl-partite
- powers will have victory." -
Whatever their motive, the na
sis permitted the French com
mentator de; Betuplan' to draw
this - gloomy picture of inside
France. ;i t ' ' ;
"Frenchmen are blaming the
Germans; for all ths misery which
has descended on France," he ad
ded.' J .v." - . . ;
Here ; la Britala stiU mo
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Big j Changes
Set for Radio
"- ... , - - :
In Proposals
WASHINGTON, May 23 -(ff)
Sweeping changes in the com
munications act, including one to
prohibit f commercial sponsorship
of any news broadcast, were pro
posed to the senate interstate com
merce committee today in a bill
submitted by Chairman Wheeler
(D-Monl) . and Acting Minority
Leader White (Me).
The proposals evoked -a storm
of protest within the closed meet
ing. ;.. I. : . . .
Action on the most controver
sial items. Wheeler told reporters,
was postponed until next Wednes
day to allow time for study of the
bill. f
- Wheeler said the provision to
force networks or stations to stand
the expense of news broadcasts
by commentators and analysts was
broad enough to ban commercial
ly-sponsored factual news broad
casts. .
' Asserting he sponsored this pro
vision, lie told a press conference
he might not oppose modification
of the language to exclude factual
news from its provisions.
Other, proposals embraced In
the 45-page measure would:
. L Prohibit the FCC from refus
Ing new licenses to newspapers
for radio stations. '
r 2. Require networks and radio
stations to grant equal and equi
valent time for opponents to an-
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square at ltd.
west of Formia but
while the area
and battered
(AP Wlrephote
front Signal Corps
Gloomy
SMITH WHTris
an attempt to create allied over-
New,Vulunteers
Needed to Help
At 0PA Office
First call in
several months for
new volunteers
to Serve in any
capacity with the Salem war price
and rationing , board was issued
Tuesday upon the Suggestion of
Judge E. M. Page, chairman of the
board's price paneL I
"A valuable patriotic contribu
tion may be made by persons in
terestedm price control" who are
willing totontxibute $ome time as
volunteers in the price depart
ment, Page said early this week
at a meeting Of thel price panel
where extension of the price con
trol program was discussed.
One of the principal duties to
be performed in the immediate
future by volunteers will be sur
vey work, it wits said Tuesday at
rationing boardt offices. !
Already price surveys of i gro
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Chaplain Jenks j to Be
Memorial Day Speaker
Lt CoL Loren T. Jenks. divi
sion chaplain a Camp1 Adair, will
be Salem's Memorial day speaker,
Glen . Adams, -f chairman of the
general committee for the ob
servance, announced Tuesday
night i
CoL Jenks will deliver the prin
cipal address
at the exercises
2:30 p.m. in the
scheduled for
armory following the parade.'
Texas Bemos Split Over U?BR;
Name Two Sets of
AUSTIN, Tex, Miy 23 -yP)
Texas democrats, split on the
Roosevelt issue, named two sets
of delegates toi the national con
vention tonight, one (pledged to
vote for nomination of the presi
dent for reelection, the other un
instructed. j j -
Amid an uproar the Roosevelt
supporters walked out; of the reg
ular convention after losing two
test votes on Instructing the dele
gation. " j -.
The belting: session. 1 attended
by approximately 409, named a
fan slate ef 81 delegates to the
national convention j and : tt
presidential electors, fthey also
adopted a resolution charging
the regular convention was in
charge ef a group "which will
not support the nominees of the
national convention anless this
faction can force the convention
..to adopt Its pHgraiBL?.WA.j
" The session adjourned.'
Several hours after delegates to
Pries) $e
(L, lark s
At Anzio
Push for
: Veteran Yanks Push Toward
Cisterna While British Head
Directly for Eternal City
By EDWARD KENNEDY . ; ' '
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 23 (AP)
Biassed allied armies on the . Anzio beachhead and on the
main Italian front launched simultaneous offensives today,
touching of f a great battle which may determine the fates
of both Rome and of the German 10th army within the
next few days. " V
Paced by a terrific aerial onslaught which rained thou
sands of bombs on nazi troop concentrations and communi
cations, American and British troops of the Fifth army
flashed out from the beachhead
outskirts of Rome under the per-O-
sonal direction of Lt-Gen. Mark
W. Clark, who had established
field headquarters in the battle
zone. ' H T-
Veteran American infantrymen
struck toward Cisterna in order to
cut . the Germans' principal line
of communication with the main
Italian front,: and British tommies
hit directly toward Rome -
(The Swiss radio reported
that allied troops also were at
tacking at the eastern extrem
ity of the beachhead and had
: reached Lake Dl . Fogliaae,
. soath of XittorU and only : SI
miles from the mabs batUellne
., aear . Terracina.
-v On the main Italian front Brit
ons,' Canadians and Poles of ' the
eighth army at the same time
smashed furiously at t h e main
Hitler line defenses in the Liri
valley, 35 miles east of the
beachhead, and American ' and
French divisions ' battered ahead
on a rugged front extending from
Pico down to Terracina on the
sea.
It waa the greatest allied
striking force yet thrown Into
battle in this war outside the i
Rnssiaa front.
The foe, ; 17 divisions strong,
was known ; to i have been com
mitted to battle by Field Marshal
Gen. Albert ! Kesselring in the
hope of. staving off the disaster
which Gen. Sir Harold Alexander
promised him. x ' I
For the enemy It was the
ahowdowsu The nasis were left
withoat any reserves close at
hand to threw Into the battle,
Keaselrlnr eoald ebtala rein
foreemeBts only by moving new
divisions from far to the north
ever raflreads and highways
already badly battered by al
lied air might . ....
' The final f battle for Borne
might not be long delayed. Newly-prepared
German defense
lines along ; which the allied
command predicted ' the enemy
would make his last stand before
yielding the! eternal city is
roughly only seven miles north of
the beachhead perimeter.
Powerfully reinforced, daring
the past week, aUled men and:
armor oa the beachhead struck
; eat savagely an hear before'
dawn In . the direction of Cis
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the so-called un instructed conven-1
tion wound up their business also
by naming 54 national convention
delegates, and presidential elec
tors who would cast their votes
for the party's nominees but only
if certain conditions are fulfilled
by the Chicago convention. This
delegation goes uninstructed -f
It waa the first time since
1292 , that Texas has had two
rival, irreconcilable democratic
conventions. ,:';:;.i: v' ; ir:. '
The uninstructed convention's
approximately 800 members up
roariously passed a resolution de
claring that . Its presidential elec
tors are not bound to support the
national convention's nominees if
the convention refuses to incor
porate In its platform principles
disapproving efforts "to .nullify
state laws for segregation of white
and nen-o school children, and
the supreme court decision "hold
Ing that Texas is powerless to ex
No. 55
Forces
less than 20 miles from the
Strike
Spreads
Boom Men Walk
Out to Tie Up
Logging Work
PORTLAND, Ore, May 23
(- A tie-up of logging opera
tions in the. Portland area today ,
as a walkout of 19,000 north
west sawmill workers spread to
boom men at four large log
booms on the Willamette river.
-Chester F. Sorenson, ' chair
man of the Pacific Northwest
Loggers' association, said the lack
of boom facilities would cause ah
almost v immediate shutdown -of
logging operations dependent on
the booms. .' - - - - y - : Lf
The Xaftea beem at Linatoa,
Ore, which closed down today,
normally handles aboot W00,
0f feet ef lege dally free I
er 12 eperaters, Sereasoa said. .
Other booms at Illlwaakie;
Ore, and Oswego, Ore, were .
witheat workers today, i
In Portland only one small saw- -mill
was in operation and Doyle -F.
Pearson, assistant secretary oi.
the northwest council of the AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers J
union, said logging camps at Min
eral and Monroe, in Lewis county,
Wash, have ' been closed because
of walkouts. V ;. .".
-: Mills ea the' lower Colombia
continued to operate bat anion
officials described the situation
as "touch and go," both In mills
and logging camps. -; --,
: Meanwhile officials of the west
coast lumber commission, and un
ion leaders studied an announce
ment by the national war labor
board that it did not consider
the dispute cases in the! Pacific
northwest . pine and fir Industry
"rare and unusual cases." It was
on this basis that an appeal waa
made for increased wages and
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Delegates
dude negroes from participating
In party affairs."
What started as eaaeos ef
Xeosevclt demeerats who
j walked eat ea the state eeavee- :
tion. grew late a fall-fledged
eeaveatleaV apea seOest ef Al-
via JT. WIrtx, former oadersee
retary ef the Interior. 1
k Rep.: Lyndon Johnson ' (D-Tex)
friend of President Roosevelt had
urged the caucus not to "go oft
half-cocked,; but to seek to in
duce the convention to declare it
self directly on the " question of
pledging presidential electors A to
vote for the national party's' can
didate But the Wirtx motion ; to
make the caucus a convention waa
overwhelmingly adopted by the
pro-Roosevelt group. ' ; J' j
Former Gov. lames V. All
red, who had beta defeated, by
former Got. ' Darn Moody ; for ;
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