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mm nH ' - ' - r . ' m nn JUL ' n mm By th Associated Press " WASHINGTON, Jan. Presif dent Roo6evelt called on congress today to draft xaanpower for. a speedier victory, and on the Unit ed Nations to put that victory and a real peace ahead of differences over, detaiL '. ,"X"p'V"i''-'"C :' With such a rededication to the main issue, Mr. Roosevelt asserted inh is annual message to congress: f "This New; Year of . 1945 can be the greatest year of achieve? ment in human history. 1 "1945 can see the final ending of the Nazi.Fascist reign of terror In Europe. .1 ' - SQQQDEB : The supreme court of California rendered n decision the other day which, if it becomes controlling, will affect the ! practices of labor unions. The court held that the boilermakers' union which held a closed shop contract for workers for a" shipyard at Sausalito must admit negroes on the same terms as other members or forfeit its closed shop agreement. As has been the case at Portland, neg roes' were"required to J pay union oues dui given no cara oi iuu membership. At Portland an "aux iliary" was formed which the negroes spurned. The California court said: " :- i 'The idea of all union . effort is and .must be the improvement of the social and economic condi tions of those who work. This 'boycott does; not appeal to this 'court as conforming to this stan dard. -' ; "In its last analysis, it is a case of white men opposing color ed men ; the "union may not maintain a ; closed shop and a ' closed union." ' ;. -j , The vital dictum . is this: the union may not maintain a closed shop and a closed union." It has sought to do both, constituting it- ;self a monopoly' in many crafts. This general rule would not only 'open unions to negroes without ' discrimination .but it would end, if generally applied, the monopo listic character of those unions which limit their memberships. The original labor guilds were organizations of craftsmen who sought to control the! skilled labor of certain trades. TWey were ex clusive as clubs. The modern la bor union has retained- quite a little- of that characteristic. It still seeks to control all (Continued on ' editorial page) Deferment of Draft-age Men To Be Scanned Draft boards have been order ed to reclassify all men who vol-; . untarily leave jobs for which they hold deferments, Col. Emier V. Wooten announced Saturday. He also said about 1500 men un der 26 who have farm deferments will receive physical examinations this month. . '-, j ! The state selective service: di rector estimated approximately five per cent of all Oregon "mea who have- received occupational deferments would be reclassified under the new regulation. 'Calls on all states have been Increased because of the urgent need; for more ' fighting men and , tte pool of men under the age of 26 li virtually exhausted; the only major source from which ad ditional men can be obtained is from men over 26," Wooten said. RAF Follows Up U.S. Blow LONDON. Jan. 6-(yP)-A mighty fleet of RAF bombers, following Up. the US Eighth air force's , 14th daylight raid on- German trans port and communications, poured explosives ; tonight on Hanau, an important rail and industrial cen ter lo miles east of Frankfurt , , The official announcement said Hanau was the "main objective," indicating the RAF was making it another night of multiple raids. Accidents Decrease, Fatalities Show Gain; Greater Care Urged For the first 11 months of 1944 there were 27,000 traffic accidents In Oregon as against 27,884 in 1943, Secretary of Siate Robert S. Far rell, jr, reported here Saturday. Fatalities during the 11 months aggregated 215, art increase of three per cent. Farrell said figures on average speeds on the Pacific highway during the month which showed only eight per cent of drivers held speed' "below the 35 mile wartime limit He urged greater observance of this regula tion to prevent accidents and con serve equipment "1945 can see; the closfef in of the forces of retribution a&sbut the center of the malignant power of imperialistic Japan. - "Most important : of ; all 1945 can 'tee the substantial beginning of the organization of world peace '. . . . it must bel the justification of all the sacrifices that have been made.' ; The president carried the same appeal to the people tonight in a nationwide broadcast. " - I Except foe seven paragraphs of new language at the end, the radio speech was a j.yirtual verbatim summary of the message to con- NINETY-FOURTH YEAR rvn Caroline Island j Invaded; Fleet ; Shells Iwo Jiina f i ..... '.':) l .,-.: i i By Moorie; Lands berr , U US PACIFIC S FLEET HEAD-! QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Jan. 6 (1P)-A two-day bag of 331 Japa nese planes and 1 83 ishipsfn car-! rier plane assault on Formosa and Okinawa,! three naval bombard ments extending to within 615 miles of Tokyo and a new island invasion in the -frestern Carolines were reported today by the navy. The warships shelled Iwo Jima in the Volcano islands, Chichi and Haha in the Bonins. i ; Spread Havoc f The. carrier planes, in addition to air and shipping damage spread havoc among railway ship ping stock, fuel, I ammunition and communications on Formosa. A dm. Chester JW. Nimitz issued two communiques today an un usual procedure ,at his headquar ters, emphasizing the accelerated Pacific action. . ! Iwo Hammered i The second communique dis closed the bombardment of Iwo and the latest in: a series of inva sions . in the western Carolines which have bypassed Japan's once formidable fortress of Truk.- , It also reported the 29th straight day of air raids on Iwo, one of the enemy bases which has been sending planes against the Super fortress airfields i on Saipan. I ' The communique followed an other today which reported war ship shellings of Haha and Chichi in ! the Bonin islands.- - 27-Year-Old Makes Break . From Prison .' !- ; y ' 1 : State police .are. on the lookout this morning fori Charles Leland Morrow, 27, alirfsjWdlter C. Bond, who escaped from .the peniten tiary annex here sometime be tween 6 p. m. gnd 8:15 p. m. Saturday., ji ;, '."v" ' " ' ' ' Morrow was described as 6 feet 1 inch tall, weight 163 pounds, with blue eyes and light brown hair and wearing glasses most of the time. He was received from Multnomah county on June 7, 1941, to serve a six-year term' for forgery. 'V:- ; " . : . ' ' : ' police believed that they would apprehend him near fortiana, as he4as friends and relatives -there. Theyalso reported 'that a 7:15 p. yC Saturday- a 1938 Chrysler, license 40555, gunmetal color, was stolen from in front of the home of Ivan G: Martin, 392 South High street, and ; thatf Morrow might have used 'the car to make his getaway. i Byrnes Says iWard's Interferes With War CHICAGO, Jan. 6 -()- James F. Byrnes, war mobilization -director, declared in an affidavit today that Montgomery Ward and Company's conduct "if allowed to continue, will .seriously, interfere with the successful prosecution Of the war." ' z I .!.. " . " CO) 3l S J Formosa Victory Decisive gres, with; bridging language to cover, portions deleted. It followed the same general plan as the longer-vejrsion, with emphasis on fore ign -affairs! V.fi-. . - i ) - Ththerhe'in that field: - " ' "We need the continuing friend ship pi our Allies in this -war. Indeed, that need is a matter of life and death. And we shall need that friendship in the peace." -! . Thi president on the radio quot ed an editorial In the American soldiers' newspaper Stars and Stripes, which said: rjfy-v "For the holy love of God .let's listen to the dead. Let's learn, from 18 PAGES TFffieii HelltcU 1! '' " ' ' " ' " j, ' i . . -Tx y,.-, n l:r :&y--s -.&:? i t '' f.-x "V ' - - . s ::o,v. . ;. . ' . ..j. 'v .... Nv? r- i - " zxzs in -i-- iim-r nil i mill ill i i'n'i Ti ii if til in ilii 'Mwt These remarkable pictures of a Hellcat navy fighter plane, landing ; precariously close to the port side of the ! flight deck of a light car r rier (top) and then cracking up and roinr ever the side (bottom) were made by a nav photographer. Ensi F. C. Myers of Arbuckle, ' Calif, pilot, was NOT hurt (AP wircphoto) Selective Service Orders 1 ! Induction of MeriA Quitting EsseticdJohsWUlioutOK - i - ' y " . WASHINGTON, an. oHTNationki selective service to night ordered the induction of occupationally deferred men, in cluding those below general army physical standards who quit their essential jobs without draft board approval. t Designed to halt f job-skipping" once a deferment has been obtained,' the order makes live million ; men aged 18 through British Rai For Mandalay l ' '-i - :. . ri f By John Grover . CALCUTTA,' Jan. 6-)-British troops , were iiv-a three-way race for Mandalay topight as the an nual j "little monsopn"i broke : in central Burma,: with forward units only about 55 miles from the Ir rawaddy river ( city. 5 .. ; -.-'.-; .: t ! . Two of . the three . spearheads, moving in a generally southeast- erly direction through the Shwebo district," are' finding 1 no enemy troops in - their path to the first city of central . Burma. The third column was meeting stiff Japa nese rearguard resistance, spokes men -here at Allied land-forces headquarters said. ' ,r -" . if;';. i - : . Chiang Says Qiina Will Meet Responsihilities J By the Associated Press l Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, addressing a- dinner in honor of 70 allied officers in Chungking, declared that although China has been at war longer than the oth er allied nations, "she does " hot for a moment think of avoiding ! her - responsibilities, the Chung king radio reported yesterday. the living. Let's join ranks against the foe.1- The; bugles of "battle are heard again above the bickering." , Mr. Roosevelt then declared? "That ; is , the demand of our fighting men. We' can not fail to heed it," . --. , r ' ' One of his new paragraphs came -after a - repetition of .the message saying provision must be fcnade for close to 60,000,000 jobs. T This Was reminder that while the nation must plan how for its postwar I economy and "jet up re conversion agencies t is obvious ly impossible for us to do any thing which might possibly hinder Salem, Orecon, Cracked Up 37 subject to military duty under selective service calls "drastically lower" physical standards. , Special 'Quotas , The army Will fix special draft quotas' for this group, and such inductees will he assigned to other than regular army duties. The army did not - divulge ; the lower standards nor the proposed size of the special draft calls, j Men who left the jobs for which they were deferred and took less essential i work : were ordered re classified recently but the new action plugs 'a loophole by cover ing those .registrants whose physi cal impairment gave the govern ment no jhold' over them, i ? Men Covered " . . ' ' ' Thus Ithe new regulation covers men classed as 2-AL, and 2-BL, who would be eligible for limited service If not deferred, and 2-AF and 2-BF, who would be classed 4-F if not deferred, in, addition to those listed as 2-A and 2-B (en gaged in essential work or direct war production). . ' It does not apply to registrants who left their employment prior to Dec. 12, 1944." ; Light Showers Occasionally today in the mid -'Willamette valley area, predicts 17. S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. ? lagged! the. production for war1 -at tune, when, our men are . fighting on the frontiers of Germany and dropping bombs on the war in dustries of Japan." i . " The Allies now have the form' ula for victory and peace, the president . told the ,79th congress in an 8000-word message, and in tend Jo achieve it regardless of any differences now over details. " To do it however, the, president asserted, the .'American people must amass ;a great, final effort. He proposed: '.'' -. - ,. - 1. National service .legislation under which everyone- could be Sunday Morning. Jcmuary 7 1945 L Decks All Clear For Session i ' C - t. 43rd Legislature Opens IVIonday; ' Members, Arrive Already potentially . organized, the Oregon senate and house of representauves will convene in 43rd biennial session tomorrow with but few preliminaries block ing the way to immediate consid eration of state business. Most of the 90 legislators were arriving In Salem today, and oth ers Mil be here by the time cau cuses "open in the Marion hotel to night for final pre-session actions regarding selection ; of ' the . presi dent of the senate, speaker of the house, and officers for both bodies. Selection Assored ; ' .j , !j " jNo obstacles appeared in the way! of approval of Sen. i Howard C. Belton of , Canby for senate president unlike the session two years ago when W. ' H. St eiwer -of Fossil , and Dorothy McCullough Lee "of Portland were deadlocked with 15 votes each until the; 44th official ballot when, the latter re leased her pledges to Steiwer who wasSelected 29 to 1. ',' -Rep. Eugene Marsh of McMinni ville also held sufficient promises to assure his election as speaker of the house, to succeed William H. McAllister of Medford ' who went into the army.' ; j The formal election will be at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, and the ad dress: of ; Gov. Earl Snell will be given in the house probably at 2 p.m. ' - ' V . it was understood that Senator Belton and Representative Marsh already had decided their major committee appointments. Bills Already la jl'- Neither has made known hjs se lections but the bets were better than even that Marsh would break through party lines to name. Rep. Henry , Semon of Klamath Falls, democrat, chairmarv-of the house ways and means group. Rep.l jH. R." of Salem remained a potent possibility, however, " Carl Erig dahl, now a senator,, was chair man in 1943.- 1 : , - . Belton: reportedly was planning to retain Sen. Angus j Gibson!; of Junction City as chairman of the senate ways and means committed- : : i?" ' 1 Many (bills already have been turned over to the, attorney gen eral's office for final drafting, and some sources have estimated theJ number to be introduced would total, around -1000 before the ses sion ends. .:"-' S i . iiCj'U (Another story on page 14). cts Prospe Gloomy Fair; Bah oh Racing to Hurt: PORTLAND, , Jan, 6.-)-Dates for thestates fairs Jn 1945 were set by the Oregon fairs association here today at a meeting in. which loss of revenue due to the federal ban on dog and horse racing was studied. ' Prima ry poiht was that -the county fair ; boards will lose a large share of the state racing tax from which each county received more than $6000 in 1944. New forms of entertainment to-substitute for racing at the fairs them selves were considered. ' , : .1 ' State agriculture director W. L. Peterson spoke gloomily, of the prospects of holding the Oregon state fair in Salem, stating, "no one can say, but unless there! are more compelling reasons than those currently offered, there will not be one " . . ,:U-Pl H. H. Chindgren, Molalla was re-elected president ; for the 17th time. Other officers included L. required to do ; useful work or fight for his country. 1 1 , i -i 2. r immediate action by con gress to guarantee that every per son rejected for ; military service is utilized in the war effort in some way the-nation's 4,000,000 ..fM'k-:: j I ': 3. Compulsory draft of nurses for the, armed forces which need 20,000 more now..; ' ",. The president for the first time committed , this nation to an '. ac tive role in I. European politics promising the use df Its Influence to back up the principles of the '.Atlantic charter, for the achieve- Bong's Girl - " mL4t Marjorie Vattendahl (above), who had planned to wed MaJ. Rich- .. ard I. , Bong, top-ranking army combat ace, In February, said v 'further plans for the wedding await Major Bong's i return to Superior, Wis her home. Bong lives In Poplar, Wis. (AP wire , photo) 7-1- Reds Repulse Gigantic Nazi ! By Rkhard Kaaischke . LONDON, Sunday, j. Jan. -JP) The red army repulsed gigantic, German counterattacks northwest and west of Budapest yesterday in violent fighting that often was hand-to-hand,- the oviet com munique announced, j while an other 173 square blocks of the Hungarian capital itself fell to the Russians. " - j 4 ..t Enemy accounts contended the German drive had reached within 17 miles of embattled! Budapest at two. points., .i ;;f j " ' While a soviet miiiiary com mentator said these efforts to re lieve.' the ' city had f'failed' "an early" morning supplement to the regular nightly Moscowi commun ique indicated , the ! tremendous battle still was in prpgress after fivedays and said the' enemy was in numerically superior forcel ; In A one - sector on the ; south bank, of the Danube river north west of Budapest, ; the(. Germans attacked early yesterday' morning with an Elite guard armored di vision, two infantry Tdi visions and parachutists, the supplement said. In a five-hour battle; the enemy i suffered 'remendous loesses and had ; to turn : back,'.but renewed the battle later. - f 'i- H. Pear ce. Myrtle Point; vice pres ident;' Mrs. Mabel H. Chadwick, Eugene, secretary-treasurer, ' and Mrs. Willard Herman,! Harrisburg, to the board of directors. Although many boards were not sure fairs would be held, the fol lowing dates were set; Lincoln, August 29-30; Wasco, September 22-23 ; Jackson;-" Sep. tember 2528; Coos,? September 1-3; Hood River, August 25; Lane and Union, no date; Columbia, August 24-25f Multnomah, Aug ust 20-26; Pacific International livestock show, October 10-12; Washington, August 30-September 1; Pendleton roundup September 13-15; Grant, September 20-22; Clackamas, September 28-29; Till amook, August 15-18:t Polkl ho -date; ; Marion, ; September 15-16; Linn, September 6-7: Deschutes, September. 20-22; Marion county I fat lamb show and state dog trials I at Turner. June 20. am - 1;: i . i. Counterattack ment "of a! "people's peace.,, I While Inveigning against 'pow er politics in settlement of world problems, he was critical of any attitude of "perfectionism" in this country, which might lead to "Hso lationism" and keep this country from taking its full place in the affairs of ;"an admittedly imper fect world." ; t' t . . Be asserted that . the 1 United States will stand together with the United Nations through full vic tory and the erection of a peace structure; -j'K'.- ;.r;t:-:-T -j" He admitted concern over vari- pur interallied . questions, notably Price Allies Less TOM Half Mile Frpm Nazi Supply Line German Strasbourg Spearhead . Reduced by Seventh Attacks; . Third Breaks Up Enemy Blow By EDWARD KENNEDY ; PARIS, Sunday, Jan. 7 -(AP)- American,troops of. Field Marshal Montgomery's allied offensive against 4h northern flank of the Germans Belgian bulge yesterday: captured Fraiture, less than one-half mile from an important enemy supply route. r Other US units advanced almost, one mile and a half in a new attack launched south of Stavelot. -' j: British forces pressed their main drive between March and Hotton at the western end of tbe northern flank al though enemy tanks, at the risk of disaster, pushed them back nearly a mile at Bure, 10 miles southwest of Marche, 1 To tte 'southeast, field reports Said the German spearhead north f Strasbourg not only was con tained but had been reduced-by TJS Seventh army attacks. The Germans - who had crossed the Rhine north of the Alsatian capi tal were being hemmed back into a narrow sneii along tne west bank of the river. Nazis Pushed Back - Doughboys of the Seventh com pressed the nazis into the town of Gambsheim, nine miles north of Strasbourg. Other Germans were cleared ' from, villages they had seized in driving 15 miles west ward, from the Rhine. In. blunting the drive, the Seventh cleared the Germans from , Rohrwiuer and Herrlisheim in the interior as well as. from Off endorf and Stattmat ten along the Rhine bank. I The r American First army, in the new drive on tiie northern flank of the Germans Belgian bulge, was paced by the 82nd air bourne division,- which jumped off this morning and drove down the west bank of the.Salm river southwest of Stavelot The 30th infantry, pushed south on the 82nd's west flank against . slight opposition. A . few miles . west heavy fighting raged inside Lier- neux, two miles from, one of the Germans' two , lateral supply routes. - ' . Assault Broken ' ' In the Bastogne area, the UJ5. Third army broke up an .attempt ed Xlerman counterattack by ar- Ijllery ' fire,' The : Third ; earlier made a two-mile gain in North Luxembourg east of Bastogne.-- '. i .. ..,(. ... ... .... . . 4. Supreme, headquarters" an nounced, that the. Germans . had lost at least 100,000 soldiers killed, wounded recaptured since they launched their offensive Decem ber 16, and said that allied losses 4- mostly "American were ; no where near as heavy.-'-''". --i I At least 685 of. the 800 tanks with " which rth Germans drove into Belgium and Luxembourg have been knocked out and 22,000 prisoners"; have' been ic captured, headquarters said. ; i - r i Roof WwAened'CVjp I Field Marshal Karl yon Rund- stedVt bold shift or armor into the . deepest recesses of hisBel- gian - positions apparently - weak ened the roof, for front I dispatches said the U.S. First army struck soft spots among the hard cores of ' resistance on the north ' and made gains of more than a mile, j While von Rundstedt was driv ing the British from Bure, five miles south of Rochefort, the U.S. Third armored divisionone . of the authors of the St Lo break through-i-pounded up to a cross roads near. Fraiture,' 25 m 1 1 e s northeast of Bure. Fraiture Is only a halt-mile from ihe" northernmost of. two main east-west highways on which the Germans must rely for the bulk of their reinforcements and sup- piy, - - - in Poland and Greece, but assert ed that the. magnitude of such dis agreements had been exaggerated. Many of the reports about such differences,, he said, bear a "mad in Germany" label. , r K ..." , Any. one who avoids an essen--tial .war job now" Is costing ts lives of soldiers, the president said.k; Serious, manpower short ages. are hampering output of ax tillery, ammunition, ' cotton ' duck, , bombs, tires, tanks, heavy trucks and. even B-29s, for the army; bombardment, ammunition jptA rockets for the navy he added. 5c No. 251 rn UJ 1 Than r - i -7 Yank Bombers Continue Blows Against Luzon j GENERAL: MacARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Sunday, .-Jan.' t-(JP)-Mi t c h e 1 1 bombers ; and fighter bomber continued their f strikes against southern Luzon, main Philippine island, January 4 and 5, General Douglas MacArthur announced today. - ' "..'''' A locomotive and 100 freight . cars were destroyed- and, three , railroad bridges torn down or damaged. Liberators blasted the airdrome on Palawan island southwest of American held Mindoro island with 93 tons of bombs. . The bombing of Luzon has con tinued with little letup since tha Americans "landed on Mindoro, 150 miles from Manila, December 15, suggesting preparations far an even more direct . attack on the concentrated Japanese , strength there. Income Tax Blanks Are Placed in Mail 1 First of the 400,000 state income tax blanks for 1945 were placed in :the mails here Saturday. They are returnable ori or before Aprtt 15 and cover incomes for the year 1944. It took 10 tons of paper to produce the blanks. A - r- i " r Complete and comprehen sive coverage of the 43rd session 'of the state legisla ture will be provided by The Oregon Statesman. " w h i c h has retained special facili ties both -in the senate and the house! " ; ; Y Handling legislative news will be Managing Editor Wendell Webb and City Edi tor. Isabel Childs, as well as other staff members 'of The Statesman, and their reports will be augmented daily by he full coverage of The As sociated Press. ' , . But despite tfie additional legislative "work,; there will be no slighting of. world, na tional and local coverage in news and pictures which is making The Statesman pre-eminent in Its field. "The L World at Your Door Each Morning"