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The interim committee appoint
ed in 1943 to study problems of
fisheries his presented its report
which sets! forth the difficult sit
uation in which the state fish com
mission finds itself. Dependent cm
license income and poundage fees,
Its revenues, like the fortunes of
the ciamiiigger, rise and fall with
the tides of the ocean, or more
accurately with the rise or de
cline of the fishing. Lately the in-
ome has been declining because
of the falling off in number of
' fish caught. So acute was the dia
tress of the fish commission last
summer that It had to come hat-in-hand
to the emergency board
where it was allotted $20,000 to
tide it over the biennium, !
The interim committee com-
- plains of two things, first the
- 'state tithing law which takes an-
- nually over $10,000 from its reve
nues for the general fund; second,
apportionment of money from its
funds to the state police which
. does the work of policing in the
' commercial fishing industry. This
sum amounts to between $15,000
and $20,000 a year.
' The recommendations of the
committee are that the legislative
assembly either make a supple
mental ' appropriation to bolster
the commission's finances or else
; take all its income into the gen
eral fund and then make the di
rect appropriation of an amount
adequate for the commission's
needs. The report cites that back
in 1919-1920 the legislature made
an appropriation of $101,000 for
the fisheries work, and the next
biennium $222,800, so that direct
appropriations are not without a
precedent
- . The legislature faces this dif
ficulty, however; if it lets
- i (Continued on editorial page)
6.
Nagoya
Iwo Jimalsle
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-i?V
SuperfoTtresses attacked military
installations on the Japanese, is
land, of Iwo Jima today. ; '
An island in the volcano group,
Iwo Jima is about midway, be
tween the Marianas bases of the
3 1st bomber command and Japan.
From its air strips the Japanese
frequently send, fighting to Inter-,
cept Japan-bound B-29s.
Today's raid reflected the step-ped-up
tempo of 21st bomber
command operations; following on
the heels of yesterday's attack on
' factories at Nagoya. Some 100 B
29s in four formations encountered
fierce Japanese air resistance. In
hitting the Japanese home island
of. Honshu one Superfort was lost.
Today's strike was the sixth
heavy blow by Superforts from
Marianas bases since Jan.' 1.
The raid came as American
planes continued their attacks on
Japanese lines of communication
- to the Philippines and as thecom
. mander of strategic air forces in
the Pacific ocean army said.
Letter Asks
More Pay for
State's Staff
A sum of $3,599,520 should be
appropriated to allow adding "sub
cistance pay" ; ($20 -monthly for
those receiving under $250, $10
ior those receiving more) to the
stipend of 8082 employes of, the
state of : Oregon, the j joint ways
and means committee was inform
ed; Tuesday.
. TfeA ciiffimctinn ramp in a 1ttr
from the Americaa. federation of
ployees signed by Walter W: Whit
beck, special representative, which
. pointed to similar pay arrange
ments in Portland and said state
workers now "are not able to
maintain the standard of living
they are entitled to."
The letter said 4711 state em-
plqyes received less than $168.87
jnonthly, 2203 from S166.B7 to SZ50
and 1166 over 1250, and added
the state- is in excellent shape
financially and can make this
ppropriation. s. , v I ment shortages.
House Defeats Jte-PoUs BiU;
Patterson Heads Liquor Probe
i The polls in Oregon will con
tinue to close at 8 pjn. (not 10),
there will be no blanket mailing
Of sample ballots, and barring fur
ther action the pay of election
Judges will remain at $3 per day.
, So much had been decided by
the 43rd legislature today, as both
Senate and house appeared to be
twinging Into high gear- on the
1 7th day of the session. "
: But Tuesday's development left
lot of things that still must be
determined.
One of the latter is the dispen
sation of house Joint memorial 1,
fcv Rep. Warren Erwin, calling on
congress for immediate enactment
nf a limited national service act.
The -resolutions committee Tues-
KcirrY-rounTn year
Big Gains
Piled Up
ByArmies
Nazis Draw: Back
I At Many Points,
As Pressure Rises
By Austin Bealiqear -PARIS,
JanJ 23-()-The Amerl
can First and Third armies and
the Ninth air force delivered a
knockout blow to the last Ger
man defenders of the Ardennes
today when the doughboys closed
to within four miles of the reich
frontier with gains up to five
miles on a 30-mile front and. the
airmen destroyed or damaged
nearly 2000 fleeing enemy ve
hicles. '.!'';
St Vith, eastern Belgian high
way; center and last major bastion
in the once-dangerous bulge, fell
to units of the -First army at 5:45
pjn.; after an all-day fight, ac
cording tp a Ifrontline dispatch
from. Associated Press Correspon
dent Edward -D, Ball. - !
As i the - two-American j armies
swept in' behind the retreating
Germans, thrusting to about five
miles from, .the' border all along
the line, "Ninth air farce fighter
bombers carried -their annihila
tion of the enemy through.'! secj
Ond day and were joined by In
vader and Havoc bombers which
were used in this, theatre for the
first time as deck-level strafing
planes. ; ,
Cons Rain Town
. The recapture of St. Vith came
one month and two days after the
Americans were pushed out by
'a 1 . 1 : X
the Germans December counter-
vne Germans jjeeanoer .rounier-
offensive. Ball said the town had
been beaten into an almost, un
recognizable pulp by American
artillery and planes.
At the northern end of the front
the British Second army gained
two miles on a six-mile arc to
rw-irvf mnr than uvpn milM in-
side the German frontier. South
ward the American Third army
made gains up to two miles along
a 20-mile front against stiffening
resistance in the lower portion of
the Belgian bulge.
Airmen on Rampage
With the last German defend
ers of the Ardennes still attempt
ing to run the flaming gantlet to
the Rhineland, American airmen
carried the battle of annihilation
to a dramatic pitch.
In two days the ninth airforce
has destroyed or damaged 4708
motor vehicles and 207 . tanks and
armored vehicles nearly enough
material to equip an entire panzer
army as well as r 1573 railroad
cars and such targets as gun posi
Hons and fortified buildings, r
Lumber Output
I Lower in 1944
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 -(ff)-
Lumber production in the first 11
months of 1944 fen 5.1 per cent!
below the corresponding period of
1943, the war production board
reported today.
November production totaled
2,467,873,000 board feet. 17.2 be-
low November, 1943, bringing 11-
month - production to 30,334,985,-
1 000.
The agency attributed the drop
in "output to manpower and equip-
day reported it out without rec
ommendation, after a public hear-
ing. -'."r:.
.The later-polls and ballot-mail
ing measures were defeated in the
house Tuesday and the proposed
raise in election judges pay went
down in the senate albeit there
was a loophole left for revival of
the latter Issue. " f 5
The state's five-man committee
to investigate the liquor business
held - an organizational meeting
Tuesday, chose Sen. Paul Patter
son as its chairman and decided
it would go its own way in so far
as the companion probe in Wash-
.
ington waa concerned. v ,f r
(Legisuvve news pg
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A
j i .
ftlaj.ll Gen. Oscar W. Grlswold
(above) commands the 14th
corps j which Is leadlnr the
American drive on Manila, ac
cording to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. The corps includes the
17th, 40th U. S. divisions. AP
wirepboto) -
New Clothing
' 1 1 : ' II' ! 0
Controls to '
1 rim r rices. ,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23
Moving to plug "the most serious
break in 'price control," the gov
ernment today laid down ,a broad
program to slash essential clothing
costs about seven per jcent While
w" ."'f f"
boosting production.
The program imposes drastic re
strictions Ion the garment Indus
try from mill to retailer setting vp
controls to force a "high propor
tiOn" of all fabric production into
low and medium-priced clothing.
will be sharp-
I I " f
J. A. Krug, war production
board bhairman, and price admin
istrator Chester Bowie, disclosed
that about 75 per cent iof total (Ci
vilian! cloth will be earmarked for
essential needs. . J j -' il v
The plan will mean, a j greater
supply of Inexpensive garments on
store shelves by late spring. J
Bowles said that during the last
18 months retail clothing prices
have risen 11 per cent, hile over
all living costs have climbed only
one per cent .
- !
Leads Drive
Threaten Germany From East and West
1 ; - ii '.
Cy Mf. Os, iir iA j) "
mJT i.trr lnldtmi i iVi mini-
Arrews Indicate major action en the European battlefronts (heavy lines). On the east, Eerlla saiJ, the
EnssLuu are fishtlag In Poznan. On the west Americas tank patrols entered StiTith. Shaded ares
M .k-L iArfai In tha winter effeastre launched Jan. 12. Shaded
1 M thm WMtt frnt
I ' .
i men, German defense barriers, are lined. (APwIrephotaj
Salem. Orsxjoo. Yednesdcrr Morning, January 24,
UV7LI
into yaps
OnBataaii
U.S. 14th Corps
Finds Evidence
Of Deatjb March
By C. Tatei McDanlel
GENERAL MAC 1 ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Wed
nesday,: Jan. 24J-WVMaJ. Gen.
Oscar W. Griswold's ; 14th corps,
driving; toward bi Clark field on
the road to Manila, broadened
and slightly deepened its forward
wedge Tuesday while MaJ. Gen.
Innis P. Swiff s Ifirst corps ex
tended the left flank eastward,
seizing a huge store of .Japanese
supplies.' - '
While planes ripped into Japa
nese positions at Battan, of grim
memory to all Americans, Gris
wold's corps swung nine miles
west of captured Garas to overrun
Camp O'Donnell where American
End Filipino prisoners were sep
arated during the death march
from Bataan.
Associated Press Correspondent
Russell Brines counted the graves
of at least 4,000 Filipinos and "sev
eral scores' of Americans a.t Camp
O'Donnell,, burned and abandon
ed by the Japanese, who "had at
tempted to obliterate all evidence
of their infamous rule by destroy'
ing prisoners' barracks . "
Press Close to Goal ... . - - -. t
The 14th, which is a litue over
50 airline miles from Manila and
about 10 miles frdm Clark field,
scored its advance in a five mile
swing southwest from Santa Mon
ica to captured Conception.
The rampant airforce, underlin
ing the growing role of land-based
planes an Luzon, riot only ripped
enemy communications and roads
of retreat on the island but also
ranged to Formosa! and the Ryu
kyu islands targets which until
recently have been; the exclusive
assignments of carrier - based
planes and long range Superfort
resses. I I
On Mac Arthur's hard - pressed
left flank the Americans were
continuing to neutralize enemy
defenses; in the vicinity ' of Ros
ario, south of the summer capital
of the Philippines
at Baguio.
. (George Thomas
Folster, NBC
correspondent on Llizon, said the
Japanese are applying the torch
everywhere like a 1 "disorganized.
bewildered army in fretreat and it
is quite possible th same fate Is
in -store for Manila; itself).
.niHi r.i in redaction of the
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1 . ' 6 ' : "
n . n 1 nnn i
nnn Hi-
UUU OVi uu
Yanks'Eip
n
Krakow Intact
As Nazis" Leave
In Great Haste
t . .
I , By the Associated Press
German! troops wee forced out
of Krakow so suddenly they
acked time to carry out their I
plans of destruction and, as a re-
suit, the
Polish city suffered
"little deituctlon, the soviet-1
sponsored Polish provisional gov
ernment declared in a broadcast
from Moscow last night. "
1
gress
as
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 - VP) -
Congress eyed Japanese Islands in
11. W l - ! 1 t M- A UL 1 '
us racuic tonigm wiui me possi
bility they may be taken over per
manently by the United States as
outer defense bastions. :
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of
house naval affairs committee, ap
pointed a even-member subcom
mittee to 6tudy the Japanese man
dated islands and said: . i
"Everybody recognizes that
we'ye got to have a defense ring
beyond Pearl Harbor which, in
the past, has been the advance de
fense base of the United States
mainland."; , ; - ;
j I The committee -will study the
armament, jlocation and resources
of ill Japanese mandated islands,
said Vinsonl to see what relation
and. bearing these mandated Is
lands will have on the future de-
out Less. . i . . - .... 1
Chairmari Drewry (D-Va)
of
's
the subcommittee said representa
tives .of the navy, war and state
departments will participate ' in
the. committee's deliberations.
"We are going into the whole
serine nf th Jarumpse islanrl in
the, South pacific first,' he said,
we wili .determine wnetner it wui
be worthwhile to fortify the is
lands, whether all or part of them
will be of use to the navy after j
the war.
More Beef but Less
Other Meats Predicted
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 22.-VP)-George
M. Lewis of Chicago, rep
resentative of the American meat
institute, said today that civilians
might expect 'eight per cent more
beef, four per cent less veal, 13
per cent less! lamb and 18 per cent
less pork this year than last.
1 Estimates j were . based on , de
creased production and large gov
ernment requirements. '
German salient Rhine and Oier
, .1 i i
Eyes
Jap
Isles
1S45
jw L'-Av LnJ
Work Act
Will Go
H
Oil 6
Suggestion "Is
, Declined in La
or Draft Plan
A proposal to request immedi
ate congressional enactment or a
1 . !
! I
limited national service act (so- ward Berlin, now reported but 137 miles away, in the vicin
called labor draft) was shunted to ity of Poznan. T '
reprSaeSa ? - The tremendous Weep of the soviet winter offensive,5
The house resolutions committee now in Its 13th day on a front of more than 600 miles, was
late Tuesiay voted to report out heralded by Premier Stalin in four orders of the day and
Rep.' Warren ' Erwin's . memorial
(HJM IX without recommenda
tion. -.r v-;v-r
The action followed, an hour
long public hearing at which J, T.
Marr of the Oregon State federa
tion of labor; Stanley Earl, secre
tary of the state CIO, and John
Brost, I nationalj representative of
the CIO, opposed the memorial on
the grounds it ; was unnecessary
and would not increase produc-
Ill Ho': .j i'V.
'Bad Guess' Charged ,
Marr said the current agitation
for a service act arose in part "be-
1
cause some neonle in hieh'com-la
mand have made some bad guess
es" 'and "we've had reverses,' and
that the "vast majority of busi
ness opposed dutotorship.? U
Eaxl ; contended the service : act
would violate the 13th amendment
barring Involuntary aervitude.
" tt" r
atTM "nurilv Wa1. and inid the
committee the ATL and CIO
fhave 4.000.00 "out -there taking
turn with a rifle." J
All three labor leaders Indicat-
ed a belief President Roosevelt
mietairen iih hi vnrAori
opinion r thatsa service, act was
needed,
The hearing was opened by Er
win's presentation - In which he
cited, as proof of need, high mili
tary leaders', urgent pleas for a
national service act. He commend
ed, 'however, "the wonderful rec
ord of peace and harmony be
tween : capital and labor in this
state. , , ; - :'pi K-:- "I "
. ane represeniauve aiso saia ne
had been receiving wires "all
J da", protesting the memorial, and
I eorhmented It was "very peculiar
that all ; such . messages- should
come from labor. -.'
Earl said "labor represents : 80
per cent of the American people."
At the executive session, a mo
tion to recommend "do not pass"
was withdrawn after Erwin de
clared he would not submit a mi
nority report. , ;:'''- 1 .
The proposal to report without
recommendation, on suggestion of
Reps. John Steelhammer and Pat
Lonergan, i passed ,
unanimously
when Chairman H. B. Chindgren
asked for a showing of hands.
jieavy, Diow 10
Rainbow Division,
Nazis broadcast t
I ' . t -
1 w . 1 t i. .
UKjnuxjn, jan. w-ift7-xne
uerman raaio Droaacast a ais-
paten tonight from uuenther we-
-. k . . -
oer, ransocean news agency
correspondent, hjui( me dizi
counterattack in Alsace was near-
ing Its climax - and reporting bit
ter fighting In r Haguenau. forest,
where Weber asserted the Ame-i
rican Rainbow division "suffered
one of its heaviest blows. .
Specialists Needed .
lor Army Service -
FORT 1 LEWIS, Jan, 23.-V-
That there is a critical shortage of
highly trained and skilled, special
ists in the army was revealed to
day! at ! this army service forces
training center by a war depart-
men memorandum. .
In addition to the urgent need
for, registered nurses, others need
ed are qualified aerial photogra
ph r a, telephone repeatermen,
topographic draftsmen, psychiatric
social workers, tabulating machine
repairmen, optometrists and oth
ers.
Clear Today
except for local valley fog.
Partly- cloudy in the afternoon,
In the mid-WiUamelte valley
area, predicts ' U. S. weather
bureau at McNary Field, Sa
lem. ...
Prlc Se
Invaders
East Prussia Trap
Tremendous Winter Offensive
Engulfs 1500 German Towns " t ,
By W. W. HercTier "
LONDON, Wednesday, Jan. j 24. (AP)The Russian!
Fir8t army reached the Oder river in German Silesia
in overwhelming strength on a 37 Yt-mae front yesterday
and confidently prepared to leap that Taunted defense baft
rier into the heart of the reich as other red armies camtf
within 22 miles of closing the war's greatest trap on all of.
East Prussia. y-- - I - '"'fv" 'i'.
Between those two theatres of victorious action, still an .
other red army slogged westward over the Polish plains
at a somewhat slower paee on the most direct road to-
Nazi Refugees
Swarm Back
LONDON, Jan. 23.-)-Hordes
of German refugees streamed out
of Poland ! and eastern Germany
today as Berlin admitted the Rus-
- 2 .till t
ukcij
was largely un
checked and Hitler sped Heinrich
Himmler and other-"iron willed'
leaders to the critical eastern front
with orders to "make and execute
drastic decisions,
: Not all got away, for at least
200,000 German civilians were re
by the Russians in Lods alone.
Reporting toe mass movement
toward the reich before onrushing
armies neimut ounaermann,
deputy reichi- press chief, said in
article entiUeda report
the barricades of the reich.
"On
"We view the present situation
with the realistic seriousness that
is called- for in these decisive
hours and we know that these
hours will tell whether we are to
eo down in a red inferno or em
erge from the ordeal to a greater
future. 1
Frontline Men
m . -w
XQ IrCt LiCaVCS
In Britain Soon
- PARIS, Jan. 23 rJPf- American
troops battling on . the western
front will be given one-week fur
loughs in' Britain beginning In
March, perhaps sooner, European
theater headquarters - announced
today. "
The week's leave will be exclu
sive of travel time. The maximum
number that .would be away from
the continent at one time will ap-
proximate 5000, according to the
I announcement
CaU f or Nurses
Brings in 8236
Washington, Jan. 23.-
I an M MS W I t""
1 Kea Lross uiairman bmu w
aM tndav 838 nurses an.
fn- mornc in th trmt nrt
I VV vrs -
nurse corps in the two-week
1 u-riod endina January 23,
It was the largest number for
any like period since the war
started.' -
Combat
School Insurance Coverage
Here Increased by $235,000
, Salem - school directors voted
Tuesday night to Increase Insur
ance coverage - on ; the system's
plants, .to relax somewhat its pol
icy on tuition, grant-more money
for transportation of the district's
pupils and adjust pay schedules
for two teachers required to travel
between schools. .
The resignation of Mrs. Henry
Otto, -teacher in Washington, grade
school who has found it difficult
to obtain help to care i for her
child, was -accepted Mrs. Vern
Suko, who has been on leave, will
return when the new semester
opens next week to replace . Mrs.
Otto. N '-
An addition of approximately
$235,000 in fire Insurance, which
will cost the district approxi
mately $400 a year and wDl bring
coverage up to meet rising values.
Burglary insurance coverage was
also broadened at an additional
(Q)Q)1a
Closing
by the midnight Moscow commun
ique broadcast. The Russian of
tensive in a single day had cap
tured more than 3,350 commun
ities, 1,500 of , them inside Ger
many.
-1
While Moscow's overworked sa
luting guns boomed out their fa
miliar salvos of celebration, there
was but one small flaw in the oth
erwise unbroken record of tri
umph: the Moscow communique
disclosed that, the stubbornly
counterattacking Germans in ,
western Hungary had recaptured
Szekesfehryar, 30 miles' south
west" of Budapest Despite the gi
gantic rout of their forces in Po-
and, Silesia and East Prussia, the
nazis managed ' to muster "large
forces" rt tanks and infantry foe .
the Hungarian drive, Moscow dls
closed. - 1" r - . t , . ,
Nisi Peril Grwa ;
What the Germans hoped to ac
complish in Hungary was obscure,
for both Nazi and . Russian : ac
counts .agreed that the peril to in
vaded Germany was growing more
deadly with each passing moment"
Premier Stalin, announcing the
great thrust by Marshal Ivan S.
Konev's First Ukraine army group
to the Oder, placed the location
in the area of Breslau, capital and
key city of lower (northern) ' Si
lesia. The Moscow communique
named towns captured along the
eastern bluffs of the river along a
19-mile front southeast of Bres
lau, between Ohiau and'Oppelin,
but gave no clue to where the re
mainder of the 37 -mile river
frontage lay.
The nearest ; announced ap
proach to Breslau was at Ellguth,
13 miles east
. More than 200 German towns in
Silesia fell to Konev's men. They
included Namslau, 28 miles east
of Breslau: Bernstadt 19 miles
east; and Karlsmart, 30 miles east
Nearing Baltic Port
The Soviet victories in cast
Prussia, of great immediate por
tent were hailed by Stalin In two
orders of the day. One announced
that Marshal Constantin K. Ro-
kossovsky's Second White Russian
army had captured Saafeld, 22
miles south of the Baltic port of
Elbing, along with more than 600
other German communities.
Almost immediately Stalin in
another order . announced that
Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky's Third
White Russian army, which is in
vading East Prussia from the east
and northeast had seized : the
towns of Labiau and Wehlau, 27
and 32 miles from Knnigsberg,
capital of the province. Alto-:
aether in the day's operations
Cherniakhovsky's . forces ' took
more than 700 German towns and
villages,:' ..; I '
premium cost of approximately
$200 a year, hut following discus
sion of depreciation insurance and ,
public liability insurance plans,
both were rejected. . . "
Under the relaxed tuition policy
a child whose parents have had
an established home in the dist
rict but during the school year
have moved outside may continue -in
the system for the balance of
the year without payment of tui
tion. '-V-- vf';?
On the' transporation commit
tee's recommendation, the board
voted to allow the request of the
McLean Transportation company
for an additional $1 a year per
pupil, bringing the yearly fee per
pupil to $27. The library depart
ment head and the head of the
boys' physical education depart
ment were reclassified as super
visors and given traveling allow
ances. ;" ' . " '