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1 , PAGE TWO eKiug Presses For Controls On Manpower WASHINQTON, Feb. The administration, in the face of growing coolness on Capitol Bill, renewed tonight Its argument tor "adequate;, legislation", on man- power controls. i The new, demand came through Chairman J. A. Krug of the war production board fwho asserted . that "we are not meeting require ment (in war production) be cause we are running short of manpower." We must have adequate legis i, lation on manpower co n t r o 1 so I that men will wo)c where they i can do the most fgood in win- ning the war," he laid. ' !: Even aa Krug spfke, it appear ed that smashing allied blows at Germany and Japan had definite ly dimmed possibly extinguished , the possibility th congress will approve orasiic manpower con trols. I - Senator McKellar (D-Tenn) : dean of the senate and its presi 1 dent pro tempore, said that if either enemy collapses soon it is very unlikely that congress will impose any type of new curb. U. S. Grazing Service Plans Fok Postwar -T, WASHINGTON, Feb. ll-(F)- TPostwar plans of the federal grai log service provide for the employ ment on a three-year basis of 31, 060 men on 60,000 projects, includ- . ihg soil, water and forage improve ments in 200 western counties. I The program was' made known today by . Interior Secretary Ickes in .his, report to the president. Ickes said the work would aid jri the restoration and better use of the federal range and would condition long-neglected lands to contribute "Their full share to the local and national economy." During the year just closed the grazing service administered 142, 000,000 acres of federal range in the 60 grazing districts in 10 west ern states. Grazing privileges were issued to 22,562 livestock produc ers for 10,694,305 head of live stock. Tokyo Goes Underground X U 1VU1U UUII1US Low strafing and bombing car rier planes of the mighty Cr. S. Fifth fleet forced many Tokyo residents to spend "practically the whole day (Friday, Tokyo time) in shelters," Harkazu Ogata, Jap anese air defense official, said to day, warning "we may have to spend most of our lives under ground in the future as is the case in. Berlin." Ogata, speaking over Tokyo's domestie radio, explained quickly refueled carrier planes raid re peatedly in contrast to the giant nB-29s which raid only once and jthen have to return to their dis tant airfield. Tresby'g Lose Pair y First Methodist defeated Pres byterian 53 to 24 in a "B" league gime and First Evangelical beat the Presbyterian "A" team 27 to 21 in church .loop play at the YMCA Saturday night. Thumbnail of War! By the Associated Press Russia Russians fight way . into heart of Poznan, Polish for tress city, J 00 miles behind Ber lin front. Western front Canadian First army sweeps ahead after two mile advance outflanking ojcginea une Dasuon of Goch. tmn RtinfnrcH t-- launch determined counter- at- wck in Jringsneg-Ichang sector after 25-mile j Chinese break in ran corridor.) Pacific American paratroop ers ana waieroorne infantrymen seize points on Corregidor in specucular operation. ' Too Late to Classify IVOR Y wood bed springs, m.ttre fmi. oresBim taoie and lyoch sa.00. Taote SS 00. 1M7 W. front. 'OR SALE. Complete set mechanic's Miau unna eiww cssn. raone Sd4. ' 1 ROOM furnished apt,' lower floor - m ' . WANTED: Woman fol- cleaning and washing, full or part time; also prac iiiii m u -1 . 252 N, Cottage St. Ilzzl: Uczl tizhlzlizn installed under pneumatic ' pressure. AND- . filctal Interlocking - . Weather Stripping: Saves .cp to 49, la your fueL Free Estimate - N'o Obligatloa J. D. C-i:H 1515 Eoosevelt J , rhone tlZS NINTH A R M Y S K I JET-PROPELLED FICHJER PLAN E-The Bell P-SS (aioVe) I. ihe first of thi USAAF Jet - particolar ship set down at the Great Falls, Moat. Army air base for cold weather testing Jungle Rescue Gives First Word of B-29 Forays Over Assam NEW DELHI The "Burma Peacocks," an air service com mand group at Assam, started out to rescue the crew of. a C-54 and came back with the tightly-locked secret of the Superfortress and 13 of a B-29's 14-man crew. Until then it was not known here that B-29s were operating in the China - Burma - India theater. First reports had been that a C-54 was down. Searchers found one crew mem ber and -from him they leamoH that the B-29 crewmen were hid ing because they did not' know whether fhey had Daraehuted among unfriendly natives or Hi- hind the Japanese lines. This complicated the rescue problem until a message was painted in large block' letters on the under side of a little training plane's Aving; "Go with friendly nauves." The plane hovered over the iuh- gle at treetop height. Parachute canoplies began to appear in the jungle. Emergency rations and water canteens were dropped. A combat cargo plane arrived to drop clothes and more food. Lt. Robert M. Pottol. Oakland Calif, apparently drowned while trying to fight his way across a jungle river to safety, was the only member of the B-29 irw who was lost Tremendous Amount Of Wire Being Used WASHINGTON (JP Signal corps and other COmmiiniratinno troops on the western European iront strung 330,000 miles of wire in the first five months after TV. day. Unprecedented demand for wire in France and in other areas, deriving from high combat and operational expenditure rates, has impelled the war department to ask American industry and labor for increased production. In one area signal corps facili ties already , are two and a half times as effective as those in nazi use after four years of occupa tion, the war department says. -'si Music by ; Mr. & Mrs. W. W; Ring ; Begins at 7:30 J 4 tr-" I ; ? P AT R 0 L At the top el a ridge j w mmmm wtw Color Talent Blooms In Arctic?' Wilderness POINT BARROW, AlaskjHaV Many Eskimos live as their fore fathers did. pBut the village Eski mos at Barrow are more modern and their children attend the pub lic school, j l The head of the schobljfL. S. Vincent,! sajrs that most f the children show an ' intelligence about on par with the; average American youngster. His own two children attend the school. ; Almost every one of the Eski mo children! has a rare talent for colors and painting. Colcord (Rus ty) Heurlin, up here since 1915 to paint the Arctic and! the Eski mos, say's there are many prom ising artists in the colony.;; "I've never seen j such appreciation of color," he said. 1 . Practice or Not, It's Bad for Japanese . WASHINGTON m In stead of faking the f transport, "Shawnee." but to sea for trunnerv practice, Major John W.. Johnson, an armty jtransport commander, in duced shore authorities to petroit his' navy gun crew to; fire; from the harbor fat Japanese-occupied territory a few miles away: from their base near Wakde Island in the Southwest Pacific. !l ? The action was a little irregu lar, but air liaison officers fnort- ed considerable damage to enemv installation. :J - Now all j Transportation . Corps transport commanders are urged to do .their practicing the iamii way. a . i iS i ; ! r Arriving fAoa Tuesdaty, Febrnaty' 20th . A Carload of Second Culling Alfalfa Hay t Now cn Hand od Qnafity Hay and Straw Peal IIoss Ponliry or faoriirallnre , A Complete Lino of Whole or Ground Grains Als Scopal Brand Dairy, Poultry and Babbit Feeds GEIIEDAL FEED Ct GOAIII CO. 290 S. liberty Si. " Hie Black Army Inside I - - What doe prophecy say about the I rising iide -vf crime? 1 iSn24ay. Fcb.10;-7:33 P. IL . iiprapleioS ril!5sv -.- i-t c-aB, i . ! L. T T sf - ; i flood and i Come 1 Sunday Wednesday ?-Friday ' H r somewhere fat Germany the leader ef HH WIVn MK WWUH U1CIT PI Washing Provides Sail For Disabled Steamer IiONDON Looking like an old tramp steamer with the crew's washing jhun out to dry, j the trawler H.M.S. Duncton , battled her way 500 miles across the At lantic recently under makeshift sais. ' I ";:,, ? ; When ihe engines broke down 500 miles from this side of J the Atlantic, A. Cmdr. John S.' Bur gess of Lancashire ordered .the crew "make all plain saiL" ' fhe result was startling awn ings, blankets, flags ; and even shirts were hurriedly made into sails. They worked, and at a slow three knots the ship continued her voyage safely. ""Iij ' ' ' ' Robert Burns Blamed Unjustly, Doctor Says LONDN-C-Teachers of Eng lish now. may breathe more easily when tbeir inquisitive charges start asking questions about ; the lift and death of Robert Burns. The poet's habits, -though no better than those of 'most men of thtShejin which he lived,! Were nq worse," Dr. Sydney Watson Smith of Bournemouth states.' . Writing in a medical journal, he says the! story that the Doet died off drink probably began through a faulty ; diagnosis based more on the poet's known behavior and habits than on scientific, knowl edge. Even this behavior, he said, wis not fas bad aslias been made Phone C531 i i k 1 1 Is Summer U - Everv I i America! 4t a ski patrol ef the IT ' Ninth IP. propelled fighter plane! ThU operations. Ancestors Don't Count On Birth Certificates ' SOUTH BEND, Ind!-)-Melvin J. Thornton, 68, great grandson of Matthew Thornton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, has proved satisfactorily to Judge Dan C Pyle that he Is a IJS citizen. . Thornton, who established citi zenship with the familv Bible. f Wanted a war job and didn't have a birth certificate. I Well, Maybe They Were Better'n one PORTLAND, Ore. (iF) H. P. Kalinkner, railroad Pullman con ductor, went into thi stage depot in Huntington, Ore., and asked for a package of cigarettes. He got it a package of , 'Duke's Cameos" with! a picture of Lillian Russell on the wrapper and the date March 1, 1900, on the tax stamp. No S3 amage From Chimney Blaze J Firemen were can4 in Nortel 5th street Saturday night to put out a chimnev fire. No damage was reported. BEFORE STARTING SPRING DECORATING : 1i& l V , , YmI fiaJ 16k mmmdrnm Ww Stow - fh irUtt aietf ecoaoii" rmnoLD Dunsiioon s . ! .-in. In Cnarse of AU 1 c KeyMehUndef 30 May Gain Next ) Deferment WASHINGTON,' Feb, 17 - VP) The' government today set un ma chinery for deferring a "limited uumoer, proDaoiy aoout 15 per cent, ot draft registrants under. 30 in key war jobs and other essen tial services. In Ithe first slight easing of plans J to draw heavily from this age group to meet mounting mm. tary tpeeds, selective service an the War manpower commission announced that the' new proce dure will apply to otherwise Qual ified men who are in 2-A or 2-B last January 1. The program provides for defer ment jof key men who are certi fied by one of a number of gov ernment agencies responsible .for procurement and production of war materials, or foi) maintenance of war-supporting services. ; "The primary objective ! is to protect the war production lines," the agencies said. Included under the plan in addition- to war plant ' workers, are such industries as "coal mining, transportation and maritime oper ations. The! program replaces the pres ent procedure of filinsr forms "42-A special" for men 18 through Z5, and puis these registrants and those j28 through 29 under a uni form policy. Japanese Hit in a f By Spencer Moosa CHUNGKING. Feb. 17. -JPy- The Chinese hi Eh command, an nounced tonight that reinforced Japanese had launched a determ ined 'counterattack in the Ping-shek-tchang sector, where the Chinese have driven a 25-mile break into the enemy, hold on the Canton-Hankow rail corridor. Hard fighting was! reported in the mountainous area between Ichank in southern Hunan, and Pingshek, just across the border in -Kwangtung province. This is the area of the breach, 180 miles northj of Canton, reported yester day by an army spokesman. The Japanese also have been held in a counterattack which had gained six miles toward Chihing on the Kwangtung-Kiangsi high way, 30 miles east of Kukong, fall en provisional capital of Kwan- tungj A recent series of Chinese counterattacks has rewon Chihing. Man in Tower Traitor to Underground . 1 By James F. King LONDON, Feb. 17 (P) The curious case of "The Man in the Tower," a Dutchman said to have forewarned the Germans so that they; smashed the British airborne attack on Arnhem last September, deepened in mystery tonieht as the Netherlands government infor mation service denied the man was! privy to the Arnhem opera tion: but credited Dutch security polite with catching him. Tbe story of alleged treachery by a man who was a member-of the Dutch underground for three years and who "proved" his loy altyi by kilfing several Germans was ; released by censorship only today. j S 143 Actsaf'Cotor fftestratiooa, tncJwdlt.9S JFWT-Clor FfcofagrsW diffiMRM Rs ivrtwler . . 0a da aelpUals pals ssoa deal Contract Painting TO MAKt VOUR . HOUSE A MOlg Ickes Bids for Power Projects WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-(SVIn- terior, Secretary Ickes made a bid tpday ifor tne"postw.ar .iob of de veloping a giant water and power project .for .the naticMu,. ? " i All ;the war V time " facilities of his department, Ickes said, can be turned; quickly- to" the task of har nessing the country's, waters in an ocean-to-ocean conservation, reclamation and power plan!. , " . A bill giving . the . department just that role has been presented yi a roup oi western senaiors. ' The fbill is ' the latest' move in the tilt between two main advo cates of greater postwar develop-ments4-the"" group which' favors development by' new units along the line of the autonomous Ten nessee? valley authority, and that which s championing power plans under the existing interior de partment system. s Polio Lecture ' Wednesday For. Nurses Alida Gale Currey. women's physical education director at Willamette university who has had Special training physical therapy and the Kenny treatment will lecture on poliomyelitis be fore registered nurses and Red Cross nurses' aides Wednesday night.! . The; lecture is to be eiven in the Red Cross classroom over Smith' bakerv at 43fl Court street. Miss (hirrey will present muscle re-equcauon in care or polio prop er, use; of crutches and return of polio patient to normal activity. Goes to Hospital After Altercation Ralpk Huffman, 3145 Portland road, was admitted.to the Deacon ess hospital Saturday night with minor head bruises which he re ceived in an altercation on South commercial street earlier In Ihe eveninlr. Attendants said his con dition Was satisfactory. i - i; . f PiATES CAM SiE YOU mm BE IDiTAlCpALW Use Accepted Credit for new dentures Pay while you wear them. Make payments byj week or month. ! Dr; Painless Parker Says: "Use 'Accepted Credit for den tal plates and dentistry of all kind. Pay by week r month In the way that Is most conven ient for yoa." Make Your Own ; Terms Within Reason Start Dental Work Now. Pay Later Dental plates, bridgework. fin ings, Inlays, extractions, erowas. : . r - Terlns To Suit You for new style dental plates -' Health And . -Appearance r When teeth are missing, replace them! with plates. , " - ' : 'i- " V:. Make 1945 A Belter Year By Buying Extra War Bonds And Stamps ... With Ithe war being carried te the enemy,' more planes and sans and shells will have la be supplied aad that's where year vwuuj purchases can neip. 0 j 125 LIBERTY ST. .lt. . "viiM ONtieHOME FRONT I Ely ISABEL CHHDS " I A lobbyist in the making: Slen der, dark-haired Joan Monkman, Salem high school Tri-Y, who said when asked at the recent YW annual dinner what . her group wanted in the new YWCA that they would likaa room large enough for a meeting place (390 members) .but would appreciate having fit homey just,. like- the present prorCA,:s v .: J, : Any number of , those present could guess how and why this demure girl has been Judged a fct wearer of , the Girl Reserve recognition ring, I am told, i j- none Inanlatlon MAVIS OF TO 29 IN MIL COSTS Hoi; 2Q3 jtwh . FREE ESTIMATE i ' STORES Phone 9144 Cor. Uberty A Center St COB 1 I . Arnrjr Demonstrates Relationship Of Dental Plates To Ijealth In thei first two years of thi war the Army Dental Con has made ever 1,000,000 den. Jures to serve the needs of tht "JKl5f men- 14 estimated that this and other denUl work h made available for active service, fa excess of a million wn who would otherwise have been listed as dental casualties. Surely! the civilian population, ttose In and eat of war Indus tries, can appreciate the need f keeping their teeth In state or repair.- o:- Dental plates of carefully - blended color are mre (. " .realistic . "ir ;.' The Improved material used bj dentists In makinc plates pos. ess the quality ef faithful re production. Plates are lighter ad more lifelike. They have Permanent natural color and "anent natural form. Their r resiliency brings yen mere wearing efficiency aad they wffl not shrink er warp. y GystLl-cleari palate I dental plates The transparent palate reflects actual tissues of month addinr to the esthetic value ef new dental plates. j Translucent Teeth for dental plates. Science has made refinements In artificial teeth that promote peater resemblance te human teeth. - : , TRANSLUCENT TEETH , bsorbj and reflect light as do your own teeth. They have s7 sen surface lvstre and are dif ficult to detect TRANSLUCENT TEETH are iviiuvi. i-ui mix sues. bapcs.b and shades of Nature's own. i 0WB - 11. CORNER STATE gaLIlH BSZi -7 . t 375 ChemekeU SL Dial 9221 I ! I ! !