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He made note of the fact that where as in 1930 the United States Steel corporation, then the corporation with the largest gross income, took in twice as much in revenue as the largest political unit except the federal government, in 1942 Gen eral Motors, which, now tops the corporate list for receipts, took in almost ihree times as much money as New York State, which isTthe political unit, under federal gov ernmenLwith the largest income. General Motors in that year had gross revenues of $24 billion, U S. Steel of over $1 billion,' Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea of over V billion. New York state had rev enues of $720,000,000 and New York City of $714,000,000. In the way of assets we have the Metropolitan Life Insurance co., the nation's biggest corporate ag gregation of wealth, with $5.99 bil lions, which is higher than the as- cessed value of all but six of the states. .Illinois, which is a rich state, has only $5.29 billion. It should be noted of course that Metropolitan's assets are valued at substantially full value while as sessed values of property usually run far under actual values. . Now this comparison may shock some people. I do not think it proves (Continued on editorial page) Ldder Brothers Will Construct Modern Garage Loder Brothers, who have been engaged ' in the automobile busi ness in Salem since 1929, virtually . all of that time in the same build ing between Liberty and High ! streets on Center street, will have new home for occupancy within a few months. It is to be erected on the prop-1 erty across the alley east of, their! present location by Robert Li Ellf-; ctrom and Tinkham Gilbert, own ers of the lot. .J !; , . ? Plans are now being completed by' Lyle P. Bartholomew, archi- Ytect, and contracts will be award Y ed within a few days. . iWhen the Fraternal Tcsnple, the ground floor of which Loder Bros, occupied for many years, was sold some months ago to Salem labor un&ns for a Labor temple, the au tomobile firm Was forced to seek another location. Since so much of its present activity was devoted to keeping essential transportation operating, the' war production board approved a new garage building and granted the neces sary priority. Non-essential ma terials are to be used wherever J possible. (See story on page 2). Yankee Subs Sink 25 More Nippon Ships WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -UP) -Pushing their war of attrition against Japanese shipping, already reeling from staggering losses, American submarines have chalk ed up another 25 kills. The latest toll, announced in a navy communique today, included three warships an escort aircraft carrier, a destroyer, and a large converted cruiser. " While not confirmed by the navy, the latter ship was believed to be one of Japan's pre-war 18,000 ton merchant vessels, operated as a "luxury liner" in peacetime. Non-combatant vessels claimed : In today's report included. 17 cargo vessels, 3 cargo transports, and 2 transports. The report raised to 1045 the to tal of Japanese ships of all types sunk by American submarines since i the start of the war, of which 110 were combatant ships and 935 non-combatant - Sinkings announced since Jan uary 1 have totaled 121. . Eyewitness Account Describes Bold Stroke Of V. S. Navy Task Force Against Tokyo (Editor's note: This is the first eye witness story of the Febmary 10-17 carrier plane attacks on the Tokyo area.) ; By Robert Gelser - ABOARD VICE ADM. MITS CHER'S FLAGSHIP NEAR TOK YO, FebY 17-(Delayed) -.(ff)-S teaming almost Into Tokyo bay, this all American navy task force, the & mightiest ever assembled, hurled tons of explosives into the enemy in a two-day carrier plane strike, and tonight audaciously patrolled the Japanese coast chal lenging the enemy air' force and navy to battle. 1 Y , Y The center of the target Was Nakajima Musashino and Naka Jima Tama aircraft factories 1 miles from the palace of tije em y;DTitrsl'(Bsihs Y - : ' - r ";. Y- I - :.'.- - r.v'"f ; I - Y: - j: '" ' - ' Y . 1-11 r -Y Patton's Men Gain 10 Miles Canadian Drive On Calcar, Ruhr Picks Up Speed By Austin Bealme&r PARIS, Feb. 21 JP) The U. S. third army fought into Saar burg and closed up to the Sarr riv er on an eight-mile front today, virtually eliminating all enemy re sistance in the triangle formed by the.Sarr and Moselle rivers in climaxing an attack that in two days has gained 10 miles and over run nearly 40 German towns. Between the Maas and Rhine rivers on the northern end of the front the Canadian first army's drive toward Calcar and the Ruhr gained momentum with the help of hundreds of British warplanes. Canadian troops, using flame throwers, cleaned the enemy out of the small Moyland forest and there were signs the German defense line built up to 10 divisions thri was finally beginning to crack. Far to the south doughboys of the American seventh army fought through the streets of Forbach, overlooking the important German steel city of Sarbruecken which now is only three miles ahead of Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's forward elements; The troops moving forward in all three of these sectors were giv en tremendous air support. More than 5,000 Allied warplanes roar ed through clearing skies and bat tered transportation and military targets .backing up the German lines. Armored units drove into Saar- burg on the western bank of the Saar river after establishing con tact with the 94th infantry divi sion, which had paved the way for the swift new plunge into enemy territory by crossing the Moselle river in a two-day attack to the south. Today the doughboys drove on a mile and a half beyond Ons- dorf, which is three and a half miles northwest of Saarburg. Men Over 30 May Be Called PORTLAND, Feb. 21.-P)-State elective service director Col." El mer : V. Wooten said today that Oregon soon may be forced . to draft men over 30 from essential civilian jobs. CoL Wooten told a conference of transportation firms military needs might not be filled from the pool of younger men and sug gested the industry cooperate with the U S. employment service In channeling discharged veterans into rail and truck work. His suggestion followed a state ment by Lee C Su'dd, jr., secre tary of the Oregon motor trans port association, that the highway transportation system was en- dangered by increasing draft calls, peror, In the western suburbs of Tokyo. Pilots reported that both fac tories were blazing and severely damaged. ; At least two other important aircraft plants were damaged or destroyed. Thirty-six airfields were strafed or bombed. Five hundred and nine Japanese planes were destroyed in the air -acid on the ground. . One small carrier and 32 other small vessels were sunk. -'"--YY Snow, sleet, rain and the failure of the Japanese to fight prevented the American fleet taking a much heavier toll in the lightning jab that sent the task force out from a secret base for the round-trip - f- - r 5 Evfn Mice at Army School Trained! in Military Discipline CAMP LEE, Va., Feb. 21 -(yp) Iven I mice at the .quartermaster school have been indoctrinated in the military discipline of uniform ity and order. -1 In the picture-file room of the School's technical training service two 4ewly-born mice were found In affile drawer designated for subjects starting with the letter m." 1 ' 1 si y :! arget Of Heavy Raid orce LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 21 (JP) 5be massive Allied aerial as l&ult I against Germany's battered fail ystem was (continued, last night with a heavy RAF attack on the Rhine" valley choke point .of Worms after 1,200 American heavies smashed Nuernberg in daylight for the second straight day in one of the most concentrat ed aif blows of theiwar. i Y - Y- Berlin also was hit twice during he -' iight by British -rbdmbers irhicl kept the nine-day aerial of fensive through the darkness.' Al together more than 5000 j Allied Warplanes joined in the day's at tack ion Germany, 'many of them giving close! support to western front; troops. J i j Wqrms, 12 miles north of -Mann- heimf is a keypoint in the com munications jjystem supplying the jenemy forces; in front of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's attacking third army; j - - Y--L In the big daylight raid the Nazi convention pity' of Nuernberg, which some uncomfirmed reports have said now has supplanted Ber lin as the Reich's capital, was bat tered for more than an hour by the American fourengined bomb ers. TtieFs Victim - j i- ! Under Arrest I John Mendoza, who told Salem -police last Sunday morning that he had been, robbed of; $7500, Wednesday at 2:35 p. m. was ar rested in Aurora by Roy Hunt, state police officer, on a ( charge of violation of the basic speed rule. The officer said he found six cases of whisky in the icar. Mendoza was brought to! Salem and f taken before Justice of the Peace Joseph B. Felton who set bail at $200 after a complaint had been signed by District Attorney Miliar B. Hayden, charging Men doza; with unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor. Nurses From Bataan Headed Toward Home HONOLULU, Feb. 2I-(-Fifty fourj American nurses wearing jaunty new uniforms flew into! Hawaii today on their way home from Bataan and Corregidor, af-i ter three years internment by the f Japanese in the Philippines. sortie of several thousand miles, i Every one of the thousands of men participating in the strikej expected a f violent aerial battle and la possible naval engagement but (tonight no Japanese Warship! had! challenged us and the air-j force had declined to fight al- though there were approximately a hundred Japanese fields from which the American fleet could be reached. , . Y ; ' American losses were 43 planes In dogfights that occurred over Tokyo. ; '. ' ' Not a single American surface vessel was .damaged and not single Japanese plane reached within striking, distance of the fleet . WTT7 h rwrx Worms 1 BY KAr r. s Ger Defense StiflFens ,Y ; j Y ? I i . Russians Bypass Guben as Nazis Gain in Prussia ! By WJ W. Hercher LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 22 () The Soviet First Ukraine army by-passed the stout German de fense hedgehog of Guben yester day and drove to the confluence of the Neisse and Oder rivers, 54 miles southeast of Berlin snd sep- arted only by the width of the Oder; from a; juncture with the First ; White Russian army, which was reported j fighting to encircle Frankfurt 21 miles to the north. In the i Samland : peninsula of East ; Prussia j the i Berlin radio claimed, that a surprise German offensive had reestablished a firm corridor from Koehigsberg to the escape port Of Pillau, 20 miles south . j - '; ; 'Y y- Moscow merely acknowledged some advances by the enemy In that sector and said the desperate effort was costing the Germans enormously In men and equips ment while another trapped Ger man force southwest of Koenigs berg j lost; 85 j tanks and 400 ve hicles in two days. ; Moscow s nigntiy communique and an eSrly morning supplement said the First Ukraine forces of Marshal Ivan S. Konev had seized a strategic ridge in the forest on the eastern approaches to Guben and had driven up to the Neisse river on jboth; sides of ; the town, capturing more than 50 populated places in advances. that measured seven to ! 13 miles on a 50-mile- wide: front " : ' Moscow was officially silent concerning operations of the First White Russian forces of Marshal G. K. Zhukov directly east of Berlin, but Pravda, official com munist party! paper, asserted the red army; now stood but 34 miles from the German capital, and the German ! radio announced that Zhukov had f4 temporarily" slash ed communications j between Ber lin and Frankfurt on the west bank of the Oder 38 miles from Berlin. ' i ! j f i ' CHinaj Blunts Jap j Attacks CHUNGKING, Feb. 21-() Chinese forces have repulsed sev eral attacks ! on their positions southwest of jJSuichwan, formerly the Site of a big American air base the high command announc ed, tonight . ; i Y In I the Hunan-Kwangtung bor der region fighting continued 12 miles northwest of Ichang,' west of the Canton-Hankow railroad and i about 130 miles south ' of Hengyang. The . Japanese ' in this sector, are trying to re-seal a gap in the railroad recently made by the Chinese. ; Fighting also continued east of the railroad town of Chenhsein, 80 miles south bf Hengyang. Newark Qub Figures Way to Beat Curfew , NEWARK,) NJJ Feb. v21-()-A Newark night club announced to day that it would anticipate the midnight curfew on entertainment by turning off the heat and the lights onj thejstroke of twelve, and remaining open without heat for a "candlelight hourf until the 2 a m. legal closing time, beginning to night r " : . -r ; PARTLY CLOUDY today with warmer : tempera tures in the afternoon, in the nud-Wfllamette - valley " area, predicts U.! S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem. Filibuster! Brbken ! In Bouse Work Speedecl;' Bill for Veterans Director Passes By Wendell Webb i I Managing editor, The Statesman i The state f house' of representa tives, in the throes of a filibuster for almost two days, was back on its business-like if tedious feet to day, i ' - -' . 1 The break came Wednesday when Speaker Eugene Marsh, ap parently anticipating continued demands ; foi the full reading of every bill up for final passage, himself invoked rule 48 of senate regulations to the extent of hay ing every measure read "section by section"-r-but not in full. f For two days previously. Rep. James Gleason (D) whenever a bill was up for vote stood on his rights to demand that it be read by sections. : The only apparent recourse for opponents of such ac tion was to request that longer bills be calendared for future ac tion, r. ! ! 1 II f Demands Thwarted 3 A perusal of regulations later, however, showed that controver sial rule! 26 does not specify "in full" and the delaying demands for such' readings were thwarted Wednesday when j Reading Clerk Richard Wilson read only the sec tion titles and excerpts.. The filibustering members who invoked the slowdown tactics apparently in an effort to force re consideration of the house-approV-ed. measure (HB 306) stripping the Multnomah jj county clerk of au thority bver elections yielded without a scrap. I f Rep. Vernon Bull, La Grande democrat who opposed HB 308 and Tuesday unsuccessfully sought its reconsideration, finally moved that even the reading of section titles be abandoned asking that "window dressing be dispensed with." 1 I Vet Bill Approved The bust-up of the filibuster brought 1 rapid, action the house passed nine measures and cleaned up its calendar in short order, In cluding" the measure to set up fa state department of veterans' af fairs, i j l' The amended measure (HB 271) setting up the state department of veterans! affairs went through the house without a dissenting vote. - - The debate lasted but two min utes with Rep. Harvey Wells an swering affirmatively to questions by Rep. j Phil Brady, whether the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars were "in accord" on the bill, by Rep. Warren Erwin as to whether "the (World war II) boss have a! chance" to benefit by it ! i 'I The amanded measure, calling for $80,000 from the general fund, provides' for1 a $5000-a-year direc tor who jwould be entirely respon sible lor -the administration pi veterans affairs. j He would jbe appointed by the governor, on ap proval of fi seven-member advis ory boarid one member each from the Legion,: VFW, Disabled War Veterans, Order ol the Purple Heart and Spanish-American War veterans; oihe ' veteran " of World war II, and one other, either ci vilian or service. . ' Recommendations Provided , jj The five organizations would submit j three recommendations each to lthe! governor, who would choose one from each list, within 10 days after the measure becomes ;.!.iYi:r.---:-4i Their j terms would be stepped by years so that there would be a succession without an entirely new board.' . i , . ; ' The measure, which now goes to the senate, specifies that the direc tor shall: -- j (. ?Y; - v? "Organize and coordinate- the administration of all laws, federal and stale, pertaining to war Viet erans and their dependents," and that he is authorized to: Y 1 "Accept grants,.- donations and gifts on behalf of the State of Ore gon for veterans welfare ; act as agent or attorney in ' fact : for any war veteran relating to rights under any federal or state law; It Is also provided that the di rector shall maintain offices In the state capitoL and provide a fidel ity bond, lit would not do away with other! agencies interested; in veterans affairs. . Y-'Y" '.. .; " Creation of such a department was asked by Gov. Earl Snell ) in his biennial message. (Legislative news page 12), 1 'Hitler' Parades With Allies & i .:- 1 .! m. v P. British soldiers who helped capture the German stronghold ef Kleve atop to display captured portrait of Adolf Hitler which they carried In a parade through the wrecked streets of the town. This photo ( was taken by Eddie Worth, Associated Press photographer with the wartime still picture pooL! (AP wirephoto) Japanese Blow Themselves Up on Corregidor; Yanks Tighten Squeeze on Manila MANILA, Thursday, Feb. 22-P-J apaneso hopelessly sealed in Corregidor's network of tunnels blew themselves up by touch ing off a main ammunition diimp yesterday as 'American forces tightened the squeeze on the remaining enemy garrison there and also in Manila, where the Yanks captured the Manila hotel, one of the luxury spots of the orient. Gen. Douglas MacArthur safd the enemy; on Corregidor fortress, at the entrance to Manila bay, was destroyed except, for minor mop ping up. He declared that a thor ough combing of Bataan penin sula showed not a single Japanese left alive. I C First cavalry division troops un der MaJ. Gen. Verne D. Mudge, fighting tip the I , south Manila shoreline, found the big Manila hotel battered but not beyond sal vage. They also captured Burn- ham Green, a small park nearby. The cavalrymen thus were with in 50 feet of the southern wall Of the ancient Intramuros, in which the Japanese are holed up for :a bitter final fight American how itzers are pounding the walled city's thick eastern wall to make way for tanks. Baj. Gen. Robert S. Beightlerfs 37th infantry division, meantime, captured the three-story ' Ermita Normal school, southeast ,of the Manila hotel, and engaged ' J apa- nese .defenders in the city . halL three blocks north of the school. There are still thousands of Jap anese on Luzon, but the bulk pf the once-strong enemy occupation force has retired or been pushed back into the comparative security of mountains and valleys of the northeast " - I Trucking Essential . WAS HI NGTON, Feb. 21 -W3) The war production board today added pick-up an (delivery truck ing to and from line-haul, carriers to its list of essential activities, j Farmers Union Jones President By Marguerite Gleeson Valley News Editor . j "Inform: yourselves before you make decisions, otherwise you are a dangerous element." This was the blunt advice of Herbert p. Rolph, national vice president bf the Farmers Union, in a talk at the Oregon Farmers Union Wednesday morning. YY : Y: i r '' - j , The 6? locals of the state were represented by 109 delegates at the streamlined convention. They pro moted Ronald E. Jones to presi dent, voted to separate the office of secretary and editor, andvlJice44Jbad if you have ducks, geese or their disapproval of partisan po litical action on the part of state xr national Farmers Union officers! j The group approved Increased support for elementary schools, the Willamette valley flood control project and the various river val ley authorities. Resolutions were adopted opposing adoption of com pulsory military ; training before 1 C;. rn-.: Y;:iJ J T - Oh Food Rations Germany, Cut One-Eighth LONDON, Feb. 21 -JP)- Food rations for all Germans' were cut by one-eighth tonight as an emergency measure to help the reich withstand , the allies' climac tic assault from east and west In Berlin, women, both rich and poor, were Impressed into build ing street barricades for defense against the red army closing in from the east and electric power has been ordered cut off in the capital for several hours dally for economy, enemy broadcasts said. The Berlin radio announced a 12 per cent cut in food rations had been ordered as an "emerg ency measure to help create re serves and provide a better basis on which rations can be worked out for the new period beginning In AprlL" ARC Will Distribute Clothing in Paris PARIS, Feb! 21-;P)-The Amerl can Red Cross tomorrow will make its first distribution in Paris prop er of clothing sent from America for destitute families and refugees. Ten tons of clothing will be hand ed out from the 69 tons recently received, bringing the total dis tributed in France to 1600 tons. Elects Ronald in Meet Here the servicemen are discharged and compulsory pasteurization of milk A resoluton was also adopted favoring the establishment of a "floor" price where a "ceiling price is proclaimed. A resolution was approved which called for reimbursement of the owners in cases where dogs kill ducks, geese or rabbits In addition to other poul try. Keierence was maae oy one speaker to the fact that the re cent legislative action rather out dated the resolution, "but it's too rabbits." The reference to officers of the Farmers Union takinff tart in i partisan politics were understood to refer to the active part taken by James Pat ton, national president in the 1844 presidential elecuoa Patton attended the Oregon con? vention last year. (Additional details on page I). av j ax I !-: r ' : ( -' :.' r ... ; 'YJ ? Yl : .Tlsiflb(ieaassSap? Jiv-A ;;-'Y '.:. . - : ;.-' y! :' Devildogs Stopped I In Tracks r -Y"" 1 ' . Y' '; '' ,y :' ' U. S. Force Now , Believed to Total 45,000 Fighters; By Elment Walto , ! U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD. QUARTERS, Guam, Thursday, Feb.; 22.Hf)-A third marine! di vision. Increasing the Invasion force to possibly 45,000 men, has been Wu-own Into the furious bat tle for Iwo to fill gaps caused by casualties already exceeding .3600. Disclosing the fresh commit ments in a communiaue fodr. Adm. Chester W. NImitz acknowl edged that Japanese resistance rose to such a high pitch Wednes day afternoon, third day of the Invasion, that the hard-fighting devildogs virtually were stopped -In their tracks. .- The reinforced leathernecks, holding a wedge across the south third of the island, stormed the -slopes of a volcano on the south tip with flamethrowers and tanks. Although unable to advance ap preciably, they hurled back, a counterattack In the vicinity, V V. S. Drive Halted ! On the north end of the wedge, Nipponese mine fields and intense mortar and artillery fire tem porarily halted a drive toward an airfield in the center of the' is land. . Y. Y " t- The third marine division, un der Maj. Gen. Graves B. Erskine, reinforced the fourth division Sun der MaJ. Gen. Clifton B. Cates and the fifth under MaJ. Gen. Keller E. Rocker. i T bus approximately ,,45,000 leathernecks may have been com mitted to an operation against Japanese estimated in today's communique to have totalled j20,f 000 when the island was invaded Monday. j . Jap Fire Intense 1 "Intense mortar, artillery land small arms fire is being encoun tered by our troops and in soma areas extensive mine fields are slowing the advance," Nimitz said. "During the afternoon (Wednes day) there was no aDDreciable change in our lines," he reported, v "On the south flamethrowers ' and tanks are being used against ' well entrenched enemy troops in, the Mt Sunbachi area," Nimita added. "A counterattack launched by the enemy east of Mt Suri bachi shortly after noon was thrown back. Numerous land mines have been encountered in this vicinity. Four of our tanks were knocked out of action.". Y Willamefte to Get $200,000 - - From Estate Willamette university will re ceive the bulk of the estate of the late Alfred L. Seaquest - who died February 15, in Portland, a read- ing oi me wiu revealed Wednea- j day. President G. Herbert Smith! of , the university, said that .11 would realize approximately $200,- r 000 from the estate, which amouna A Hs to be left in the endowment iuna. The interest from the moiw V ey will be used as the trustees of Willamette see fit Seaquest a bachelor, was the last member of a Swedish family- who reached Portland a number oi years ago and engaged in the hard- ware ousmess. fiis will, riled lot, probate in Multnomah county, be . queathed the " pioneer Seaquest homestead at Silver Lake, Wash.; to the state of -Washington j foti park purposes, with the proviso) that no liquor be had on the nrem. i ises. . He also left minor beauest to a church and to. frienda. t Thd Portland Trust and Savings bank is executor under the wilt T i 'A brother, Charley, died a' few years ago. Neither had attended Willamette but both were ' inter ested in young men and it was be lieved the reason why the unlver sity waa selected as the chief ben- enciary. - y ., Liberated Yank Thinks Battlesliip Iladl Pups . ! SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 1 -WTj Lt'Earl G, Baumgardner, USNR, of Yonkers, N. Y, one of the first three liberated prisoners of wail from the Philippines, had this to say today in comparing the pres ent United States navy with that of three years ago when he was captured: ; Y. '' Y.'. i; " .-' It looks as though every bat tleship must have had pups! .: II