Oregon, Vdneiday Monilfltj. March 23. 1945
PAGE TWO
Hit OEEGOH STATESMAN. Scbxa.
11-Ton Bombs MottHome for Easter Reports Honolulu
TV Mousing Shortage, rqcinc w ar bomg en
Hurled
Home for the Easter recesi of
congress is Congressman James W.
Mott who stopped off in Salem on
his return from a trip to Honolulu
as a member of a congressional
sub-committee, investigating con-
on
Submarine Pen
' LONDON, Wednesday, March 2$
WVBritish bombers hurled their vested areas. The subcommittee
new 11-ton bombs on Nazi sub- had spent several days studying
marine pens for the first time yes- the problems of Honolulu, which
terday and during the night Mas- Mott Said are now the most acute
quitos attacked Berlin for the 36th cf any city under the flag.
consecutive night ' j its population swollen by 170,-
' Rainy weather gave the reich. ik 000 persons no additional housing
temporary respite from other raids was available for civilians except
by heavy bombers in daylight for. limited quarters provided by
1 ! the army ana navy, i ne comnm-
tee found as many as 10 to 12 per
sons of different families occupy
ing single rooms, and apartment
houses with very limited cooking
facilities for Its residents. Mott re-
Tuesday.
,' Lancasters dropped the "Vol
cano" bomb on concrete U-boat
shelters at Farge, near Vegesack
and 10 miles down the Weser river
from Bremen. They also hit a near
by oil storage depot and the Kon
igsborn and Sachsen benzol plants
near Hamm. j :
; a M a. 1 .41... .1.
Starts Flans
the railway center of Paderborn,
40 miles east of Hamm. It was
the 42nd day of 43 that heavy
bombers from England have raid
ed Germany.
More than 100 Nazi tanks, 1800
freight cars and 1200 motor ve
hicles were hit in Monday's tacti-
cal air force operations. In some
cases divebombers dropped ex
plosives ' only 40 yards ahead of
the British army lines.
mrted that the committee was,
able to effect some immediate im
provements; obtaining release of
enough lumber to provide 11,000
family unitf. ! I
In the congressional party were
Congressmen Ixae of , California,
Madden of Indiana, Bates of Mas
sachusetts, fMrs. Smith of Maine
and Mott of Oregon.
"The waif in the Pacific is mov
ing ahead rapidly," reported Mott,
who is ranjking minority member
of the naiajl ; affairs committee.
"But no one' in authority thinks
the end is ii sight. The Japs con
tinue to resist to the death, and it
looks as though we would have to
kill off thefr armed forces before
victory wil be complete. I didnt
find any rfilitary authority who
GOP Chairman
For Election
thinks the Japs will surrender.'
"The army and navy are doing
a ! marvelous jobf and marines are
certainly a tough fighting outfit I
v sited a navy hospital where
many wounded marines back from
lwo Jima werej being cared ' for.
They are a game lot Always when
I jspoke to them they came up with
a smile. In the group were a num
ber from Oregon whom I was glad
ti greet" 1': :.: yp
, Congressman .Mott r e a c h e d
home on Mrs. j Mott's birthday.
Their daughters were home ! so a
family party was enjoyed. He ex
pects to remain! at home through
the recess and return to Wash
ington when congress resumes on
April JO, unless there should- be
ah earlier call from the speaker.
ONthei
By ISABEL CHUDS
Pan-American
I is i ;
Head Flavors j
One Big Fiirm
WASHINGTON, March U.-Wi
-Chairman Herbert Brownell
started a million dollar GOP cam
paign organization today, on the
hunt for senate and house seats
he hopes will give republicans
control of congress next year.
His plans for refurbished or
ganization approved b an exec
utive committee, Brownell told a
WASHINGTON, March HPr-
Pan-American Airways President
Herbert Smith
To Head High
School's PTA
The 74 teachers and parents who
Tuesday rught became charter
members of the new Salem high
school Parent-Teacher association
elected President G. Herbert Smith
of Willamette university the or
ganization's first president, named
Dr. K. : Kinley Adams first vice-
president; High School Principal
Harry 1L." Johnson, second vice-
president; Mrs. James Bunnell re
cording secretary .and Preston
Doughton as treasurer. . . - .'
By-law presented by Sidney A.
King, chairman of. the committee
which drew them, were adopted.
Mr George Lewis - presented the
report of the nominating commit
tee of which she was chairman.
Guests included Mrs. Harry H.
George, Portland, president of the
Oregon State Congress of Parents
and Teachers, who discussed the
policies, principles and objects of
the PTA, and Mrs. Dean Walker,
Independence, recording secretary
for the state congress, who spoke
briefly on the importance of par
ent participation In education
planning. Mrs. C. A. Lynds, Pra-
One place in Salem where the
news of the; end of the war is like-
I ly to be suppressed is the Marion Juan T. Trippe oday endorsed the turn, f county council chairman,
county courxnouse. Ana uie rea-1 nrnnnooi - 1 1 u
J oriArT efriTw i 1 i " .:! : I
Johnson spoke on'parent-teach-
a i ci Luuuritiuiiii. iziuljl- riaiia. ij
Art Roethlin. deputy county company could jicompete on j even Rnnkt Hiu-i,PH mmmunitv het.
clerk assigned to the circuit; court, terms with foreign monopolies and terment through work of such as
son why
is a short
-v-
was busy circuit court clerking cfrels.
Young Parson
To Sail Ship
To Far North
PORTLAND, Ore., March 27-
(Py-Rev. Byron Personeus, youth
ful minister, today was preparing
a 40-foot yacht for a trip to Alas
ka, where he will be a seafaring
mtssionaiy to fishermen and vil
lagers. The mission boat second to be
commissioned by the Assemblies
of God church was purchased
with money earned when Rev. Per
soneus motorcycled 5600 miles
news conference the party will Tuesday mjorning when Mrs. R. j "Appearing before a senate com
I concentrate on getting back to the
polls the 20,000,000 voters ; who
"declared sympathy with our
cause" in 1944 congressional races.
The big Jobs, the youthful chair
man said, is to lure into the poll
ing booths the 8,000,000 who sup-
sociations and Dr. Smith in his
acceDtance address stressed the
called himlso excited she could nierce committee holding hearings challenges issued by the other
scarcely tape. The Roethlin s son oh a bill by 4 Senator McCarran srjeakers and assured state offic
(U-Nev) making
is still in kneel pants and snow
suits but tliis mess in Europe has
already mil on to such length that
it behoove? many mothers to be
as interested in an end to the con
flict as is Mrs. R. Anyhow, shi
throughout the northwest, preach- tee had approved wEhout dissent
in? at izo churches. It will leave
Monday for Seattle, where a pub
lic address system will be install
ed to broadcast songs and sermons
toward fishing craft and canner
ies. The 26-year-old minister will be
kipper, and another experienced
seaman and Mrs. Personeus bride
of three months will travel with
him. Rev. Personeus, who was
. born in Juneau, started the move-
rr?nt for the ship last May when
he came to Yakima to be or
dained. I
j ported republicans last year but was interested and she was ex-
who didn't take the trouble to
vote at all in the 1942 "off year"
elections.
"There is a large group that will
respond if we can get our story
across," he told about 25 report
ers who gathered in his hotel suite
to hear the results of Brownell's
presentation to an organization
program previously to 19 execu
tive committee members.
The chairman said the commit-
cited for she had just heard the
radio announcement quoting Eis
enhower t the effect that the
Germans had quit. Art wrote a
note to Judge Page, who stopped
court to Weak the news.
A momelt: later Art was called
that proposal, ers that the new organization
Txippe at the same time expressed would function efficiently and fill
rus company's opposition to the its place in the community.
i itcviiiiici Mrs. J. H. Turnbull, Salem, reg-
I grippe saia the projected com- ional vice president active in help
pkny would swallow his own con- ing with plans for the organization,
cern and all other American air- presided. Mrs. O. U Paulson was
lines now operating in the foreign acting secretary forthe meeting,
jeW- J ; - which was . attended by approx-
He said pre-war European air I imately 100 parents and teachers.
cartels are already reforming, and The new PTA will aid the high
referred to a British white paper school administration, faculty and
setting out a long-range British is- students, in conducting an open
land and empire air program in house the night of April 10.
which all British lines would co-
a $730,000 budget of expenditures
for the remaining nine months
of this year. He guessed that the
annual budget would run around
a million in 1948, adding that this
year's funds remain to be raised
yet.
to the telephone again, wrote an- operate closely and. even take In
other note and court was halted foreign lines as junior partners.
again to explain that it had all
been a mistake, "Next time I'm
going to say 'Phooey!' or at least
is i-
not write any notes," he now de
clares.
Nippon Radio
Fans Jolted
By War News
cam rpiMrtcrn uiu 9t
VI ninntv Sflirf W)-Tokyo broadcasters jolted
A,x,-JUAXl'J-ttlil Japanese radio listeners today
wiut claims oi American invasions
in the Ryukyu islands only 400
miles from the Nipponese home
land and in the Philippines.
A Japanese imperial headquar-
j ters communique said "enemy for-
PORTLAND. Ore. March 17-IJPi ces" landed on the Kerama is-
The backbone of an ti Japanese lands in the Ryukyus Sunday, and
feeling on the coast would be Domei news agency reported that
broken if
rity.Said
Nor Against'
Nisei Return
Dalrymples' Condition
Reported 'Not Good'
PORTLAND,! Ore, March 27
(iP)-Conditan of A. M. Dalrym
ple, federa court bailiff and for
mer warden of the Oregon state
penitentiary, was reported "not
good" tonight' at the hospital
where he has been confined for
a week after suffering a heart
attack. li iV "
Attendants said Dalrymple's
condition jfis about the same as
when he entered." He was strick
en last Wednesday.
Supreme Court
Reverses Ruling
The state supreme court Tues
day reversed a $25,000 judgment
- granted by the Multnomah county
circuit court to Mildred Ross for
injuries she sustained Dec. 27,
1940, when a car in which she was
gressional tax leaders today on riding crashed into a Consolidated
the possibility of adjusting the Freightways truck near Algona,
capital gains tax to discourage Klamath county.
Capital Gains
Revenue Eyed
! WASHINGTON, March
The administration felt out con-
Indicating a settlement out of
court, the appeal was dismissed as
I to the trucking company and Al
bert E.- Ault, driver of the truck.
so Tuesday's decision-dealt only
with Frank Hayes, : driver of the
car in which Miss Ross rode. Chief
Justice Harry Belt dissented.
Man Loses! His Hand
speculative transactions in j farm
lands, urban real estate and se
curities. 1 j i;
I The new loan administrator,
Fred -M. Vinson, and William H.
Davies, economic stabilization di
rector, carried r the discussion to
Capitol hill, i ! j
Chairman Doughton .(D-NC) of
the house wayis and means com4 Hole Burned in Roof
minee sua ne fioia inem congress.
is too busy with other matters Fire of an undetermined origin
how, but that ' the joint house- I burned a large hole in the roof of
Senate tax staff would study the a dwelling at 322 North Church
matter. ? j ; j 1st JTUesday night, said city fire-
Thumbnail
War!
Bj Xhm AJBodated Pres :
. Western Front U. S. First sj
xny tanks, knife , 27 miles east
ward as Germans try desperate
ly to rally for a stand 235 miles
from Berlin. -I1
Rassii Russian armor
plunges within 61 miles of Vi
enna's city limit with Austrian
border 23 miles away in north
ern Hungary.,-;,4'
, Jtaly-t-Germans step , up artil
lery and -mortar, fire in effort to
relieve tallied pressure south of
Bologna. ;. t
Chbsaj Japanese by-pass Im
portant (Honan city of Nanyang
in week-old offensive extending
100 miles west of Peiping-Han-kow
raQroad.
Pacific Yanks of Eighth army
land on JCebu island against well-
prepared beach defense after ef
fective naval and air bombard
ment
House Votes
ForFoods
ation
Investiff
WASHINGTON, March 27.h(P)-
The house voted today for a food
investigation of its own. while
senators beard industry complaints
and OPA denials that price con
trols caused meat shortages.
Cattle producers and slaughter
ers told tne senate agriculture
committee in its investigation that
OPA policies have upset the nor
mal procedures zor producing ana
distributing a good supply of meat
And the same committee heard
from deputy price chief James F.
Brownleel that there is no evidence
that OPA policies have "in any
way" restricted the total supply of
pork and; beef.
Brownlee said reports of packer
profits do not substantiate claims
of spokesmen for processors that
the latter: are operating at a loss.
The national farmers union came
to the defense of the OPA in
statement saymg packers are
spear-heading a big business at
tempt to discredit price control.
The; meat industry spokesman
and champions are taking a pub-
lic-be-damned position,'' said the
statement issued by the union's
board Of directors and state presi
dents, j "They are inviting infla
Two Oregon Legislators-
Vote; Against Work Bill
WASHINGTON, March 27,-iff)-
Washington's democratic house
delegation split today on the sen
ate compromise manpower bill,
Coffee! and Savage voting against
and De tacy and JacKson for. The
two Waj
Holmes and Horan voted against
as did
Angeli and Ellsworth. The names
of Reps.;
Ed R. Hoffman. 3060 Portland
the big silent part of Yanks commenced landings on road, whol; caught his hand Tues-j
shington republicans,
the Oregon republicans,
Mott and Stockman did
not appear on the roll call.
men who were called to put out
the blaze.
No Prospect
rorlie
in P45; ; '
WASHINGTON. March Yl-V?t-
Congressional tax leaders Jet it be
known today the expectea no
general reductions j In, taxes m
1945, notwithstaridirig t h pros
pect of an early c&lapse of Ger
many. - ' j
However, ChMrman George
m-r.ai of the senate imance
committee said congress might be
able to make some iadjustments in
tax statutes .to become effective
in 4846, with particular emphasis
on encouraging thte deveiopmeni
of business. .1 ' i
I cant see any prospecU of
drastic cuts all diwn the line,"
he said. "But we must have some
revisions if we are! going to have
any business. We jwill be reaay
with a new revenue program just
as soon as conditions warrant tax
revisions.1 . I
The senator made his observa-
tions after Rep. Beea ot new
York, chairman of the bouse re
publican tax study committee,
introduced a resolution calling zor
sharp cuts in both individual and
corporation taxes, ittuned to the
end of the war' in Germany and
Japan.
Reed proposed a reduction from
95 to 60 per cent ill the corpora
tion excess profits lax rate at the
end of the war with Germany,
and complete erasure of this levy
when Japan collapses.
Moreover, the resolution called
for a 20 per cent horizontal slash
in individual income levies at the
end of the Japanese war.
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Woman Drivcfr Swims
Ashore After Plunge
REEDSPORT, March 21-JP)-
A Portland Insurance saleswoman
drove her car into the Umpqua
river today,, but j succeeded in
climbing' from the submerged
automobile and swimming ashore.
Mrs. G. H. Adams. '53, said her
car swerved into the river after
hitting a soft shoulder two miles
east of here. !
A motorist, passing after ' the
crash, pulled her from the water
to the bank after khe had swum
to the river's edge. She was not
injured.
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CRYSTAL
GARDEII
Wednesday;
FeaturiniEr
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Two Floors and
Two Bands ,
ijuuiic opinion ' reauy a major
itywould speak out boldly, an
authority on racial minorities said
today. -
tarey McWilliams, author of
Prejudice", declared, "It is the
spotty variation of that opinion in
some rural areas (White river val
i?y m Washington, Hood River
and Gresham in Oregon) that is
causing the trouble.?
He said anti-Japanese prejudice
is based largely on economic com
petition. "In Hawaii, where the
Japanese are a relatively larser
Cebu island, Philippines, yester
day.
There was no confirmation by
United SUtes authorities of the
Japanese radio statements, heard
by the FCC.
Battleships and carrier aircraft
of the US Fifth fleet bombarded
and bombed Ryukyu islands, in
cluding the ' Kerama group but
mostly the main island of Okin
awa, last weekend and Monday.
The Japanese communique also
claimed without confirmation that
the- American fleet and
forces were met with "furious
day in machinery at the textile
mill where he is employed, wai
taken! to the Deaconess hospital
where attendants said it was necf
essary to amputate the hand.
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TODAY AND THDES.
Return Encnjeiuont
Sho4 Starts 8:15 P. M.
WATFRtOO BRIPGe
anti-JaDanese
leenng at alL" he stated.
McWilliams compared Oregon's
nu japanese situation to that in
souinern CaliforniaL which he
termed "very good especially in
trie urban communities.''
which sank five large warships,
sank or damaged five more
shot down or damaged 154 Yank
planes. -r
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I Oldest MIT Graduate -
Passes Away at 100
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. March 27.
() - Professor Emeritus Robert
Allied Russian Convoys
lose Only 8.4 Per Cent
twtvw ;,)1,JHillow!1 Richards, oldest living
J.T4 'J r graduau of Massachusetts Insti-
l. . w w tiuiin one oi
the most hazard ous war routes-
have suffered losses of only 1.4
per cent, A. V. Alexander, first
jora oi ui admiralty, disclosed
today at a luncheon honoring the
ooviei armea forces.
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Nelse Eddy ts -
"Nougnlr MarUtta"
Starts FrLt i "Hotel Bernm"
tute of Technology, and the last
surviving member of the institute's
first class, died today. He would
nave been 101 years old next Aug
ust 25.
Obituary
J. C Howard of Police
Force Resigns Tuesday
V Vhit . . .. I : " . .- uiuiiui
JauihtT. r."ZJ?r2 2!? t, who has been with the dtr
at the art at tt yn. March n. Sur- Police force since October, " 1941.
ivodby two sons. Volcmh KiTtt U I mifrtori Ti.. .Jn
mm w. s. armr. Lrri Kit
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vuuu i mwid, uiuoeu Lynch and
Hjzel WaUUns of Sixkn. mWAJJ-Z
M effort ot Ntm. Ore, two brothers.
William Xivtt aprinakCoST
Okm Klvctt ot Grand JuncUoC
Colo., and II grandchildren. Announce
ment of senrleos later by Chxica Btr-
riL-K ana cwnpanj".
resigned Tuesday and will leave
Thursday for Kerrville, Texas, to
tae ms home. Howard served
the force as a patrolman and radio
operator. . I
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COMPTROLLER OT TtIS CURRZtlCY
AS OF MARCH 20, 1043
RISOURCIS
Cash on Hand and Due from Banks.
United States Gorernment Bonds
Uunicipal and Other Bonds
tioans and Discounts . V
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Stock in Federal Reserve Bank. . ....... .....
Bank Premises (including. Branches) . . . .
Other Real Estate .
Interest Earned ......
Other Resources . i ..J..l...
.1. . ..... . 'ii . ";$102,470,87U4
342,661,08344
5,531,4134
36,710771
1 420,000X0
3,193.704.79
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Capital.. .....-... .$6,000,000X0
Surplus 8,000X00.00
Undivided Profits . 2,840X93.23
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1,17038191 1 18X10.479.14.
1,631,222.47
Keserves ............... .....
Reserves for Interest? Taxes, etc
Dividends Declared,.. '..!- : 270,000.00
47240,093.42
55066.13
Deposits . . . . . . .
Other Liabilities
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