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Storm Leaves
pManyHurt,
i Without Homes
it" OKLAOMA CITY, April It.-!(ff)-At
least 59 Oklahoroans were
jUuted as dead tonight in tornadoes
.'which dipped into many commun
'iUes over the state, leaving hun
ji'dreds injured and homeless.
Red Cross Chairman Paul Qs
j'bora at Antlers in Pushmatha
county said -47 -bodies had been
i .recovered there from wreckage
If-over one third of the town of 3000
'J'and added he would-not be sar
i prised if the final toll ran as high
as "80 or 100."
If-" Red Cross workers from over
i the state were arriving te aid in
; '. caring for the hundreds of injured
!.at Antlers and ambulances from
' nearby army posts were called ln-
k to service.
I - Nine were reported dead at
! " Muskogee and three at Oklahoma
City in an afternoon of horror
r during which the twisters struck
-ln at least eight communities.
Osborn said the situation at
Antlers was desperate with light
; f. and power-services suspended and
: -urgent need lor more amDuiances,
' doctors and nurses. The army sent
'eight ambulances from Camp
i,;Maxie, Tex.
'l Approximately one-third of the
i city, including business and resi
! dential districts, was destroyed by
::the storm, one of the worst ever
to settle in Oklahoma, Osborn
padded.
British Eighth
Hammers West
In Italy Push
. ROME, April 12-(-The British
.Eighth army hammered Westward
today from three bridgeheads a-
! , cross the Santemo river and Brit
: ish armor locked in a heavy bat
; tie with Nazi Tiger tanks.
;; ; North of the new bridgeheads
; troops which had made amphib
ious landings .from Lake Comac
chio behind the enemy's lines cap
. tured the villages of Menate and
; Longastrino and liked up with oth-
er units advancing astride the
Reno river.
i - Polish troops of the Eighth ar
' my. smashing along the vital high
; way nine (via Emilia) which runs
i from Bologna through Faenza
i captured Castel Bolognese, an im
i portant junction town five miles
west of Faenza and 24 miles south
east of Gologna. Their dawn at
tack routed a strong enemy guard.
RAF Mosquitos
Pound Berlin
LONDON, Friday, April l3-Jf)
RAF Mosquitos, continuing their
nightly raids on Berlin, made
; three separate attacks on the
rubble - strewn German capital
Jast night, the air ministry an-.
enounced today.
; ;, These latest raids made a total
of nine attacks on the capital in
:-' the last three nights, and 59 in the
Oast 49 days.
At least 117 German' planes
were destroyed on the ground yes
! terday by U. S. Ninth air force
.; - continent-based planes, bringing
the total of enemy planes de
, stroyed in six days to 1032.
.Roosevelt's Sons Hear
Of Death in War Areas
GUAM, Friday, April 13 -Up)
Word of President Roosevelt's
death reached his son. LL Cmdr
Franklin Roosevelt, jrn off Oki
nawa this morning after a suicidal
; .Japanese air attack on American
: Jnvasion forces.
Another Roosevelt son, Lt. John
Roosevelt, is supply officer on an
.aircraft carrier with the Pacific
. fleet. His exact whereabouts was
not known here.
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Tokyo Bombed!
"The rvrple Heart"
Dana Andrews
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Robert Lhrhigston In
"PRIDE OF THE PLAINS"
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fied armlea an tha fishtinjr fronts
are stationed, and their field commanders. (AJr Mewsreatures)
Livestock Men
Ash Increase
In Beef Price
WASHINGTON, April 12
Livestock growers asked today for
a cent a pound, price increase,
saying it would pat beef on the
nation's dinner tables.
The state department mean
while requested U. S. participa
tion in an international food or
ganization, asserting it would be
a major factor in keeping the
world fed and peaceful in the .fu
ture. These current and long-time
aspects of the food situation were
presented concurrently to differ
ent agencies of congress.
The price plea was presnted by
P. O. Wilson of Chicago, secre
tary-manager f the National
Livestock Producers association.
to the senate agriculture commit
tee, investigating food shortages
Considerable committee sentiment
for higher producer prices was in
dicated by members' Comment ap
plauding the war food adminis
tration's boost in the hog support
price from 12.50 to $13 a hundred
pounds.
Wilson advocated raising the
ceiling on "AA" cattle from $17
to $18 a hundred, instead of drop
ping it to sie.50 on July 1 as
now planned.
"It would not cost consumers
any more than they are paying
now when you figure what they're
paying the black market," he as
serted.
'There ' were 2,700,000 calves
slaughtered last year which would
have been fed to steer weight if
the price structure had been fav
orable," Wilson said. "The coun
try lost the difference between
their average weight of 350 to
400 pounds and the weight of a
1000 pound steer."
mint plants for about four, years.
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It's a Gay Musical!
KAY EYSER
Ann Miller
Victor Moor
in
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Salem Meets
Harry Truman
Salem has met the 82nd presi
dent of the United States. Harry
S. Truman of Missouri was intro
duced to Oregon's capital city in
much the same way as was the
man who was to become the 31st
president standing , on the rear
platform of a train delivering a
campaign address.
In Oregon last fall he expressed
interest in western induslries and
problems of reconversion to peace
time operation. .Earlier as chair
man of the powerful senate com
mittee investigating war produc
tion, Truman visited industrial
sites throughout the northwest.
Ship Repair
Plan Signed
PORTLAND, Ore., April 12-UP)
AFL unions and representatives
of six shipyards and three ship
repair firms ? in this area today
signed a new agreement on wages
and conditions in ship repairing.
The agreement, effective until
hostilities end in all war theatres,
provides for wage scales now in
effect but; permits transfer of
workers from new shipbuilding to
repair work.' Wage scale for re
pairmen here cads for an 11.8 per
cent increase over new ship con
struction because of shorter em
ployment periods and more dan
gerous conditions.
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Parents Learn!
Missing Son
Nazi Prisoner i
The best possible news came to
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Crenshaw, 3000 Portland road.
this week when they received; a
letter from their son, Cpl. Ken
neth (Buck) Crenshaw, missing
since December 21 in Germany,
He us now a prisoner of war in
Germany and this was the first
word his family -had received of
him In almost four months.
"Tell the folks not to worry too
much as I am all right. With the
food we get and the Red Cross
packages; we get along pretty
good.
Kenneth was in the 106th in
fantry division and was in the
mid-December battle of the Bel
gian bulge. He is 19 years old
and has not been home in nearly
a year. A"brother, Cpl. Robert W.
Crenshaw, is now in India.
The mastiff dog has altered In
no important particular from sev
eral centuries B.C. to the present
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There Isn't tlie
Majss Yelling
But basketball, football, base
ball and other nrjanized sports
will take a back seat tomorrow
in favor of, the eternal sport
fishing. 1 . i. ;
By bus, car, horseback and
afoot, Oregon anglers will take
to the streams for the opening
01 tne. 1943 .trout . season -
weather or no weather i and
the tall-tale times are all but
on. . , - , . - r
A table of coastal tides has
appeared in Tb Statesman all
this week and will continue
to be published as a service.
And tomorrow, Sports Edit
or AI Ugbtner' will have Ur
aay. on fishing as wen as a
bang-up photo on that topic.'
Al says he went fishing once,
Cot all wet, didn't get any fish,
and prefers chess. But he has
aa fine story about it, anyway.
And ; The Statesman will be
represented in the woods, Al or
no AL So here's luck lots of it.
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Truck Rams
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One-ay traffic was ordered by
the stale highway department
Thursday on a steel bridge, located
three-fourths of a mile east of Val
ley Junction on the Salmon River
cutoff, after the bridge was struck
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Life of FDR
As Portrayed
ByJvey Dates
WASHINGTON,
April 11-VPr-
Important - dates
In President
Roosevelfi life:
Born Jan. 30, 1883.'
Was graduated: "from Harvard.
Married, 1905.
Admitted to New York
state
bar, 1907.
Member of New York state sen
ate, 1910-1913.
Assistant secretary of the navy,
1913-20.
Democratic nominee for vice
president, 1920.
Was stricken with paralysis,
1921.
Governor of New York. 1929-33.
Elected president of the United
States, 1932, 1936. 1940, 1944.
Became a wartime president.
Dec. 7. 1941.
Died April 12, 1945
i It was -on his first inaugural.
March 4, 1933, that he uttered the
words for which perhaps he was
best known; The only thing we
have to fear is fear itself.";
I It was in his message to con
gress asking a declaration of war
against Japan, Dec. 8, 1941, that
he again sounded an historic ex
pression. He said then that the
day of the -Pearl Harbor attack
was one "which will live in In
famy." ':-t ,
and damaged by a heavy lagging
truck. . j
I Officials said repairs would get
under way as. soon as the required
steel could be obtained but it
probably would be two or three
weeks before two-way traffic
resumed.
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of War! ;
By the Associated Press t '
Western front : . Lightning
crossing of doe river carries U.
8. 9th within 57 . miles of, Berlin
as other Tanks surge toward
Leipzig. . ; .' r t .
Kossla Red troops ? sever
nazis' last Vienna' lifeline! with
Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, as Ger
mans retreat through narrow
seven-mile gap. t
Pacific Jap warplanea sink
one American destroyer, damage
other fleet units off Okinawa,
but 111 enemy planes shot down.
rhQiDplnes Yanks success
fully invade Bohol island in
Philippines, quickly seize con
trol " '1
Italy British 8th storms to
ward Bologna from three bridge
heads across the Santemo river,
Polish division taking important
junction town. 1 i
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Flag Should Fly Hall-
Mast Through Sunday
WASHINGTON, April n -0P)
The proper manner to display the
flag in memory of President
Roosevelt is at half-mast, from
sunrise to sunset. 1 5 .
"Half masting, of flags should
only be done when a nation is in
mournlne." the library 01 1 con
gress said tonight, "Quite obvious
ly that applies now." .
MacArthur Orders 1
Flags at Half-Mast )
MANILA, Friday, April lS-P)
Gen. Douglas ' MacArthur today
ordered all flags in the southwest
Pacific theatre of war flown at
half mast because of the death
of President Roosevelt
James UUlNrJ as Jolmijy. . .
Haring nothing . . .he gvn himtelf . '
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100 Fofresters
Gather Here !
One hundred foresters,. private,
state and federal employes, gath
ered : at the Quelle on Thursday
night for the annual state forestry
department banquet. ,
L W. Webster, Olympia, assist
ant chief forester for the state of
Washington, spoke on . reforesta
tion activities in his state. Charles
Henrys, Clatsop county forester,
discussed the cooperation between
state and county, Dean Paul. M.
Dunn of the Oregon State college
school of forestry, spoke on activi
ties and trends of education in the
school of forestry.
George W. Peary, long dean of
the school and former acting
president of the college, cast aside
his prepared speech, paid tribute
to President Roosevelt ' and spoke
of the future of j the nation and
the responsibilities of its citizens.
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