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fn WW lJ II tnr Walirniift l jane uibuuie Looms CITY EDITION iffy- $ Union Leaders Meet WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (UP)-Leaders of 1,100,000 . ...ratine railway employes expect to issue befnr LANK NEWSPAPER. ITiTorder for a strike Dec. 30, it was learned today. EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1943 ON STREETS So NEWS STANDS Be NO. 174 Tne 11 -.v...w.wm nucaujr nave oraereu Wr 350.1WU memoeis wu ucgui a evruie on mat date, an mas& mm ruuuuj UultuULd LANK COUNTY HOME VOL. 101 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY - VU EwPresident Roosevelt had told LtfM conference that a rail- " Strike would be the worst Z, imaginable against the war Mt The president revealed he a jrMd a compromise proposal averting a strike of the five Liting railway brotherhoods Allowing them four cents an L, in additio .to four cents flrfrf by an emergency board. , StfriMi Today jmreientatives of the 15 non anting groups met today while iitutive committees of. the five resting unions were meeting In ETome hotel to discuss the ad rjniitration proposal. There was jnnouncement from the non witting group, but it was learn ,1 that the officials were planning o lnue a strike call for Dec. 30. Tbt non-operating unions' de jsion to force a showdown came sly one day after they were de lated in their efforts to obtain m Immediate house vote on the pite-aproved Truman resolution b boost their hourly rates by sjht cents an hour. the non-operating leaders, it ns raid, complained that while Sej had had three understand jn with the president during the pit six months for settlement of luit wage dispute, none had ma Wiilized. Meanwhile It was understood Did the non-operating group does tot favor the house interstate tanmerce committee's proposed edification of the Truman reso lution to strip Economic Stabillza tm Director Fred M. Vinson of Hthority over railway wage OHt. ,' will Treatment I The union leaden were said to Itkn would put them In a position fl that the proposed modlfica- of seeking special treatment through congress. They have in cited throughout the long contro nnjr that the eight-cent hourly niie, which was recommended by d emergency board and vetoed tr Vinson, did not violate the Inn itabllization program. I Officials of the five operating Imioos held a threehour -mom-Ifci lenton and announced at Its iooeiutkm that they would go to ft whit house at 3 p.m. for their meeting of the week wltn dent Roosevelt The non- itag group has not been par ting in these conference. Tht solution of the operating tployes' wag Issue proposed by Soosrvtlt would retain a four- entt-in-hour increase which was ill that Vinson would grant for Icht time. To that the prest it would add another four cents hour, on the average, by pay' Dent of time and a half for over tint, . lane Taxpayers flush This Year Tax oavments on th 1943-44 kvi far exceeded those ta pre vail years, County Treasurer Grin Schtska said Tuesday. Many ot the property owners of the romty are paying their taxes in full Immediately this year in order w retain me tnree per ceni re nte rather than paying by quar ten and running a risk of a pen' ity for not paving on time. Tuesday the aheriffi office ail a turnover to the treasurer " more than half a million dol- IT1 CftlWterl nn 4hA mnnt mil. The total of $548,713.73 has been "sregated as follows: State and ""nty taxes, $181,843.77; city wee, $105,662.62; school district fool districts, $62,471.34: county ysnscnool tuition fund, $6665.14; ttt fire patrol, $5368.21: water : ers Reappoinfed To State Bank Post Th Stat tisnMnf, KnP w4b ' a four-year term as state "genntendent of banks. Kogers was appointed In 1939 nng the term of former Gov. wanes A. SDramie. H wn en- Peed in k.i. i. , to 1933 when he went to Spo- u"e lth the fntmt lnnrt h.nk. .J state banking board is com fd of Gov. Earl Snell. Treas-' "" Leslie Scott, and Secretary nooert s. Farrell, Jr, Knox Supports Kaiser Plan on Post-War Jobs WASHINGTON. Dee. 21 (U.B Secretary of Navy Frank Knord sam xoaay mat Henry J. Kaiser's pian lor determining the job wishes of soldiers and sailors by means of questionnaires was a 'very thoughtful suggestion" but should be held In abeyance until nearer tne end of the war." Kaiser's plan, outlined in an ex elusive interview on Saturday with Frank H. Bartholomew, United Press vice president, is under con sideration by the navy, Knox dis closed at his press conference. Committees Proposed The west coast shipbuilder pro posed that committees be set up in every community to consider and make detailed preparations for the return of service personnel to civ ilian life. The committees, oper ating rather like draft boards in reverse, would analyze question naires sent to service men to de termine where and how they want to live and what they want to do after the war. Knox agreed that some prepara tions for such a program could be made now. Although he felt the proposed questionnaires should not be submitted now, Knox said Kaiser's proposals would help to "combat propaganda that nobody gives a damn what would happen to them (service men) which Is very untrue." Kaiser's program, Knox con tinued, would help toward "a bet ter preparation for peace better for us, better for the country, and better for the world." Example Cited He cited th case of a small New England town whose chamber of commerce Investigated the pre war jobs oi evory service man lji.nn m . ii - . 1 1 -.-' m u- T ber then interviewed all the em ployers involved and was able to assure the men that they would get their same Jobs back on their re turn If they wanted them. Asserting that this town showed fine example of community co operation, Knox recommended that other small towns pursue a similar course. ' Weather . Weather Forecast; Oregon -rartlv r1nu t ..iw id WM,,cj.l '.' .i" . , - ' "- i a jf Willi VHilCJf ".'. JJJjght. Little change in temper- Loral Siiii.il... . minimum iciii- ' .UT Tiimbm - ns Am. W.. w aegree; stage of Wil U feit. " " L" '" AW . m. Tuesday, U? t.m. r... S:00 a. m. L ' I0:1B. m. 4 p. m. Us Peril IFo -at bonirad Ban on Press Second. Front Guesses Looms WOUNDED GUNNER PULLED FROM PLANE Rear Gunner Kenneth Bratton of Mississippi, wounded In the Nov. S raid on Rabaul, waa pulled from the turret of his Avenger torpedo plane after It landed on the carrier Saratoga. Bratton retained consciousness until lifted from the plane by Lt. Julius Bescoe (USNR), former University of Southern California football ace. AF Wirephoto from U. S. Navy) LONDON, Dec. 21 0J.B Brlt tsh and Afherican censorship au thorities were understood today to be preparing to ban publication and broadcasting of all specula tion originating in either country on the opening of a second front in western Europe. Speculation originating In neu tral countries or picked up from axis radio broadcasts or news papers would not be affected by th nrHar it Is hflif.VMt. Military authorities in London! They are Mrs. June Schults, nnA Wnshlnotnn r uiri to be i who came here from Marshall. dissatisfied with the widespread town, Iowa, and Mrss Sandra San discussions over where, when and i Juan, Des Moines, Iowa. how an invasion of western i "We just started laiKing aooui Sisters Meet At Shipyard For First Time SEATTLE, Dec. 21 W Two women, working side by side as welders' helpers at the Associated shipyards here, have discovered they are sisters, through a chance conversation. ANOTHER INVASION SEEN IN RAID ON NEW BRITAIN Van Winkle P' Filled by Governor SALEM. Dec. 21 MV-George Neuner Sr., McMinnville, was ap pointed stat attorney-general vesterday By uovernor oneu io serve out the term of the late I. H. Van Winkle, which expires Jan. 1, 194S. Neuner was graduated from Willamette in 1908 and practiced law in Roseburg until appointed United States district' attorney for Oregon in 1925, with headquart ers in Portland, post he held until 1933. He was assistant chief elerk oi the house of representatives In 1909. a member of the lower house In 1911 and of th senate In 1913. He has served as assistant attorney general of Oregon and attorney for the Oregon liquor control commission. He was gov ernment appeal agent during the first World war, city Mtorney or Roseburg from 1910 to 1912 and Douglas county district attorney for many years. He is married and has three children. Iron Lung Is Vain Resort For Soldier emergency resort "to- Lane county's iron lung, Robert Struck, 24, soldier rushed - here from Camp White at Medford, failed to survive an attack of in fantile paralysis here Monday night. He died at about 1 a. m. in sac red Heart general hospital, three i.n,,v. ntl or hi arrival from Med- forrl. - 4 Th Iron lung, belonging to Lane county chapter of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, was called upon for one of its infrequent rescue missions, but in this case It was louna im. possible to stave off death. Paralvsla of the breathing mus. cles, described by the attending physician as "a rapidly progress in thin, sometimes amenable to treatment, sometimes not," refused to yield in this Instance. The soldier's young wife, Mrs, Vieva Struck, 711 Cedar, street, Medford, accompanied her hus band here and waited In the hos nltal during the vain battle to mva him. - Military authorities were said to be coming here Tuesday to take charge of the body, which was taken to the Veath-Holllngsworth mortuary, Franco Attempts To Rally Spain MADRID, Dec. 21 U.B Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco sought to rally all Spain behind his government today with th establishment of greater freedom of the press, political amnesty for all prisoners except those convict ed of murder, dissolution of th falange party militida and modi fication of some party organizations. The political amnesty, most Generous In Snaln's history, was announced yesterday. The minis, trv of iustice estimated 8000 pris. oners would be released before Christmas. ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, NEW QUINEA, Dec. 21 (U.R) A record 414-ton Amer ican raid that shattered Japanese defenses on Cape Gloucester touched off speculation today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur may be planning an invasion of the north western tip of New Britain in an attempt to tighten the blockade. oi Kaoaui. r, Hundreds of American Libera tors, Mitchells and Marauders, striking in two formations, spread fire and destruction through the Cape Gloucester area, 275 miles southwest ot Rabaul, Sunday in the heaviest attack of the war in the southwest Pacific. The raid exceeded in weight the 356-ton assault, previously the heaviest in the southwest Pacific, that smashed the Arawe penin sula defenses 50 miles to the southeast less than 24 hours be fore sixth army troops swarmed ashore last Wednesday. Capture of Cape Gloucester would cut the northern barge line from New Guinea to Rabaul and leave that key bastion dependent entirely on Truk, Japan's Pearl Harbor, some 800 miles to the north, for supplies and reinforce ments. Sixth army patrols were reveal ed to have pushed nearly six to nine miles northeast ot the Ara we peninsula on the southwest coast of New Britain to the ap proaches to the Sigul ana Puu rivers. Gasmate. 82 miles east of Are we and a trans-shipment point on the southern New Britain coast. also was hit by allied bombers, Some 90 miles across Dampier strait from Arawe. Australian iunela forces drove across the Masaweng river, previously con sidered a natural defense Una, In mirsuit of Japanese fleeing north' westward around New Guinea' Huon peninsula. Europe will be launched, British Policy British newspapers have been adhering fairly well to broad cen sorship. directives permitting them to speculate only along the line suggested in official announce ments or speeches of high govern ment authorities and to report foreign speculation of any kind. The censorship discussion rjcarance convoys shuttling big detachmenta of the American troops to Britain and sp.ecutaUonj.ver.wheiher ''SEE BAN ON PRESS STORY . PAGB t . . Planing Mill Case Upheld, Modified Maintenance of an open saw dust fire with no device or appar atus for control should be en joined but a reasonably controlled burner or furnace should not b included in an injunctory decree, the state supreme court held Tuesday at Salem as It upheld but modified the decree of tne circuit court for Lane county in the case of Linus W. Lindley vs. Wilbur H. Hyland and others (Eugene plan ing mill-. The case, which came to the court her on appeal by the de fendants, Involved claims of the plaintiff that smoke and refuse from the mill's fire enveloped his home and caused him to suffer physically. Lindley had asked for 500 damages in nis sun lor an Injunction, and received the In innniinn hut not the damages. Sine h had not appealed, the supreme court could not award him the money sked, the opinion, written by Associate Justice Percy R. Kelly, points out However, th opinion continue with an ex pression of belief that the plaintiff had suffered damages. The modification of the decree permits th planing mill to install a control devie on 1U burning equipment TROOPS GUARD BOLIVIA MINES AFTER REVOLT LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 21. Troops guarded Bolivia's tin ore mines today as a nationalist junta which yesterday overthrew the govern ment of Gen. Enrique Penaranda announced that it was firmly en trenched and discounted rumors that a counter-revolution had begun. The troops were stationed at the mines, producing a large por tion ot the tin ore used in th manufactute ot United States and British arms, In one ot the first acts of th new government which pledged, however, to live up to Bolivia's commitment to the Unl.ert Nations. Victor Paz Estensoro, leader of the coup and new finance minis ter, told an Interviewer that "the Atlantic Charter and other obliga tions of Bolivia will be respected and maintained and "the new goverment In no case will alter the international situation at the side ot the United Nations." Sim ilar sentiments were expressed by Maj. Alberto Vlllaroel, th new president. To Affeet Output (Dispatches from Santiago, Chile, not that th na tionalist revolutionary movement from which most of the new lead ers are drawn has long campaign ed against control ot the mining Industry by three major produc ing companies. These advlcea said the coup could hardly fail to af fect the production of tin. (It was announced In Washing ton that, pending direct word from La Pas, negotiation be tween- the Bolivian government and the United States Metal Re. how we couldn't get our birth cer tiflcates," Mrs. Schults explained today. "Sandra asked me lt I thought I was born in Missouri, and I said, "No, Iowa.' " "Suddenly Sandra looked at me funny, and asked me, 'Was your nam Fiddler?'. " "I told h'er that was correct. She asked me about my younger sis ters, Alice and Frances Marlon. 'I told her what I knew how Alice ..."I? "T. 5 .,. .;i and I had been placed in an or. Hvcr lllJ "CC.-tllU ... -K- . , , . ..,,, .... ,.,. .- nf rllenntrhea te Hn of "" """"- ' small and taken from It by our grandmother when we were 10. Then Sandra took hold, ot my arm and took me over to a corner to sit down. 'I've got something to (tll a eolrl T am vnnr altir ' " Sandra was the "Frances Mar Ion Fiddler" of childhood. Both sisters said they had tried, when youngsters, to find out about each other. But Sandra waa born after the other two had been taken by a grandmother, and Sandra in turn was adopted by another family and th sisters never knew each other. "It's a lot of fun, now, visiting back and forth," they said. SEE TROOPS GUARD STORY PAGE , Five Ex-Leaders Of France Seized Missing Plane Sought In Pendleton Area PENDLETON. Ore., Dec. 21 M A search was under way in the rugged mountains east of here to day for single - engined army plane that vanisnea law mgni uo signaling for an Instrument land ing here because of the heavy overcast , The Pendleton air base public relations office said' the plane took off from Felts field, Spokane, shortly after 4 p. m. The pilot flew over Pendleton field at 5:10 p. m., reported three hours' gasoline supply, and said he would attempt a blind landing. The ship disappeared to the east . : Senate Adjourns For Holiday Recess WASHINGTON. Dee. 21-) n,. .nxtii adiourned at 12:47 p. m.-. today, bringing to a ciose in , QT pART op 8HOw first session of the 78th congress LQS ANGELESl Dec. 21. U.B for that chamber, and beginning Tne 1500 patrons of a movie Wie the Christmas recess which will ; atrr Mt quietly while a robbery continue until Jan. 10. I was taking place on the stage. The adjournment resolution j ip, thought the hand that went to the house, which was reached through the curtain into till disoosing of eleventh hour I , howl containing 1125 for a draw- business, when the senator. hlTr Powerful Red Drive Likely To Isolate Finns From Nazis Anti-Nazi Revolt Rages in North Italy NAPLES. Dec. 21. W North ern Italy is flaming with revolt against the Ge-man military com mand and Its puppet Italian gov ernment trustwo.thy information reaching Naples showed today. At the same time it was reported that 'the Germans, following the tactics employed In Naples, have forcibly evacuated whole areas of Rome, presumably to permit Ger man engineers to plant mines and dynamite on a large scale. This may indicate a decision on abandonment Note During th temporary absence of DeWitt MacKenle, this feature la being conducted by William Fry of th Wash ington bureau.) ' By WILLIAM FRYE Associated Press War Analyst The great red army offensive now rolling southwest of Nevel, whatever its immediate tactical aims, is clearly a major blow aimed eevntually at collapsing the German left flank. It is, moreover, in all likelihood only the first of a series of winter drives by the Russians calculated to speed up considerably the prob able intention of the German staff to withdraw by spring to th so called Riga-Odessa line. The power of this northern lunee is indicated by German con fession of losses long before the Russians disclosed progress. even admitted the drive had start ed. And the Russians probably expect to keen moving, with grow ing momentum, until the red army, reaching the Baltic, has relieved the long siege of Leningrad and isolated Finland from her nazi illy. There Is In some Washington circles a rather strong belief that the "main" Russian show, presum ably timed to coincide with inva sion of western Europe, Is still to coma, nd will com la to south) aimed through th Ukraine and toward Rumania. Such an offen sive probably will be launched. But that should not minimize the importance of the push already undertaken In tne nortn. Tne truth is that the Germans prob ably used up their last "real armored striking force In the counterattacks In the Kiev bulge, I and now that those have failed, have lost the initiative tn th Russians along th entire front That calls for some line-tightening by the Germans. It calls for It particularly because the nazis are scraping the bottom of the manpower barrel, and cannot re place their lost divisions with equally strong fighting units. Al ready men past 40 hsve been thrown Into action on the Russian front a sufficient Indication ot Germany's manpower straits. The figure of 300 divisions still Is used for German army strength, but many of them are no longer first rate divisions. All of this points to the likeli hood that the nazi high command will pull back, partly by plan but obviously as the result of Russian pressure, to a line pegged on Riga In the north and th Dniester river in the south. Bv shortening their line that much, the nazis probably could man the Russian front with 30 less division. More City Workers In Montreal Strike MONTREAL, Dec. 21. W Montreal's second strike of muni cipal' employes within a w.k started today, with an estimated 2,000 city hall clerks and stenogra phers out to enforce demands for higher wages. The white collar workers turned down an offer from the provincial government, through the Quebec municipal commission, for an ar bitration board to Investigate their wage demands. A week ago today employes of the police, fire and public works departments staged a 14-hour strike that won them union recognition for the Canadian congress of labor, 1 Those striking today are mem bers of the national syndicate of ; municipal workers and two small er unions who joined forces wltn th syndicate, recognized by the city as bargaining agent for the whit collar workers. Th vol was 050-40 to strlka at last night's mass meeting. U. S. Consulate In Spain Invaded WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 U The slate department revealed to day that two members of General. Issimo Franco's falanglst party invaded the United States consul ate at Valencia, Spain, on Satur day, tore down photographs and harangued visitors there. The report of the Incident was received from the U. S. ambass ador to Spain, J. H. Carlton Hayes. Ho said "appropriate rep resentations" were being made both In Madrid and In Valencia. The report did not describe the photographs other than aa being "press" pictures. The falanglst recently broke Into the British consulate at Sar agossa and abused the consul there. ALGIERS, Dec. 21 00 Fl v Frenchmen formerly high 1ft their nation' political Ufa, including former Premier Pierre-Kttenn Flandln, paced cells in Algiers' military prison today, charged by th French national committee with treason. Justice Commissioner Francois d Menthon, who acted at th di rection of the commltte follow ing an investigation of th five cases, said the arrests of th fiv Flandln; Marcel Peyrouton, for mer Vichy interior minister; Plerr Tixler-Vignancourt, former Vichy secretary-general of Infor mation; former Gov, Gen, Plerr Boisson of French west Africa, and former French Deputy Andre Albert began two days ago and wer completed this morning, British Loso 42 Planes In Big Raids By Associated Pres British bombers "In very great strength" rained mor than 2000 long tons of explo sive death on the German city of Frankfurt last night In on of the most massive war as saults in history and mounted a secondary attack on the Rhineland chemical cities of Mannheim-Ludwigshafen. . . Striking from another direction, other allied planea bombed th Bulgarian capital of Sofia for th fifth time, concentrating on th rail yards. Ensuing air battle cost the allle 11 planes and th enemy 28. Other planea attacked th Elevsls airfield near Athens, a principal spring of German air power In the threatened Balkan. "First reports Indicate the bomb ing was effective and large tires war left burning," the British air ministry said of th assault cat Frankfurt Th British lost 4 plane in all night operations which Included Mosquito stings at unspecified points in western uermany ana Belgium, min laying and attacks on coastal ahlpping. Th heavy British bombing, blow followed daylight assault yesterday by U. 8. Fortresses and Liberator on Bremen, th German submarine and shipbuilding bat which haa become th leading nasi port sine Hamburg was knocked out of th war. We lost 25 heavy bomber and eight fighter and destroyed 40 German planes. Reds Peril Germans Before Leningrad Reds Discontinue 'Internationale' LONDON, Dec. 21. OP) Rus sia is hailed aa a "republic of the free" In new soviet national an them which has replaced tht fa mous "Internationale," a Moscow broadcast said last night The "Internationale" was aban doned by order of the council of peoples commissars, the broadcast said, because It "does not reflect the basic changes that have taken place in our country as a result of the vitories of the soviet system." 1 The old anthem begins: "Arise, y , prisoners of starvation, arise y wretched of the earth," and con cludes with "the International so viet will free the human race." The new song praises th vic torious growth of the soviet union. MacArthur Declines Political Comment ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 21. W -N.i comment was available from Gen. Douglas MacArthur or his staff today on the latest Wash ington press stories suggesting that MacArthur would accept the re publican presidential nomination. The southwest Pacific com mander and his senior officers were described as too occupied with the current New Britain cam paign to hsve time or opportunity for comment on political Issues. CHURCHILL IMPROVES LONDON. Dec. 21. UB The condition of Prime Minister Churchill continues to improve, an official announcement said today, and his cabinet colleagues expect ed momentarily the resumption of the flood of directives which nor mally pour In whan h it (broad. 1 State Parole Board Director Resigns SALEM. Dec. 21 M Resign tion of Fred Flnsley, director of the state board of parole and pro bation for the P. I four and one half years, was announced her today by th board simultaneously with the appointment of H. M. Randall, Portland, tn the position. Flnsley will move to Wheeler county tn resum th practic of law, h Th Increasingly violent air of fensive cam as th first Baltic army of Russia waa reported with in 20 mile of Vitebsk. Th wMk old offensive in th Ncvcl area of whit Russia threatened to isolate German armies and also Imperiled the whole German position before Leningrad. Dispatches said th Russlsn of fensive In the north had forced th Germans to divert troops from th Kiev bulge and area farther south. Some 3600 Germans wer reported killed on various front and 70 mora hamlet toppled in the Nevel area. Polotsk, as well as Vitebsk, was threatened, and th capture of both these rail centers would fore the Germans to rely on communi cations between the center and north on rail lines far west In old Poland. Another Indication ot closer re lations between Russia and her al lies was the abandonment of th "Internationale" as the soviet na tional anthem, In favor of new song glorifying Lenin and Stalin. War In Brief By United Pres Air War Hundreds of RAP bombers blast German chemical centers with 2000-ton raid on Frankfurt and subsidiary attack on Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, 41 bombers lost; Mediterranean-based American heaviea pound Sofia and Athens airfield, loss nine bombers and fighters, down 28 en emy fighters. Italy American gain ltt mil on right wing of 6th army front, seize mount Spinucclo overlook ing main Inland road to Rome; British reported fighting in street of Orsogna, Inland anchor of nasi Adriatic Una. Russia Red army advance con tinues through 50-mile gap In German defense below Nevel; soviet outflank Vitebsk, drive within 40 miles of Polish frontier; Germans abandoning guns and equipment Pacific Record 414-ton bomb Ing raid on Cap Gloucester air droms foreshadows possible new allied landing on northwest coast of New Britain; American acts Arawe air strip on south Co, ex tend beachhead to as much nln miles; Japanese seen evacuating Bougainville atrongpoint. , - FORMER COACH DKS PORTLAND, Dec. 21. W Funeral arrangement wer under way today for Earl P. W. Harding, 83, one-time chemistry Instructor and football coach at Oregon Stat collg, who aUd y1ry. IHHZ ,i;!:tSlevtngth.c.pitol. X
