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Newspaper Page Textnsion Coast Struck W Hew Berlin Raid I t t n 21 (UP) A P"eat fleet allled planes heavy bombers smashed at the French V '"i Tv after the royal air force sent a record nC?lht raiders at Berlin and poinded the heart r th 2000 to 2SUO ions oi uumus av a rate 01 r?,!5 1 tons a minute. r ind British war- X unprecedented jpeaK. BU"C;.inff Germany fiSSnSfli blad with d Benin ,,-, through fighters returned to PT. iv.nch coast tne Li "invasion v F .,... li fori &r,:medium trtEO'. -t..j.rhnlt and ! CITY EDITION LANE COUNTY'S HOME' NEWSPAPER VOL. 102 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 21, 1944. ON STREETS 8c NEWS STANDS Be NO. 21 Lighters into the a.- ELrtere Hanked by RAF tog were u .,er homM". " ,u,d allied fighters. S bombers than ever ,t Berlin before were un- tft. have cfrr.eu ken snon ui o ...- -Evered last November 22. Kthe previous record UingBeriin never ad ...i. n.r n and Lud- L onNovember 18 the Ktimatea h" fchfj force was uci.c. umbered arum , few hours dciuij Berlin, Italian-based Am oving Fortresses aim t"" mushed at four nazi air- in'the suburbs of Rome. reports saw me m:i." .loi nnunded the Pren- Lt Porta Maegiore railway tllimr vards and hit two icls, cutting off Rome's wa- ?pir 'Industrial oil Soars EM, Jan. 21-ffl Oregon's Edustrlal payroll soared to time record of S5B,2aa,03J, M with $353,711,827 in Die previous high mark, fig- tom the state inausiriai ac- commission showed today, total swelled by war indus- hvai more than three times let as the payroll for 1940, III trewar year. Multnomah t'l payroll was more than bfi ii large as in imu. Tear's payroll for Multno- bunty only was $399,268,805, than two-thirds o the state end almost double the coun H3 pay check. Wfgtit monthly payroll for Ma In 1943 was $53,198,667 uuit, largest monthly total rate's history. In 1940 a ,000 monthly payroll was lend big. following table gives the 11 figures for the past four Big Bond Show Crowd Expected In behalf of the fourth war loan, local bond buyers were ' preparing today to turn out in j large numbers for the "Hollywood bond Jamboree" which will be I held from 2 to 4 p. m. Saturday j in McArthur court Admission to the event, which I will feature screen stars Ramsay ' Ames and Edgar Kennedy, and : five war heroes, is only by ticket, i available at all bond-issuing ; agencies: The seven guests, who will ar rive by train from Hollywood, will select the University of Oregon "Bonds Away Girl" -for the final note in a contest staged by campus leaders to spur war bond sales. - f Miss Ames' came into fame as 1 "pin-up queen" last month, when her photo won first place in the pin-up art contest for Hollywood still photographers, staged by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. Kennedy is known for his "slow burn" comedy roles, War heroes who will take part in the entertainment are Sea man's Mate lo J. J. Roybol and Boatswain's Mate lc J. P. Nixon of the navy; Capt. John S. Young and Sgt. Lloyd B. Sweeney, both of the army; and S-Sgt. Edward J. Burmab of the marine corps. Music on the program headlines Sue Welch, singer, and the cam pus "G. I. orchestra;" John Bren. neman, tenor, and Margaret Zim merman, soprano, with the army air corps band. A delegation from Camp Adair, including Lt. Col. Worth Wicker, also will be featured. Part of the jamboree will be broadcast over KOAC and KORE. To exploit Saturday afternoon's show, a caravan of army men and equipment was scheduled to arrive here at 2:30 p. m. Friday to give an entertainment at the old victory center location, Broad way near Willamette. About one-eighth of Lane coun ty's quota or $476,953 out of the I $3,808,200 goal has been sold in I the fourth war loan, headquarters reported Friday. i Dr. N. H. Cornish, drive chair man, said that only S84.7U8 in war bonds were reported sold I n l v' ii J , if Red Baltic Fleet Freed ly Leningrad Advance MOSCOW. Jan. 21 (AP) The red army's creat surce to the south from Leningrad has virtually freed Russia's Baltic fleet Locked in port for two years or more, the Baltic fleet is now free to operate in the bay of Kronstadt and possibly beyond. To tne soutn or tne uaiuc snore . the Russians are driving deep into ' g, ( l I Grman positions, capturing thou- . am mf a IvAff Kill sands of nazis cut off from their : JCIIQ U VwU llll commands and communication lines, and are speedily closing in on the railway and highway Junc tions that are the key to the entire Baltic front. Large isolated groups of Ger mans, either already surrounded or about to be cut off, are reported in sectors west of captured Nov gorod, between Oranicnbaum and Leningrad and east of the Moscow Leningrad railway. HELLS ANGELS Grand old warrior of the skies over Europe, which compiled an treating record under command of Col. Kermlt Stevens of Eugene has now pointed her nose toward home, and Is flying to America. But Col. Stevens isn't coming in the famous Flying Fortress. He remains at the front with a promotion to the post of base commander in England. Above the Fort and her old com mander are shown, ready for a recent bomblnc mission. (Wiltshire engraving) Realtors Hit Bureaucrats In Rousing Housing Debate Co. Stevens Sees His Old Ship Fly Home LONDON, Jan. 21. M Rus sia's northern armies, engaged in two tremendous drives which in six days have lifted the two-year siege of Leningrad captured the ancient bastion of Novgorod and slain 40,000 Germans, rolled on today in an effort to complete the entrapment of upwards of 250,000 other Germans remaining in the Leningrad sector. Dispatches from Moscow indl cated the Germans were facing one of their worst disasters since Stal ingrad. Capture of Novgorod, 100 miles southeast of Leningrad, by troops Cnivltod rfioitiEcinn feahirwl 4V.A ViisonA PaqHv VtnnrH vmpoilno ThiircHav whfn ranRiHaratinn was ffivpn tn the national hnusinff Col. Kermlt Stevens Of Eugene, administration's set-un for 85 housing units in Eueene one member base commander at a Flying defending the building program and a half-dozen others, taking the Fortress base in England, Friday I floor almost simultaneously to grant there is need for more housing ; saw his fabled Fortress, Hells facilities but to denounce the NHA project as wrong an method and Angels, wing out across as undesirable. The "democracy at worn ' ses- SEE RED BALTIC STORY PAGE Truck Overload Edict Issued Slate .4198,947,208 - 218,611,043 - 353,711,827 - 569,295.553 Multnomah County $ 63,946,388 89,409,306 207,967,768 399,286,805 Shines, Daffodils My Out Again f. everything Is okay now. iwn continues to shine we Nat mention the frostv l-wme declare their daffo r "peeking." AND RI1W tt 1 out again following e with the flu. W this information means p?" you can expect the bat I he at fierce a evor uh. ltoihowing wonders from 'ana receiving the chal Tom the rest nf th. ft wonder Veneta country. wai a businem vi.ifnr P1. Friday, aays: "there r .rowing pams about that F7 were fullm-num f' Peten, who asked about r v-ui one time and was ICUttLcome ,v,., you won't vs i t. 4 Plover and "1X2 i ! D"1 h her ano his place New vlJf.?-: "-J9- dh,h.rorw-egram r report now at ratS ed W fin v "-"'npieie ooy hSS" f that enu tT lood5'' mil enuon be avoidM aV " SEE, BIG BOND STORY PAGE t r : Webfoofs-Huskies Start Final Series University of Oregon and Uni versity of Washington varsity bas ketball teams will meet in the first of a two-game northern division series at McArthur court Friday night, starting at 8 o'clock. It will be, the final series be tween the inter-state rivals this season. The Huskies defeated the Webfoots 40-38 and 67-25 in games played in Seattle two weeks ago. Coac"h Howard Hob son's Web foots, after last week's 52-33 vic tory over OSC, are given an even chance' of defeating Coach Hec Ed mundson's visiting Huskies. Graduate Manager Anse Cornell announced that the Camp Adair rumba band would give a half' time concert at the Friday night game. Tickets for both Friday and Saturday night games may be pur chased at McArthur court 85 cents for reserved seats and 85 cento general admission. SALEM, Jan. 21. UP) The state highway commission an- nAat 4Vtaf etatA nnlipe would require' overloaded logging I 1 to tan; . out and eXpress sion as staged by the realtors presages lively times at the emergency meeting called for Friday evening by the city plan ning commission for a public air ing of the war housing construc tion. Robert W. Prescott, who is a realtor and chairman of the plan ning body, invites all citizens, all contractors interested in such a project, and business people in and commercial trucks to pull off the. highways and that the over loads be removed. Furthermore, the - commission will report violations to the OPA, wliich will subject the violators to reduced gasoline allotments and might prevent them from getting new tires. The new policy was decided at a conference Tuesday of repre sentatives of the highway com mission, state police, pubUc utili ties commissioner, Gov. Snell and the offices of price administration and defense transportation. In the past the commission has reported violations to the pubUc utilities commissioner for can cellation of permits, while small fines were imposed by Justices of the peace. The fines, the commission aaid, are no deterrent, while cancella tion of permits has imposed pen- their views Friday evening at the city hall. Paul W. Campbell, renltyord ' member who has assisted , George Miltonberger of Salem and A. M. Gilbert, Eugene, both contractors, in securing options on Eugene lots and plans for building war hous ing units here, started the Thurs day fireworks when he declared newspaper articles, quoting but a few as representative of many, had given a black eye to Eugene re- SEE REALTORS HIT STORY PAGE 2 SEE TRUCK LOADING STORY PAGE 10 RED REPLY AWAITED WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. OT Secretary of State Hull said today the soviet government has not yet accepted this country's offer to act in a liaison capacity looking to a resumption of diplomatic re lations between-Poland and Russia. Eugene's 'Polio Baby' Doing Nicely Through Aid of Lane County Fund By GLADYS TURLEY Mother and babe are doing nicely! Thanks to the Lane county chapter of the National Infantile Six Lane Juveniles Land in Court Keathfr Forwa... r, T 7-,on,?ht. and ' V,iu!T? temperature aouniii.'. we" of Cas- " fflam.: J." urg H iZS" tn Eu. ii 98 of rrtti 'Mrri i a.. Six Lane county boys, 18 and 17 years old, all accused of larceny, were up in Juvenile court Thurs day, the hearings lasting a great er part of the day. As a result of the evidence introduced, two of them were sent to the state indus trial school at Woodburn, three were paroled and one is being held in the county Jail as he claims to have enlisted in the arm ed service and is waiting for his call. A 16-year-old Cottage Grove boy was accused of the theft of $10 and was paroled to a minis ter of that city. A 17-year-old Blachly boy, accused of stealing a car and a quantity of gasoline, and a 16-year-old Eugene boy, charged with stealing gasoline, were sent to Woodburn and two others 18 accused of gasoline theft were given parole. The boy in jail lives in Eugene and is 17. Four of the boys were arrested on a charge of stealing gasoline and oil from the Mathews wood yard in the northwestern part of the city. The total value of the fuel stolen from the plant was $71.50, and County Judge Hurd, who presided as juvenile Judge In the cases, says he has been able to obtain a good portion of the sum from the parents of the boys to pay It back. Paralysis Foundation fund this lovful news went the rounds of the Eugene hospital staff last week. And while hospital attaches avree that he out a sizeable dent in what remained of the 1943 polio fund, still they chalked him up as one bouncing asset to the Lane county chapter a 7-pound 10-ounce boy. Lane county's "polio" baby didn't make the headlines of Port land's babe. His mother wasn't confined in a dramatic respirator and his sergeant papa was only furloughed from Florida to greet him not India. But just as much "blood, sweat and tears" went into preparation for his arrival arid survival. Mrs. Reta Ingram, Eugene's specially trained "Kenny treat ment" nurse, who worked with his mother for three 'months before he was born, states that he is a "perfect little boy" and that his mother is making rapid strides to ward walking again after her siege of infantile paralysis. She still must take treatments but she has won her greater fight by hav ing had lots of fortitude, her nurses exclaim. Eugene's "polio" baby and his mother make Just one case of the many in the county who have re received assistance from the coun ty fund in order to enable them to regain their normal existence, committeemen in charge of the 1944 "polio" fund drive point out. Now. with the fund practically exhausted, they are calling on citi- 8ErECGENErSTOLio,8TOR Y PAGE Hawn Chairman of Charter Committee A. L. Hawn, city councilman. has been elected permanent chairman of the charter commis sion recently appointed by Mayor Elisha Large to draft new pro visions in the city charter pro viding for a manager or superin tendent form of government, it was revealed Friday. The group held its first meet ing on January 17 under order of the temporary chairman,. James A. Rodman, and discussed pro cedures for the revision. The commission voted to invite S. M. Calkins, city attorney, and a representative of the League of Oregon Cities to attend the next meeting scheduled for Jan. 27. They will participate in the gen eral discussion and advise the group, according to Chairman Hawn. lantic on her way home, ing to a United Press dispatch from England. The veteran ship first Fortress in the Eighth Air Force to complete 25 missions she did 48 was going back to the United States to show people in the nation's war plants how to make them. t With Col. Stevens, paying final tribute in a brief ceremony before the take-off, were Brig. Gen. Robert Travis of Savannah, Ga., combat .wing commander, and Squadron Cmdr. MaJ. Kirk R. Mitchell of Oklahoma City, Okla, planes M every description circled overhead,: while crowds of well-wishers, who had previously cov ered the ship's wings with their painted autographs, stood cheer ing. Chosen because, in a tricky business, she was a miracle of steadiness. Hell's Angels was the first Fortress to fly 40 missions without ever being forced back by mechanical difficulties, and in all her 48 missions no crew mem ber was wounded. For their share in that record. i six ground crewmen had their just reward, for after waiting on the ground through many a long mission, they were seated in the plane when she took off for home. With them were also six fliers who had completed their quota of flying missions. Oregon Dads To Be .'d-.; Greeted on Campus Lumber Production Goal Believed Reached WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-(U.R) Final figures on 1943 lumber pro duction are certain to show that the 32,000,000,000 board feet goal was reached, the war production board said today, but that will be more than 4,000,000,000 board feet short of the year's estimated con sumption. November lumber production totaled 2,870,765,000 board feet Production totaling 30,822,150,000 board feet in the first U months of 1943 virtually assured the 1943 goal, WPB said. Oregon Dads will be entertain ed tomorrow at the 17th annual Oregon Dads' day on the univer sity campus. Already several Dads have arrived and the whole campus is ready to receive the many more who will arrive this I afternoon and evening. I Registration will be held In 1 .Tnhnann hall Saturday evening. A ! In.k.nn nf tk. Vnrrnna hntol will feature Ernest Haycox, university graduate and Portland author, speaking on "Dads Belong to the Humam Race." Ed F. ..JVverill, Portland, president of the Oregon Dads, will be toastmaster. Dr. Robert Chusman, professor of re ligion, will give the Invocation. Barbara Bcntley, Tule Lake, Cal., will sing a solo, accompanied by Phyllis Taylor, Marshficld. R. C. Groesbeck, Klamath Falls, will represent the Oregon state board of higher education, and Mrs. Herbert Busterud, Marsh field, president of the Oregon mothers club, will be introduced. Orlando Hollis, acting president of the university, will greet the parents and MaJ. W. S. Averlll, commandant of the university army specialized training unit, will speak. Nancy Ames, Port land, ASUO president, will be In troduced, as will Marilyn Camp bell, Portland, AWS president. A business meeting will be held Saturday afternoon in the Guild theater of Johnson hall. The Dads will also be guests at the bond program, at the Saturday evening basketball game, and at a special presentation of "Dark Victory," university theater production, opening at 9:30 p.m. in the Guild hall on the campus. On Service Vote WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 " The congressional log jam on sol dier voting showed signs of break ing up today after the senate elec tions committee came out with a compromise bill providing for a uniform federal ballot but leaving vote-counting authority under state control. Several staunch senate defend ers of states' rights swung quick ly behind the compromise meas ure, and its co-sponsor, Sen. Lucas (D-Ill), predicted it would be passed by the senate, which ear lier rejected another federal bal lot plan and substituted a require ment that service personnel cast state absentee ballots or none at all. , . As re-drafted, the bill omits controversial sections voiding state poll tax and registration re quirements. In addition, it spe cifically provides that duly con stituted state and local election officials shall have full authority to determine whether individual service men or women are quali fied to vote. Sen. Tydings (D-Md) hailed the latter provision as a "great vic tory" for states' rights advocates, He said the local control amend ment would give state and precinct officials all the authority they need to enforce state election statutes Road to Rome Straightens Out After Victory By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst It's indeed a long stretch of Italy's ancient Appian way that has no turning, and Uncle Sam's mud-caked fifth army may at last have found the twist which, so to speak, will bring it within sight of the objective of hellish months of battling both Germans and weather the eternal city of Rome. This encouraging vantage point has been reached by the breach ing of the Hitlerite line north of the Garigliano river a difficult and dangerous operation which forced the enemy to abandon the city of Mintumo, strategic com munlcations center and strong hold on the Appian way. Minturno is some 76 miles from Rome, as the bee would measure the course. That's about a 20 min ute flight for a passenger plane, but it can be a mighty long dis tance for an army to fight Its way and likely will be. However, one of our toughest obstacles the winter weather would seem to be weakening. The experts say the worst of it probably is past, which gives promise that allied progress will be eased, Some observers like to think that Rome will be in allied hands by spring, but caution reminds us there are some tough obstacles I to be surmounted before, we reach that happy goal with land troops, though our bombers are finding the going easy enough, as witness the assaults on the city yesterday, and day before. The American fifth army must occupy the high ground beyond Frosinone in order to get set tor the final dash to Rome. At the same time the British eighth army on the right flank will have to capture the heights north of Pes cara on the Adriatic. We must expect this to entail much hard fighting, for the Germans have tha advantage of the strong mountain positions in the center of the Italian peninsula. The further offensive may be . speeded by amphibious operations along the coasts. Sen. Conally (D-Tex), long a foe of federal legislation to repeal state poll taxes, expressed simi lar view. Approved 12 to S by the com mittee, with Sens. Rcvercomb (R- WVa) and Moore (R-Okla) oppos ing, the bill authorizes a federal ballot under which servicemen at home or overseas could vote tor president, vice president or. mem bers of congress by writing in names ot candidates or political parties. It directs the army and navy to distribute where practicable -post card forms on which application could be made for state absentee ballots for voting for state and local candidates. . A four-member bipartisan fed eral ballot commission would be appointed by the president. Democrats' Parley Backs Fourth Term WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (U.B The midwest democratic con ference today unanimously ap proved a resolution endorsing President Roosevelt for a fourth term. The resolution also recommend ed the selection ot Robert Han negan of Missouri, commissioner of internal revenue, to be chair man of the democratic national committee. Frank C. Walker la expected to resign as chairman at tomorrow's national committee meeting. Tax Penalty Planned For Vivien Kellems The internal revenue bureau will "proceed in a normal man ner" to invoke the legal penalties for Vivien Kellems on her failure to pay her December 15 income taxes, a treasury spokesman has stated as the latest development in Miss Kellems' battle against what,, shav. terms "fanatical"- tax laws and in an effort to lay aside funds to carry on business in the post-war period. , The treasury spokesman laid there was no Intention of "throw ing the book" at Miss Kellems, and .normal procedure under the law will be followed. No criminal lia bility attaches to non-payment, but there is a two and a half per cent penalty on unpaid "estimated tax" and a 8 per cent penalty on an unpaid final tax. On refusal to pay the tax and penalty, tha nor mal procedure is a civil suit. Miss Kellems, a former Eugene resident, where her mother and other relatives now live, is an in dustrialist at Westport, Conn. Prewar Industrial Methods Are Gone Forever, Patterson Warns Mayors CHICAGO, Jan. 21 , (U.RV Rob ert P. Patterson, undersecretary of war, said today that American Industry could not hope to return to prewar methods, and must pre pare to keep step with world I ,1- T pi 7'- V JOHN VAN CURLER of Mpleion, one of Lane county's many victims of Infantile paralysis dur ing the past rw months. Is shown here at the Eusene hospital where Maurie Jacobs (right) of the Jun ior chamber of commerce explains to mm me mrinoo mi ciun h using in roiirrung iunna tor ine mrn campaign selling tickets to the benefit wrestling show at the Pearl Street arena Kalurday night. Dr, James Rtrwart, chairman of the local committal la charge of disbursing the fund, la at tot left look log ob. (Wiltshire eagtaMBC) progress. "I have no patience with those who are willing to fight for the preservation of their preferred way of living, and then show no willingness at all to prevent that way ot living from rotting away afterward," Patterson told annual United States conference of may ors. Patterson said that reconver sion to the prewar production pat tern was basically impossible, and "if by some msgic we could ex actly recreate those conditions, they would result In a 50 per cent reduction in tne national income, extensive unemployment and re duced production capacity. "Either we will evolve some thing better, or we will be afflict ed with something far worse. There is no turning back," he said. Patterson warned that it would take as long to get industry back into peacetime production as it did to achieve top war time out put, and said the government should prepare to prevent an eco nomic collapse during that period. The possibility of a "year or more" between the end of the war In Europe and In Asia will tike up some of the shock of stopping war production, he said. Patterson proposed a four point program for reconversion. 1. Negotiations by a procure ment agency for a final termina tion of war contracts, .to be re opened only on evidence of fraud, and to be made without interfer ence from third narties. 2. Formation of a central, government-wide agency to formu late the policy for reconversion. 3. Establishment of a central disposal agency for surplus gov ernment property. 4. Provision of a comprehensive system of financial aid for war contractors pending final settle ment ot their contracts. Who Said Dry Spell? Rainfall Near Usual What's this about a long dry spell In Oregon? According to figures from the weather bureau here Eugene isn't so terribly short of rain after all. October, November and December brought 11.74 Inches, and the nor mal for the same period is only a little higher 14.34 inches. One good wet spell could make up that 2.60 inches difference without squeezing the clouds dry, it was admitted. Far from being worried, farm ers Ticreabouts are beaming a bit over the situation. County Agent O, S. Fletcher says weather con ditions have made it possible to continue harvesting cannery beets and carrots and use some pas ture ground that otherwise would have been too wet. Some plowing is being done now, clearing the way for possible early plantings. War In Brief By United Press RUSSIA Russians smash ahead on 110-mile front south and west of Leningrad, massacring thousands of Germans in biggest battle of annihilation since Stalin grad. WESTERN EUROPE RAF re au m e s blockbuster offensive against Berlin with what may have been heaviest raid against the nazi capital; loses 35 planes. ITALY British advance north from Mintumo on Appian way; Germans reported preparing gen eral withdrawal on fifth army front; U. ' S. bombers raid four Italian airfields. PACIFIC Japanese believed rushing air reinforcements to threatened south Pacific strong holds; British submarine sinks Japanese cruiser few hundred miles from Singapore; allied planes revealed to have sunk 10,000 tons of shipping and destroyed or dam aged 49 enemy planes In latest raids on Rabaul and New Guinea. RACCOON MEAT SOLD SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21. U.r Unratloned raccoon meat told out quickly at 23 cents a pound when it was offered for sale at a Salem market yesterday.