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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
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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-
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H iZS" tn Eu.
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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
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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.