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Newspaper Page Textr Sessional democratic leaders. ltWSre5r . nrced the! j tut icw- .... " ... .to the tax bill. tF has termed rf; revem measure 5' nrovdes for Pthe $10,500,000,000 P . ...inn nn the ait' CfJS wiUbeput off un- 0D - - .Feb. 21. U. P"4- . .h house way P" a.- u here all VI " . fTfainj measures must W .j ii..ir urre in- aid they ere p ui... mnrA fthoilt J . h,Ml of a success Hioiiuiu U m n entirely new Usllntd1 ta ' f Jrebably In bout three Ll'epbllcl"is have U tkit a veto would mean CJb bin for all of 1944. nan oc - !sday. House leaders of Cities have an agreement uide controversial ques- ttfl then because some m members have engage- iway from me copiu" Jjtons Oinnaay mit. House attitude to la taz bill was echoed as n opened its session io Rep. Gore (D.-Tenn.) de Ithe measure "is not worthy mss." that it "opens L te wartime profiteer- KMitson (R.-Minn.), rank- fcdity member oi me tax U wavs and means com' declaring that Gore show Uraal umorance of our ax jmieture' wnen ne aes- sk tax bin as "puny." retorted that Knutson Worm himself of the costs VbH war. m told .newspapermen disagreed with Rayburn, to that congress will over, ke tax veto. L and means chairman Ke (D.-N.C.) after a spe- uwv nccung w discuss aid no definite stand and that action prob' depend upon the con- tit menage. pfors Argue Mm Milk BHlNOTOHrFebi-H pwton (D., La.) called the dairy in Washington and you have any defatted milk ftli morning?" Wf no, wt don't" the senator p was told. "What are you KIOTO.'" m non-fat milk solids." yon, by any chance, talk. Wiktamilk?" pi exactly what I was rUbout" Hurt what Overton N With 1 bill hv Son Olorlr p) to change the pure food Pfrafulatioris so that pow- SKimmed, we Inowi millr ktnh. ii l.j ' at milk solids'-' or "de eailk solids." P coldly serioui imim..i paged in the senate today, f Overton related his tele P experience. Clark had P mning, thusly: n -s,m. he said, re. " nle of Hriort .1, .!,. ptteword tself miiv -. v . so wnen ! hog feed." fced Public Ffreeplantin. m forest r'L demand hiZn ung labor sup- N?M5 Lumbermen's K rf today, in offering CT" "fs, two years old. EUT J"" U at -v nursery, on th iiinu--.,. - &Mor"g" CkeW!!.iCh n0w Krow .r.homcoTn: Pit, ""iica to come C mt ttuk i-r: -.""""ion prac- h t r.n r. will not .L1 wi injure the FftWwih " declared. brakes. Crowd eofe h '8"e Forecast! fm r.i. noest portion. !itn.,:L. 'Jra5C!,des to. "Pam. luoiay. fair 5 cioudv eas; :i!i!!!muin tem- i.Z horning. 32 ri.. tl C Perature, fr tT?' Potation r '"iti Tuesday By FDR GTON, Feb. 21. (AP) Speaker Rayburn ) todav President Roosevelt would send to con LVmessage vetoing the $2,315,000,000 new tax ... v. ,.,eoinwi Ravhlirn nssortoH ft?... ovnressed what he calltd his oDinion to t R after a conference at the White House attend- LT. ROBERT W. OEVEREIX Eugene Flier In 14 Bomb Raids (The following; storv. distrib uted by the Associated Press, was written by Staff Sergeant Alfred E. Lewis of Waterbury, Conn., a marine corps combat correspond ent) - , MUNDA (Delayed) Second lieutenant Robert W. Deverell. 23-year-old marine dive .hnmhoi- pilot, of 958 V4 Patterson street Eugene, Ore., has bombed everv Japanese airfield on Bougainville during nis nrst tour or duty in the south Pacific but still hasn't overcome his distaste for enomv acK-acK mai Dursts au around him as he goes into his dive. xne youtnrui pilot has been on 14 strikes against Jananese sun emplacements, harbor installa tions, shipping facilities, supply bases and bivouac areas, but has only been struck twice by their ami-aircrari lire. 'That was on mv fifth raid and they must have had my range," Lieutenant Deverell said. "Thro hit me in the right wing and also knocked off the tip of one of my propeuers. "I'll never forget the dav we raided the twin JaD airfield. Bonis and Buka," the lieutenant said. "Bonis Js..on the northern tip of Bougainville "and a short distance away on a little island is the Buka airstrio. The water between- the two is known as Buka passage. "Our objective on that mission was to knock out the heavy gun emplacements which protected the two fields so other planes could come in and destroy the runways. We attacked Bonis first. As the formation came intoward the field, I sighted my target and peeled off into a dive. Thev had already set up a barrage of flak which 1 had to fly through. . I dropped my bombs squarely on an emplacement housing four heavy AA Buns. I leveled off and ew over Buka passage heading ior tne other strip. As soon as I hit the Buka side started strafing, but the Japs were waiting for us. I was pretty low and it was like flying through a gauntlet oi acK-acK. sometimes I thought I could iust reach out ana touch some of those cuffs. They didn't hit my plane that day, but several days later, when we attacked Kara airfield on the southern tip of Bougainville, they hit my plane twice." The lieutenant attended Gun versity high school in Eugene, Ore., where he was president of the student body. Later, he studied at the University of Oregon, where he was a member of Theta Chi fraternity. On June 25, 1942, he enlisted as an aviation cadet and was sent to Corpus Christi. Texas, for training. He received his wings on July 3, 1943. The lieutenant's wife is Mrs. Suzzane Deverell of Eugene. ; CCC Bill Deferred WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. OP) The house banking and currency committee deferred action today on a bill to continue the Commod ity Credit corporation's life when the administration was unable ap parently to marshal sufficient com mittce votes to prevent any limi tations from being added to the i bill. Chairman Spence (D. Kysaid the committee would resume its discussion tomorrow. Rep. Wolcotf (R.. Mich.), one of the leaders in the fight to ban food subsidies through a limitation in the previously vetoed CCC bill, said the committee voted 9 to 8 for including some limitation in the pending bill. He did not specific ally define the nature of the pro posed limitation. Lt. T. Kleinman Missing After Raid On Germany Lt. Ted Kleinman. son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Godlove of Eugene, has been reported pass ing while on a flight over Ger many, word having been received by Mr. and ' Mrs. Godlove and their daughter, the former Doro thea Godlove, who is with her oarents here. Lt. Kleinman and Miss Godlove were married last Seotember. The lieutenant wa a navigator on a V. S. bombin plane and was on quite a number of missinns j over enemy territory prior to the lime he was reported missing. 1 f Y.Afell. rAIIVI Vv.w. . . . . . . ni inn . ! wu. iu txiu&X'S NEWS TODAY JAPJAjM AMAZON CREEK HEARING READY Slated for Tuesday afternoon, 1:30 o'clock, county courthouse, is the public hearing on the Amazon creek flood control project The hearing is called by the United States army engineers and here to conduct it will be Colonel Ralph Tudor, Portland division office of the engineers, and several of his staff. Elmo Chase, representing the Eugene chamber of commerce as well as being a member of the Wil lamette Valley Basin Project com mission, urges that all property owners interested, those within the area affected, attend the. meeting, and that written statements be submitted regarding the project The Amazon creek project as proposed by the engineers is an important one for this area, in volving widening and straighten ing the channel through Eugene, the building of a diversion channel out west .of the city to flow into the Fern Ridge reservoir, and the straightening and widening of the channel on north. -. - - Importance of attendance at the hearing Tuesday was stressed by Councilman E. A. Bafette, who pointed out that solution of the Amazon flood control problem would be tremendous relief to Eugene. , , Mother of Five Has But $10 For Food PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 21. (U.PJ Mrs. Peggy Hope Adams of Vanport, the mother of five chil dren, today has only $10 with which to feed her family. Portland police are holding her husband as an alleged member of a burglar gang accused of at least 11 jobs. Mrs. Adams was marired at 14. Her first child died of pneumonia shortly after it was born. , "We never wanted for noth- in" she told a reporter. . "Earl always has been good to u& and he sure never was in trouble be fore. I don't know what I'm go ing to do. They want us to move out because the rent is two weeks overdue. One thing's sure, the... kids are going to get three hot meals a 'day. I haven't eaten since Earl was arrested. I can't, so count me out." The family came to Portland 14 months ago to get defense work. Twins were born to the couple a year ago. Party Bolt to Stop FDR Threatened , By LYLE C. WILSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (U.PJ Moving boldly in Massachusetts against President Roosevelt's re nomination, anti-new deal demo crats are out in the open today with their threat to bolt the party if necessary to block - a fourth term. Success of this anti-fourth term strategy inevitably would obtain election of a republican president next November. The democrats who hope to get Roosevelt out of the white house are reconciled to that. They seek, primarily, to eliminate the president as party leader and to regain control of the organization for regular dem ocrats. The movement was formally launched in Boston last night with announcement that former Gov. Joseph B. Ely is a candidate for for the democratic presidential nomination in that state only. His name will not be entered in other states. . - The maneuver frankly was ac knowledged to be designed to block a fourth term. The Massa chusetts presidential preference primary is on April 25. The pattern sketched by Ely s manager envisages a conservative democratic bolt,' organization of a third party and nomination of a Jeffersonian democratic prcsi- dential and vice presidential ticket if Roosevelt is nominated again at Chicago next July. Draft Age Cut Hil WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. () Flatly rejecting suggestions that the draft age be lowered from 18 to 17, members of the house mill- over the position of chief of gen tary committee called today for i eral staff of the army in addition better utilization of existing man- to his other duties. power resources before considering j any changes in the selective serv- ice act, As an alternative to dropping the age to 17 should some new ac tion become necessary. Chairman May (D., Ky.) said he believed' it would be beter to raise it "and j take in some of the non-fathers be tween 38 and 45 who are now classified as over-age." Rep. Harness of Indiana, a high ranking republican member of the committee claimed the war depart ment alone has admitted it has about 100.000 draft eligible men, many of them pre-war fathers, on Its civilian payroll and has not asked for their deferment. "If there are that many men in a single government agency, then ovr manpower situation 'isn't so bad: u jusi isn ii ocing nanaicc properly," he added. I EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, ' j 'l f ' J , W-Wlfc-W I Ill mm r If . 1 " or th? LSolTf m.J5?" .C M,c.Cornck of Eugene, Is shown above .1 the right, receiving the award ?,nm iJWerH '.2T "eeptlonally meritorious service." upon the occasion of his retirement from service. The award. miH. at HrMim. n k. . . . . ...... . . MifSSt'L'nl H -.J...., m! . r--- r He graduated from University ef Levy Program Finds Favor Approval of the county's pro posed levies to build a new court house and to construct roads and bridges after the war was express ed in Eugene Monday." In general, citizens interviewed favored creation of a reserve fund for financing, thought a county municipal building would be a "good thing," and said that "much needs to , be done" on roads throughout the county. ine levies, as listed In an or der filed Saturday by the countv court for submission to voters at the primary election in May, would be for one mill a year for the next five years to create a sinking fund for erection of a new courthouse costing approximately $250,000, plus two mills a year ior a similar period tor road and Dnage construction and main tenance to raise nearly $500,000. The projects- would be useful itt putting men and 'women, return ing from the armed forces and war industries, to work here in Lane when demobilization begins. Several opined that there was rro point in "penny pinohinc" When these local jobs need to be done ir Lane is to be kept "pro gressive" in more than talk only. A few hesitated to approve anv project which would raise county taxes, even slightly, in face of prospect that the presently high federal taxes would go even high er in the next few years. Con versely, others said that Lane's taxes for necessary jobs would be "only a drop in the bucket" com pared to those which will be ask ed by Washington, and believed that Lane county should not hes itate to "take care of its own" just because of this federal assessment. Comments included: Fred J. Stlckels, chairman of the Central Lane Planning coun cil: "I'm very much in favor of it. We have needed a joint city county building for years. There is too much crowding the way things are now. I'm very much in favor of road projects. Money spent on roads and a good court house will be well spent." Lynn 8. McCready, vice-prcst- SEE LEVY PROGRAM STORY -1 PAGE I I U. S. Victories By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst Uncle Sam's victory at Truk Is a dream come true, for we have administered a defeat which has so rocked the mikado's capital that the Japs are making no effort to conceal the devastating effects, bofli moral and material. Not only has the Tokyo govern ment acknowledged sweeping de struction but it tacitly has ad- j initted the gravity of the situation by firing the chiefs of staff for hoth the navy and the army. None less than the great Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan's militaristic premier and master gangster, has taken During Ihe two days on which! we blasted at Truk we sunk at l . least 19 ships, including several l war vessels, destroyed 201 war- j ' planes and damaged more than 50 others, and probably sunk seven ; other snips, uur Domes also ere. atcd havoc among the enemy in stallations in this great base. As against this big killing we lost (nly 17 planes and suffered mod erate damage to one ship. Meantime our marine and army force has continued to consolidate its position on the Important Jao base of Kniwetok. And to the Mirlsti and the J60th Army In south, American destroyers have : fanlry whlrh captured Knie!)l blasted the Rabaul and Kavleng ,",nd h En'" atoll In kaKO, ! vation asilnul Jap Marshall ll- Tokyo certainly has the righl,"nd" "" (Ap Wircphoto from angle in saying that the decisive ,1'',rine l-orP-battle of the Pacilic has begun, appears In the material damage For there is far more aignificam-e in this sensational operation than 1 DEFEATS l Ktftr' de'ense command, in ' "' wMwrn acicnsc rommina ana lounn army. Oregon to 1901 (Army signal corps photo, Wiltshire engraving). Death Hunch Proves Right LA GRANDE, Ore., Feb. 11 (U.R) Dr. Thomas M. Gilmore, 72, of Union, conducted a stethoscope examination of Ed Wulf, 73, who long had been seriously ill. En route home. Dr. Gilmore re marked to his wife: "I don't think Ed Wulf will last through the night, and, you know, a uunK i may peat him." At home, Dr. Gilmore removed his shoes, sat down and toppled over dead irpm a heart attack. Dr. Gilmore died at 10:35 p. m. Saturday. While preparing to drive to Union for Dr. Gilmore's body, L, i bnodgrass, mortician, received a call from the home of Wulf. Wulf had died at 10:45 p. i Saturday. . Plot to Kill King Of Yugoslavs Bared LONDON, Feb. , 21 (P) The Mescow radio broadcast a Tass Cairo-dated dispatch today' de claring an attempt had been made ' to assassinate King Peter of Jugo slavia. The broadcast, recorded by the soviet monitor, quoted the Rus sian news agency dispatch as say ing the attempt had been made by fascists in an effort to put the blame on Jugoslav soldiers who, the dispatch said, are trying to re turn to their homeland to fight in the partisan ranks of Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). Tito announced today his Jugo slav partisans have routed a Ger man column of 600 men near Novo Mesto In Slovenia and also have broken upy a Bulgarian of-, fensive in the direction of Zvna Mlavr. FSA DEMISE FAVORED WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. A special house agriculture sub committee approved today legis lation; Which. .WOUld . abolish the I farm security administration as ... i'iiu,uu aim tiimiKc mc : financing of the government's larm tenant program. . Spotlight Jap j, LEADS KMWF.TOK , Marine Brig. Gen. T. "raimmsnded units of ATTACK E. Wsloon Ihe 22nd wrjught, though that in llclf is a heavy blow to Japan. I 1944 ON STREET 5c ;7 ceremony at San Francisco Pre Baruch Plan Leaders Picked WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. bn In the Initial steps to carry Into effect the Baruch plan for war and post-war adjustments, War Mobil ization Director James F. Byrnes today named Assistant Commerce Secretary Will L. Clayton to handle the disposal of surplus war prop erties and Veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines to take over em ployment and rehabilitation activ ities. President Roosevelt Issued an executive order setting up a sur plus war property administration, which Clayton will head. He has : signed his post in the commerce department. Another executive order Is In preparation to create formally the position which Hines will fill. The report on readjustment by Edward M. Baruch and John Hancock sug gested that this W turned" over to a "work director," but Byrnes said he liked the title of director of re training and reemployment better. That, he said, was the only point where he withheld a 100 per cent endorsement of the Brruch pro posals. The steps taken today, Byrnes told a news conference, represent all that can be done under existing law to put the government's own htuse In order for the tremendous task of turning the nation back to a peace-time economy. Some legislation will be needed, In line with recommendations in the report, ByrnCs said, and in ad dition he has some in mind him self, particularly in outlining pol icy for disposal of billions of dol lars worth of government property, Tires To Be Shown PORTLAND, Feb. 21 W Two demonstration cars, touring the country to show the durabil ity of synthetic tires and recaps, will arrive here Feb. 29, the Ore gon State Motor association an nounced today. Tour personnel will sneak war traffic' nffont nn thn nnllnnol highway system at a meeting ncre. ana l ien anDcar at Snlem. Eugene, and Roscburg en route to 'California. Ship Shortage The big point, of course, Is that our lighting forces have demon-: stratcd their ability to penetrate : Japan's most powerful naval base j by air, from aircraft curriers conr I voyod by a largo fleet of warships. In doing this we invited the Jap- j anese navy to come and get us. ! Now this momentous develop-' mcnt was no flash In the pan. We ' were able to carry out such a ! highly dangerous operation be cause we arc stranger Uian the enemy. "Bail. someone protests, "How i can that be when Die Japanese : have in their possession all the vast wealth of China and con quered areas?" j Well, it's true that the Nippon- cse have sefcd enough resources i to enable them to wage world war I indefinitely if they were able to j utilize those rcsiirces. In order to do that, howe r, the raw ma terials must be transported over thousands of miles of water to the mother country to bo fabricated. Water transport means ships and the Japs Just haven't gut the ' ships and they can't build them In i auff ieierit numbers to meet their j needs. The Nipponese never have hud enough cargo vessels, and , they have been losing shipping steadily because the allies have been sinking mure than Japan could produce. Thus the Japs are like Midas, I For a long time everything tlicy i touched turned to gold, but they finally discovered that it wasn't doing 'cm much good, because they couldn't cut it or beat it' into weapons. CITY EDITION NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 52 NIPS LOSE 19 SHIPS AT TRUK By MORRIE LANDSBERG Associated Press War Editor Lightning blows by Ameri can land, sea and air forces which cost the enemy 19 to 26 ships and 201 planes in the Truk assault alone, brought a shakeup in the Japanese high command today. Emperor Hirohito relieved the chiefs of the army and navy general staffs of their commands, radio Tokyo an nounced, following Japan'. most disastrous week of the war she started at Pearl Har bor 26 months ago. The Japanese, in those seven explosive days, not only lost five islands the south Pacific group scores of ships and hundreds of planes, but learned the allies could hit out with multiple strikes simultaneously at key Nipponese bases from Rabaul to the Mar snails. v American fighting men closed in on Enitewok, westernmost of the Marshall - islands, with its strategic airfield only 750 miles from Truk. Admr. Chester W. Nimitz told of week-long naval shelling and air bombardment of Japanese territory . in the Marshalls, and attacks on Ponape, 440 miles west of Truk, and Kusaie, 330 miles southeast of Ponape. Gen. Douglas MacArthur re ported from the southwest Pacific the first shelling . of Rabaul,' Japan's once mighty fortress, and adjacent Kavieng, New Ireland, a few hours before allied planes slashed at Rabaul in three heavy strikes that neutralized one of its airdromes, at least temporarily. The navy listed IB enemy ships at Truk as definitely sunk, includ ing two light cruisers, three de stroyers, one ammunition ship, one seaplane tender, two oilers, two gunboats and eight cargo ships. Nine more vessels were ac counted' probably tent to the bot tom of Truk's big lagoon. The United States losses included 17 planes and moderate damage to one ship. , The Tokyo radio said today Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo has taken over the post of the army neneral alait chief and that. Admr. Shigetaro Shimada, navy minis ter, has succeeded fleet Admr. Osami Nagano as chief of navy general staff. Earlier, three domestic posts In the Japanese cabinet were In volved in a reorganization. Lon don diplomats took the view that the changes in the army and navy commands marked an effort to take away all power from mili tary figures not in the cabinet. 0 . Housing for Venefa Bids are being , asked . on 20-unit housing project at Ven eta by the federal public hous ing authority, It was revealed Monday by Ray Mclnnls. secre tary of the Eugene central labor council. Mclnnis, conferred Sun day with C. Thomas Saxton, di rector of the FPHA from Seat tle, on the labor situation In Eu gene and. current wage scales. According to the Eugene labor secretary, bids on the project will be received until Feb. 29, jlicn sent to. Washington for approval. Work will start Immediately on such approval, Mclnnis said. Under the federal public houa ing authority the Veneta pro ject will be government financed and the houses built for occu pancy of war workers. E. H. Peterson, Eugene realtor, has ex plained that FPHA houses are temporary In nature and after the war will be liquidated by tho government. In the recent housing allot ment given the Eugene area, Ven eta was recommended for 30 pub. lie, conversions by the national housing authority. These would have been financed by the HOLC and would have been remodel ling of existing buildings. How ever, the order for the conver sions was never given to the HOLC becaute lt was stated sub rcqucntly by housing officials that Veneta could not accommodate 30 conversions. Veneta was tho courthouse flagstaff, announr o warded ten private houses under ed no new flags were availahln the Eugene area allotment, but recent word from the FMA of fice at Portland uld that no ap plications thus far had been made for them. War In Brief By UnltedPress Pacific Japan ousts army and navy chiefs of staff and admits loss of 18 ships in American at tack on Truk only one under the toll reported by pearl Harbor; U. S. Invaders nearly complete con- i quest of Kniwetok atoll. Italy Counterattacking Amer ican and British troops recapture ii lino t half of 4000-yard salient lost In now blunted German of fensive against Anzlo beachhead. Europe British bombers drop 1000 tons of explosives on Stutt gart and Germans carry out fire raid on London: 2000 American planes make second raid in two days on nazl aircraft production tenters. Russian Red army drives over! approaches to atrategic rail June- tion of Dno from four directions. I Biggest U.S. -Raid On Nazi Plants Repeated By Richard McMurray ' Associated Press War Editor American heavy bombers attacked northwest Germany today in strength approxi mating that of yesterday in 'the biggest United States air mission in history." The Flying Fortresses and Lib erators struck the fourth massive blow at Germany in less than two days after a heavy night bombardment of the southwest German industrial metropolis of LONDON. Feb. 21 U. Soviet troops have broken Into the outskirts of Krlvol Rot and . are balllini the nasi garrison or that Dnieper bend strong hold, a communique broadcast by radio Moscow said today. Stuttgart by the RAF. More than 2000 American planes struck widely scattered fighter plane factories in Germany yesterday. SSTEX H.K'SidT mander of U. S. air forces, said a fourth of German fighter pro duction had now been knocked out. The RAF before dawn on Sun day had plunged 2578 tons of ex plosives into Leipzig in southern Germany. , Targets today were not immedi ately named although the north west German cities most fre quently bombed have been Wll helmshaven, Kiel, Bremen, Em den, Hamburg and Hannover. American headquarters ' used most of their superlatives to de scribe the widespread air blow at Germany Sunday: "The largest, most important and most hazard ous operation" ever undertaken by strategic U. S. forces. The Germans again scattered fire bombs and explosives on London, setting many fires and causing casualties. . . GERMANS IN ITALY BELIEVED EXHAUSTED Allied troops in the secure Rohm beachhead struck back with in fantry, tanks, planes and war ships at nine German divisions which had been bled to profusely that It appeared unlikely that they could mount another major of fensive soon. Two German arm tea totalling IB divisions now oppose the allies In Italy. Violent fighting continued ta and around demolished Casslno. French troops beat off a strona German attack on this main front. 50 miles east of the Anzlo battle. RUSSIANS ADVANCE ON 104-MILE FRONT The Russians drove powerfully on a 100-mile front toward the Baltic gateway city of Pskov, ad vancing up to 12 miles, killing 2200 Germans and eanturina 114 h'lllagei. The Germans said 100,- uuo Russians were renewing an olfensive toward the white Rus sian capital of Minsk and that other red army troops had pene trated their lines on two sides of Krlvol Roe in the central Ukraine. The red army units nearest to Pskov were last reported 28 miles to the north after battling down the east shores of Lake Pelpua and Lake Pskov, but Moscow an nouncements have not mentioned their progress in several days. The British reported the de struction of three submarines of a pack trying to break into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar. The British destroy--T Janus was lost. The Germans asserted without confirmation that submarines had sunk II escorting destroyers in the At lantic in the past few days. Chairmen Named Chairmen , for the remaining five of the 14 post-war activity departments of the Central Lane Planning council were announced Monday by Fred G. Stickcls, pres ident of the council. .Appointments made were Well ington T. Switzcr, service con tacts; John Aa Wagcnman, laborj Mrs. J. Don Smith, park projects; W, J. Cloyes, sewage and sanita tion, and Stanley R. Stevenson, tax structures. These chairmen together with those appointed last week will now complete formation of com mittees for their departments, President Stickcls stated. Chairmen of the 14 departments together with the elected officers fo the council will constitute the executive board of the council, Slickels said. Bend Needs Flagpoles BEND. Feb. 21 OPi-The nr. schutes county court, criticized for not replacing a worn flag atop here. Within 24 hours Bend residents donated two flags and obtained two more from Portland. Said County Judge C. L. Allen: "What wo need now is more flagpoles." WASTE PAPER PICKUP SUNDAY ifr Just put your waste paper (tied In bundles or packed in boxes) on the curb early ne.M Sunday morning. The Junior Chamber of ' Commerce will pick it . up and send it on to war! PAPER WAREHOUSE 891 HIGH Open Dally 18 a. m. to 12 aeon, 1 U 5 p. ta.