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Twelve Dies Replies to Biddle's Report On Subversives Washington, Sept. 4 WV-The FBI and the Die committee were at sharp odds today over the ex tent of subversiveness among federal employes. Chairman Dies (D., Tex.), ac cusing Attorney General Francis Biddle of having "failed utterly" to comply with congressional wishes, asked the house to reject a justice department report which criticized the committee indirectly for sending the FBI on a time-consuming search for disloyal government workers. Dies, head of the special com mittee set up four years ago to investigate subversive activities, made his request in a letter to Speaker Sam Rayburn in which he referred to a recent act of congress asking the FBI to make the check up. . " " , The justice department, ihe Texan charged, did not want the assignment in the first place and "it is not strange that nothing but an attempt to 'smear our committee has resulted , . ." Biddle's report said that as a result of 2,095 investigations, in cluding many suggested by the Dies committee, only 36 govern ment workers had been fired and 13 others disciplined. This result, he added, was "utterly disproportionate to the resources expended. ; Dies retorted he could come to no conclusion except that what Biddle "has done in effect is to give a license to every govern ment employe to engage in any communist subversive activity so long as he does not go to the extent of actually carrying pub licly a paid-up membership card in the communist party." Instead of fulfilling the man date of congress, he added, "the attorney general has issued a meaningless conglomeration of statistics set in a framework of general conclusions which are either totally irrelevant to the issues involved or dangerous to the internal safety of this coun try if applied to employment in the federal government." Probe of Petrillo Looms by Senate Washington, Sept. 4 (U.R) Bur ton K.- Wheeler (D Mont.), chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee, today ap pointed a sub-committee to 'con sider a resolution asking Investi gation of James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL). The sub-committee, headed by Senator D. Worth Clark (D., Ida.) will hold hearings for a few days beginning September 14, "with a view to reporting the resolution to the senate as soon as possible," Wheeler's office said. Other members of the sub committee are Senators Lister Hill (D., Ala.), Charles O. An drews (D., Fla.), Chan Gurney (R S.D.), and Charles W. To bey (R., N.H.), , , 1 i 1 ( - :'J (JO -A . y V - Ready for a Fight Packing mean looking machete and a tommy gun, his fighting uniform daubed with green paint and his face black with burnt cork, Sgt. Kenneth Elder stands poised at the start of an obstacle course on which troops of a tank-destroyer battalion arc training at Camp Robinson, Ark. (Associated Press Photo.) , t v. , v This Tabby Has Double Trouble This tabby name unknown was born with a face marking which looks, like a Hitler moustache. Someone noticed the mousiacle ana kicned her before he thought. Now pussy is in a New York cat hospital with a broken jaw. (As sociated Press Photo.) West Salem Sends Men Into Service West Salem, Sept. 4 Among the men in service in town this week on short leaves were Chester Douglas and Lawrence Hnlrfprbain. Douslas soent several days early this week with Mrs. Douglas and with his mo ther and brother, Roy Douglas. Douglas is stationed at Bremer ton for his preliminary naval training before being assigned to radio work at an eastern station. Holderbein, ship's cook second class, has spent a nine day leave Federal Judge's Life Threatened Los Angeles, Sept. 4 (IJ.R) Two former convicts threatened to kill Judge Benjamin Harrison unless he released Dr. Hans Gros, pro-nazi conspirator, fed eral agents said today. Gilford Coldbrldge, 42, one of the men named in the complaint filed in federal court yesterday. was arrested on a train in Oma ha, Neb., Wednesday night and returned to Los Angeles. Henry Filer, . 38, the other man, still was sought. Richard B. Hood, local federal bureau of investigation chief, said letters from the two men warned Harrison that he would be "Immediately assassinated" unless he released Gros. Despite the threats, Harrison sentenced Gros and his wife, Mrs. France Gros, on June 10, after a three day trial without a jury. Gros had been charged with conspiracy to send "vital infor mation" to Germany In letters. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison while Mrs. Gros was giv en an 18-month sentence. Hood did not reveal the exact contents of the alleged letters sent Harrison by Coldbrldge and Filer nor did he say what con nection, if any, existed between Gros and the two former con victs. cm the J. Holder- Building Picking Up With the lifting of building re strictions several applications for the building of residences have been submitted for government approval. L. L Sloper has met the requirements for the build ing of three houses, which will be built on McNary street, com- pleting the Sloper courts, which were begun a number of months ago. Other houses in the court have been leased by army offic ers from Camp Adair. Clackamas Man Nabbed James E. Boylen of Oregon City was arrested Wednesday for vagrancy and intoxication. A $10 fine was imposed with a ten-day jail sentence suspended upon payment of the fine. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips and fam ily of Marysville, Calif., are vis iting this week at the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. "Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. Al Mallory of Portland were guests Wednesday evening at the J. D. Baker home. Halsey Flier Awarded Cross London, Sept. 4 (U.R) An Am erican member of the RAF, plot officer Roy Charles Munson, Halsey, Ore., today was award ed the distinguished flying cross for bringing his bomber through to fierce nazi attacks in a re cent raid on Mainz. Munson's feat required skill, determination and courage. The citation said he "surmounted most perilous situation, thereby safeguarding the lives of his crew and much valuable equip ment." When Munson made a crash landing in Britain it was found his rear gunner had been killed, the radio operator wounded, and the plane riddled with bullets. The bomber ran into strong anti-aircraft fire while cross ing the enemy coast en route to Mainz. The port wing and fuselage were damaged and sev eral electrical currents were knocked out. Nevertheless, Munson reached Mainz and un loaded his bombs over the tar get. On the return trip a German night fighter attacked the bomb er, killing the gunner, and wounding the radio operators. Several instruments were put out of action and the controls were jammed. Munson freed the controls and reached Eng land. Football Giants May Meet All-Stars Now York, Sept. 4 (Pi New York's professional f o o t b a 1 1 Giants may open against the eastern army All-Stars here Sept. 12 with a rookie in their first string backfield. He is Leo Cantor, a triple threatcr from UCLA, who has been running with veterans Ward Cuff, Tuffy Lccmans and Dom Princcpe In the No, 1 combination in recent workouts. Independence Mrs. ' Erma Kyllo, a registered nurse who graduated from the Emanuel hospital in Portland and worked for some time in the surgery and more recently employed at the St. John's shipyard, has accept ed a position as nurse at the office of Drs. Knott it FraUke. with his parents, bcins. The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Idaho Paper Under Fire Washington, Sept. 4 (U.PJ The Boise Valley Herald, a weekly newspaper published at Middle ton, Ida., was cited by the post office department today to show cause why its second class mail ing privileges should not be revoked for alleged publication of seditious matter. A post office department statement said the paper is pub lished by A. Cornell and I. W. Cornell and that the citation was issued on the grounds that the newspaper had violated the 1917 espionage act in that '"in many of the issues since Dec. 7, 1941, it has published in its columns matter which is held by the post office department and the department of justice to be seditious. Postmaster General Frank C. Walker made public a letter from Attorney General Francis Biddle in which he said that some of the statements pub lished "exceeded in strength and inflammatory character those for which convictions were sus tained by the supreme court in cases hitherto cited in connec tion with Social Justice and X- Ray matters." The publications Social Justice, X-Ray, Publicity, and the Philadelphia Herald were objects of similar post of fice departmental action earlier. Biddle said that although the newspaper was "basically ori ented in opposition to all wars on religious and moral grounds, this publication nevertheless, in my opinion, has exceeded the permissible limits of free speech." Boiler Room Blast Fatal to Worker Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 4 WP) One member of the crew of the sandsucker Kelley Island was scalded to death today in a boil cr room explosion. The victim was Louis Gessner of Sandusky. Coast guardsmen said he was cleaning out fires when, appar ently, a steam line broke. Gess ner was the only one in the boil er room at the time, coast guards men learned. The sandsucker is operated by the Kelley Island Lime and Transport Co., and carries a crew of about 10. It was the second accident on the Great Lakes in two days. Yesterday the freighter Steel- vendor sank in Lake Superior. but 24 of the 25 men aboard were rescued. Marriages Increase, Divorces Decrease Marriage licenses issued have increased while divorce" com plaints filed hove decreased in comparisons for August of this year with the same month last year, according to records from the county clerk's office. For August this year. $108 was paid in fees for 68 marriage lic enses while during the same month last year $159 was paid for 53 licenses. In August this year 23 divorce complaints were filed as compared with 28 dur ing August of 1941. Total fees received in the clerk's office for August this year were $1834.35 as compared with $1993.23 for August n year ago. Fees for the clerk's office itself aggregated S1217; law library fees, $100.35; circuit judge's sal ary fees, $96; district attorney salary fees, $113; photostatic. $69; dog licenses, $247, and game licenses, $11, Two strawberry dishes were sold recently in London for $880. New Air Drive Against Japs In Solomons (Continued from page 1) In their third attack, the al lied planes, an offensive recon naissance force, found two ene my flying boats at anchor in the harbor of Saisi island, just south of Bougainville, and damaged both with a blast of machine gun fire. New Guinea Coast In their fourth big attack in one day, MacArthur's medium bomber force struck at enemy installations in the Salamaua area on the north New Guinea coast, 570 miles west of the northern Solomons and 350 miles up the coast from Milne bay. Fighter . planes made two bombing and machine gun at tacks on the enemy troops in the Kokoda area of mid-New Gui nea who are feeling out the strength of the Australians de fending the 8,000 foot mountain pass leading to Port Moresby, the allied advance base. More Japs Land A United Press dispatch from Pearl Harbor, headquarters of the Pacific fleet, interpreted the navy communique on Japanese landings in the Solomons as clear indication of the urgent import ance the enemy attached to the marine victory in establishing offensive bases in the Guadal canal area. The navy communique, re porting several attempts to land small enemy detachments on various islands in the southern Solomons, said that land-based planes had made several attacks EiaStv-stx ItS groin niuttol C.pr. i Hiram Wolk.r heria, llliiwli $30 jA $?5o rwl Sent Inc I "" . I on enemy reinforcement snips and had made several hits. 5 Ships Sunk It said that the marines were engaging the detachments land ed and that despite periodic at tacks by enemy planes the ma rine positions were being steadi ly reinforced and strengthened. The navy's announcement ear lier of the sinking of a Japanese cruiser, two small freighters, a medium sized tanker and a small steamer and the damaging of two large tankers and a medium sized cargo ship was believed here to have contributed further to the dissipation of the enemy threat to Australia and especial ly to New Guinea even though the communique said that the at tacks were not connected with recent Solomons operations. Gas Explosion In New York New York, Sept. 4 UP) An ex plosion in the fashionable Bu chanan apartments on the east side in midtown New York to day killed Mrs. Davis Oswald, 28, critically injured her maid and hurt several other persons The blast was heard for 10 blocks. Assistant Fire Chief John J. McCarthy said the explosion ap parently was caused by gas but that a further investigation was being made. Police said the blast occurred in Mrs. Oswald's' apartment on the sixth floor. Her maid, Mar garet Burke, 36, was taken to a hospital suffering from a frac tured skull, internal injuries and fractures of both legs. Three other women in nearby apartments were hurled from their beds. You wouldn't want a . Jf 1 7fr4r' that's why Imperial is r-0 World Youths Discuss After War Program Washington, Sept. 4 (IP) Some 300 youths from all parts of the war-torn globe carried one consolation back into the hectic sessions of the. international stu dent service assembly today as they continued discussing plans for an allied victory and pro grams for a post-war world. They found out last night that the first lady of the United Stales, one of its chief war pro duction officials and a leading university president admittedly don't know all the answers either. After hearing Mrs. Franklin D. 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Friday, September 4, 1942 barded the trio with queries In a question and answer session. They probed Mft. Roosevelt's suggestions for a "people's cen tury" which she envisioned fo? the future of a peaceful world. They asked how "an India, un der British rule, would fit into such a world," and whether world-wide racial prejudice could be sufficiently eliminated to make such a program feasible, and "how can the peoples of all the nations be educated to fit into such a scheme?" Mrs. Roosevelt, bobbing up and down from her chair as her name was called, replied that any nation "which gives to its people the right of government" should participate in the post war program, that racial preju dices were fast being overcome and that "education of the world towards such a goal is in the hands of you young people and your generation." a Batt said many such questions could be considered and answer ed better "after we have won the Production of tin ir gian Congo will be in Bel- l 1 C