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16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, April 21, 1943 Magnuson Describes Take-Off From Carrier Seattle, April 21 UP) The only congressman to witness the takeoff of Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle's air raiders from the aircraft carrier Hornet, just 800 miles off the Japanese coast, said he had no inkling of the history- making nature of the adventure when he went aboard ship with the U. S. task force last April. "We thougth we would moke contact with a Japanese task force," said Hop. Warren G. Magnuson (D., Wash.), who participated in the daring sea venture as the highlight of his seven months of active duty as a lieutenant commander In the navy. "It was hinted about that the Japs were planning action against the Aleutians. "Then, dramatically, two days out at sea Halsey (Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.), had it announced over loudspeakers that the mission was an air raid against Tokyo, Everyone broke into cheers, especially the fliers." The 38-year-old congressman was aboard Admiral Halscy's ship in the task force. He said it was only a few hundred feet away, in the rough water, when General Doolittle led the way for his raiders with the first takeoff "like a bird" from the carrier. "After we thought we had been spotted and reported by patrol vessels," Magnuson said in an interview, "I recall how Admiral Halsey wig-wagged signals to Doolittle on the air craft carrier Hornet on the pos sibility of taking off ahead of schedule. Moment Was Exciting "Doolittle sent back a mes sage something like this: 'If we have to go now, our chances are 5 to 1. If we run another half hour, our chances are 4 to 1. If we run an hour and a half, our chances are 3 to 1.' " "So Halsey replied: 'We'll go another hour and a half.' "So the force headed straight for Tokyo." Magnuson described the spec tacle of the Doolittle takeoff as "a great experience, the most exciting moment I ever spent." He said the men of the navy, thrilled by the adventure, were disappointed at not being able to play a role in the actual bombing. "They really hoped that To kyo would send out everything they had so they oould swat them down," he continued. "We heard that the Japanese home fleet might be coming down from the north to attempt an interception. That tickled Wild Bill' (Admiral Halsey.) He thought it might be a swell chance to kill two birds on one trip and he really meant it." As special momcntos of the bombing raid, Magnuson report ed, the airmen took along me dals which had been awarded to U. S, navy officers by the Japanese. They were attached to the bombs. Most of them, the congressman said, had been awarded to the Americans for their mercy role of assistance after the destructive Japanese earthquake. 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Griffith, 68, had ta ken a fatal dose of sleeping powders. Police said Mrs. Robertson, apparently reluctant to report the deaths, had gone without medical attention possibly 12 hours. Mrs. Robertson told au thorities she came here by bus yesterday several hours after the shooting to pray for her family at Bethany chapel. The deaths occurred, she said, at 6 a.m. yesterday, but police did not learn of them un til she collapsed in the chapel, a bullet wound in her chest, al most 12 hours later. She ap parently had hidden In fright for several hours in the garage of her mother's home at Napa, authorities said. $ I 1 .NATTY Here's the uniform selected by girl war workers in the RCA plant al Camden, N. J., modeled by one of their num ber, Emma Spencer. In radio blue, it has a three-button jack-, ct, pleated skirt, shirt with con vertible collar, and overseas cap. Fund Extension Given Approval Washington, April 21 UP) The house today passed the senate-approved bill extending for two years the president's au thority over a $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, but added an amendment which its author said would prevent use of the money in the proposed joint $5, 000,000,000 international bank ing fund. The measure extends the au thority of the president over the $2,000,800,000 stabi 1 i z a t i o n fund but withdraws his power to devalue the dollar. The house on a voice vote first approved the amendment of fered by Representative Reed (R., 111.) to prevent use of the fund in the proposed interna tional stabilization fund and then quickly passed the measure on a voice vote, sending it for adjustment of the senate and house versions to a conference committee. The coinage committee in serted Reed's amendment and the house approved it within a matter of minutes. In so specifying, the commit tee said it had in mind possible post-war international stabiliza tion efforts, perhaps including establishment of an internation al bank into which the stabiliza tion fund might go, whereby di rect control of it by the presi dent might be lost. The restricting amendment, offered by Rep. Reed (R., 111.), provides control and custody thereof passes the president and the secretary of the treasury. No effort was made by the committee in its action to in clude in theb ill extension be yond June 30 of the president's authority to devalue the dollar. This provision was eliminated from the senate bill. Germans Again Repulsed in Assault in Kuban Delta Moscow, April 21 UP) A violent struggle for an important height marked the mounting battle in the Kuban delta above Novorossisk today as the Germans threw in more troops in an attempt to regain lost positions, S but nowhere did they succeed in gaining any ground, the Rus sians reported today. A dispatch to Red Star, the army newspaper, said that ar tillery action has increased and there are more and more bomb ings by the German air force operating in strength from the waters of the Black sea north ward to the Sea of Azov. Pravda, communist party newspaper, printed a front line dispatch which said Rumanian troops were in the fight but that war prisoners complained the Germans had abandoned them. The Germans, using more tanks to flank their increased infantry forces, smashed at the Russian lines in one sector in a series of 10 attacks moving in groups of from 25 to 30 which were turned back almost im mediately, it was said. The hazis then shoved in two more fresh infantry regiments, 40 more tanks and new plane Three Ships Launched In Three Days Portland, Ore., April 21 U.R With the launching of the tanker Fallen Timbers today, Kaiser shipyards here brought to three the number of ships launched in as many days. , Monday the aircraft escort carrier HMS Ameer went down the ways, and Tuesday the Lib erty ship Gilbert Stewart. In ad dition the U. S. sub chaser Hell Howler, PC-815 was commis sioned at the Albina Engine & Machine works Tuesday. 100-Mile Gales Cross Aleutians Santa Ana, Calif., April 21 (U.R) A load of beer once a month would do much to maintain morale in the Aleutians, Lieut. Col. John Chennault said in de scribing his 14-month "lifetime" in the Aleutians. Visiting his 22-year-old broth er, now a training cadet here, the 29-year-old son of Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault, head of United Nations air forces in China, told how he piloted a squadron of newly commission ed pilots to Alaska a little more than a year ago. That was' three weeks after Pearl Harbor, he said, and he and his fledglings embarked im mediately upon combat duty and have been at it ever since. A year in the Aleutians is a lifetime, he said. Kiska is whipped by 100-mile-an-hour gales. Flyers landing in Aleutian waters die of cold in less than an hour. Steady bombing prevents Jap establishment of formidable passes, Chennault said, adding the Japs do most of their work at night with picks and shovels. units but after a two-hour bat tle they retreated, leaving 1400 dead and nearly a score of tanks destroyed. Four hours later they tried to attack again and lost 25 planes shot down and eight dam aged, the Russians said. It was too early in the de veloping battle to decide here if the Germans were attempt ing a new spring offensive. On other fronts there was heavy artillery duelling along the Donets north of Chuguev, in the Scvsk district, and on the Volkhov front southeast of Len ingrad. Courses Extended Boise, Idaho, April 21 VP) Lewiston and Albion stale nor mal schools, two-year institu tions since their establishment will offer four-year courses leading to a degree of bachelor of arts in education beginning in the fall of 1943. Sale Grows For Benefit On the eve of the big benefit dance to be given at (he V.F.W. hall, Hood and Church streets, Thursday night, April 22, to aid the Salem civil air patrol in the purchase of equipment and meet the expense of maneuvers, Seam Squirrel (commander) Frank L. Prince of the Military Order of the Cootie, the sponsor organization, states that the ad vance sale of tickets by mem bers of both organizations is growing and the indications are that the attendance at the func tion will surpass all previous records. Captain Lee U. Eyerly, commanding the air patrol and in charge of the arrangements for that organization, reports similar encouraging progress. "While the air patrol, com posed of both men and women volunteers devoting their serv ices to assistance to the army air corps in emergencies, is un der government supervision and control," said Commander Prince," it receives no financial support from the government and all expenses for uniforms and equipment must be borne by the membership. It is a meritorious, patriotic movement and deserves the hearty support of the public." Hungry Nit (adjutant) David Furlough, chairman of the Cootie general committee on ar rangements, states that the dance program plans are com plete and the Cootiettes are pre pared to serve the refreshmnts and that "we are rarin to go." Music will be by the Oregonian orchestra. - if 4'-fl PINAFORE Songstress Trudy Erwin, looking- like a breath of spring-, wears the lat est in cotton pinafores with a wide border of flowers and leaves for color The neat jumper effect can be varied by wearing- differ cut colored blouses. West Salem Legion Post Drops Annual Egg Hunt West Salem, April 21 Kingwood post of the American Le gion has announced plans to this year dispense with the annual Easter egg hunt. This decision was reached after it was found that war conditions would make it impossible to purchase candy eggs in the quantify necessary to sponsor the hunt. The Le gion's announcement brings to mind a few interesting facts concerning, the origin of the hunt, which has been for many years an annual event, looked forward to by the youngsters of West Salem and surrounding Dear Warns Against Subsidy New York, April 21 (U.B Walter M. Dear, president of the American Newspaper Pub lishers association, told the ANPA convention today that a proposed congressional appro priation of $25,000,000 to $30, 000,000 for war bond advertis ing in newspapers "smacks of subsidy." Dear, publisher of the Jersey City (N. J.) Jersey Journal, said, however, that "the basic principle of advertising is just as applicable and will be equal ly as effective for the govern ment as experience has proven it to be." "However," he added, "gov ernment advertising must be safeguarded from political in fluence and directed by inde pendent advertising experts who have demonstrated their ability and the confidence in which they are held by the newspapers. This confidence has been built up by the honor able and businesslike handling of the trust imposed in the ex penditure of private funds." He urged newspapers "learn to regard government advertis ing as falling in the same cate gory as a commercial advertis ing campaign." In a discussion of newsprint supplies, Dear said that "with government on one hand im posing - restrictive measures in the use of paper because of scar city and prior demands of war necessities, and with our ac quiesence in increased price, it strains the limits of patience to note that the government itself is the principal offender in wasteful practices in the use of paper." Newsboys have sold a total of $70,00,000 in war savings stamps, the ANPA committee on the newspaper boy reported. More Protection For Forests Asked Washington, April 21 U.R) Asserting that forest protection funds In the department of ag riculture appropriation bill are too limited, Rep; Ford Norman of Washington will go before the senate committee to ask for additional funds. Forest fire money now is $6, 000,000 short of last year's ap propriations, Norman said. He maintains the west coast forests would be unduly imperilled with that allotment. community. Some eight years ago Angelo Grosso, wounded veteran of the Italian army of World war No. 1, instigated the hunt and personally financed the purchase of the eggs. The event was so thoroughly enjoy ed by the children, it was again sponsored the following year but this time Jim Mitchell, then commander of Kingwood Post, joined Grosso in sharing the ex penses. By the third year the Kingwood Post of the American Legion took over the responsi bility, establishing it as an an nual event with always 1,500 or more eggs each year to keep the youngsters amused for a few hours each Easter afternoon. The auxiliary have assisted the post in the project for the past few years. For several years the hunt was held on the vacant prop erty adjacent to the Blue Lake Cannery, but in more recent years the scene of the hunt was changed to the Legion home in Kingwood Heights. Collecting Tin Cans Housewives are again remind ed that prepared tin cans will be collected Saturday, April 24 by the salvage committee aided by students of the West Salem schools. It is requested that the cans be properly prepared and that collections be reported to school children living in the neighborhood, i who will ar range through the school for their collection.. The salvage committee is badly in need of cooperation in this matter as a door-to-door canvass is practic ally Impossible due to the time involved. It is suggested that school children could help by assuming personal responsibility for having all the tin cans in their block collected in one cen tral location by Saturday morn ing but they should not neglect to inform their teacher as to where the call should be made when the pick up is made. Mrs. G'. E. Vosburgh spent several days in Grants Pass where she was called due to the death of her sister, Mrs. .M. Hampton. 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