Dimout The Insido 1 ii-A :- - - ,J '.f-".i , i Yen complete morning newspaper. The Statesman, f f en 70 pertinent com cnents on war new of the day by BJrse Simpson. Washington analyst. ,- Friday sunset C:22 p. m. Saturday sunrise 1:23 a. m. Weather: Wed. max temp. SI, mia. S9. Wed. rain JL3 in. Thurs. river f .9 .ft Weather data restricted by army request. PCUNDQD iCZl IHNETY-SECOND TEAR 1 - ' , ; ; ; ' A e$ Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning, February 5. 1M3 Pries) la. No. 233 0 amies m 'w " mm 11 ivaKLa .:. :". a i i a ' w jf i i a & i at . ' m mt m mm . - i i it 3 - - v Nazi Mjajnpower Board To Control Hiring In Shortage Workers Seek Information! Training Set Instructions Coming On Draft Order; Classes Speeded Specific instructions concerning local effects! of the war manpow er commission's announcement Wednesday,1 which canceled de pendency draft deferments for men in non-essential industries, are expected within the next sev eral days by William H. Baillie, Salem, office manager of the US employment i service. A constant flow of both work ers and employers has besieged the office, Baillie said, seeking Information as to what they may expect from the commission's rul ing. Plans to step up war train ins in the Salem area to ac commodate .men who find they have no training or background to enter an essential war indus try were announced Thursday by Baillie and C. A. Guderian, coordinator for the Salem war tralnlnr program. Guderian an- jrounixu ws no department is ready to offer training to the limit of its facilities, which of fer space for 209 trainees ready Immediately. . m W 1 m m '- Present 'classes include ship yard welding, aviatisM itwit met- al, general sheet metal and ma chine shop. Both day and night ' classes are maintained in shipyard welding, for which there is a great demand for workers, with a night class in aviation sheet metal pos sible if trainees demand it Both classes are open to both men and women. Machine shop class meets each night, allowing trainees : to continue in their daytime employ ment Later, if demanded, a class in marine wiring will be offered, Guderian stated. Classes are offered at no ex pense to the trainee, except for personal equipment Basic pay for welders is $1.20 an hour and ad vancement to employment is based on tests of ability, not upon a time requirement Persons inter ested may apply through the US employment service,- or to Gu derian evenings at the high school shops. By Th Associated Press By the hundreds of thou sands, men of draft age are al ready seeking war work, a sur vey indicated Thursday, as a result of the war manpower : commission's warning that be ginning April 1 dependents will . be no cause for deferment of " those in certain non-essential occupations. In New York City, applications with the US employment tervtee for war jobs jumped to 29,802 Wednesday, the day after the warning, compared with 8000 dai ly before then. The rush contin ued yesterday with 13,493 Inter viewed. The Philadelphia office of the service reported 500 telephone inquiries an hour. Applications were up 50 per cent in Omaha, 35 per cent in Chicago and 30 per cent in Des Moines. , In Washington, whose workers fall largely Into two classes, those in the government and those in service industries, officials of the employment service ; were con- , sidering putting on special even ing shifts of interviewers. In issuing the warning, the man power commission said 3,200,000 transfers from non-essential oc- CUiMUOHS IU WAT WD mUSl DC made In 1943. Officials said Thursday that many men were asking wheth er they would have to leave J their home city in order to get Into jobs which will defer them If they have dependents. They are being told that for the pres ent they will not have to move. . Another question was whether the draft quotas would be raised Jn cities having large numbers of men in non-deferable jobs The answer to this Is "no," officials aid. At Seattle, the US employment service office reported a, flood of phone calls from persons , asking details of the directive but per sonal appearances at . the . office increased only slightly over pre vious days. - ;- j Areas j Order Expected to - Hold "Workers in ; Essential Jobs WASHINGTON, Feb. Chairman Paul V. McNutt an nounced Thursday night that the war manpower commission would take control of the hiring of labor in shortage areas, a step expected to freeze millions of persons in war industries or other -tasks deemed essential. Under the system, McNutt said, the manpower commission or agencies approved by it will furn ish workers to employers on a priority system based on the im portance of the employer in the war effort New barriers will be raised to prevent workers shifting from vital occupations to less es sential ones, and limits will be placed on the authority of em ployers to fire workers assigned to them through the manpower commission. WMC officials emphasized that no one would be pegged Irrevocably in any particular job or even in any line of work, if he had "good reasons to leave, but one aim of the con trols Is to prevent persons from leaving war work for non-essential jobs without 'reasons considered sufficient. Nothing in the regulations would prevent a man from get ting- a promotion or, for exam ple, progressing from a low-paying job to a higher-paying one In his factory4'"..-; -..?J;XV'- 5 Moreover, the officials said, ap peals procedure will function to protect the workers' rights, and : (Turn to Page 2 Story A Subs, Bombers Get 14 Ships Above Africa By The Associated Press LONDON, Feb. 4-()-New suc cesses in the allied campaign of attrition against axis sea com munications the destruction of 14 and perhaps 16 axis ships in the Mediterranean by submarine and bomber action over a period of several days were announced Thursday as land action in Tunisia again fell into a lull. In what the allied headquarters communique described as "a limit ed success," the British in a local attack seized a height six miles south of Bou Arada, in the cen tral mountainous area of Tunisia, and threw back a German counter-attack. A check-over of pri soners taken by the Americans in earlier actions disclosed that an Italian brigadier-general was among them. ' At the eastern end of the line, Ihe British Eighth army pursuing Marshall Rommel westward from Libya reported only patrol activi ty against his rearguard. The bulk of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery's British forces were at, or very near, the Tunisian frontier, with some advanced elements operating well within Tunisia,. t Allied air action was reported heavy from Tunisia to Sicily land Italy, and the day's official re ports showed eight allied planes lost in the Tunisian theatre to six for the axis a favorable ratio for the enemy not often achieved. ) Of the 14 axis ships reported sunk in the Mediterranean, four went down under bomber attack and 10 under submarine assault Two' others were known to have been hit and were believed sunk. Nazis Puzzled Over Churchill By Th Associated Press j The Berlin radio displayed a perplexed but continuing interest Thursday and Thursday night in the movements of British Prime Minister Churchni. j One broadcast during the day recorded by the Associated Press quoted a dispatch datelined Stock holm saying Churchill had made a "hasty visit to Moscow" fallow ing last weekend's conference with Turkish leaders in Turkey : s Then Thursday night the same radio broadcast a dispatch date- lined Madrid saying that the prime minister was in Gibraltar en route back to London, Adolf Dead? i 'I ;7 JOSEPH E. DA VIES V Davies Suggests Hitler Mourned Predicts Situation, : If True, Would Not End Nazis NEW YORK, Feb. 4-()-Joseph E. Davies, former ambassador to Russia, suggested Thursday night on the "March of Time" program heard over NBC, the : possibility that Adolf Hitler is dead. "These days of mourning, and grief in Germany supposedly be cause of the Stalingrad defeat and the fact that Hitler did not make his 10th anniversary speech last week suggests the possibility that Hitler is dead," he said. "But suppose Hitler, is dead," Davies added. "The nazl party with Its : industrial fascis ists apf rv j LONDON, Friday, Feb. H) A foreign office spokesman ex pressed his personal opinion Fri day that suggestions that Hitler is dead was "sheer nonsense." military leaders is still alive. . . . And even though Hitler were dead, the depression of the German peo ple fed by Goebbels' propaganda on the hprror of a United Nations' victory will sustain the German war machine. A gigantic attempt to break through to the Baku oil field may be expected therefore this summer." Davies, praising the Russian ad vance, declared that the German campaign there "is on the verge of being completely smashed." Inquiries poured into news papers in Omaha, Utica, Philadel phia, Baltimore and Cincinnati. The New York Daily News, in an editorial last Tuesday, specu lated on the possibility that Hitler was dead. The editorial stated in part that Von the face of the known facts on the January 30 Berlin observ ance of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, we think it is just possible that Hitler is dead." The editorial added that "we have no inside lowdown which prompts this editorial." Canada's 00 To Be Found CALGARY, Friday, Feb. 5-(CP) The Calgary Albertan Friday quoted reliable sources that "drill ing of wildcat oil wells in about 40 different areas of the far north is slated to get : underway next summer.' The program will be the biggest of Canada's history, it said. j vThe program I is designed to furnish - oil for the partially con structed pipe line from Fort Nor man to the Alaska highway," the newspaper stated," adding that the 1943 program "is under the aus pices of and largely financed by the United States army." As a result, a -vast development program is planned bringing into the picture besides Imperial Oil Limited, already operating in the area, the Union Oil company of California, the Noble Drilling com pany and the American govern ment : 1?;- i .-j Von Papen Called? LONDON,; Feb. t--A Reu ters dispatch from Ankara said Thursday that Franz ' von Papen, Adolf Hitler's ambassador to Tur key, had been recalled to Berlin. Presumably he was to be asked to , report on the Adana confer ence of British - Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Turk ish President Ismet Inonu, held while the ambassador was away on a skiing trip. ; -' Hospital Bill In; ; Disfavor ; : . ) . ... Houses Pass 41 Bills; a Committees Okeh 1 Tax, Spending j By RALPH C. CURTIS Objecting to the absence of cost 'estimates, the Oregon leg islature's joint ways and; means committee Thursday disapprov ed of a bill which would have referred to the voters th ques tion of establishing a psychia tric hospital in Portland. The bill, ; introduced ; by Rep. F. H. Dammash, Multnomah, was reported out "do not pass" after Sen. W. H. Strayer, Baker, said he was advised the cost I would be about $2,000,000, but that the voters should be given some idea of the necessary outlay. - In a day marked by long ses sions of the two houses, In which 41 bills were approved oti third reading and others were defeated or indefinitely postponed, com mittees nevertheless found time for these insignificant decisions: Deciding to "do something for the old folks" as recom mended by Gov. Earl Snell but by a different means, the house committee on assessment and LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR Third readings Friday: In House: HB 62, 97, 103, 126, 137, 168, 182, 187, 205, 213, 228, 23'2, 249, 262, 263, 272, 284, 307, 311. SB 19. : - In Senate: SB 73, 92, 101, 102, HB 22, 74, 116. r- ' '" 1 ;, ' 1 I.. taxation voted to report out favorably Rep. John Stcelham mer's bill taxing pinball ma chines and "Juke boxes" for the benefit of the public welfare fund. The committee previously had hesitated for fear that, by increas (Turn to Page 2 Story B) USO Advised As Operator Of 3rd Center Recommending that the USO, with the YMCA as predominating influence, operate Salem's; pro posed new downtown service men's center, Salem's defense rec reation committee took action Thursday afternoon at its meeting to get operations plans lined up should the Breyman building re construction plans be accepted by the federal securities agency. . Acceptable here also would,, be Catholic charities or Salvation Army operation of the new cen ter, although the original USO center has the national YMCA supervision and-committee! mem bers believed there might be less confusion and more efficiency if both were under the same setup. Installation of motion .picture equipment has been commenced at the currently-operating USO center. here.1 .Complete sound pro jection equipment, was -included in the shipment recel ved recently from New York but a screen and pictures are still- lacking.' Cur rent movies are to be selected from 16-millimeter stocks iii spec ified Portland film exchanges. The equipment is to be used at the center on certain days," to be established,' and at other times is to be sent to outposts in this area and to Camp Adair for use of men in quarantine. Norway Press eTold STOCKHOLM, Feb. . -(ffy-The newest secret instructions by the nazis tor the -Norwegian press, or der editors "not to write as if it is already certain that Germany is going to win the war," the Swedish-Norwegian news agency said Thursday night. "'. " "Contrary to earlier des,' the instructions were quoted as say ing, "German defeats and the se riousness of the situation must be emphasized. Until further notice there should be no unbalanced attacks against England." j i The ' Swedish-Norwegian j news agency Interpreted this as a hint that Germany might be preparing the ground for possible peace ne gotiations with Britain. . I : Chang Wounded A British gun crew member in Tripolltaala treats the wounded shoulder of a comrade In a slit trench : while their six-pounder in background) continues to blast at axis forces retreating toward Tunisia. This la an an official British photo. Associated Press Telemat, Cities Requ est Road Revenues Commission Opposes Allocation for Street Use Allocation of 15 per cent of ail high w a y department revenues from state sources, to cities for use in construction and mainten ance of streets, was advocated by spokesmen for the League of Ore gon Cities at a meeting of the house highway and highway reve nue . committee, Thursday after noon. " " . ;.. ' "The' bill proposing such alloca tion was opposed by R. H. Bal dock, engineer for the highway commission, on the commission's behalf. He estimated highway revenues would, be reduced 40 per. cent , this year and next be cause of rubber and gasoline ra tioning and said the commission would be hard pressed for funds, purely for debt retirement and maintenance without undertaking any new construction. He said $1,780,000 had been spent in cities in 1942, on "highway" streets and on other streets used by logging trucks.. Virgil Langtry of the League of Oregon Cities said the bill pro vided for no allocation to cities unless revenues to the highway department exceeded $10,000,000, and the cities would receive no portion of the receipts below that figure. But Howard Merriam of (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Defense Plant Workers Here Go on Strike Putting away . tools and., equip ment at 8 o'clock in the middle of the shift, workmen at the Keith Brown Building Supply company shops here went on strike Thurs day night to become, if union of ficials at a recent Salem' conven tion spoke correctly, the first building trades union oh a defense job in Oregon to lose an hour be cause of labor trouble. One hun dred men are involved. A mediator has already been requested, members of the em ploye group declared Thursday night .. ;,.-. ' The question" Is that of hourly wage on a new defense contract, it was said. Work, of buiding pre fabricated houses on the current contract, by the Brown company nears completion, . while a - new task was getting under way this week, it was said. . If the new job is millwork, as in the case of construction of the prefabricated : houses, ' the union wage is $1.12H aa hour; if it is box factory work, the union scale is 93 cents, it was said. - Stayton Soldier Taken Prisoner : STAYTON, FebT 4.- com munication from the war depart ment this week to Mr.-and Mrs. Mike Neitling of Sublimity reveal ed that their son, Al F. Neitling, was taken a prisoner on Bataan, Another son, Leo, was killed sev eral months ago in the crash of an army bomber out of McChord field and the word that Al is alive, although a prisoner, was received with great Joy '-v Gunner Treated y - :: v. - RAF Bombers Slash Italy And Germany LONDON. Feb. 5-yP)-Home-based RAF bombers smashed at Italy and enemy-occupied : territory Thursday night, it was stated authoritatively Friday. This was the first raid of the year by bombers from Britain agamst Italy, though that coun try has been struck a number of times by British and Ameri can twieto the Mediter ranean area. . It marked the third successive night attack in the heavy allied . day and night offensive against axis objectives and followed a day in which bombers of the US army air forces, making their second raid of the war on Ger many, struck at northwest Ger- . many.'-. Large formations of American Flying Fortresses and their four-motored mates of the RAF dropped hundreds of tons - of high explosives in an around-the-clock offensive Wednesday night and Thursday which was aimed at the area where Adolf Hitler's most essential sub marine works are concentrated. :. .. - ; ........ Preliminary Indications were that the powerful night attack by the British on Hamburg, fol lowed Thursday by large - for ' nations of Flying Fortresses, was meant to be one of the big gest allied aerial offensives of the war, but ley clouds and deadly opposition were encoun tered and 21 bombers were lost In all Ave of them American. S w arms of Messerschmitt 109s, lifts, and 219s, Focke-Wulf 190s and Junkers 88s, jumped the Fortresses and gave them their biggest battle yet, It was reported. . , . Two Messerschmitt 109s were' claimed by Staff Sgt. Stanley . Tucker, D a n n e r, (Malheur county) Ore., top turret gunner ' ha Cramer's plane. ' Staff Sgt. . William Wlthus, the Bronx, New . York, ball turret ; gunner, said he saw! them crash in the sea. Reds Assured - Weapons -: - -- x-., WASHINGTON, Feb. -(P) Secy, of War Stimson combined a promise of increased delivery of weapons to Russia with the ob servation Thursday that destruc tion of the German Sixth army before Stalingrad, had freed large numbers of Soviet troops for of fensive operations. a . . - The Stalingrad disaster was one of ; the greatest ; military defeats ever : suffered by German - arms, Stimson told a press . conference. Yet he said the nazis fought brave ly, there was no sign of . general demoralization. In their army and, despite a generally favorable situ ation on all fronts, there is "no ground for - excessive optimism concerning an early end of the struggle."; " , In promising stepped-up ' ship ments of arms to the Soviets, Stim son said losses on, convoy routes to Murmansk had been reduced and : transportation - facilities ex panded on. the southern route via the Fersian gull and Iran. ' Under Fire "3. Planes Pouiid Jap Fields Rabaul Hit Sixth Straight Nigbt; Ship Bombed ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, Feb. 5-(P) In indirect support of our forces in the Solomons, Catalina flying boats harassed . the Japanese air drome at .Buin, "on -the- southern tip of flotigalnvillo island, tor three hours in a night raid early Thursday, itarting seven fires. Four were believed to be burn lng planes. , 4 :. . - ' ' . Bum is roughly 300 miles north west of' American-held - Guadal canal. " Other raiders'' attacked seven places in the southwestern Paci fic area, . including Rabaul, New Britain, which had its sixth straight night raid. -Observation there has been extremely diffi cult lately and nothing specific has been reported as certainly hit for several days. : A direct hit was scored on a- Jap cargo ship camouflaged ; with coconut . fronds at Arawe on the south coast of New ' Britain and It last was seen on a reef, listing. - The raid on Buin was the second straight, a Catalina having-start? ed towering fires in the .previous one. V - . . ' "Our medium bombers executed a three hour night harassing raid on the airdrome,'' the communi que said of the new raid. Three fires were started " in (Turn to Page 2 Story C) - Yanlts Gain; Two Fleets1 Spar, Pacific WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-P)-American troops made further ad vances against the Japs on Guad alcanal .Tuesday despite aerial bombardment from the enemy, the navy announced Thursday, while warships of the rival fleets ap parently still skirmished through out the Solomon islands 'area. The American " ground forces continued; their advance to the west, driving the Japs toward the end of the island.' They occupied elevated positions west of the Bonegi river, killed 39 Japs and captured considerable equipment Tokyo radio .'reports, that the fleets have started the imminent big , battle were described at the navy : department as false. The communique said only: . "Details concerning recurrent engagments between- US air and surface .forces and those of the enemy will not be announced as long' as such information might jeopardize- the safety of our for-, ces in the area of . operations. . ' Japanese planes , bombed Am erican' positions Monday- and Tuesday nights (Guadalcanal time). -American airmen meanwhile hit twice at the Japanese. A fighter plane strafed enemy barges , in Guadalcanal waters Tuesday and the same night Dauntless dive bombers and avenger torpedo planes which also can carry bombs, struck the Japanese air field at &unda, . German : Armies Squeezed! All Roads to Rostov Closed ; Defense Lines Broken By. The Associated Press j'- The red army smashed . its way across the northern Cau- . casus to within 38 miles of tha Sea of Azov Thursday, the Rus sians announced early Friday, and the soviet troops effective ly cut off from escape through Rostov the nazl Caucasian army of . 200,000 badly-mauled troops. with escape apparently possible only across water to the' Crimean peninsula, a hazardous route on which they certainly would be subjected to the full fury of a red army, land, sea and air pummel- ing. ,. ' ' . .The Soviet counter-offensive has' rolled forward at such as tounding speed that It has sur passed even the most optimistic expectations of Joseph Stalin and his red army commanders,' who are now raising their sights ' In the belief that the German army Is beaten, London inform ants reported. This hint that the red army is preparing to drive forward in a continuing offensive that may change drastically in a few months even the present favorable allied situation was given by unnamed Informants .thoroughly familiar with the eastern position, ps five new developinents were reported: -I. These Informants said Ger many and her satellites were reck oned to have lost more than 1,000,- 000 men since November 19, when the red .army began its general counter-attack. 2. Moscow announced capture of the Caucasian towns of Staro minskaya and Kanevskaya, each only 38 miles from the sea of Azov below Rostov, and said the red army had broken through the first line of new nazl defenses south of Rostov. I 3. With this smash toward the sea of Azov, the German Cauca sian army seemed trapped around Novorossisk and Krasnodar, with escape apparently possible only through the Crimean peninsula, -fr. . The Berlin radio Itself re ported a Russian marine land ing on the Taman peninsula which threatened to block an escape across to the Crimea. 5. The Russians announced in a special communique that another German army, once estimated at nine divisions, or more than 100, 000 men, had been squeezed and cut in two west of Voronezh ana reduced by 44,000 men killed and captured ?n the last nine days. The developments south of Ros tov indicated that the troops of German Field Marshal Siegmund wilhelm List were being cut into segments and already 'were vir tually isolated by multiple rod army landward thrusts from the south and east and by red fleet detachments from the sea. The capture of Starominskaya , and Kanevskaya indicated that the Russians had thrown heavy masses of men and materials into a push west of the Rostov-Baku railway and were in heavy force between the German forces at Rostov and those still clinging to Krasnodar and the Black sea port of Novoros sisk farther to the south In the Caucasus.'..."' All main roads and railroads for the Germans escape north-" ward to Rostov were In Russian hands. The Russians said their forces In driving toward the sea of Azov had smashed irreslstably against a dense defense belt of barbed wire entanglements, . trenches, block houses, and minefields which the Germans bad perfected tnrougn many months of hard work to . defend Rostov. t I - Annie's Bad:! Statesman readers who have missed "Little , Annie Kooney" on the comic page this week wui una ner cc iu place today. Two panels a day will be run until this popular comic which tLe syndicate supplying it failed to LncluJe .with other comics early tt!s week has carjit rp wiih ti stlf. Turn t t-s c:rJ3 r:r. vl