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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
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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?
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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. ;
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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v.
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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
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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
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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