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Some supporters of the new measure, including; Senator Clark (D-Mo.), asserted that drainage of labor from the farm had been proceeding; with such rapidity that "we probably are ; locking; the barn door after tne horse is stolen." Senator Kil gore (D-WVa.) declared that f per cent of the farm workers .. already have been drafted. ; '. Secretary of War Stimsori had strenuously opposed the blanket war , deferments, asserting the armed forces would be deprived of needed potential soldiers and that essential farmers already were be ing deferred. : The senate, however, was in no mood for such arguments. Spon sors of the measure contended that action was essential to avert "dis aster" for the food production pro gram. . V Senator Laiollette (Prog.-Wis.) declared there was -"no other al ternative" to halt inductions of farmers although he thought it "dangerous" to order blanket de ferments of any group. Twenty twodemocratS 27 re publicans and Lafollette voted for ft, 15 democrats and nine repub licans against - Tne measure embraced a revis ion of a bill originally drawn by Senator Bankhead (D-Ala.) and signed by .39 other senators which ' sought to freeze farm labor with out referenda to the essentiality of their crops. "Tt--ri:; Offered by Senator Johnson , D-Clo.) in a move to - meet - some military committee, objec tions, the revised measure ac cepted the government's version f what constitutes essential crops bat substituted the re- . . MA A 11.11 M uirement oi amiiniuuj mu time" farm work for the mini mum of eight "war units" which bow is the , test of essentiality. A unit is a standard for measur ing the amount of a worker's labor in terms of food produc " tien. A man tending eight milk ' cows is eligible for deferment as an essential ; worker. Other : suits are based on , production per acre of food and fiber crops. t "The whole system is so com plicated that it would require draft , boards to go out to the farms and measure a man's acre age," Johnson declared. The bill would require the , re classification of 'any farm worker leaving , agriculture without ' the permission i of his local draft board. - . ;-, ; In the house a bill appropriat ing $26,100,000 to operate a farm labor ; recruiting program was passed On a standing vote of 195 to 81 .and sent to the senate. The agriculture department's proposal that the program be administered largely by the farm security ad ministration was rejected and the program was placed under the federal and state farm extension services. Meanwhile the war depart ment outlined a policy by which It would permit the use; or sel '. tiers In farm work 'upon "evi dence that the; agricultural emergency is of greater, danger to the nation than the military situation.- No furloughs will be granted to soldiers' for tempor ary farm duty; army units may ' - be used . to . harvest vital crops endangered by labor shortages at the request of the war man power commission; and soldiers ever 38 in this country who ap ply before May 1 may be dis charged to work in essential agricultural jobs if the efficiency f their military units will not : be Impaired. , . .WASHINGTON, March 17 "Both Senators Holman and Me Nary of Oregon voted Wednesday In favor of the bill directing local selective service boards to defer from' the draft farmers working substantially full time to produce cssenuai crops. : - . . - Red Airman Marshal . 1XDNDON, March I7-C?V The Xlussian high command Wednesday announced the promotion of Col cnel General of Aviation A.-: A. llovikov. to the rank of marshal, according' to a Moscow broadcast recorded here by the Soviet Mon fi:r. lie was reported to be the i'x:t Hussian airman to become a IHNTTY-CZCOriD YEAH Al British ori Against Mareth one Sayst Berlin Radio Airmen Pound Japs; Offense Posts Found 392 Bombs Dropped (Guinea 1 i Rabaul; Nev Readiness Revealed By VERN HAUGLAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday, March 18 -iJPy- Allied 'airmen striking at the enemy's invasion bases over 4 broad front blasted Rabaul in New Britain with 392 bombs and sowed . destruction in the Kai islands Wednesday, while ground troops discovered another elabo rate; sign of Japanese offensive plans, a communique said . Thurs day. I M ; General MacArthurs New Gui nea ground forces mopping up the Mam bare river! mouth 50 miles above' conquered j Buna ' "have come upon an ) elaborate and re-. cently constructed enemy defense system, includmg prepared posi tions, pillboxes; hospital and oth er installations! for a large force the communique said. " ' f TSigns of recent hasty evac uation Indicate a decisive blow (Turn to Page 2 -Story " E) East Gasoline Ration' Ciit to Gallons WASHINGTON, iMarch ll-iJP) The gasoline ration for "A" book holders in eastern states Wednes day night was cut to approxi mately 1 gallons a week ef- fective March) 22, j but they can please the ban on use it as they pleasure driving is! out effective on .that date. J . '" Announcing the reduction from the present ration of about three gallons a week, the office of price administration! said ; those with "A" i books who drive to work would be allowed j supplemental gasoline undeif revised regulations to be announced in a few days. OPA once estimated. 40 per cent of ' industrial workers who motor to their jobs hold Only "A" books so it appeared there is a big job ahead in issuing jthe additional rations. . , j j ' j 1- : The cut was effected by ex tending the t&ne in which period five coupons, good March 22, are to be used. The driver must make them last for four months where as heretofore each coupon period has been two months. J .The action! which will prob ably have a more: severe effect on the ordinary motorist than the pleasure, motoring prohibition it self, was taken after Petroleum Administrator Harold L, Ickes had certified, that only. 333,000 barrels of gasoline j daily could: be made available for east coast ci vilian and industrial use during April. I ; ' '; j ;The halving of the basic ration applies only In the east coast area where the "A" ration books have had a three-gallon! value, as com pared with four igallons in the rest of the country. Albany Gets j Laboratory I ALBANY, March 17.-;P-Pur chase of the old J Albany college campus for i federal electro chemical laboratory is provided in a bill signed j by Secretary Ickes, Sen. Charles IMcNary notified Carl Curlee, secretary j of the Albany chamber of, commerce, Wednes day. . ' , - J j McNary said the college now Lewis St Clark college of Portland will be paid $134,500 for 43 acres of land and jthreej large buildings The site, vacated several years ago when the college ! moved to Port land, lately has been used by army engineers and soldiers', wives jvis iting Camp Adairi The agreement calls for immediate - possession, McNary said. ' i An appropriation . of- fSCO.COO was made a year ago providing for establishment ef the project - and ;ar of cserauoo. - . MM Ofil-nsive 'Major Attack9 Said Launched by8th . Army, Tunisia By EDWARD' D . BALL LONDON, Marci 17--An assault which appears to be "a major attack" by the British Eight army agaii St Marshal Rommel's Mareth line positions in southeastern Tunisia is un der, way, the German radio an nounced Wednesday while field dispatches reported that the al lied forces were getting iset in the -Tunisian north coordinated blow axis from Africa. for the final to drive the ! The Berlin radio. quoting mili- tary circles, said four British and infantry divisions were being used in the assault on the Mareth line. Available reports, the broad east said, were that the,' Brit ish : first line was formed by the 51st British (Uvislosj with three Infantry and one! tank brigades, and the Seventh Brit ish tank division.! The Second wave was composed. It said, of the 5th British division, and the Second New Zealand! divi sion, which together consist of four infantry and two tank bri gades. j The Fifth British division is being held in reserve, the radio declared, and other j British forces were being reinforced fo possi ble assaults on the German flanks along with the frontal atiack. j ' In another" broadcast; the Ger man International ' Information bureau, a propaganda agency, said British artillery had "effective ly shelled the advance field posi tions of the German-Italian tank army," but that aids foijces had been "able to hold their advanced line in heavy battles which in flicted losses on tfie enemy." Many reports of intensified al lied preparations for a north Af rican offensive, hich mist be successful before k seco id front can be opened inj Europe, were met with official Silence in Lon don. There were unofficial sug gestions that the I big ; p ash was imminent. j i Lord Beaverbrook, who has been forced again j with the Rus sians toppling several; enemy (Turn to Page 3, Story D) DeGaulle Plans Meeting Sojon With Ciraud , LONDON, March lTHTbe breach between Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Gen Henri Giraud appeared to be closed Wednesday night, and the twp supreme com manders of French resistance to Germany were expected to con fer shortly in Algiers oi a union pooling a potential army of near ly 400,000 men and almost the en tire resources of the "French em pire. : ' . r ; -J . - The French national Committee announced that jDe Gaulle had made a "friendly reply" to Gi raud's recent i invitation to join him, and that he was! to leave shortly ; for north Africa. . ' Japanese-occupied Ihdo-China and Martinique I in ; the- allied' blockaded Caribbean are the on ly two empire ' segments not in the anti-axis fight. j ; Andre ; Philip, i Fighting French commissioner, told a liberal par ty luncheon that French resist ance groups had reached London carrying a "mandate'l of their recognition of De GaujUe as su preme leader in the) anti-axis fight . ; - I : s -. He forecast a possible relation ship between Giraud! " and De Gaulle when he said one might have the supreme military com mand while the; "political direc tion of Frenchj 'resistance must remain in the hands ojf one who has-received a mandate for France. , j . - Eden, Hull JfR Talk , - - - ) - l WASHINGTON, March 17 Anthony. Eden, British .. foreign secretary, and Secretary of State Hull held a protracted j conference with President Roosevelt Wednes day. They arrived at the white house in time for tea, and the na ture of the-discussions remained xtcxtt. Salam. Oregon. Tkwsdor Morning, I-tarcH 18, 1S43 Bank Chief CI x i NEW Yofc March 17.-(flJ)-ln-ternaUonlOly-mlnded Thomas W. L a nt n t, hand-picked In 1911 by he founder of J. P. Morraa And Co, Inc to beeome a partne in the famous banking firm, Wednesday was elected its chief, "he urbane 72-year-old banker as elected chairman of : the board to succeed the found er's son,! the late J. P. Morgan, who died last Saturday In Flor ida. Th directors also chose R. C. Leffingwell as chairman of the exectlve committee.! La mont, sob of a modestly - p a i d Methodlt minister of CUver ack, NY, helped round ant his expenses at Harvard by acting as correspondent for Boston' aad New Ydrk newspapers. After his graduation In 1892, he served for two years as a reporter on the old New York Tribune, j 1 i ; Work or Figlit i Bill Favored i Committee Striked Absentee ; , Holman, Greeyi in Battle WASHINGTON, March lt-PI "Work or-: fight" legislation aimed at war plant workers who habit-j ually lay ptt the job 'without good cause was approved by the house naval committee Wednesday, 17 to 9. x- . j Elsewhere on Capitol hill , there were thele developments bearing on the labor situation: ; 1. In the house, Rep. Gossett (D-Tex.) i denounced John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, as "an economic. tyrant," and declared Lewis would "be come the Benedict Arnold of 1943" If I coal miners quit jjwork April 1.1 Lewis, negotiating in New Yorc for a i a dayjjwage increase for miners, has declared they willjnot work unless they get a new contract byj Apm l, 2. WUllam Green, AFL pres ident, encased in a sharp Clash with Senator Holman (R-Ore.) before the senate mUitary com mittee. with the' senator! de scribing; as "balderdash" the la bor leader's argnmenta against legislaUOn permitting drafting of men or women, when neces sary, for farm and factory work. Green shot back that Holman'i remarks shewed his attitude to ward organized labor, i . . 3. The! house labor i committee, opening bearings on absenteeism, heard Harold J. Gibson, AFL rep resentative of . Pacific coast airr craft workers, contend "dissatisr faction with pay ; scales" is the principal reason for workers lay ing off fhe job. He argued many workers I would prefer a military status ahd military pay . n : the aircraft industry, saying, this would give 4 them larger income tixan the now receive.. x V ' r'y Before! approving its bill dealing - (Turn- to Page -2 Story w ) - -. i i Keeping of Irish , Nationality Urged - TltmTltN. March. 17-f-flPV-Prime Minister Eamon De Valera told Irishmen observing one iof the moot restrained St. Patrick's day in history . Wednesday i that the better ,they preserved the fchar acteristifcsi as a ; distinct - ination' the more secure would, be their post-war freedom; --x'Xl xxfj " Restoration of the unity of na tional territory and restoration of a national language, he sad, "are the greatest- of our uncompleted national tasks. x ; X; .:x;. t;x I "Physjical dangers that threaten and the! need for .increasing vigi lance in the matter of defense as well asi unremitting attention ; to the serious problems war has brought us should not .cause . us to neglect cur dyty to ' the lan- 4 lu JB(D)M I - . -1 - ' - I. CJaimijDltatf!! 1 Bombs 5 1 Earns 6 th Coast Guard Cutter Damaged in 12-hour North Ocean Battle WASHINGTON, March 17 yPhThe coast guard cutter Campbell , depth-bombe4 five German submarines and shell ed rammed and . sank, a sixth in a fierce 12-hour running fight with a U-boat wolf pack in the North Atlantic about three weeks ago, the navy, an-; nounced late Wednesday, It was the most dramatic account of anti submarine action to be made pub lic here go far.:,,'.'..".;':'' - :x-: .j .The 2000-ton Campbell, which once escorted King George , and Queen Elizabeth .of England, was protecting a United Nations- "COHr voy and it seemed unquestionable that her furious attacks saved the merchant ships from much dam age; . . In all but one action the Camp bell was. alone. In the single ex ception she joined a corvette in an inconclusive attempt to destroy a U-boat which the corvette had al ready engaged. .!'. J The sixth U-boat was first attacked by shell fire as the Campbell bore down npon , It.. Then it was rammed, and as it drifted free after the collision it again came nnder the Camp bell's biasing ; runs at point blank range. The cutter's offi cers watched the big U-boat shudder from the impact of ex ploding shells and saw It slowly settle and ilnkr stern 'ftrstl The collision.: " damaged 1 the Campbell. She had a 12-foot rip In her side below the water line and was . partially flooded. With the aid of a Polish destroyer that fought at Dunkirk and the further assistance of a , British , destroyer and corvettes she remained afloat and safe, however, until a tug ar rived and towed her to an east coast port for repairs. She docked there 10 days after the collision. ' Cmdr. James A. Hirshfield, 40, of San Antonio, Texas , was the only man aboard the cutter who was wounded. He was hit by a piece of flying metal but remained actively in command of his ship. .When King George and Queen Elizabeth of England visited " the United States in 1939 and included in their travels a trip from Fort Monmouth, NJ, to New York City on' a destroyer, the Campbell served as an escort ship and her guns fired a salute. Wi Destruction of the U-boat was the third successful attack on an enemy undersea raider to be re ported by the navy within the last four weeks. It announced Febru ary 23 that a destroyer had sunk (Turn to Page 2, Story G) : FR Informed On Manpower WASHINGTON, March 17-(ff) President Roosevelt has received a confidential report on the prob lem of manpower from a special five-man committee, but there is no indication whether the chief executive will make it public or when he may act on IL 7 - ; The committee was headed by James F. Byrnes, economic stabi lization director, who was assisted by these four advisers of the pres identr Bernard L. Baruch, Harry L. Hopkins, ' Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and Adm. William ' D. Leahy. ;. ";: --Z:'i':fT:jf' j jThe . report j waa:: based on a study of manpower : needs i for farm" production, war enterprises and the armed services. Several days ago it was reported that the committee members had - agreed that the goal of 10,800,000 ..men in the armed forces by the end of this year would not require revision downward. State CEMeet , Gmceled Here V Wartime transportation, hous ing - and banqueting1 1 problems caused postponement this weekv of the state Christian Endeavor con vention which had been scheduled for April 8-lt in Salem, officers of the host county :CE union an nounced Wednesday. , 1 ;The convention is cancelled in sofar as Salem Is concerned, offi cers believed, but expressed the belief that it might be- held else where in the ttaU tis- US Attacks Japs at 1 : ' t ;: r v : '' ; ' I, : - :': - ':-: -f j. t". : y - - 7 mi i in 'wrtW. m in. ri i, , .,, .i.i in; ,, ir This spectacular air picture was Japanese base en Klska island, in and military installations are the corps picture from News, of the Kiska jHeaviH WASHINGTON, March 17 -JP) The accumulated fury of months of preparation - by : the United States air command in the. North Pacific burst over the Japanese base on Kiska Monday, the navy disclosed Wednesday when heavy and medium army bombers raided the Aleutian island six times by daylight., ' . . - .Thi was 'the greatest dumber of attacks delivered against Kiska in a single dawn-to-dusk : period since enemy forces - occupied : It last , June, and, indications were that the number and weight - of bombs dropped -were considerable. A. navy communique described the action as "six heavy bombing at tacks."' X. :X' i-- - -'r ' j The conununlque also report-. Reds Point Neal By The AaMteUted Press j LONDON, Thursday, March I lS-KOrRussiarJ - - .-. i: . .i : ' If 1l I regained ground at one point in the savagej Donejts basin river battle below Kharkov, captured? jdozens jjinore hkmlets in jhe sweerj toward Smolensk, and driven nejr! ! holes in nazi lines near Lake limen, Moscow announcea xnursaay. For the first time since counter-offensive which- retook Kharkov, the Russians ' told how their troops on this sector going over to the -offensive "captured advantageous pos i t i o n s" near Chuguyev, 22 miles southeast of Kharkov, and beat off six Ger man counterattacks. This was the only action men tioned on the long Donets river line: which extends from near Kharkov to a point below Voro-J shOovgrad, r Donets ' basin -- indus-i trial -center, - The midnifht eenunanlaue, recorded by the soviet monitor ; here, said It German tanks were : , knocked eut, te tracks and four; guns destroyed and . two bat ; tallons of approximately ISO - men ' wiped: out. ';-u On the central front red army vanguards were believed to be 40 or SO - miles from; the Smolensk' stronghold. The communique said the Dnieper river headwaters had , (Turn to Page 1, Story C) Turkey Backs Allied Cause "ANKARA, Turkey, March 17CP) Prime Minister Sukru Saracoglu expressed thorough; sympathy , of the Turkish government with the allied cause in a policy speech Wednesday,, and later won an unanimous vote of confidence from the: assembly. Or v ;it -"i.t : i ; Turkey's loveJand' respect out to the democratic and repub4 lican people of America,- the pre-; mier declared, returning the good wishes expressed In the US senate after President Ismet Inonu's re election. , - : Every .reference in his speech to England and the United States brought prolonged applause-;from the assembly.. --;yV--- -s-vvr : His speech-made no reference t Ccrrry. , rrlc Zc taken during 1 4 US bombing; of a the Aleutian: chain. Jap barracks targets. This is a US army signal Day Newsreetl f Hit e4 that on Monday It-Tat (Solo- " bmbi ' time a lixbl naval sur- face force 11 probably a cruiser- aestroyer f iasa; , group pene trated ; into; ' eneniy-dominated waters of( the central Solomon islands and- bombarded the port village of Vila with -good e- MVltsXXitUXi'. I.:-- -i ; tlXo casi our frcci Itles were suffered byH ine communique uu n : 1 i'ijj edl-;--v"::jiiHi;v i, The overall r repjort, of blows rained oriiftjie eneniy at bdth the north and, SOUth extremities of his Pacific defense area) led to specu lation herfhat American offen sive thrusts; of grrfat importance miirht be I in the making-. There Was no icohfirmatibn of this by official spokesmenJ troops have the Germans, sprang their great . . i A - Hitler Visits EastfFroW ' For Planning ;J. ,: By itrhe Associated Preas ' (Adolf Hitler lias visited the southern sector, bf the eastern front to h(ld a conference with his generals, the erlin radio ire ported : Wednesdax.''-''': x T.' , -'.if 'I , j The broadcast recorded by j the Assoeiafell press said Hitler's visit was revealed by photM published in Wed4esday'a Berlin : papers airport immed fronL.. . ,-.- :i k which showed an lately , behind the HiUer,-according to Berlin's; de scription! of one' of the pictures, is shown greeting' Field Marshals Fritz Erich ..Von Mannstein and Baron Vbn Richtaofen. Mannstein is commander in chief of the army group in the south! and Rlchthoffen is chief I of the fair force 5 there, the broadcast aai.',: XX -5; :; Anothld photoj the Berlin radio said, showed "Hitler before a map of the waf theatre discussing the situation with Fild Marshals j Von Mannstein and Ewald Von Kleist" Gen. Kurt Zeitder, chief of the general ptaf f of the army, accom panied filler on the flight to the front, the radio Said. The broadcast i ended by saying that "Berlin mililary. quarters, are of the opinion tht during Hitler's visit to' the south future clans of operations werej discussed after the array group of Field Marshal Von Lannstein, who on Tuesday was decorated by Hitler with oak leaves to the khisM cross of the iron cross, had broken the winter offensive; of. the! enemy after vio- I'll iinif A -. , . III. ' Kislta I I I nowever Jj : 1 . "kit A m Mvariciiat One lihatkov a id r . i ' i I I Itzt rJjzr rro. u Wolf Pack Attacks : 2 Hours North; Ocean Convoy Not Without Loss f Ex-US Ship Aids LONDON, March l8-( Thurs- day)-i?5)-Anied escort vessels and the RAF have destroyed at least three enemy submarines and , probably damaged many others in a 72-hour running fight with a U-boat wolf pack which the; admiralty described as "one of the greatest battles of the winter j between - naval escorts of a convoy and U-boats." Participating in the action which the admiralty said occurred last month somewhere in . the north Atlantic were British, American and fighting French ships and RAF Liberators and Sunderlands. The an noun cement made ear- ' ly Thursday said the "convoy did not escape without loss," but it did not specify, the num ber of ships lost. Eighty eight survivors were picked up. la addition, 49 members of the crew of one of the U-boats destroyed were captured. ' The first U-boat was sighted at a seven-mile range by the for mer American destroyer Beverly. She stalked the submarine until only 2 H miles away, then called upon " the 25-year-old British de-" stroyer Vimy to Join the hunt. , The U-boat dived, but the Vimy- . found the scent. While the Bever ly circled, penning the sub within a restricted area, the Vimy at tacked, with depth charges;, bring ing the submarine to the surface. " Both destroyers, the admiralty said, opened -fire, and the sub marine crew soon was observed jumping into the water. As the U boat went- down stern first, the Vimy scored a .direct hit on the bow as a parting shot. i I Torty of the U-boat's crew were picked Up by the Beverly before the Vimy signalled: "Don't be greedy. Leave a few. The Vimy then picked up nine prisoners, four of which died later and were buried at sea. This was the beginning of a bat tle lasting three' days and nigbtav Other escort ships helping repulse the attacks were the United State destroyer Babbitt, the Fighting French corvette Lobelia and the British corvettes, HMS Mignonette Abelia and . Campanula. That night five U-boats re sumed the attack, and the num ber of submarines la the raiding pack continued to Increase dar ing the following two days and nights, the admiralty said. jThe Beverly, with 40 Germans below decks, chased and engaged five U-boats. The first night she . had a merry chase with a U-boat encountered at 200 yards. The sub marine dodged about, disappearing and reappearing in the mist in a frantic effort to escape ramming. The destroyer dogged it at full speed, with tracers streaming from her guns. When the U-boat finally crash-dived, the Beverly attacked with depth charges. , r The Beverly encountered anoth- er U-boat while en route back to join th4 convoy, and another fur ious . chase ensued with the de- stroyer firing at close range, morning, the Beverly at I Next tacked two more subs with "pro mising signs of damage or destruc tion,' the admiralty said. Taking a hand in the fight dur ing daylight hours, RAF Liberat ors and Sunderlands destroyed at least one submarine and damaged four more. , U-boat attacks were so vicious -and "persistent, the Mlsnonette j was forced to break off the work Iof rescuing survivors of a tor pedoed convoy vessel one nltht In order to drive off surfaced I U-boats. But, time after time, i she retained te her task and ' i "saved S3 men from the water. I The Vimy, originally named the Vancouver, fought in the last war with the British grand fleet The Beverly, which already had one U-boat to her credit, was said ta have been the first former Ameri can destroyer In action against the enemy, helping to drive off Ger man destroyers that attacked a convoy to Russia last year. Appropriate X ELACHrCCT, 113.1.9, I.:arii -17 -(J1) A r?a v ri trn t" day ta lit. nr. I V 7;.:-; W--t-'Vrx
