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Newspaper Page TextSink Jap GargoSuhi Lae Supplies Come Underseas ; Enemy Counters in China By VERN HAUGLAND ALLIED HE A DQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, S a t u rdt y, March 20-(JP-Generl MacAr thur's airmen, p e r s i s t e n tly seeking out Japanese targets in the huge arc of invasion islands north of Australia, surprised a Japanese submarine unloading cargo in the Lae, New Guinea, harbor Friday night and sank it with lour direct bomb hits, a communique said Saturday. Meanwhile, the Japanese, who have been attacking Allied posi tions along the northeastern coast of New Guinea, particular ly the Oro Bay region, sent 50 planes over Porlock harbor near Tufi, 50 miles below recaptured Buna. They dropped 70 bomb?, damaging the wharf and a launch but failing to cause casualties, the bulletin announced. Eighteen Japanese bombers . and 32 escorting tighten par ticipated in this attack. It was ' disclosed the raid was made without any attempted allied interception. The sinking of the submarine at Lae was disclosed in a pre liminary report which lacked de tails of the night attack. However, it indicated the Japa nese had been forced to resort to the use of submarines to supply and reinforce their hard-pressed Lae and Salamaua units which are known to be drastically short of food and other supplies due to the failure of recent convoys - such as the 22-ship one destroyed in the Bismarck sea to get through. Southeast of Lae and Salamaua allied A-20s bombed and strafed Japanese positions' in the Mubo area. Other allied . air attacks ranged from New Britain to the Banda sea. Oft-bombed New Britain island bases took another pounding. Gasmata on the south coast was strafed. Arawe was bombed twice, resulting in destruction of an am munition dump and the silencing of machine gun position. . Cape r: Gloucester's airdrome : and sapply Installations were raided by a heavy bomber which, also - strafed barges and coastal; vessel. - n,; " Activity : to' the northwest "of Australia was on a limited scale. At Sonata island in tKe Banda aea a heavy allied bomber strafed . Japanese lugger. - Koepang, a frequent target on Portuguese Timor, was subjected to another light harressing attack. The specific target ! was the Fenfoei airdrome which . felt the blow of explosives and incendi aries. By The Associated Press I the far Pacific sod Indian Theatres, the Japanese, recover ing from the shock of their re cently broken offensive in the Hapeh area south of the Yangtse in China, came back with strong counter-attacks s a p p rted. by aviation and the fighting at last report was inconclusive. A resumption of bitter, although mall-scale, fighting also was re ported in western Burma above the port of Aykab, toward which the British have been cautiously probing for some weeks. The Japanese, who had recently been reinforced, dug into high positions to give .the impression ' that they were prepared for considerable expenditures to hold the Akyab approaches. . ' ; : In the south Pacific, routine American - bombing attacks on Japanese positions in the - Solo mons were announced by the US uavy. Kaiser Avers Board Okehed Steel Orders ! WASHINGTON, March l- Henry J. Kaiser, shipyard owner, told Donald M. Nelson, war pro duction board chairman, in a tele-gn-am Friday night that steel ."which we are charged with ac cepting in too great quantities was allocated to us by the maritime commission which was urging us to turn out ships as - rapidly as possible." I "Obviously we had to and did obtain the other materials on maritime commission - approved purchase orders in order to turn out completed ships, he 'Said. His telegram was sent to Nel son, he said, 1 shortly after he learned late Friday his company In California had been served with a subpoena in connection with technical charges of proirity .Violations. The charges were filed In San Francisco. v i "l : Had we : refused delivery on this material,' he -said, "our pro- duction woul4 have been cut, and the ; same applies in the future to construction of aircraft carriers and escort ships as well as tank ers and cargo ships. , "Do you prefer that we con tinue to build ships as rapidly, as possible or shall we cut down our (Turn to Page 2 Story E) 1mm) NINETY-SECOND TEJUt I House Includes I li. Labor Cost in Farm Administration-Hit Measure Approved In Surprise WASHINGTON, j March lHV In the face of threats of a presi dential veto, the house Friday adopted legislation, to require the inclusion of increases in farm la bor costs since 1909-1914 in de termining parity prices for farm products. . f I j Legislation of a similar char acter has been stoutly opposed in the past by the administration as having an inflationary tendency former OPA administrator Leon Henderson estimated it would boost 1943 food prices as high as $3,500,000,000. j Scheduled by j majority leader McCormack of Massachusetts for consideration ; next Tuesday, the bill ( was brought up Friday hi a surprise move by the farm bloc while few "city j members" were present.' .;;. 5 The legislation amends the basie farm I law by requiring that ; In determining parity, . a . price calculated! to ghre farmers - a : fair return feif thflr efforts, the Increase in labor cost since 159-14 inusik eooaideredL The lt9-I914 era hi the period now used In calculating : parity, the principle being that a farmer's dollar should jhave the sai (Turn to Page ,2, Story D) Nine Chiarged; Caponej jSangs Head Suicides C H I C A G O, Llarch 19-iyp)- Frank '.'the enforier" Nitti, chief of the Capone syndicate, killed himself Friday five hours after he and eight other$ were indicted in New York on charges of extorting more than $1,000,000 from movie firms and a labor union. Police Sgt. ; Wiliiam Crowe re ported the suave, swarthy racket boss had commit ed suicide and thus he "beat the rap." The veteran gang leader died by his own hand near tt railroad embankment in suburban River side.' - Ij' '.. .' I Among the other defendants were Paul Ricca ind Louis "Little New York" Campagna, whoj in vestigators said, jwere allied with Nitti in the direction of the com bine once headed by AI Capone. ; News of the development in New York the largest legal Dlow ever aimed at the organization prompted United States Attorney J. Albert Woll! to state: ,?This is not the end of the epi sode." - - A federal official who . ' asked ommission of his name said an in quiry into the! Chicago actici ties Of group would be undertaken. He pointed out that the New York indictments, charging violation of the ; anti-racketeering act, ; mail fraud and conspiracy, were , lim ited to allegations that the defend ants extorted mop-e than $1,000,000 from movie companies and the in ternational alliance of theatrical stage employe. f , The investigation here, he add ed, would be directed toward the organization's j relations with any other labor unions. Another au thoritive ; source; who also pre ferred anonymity, Indicated earl ier that an jnquiry into income taxes was planned. Thomas Again Pollc Member , DALLAS 1 March 1-P)-Lyle D. ; Thomas, j principal of Dallas junior high school, was named by the Polk county court ; Friday to succeed Leif SL Finseth, Dallas, as "state representative : for - the 10th district j I Finseth recently resigned to ac cept appointment on the state board of higherj education. Thom as, a republican! served three con secutive terms in the legislature but was not: a candidate in 1942, when republicans elected Finseth. jV .! r" Epod, jftecora may With AdJed ' I i -i Parity mm Feedfutput JTopple Abres 3.5 per Cent Boost In Area Taken in Spile of Shortages By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON, March 19 (JP-A nation-wide survey in di cates that Amepcan farmers will plant 10,000,000 more ares to food and feed crops this year than in 1942, when production records were smashed, the fed eral crop reporting board ported Friday. re- This indicated increase of 3.5 per cent in acreage, in the face of shortages of manpower and im plement and other difficulties, was termed "gratifying news ' by Secretary of j Agriculture wick ard. j The estimate was based on the crop board's; annual survey of farmers' planting plans. Larger acreages were indicated for corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tobacco, sorghums, dry beans and jeas, flaxseed, soy; beans and peanuts for vegetable oils, and protein feeds for livestock. Acreages of wheat, tame hay rice, and I oats were placed at about last year's level. No estimates was made on possible cotton plantings. j While emphasixlnr that it (was not possible to make a long range forecast oii production, the board said the) surrey indi cated that jlt41 food produc tion would be somewhat larger than last year. It said erop .harvests might be smaller, par-. , ticulaVly should jthe weather 1 not measure up t last year's' very favorable conditions, j but that the output of meat, tnllk and eggs is expected to be much larger. j f j The report was based upon es timates supplied by 80,000 farm ers in all parts of the country who act as federal crop reporters. Their estimates were said to rep resent farmer's planting plains on or about March l.j j "This report shws," said Sec retary Wickard, "what farmers of this country plan to do in the face of labor shortages, machinery shortages, fertilizer shortages anl, in some instances, uncertain re turns for what they are going to produce." , j . While increases; were indicated for many crops, j the prospective acreage in some j cases fell; short of production goals set by Secre (Turn to Page 2, Story jC) Booths Set Up In Red Cross Funds Drive! As ' contributions to Marion county's Red Cross war fund mounted to within $ 1 0,000 j of the minimum quota. booths were es- tablished on two jdowntown street corners Friday to give ' td every Salem resident ah opportunity to contribute.! ' j j '. Volunteer workers in most in stances,' have thoroughly scoured their assigned territories, j it was said, but j possibility that some would-be contributors might not have beeh contacted and7 that some whoj had given once might now feel able to give again; caused establishment of jthe contribution centers ': '..; j At both banks and the post office today, tables will j be set up to receive contributions to the fund in an attempt to speed Mar ion county's gifts toward the $42, 000 minimum goall H ij -: Members of the Disabled Vet erans auxiliary j and of the Red Cross Motor corps are to! receive contributions today at the booths at State and Liberty - and State and Commercial street -corners. Members j of the Order, of: Eastern Star, American Legion and DAV auxiliaries . conducted the booths Friday. : ' 'aifcj.:;: Women1 who have organized an auxiliary! to the I Timberwolf di vision are to receive contributions at the First National bank today? while a Red Cross staff assistant is to be fat the table in jLadd & Bush-Salem branch of the US Na tional bank. ; ' I Funds I received by Friday af ternoon I totaled ; j $33,500. Valley communities outside of - Salem which - have reported recently have, without" ; exception, gone "over ; the top," it was I declared Friday at fund ' headquarters. - , - Salem. Oreaoxv, Sorturday Morning. March 20. 1943 "Mast ! Drives Nazi Dive Bombers Pay ( 1 4 ; n Hi. Labor Drafting Said Unneeded Knox Says Industry! ( Needs Overguessed; ; Rick' Asks Drive WASHINGTON, March 1HP) President Roosevelt indicated Fri day that ..he saw no immediate need for compulsory labor service, and later a- cabinet officer sug gested 'that possibly industry's manpower needs had heen, ojerV estimated. ,: f- - ''r. , ' "The latter observation came Worn Secretary of the Navy Knox who asked this rhetorical question at a press conference: "Isn't! it true that the speed of production of all implements of war has! exceeded expectations be cause manufacturers when they got into production found they could produce far more rapidly than the original estimates? This has a bearing on the manpower situation. All estimates of how much manpower is needed for pro duction should be reviewed with this inj mind." Estimates from manpower authorities earlier this year were that the munitions indus try would need 1,800,600 addi tional; workers in 1845. -However, Chairman Donald M. Nel son of. the war production beard told a senate committee ; last week I that arms production would' reach its peak next fall with I demands for workers, slackening at that time. ! Mr. Roosevelt said the nation might jiave to come to compul sory labor service but he hoped not and favored putting it off as long as possible. His press conference summary came at a moment when the seb atemilhary committee, consider ing such legislation to make civil ians draf table for war work,: was hearing a 'plea from Capt. Eddie Rickehbacker for a tremendously speeded effort lest a prolonged conflict leave the nation but! a skeleton of itself. ; - j ; "A I four-letter word called time means everything,, t said the ace of the first World war, declaring that American boys sre dying j and suffering maiming In juries 1 for the lack, of . weapons which! America has the capacity to produce but in its "compla cency and optimism" la not turning out in! sufficient quantity, j ; : He Contended this country can and jrill . have to put 15,000,000 men and 3,000,000 women, into uniform to win the war. And j he said there is sufficient manpower that 9,500,000 could be released from j present war industries j by eliminating depression-born work restrictions, . hampering ; govern ment regulations f and wasteful management practices. 4 y American Pigeon ' Takes Gafsa News LONDON,; Mareh - 1-CP) Reuters said Friday in a dis patch from the central Tunisian front as ' Ate ericas pigeon . named "Tank carried the: news ' of the American occupation j of Gafsa to the outside world, j It; made the trip from; Gafsa to its home loft and teleprinter : terminus In one . hour and i S5 minutes through stormy weaih-' er, the dispatch said. '. --."!- r'- ' l -:, - -. ; . ., - ' . ' .r- ; " " . ., - ' - j s .--".". ' ' ... f ' - ( 1 SI, r VVl'h Hi 'aVyT' Hi Sat. sunset 723 V yJjj n I I lUl I GAP' 11 Ul; LI. Sun. sunrise 7 1 12 TsSn (MJ' 1 Vy ?J?: V V - (Weather on Page 8) : ; . y y y Class Rivals Show Songs . Tonight, WZJ Blow by blow assertions class confidence to win Willaan ette university's SStn annual Freshasaa Glee- ended Friday noon with traditional dunkings In the mill stream from parti cipants on all sides. Tonight's competition In the school gym najfcfjB I?1 present the ultl- mate, decision, however .when ' judges select the winning song and class presentation. Graduate Manager Lestle , J. Sparks has announced that re serve seats will not be held af ter 7:45 p. bbv when they will be opened to the general public All reserved seats were neces sary to accommodate students, alumni, parents, trustee and faculty, and were not for sale. The festivities will be broad east over KSLM from' 8:15 to t p. m. Underclassmen were organis ed at an early hour Friday, so that one by one as juniors and seniors approached the campus, they were jostled off to the stream. Temporary truces were called during the day for classes and final Glee practices, but scattered battles continued. Final plans for Glee are taking shapeunder the leadership of Reid Shelton of Salem, manager of the presentation, , and committees from the freshman class. The Glee com mittee announced Friday that Dr. Herman Clark, associate professor of physical . science . and oldest member of the faculty in years of service, will present the banner to the winning class, thus replac ing the traditional presentation by the late Dr. James T. Matthews. Freshman Glee will be dedi cated to Dr. G. Herbert. Smith, himself a freshuiau, as this Is : his first year as the university's president and his first Fresh man Glee.' There will be me morials to Dr. Matthews, Miss Clara En ess, teacher of - piano, and Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, former president. , Tht Gremlin theme Is carried out in decorations for both the gymnasium and the dance to follow the competition m the Labor temple. The destructive little creatures haunt the stage backdrop in colorful interpre tations prepared by artists of the freshman class. Programs will repeat the theme. Club Ponders Blossom Fete : The Willamette valley's trees will doubtless bloom this . spring in their usual breath-taking beau ty, but it's a question whether or not . the Salem Cherrians will pay homage 'to them with a blossom day program, King ; Sing Orval Lama said Friday. '. "Well decide that question next weekT Lama said. "Scarcity of tires and gasoline makes it inad visable to' outline blossom tours, but we may hold a band concert in the park as we did last year." The Cherrian council of nobles will meet at the chamber of com merce at 7:30 o'clock. Tuesday night at Lama's call ' : Visit on Tunisian Front German dive bombers pay a Call to Tunisia, but do little damage. Before (hey returned, however, the British downed 17 of thcnaxl craft. At top left an enfmy plane swoops down. Lower left, II drops a bomb. Top right, hit by British fire, It sooms to earth. Lower damaging tt slightly. International Photo. I;! " ':c - " ' ' fii " 1 I - ' :: ' r "':.; Yanks! Take! Tunisia Town in Gabes Piish . ! By EDWARD ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN N,ORTrt AFRICA, jMarch 19-CPV-American troora cantured El Guetar. rtk miles northwest of Gabea, sit the entrance f tluetaria : Paaa'wugh which Ilk attack might ' be made against liarshal eastward Friday, despite' heavy The pass is a six-mile stretch Arnold Named Full Gener; r irst Airman ' ' ' ; "Si -. WASHINGTON, March ltWP)- The commanding general, nf the army air forces, Lt. Gen. Henry Harley Arnold, added another to his long list of "firsts" In military aviation Friday when ' be was made a full general. He S the first airman to receive the j fous starsof the army's highest rank. The president sent his nomina tion to the senate Friday! and within a few hours it Wv ap proved unanimously. Thusrnold became equal In rank " lef-jGen. George C. Marshall,, chief staff, and the two American conmand-ers-in -chief in war theatres - Douglas MacArthur and i Xwight T. - Elsenhower. -' .,; " .-Jy The war department observed: "The growth of the air1 forces toward the strength of a million and a. half officers and men,; the responsibilities of General Arnold for the maintenance-of jir ualr forces fighting in -many iieat-es and his position as a member of the US Joint chiefs of staff made General Arnold's promotion j nec essary from - a ; command stand point and also as a recognition of outstanding accomplishment, Arnold, 56, erect, stocky and grey haired, has a practically permanent grin that won fbf him at West Point the nkkriame "Happy," quickly shortened to "Hap." Imperturable and friendly, he can nevertheless be stern, and his staff officers have been heard to say "You haven't lived, j until you've been bawled out by the Old Man." : . " - When Arnold became jehief in 1938 he undertook to expand the air corps : to 15,000 plane and 96,000 men. Today the air forces number about 1,500,000 men and arc needed lor 2,000,000. ; - :--r- 1 1 ' Nippon Soldiers To Learn to Swim1 By Tho Associated PreM '!' h - Two weeks after the battle of the Bismarck sea, in which 13,000 Japanese - soldiers 1 perished, the Japanese ' government has an nounced that all soldiers would be taught to swim. ; - As quoted by Tokyo radio, in a broadcast reported to the .OWL the government's statement r explain ing the new. order said: JA-- r j "The scheme has beetf prompt ed . by the fact that war' opera tions in greater east Asia are closely connected with wttsr." Ml . D(D)imeu -1 British positions near Best Arada right, the bomb bits near a tank. KENNEDY,1 Rorhmerg flank, and! drove on rains and floods; of broken (and presently water logged terrain between! two ranges of hills, thW Jebel Berda and Jebel ChemsL Gn Patton's- advance to 23 GSuetar: .Which lies 12 miles be yond Gfsa meant Uial the Amer ican had! jbaptured all" the terri- toryrecemfylost in this sector. In the pass some miles beyond American t jbutposts, Italian . labor corps were hastily improving for' tfficUUons!J J " : . j The. British First amy la the north meapwhlle withdrew three miles from Tamera, a min ing town 45 miles southwest of Biserte. e British braced In their streager positions, howev er, and repelled two Oerman In fantry attacks. . ; . . j. . ! GehTHfontabmerv's; Eighth ar my veterans continued, patrolling before the Mareth jlne : In the south, making "slight local adjust ments , along the front with little interference," an allied communi quejsaid..: .. :.j vv .',.; (The Ninth' US air force at tacked Naples, Italianj feeder port or the Tunisian front, twice' Thursday Jb day and pighL Clouds obscured the results. The Italians said 'the outskirts -of Naples; and Syracuse twere bombed and that alight damage was caused at Noto in SicUy.! : jv;-': r: C ; (British submarines sank seven more', suppjy ships M 'l naval auxiliary! in thi Mediterranean! the j admiralty announced in Lon don. ; j ;'''. I --.Viv-v-. --h (Four were large j cargo ships, two weri small and the seventh was a medium tanker. .A mine sweeper pas damaged so severely it ras rtfnjashore.) -ja ,-;.-r ' ' El " Guetar lies 12 miles south east of I Gafsa end its capture lengthened Patton's advance to 42 miles in I two days, j f . - - Fattonf had used iFerlana as' a springbolrd. As at Gafsa, the ene my withdrew without a fight al though 0ie town is tactically im portant because two roads . meet herei One leads to Gabes and the other toMaharea, also on the east j The ippalUng weather condi tions forced the doughboys to wade threugn muddy gulliea of chilled water. Between Patton and the. coast lie mitre mountain passes I which wUl be difficult : to negotiate,' but every . mile he advanced Increased the peril of entrapment to Marshal RommeL (Tura to' Page I Story F) Budapest Radio Off LONDON, Saturday, March 20- (XP) Reuters reported Saturday that the - Budapest radio went ! off the aiT, shortly after , midnight Russian bombers attacked the Hungarian 1 capital last Sep! em ber. Budapest had jits last air raid alarm in February, . No. 270 Germans Claim - Ked fjounter-Attacks Make Most Enemy Gains Short-Li veil ! By EDWARD D. BALL .; LONDON, Saturday, March 20-(JF)O u numbered Russian troops battling countless Ger man tank and infantry assaults were forced back again and lost two populated places to the nazis in bitter fighting on the southern front, Moscow an nounced early Saturday. ' The German high command an nounced the capture Friday of the strategic rail center of Belgorod, 50 miles above Kharkov, but the midnight Russian bulletin didvnot confirm this. Instead, the Russian midnight communique recorded by the soviet monitor, indicated that the two abandoned localities were on the upper Donets river in the sector southeast of . Kharkov. Russian f troops also were forced back In the middle sec tor of the Donets river lino, presumably In the Izyum see . tor, but the communique said a : decisive Red army counter-attack wiped out the temporary Nasi gains. On the central front, continued Russian gains in the drive on Smolensk were reported with the capture of additional hamlets, but -the communique said German re sistance bad stiffened in the Izdeshkovo sector 75 miles north- ' east of Smolensk where the Gr mans were ,"roakng use of "pre viously prepared positions." r : ',. , sfour hundred : Germans '"were" reported killed . Friday on strongpoint . was taken south of Izdeshkovo, and the communique quoted captured German officers of the. 185th. Nazi infartry regi ment as saying that the regiment had lost three fourths of its ef fectives in the. last few days. A slight Red army withdrawal in the Chuguev area, 22 milf southeast! of Kharkov, had been announced by "Moscow. In the noon communique Friday, and the latest bulletin told of a tempo rary German gain "in the middle course of j the northern Donets," a term presumably applying to the Izyum sector, 75 miles southeast of Kharkov. "Soviet troops made a decisive counterattack and hurled the en emy back again, the communique said of that action. ;. In another sector, the com munique said without specifically naming it; "Numerically superior enemy forces at the cost of heavy losses succeeded In adwncing somewhat and capturing two pop ulated places. Soviet airmen In combat were said to j have . downed 11 Ger aaaa planes during the day along this front where the Ger , mans are trying to reconquer the entire Donets basin follow ing : the! "conquest of Kharkov and the wtplna out of Russian ' gams to the southwest in the direction of the Dnieper river. For weeks now the Russians' have been holding generally air along . the 170-mile Donets . r;iver line belting off furious German assaults.! At cine point Nazi infan trymen forced the river, but were hurled back and at no place have they been able to effect a bridge head across the thawing river, front dispatches said late Friday night. ! . . '. The Russian military press said heavy German machines rashed through! the thin Ice coating the river, drowning their crews, .when crossings were attmeptedi j Foot soldiers land light machines,; how ever, still are able to cross the ice without breaking through. Sil vert on -Airman Reported Al ive I STLVERTON," March 19 Lt. Tred West of Silvcrton, pilot with the US air service, is alive, ac cording to word received here this week from his sister, Mrs. Anna" Mae Vantine of Portland. A report was received some time ago to the effect that he was found dead with a bullet wound after he had managed to land his plane at an uhrevealed port. How this message originated is not known. ... t i Lt. West received his wings on February 11 at Rosecrans field at SL Joseph, Mo. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred West, former ii verton residents, are now In Sac ramento, Calif. 1 Belgorod r 3 i !