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Newspaper Page Text: it . . I , ' i . Coming New Fun Serial : s Story by Brennan (See Page 2) ... -CCA Dimout Thur. sunset 7:30 Fri. sunrise 7:02 (Weather on !fge 8) UNDOD "f 1 .. IIHIETY-SECOND YEAH Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning March 2S, 1 S43 Price- 5c. No. 274 1 N lI7 filfffVT Pay-as-Go Approval Predicted Many Demos Favor i Abatement; House; ' Bang FDR Limit - WASHINGTON, March 24 (P-A Iter canvassing demo cratic members Rep. Ramspeck of Georgia, the majority whip, predicted Wednesday night the house will approve a pay-as-you-go tax bill wiping out a substantial part of one year's income levies. Ramspeck expressed his view on the eve of the opening Thursday of debate on the tax measure, an issue affecting the pocketbooks of 44,000,000 taxpayers. Among the tax proposals are the Ruml plan, originated by Beardsley Ruml, New York bank er, which would abate 1942 taxes; a modification of the Ruml plan by Rep. Carlson (R-Kans) - under which persons with taxable in come of $20,000 and over would be required to pay taxes on either 942 or 1943 income, whichever is the larger; the house ways and means committee bill which pro vides no tax abatement and makes pay-as-you-go optional;; and Rep Robertson's (D-Va) proposal to abate the 6 per cent normal and 13 per cent first bracket surtax on 1942 income to all. taxpayers. All embrace a 20 per cent with holding levy on the taxable por tions of wages and salaries. - "I believe the bill will be writ ten on the house floor," Ramspeck said,- "and that as it comes out of, the house it will not be the Carlson bill, but a middle ground measure between full abatement of a tax year and the ways and means committee bill which pro vides no abatement at all." Ramspeck did not say speci fically what extent of abatement -" be expected bat asserted that a considerable number f roeas-" bers favored canceling the per cent normal and 13 per cent first bracket surtax on 1942 hi . comes. . Other forecasts varied. Rep. Knutson (R-Minn) said the re publicans, with the help of about 30 democrats, would drive the Ruml plan through the house. Rep. Disney (D-Okla) predicted pass age of the committee measure. The democratic leadership is lined up solidly against the Ruml proposal and Republican ' Leader Martin of Massachusetts predicts that the "overwhelming majority" of his party members would sup port the Carlson bill. The demo crats now have 222 . house seats and the, republicans 209. . WASHINGTON March 24-OP) The bouse accepted late Wed stesday the senate version of a measure nullifying President Roosevelt's $25.O0t-after-taxes limitation on wartime salaries and . SBbstltutinr a modified ceiling fixed by legislation. The house action, by rollcall vote of 297 to 46, came on ac ceptance of a joint house-senate conference committee's recom mendation. The measure will reach the senate Thursday, where ratification is now only a fomal-Jty- The legislation .then will go to the white house as a rider on a bill boosting the nation's statutory oebt limit . from $125,000,000,000 to $210,000,000,000. f - The action will give the chief executive the alternative of ac cwpting the doable-barreled bUl la its, entirety or of vetoing both provisions in order to re tain his salary limit plan. -Under the senate provision, no -ceiling could ' be placed over sal- aries or wages below the highest level they reached between Jan uary 1 and September 15, 1942, the dates set up in the stabiliza tion; act. It would preserve, how ever, the president's authority in that act to prohibit ' increases-; in ' 'Wages or salaries above that level. Grade Labeling Slated for Peas WASHINGTON, March 24-P) Grade labeling . of canned goods, "which has stirred up a contro versy, will be compulsory for the 1943 pack of peas, -the office of price administration - announced Wednesday, and similar orders will be issued soon for tomatoes, corn and beans. . Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown replied that grade label ing was not a reform measure, but necessary ; in : connection with price control. Under Wednesday's order, peaa must ; be ' labeled by department of agriculture stand ards. The grades are A or fancy, J3 or extra standard and - C or glandard . 1 ' Official Consumer : Point I Values COMMODITY STEAKS -j--. 1 VARIETY MEATS I i T-ttm HMrts CleX..... 1 -b-1fMnebeuU. RSb-7-bwbl Sirioia Sidote-boMiea. . BottMl Rfloutl. RoBBd Tip Ctock m Sbouithr. Fte,.. ROASTS Kfc-ftuunnf (dikw boat m) nr eun..i. tbds Ris-Jtwlinf (caina MM on) (IB u0 ..... RiB-standlnt (cbint km m) (T art) i-- tbrfs Ris-stamiiat (ekina mm m) (7 etrt) Roaai T . J-.. Ktanp boM la . Hamo- beMkn. Ctaek r ShwMar-boM in.. . Chuck r SbonbloT-bobm.. STEWS AND OTHER CUTS Short ROB.. Ptarts boM bi. Brisk it i bone ta........ trtskat baostes ....4 . Ftank Hm. Lll. Mock-boMia Week bowbiii- i NmI ol Rurtd bonrtm. Shaak-boMkt jhiil kwwliii ; HAKS0R6EI : tMf graml IrMi atckt, flsaks, steaks, briskets, Mm, imI nhctQaiieoss Met trintsiflti and bMf M. ' aecATS I kwt.l mcats ' i 1 rate I I H m. . eaa (- JJfJ ca t iTa CHofcrwei fats amd oil JJJ cmt' JJJ cms-dues. 4- r . 1 I ' j i. ' ' i fcaba....J 1. 1 Ife Fa baaed &rtbts S BaaJla...1 ,.. 7 tuttec . t b-afc. f-h- (aJaardnrtethn). 1 !S?f I rattH t.l Oeeiled Carlar.... 7 j rS(Mr. aZSfH? Chfl Can Carneu.-.w S Meats. . . . 4 Crabeaeat. 7 Zw2 s srf , ! . " aaraaa. 1 DtnadHaai. .;. SaasaenbiOl .... 4 Fish Ret j 1 7 SSddCwktert trlcfc ....... Dritd Baef..... li. 12 TantaHs 2 Mackerel, 7 QWIWd) lr - T- Hases and Pkafca (whole TangBcBaaf 7 Saban.. 7 SS32LH5 . orbal) l wL It TeacBO, Lab .... 7 Sardines. r.- 7 Drty-iatad.. ,f .w. am. - tanikma Mill 7 -Teatse, PerlL-...-.- Seartarrtng 7 r r7"T , . !;';; iiXL ai. Meat Leal...... t- 7 Tenpje, VeH .... 7 Taaa 7 .,.i ,. Eaasu. Meat Spreads.. L- t Viesaa Sansata .... 7 TeUow Tat. 7 rtTnrnJJJJTSi Szaoked. il , ,,77 Ptcs Feet, bona la.....li.. 2 -ajOthar 7 Al Other.. ... 7 ltab(aBlnaaearlaBes). a,, i ifiTT oi rhM m J i Restaurant Meat Of December; Individuals Get Sub Surprises Enemy U-boat, Othtr phipS'l WASHINGTON j March j 24-ff-) An American ' submarine surpris ed, torpedoed j and sank a Japa nese submarine in the far Pacific so quickly that the Japanese "nev er knew what hit them," the navy disclosed Wednesday in telling the story of an undersea boat com manded by '14. Comdr. William Edward Ferrall of Pittsburgh. Ferrall'a craft in a year at sea destroyed ten enemy vessels to taling more than j 50,000 tons, In cluding the enemy sub. Navy eom m Uniques previously had an nounced nine of the ships seven cargo vessels and two troop trans ports, j : Ij ' . The cargo, ships j were described as engaged in carrying urgently needed supplies to Japanese ar mies in the j south Pacific . region and the two transports were car rying einforicrernehta. The enemy personnel losses from the sinking jwhicbi resulted of the- transports Lmay nave been heavy, but the navy account made no estimate of them.-- -1 I' s ; I "We ' came upon the j Jap sub marine when we I were submerged and on patrol,. Ferrall was quot ed as saying. "They were on the surface neat their base and they never saw us.' We fired onetor pedo,'and she filled upland sank rapidly, stern first. We didn't see any surviven-s ajfid' ;- they' never lrnewjtebat hif them." : This successful: attack raised to exactly. 300 j the j number of Jap anese ships reported by the navy as sunk or damaged by American undersea raiderav The total '"In clude 139 sunk, 23 probably sunk and 38' damaged, j ' i Coupons Required For Delated 3Meat j . WASHINGTON, March 24-) OPA warned the public Wednes day that any: meat delivered to consumers after Sunday midnight will have to i be paid for with coupons, regardless of when the meat was ordered.: ; The warning was issued because of reports from a: number of cities that the public j ; mistakenly be lieved it could place orders this week for meat to be delivered next week and would riot have to sur render ration coupons, j . t, - ., .' - No. 1 -EffecSve coMMOprrv cMMOomr DEEF LAMD- MORTON 1 A 4 t 4 f UVtfS i. Swetthrsads .i.. TaUs(oxJotets) i. TMftitS . i. Trkje. SyjjP Aottoda er c-lnsi r 1 a. t JM nffcJoi 9t tolrt SinebiReast bene VEAL Yoke, RttOt, ar Yoke, Rattle, ar STEAKS AND CHOPS lata Chops. . Mb Chops Sbtmldor Chops; .... RmhkI Stek (cirtleh). ROASTS Rinxp and Strioia bono bt... Run sad Sirioit bonelm.. Lap, Shonidar bona In Shouldsf boMhm STEWS AND OTHER CUTS Breast boM at.... ..... Breast boneless Flank Meat Neck-boMta.. S htH k bbIM hi.. ......... Shank and Heel Msat-boM-km... ..... Gresad Veal and Patties- CtMKk er Skonlder, eqoat cat benobt Chuck tf Shoulder, square- eat-bootless ... Canck ar Sbeabrer, cress- m STEWS AND OTHER CUTS Breast and Ftaak...... Neck bene hi........... Neck-benektss Shank bant hi LaMb Patties iamb freataj tisee nocks, flanks, shanks, breasts and mistaUaneons iMIlbtliBUBjlip. . VARIETY MEATS Brarns.i Haarts. I. lhrors..j. Khtaeysi Sweetbreads.. TenxMsl Ranks, shanks. BACON Bacon ilab ar piece, rind on. Bacan ttabarpbBt, rind of. Btfwt - ftttiitltii ityfr, pltft arssctd Bacan fine's Bacee-i-plate aid Jowl sartt VARIETY MEATS Brains... Haarts. Kbtoejt.. . Uteri. . or Wrtlbi totite Tsrtfjtts hm mm ! S rmmmit Salem War Chest Sends $1000 to Mine, Chiang ,1 When Mme. Chiang will be presented with a check War Chest of Salem, to jbe used people of China. The chck will Steel Output , 1st War NEW YORK, March- 24j -JTy- The world's largest; steel cers, - United States Steel produ Corp., and. its subsidiaries, reported Wednesday output last year; was 28 per cent greater, than Lin the peak year, of the f irft World War, or in; excess -of 30,000,000 net tons of ingots. - fl; "The victory parade of steel in got" was more than one-third of the nation's total production, and was only part of US Steel's contribution' to the war effort, lis annual report said, ; "yl:y The $35,86t empioyesrhighest average on record pany turned for the com $f, 865)95 1,692 in goods and services during 1942. From Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co, a subsidiary, came more destroyers than i from any other shipyard. f " More than 1000 production re cords were; achieved, " thej " report said, ; one blast furnace jfor in stance producing enough pig Iron in one month to make stef 1 equal "to the tonnage required j for the hulls of 28 . large destroVers.- W BaUots For Q ueen Three - princesses, from whom the queen of 1943 Willamette uni versity I May ; c weekend festivities will be choseri, were; elected Wed nesday by the stud e n jt body, Hume Downs . of Salem, second vice president, announced. v : Dorothy; Tate- of Sublimity, Harriett Monroe of Parkdale and Olive Olson of North Bend were named from the senior class. Bal loting for the queen lis slated next week. May weekend will ibc May 7 and 8. ! Tops for Meat, Fislu Cheese I: March 23, 1343 COMMODITY pork; STEAKS AND CHOPS t 7 7 End Chops. ?.. ..y. tola benilin. tresb and scared antj, TamJarioia.. Kata, tflcts....... Shaoblar Chops and Steaks.. Baffias, trash and cared anty. ROASTS ! .. m hi TrianjJt-l Lete-wtura,lutr,arandeQtsJ YitantbH Lata center cuts.. . .... Haio wrieia er haJI. Haet-ban er shank end Ham boneless ...... . Shevlder-stunk (uYOak) bona hi ShauUar-siUfik katf (picak) anoalaB' ? , ShouhScr-buti haR (Basis butQ bene ni.. Shoulder-belt kail (Bestsa bett-boneless..... OTHER PORK COTS' " Sparertbs.. . ....... Hack and Backbones Feet bone bt ; Fat Backs and Char Pates.. Plates, regular . Jowls. . Hocks and Krwckles.... Leaf Fat... VARIETY MEATS Brains... 1. .. S 4 f 4 '. .... CbittarBngs. Hearts K2etaajys.WSfl T0RBetL, ... Ears .. 7 r t 11 1 Tails... Snouts. m Im). fm i.iiiiii f OafcM TtIT4r taUt ut to Inree- Kai-shek arrives in San Francisco she for $1000, the gift of the United by her for the benefit of the be presented by Jesse Ri Gard, Oregon chairman for United China Relief, who will at the same time present the madame with .a check for $10,000 front the; Port land United War Chest- - f j The board of directors of the Salem war chest at a special meet ing Wednesday afternoon ' voted the gift from the proceeds Of the scrap metal drive conducted last fall. Dr. 7. C. Harrison, pastor of the First Methodist church, whose .Sunday - school last j Christmas made an offering of $250 which was given to the madame for -the same cause, made the motion, sec onded by Lowell Kern,' chest vice president. - f t ; Oat af the rerelar f the ? United War Chest the sm of $1109 has beesa allocated far United China Relief. I This $1904 gift is In addition t that sane. It ka nnderstood that the madame awes the- money she re- eehres for the aid of war or- phajas of China. .... 1 .... V"?:.-'-.S'5-. ft. jo ' : l : ' While Madame Chiang came to America primarily for , medical treatment she has so deeply mov ed the American people that she has been - made the recipient of many gifts in aid of the Chinese people.---., -r i ' ' ' v ; Gard left Wednesday night for San Francisco.- He has been in touch with Ferdinand Smith, who was chairman of , the Portland chest "1 campaign - committee last fall, and now resides in San Fran cisco, and Smith is making the local arrangements for-the pre sentation. 't . Woodrtff Accepts ; PUC Post Here V iMark WoodrufJV untn -recenrjy secretary' of the Portland Rose Festival ' association, has accepted a clerical job with the public util ities corrunission here. He. also will handle publicity for the de partment, iff Zzxxi- 4'' I 2 Woodruff at one' time was em ployed "as writer for Portland newspapers. ' READYTO-; E4T T.1EATS C00KE9 IE0, BAKED, A-w-aSECBED OrtedBeef... "7 It It t 7 12 ; t Hi IX t 10 Haw buwln,wttdeerlua WMi MMbysacet Hjabottershaakenti bebj ar Ham bonebm, sficas Piodc er Shoulder bone hi.. Pknlc ar Shouider-baneless. Raalbea Cabas, Beef Extract. . and alathar neat extracts 7 t 7 7- t 7 t 7 t t 2 Teafses. Spararm ,.. Pin Feet-bone bt The patot vahaa of my atiMT nr U mat wmmt tUea ahal U detiiaiiinl br midmt Z pm per paraod la the paint aaJu per paood at the oMaakod itaaa frees wbitk it is BMparod ii naaUwlaale,ar3psTla ViaoMftod SAUSAGE Dry Sansata Herd: Typical tWKanbardSalaad,bar Carretat, and PepperooJ. SJaaj-dry Saosan: Typical Roses are soft Sanaa, t 4 t 7 4 YlejoVtoVt eVIol MtefMMerilat..! Fresh, Tanikad and Caoksi GrMtTnU Perk Sawsaga, WhMors, Betofna, Baked Urns, aad Liver Saasata...... Branp B: Typteal Res are Scrapple and TantaJas. Soase and Head Cheese stsQ imjjrff mmmm , , r , , , 1 16 Points Better Meat, Butter Total Two Pounds WASHINGTON, March 24-(JP)-Restaurants will be restricted starting Monday to three-fourths or less of the meat they used last December, the office of price ad ministration announced Wednes day night in the wake of its dis closure that eaters-at-home must get along on an over-all total of no more than two pounds a week of high grade meat, cheese and but ter. The restriction on restaurants includes the same foods that will be point-rationed for household ers beginning next week. These are meat, cheese, butter and other edible fats, canned fish and meats and such prepared foods as scrap ple and tamales. While restaurants will have to snake three poamds oi Aoril steak r as far as December's: fonr pounds, OFA did not re strict the also of mdirldraal por tleaut they raaay serve. However,; the asricmltauo denartraaent as eenaidertnr aaeh llmlUtioets. Restaurants will buy meats and other products on the same point system as householders, but the number of points they may spend will be determined by a mathe matical formula..; A . restaurant must make two calculations. Un der the first ; formula, the num ber of persons served during De cember or last year is multiplied by -93 in the second formula, the point value of . the actual meats and other products used last De cember is reduced by 25 per cent. The formula that gives the res taurant the i smallest ' total of points determines its .allotment for one month. . . . .. -. The Initial allotment, however, will be - for 14 months to cover the 'last few days of March and the month of April, and thereaft er allotments will be made on a two-months basis. - .'v"-' Because of the eomalexiiy of , these fo MTalas, OPA aathorized locat ration beards to give emer Ceraey noint allot tents Jte res-T taarants to ' carry tnesa ' for ar few days antil they can get al lotments. The -formulas announced Wed nesday night will be used to ration- meat and allied products to all institutional - - users 4 including restaurants, hotels, hospitals, pri sons, : lunch : counters and "dining cars. Small boarding houses are (Turn to Paga 2y Story CJl Fourths Gaiiris on :Mkire1tIis Allied. Flank Dictator Said US er Chamber President Says Subsidies Cain Authority NEW YORK, March 24-yP) Eric A. Johnston, president of the -United States chamber of commerce, declared Wednesday "there is some danger that our country may go totalitarian." He warned that "if that dan ger is not averted, the cause of world peace, too, will be en dangered. "Those of us concerned with preserving the peace," he con tinued in an address, "must there fore watch and judge any tend ency to put more and yet more authority into the hands of any government. . The 46-year-old Spokane, Wash., businessman, who is a member of the citizens committee assist ing economic stabilization Chairman James F- Byrnes, and who has just reported to President Roosevelt the results of a survey trip through South America, con tinued: "Every time the state subsi dises an individaal. the state by that act becomes more anthori tative and the Individaal aives some risbt.' Continue the process, be said, and the state becomes "total and ' absolute." His address was prepared lor delivery before the lnstltnte. ef arts and sciences, Colombia ami- versity. , Johnston, who has adopted a policy of discharging his duties as president of the nationwide as sociation of business men with frequent conferences with leaders in government and labor, includ ing President Roosevelt and top officials of the American Federa tion of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, ex plained his position by saying: "I certainly would not advo cate turning back the clock of history. ... Modern industrial life is too complex to run without some measure of public super vision and legal restraints. "I believe that trade unionism has become an integral part of jCf economic life and that the problem from this time' forward will be to make trade unionism more efficient, more democratic and more sociaUy-minded. The epoch of dog-eat-dog is past, for labor and management alike. I believe, no less, that the aniaaeiple ef social security la here to stay. "But in such matters decree is everything." He said the ' American "knows that where the state has the dom inating role In economic life, with the incalculable powers that this inplies, democratic ' -controls, -"including elections, tend to-beeome a mere Tormality without real relevance." V Rapertne Gets Guiana Post . "ALGIERS, March 24-i-)-Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, high com missioner for French North Af rica, has appointed Jean Rapenne governor of French Guiana, it was announced officially Wednesday night Rapenne, who has wide experi ence in Colonial administration is understood here to be acceptable to the De Gaullist forces. He to 42. It also waa announced Wednes day night that Gen. Giraud had appointed Maurice Couve De Mur ville as secretary general of the French command, succeeding Gen. Jean Marie Bergeret, former Vichy air minister.. :y : Gen.: : Giraud's ; appointment of Rapenne to the French Guiana post appeared to conflict with an announcement last Saturday from the' London" headquarters of the Fighting French that Gen. Charles De Gaulle had named Bertaut to the governorship. ' . - (Reuters in London said Wed nesday might the Brazzaville ra dio announced that Bertaut arriv ed there Wednesday on his way to Cayenne. French Guiana.) . . rv Dana .Forbes Advance Warm 1 'i 1 . f 1 4 - ; I ERIC! A. I JOHN )HNfeTON umn 7 (Story ol Russians Push '!;',. J -(, -I - Ahead in West - Caucasus Offensive Jtenewjetf ; Belgorod Attacks Repulsed a u ' , ' By Tbo Aaaocioted Preaa . LONDOljj ThursdaJv March 25 (PHf Red f army troOps fighting stubborn battles through the long established: I arid strong German fortifications on the western front captured several more inhabited points on Wednesday an a ,contin uin advance on the big nari base of Smolensk, Moscow announced Thursday. In-? the. i Caucasus, where thei Russians apparently now have re newed their, offensive after a sev-j eral weeks' full, Soviet forces; captured the district center and; railway station of Abinskaya, on-j ly 20 miles northeast of the for-j mer ; Soviet Black sea naval basej of Novorossisk around which are compressed the remnants of a na-i zi 'Caucasus j army which once! numbered i?Qp000 rnen. . In a j third area I of heavy fltfctlnr the Belgbred sector ' north of Kharkav -f the Kas- ' ataas '; were . oa - tlsel , defensive against powejrfal eenunainr na si assaults, althoaghj, according to the Soviet midniarht eeaantaa- (Turn to Page 2, LONDON, Thursday, March 25 ifPy- For 5 the first time in weeks nazi bosnbersit raided Scotland early Thursday after ja raid Wed nesday on a southeastern Englishj town where snore than 12 per- oons -were kUled.. . " " ' Incendiaries were dropped iri southeastern Sicotland as the Ger-f man bombers cut thijough intense anti-aircraft fire ''toward central Seotiand. iht:-:-X I In I the S southeastern English town the deat$ toll was reported rising as more victims were be- ing" discovered; in tljxe debris of fUttened buildings, homes, and a schooL ' lyr;r. '-4 Residents said the number . of injured was considerable,"- and that Jhe shorf attm:k ,by , mor than a dozen raiders was "one of the. heaviest the to wn has' sufj fered." . ' ; .i" '. - j- Alljed fighters struck at railway comtzamicationi in France during the day arid lit dusk , Mosquito bombers, BriUin's f astest bomb cairiers, hammered railway tar gets la- northwest Germany, . ,,!. One fighter la mis sing, a - com snunique said. J- j In the raid On England a bomb demolished a school only seconds after the 300 plipils l ad been sent to- shelters.! j I .'rY.;'.;.-; ! vTwo of the I raiders were de stroyed, on by! fighter planes and one! by- anti-aircraft fire, and p third 'German lane was destroy ed by RAF fighters off the north east coast of Scotland Wednesday afternoon. - ) The sweeps over France by al lied craft toda followed night at tacks by RAF lighters over north west permanyl and occupied iei-r ritory to hammer at) communica tions, and at least iight locomo tive were reported shot up. One British plane waa lost. IPs ' 1 1 " Story D) . NazpLwni Raid! Scot tislia English Towns Rommel I enaciou Yanks Near Mezzouna Gabes Approached On Two Sides ; . By .'DANIEL DeLUCE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. IN NORTH AFRICA. March 24 (JFy-ln a desperate effort to hold the Mareth line in southern Tu nisia, the Germans with a scr ies of fierce j counter-attacks . have largely wiped out " the gains made by the British Eighth army and heavy fighting is now in progress there. I . However, the Eighth army col umn moving j northward j behind the Mareth line gained two miles and American troops have begun shelling Mezzouna, only 22 miles from the coastal road above the Mareth line. I ' . i . ' ij .' ' ' f Axis I attacks against the two American columns pressing to ward the coast have been held cfr in their full force only by j speedy attacks j by allied air forces on enemy armor concentrations. (Prime Minister- Churchill told the house jlof: commons - Wednes day morning! that axis counter attacks largely , had erased the British breach in the Mareth line. Informed quarters) did not know , whether- his 1 information., super seded ! Wednesday allied com munique, which did not mention any reverses.) : An ! allied ' eomnmnniqae said . the Eighth army had "success- . tally repnlsed enemy counter- ' attacks" In the Mareth village area of the axis fortified line , 2t miles below Gabes. and that prisoners new totalled 20vfl. Enemy Ij counter-attacks also -were beaten T off by American troops : east : t El - Guetar, the southernmost ! of two drives by General Patton's forces aimed at surrounding Marshal . Rommel's -army. !. . : ; . (A German radio commentary recorded by the . Associated Press said German counter-attacks hadt rewon the "first line of strong points" lost ' to . the British, but warned that the axis position stilt was "not; satisfactory" and that the fighting stiU was in full swing.) ; I -- A storm of enemy counter-attacks beat j against the tenacious British infantry clinging to a nar row shell -torn salient , in the coastal, end of the Mareth line, . and the immediate outcome of the allied offensive appeared to hansj on the fighting in this new "dev il's cauldron. For more! than 3d hours Rom mel struck! back at this wedge driven by General Montgomery's shock troops. I. German grenadiers and tanks, as well as the best of Italian soldiers in Africa, ' fought to wipe out British weekend gains. - Axis artillery, eoaeentrated -Its fire en the Wadi Ziarsaoa which British gona and armored vehicles aanst cress If the- sal ient ia te be widened and deep- f:4 .'.v,v;:.v'i This is in the area between Mareth and 2arat and as yet Gen eral Montgomery has not been able to employ his armor there. Rommel, however, was report ed to "have sent his nazi tanks against British infantrymen who got behind the Wadi Sunday. Allied airmen of the western desert .force,;- however, dumped thousands of pounds of bombs on the axis positions In this narrow area particularly around Zarat, five miles jnortheast . of Mareth, and the communique said the ene my was suffering- losses in men and equipment. ; ' Behind the Mareth line and far -to the north, however, the pic ture was different, and . continu ing allied'ga ins in those positions balanced somewhat the fury of the axis attack in the Mareth Zarat areaJ! l. - " The British gained 600 miles la their wide flankinr move ment to the rear, of the forti fied line. They reached a: point eicht miles below TCI II a mm a, a stratecie road Junction only . 29 miles west of Gabes, Eon "zaers coastal supply depot. The two American columns un der Gen. George S. Patton, jr., also Imperiled Rommel's position, On Bine (Turn to Past X Etory I