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tiil'.H X' THZLD YEAH fri- Salem, Oregon. Scrtusdcry Morning, April 3. ISO IMc Sc. No. 6 ;ffl&kers Down 7M Zeros Japs Try Raid, Guadalcanal; Kiska Bombed ! Yanks Dump Bombs ' On 5 Destroyers; Solomons Roused By HAMILTON W. FARON WASHINGTON, April 2-JPh 'A violent ; upsurge of aerial warfare in the Solomons, with American bombers attacking five; Japanese destroyers and United States fighter planes shooting down 16 enemy zeros, was reported Friday by ' the navy.. , v." . Both actions occurred within a few : hours on , Thursday, and spread over a wide area from Guadalcanal to Kolombangara is land, 190 miles to the northwest. It was southwest of Kolom bangara that a 1 lone Catalina bomber sighted and attacked an enemy force of five destroyers and a cargo ship. A flight of Liber ator bombers winged into the same attack. They flew at low altitude, dumping bomb after bomb on the enemy surface force but : were unable to observe re sults of their assault. Only a few hears later, St to 40 Zero fighters roared Into the vicinity of Guadalcanal. Amer ican fighters Wildcats, Cor salrs and Lightnings sped to the attack and sent 16 of the Japanese ' planes twisting- ' into the sea. Six United States planes were shot down but two of the pilots were saved. - That aerial battle was the first reported from the Solomons since early in March, when a flight of Japanes bombers a n d fighter planes was driven off after one bomber and three fighter escorts bad been shot down. "The attack on the enemy sur face force by American bombers was the first report of battle with enemy warships in the Solomons in recent weeks. Presumably the Japanese force was intent on re inforcing or providing supplies for one of the many enemy ; bases scattered through the area. The direction in which the force was moving when - attacked indicated it might have been bound ; for Munaa on Mew ueorge island, a Japanese air base which has been struck more than 100 tiroes by American bombing raids. In the North Pacific, attacks on the base at Kiska in the Aleutians continued. Bombers have hit there .34 tiroes in recent weeks. Two of those attacks were reported in Friday's communique which said they were made Tuesday. In one raid fighter planes attacked ' the Japanese camp area without ob serving results. But in the other, bombers flew at an altitude of only SO feet, strafing and bomb ing the Japanese and starting heavy explosions and large fires. Man Seek Farm Jobs Good 'news for hard-pressed farmers was the announcement late Friday by J. D. Wilson, farm placement supervisor of the US employment service in Salem, that growing number of inquirers have appeared at the employment cffice seeking steady farm jobs. "Host of these are experienced farmers, who are feeling the urg 'eney of producing . food for our fighters and who want to get. back to the soil," Wilson explained. Among those applying are men trained in dairy and general farm ing and in poultry raising. .Some interest has been shown by seasonal workers who are seeking employment in the hop yards, although these calls have been light duo to the earlinesa of the season aid inclement weath er, .Wilson stated. . Approves, Funds" President Tranklin D.. Roosevelt on Friday approved the federal aecurity agency's ".application to provide additional recreational fa cilities for troops stationed in the Salem area at an estimated cost of 122,800, Congressman James W. Mott notified The Statesman by wire. v- Allotment of the funds by the cilities bad awaited only -the pros- iHMjJaij) -Ships; Young WHtfg?Trto Probably Asks, For sets LOS ANGELES, April 2-P) Without credentials, j one per son saanased to get past the lines of federal agents! and po lice guarding MmeL Chiang Kai-Shek's press Conference Friday. : : I I l Ernie Myers, 14 ana j freckled, told a tall policema: ! 1 gotta get in and do a story for my high "school paper." Admitted, he Mastered enough courage to kise polite- ly and ask the . smmng nrst lady of China: "Ma'am, do you think there i think any chance of a universal lan gnage aner ne, war; - "My child." she j began but Ernie said afterward pie forgot? what she told him. j j J . "Gosh, she's prettyP be tP- Post oh ws m Jt Highway voni mission All Renubl lira ns . i i . ! By Snell Nammgs ' i I L 1 i f By STEPHEN jC. MJERGLER Probability that Coos county would . not jgej j its reportedly much-desired; highway commis sioner and have j its new state di rector of agriculture j too,1 sug gested in Friday's Statesman, came true later j in the! day when Gov. Earl Shell J appointed . Sen. Merle R. Chessrpan, Astoria pub lisher, to the! road board. ; Sen. Chessman! succeeds Huron Clough, Canyonville, who has lor pr several month jwishedl to be lieved'from thej positibkvf " The state now has an all-re publican highway commission. T. H. Banfleid,j Portland manu facturer, and Arthur W. Schaapp, Ktamath Falls attor ney, whom j the1 neW j governor recently appointed uj the com mission are! members of the state's majority party, as is Chessman, jaHheaehj I hoi was nominated fori his senate posi tion by the i committees of both parties following tfie sudden death last year of lien. Frank M. Franciseovtch. j Gov. Snell said Chessman's ap pointment was the fiistever $iv en a coastal: county. Chessman is also one of few to be named from the counties: that nAwl comprise the first congressional j : district. The statesj brand new highway (Turn to :Page 2Story C) I Chicago Hit New i Since 1920 CHICAGO, April I 2WiP-Hogs sold at the stackyards Friday for $16.10 a hundred pounds, a peak previously Unequalled I since Oc and the tober, 1920, while packers' producers, at a ( meejtiiig " in Loop, strove lt prevent what they called an i "acutely chaotic situa tion surrounding . ihe national meat supplyf j j M j j A hopeful sign was the slate- roent by the American I Meat In- sutute that we nave j every rea son to belieVf that constructive, corrective action by the! govern ment is on 4be way." j j ; J Caught in! a squeeze .between wholesale price ceilings an4 un controlled soaring : costs I of t live hogs, the packers contended they were operating A key point plan was that at a loss. in the institute the - (government buying program should be man aged from day to ; j jday. U "Each government purchase must be made with regard toJ the supply available at the moment," it added. : Livestock experts said the im mediate cause of Thursday's sharp upturn was receipts of WOO head as compared with advance esti mates of 9000. i i ' f. ' - Ident's signature. Adjutant C H. Thomas, Salvaticm Army director of the proposed newj USO center here, had declared just prior, to his departure for special training work in NeWj York j last month. The allocation' was announced Friday by FWA in Washington. j The money is to be used m re modeling first and basement floors of the Breyman i building at the southeast corner - of Court- and Chess man Gets-' I Ml I ; . Bbard ' j i a aa -a. MJr SIS' Ciinlr Frnm Concentlration Double Raid Scatters Kavieng Shipping After Strikes : By VERN HAUGLAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Satur da y, April 3 - (JP) - Allied . heavy! bombers dispersed part of a concentration . of nearly 50,000 tons of Japanese merchant ship ping and its naval escort in New; Ireland's Kavieng harbor, and possibly sank a large transport and a medium cargo ship in near by Steffen strait, it was announced Saturday. j A number of near misses were scored on other vessels, the high command said, but in the dark ness the fliers were unable to de termine the damage. A flight of Liberators began a series of attacks at dusk among a half dozen merchant ships in the straits. The shipping in the harbor, which a spokesman said was not an unusual concentration, was dispersed quickly through the strait and along the west end of New Ireland's south coast when the bombers appeared. The Liberator pilots in the first attack claimed a probable hit on a 10,000-ton vessel in the j strait, reporting they saw two large ex plosions. A 6000-ton ship also was listed as a probable victim. Twenty minutes later a force of Flying Fortresses scored near I misses pn another ship and also straddled trie 6000- ton vessel xat attacked by the Liberators. -The fliers later saw it settling by the bow.- . - 'J i"!:,v": This was the same area from which the Japanese recently sent four destroyers bent on carrying badly needed supplies . to troops in New Guinea, only to have one sunk offFinschhafen, New Guinea, and the other three forced to flee. . , "Two large explosions indi cated probable hits on a 10,600 ton merchant vessel and a 6006 ton cargo ship was observed settling by the bow, after bav in been straddled by bombs," the communique reported con cerning the Kavieng raid. "Near misses were obtained on other vessels but darkness pre vented an adequate assessment of damage. Simultaneously with this attack the airdrome at Kavieng was bombed. "No interception was attempted ana m our planes returned." SHS Speakers Reach Finals EUGENE, April 2-(P)-Oregon high school contestants will reach the finals Saturday of the annual debate and forensics contests sponsored by the University of Oregon. Those who qualified for the finals are: j Discussion-LaRoy Dillon, Hilla boro; Merrill Driscoll, Bonanza; Reas Linn, Dallas; Talber Sehorn, Klamath Falls; Dick Stanton, Grants Pass; Jim : Tucker, Med ford; Betty Whittle, Ashland; Hari. lalee Wilson, Ashland. i Extempore spoech-Haralee Wil son, Ashland; Jim Purdy, Salem; LaRoy Dillon, Hillsboro; Dick Stanton, Grants i Pass; Orvillo Meyer, Hillsboro; Don Yocum, Salem. , . Radio-Lloyd Damaschof sky, Dallas; : Horace Belden, Salem; Floronca Hintsen, Portland; Dick Stanton, Grants j Pass; George Brown, Klamath Falls; Jacque Autrey, Hillsboro; Beverly Brun ton, Eugene; Betty Jane Roberts; Roseburg; La Roy Dillon, Hills boro. --v : : , -: IrJ::, '. t ;i : .-:;' , 'Mao ; Lilly, Bonanza; Tom Brand, Salem; Beverly , Bennett, Dallas. for Second. Commercial streets, vacant except for itinerant shows and exhibits for the past year. ; . j The building, which formerly housed a grocery store and still has in its second story a number of offices, is to be renovated to provide reading and writing and game rooms, a check room, snack bar and toilet facilities. i Probability that last 'details of A Or,".-, j iie FMYeloes Addition ! To, Labor Backs Action, I But Fight Assured. S To Override Veto 1 By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK f WASHINGTON, AprU " 2-W) -With the assertion that pres ent checks on wages and prices must be firmly . maintained. President Roosevelt Friday, ve toed the Bankhead bill and set the stage for a critical battle .between administration : . 'sup porters in congress and legislators demanding - higher farm prices. -AFL and CIO presidents WU- liam Green and Philip Murray backed the president's veto, hot Albert S. Goss,. master of the national Grange, i failed t0 agree. (See. story on psge .) I Senator Bankhead (D-Ala) au thor of the measure. Which would increase ceUing prices on some farm commodities, said a deter mined effort would be made to override the veto when the ques tion is brought up next Tuesday. Majority leader Barkley (D-Ky) was none too optimistic that the senate would ' sustain the presi dent, but said the house might. He remarked that the "city" vote is much larger in the house. ; In returning the bill to the sen ate unsigned, Mr. Roosevelt vig orously declared that no econom ic group could hope to gain ' ad vantage in wartime, - : . l "The time has come," he said, "when all of us-farmers, work ers, managers and investors (Turn to Page 2 Story B): : Chapman Asks US to Color Insecticides WASHINGTON, April 2-P) Congress was asked Friday to pre vent scenes of horror such as the recent fatal poisoning of 47 j in mates of the Oregon state hos pital in Salem, Ore. 1 Representative- Chapman (D Ky) introduced a bill which W. G. Campbell,- commissioner; : of food and drugs, says "will pre vent the bigger part of the-tragedies that are now occurring. I The bill would require ; any powdered Insecticide containing arsenic or fluorine to be "dis tinctly colored" instead of white, resembling flour, baking powder, corn meal and powdered milk. Paul H. Appleby, undersecre tary of agriculture, in a lettet to Speaker Rayburn and Vice Presi dent Wallace requesting the legis lation, called the attention to num erous tragedies in the home; and said they also occur In institu tions "where great care jis 'pre sumed to be exercised. .) : J j Appleby said the Salem case was caused by the accidental con tamination of, f ood with j sodium fluoride. In addition to the! 47 who died there, 467 were made! ill. Woodburn KMan War Prisoner ';, - V''-.-'-M - I ! WASHINGTON, April Twenty one .Pacific Northwest men were in a list; of 225 United States soldiers announced by war department Friday ai prison ers of the Japanese,! Camp unstat ed. 'Next of kin live in 45 states. The list included for Oregon: - Bennett, Pvt. Willard IL, uncle, Joseph Bennett, St Helens, f Bony, Pvt. Melvin C mother, Mrs.. Eva Bony, -909 Eighth street, Newberg.- V,.:; r:v ,;v j Carpenter, Pvt.! Harold; F, friend, Mrs. H. A. Knott, Harper. . Pertoa, Sgt. Harry TL. sister in-law, Mrs. Chris Nix, Wood- Wannebo, Pvt . Peter E father, William H. Wannebo, Portland. USO Here the plans .would not be approved and finished before some time this summer was foreseen b Thomas and by city wartime recreation and USO boards when' they -arranged for opening of a temporary downtown USO center about the middle of this month in the store room recently used by Red Cross war, fund - campaigners fas head quarters : f ParitV .A'" A Reds t -" Soldiers of the red army run to smoke rises j from an exploding Reds Say Axis Toll Hits 850,000 Meat Supplies Buyers t Reluctant To Spend Points, Survey Shows By The Associated Press WASHINGTjON, April i Meat supplies are again fair to adequate in most sections of the United States, "a survey indicated Friday nighf -bufTpf ospecs for the first weekend of point-ration ; buying were clouded by housewives'., re luctance to part with points until they found just how many they needed to purchase Sunday din ner. -"People are hoard ing-their red coupons just like they hoarded meat up to last Saturday," an Omaha meat , dealer commented. summing up the reaction in many other parts of the country as dis closed in a canvass by the As sociated Press. The situation was something like this: A . typical housewife had 48 points to spend this week. Mon day, perhaps, she spent eight for batter. If for pork chops and ' three for eaaned f fan total 21. Not knowing exactly what she , could get for the weekend, nor how mneh It would weigh, she pat off bajrfaf any more saeat antfj Saturday, feeding ' her family oysters r beans, which , are rationed bat on blue cou pons. Satarday. tf she finds Sanday dinner takes only points, shell 'have seven left for a pound of bacon, or for carry Ins ever late next week. OP A officials express belief that cases like this would smooth L themselves out in due course. A few places still lack adequate meat supplies the Binghamton, (NY) health bureau, for instance, said stocks were 35 per cent of normal. But in many cities the situation has j improved so much over 1 the , last few weeks : that butchers are considering holding "point sales" of some products to avert spoilage. In : cases where their supply of liver, for example, is so heavy that it might spoil if sold on .the regular point basis, dealers are authorized - by OPA to reduce the pointage. However, they must report all "point sales' to ration boards. Bomb General Said Missing ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, April 2 ()-General .Douglas MacArthur announced Saturday .: that : Brig. Gen. Howard K. - Ramey, : com mander of the Fifth bomber com mand of th Fifth United States airforce, failed to return from a recent mission. ' "c "He and his crew therefore are missing in action," the announce ment stated. - General Ramey is the sixth United States general to be kill ed, bated as missing, or wounded in the , war, " He succeeded Brig. Gen. Ken neth M. Walker, of Washington, DC, who was lost on a bombing mission over Rabaul, New Britain, last January. - , Improved avaiioice Attach German Outpost r T....-i "fiti irrrnrrrrT-r-r """t-. riniwrriccwiiwii - wuju.Qiwfi" attack a nasi oatpost somewhere shell. Associated Press Telemat. I Home to Rest U 1 J i i X Ltta. - LT. CMDR. MONTGOMERY Actor Returns From Duties j In Pacific 1 SAN FRANCISCO, April Lt Cmdr. Henry Montgomery Jr. plain Robert Montgomery ; to millions of screen fans returned Friday , from rigorous sea duty in the south Pacific to recover from tropical fever. " ! Pale and 22 pounds lighter than he was "in his film days, Mont gomery was in high spirits upon his arrival. He will have 30 days in which to visit his wife and two young children in Los Angeles be fore being reassigned to duty, j "I've only been with, them .for a total of five days In two years, he said. "It s going to be a won derful J reunion." As with most sailors, soldiers and marines returning from the Pacific fighting . front, Montgom ery's luggage contained several Japanese souvenirs. ' ,. Montgomery preferred not to discuss his naval experiences in the south Pacific. He mentioned, however, that he was aboard war ships which bombarded the Jap airfield ; at Munda, New- Georgia, on January. 8, and struck again at the enemy field at Vila, Kolum- bangara Island, on January. 24. His ship was under air attack follow ing the January 5 bombardment A destroyer . on which he served also was on dangerous patrol duty off Guadalcanal for several weeks. Montgomery w a s. enthusiastic about the courage . and spirit Of the navy's fighting men. i We can't lose when we have such magnificent men fighting our battle, he said, f "Their spirit, as I have seen it, gives you renewed faith in democracy. I've seen them pulled from the water, injured, water-soaked, covered - witti oil, and immediately ask for a efun." 1 r '-",'-1 s V m H m i -. ea the long Vssslan battlefront as Germans Lose MuchfMaterial Slovall Unit Fights Beside? Russians on s Donets River Front LONDOnJ Saturday, April ! 2 0P-The Red army In its winter offensive t killed ; 850,000 axis troops, andcaptured 343,523, the Syiel IniOfmatlon bureau an nounced ..ea:ly .Friday. .In' a : ipe cil: commuaique. ":-.;; fn sdditicn to these' losses be tween last Nov. 10 and March 3 U the Germans lost 5,090 planes, 9, 0 tanks and 20,360 guns, said the commurJique recorded by the Soviet Monitor. ; I fThe ' regular midnight com munique1 disclosed that a Czecho slovak military .unit formed in Russia unor the command I of Colonel Svojboda now is in action against th Germans On the northern Dpnets river front in the Ukraini and during yester day's operations the Czechs de atrpyed ' 22 fiazi tanks and killed more than ;400 Germans. -I - The - special commanlqae In f telling of the German eqalp fment , 'losses said 360s planes, 4$2 tanksi and ' 45i gans were f destroyed land '. the remainder were captured as the Russians s swept I westward from Stalin Ssado lo Iterate the Volga and Tm river valleys, and aaost of Ube Cneans. The fourf months and 20 days Of -.th Red; army offensive also topped' .thej Rzhev-Gzhatsh-Vyazma trfanglf on the central front; and raised1; the siege of Lenin trawl. l' ' t - . ! . In 4ome Rectors the advance to ; tTlurn v$ ge z aiory n.t 4 . Jury I Cliar ses; ft Salem Man .tiHICAGO, April fed oral grand jury . here. Friday charged 2X8 persons with operat ing' four nationwide lottery rings. - The f grand Jury indicted " the Mutuel, Lucky Strike, Fair and Souare a n d Flyer - pools, and named the 2)8 as principals, sales m4 'andf; agents for; the rings. Twelve were listed - as alleged leajderc regon, defendants accused of scans. as agents and distributors el Roberts, Salem.. Laeky Sufktf company; Walter S. Ben- neit, pswego; W. E. Sayler, Pen aietoej, ana josepn a. siack, ron land, jallf Fair and Square com- oberts is listed in the Sa lem Bty directory as a laborer residing at 880 Shipping street. Clarl;, Spaniard TalkF ; TANGIER. SPANISH MOROC- CQ, pril 2-i4-Lt, . Gen. Luis Oigaz i Yoldi. . high commissioner of Snish ; Morocco, conferred Clark,i commander of the United State f Fifth army at Melilla, . i . mm : spanjan juotocco.. . ; ... XIAf Hits Europe LMTiljVPt, aturoay, April J- tffV-ltAF bombers were over oc- Mn!i tM-rltnrv rridl nirht. . it wa 'announced. Saturday. -. Nazis Say 2 M rmies : First Army Drives ; u ; Nazi Tanks Hit ..Yanks in South v - By EDWARD KENNEDY ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ; IN NORTH AFRICA, April 2- (P)-British First army troops in the north fought their way to- ward the axis strongholds of ; Tunis and Bizerte Friday while -Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom- -ery's Eighth '. army gathered ; force in the south for more smash ing blows coupled with the con-, tinuing massive air assaults i on Marshal Rommel's divisions re- -treating up the Tunisian coast. Axis forces in the north were reported offering little resistance 1 and leaving rich booty behind as the British pushed through Al Aquana six miles : east of Sed jenane, and moved on to i occupy strategic heights between there and Mateur. ' 1 (The Algiers radio said Brit ish and French forces In the j north had "left Sedjenano well ' behind - and were slashing at the retreating Germans "la the vicinity of Mateur,' which Is j only 18 miles south of Bizerte. They would thus have regained almost all the ground lost whea CoL Gen. Jurgen Von Arnlm'o axis forces sprang an offensive it month ago.) An allied communique describ ed the Tunisian fighting as "gen erally quieter". . Thursday, but told of terrific punishment being dealt ; the axis from - the air. In one raid on ElMaou' air .field at Sf ax on the coast . 100 light and medium allied bombers plastered the strategic base with a shower; of bombs that must have destroy ed or damaged virtually every-' thing within the target area. Not a single allied bomber or escort was lost in the damaging assault The axis was unable even to get a fighter plane in the air to defend the Sfax airbase. ' . Montgomery's forces were be lieved ready to resume their bat tering of Rommel's rear guard in the new positions taken up by the Germans and Italians about 24 miles north of Gabes. (The German radio said Kom mel's present defense line was 15 miles north of Gabes and said' It presented "the achieve- . meat of final union between Rommel's forces and those of Von Arnbn the original aim f a long prepared plan of ope ration. The suggestion waa j that Von Arnlm's troops now were in position to assist Rom- -mel's nshtln retreat.) The Germina threw their arm-l or into a counter-attack Friday! against Lt Gen. George S. Pat ton, Jr.'a, American forces near a point where the Gabes-Gafsa road joins another road running south to Kebili which the French cap tured two days ago. The road Junction had been in American bands several days. ' Strong patrol activity by Amer icans and French in the Ousseltia valley region in north central Tu nisia was reported to have forced the enemy to fall back gradually to the hills to the east I ; As Lt Gen. K. A. M. Adder son's First army moved ion Bi zerte, the allied air force continu ed to pound the great fortified naval base 'in an effort to destroy its usefulness as a potential escape port for the estimated 200,000 axis . troops being squeezed into north ern Tunis. ' . y '. . " :' ' : ; Other allied bombers escort-) ' ed by y Spitfires bombed La " Fsacoaaerle air field, 25 miles northwest of Sfax. and the air , base of El DJem, midway be tween Sfax and Soaase, leaving ' saaay fires burning. -; Nine enemy aircraft were re- . ported Shot down during the day, against an allied loss of four. As reports from - the ' ground ; fighting'said the Americans had , launched a new attack in the area ' of Maknassy,. 34 miles from the coast at a point well above where . Rommel's men now are making . a stand, observers here stressed . ; the aid being -given the Eighth army by . General Patton s col- umns. They pointed out that the Americans constituted a constant . menace ' to Rommel's flanks and forced him to divert important quantities of armor to hold them in check while Montgomery rolled him up from the rear. Together f;: 1 ! -