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Today Mallon's Capital Views Return (See Pace 4) fitment ., 5 " 7ed. sunset 747 Thur. sunrise 6:37 (Weather on Fas I) " - PCUND3D ICS Colexn. Oregon. 7eda day I-Iornjnq. April 7. IS 13 KxniTY tihhd year -. Pdc No. f. . ! -i II V 1 1 I t V 1 tI 'Xfl'llllll (Ctarges r-j ...... ILIteseirf Club and Sp onsor Contest Amateur Appearance, Quality and Quantity Counted in Judging Plots; ibize To Determine Classification - As though raising Food for Victory and augmenting one's own supply in the face of anticipated scarcity were not incentives enough, the Salem Men's Garden club in cooperation with The Oregon Statesman is sponsoring a Victory Garden contest. L ; Bare announcement of such a contest was made more than two months ab. Now it's April, "gardening month)' in the Wil lamette valley, and time for a more detailed announcement. The Men's Garden , club's primary purpose was, and is, encourage ment to Victory Gardeners. Hundreds of Salem families have al ready started their Victory Gardens, but that in no way reduces the desirability of conducting a Victory Garden contest. For the contest objective is the development of good Victory Gardens, and that requires on the gardeners' part a great deal more than 1 ENROLLMENT .Victory Garden Program and Contest Please enroll my name as a 'participant in the Salem Victory Garden -and Home Food Supply Prograni I under stand that this enrollment makes my garden eligible for prize awards offered in the Victory Garden contest I sponsored by the Salem Men's Garden club and The Oregon Statesman. Approximate area of my plot My garden is located at. My address is- Signed.. Print or type name here- "' ; :"- ..v.v- ".',"1; a mere beginning. f ' The Victory Garden contest will be open to all non-professional vegetable gardeners living in Salem and its immediate' en virons. Russell Pratt, president of the Men's Garden club, pointed : out Tuesday that since partici pation in the contest carries with It no obligation, every person cultivating or planning to start a Victory Garden should enroll. The entry blank is printed herewith. Gardeners should fill it out and send or bring it either to the Statesman office or to the YMCA. Other places where entry blanks may be turned in may be an nounced later. Inasmuch as the city has been divided into four' sections and there will, be first and second prizes in each of two classes of gardens, there will be 16 prizes in all. Class I gardens .will be those - of 2500 feet or less; class II gar dens will be those of more than 2500 square feet. In view of this segregation, it is important that each entrant specify on his entry blank the approximate area of his garden. ; . -j ; Section 1 is all territory lying north ef Center street and west of Summer street. e Section 2 Is all territory lying . north of Center street and east f Summer street. Section 3 is all territory lying, south of Center street and t f Summer street. Section 4 is all territory lying oath of Center street and west of Summer , street. :. Gardens will be -Judged 25 per cent on cultivation, 30 per cent on quantity and quality of food pro duced, 10 per cent on early; gar den crops, 10 per cent on summer and -fall crops, 25 per cent on - general appearance, r ; i ! - Meanwhile the Men's - Garden club is continuing its efforts to assist Victory Gardeners in every possible way. A number of gar dening classes are being conduct ed. At Thursday night's meeting of the club at the YMCA, open to both men and women for the reason that an informal spring flower show is being held with the blooms on display in the lob by, several men who are authori ties on various phases of garden ing will be present to answer gar deners' questions. t. Posse Seeks Missing. Boy. CORVALLIS, ORE, April tJP) A sheriffs . posse searched the coast range 35 miles west of here Tuesday for a 16-year-old boy : The youth's parents, who live near Summit, told police the boy took a rifle and ran off into the woods Monday after an argument at home. . He has not been seen gince. .... , Statesman I For Fa riher? APPLICATION is ..square feet. 8 Oregon Men Held by Japs WASHINGTON, j April t.-(&-Seventeen Pacific northwest men were among a list; of 263 United States soldiers announced by the war department Tuesday as Jap anese prisoners of war, at an un stated camp. They were from Oregon: Kirkpatrick, Pvjt William H. Mother, Mrs. Hazel Kirkpatrick, 1497 ',4 Franklin Blvd., Eugene. Orth, Pvt. James H. Mother, Mrs. Edna Orth, Box 250, Fort Klamath. Pennington, Pvt Martin S., Jr. Mother, Mrs. Stella Pennington, Dayton. ; Purvis, Pfc.peorge B. Father, Ralph Purvis, Route 3, - Grants Pass. . " j Rees, Capt. Denton J. Wife, Mrs. Kathryn G. Rees, 304 Court House, Oregon City. ! Ricks, Pf c, Donovan D. Brother, William Ricks, Cok ton. : Schneider, Captj Leo. Wife, Mrs. Leo Schneider,! 336 S.W. College St, Portland. Wilson," Capt John A. Brother, Paul E. Wilson, 621 S. W. Alder St, Portland. I Farm Bill To Be Tabled WASHINGTON April The Bankhead farm bill, vetoed by ; President Roosevelt on the inflationary, Tues grounds it is day night appeared headed for an uneasy resting place with the sen ate ; agriculture committee, possi bly to be brought up again i at some later' date, j -ye. At the end of a day of tense sen ate debate. Senator Bankhead CD Ala), author of the measure de signed to raise some farm price ceilings, conceded that the two thirds vote necessary to override the president's veto was lacking. He asked that the bill be sent to the agriculture committee, but a vote on his motion was deferred until Wednesday.! ' - i Majority ' Leader Barkley of Kentucky said he would ask that the veto be sustained, an action which would kill the bill for this session, but doubted ' that : ; the necessary votes to defeat Bank head's motion: could be mustered. Only a rare majority is needed to carry the motion,. . x ' f - Soldiers May Pledge i WASHINGTON, April 6-(ff) Soldier students ' assigned to col leges may join fraternities if they wish and get an : opportunity the war department W Tues day, . Fires $a8e RAF Smashes 30 Factories Business Area Hit; Nazi Censorship Clamps Down LONDON, Wednesday, April 7-(P)-Thirty Berlin factories, large blocks of centrally located business offices and railway re pair shops in the Templehof freight yards were destroyed or badly damaged in the RAF raid on the German capital March 1, the air ministry announced Tuesday. The official statement, said rec onnaissance photographs J showed vast destruction after the raid which was .regarded as on ot the "most successful" ever, made on Berlin. The capital was twice STOCKHOLM, : April 6-P) An estimated 360,000 persons, chiefly women, children and men enable to work, have been removed from bomb-battered Essen to neighboring common, ities and camps, reports from Germany said Tuesday nifht. This is approximately half the population ef Essen, the reports said. pounded heavily later in the month so heavily, in fact, that German censorship sternly stopped the seeping of news to the outside world. RAF experts who analysed the pictures said destruction was heaviest In the districts west and southwest of the cen ter of Berlin. Two big' raids on factories pro ducing roller bearings, telephone equipment, fire control apparatus and precision instruments caused heavy damage, the ministry said. Other : destruction reported "t in cluded: ;-:.:;-r: - i".-.--"rtT A wing of the main building of a chemical plant was demol ished partly by a direct hit. Two sheds were destroyed, u)': One coachwork factory was ruined over an area of 85,000 square feet Five workshops of another coach factory were de stroyed by fire. Some 30,000 square feet of the fop story of a large automobile engineering J building were burned out Suburban districts were heavi ly? punished. Pictures disclosed that many warehouses there were destroyed. ., j i:V, t'-. : -Inland docks fin the Hafenwest district were ruined. ; ; ; Although railway communica tions appear to have been inter rupted at only one place by a direct hit on the tracks, the air ministry said platforms and rail way buildings at two stations were damaged. . - .. Dairymen Ask Higher Prices PORTLAND, April I 6-A-Ore-gon dairymen protested in a mass meeting' here Tuesday v that office of price administration ceilings on milk are too low. , f ' ... "The fluid milk industry, which is closely connected with the pub lic health is and for sometime past has been operating at a loss in a period of rapidly increasing costs ; producers have : sought to maintain production at a loss out of a sense of obligation but they cannot under present condi tions' carry on much longer," a resolution said. Spokesmen said it war passed by 1000 dairymen at the meeting. " V Berlin Aiter This radiophoto, received from a neutral source,' Is described as shew ing flames rising after the collapse of the domo of St Hedwifs ca thedral in Berlin, during the KAfs March 1 raid. At the right, flames are breaking out on the roof of the Dresden bank. Thlaview Is from the Kaiser Fransr Josef Plats. Associated Press Telemat Senate Will Plug History j WASHINGTON, April -The senate was asked Tues day to write an educational pre scription : for some history-deficient students who cant tell the difference between George Washington and Abraham Lin coln. Expressing shock at the re sults of an investigation which he said disclosed "an apalling neglect of United States history in public secondary schools,' Senator Guffey (D-Pa), sub mitted a resolution calling for a an'mqnlry to promote-, a morTf thoronxh study of the subject. Albany Conrt Begins Trial Of Folkes ALBANY, April o-P)-Robert E. Lee Folkes, 20-year-old negro dining car cook charged with first degree murder in the "lower 13" knife slaying of Mrs. Richard F. James, will go on trial here Wed nesday.: ,. ';. j Mrs.. James, 21-year-old navy ensign's bride of four months,1 was killed as she lay in lower 13 of sleeping car aboard a Southern Pacific train as it roared south ward through Linn county early Jan. 23. She was a member of a prominent Norfolk, Va., family. Folkesj whose home was in Los Angeles, jwas arrested there as the train ended its run. Los Angeles police, said Folkes made state ments admitting that he slashed Mrs. James' throat and Linn County District Attorney Harlow L. Weinjrick said Folkes made a similar statement after he was re turned here. None ' of the state ments were signed by Folkes, however Weinrick said. -j Aiding Weinrick with the state's case will be L. Orth Sisemore of Klamath,' Falls. Folkes attorney is Leroy Lomax of Portland. . Folkesf mother, Mrs. Clara Folkes, and his wife, Mrs. Jessie Folkes, arrived today for the trial. Arrangements have been complet ed for the return of several pas sengers aboard the train as wit nesses. The death car " and the diner in which Folkes ; worked have been brought here. , ' Albany Soldier Believed Missing . ALBANY Mr. and Mrs! C G. Randall; of route 2, Albany, have received- word that their son Sgt. W. Fred Randall, bomber gunner, who was credited with personally shooting down a German plane on February , is missing in action in North Africa. Details have not been received. Randall was grad uated from the high school year with the class of 1938, and two years later joined the army. Dur ing his school life he was promi nent in both 4H club work and FFA activities. - ' rr ; BqUer Output Up SAN FRANCISCO, April Butter production went up 4 per cent in western states last Week, but down 2 per cent nationally, the federal state market service reported. ; Compared with; last year, western production ran 7 per . cent lower, and national 3 per cent higher, v RAF Raid $50,000 Peak Campaign Seen War Fund Expected To Exceed Quota; Workers Praised Possibility that, with contribu tions from ' civilian employes In army posts still uncounted, Marion county might go over $50,000 in its Red Cross war fund campaign was foreseen Tuesday at chapter headquarters ere. More .than $48,000 had been raised when the campaign ofJW-Iilly. closed the first day of this month. Field officers" for the Red Cross in the posts served by Marion county chapter have indicated that they will share collections there with the chapter according to ihe home service rendered their men. Contributions have poured in from soldiers, unsolicited, it was said here Tuesday and civil ian employes, : too, have declared themselves anxious to contribute through post collections. During March, alone, it was pointed out, Marion county chapter expended in, exeesa of $1800 in home service. Much of this was for emergency trans portation, with advances made through field offices to be re paid. Miss Orpha Dasch, daughter of John" Dasch, has taken over her duties as home service supervisor with the chapter on a full-time basis. For several . years Miss Dasch was a family case worker with the welfare .office.. The extra money raised will not be wasted." declared Jus tice George Bossman, . Marlon county chapter chairman as Be discussed the drive,, already $6000 over the minimum quota set for Marlon county. "Our . chapter is required to account (Turn "to Page 2 Story A) US Airmen Attack Japs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, AprU 7. 0!PH5alamaua and Finschhaf en in 'New Guinea, Cape Glouces ter and Gasmata in New Britain and the islands of Aroe and Tan imbar have been bombed in new raids by allied . planes, the high command announced Tuesday. . Despite the wide area involved, operations were on a somewhat limited scale. Only' in the raid on Salamaua, Japanese base on' the Huon gulf, was more than one plane involved. In that raid, me dium bombers started big fires in the town and silenced anti-aircraft positions. Later a single four motored bomber bombed the jetty, demolishing -supply warehouses. i- A single heavy bomber strafed the airdrome at Finschhafen, on the Huon peninsula, at low alti tude, starting fires. ; . - One: heavy, bomber raided the airdrome at -Gasmata, New Brit ain, 'and: strafed an enemy coast al vessel in a nearby harbor. y ' A "single heavy bomber ; also strafed the waterfront a r e a at Cape Gloucester. "-, A medium bomber raided en emy installations at Wokam and Kenari on the Aroe islands, which are 500 miles north of Darwin, Australia. .... A medium bomber raided the village of Alitit on the Tanimbar islands. Standard Giirrency Proiposed Averting .Post -War i t Economic Collapse Chief Aim of Plan WASHINGTON, AprU 6-P) The United States would con tribute 40 per cent of a proposed $ 5,0 0 0,0 0 0,0 0 0 international stabilization fund, the treasury disclosed Tuesday night in mak ing public the draft of tenta tive proposals submitted to ) 37 nations .with 'the aim of putting post-war currencies on a . stable gold basis. ' ' ' '"'.' Secretary Morgenthau,- releas ing a 4,000-word document out lining plans which he asserted would help prevent a post-war economic - collapse r and revive world trade, said the American contribution would be "about S2, 000,000,000.' This is the amount that is how in the treasury's domestic stabil ization fund and the secretary said that should the international pro gram be undertaken, the need for the domestic fund would be virtu ally eliminated. j The draft of the treasury pro posals disclosed that the United States would have a veto power in the huge international stabil ization fund by virtue of its "sub stantial" contribution. . J This would be accomplished un der proposed rules requiring a 1 4-5 vote of the governing board I on major decisions and limiting any one country to 25 per cent of J the total vote. Since the United States would be one pf the countries qua lifying for . the maximunvhumber of votes it would be able if it so desires, to block a four-fifths ma jority on any issue. The secretary emphasized pat the treasury proposals are tenta tive and said that this government will not assume the role of "rich brother" in talking over currency stabilization with its United Na tions associates. j 1 He also said the treasury pro posals do not include an interna tional bank, but do in effect pro vide for a dual currency system, under which . currencies for j the purpose of world trade would be on a gold basis, while for domes tic purposes they could be valued on whatever basis the individual nation desired. j i "We are the richest nation in gold," he said. "We will be one of the few nations in a position to export after the war. If this fund is ready when hostilities cease the governments participating will, in effect, act as insurance agents, for their exporters and importers. Private enterprise will have all the advantages,' without the! risk of fluctuating foreign exchange." While no provision has been made for admitting the axis na tions to membership, Secretary Morgenthau said that the "Door is not closed" to them, but that it would be up to congress to decide if and when they could qualify for membership. Also missing from the list of in vited members was France. Those to whom the invitations to confer on the proposals went were Aus tralia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czecho slovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hon duras,' India, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, - New Zea land, Nicaragua, Norway, Pana ma, Poland, Union of South 'Afri ca, Union of Soviet Socialist Re publics, Yugoslavia, Bolivia, Co lombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Army to Receive Giant Plane Base UPPER MARLBORO, MdJ April . iffy A.' fighter plane base, de scribed Tuesday by army engin eers as the biggest of its kind in the nation will be turned over to the army May 13 for use in fend ing off any air attacks on Wash ington, Baltimore and the rest of the Chesapeake Bay-Potomac riv er area.-""'::.;' :.' It's a $20,000,000 rush job, be gun last summer, ' and the I great airport is nearly complete. About all that remains is to finish J pour ing concrete-and smooth out the' last details. , . fc . ; When everything is completed, the base wiU have more' than four miles of 150-foot ' concrete run ways and 14 miles of 50-foot taxi ways, with : accommodationa for .three squadrons. . Money Unit Gets Symbol Unitas' x .l ----- r '-- ?'.--'- . -r WASHINGTON, April .-flP)-, Write UN and draw a herisbn ,tal bar thronxh the letters and yonll have, the sign for nnltas, a n e w a a i t of international - monetary exchange proposed by ; the . treasury, v . The nnltas weald, be eeeiva lent to lit or 137 H grains of fine golL The word, treasury compounded - like the stabiliza tion proposal announced to de tail tonight, as an abbreviation of United Nations. . WASHINGTON. April .-JP Treasurer officials reported the American plan of postwar cur rency stabilization made public tonight has the 'same objectives as versions of the British plan received! In this eonntry, but dif fers in one major respect. Sub Menace rse, Knox Auxiliary Carriers Expected to Turn Atlantic War Tide WASHINGTON, April 6-() The (battle of the Atlantic has taken a jturn for the worse, with attacks jby German U-boats on allied shipping. to England and Africa increasing, Secretary of the Navy Knox disclosed Tues day. ; -. '. - ... Ship losses were, higher in March han in February, Knox told a press conference. Losses in February, however,: are reported to have been among the lowest of any month of the war and the In crease in . March was interpreted as indicating a trend rather than i as. marking -m : new peak . of de struction by submarines. ; The secretary's statement left no doubt that the German spring offensive in the Atlantic an of fensive jdesigned to disrupt allied plans fr heavy, military pressure on Europe this year was actual ly under way and probably would be stepped up as the Germans throw Jtnore and more subs into combat duty.' The nazis are still reported to be producing: U-boats well in ex cess j of their loss rate. Knox! said that up to the present the nazis attacks had developed (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Reds Retake Strong Point LONDON, Wednesday, April 7 CTHThe Russians announced Tuesday that they had driven the Germans back from one favor able! position in a strong counter attack south of Izyum on the Do nets - front, and late broadcasts from Berlin acknowledged that the nails were on the defensive at one point in this sector. The f red a r m y , counterattack was! launched after the Germans had frequently attacked Russian positions, finally becoming , ex hausted in stubborn fighting, said the 1 Moscow midnight communi que1 as recorded here by the sov iet Monitor. . ; The .Russians also reported sharp fighting in the Chunguev area of the Donets basin,- south east of Kharkov, a consolidation of soviet positions on the Smo lensk sector of the western front, and fighting in the western Cau casus jln which red troops cap tured a populated place. Bolivia Ponders War Declaration ':' i --! -- 'v-, LA PAZ, Bolivia, April President Enrique' Penaranda of Bolivia and his cabinet Tuesday night discussed . a. decree to- de clare .Jwar - on the axis powers, holding the sewiioi after an hour Ion Conference, with US Viee President Henry A. Wallace. V The form of the war decree will be published at noon. Wednesday, it. was; announced after the confer ence, and congress will be sum moned formally- to declare war. No date was set for the meeting of congress..' ; Spain Calls Class . MADRID April KP)-The cabinet announced Tuesday after a five-day meeting that the Span ish! army class of 1944 would be called to duty this year. - This will add a full new class to the five full : classes and two .half -classes now in service Wo US A rmy Air Raids, Artillery , Set Battle Stage for Storming Tommies By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTER IN NORTH AFRICA, April t (PyCen. Sir Bej-nard L. MonV gomery's British eighth army, striking1 out after iterial prep-i arations more crushing . than; the victorious those preceding attacks on the Alamein and Mareth lines, opened a new of fensive at dawn Tuesday against Marshal provised defense Akarit Rommel's im at the Wadi El The first objectives were taken by storm and the mighty push to finally out of throughout the drive the axis Africa continued day and into the night. The wadi Is Some 60 miles south of Sfax, where Rommel may elect to make one of his last stands in Tunisia. -4 With clockwork precision. Montgomery's fighting men moved forward against the entrenched German machine; jun and infantry positions at 4:30 a. m. after a fierce bombardment th rough the night by concentrated British artillery At Bayonet poi nt British .troop smashed into outlying enemy posts and, with veteri n tank columns in support, the I battle to drive Rommel into the narrow confinei of the Tunis-Bizerte bridgehead in northern Tunisia continued. : Montgomery. the' master of Rommel fn Wefy encounter of thf last eight months, carefully set th4 stage for this newest drive by one-week pause about 20 mile north of Gabes to bring up tig troops and supplies The Wadi El Akarit, winding across the desert coastal plain from, the sea to the rugged hills, some 40 miles westward, was naturally strong position, but could not compare with the deep fortifications of the Mareth lino. which Montgomery outflanked " and cracked through barely nine days ago. In growing peril were Rommel's elite infantry and panzer compa. ', nies, which have been pocketed, the past few days in the El Guetaa. ' area defending the angular wedga, ' of territory which separated the) American second corps of Lieut." Gen. George S. ( Patton, jr., front the British Eighth army on th coast.- -1 .' I Each yard that1 the British! punched forward ; through thd Akarit defenses outflanked thai much more the: e forces disposed along the American sector to. the) southwest. With opening of the new drive" Gen. Patton's battle-hardened American infantry and armor, stood on Rommel's extended mht flank , and the enemy obviously could expect them to exert heavy ; pressure as the Eighth army's as saults progressed. ; . .! The chief passes to the coast, where the Americans fought hot engagements recently, are in the areas of El Guetar, Maknassy and Fondouk. j i Against German guns emplaced in concrete and commanding the ' dominant hills j in an area belted with wide minefields, the Arneri- , cans have made painfully slow ad vances recently. Success by Mont gomery, however, would - compel the enemy to abandon these de fenses just as' those of the Mareth line finally abandoned when the New Zealanders under Lieut. Gen. Sir Bernard C. Freyberg struck deep into the I desert and around Rommel's flank at El Hamma. Flank De Gaulle Asked -; To;.Delai8it-; ;;:":; j WASHINGTON, AprU General Dwight D. Eisenhower's request to General Charles De : Gaulle to defer a visit to North . Africa had no been . reported of ficially to Presiden t Roosevelt , . Tuesday and pe chief . executive declined to comment on itl . Mr. Roosevelt said he had heard ;V about it in the papers, and that ' . something on the subject might be -1 in a bundle of dispatches on his -desk which h had not yet gone -through. - - ' -. :' De Gaulle had planned to con sult with General Henri Giraud : -but London dispatches said Eisen- hower had asked him to wait, for military reasons, -