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Today Valley Sunday Church News (See Ftfi l) ; Vimout . Sat. sunset 7:51 Sun. sunrise 6 s32 : (Weather on Page 0) i xV PCUNDHD mnTY Tnzu teab SoImb. Oregon Saturday Horsing April 10, 1813 ; Pric to. XJ vN. V 2- c X W m W K. riM rivnn .v 4 v. 1 1 vi II rnr.NWM 1 1 I II I 1 1 I II I U-'-UJSIPHs -J if, te-, c rTl 1 .S :Vi Lower Prices : for Few Foods !een as Resiill of Ruling Stocks, Grain Fall .Off Sharply;. WLB Orders Wage Increase Ban Except Under Special j Cases WASHINGTON, AprU lowered prices for some foods were indicated Friday as OPA drafted dollar-and -cents ceil ings for many cost-of-living ar ticles and, with other agencies, hastened to carry out President Roosevelt's sweeping anti-inflation order. - Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes, sitting in with Mr. Roose velt at a press conference, said OPA hoped to "roll back" prices In a number of instances, but did not mention any specific ones. ' Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that the price agency is working on gen- ' eral dollar-and-cents ceilings in the food field along with lines of those already ordered for meat, and TByrnes said ; they .- possibly ,would be ready tomorrow. , 1 " Along with these ' disclosures, there was a series of other major developments and repercussions as a result of the president's order. L. Financial and commodity markets reacted sharply. Many peealatlve holdings were damped and a selling wave in grams sent wheat . down more than t teats a bushel at one time in Chicago. Cotton fell off $1 a bale, and stocks in New York were off one to three points. . 2. War Manpower Commission er: Paul V. McNutt and his aides began working on a program to implement a section or the presi dential order authorizing WMC to forbid a worker tto take ' a new job at higher pay unless it would promote the war effort. - 3. The war labor board instruct ed its regional offices to stop all ' wage increases "except those that clearly come within the 15 per cent limitation of the Utile steel formula. - Mr, - Bpovelt's srdesj banned general wage increases except under this- formula or to correct . sub - standard conditions. About three weeks agv WLB di rected its local offices to deter mine : what constituted standard conditions in ; each area. It was Indicated that general determina tions on this point were the major Immediate question for WLB in carrying out Mr. Roosevelt's in structions. 4. John L. Lewis, demanding $2 a day wage increase for coal min ers, made clear in New York he was not giving any ground as a result of the president's order. He declared miners' wages are sub-standard and commented that the anti-inflation order left "the mine workers still hungry and re sentful in having their demands for bread made a political pawn. Charles O'Neill;- spokesman for northern mine operators, . inter- ent contracts should be renewed subject to change by government rder.v London Papers Ttnn Tlnv Ttnids s By US Planes . LONDON, AprU 9 -iP Two British , liberal weeklies declared editorially Friday . that American daylight bombing of continental cities Is not Ma sane policy" be cause of the "useless destruction and chastly casualties" tnat re sult ."Daylight raids always kill large number of people,", a New ' Statesman editorial said, "where ' as .casualties for night bombing have proved much smaller than anyone expected." J :: ; German reports of "useless de struction and ghastly casualties' resulting from American daylight ' bombing of towns like ' Antwerp and Rouen, "where , thousands of people who should be. our friends and allies are said to have been killed, have gone "uncontradict ed,' the editorial declared. United States Eighth air force cfficials declined to comment. Youth, Council To coordinate activities .' of or ganizations participating or Inter ested in boys and girls welfare work, Salem Council of Social Agencies voted Friday night to create a "Salem Boys' and Girls' council. Decision to ' organize such a , committee of representatives from various organisations fol lowed a :, meeting- with youth leaders and persons from . city council, ministerial association and county health department, addressed by Miss Fays Steln snets, secretary of boys' and girls' work for the rortland . Council ef Social Agencies at s .... . President p""" ' ,' " ""'" " " . -. . i ' - ' - f " - f:j :" i :i kif - - - 1 -1 i;r " i fcd ' ' " V jt i ' r V I TRAVIS CROSS High School Elects New Officers Travis Cross was elected presi dent of the Salem senior high school I student body, results dis closed at Friday night's all-school dance revealed. - V Three other officers were elect ed while revotes are necessary in three remaining offices. ; Nancy Montgomery was chosen vice-president, defeating Margar et Jane Emmons; Ruth Anderson topped the voting for Clarion edi tor, gaining the victory over Mary Parker, t'and David Getzendaner triumphed as sergeant - at - arms after competition f r o m Stuart Compton and HoWard Flwood, ' ; "Revotes 71n thejof Xicesof iecre- tary . forensic "mariageY and 'song leader will be conducted Monday, Vice-Principal E. A. Carleton an nounced. No majority was gained by either Martha Weller or Trudie Meier, campaigning for secretary; both Bob Zeller and Richard Page remain in the running for forensic manager and a close margin still exists between Joy Randall and Norma jean Newgent for song queen. Tom unopposed candidates were named to their positions Thursday, They j include Pat Schneider, an nual ! editor, Ellis Teel, Clarion manager, Irving Steinbock, annu al manager, and Bob Skopil, yell king. ; -A : . The newly elected officers will be installed early in May and take over duties at that time. Outgoing officers include: President, Frank Bennett; vice president, Mary East; secretary, Bernice Bowersox; Clarion editor, Nancy Brown; sergeant-at-arms, Hugh Lovell; forensic manager, Henry Johnson; song leader, Shir ley Parker; Clarion manager, Jean Rowland; annual manager, Bill Burns; annual editor, Norma Wooten, Bob Skopil was named the holdover yell king. '. . I Rural Fight May Detain Congress WASHINGTON April 9 -(JP-Hopes of the nation's lawmakers for an extended Easter holiday faded Friday amid new cries for compromise on pay-as-you-go tax legislation out no sign or a break In the ways and means committee's , deadlock : on the is sue.: : .... Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts told newsmen he is "opposed to any recess until we have had a chance to vote on a pay-as-you-go bill, sAd demo cratic chieftains conceded pri vately the republicans could block the vacation. ' -.'v ' Martin took his position during a day of many - sided develop ments on the tax question, with which the ways and means com mittee struggled for months only to have the plan of its majority returned by the house. Approved by Social Group called session la TMCA roo The many needs of youth In wartime compared and contrasted with those of peace, need for sta ble leadership, and Portland's ex periences In meeting those re quirements were discussed by Miss Steinmetz, who pointed out the change in home circles alone created by war Industry's use of more : women. ' - , Youth, the speaker declared, needs the sense of belonging somewhere and to something. The desire for self-expression is as deep In time of war as In time of peace, although the methods may be narrowed or changed..' . TeUs Siv Of Murder Testimony Asserts Negro Perspiring ' After Body Found ALBANY, ORE., April Mff) A marine private testified that Robert E. Lee Folkes, negro dining car cook accused of the lower 13 slaying of Mrs. Martha Virginia James, was "perspiring heavily a few minutes after the fatal stabbing Jan. 23. Folkes is on trial on a charge of first degree murder. The marine, Harold Wilson, said in direct examination in cir cuit court that he questioned the cook (whom he Identified as Folkes), in the diner galley after finding the body oi Jars, james sprawled near berth lower 13 in sleeping car D of the Southern Pacific's West Coast Limited train. District Attorney Harlow Wein- rick asked Wilson if he noticed anything unusual. "The cook was perspiring heav ily," Wilson replied. He said, "There were beads of perspiration on his forehead, per spiration was running down his face .... I did not notice any fire in the stove. It was cool In the kitchen." Wilson, who was in the berth above Mrs. James, gave this tes timony: Traveling from Seattle to San Diego under marine orders, he was awakened between 4:30 and 4:45 am. by "a scream of pain and suffering,?, j -'' V , The scream came from tight belowJT. sat p, tnrned on the light and looked eat the curtain between the upper railing and the button In the middle. I saw a person protruding from lower 13. I could see htm- from the waist down. The rest of the body was Inside the curtain. I was looking straight down. He backed out of the berth. ' I saw the back of hfc head, his shoul ders, his back. I would say he wore a dark overcoat. I could n't describe his hair at that time, "He turned to the left In a stooping position and went to the rear of the car with a very active motion. On coming beneath the (Turn to Page 2 Story B) French Rail Loss Critical BERN, Switzerland, April 9-UP) Marauding allied airmen. Sweep ing by daylight throughout France to blast freight and passenger trains with bombs and cannon fire, are slowly but steadily para lyzing the nation's railway sys tem, according to reliable infor mation received here. ,7 i A high official of the French railroads told a correspondent of the Gazette de Lausanne that at least five or six locomotives are being smashed daily bjr the allied train-busters and by saboteurs. Scio Bastile Problem Acute SCIO, April -(Declaring ho no longer could maintain order in Scio without a suitable jail, City Marshal C. M. "Cyrue submitted his resignation to the city coun cil. I ... ' - , ,.j ... . The building in use as a bastile was designed to house only those who imbibed too freely, he point ed out. The council prevailed up on Cyrus to keep his Job until May 1 while it studies the prob lem. City finances prohibit build. ing a modern Jail, the council said. Boys and girls today are ' "catapulted lute adulthood, Mies Stelnmets maintained, and suddenly, possessing for, them selves larger income than some of their families had a few years . ago, they - need , strong guidance. Portland s - neignborhood coun cils, serving as channels tor vari ous interested organizations to co ordinate their work, have proved successful in their field, accord ing to Miss Steimnetz. f ; f William Hamilton, president of the . Salem Council of. Social Agencies, served as chairman for the meeting. Drying Plants Named Blue, Lake, Allen Are Firms Already Producing Food j The mystery of the two de-j hydrating plants to be situated in Salem, according to an an nouncement Wednesday from Ore eon's Sen. Charles McNarv. was , partially cleared up late Friday when a telegram receivJ ed by the Statesman from the senator revealed that the two plants referred to were the Allen Fruit company and the Blue Lake Producer's Cooperative, both al ready In operation. Officials of the two companies were in the dark, hazarding the guess that the .reference was in tended to be confirmation by the agricultural adjustment agency of their operations. . ,. ' m ' Sen. McNary's wire stated,--Al- len and Blue Lake plants - were given approval for expansion by the department of agriculture While William G. Allen, presi dent of the Allen Fruit company. was out of town and could not be reached for a statement, company officials Indicated that no big ex penditure was contemplated, but only such as requirements de manded. None were under way at present, officials stated. F. O. Snyder, manager ef the Blue Lake plant, denied any expansion or Improvement plans other than laying of a $10,009 i concrete floor- In the cook room, for which the com pany received a building per mit this week. He Indicated the 350,000 oases of vegetables and fruits handled by the company last year would be Increased in 1043. ! Wayne Yocum, field manager for Blue Lake, declared, "I think that (the Wednesday news re lease) la just confirmation of the fart that we are already- operat ing although when we started Out we had only one plant. Last March 16 or IT we started a new unit because our capacity was large enough to handle more dehydration. As far as I know, we were doing all that we're going to do as far as the dehydrating plants go. ; Canneries referred to at Leba non and Dallas were the Spencer cannery! at Lebanon and the J. C Tracy plant in Folk county, local packers land canners speculated. : Rumors that another- large Sa lem cannery was contemplating taking over dehydration operations persisted, although no confirma tion of them could be obtained. The operation of the two Salem plants, j and those approved in Dallas, Lebanon, Corvallis, Dun dee, Eugene and Freewater, aug ment the "grandaddy" of all the dehydration units, according to Yocum, wha referred , to a little plant at Dayton which, while Very small, started on potatoes in the first World war and has been working on vegetables: ever since, now preparing food for the armed forces m the second conflict. Allied Planes ; Hit: Jap Bases ALLIED HEADQUARTEXS IN , AUSTRALIA, Saturday, April j j ix Japanese planes havo been destroyed In a raid on Madangv New Guinea, the high command announced ' Saturday. ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, April 10 -(VStriking at vulnerable Japa nese supply bases on the northern coast of New Guinea, American Mitchells and Australian - Beau fighters bombed and strafed Ma dang In a surprise low-level at tack Friday, destroying she ene my planes on the ground, silenc ing anti-aircraft positions, j and starting huge fires In the dock area, t the high command an nounced Saturday. Sweeping back and forth over the airdrome, the attackers blast ed two medium bombers and four fighters before the enemy could get them into action, and the at tack was unopposed.: -A ? ' The! allied raiders fired 63,000 rounds of cannon and machine gun fire in the coastal sweep, which was only part of wide spread operations. US Japanese x I , Forces Arrive 1 SAN FRANCISCO, April MA3) The - arrival of 2500 Japanese- American soldiers from Hawaii on their way to Mississippi to join the army's , recently : organized , Japanese-American combat team was announced Friday night : by the war department. lilies Pound As Nazi JFumiH Southern Vichy. SMAcIrT FRANCE T 2gt T'?X - Turpys j5oo ' mmMi 1 Belgrade. " Qt iPIJUGOSlAV, A! Yarse.ii'eWoniiiiSfo : .v ' ' ALGERIA! JdmmMedirraneanSeam 1 WiMW rrmrim , ii, i imi.miiimhim. SOAlSUf t li STATUTE MILES IBJJJ Increasing American and British bomber raids, stemming from bases acquired through conquest ef all the Mediterranean shores of North Africa except the east coast of Tunis (unshaded area), have stepped up speculation on an allied invasion of the "soft underbelly of the axis, as Churchill terms It. Map details chief targets of the KAF and TJSAAF (planes and bomb bursts) and shews why Blxerte Is the key objective of allied action. Associated Press Map. j Four Vessels j DestrojerTankery 1 CorVette Fuel ? - " Boat Listed WASHINGTON, April O-yT) The allies lost a destroyer, a cor vette and a tanker while wiping out 34 planes of the strong Japa nese air force which gave the Guadalcanal area its heaviest bombardment in five months, the navy announced Friday. One small allied fuel boat also was sunk in the Solomons Islands clash last Wednesday. The destroyer, damaged by bombs, sank later . while ; Being towed to port. It presumably was an American vessel, although the communique did not specify. The corvette, sunk as a result of dam age by bombs, presumably was Australian. There also was no designation by, nationality of the bombed tanker and the sunken fuel oil boat, but most of the craft in this area are believed' to bo those of the United States. Navy spokesmen said they were unable to Indicate the lees of life, but that next ef kin of all casualties were being noti fied. : Imperial Tokyo headquarters claimed the sinking of an Amer ican r cruiser, destroyer ' and 10 transports in the attack, and said Japanese losses were six planes which "crash-dived Into enemy objectives." .-. - American plane' losses in the . (Turn to Page 1 Story A) Water Boarcf Job Prospects Eyed y Names of Paul Burrls, Salem at torney, and Fred Anunsen, lum ber and gravel dealer, were prom inently talked Friday for the post on the city water commission to be left vacant by ; submission of the resignation of Dr. Harold H. Olinger, who left last month for military duty, f ' , Olinger resignation, not yet submitted to the dry council, was said to be ready for the next council session. Sunk by Jap ninoLmnrr application Victory Garden Program and Contest ;. Please enrol my name as a participant m the Salem. Victory Garden and . Home Food Supply Program. I under tanri that this enrollment makes my garden eligible for prise awards offered in the Victory the Salem Men's Garden club Approximate area of my plot Is- Vy garden is located at . My address is Print or type name here fDsoc? root argUcaWen jlaas Exposure Duce Reported Set to Leave Rome Ho Burn' LONDON, Saturday, April 10 WJ-Eemters reported In a Zur ich dispatch Friday that Premier Mussolini was understood to be preparing to evacuate his gov ernment from Bean, I The dispatch said Mussolini was reported to have appointed secret commissions to make1 the necessary, 'arrangements. Flor ence and Bologna have been mentioned as likely places for the new seat ef government, ft Knox Lauds Navy Might At Bond Rally INDIANAPOLIS, April -(JP) The growing might ef the1 United States navy, with emphasis on airplane carriers and destroyer es corts was translated into stirring facts and figures by Secretary Knox Friday night at an Indian apolis rally opening the second war loan campaign. The navy in 1943 will complete more new ' fighting ships exclu sive of non-combatant craft than there were fighting ships in serv ice at the end of 1942, the naval chief disclosed in his prepared ad dress. - -- , ... " -Warning? that "the worst of this war lies ahead ef usj and German undersea power Is an ever-increasing peril, he added: : "We will make further additions In 1944 to insure the obliteration of Japanese sea power and to sweep the German and Italian U boats and surface 'ships from the seas'::, , ' ' As for 1943 construction, he said: " - ' j The tonnage of new warships completed in 1943 will equal two thirds of our total tonnage of com batant ships in 1942. In short, the tonnage of the fighting fleet will Increase by 68 per cent this year, without allowance for probable battle losses. Garden contest sponsored by and Tne uregon isiaiesman. -square feet. Signed at Sfo otat er TMC4 Axis Admits Some Retreat; US j Forces Pusli Eastward, British Attack From South By DANIEL :.Aii XTED HEADQUARTERS -P)-Marshal Erwin Rommerg axis forces hastened their retreat Friday,' abandoning Mahares, SO miles north Of Gabes, and leav ing nearly 12,00a troops as prisoners of thi, British and . Amer ican forces since the eighth army's break-through at the Wad! El Akai-it last Tuesday. ' ' Under the steady hammering of the British at their rear, : the Americans, French and British on their inland flank and the great allied aerial fleet overhead: Rommel's beaten men were fleeing: toward the port of Sfax, i! A: Hobbs Measure l AFjL .Urged Change, Bui Bill Ignores Labor Amendment WASHINGTON, April 9-iJF) Organized labor lost its first leg islatives , fight of the 78th congress Friday las the house passed,, minus an AFL-sponsored amendment, the controversial Hobbs bill to make robbery and extortion pun ishable' under the 1934 anti-racketeering act. WASHINGTON, April KoHcOlI vote by which the house Friday passed the' Hobbs anti racketeering bill. Included: Re publicans for the bill (154) AngelL Oregon Ellsworth, Ore gon; i Stockman, Oregon. The 270 to 107 roll call vote, sending the legislation to the sen ate followed an overwhelming re jection of the amendment -which the American Federation of La bor had announced would have made! the legislation acceptable to laborj ,;"y. . y- ; -. Offered by Rep. Celler (D-NY), the amendment would have rec ognized as legal any activities of unions alrady legal under the Nor- ris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act. the : Clayton anti-trust law, the railway labor act and the national labor relations act. ; Rep. Hobbs W-Ala), author lef the bill, led the fight against the amendment - contending it would nullify tb whole measure. Celler responded that w i t h o u t the amendment, the legislation could be used to. deprive organized , la bor of its recognized legal rights. - Celler's amendment was beaten 1S7 to 126 on a teller vote. Im mediately afterwards, the house wrote into the bill on a voice vote a judiciary committee amendment similar in wording to Celler's but Stipulating that nothing in the Hobbs act shall be "construed to repeal, modify, or affect" the four exiting statutes. " Celler fought the committee amendment on the ground it was "negative' Instead of "affirma tive.? . . ::U.. . The New Yorker told the house "those behind the bill seek to strike a blow at labor which Is quite unjustifiable" and to "visit the l sins of the few - upon the aaanjf." '' ' Before approving the bill, the house refused to cut- the maximum penalty . provided from 20 years to 10 years or to reduce the top fine of $10,000, and voted down an amendment to redefine rob bery, y- Hobbs sharply disputed Celler's assertions that the legislation was "anti-labor" and recalled that the Judiciary committee, which .ap proved the measure by a top heavy Vote In January, long has been known as "the graveyard of labor bills." Market Relapse Worst in 3 Years As Curbs Unload nW YORK, April 9-VPy-Tbm stock market suffered Its worst relapse in nearly three years, or since the nazi smash at France In 1940, as speculative holdings were thrown overboard In the wake oi the president's new anti-inflation drive. . - . Leading rails, industrials and utilities lost $1 to $3 a share gen erally and a few were off $4 or more. Liquidation was fast In the first: and final hours. The ticker tape, near the finish, fell 2 min utes behind actual floor transac tions. Transfers totaled 2,521,410 shares." The Associated Press 60-stock average was off $1.S3 at 247.43.. Advantage DE LUCE IN NORTH AFRICA, AprU t 22 miles to the north, and Were' reireaung nonneastward from tne inland rail point of Mezzouna,' it was disclosed here. (Capt 'Lud wig Scrtorius, Ger-, man military commentator, said there were indications the allies in the norm-central sector were' preparing to launch a large-scale; "break-through! ' attack to cap- . ture the big German air bSseLat Kairouan and to sweep on 32 miles to the port of Sousse. The broadcast, recorded by the Asso-'. dated Press, said the , assault could be expected "any moment now." Sertorious j said the flat coastal area over which Rommel's forces sre retreating is "most un favorable for defense and that axis troops were being given ' no chance to relax.) -f ! LONDON, Saturday. April It (JP) Marshal Rommel has started evacuating some of his key officers snd technicians from Tunisia to Messina, SicllL !; 'the Daily Express said Satur day, quoting London sources. ' ' V The newspaper said that dor- . Ing the past few - days ferry .r. transport planes hsve been ep-1 eratlng between Messina and . the Tunls-Plscrte defense -fteg - -.esw non-stop .jflmtUe schedole, : ; hi .''"in" "' '' i' ' i ' i ' ' m United States troops, highly praised at a press conference by f Gen.' Slrv Harold Alexander, the allied commander of ground . forces, for having kept the bulk of Rommel's armor engaged earlier fat the week while the Eighth army smashed at Wadl El Akarit, eontlnued to plug eastward and were reported te have captured Djebel BXasaUa, n height north of Maknassy. 1 The allied communique reveal ed that the Eighth army along had stripped 9,500 prisoners from Rommel's forces in the past flvd days and that Lieut. Gen. George) S. Patton, Jr.'s second Americai army corps had taken 1,300 mord in mopping up the El Guetar seoi tor. , -: 7 There was- s strong posslbiliA . ty that the retreating axis dl videns were running short of motor ' transport under the de structive assaults of relays of allied bombers. It was announc ed that 139 enemy vehicles had been destroyed and another 299 damaged in the post two days. 4 It also was disclosed officially : that since the opening of the air j offensive ( on the 'Mareth line ! March 20,. allied air forces oper- I sting in North Africa have f hot j down 302 enemy planes,, compared to a loss of 110 allied planes. (A Berlin radio broadcast of a transocean dispatch said, "The great superiority of the enemy in men and material Is showing its effect," adding that "the detach ing movement toward the north x . . . to all i appearances Is. being: , continued. The broadcast was recorded by , the Associated Press.) . The British First army was reported ntamtalnlng Its offen sive In the Medjes-El-Bab see- tor ef northern Tunisia and te have captured 499 prisoners since the attack waa opened along a 12-mile front last Wed- . nesday. Twe axis tanks were knocked out by long-range ar lillery and ibt British were re ported te have occupied some tactically Import an t points. Rata and mud were hampering offensive activities In that see- y 'tor.... j:1- r ' . (American forces pushing along the road from Maknassy to the coast were said by a British radio broadcast to be "little more than 20 miles from General Sir Ber-' nard Montgomery's spearhead, promising an Imminent 'second junction between United States troops and the British Eighth army.) 'V ' - Independence to Gel Play Center WASHINGTON, DC, AprU 9 OP) , The federal works agency has ap proved $1359 in federal funds for a recreation center at Independ ence, Ore, and IZZ1 for the same purpose at Mediord, Ore., Senator Ucllixj (R-Ore) taaouacci. 1