4 ' V .' Dimoul. J Tues. sunset 7 55 1 7ed. sunrise 6:26 (Weather on Pag 7) .- ; Today National Bond Drive Begins (See Story Below) KE.TTY THUID YEAH Salem. Orecon, Tuesday Morning April . 13. 1943 Price Sc. Ho. 14 : i - - r : : i V f ; i: ',rt ;5-H tj -1- ; ; pcundsd 1651 US Finances " - --."-"- ' - ':- - . ' . ; ' s -T Morganthau r Oregon Drive Opens " With Parade and Solicitations Oregon's second war loan drive was - officially launched with a parade and patriotic pro gram in Portland and an in tensified solicitation by a picked staff in Marion county for sub scriptions to start the ball rolling toward the ,$100,000,000 state goal. Salem as seat of the state gov ernment gave the campaign a heartening sendoff with the an nouncement .that the state bond commission had authorized a $3,- 000,000 state fund investment in federal government securities from the new second war loan is sues. The commission bought $3, 000,000 worth of short term obli gations and- $2,000,000 in 2 per cent treasury bonds due in 1952. . One hundred v workers ; were carrying on the campaign in Mar ion county toward exceeding ' a $6,000000 quota, Chairman J. J. Card announced. One of the early sales was of a $50,000 bond to one Salem pur chaser. " . The Marion county war savings staff ; headed by Frederick S. Lamport and his associate chair man, Joseph B. Felton, was as sisting Gard's committee. All se ries E, F and' G bonds sold dur ing April will be counted toward the county's second war loan quota. ".''-),' , "We have every confidence that Marion county will go well over the top- to do her share in keep ing Oregon in the lead nationally infinancing the war," Chairman Gard declared. "Early, reports Monday were most encouraging." Buying war bonds instead of being forced to do so is "a demo cratic privilege," Lt. Col Alfred KeUey, executive officer at the Portland air base, said, at the kickoff program in-Portland. Campaign leaders asked every man, woman and child to ' pur chase a minimum of $100 worth of war stamps or bonds. PGE Briefs Deny Profits Are Too High PORTLAND, April 12-(P)-The Portland General Electric -company Monday filed an answer denying charges of Public Utili ties Commissioner Ormond R. Bean that its rates and profits are excessive. - ' ; ' Bean recently instituted action to force the company to make rate reductions of $700,000 and to impound an equal amount of "excess earnings", from 1942 for the benefit of its customers. Mounting costs because of war conditions and loss of income due to Bonneville competition and dimout restrictions were cited by the company as financial obstruc tions to rate revision. The com' tianv aereed. however, to nego tiate any reasonable adjustments justified by v present and pros pective conditions. In its answer, filed with the public utilities ; commission, the company listed net 1942 income at $4,355,587.88, representing a re turn of 6.95 per cent on Its rate bas of S62.678.553.58. It con tended this was not excessive in View of the temporary nature of war plants served and possibility ef further increases in operating costs. Bean charged that rates in the Portland area are unjust and dis criminatory as . compared ; with those : in effect ! at Salem. The company asserted it had been forced to abandon its former rate system because advocates oi pun lie ownership attacked it A cost-plus system was substituted. the company sauJL-, , - Corvallis Vlair Listed Missing . WASHINGTON, April li.HV Three Oregon men were among 269 ; United States soldiers listed by the war department today as tniiwing in action on the worlds ' war fronts.- . s",' ... ;' The pext-b? kin live In 42 states - and Canada: ;: ; v . , :- ,- Tlie list includes ' from Oregon missing In the Asiatic area: . Breniser, Staff Sgt. Norman A. Mother Mrs;. Elizabeth Breniser, S404 South East 51st St., Portland. : Cuddeback, First Lt. Aaron E. Father, S. Cuddeback, 1815 Fairmount, Eugene. ; - Levos, Staff Sgt Lawrence C. ratter, Ole J. Lovos, C25 Sooth Good, Says War Rally Launches $113,000,000 Bond Loan Campaign NEW YORK, April 12-P) Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthau Monday night declared that America must raise $70, 000,000,000 through war loans this year and possibly pay more taxes to launch the United Na tions', second f front. . Morgenthau spoke at a rally in Carnegie hall marking the opening of the $13,000,000,000 second war bond drive.' ; Nearly 000 ; persons Jammed the hall, bedecked with flags of the United Nations. Members of the ! WAACs, the WAVES, the SPARS a n d the marine corps LONDON, April 12.-;P)-Chan-cellor of the Exchequer Sir Kings ley Wood presented Britain a 1943-44 b u d g e t of 5,159,000,000 pounds ($20,624,000,000) Monday to carry the nation into its fifth year of war and proposed that 56 per cent of this amount be- raised by taxation with the help of rec ord new levies on luxury items. shared the stage, their uniforms serving a backdrop behind the speakers' dais. Stating that "the situation is well in hand," and that "we know how much money our armed forces will need," the secretary said: . ' "The second front is no mili tary secret. We all know that, just I over the horizon, we of the To Hasten Victory Ne American wants this war te 0l eae mhrate beyond the time we caa bring It te a vic torious end. Te hasten that victory t save possibly the urea of motions f mm boys eft em far flang fronts it is Imperative that every Am erf-! caa do Us part ia the' Second War Loan. There Is an in vestment to at every pone. The most yea can do is little enoofh compared with the sac rifice offered by oar boys in . aerrleo. They fire their lires yon lead year money. United Nations are piling up the thunder-clouds of the greatest at tack in history. We are massing for that attack now. The plan ning, the patient preparation, the (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Youth Calm - Iii Relating Slaying Story PORTLAND, Ore., April 12 .-(JP -Fifteen-year-old Rudolph David Roth jr., calmly confessed in mu nicipal court Monday the slaying of his father. Taken before Judge J. J. Quil- lin for preliminary hearing, the youth said he had no attorney and didn't need any because "I'm guil ty of murder." He waived preliminary hearing, and was ordered held for the grand jury. A first degree murder charge was filed against the boy. His father, Rudolph, 51 -year-old bakery owner, was fatally shot In the head as he lay asleep at his home, police said. District Attorney James R. Bain said young Roth I recently released from a juvenile home, also admit ted he intended to kill his sister and mother, too. He abandoned this plan, Bain said, after slightly wounding his sister in the leg, be cause he had only one bullet left Srac'-e and flame rise from , cat Si t& ittt3 Draft Class Revisions Ordered 3-Bs Eliminated; Father Induction Expected July 1 i WASHINGTON, April 12-P) Selective service revamped draft classes ' Monday preparatory to inducting f into the armed ? serv ices j this year every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 37, Inclusive, except the follow ing: " ' : j- .J .- 1. Men ' employed full-time essential farming. 2. Men irreplaceable in essen tial non-agricultural jobs. , S. Men whose induction would mean "extreme hardship and pri vation to dependents. : The changes in classification swept away dependency defer ments for childless men, added thousands of men to the "fathers class," created a special class for men' whose induction would mean extreme hardship, and eliminated altogether the 3-B classification established a year ' ago for men with dependents and engaged in essential occupations. Manpower Commissioner Paal V. Me Nntt, who has gen eral charge of selective service, told reporters the revision of regulations is intended te post pone fathers, "as long as possi ble, but it was Indicated that the job raising the armed forc es to a total of 10,800,000 men. by the year's end weald neces sitate lifting vthe present ban on the induction ef fathers by about July L The revision of regulations was coincidental with a new outcry in congress that family men should not be drafted so long as any others are available. The , viewpoint In congress is (Turn to Page 2 Story A) HulliEedUp9 At Questions . On Trade Act WASHINGTON, April 12-P) Secretary Hull motored up Cap itol Hill Monday to urge contin uance of the reciprocal trade treaties program and found him self the brunt of a republican at tack which stirred his Tennessee anger to the point where he ac knowledged himself "fed up." The 73-year-old secretary pre sented a 3,000-word statement to the house ways and means com mittee. He said any curtailment or repudiation of the trade treat ies would be a clear indication to other countries that the United States does not intend to bear its full share of responsibility in peacetime. Then republican . members of the committee started questioning Hull. Rep. Gearhart of California declared the trade agreements are an economic failure and have won this country the nickname of "Uncle Sap. For an hour. Gear hart tried to draw from the sec retary an assent to the Califor nian's contention that other na tions have taken undue advan tage of the trade plan, first au thorized in " 1934 and close to Hull's heart. Finally Hull said: : "The gentleman is headed straight down the gulch of ex treme nationalism that got us in this mess and I hope the i Lord takes care of him." Then turning to Chairman Doughton (D-NC), the ' secretary said: "I'm getting a little bit fed up on the nature of these ques- tions and the number of them Russians Devastate Nazi Equipment ii . J' i' iii.li. inll'1 I'M burning German equipment in Jits recent winter offensive. T raptured fc t Dii grn bEiis IUn-ltiated Frees 100 Jap Planes Bomb Moresby, 37 Shot Down . Allies Attack r Rabaul, 3 Othet Enemy Bases j ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, April 13. -iT)-The .Japanese ' flung "100 planes at Port Moresby Monday in their heaviest aerial attack - of the war in this theater, but ST of them were shot out of the skies or badly damaged in new losses so severe that the enemy's aerial of fensive apparently has been curbed, allied headquarters an nounced Monday. ; 1 In two days the Japanese have lost 78 planes, the noon commun ique asserted, adding that fit is j WASHINGTON. April U.-ff) Australia is bearing the brunt ef the ;war with Japan in the Pacific ; and needs snore j ' held Quickly, Dr. . Herbert Evatt, Australian minister for exter nal affairs, said Monday.'. I believed the enemy's air offensive has been blunted and his immedi ate plans dislocated." Besides the toll of 37 Japanese planes taken in the attack on Port Moresby, main allied base oh New Guinea, IS others were lost In oth er: actions Monday, the war bulle tin said. i -1 Allied bombers soaring on wide, punishing raid s themselves sank an enemy submarine off New Brit ain island, bombed enemy ship ping in different areas damaging at least two of them, and slashed at: Japanese airfields. One allied heavy bomber fought single hand ed against 12 Japanese fighters! in tercepting over Wewak and in a 30-minute running battle knocked down seven of them with only "negligible" damage to Itself, the communique said. ',. Bitter dogfights swirled over the airdrome areas of Port Moresby as allied planes shot up to inter cept -the attacking formations evenly divided between combat (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Dike Break Threatens Iowa Town OMAHA, April 12-(flVBreaks in two dikes protecting the east end of Omaha from the Missouri river sent flood waters Monday night into the 10-square mile Car ter lake basin and threatened; to inundate the Omaha municipal airport and the village of Carter Lake, Ia. The first break occurred in the main levee which hitherto had held the swollen river in check, and about four hours later anoth er break occurred in a smaller temporary dike recently thrown up south of the river where lt bends toward the east. Lieut Col. D. S. Davis of the army engineers, who toured the Carter Lake area, said the water probably wouldn't reach the air port until, Tuesday morning, j By-10 pjn. all persons had been removed from the danger!, rone, Col Davis said. ( . . 1 The water poured through a 20 foot break at the northern end of the dike, sending workers scurry ing to safety. Directors of the bat tle against the rising "Old 1 Mud dy" said chances of stemming the water appeared slim. Police rushed to the scene ! as 2300 soldiers and civilian workers faced the task of repairing the break. .7-- - r Naz i A 'Back to Sgyj5iwirouanv V.' f llil:-!f?i!!!!n! Axis forces (broken arrows) abandoned Mahares and Mexxouaa in central Tunisia as allied land and air forces continued to hammer them from all exposed sides. Black arrows indicate allied drives. Associated Press Map. Reds Repulse Five Attacks 2000 Germans Dead In Futile Move To Storm Rubs LONDON, Tuesday, April 13 (-German troops Springing from trenches launched five heavy attacks Monday at Soviet lines before Volkhovo, 80 miles south east of Leningrad, and were beaten back after losing more than 2000 men in a bitter flare- up of hand-to-hand fighting on this long-quiescent northern sec tor of the Russian front, Moscow reported early today. All the attacks were flung back, the last one by a soviet counter blow, and the Germans left more than 2,000 dead on the fields and in the trenches after fighting so bloody that prisoners were listed as only "several dozen," by the midnight communique as recorded by the soviet monitor. The waves of German infantry swarmed from the long-established trenches five times in assaults against Marshal Semeon Timo- shenko's forces, with the last charge, supported by heavy artil lery fire, driving a wedge into Russian lines. "Our men flung the enemy back (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Work or Fight Plan in Effect PORTLAND, April 12-()-A work-or-fight labor stabilization plan went into effect Monday at Portland war plants . employing some 120,000 persons. Labor unions and 60 war plants ratified the plan, which provides for employers to notify draft boards when a worker quits or is dismissed for cause. A worker may not quit one Job for another without a clearance slip. This scene Is from an effieiai Tclmst. - rmv ' Matched Imti To Make Final the WaW C of C Mulls Farm Labor Official Interference Rapped by Members As Conclave Opens Confidence that Oregon could meet its harvest labor problems provided there was no interfer ence from Washington, DC, was generally expressed at a confer ence of chamber of i commerce secretaries and agricultural lead ers at the state capitol Monday. Emphasizing success of this state's agricultural labor plan utilized in 1942, Dean William Schoenfeldt, of Oregon State col lege, said he hoped there would be no change in the setup during the 1943 season. "About the only trouble we are having at the present time is con flicting directives from Washing ton," the dean declared. State Sen. Dean Walker, Inde pendence, urged the conferees to keep in mind the danger of com petition among agricultural groups. "It is imperative that wages be kept at such a level that produc ers can operate under ceiling prices,. Walker explained. "The federal government is the most serious competitor of the farmer in the labor field." Farmers this year more than ever apparently will have to de pend to a considerable degree upon the assistance of business men, housewives, office clerks and school children to assist in the harvest, Gov. Earl Snell told the group. , Rex Putnam, state superinten dent of public instruction, warned the chamber secretaries against general demands for early clos ing of schools. Labor problems are local and must be met by local decisions, he said. ' - '.V. -" ,; Because most teen-age youths want to enter" military service, "agriculture probably will have to replace them with other help," Lt CoL Carlton EL Spencer, assist ant state selective service direct or, v reported. Recent changes in deferment regulations may, he said, bring temporary assistance to agricturia.'' ; " v f Other speakers represented the Grange, the Farmers Union, 4H clubs and - the US employment service. . u-.-- The conference is to continue today at the Salem chamber of commerce -quarters, with empha sis on community Industrial prob lems brought on by the war. The state chamber secretaries' associa tion also Is to hold its "annual business meeting there today. B21 Crash Kills Ten Crew Members TUCSON, Ariz, April 12-iJT) Ten men, the entire crew of - a B-2 4 bomber, were killed when; the big four-motored craft crash ed three and one half miles south east of Davis-Monthan field short ly after 6 un, Monday, the pub lie relations office at the base announced. ' ' Officials said only that the plane wag routes. tn&Pl LZZX Axis :Tuiiisian Forces Dig in ; At Enf idaville as Montgomery Sets His Men for Finish Drive By EDWARD KENNEDY ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 12 (-Plunging northward with almost reckless speed toward j ; final accounting with: Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa corps, the British Eighth army occupied Sousse Monday, almost within gunshot of the new axis mountain line anchored near Enfida J" Though impeded by demolitions, Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery's eager veterans covered the 75 miles from Sf ax, which they captured on Saturday morning, in exactly 48 hours. Rom mel's rear guard put up only slight opposition as it raced a i IjoUtes Trial DefenOpens Key Witness Fails To Identify Negro As Man He Saw ALBANY, Ore, April 12 iP) Marine Private' Harold Wilson, key state's ' witness in the mur der trial of Robert E. Lee Folkes, said Monday he could not iden tify Folkes as the man he saw climb from berth lower 13 after Mrs. Martha Virginia James was slashed in the throat. i - With a dramatic pause in the midst of routine cross-examination of Wilson, Defense Attorney Leroy Lomax pointed to Folkes, 20-year-old negro second cook on the limited, train the comely Nor folk, Va bride of a navy officer was riding when she was slain January 23. " . f Is this the man you saw com ing out of the berth?'' Lomax asked. ' I don't know," Wilson, 22- year-old marine who occupied upper 13 on a routine transfer trip to San Diego, said, without a momenta hesitation. ' Wilson, only witness disclosed bj the state thos far to have seen the killer of Ensiffn Richard F. James'JEl-rear-eld bride ef four; months, had told Friday in direct testimony how he looked from his berth, saw a man emerre from lower 13 in the p re-dawn darkness and- ma . eat ef the ear. Wilson said he gave chase bat was enable te find the man aboard the train. Lomax, still . suffering from bronchitis and influenza, broke off his examination of Wilson with a request for a recess until after noon, j When court was reconven ed! at 2 o'clock. Circuit Judge L. G. (Turn to; Page z Story E) Salem Flier Recites Tale i .. t- - - Of Excitement PORTLAND, April 12-UP) Cap t j Wilmer McDowell, army flier in India, in the space of one week participated in an air bat tle, survived a crash landing, re ceived) a promotion and became a movie actor. '.: 1 A letter, from the flier, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. McDow el,, Salem, said, "I've had some pretty thrilling experiences dur ing the last week. I had to cut short In a sentence of this : letter to prepare for a take-off. I led a formation of bombers on sev eral raids.. It seems I had to make a crash landing because the little Nips got lucky with their ack-ack and shot a part of myi left wheel off. , "It So happened: that there were some cameramen here making a movie on the life of I Pfarl Har bor. widow. and they ' got some newsreel' shots of my crash land4 ing. The. whole thing tied vp with the; rest of the story SO my co pilot and I are the stars in the picture. v So for the past two days, IVe been acting. Well finish it tomorrow " , . ,1 '"..'. . . , .' On ha return to his home; base, the filer learned2 of his promotion from first lieutenant to captain. He is a former Willamette univer sity student. yyj, ' . ' :b:r--. Slarshal Field Takes Sun Editorial Post ." CHICAGO, April 12-Th-The Chicago Sun announced , Monday night that Marshal Field, founder of the newspaper, had taken over direction of the editorial page, and that! Turner Catlegde, editor of the publication, had resigned - to r turn, 9 the Hew. York Timci. Cormei Stand final 25 miles under a hail of aer ial bombs to join the bulk of Ger- man and ltauan forces now con-. ; centrated b eh I n d emplacements' running from Enfidaville 4 J mDea - northwestward to Pont ; Du-Faha. ' - .It was announced officially that,' the Eighth army had captured 20,-' 000 prisoners since March 20. , Kairouan, Moslem holy city and big axis aerial base 34 miles south west of Sousse, was abandoned to British and American forces Sun- day, and surviving German armor -WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN SOUTHEDN TUNISIA, April 12 (JfJ- Lieut. Gen. George S. Fatten, jr., in an : order of the day congratulated his troops of the second corps Monday on the successful i conclusion : ef . the hard, 22-day battle for El Gae tar, asserting that "the splendid record of the American army has attained added luster." was streaming .; across " the plains northward to escape being caught in an allied entf apmenC One tanH force was intercepted. 12 ..mijei northwest of Kairouan and field dispatches said 18 of the mobile, forts were destroyed. The second US army corps un der Lieut Gen. George S. Patton jr took Faid pass without oppo sition, partly avenging the defeat suffered there when Rommel struck westward in his drive to ward Tebessa early in the Tunis ian campaign. , American and British air forces continued to strike terrible blows, converting scores of enemy vehi cles into scattered wreckage and virtually wiping the. axis from the skies. A total of 41 enemy plane were destroyed Sunday against f loss of only 14 allied craft. Thirty of the enemy plane downed yesterday were big three motored transports, trying suicide ally to cross the Sicilian strait with gasoline and other supplies for Rommel's forces. American, airmen alone have . destroyed at least 84 enemy planes of all type in the past few days. ; y With the captives of the last few days, the Eighth army now ha taken more than 100,000 prisoners since FJ Alamein, and the enemy has left a- trail of thousands of graves -over a 2,000-mile stretch from the flat sands of Egypt tr the grassy hills of Tunisia. About 80 per cent of the prisoners are Ital ians, left behind by the withdraw ing . Germans. The Americans, French, and British First army have seized several thousand more prisoners, many of them Germans. Rommel's army is but a battered - skeleton of the powerful fighting machine that he sent Into the Nile valley last summer, but it is still resisting.'" ; V.': "tr'-: i" Now the axis grasp on Africa is reduced to a small corner of northeast Tunisia, and tha ques tion is only how long it will take to exterminate those last remain ing enemy troops. - 'L 1 ; .i The area has good natural de fenses, but the shortening of I the lines means the allies- can ! put greater pressure than ever upon it, and hit the concentrated troops better in air attacks. '-T-K- r .(A Rome radio" commentator said: "It is a grave moment. . Ours- is an unequal duel , consid- sring; the overwhelming superier ity in weapons and planes of our enemie.,') v.r,-:.' ' '-' ' : "Light r- bombers and ' fighter-f bombers of the tactical air force in a day of intense activity car ried out continuous attacks on enemy positions, lines of commun ications and transport, an allied communique said. . -; " , Flying" Fortresses bombed the docks and shipping at Tunis one of the two possible "evacuation" ports left to the axis since Sousse fell scored on four merchant ves sels and blasted ships and docks in Sicilian ports. Marauder medium bombers escorted by Spitfires spread destruction among 28 axis planes at the Oudna landing ground 12- miles south cf Zu'.2s