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National Bond
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KE.TTY THUID YEAH
Salem. Orecon, Tuesday Morning April . 13. 1943
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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--
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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
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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.
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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