Dimout Ved. Bunset 7:5(J Tliur. sunrise 6:23 i (Weather on Page 1) Today WU Nine Plays UO , (See Page 9) rrazTY thisd year Ccxlem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning April 14, 1S43 Prlc 8a Ho. 13 n PCUNDQD 1651 Second Loan Drive ffif s $2,000,000,000 During First Day Nation's Press Lauded for Advertising , Space Devoted to the Bond Campaign; 'Over the Top9 Competitior,een , WASHINGTON, April 13-(fl3-Although Sfasury said It Was not yet in a position to estimate early' -cP-ps in the second War loan, unofficial indications .the ' nation probably exceeded ., during the first day of the drive i. Treasury officials said the able to the effort put forth by the nation's press to advertise the Campaign. They said American merchants and manufacturers, businessmen large and small, are telling through their newspaper adver tising the story of Uncle Sam's greatest war financing effort. i Treasury experts estimated that probably 45 million lines of ad vertising (there are 14 lines to the column inch) are being de .v$ted to' the second war loan drive during April alone. That's at feast twice as big as the biggest ad campaign anyone can remember. , Probably never before has a tingle ' message been brought home to so many Americans by the printed word. The treasury has as special con fultant an advertising executive Aid to Enemy 1 "Any American who wilfully neglects to pay his taxes on time or to invest every cent he can in War Bonds Is surely civ tog aid and' comfort to the enemy .-. . We have a job to do and we are an called for service to our country. Our dollars are Called to services., too. Let us all ask ourselves, Shall we be mere tender with our dollars than with the lives f ear sens? " Secretary Morgenthau. .with long experience in the news paper field. He's Don U. Bridge, of the allied newspaper council, fin organization which newspaper ' publishers " created especially, to pelp in the second war loan drive. - i Bridge was iormerly advertis ing manager for the New York Times and the Indianapolis News. "' Bridge says businessmen are Sponsoring war bond ads for these " reasons: . -" , - 1. Winning- the war Is vital fo the survival of business. 2. Financing- Is the basis ef pll war efforts. ;; ; ' J. War bonds and stamps most be sold In tremendous volume m safeguard national welfare. '- 4. War bond sales will build ' ft reserve ef purchasing power : for after the war. 5. Sponsoring war bond ads Is goodwill advertising- under the most favorable circumstances. ' From all sections of the coun try, reports poured in Tuesday to show that there was keen competi tion to go over the top almost as toon as the drive began Monday fnorning. Treasury officials said that ap v parently Old . Orchard Beach, JJaine, was the first community to fill its war bond quota. It reported its goal reached at 12:15 a.m., Monday, IS minutes after the glrive started. , Meanwhile Deuel county, SD, end Daniels county, Mont., report ed they had gone over the top on Iheir subscription ' quotas. ' PORTLAND, April IS -JPy- Oregon's second war loan drive reached the shipyard ares here Tuesday In ceremonies attend ing the launching of the Liberty ship Agassis. Plans for " the. new drive were Outlined by David W. Eccles, ad ministrator of the Oregon War pavings staff. Edgar F. Kaiser, of the -. Keiser ; shipyards, promised full cooperation of management. Heinie Detloff. executive secre tary of the AFL Machinist's nu Jon and director of the war bond campaigns for the state Federation Of ' Labor, urged workers to sup port the drive. J. C. English, secretary of the State war finance committee, re : ported a purchase of $1,000,000 In ponds Monday by the Oregon Mu tual Life. Insurance company, fol lowed by a similar purchase Tues day by the Standard Oil company of California. Fuel Oil Ruling po Be Modified - WASHINGTON, D. C April 13 -(P-Fiiel oil regulations will be modified to enable residence and apartment house owners to fill storage tanks some time in June, Oregon's Rep. Homer D Angel! g aid he was informed Tuesday. wrp that r jl. . - ---- --- $2,0 P SOO in ' subscriotions to r.' $13,000,000,000 during tremendous response was trace $400,080 Mark v Bond Subscriptions Aim at $2,500,000 I Outside Banks Marion county had passed the $400,000 mark Tuesday afternoon toward attaining the $2,500,000 goal for sales of war bonds out side of banks, J. J..Gard, second war loan chairman, estimated The chairman's estimate did not include this county's share in the $5,000,000 purchase made by the state bond commission when the drive opened Monday. "We have made a fine start, but we must not fail to realize that ev ery citizen who possibly can must subscribe if the county quota and the state quota 'are to be met," Gard emphasized. "This money is needed to support the war offen sive." The banks of Marion county have and J assuredly will, Gard said meet another $2,500,000 quo-; ta. ; More than $200,000 worth of bonds had been sold Monday- and Tuesday at the Ladd & Bush branch of : the United States Na tional bank,: and a substantial vol ume at the First National. From outside of Salem came reports of sales amounting to $65,000 at the St Paul bank, more than $2000 at the Mt Angel bank, more than $12,000 at the Silverton bank. Sales across the counter at the Sa lem postoffice had exceeded $3000. The current drive in Marion county is all sales effort and no ballyhoo, Chairman Gard said, adding: . . We think the people in this county know why it is necessary to buy war bonds and will fulfill their; duty." . Gard went on to point out that while $100 per person has been set as the national goal, citizens will have to Invest a much great er sum in war bonds, if they are able to do so, to offset smaller purchases ' by persons with less means. US Trade Policy Hit WASHINGTON, April 13-tf5) House republicans put the ad ministration's foreign trade policy on - the griddle Tuesday and by" their caustic questioning of wit nesses served notice that it will require , some democratic spade work to line up their support for renewal of the president's power to negotiate reciprocal agreements. Minority members of the ways and means committee intensively quizzed Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones and Nelson Rockefel ler, coordinator of inter-American affairs, who urged approval of the trade pacts. : The . tenor of most of their remarks was sum med up by Rep.' Jenkins of Ohio, who said: : "I'm getting a little fed up with all this good fellowship stuff." Roosevelt By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, April 13-iA3) la the name of a grateful aa-, tion "pay las a debt long ever due," President Roosevelt Tues day ; dedicated a great T marble shrine to Thomas Jefferson and declared that present day Amer icans, like the champion of freedom, have faced the fact . that "men whe will net fight for liberty can lose it." "He loved peace and loved lib ertyyet on more than one occa sion he was forced to choose be tween them," the chief executive said of Jefferson. "We, too, have been compelled to make that choice". r:;- r: -;rvr The president spoke to an out door crowd of several thousand persons gathered at' the foot of here T County Passes Jap: Navy Massing . In South MacArthur Warns US , That Air .Power Is Victory Key l ! ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN i AUSTRALIA,' Wednesday, April 14 -JPy- General Douglas MacArthur, whose planes have blunted two big Japanese aerial thrusts at New Guinea by shoot ing down 78 of the enemy, warned today that powerful Japanese na val forces are within striking dis tance of Australia which can be held off only if the allies keep command of the skies.' 1 1 "The allied naval forces can be counted upon to play - their own magnificent part but the battle of the western Pacific will be won or lost by the proper application of the air-ground team," his state ment said. i He asserted that "the first line of Australian defense Is our bomber line" and "the range of eur air force ever sur rounding waters marks . the stretch of no man's . sea which Is the measure of our safety." His statement, coming on the heels of a warning by Gen Sir Thomas A. Blarney that the Jap anese have massed 200,000 first line troops in the arc of islands above Australia, was issued on a day when the communique from his headquarters made clear that once more the allies held the aerial initiative. Today's communique told of a heavy raid at low level by allied four-motored bombers on Japa nese shipping in Hansa Bay on the north coast of New Guinea, during which a 10,000 ton ship was left sinking and an 8,000 ton ship set afire. N mention was made of Jap anese aerial thrusts such as those on on Sunday against Oro Bay and Monday against Moresby New Guinea. - General MacArthur's state ment pointed out that a pri mary threat to Australia vdoes not require a great Initial con centration ef naval striking - power. ; ' ' i "As a matter of Tact, Japanese naval forces in great strength, al though now beyond our bomber (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Perkins Says Offer Taken In Wage Tiff WASHINGTON, April 13-P) Secretary of Labor Perkins an nounced Tuesday night that John L. Lewis has accepted a proposed guarantee of a six-day week as "a basis" of settling the United Mine Workers dispute with the soft coal operators. She said the operators to date have ; declined to accept but she has "great hopes" that they will ; Miss Perkins said the proposed conference was not outside the president's hold-the-line order on stabilization of wages and was not inflationary because a retail price adjustment on coal, covering a six-day week, already has been granted. NEW YORK, April 13-Kfl5) ; Northern Applachlan ' soft eeal ' : operators Tuesday asked Sec retary ef Labor Perkins to cer tify their wage I dispute with the United Mine Workers o the war labor board, j The operators declared In a tel egram made public after a joint conference with the union that the issues Involved were "funda mental to the economy of the na tion" and that intervention by the US Conciliation Service in the negotiations had "failed to pro duce an agreement." Dedicates the memorial built on man-made ground in ; Potomac . park's tidal basin '4: r.V ; Is eoasmemoratlag the teOth anniversary ef Jefferson's birth, Mr. Keesevelt said the author ef the Declaration ef Independence ' proved that the "seeming- eclipse ef liberty can well become the dawn ef mere liberty. These whe fight the ' tyranny ef eur wet time will eome to learn that eld lessen. "Among all the peoples of the earth," he continued, "the . cruel ties and oppressions of its would be masters have taught this gen eration w h a t its liberties can mean. This . lesson, - so bitterly learned, will never be forgotten while this generation is still alive." f Old Muddy Overf lores I I LL A marooned farmhouse stands eat above flooded fields surrounding It In this picture taken by a civil air patrol flyer near Mondamin, ta as the Missouri river everflowed Its banks along Nebraska and lows course. Considerable lowland area was under-water In the region. Associated Press Telemat. Sirens Warn As Flood J OMAHA, April 13-(P)-The Missouri river flood crest de scended upon the small communities of southwest Iowa Tuesday night, leaving the four million dollar Omaha municipal airport and the village of Carter Lake, feet deep. ; Sirens shrieked their warnings at Hamburg, la., 50 miles j down the river from Omaha, while resi dents of 200 homes in the south ern! part of the city of 2500 moved to safety. ! L Furniture was piled at the curb, and Iowa state guardsmen! stood by jfts trucks picked it up for trans-' porta tion : to the higher part of town, much of which is 11 feet below the river's normal level. The village of McPaul, j above Hamburg, was ordered evacuated. Farmers in the lowland area along the ! 50-mile front moved v their families and livestock to. higher ground as the waters rolled over their croplands. Below Hamburg the flooding was confined to low lands along the Nebraska and Mis souri! sides, and no towns were in immediate peril. j At Pacific Junction, la., 20 miles below Omaha, 175 men j sand bagged the Pony creek dike that protects the town of 700 from the flood ! waters. South of ! town trucks stood by to evacuate farm families if the dike breaks. State guards; kept a constant vigil. Walla?e Eyes Storage Plan LIMA, Peru, April 13.-iip)-A world granary or control system for the distribution of farm pro duce must be set up after the war based on the ' ancient Inca. Idea, US Vice President Henry A. Wal lace declared Tuesday in" a speech at a reception given In his honor by President Manuel : Prado of Peru. . " '"j The (Spaniards found when they conquered the west coast of South America that the Incas had stor age warehouses for surplus grain which was saved and doled: out in times of scarcity, ' O PA Scans Menus , PORTLAND, April 13.-iiP)-The district! of OPA Tuesday ordered all restaurants to submit copies of their ; menus to local rationing board which will check maximum prices. Eating establishments without menus must supply price lists. I t . Shrine The president drew several par allels between the fight for free dom made-by the third, president and the battles- of today .to. pre serve that freedom. ."Thomas Jefferson, he said, "believed, -as we believe, in man. He believed, as we believe, that men, are capable of their own gov ernment, and that no king, no ty rant, no dictator can govern for them as wisely as they can gov ern for themselves.? J The memorial temple, which the president said he was dedicating as a shrine to freedom in a great war for freedom, cost $3,000,000. It is a. circular structure built in modification of the Pantheon at Rome, ! with "- 26 Ionic . columns topped! with a huge white dome." Iowa People Breaks Dikes la., a sea of muddy water six Board Probes War Leaves . School Group Sees . Educational Dangrr VsTEflLo88 of Cornell , Salem school board members do not favor granting of ' military leave, to women teachers, not be cause they are opposed to enlist ment of women in the various branches of the nation's service but because they foresee a danger to the educational system through loss of teaching personnel, they emphasized Tuesday night as they directed Supt Bennett to inquire from informed sources whether any federal law would require the granting of such leaves. Because men have been given to understand that they may be drafted intoj the armed services the board members declared they had favored the granting of leaves to ' either enlistees or inductees, but a wholesale movement of wo men teachers into WAACs ; or WAVEs, SPARs or marines would crumble the system which is sup posed to provide future army, na vy and civilian citizenry. Difficulties of filling teaching posts have increased steadily, Supt. Bennett declared, pointing out that there has been at least one vacancy on the Salem staff continuously through the past year. - The state law provides that pub lic employes shall be granted leave when "called' into the military service. It was .pointed . out" by board members who believed vol untary enlistment could not be considered a "calling." Several women teachers, the (Turn to Page 2 Story B) WLB Denies Wage Boost WASHINGTON, April 13-() In its first decision since the presi dent's hold-the-line order, the war labor board refused Tuesday to correct what it conceded is a wage Inequality, and declared it Intends to Observe the . ."literal meaning- of the anti-inflation or der, n " ; ;A i.17.;? ' Following up 1 this decision, its dispatched policy instructions to this effect to its 12 regional boards. Officials said the result would be a denial of about 10,000 of some 17,000 pending requests xor ap proval of proposed increases to which management had agreed ' Sweet Home Man Hurt in Action WASHINGTON, April 13 - () Seven Pacific northwest men were on a list of 193 United . States soldiers announced by i the war department Tuesday as wounded in a c 1 1 o n on the : world's war fronts..- -y'b :-"f The list Includes from Oregon: European area: - : C --: Williams, Pvt. Alton X.; broth er, .George E. Crumb, box . 798, Sweet Home. ' - - Imtto TfeHit Hole G7 GuardsFihd Alcatraz Convict All Four Prisoners Believed Accounted . For ; One Unf ound " SAN FRANCISCO, April 13(P) -Fred Hunter, one of the four convicts to make a break from Al catraz prison Tuesday, was found hiding in a cave on the north shore of the prison island Tuesday aft ernoon,- Warden James A. John' ston reported. Johnston', said he believed this accounted for all four men. , - Hunter, 34, sentenced to 25 years from Ohio for harboring a crim inal, had been, lis ted by San Fran cisco police "unaccounted for" aft er tumult of the break ( which end ed with the recapture of one con vict, the death of another and pos sible end of the fourth by gunshot wounds and drowning in the cold waters of San Francisco bay. The recaptured man was Harold Martin Brest, 31, kidnaper and bankrobber, sentenced from Pitts burgh, Pa,, who was pulled in by guards from the bay naked. He is serving a life term. - . James A. Boarman, 24, the youngest ef the escaping- quar tet, was shot and his body went down in the bay. He was an In dianapolis bank robber. Floyd G. Hamilton, 36", member of the Barrow gang which terror ized the southwest a decade ago, was, believed wounded and drowned. i , The four threatened two prison guards: with prisonmade knives, bound and gagged them, ' leaped from a window and raced to the beach of the island prison, about a mile out in the bay from San Francisco. . Almost simultaneously guards in their wall towers started fir ing. : The sirens screamed and the prison launch raced into the area while a police boat from San Francisco and coast guard launches responded to the ' alarm. Bullets from the guards' rifles peppered the rough waters of the bay. The prison launch crew sighted Brest in the water. He had his arms' around another man. It was Borman who had been wounded by the fire of the guards. Brest released his hold and the body of the convict fell back and disap peared into the bay. Brest, 'stark naked, was hauled into the boat. Allied Planes LONDON, April lS-Ph-Hund-reds of allied fighter planes- and fighter-bombers shuttled across the English channel for more than three hours Tuesday to rake axis occupied territory from Brest to Holland, attacking airfields, ware houses and railway yards. Squadrons of English, Austral ian and Norwegian Spitfires flew over Holland and Belgium with out encountering any enemy op position, the air ministry an nounced. Other squadrons, including two Canadian formations and one fighting French group, escorted Ventura bombers on attacks of Abbeville and Caen In France, where hits were scored In railway yards. Knighton Rites Set in Portland PORTLAND, April 13.-(P)-Fu-neral arrangements were being made here Tuesday for Mrs. El eanor "Leila" Waters Knighton, 73, sister of the late George Wa ters, who gave Salem Its baseball park. She died of a heart ailment at her home here Monday. Her late husband, William C Knight on, designed a number of state buildings. Mrs. Knighton was born in Salem. ; , Survivors of Mrs. Knighton, whose late husband was architect for the (Eastern Oregon. state hos pital, the state supreme court building here and the University of Oregon administration build ing, are two brothers, Frank W. Waters and Wayne Waters ef Sa lem.. Mrs. Knighton was born in Nebraska City, Neb ' - V " Europe A e Lers Reports capture Of Enf idaville ; Germans Made Stand v. i - - - . .. . (.' . By DANIEL DeLUCE S, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 13 VPhThe axis Tunisian bridgehead was shrinking rapidly Tuesday under pressure of general allied advances at the south and norttt western sides of the envelopment box being drawn up befortj Tunig and Bizerte, and nowhere along the front had the enemy,. Known anv aumnsuion rr aitomnt n xwinv. .tor f Everywhere, the allied forces were rnakihg progress. 1 j- The British Eighth army and part of the British First army, moving up inexorably from the south; beat ; on beyond Sousse arid Kairouan smashing at Marshal Rommel's rearguard while Second USO McNary Wires News ; Temporary Site To Open Soon. Money to renovate and repair the Breyman building at Court and Commercial streets to pro vide Salem with its 'second mod ern USOsoldier recreation center has 1 been appropriated. Senator Charles L. McNary notified May or I. M. Dough ton by, wire. Tues day. -'- . ; .v- That priorities would be grant ed shortly through WPB offices was - considered probable here Tuesday' afternoon, making pos sible plans for opening of the center - as a permanent wartime center sometime in July. ' ,Was delighted to be of assist ance In. connection with USO project ' for - Salem,' McNary's message read. "Sum of $22,800 has now been appropriated and WPB will be requested to grant necessary priorities. Regards Charles L. McNary. I First public indication that the project for the large downtown center : had been considered by local authorities possibly doomed was given by Doughton as he ex pressed his pleasure over the Mc Nary message. "We had thought this project, 1 ! (Turn to Page 2 Story A) C of C Urges Small Firms ar Contracts Chamber of commerce repre sentatives from all parts of Ore gon, meeting here! Tuesday, went oii record favoring a definite pro gram under which small manu facturers may receive government contracts for war materials. i;It was argued that many small plants, capable of manufacturing these materials, are available in the communities outside of the Portland industrial area. i Plans were formulated for a series of smaller war plant field production clinics to be held in all communities that desire them. Government officials ' asked for a;f spot ; picture of these facilities. Particular mention was made of so-called distress j manufacturing Plants..; ; .,' i"':v. ' .. (Principal speakers were J. Fred Bergesch, Portland, district mana ger for the war production board; Stewart C. Griswold, San Fran cisco, regional director for the small war plants, - and Frank Knight, western, representative of the field service division of the smaller war plants corporation. Griswold explained the smaller war plants act and emphasized the necessity for cooperation from chambers of . commerce. He said his organization recently sent out more than 1500 letters to Oregon concerns to ascertain the number of distressed plants and had re ceived only 60 replies! : This Indicates that the small er war plants corporation Is more anxious to give them work .than they are to receive it, Griswold declared." :;'- -' -r -...y. '-'; Arthur -F. - Farmer, ,. Portland, was elected president of the state association of commercial . organ ization secretaries. Other officers include Harry Pinninger, Rose- burg, vice-president, and Frank Hull, Medford, secretary-treasur er. Directors are - Don ,: Peoples, Bend; Robert Hall, LaGrande; Lu cille Archer, MarshHeld; E. L. Gray, Independence; a n d Carl Curlee, Albany, - ' :-: MaJ. Harry S. Dorman, pro- cureman service office of the ar my from Portland, appeared be fore the secretaries and appealed for cooperation in inducing suit able men to apply for commis sions in technical branches of the military service. - -, at Tmiiis ma .a I Where 1 his main bodies were withdrawing through the Enfidaville line. Battlefront advices late Tues-i day afternoon said allied armored units punched through meager en' emy rearguard defenses below both Enfidaville and Djebebina,. ' towns 17 miles apart and 80 miles south of Tunis. (The allled-eontrolled Algiers i radlo broadcast that the allies ' had ocenp led Enfidaville, X7 ' miles north of fallen Sfiiic : Substantially all ef the Italian Vittorial division had been cap- tared, it was said.) The French forces announced the capture of almost 1,000 axis prisoners. . f ' j . To the north, other units of the British First army, striking out In the Medjez-El-Bab sector only WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY, April 11. -(Delayed) -(Ay-Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery paid his first visit te Sfax Tuesday and was received by , the cheering French pope 1 a 1 1 o n In a ceremony at the town's race 1 track w h e r e he turned 'ever! the administration of Tunisia's second city to Col onel k Scnmelts, commander ef the French military territory ef .' southern Tunisia. i Before the grandstand, nsed by the axis armies for a mill tary warehouse and still stacked with Italian supplies, the crowd shouted vlvje Montgomery" and tossed bouquets to the tanned ; Eighth army commander. ' about 40 miles from Tunis, swept '. over a number of hill vantage -points. . . , (In London it was estimated ' that In pulling back into a rough . rectangle; before Tunis and Bizerte Rommel and the northern Tunis- ian axis commander, General Von Arnim, would have at their com mand ani aggregate of about 210, 000 men, 150,000 of them Ger- mans, j ' 1 V- . j.-- v , .! .. While the axis land forces thus were being pressed, in to an ever- narrowing area, the; allied air fleets continued to strike power ful and crippling blows on the en emy, extending the assault to en emy airdromes around Tunis. . i , In what the allied common!- : que termed a continuation Men . day ef their- "heavy attack en . enemy ports and shipping," Fly . ; lng Fortresses under Major General James Doollttle's com mand bombed a big axis convey composed ef . 11 ships carrying ; . tanks and ether vessels, scoring . .a number of -near misses which . caused damage te the enemy, . . Bizerte, the principal port and. axis-held naval base, was strong . Iy attacked a cargo vessel ' squarely 1 hit,, the channel ; strad ' ' died with bombs and fires set of! in the seaplane base. ' At Tapani harbor in Sicily sev eral powered barges and a tanker were hit. '- ' : I British bombers assaulted the axis airfield protecting Tunis and , left at least If fires as beacons for American planes mat later at tacked the-same target. - . The score for Monday wag sev en axis planes shot down to two lost by the allies. - (The US army air force based in Cairo reported meanwhile that ; Liberators had again attacked Na pies harbor, scoring hits on the Mole and near the shipbuilding works, and also had attacked Cos enza, Crotone and Pino In Italy, One Liberator was lost) 7 Graf Spec Men Escape Camp BUENOS AIRES, April .-(.Tj -The newspaper Critic a said Tuesday ; that seven members cf the crew of the scuttled German ' pocket battleship, Graf Spee, have escaped within the past few days while on leave from an intern ment center on Martin Garcia is land. . ; . ,;.;.: . ' More than 100 German sailors have escaped since they were In terned ' In Argentine three yean ago, .