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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
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$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
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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
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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
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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 !
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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, .