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Newspaper Page TextWvwb v vV"S Dimout 7cd. sunset 8i03 Thur. sunrise 6:12 (Weather on Page 7 inrnTY unsD yeah Salem, Oregon, W3nsdar Morning. April 21 1343 VAcm Ic mm - S- ) -w S .-r it it lit iiii . i i - i i i i i i i i i i . i FR Speak 2 ieaders Address World:.: First Meeting of US and, .Mexican' j Chiefs in 34 Year By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL, j. MONTERREY. Mexico, April XMVPresident Roosevelt and f President Av II a Camacho . of Ijeifco Tuesday t pighf , pro ''claiined tfee brotherhood In . armsof their twQ nations" and Uieir. mutual : desire for a peace t Wherein no. group In one country may exploit the resources and peo ple another, i It was the first tim a-United - States president has traveled deep Into Mexico, and the first meeting ef Mexican and Amerkan chief executives in 34 years. WASHINGTON, April M- President Roosevelt's trip to Mexico breach! to an even dos-em-th Bomber of foreign lands 'he has visited since he entered the White neose. . The ethers are Canada nlti, Panama. Colombia, Trinidad. Brastl, Urumay, Arcentina, French Merocco, French West Africa, and, Liberia. ' , The ; two presidents spoke at a banquet in this northern Mexi can industrial center. Their words were spread throughout the world by radio, . Mr. Reesevelt said: " " The twenty-one free republics ef the Americas during, the past ten years have devised fm system of international cooperation which has become -a great bulwark, in - the - defense ; of our heritage - and our future . . - "In the foregoing of that1 new International policy the - role of Mexico has been outstanding. i President Avila Camacho said: "In order to contribute to the - work of the post-war period ; the United States and Mexico are . placed in a situation of undeni able possibilities and obligations. "Geography has made us a nat ural bridge of conciliation between the Latin and Saxon cultures of the continent. i - f "Good neighbors, good friends. That is what we have always wished to be for all the people of the earth." Mr. Roosevelt spoke of the first blows struck against this country at Pearl Harbor, and against Mex ico, on May 14, 1942. , He did net amplify his refer ence to "the - unspeakable and nprereked aggressions ef De- . eesnber 7. 1941. and May 14, 194Z, and the shedding ef bleed en those dates of citizens ef the United States- and ef Mexico alike.- . A ' (On May 14, 1942, 22 survivors landed in Florid to tell of an axis submarine attack on a fully lighted Mexican merchant ship in which 14 men were killed. The ship, the Portrero del Llano, was stalked for half an hour. Then the submarine rammed torpedo di rectly ; into a large .illuminated Mexican flag painted on the ves sel's side. She was the first Mexi can ship lost to submarine action since the war began.) - The meeting ef the two presi dents occurred at a climactic point in President Roosevelt's second major Inspection ' of America's war effort. Rural Tax Plan Slated WASHINGTON, . April 2H) Republicans and democrats, meet ing behind closed doors, reached virtually complete agreement Tuesday night on a pay-as-you-go : compromise, and ''indications were that the plan would provide for abatement, of approximately 60 per cent of one i year's income tax obligations. Jl - The near-compromise was un derstood to embrace a 20 per cent withholding levy against the taxa ble portions of pay envelopes and salary checks effective July 1. Members of . the bi-partisan compromise group 'delayed an nouncement of their action until they report formally Wednesday to Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex), Re publican Leader Martin of "Massa chusetts and - Democratic Leader JlcCormack cf Massachusetts. ' s From. Presidents President Franklin D. Roosevelt (above right) of the United States and President Avila CanUcbo (above left) ef Mexico Tuesday night ad dressed their respective nations and the world from Monterey, Mexico. For the complete text of President Roosevelt's speech see . page two of this paper. Puzzled Salem Man Shown Where to Buy Adolf s Gift " She saw him leaning against zled.? Where can I buy war bonds at this hour of the night?" Ben F. Doerksen, route four, Salem, asked Miss Florence Dan rials,! Statesman valley editor . So she took him back Up the Fighters . RaidKiska Nine Times WASHINGTON, April 20- VP) Swift ; army ; fighter ; planes . with bombs tucked under, each wing raided Japanese positions on Kis ka island in the Aleutians nine times Sunday, the navy reported Tuesday, scoring many hits in strategic areas. ; Fires ' were started in Japan's battered submarine base, a com munique said, - and other bombs fell on sections of the enemy-held island officially described as "the North Head, Salmon lagoon and main camp areas." A navy spokesman said that North Head is at the northern en trance to Kiska harbor and that Salmon lagoon lies just beyond. SANTA . ANA, Calif, April Zt .py-Aerial bombardment ef Japan's air and sahmarino base at Kkka win net dislodge the Nipponese, 1 says 14. CoL Jack Chennaalt, ; who - came here Tuesday after 14 months serv ice Is the Aleutians and Alaska. but he did not explain what en emy, installations " are set up at those places. They may or may not be developments in connection with Japanese efforts to convert the rocky hills of Kiska into an air base. On previous raids Amer ican' bombers and fighters" have concentrated on the runway, re- Alcoa Strike Called by CIO EDGEWATER, NJ, April 21 (JPy-ClO workers at the plant of the Aluminum Company of Amer ica were instructed by their lead ers Tuesday night to go on strike at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. George Binsted, president of lo cal j 16, Aluminum Workers of America (CIO) issued the strike call tonight, asserting 2000 work ers In the plant voted two to one today in favor of a strike. Wahoo Bags PEARL HARBOR, April 2HJP) Lt i Cmdr. Dudley W. "Mush" Morton, whose submarine Wahoo recently wiped out a J apanese convov. has returned from a sec ond patrol with a record bag of eight ships sunk, a ninth damaged and a trawler and - two sampans wrecked all in enemy waters. ; f Naval officials said that was a record number of ships sunk by a single patrol. All the sink ings took place In enemy wa ters within a week's time and brought the total for the Wa- hoe's successive patrols to 13 ships sunk. Meet, Speak it. -.t, .,.,.!-' the lamp-post, sober but puz stairs to her paper's news room, where he wrote a check: and re ceived a receipt for $187.50, to be invested in 10 bonds of the $25 denomination, v- ; -'--t -l'l. Hiving just learned It was Hit ler's birthday? (he hadn't been in terested enough in that character to be aware without being told, he said), Doerksen wanted to be sure Largest single bond purchase Tuesday In Marion county was that ef the county Itself, $100, 000 worth or series G. Sale of Silver ton and Salem school bonds, which had been held as part of the county's Investment fluids brought mere than $104, 000, from which the county court immediately ordered the purchase ef the $100,000 worth of US war bends as an Ameri can ; and i explosive' candle for the birthday eake of one Shiek elgrober, alias Hitler. I that the day didn't pass without his purchase of a gift. It didn't. Two : and one half hours before midnight, receipt in pocket, he declared himself ready : to cele brate the event. Marion county subscription to the second war loan,' outside of bank purchases have reached ap proximately $1,375,000, according to Jesse Card, county 1 chairman. Gard made his report at a meet ing of the local committee yes terday afternoon. Remaining to be sold is. $1,225,000 worth of bonds. Plans for pushing sales toj reach the quota by April 30th were dis cussed and renewed efforts will be made to complete the job in the remaining ten days. : Persons ! are ; urged to eall at banks and subscribe,;; without waiting for solicitors to calL No general canvas is being carried out for lack of organization and manpower."; .-j - t'j " .; "We must urge all who possibly can to call at their bank and make their pledge," said Chairman Gard yesterady. "Out committeemen simply cannot make personal calls to every store or house. It: is the citizen's duty to call and make his own subscription." ; .:j Tuesday was "Hitler's birthday" and many celebrated the day with purchase of war bonds to. finance the birthday party the army and navy are giving the nazi dictator. Sales over the county took a jump. Turn to Page 2, Story D Eight More During the previous patrol the Wahoo sank a destroyer at Wewak harbor, New Guinea, and a con voy consisting of a transport, a tanker - and two freighters near there late in January. The ships totalled 32,000 tons and with the 37,000 tons sunk during - the sec ond patrol made a total of; 69,000 tons bagged by the Wahoo on its two adventures in enemy Waters. Commander Morton said "The boys returned from the patrol feeling cocky as a boot seaman on leave." The 35-year-old Miami, Fla., of ficer described the latest patrol as OPA Sets Sharp Cut On Pointg Ration Values Are f ; Halved on Most Lur- 2 . Popular Items -, . WASHINGTON, April 20-VP) The office of price administra tion Tuesday ' ordered drastic cuts, effective Thursday morn ing in the point values of canned and, dried soups, all frozen fruits and vegetables, and re moved , black-eyed peas from "the ration list. -"" "The reductions in most cases cut the -coupon cost of the affected items by half or more. They were designed- specifically: to encourage people to buy more of these items". ; The popular 10 r ounce can of tomato - soup was cut from six to three points, and all other canned soups in the same size were cut from six, to four points, v : Most dried and ' dehydrated soups also were cut in half, with the popular . 2Vi - ounce package being reduced from two points to one point. This is the second time the point , value of dehydrated soup has been halved. ? s . The popular pound size of froz en ' fruits was trimmed from 13 to 6 points, and the pound pack age of frozen baked beans came down from 8 to 4 points. , All other frozen vegetables were reduced. The popular . 12 ounce size, which has cost 6 to 10 points, will be at a new uniform cost of 4 points each. - Black 'eyed peas, which are sometimes known as black eyed beans or cow peas, are a staple diet ; . throughout the south and were taken off the ration list be cause of warm weather. Danger of spoilage in warm weather also was a factor in the changes on frozen foods and de (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Standard Oil Offers Buna Patents NEW Y ORK, April 20- Ralph W. Gallagher, president of the Standard Oil company, ; (NJ) reported Tuesday the company had offered to transfer perman ently to the US government all its Buna rubber patent rights and that the offer had been accepted by Federal Rubber Director! wa liam M Jeffers. Conditions of the offer of the patents and the government's ac ceptance were disclosed through the release of correspondence be tween Gallagher and Jeffers. The offer involved no payment to Standard Oil." c The deal is subject to approval of Standard Oil stockholders. Stimson Visits Tank Destroyers ' CAMP HOOD, TEX, April 20 -(iP)Secretary Of War Henry L Stimson visited the tank destroy er center here Monday, camp au thorities disclosed tonight. ' He was accompanied by - Maj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles, director of the war department bureau of public relations, and Lt CoL W. H. S. Wright, aide to the secretary of war. Swedes Alert STOCKHOLM, Wednesday, April 21.-P)-Swedish . au.. craft batteries went into action in the Malmoe area shortly after midnight last night as unidenti fied foreign planes passed over head. - Jap Vessels "just cut . and dried sinking of ships," , ' "It was just sight, track, sheet and sink," he said. "It was as simple as that. Nothing spee--; tacular at an." ;; "4 - He said he got a thrill one night, however, .- when a Jap ' tanker's five-inch shell fell pretty dose to the Wahoo's bow. Morton i sub merged the -submarine- but sur faced and sank the tanker within 45 minutes. ' .. ' That was a pretty busy night in which the Wahoo sank three ships. 1 "OT American troops, like those shewn Remmers flank along with t.tlr nay forces charged across laooalit sands to storm axis held heights War Department Reveals Tokyo BombinSjtaryt ; T 1 WASHINGTON; April 1 iO-CaThe w r : department -dis-j closed Tuesday 'night details , of the American bombing raid : or Tokyo April 18, 1942, saying that the planes took off from the aircraft carriec USS Hornet. ' - - ' This carrier, which subsequent ly was lost in the battle of Santa Cruz on October 26, 1942, carried, fliers ' of thermy airforces to within 800 miles of Tokyo, the war department said. , They bombed not only military objectives in Tokyo, but arma ment plants, dock yards," railroaw yards and oil refineries in Yoko hama, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka. The American planes, the. war department disclosed, were under orders to fly to specified landing fields in , China. However, they were unable to reach their assign ed fields. One landed in Russian territory, the others made forced or crash landings in. China or in water off the. Chinese coast All of the planes making the forced landings were wrecked. The war department disclosure of the raid details included infor mation that of the 80 men on the daring raid, five are interned in Russia, eight are prisoners or are presumed to be prisoners of Ja pan, : two are missing, and one was killed. The other 64, many after long delays, made their way to camps of the Chinese army and then' back to American territory. Seven who escaped were injured. Preparations for the raid, the department disclosed, first were started In January, 1542, four months before bombs fell on Japan. Major General . James : H. Doollttle, new commander of the. strategic air force, Mediter ranean air command, fat North Africa, personally selected the men to accompany hint on the ': venture. "All were volunteers who ' at first knew ' only, that they - were going on a mission "whose-importance was equalled - only by the hazards involved," the department said. . - They trained together at Elgin field, Fla., in preparation for the first attempt in history by medium bombers of the army to take off in numbers from an aircraft car rier. ;.r:S ":. White lines were drawn on the training field to permit experience in taking off in the shortest pos sible distance. ' ' - s Each piano was given a def inite factory, shipyard, arsenal, or oil works to destroy. At the beginning of the training period it was planned that the planes should fly low over Japan to r escape observation , and anti aircraft fire and assure greater accuracy in bombing. 5, In practice they swept in over American coastal - cities in the same manner In which they in tended to stirke Japan. Exactly similar geographical distances were arranged to insure accuracy in reaching objectives in Japan. The fliers and their planes were loaded on the aircraft carrier Hor net at an undisclosed rendezvous port, and the carrier joined a task force commanded by Admiral William F. Halsey, jr., now com mander of all American naval and (Turn to Page 2-Story A) Willamette Flood Seen PORTLAND, April 20--The Willamette river . will approach flood stage of 18 feet hero by Sat urday, the weather bureau said Tuesday. The river stood at 16 feet today. - . ' ' A 17.5-foot mark was forecast for Vancouver, where the Colum bia! river measured 15.9 today, nearly a foot above flood level. Storm warnings were posted along the coast Americans Crowd Axis stove capturing a Tunisian town French and British First army US Forts Bomb Wewak 6000 Ton Cargo Ship . Destroyed, Airdromes And Small Boat Hit Q ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, : Wednesday, April 2l-VtyA small but heavy hitting force of Flying Fortresses bombed Wewak, New Guinea, Monday, destroying, a 6000-ton cargo ship and damaging a small boat I - espitOc thls tstest in an accu mulation ' bf aeriaTtbkrwsi dealt Japanese shipping,' a spokesman at the. headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur warned the enemy has been reenforcing ground and air components rapid ly in recent weeks. .-, ; , "The enemy has been bringing forward heavy reenf orcements of both ground and air components with great rapidity. It is our hope that our force will grow to match his." . j - - The B-Us roared in at mast height over Wewak before dawn, dropping three 500-pound bombs directly on the 6000-ton vessel and narrowly missing six others. Crews believe the ship must have been loaded with fuel be cause she- exploded with shatter ing violence, being enveloped in huge flames. The ship was quick ly destroyed. ; The Fortresses made a second strike about an hour later. The Wewak airdrome and near by Boram field also were bombed and neutralized. A number of fires were started there. endent Group t WASHINGTON, April 20-P) Legislation to create an indepen dent civilian supply . administra tion with authority, over manpow er distribution, rationing and pro duction of needed materials for the home front won unanimous approval Tuesday of the senate banking committee. " Chairman Wagner (D-NY) said it probably would be considered by the senate early next week. , ' : Sponsored by Senator Maloney (D-Cona), the measure would end the war production board's con trol over the present office of ci vilian supply, and transfer many manpower and rationing functions of other agencies to a civilian di rector to be appointed by the pres ident CIO,AFLRap Freeze Order WASHINGTON, April 20.-AP)-Attackson the administration's wage' control and job-freeze or ders came from both major labor union groups Tuesday, the CIO describing them as Mc h a I n 1 n g workers to , Ill-paying jobs" and the AFL speaking of workers "re duced to the status of forced la bor." - ' ., President Winiam -Greene' an nounced the AFL. will seek modi fication of the "uncalled for and unnecessary ; orders, but did not specify what changes are de sired. , . - Indep Supply Soueh Flank : a J Tuesday nixht'wt re crowding comrades aavMontgeBsery's Eighth' befre EnAdavUle, UN Photo. 1 Defcnss'Hests " ' - " . v Lomax Accused State r Of LohoiilinfV .Key' . Evidence f or Folkes - ALBANYrbpra 2(HP) The defense rested its case in the lower 13. murder trial" Tuesday, jus 13 days and 13 defense wit nesses after its start The .case, in which Robert E. Lee Folkes, '20, Negro, is accused of. killing Mrs. Martha Virginia James 21, Norfolk, Vs., will go into "the jury's hands 'Wednesday after Circuit Judge L. G. Lewel ling presents his instructions. In closing arguments Attorney LeRoy Lomax, defending Folkes against a - first degree murder charge, told the jury that the state had failed to designate the slayer. r After the state asked death or freedom for the Negro In Its - summation Lomax unlashed; a bitter tirade against the prese-' cation. Inferring that It with held Important evidence,, failed to produce key witnesses and that the asserted eonfesslons at tributed to Folkes were obtained ..by' force. --.y-: -; : Lomax made issue of a state ment in the state's closing argu ment that either of two men could haye slashed the throat of the pretty Norfolk, Va, bride of a navy ensign as she lay in berth lower 13, on a speeding Southern Pacific train before dawn last January 23. : ... ?t say one of three could have done it," the defense attorney told the jury of eight women and four men who have sat through 13 days of Folkes' trial. .-A . 1 Lomax paused dramatically, then shouted: "Where Is Funches?" r He was " referring to John Funches, dining car waiter aboard the train who was returned here as a material witness by the state, later released as having no con nection with the slaying and never called to testify. 5 'What does Funches know about the case?" Lomax shouted. Lomax -also wanted to know why the state never produced the overcoat it said the slayer wore, the dining car galley knives it said were inspected after; the slaying and scrapings taken from the fin i (Turn to Page 2 Story E) ! .--I ' . Reds Take Offensive At Kalinin LONDON, Wednesday, AprU 21. C'PV-Sweeping into the offen sive on the Kalinin front north west of Moscow, Russian forces on! Tuesday attacked a strong German position and captured and held an important height against repeated e n e ra y counterattacks. Moscow announced today. - . Battering v a i n 1 y against the strategic hilL dominating the en tire area, the Germans left about 3,000 officers and men : dead on the field, the soviet midnight com munique said. . - In the Western .Caucasus, vio lent attacks by German infantry supported by tanks and large for ces of aircraft' were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy; Russian anti-aircraft fire bringing ' down 12 German planes during the day and Russian aircraft knocking out 11 others. .-.-;'"'-..-.;': ; : Thejwar bulletin, recorded here by the Soviet; Monitor, also an nounced minor activity on the western 'front where Russian un its killed about 100 enemy troops and silenced an artillery and two machinegun batteries, while south of i Balakleya in the Donets basin a soviet mortar unit wiped, out a company of nazl Infantry. ; Tommies Open ; Moonlight Push In Tinal. Attack! ALLIED HEADQUARTER3 IN NORTH, AFRICA, April 28 (flP)-Springings powerful, sud den infantry charge by moon light, the British Eighth army has resumed the offensive at Enfidaville and seized mountain heights dominating the coastal road to Tunis' 40 miles to the) north, allied headquarters an nounced Tuesday night -.". Gen. Sir Bernard' L. Montgom ery: loosed the assault late Mon day nighCand took his initial ob jectives in what appeared to be the start of-the- final offensive to -drive the axis from Tunisia. . t. In the skies, that offensive was already underway, with 112 axis Lplanes destroyed' in two; days- by the mighty allied air arrav v ; ilantgcmery's tough infantry ... uoops; -again supported by artil lery, Smashed : ahead hi a three- ' mile advance to capture the Djebel ' Girci, i 1 00-foot j height com manding the area 12 miles inland -from ithe -sea battle " front - disi patches said T Y-,.' ; l ' Heavy fighting still contin ues, said an - allied spokesman,' who announced briefly that the ; ' assault had "penetrated the En- rtdaville position." " The atUck toto the hilly, heavily-defended axis positions followed a lull of -a week of preparation by the : methodical ; Montgomery. v-.. (The Paris radio reported that "Two Anglo-American attacks in the regions of Medjez-El-Bab and " Bou Arada, to the northwest oftv Enfidaville have been repulsed. ! The broadcast was heard in Lon don by the ministry of informa tion.) :;; ; . Authoritative sources jaid there was not expected to be any sud den . break-through jtuch . ss . w as typical of the desert . actions,, for the infantry must fight for eactt foot of ground, and advance hill by-hill, storming each strong de fense post, separately. :; . While the Eighth army was -' the only force mentioned In the Initial drive, military circles said It was certain that Other pres- "" sure would be brought to bear net only on land but In the air . ' and en the sea- la a grand eon-- -cert ef action against the 20, 06 axis troops squeesed Into the "coffin corner" ( of Tunisia. In attacking by moonlight, Gen eral Montgomery. was following favorite ' tactic for the opening phases of a major offensive. His) assault at the Mare th line last, month, and in some of his battles across Africa were launched un der the light of a full moon. Monday night that same full African moon witnessed the first dash of British infantry across 1, 200 yards of flat, barren waste land to the foothills where the en emy was dug in. . " ' The charge came at -11 p. m and in less than three hours the battle-tried troops had won theis first objectives, a height north- -west o f Enfidaville where axle guns had threatened the Eighth . army's road of approach along the coast But in attacking the Enfidaville line, Montgomery's forces were . engaged in a hew type of fighting -strange to these desert-wise fight era, ' ' ' :- - The eeuntry Is ' mountainous and extremely rugged lav eon--; . tract to the rolling hills and deserts of Libya. The mountain belt that Montgomery Is assault- ;; 1 lng .new Is thickest along the coast ;..'::', .;?:' . "'..:;.. The rest of the range dwindles as the line runs west 1 . . The British First army is press ing from the west along the coast and to the south, and American.; and. French forces are deployed :. below them.: " ;.; :;. ' During the relative lull in ground activity which preceded the Eighth army's lates offensive, allied planes were chalking up their greatest victory In this the-: atre, in two days shooting down 112 axis planes, 70 of them Ger-. man troops transports. Twenty four planes of this total were bagged Monday. Seventy c four of them were shot down Sun day out of a big aerial convoy heading toward Sicily. House J Refuses Treasury Power WASHINGTON, AprU 20-yVP) The house committee turned thumbs down Tuesday on a senate bill extending the treasury's cur rency stabilization authority, leading Chairman Somers (D-NY) to say, "This indicates there Is not going to be any international bank."