nZISTY THUtD YEAB
Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, April 22 IS 43
Truman Com
Reveals Big-: Losses
Of A Hied Shipping
Present Moves Expected to Mee
SiiliiTinrW Mphjipp! TiWtv
ci.. T.i.-
WASHINGTON, April 21-3-The Truman committee dis
closed Wednesday that approximately 12,000,000 tons of allied
shipping were sunk last year more than the total tonnage
built in 1942 by the United States and Great Britain combined.
Calling the losses "heavy but not disastrous," the special
senate unit investigating war production problems reported losses
, Were reduced in the latter months
of the year, and declared confi
. dently:
. "The submarine menace can and
-Will be effectively met."
The answer to the threat of the
, undersea raiders, the committee
declared in a report on shipbuild-
-. ing and shipping, is a stepped-Up
. production of new merchant and
escort vessels, . and the combined
use of destroyers and destroyer
escorts, escort airplane carriers,
land-based airplanes equipped for
' anti-submarine work, and sub-
. chasers.
The Vancouver shipyards!
of Henry Kaiser have recent
ly launched t we "escort' type
carriers to be used In convoy
dnty to combat the submarine
. menace. One, HMS Ameer, la
being turned over to Great Brl
- tain.
"All of these are being pro-
vided," the committee declared.
The only question is that of
time."
Although the number of ships
lost in 1942 : was not given, the
committee noted that 746 ships,
totaling 8,090,800 tons, were built
in this country's merchant ship
1 yards last year.
In other sections of the 75-page,
45,000-word document, the com
mittee, headed by Senator Tru
man (D-Mo.), reported: "
1. The quantity-production Li
i, berty ship is being redesigned in
to the "victory ship, with more
t po&erMVggiiieV
higher speed and greater cargo
carrying capacity, although the
change, sponsored by the mari
time commission, is , opposed by
: the navy and the war production
board on the grounds it would be
wiser to stick to the present sim
plicity and standardization of de
sign. ' ,J ;
2. The navy has done "a mag
nificent job" in building a first-
. class fighting fleet "that can
stand up and slug it out with any
" ether navy." 4
3. Nevertheless the committee
believes that "the navy should be
less conventional and conserva7
, tive in its thinking,w spend less
time propounding explanations
of unfortunate situations, and en
courage new ideas.
4. : Our merchant shipbuilding
record compares favorably with
the British, but
S. It Is no military eseret
r that wt do not , have enough.
;. shipping to supply our allies
with the weapons f and feed
which they require and to '
transport and ! maintain ever-.'
-- seas as many soldiers as we
- can train or as much material
. as we can produce.
6. The concrete barge1 program
has been "most disappointing.,
t. 7. Ships must, be utilized ef-
ficiently; provision must be made
for uf ficient docks, cranes, light
ers and trained longshoremen.
8. .Through the Ingenious -use
of steel supports welded to , the
decks, tankers now- are- carrying
large quantities of combat planes
nd torpedo boats which former
ly took up space below decks on
dry cargo ships. ,
; 9. There is wide disparity in
the efficiency of private shipyards.
The Oregon Shipbuilding corpor
ation delivered 12 Liberty" ships
at an average of 393,858 man
hours each, while another west
coast yard, Marinship corpora
" tion, at Sausalito, v Calif, spent
i 1,620,679 man-hours on one ves
sel. .
Poison Gas
Warning Sent
LONDON, Thursday, April 22
(ff)-The British government in an
extraordinary announcement said
today Jhat it had received reports
that- "Hitler is making prepara
tions for using poison gas against
the Russian front," and warned
that such a development would
find the British retaliating with
the same weapon "upon German
munitions centers, seaports and
ether military objectives through
out the whole expanse of Ger
many. .. . '
Expect Jury Report
: Marion county grand jury, In
session since Wednesday morning,
is expected to report on a num
ber of routine criminal investiga
tions late today or Friday. ,
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Jury Still Out
pronp Returns for
'New Instructions,,,
After 4Vi Hours : A
ALBANY, Ore, April 22 HP)
The Lower 13 jury considering
a first-degree murder charge
against Robert E. Lee Folkes, ne
gro' dining car cook, retired ear
ly this morning without reaching
a verdict, f ;., ,, ; :
Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelling
ordered the Jury . locked ' up at
12:45 a. m. after the eight wo
men and four men had deliber
ated 13 hours and 15 minutes.
Temporary beds were fixed up
in the jury room in the .Linn
county courthouse. Deliberations
are s scheduled to resume around
9 a. m.
The jury retired to eat at 6
p. m. Deliberations were to re
sume after I dinner.
After four and one half hours'
deliberation had passed, the jury
asked for new instructions. -
r Foreman Lee. A. Doerfler, of
Albany, said the Jury needed ad
vice on the-number of votes re-
ouired to reach IS Jrerdk ri the
ted in the instructions of Judge
L. G. Lewelling.
Judge Lewelling advised the
eight women and four men that
a 'Unanimous vote is required for
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Byrnes Okelis
Lumbermen's
Wage Boost
WASHINGTON, April 21-P)
James F. Byrnes, economic stabili
zation director, announced Wed
nesday he had approved the ac
tion of the war labor board in
granting a wage increase in the
western pine lumber industry, and
at the same time had asked Pren
tiss Brown, price administrator,
to leave present pine lumber ceil
ings ; in effect until the institu
tion of a premium price plan such
as has been utilized for non-ferrous
metals.
V Byrnes said he was anxious
that the WLB decision should not
result in any increase in the cost
of living. He said OPA had in
formed him that the decision
might possibly necessitate an in
crease in the price of lumber con
sumed by civilian industry aggre
gating about $7,000,000, but that
the major portion of this would
not affect the cost of living in
dex, s
Rnml Talks
Stalemated
I : . ' :
A- : '. ... r - . . "
WASHINGTON, AprU 21
The friendly ; democratic-republican
efforts to devise a compro
mise pay-as-you-go tax system
collapsed ' completely Wednesday
night, with the two parties agree
ing to take the issue on income
tax abatement, including the
Ruml skip-a-year plan, to the
house floor for another finish
fight.
Their truce broken, the two
parties again aligned themselves
at opposite poles on the amount
of taxes that should be abated
to: achieve a current ' tax basis
for the 44,000,000 income taxpay
ers. :
Oregon Rivers
Threaten Flood
PORTLAND, Ore, April 21(P)
The weather bureau predicted
Wednesday that the Columbia
river, now slightly ; over flood
stage of 15 feet, will reach 1 18
feet at Vancouver by Sunday and
will go considerably higher later.
The Willamette river will rise
to flood level of 18 feet here by
Saturday and will submerge low
er levels of several piers, the
bureau predicted.
Fathers'
Induction
gljected
V1. Wooton Tells of
Draf Shuffle for
I Oregon Registrants
The military draft will be
taking married men with chil
dren in Oregon by next fall
unless their children were ac
quired before December 8,
1941, or they have claims for
deferment based on reasons other
than dependency, CoL Elmer V.
Woo ton, state selective service di
rector, said Wednesdays t . .
.Married men maintaining bona
fide ''family relationship ,in .their
home-with pre-Pearl Harbor chil
dren will be temporarily, deferred
in class III-A, the director said in
discussing ; recent classification
changes. .. . '' ;i
Wooton recently.' returned here
from Washington, DC, ; where , he
conferred with Lewis' ,B.: Hershey,r
national selective service dn-ector
and: other, officials, ; relative to
classification changes and placing
more stress on a. registrant's im-
WASHINGTON, April 21-)
Beginning May 15, local draft
boards will file monthly reports
on federal employes classified
by them In or oat of 2-A or 2
B, the classification for Irre
placeable men in essential work
portance to an essential activity
than to his dependents.
All states are about on an equal
basis so far as the necessity for
inducting men with dependents is
concerned, Wooton said. Oregon
is now inducting only single men
or men who acquired dependents
after war was declared, but. this
pool of men is near exhaustion
and calls in the next few months
will include men with dependents,
the state director indicated. - He
pointed out that Oregon had at one
time been calling some men with
"wives "'only and with collateral de
pendents but was enabled to fill
its calls this year with single men
following registration and classi
fication of the 18 year olds.
Aside from some 18 and 19
year olds deferred to finish the
semester in high schools, this
group of single men Is now near
exhaustion and the students
completing the school year will
be sufficient only to : fin Jane -calls
in part, Wooton declared. -
Wooton said it is not true that
all single men will be inducted
before any men with dependents
are taken. He said some single
men will continue to be deferred
in class II-A and Class II-B so
long as they are irreplaceable in
occupations essential to the sup
port of the war effort This group
of single men, Wooton added, is
being kept as small as possible but
cannot be eliminated if induction
will dangerously curtail activities
essential to the war program.
Wooton said there is some mis
understanding regarding the new
hardship classification, Class III-
D. it .':.- 4- -'-V:-:M'--..t H'K'- "''-"' ;-K
"Class m-D will afford defer
ment only to these registrants
whose lndaction ; would a canse
extreme hardship and privation
to their dependents, " 1 Wooton
said, "and the word extreme Is
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Mexican Laborers!
Sent to Washington."
PORTLAND, .April 21-P)
Walter A. Duffy, regional farm
security administration director,
announced that 400 Mexican farm
laborers left Mexico City today
for Washington sugar beet and
truck crop areas. ;
FDR, Cdmacho Visit Corpus Christi
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Ap
ril 21-(P-The presidents ' of the
United States and Mexico said
farewells Wednesday to their precedent-breaking
: conferences ' af
ter President Avila Camacho had
been welcomed at the naval air
braining center here and Presi
dent Roosevelt had called the oc
casion one of the great ' Ameri
can historical meetings."'
The president of Mexico and
Mr. Roosevelt inspected the busy
training station and saw a bril
liant aerial display by a forma
tion of Catalina patrol boats and
a squadron of dive bombers. Fin
ally they rode back to the rail
road siding and said their fare
wells in Mr. Roosevelt's private
car.
- President Avila Camacho was
repaying a visit to : Monterrey,
Mexico, Tuesday ' by the Ameri
can chief executive, - which Mr.
Roosevelt described as ? "one " of
the highlights in my life." .
The aerial . display ; was wit
nessed on tour of the 'center af
A
OM1
US Heavy Bombers Attack Rommel
15 Raids
Hit ICiska
Record Number of
Trips Aimed at
Knocking Out-Base
WASHINGTON, AprU 21
American airmen pounding Kiska
on a now-or-never schedule have
stepped up the fury of their at
tacks to IS raids in a single day,
the navy announced Wednesday.
The urgent need for telling re
sults - in the aerial offensive
against the enemy outpost in the
Aleutians was believed by in
formed persons here to result
from evidence that the Japanese
are about,, ready to finish jrorw
verting the rocky island linto , an
air base of their own.
The 15-raid day, a record break
er in Aleutians operations, was
Monday. The tonnage of bombs
dropped was not reported in Wed
nesday's communique but must
have been enormous since on the
previous day in only nine raids
fighter planes alone dropped 34,
000 pounds of explosives.
The Monday raid was car
ried ent by Liberator heavy and
Mitchell medium bombers and
by Lightning and Warhawk
fighters. The planes roared in
to the attack at varying alti
tudes and scored numerous hits
on the main enemy camp, en
the runway and en defensive
positions. Some fires were started.''-
j f '
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Kaiser Employe
Says CIO First
PORTLAND, April 2l-JPy-A
witness at the Henry J Kaiser
shipyard labor hearing testified
Wednesday that CIO union regis
tration ' cards appeared among
timecheckers at the Swan Island
yard before the AFL campaigned
to organize the checkers. ''
The witness, Dana Smythe, time-
checker Headman at i the yard,
named several graveyard ' shift
workers whom he said distributed
the cards. ,
Temblor Recorded
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 !-()
A slight earthquake was felt by
residents of San Francisco s Sunset-district
about 4:40 p.m. PWT,
Wednesday.
ter luncheon in a mess hall with
cadet officers. : . ..:,
In contrast with an . elabor
ate : banqoet served the two
X chief executives In Monterrey
Tuesday night, their luncheon
here was. the regular ration ef
flying cadets at ; the world's
largest aviation training estab
lishment. The main coarse was
frankfurters, mashed patatoes
and string beans.;: V- -5-
Lacking, too, was the pomp and
pageantry which 3 Monterrey
splurged on the - chiefs of -'state
of : the neighboring nations." But,
then they did not enter . Corpus
Christi . itself and the only peo
ple they saw. were the cadets, of
ficers and civilian employees of
the training center.
They ate in a mess hall with
250 cadet officers, and Mr; Roose
velt spoke briefly and informally
after the meal. ";-:;-' Vl-'x
"X am glad that the cadets
are hearing what I nave ie say,"
he asserted, "because I want
to ie3 yen I regard this as one
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XL XL XL XI
Action of American heavy bombers (of the type shown above) was
' restricted Wednesday by heavy snow storms at the' scene of the
heaviest action. Their contrasted raids on Rommel's1 supply lines
and bases are slowly bat surely. inching the noose tighter around
the Desert Fox's" trapped forces. UN Soundphbto. ;
Japs Execute
Warning Sent to Tokyo
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
WASHINGTON, April 21-(P-Japan has put to death some
of the eight American fliers captured after the bombing of
Tokyo and, treating the others as criminals, is denying them the
rights to which prisoners of war are entitled. -
This new horror by the enemy
in violation of covenants concern
ing military prisoners was dis
dosed Wednesday by President
Roosevelt. He made known, too.
that the American government has-
warned Tokyo,, that for this and
any future "acts of criminal bar
barity" Just punishment will be
visited on the responsible Japanese
officials. I
"This recourse by our enemies
to frightfulness is barbarous," Mr,
Roosevelt said in a statement to
the American people. "The efforts
of the Japanese war lords to in
timidate us will utterly faiL 'It
MADRAS, ORE, April tl-iPi
Corp. Jacob D. Deshaser, one of
the American airmen presumed
to be a prisoner of Japan after,
the Tokyo bomb in-. Is a Se
y ear-old former turkey rancher
who gave up his business to en
list In the army In 1939.
will . make the American people
more determined than ever to blot
out the shameless militarism of
Japan." ; , 1
The president's statement, is
sued at the ? White -House, - was
supplemented by- the state de
partment. Together, the state
ments disclosed that: "
The American government ini
tiated inquiries through the Swiss
government immediately after
Tokyo's radio broadcast, last Oc
tober : 19, that military trials were
planned , for. the eight Americans.
t It was not until Febraary ! '
however, that the Japanese gov
ernment replied, acknowledg
ing that the Americans had
been tried, sentenced to death,
and that, as the sUte depart-'
ment phrased : It, following ;
eonnnatatlon of the sentence
for the large number of them,
the sentence of death was ap
plied to certain of the accused."
The Japanese reply, under the
February 17 date, was not re-
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of the greatest American his
torical meetings. '-
"I think you will remember it
Just as long as you live, for we
are 'receiving; on . American soil
the president of one of our sis
ter republics"
Avila Camacho did not speak,
but as be left the mess hall he
shook ; hands with the Mexican
cadets stationed there.
Touring the training center in
an open car, the two presidents
saw dozensof v patrol bombers
and other : planes, some in the
air, some on the ground, cheer
ing lines of civilian workers, ca
dets drilling and running around
a - commando toughening, course.
k No : disclosure has. been ; made
of the real reason for their dra
matic meeting.
i The two chief executives took
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles'with them as they set out
on their tour of the main training
station. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs.
Avila Camacho were in a second
car." .
US Fliers;;
County Hits
TwaT44rd
$2,500,000 Mark la '
Passed by Sales
' Outside Banks
Marion county passed the two
thirds mark Wednesday in its
drive io fulfill its quota of April
war bond purchases outside of
banks in the sum of $2,500,000,
Victory Chairman J. J. Gard an
nounced in reporting a new sales
total of $1,685,000 in this classifi
cation.
A $250,000 addition was made to
the country's totals Wednesday
when W. M. Hamilton, division
manager, announced that that part
of a $3,300,000 bond purchase
made . by Portland General Elec
tric company had been allocated
to Marion county.
The banks' quota of $2,500,000
has been reached, with reports not
yet received from ' at least four
money-handling institutions in the
county. Card announced Wednes
day mat the United States Na
tional bank had bought $2,500,000
for Its Ladd & Bush-Salem branch
and its Mt. Angel branch.' The St.
Paul State bank had reported $50,
000 and the Gervais State bank
$100,000. : . .
PORTLAND, April 21 (A3)
The state war bond staff pre-;
dieted ; Wednesday ; night that .
private purchases In the sec
ond war loan . campaign will
reach $30,000,000 Thursday, but
warned that the next $20,000,
000 win be hard to get.
Edward C. Sammons, co-chair
man of the finance committee,
said the goal for private purchases
was $50,000,000. Banks will take
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House Bans
Banking Fund
- WASHINGTON, April 21 -JP)
The house added a restriction of
its own Wednesday in passing
the senate-approved measure to
extend for two years the : presi
dent's authority over the $2,000,-
000,000 . currency : stabilization
fund. The senate withdrew the
president's power to devalue the
dollar and the house adopted an
amendment by Rep. Reed (R-HL)
designed to prevent the use of
the $2,000,000,000 in the $3,000,-
000,000 International banking
bund proposed by Secretary Mor
genthau for post-war use. ''
Salem Executive
Awarded Position
PORTLAND, April ll-itf)
Lloyd Riches, Salem, manager of
Western Paper Converting com
pany, was named second ; vice
president of Columbia Empire In
dustries, Inc, here Wednesday,
Sam E. Fletcher, Portland, was
elected president, v
Tommies Storm
Axis : Heights
At Takrouna
Foe's Rear Bases Pounded
By Allied Airmen; Berlin
Admits Unequal Fight9
' By WES
. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA; April 21
I - (Py-The British Eighth army has captured the' axis coastal pivot
'. of Enfidaville has swung five miles northwest to storm; tb
mountain citadel of r Takrouna, and also has gained two miles;
in me, ujeoei Larci area ianner lruana anua "very severe light
ing," it Was reported Wednesday night. : Z ; v
.'.' Striking along a XO-mile front after a tremendous artillery,
barrage, Eighth army infantrymen armed with knives for close
quarter j fighting, scaled the enemy's mountain positions at
some points only 45 miles south of Tunis, while the British
British Blast
Nazi Bases
Russians Bomb East
i Prussian Railway
Center, .Tilsit
' LONIJON, April 21-fl5)-Sweep-ing
out in force in perfect flying
weather,! British bombers Tuesday
night blasted manufacturing and
other war installations in the Bal
tic porjs of Stettin and Rostock,
left Berlin alight with fires, and
ranged' widely over other sections
of occupied Europe today In one
of the war's biggest air assaults on
German communications.
Simultaneously, a mass raid by
Russian bombers on the east Prus
sian railway center of Tilsit Tues
day night started fires visible
nearly 100 miles away, Moscow
announced.
The broadcast said the - fires
merged into "one huge conflagra
tion" at Tilsit, and that big explo
sions "were particularly: numer
ous" near munitions dumps, among
railroad-; installations and around
the harbor and airfield. -
All Soviet planes were said 1 to
have returned 1 safely from r the
raid, the fifth big attack by the
Russian forces on the northeast
German " area ' since long-range
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Russ Defeat
Nazi Attack
In Caucasus
- LONDON, AprU 22-(i!p)-Pow-erf
ul Russian shellfire has de
feated the . newest - German , at
tempt to storm Red - army posi
tions in the Kuban , delta . of the
Caucasus, and inflicted . heavy
losses on the attackers, the Sov
iet midday communique, as re
corded by the -Soviet radio mon
itor here, said today. , ,
More than 400 . of the enemy
were killed, some small groups
being entirely wiped out in hand-to-hand
fighting after they had
managed to reach the first Rus
sian defense lines, it was said.
The attacks were part of a
drive which the Germans have
been mounting in the area for the
last several days . In what may be
an attempt to start a new - axis
spring offensive. '
The noon war bulletin said that
Russian troops had dug in on
newly-won positions on the Smo
lensk front, ; and : north of Chu
guev there were clashes . reported
between opposing scouting par
ties. . . .
Polish Radio
Cries Out,
Is Silenced
STOCKHOLM, April 21-OP)
The secret' Polish radio appealed
for, help Wednesday , night in a
broadcast from Poland and then
suddenly the station went dead.
The broadcast was heard here:
The last 85,000 Jews in the
Ghetto at Warsaw have been con
demned to execution. : . -
Warsaw again is echoing to
musketry volleys. - ; '
"The people are murdered.
Women and children defend them
selves with their naked arms.
:"Save us .
GALLAGHER
first army gained slightly in thf
Medjex-El-Bab sector 35 miles
west of the Tunisian capital. '
(The Morocco Radio some
times premature in its announce
ments said Wednesday night hi
a broadcast recorded by the As
sociated Press, that the DjebeJ
Gard, 10 miles inland from the -coast,
had been captured after e
final 90-minute assault)
Allied headquarters announc
ed the capture of Enfidaville,
50 miles below Tunis, and said
"all initial objectives'' were cap
tured yesterday after fierce
fighting which began with Gen,
Sir.Beraart -t.' Montromerr'a
- tremeadevs artillery barrage
raonoay night.
-rout l enemy counterattacks
have been repulsed." said the com -
munique. "righting continues."
Field dispatches said Enfida villa ,
fell without opposition after n
British rnhimn nil .v..
---- hv. m&vuuu uiv -
city to its coastal side.
Official axis communiques bad
not conceded the loss of Enfida
ville, but Capt Ludwig Sertorius.
" imug tumiiienurar, appear -ed
to be preparing the public for
such an . announcement In a
broadcast recorded by the Asso
ciated Press he said General Montgomery-
had concentrated huge-
numbers of j reserves for an; as
sault on the axis anchor poinV
and that the battle for the citfi
Wednesday afternoon still wa '
fTAtMM mm. ' . 1 4 1. S AS lit- ..
rM-TiisnA 99 i -
(Sertorias again stressed the
"gigantic masses"; of allied' war j "
material and said that allied air
supremacy also made it "a rath
er ueqval .straggle.")
tain strongholds in northeastern-
iuni5ia xo restrict the great allied,
aerial offensive which yesterday
was directed at smashing the last
fighter fields available to the en
emy. '-. . : , .
The communique said 27 axlg
planes were destroyed yesterday A
at a cost of eight allied aircraft, .
Along with other planes shot down
on previous idays but not report- '
ed before, this score boosted to
151 the total of enemy planes de-
..a .i i .i
The capture . of EnfldavDle
opened up the coastal road lead
ing to Boa Ficha, 12 mile, far- .
ther north, but before it can be
used general Montgomery's men -must
clean ent axis troops in
mountains flanking the road on
the west. Marshal Rommel was
turning every acre of ground in
his final pocket Into bloody bat-
tlegrounds.; -
A dispatch from Associated
Press Correspondent JNoland Nor- ,
Gaard, who lsi with the Eighth
army, said th violent fight for
Takrouna begau Tuesday with the .
axis 'counterattacking from above
the City in an effort to smash Brit
ish troops who already had encir
cled the mountain town.
Takrouna; has been a native
stronghold since the days of Car-..
thage. . , ' .;-.;
The enemy's rear bases in Sicily
also were being pounded steadily ;
with- visible results. Reconnais
sance showed that flying fortress
attacks on Palermo had blocked .
the harbor with the hulks of 23
ships, sunk or damaged. An off i- .
cial report said' these ships in
cluded a destroyer, minelayer,
tanker, two escort vessels and sev
en merchant ships. f
The freight yards and round v
house at Palermo also were dam
aged by 20 or more hits.