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Dcndsday It's Everyday For Americans (Make a Date) . VlmcziZ ; . FrI. eunrct 0:C3 Sat. sunrise 6:09 (Weather on Pace 8) i ' ,: Mi . ! 1 7 Cclrzn, Oregon, Filioy Morning. Aps3 13, 1213 XTaw 3 J I I I f tT . 1 . f II till 111:1V II I 1 F I 11.11,11 1 I I ' 1 ... J I t I "-' I t f . - .! . i iv vti i i ' . ) n , i i i I .--u v : i t : f I ' I I at ' i 1 I ' .J- ... I VI Is I I fill V - s I II II II f 1 I I V .1 . I I '-. " f i i I . ; V HaL ii J "a T ' :' ;- " ' ''W W' " . Albany Jury.' Reads In Folkes Trial : No Leniency Recommended; Death in Gas Chamber Mandatory; Negro - Calm as Kesult Ilelivered ALBANY, Ore., April 22-(P-Robert E. Lee Folkes, 20, emotionless Negro dining car cook, was ordered to die by a cir cuit court jury Thursday for the grisly lower 13 knife slaying of Martha Virginia James, . I The jury of eight women and four men ended the trial at 3:13 p.m., reaching a verdict, of guilty of first degree murder, without recommending leniency. That automatically calls for death in Oregon's lethal gas chamber at Salem. They deliberated 17 hours and 23 minutes. - ; Mrs. James, comely young wife cf Ensign Richard F. James, was slain as she resisted a man who climbed into her berth on a lim ited train as it roared through .the "Willamette valley before dawn iast January 23. ! Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelling set 1:30 p. m. next Monday : as the time for passing sentence. De fense Counsel Leroy Lomax of Portland said he would seek a new trial and failing that would , appeal to the state supreme court. ' The negro, wiinoux emouon the triaL sat motionless and .seemingly' uninterested as a bailiff read the verdict. : Ensign Richard F. James,; who attended all sessions of the trial inr the oDenine ADril 7. drew two deep breaths as the "verdict was read but otherwise seemed unaffected. - The most affected person in the filled courtroom seemingly was Leroy Lomax, Folkes' . attorney, who made an impassioned, some times tearful statement to the court after asking for a pollj of "Yen and me both have bad 1 mere responsibility placed on us " than the state of Oregon," be said te Judre L. G. Lewelliag, ,"m U defend man's life aad y to impose the extreme pen-'-alty." Lomax waived time for passing sentence. Judge Lewelling asked if Tuesday, April . 27, would be sat isfactory, and when Lomax agreed, the judge called him to chambers for a conference. Two incidents shewed the tenseness that gripped fflclals and spectator before and fan- mediately after the verdict was . read. As Folkes was brencbt into the courtroom to hear the Jury's decision, a negro friend.' William rellard, tried U shako Ma hand. A state policeman -leaned between - them. . Thero was no distarbaaee. "When Folkes was being led from the courtroom after the ver dict. State Policeman Curtis Chambers took Folkes by the arm. The negro, with a show of anger, shook him loose.. Chambers leap-, ed upon him, and another police pian grabbed the prisoner's arm. j As ho- rose from his chair for the, march back to his cell, Folkes yawned. When ho reached his cell, ho said to his Jailer: 1 They found me gnilty ail rbjht, and IV take H like a aaaa." " Judge Lewelling, after confer ring,, with Lomax, set the ate for sentencing Monday, April 28, at 1:30 p. m. I Lomax said he would move at that time for an arrest of judg ment. If that is denied, ho said, he would seek a new trial before Judge Lewelling. Failing in that, he said he would file notice of ap peal to the state supreme court, . W. G. Brinson, Norfolk, Va, fael company executive, Mrs. James' father, was not In the court room, lie left a note to - the press describing the slay- in a "the most brutal : and heinons ever committed in the nation, and I trust the execa- Hon date of this assassin will not long be delayed.4. Lomax, was near tears during a statement to the court on waiv (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Ultimatum Given CIO WASHINGTON, April 22-JF) The war labor board served an ultimatum Thursday night on dis trict 50 of the United Mine Work ers, declaring that unless its strike at the Celanese corporation' plant in Newark is called off at once, the board will lay the case before President Roosevelt, In most cases a preliminary to intervention by the armed services.. ' The board telegraphed John L. Lewis, UMW president, and Ed ward Heckelbeck, district 50 re gional director, rejecting flatly the Jatter's proposal to meet with company representatives on griev r mces r submit them to arbitra- Stays X ? FRED S. FINSLEY Parole Board Lauds Decision Director Withdraws His May 1 Ileaignatioii, Told Thursday Fred S. Finsley, state parole di rector, has changed hit. mind about - ri'slgnirfg' May 1 to re-enter law practice and will contin ue in his present position, the state board of parole and proba tion disclosed in a surprise an nouncement Thursday afternoon. The board earlier this month had announced that Finsley had resigned and that his successor would 'be Joseph R. Silver, one of the director's field representa tives, Finsley has served as parole director since the present parole board was created four years ago. : ' Chairman Roy S. "Spec" Keene declared it is with satisfaction that the. board makes , this-announcement," adding: - "Mr. Finsley ha had. charge of thio work since its Inception, and his decision to abandon his plans to. return to 'the practice of law at Fossil and remain as director assures a continuation of the pro gram that has been so well car ried forward to date.",'. ". ,,. JLegiomiaire Wanis; of ' Allied Losses WASHINGTON, April 22-fl) Warnings that heavy fighting still lies ahead in Tunisia and that vic tory's cost in lives will be high came Thursday from Undersecre tary of War Robert Patterson and Roane Waring, commander vof the American Legion. "Casualties are certain to be heavy," Patterson told a press con ference. Waring, just returned from a tour i of the African battlefront, said the American forces have suf fered "terrific casualties many more than have been announced. Relating in an address to Legionnaires and others that he had seen endless rpws of fresh crosses in Africa, Waring said: There will be many thousands more of such crosses before the flags of freedom wave in triumph over Tunis and Bizerte. Trades Union Protests Freeze PORTLAND, April 22-ifP)-AFL Pacific Coast Metal Trades dele gates Thursday resolved "vigor ous disapproval of the present la bor freezing policy of the war manpower commission as being repugnant to the Ideals of Ameri canism." ; ' ' The resolution said war produc tion ' would be curtailed because the WMC "introduces involuntary servitude and freezes free labor against 'its will to jobs in private industry, whereas industry is per mitted to amass profits while its workers must accept sub-standard wages." 6 Avenge--USMers, BJlittle General "Who Headed ; Tokyo Raid Wants , Another Chance " By KIRKE L SIMPSON . z- WASHINGTON, April 22-W) The "murder in cold blood" of American army fliers captured by the Japanese after last year's raid on Japan has ' added ex plosive to the fire of controversy over Pacific strategy, army ob servers believe, , '- They foresee, not only a rising tide of public anger against an enemy capable of .- committing such acts, but sharpened demands for expedited offensive action against the Japanese.;: -. . .i . "We will drop each bomb In memory of our murdered com rades," grimly declared Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle when informed in North Africa Thursday, that the Japanese have executed, some of the men lost -in the raid he led on Tokyo a year ago. ' - "Our bombs will not be miss ing their mark," Doolittle ad ded. It was' plain that Doo little, now in command of the allied strategic bombing force in North Africa, and all the men wo accompanied him on the daring raid, are far from being intimidated by the Japanese atrocity. They all want to be in on the next Tokyo attack. Said Capt. . Howard A. Sessler of Arlington, Mass., a member of Doolittle's force: "The day will come when these atrocities will be avenged. I hope I am among the avengers." His reaction was typical. ' Obviously an attempt to intimi date the United States air force, the Japanese reference to a "one way ticket to hell" .implied a threat, to execute every airman captured. - . The broadcast, recorded by the federal communications . com- mission, followed a Dome! news, agency broadcast beamed at the. United. States two days ago announcing execation of some of Doolittle's companions and saying "this same " policy will continue to be enforced In the fntore." A statement from the war de partment in Washington said that a further raid on Tokyo was a "decided possibility." Demands from Australia for substantial reinforcement of Gen (Turn to Page 2 Story A) . US Indians May Benefit Through War The ill wind of war may. blow the American ; Indian - into his proper ' niche- in society, believes Miss- Bertha M. Eekert, secretary for Indian work, on the staff of the national board of the YWCA, who arrived hero Friday night for one of her regular visits to Chema- ' Young "Indian men are volun teering for; the armed services of this nation in larger proportion than are those or other races,' she proudly declares, while a new mi gration of historic proportions is underway . as the Indian . moves from . his nomadic life into ' the cities, from livestock, mining and agriculture into industry. Skill ' of Indian - girls, who are receiving welding training at their schools, is considerable, declares Miss . Eckert. Many are leaving housework for industry, while other brackets of service have their share of the bronze-skinned maidens. OP A Assures Fowl Sayings WASHINGTON, April 22 Hf) The OPA promised "substantial savings" to the general public on chickens and other poultry on the basis of new price schedules put into effect Thursday. , Spokesman for the agency said that, although v some of the new prices were higher and i others lower than . recent ceilings, "on the average the public can expect substantial savings in comparison with actual prices paid recently, since many of the prices were il legal." . Centennial Plans' " -Trail Celebration BAKER, April 22-GT)-The old Oregon Trail centennial celebra tion to be held here July 3-5 will recreate western life of 100 years ago, complete with ox teams and stage coaches. - - Unhappy if It was "Here's at yon, Adolf," as the Marion county court invested $100,000 ! of the - funds in their : keeping in Uncle Sam's war bonds on Dictator H ltlers birthday this week. '. Receiving the , county ' check, from. County Judge Grant Murphy Is Jess J. Gard, county Victory committee chairman, while Commissioner Jim Smith (gray suit), G. A. "Gene" Vandeneynde, member of the county war savings staff, (background, right), and : Commissioner Ralph Glrod (right) look on approvingly. Girod, the court's expert on road-making, is leaving Salem today to go into active service with the navy's Seabees construction battalion. I , - , $684,000 More Needed For County Bond Goal First National, Wards, Water Board, Swell Local Purchases Citizens of Marion county are "digging down" in earnest buying war bonds to avenge Jap atrocities and help Uncle Sam also . defeat the Hitlerian end bf tho ; Aiis, Victory Committee Chairman Jess J. Gard declared Thursday night as he announced the county was within $684,000 of its $2,500,000 goal for subscriptions outside of banks. The non-bank purchases reach ed the $1,818,000 mark Thursday, while bank ' purchases soared to $4,498,960 with the announcement that the First National bank of Portland had bought $1,848,960 in the government's per cent war- WASHINGTON, April lt-JP) Stirred by the Japanese execu tions of captured' American air men, many cities and states Thursday overshot their quotas I n t h e $13,0O0,OO,OOO second war loan campaigns or upped their goals: Secretary Morgenthau an nounced that as of Tuesday 1 night a total of $11422,000,000 bad beea-fubscribed, . - Wttb, more than $2,000,000,000 to come from banks at the end of this- month, tad drive Is; as-.' urod "of exceeding lis" goal. time certificates of Indebtedness throw gIMts Salem, Woodburn and Stayton branches. The Coolldge & McQaine bankv Silver ton, was not included in Thursday's report. It did, however, Include '. subscrip tions of $100,000 by the Gervais State bank and $50,000 by the St. Paul bank. Purchase of per cent bonds ' will be announced next week when bank .subscrip tions : are .-pen." v ? , ? Salem water commission also joined the bond buying parade Thursday with Chairman Chand ler P. Brown reporting purchase of $80,000 worth of war, securi ties - from water department - in vestment funds. Another $40,000 was added to the county's quota during the day in the form of an allotment to Marion . county by . Montgomery Ward and company, according to W, F. Kellogg, manager of the Salem store. Pupils of the Stayton grade school, ' Who have - raised nearly $3000 for war stamps and bonds, including $250 on HiUers birth day, learned Thursday just what they had bought for the war ef fort three jeeps. Two of toe lit tle army multi-purpose combat vehicles : were taken to " Stayton Thursday- and " the children given rides by the army non-commis-(Turn to Page 2 Story B) Salem Soldier : ; ICilled in Action lira. Alma'M. Damn of 14SS Center street received word Monday that her son. Pvt. rich-, ard P. Damra, was killed la ac tion on February S, 1313, la tie north Atlantic area. Pvt. Damra. esicreJ tie army 1-iist Ai-ksU- Birthday, Schichlegruber Okay Officer, He Lammed! RICHMOND, Va-P)-Orlent-: al intelligence note: : ; - ' i f The Virginia state police bul letin board ; carried a ; lookout notice for a Chinese who es : eaped. It said, from bnmiaration authorities at Jacksonville, Fla. - His name a Tea Lam. Reds Repulse Desperate Nazi Thrusts " By the Associated Press LONDON, Friday, A p r i 1 23 Soviet, troops mowed down hun dreds of. Germans still attacking their , Kuban river valley ; lines above the enemy bridgehead at Novorossisk in the Caucasus, and the red air force made mass raids on-nazi military formations and other targets, Moscow announced early today. ' " I ': Three hundred Germans were killed in attempting to take one hilltop and hundreds also fell in another sector, said the midnight communique recorded by the sov iet Monitor. iT- The soviet Baltic fleet's air force attacking enemy ports in that area was said ' to" have caused serious damage to installations, shot down 13 plane 'and destroyed a patrol ahip ' " and three troops " landing craft ; : v This presumably referred to the attack on Kotka on the Finnish coast midway between Leningrad and Helsinki. A Finnish communi que had reported earlier that a soviet assault on that port was re pelled by Finnish anti-aircraft ar tillery. India Law Held Invalid NEW YORK, April 22-)-The defense of India rule No. 26 un der which . more than 8000 all India congress leaders, including Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, were impris oned without trial and have been held since September 8, was de clared invalid Thursday in a judg ment read in New Delhi federal court. The court held that the rule "went beyond the powers which the legislature thought fit to con fer on the central government. , : It caused considerable flurry and ; embarrassment among gov ernment circles but while Gandhi and his colleagues now? stand il legally arrested' they are still in jail 'and there Is no evidence that they are going to be released or tried. Storm Flags IJp SEATTLE, April 22-)-The US weather bureau reports small craft warnings hoisted at 3 pjn. Thursday along the full length of the Washington tr.d Orc;;ca ccssts. -4 WLB Accepts Coal Dispute , Hear Called Saturday At 10 a.m.; Lewis ' Asked to Attend WASHINGTON, April 22-JP) The war labor board accepted jurisdiction o v e r the" soft .coal wage dispute i Thursday, :-and promptly called a hearing on it for 10 ajn. Saturday.' Asked to attend were Charles O'Neill an d Edward R. Burke, chairman of the northern and southern - Appalachian operators committees,, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. ' The initial hearing, the board explained, will be for the purpose of receiving from . the parties i a summary statement of the issues in dispute and of discussing "the procedure and timing to be fol lowed in the presentation of the dispute to the board.' - t - Secretary of Labor Perkins cer tified the case to the WLB earlier in the day after nearly a month and a half of negotiations in New York failed to produce new agree ments' between the UMW and the operators. ' Unless - the board can reach a quick agreement, , it is expected to request a , further- temporary extension of existing agreements to assure uninterrupted operation of the mines. The current one month extension' expiree April 30. In New-York, Burke said Sat urday's bearing was "a sensible and proper procedure.''- ; '.Lewis, who has denounced the board -' on numerous occasions, would not say immediately wheth er he planned to attend. F PITTSBURGH, April ; 22-4P) More than . 2,000 coal diggers in steel company-owned - "captive soft , coal - mines were on . strike tonight as union leaders and oper ators alike reported growing un rest among workers over the dead locked wage negotiations between operators and the United Mine workers, , , " , . -; ! A walkout ' yesterday of a few hundred employes of the Repub lic Steel corporation at nearby Charlerio, was joined " today by workers in three other pita of the company. - Several hundred others also quit work tonight in a mine at Isabella operated by the Weir ton coal company, a subsidiary of the National Steel corporation. if Officials of the : Weirton . com pany said they were given no rea son for the work stoppage Salem Firm Gets Contract WASHINGTON, April 22.-(ff) -The war department announced Thursday these contract awards with names of contractors, type and location of work and super vising engineers: t Between $100,000 and $489,- Ha lver son Construction Con and E. B. Halverson, Salem, Ore constructing buildings and ap purtenances in E en ton Co., Ore C.n, Portland engineers " . , From Helglhtte : Bayonets, Grenades Used By Attacking Tommies As Allies Sweep On LONDON, April 23 (AP). The Algiers radio re ported today that the British Eighth army had occu-' pled the fortified village of Takrouna, five miles north- " west of Enfidaville, R after bitter fighting. 1 . "I 'i .By WILLIAM B. KING ' " ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 2l (flBritish" Eighth. army infantry, using bayonets and grenadeay smashed into axis mountain nests south of Tunis Thursday in an unhalted advance after the first army crushed a diversionary blow west of the capital by destroying 27 tanks and capturing 500 elite Germarf troops. ; ".rwrio.y.;;'; v-;'- - ;: )' The" Eighth, army was reported to have gained three mile nsvrrra anrl cayaa t Vni4aiTi11aa' ainAan . ka k4 fimeivrA Kaaovi' iw 4VTa fc lVi M4 UVS WW -Wfe? W VS. SI HMIMB V Ut. sector Monday night,', and ; a much of it hand-to-hand, raged Flying Fort Repulses Japs - Enemy Base Heavily , Bombed and Strafed ; 2 NipPlanes Down ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, . Friday, April 23 (P)-A Flying Fortress over Kav ieng, New Ireland, fought off four Japanese fighters Thursday in a battle which5 extended over : 150 miles, the h I g h command ' an nounced today. r- - . ' . ' Japanese positions at . Nassau bay, New Salamaua, New. Guinea, WASHINGTON, April 22-JP) Japan's Naaru' base in the Gil- bert islands, a stntcrie Mtpost issrdiaf the- soothern ap proaches to ' the treat Trak bastion in the nth Pacific, was heavily . eaaaaed - Wednesday by army bombers .in a loni -, ranfe daylifht attack. ; ' were heavily bombed and strafed in another aerial action. . . - . " The Kavieng incident Was tthe second in as many days to indi cate increased Japanese opposi tion in the air in the sector north east of Australia. Thursday's com munique told of a single Fortress battle with Zeros near RabauL New; Britain, in which the allied plane shot down two of the inter ceptors. '"-y :"'Vr--r' " I Today's - noon - communique said succinctly of the Kavieng action: : (Turn to Page 2 Story ) . Tax Battle Pos a To May 3 WASHINGTON, April 22 -(ff) A finish battle on pay-as-you-go taxation, including . the modified Ruml plan to skip an income tax year, was set Thursday for .Mon day, May 5, and the house de cided to take an Easter recess until the climactic daU afford ing: time for taxed tempera to cooL t Members bcf an leaving Wash infton in larre Bombers, 'and , many, no doubt, will find among their home people the answer to the question of how they should east their votes. . :': ' Another battle along party lines appeared inevitable with the lead ers on each side lined up in this manner: .V' Democrats Behind a propos al to apply the much softer 1941 rates and exemptions to 1942 per sonal income.- This would erase the last year's tax liabilities com pletely for about 7,000,000 per sona and give others substantial reductions. The overall tax-abatement would amount , to approxi mately 80 per cent of the . total 1942 personal income tax bill- in dollars $5,000,000,000. Republicans Backing first of all' the modified Ruml plan, as drawn in a bill by Rep. ' Carlson (R-Kas), but if the skip-a-year proposition fails, ready with an alternate proposal to abate 75 per cent of last year's taxes for most taxpayers. Whatever bill is adopted, if any, it probably win include a 20 per cent withholding levy, effective July 1, against the taxable por tions of wages and salaries, . topned orn M1V VlViMI V VVOU . Ug. tlMl f spokesman said violent fighting. all day. A delayed - dispatch from No- -land ; Norgaard, an : Associated Press correspondent at . the front; said the British Wednesday seizedU Takrouna, three miles northwest of Enfidaville, except for mopping, up Operations, and were pushing into the salt marsh area of Seb kra Sidi Krai if a north of Enf ! daville. ' , . , Farther inland in the Djcbel Gargi area the British, however faced a formidable task of clean ing out enemy gun posts on the sheer sides of those hills, and In fantrymen and mules were car rying supplies into country too difficult for motorized transport In the north Lieut. - Gen. K, A. N. Anderson's First array, including parachute troops, withstood a powerful v German eeontersttack aimed at easlmf the pressure alarshal Kara- - ". mmmm op - ov mm m - at wst f ou mm flieted 'considerable easaalties' on the enemy southeast of Med . Jes-El-Bab. Five battalions of crack Ger man troops,, including three from the Hermann Goering Jaeger reg iment and one from the Goering Grenadiers were thrown against the First army . lines T u e s d a y night on an eight-mile front be . tween Med jez-El-Bab and Gou bellat. . I . ) . At least 70 German tanks also Were put. into ' the struggle later, but the-British destroyed a third of . them, including' two 60-tosy Mark ,:VI ' Tigers.". Y.f 'i.U :;' - The Germans attacked by moonlight, apparently trying r ai capture the hills in a "V formed ? by the 'roads leading from MedU ; Jez-12-Bab to - Goubellat ' and 13 Aroussa; 1 ' - - -..-". Bat they met sack strong op position aad saffered sack hea vy tsassa that- there was oaly sinor mfiltratioa of the Brit ish lines. By dawa the axis de cided to give ap. a bad Job aad -. withdrawn v b r. :'" . It was at thia point that the) Germana . oalM up their- hugd tank forces in oj effort to- covev ' their-, retiring troops) and loot 2T ed-fl---:..:.-.'-.':'i.r-f-' , J .;- The British. Eighth" army's adV vance in the south was. slow and painful.. Fighting on a ten-milg front r u n n i n g "from the coast north to Znfidaville inland through Takrouna to the- Djebel Garci sector, the- men. are con fronted With axis strongholds' carved into hillsides and well camouflaged. - . " J P; r An allied communique said massed artillery had broken two major enemy counterattacks Wed nesday "with heavy loss to the enemy, and that "our positions were generally improved and all gains firmly held.1 '.: Bat nearly every fold of earth .hides aa axis mortar or field gran, aad Geaeral Mentgem ery's desert troops : now most ' rash these positions with bay onets or creep p to blast them wiia grenaoes. -i United States and French troops ive and penetrating patrols on sectors of the front assigned ta them. . ----- , . Unfavorablo weather again i; :tj .in.j .i ..it.j .1 j iuiuku aaijcu mu tuviij' over uiv axis-held Tunisian corner, but fighters and bombers kept up a day-long pounding of roads and airfields. . ;- ; The communique reported thf destruction of 14 more axis plane during Wednesday, night and (Turn to Page 2 Story C) BACK UP YOim COY