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":" - ; I-"' -' i Dtmouf Valley liveatodi Population Rises Sun. iunset Gill Mon. sunrise 6t03 ' (Weather on Pi ) PCUNCDD J&51 tUTIITY THIRD YEAH KAlmrr Orgoa Sunday Morning. April 23. 1843 JV.c Sc. a. 4t. t.f : " : ; ' ",''''" O" (i j r v uj ' - hk X. T M MM t "s. 1 I . I I I I II. jrv I I JF. chedLmled For Coimty Scliools Students to Use Garden Booklets Designed to Arouse Interest BY FLORENCE D ANNALS - (Statesman Valley Editor) v I Announcement was made Saturday by Mrs.! Agnes C. Booth, county superintendent of schools, and Frank Bennett, Salem city superintendent that 5500 farm booklets will be circulated through the Marion county schools Monday to interest students in Oregon agricultural problems. ; ! The booklets going to teachers are aids and ideas designed to help them present the course cf training to. be given in the $chools for the next ten days or two weeks, v The student's - book lets contain - a . detailed explana- - iion of the part i Marion county plays in the production of food, - and the part the children will play in the harvesting of the crop, plus crop statistics, information on preparation for doing the job, how to get a job, and other pert- Jnent material. The course of , study was de signed by Walter Snyder, curric ula director of the Salem schools, with a group of educators with whom he worked as chairman. Through the course, Mrs. Booth stated, "it is hoped .that we will build up an interest on the part of the pupil and a realization of his part to be played this sum mer, as well as the problems fac ing the farmer. --r. - Working with the - schools on th'prtgram is the Marion coun ty .youth coordinating committee, the executivemembers being Mrs. Booth; Robert Rieder, county ' agent; William Baillie, manager '!"- the US employment office; ' Amos'Bierly, 4H club leader, and the chairman, Ray J. GlatL They have assisted in an advisory ca pacity in presenting the course cf study to the schools. C . The purpose of the plan, when, it was originated in the spring of 1942, was to save Oregon's $50, ' 000,000 farm crops.- A brief out line of the present course of study was presented to the students last spring; their response was over- (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Reds Destroy 18 German a nes LONDON, Sunday, April 24 - Russian -. airmen . destroyed 18 ,. more German planes in the north western Caucasus and hit 18 oth ers in a raid . on the , airdrome at Stalino in the, Donets basin, Mos cow reported early today as land " lighting subsided, on the long front. The broadcast was heard . here by the Soviet monitor. . One company of enemy infantry was reported . annihilated or dis persed in the Balakleya sector . southeast of Kharkov in the Uk . raine by sporadic : artillery ' duels raging along the front, ; and the communique disclosed the red army still was entrenched in the Sevsk salient 80 miles below Byransk. ; . Soviet artillerymen were said to have destroyed five enemy block , t houses and dispersed a battalion i of Germans in the Sevsk -sector.; t Six. blockhouses, one artillery rpiece, and two - enemy - batteries were knocked out on the Volkhov ? front southeast of Leningrad, the ' communique said, and 200 Ger s mans were killed. I - Soviet airmen appeared to have ' taken over the ;fcrunt of the fight i ing. The 118 - planes credited' to the Caucasian air force were down in air combat or destroyed on German s airdromes. At Sta- lino the communique said -18 successful hits on enemy planes - were observed." " OPA Announces ; ; Valid Coupons WASHINGTON, April 24-P) ; The J OPA announced officially ! Saturday that meat ration cou i pons will continue on a weekly accumulative basis at least until : $he end of May, This means that all the follow : Jng stamps are good until May 31: ' The red fT series, usable start-' " Jng Sunday; F, usable starting r May 2; "G, valid starting May 9; '. fH," usable starting May 16, and J." sZA tlaxting LUr 23. Airpl Stadly County Drive Nearing Quota Sidney-Talbot Local Of Farmers Union Gives $30,000 Chairman Jesse Gard of the' Marion county victory loan com mittee Saturday reported that in dividual bond sales reached $2, 187,778 with but $312,212 to go to the goal of $2,500,000 set for this county. ; At the same time, Gard 'revealed that he is launch ing, the slogan, "Another million by May 1, and . said he feels confident that quota can be filled. By DONALD M. NJSON (Written for the Acsociated Press and 5 The Oregon Statesman) Manpower, materials and money are tools of ; war on which our victory depends. We are marshalling our man power to provide fighting forces and production workers. We must marshal our dollars and put them to work. It is a privilege and duty of each of us to participate in the second war loan drive by investing in war bonds we are not paying for freedom, we are investing in jreeaom. , xnere is no - better or more sound investment on earth, Sidney-Talbot Farmers- Union, local 235, Friday night swelled the bond coffers with a $30,000 sub scription. Sales averaged $500 per person at a meeting of the group. The committee in charge said, in view; of thei fact ; number of members - were absent, ' the sum may be boasted to $50,00.- " - The committee also said Satur day that $4000 of the California Packing corporation subscription had f been allocated to Marion county. Percy BlundelL manager of the firm, announced the pur- chase: Chirmn j Gard said that the (Turn to iPaee 2 Story ) TNT Laden Ship Perils New York : NEW YORK, April 24.-)-An explosive laden ship was sunk in the Hudson; river off Bayonne, NJ, Saturday after it had caught fire and : the police department broadcast a request that water front residents of Brooklyn; Sta ten island and New Jersey- keep their ' windows open. - ' Acting .Police Commissioner Louis Cottuni requested the warnings be given after the ship had burned for some time and had been towed from its moor ings at Jersey City to a point be tween the - New Jersey and New York shores. . f ... . Fireboats and : police launches meanwhile had been, sent to the aid of the boat. At I:1S p. nt, Eastern- Wax' time,- the New York police department announced the that the ship had been sunk. . Later Rear Admiral Stanley V. Parker, US coast guard captain of the port of New York, Issued the following statement: ; - "A vessel loaded with explos ives caught fire about 5:30 Sat urday afternoon. The vessel was removed to an anchorage and New ..York municipal fire boats, coast guard fire boats, and com mercial and government tugs and small" craft responded. The vessel was flooded: and Is now on bot tom with superstructure 1 above water and petroleum products hobbling to ruzface burning. - -; Bor ' Attack Jap Base US Airmen Raid Nip 'Convoy Off Wewak; Liberator Returns ALLIED i HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday, April 25 (fl5)- Far-ranging allied bombers, covering nearly, 1500, miles, gave the big Japanese airplane assem bly base of Kendari, in the Cele bes, its first pounding since Febr uary 10, yesterday, dropping 21 tons of bombs which destroyed five planes on. the ; ground and wrecked repair shops. , ! . . Five other planes . were , shot down in the air for; certain, and a sixth was believed bagged, i -Meanwhile another bomber spotted and attacked a. large en emy convoy of unspecified size far te the northwest of Wewak, ' New Gaines bat. was not able te . observe the results. Over Wewak's harbor a third allied bomber fought off a swarm of 12 Japanese planes, shooting down five and getting home, safely despite some damage dealt the . bomber. . General : Douglas MacArthur's raiders left a trail of flame over the sector to the northwest of Australia. In addition to starting huge fires at Kendari which could be, seen for 75 miles away, they also fired the airdrome at Dili on Timor, causing flames which could be seen from 25 miles at sea and staged several other raids. Big Liberators, flown by Americans, took part in the devastating raid on Kendari. Billy Mitchell medians bomb ers, with Dutch pilots, delivered the blows at DHL . Most of the explosives" and in cendiaries dumped ton Kendari fell on the' airdrome and in the workshop areas. The Liberators encountered 20 Japanese fighters over the target None of the allied " planes were lost as they netted ' five of the enemy for certain." ' - . The convoy was spotted 300 miles north of Wewak aboat ' noon Saturday by a single Lib erator en armed reconnaissance. Preliminary reports failed to disclose the convoy's composi tion. ". .'.r. : In the Saidor 'sector of New Guinea, . southeast .of i Madang, B-24 bombed and strafed the villages of , Singor, Gumbi and Biliau, occupied by enemy troops. . The only Japanese aerial activ ity reported was an ineffectual raid by a single plane under cov er of darkness on ' Dona, 'north west of Buna, New Guinea. To the northwest of Australia, medium allied bombers struck at two small cargo ships near . the Kai islands, sinking one and dam aging, the others" . J, DAR Plans Fete At Champoeg . PORTLAND, 'April i4-P-The Oregon DAR announced Saturday that it will hold open house at the Champoeg centennial celebra tion 'May 2. -V- I '- The organization's cabin at Champoeg, hewn out of -huge trees, is one of the state's, land marks. ' Mrs. Seymour Jones, Salem, and Mrs. E, C. Apperson, McMinnville, will be among past presidents act ing as hostesses. f : : i i Nazi Plane Downed I ' Over West Iceland .. ;;; REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 24 (American fighters shot down a German reconnaissance plane over western Iceland Saturday, US army f headquarters announced. Reykjavik was under an air raid ajcri i or za minutes.. . i Army,' Tells-. of Oregon .Ordnance :lIM$c r By FLOYD LANSDON (Approved by Army Censor) ': ORDNANCE, Ore, April 24.-(P-If the army needs a two-ton aerial bomb to drop on" Tokyo, or another box of pistol bullets for a soldier in the Solomons, like ' as not - the storekeeper here will get the order. , . . The storekeeper is CoL Arch ie G. Buyers, whe operates the Umatilla ordnance dti i a sprawling domain encircled by sagebrush and sand dunes along . the Colombia river. It' looks like a tremendous city built by tremcndeBS prairie dogs. . . Refuses 1 :;,':o:"'' 3 JOHN L. LEWIS i. UMW Leader Ignores WLB J Board, Undeterred, Continues Plans For Arbitration WASHINGTON, April 24-05) -Undeterred by John L. Lewis , refosal te heed its summons, the war labor beard went ahead Saturday with plans for arbi tration and ordered continued r operation of the bitominous mines under ; existing contract terms. Any Wage adjustments later ordered wtli be retroactive te Aprfl 1. Only the operators responded to the WLB request to attend .a preliminary meeting on the soft ; BIRMINGHAM, ; Abu April 24.-yp)-Prodnction of coal at five major Alabama mines was halted Sat u r day as miners failed to report at the four prin cipal shafts of the ' Tennessee . Coal, Iron ' and. Railroad '' Co., and one mine ef the Woodward Iron Co." - " coal wage dispute to" "determine procedure and timing. The board said Lewis did not - acknowledge its calL 'T'"''-- .' A three-man panel will begin private hearings on Wednesday, the day after a scheduled meeting of the United Mine Workers pol icy committee in New-York. The panel personnel, as yet not deaigl nated, will represent the public, industry end labor. . The board notified Lewis of its decision and invited him to suggest " ''several names" -by '8:30 ajn. Monday to help ;int the -selection of the labor member. The panel will hear the (Turn tor Page 2 Story. E) ? Kaiser Attorney 1 Predicts Case K Headed Higher; : . PORTLAND, Ore.; Aprif 24.ff -Harry Morton, chief counsel for Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser pre dicted at the Kaiser shipyard la bor hearing Saturday that the case will end up in federal court " The hearing is on national la bor relations - board charges that three Kaiser shipyards of this area signed illegal closed-shop contracts with AFL unions. Mor ton's statement was made after Trial Examiner Robert N. Den ham criticized ; defense attorneys for attempting to offer evidence of a kind which he previously had rejected. Colonel Buyers, hard - bitten veteran of the. army ordnance corps, can fill such an order, and double it or treble it if necessary. He has two-ton bomU .on his shelves, along with almost every thing else that the army uses to blast the Japanese, Germans and Italians. His stock is being en larged by every train that arrives from the coast and midwest, now big a stock he carries is a military secret, but to one ef ' the first civilian groups ever permitted inside the closely guarded enclosure it looked like plenty,. ... - h ' ' Sweden Warns Nazis ' Reprisals Threatened If German Attacks . On Ships Continue I By JOHN COLBURN STOCKHOLM, April 24-P) The , Swedish government, an nouncing the discovery of German mines in Sweden s territorial wa ters, sent a blunt note, to Berlin Saturday warning Germany about the mine-laying and expressing dissatisfaction over the German answer to a protest against ' the firing ' upon the Swedish subma rine Draken by the German mer chant ship Altkirch. J ' The government announced . the Swedish navy-will take measures against ' any German forces lay ing mines in this nation's terri torial waters as well as against ships which fire on Swedish ves sels. . " v ' While" the formal note to Berlin mentioned only that "measures" would be taken, qualified observ ers viewed the order as meaning that officers had been instructed , to open fire to protect the neu- 4 trality that has safeguarded Swe den from the war. : The note demanded assurance of the nazis that steps would be taken to prevent a repetition of such incidents as the attacks on the Draken, "Swedish naval vessels are or dered to take measures against ships belonging to belligerent powers which, through laying mines or shooting at other ships or in other ways, are caught in the act of breaking the ban against military action with Swedish ter ritory," the note said. It was disclosed that, during the Sjy&rch , f or . the ; missing Swedish submarine, submerged German mines were discovered Inside the three-mile territorial limit in the vicinity of Marstrand. Union Heeds PR's Orders, Quits Strike - NEWARK, NJ, April 24 Howard GilL president of local 12666, United Mine . Workers, an nounced Saturday "at the presi dent's request" members of the union would return to work Mon day morning at the Celanese cor poration where they have been on strike since April 10. In a telegram to John L. Lewis, president of UMW, and other of ficers of the union, President Roosevelt earlier Saturday order ed the union to end its strike at the corporation's plastic division plant and return to " work - by Monday noon. IS GUI said the union, in a meet ing Saturday afternoon at Polish Falcon halL "voted unanimously" to return to work. - ,.4 -;"k, ; 1 The president in his telegram hae assured us. Gill said, "that tie will see that the proper agen cies give the proper hearings that are necessary. That is all we want ed in the first place . The war " labor board Friday night .announced it had referred the dispute to the president Mem bers of the UMW had been . out for two weeks in jurisdictional difference between their " union and the Textile Workers of Amer ica (CIO), which holds a collec tive bargaining contract with the company. - - ::, Gill said picketing of the plant "stopped as of tonIght.,, ; 4, v The men will report for l the Monday morning shift, ready to be assigned to their posts, he added. Gill said approximately. 700 members of the union attended the meeting. In his telegram to the UMW of ficials, President Roosevelt had told them "if you do not comply (Turn to Page 2 Story F) The " ammunition Is stored in igloos, -or underground magazine dirt-covered concrete struc tures that i cover some; 15,000 acres. It Is packaged, inspected and held until needed at the front When an ; order arrives, civilian clerks; under the direction of Col onel Buyers, fill it and tranship it to ione port, or camp, as needed." ''. i:; The Umatilla - depot, is one of several located at strategic points throughout the United States. Here is a partial inventory of the stock on hand: rifle and ma chinegun cartridges, the popular A Generals ' X t a- iMiniimiM i ii in mm inn rr 1 n unit n n American army, forces under Gen. "Ike" EisenhouwerT (shown above, left), touring the Tunisian front with Lt Gen. George P. Pattou, , ir were savagely attacking the axis flank late Saturday nlg-ht at tempting a "break through ' which would trap axis forces facing Gen. Montgomery's Eighth army en the eastern anchorsUN Photo. Valley Churches Observe Easter Sun rise R ites ':K,i'':'';'- ;ip"-H;'"j'-f''-'-;-,t s.? !-T '-''""-;V:.'?"' As Easter dawns this year in the Willamette valley, hun dreds of worshipers will join union sunrise services at each of the leading cities. - In Salem, the Ministerial Hen Lays Egg 4Bomb' MEXIA, Tex. (JP) Easter in wartime ; A hen belonging .te Mrs. E. T.; Cox of Enterprise jumped the gun by a day, laid an egg that was a perfect bomb, complete te fan-type tail. IRA Stages Daring Raid On Theatre ; BELFAST,. Northern Ireland, April 24-JP)-Ari armed group of the Irish republican army seized a movie theatre in the'- nationalist section of the city Saturday night to conduct an Easter service for "men .who died for Ireland" and to protest; the. presence of Ameri can- troops In Ulster. , . t Hugh McAteer, IRA chief- of staff who, with three other IRA prisoners, escaped from a Belfast jail in January and for whose capture a $12,000 reward has been offered, appeared with the group. They stopped the show, ordered the lights turned on and directed the audience to remain, - - They clambered to the stage and read a "proclamation," then fled back into hiding. . Japanese Launch China Offensive CHUNGKING, April 24.-6fV- About 40,000 Japanese have laun ched simultaneous offensives from northern Honan and southeastern Shansi 1 in a converging drive against Chinese holding the ' Tai- han mountains west Of the Peip- ing-Hankow railway, - a Chinese communique disclosed Saturday. hand grenade, heavier rifle' gren ades fired with' the service rifle; mortar shells of : different sizes; 20mm, 37mm, 40mm, 75mm, 105 mm, 155mm, S-inch -and 8-inch cannon shells, bombs of various sizes and for. a variety of - pur poses,, including the two-ton block busters and incendiaries -Just in ease the enemy over looks the rule aralnst use of poison gas, there are shells In : s t e k ' to back up President . Roosevelt's promise, that the United States army can use gas Turn to Page 2 Story AJ 1 Tour Front A T -'i: r - ;-. . -' ';' association is sponsoring an hour of worship at the capitol. Dr. J. Edgar Purdy is the speaker, with the army band at the fairgrounds furnishing music and Prof. R. J. Lush, Cpl. - Mackey Swan,' . and Herroon Burke, guest musicians. Methodist youth at Dallas will attend, sunrise services at a. m. on Domaschosky hill. The Trinity and Christian churches in Silver ton plan sunrise worship, as do Turner church-goers, where a un ion service will be held at 7 a. m. along Mill creek. Aurora Presby terians will meet at 7 a. m. on Ir vinhill. . LONDON. April 24,-iAVUn-der the. same sky which two springs age waa filled with the German air force's rear of de strueUon. United State sold iers at dawn. Sunday will com memorate ' the resurrection ef the Prince of Peace. , Observins; Its seeond Easter lav Groat Britain, the; Ameri can expoditiouanr force will be te thousands of: British ar a serrlee ia -Hyde ' park-n' AaaeHouav. euetout new te the' playground and' forum ef London's millions. Four Salemchurches, the Jason Lee Methodist First Congregation al, Presbyterian, - and St Paul's Episcopal, have planned double services todays to handle the un usually heavy "attendance.! Early services are sef about 9 o'clock in the " various churches, besides the regular 11 o'clock meetings. Bap tism, reception of new members, and communion Willi be features of almost every service. Fruitland Evangelicans will re dedicate their church ending with a flag service for. those in' the armed forces. Highlight of valley v (Turn to Page 22--Story D) ; New Tax Bill Is Approved , WASHINGTON,' April 24 -fl A new' pay-as-you-go., tax bill, cancelling ' approximately.. 44 per. cent of J 943 tax obligations, emerged from the ways and means committee Saturday as the demo cratic majority sought to compro-J mise the weary house deadlock. . House democratic leader - Mc Cormack of Massachusetts promptly bid for republican sup port, for the plan,' asserting it re sults in "forgiveness of about 25, 000,000,000" and holding out this olive branch of conciliation; "My republican friends need not fear that such action would be construed as a defeat for them or a victory for the democrats, It would be a powerful message to our enemies of legislative unity. ricau Battle ' Savage Rommel Deserlo Armies as Siege Lines Shrink By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 24 American troops who sped secretly to battle from southern Tunisia and French forces on the northern 'coast were closing 1 on Bizerte from three direction . Saturday and the British were overrunning! strategic r Long Stop hill "In their push toward! Tunis against the rapidly shrink ing axis siege! line. In the midst of this sudden out burst of fierce fighting for the) principal remaining objectives in Africa the great naval base and the capital it was disclosed that ; the German commander. Marshal Erwin Rommel, had disappeared. Gen. Sir Harold Alexander's 18th army group headquarters an nounced the capture of a docu ment dated March 19 which indl- . cated that Rommel. . who. led - his Africa corps into Tunisia after "the long retreat from" El a Alamein, no longer Is in Africa. J : 5 i The document was signed by Col.-Gen. Jurgen , von Arnim af 1 general officer, commander hi chief, and not by Rommel. There have been numerous re ports recently . that Rommel had been spirited out of Tunisia to or ganize axis defenses along the; southern , European coast Other reports' have! hinted that he had fallen into disgrace with Hitler and been removed, while still oth ers said he was recovering in Ger many from an attack of malaria. Shifted from the south swiftly and secretly, American troops In the north have launched a fuiW scale attack against axis troops, 1 front dispatches said, and after " six-mile advance are fighting theif , way from hill to hill within t9 ' miles of Bizerte. (A French communique, record ed in London from north African broadcasts, said French forces had advanced more than . 12 miles in the Cap Serrat area. This would place them at least within 23 mile (Turn to Pago 2 Story C) , ' Tire 1 Ration Restriction Is Eased r : .-r WASHINGTON, AprU 24 -ifi-The office of price administration announced Saturday that motor ists whose gasoline rations permit driving more 1 than 240. mile monthly, will be eligible. May 1 to buy top grade1 tires, provided their present casings cannot be re capped. J 7 Most B ration-book holders will be qualified to get the grade J tires under the new ruling. Pre viously, a motorist liad to have sufficient rations to drive 580 miles a month td be eligible. ' At the same time, it was dis closed that the manufacture of "victory" tires from reclaimed rubber waa halted March 31 be cause performance was not up to expectations. Reclaimed rubbe will now be diverted to recaps and retreads, which motorists driviruf : less than .240 miles monthly may purchase. .. : L ' :' Strike Over JOHNSTOWN, Pa April 24-yF) Striking streetcar and "bus opera tors voted 50-48 Saturday night to end a one-day walkout which) threatened to tie up transportation of a large portion of the city' 25,000 steel workers. .-iX:---.; BACK UP YOURDOy Btfj mn Additional DondTedaj At. f '