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Molotov Delivers Official
Message to Government
In Exile at London
- By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, April 26-(P-Soviet Russia has broken off dip
lomatic relations with the Polish government in exile, accusing
it of cooperating with Germany in charging that the Soviet Union
was responsible for the deaths of 10,000 Polish officers, it was
announced officially Monday, ;
Tass, the Russian official news agency, said foreign commis-
OPA Clamps
Cafe Prices
Ceilings Effective -
; May 1; Coffee Is
- Partly Excluded
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.-()-Eff
ective May 1, restaurants
In. the three Pacific coast states
may not charge prices, either for
meals or beverages, in excess of
those charged in. the week April
4-10, the office of price adminis
tration announced Monday.
The ceiling also applies to cov
er charges and those for enter
tainment or other specific items.
Reductions in quality or quan
tity of servings : must' be accom
panied by an appropriate cut in
price. . . .
Food and drink may be sold
. below the ceiling price if desired,
r By May . 15, - menus must 1 in
clude ceiling prices. t
Purchase- of o t h e t items r
meals cannot be required as a
condition of sale, with the excep
tion that restaurants so desiring
may refuse to sell cups of coffee
unless meals are purchased, too.
l Regional -OPA : Administrator
Frank Marsh said the ceilings
were necessitated because "many
of the persons newly-arrived in
the area are without permanent
homes and are dependent upon
restaurants and similar establish
ments for their food require
ments. The importance of restau
rant : facilities at reasonable, pri
ces to the entire population also
Is substantial."
McNair Saved
By Helmet,
Report Says r
By the Associated Pnwo
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
UORTH AFRICA, April 26.-
XJeut. Gen. Lesley J.' McNair, who
was wounded last Friday , at the
Tunisian front, had to take a
three-hour jeep ride to a hospital
with a shell splinter lodged only
a quarter of ' an inch from his
brain, it was disclosed Monday.
The commanding general of all
US ground forces was watching
American troops advance in the
northern sector against German
.forces defending the approaches
; to Mateur when an axis shell ex
' ploded near his forward observa
tion post. '
Senate Okelis
Panama Deal :
WASHINGTON, April 26.-JP)
The senate approved and sent
to the White House Monday leg
lslation ceding to Panama exten
sive United States holdings in
that country an action President
Roosevelt described as desirable
to remove conditions "which , do
' not make for confidence and
friendship." ' ' , ':
AliV tllEUJUll VVA-M V
Nye (R-ND) protested should
have been in treaty form, turns
.over to the republic water - and
sewage systems and real "estate
holdings in the cities of Colon and
Panama, and liquidates a $2,700,
C00 debt representing Panama's
share in construction of the Chor-rera-Rio
Ha to highway.
An identical resolution was
passed by the senate at the last
cession of congress but for lack
of a quorum was not acted upon
by . the house until : it approved
the new measure April 13.
; The senate completed legisla
tive action by a 37 to .19 vote aft
er shouting down a motion by
Nye to delay action for two weeks
until absent senators could be
present. " -
Vyacheslav Molotov handed
the Polish ambassador, Tradeusz
Romer, a cote here Sunday, de
nouncing the Polish government
and - charging it with helping the
Germans carry out ? a'-, "hostile
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1 WASHINGTON.; April 2v-JF)-Th
first rupture of diple?
naaiie relations between two
members ef the United Nations
soviet Russia's break with
Poland caused anxiety in of
ficial and diplomatic quarters
here Monday night.
The state department Imme
diately voiced regret, "without
reference to the merits la the
matter of differences btweea
these two governments and
without knowing- as yet the fall
facta. Polish Ambassador Jaa
Ctechanowskl talked with Un
dersecretary Welles bat told
newspapermen be had not re
ceived official . confirmation of
Russia's move and could not
comment. -:
campaign" against Russia in con
nection with Germany's : accusa
tion that "the Rufsi&n4 murdered
the Polish officers" near Smo
lensk. Molotov's note, which said the
recent s behavior of the Polish
government violated "all regula
tionsT and standards of relations
between two allied states," char
ged flatly that the Germans had
killled the Polish officers.
The territorial question also
was involved. The note charged
that the Poles, by falling in line
with nazi propaganda, hoped to
gain some territorial concessions
in Russia.
. Friction has been rising for
weeks between the two govern
ments and on several occasions
Russia has cautioned the Polish
government in London.
(Polish government offices in
London were closed over the Eas
ter holiday, and . those officials
reached in the city said the gov
ernment had not yet received the
statement. Diplomatic sources
emphasized that tho note would
be-given the ' deepest considera
tion, and some took it for- grant
ed that the. United States and
Britain .would bo consulted be
fore any action was taken or any
reply- madeT, '
(British sources said the break
constituted - a temporary success
for nazi propaganda, which" long
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Funafuti, largest ef the nine islands. Flags mark major island bases.
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ROBERT E. LEE FOLKES
Fdlkes QuotefTSaying,
I Have It Coming;
Am Not Afraid'
SALEM, Ore, April 26-jV-Ro-bert
E. Lee Folkes, stolid 20-year-old
negro; entered "dead man's
row" at the' Oregon penitentiary
Monday an. hour after he was sen
tenced to give his life in the state's
gas chamber May 28 for the "low
er 13" murder of Mrs. .Martha Vir
ginia James. ; : '.-y
"I have it coming and am not
afraid to die," Folkes told Lt.
Ray G. Howard of the state po
. llee force while ; enroate ' from
Albany to the penitentiary. -
The prisoner sat in the rear seat
of an automobile driven by Sheriff
Herbert Shelton of .Linn county
and was handcuffed to Howard
and Curtis Chambers, also, a state
police operative. A police cat fol
lowed the sheriffs automobile. '
The Jury last week convicted
him of -entering the berth of the
21-year-oloT Norfolk, sVav bride of
a1 navy ensign before daybreak
last January 23 and slashing her
throat when she resisted. '
The conviction for first degree
murder without recommendation
for leniency made Judge Lewel
ling's sentence mandatory under
Oregon law.
Judge Lewelling asked Folkes
if he had any reason for desiring
the sentence delayed.
I have not," the negro said.
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Federal Fund Aids
Oregon Schools
WASHINGTON, April 26 JP)
Senator McNary (R-Ore.) learned
Monday that the federal works
agency made these allotments to
Oregon school districts to aid in
meeting administration and main
tenance cost-increased by reason
of the- war: ":- ---
District 1, Milwaukee, Clacka
mas i county, ' $29,610; district 6,
Orient, Multnomah and t Clackamas-
counties, $230; district 7,
Multnomah county, $9,100. '
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Negro Enters
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Walkouts
Continue
WLB Asks Officials ;
To Halt Stoppages; .
.. Lewis Keeps Silent v
WASHINGTON, April 'SS-CA3)
The War Labor Board asked
high officials of the United Mine
Workers Monday night to halt
work stoppages' in bituminous
mines, but additional walkouts
occurred.
' At least 14,500 were reported
idle Monday. 9500 In Pennsylvania,
4000 ' in Alabama and 1000 In
Kentucky. ' - '
The board telegraphed appeals
to JohoT L.' Lewis, UMW president,
and other officers of the union,
asking that walkouts at Pennsyl
vania mines -be halted and plan
ned similar action with respect to
mines in other areas. - ; . ;
At New-York," where wage 'ne
gotiations had. been conducted, a
source , close to UMW officials
who requested his name ' not be
used, said he' would "not be sur
prised " if sporadic strikes in the
industry which started last week
began to spread without any word
from Lewis," adding that Lewis
had not forbidden such action.
PITTSBURGH, April 28 HJP
Spreading coal strikes left "more
than 8000 soft coal miners idle and
a dozen . steel-company owned
"captive" and commercial mines
closed in western Pennsylvania
Monday.
. Operators also reported growing
absenteeism and a work slowdown
in other pits.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April 28
(-Indiana coal operators were
notified Monday by officials of
district 11, United Mine Workers,
.that the. union miners who have
been working under a temporary
wage agreement will.,. cease work
next Friday.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 26
VPfThe United Mine Workers of
America, district 20, notified the
Alabama coal operators negotiat
ing committee Monday it was ter
minating the temporary agreement
under which approximately 22,'
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RAF Resumes
Bomber Raids
On Continent
LONDON, Tuesday, April 27.-(JFy-The
RAT resumed the aerial
offensive against continental tar
gets by bombing Germany Mon
day night, the British announced
today.
- The announcement did not dis
close the specific objective nor the
weight of the attack, which fol
lowed up a series of daylight as
saults by British bombers on rail
way targets in both Germany and
France. : -,"
xne last raw night raid on
Germany was carried out Satur
day night, when targets in the
western part of the reich were at
tacked. That raid was the , first
British night aerial activity since
the massive assault on Stettin,
Rostock and Berlin the previous
Tuesday night. . , '
In the daylight raids Monday
speedy mosquito bombers struck
at a railway center in northwest
Germany, another in the Rhine
land and a third in France, near
the Loire river. . All the planes
returned.
Reds Repulse
Nazi Attacks
LONDON, Tuesday, April 27-()
Russian troops flung back a nu
merically superior German attack
force, annihilating about 800 of the
enemy.'in a resurgence of activity
Monday on the northwestern front
south of Leningrad, Moscow C an
nounced today. :
The nazi , thrust carried Soviet
forward elements back into a pop
ulated , place, - but an immediate
counterattack threw back the Ger
man forces before they had time
to consolidate their new position,
said the midnight war communi
que, recorded here by the Soviet
monitor. About a battalion of Ger
man infantry was wiped out.
In the important Sevsk area
northwest of Kursk, Russian un
its also repelled attacks of enemy
Infantry, killing 80 German offi
cers and men. In the Kuban val-
ey, where German forces have
tried to extend their bridgehead
around Novorossisk, activity was I
limited to exchanges of gun fire, i
Steady
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US Sappers Clear Enemy
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American forces Monday nisht were' still steadily hacking their way deeper lata the axis defense lines
around Tunis, the way being cleared In many places by sappers (like these shown above) whe poll
the fangs ef enemy mine fields te open a read fer allied armor ITN Photo. '.
TO Schedules
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Home Economics and
' Science Exhibits
Set to Attract v
An invitation to attend Willam
ette university's open house com
mencing at 8 o'clock i tonight, is
issued through the press to every
resident of th Salem area. Presi
dent; G. Herbert JSmith of , th pio
neer institution around which Ore
gon's ' capital , city was built, de
clared Monday. t j:.;;.
. Printed programs telling what
may be seen there will be present
ed to all calling at the university
library, and museum, library, lab
oratories and other features of the
campus will be open to the public.
Especially planned demonstra
tions in the various sciences and
home economics and exhibits in
various other . fields of learning
promise a wide variety of attrac
tions, while several features of en
tertainment for visitors have been
scheduled.
The open house, arranged to
precede the July 1 entrance of the
navy into the university scene,
gives Salem residents an oppor
tunity to inspect new Collins hall,
the f comparatively new library,
changes in old' Science hall,' now
the music building, and other im
provements in the physical plant
believed to have been instrumen
tal in securing for the institution
recognition as a basic training cen
ter for navy men. " . ' '
Swedes Riot
Against Nazis
LONDON, Taesday,! April 27
(Jpy- KUto broke- eat In two -Swedish
tewas when local nasi
groups attempted te hold meet
ings, and several persons were
Injured, the Swedish radio re
ported today in a ; broadcast
heard by the ministry ef infor
mation.. - Police with drawn sabers dis
persed a crowd estimated at
2000 whe hooted and threw
stones aa abont 5S nasis met ai
Uppsala heisnts, the broadcast
said.
Jap's Attu,
AN ADVANCE BASE IN THE
ANDREANOF ISLANDS, Alaska,
April 14 (Delayed)-(ff-Dorft kid
yourself; the , Aleutians are no
sideshow. Kiska and Attu are
tough nuts to crack . -
When and if American forces
want to expel the Japanese from
this American soil the price will
be American blood.
At Guadalcanal the Japanese
were taken by surprise and fled.
The beach " landings were made
with : little opposition. Marines
were not shot in the water. . ,:
At Kiska and Attu the enemy
is set At present Attu is weaker
than Kiska - much weaker. But
Attu is : becoming increasingly
strong and its gunfire, pilots re
port, much heavier.
When the Japanese moved
Into Attn and Kiska he did so
because tha Nipponese general
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Bond Poster
Model Held for
Draft Yiolation
NEW YORK, ' April 2.-P)-The
model for the shirt-sleeved
warrior on the "I was at Ba
taan treasury department pos
ter which mrred the public te
bay war bends, was under ar
rest by the federal boreaa of
investigation Monday as a
draft Iaw: violator, ,
: - This man, Maynard Barythen
Johnson, tt - year - old cashier
and short-ardereelcSatQir
bowery YMCA, was; accused of '
failing to answer a selective
service aestionnaire sent to .
him ' by his Spokane, Wash,
draft board, . and falling to re
port fer a physical examina-
US Bombers
Strafe Japs
In New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, April 27
Allied ground Jtroops who
hold ridgetop positions, overlook
ing the Japanese-occupied village
and airstrip of Mubo, New Guinea,
were given a fresh burst of aerial
support Monday by a formation
of Boston attack planes.
The raiders twice bombed and
strafed the area, which is on the
approaches to the vital Japanese
Huon gulf bases of Lae and Sala-
mauaJ Mubo is only 15 miles be
low Salamaua. "
The Bostons centered their at
tack upon a hill a mile and quar
ter northeast of Mobu where a
small force of Japanese;, is en
trenched. :--: ' '
Due to extremely stormy weath
er, lasting for several days, air
activity: throughout the sector
northeast of Australia was on a
small scale and in the northwest
was limited to reconnaissance, ,
Smuts to Visit US .
CAPETOWN, South Africa, Ap
ril 26HiP)-Ireinier Jan Christiaan
Smuts is expected to visit the
United States after the South Af
rican general election in August,
it was announced Monday.
Kiska Called Tough Bases
staff envisioned Attn as a sap
ply base aad Kiska as a sobma
- line aad . seaplane base. Me
. thedlcally. expecting attacks the
Japanese backed vp bis position
with guns.
: However, if one base falls the
other will be menaced. ;
Reasons why it may cost blood
when and - if American forces
want to shoot down the Japanese
flag are: ' -
First, our national policy Which
apparently is that we must deal
with Germany and then Japan.
This has made our Pacific front
essentially a holding front : y:
- Second, to dislodge the Japa-
nese at Kiska and Attn means
that beach ' landings - mast be
made. Attn and Kiska beaches
are few and they are heavily
covered with light and heavy
AHIed' Aranies
Tunis Mines M&A
Mine Field
County Goal
Seen Tonight ;
$75,000 Needed to
Pul Subscriptions
Over the Top
Bond sales' forces are dedicat
ing themselves today to a charge
destined to take Marion county
over the top ' In, the second war
loan ? by: dusk t9nigbt,j7s hours
ahead of the, deadline, according
to Chairman Jesse Gard. 1-
With $75,000 in war bonds in
vestment yet to be secured Mon-
By The Associated Press. ;,t
- Here's what the :$lt75 yea.
par for a $25 war bond will bay: '
12 hand grenades, er
: 72 films ' fer aerial photo
graphs, or
; 125 mildew-proof sandbars. -
When yoa bay a $25 war bond
for $18.75, $18 goes ImmedUtely
into runs, planes aad equipment,
the treasury says. , : . : V ,'
day night, Gard. predicted that
Marion -" county) - bond buyers
would be far ahead - of their $2,
500,000 minimum quota before an
other payday. t'
Banks, to which had been . as
signed an equal quota, were well
beyond their goal last week.
Oregon lalp Paper eem
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Navy Denies
Ranger Sunk
WASHINGTON, April 26 -JPy-
Navy headquarters flatly - denied
Monday that the United SUtes air
craft carrier Ranger has been tor
pedoed and sunk r even dam
aged." "Neither the Ranger 3 nor . any
other US carrier has been sunk or
damaged in any ocean," a spokes
man told reporters. He declined
further comment on the German
radio claims Sunday that the 14,-500-ton
carrier was sunk by a lone
submarine in the north Atlantic.
First US vessel designed speci
fically as an aircraft carrier, the
Ranger was launched in 1833. She
originally was fitted for 1788 men.
including flying personnel.
guns. Tha rest ef : the islands
beaches are cruel, rocky, man
killing. And apposed beach land
ings always cost blood - Iota
Of It. ,:yy.;y,---y-V...,
Third, the army has had little
experience in opposed beach land
ings. And opposed beach landings
require a perfect coordination of
land, sea and air forces, y .
, -Fourth, tha weather, if it fol
lows the Aleutian pattern, will
not favor us. It may well prevent
accurate surface and air "soften
ing.' April to date is an example.
We are set to dump at least 50
tons of bombs daily. So far this
month we have had one such day.
Fifth, the Japanese are ready.
; It would be difficult to take
.them by surprise. It Is doubtful
tf wa caa catch them, away
from their gang as they were at
StrfltCffic
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Seized
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To Within 3 Miles ',
Of Pont Du Fahs
By WILLIAM B. KINO
ALLIED HE A DQUARTER3
IN NORTH AFRICA, April 2t
T-Steadily hacking down ax
is defenses in hard fighting, al
lied forces have seized impor
tant heights on each "of the thred
main -sectors
of the ' Tunisian
the central area
front; and
in
posed critical threats of smash-
Ing through to the Tunisian,
plain for a surge that would crum
ple all , the enemy's mountain
lines,' y .'. '
French troops drove to within
three miles of Pont Du Fahs on
the southern , front, and on the
central sector east of Goubellat,
30 miles from Tunis, First Army
armor was reported clashing in .a
finish fight against all the tanks
that the German command could
muster, with heavy losses already
inflicted on the enemy. V
, German troops fell back Son
day before the American attack
to the north, with advanced ele
ments of the Second Army corps
cominr within three miles east
f Sldl n'Sir, aad only some If
miles southwest of Afatear, rail
and hlxhway Junction between
Tunis and Bhertei"--' ; '
y. The French striking at Pont Du
ft ans nave, aavancea li miies in
36. hours of fighting, the French
communique said, and east, of th4
Kebir .. dam have - captured tha
strong position of Djebel Chirich.
Allied infantry seized the for
tified hill of Sidl Marrour, tlx
miles east 'of Bou Arada, and re
pelled enemy counterattacks. ;-.
. A military spokesman declared
there was "general improvement
in all 'our positions all along tha
line" Sunday despite "very hard
fighting against very hard oppo
sition." ) ; v
Tha-axis forces which head
aaarters annoaaced Monday had
tost ,t saea knied. waandetf
and captured ! between Jan. 1
aad April . 15 were elinrinc
desperately to their moantalm ,
positions, and beginning to shew t
signs af exhaastlon la the face '
of the jBcessaat allied land and
air attack maintained for faor
;'daya, 'i.-:;-;.y--- r'
The allied advance was eating
into their defenses at tha rate of
two to three miles a day, and al
lied spokesmen said the axis lost
of strategic hills overlooking thd
plain along . which tho Pont Da
rahs-Tunis road runs could havf
been avoided if they had had re
If German lines give way at any
point, iney saia, uiung auiea- aiv
mor opto that plain, Von Aminj
would have to withdraw ' all his
forces to new positions before Tu
nis if he could. - 4
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(The Alriers radio said In
.htaAAmaft FMarMl fiw iVtm a.
sociated Press , that 64 German .
tanks had been knocked oat In
the last 72 hears.)
On the, southern end of thehf
western mountain line the Ger
mans were yielding many of theia.
strongholds with little resistance.
Headquarters announced that tha
French 19th army corps had woa
five mountains after only brief
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Guadalcanal August 7. (AI Tu
lagl, Gnvuto j and Taaamboga
where . the enemy had a little
advance warning tha snarines , "
suffered their heaviest landing .
leases.) , . . ;
Some men who know Attu and
Kiska by photo, and by AA fira
are taking bets that if and when
American forces make a beach
head oi these islands there win
be land fighting for six monjtha
later the same time it 'took
on Guadalcanal.
BACH UP
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Lay an Additional
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