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Ysnmlk Dim out mm- Sun. sunset 0:20 f.Ion. sunrise 5:54 XWeather on Page J) " ) Mils imisTt TinnD yeab A. Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning May 2. 1S13 rrics) Sc. xro. si Storm . , : p Ccilem. Oreoru Cunday Morning, May 2. 1S13 ' - Yankee Bayonets Drive Nazis Out Of Key Positions By GAYLE TALBOT Associated Press War Editor Bayonet - Fighting American troops, in the grim tradition of a previous crop of doughboys whose gleaming blades' were called "barbaric weapons" by the Germans back in 1918, have ... ....... , t . . . ....... ' . Stormed and captured two more Important heights in northern Tunisia to keep the allied offen sive from stalling temporarily against desperate . axis resistance, The first bayonet i charge at tempted by Lt. Gen. George S. fatton, jr.'s soldiers taJnorth Af rica yjelded both the Djebel Ta ken t, or hill 609, one of the most heavily fortified and tenaciously defended enemy strongpoints ; in the northern sector, and hill 523, just to the south, and brought the Important traffic Junction of Ma teur undos a'- thundering . bom bardment by American long range artillery.::" .j ' : The British first army, try Ing farther mkk to break, .thrsU the plain befere Ta rlv continued to back the most ? farla eoaaiert-. attacks yei Liaancbcd by the Germans an4 '.fer-tasecend stnlht day aei failed U make pregresa ki Was. fereeel to yield, some bar, ,Wmm grmmmi. The Germajmi re- . Tted to hav been caamamd- ; fce- by " Geau; June ,Aniim to ge ferward "wbateyer the coctr-behlnd yea Is the sea, were abewiag ate signs ef weak- eaiMr at any poiot. f . ( What might turn out to be new and heavy allied blows were her alded by the axis radio. An Ital- . San communique reported that Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth army had opened i an .intense artillery bombardment in the EnfidavilLe sector, a pos sible forerunner of a full-scale attack there, while the Berlin ra dio said an enormous allied fleet. Including three capital ships and three aircraft carriers, had passed ' Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. A special allied anneuneement latol yesterday j(SatBrdiy)4saId ;J. tt bad been eeaflnned that ev- em axis ships. Including twe de- streyers and a cerrette, . were - sank by allied .bombers and fiefcter-bombers in the Sicilian straits eff they eastern 1 tla of Tunisia on Friday. The successful American bay onet charges in northern Tunisia were made against crack German troops, dispatches from the front said. These were the same Ameri . can -- troop who receiyed their baptism of fire in the Maknessy area in the early days of the Tun isian fighting. . . There had previously been but Very little bayonet work in north Africa, only a New Zealand di vision with the British Eighth ar my having made a specialty , of this dreaded type of close quar ter warfare. There is said to be a well-founded belief among . the allied forces, that German troops, however well-disciplined, are in clined to break before the bay- net.l - - Tfcere still were several fer- - aoidable heirhts In the IS miles between the Americans and Ma ; ten where : the meantains - - break ento the TaaJaiaai plabi. aatd Pattoa mam face more bard,' bl4y fUbUng. before : they eeald see eat af the hHta.' Trench forces advancing to the north of the Americans were re ported nearing the Djedel Haze xnate region 14 miles northwest f Mateur. -- . Ship iOmous For Battle VANCOyVER, Wash , May 1 ypy-An if impatient to get at the .'enemy, the aircraft- carrier Coral Sea broke away a half minute ahead of launching schedule at the Henry Kaiser shipyard here Saturday. The wife of Vice Admiral Frank J.-Fletcher, "commander of the American task force that turned back the Japanese in the Coral : aea, swung the champagne bottle futilely as the vessel slipped down -the way. General Manager Edgar IT. Kaiser grabbed the bottle and hurled it against the receding prow, The bottle cracked. ; 7inninc the Var In Salem! now la the home city ef Sa lem helping to win the war? On five of the world's six eontl- nents, men f rem Oregon's green capital bear arms far their na tion and Its ideals of freedom. In sky, sea and air v bat at home . Those they left behind them also da their share. Read "Win ning the War In Salem." by Ralph Curtis en pare IS of to day's States man- . , . Russian Spirits High Stalin Optimistic, Lauds British and American alor By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, May 1-JP)-A new spirit of optimism swept over Russia Saturday in response to Joseph Stalin's order of the day in which the premier-marshal manifested his own greatest op timism '.since . the ' war began for the Soviet union nearly two years Though the Russian people have made many sacrifices and know they ' will : have to make many more, there Was that fine feeling ! WASHINGTON, Hay 1 -iff) Secretory ef 8tato Ball said Saturday Presator ' Stalto'S May jdajr "exder demanding- aneoadl- -ttoatat sarrender ef Germajiy ' wavstirrbsc ..saeeJ ' by ju able, toader thai la ta4a..stneJ among .them all on this May; day thai Stalin had assured the world thre- would ba.no peacemaking with Hitlec until Germany is de feated.' - ' Old Moscow, wias . gaily:decer- iRusswhiLihe The red army, holding the line fhewn above, was ready Satur day nixht to drive what Pre mier Stalls la his May day or slers of the day termed im- " aerlallst robbers' from ; soviet sou. Raasiaa spirits were ran-aing- highest siace Germany's armored, divisions swept to to the Ukraine two years ago. US Map. ated. . Red flags fluttered from every building and house, and on virtually every building there was a picture of Stalin. Red Square saw no parade for . the second straight May day, but it was gaily decorated: and the great Kremlin clock was resplendent with a fresh coat of paint ; I f: ? Russians have been kept 7 well informed of British and American air raids on Germany and occu pied countries, : but the official praise by , Stalin heightened their importance in the minds of the people. This May day saw Stalin deliver his warmest appraisal of the United States and Great Brit ain. : Probably never before had the Russian leader used such a word as "valorous" in referring to Brit ish and American soldiers. He is a man who uses carefully chosen and long considered word.- Education Plan Funds Set by Act Oregon school districts, having physically handicapped children, should make provision in their budgets for . the coming year for the -. education of - these children. Rex Putnam, state superintendent of schools, declared in a statement issued here Saturday. if , The 1943 legislature approved an appropriation of $140,000 for the education of physically handi capped children and this act be comes effective, on July 1. TT.WT Champoeg Celebration To Honor Oregon s First Government Sons and Daughters . Of State's First . Gtizens Plan Fete One hundred years ago today at Champoeg, Oregon's i provi sional government had its birth. There, today, Sons and Daugh ters of Oregon Pioneers sponsor the centennial observance of the occasion with a program to which residents of the great state have been bidden. " From the "g"r a I n country of eastern Oregon, . the fruited val leys, timbered mountains, mineral rich areas, ? western Oregon dairy lands,; the- coast tolk and ? river dwellers would join the. inlanders today in remembering the "historic meeting1 at Champoeg were there net work to be done at home and travel' restrictions. Their repre sentatives, however, will, gather with. Willamette valley families at the noon picnic luncheon In Cham poeg park and ' at the ' program which succeeds it. Schedule- of afternoon events ha- been announced . as follows: -'-1 pjnv Masie by aa army band; 2:15 Invocation by the -Rev. Thomas . Robinson, New- j berg; 2:lt Flag ralsingeere- I saoay; 2:21 Address of wel- i eeme by George W. - Caldwel ' Oresoa Trail Centennial com mission member; 2:23 Band medley' ef national and state airs; 2:3S Introdaction ' , of pioneers and; presentation ; i of i certificates to persons who came to the state before Oregon achie ved Statehood In lt5: 2;4 . Presentation of luetorieal books i to the Champoeg library by Harry Idelman; 2:42 Commun ity sing; 2:47 Address by Gov ernor Snell; 2:S5 Vocal sole by 'Sasanne Bareei S:0S- War bead Speaker; S45 Talk by Easica Frances Huxley of the SPARS; (Turn to Page 2 Story C) Local Budget Committee To Meet , First meeting- of the citizens' budget committee, for the. city, called for . organization purposes and to receive copies of the pro posed budget: for the new year exepcted to be. ready or distribu tion by that time, is scheduled for 7:30 Monday .night preceding the S o'clock council session. Meeting at the "Summer hour" for the first time this year, the council will receive several rev enue measures in addition to the recently publicized "pinbalT or dinance It is undented.1' Up for consideration also will be an ordinance which would charge a & per cent privilege tax to every Utility using the city's streets and operating here without a franchise. Few utilities operate here under franchise.' f Resolutions relating to the city's police responsibility toward juve nile offenedrs, pitched back into committee at the last council ses sion, are expected to reappear in slightly revised form, ? bearing names as sponsors of the speical committe on Juvenile delinquency and the policed commute of the council. . I Rally Arranged The executive board of the wel come center at 136 South High street has arranged for a rally at 3 pjn. today, according to Henry Mattson,- secretary-treasurer. Rev. G. Olson of the Portland united service center will be speaker. : County Tops Marion county topped its sec ond -war bond . goal- .Saturday and "isn't through yet," Victory CThairman Jess J. Gard reported. Purchases ' of war bonds by in dividual .citizens and firms , other than banks had reached $3,144, 527, Card gaid, with several re ports yet to : be received. As a result, , total .; subscriptions in , the county with banks included hit $9,077,487, tr $4,077,487 above the originally-assigned quota for: the three-weeks second loan drive.;;; . a Before the eeenty went ever Its IWOO.COS eaeta i for nen- baak ; pBrehases, V the ; ,TIctery "committee called en the citizens te set a SBiUiea dollars, a week ' Salem Judged 1st in Safety Pedestrian Deaths . Lowest for Cities Of Same Size Salem has been judged first in the United; States for cities its size in pedestrian safety for 1942, May or I. M," poughton was advised Saturday afternoon by the Amer ican Automobile association. , , "Congratulations to you and to Salem and its winning first place among cities of 25,000 to 50,000 population; in 1942 national pedes trian protection contest," read a telegram the mayor received from an official; of the association. Vv Mayor Dough ton, obviously pleased at! the recognition won by Oregon's capital, said he believed the city's record was due in large part to educational work of law enforcement agencies and to steady insistence on obedience to traffic regulations. That's really worth something,? commented Chief of Police Frank A. Mlnto, jspeaking of the award. "We've been bearing down on traffic regulations and the public has been; paying much closer at tention to j them. The public atti tude toward safe driving has gone a long way and we certainly ap preciate ii" i . Details as to contest results and other winners are expected to be made public, nationally on Mon day. ( ti ... .. ..j ... - Loggers Problem list McNutt, Herehey And Davis Issue Labor Directive i Loggers j joined farm labor .. at the head Of the nation's recogniz ed probelm list Saturday when Paul V- McNutt, war manpower commission chairman, with Lewis B. Hershey, selective service di rector, and Chester Davis, depart ment of Agriculture food admin istrator, ' issued a statement de signed to clarify the position of loggers in the draft and in the re cruitment of labor for war tasks. "Every possible step has been taken to insure occupational de ferment for all workers of military age who aire giving; a full measure of their time and effort to their jobs in logging or lumbering, the statement said in part., "This ap plies to aa workers, whether they are skilled or unskilled. Loggers and lumber workers, you are war workers. Stay on your war jobs.'; The statement, made public Sat urday night by the office of war information, was issued by the triumvirate of national war direc tors in conjunction with a volun (Turn to Page 2 Story D) MdSjutt Sets 48 Hour Week WASHINGTON, May 1 ; -A) Manpower Commissioner - Paul V. McNutt Saturday night decreed a 48-hour ! week for blast furnaces, steel works and rolling mills and set July J . as the final date for compliance with the order. . f - Under; the order, no steel mill working less than 48 hours after June 1 ; may. hire new i workers without the war manpower com mission's approval. Second Goal and Isn't reeerd.Ier S3.tSt.S0S for the .whole of the easepabra period. t : Expressing ; J. keen - satisfaction with success of the drive and ap preciation; for both solicitors and subscribers efforts, Gard said that when the! final returns are in it will be I found that the county non-bank purchases may have ex ceeded the official quota by $600, 000. Bank more than doubled the quota assigned toenvi -Late reports added to the sub scription 14sts a $1000 bond bought by Oregon parmers Union Coope rative association, of which Hom er M. Smith is manager, an addi tional $23f000 subscription by Sa lem Federal Savings Sc Loan as sociation, and heavy purchases by Over Gets New Post I i V v STEPHXN C MERGLER - - teve-Merger TaltesNewJoKi ..Statesman Blanaging J ; Editor to Edit Washington Paper Stephen' C. Mergler, managing editor , of The Statesman ainee 1939,. has resigned to become editor and manager of the Mt Vernon lArgus, an old established weekly f paper published it Mt Vernon Washington. . He will leave next week to take up his new venture. Mrs. Mergler and their twe daughters plan to re main in Salem until the close of the school year. Ralph C Curtis, who served as editorial writer and assistant pub lisher Of The Statesman, while Charles A. Sprague was governor, and since has been state editor. will take over the duties of man aging editor.. ML. Isabel Childs will become city editor., . ' rf Mr. Mergler Jomed The States man staff as reporter in 1930, hav ing attended Willamette university where be was editor of the Col legian one year. He handled var ious "beats4 on The Statesman news staff until he was promoted to the managing editorship in 1939. In addition to his . news paper work he has served as com munications .officer for the Ore gon state guard since December, 1941, and as chairman of the amateur shortwave section of the Oregon state defense council. US Bombers e nam On Continent By RICE YAHNER ' LONDON, May l-JP)-Royal air force bombers pounded the Ger man industrial city of Essen Fri day night and Berlin said Ameri can four - engined heavyweights attacked an . undisclosed , French harbor across -the English channel in daylight Saturday in a resump tion of the pre-invasion aerial of- f ensive. ; - .V ' While the Eighth US air force headquarters had made no an nouncement of the daylight opera tions several hours after coastal residents in Britain reported seel ing American planes roar across the channel, the Berlin radio de clared that a formation tof US bombers "attempted a raid" on a harbor in western France. ' ' The German broadcast, record ed by the Associated Press; claimed that eight four-engined bombers were downed, .': Cream Station Sold . OREGON ; CITY May I -(h Sale of the Oregon City creamery and . its cream receiving station at Salem and Newberg to G. Vo get, Hubbard creamery operator, was announced here Saturday. employes and r Proprietor T. A. Wtodishar of . the Capital , City laundry, , - WASHINGTON, May 1 HP) With sales for- twe of the final three ' days aggregatlag . well . ever a bCilon dollars, the tress ary reported. Satmrday that the aeeead - war leaa drive has brosgt la more, than $1S83. ' 809,eS8. " It thus became virtually . certain that' the final total to be an nounced about May 10 will i ex ceed $ 17,000,000,000, : an excess of $4,000,000,000 over the $13,000, 000,000 goal. ' '- -Since banking bouses were lim stag (0)1111 Civilian Supply Office Set By Nelson Reorganization Gives i More Power to Home Consumption Unit - - WASHINGTON, May MA?) WPB Chairman Donald M. Nel son Saturday night created a hew" office of" civilian require ments and - clothed Its director," Arthur D. Whiteside, with full power .to act as .spokesman for the civilian population for all consumer goods and services ex cept food, housing and transpor tation. . The civilian" czar, who la pres ident ef Dua and JBradstrei Inc was-authorized by. the war pro- duetion board chairman to. detor mme rationing ., policies and to issue- directive; telling , the office of ' price " abministratioa , when. where and how much" goods are to be rationed. Whiteside also received author ity superseding that of Rubber Director William M. Jeffers to determine how " much rubber should be ' allocated to civilians, and whether; it should be used for tires, corsets, or other goods, WPB spokesmen said, t- " The new effloe - la set ' mp within the - WPB and replaces the board's sld afflce of civil ian sapply headed by Joseph 1 . Welner. Whiteside will' retain the title of WPB vice chairman In charge of civilian supply, conferred April 15 At that time his functions were not designated. ' - - ; There was ho indication - then that an entirely new office would be ' created, Ji with t vastly greater powers - than, i: Weiner's 1 agency held."The ld OCS was almost en tirely an advisory staff, without power even to enforce its find ings on WPB's own industry di visions. " Leslslatloa new- before ' eoa (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Blood Donors Still Needed Red Cross Unit Here Issues Call for New Registrations " Registrations from persons wil ling to donate blood for life-giving plasma to be used to save lives of service men in foreign lands are Still needed at offices of the Red Cross, M. L. Meyers of that organization announced Saturday.' -..:.;-. -' - - . - Needed also are more cots, ac cording to EL r J. Scellars, who represent Red Cross and Ameri can Legion in making arrange menta for the blood donations, to be taken here each .Tuesday for the duration. - -r "- 4 : '""'':'-i' Possibility that the mobile unit which operated here Tuesday and again Thursday, the second time at the state penitentiary, may make regular , visits to Silverton also was. foreseen' here Saturday. Close to 40 persons came over to Salem 'from that city Tuesday to join Salem residents in donating blood. ' AIT donations are henceforth to be made by scheduled time, it was said Saturday, so registrations with the Marion county Red Cross chapter offices, telephone' 9277, are imperative. Tuesday 116 pints of blood were donated . by Salem " residents; Thursday " 141 penitentiary In mates contributed to the blood bank. Names of several hundred persons have been listed with Red Cross offices but more can be ac cepted for almost any Tuesday. Through Yet ited to $5,000,000,000 participation in the ; campaign, non-banking sources or so-called "ultimate in vestors'!; will have accounted for more s, than $12,000,000,000, or nearly .the. entire amount of the original goal ,.- '. . Secretary llorgenthaa served aetlce of eves greater goals ' fa the, fatare aa he. expressed his pleasure . at Jhe success ef the ' , campalga. 1 4The unprecedented ; sum bor rowed in this campaign, Mor genthau said, "reflects, the earn estness and vigor of our national war effort. ' v ; TBut even this performance must be bettered in the future." (Com Miners To. Resume All : Op eraiiLoris Roosevelt Threatens Use Of Armyif 'Rtilihg Is rN6tCmpKed : ' - By The- Associated Pros ... WASHINGTON, May 1 With a sweep of President Roose-' fvelt's pen the government Saturday seized control of the strike-'. swept coat utuu, ana saiuraay mgnt oiiiciais prepared to ciamp; down severe restriction on rail travel and. consumption of coal' in electric power generation to ease the-nationa fuel crisis. " ' , -VTegovrriment declared the'minee the property of the Unit- td State and invited the miners, ta work for thav governraentv subject to no oxde Jfxoia t a . a . , a ueia Aaniuuiuatvsiaroia of the rich," warrvrUlTOnpethat Japs 'Punish US Officers Domei Accuses Men .-; Of Posing as f .Civilians By The Associated Press v Twenty five. United States army and navy? officers and men and seven British sailors have been given "appropriate punishment" because they were said to have posed as ordinary civilians in the Philippines, the , Japanese ' Dome! news agency said last (Saturday) night in a Tokyo broadcast re corded, by the federal communica tions;' commission. ' ; ' '. The nature of the "punishment was not stated by Dome! which quote dT the Tokyo' newspaper Mainichi aa saying that the men had been transferred to a war prisoners' camp from ' the" Santd Tomas mternment camp in the Philippines after ' making "con fessions." '( '-t'."-- ' Mainichi, according to Domei, said - the Americans and . Britons "secretly discarded their military garb when their troops were de feated", last year.- because they gave "full credence to mislead ing Anglo-American propaganda that the Japanese killed all' war prisoners." . - Dome! did net attempt te re concile this explanation with the fact the Japanese exeeatlea ef some ef the US fliers who raid ed Tokyo was disclosed only re .eeatly by President i Ksosevelt. The Japanese agency said the "confessions' were obtained after one American private had reveal ed his - identity . and ; given the names of the Jl other men be cause he feared . disclosure. , of love affair that had . caused a "mild scandal", among, the Santo Tomas internees. , The i seven i Britons were , des cribed, as survivors of a 7,000-ton British ship, .Tantalius, which Domei said was bombed and sunk while -anchored In Manila Bay. ,These men also discarded their uniforms and pretended they were ordinary seamen, Dome! said, and added; that all 32 men now were under detention at the war pri soners' camp. Department Head Readies for Job v Oregon's new head of its state department of agriculture, E. L. Peterson on Friday resigned the post as Coos county judge he has held for i more than three , years, planning to come to Salem with Mrs. Peterson in mid-May to take his" new 'office. Meanwhile, he is traveling to Washington, DC, to testify before tho - joint congres sional committee on public lands. f l'D. Felsheim, editor of the Bandon Western World, succeeds Peterson, as county judge In; Coos. Society Cbooces : Salem Student " EUGENE, May 1-P-Ruth Van Buskirk, Salem, and Connie Full mer, McMinnville, were among 29 University of Oregon coeds pledg ed this week by Phi Theta Upsi lon, junior "women's honorary. Members are chosen for . their campus activities and scholarship. T7V7TFO m ...;,.'. i'.T .. .'. ... . !-, ; , -Ordered ' . . - " w jickc tooav ever aa manager produce 9& per cent of the na- . tlon'a.. coal mines where 480,00 men were idle today. Ickes said preparations were un der way to cut -railroad mileage . by one-fourth, to reduce the rails' load upon the. fuel stockpile. At the same time. It was Understood reliably that, a nationwide dim out is under consideration to con - President Roosevelt will talk ' te the nation's miners partlca- " larlyj and to the nation la gen eral, ever an radio networks at 7 o'clock (Pacific war time) tonight. ' j - The president la. expected to reiterate bW- reeaest that all miners retora hameUtcly to : the mines and work far their government, and to assure ' , them aaala that their dlapn to ' will be determined 7 promptly" sad fairly If the United Mine " Workers will" sabmlt It to the wartobor aesaVJ.' serve coal used by electric gen crating stations; . I - Ickee- urged the public to "con- serve- and save every pound of coal possible." Armed with aathority to use troops if aeeeasarr ia reopen- Ing the mines next week, Ickes , said: .- "I prar that, the aae of sold- lers will never become neces sary. They will not be called law . aaleaa It is abselately esseaUaU ' But .the troops remained at Ickes command if he ruled they were needed. President, poosevelt, who acted as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, give the ad ministrators full authority to call on -the war department for what- . ever aid he found desirable and necessary. w - -. ; . , . j -. . t - Ickes' began hia unprecedented job by dispatching "call to service" telegrams to 3,850 coal operators, ordering them and their, workers to be - on the job Monday. He called, in lh-regional managers and gave 'them instructions, telling -them "unless the mining of coal Is resumed, without delay, we face almost Immediate curtailment of - (Turn to Page 2 Story A) d Want Ms m ss- :iaii ADZ Vhont 02.02. f ' t ! f i
