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THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS YOL. XXXV NO. 29 IU fper eninsula eading newspaperi ESCANABA. MICHIGAN, TUI RSI)AY. APRIL 22.

1913 I A ssociated ress eased ire ews ervice (12 PAGES) BRITISH SWEEP UP TUNISIAN COAST SHIP SINKINGS ARE BLOW TO ALLIED CAUSE LOSSES 12 MILLION; MORE THAN 1912 TONNAGE BUILT Here It Is! Shangri-La! BY FRANCIS J. KELLY Washington, April 21. The Truman committee disclosed today that approximately 12.000.(*00 tons of allied shipping were sunk last than the total tonnage built in 19 42 by the United States and Great Britain combined. Calling the losses but not the special senate unit investigating war production problems reported losses were reduced in the latter months of the year, and declared confidently: submarine menace can and will be effectively Time Big The answer to the threat of the undersea raiders, the committee declared in a. report on shipbuilding and shipping, is the stepped- up production of new merchant i nd escort vessels, and the com- I ined use of destroyers and destroyer escorts, escort airplane carriers, land based airplanes quipp for anti-submarine work, and sub-chasers.

of these are being the committee declared. only question is that of In other sections of the 75-page, A 000-word document, the committee. headed by Senator Tru- i nil reported: 1. The quantlty-production rty ship is being redesigned into the with more powerful engines. 50 per cent higher speed and greater cargo urying capacity, although the i liange, sponsored by the mari- commission, is opposed by ihe navy and the war production 1 rd on the grounds it would be Vvis to stick to the sim- 1 i ty and standardization of design, 2.

The navy has done magi ificent in building a lass fighting fleet can nd up and slug it out with any other Nevertheless tho committee believes that navy should be -s conventional and conservative iu its spend less time p'opoundlng explanations of unfortunate situations, and encour- uge new ideas. 4. Our merchant shipbuilding record compares favorably with the British, 5. is no military secret that we do not now have enough shipping to supply our allies with the a pons and food which they re- and to transport and maintain overseas as many soldiers as can train or as much material wo can produce." fi. concrete barge program lias been 7.

Ships must be utilized effl- provision must be made for sufficient docks, cranes, light- i i and trained longshoremen. S. Through the ingenious use of s-te 1 supports welded to the decks, tankers now are carrying large quantities of combat planes and torpedo boats which formerly took up space below decks of dry cargo ships. 9. There is wide disparity in the efficiency of private shipyards.

Tho Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. delivered 12 liberty ships at an average of 393,858 man-hours each, while another west yard, Mariu-Ship at Sausalito, spent 1,620,679 man- hours on one vessel. Hips Propaganda German submarines have taken a heavy toll of our the report said. sinkings were unavoidable, but a large part of the loss would have been prevented had we had an early and large production of chasers and destroyer escorts. Such losses will be prevented TALKS ENDED DY ROOSEVELT AND CAMACHO America To Avenge Aviators Executed By Jap War Lords AXIS CITADEL CAPTURED BY EIGHTH ARMY JMMMHynaBBV Now It can be told! The Hornet was the mysterious base, called by Roosevelt from which Maj.

Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's flight of 16 bombers took ofi to bomb Tokyo on April 18 last year. The big planes had so little room on deck of the carrier that they had to make their run with ono wing extended over the side of the ship in order to clear the superstructure. (Official U. S.

Navy Photo) (NEA Telephoto) FIERCE GERMAN THRUSTS FOILED Desperate Nazis Trying To iden Toehold In Caucasus (By The l'i Loidon, Thursday, April 22 Sovie troops aided by airmen who devastating beat off another series of mass German counterattacks yesterday In the northwestern Caucasus uear tho bridgehead of Novoros- sisk, Moscow announced early today. The midnight communique, recorded by the Soviet Monitor, said the Germans were to achieve success at any in the Kuban river valley, and also indicated the Nazis were trying to Black Sea to besieged Novoros- Blac kSea to besieged Novoros- alsk. Soviet airmen were credited with sinking an enemy patrol ship, a transport, and two boats loaded with landing forces, presumably trying to cross from the Crimea to the Caucasus. In tlje land fighting the munique said the Soviet airmen dealt a powerful blow against the attacking waves of German infantrymen at most critical moment of the and that as a result all the German assaults were repulsed. Only sporadic fighting was reported elsewhere along the Russian front.

Berlin And Baltic Ports Blasted By Allied Fliers MEXICAN PRESIDENT VISITS 1. S. BASE IN TEXAS BY 4,1. It. I I Corpus Christi.

April 21, The presidents of the United States and Mexico said farewells to their precedent-breaking conferences after President Avila Camacho had been welcomed at the vast naval air training center hero and President had called the occasion of the great American historical The president of Mexico ami Mr. Roosevelt inspected the multitudinous activities at the busy training station, and saw a brilliant aerial display by a formation of Catalina patrol boats and a squadron of bombers. Finally they rode hack to tho railroad siding and said their farewells In Mr. Roosevelt's private car. Iliulillglit "areer President Avila Camacho was repaying promptly a visit to Monterey, Mexico, yesterday by the American chief executive, which Mr.

Roosevelt described as of highlights in my 1 They ate with 250 cadet officers, and Mr. Roosevelt spoke briefly and informally after the meal, through a public address system that carried to all parts of the station. am glad that the cadets are hearing what I have to be asserted, I want to tell you I regard this as one of the greatest A 1 an historical BY JAMES M. LONG London, April 21 Sweeping out in force In perfect flying weather, British notnbers last nil'it blasted manufacturing and oilier war installations In the Baltic ports of Set tin and Rostock, left Berlin alight with fires, and ranged widely over other of occupied Europe today in one of the biggest air assaults on German communications. Simultaneously, a mass raid by Russian bombers on the Fast NO COMPROMISE ON TAX SCHEME Two Parties Take Issue To House Floor For Finish Fight railway center of Tilsit last night started fires visible uway, Moscow- (Continued on Page Two) Weather by U.

ft- WcaUitr Baresi) Peninsula Loses 2 Seats At Lansing; Wayne Gains Six Lansing. April 21 leg- eoast ifilutive act reapportioning seats in the House of Representatves to grant Wayne and some other counties a louder voice in government was signed into law today by Governor Kelly. Under it Wayne county receives 27 seats, an increase of six, effective with the election of members of the 1945 legislature; and Oakland five, an increase of three. Genesee, Ingham, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties each would gain one more seat in the House. St.

Clair and Bay counties each would lose one seat, and other compensating adjustments would be made by regrouping counties into legislative districts to keep thp total House membership at 100. The upper peninsula will lose two seats. LOWER MICHIGAN: Warmer Thursday, scattered light showers in southwest and south central portions Thursday afternoon. I PPFR MICHIGAN: Warmer Thursday, light showers In west Thursday after- inMm. to strong 1 High Low ESCANABA 31 88 Yesterday Marquette 32 Miami Mnpls-St.

P. 3f. New Orleans 5 4 New York 4 0 Pittsburgh 37 St. Louis 33 Soo, Mich. Atlanta 40 Boston ....37 Buffalo------- 3 5 rlgO Cincinnati 39 4 2s Rapids Houghton 34 STATE PAYS TAX April 21.

General Vernon J. Brown forwarded a check for $218,262.25 to Washington today, to pay the first three victory tax on earnings of state employes. There were 17,074 employes on the payroll as of March 31. Brown said the state pays the tax quarterly for all ployes other than those of Michigan State college and the University of Michigan, HIP Boors FBFFD BY FRANCIS M. LEM AY Washington, April 21 The friendly Democratic-Itepub- lican efforts to devise a compromise pay-as-you-go tax system collapsed completely tonight, with the two parties agreeing to take the Issue on Income tax abatement, including the Ruml skip- a-year plan, to the House floor for another finish fight.

Their truce broken, the two parties again aligned themselves at opposite poles on the amount of taxes that should be abated to achieve a current tax basis for the 4.000,000 income taxpayers. Immediately after the breakdown of the bipartisan conference, Speaker Rayburn I) Text, Democratic Leader McCormack, and the majority party members of the tax-framing ways and means committee conferred and announced the Democratic rnern- brs would support a bill to tax 194 2 income at 1941 rates and exemptions and including a withholding levy against the taxable portions of and salaries, to be effective July 1. The Republican ways and means members also conferred and issued a statement announcing that a bill will be brought forward encompassing the modified Ruml plan, with certain wartime safeguards against tax windfalls, and another proposing the abatement of 75 per cent of the 1942 liability for tax-1 payers. nerly 100 miles announced. The broadcast said the fires merged into huge at Tilsit, and that big explosions' particularly near munitions dumps, among railroad installations and around tho harbor and airfield.

All Soviet planes re said to have returned safely from the raid, the fifth big attack by the Russian forces on the northeast German area since long-range bombing from the east was resumed April 10. Thus in a single night, allied bombers left widespread tion In three essential points along the German supply line to the Russian front, both Rostock and Stettin being Important links in that chain. In Rostock, the British also blasted factories producing Heinkel Enemy bombers struck back at Britain tonight, loosing high explosive and incendiary bombs on a northeast Scotland town. One bomb hit a tenant building and caused a number of deaths. A heavy barrage met the raiders as they flew In with machineguns blazing.

The air ministry announced tonight that railway yards at Abbeville were bombed In one of the day sweeps that also hit objectives in other sections of France, Holland, Belgium and northwestern Germany. Buildings well Inland iu England shook In late afternoon under the ion of bombs dropped along the French coast. II I I T. I I uhimtoi 1 1 i -1. General Henry 11.

Arnold pledged the army air forces tonight to the utter destruction of war lords in vengeance for the execution of American fliers captured after last year's raid on Tokyo. must not rest we must redouble our the air forces commander said In a message to all his personnel a few hours after President Roosevelt disclosed the Japanese had acknowledged putting to death some of the eight Americans they did not say how many and were treating other captured fliers as criminals, denying them all rights as prisoners of war. Arnold made clear that the Japanese inhumanity will not deter this country from further raids KELLY VETOES SCENIC ROADS Legislative Act ('ailed Threat To Present Highway System April 21, (JP) Governor Kelly today vetoed as and unwise" an act of the legislature which sought to re quire tho state highway depart- on Tokyo, underlining in his message the word in referring' to last year's bombing. Saying the victims of the Japanese died as heroes. Arnold told the airmen: those comrades I when you get a Zero in your sight have their sacrifice hefore you when you line up your bombsight I on a Japanese base your answer to their treatment.

of your comrades be tho destruction of the Japanese their lines of communication, and tho production centers which offer them opportunity to continue such President Roosevelt announced the American government had solemnly warned Tokyo that for this and any future of criminal Just, punishment will he administered to tho re: sponsible Japanese officials. recourse hy our enemies ro frightfulness Is barbarous. Mr. i Koosevelt said In a statement to the tiler it an people. effort I of the Japanese war lords to tlmldate us will utterly fail.

It will make the people SNOWSTORMS HOLD! I ALLIED PUSH IN MOUNTAINS IIY WKS II I MiHER Allied Headquarters in North Africa, April 21 The British eighth army has captured the axis coastal pivot of Knfidaville, has swung five miles northwest to storm the mountain citadel of Takrouna. and also has gained two miles in the Djehel Garct area farther inland amid Striking along a 10-mile front a tremendous artillerv armed with knives for close- quarter fighting, scaled the mountain positions at some points only 4 5 sotrh of Tunis, while the British first army gained slightly in the Med- sector 35 miles west of the Tunisian capital. Paves aj The Morocco premature in its said tonight. In a broadcast more determined than ever to blot I corded by Associated Pfesa, out the shameless militarism of that the DJebel Garcl, 10 miles ln- Japan land from the coast, had The statement, lssu- tured after a final 90-minute as- ed at the White House, was sup- fault). plemented by the state depart-j Allied headquarters announced ment.

Together, the statements the capture of Enfldavllle, 50 disclosed that: miles below Tunis, and said The American government In-! Initial objectives were captured Itlated Inquiries through yesterday after fierce fighting Swiss government immediately' which began with Gen. Sir Ber- after Tokyo radio broadcast, last I nard L. Montgomery a tremendous October 19, that military on Page Two) WARNING GIVEN ON POISON GAS and Sturgeon Bay through London Hears Hiller Is a portion of the wilderness state park and thence to Mackinaw' City. It also would have directed ment to build two northern Mich- planned for the eight Amer- igan scenic highways. leans.

He asserted such legislation. not until Feb. 17, how- would carry Michigan back to the that the Japanese govern- old highway days prl- ment replied, acknowledging that or to 1919 when the state trunk- Americans had been tried, line system was a bodge podge of to death, and that, as unrelated roads, designated by gia(H department phrased It. lerlslative acts. commutation of the The measure sought to extend sentence for the larger number of M-1S1 over the present so-called them, the sentence of death was sceuic route via Good Hart, Cross to certain of the Planning Attack On Russian Front iMtaiU Not known The Japanese accusation was that the filers had bombed nonmilitary targets and shot civilians, and they told the Swiss mln- an London, Thursday, April 22 The British government in extraordinary announcement said today that it had received reports that is making preparations for using poison gas against the Russian and wir.od that such a development would find British retaliating with the same weapon German munitions centers, s'-aports and other military objectives throughout the whole expanse of There was a sharp note of urgency both in timing and method of the warning to Germany.

Newspapermen were summoned to, the ministry of information ufter I midnight where a statement issu- ed from Prime Minister residence at 10 Downing street was read to them. The statement recalled Prime Minister previous' warning to Germany against any I use of poison gas against ally, Russia, and pointed out that resource and scale llvery have Increased since last in case the German's decide to employ gas. the highway department to build a state trunkline road from Cross village east to Cheboygan. Kelly asserted that to turn back from highway commissioner to the legislature the responsibility for ordering road building would represent complete parture from a policy which has resulted in the development of what is considered one of the fln- nt highway tfntMii the United I si. Rallies long range and scientific planning to determine the types and location of roads (Continued on Pans Two) DICKINSON HAS HEART ATTACK After Stroke At His Farm Home Leelanau 'Telephone Plant Sells For Charlotte.

Mich, April 21, Former Governor l.uren D. Dickinson, 4-year old dean of Mlch- Lanslng, Apt 21, UP) The 11 state public service commission his farm home near here tonight, has s.t April 29 for hearing of the victim of a heart attack, hut proposal by the Lake Ann and his personal physician said he was nviatt Telephone companv of than holding his own, and Lake Ann, to sell out to county telephone company of Kingsley. A heavy spring sleet storm In northwestern Igati was sabl to have inflicted no much damage that the I.ak** Ann firm could not maintain service and intended to sell out for $1.00. Republicans Meet To Pick Chairmen Lansing, April 21, (JP R. IXthmers, Republican state chairman, said today the party's state central committee would meet here tomorrow to designate I Cleveland, April 21 The chairmen of its four standing Gmit fleet, stymied for committees Mrs.

Dudley C. Hay. of Ro- nearly a month by severe Ice con- chester, Is expected to seek anoth- dition-, is slowly making Its may er term as chairman of the com- toward Lake Superior ports for on of Jron ore Iron Ore Fleet Moves Up Locks To Superior executive, audit and rules com- inittes also will be to serve with the finance chairman and Dethmers as the party's official campaign committee. Polish Radio Sends Appeals For Help Against Murderers Rum per Honen Crop Expected In State April 21, Donald I Washington, April 21. Light colored hip boots, used mostly for hunting and fishing, released from rationing today, OPA said today these boots, no longer manufactured, are un- Stockholm, April 21 secret Polish radio appealed for help tonight in a broadcast from Poland and then suddenly the station went dead.

The broadcast as heard here: last 35,000 Jews in the ghetto at Warsaw have been condemned to execution. again is erholug to musketry vollexu. people are murdered- Women and defend iu- selves with with their naked arms us Twenty vessels UpbOUtld to Lake Superior have passed through the Sault Ste. Marie locks, and ice i breakers were plowing up the ice in upper aches of the St. Mary's rbSF and bay, opening into Superior.

Four freighters, meanwhile have left their winter berths at Duluth for Two Harhors, Minn to begin loading iron ore for downbound Progrt sslng toward Whiteflah Point fftUWAf I rior, are carferry P. Barrett, chief of the apiary dl- of the state department of agriculture, said today that a Tj10 I bumper crop of bonev Is In pros- I in Michigan, if state JSm 1 Marie and Florida at orite. and the he breaker, Chief Wawataru. may be sent from the Straits of Mackinac to the bay. The Salnte Marie was channel- brace of thrt producers can hurdle a war-time obstacles.

He said that although growers are allowed 10 pounds of sugar i per colony for feeding purposes, i many local rationing boards have arbitrarily allowed them only inches about four Other feed and miles growing prospects indicate a big perlor. crop of honey, Barrett predicted, With if although the less of win- than ter due to cold weather was beav- most a ler than normal rh ice from 2 4 to 36 in an ice Id 40 by wide Inside Su- 9 fields much greater vear, navigation is al- onth later than the icefields of Whlleflsh bay last on March 2 3. Despite the late start in the shipping season, fleet Is pec ted to fulfill Its of 95.000.000 tons set by the office of defense transportation. Although the delay may hamper realization of the goal this year, according to A. Wood, DDT spokesman, it likely because fleet has been augmented by li new maritime freighters put Into servl this and which will materially add tonnage to the quota.

Last year, he said, the freighters brought down 92.077,000 tons to steel mills bordering Lakes Michigan and Krie and transportation to the Pittsburgh dls- trn center. March report of the Lake Superior Iron Ore Association shows ore consumption for the HrM months of this year is a record of 22.5«2.&4!* tons agaiust 20 670,672 for the comparable period a year ago. The association reports a decline in at lower lake and to 25,038,209 tons as of April 1 compared with 32 7 43.294 i and 2U.IS3 0U1 bad from the situation he was In this Dr. Allen Moyer, who has Dickinson personal physician and friend for years, said he could better on eventual In the morning. lie disclosed Dickinson has suffered for several years from organic" heart condition, although the doctor had Informed members of the former family of this weakness when he discovered It.

(emphatically. Dr, Moyer i heart attack was not Induced by any over-exertion, pointing out that Dickinson has been In the last five days nursing a lame back. Dickinson suffered the attack i at 7 a. m. and Moyer said when he arrived at the former governor's farm home, not far from own, he found pulse at The 'and Dickinson In severe pain He said administered opiates and the pain has been trials I artillery barrage Monday night.

enemy have heen said communique. continues Field dispatches said fell without opposition after 4 British column raced around city on its coastal side. (Official axis communiques had not conceded losw of vllle. but rapt. Ludwig Sertorins, Berlin radio commentator, appeared to be preparing the public for such an announcement.

In a broadcast recorded by the Press he said General Montgomery had concent huge numbers of reserves for an assault on the axis anchor point, and that the battle for the city Wednesday afternoon still was going on although changing iSertorius again stressed of w-af material and that aif superiority also made it rathef unequal Sleet and snow storms closed over a large part the axig mountain strongholds In northeastern Tunisia to restrict eat allied aerial offensive yesterday directed at ing the last fighter fields available to the enemy. Fighting The communique said 27 a.xin planes were destroyed yesterday at a of eight allied aircraft. Along with other planes shot down on previous davs but not reported before, this boosted to 151 the total of enemy destroyed In the last three days. There was every reason to believe that the fighting was to the British eighth army which now has left its desert theater and tackled the heavy task of shatt- r- (Contlnued on Page Two) Today's News eleven having passed through IS4- Hi III 1 Lansing, April 21, (IP Treasurer Hale Brake reported todav state employes have purchased $18.125 worth of wari bonds from his office to date lu the victory loan drive, An Fast Coast Canadian Port, I April 21, The Lunenburg schooner Flora Albert has been suuk in collision and IS of her crew of 22 are missing. It was disclosed here tonight.

I I FIUD Lansing, April 21. -Clover -1 nor Kelly announced today that; til state offices will close at noon Friday employes a Faster week-end. Ml IIPFK Police ike statements from Groth and Mrs. Pearl Kangas in Gust Autio death; arraignments today. Page 5, IMM Hanna fin.meal edror of Chicago Sun.

brands stoppage of work as wasteful. FW1FK I of ore no longer necessary. Page 7. BKAVF Pyla pays tribute to the of the FI rat luf try Division, Page 12. and furnishings needed for boys at Fort Brady hospital.

Page 6. FIUF urged to be careful in woods area. Pm TO 01.1.Ft Schoolcraft supervisors seek repayment of funds loaned by probate Page 9, Prepared tin cans will be collected iu Gladstone on April U. Paso.