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V -- . . Ce (J)jl v From Wilderness Wilderness and cout line beauties of Cony county 'have a charm of .their own, j as found by Statesman-Ore ; goia State Motor association - niotorloguers. See page . . Generally , fair today and Monday; fog forming on coast; warmer today with low humidity; cooler Mon day. Mar. temp. Saturday S3, min. 46. River -3.8 fu North wind. : PSUNOSO 1651 jniJLTirru year Solera. Oregon Sunday; Homing, July 7, 1943 Pric Sctfowssiandji 5c No. 8? Salem's Beauty y Contest Entry Fatal Rioting IsP-deto Ballot Frenclo. Airmeii . BomlB GiBraltaF, Base Meet v : . .tfstif (i i it 'it it - JlV VS if - ; II III Detroit Blaze Believed Held; Suspected Set Covers 500. Acres; Logs and Donkey1 Engine .. . Are Burned Dee Fire Still Spreads as' Hundreds Battle, More Help Asked DETROIT. July : ,S-(p)-Three hundred -fire fighters' battling flames In green, timber In the Blowout 'range near Detroit had by this afternoon surrounded the EOO-acre- fire, which. - broke out Friday afternoon about 3 o'clock. Foresters said unless wind springs up, the blaze would be controlled. , 1 Believed to, be of incendiary or igin, the fire started in logging slashings of the Mill City Manu faeturing company logging opera tions and soon licked into the Willamette national, forest ' in Linn county. A watchman re ported that he had heard an ex plosion just before the fire broke out, and the forest lookout re ported seeing black smoke Im mediately after the blast and start of the fire. Every available man from Mill City, Detroit and Idanha was rushed to the fire area to supple ment CCC enrollees frpm Mary's Creek- camp, Vancouver, Prine viJle, Hoodoo and Fish, and two truck loads of Eugene civilians. A spot fire broke out about two miles from the main conflagra tion this morning, but was re ported under control in the af ternoon. In addition to the . standing timber lost, several thousand feet of bucked logs and a donkey engine belonging to the Mill City Manufacturing company we r e burned. .'.'-- Although the fire is only two miles southwest of Detroit, the town will not be endangered un less the wind changes, rangers said today. T . . i " -. v PORTLAND, prei .July tHsy- two new rorest jires ,m .uregon roared at "of" control In to valu able green", timber tonight' while Washington's fire f 1 g h t e rs checked.-all but' one of their tim ber conflagrations. ; Oregon's Dee a n d Blowout creek fires rode stiff winds over fire lines, sending fire fighters reeling back.--The Dee fire, in Mount Hood national forest, covered more than 2000 acres and was in green timber. Seven hundred and fifty men fought it, calling for 'help as they fell back before the flames' blistering advances. Only the wind prevented it from reach ing rich Hood river valley or chards. The 14,000 acre blaze in Lewis atd Cowlitz counties, Washing ton, near Bawfaw mountain back tracked today as the wind shifted. Fire fighters said as long as the present wind held they could keep the blaze within present boundaries. The fire ate its way Into Cowlitz county near Ryder wood yesterday. Changing winds also enabled fighters to control a 4000-acre blaze on the Lewis-Thurston county line near Vail and a 2000 acre fire in King county in Wash ington. A 900-acre fire on V ash on island, Washington, was in hand but a 1500 acre slash and brush blase threatened a score of summer homes on Lake Boren, near Renton, in the western Cas cades. " Two fires in Oregon's Wolf creek country, one of which de stroyed the logging town of West Timber today, were controlled. VUAU1 C UJL JLTCdlll In Fight Denied ASTORIA, July 6-;p-Rabert Max Balrd, 25, Clatsop boom man, pleaded innocent today" to a manslaughter charge filed after an inquiry into the death of Ward D. Barnett, . 58. - Sheriff Paul Kearney said Bar nett died while fighting with Baird on the Watluskl river July 4. A post mortem examination, the sheriff added, showed Baj v ava ; va , cm- ucuivi i uiigo d suiting from a blow on the head. Baird, Kearney said, admitted tussling" with Barnett but de nied slaying him. Baird was bound over to the grand Jury under $5000 bail. June Harris of Albany Drowns, Sanliam River ALBANY, Ore.t July June Harris, 20, whose father was killed In an accident five years ago, drowned - while swim ming In the Santiam river late today. She was the daughter of Mrs. Waltir Glasgow of Jeffer son. The body was recovered, 1 Our - . . . i, Kl . F . Senators Lz-A, G-4 , 5 sr. 1 s - k. Ml 1 r , it. Hard to beat will be Capital poet . No. 9 of Salem In the statewide bathing beauty contest- at the ' American Legion department convention at Seaside In Sep tember. The attractive y o n n g woman above,- Lee Ryan, is the reason. She won first place in ' the local contest, conducted at - the post's July 4 celebration- ; Statesman staff photo. , - i -Pflitl flauserB Cotutnn We were walking past a bakery last night when. we noticed a sign that sald,5 "1rrtrrT!5 "Come in a n df hear our musical cakes." ;. :, When the girl came ;to wait on t us we' told her': a we wanted -oi hear a musical , y. cake. - "What'U you have?" "she said and we said "W h a t'v e tou got?" FnJ B. HsttMr. Jr. Well, it turns out they have Hall, ! Hail, the Gang's All Here" and wedding marches and lots of others. Even "You Ought to Be in Pictures." The girl got out some of the musical attachments (the cakes come extra) and played them for us. She played, "Hail, paU," and then the wedding march from Lohengrin. J The music boxes either form a base on which- the cake is placed or are stuck right inside the cake. The wedding J march kind' goes inside the cake, be cause they're usually pretty cakes and sometime hare room enough for a whole orchestra let alone a music box. .- . The girl told us they have quite" a cairfor the musical cakes, but that the music boxes aren't sold. They're (rented out for 50 cents a night. JShe said they could prob ably getjyon any music yom want ed If . you. cared to wait long enough. : : j ' s- Lots! f J people like music f with their cakes that way, she Informed us. 'It'a more fun than a picnic when you have a birthday,?' she said. - Nazi prisoners moved to Can ada are now Interned in ramps which la Canadian spokesman aid ari far from civilization. Xothlngr like the British for i hospitaility. ' They even . try . to (Turn to page S, colj 8) Hop Marketing Agree Heavily ' Supported in Vote Nearly 74 per cent of the Pa cific coast hop growers. voted for the proposed marketing ' agree ment the federal surplus ' mar keting administration announced yesterday. The agreement! still re quires the approval of handlers of hops; shipped lit interstate or foreign commerce, j Votes i-vere cast by more than 700 growers, representing more than 7 0 ! per cent of tho volume of hops' produced In California, Oregon and Washington.! The fa vorable rote represented 72. per cent of, the volume of hops pro duced by growers balloting,, on the proposal, the marketing ad ministration said. I :: : j: The agreement 'would replace a similar one in effect wince Au gust 15 1938, which automatic candidates ' Assert Blowished . Is Certain as Votes Are Cast Newsboy Demonstrator Is Victim ; Almazon and ; Camacho in Race ' : MEXICO ; CITT, July : Tne killing of one newsboy and critical wounding of another in a pre-election street-riot late "to day -brought a warning from the newspaper . Ultimas Notldas- of a "savage feast tomorrow" when Mexico's esUmated 9,000,006 Vot ers vote for a new president. While government officials In stated "There can be no revolu tion," the camps of the rival can d 3 d a t e s predicted ; widespread bloodshed and Ultimas Notlcias asked: ' ' : ' ' ." " , "If this (the. shooting) -took place fa the vicinity of half a do- sen newspapers and news agen cies, what will happen in regions beyond-the frontiers of civiliza tion !"; ' . The riot occurred when 200 newsboys, supporters of the anti- administration candidate, Gen Juan Andrew Almazan, " demon strated in front of the headquar ters of the marine department workers, who, with . Mexico's other unions, are backing the ad ministration candidate. Gen. Man uel Avila Camacbo. " f In addition to the one death, three boys were injured, one so severely he was expected to die. Police tonight imprisoned 10. un ion members, after rescuing other occupants of the building from the angry boys. 1 Substantially the entire army of 52,000 was kept to barracks and police were on the alert. ' General Almazan and President Lazaro Cardenas, who is backing General Manuel Avila Camacbo as his successor, exchanged re criminations in newspaper state ments. : (- - .i-": - Saloons w e r. e ordered closed sttl ' ;a complete' shutdown of streetcar, bus and taxlcab, service is expected . tomorrow-! a ; shut down which A Imatan people as set ted- was ordered by the unions to keep Almazanistas from reach ing the polls. i Oyation Accorded Hitler on Relurn Seems Spontaneous This Time, Says Loclmer; People Jubilant By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, July - iff) - Adolf Hitler came . back from his con quests today to ride across a vast carpet of flowers and hear the tumult of a welcome such as Ber lin had never seen before. The proportions of this home coming were Napoleonic 'the press, in fact. In an article writ ten by Hitler's own press chief. Dr. Otto Dietrich, compared the fuehrer to both Napoleon and Caesar. I have 'ridden behind Hitler many times at Nurnberg party conventions, when he entered Danzig last September, when he returned victorious from the Au strian anschlass. There always has been enthusi asm, but. today it was different, j The distinguishing feature was tUe complete abandon with which tfco population cheered, waved flags and cried "hell." I had a feeling that those hun dreds of thousands who lined the streets were, happy, at long last, to have a " chance to blow ; off steam. . The Norwegian campaign had come and gone . and yet Berlin continued its wartime,, work-day existence. ' ; Holland, and Belgium were conquered, but nothing beyond a display of flags was arranged. Paris fell. France asked tor an armistice and Hitler had the sat isfaction of meeting its represen tatives In the same railway car in- Cbmpleg-ae" forest where Foch, In 1918, dictated the terms. Again nothing happened i n Berlin, beyond 10 days of flag (Turn to page 3, coL 7) ally expires at the end of .the 1939- 40 crop year. . The secretary of : agriculture can put the program Into effect if it is favored by "at least two thirds of the growers voting, by number, or by volume of produc tion, and if It is signed by han dlers of 'at least. 50 per cent of the volume of hops shipped in interstate or foreign commerce. The program is designed to provide machinery for controlling hops supplies should such con trol be needed and should the. in dustry clesire it. It does not i es tablish or if lx ; the quantity:--of 1940- 41 hops which may be han dled in interstate or foreign com merce, but provides for such ac tion if marketing conditions war rant. . ;. Yank Marines Make Arrests, Shanghai Area 15 Japanese . Gendarmes Held for .Violation, Zone Agreement Suggestion That Indies Become Independent iced in Tokyo SHANdlUl. "July -(Sunday) -P-United ' States marines, pa trolling their Shanghai ! defense sector, arrested 15 plain-clothes Japanese gendarmes i today. . All were ! armed and were scat tered along streets of the Am encan sector la violation or an agreement not to enter that area. . They were locked In the marine brig, and marine authorities' In dicated they would be held until apologies. i . j Japanese! officials explained the armed ; gendarmes were sin the American ; sector "to protect' ueut.-ueu.Tosmzo wisnio, com mander-in-chief of the Japanese expeditionary , forces with head- ouarters at Nankinr. who arrived at Shanghai this morning "to in spect Japanese Interests.":: Marine i authorities said how ever, thati it previously had been agreed the Japanese were j not . to enter the area without informing American officials, and said they were capable of supplying Gen. Nlshlo with; a guard. - ; t A few of the Japanese gen- darms attempted to resist arrest, the marine authorities reported. but; were ! overpowered . quickly, deprived of I their arms and rush ed, to headquarters in, trucks. One ef the. group was permitted to telephone pis superiors, i TOKTO. July 7(SuitUrH -Toshicf Shiratori, former, Japa nese , ambassador to Italy advo cated today that "the people of (French) h Indo-Chlna - and the (Netherlands) East Indies should be freed from the present -colo nial status and given Self govern ment." . Shiratori i made his suggestion in an Interview marking the third anniversary! of the outbreak of hostilities in China. j Statements issued simultane ously by official sources empha sized Japan's desire to bring the conflict to a quick end to pro ceed with construction of a "new order In east Asia." Shiratori : declared "there Is no reason nor Justice in the present situation wherein nations on the other side; of the world control (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Farley to Retire Newspaper Avers NEW YORK,, July -VThe New York! Times says that Post master General James A. Farley will retire i from national politics shortly after the democratic na tional convention, to become head of . the ' New York , Yankees baseball team and' its affiliated clubs.' ' ' it. ,.:..il:.-.L' " Farley will not accept re-elec tion as chairman of the -demo cratic national - committee - and also will ! resign soon as post master general,'' the newspaper says. ,: I j - jjr-'pr ; ;. . v Former Govenor James M. Cox of Ohio was named as Far ley's principal backer In a pro jected purchase of ' the Yankee baseball empire irom the : estate of the lata . Jacob Rupert. The newspaper said the price was said to be between $3,500,000 : and $4,000,000 Bomb Scare Dud; Package Contains - Hose; ancTHankies NEW YORK, July .-CrTV Crowds at! I New York's world's fair got their second bomb scare In a week today. ' " . - ; - But this time, instead of a dead ly explosive similar: to the one Which .took! two lives Thnrsday and injured seven; it proved to be only a package etntalnIng-rwom en's silk stockings, and ! hand kerchief. - Hj -;!:-Vt".---'r , -!"-' The package was discovered In the British' pavilion- the i same structure inj which the death-deal ing bomb was found two days ago. It was rushed from the. pavil ion into the fiittle-used area: where the earlier explosion occurred. ' Members i of the police bomb squad examined it with a portable x-ray machUe, which disclosed no bomb-like structure. . Other sources said It was about the slie of a cigar boxfc wrapped in brown pap;r and' bore ft note saying: i - . "Please deliver to address in side when opened. Danke scnoea (German for 'thank you.')T The package was found about 45 p. m. (ESTl by a guard near statue commemorating; Eng land's Magna Chart a. - I , - ; WORK SPEEDED ON HIGH LEVEL RESERVOIR " ' 7 in.,) iciii.ninfir n.ii-.ig.M, They could call this hole in the . It Is the excavation for the new heights which will supplement on Faii-mount hill. The same .wis weeav accoraing to uart.JH. uuentner, water aepartment by Vlesko & Hannaman, will of Summer Concerts Monday Blunicipal Band to' Start Series ; Only One This Month, Announced ' The Salem Municipal band, will give Its first "summer concert of 1940 In Wlllsoa park at S o'clock Monday-; lrht.,, Conductor - H. N. SCottdetrnieyer aamdUcedVester- day. Because of the band's Cen tennial - activities, no other con certs will be played In the park this month; Monday night's program will be as follows: . MMTek'OlrmpUn" Rotli Orcrtar "1S12" Tsehaikowtky Ccm trio "Mr Bmddie" K left man Flared bj Henri. Henderson, fabtt and 17ash . Fopmlar Special ArraBfemrnta (a) "i m tiettiK BeaUmental uver Ton' arranged by Paul Toder () "Th Dipay Doodl"by CKaton Walti "Blue Daanbe" -Straoia Intermlaclom March "Old Wlllametta' VStoadenmeyer Finale from "The New World Sym phony I)Tork Popular Nombert (a) "Over The Hainbow .... ' Arlea (b) "At the BalalaiW Paafprd Harcb "Orecoa Bute rlr" - . ,. Stondeaoieyer Finale "'The Star Bpangled Banner. Members of the band this year are Charles Pabst, Carl B. Arm prest,' J. W. Nash and Adelbert Henderson, cornets; Roland De Sart, Roy Anderson, Delmer ; De- Sart, Robert Pintney; Henry Stou- denmeyer, Jr.. Glenn Williams and Francis Allen, clarinets; -Vernon Wiscarsoni oboe; Glenn Burright and Gordon Finlay bases; Donald Stoudenmeyer and Robert DePray, drums: Hugh Allen and Carl Bow man, baritones; Hume Downs, Al len Robertson and W. M. King, horns; Ralph Erickaon, Donald Burton and Elvin Holman, trom bones. " '- Food Bureaus Are : Set up in France BERLIN, July .-vP)-Food bu- reaus are being established by German . military authorities in occupied French territory to con fiscate and apportion all food, ag ricultural products and semi-finished goods, DNB, official German news agency, 'reported tonight In a Paris dispatch.; . ' It' said the bureaus were set up fin the interests of a Just and continuing supply of foodstuffs in occupied 'territory." In addition; all. business estab lishments must continue operat ing, and "employes are forbidden to quit or strike. - 4 v- Explaining that the requisition of foodstuffs did not mean expro priation. DNB said the right free ly ' to dispose of these- products merely had been withdrawn from their owners 'in the general Inter. estvT ' cy -f - Stores may stock to the same extent as In' the past year without special permission, DNB said, and sales to customers for their dally wants are under no special con trol. ;-T;.;- f';-?-,: -- J Property Of Nazis Stated IJLISBON,5 July -rP)-The gov-i era ment said tonight It had been informed by Berlin that Germany would not recognize the transfer to Portuguese or other neutrals of Interests -and "incomes owned by Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, Eng lish and French citizens or companies- In .Portugal if made since the. war, started.- - An authorized source said that while'the government was not di rectly concerned it deemed it best to advise "interested parties" of the German attitude. . ground Candalaria lake if ft weren't 500.000-gaIlon Salem water department . reservoir on Candalaria high level system storage now restricted to the lOO.OOO-eallon tank pumps will fill both. o equal-levels. cost f 12,500. statesman, stalf photo. Wbs Belief ins LONDON, July 7-(Sunday)-(fff-A Germaa bomber was shot down by British fighter planes off the south coast of England early this morning, the air min istry announced. rj LOXDOy, July V-(&)-Aair ' ministry eommanlqne this' mmw said Gernaaah?craft''; at tempted mtrrerml '''attacks -.oia ' the northeast coast during last night, but 'were.' driven off by our anti-aircraft defenses with out any military objectives be ing reached. , r: ' The communique added: "In one village near the coast some cottages were damaged. Casualties were ' small . In number but they included a few persons killed." BUDAPEST, July 6-(P)-Re-ports of continued Russian troop movements in Bessarabia and along the Persian frontier reached Balkan capitals to night, leading to conjecture as to whether soviet Russia is is planning new moves." r .Military circles wondered if Russia is considering, an event nal drive on the Dardanelles, with a diverting move from Persia, . , ' ' . lXNDON, ' , July .-S-0 charges of. "spreading- false news, the French government at Vichy has ordered the arrest of four prominent French jour nalists, all of whom already have left France, it was reliably reported in JLondon tonight. : They are Genevieve Tabouis and Einlle Bore, both now ia Xondon; Andre Geraud, known, as fPertlnax, now en route to the. United States; and Henri de Kerillis, now in Canada. ' STOCK HOL5I, July 6p King Haakon of Norway, a ref ugee in England since his king-, dom capitulated V to Germany, was reported here tonight to ; have refused to abdicate. ; -The Norwegian administra tion in Oslo, however, apparent ly, anxious to set up a perma nent government under Ger man occupation, was reported -to be negotiating for a new pro-' German regime without the king. . DuPont Plant Guarded, Dynamite Found BATON ROUGE, La., July 6.- LFr-Extraordinary emerge ney regulation so rigid that company employes said "Franklin, D. Roos evelt himself won't be able, to get in here now without a special pass" were put into effect today at the $20,000,000 Dupont-Ethyl manufacturing plaat following . a dynamite scare. s , i j TBI agents and state and coun ty police joined in the bunt for three men who reportedly ; lied upon discovery last night, ' lea v ing four sticks of dynamite Inside the plant fence under which they had burrowed.'" s '-h - Officers late today were uncer tain whether the attempt was the crude work of some "sorehead." as Sheriff Newman Debretton put It. or an effort to sabotage the huro plant here; vital tn national defense as the source of a third of all tho tetraethjl fluid used in the highest grade, gasoline .con sunied in the United States. - The DuPont company of Dela ware does not own the plant but that It's going to be covered over, Pouring of concrete will start late manager, xne reservoir, oeing onus - Morrow Honored, Demo Convention Both Parties Call Meets of State Central Committees PORTLAND," July 6 Pr-Dr. J, W, Morrow of-i Portland, mteran democratic delegate at target from Oregon, learned today from Wil lis Mafioney ; chairman of the "Ore gon delegation, of his 'appoint ment : at honorary vice-president of the national convention. - - - -' Dr.,iiorrow will leave for Chi cago Tuesday for the convention which opens July 16. Other Ore gon delegates were leaving by train and automobile this week end or early next week. The Oregon delegation is pledged to President ' Roosevelt for a third term. - In the meantime calls for or ganization meetings of both, the republican and democratic state central committees as reconsti tuted by the May primary ; elec tions were dispatched today. Republican State Chairman Kern Crandall's committee pf 3 C men and 3 6 women will meet here July 13. Crandall is expected to retain his chairmanship inasmuch as no opposition has appeared yet The democratic state central committee will meet here Satur day, : August 3. State - Chairman Frank Tlerney of Portland will have opposition In his hid for reelection. Charles H. Leach, treasurer of the state committee. has received considerable support for the chairmanship. - Flavel W. Temple, (Portland, and - Clarence Hyde," Eugene,- have been men tioned for the post. r- " . : . - - i ' Plans for Qiurch Plans for the new First Con gregational 'church building have been completed by Architect Fred Eley and have been , sent to New York -for approval of. the Inter denominational Bureau of Archi tects, Rev. Robert A. Hutchinson said -yesterday 1 i: :,- ' ? Details ef the plans will not be made public until report from the New York .bureau Is received. It Is expected late -this week. The bureau Is maintained by the Fed-r eral Council of Churches to ad vise concerning church building plans.. - . More Tightly operates It for the Ethyl Gasoline Corp., of New ' York. Adjacent to it lies one' of the nation's largest oil refineries.:, operated by the Standard Oil company, where much .South American petroleum is refined. --'-- Discovery' of the attempt fol lowed an anonymous telephone call to' a night watchman from a man who said that while hunting frogs late last night, he discov ered three men attempting. to In vade the plant. The watchman in vestigated and found the hole and dynamite, on which fingerprints were found. . Sheriff Debretton said he was Cracking the unknown caller;' :- - ;?-'. .: . : : - , - , . Huge tanks of tetraethyl lead, an ingredient of airplane fuel, were . near the place where ' the dynamite was found. Three months - ago an' unexplained1 ex plosion in one of the buildings there killed three workers, Injur ing others. Precautions were tlrhtcneH then Inasmuch II Ei- t ton Rouge is a river port, visit-j ed by numerous foreign seamen. Building Prepared ..: '.r - '- - . r - ... i Craft Trapped At Alexandria To Demobilize Elsewhere French Fight ; Back Due to Earlier British Attacks Grounded Dunkerque Is Fired Upon Again to '.... Insure Crippling i tr ' LONDON, ' July 7-( Sunday )-(ffJ-Reuters (British news agea-r cy)' said today In a dispatch from Vichy that the French naval ministry had acknowledged that French planes had; participated in raids on the British base at Gibraltar yesterday,! The news agency said the fol lowing communique had been is sued by the naval ministry: "Two naval air squadrons which , were being demobilized were rearmed and 1 attacked at their moorings at Gibraltar Brit ish vessels which, took part la the cowardly attack at Mers El- Kebir. At least one British . ves sel was hit." LONDON, 1 July - 7-(Sunday )- ifiT-A Reuters, Briusn news agen- -cy, dispatch from Vichy, Franee. today quoted. an Algiers dispateh as saying the French battleships . Dunkerque and Provence and tbe destroyer Mogador lost 200 killed and ISO seriously wounded in the naval battle with British warships last .Wednesday. " The - dispatch- also said there were only 200 survivors from the French battleship Bretagne. He? she was In-port at the time ef the p battle and probably many of the crew were ashore on leave. The four ships were reported ashore as a result of the fight. It was said engineers were stu dying means of refloating them. (By the Associated Press) The British struck again Sat urday in therr new-found I spirit of aggressiveness, punishing . the icuuauu nui m l targe w lam French tleet, bombing a French battleship already stricken, and. hammering from the air; at . Italy a sea power. uotn navy and air force were at work. Two of France's re maining warships were sunk. Commanders of the French warships at Alexandria, Egypt, under the guns of British ships and shore batteries, were reported to nave agreed to demobilizes their vessels,, apparently not car ing to fight either for or against Britain. At . least one battleship, two heavy cruisers, . one light cruiser and an undetermined number of lesser craft were affected by this " decision, which a Cairo- broad cast said was amicably made. The French, temporarily freed by Germany and Italy from their- , iterranean, prepared to defend, from - their bases what navy is left. That they were doing so was Indicated -when : two British planes attacking French naval units In the Mediterranean failed to ' return,1' -; '- -: . .' - s -'''::-.' The IS 69-ton gunboat Rigault de Genouilly was torpedoed, the French said, and the 1367-ton destroyer Frondeur was sunk try two British cruisers off tbe Island of Crete. - The British returned to . the attack on the 28,000 - ton French, battleship Dunkerque already grounded and put out of action In the - engagement off Oran, f Algeria, . last . Wednesday which signaled the opening of the British campaign to. sink French war . vessels refusing to surrender. The admiralty announced that warplanes had scored six hits on the Dunkerque, the intention ap- ; parently being to make certain ' beyond any possibility of doubt that the vessel was out of action for good. - - British planes bombarded Ital- . Ian - warships in the harbor at Tobruk. Libya, while other planes attacked aa airdrome! at Catania In Sicily. Hangars and workshops were reported destroyed and left in flames. . At the same time it was re ported that the 2 ,5 00-ton ; French battleship Strasbourg which eluded the British at Oran. had arrived in Toulon along with five 7000-ton cruisers and a naa- ber of destroyers, sahmi.rines and gunboats. : Adolf Hitler returned to Berlin from his conquests, riding: on flower-carpeted streets to a thun derous welcome. He made two appearances on tie chancellery balconies, but did not speak-. .Britain added 300,009 men to its erer-erowjng armies, as sfee worked to make the island as Etrong a ierecse : as possible against the tiireatenf-d nazl lara sion. ' : ' Men of 30 years o!a ere ez- ed uP and before tt-. end of tie month three more croups have registered, inakinsr a poten tial total .force cf ts000,00t. it.-