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13KEIYTX2ST TEAS
Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, April 4, 1942
Prlc5c
No. 319
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TT! O - 77 7T
English Town
Suffers; Paris
Plant Raided
Dover 'Hell Corner'
j Is Nazi Target
RAF Loses Two
By Th Associated Press ,
" LONDON, April 3 The re
awakened fury of the western
air war left flame and rain
Friday night from the Seine
to England's staunchly guard
ed southern coast.
The Germans were over the
southeast coast, one of Thurs
day night's targets, again Friday
but in considerably less force.
-Violent anti-aircraft fire kept
them high and there were no im
mediate reports of bombings. ,
Overnifht battle nd bomb
ardment in the liM of an April
moon brought the fiercest ex-
change of blows In months as
the RAF Jelirered Its third as
sault on the Matf ord truck plant
in the Polssy suburb of Paris
and the German air force gar
- a sooth coast British center one
of its worst raids of tha war.
A southeast English town also
was hit The English targets were
identified by the Germans as Port
land (south coast naval-base ad
jacent to Weymouth) and Dover,
.southeast England's "hell corner"
- on th-narrow -strait' across from
France. ;
Portland is one of the bases
from which the recent British
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Moslems Say
No to Plan
Generalissimo Sends
Plea to Accept
To Nehru
ALLAHABAD, India, April 3
(flVMohammed Ali Jinnah, lead
er of the' Moslem minority, de
clared Friday his followers would
never accept any proposals that
would prevent their achievement
of an autonomous Moslem state.
NEW DELHI. India, April t
(AVOeneralissimo Chiang Kal
fhek, leader of free China, was
understood Friday to have ap
pealed to India's leaders to re
consider the formula by which
Britain Is seeking that sub
continent's full cooperation
against the axis In return for
Indian Independence after the
.war.'
The precise nature of the gen
eralissimo's intervention was not
known; specifically it was not dis
closed whether he had urged In
dia's acceptance of the most con
troversial point Britain's insis
tence that she retain control of
Indian defense for. the emergency
period. .
At all events, however, he was
said to have sent a special messen
ger to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,
former president of the all-India
congress and perhaps the most
powerful figure on the Indian
side of the table, and this alone
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Easter Services
Sunday Set for
Park; Petticord
Rain or shine, thousands of Sa
lem residents will arise early Sim
day morning to attend the Easter
rAmrise services, which are being
held this year foT the ninth time
fit Belcrest Memorial park under
the auspices of the Salem Minis
terial ' association, :x
Taking cognizance of the new
tar time, the program proper will
J:;!a a half hour later than usual,
;S0 a. m. instead of 8 o'clock, but
half hour of music will precede
"the regular devotions. : " . ,
The program is as follows:
' S rvStlS a. m recorded Tnuaie.
m. ra.. oran concert. Ber.
f l l . uciubt. West Salem Methodist
it a. trombc sold. The Old
T I'Ci'fl," Lesuea Carson, rust
Full Price
Plan! Is
rt
44
Item
Electrical Appliances Are Affected
By Latest OPA Order; Consumer
Goods May Get March 30 Price
WASHINGTON, April S - flPJ
44 household electrical appliances Friday night, while office of Burma front for the first time in Prome" had pulled back north
price aiministration officials disclosed they had under discussion and, taking off from bases in w.ard .to jjj? "maIJn ,def
. . . . . , -..-.x r.. nnJ U reAal nm Thursday. Thig suggested that the
a sweeping pnce-ireezing pian o
already under ceiling orders.
The electrical appliance ceUing applies to retail, wholesale
and manufacturers' prices, and
freezes them at the levels of
March 30.
It covers electric toasters, waf
fle irons, shavers, curling irons
and virtually all other commonly
used household electrical equip
ment. Acting Price Administrator
John E. Hamm said rationing
of the articles was not contem
plated, there being sufficient
stocks on hand or In process of
manufacture to last through
most of this year.
This action has been taken to
nr.vmi r,m.w.T nrW in view
of the war production board's or-
der to March 30 halting produc-
tkm of these and other electrical
M I
annual, rm Mair 31 " Hfltnm
staWrrT.r-v-.4X.-- . tJtankr.-in-'-Tepu
The mice order is effective April
7, Hamm said, and will remain in
force until June 5 unless super-
ceded earlier by a permanent
schedule of maximum prices.
This action came as OPA of-
facials confirmed that a proposal
for a vertical price ceiling on all
consumer goods, at both retail and
wholesale levels, was being stud
ied. They emphasized, however.
that no such action had been de
cided upon finally and that sev
eral other plans to' sharp OPA's
assault on inflation were under
discussion also.
Behind all the schemes Is a
general intent of attaining more
effective control than the pres
ent technique of clamping price
lids on each commodity, one by
one, as each soars beyond reas
onable levels. One suggestion
calls for Imposition of price ceil
ings by entire groups of eom-
modlUes, Instead of by single
Items; another propose. ? arbl-
trary limitations on dealers
markups.
If a decision finally is made in I
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Britain Goes
2 Hours Early
LONDON, Saturday, April 4-
-isriiam wiu go on couhie
summertime two hours ahead of
Greenwich mean time at 2 am
bunaay (6 pjn. Saturday Pacific
war ume, until August 9, lour
weeks longer than last year.
British clocks have been one
hour ahead ' of Greenwich time
since the war began.
Bntain on double summer time!
will be six hours ahead of New
York on eastern war time. The
normal tune omerence between
ixraaon ana wew Yorx is five cantonment construction, as well
hours. ' ; 'las classes In ramntrv. machine
rat Sunrise
Belcrest: .
to Spexik
ri -n,ri.. Pr.- o,a
l'tt rii.
v.i
.vr mvii waws - a w unlliua
ms sa " a. i i i
tnoruso, " raixicidi aeisuigcr - prom
iSiS- .- -.?rr
InvocaUon, Adj. EdwT. K11L Sal-
w Male quartet, eelect! Humbert. Wll-
lamettdr univrfrttT. - Michftel Cjkrrrlim.
ESt K W..?
- - - - -
"Mee.f rJLS"?
siiical church" " " "7 -:
" Tromboos kij. -Christ Arose - !
H rircnn. Tint Christian church. .
u. una.
man. suitwooa udiin anortB
VI
A request that suence do main -
" . H "
tained by persons going to and
from their cars has been made by
Don Douris, for tne Miiiisterlal
assouauon.-...
hannel
apanese
Freezing
Scrutinized;
. ry
s jjet veiling
- Price ceilings were imposed on
appiy 10 an consumer guoua not
Nazi and Red
Oaims Huge
Berlin Asserts 16,700
Russians Die; Front
Little Altered
BERLIN (from German broad
casts) Saturday, April 4-PV-The
237th Brandenburg infantry and
A1 Mil. . T 1 1 f t-A. J
,,1 TT., T
antr7 divisions have killed more
than r 16,700 Russians, captured
ana pesxroyea or capiurea bu
tacks during the past lew weeks,
the serun racup said Saturday.
BF.RI.m, (from German
broadcasts), Saturday, April 4
Axis-sponsored Croatian
troops killed 77 "communist
partisans" operating in the
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Night Glasses
To Start Soon
Shipbuilder Training
Aimed at Supplying
Needed Workers -
New night classes, set up to
provide short intensive training
courses to prepare marine elec
".r; .1, , "?
fJ
tridans and ship Joiners for the
are to be organized immediately
in Salem, C A. Guderian, coordin -
ator here for the national defense
training program, announced Fri
day night. :
The classes, set up in response
to a request received this week by
Supt Frank B. Bennett of the Sa-
lem public schools, are to be con -
ducted in the vocational shsops of
the senior high school. Offered
with exnress curnose of suddIt-
Ing the need for workers in de-
fense industry, they are to prepare
men to fill Jobs which pay $1.12
per hour and ud as basic wages,
I Guderian said. To those workers
I who are at present losing Jobs
because of priority restrictions on
I materials for tnivate use thev of -
I fer ' a genuine opportunity, he
I maintained.
The : defense traininff nroeram
offers also courses in general
sheetmetal to prepare workers for
I the shipbuilding industry and the
as classes In carpentry, machine
tool and auto mechanics. Ten
classes in ship wdding are con-
ducted in Salem, ..with room for
a few more enrollees. ,
more enrollees.
laoroumeni m tne classes is
through the office of toe US. em-
aJivimcns service at i iw m mj
street They are free as the entire
cost other, than that for personal
tools is provided at federal expense
th!fU Mjteon of vo-
I " -w vivi srawv V4 v v- mtmamm
"
iinaclian Unit r
Iri ! Formation '
!NV
,h - . . . : - '
from Ka 10 Downlr
w sa.
'Tu wiuua wi nex ww cwys,
I InfArmrl .miarf&M . .. mmtA i TVt4
i.i i
.
1 ' y VS WAkUU . SVI . UUsMJ
1 wer holi-vori .ht uit.
I Gen. A. G. I McNaughton com-
mander of the Canadian expedi-
I tionary force; upon his recent re -
Iturn from home.
8
First Action
lAen US'
DUima
Cruiser Fired; Other
Enemy Craft Hit
In Bay of Bengal
LONDON, April (Sat
urday) (AP) Huge United
States fortress bombers hare
spread their wings over the
-v r- , i
mana 01 maj. uen. iewia
Brereton, nave set nre xo one
and probably damaged two other
ships in the Bay of BengaL
The action the first by this
new outpost of American arms-r
took place at Port Blair in the
Andaman islands, recently occu
pied by the Japanese as a base
from which to prey on the supply
route to India and China.
The first communique Issued
by the New Delhi headquarters
of Gen, Brereton, who Is com
mander of Um US air forces In
India, said one enemy fighter
was encountered by the squad
ron of United States bombers ;
and that enemy anti-aircraft
fire was intense. But an the
American ships returned safe
ly, and without damage accord-
&IIWQ
JL
tag to the eomissunlque -ifoeibejEFaf jiepartaent reported I toli the story upon his arrival in
:Usbefl'T Satttfarteti'DaSsn I rid.v.-7 r Tth UnliedfetateV 7
Sketch here.
This first activity of American
heavy bombers in this - theatre
came as the Japanese were press
ing the British hard in Burma to
the north.
The text of the communique:
"American flying fortresses of
the United States air forces made
their first attack from India Sat
urday.
"Led by MaJ. Gen. Lewis Brere
ton, commanding the United
States air forces In India, a squad
ron of heavy bombers attacked
the enent's shipping at Port Blair
(Adaman islands) setting fire to
one Japanese cruiser and - one
troopship and probably damaging
two other ships.
"An enemy fighter was encoun-
-
fire, but iio damage was soistamed.
I 7
fl J fTl
F araQC 1 lUie
1 tb m J l i J
lflUVCU. iQCliU.
Moving up the hour of Mon-
(day's army day parade in Salem
I to 9:30 ajn members of the Mar -
ion County Civilian Defense coun -
J dl Friday were assured the co-
operation of capital dry merch-
ants aJ public schools.
At the Retail Trade bureau
meeting Friday afternoon, repre-
senUtives of business houses
J agreed not to open until 11 son,
I so that employes might partid -
pate in the parade or view it from
I the sidelines. ,
Schools of the dtr will not open
1 until 10:30 iw so that dupOs and
I teachers may Join the rest of Sa -
llem in honoring the army on the
I annlversarv of the United States
entry Into World war 1, Superin -
tendent Frank B.
Bennett an-
I nounced.
Te.T" TT lJt.'
aVV; XlUTTieS
v - .i
I Iif-i finnfl tvwt ' '
IlUlllliilUla .. .
i.i j.ytrv
wnmrr.Tnw ari a-iPWTn
'annocement ct
--s t inrinw sns u imr stiruaiia - -" - i
i - ?as .a 4otia
Langley," the destroyer Peary and
. r.v t -.. r,,, bsvkI
, 4h;t : ,kh Tfram
jftinitiatrng Individual inquir
The naw's communique re
garding the loss of those snips
and the naval tanker KSeos saia
that the next of kin of all per -
sons lost in the Pecos, have been
notified and ?the next or xm
i -sw wmt - .
council was announced Eat-
notified or wiu be notmea us
as mformaUon Is- avaua&ie,"
I ' "
m... J f TT
-rf-- -
L. Weather 'forecasts : withheld
and temperature data deUyed
by army revest Klver rriiay,
1 : J feet. Max. tcmperatare Thurs-
I day. sa. no-
British
Retire .
North
Abandon Prome
For Main Lines;
Bataan Holding
NEW DELHI, India, April 3
(-Extreme Japanese' pressure
in a night long battle in the!
jungle country along the Irra-
j waddy river forced the British
to withdraw, northward Friday
- i
zrom rrome. neretoiore thel
La' i a
w. pim ui e
Burma aexenso lines. I
Tlritich riMrlmiarfara mnA 4 Via
British Imperial "covering force
I
-an(j River city never had
been counted upon as th place
: maico ,
miles to the north,
A spokesman denied reports
from Chungking that the Jap
anese bad landed at Akyab, a
west Burma port scarcely 100
miles from India.
General headquarters have
been in direct contact with Akyab
this morning," he said. "We were
informed by authorities at Akyab
that there was no sign of Japanese
: anywhere."
W ASWTNflTOM s A rt r 1 1 -tSA
The defenders of Bataan penin-
" " ----- v -1 - v Va
sula, after thwarting Thursday's
FffiL!!iLi JPfn8e
nallina subaeouent liaht - attacks
with' "considerable' loss to the
A relative -lull In the siege
of Bataan and the Manila bay
forte-tallowed tho-bloody re-
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Fire Patrol
Work Talked
Speakers Here Tell of
Preparation for
Forest Sabotage
Mobilization of state and asso-
J
tv umt u iviuiuaiii; u& cuciuj
sabotage was the principal topic
i of discussion when 80 fire war -
?
V
John B. Woods, Jr, secretary of
the Oregon Forest Fire association,
reported that more than 1000 Ore -
gon youths were now receiving
training by state forestry officers,
to serve as added, fire suppression
forces. The . ten-weeks . training
period Includes study of protec
Ition, mapping, communication,
1 detection, fire fighting and per-
1 sonal safety m the woods, he said.
Others who spoke during the
day's discussions Included, George
H. Schroeder, assistant professor
of forestry. Oregon State college:
t A. Taylor, chief deputy, state
fire marshal's officer C O. Mar
ston, Eugene; William Teusch,
1 OSC extension service, and N. S.
I Rogers, state forester and head of
line Oregon Forest oezense coun-
dL
I Fire wardens and their friends
1 were guests of the Oregon Forest
I Fire assodation and the Keep Or-
I egon Green assodation at a ban-
1 quet Friday night Speakers in
cluded Rogers, who voiced " his
appreciation for cooperation in the
Keep Oregon Green movement;
Art King," OSC extension service;
who told of organization of Ore
gon ranchers into volunteer units
for fire control; Richard Kuehner,
ireceuuy-eieciea , wep vregoa
Cronemiller assistant ; state for-
A ,,3 IK,.
rnUalCU JL Ul
- ' V -
On Council
l LONDON, April -( Saturday) ;
i sv-The anoointment , of Prime
1 M injgt-y John Curtin and former
J prime Minister Arthur W. Fadden
oiiof Australia as members ct the
isis auku i ktm suaa 111CUUJCI a BubaV
8treet-
i aDDointaenta were re-ard-
I - ue ajJlXMHUneuia was
ed as another gesture of solidarity
with Australia. It is not unusual,
howler, for dominion statesmen
WiUi AUSUtUil A A3 UV uuuauau,
to have places on the privy coun
cil, which advises the kin. I'ca-
bership is considered C:r.:y an
I honorary position.
lEriemy Destroy
j.p t,
a meDniaryi java,iosuiTrsciosed Friday, mo Nipponese
had, by sold-January, three times
lley. originally a eolller. transformed as the navy's first alrt
craft carrier, and more recently
Langley
Later Aboard
Commanders
Former Aircraft Carrier Smothered
With Bombs; Three Formations of
Planes Attacked Rescue Tanker
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3
ionffov T.ancrlv and tVi floot
I " ' 7V
I m
j "gnung m a-nour running oaiue wim enemy nomDing pianes
I in the Indian ocean south of
March 1, their cwnmanding officers said Friday.
I The Langley was literally
I Commander R. P. McConnen, who
The Pecos, which was sunk
while carrying the. survivors of
the ' Langley to" safety, was at-
! tacked, by throe formations of
dive-bombers, her skipper, Com
mander TL P. Abernethy, reported.
Abernethy arrived in San Fran
cisco with McConnelL
Baring had two ships shot
out from under them la a little
more than two days the sur
vivors of the 11,051-ton Lang
ley spent between four and six
hours In the water. A few had
lifeboats.
"We were carrying supplies in
the combat zone," sail talL blond
I we wore i(UKa uj m uvmuic uv-
I servatfon plane on the morning
1 of February 27,
iorm
led and we prepared for battle.
I They made a series of approaches,
1 dropping bombs twice from for-
mations of nin planes each and
from about 19,000 feet altitude,
"The second run of bombs was
very effective. The Langley was
practically smothered. We were
to the midst of the salvo and the
damage forced us to leave the
ship.
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Where British Staged Daring Dock Raid
I
- I
l - . a .
ITSTS.
stroyer, fitted out
L J cf tl Cock fit
above r Ictxrs waa
$ Plane Tender
the US aircraft tender Langlei
reported the destruction of the
became a tender.
Survivor
- (ff) - The United States aircrafj
inkr : Psmm : an( drarrt mViilA
- - -w .
.u Pi Z
Java between February 27 and
smothered with bombs," said
FirniaUed""
Aid toAxis
Berle Deelarea Airline
Bongbt Oil From
Standard (NJ)
WASHINGTON, April HP
Government officials testified Fri
day that a subsidiary of Standard!
Oil company (New Jersey) pro
vided the necessary gasoline for
maintaining the principal channd.
of axis propaganda to the west
era hemisphere in 1941 and re
jected a state department request
that the sales cease.
Not until the department took
steps to blacklist too Brasilia
subsidiary of the company last
October, a witness said, did the
company agree to stop selling
petroleum to "LatL" a German
spousored Italian-operated line
running from Kerne to South
America, and the German-eon-
troUed Condor line, operating' in
BnaO.
(It was made plain later thai
the Brazilian subsidiary never ac
tually waa placed on the blacklist,
officials stating that since the Oc-
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a. - tf -a
.l1' n.'
Pecos
Relate
as a tiae-borA t tlaw t? ts coc-rs at it. iMasaire. "IICV. a ..t V fho
Ultlzs at Ci. I.i -lrs wcr!J lt Carra g acimcs TT.Tai EL
taken at tie tlae the Kormanciv new in American pwn, w- T . ,
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TOO.tbst
h . , '; . " n . 1 - ' "
In Battle,
Langley Earliest
Carrier; Peary
Raided in Port
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER !
WASHINGTON, April 3
(AP) Destruction of three
United Stales naval vessels by -
Japanese aerial bombardment
wit h an estimated loss 1 of
more than 700 officers and
men was disclosed by the navy
Friday night in a tragic ac
count of bitter battling .
against overwhelming enemy
air superiority. ;
The ships were:
The , historic 11,050-ton aircraft
tender Langley, once converted '
from a collier to ; become ' this
country's pioneer aircraft carrier,
and recently converted into a ten
der to serve sea as Well as air
planes; sunk off Java in late
February. . . V
The 119t-toa destroyer Peary, 1
oft-bombed unit of, the Asistie
fleet which was attacked In har
bor at Darwin, Australia, about
February 19, and fought by her -men
unUl her old-fashioned
flush deck was awash. Loss of
life was understood to be light.
The 5400-toh tanker Pecos,
heavily bomber and finally sunk
early in March, a few days after
the loss of the Langley, survivors
of which she was carrying to port.
What made the loss of the Pecos
doubly bitter was the fact that she
was loaded with Several 'hundred
X lsurviyors ofihe Latigky.The one-,
time aircraft ctirrier,- converted to
a tender, had gone down with the
loss of only 14 ment
. Destroyers picked up the hna- '
dreds of others, and. presumably
having combat daties ahead,
later transferred them to the
Pecos and that Vessel, normally
employed In fueling fleet units
In the southwestern Pacific,
then was attacked and sunk.
Personnel losses when the tank
er went down were reported at
two-thirds of the total personnel
of the Langley and Pecos.
Both the Peary and Langley
were veterans of earlier engage
ments in the Pacific war.In fact,
by mid-January, the Japanese had
thrice boasted that they had sunk
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18 Struck Mills
-
May Lose Jobs
FALL RIVER, Mass April 1
(P-Eighteen textile mills, forced
to shut down by a union Jurisdic
tional dispute revolving around the
status of one man, faces loss of
contracts for 213 million yards of
cotton doth unless a settlement
can be reached, a manufacturers
spokesman asserted Friday night.
' - ," ' auTX Jal
a!nnai B?TU fUTN Hduau'
buued li farmer America, d-
February
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