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. PORTLAND, Ore-. April 4
(-David W. Lee Chinese,
Saturday purchased a fro
eery, store from James K.
Klda, ' Japanese, for many
years his next-door competi
tor. h ' 1 "; ; ' A.
Several new novels with
a' war, background are en
the shelves. Tom to pace
seven. The ' Family Book
shelf tells about them to
day, and about new books
every Sunday..
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- SEATTLE, April 4 r( AP) Two army fighter planes
carried their pilots to death in separate crashes in western
Washington late Saturday afternoon.
One, a P-38 from McChord field, swooped low oyer
Olympia Wash., with its motors stuttering, managed to
maintain altitude until it had cleared the downtown section
of the city and then crashed into a house in east Olympia.
- Mrs. William Thompson, occu
pant of the house, was struck on
the head by a flying fragment
from tie ship and slightly injured.
She and her husband escaped
more serious injury only because
they rushed to the door of their
home when they heard the whine
of the falling ship. Interior of the
house was partially wrecked.
The plane caromed off the house
into a gully, digging a 20-foot
trench and scattering debris over
a block. The pilot was killed.
Near Edmonds, Wash., an
other army plane, this one from
Fame field, at Everett, exploded
In mid-air, falling Into the
waters of Paget Sound. Witness
es said the ship was in three
distinct pieces as it hit the
water.
An official Paine field , an
nouncement said .the pilot of the
plane lost near Edmonds was
Second Lieutenant Larry E. Pin
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C
Pinson, Dexter, NM. He was un
married. The army announcement
identified the plane only as a pur
suit type and said the mid-air ex
plosion had not definitely been
confirmed, although the ship fell
from a great heighth. . ,
' Hnson's body Was recovered by
Harry Kearns, Edmonds, who hur
ried to the site of the plane's fall
' in a small boat
... McChord field officers said the
pilot of the Olympia plane was
First Lieut. Charles Heitz, of
Olympia, survived by a widow and
one child. His body was recovered
with difficulty from the burning
plane. ' Lieut Beitz, 25, formerly
lived at Fort Scott Kans.
Both crashes occurred, officers
sakV during routine training
flights. Army boards were appoint
ed to investigate.
BRIDGE, Idaho, April !.-)
. A four-motored army bomber
en a night flight from Of den,
Utah, to Boise, crashed near
this Utah-Idaho border town
killing seven fliers and presum
, ably an eihth whose body had
not been found late Saturday.
Wreckage of the huge ship was
scattered over a wide area. First
' reports were that there were nine
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Knudsen Joins
Labor Debate
Says 40-Hour Week Is
Hindrance Only in
Heavy Wages
WASHINGTON, April 4 -JPy-
Lieut Gen. William S. Knudsen,
army production director, entered
the controversy over the 40-hour
week Saturday with a statement
that while it had caused little de
lay to the war production pro
gram, heavy payments for over
time work had proved a hindrance.
But where the latter were con
cerned, he noted, in a letter to
Rep. Robertson (D-Ya.) that "la
bor leaders have publicly offered
to remedy this, and if they do it
win be constructive." Knudsen
put his views on paper at Rob
ertson's request and the house
member made them public.
Meanwhile, with eongress in
a virtual Easter recess and no
administration wu . anthorlta-
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Boeing Founder
Will Return
SEATTLE, April 4--Presi-dent
Philip G. Johnson of the Boe
ing Aircraft company, announced
Saturday that William E. Boeing
will return to the company in a
gratuitous consulting and advisory
capacity for the duration of the
war as a contribution to the na
tion's war effort Boeing founded
the company nearly 26 years ago.
He retired eight years ago, disas
sociating himself from any stock
interest in the enterprise.
Friday's Weather
Weather forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed
by army request River .4 feet
Saturday. Max. temperature Fri
day, 66, min., 48.
World Notes Easter
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till usta tie women, Fear ot ie:
which was crucified. He Is ct tere:
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US Gives
nition
Free French Get
Africa Consulate;
Vichy Has Claim
WASHINGTON, April 4-(JP)
The United States gave formal
recognition : Saturday to Gen.
Charles De Gaulle's control
over French Equatorial West
Africa and the French Came
roons, strategic territory along
the supply route to the Middle
East and India.
The action, bringing closer ties
between this country and the
Free French, came in the an
nouncement of the establishment
of a consulate general in Brazza
ville, capital of the French pos
session directly across the At
lantic from Natal, Brazil and
taken "in view of the importance
of French Equatorial Africa in the
united war effort"
Recognition of the African
Free French territory came a
month after similar approval of
the De Gaulle authority ever
New Caledonia, strategic island
off the western coast of Austra
lia, valuable also for Its large
deposits of nickeL
In recognizing Free French
authority in the Pacific Islands,
the United States said its policy
would be governed "by the mani
fest effectiveness with which
those authorities endeavor to pro
tect their territories from domi
nation and control by the com
mon enemy."
ment stressing "the Importance of
French equatorial Africa in the
united war effort" declared that
"this government has treated with
the French authorities in effect
ive control of French territories
in Africa and will continue to
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Work to Begin
On Steel Mill
PORTLAND, April 4-iffr-Con-s
traction of the Pacific northwest's
largest steel mill will be started
immediately in northwestern Ore
gon by Oregon Electric Eteel Roll
ing Mill, Inc., Bonneville Adminis
trator Paul J. Raver announced
Saturday. !
Exact location of the plant
which will have an annual 35,000
ton capacity was withheld. Raver
said operation would begin about
October 1. Financing has been ap
proved by the Reconstruction Fi
nance corporation. . 1
JERUSALEM, April tPJ-The
worries of the world at war failed
to interfere Saturday with the an
cient ceremony at the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre marking Holy
Saturday. .
All of Holy week was devoted
to worship and solemn rituals at
this birthplace of the Christian
religion.
The procession inside the Holy
Sepulchre at midday and all other
ceremonies were carried ' out in
traditional form, except that none
was held after dark because of
blackout restrictions. -
NEW YORK. Aoril 4-6PV-A
multi-million dollar fashion show
up and down Fifth and Park ave
nues tomorrow was predicted by
the sartorial soothsayers; the US
department of commerce says Eas
ter merchandise is "up"1 25 per
cent over last year. So it's tip to
the women and the weather.
Hats will be tilted at jaunty
angles and colors win run to all
shades In defiance of the grim
war overtones cast br the cresence
of the heaviest police guard for
the parade in many years andjhe
metal signs alozut Fifth avenue
with instructions for behavior in
case of an air raid.
$10,000 Gift Goes
To St Helen's Hall
PORTLAND, April 4-4VSt
Helen's HalL . Portland Episcopal
girls' schooL has received a
$10,000 gift from Scott B. Apple
by, of Washington, DC, Eishcp
Benjamin Dagwell announced
Saturday. -v
Acclabv is a rpnhew of Thom
as Fielding Scott, Oregon's first
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Mac Arthur
Asks for
Prayers
UNITED STATES ARMY
HEADQUARTERS IN AUS
TRALIA, Aprfl f-iAO-Gen.
Douglas MacArthur bespoke
Easter-tide divine guidance "la
the great struggle that -loom
ahead" Saturday as confidence
mounted In allied quarters that
the United Nations will be able
te defend this Australian spring
board for an eventual offensive
In the southwest Pacific
General MacArthur, an Epis
copalian from Little Rock, Ark-,
Introduced the religious note in
his military preparations In re
ply to a radiogram from W. P.
WltoeU, director of Little Rock's
Christ Church, who said, "the
church of . your baptism sends
Easter rreetlnrs and expression
91 iaiin anu levins prtuc in jvu.
In answer Gen. MacArthtur
messaged: "At the altar where I
first Joined the sanctuary of
God, I ask that you seek divine
guidance for me In the great
strug-rle that looms ahead.'
.a tt m i . i - i . n
97 Draftees
Leave Monday
Salem Men in Largest
Call Inducted
At Portland
Names of 97 men scheduled for
army induction Monday were an
nounced Saturday by the Salem
selective service board. Ordered
to report to their local board at
7:45 a. m. In Salem armory, they
are to be sent to Portland for in
duction.
Seven of the group, now out of
the area, wJ eport - elsewhere
although" they have been selected
by the Salem board, it was said.
Their names are followed by the
abbreviation, (Tr.)
Listed for the April can, larg
est to date, are:
Gillis Emerson Knapp, John
Scott Anderson (Tr.), Mal
colm Evard Graber, Jack J.
BUleter, RusseU Ernest Maw,
Leo Elmer Beach, Charles Ed
ward Davis, Walter Belmuth
Momberg. Wilmot - Addis Mc
Donald, NeweU Victor Hurst,
Thomas Francis Gilg, Don Irv
ine McKennan, Ernest Solomon
Park, Donald E. Keeler, Clar
ence Lee Rund, John Robert
Keller. William Robert Folk.
Charles James Esplin, Edward
Ovie Monaghan, Wilbur John
Wlchman, John PhUllp Frailer
and Robert Isaiah Beeeroft
George E. Stanford, Leon Eu
gene Mickenham, William Ed
ward Kingston, Wilbur Earl
Willmschen, Raymond Ivan Ed
wards, Clyman' Lafayette Patter
son (Tr.), Delmar George Han
sen, Donald Warren Rasmussen,
Henry William Hoffman, Gerald
Waldo Johnson, Dale Darren
NewbiU, Donald Charles Root
Lloyd Oscar Noffsinger, Jr., Her
man Reinhard, George Kreft Or-
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Wage Conference
Is Postponed
PORTLAND, April
scheduled conference of cannery
and labor officials Saturday to
discuss a wage dispute that closed
three canneries here was post
poned until Monday.
Secretary C Fouts of the AFL
Canner Workers' union said: all
representatives of LIbby, McNeill
& LIbby, Starr Fruit Products and
Northwest Packing companies
were unable to arrive in time for
the meeting.
125,000,000 Feet
Of Lumber Bought
PORTLAND, Ore, April 4-ff)
US army engineers concluded a
four-day lumber auction Satur
day with purchases totaling ap
proximately 125,000,000 feet of fir
and pine from western lumber
men, i...
Lumbermen believed it was the
largest purchase ever made here
at a single meeting of buyers and
manufacturers. . - . .
Niht Launching Set ,
For Third Destroyer
SEATTLE, April 4-P-Third of
a fleet of destroyers to be launched
at the Harbor Island plant of the
Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding cor
poration, the US3 r Endioott : wffl
slide down the ways Sunday
night It will be Seattle's first
night launching of the war.
Proposal
Gets 2nd
THought
Entry of Wavell
Aids; Religious
Turmoil Feared
NEW DELHI, India, April 4
(JPyThe chances of favorable
reception to Britain's freedom
proposals were kept alive Sat
urday by the entry of Gen. Sir
Archibald P. Wavell Into the
negotiations, and by evidences
that the two major political ele
ments," the Moslem league and
congress party, were giving care
ful second thought to' their, de
cisions. v
Welgning heavily with domi
nant eonrresa party leaders, la
formed sources believed, waa
the realisation that it would be
catastrophic if Sir Stafford
Crlpps, the British special en
voy, left India without a solu
tion and the country were left
to face possible religious war at
a time when Japanese Invasion
Is threatened.
Some evidence that the power
ful congress party was giving re
newed consideration to the British
plan, already rejected condition
ally, was seen in the statement of
Maulana Abul Kalan Azad, party
president that the working com
mittee at a two-hour session had
considered the situation in Bengal
and Assam in view of the welfare
approaching from Burma.
Mohandas K. Gandhai, Inspirer
of the nationalist movement who
had delayed his departure to give
the.;"rx)mmittee M4 advice, told
newspaper correspondents that he
still was observing "strict silence,'
but when asked if he would ad
vise Bengal to follow his policy
of non-violence, replied: -
1 would advise the whole
world to do so not only Ben
gaL" Gen. Wavell, eommander-In-chief
In India, conferred with
Crlpps, then received Asad and
Pandit Nawaharlal Nehru, past
president of the eonsress party.
Wavell is expected to see Mo
hammed All Jinnah, president of
the Moslem league, next week.
Salem High
Speakers
Win Prizes
EUGENE, Ore., April 4 -iPj-Roseburg
won the debate cham
pionship at the annual Oregon
high school speech tournament on
the University of Oregon campus
Saturday night.
Betty Jane Roberts and Mar
garet Thompson ; were the win
ning team members, Hillsboro was
second.
The extempore speaking con
test was won by Ned Liebman,
Medf ord.
John Brown, Salem, was see
nd and Robert Sayre, Beaver-
ton, third.
Sayre won the public discus
sion contest, and Brown and, Le-
Roy Dillon, Hillsboro, tied for sec
ond. Kenneth Brown, Salem, won
the after-dinner tropry. Rlch
, ard Smurthwaite, Beaverton,
'was second, and Vivian MlUer,
Eoseburg, third.
In the radio speaking division
Margaret Thompson, ' Roseburg,
was first, and three were tied for
second, Lee Chase, Medford; Har
old LaDuke, Oakridge, and Rich
ard Smurthwaite, Beaverton. .
Portland Fire
Costs 625,000 .
PORTLAND, April -fPfTite,
caused by spontaneous - combus
tion, destroyed the main building
of the Portland Shipbuilding com
pany early. Saturday, causing
damage estimated at $25,000. "
The company held government
contracts for manufacture of sea
going barges. Two partly com
pleted craft on. the ways' were
undamaged.
Warnings Continued
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4-(ff)
The weather bureau Saturday or
dered small craft warnings con
tinued for another 24 hours at 8
p. TCLf from Monterey bay m
California to Cape Blanco, Oregon.
At Least One Cruiser Is Sunk
J'orHahfil. 29;
Cheering
In Air Mounts;
Russ Bolstered
Defenders of Bataan
Thought Soon to
Face Big Test
By BILL BONI ..
, : . Associated Press War Editor
; The United States n try
added . seven more Japanese
ships Saturday night to the
unceasing toll which its sur
face and undersea craft are
taking of enemy vessels, to
furnish the climax to a day
which, on the whole, was one
of encouragement for the
fighters against the axis on
all of the world's many and unit
ed battlefronts. These straws in
the wind of the eventual victory
came from east and west, north
and south, from such widely-separated
yet inevitably allied fronts
as:
INDIA Still the highlight in the
military news was the word that
US army flying fortresses, which
already have proved potent poi
son to the Japanese over the Dutch
Indies and Australia's outer Is
lands, had fired a Japanese cruiser
and a transport in an 800-mile
foray from their Indian base to
the enemy-held Andaman islands
in the Bay of BengaL,; 4.
. . - AUSTRALIA US I Ana
tralian troops are being forged
Into "one great army," an army
which, true to the code of Its
leader, Gen. Douglas MacArth
ur, will be committed Irrevo
cably to a policy of attack. The
allied air strength, credited with;
at least IS Japanese planes de
stroyed in Its latest raids en
enemy bases, now Is established
so firmly that It can supply am
ple warning1 should the enemy
set In motion any direct Inva
sion thrust.
RUSSIA The advance battal
ions of "several million" newly-
trained reserves were reported
moving up to battle stations, to
give the Red army a mass of 7,
000,000 fighting men pledged to
hold the hard-won initiative and
block any attempt at a nazl spring
offensive. As a further shackle to
any such offensive, thaws set in
all along the front, leaving friend
and foe alike bogged down in one
vast sea of mud.
BRITAIN The RAF, lashing
out in its own spring campaign
with increasing forces of bombers
and fighters,; hinted broadly that
the past weeks' assaults on nazi
industries and key defenses are
merely a beginning. Even In day
light Saturday British squadrons
roared across the channel in sky
darkenlng swarms, losing ll
fighters In bitter dogfights but
taking a toll of at least five nazi
aircraft in fulfilling the object
ives of their! raids. , '
THE PHILIPPINES The
sharp-eyed gunners of Correai
dor fortress, the hard rock, of
Manila bay; blasted at least
two more Japanese bombers out
of the skies; to boost their score
to 17 destroyed In less than two
weeks a rate of better than one
a day. Even1 the enemy's use of
new exploding , incendiary
bombs failed to daunt the fort's,
anti-aircraft crews.'
' There Was some indication, how
ever, that Lieut-Gen Jonathan
Wainright's lines soon may be
called on to face another stern
test of their j Indomitable courage.
For on Bataan enemy batteries,
apparently reinforced by big guns
newly brought Into position, lev
elled a heavy fire, the type of bar
rage which usually precedes an
all-out offensive.
Lumbermen Face
Greater Demands
Eugene, April 4-iT)-The lum
ber industry, which already has
been ' strained to the. utmost to
meet military demands, simply
-ain't seen ; nuthin' yet,! CoL W,
B. Greeley j told 200 Willamette
valley lumbermen Friday night.
. The West , Coast Lumbermen's
association said that . unless vthe
industry could meet the tremend
ous deaands far exceeding any-
tLir.2 in history it will be con
fronted by greater regulation, .
Strength
to
Unit
ed
On Army Day
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LT. GEN. HUGH A. DRUM
"Bickering- between groups, the
' wranglmgs of peacetime politics,
the fostering of disagreements
between capital and labor and
the vested Interests of selfish
groups should be chloroformed
for the duration of the war," Lt.
Gen. Hugh A. Drum, command
er of the Eastern Defense com
mand and First army, said fat an
' Army day speech Saturday.
The soldier man has accepted
his lot cheerfully and expects
those behind him to do the
Salem Readies
Army Unite Included;
Schools, Business
Houses to Close
Salem prepares today to march
tomorrow in honor of the khaki-
clad men who are preparing or
prepared to offer their lives on
war fronts as members of the US
army.
Publie schools will not call reg-
ular Monday classes until 10:30
so" that boys and girls,' teachers
and some of the janitorial staff
may participate in or view the
long Army day parade as it winds
from Marion square at 9:30 sharp
south on Commercial to State
street, east on State to Church,
north on Church to Court, west
on Court to Liberty and north on
Liberty to Center street
Merchants of the city have
agreed to forego business until
11 a m. so that they and their
employes, many of them active
In civilian defense organisa
tions, may march with their
volunteer . units, Join fellow
veterans or1 lodge members' in
the parade or stand on the side
lines and cheer. ;
From Willamette university's
administration came announce
ment Saturday that there will be
no 930. a jn. classes on the campus
and that, faculty and students are
urged to Join townspeople in ob
servation - of the anniversary of
this 'country's entry into World
war l ;
Rapidly-made plans for the
five-division parade have mater
ialized Into a series of orders is
sued r Saturday by CoL Carle
Abrams, grand marshal of the pa
rade, who with hia staff and re
viewing officers, mounted, will go
directly to the reviewing stand on
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Efforts to Salvage
Plane Given Up
SEATTLE, April 4-)-The 13th
naval district said Saturday efforts
to salvage the navy patrol bomber
which ' crashed into the Columbia
river bear the Tongue Point naval
air station March 8 with the loss
cf .eight lives had "been discon
tinued.
The' bow cf 1- 2 plane, part "of
the tail strut;, v heels and other
pieces were recovered -but the
main hull and the bodies were
never located, " .a"
Opens C25.000 Church
McHNXVTLLE, April Mff)
Eishep Bruce R. Baxter will de
liver en Easter sermon tomorrow
at th? cpenbs of the new $25,000
LlethocXit church here. ,
Monday Parade
Reports
Nations
tlepla
cement
Is in
Favor of US
25 American Ships
Sunk Compare to
29 of Japanese
WASHINGTON, April 4
(AP) Hard-hitting Ameri-
ckn submarines have sank or -damaged
four Japanese war
ships in recent days to keep
the score of ship losses heavi
ly in favor of the United
States.
The navy announced Satur- .
day that the snbmersibles '
had: '
Sunk a Japanese light cruiser"'
" vwuuuiu isuma, aouui oi
Java.
Damaged another light cruiser
with two torpedo hits in the same
vicinity. After scoring its first bit;
the submarine trailed its victim.
and scored with the second on the
following day.
Damaged two seaplane tenders
near Bali. '
Besides these successes, the na
vy also reported that the subs
had damaged a Japanese naval
supply ship near Lambok island,
and a large transport and one un
identified ship near Bait
In all the army and natry have:
classified 29 Japanese warships
as sunk. Seven aasunk erjrvb-' Tt
ably sunk. four "believed
rank,4 and two -possibly sunk."
In addition 4S have been dam
aged. Meanwhile 23 American naval
ships of all types have been listed
as "sunk.'
The record is weighted in favor
of the United States, too, by the
factor of speed on replacement.
American shipyards are working
at top speed. Launchings since th
war began have exceeded losses.
Dozens of warships are on the
ways. The exact rate of Japanese
replacement is unknown, but Is
officially considered to be a frac
tion of that of the United States.
In types of vessels lost, the
United States stands wjU ahead,
too. .
Qur naval losses are composed
of; one battleship, one cruiser,
one aircraft tender, ten destroy
ers, three submarines, two coast
guard vessels, two tankers, on
target ship, one earro ship, one
gunboat and two miscellaneous
type vessels.
The Japanese losses are com
posed only In part of two battle
ships, an aircraft carrier sunlc,
another believed, sunk, four cruis
ers sunk, with three sunk or
probably sunk, one destroyer
leader sunk, eight destroyers sunk,
with two others probabls sunk and
three possibly sunk, three sub
marines sunk, and one aircraft
tender sunk.
3) Ships Sunk,
East Coast
j By Th Associated Press
The torpedoing of three merch
ant ships by axis submarines one
in the Atlantic and two in the
Caribbean was announced Sat
urday by the navy, bringing to JO
the official score of ships sunk
off the United States east coast la
the week - of March 20 through
April 4. Losses since Pearl Harbor
in that area total 114. , : , !
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. ue uw axups xvponea tost
were a United States tanker, a
small Norwegian freighter and a
medium sized Latvian vesseL - .
Announcing the arrival ba
.Norfolk, -Va, Wednesday ef 41
survivors of the American ves
sel, the; fifth naval district said
the atack occurred the night ef .
, March JL Shore lights were -visible
to the crew who told of
sending up four flares and drift-'
. ing foistwo hours before being
r'dcei up. .One man was lost..
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rr...i who had survived the tor
pe doing of another - ship" . In ' the
Caribbean and Wha had, boarded
the second ship at Aruba,- NWL'.
All of the 45-man-crew'jofj the
Norwegian merchantaiaivwere
i n - t . .
Latvian . freighter were lackfcj.
Both foreign ships were' torpedoed,
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