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Kcop Posted ' Momentous events occur In all parts of the world while 7011 sleep ' but also -while The Statesman newt .services are reporting them. Keep petted; read The f Statesman. 'Asia Food' :; BERN, Switzerland. April I t-VFy-Tw , succulent hams I hanging : In Milan , start , ' window -eaoseel a near-riot amour Italians who couldn't i believe their twa eyes. - vvv 0A POUNDDD imiETYTOST YEAH Salem Oregon Tuaaday Morning, April 7. 1942 . , Price c No. 821 .RalbamJ. f 1 V X. if! i ii Allies Mil TT - TTv,V euiDSc,; Flames at Gain Baitaaii Bombers and Artillery in Jap Assault WASHINGTON, April 6 (AP) The Japanese hurled wave upon wave of assault troops at Lieut. Gen. Jona than Wainwright's American-Filipino forces Monday, and gained ground in the third day of fierce fighting on the Bataan peninsula. A late day communique from the war department said he attacks were supported by heavy artillery fire and dive bombers for the second time in three davs' renorted that "the enemy made some gains," al though paying" heavily in casual ties. Anti-aircraft (runners shot down one of the dive bombers, the second they have bagged in two days. On the east coast of the pen insula, where the i Japanese . have been repulsed twice In the last 72 hours in attempts to land troops for a flank attack, enemy artillery harassed the . defenses, f iring from barges in Manila bay. Most of the shells fell short of their targets, the communique said. - The action reported Monday was the seventh massed drive against the Bataan defenses in less than two weeks. Uince Sat urday the hammering at the right-of Wainwright's line has been almost continuous. '' There was no mention in de partment communiques Monday of the extent of casualties among age lighting days, but it was believed likely that they have been much lighter than the Japanese losses. A morning communique, cov ering the fighting of Sunday, had reported the Japanese un able to gain and related the frus tration of the second attempt to land troops from barges on the peninsula shore. 300 Bombers Slash at Nazis ' c- RAF Loses Only Five, Strike Hardest At Cologne LONDON, April (HiPhOne of the mightiest British air fleets ever to cross the English channel -na force of more than 300 bomb ers -cast a thousand tons of ex plosives and countless fire bombs upon German war plants in an over night raid extending from the French coast inland to the Parisian industrial suburb and nn east to the heart of the Rhine land. In this great attack, a part of a master plan to choke the flow of German arms eastward to the Russian front, only five British craft were lost, the air ministry announced Monday in briefly re capitulating one of the most suc cessful operations of recent months. .. Hard hit were the docks at LeBavre and the Gnome-Rhone " works at Gennesvilliers near ; Paris, In which French work men under th lash a? h nat entine parts for " use. against England and the Russian allies, , but the greatest power of the . U JTurn )o Page 2, CoL 4) . Council The "dog-fight" which has oc cupied a large share of recent council meetings was brought to a halt Monday night when Salem city fathers voted down a motion to turn over enforcement of og-regulation measures to the Marion-Polk Humane society.. With less discussion than that Which had a few minutes earlier centered around the economy of l t y-operated vs. society-man eged pound, , the council approv- ran expenditure of $350 to pay full-time air raid precautions supervisor for two months and t$ provide certain office supplies, instructed the city traffice de partment and the city engineer to conduct a survey with a view to regulation of bicycle parking, ups Freedom Talks Are Speeded Madras Area Is Attacked Twice; Jap Fleet Near By The Associated Press NEW, DELHI, India, April 6 Bombs fell among the people of India proper Monday When Japanese planes, attacking the Indian coast for the first time, raided two ports in Madras Presidency, and worse to befall was hinted in the disclosure that a Japanese naval force is ranging the Bay of Bengal. . The naval force, which in cludes at least one aircraft car rier, already has atacked com merce both with its surface ships and its planes, said a communique. These first direct manifestations of war came to India as its people still were torn with hesitation on their political future and a few hours after Premier Gen. Hidekl Tojo in a broadcast from Tokyo had warned of "great calamities" to her 390,000,000 people. These would be unavoidable, he said, ''hi lZtuHZ iTrlrThQk the course of our subjugation .of termination to direct a Japanese invasion. The raiding force which attacked Vizagapatam, a city of more than 40,000 and site of a British naval base, and Cocanada, nearby provincial capital of 40,000, was officially described as small. Slight damage to the Vizaga patam harbor area, which was attacked twice, was reported and only a few casualties oc curred at Cocanada possibly because the raiding force had been dealt with so severely that it attempted the surprise blow at Colombo only to be am bushed by a waiting RAF which asserted 27 of the 73 raiding planes were shot down and SO more damaged. NEW DELHI, India, April 6- (P-L6uis Johnson, a special emis sary from the United States, sought in a round of conferences Monday to assist in solution of the complex, Indian independence question, rendered even more ur gent by the first Japanese air at tacks on the mainland. Friendly assurances of (Turn to Page 2, Col, 1) the Destructive? Time to Join Are yon of a destructive na ture? Like to sharpen pencils hut to see the shavings fall? 'Tat your natural inclinations to work . . . that is, bo ready to If and when there's work to be done, urges City Engineer J. H. Davis, who tonight at 7:3t in . the city . council chambers plains to meet volunteers for the city's defense demolition squad ron. - " v. V '. The demolition. workers are to bo organised and trained to re move debris in ease of bombings or fires. :-'r i mm . m m . mr f Refuses Dog Change passed for first two readings an ordinance forbidding for "the du ration sales of fireworks in the city and amended the bus license ordinance. ' - The bus ! ordinance amend ment, passed over the opposi tion of three eouncllmen, gives the city the right' te require operators of city "busses to change routes following public : heiuing and reoulres that they shall file a schedule of their rates with : city offices. v ? .The, parents who Saturday night refused . to call at the city police department for their minor son after the lad had been picked up as a violator of the curfew ordinance would be liable to a fine of not more than $230 or a mp . i : Large Gmwds Watch Parade Army, Civil Defense Units Join in line of March With clockwork precision and grim smiles, thousands, of Salem persons joined mounted -and mechanized army units to parade for one hour through capital dry streets Monday morning. Thousands of others, from tiny children perched on parents' shoulders to elderly folk eon-: fined to ear seats, lined the way. as their share in the observance of Army day. - , . -. Stores and offices, closed while the procession moved from Mar ion square , through ''downtown streets, provided their shares of marchers and watchers.; School children and teachers, university students and faculty members, dismissed from classes, were -In the throngs. - : Music by army and Salem high school bands, American flags and the banners of various marching units, horses and uniformed par ticipants made of . the rapidly moving line oi march a colorful event. Behind an escort of motorcycle-mounted police reserves the official reviewing party, In cluding the state's governor, the city's mayor, the county's judge and army and civilian defense officers rode at the head of the parade. Army units, veterans, civilian defense groups including .' uni formed women's motor corps and Boy ; Scouts, high school band, Cherrlans and the. mounted posse marched and rode in swift suc cession. . '. To Salem business ; men and women who closed their 1 stores nearly 100 per cent for the event went thanks of the Retail Trade "-..' (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 8) '""; maximum '.of CO. days in Jail should they repeat the perform ance if an ordinance Introduced by Alderman L. F. LeGarie Mon day night; should be .finally passed by the council. Similar to to city's present curfew ordinance except for the fact that it holds parents of minors out after 10:30 (present hour is 10) at night re sponsible and provides punish ment ' for failure to answer the police , summons.' l It was passed for first twO readings, v - An ordinance regulating . speed with which locomotives may; be driven on tracks within tie city limits and providing for emerg ency permits was referred to the street committee. tTurn to Tzgi 2, Cel. I) j' - l --! L 5 rv " . LvsMsssmssas . i ii in ii n : .JUL-. : r - ' - . - . ' . Momfps on Imdiun Leading Salem9 s Army Day Procession Civil and military sides of war were represented vlvliy as Salem, observing Army day, saw armed sol , dlers and arm-banded civUian defense workers March throofh downtown streets. Censorship hernia tions do not permit identification horseback ytre Gov. Charles A (at the gvfjrncr'f left). Subs SwmSMnJ Roving American Raiders Hit Two Tankers Near Jap Isles; Total is at Least 30 Sunk ';. WASHINGTON, April oAmerican submarines batter ing steadily at Japan's long supply lines in the western Pacific have sunk three more enemy merchant ships, two of them heavily laden tankers, the navy reported Monday. Destruction of these vessels raised to a tolal of 51 the Jap anese, ships blasted by far-roving US undersea raiders a total WU Trustee Head Resigns No Successor Named for ; Paul Wallace; Use Of Referred Resignation of Paul B. Wallace from the presidency of Willamette university's trustees was tendered and accepted at the meeting of the board Monday in Portland, j Election of a successor in the of fice Wallace had held approxi mately two years is tentatively slated for the June session here, board members indicated Monday night Meanwhile," C I' Starr, Portland, vice-president, heads the board. - ". ' Wallace's action follows a wint er illness and the advice of his physician to step out . "of active participation in the variety of civic and business interests to ' which he has devoted his energies. By resolution, the membership declared - against : borrowing' from the endowment fund to tide' oyer finances '-for ; improvements"" or current expenses.'! " ' ' Disposition of Kimball hall. frame building now vacant on the campus,' was referred ; to the board's executive, committee with power to act. V,-- Reds Gall for fi US Qf Miifell . NEW YORK, April l-JPhA& immediate - American offensive against Germany ; was ".advocated in a report to the "national com mittee of the communist party of the? United States over the week- end, the party disclosed Monday, iIfwe don't do it now, we may not again have the initiative for a long and terrible period," Robert Minor, acting secretary of the party, told the committee. - .. ... , ., .Tl .mi, ,,... hi. -..ivii'i m nr n "I "' maiiw of troops or description of their equipment.. Heading the parade on Spraruey head ef the state defense council and CoL C. B. Hazeltme made up of 30 sinkings, 10 prob able sinkings and the damaging of 11 other ships. The over-all score of Japanese vessels sunk and dam aged by both army ' and navy forces mounted to 209 in the four months of war ending Monday. - ' The two tankers were sunk by a submarine on extended patrol In the vicinity of the Caroline Islands, Japanese mandates ly ing east of the Philippines. One of the tankers fired on the sub marina but, the navy said, failed . to damage It ' The cargo of the tankers, wheth er oil or gasoline, was not given. but it was considered possible that they were, transporting fuel for enemy, fleet units. Turk Island In the Caroline group Is a great Jap anese naval base. .The third ship reported sunk was a freighter, blasted by a sub marine on patrol in constant oper ation there, thousands of miles from their bases. That operations ever whole , enemy-dominated west era Pacific" are' constantly ' in- ereashir. was Indicated by . the : fact that In . recent weeks ' the ! navy has made more and more' frequent reports 'of American . undersea attacks. , ' ; Only last Saturday it was an nounced that two light cruisers had been torpedoed south of Java and t h a t f I v e non-combatant enemy vessels had been damaged by submarine attacks in Dutch East Indies' waters; : ';1-:--v Flax Processing Plant I i EUGENE, April 6H5P)tHlsrac- tion of a 1100,000 flax processing plant near Irving will, be, started soon,, a group of Eugene business men said Monday.'' - r ' ' - They said articles of incorpora tion would be filed, at Salem Wednesday. About '500 acres of flax already have been contracted. -I Hendricks in ARP Position Named by Council as Full-Time Unit Organizer Paul Hendricks, Salem attorney who' as district ARP warden Na 3 bias been responsible for ah raid precautions in downtown Salem, was Monday night named' full time organizer for the ARP hi the capital city. He is to be succeeded at his district post by Carl Gab- rielson. Nineteen districts and wardens totaling approximately 1100 In number, now partially organized and In training, come under his department, John D. Minto, super visor of the city air raid precau tions unit Mid. Hendricks has been a member of the unpaid ex ecutive committee headed by Min to on which also serve Leo Page, C V, Richardson," Breyman Boise, Elmore Hill and Gardner Knapp. Organization work is expected to take at least two months, Minto told the city council as he asked for appropriations to pay Hend ricks, who will" maintain his own office in the Ladd & Bush build ing. Mott Enters BiUoirfrax : ' WASHINGTON," April HJP) LegislaUon (HR 6900Uieclaring it to l Vgainst 'toebUcpolicy to reqtiire acitken "to be a inember of any' labor, "pbUUcal, civic, fra ternal or religioiui'organlzation be fore he can obtain employment on a : government tmanced , project, was introduced Mondayby . Rep resentative Curtis (R-Neb). v - Among other ; bills : introduced representatives: - . Mott (R-Orf)permitting taxa tion by states and tub divisions o: real' estate hereafter acquired by ihe Jvernmeni.ior military pur poses but permitting states ; and sub divisions -to waive the taxa Uon if they desire. (IIR.e303), Five Die in Bomber TUCSON, A r ! ' April 9-m Motors of a big US army bomber failed, late Monday, one of them burst into flames," and the 'huge ship . crashed into the desert 22 miles southeast of here, tr?prlr and killing five officers And men in the blazing cabin. . " 79. Axfe Planes Doweed oe All Fronte in 2 Day --- . - - -. - . Yanks and Aussies Strike At New Britain Bases of Japan9 s Rebuilding Force US ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 6 (AP) Raids described as by the allies" were reported carried out Monday by flying Aussies and Americans striking at Rabaul and Gasmata in New Britain where Japan was said to be reinforcing heir badly wrecked and overmatched air forces. The Sydney Herald, which reported the raids, said di rect hits were scored on large Japanese ships in Rabaul har bor on the northeast New Britain coast, where the Japanese' secured their first foothold on Australia's outer island rim i Ym i ir.KftS nftmiftSTS i Heating Oil Cut Held Same as Order, To Affect Oregon r And Washington WASHINGTON -," April 6V) An immediate 25 per cent curtail ment In normal deliveries of fuel oil used for space or central heat ing and hot water supplies on the Atlantic seaboard and in Oregon and Washington was recommend ed Monday by Harold L. I ekes, pe troleum coordinator. Aides of the coordinator said the recommendation was tanta mount to an order. They explained that it was made at the behest of the petroleum industry's mar keting committee for district 1 which embraces 17 east coast states and the District of Colum bia. Issued as a recommendation to all suppliers In the area, the limitation authorisation does not apply to hospitals or private homes where Illness or other emergencies require a ' greater use of fuel oiL The minimum quantity of fuel .' (Turn to Page 2, Cot 8) Reds Drop 415 Planes In 8 Day S KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 6 (JF)-Russian airmen and ground batteries, scoring one of the big gest bags of the war, destroyed 415 German planes in blazing aerial war during the 8-day period up to and Including Sunday, a soviet communique announced Monday night This tremendous toll was rolled up, a Moscow communique saia, at a cost of only 79 soviet planes. On Saturday and Sunday alone, it added, 221 nazi craft were de stroyed.' Erupting la full fury ever the weekend, the biggest day's total was reported Sunday, when lit nasi' cntft were listed is de-: stroyed in . the air and on the ground after Saturday's count reached 102 : The Russians re ported a loss of only SI planes. ,: -The communique said ' briefly that 1 no essential changes took place at the front1 A supplement to the .Moscow communique said that in the last two days of fighting on the Len ingrad front 2300 German officers and men were killed. : 'A - Russian guards unit In the Kalinin sector recaptured seven more inhabited localities from the Germans, taking much equipment it added. LONDON,1 AprU .oHTHThe Moscow radio reported Jlonday t'-V.t that 9 German parachute troori attempted a landing be-' t:3 soviet lines bat before they reached the ground 17 tf them had been killed by red army ma-cL!ae-graners - -' WotM famong - the heaviest yet mad j Both as Rabaul and Gasmata, on xne soutn coast oi New Brit- were said to have been damaged in the airdromes. Earlier it had been reported that Japan was strengthening her air forces in that area to bolster her faltering Australian offens ive, and it was assumed that the allies, determined to destroy the new. planes before they could get in action. . : Uttmahtyt&jtilkUl re ports, however, to tell whether"3, the raid had been successful aa" that of March 21 when the Japanese are claimed to have suffered one of the most dev- ' astatine blows of the southwest Pacific with 23 ships sunk, burned, beached and damaged ' and the equivalent of two -squadrons f pUnes knocked Out I The raid was in line with Ar my Minister Francis M. Forde's advice today to the defenders not to grow overconfident because of their recent sharp successes. By The Associated Press The swelling air power of the United Nations scored one of the mightiest series of blows yet against the axis . in - aerial war fare oyer the .weekend, destroy . ing an official count of 27 planes and damaging scores more at a cost of 47 allied crafts The Russian air force which Hitler once boasted was de stroyedturned in the . best performance, listing7: 221 nasi planes wiped out Saturday and Sunday against 22 Soviet loss es for the twa days. " Furthermore, Moscow an nounced officially 'that 194 other German planes were destroyed In the air and on the ground in the six days preceding Saturday, for an eight-day total of 415. The Russians said their own losses, for the eight days were 84 craft Japan was the second heaviest loser 27 of 75 raiders hurled against Ceylon Easter morning having been knocked down by the British. Five more enemy craft were listed as probably de stroyed there and another 25 damaged. V Twenty additional Japanese planes were blasted to earth by United States and Australian airmen In the weekend ex change of blows at Koepang, : Dutch Timor; Darwin and Port Moresby. , German and Italian raiders at tacking Malta lost II planes and probably 12 others Saturday and: Sunday. Siac were damaged. The British lost six planes at Malta and over Libya and five more In' the RAFs massive as sault Sunday night upon Paris and the Rhin eland. Three allied planes were , lost in Australian United States raids on the Japa nese. - ,- ' ; NLRB Seeks Ward Order SAN FRANCISCO, April : The NLRB asked the US lircuit' court of appeals Monday. for an enforcement order:- against CA the Montgomery Ward store in Port-: land, directing the Company ; to ' bargain collectively with two AFL unions t h o warehousemen' . and the retali clrrks. , -