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Scdexn. Oregon; Tuesday Morning April 21 1942
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Coiracil Shelves
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Tax;
Passes
Maximum Train Speed Is 35.
Miles; Bids Called ore First
4ul Car; Police Car Bought
indef initely tabling an ordinance which would have lev
ied a one-mill tax on Salem property to meet interest and
principal oh the sewage disposal plant $200,000 bond issue
and to establish a sinking fund for construction of the plant,
city coundlmen Monday night declared their opposition to
any avoidable additional tax at this time.
A new ordinance; providing a penalty of fine up to $250
andor a jail sentence for parents refusing to call at the
police station fdr'mihors picked up for violation of a 10:30
curfew was passed. It carries ah emergency clause, to go into
effect
immediately upon signa
hire of the mayor.-
Tabled for two weeks for in
vestigation as to treatment of the
question by , other cities and
throughout the county was an
ordinance forbidding tale, dis
tribution or use of fireworks with
in the city lir"jfor the duration
st the" war. '
" Speed of Southern Pacific
trains an tracks north of Mar
Ira, south of Mission and cast
of 12th street may legally mount
to J5 miles per hoar, the coun
cil voted, not without some P
t position. A clause giving the
chief of police permission to al
low greater speed for special
emergencies was cause for "no"
votes by Aldermen David
O'lUra and E. B. Perrine.
Failure of the railroad to place
special warning devices at the
Madison street crossing when re
quested a few years ago was men
tioned by OUara as he maintained
that "No one who isn't blind
world believe , that the Southern
ificmiis-ojrHell running a
20 miles an hour through Salem
now ... I'm not opposed to help
lng speed necessary traffic, but I
do thing we should be given some
cooperation when we ask a favor."
New 'bids for a new first aid
car were authorized, specifications
to come from the fire committee.
All received on a previous call,
when an ambulance-type vehicle
was specif ied, were far in excess
of the $2500 price budgeted.
To provide bomb-fighting
equipment, largely in form of
and and water supplies at city
properties, a $15 expenditure
. was approved. City fathers were
' invited to attend a eontrol-cen-'
ter test Tuesday night, April 28.,
Committee reports recommend
ing installation of street lights in
the 100 block on Union street
and at either end of the South
Commercial street area covered
by the paper mill were approved.
Low bidder ..on a new police
car, State Motors, was given the
: council's order for the vehicle.
Purchase of a three-wheel motor-
cycle for the department from
.Harry Scott was authorized.
Investigation of a request from
'residents of the area that under-brush
be removed from a wooded
! district between Oxford and Hines
and 14th and 19th streets, where
-school children have reportedly
been frightened recently, was or
dered following receipt of a pe
tition. Warning that additional mon
i eys will be asked from the city
this year for conduct of sum-
ner playgrounds was given by
a delegation consisting of Mrs.
David Wright, R. S. Keene and
Vernon Gilmore. Contribution
of WPA to the playgrounds of
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Hawaii 'Mountaineers' Ready
By WENDELL WEBB
1 WITH THE MOUNTAIN
TROOPS IN HAWAII, April 20
()-The roughest, toughest soldiers
in the mid-Pacific have hacked a
; potent defense ' line out of the
rocks and hills high above Pearl
Harbor. ' - -4
These troops of mountain my
tfantry have to be tough juslrto
! reach their hidden posts more than
80 miles byroad and trail from
Honolulu. ' . " ' !"-" - .- ; :
j They are guarding beaches
i 2501 feet below, plateaus Ideal
j far par achate troops and gorges
j Into which whole enemy batUl-
j tons eovid disappear.
; There , are armed nests con
! realed in trees, brush and rocks.
: There, are dugouts . hacked into
.solid mountain sides. And the4
jhole system, served by pack
i train," is connected by precipitous
trails from which many a mule has
: plunged to its death. -
t .We now are at a detachment's
kitchen, way down in a gulley,
from which hot food is packed
nuance.,
Curfew
Bus Sponsoring
Meet Thursday
Transportation Plan
To Gimp Adair to
. Be Presented
Sponsorship of a Salem-Camp
Adair bus transportation system to
open the Salem retail and resi
dential markets to cantonment
construction workers will be pro
posed at a mass meeting of Salem
chamber of commerce members
and other interested business and
professional men at the chamber
at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night,
Carl Hogg, chamber president, an
nounced Monday afternoon.
Hogg's announcement came
after his plan waa outlined to a
group of 25 businessmen and, he
said, nnswjmouslTpproved. He ,
decU i ffUiloko' totalis.
The chamberalready has re-k
ceived offers of -busses that could
be used in the Camp Adair serv
ice. ;
Saying that his proposal was for
the immediate arrangement of
transportation between Salem -end
the cantonment site at the 40-cent
roundtrip required by the federal
government for establishment of
defense housing "commuting
areas," Hogg declared Thursday
night's meeting would be "one of
the most important that business
men have been asked to attend,
because it directly affects both
their own businesses and their
support of the war effort"
Clay C. Cochran, new busi
ness extension manager for the
chamber of commerce, expressed
the opinion that provision of
low-rate transportation to the
cantonment now being built in
northern Benton county was the
most important problem facing
Salem.
Hogg emphasized that the invi
tation to attend the Thursday
meeting was extended to non
members as well as members of
the chamber and especially to
business men, professional men
and operators of apartment houses
and auto camps. .
Plywood Plane Set
NEW YORK. April 20-)
Curtis-Wright Corp. will build a
cargo-transport airplane for the
United States arm air force con
structed almost entirely of ply
wood and other non-strategic ma
terials, President Guy W. Vaugh
an said Monday in issuing the
company's annual report.
daily to the more lonely outposts.
Men within hiking distance are
coming through the trees to din
nerthey have time for but two
meals a day, the last at 2:30 p. m.
Capt, Birdsey Learman, of Es-
sexville, Mich and member of
the West Point class of : 1938, Is
commander of the detachment, a
hardy crew. -
' 'They are certainly workers
. . i they are bayinc lota of war
bonds, too." the captain said.
It was almost seven miles back
and down that we had left the
main road. . :' - c
Maj, D. H. ; Buchanan, genial
commander of the Hawaiian pack
trains, offered us a mule for the
long ascent but after an exchange
of pleasantries with one doughty
animal, we chose to walk. v
From then on until we met Corp.
George W, Walters, of Indian Or-
chard, Mass life was just oi
weary foot after another, f v,
He was 'way up on the trail
Introducing the Misses Mary and
Ida Mules to the world m gen
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Full War
Of Party
GOP Declares
: For Abandoning
Isolationism
CHICAGO, April 20PhThe
republican national committee
Monday night demanded that
the nation prosecute an offen
sive, uncompromising war un
til peace with victory is at
tained and declared that the
United States should assist in
bringing about cooperation
among the countries of the
"world in the post-war era.
A resolution embodying those
sentiments was approved by .the
committee at its first meeting since
Pearl Harbor; and Wendell Will
kie, the party's 1940 presidential
nominee, commented quickly that
it represented an "abandonment
of isolationism."
Walter S. Hallanan of West Vir
ginia, who presented Willkie's
proposals for a stand against iso
altion to the committee, contended
that the pronouncement was a vic
tory for Willkie.
Pertinent paragraphs in the
statement endorsed by the com
mittee were these:
"We demand the prosecution
of an offensive war, relentless
ly and without reservation,
whatever it may cost in wealth,
energy and human life, until
the United States and Its allies
have won . a complete : victory
over thehc. enemies. v,;;,:
"We wiirrecognize no peace
with those enemies except peace
with victory and we will never
entertain any proposals of peace
until such victory be won. There
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Lt. Putnam
Killed in Air
Salem Youth Headed
Flight in Bomber
Ferry Command
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Putnam, 270
North 21st street, received word
Sunday that their son, Lt. Rex
Paul Putnam, Jr., United States
army air corps, was killed in an
airplane crash overseas April 15.
Rex Putnam, sr., is state super
intendent of public instruction.
The telegram from the war de
partment gave no details of the
accident but said a letter would
follow.
The last communication his
parents nad from tne iiier was a
letter received March 25, which
was posted in Brazil March 18.
Lt. Putnam was in the bomber
ferrying command. He was pro
moted to the grade of first lieu
tenant just before leaving the
states and on his last trip was
flight commander.
Lt. Putnam received his wings
in January of this year. He grad
uated from Salem high school
and went to Willamette univer
sity three years.
Besides his parents he is sur
vived by a brother, Lt Roger
Putnam, army air corps.
eral as the most stubborn, stupid,
lazy, lecherous and eternally
damned animals that ever climbed
a mountain.
We eaught up with him Just as
his1 climatic blast of vocal dis
dain, seemed U lift both ani
mals and their dragloads of lum
ber clear off .- the , trail. . This
final effort put them over the
top of the hump and the cor
poral waa happy.
It was here that Captain Lear
man rode out. from a aide trail
and walked with, ua to. "halfway
stables" where we r visited with
Privates Albert Cohen, 20, of Gil
man, Conn., and Edward J. Kil
mer,. 25, of Delhi. NY.
We are due to start back in a
few - minutes. Major . Buchanan,
who rode up again, offered mule
for the trip but we were not in
terested. So the major cheerfully
insisted : on walking down with
us, , It probably wQl seem a long
It would have terved the Japa
nese bloody well right if they bad
Deen along today.
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Uncle Sam's latest type of tanks,
plant on an assembly line basis.
Laval Appeals
For Support
In New Order
Calls War Declaration
A 'Crime'; Hostages
Are Ordered Slain
By TAYLOR HENRY
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
April JIOT-Speaking Monday ;
night amidst new stirrings of
unrest and nazi orders for the
execution of 30 more French
men, pro-axis Pierre Laval
branded France's 1939 declara
tion of war a "crime" and told
the French people the condition
for peace in Europe lay in friend
ship between France and Ger
many. In his first broadcast as chief
of government, Laval placed
blame for France's predicament
upon the old republican regime,
declaring that he had "no re
sponsibility whatever in the mis
fortune which has befallen us."
He appealed to Frenchmen
to support his new rovernment
with the assertion that their
choice now lay between rap
prochement with Germany or
"seeing oar civilization disap
pear." -t.
Refering . to the ; AngloSaxon
powers, he said that in the past
never have accepted or sub
mitted to xdj foreign influence,
and such is the explanation of the
unleashing of passions to which
I am so often subjected, above all
in England again."
"My thoughts go especially to
those among you who have suf
fered the attacks of our former
ally, all the more fierce against
our territories because she is in
capable of protecting her own,'
the bitterly anti-British Laval
continued.
"After having led us into war.
after having ' abandoned us ' In
battle, she tried to destrorrur
fleet: she killed our sailors.- and
starved our people.
"Today her ' airplanes are
again in French skies after de
serting as in a moment of dan
ger they (the British) would
complete the destruction of our
homes which the battles have
left unscathed."
Reaching. an understanding
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US Seizes
Plant Control
WASHINGTON, April 2HJP)
The government seized control
Monday of three plants of the
Brewster Aeronautical : corpora
tion, makers of .- warplanes, and
White House officials said the rea
son was "dissatisfaction with the
management." : - 5 - -c - , .?
President Roosevelt ordered the
navy to: take possession and opera
tion of the plants at Long Island
City, NY, Newark and Johnsville,
Pa," a few. - days after- Senator
Byrd (D-Va) had complained of
slowdowns : in plants with naval
war contracts.. .
It also was reported, Byrd said,
that in several' sections - of : the
Long Island City plant "all of the
employes, including 'the foreman,
are enemy aliens. --. ' -
New Battle Wagons for
r
the all-welded 39-ton M-4s, are being- tprned oat by Fisher Body
This photo shows some of the first tanks off the line. ;
Labor Placing
Plan Is Told
ByMcNutt
WASHINGTON, ' April 2(HJP)
Labor is to be channelled into
war plants on a priority basis
somewhat as scarce raw material
is rationed, Paul V. McNutt dis
closed Monday, but he empha
sized that it would be done on a
voluntary basis.
In the first exposition! of his
plans since President 'Roosevelt
d e s fn ate d him Saturday as
chairman of a new war manpow
er commission, McNutt told a
press conference that 13,000,000
new workers would be needed in
war plants this year and that
steps would be taken to use the
skills of men and women, too
where they would count most.
"Arrangements will have to be
made for supplying labor to va
rious war industrial plants in
accordance with the urgency of
the need for the products each
plant turns out," he said.
He rejected any suggestions of
a "work or fight" policy, how
ever, and said in reply to ques
tions that he did not intend to
use such compulsion.
Raids Renewed
On Corregidor
Dive Bombers Join
Artillery Assault;
Soviet Moves Up
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press War Editor
In the whole grand panorama
of the Pacific and Indians oceans
Monday night the one currently
dark spot for the United Nations
was in the Philippines, where it
was evident that the proud little
American Manila bay forts were
under cruel attack from Japanese
artillery and dive bombers.
Although American guns had
smashed at least three enemy
batteries and had broken three
truck and. troop concentrations on
Bataan peninsula, it appeared that
Corregidor in particular had suf
fered rather heavily from power
ful enemy gun fire. It also un
derwent fiveY' successive dive
bombing raids, J
In Australia, , the unhalted
growth of allied striking power
In the air was arala demon
strated by officials announce
ments that American and Aos
trallaa airmen la two weekend
raids on Sabaal in New Britain
had destroyed grounded
Japanese planes and there was
soaae cheerful speculation In
allied quarters that the; enemy
might even be driven front
such Island bases above the
ma mini. 4v-k
Russian dispatches reported that
the soviet army of the center had
brought its big guns up to .within
range of Smolensk, the vital Ger
man position 230 ' miles west of
Moscow and that Russian troops
were advancing on the cityifrom
an area only IS '.miles ! to the,
northeast. - - ' " ' -
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Sunday's Weather
Weather . forecasts withheld
and temperature delayed "by
army request. Elver, Monday
-.4 feet. alax. temperature Sun-.
day. 77. mfca, 41.
Yanks
fr .
Burma Troops
Capture Town
In 1st Drive
RAF . Scours Coast
To Aid Offensive ;
AVG Downs Planes
By DREW MIDDLETON
LO N D O N, A p 11. 20-(JP)
Chinese inf antry a n d British
tanks teamed up in. a bold coun
ter attack to score their first
offensive success in Burma by
driving the Japanese from Yen
angyaung in the center of the
ruined oil fields by a headlong
assault, it was announced Mon
day.
British tanks smashed through
the jungle ahead of veteran Chi'
nese infantry to erase the most
dangerous Japanese penetration in
Burma, and the RAF scoured the
Arakan coast of West Burma
looking for signs that the Japanese
were attempting to employ the
tactics of Malaya coastal infil
tration toward Akyab, small but
only north Burma port behind the
British lines.
Sweeping 200 miles of the
coast, the planes not only bomb
ed Basse in airport and Allan
myo on the -lower Irrawaddy,
but also smashed barges and
launches at Bassein and in Gwa
bay, 50 miles to the north. They
attacked two schooners at An
drew bay and Sandoway, 75
miles north of Gwa bay.
The American Volunteer group
i the Flying Tigers also were in
action, successfully defending
their , Burma base by shooting
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Henry Hackett
Dies Sunday
Funeral Today for
State Highway
Personnel Man
Henry N. Hackett, 53, personel
director of the state highway de
partment, died at a Salem hos
pital Sunday. He was a resident
of 230 South 23rd street.
Mr,1 Hackett started with the
highway department in 1914. He
left in 1917 to work with his
mother; at the Crown Point chalet
on the Columbia river for three
years. He was county road mas
ter for Clatsop county at one
time with headquarters at As
toria. He was resident engineer
at Salem for a number of yearr
and In 1938 was named person
nel director, j "-5
He was a member of the North
west Highway Engineers associa
tion.
: Survivors include i tAV-1 widow,
Mildred Hackett; ; children,' Jlell
Hackett, Portland, , Russell 'Hack
ett and Mrs. Helen Nelson; Sa
lem; sisters, Mrs. J.. E. Holden,
Oswego, f Mrs. Hattie . Metcalf,
Hood River, and Mrs. Mary Emma
Haun, Portland; a brother, Ted
Hackett," Hood River, and two
grandchildren- . - -
-Funeral services are to be held
today at 130 p.- m. ; from the
chapel of, the W. T. Rigdon com
pany. Concluding services are to
be at Mt Crest Abbey mausoleum,
Sou
rce;
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Bombers Identified as Type
Never Used From .Carriers;
Ten Are Claimed Destroyed
By The Associated Press -The
Japanese, apparently still trying: to learn 'how To
kyo and three of their greatest cities were bombed Saturday
suggested Monday that planes came from three United
States aircraft carriers and then sped on to havens in China
In raising this possibility,;
rial headquarters identified the' planes as ; North American
B-25 e, which are. big two-motored army b o"m berg never
known to have been launched
carriers.
Tending nevertheless to
sion, the Reuters news agency in
London quoted "well-informed
quarters" in Chungking as saying
United States planes which raid
ed Japan had arrived safely at
their destination. Chungking had
said previously the raids were
not launched from China. Au
thorities in the Chinese capital
said later they had no informa
tion about the landings.
Washington or other capitals
of the United Nations were sil
ent An " imperial Japanese head
quarters communique Monday
said:
A hostile navy unit center
ing ground three aircraft car
tiers appeared April IS at m".
distant point 'off the eastern
coast of . Japan proper,' but,
fearing Japanese counter-attack,
fled wtfheut approaching
Japanese shores.
"On the same day approximate
ly 10 enemy aircraft of the North
American B-25 type appeared
over Tokyo and other areas, fly
ing singly or in pairs.
"The hostile planes which man
aged to escape being downed ap
pear to have escaped to China.
Damage caused was extremely
slight." i
, Previous accounts had said
nine of the planes which raided
Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Na
goya were shot down. The Japa
nese said another was forced
down in the mountains of central
Japan and its crew of five cap
tured, j
If there were only 10 planes,
as the Japanese communique
said, this would account for all
of them, and leave none to "es- j
cape to China," as the same
communique reported.
Although Japan said the dam
age waa "extremely alia-hV
Berlin broadcast that the Japa
nese government waa making
grants to rebuild factories and
other structures In the Tokyo
area.
Tokyo hinted at the possible lo
cale of one of the bombings, a
broadcast saying 10,000 students,
including 3500 from Waseda uni
versity, were most active in air
raid precautions service; they lent
their assistance in many places
and in many ways and aided es
pecially in keeping traffic going."
Waseda university is in the
northwest section of the old city,
about two miles from the im
perial palace and half a mile
west of a big army arsenal. West
of the university are railway
freight yards and warehouses.
Dome I, the Japanese news
agency, Implied that damage
was considerable and that the
public nerves were frayed, re
porting that cabinet vice-ministers
met to discuss raid de
struction and methods of con
trolling baseless rumors.'
uomei - also broadcast an ac
count, notable for its implies
tions of unreadiness and surprise,
by i Souo Tokutomi, ' whom it
Identified as the 78-year-old dean
of Japanese newspaper-men.
, Tokutomi said that during the
raid he had to travel from the
southern to the central 'section
of , Tokyo and was happy to see
the people "looking up at the sky
as if witnessing an exhibition of
fireworks, and talking to ' each
other a picture, of absolute
composure in the face of the
enemy attack. : -.
, Such eonduci. ha held, was
"unsurpassable - anywhere. " and
there la bo need to take lessem
from Londoners or any other
people who have been through
He went on to say that nine
;.anes were snot oown out -in
the event enemy planet - come
acain we are prepared to give
them more fitting treatment -.
o Sii&&est8
Mil
Silent
however, the Japanese impe
from the short flight decks of,
support the Japanese conclu
Sub Torpedoes 1
Enemy U-Boat
US Commanders Get
Awards for Daring
Successful Raids ,
WASHINGTON, April 20-(ff)
An American submarine home
ward bound from patrol deep into
Japanese .waters recently tor
pedoed an enemy undersea craft,
the navy reported Mnn'day. in a
fresh accounting' of some of the
daring raids which US. subs now
are constantly carrying out v
The official report said the Japa
nese submarine was "damaged'
but naval experts speculated that
it may have been sunk. Since three
torpedoes were fired at it, one
must have struck home in order to
damage it and no submarine or
dinarily can withstand such an ex
plosion. The US submersible was com
manded by Lieut. Comm. Elton
W. Grenfell, 38, of Radbnrn,
fairlawn, NJ and lt was an
nounced that he had been
awarded the navy cross. Three
other sub skippers also were
decorated for bold, successful
raids. Together, the four an-
dersea craft had sunk six enemy
ships totaling 4MM tons.
Counting the Japanese subma
rine which Grenfell torpedoed as
damaged, the announced total toll
of US subs carrying on the war
of attrition against Japan now
stands at 36 ships sunk, 12 prob
ably sunk and 11 damaged.
The officers awarded navy cross
es in addition to Grenfell were
Lieut Comms. David C. White, 38,
of San Diego, Calif.; Lewis S.
Parks, 40, of Wilmington, Del., and
Stanley P. Moseley, 38, of Fort
Worth, Tex. ,
Labor Debate
Delayed for
FDR Talk
Washington!, April 20-up)
The senate postponed debate on
the explosive labor issue Monday
to await a message to congress
and a subsequent radio talk next
Monday night by President Roose-
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veil vuuuuiig -geuerai nauuou
policies for combatting the rising
cost of living. 1
- Assured by Senator Connally
(D-Tex) that the p r e I d e n t ' a
f orthcoming expressions - would
deal with all factors contributing
to the cost of living "including la
bor," the senate agreed to defer
argument until April 28 on, a mo
tion to consider ConnaHy's labor
bilL This measure would permit
the government to take over
strike-bOund industrial plants and
freeze their working conditions.
- While there have been reports
th nrMkimt waa considering a
program involving over-all freez
ing of prices and wages, as well
as control of war profits, informed
legislators said they-expected the
special message' to be" general in
its terms. '
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Alaska Japs Report J
JUNEAU, Alaska, April M)
Alaska's Japanese' Tesidentweri
reporting at military; pottsJSff the
territory f Monday : lor .evacuation,
There are an estimated 200 in the
territory, exdusivebt .chndren.
The ;' order .. Incudes ; , halfTblood
Japanese. . ...