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Our Senators . ' The league Muon opens for Salem's Western Inter national ' loop. Senators at Taeoma tonight Bead the cor. and the story flnt in The Statesman. Tiros ; WASHINGTON; Aprfl 2 (AMay tire quotas for Ore- -con lnclode 49 sew tires and 4571 recaps for passea cer. ears, 1141 new and 4J4t recaps for tracks. ,. POUNDDQ KxnnY-nssr yeah Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning, April 25. 1942 PrfcaSc, No. S34 VS t YiYnN-STTiVV 111 I'VN TV I f U I 111 I 1 LS II II II I V I I I J I VA I I rr -rr Jap Push Imp er i Is M dalay an Soviet Moves Up; - Rabaul Is Given s . Allied Air RaiiF f. By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Prm War Editor ., The allied position in Bur ma, the only theatre of the Pacific and Indian oceans of torrent major activity, took ' l sharply unexpected torn for ' Ihe worse Friday for advanced Japanese mechanized forces sad thrust to within 100 miles if Mandalay in an 80-mile idvance above their previous stain positions.' This penetration, which was on the Chinese-held left of the al lied line under command of the American Gen. Joseph W. Stil welL reached the vicinity of the towns of Shwenyaung and Taung gyi from the area of fallen Laikow to the south. - Friday night's Chungking com Biunique reported that both sides had suffered heavily in violent, continuing action. The peril to Mandalay plainly was grow uis imminent. On the richt and center of the allied line, the former held by the British and the latter by British and Chinese, there was no apparent chance of conse quence. In Europe, allied action of the day followed a now famil iar pattern. The Russians reported consider able additional progress in the far south against the nazis spe cifically the recapturing of a Stronghold identified only as "the golden range" in the Crimea and bitter local fighting northwest of Moscow and about Leningrad. The German high command for its part laid claim to successful nazi -attacks and thrusts" in the Donets basin of the Ukraine." In, the theatre of the southwest Pacific, no action of great conse quence was reported. General Mae Arthur's Austra 1 1 a a headquarters announced that allied planes had again raided the Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain with good effect, bomblnc shipping, barracks, warehouses and ma chine canning enemy troops, and stated at the same time that new Japanese raids on Port Moresby in New Guinea had been ineffectual. As to the Philippines, Japanese infantry reinforced by tanks and artillery had made new landings on Panay island, where an American-Filipino handful is resisting in all the spirit of Bataan. Patrol action was reported on Mindanao island; in Manila bay Corregi . dor's guns maintained their long duel with the enemy batteries. Resort Travel Little Sliced Defense activities in Oregon have resulted in few restrictions on travel and the Pacific coast beaches and mountain resorts are operating as usual, Ben Titus, act . ing director of the state highway commission travel bureau, de clared In a statement here Friday. Titus said the only restrictions on Oregon's 400 miles pf beaches are the ban on beach bonfires af , ter . nightfall and the closure of areas immediately contigious to military establishments. Most of 'these places are remote from va cation spots, Titus averred. Scholarship Awards 'First 1st health la Marlon county, Carolee Nkholaof Bethel, Salem - Ugh school Junior, and Norbert Wellmaa, fourth grade, St Mary's school of Mt Angel, Friday became first members of Oregon's Green . Guard. - Miss Nichols Is here shown receiving the white leatherette ,7 shield of the organisation from R C.- Kuehner, executive secretary t- f the Keep Oregon Green association, while Norbert wears the tn , t'nla. af the Green Goard In addition to his 4H armband. The ' , Creen Guard b planned as an activity to become part of various . yea'h organixatlons of the state; It Involves a pledge ta obey forest '" rdes a&3 ta help spread the gospel of forest protection , HCU Takes Place of - Inflation WASHINGTON, April f4-(iy -The official designation for , the thing that is bothering t lot of people Friday became the "Tilth cost of UTing" rather than in flation." . ! " ' President, Roosevelt has ob jected to the latter term on the ground that most people, to-, eluding, himself, . don't.- know, what It means. He said today that high cost of living was pref-" erable. 'i- IC; la the last world war, ' the headlines had much to say about "HCL" as it was then abbrevi ated. i'L'' Standley Asks For Procedure Washington Makes No Comment on Fliers Internment by Reds KUIBYSHEV, April 24-P) United States Ambassador William H. Standley asked Washington Friday for instructions as to' pro cedure on the case of five US air men interned in Siberia after they had raided Japan. This indicated that the case has not been com pletely closed by the soviet union's strict application of international law. Tass, official soviet news agency, reported the landing and intern ment early Friday in the follow ing brief dispatch dated yester day: "KHABAROVSK, April It On April 18th on the territory of the Maritime province there landed an American warplane. As stated by the plane crew, the latter participated on the same day In a raid by the American air force on the Japanese Is lands, and, cstnc orientation, committed a forced landing on soviet territory. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Draftf iSgnup Opens Sunday Men 45 to 65 Called For Selective Service Registration, Armory Registration quarters at the Sa lem armory open at 9 o'clock Sun day morning for the fourth select ive service registration, to oper ate until 5 p. m., reopening Mon day at 7 a. m. and remaining open until 9 p. m., members of the board reminded eligibles Friday night Required to register la every man who had attained his 45th birthday on February 14, 1942, and will not have attained his 65th birthday on April 27, who has not heretofore registered. Only registration post In Salem Is to be that at the armory. Volunteers who have helped at previous registrations and who have not yet contacted Mrs. Mar cella Miller, chief clerk, were asked to do so at the armory this morning. Other adults interested in offering their services should also call Mrs. Miller or go to her office this morning, it was an nounced. WASHINGTON, April 24-(PJ Approximately 13,000,000 men from 45 to 65 years of age began registering Friday for possible n on combatant war duty. . The nation-wide registration is to be completed Monday night In some states. It began (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Gasoline: .. .. ., . .--.. . Slice To Half Set-i St?"May 1 in 'f$$ Probably j . ? c -Northwest! :1 ASxiiWuTON, April Z4-(M Gasoline - consumption in - the east probably will be,cut to 50 per cent of normal on May 1, meaning that non-essential ve hicles may have to get along with an average of around six gallons a week, a government source Indicated Friday. It was understood that deliver ies to filling stations would be cut to one-half of normal be cause of a worsening of transpor tation :' problems. . They already have been' cut one-third. Since vehicles necessary to health and safety, commerce, government, schools and other essential purposes would eon-' tinue to receive all the gas they needed, supplies available for non-essential automobiles might be only 40 per cent of pre war demand, one official point ed out. There was no definite indica tion whether the more severe limitation would apply also in the Pacific northwest. One source said it probably would, but Pe troleum Coordinator Harold L. I ekes has described the supply sit uation there as improved. Such further curtailment for the east would be effective until May 15 when a card rationing program will be instituted. The American Automobile as sociation said Friday night It had arged the government to allow the "most liberal gallon age basis possible,'' contending that the 10,000,060 ears affected by the rationing - "represent .traaaportatkm of tftM00,00 passenger miles fas an averagai year and that of this total 55 per cent la for necessity driv ing." Thomas P. Henry, AAA presi dent, said that "there is no such thing: today as 'motoring as usual,' " adding that long-distance motor trips had declined between 30 and 40 per cent in the past three months. First Street Shelter to Be Built Tuesday Salem's first street corner air raid shelter, for use of air raid wardens or guards, will be built in front of the city hall at Che- meketa and High - streets early Tuesday night Paul R. Hendricks, downtown warden and acting city ARP executive officer, said Fri day. The shelter will be a circle of sand-filled sacks approximately five feet in diameter. Purposes of such shelters, Hendricks said, are to protect wardens from bullets, shell fragments and all but the largest of aerial bombs, to provide an emergency .source of sand for use in extinguishing incendiary bombs and to show the general public protective measures deem ed adequate. A group of wardens are to as semble shortly before 7:30 pjn. to put up their first shelter. ax Fifteen hundred Marion county 4H club boys and girls, with their leaders and parents, Friday after noon filled the Salem armory as sembly hall to watch 30 of their number receive certificates en titling them to half scholarships for" next season's 4H summer school. Climax to a week of ex hibiting and v to more than six months of . project workvFrlday's presentations were to top j blue ribbon winners who could qualify for the annual school session on the Oregon State college campus. " The , af ternooa rally followed a parade of young clabworkingi enthusiasts, who insisted vpon marching through - downtown I Salem streets although county . leaders had attempted ta cancel that one leatore of fspring shew ; week' because they feared , in- clement weather. Foremost fea ture of the march was the prev alence of American flags among the four-leaf clover banners of' fba'dttv-'-vVv' "r-; :'.""" s' To Fruitland, Aurora and ' Jef ferson Schools went flags for best showings in ' the , parade;" special mention was given by Judges to Clim Alliec Marines, United States marines come in for I jf ?ff r? ' r r- v.'J:.. ..... . v t ' " "w-, - V - '.'t r; s . - x ;V " - Sv.-flP:: . : v.. f . necks are being perfected In commando tactics. In this picture, the stroyer In a Just-Inflated rubber used by the British along the channel coast Four Allied Ships Sunk 38 Crewmen Lost as Atlantic Subs Boost Toll By The Associated Press Loss of 'four ships m the At- lantictww -nium-siseed " United States merchantmen and two Pan amanian' tankers was announced Friday by the navy and foreign quarters, bringing to 147 the to tal of allied vessels officially an nounced as sunk in the Atlantic and adjacent waters. Thirty-eight crewmen lost their lives In the attacks and 108 survived. Published today by the Mexi can government newspaper Na tional was a crewmen's report that a Mexican tanker, approach ing the lifeboat containing the survivors of an American freight er, may have rammed and sunk a submarine lurking near the scene. The Mexican ship, said the National's story, bore the marks of the collision on her hull, but otherwise was undamaged. Survivors of the second US mer chantman stated they were heavi ly shelled by an axis .submarine attacking April 18. Seven of the crew of 34 were killed, 27 reach ing Norfolk after a destroyer picked up their lifeboats three days later. Of the crew of 39 aboard one of the Panamanian tankers, one t h e quartermaster at the wheel was burned so badly by (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Mountain Highway Openings Slated .The Mt Hood Loop highway will be opened for travel on May 1, ; while the McKenzie highway will be opened a week later, R. H. Baldock, state highway en gineer, announced Friday. ... 4?H Show Keizer, Mt Angel, liberty, Brooks and Crawford schools,! with an nouncement that other units from over the' county would have par titipated had they not been noti Ced that the-parade plans were cancelled. Topping; other hon-rs at the an nual .spring show, were awards to Coral ee Nichols, 17, Salem high school junior from Bethel district and to Norbert Wellman, 9, fourth grader from St Mary's school, Mt Angel, declared by judges. W be Marion coimtyV healthiest, club boy and girt They were selected from' among 80 .competitors,.' lar-r gest number ever to enter. the con test .here and are scheduled . to represent , Marion ' county In the competition, at the state 'fairXVL f Miss Nichols, who last year .was selected as one of the state's two most' outstanding- ,4H club tfcln.. Is the oldest ever selected for the health boner berej WeH man, the youngest it was sald. r Marjorie Tate, Sublimity, was second,' and. Judith .Knab, Mount Angel, third, In the" scoringv of girls. In the boys scoring Wayne v-:" f Turn to Page 2. Cot a). Perfect Commando Tactics t- a landing somewhere along the boat, beading for the beach. Convoy in - ...... :Wm;M& ' St " Foils Ambush By Axis Submarines , Nine U-Boats Lurk for Rich Prize; :BmPszigi To Spoil Aim of Torpedoes By JOHN A. MOROSO, 3rd WITH THE ATLANTIC An axis submarine ambush to destroy a group of American naval vessels and the huge prize they by cool, skillful daring as one of the most exciting voyages ever taken by Uncle Sam's blue jackets neared a highly successful ending. This thrill-packed venture cue the survivors the survivors of two ships sunk near us. It saw our planes rout a U-boat engaged in a pre dawn gun battle with a Norwegian tanker and it saw our beautiful ships confuse the undersea raid ers with an adroit series of ma neuvers. No less than suae submarines were reported along oar course. The' first contact with one af them came fat the ley darkness at 8:45 ajau shortly after I had climbed to the navigation bridge to pay my respects te the cap- Suddenly a shot rang across the calm waters from our port quar ter. Roars and flashes of flame spat angrily into the sky and in the dim distance we could see that two vessels were pouring it on gun for gun. Our radio told us one was an armed Norwegian tanker the other a U-boat The captain barked an order for two planes and a desti oyer to dash away. "Tell. them to double that up on the planes as fast as God will let them," he said. . j "Blast those to hell he roared as the catapults sent the planes away. (We learned later that the planes scared the submarine off and that the doughty tanker, her gmns.stUl smoking, had escaped with minor damage) ' Ws ' were watching the gun flashes at, 8:43 ajn. when a peri scope was sighted less than 800 yards from our convoy one of . : (Turn to Page 2. CoL S) es Out Tuesday r Circulation of pledge cards- to underwrite a Salem-Camp; Adair bus service will be started by next Tuesday, Pres. Carl W. Hogg of the - chamber of commerce an nounced Friday following a meet ing of his transportation commit tee. - ; . i , v . - A chairman for each block In the business, district is to be named to carry out the solicita tion of pledges. F. L Bressler was designated by Hogg ' to - present pledges to building material deal ers and William Hardy, president of the Salem Realty board, to do the same as to real estate brokers. ri"-"-;.-Tfcl '" m - tfusrieag it ii ii f :4-)ssaV " ' -::,j.-(.p.. i"'x"''"' US coastal apron. The leather marines are seen leaving their de This la the type of attack recently A tlantic FLEET, April 23-(Delayer)-() convoyed recently was frustrated saw one of our destroyers res- FDR Hints More Output Tells Nation's War Spending for Year; Shipd Lagging WASHINGTON, April 24-JP) President Roosevelt hinted Friday that the already gigantic goals of the war production program may be increased, so well Is the pro gram going. The only lag of any consequence was in i shipbuilding, he said, at tributing it primarily to an over all shortage of steel shapes and plates rather than to any man agement or labor slowdown. Steps are being taken, he added, to in-; crease - the nation's steel produc tion capacity. v The" president's statements, made at a press conference, re vealed too, that he believed civilian eoasumptloa of steel was too great and that the war production board held a contra ry view. A survey an the ar-s-tioa Is in progress, he revealed. An indication of the rate at which' production is moving came meanwhile from. Harold D. Srith, the director of the budget In fig ures which he submitted to the House ways and means committee for its guidance in formulating the new tax program. ; Total spending figures for this fiscal year ' (ending June 80) ha said, will be 828,000,000,000 'in stead of $28,000,000,000 previous ly estimated. Next year's total, be added, has been. revised, upward from. $58,000,000,000 , to $70,000, 000,000. -'.' ".aA- . War spending this month, he continued, will total Sl,9t,t00. 90; in June It wffl be $34W9, 9094891 and la September It wCl (Turn to Page 3, CoL 8). r G vil J7ar Veteran r t J;.. 7ishes for Youth -' . EVERETT, April. 24 -(PK A restful as a man 30 years his jun ior, Semer Bt Tift,' Everett's sole remaining Civil war veteran, eel ebrated his 100th birthday. Fri day with the wartime wish that he were young enough to "get on my horse' again; and go after them.' t i ' 1 '''ill Tells Ge Roosevelt Agrees on Report t Of Marshall; BeaveArook Galls for Second Frontt - 4 - NEW YORK, April 24( AP) The British radio? mys terious rColonel Brittonw told German-occupied Europe Friday night to make ready for large-scale sabotage for "within' six weeks from now there may open what may prove to history of the world." , To win this great battle greatest effort they've ever beamed to Europe and heard RAF Deals Out Heaviest Raid Baltic Port Plants In Raging Flames ; Nazis Reply LONDON, April 24-(flJ)-The largest force of RAF fighters ever sent against a single objective es corted bombers attacking the Netherlands port of Flushing by daylight Friday, following up a p re-dawn assault on the Heinkel aircraft factories and the German Batic port of Rostock in which the air ministry said massed bomb ers loosed the greatest weight eCj bombs' in the service's history. A Nine fighters were lost in the Flushing raid and in sweeps over northern France, while five nazi planes were destroyed. One of these was a Junkers 52 troop transport, shot down in flames by two American Eagle pilot officers, Arnold Skinner, of Webb City, Mo., and William Daley, Amar illo, Tex. In saying the fighter group was the largest ever employed, the air ministry declined to dis close the actual number. It said the hour-long raid on Rostock and the Heinkel works, which cost four planes, started gigantic fires visible for more than N miles at sea. The "very heavy" explosive bombs set the town and harbor ablaze in an attack officially de scribed as "effective as that on Luebeck." The tremendous attack on March 28 on Luebeck, 60 miles south west of Rostock, was a landmark in the campaign to say the power of the German offensive prepara tions in the east and north by wrecking industrial areas. British authorities say 40 per cent of Lue- beck's main area was destroyed, on the basis of photographic evi dence. In striking Just as heavily at the Heinkel works near Rostock, the British bombers dropped down to 3501 feet and did not release a bomb until the center of the factory area was hi the bomb sights. The ministry said there were indications the plant was gutted. LONDON, April t5-(Satur-day)-AV3ermaa ir raiders in flicted casualties and damage ta attacks early Saturday oa areas af southwest England. . In one -town casualties were caused by high explosives falling in a. working class district V; Sprague Sees Road Change ROSEBURG, April 24--The Pacific highway " between Eugene and Grants Pass will be relocated as rapidly as funds are available, Governor Sprague said here Fri day. ;V He said the rapid expansion of lumbering in southern Oregon as well as defense -construction made the ; highway . ' change ' essential. Speed of the relocation will de pend to some extent on amount of federal aid.' " - '.-,-- At Eurene. the governor told 200 Girl Scout leaders that Amer ican youth was , acquitting itself magnificently, in this war. "xouin is riving' in money, service life itself," be said to an assemblage of Scout leaders. . .. , il llli Syiv iiii- y : Bfitton rmans his -V-for-victory army in be the greatest battle in the the Germans most make the made," he said in a broadcast here by. CBS. This will mean more machines, more courage, more skill and more staying power than they've ever needed in their history. This is their last chance. "If this onslaught fails they'll never find the strength again. To beat this attempt England needs all the men, the means, the cour age, the skill and the staying pow t that-we possess. "The naxis intend to strike, as I said, within the next six weeks. It may be delayed, bat I dont think for long, because the, longer It is delayed the less chance for success it has . . . But wo too wiU attack, and the Russians will attack and yon la Europe will attack. -""Colonel Britten" told his fol lowers that they muatMiot think that all these "attacks would not occur at the sum moment !' ' He declared due warning would be given and urged them to make plans now so that they would strike at the most vulnerable points when the time came for action. LONDON, April 24-(iP)-The issue of an allied Invasion of Europe was sharpened Friday by Lord Beaverbrook's militant demand for a second front and by the suggestive information that President Roosevelt had notified Prime Minister Church Ill be agreed with all conclu sions reached by Gen. George C. Marshall, United States chief of staff who recently visited Britain. , . , Mr. Roosevelt was said to have ' ksent a message to that effect to Churchill Friday. (The nature of Gen. Marshall's conclusions was not disclosed, but in Britain he said "the time for action is near," and that Ameri cans "inevitably soon wul Join the commandos.") Lord Beaverbrook's New York speech Thursday night emphasized the British public's concern over what the government will do with the largest army ever assembled in this country. ; i An army af between l.tvMOt and 2.0.eoe equipped with tanks and mechanised weapons, Is cooperating with the largest air force . fat Europe and Is a, formidable fighting machine, according to Its own command ers and visiting American of fleers. . Its employment In a great Eu ropean campaign this summer is an urgent necessity, according to a section of the public clamoring . for action now. , ' Lord Beaverbrook, famous pub lisher and lease-lend coordinator, Is the powerful advocate of this group. . ... - r : British sources said his address could not be regarded as coming from the British war cabinet, but nuvjy nevertheless held it was a symptom of governmental change toward the idea of invading Eu rope this year. ' LONDON, April Z-ff)-Reu-ters diplomatic correspondent reported Friday night that the German command - la France claimed Information that the In- . habitants of Boulogne prepared the ground for the British com mando ; raid at that . coastal strong point early Wednesday. . Reuters said, the German . gen eral, Field, Marshsal-Karl Rudolf Gerd Von " .Rundstedti , Inspected the scene following the attackand disciplined civil -and 'military; au thorities. As many, as 150 arrests were reported made at Boulogne. Thursday's TTcatlieir; s Weather forecasts withheld 1 and teannerataredaU delay e4 by army request Kites rruay - J . v. feet " Max.' tescferatart Tharsdargt. sahv 27.- z. . ' Soon