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NEJETY-FIRST YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, April 28, 1942
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: Assault Over France, Germany
Meets Heaviest Resistance;
Nazis Retaliate at Night
LONDON, Sunday, April 26 (AP) The Royal air
force daylight offensive over France reached a new peak
Saturday with six large-scale onslaughts in 11 hours in a
fiery aftermath to a second violent night attack on Rostock.
The Germans retaliated by sending large numbers of
bombers over the west of England Saturday night and early
Sunday, cascading high explosives and fire bombs on one
town.
Three of the nazi night raiders were reported shot down.
Maintaining attacks over the longest daylight raid period
of the war, the RAF pounded targets at Cherbourg, Le Havre,
Jap Spearhead
Gains in Burma
Chinese Counterattack
But Enemy Thrust
Nears Mandalay
By The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India, April 25
The hard-pressed Chinese defend
ing the allied left flank counter
attacked Saturday night to halt a
Japanese drive six mites west of
Taunggyi, but the strongly rein
forced enemy struck furiously
with tanks, artillery and planes
on both sides of their stalled com
rades. The Japanese, striking through
the Shan states within 100 miles
of devastated Mandalay, "thrust
forward in three columns around
Taunggyi in an effort to encircle
the outnumbered troops under
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, USA.
One Japanese spearhead which
reached Hopong drove abruptly
northeast in the direction of Loi
lem, 22 miles away, while another
column sought to move west and
encircle Taunggyi. Still a third
unit was striking out 16 miles fur
ther west of Taunggyi.
The Chinese, almost devoid of
air support, inflicted heavy cas
ualties and captured several
trucks and other material.
Heavy fighting also was report
ed in the center on the Sittang
river front, and on the British-
held right on the Irrawaddy.
The Chinese of the center and
their British allies were report
s ed officially to have held their
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oath of Tatkon and the British
arc drawn up behind the Fin
ehaung river near the burned
oil center of Yenangyaung.
The Japanese were attempting
to overrun Burma and isolate
China before the steaming Mon
soon of mid-day bogs down their
mechanized might
Our Senators
Lost
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It's Their Job
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Ob the shoulders of these men will rest much of the responsibility for both providing and keeping up
the Salem-Camp Adair bus service proposed by the Salem chamber of commerce. Business and pre
fesskmal men are to be solicited this week for pledges underwriting the project for one year. Cham-
: ber officials and members of a special transportation committee, pictured above are: From left to
right: Front row, Gene Vandeneyade, William Hardy, president of Salem Realty board; Clay C Coch
ran, chamber business extension manager; Carl W. Hogg, chamber president, and Mayor W. W.
Chadwiek. Back row, W. L. Phillips, Dr. Henry E. Morris, president, Salem Retail Trade bureau;
Linn C Smith, F. L Dressier, T. A. Windishar and Floyd Miller. (Richardson photo.)
in
Fiery
Attack
Calais and other points between
Saturday's dawn and sunset.
During these operations the
fiercest air battles of the year
raged with swarms of the latest
type German fighters challenging
the British at levels ranging up
to five miles high over a 250-mile
front.
The RAF took advantage of the
lengthening daylight hours to
wage its massive offensive which
forced the Germans to put into
the air the greatest number of
fighters encountered during any
one day of 1942.
The success of these sweeps
and the comparatively small
British losses- IS fighters and
one bomber appearj to indi
cate the nasls, eves- yi strata-'
lag to the limit, now are unable
to muster enough fighters to
match the RAF. German losses
for the day were riven official
ly by the British as eight fight
ers. While Spitfires and Hurricanes
weaved and dived in dogfights,
American-made Bostons unloaded
their bombs on targets along the
German-held coast even as Ros
tock, the important German Bal
tic port, still flamed and crumbled
from its second straight British
assault.
Pilots of British fighter planes
reported there was "tremendous
fighting" Saturday high above
France between British craft and
formations of 10 and 20 German
Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulf
109's, Germany latest and best
fighters.
After the first retaliatory raids
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Sugar on Sale
Still Monday
Grocers of Oregon will be per
mitted to sell sugar at retail on
Monday, W. S. Dirker, state sugar
ration administrator, announced
Saturday. Previously he had
banned sales after midnight Sun
day.
The rationing law orders sugar
sales stopped "the week of April
27." Dirker originally interpreted
this to include Monday. When he
learned Friday that his decision
had caused confusion in the trade,
he changed his ruling and now is
permitting retail sale of sugar un
til Monday at midnight.
Then for one full week, April
28 to May 5, it will be unlawful
to sell or buy sugar, Dirker said.
On May 5 consumer rationing
starts.
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Location of New Caledonia Is
land, held by the Free French
and where American troops en
tered Saturday, is shown by the
above map. The occupation was
in way of acting before Japa
nese forces.
US Troops on
New Caledonia
Island Flanks Supply
Line to Southwest
Pacific Forces
WASHINGTON, April 25-&)-The
United States announced Sat
urday it had landed troops in New
Caledonia to assist the Free French
in the defense of that vitally stra
tegic island which flanks the sup
ply route between this country
and Australia.
The action, which the war de
partment said was taken "with the
approval of local authorities," was
the first announcement of Amer
ican troops moving into French
territory. The size of the Amer
ican force was not disclosed. .
In view of the new collabor
ationist retime of Pierre Laval
at Vichy and of the previous
angry outburst from Vichy when
the (Jotted State sent un-
general to Brazzaville' In Free
French equatorial Africa ob
servers expected a hew outcry
from Vichy over the troops in
New Caledonia.
Relations between the Washing
ton and Vichy governments have
steadily deteriorated since an
nouncement that Laval was re
turning to power. Ambassador
William D. Leahy has been called
to Washington for consultations.
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Inmate Dies
Suddenly
On Release
Walter Stevenson, who Friday
completed a 2 year term for
larceny in the state penitentiary
here, died suddenly as he was
leaving the institution after re
ceiving his formal discharge. He
had been suffering from a heart
ailment.
Stevenson was received at the
prison August 24, 1940, from Jos
ephine county. He has a sister liv
ing at Santa Rosa, Calif.
Fletcher Isakson also died sud
denly at the penitentiary Friday
immediately following his return
there from the state tuberculosis
hospital where he was taken for
medical treatment.
Isakson was received ' at the
prison from Portland in 1934 to
serve a 25 year term for robbery.
His mother resides in Portland.
Friday's Weather
Weather forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed
by army request River Satur
day, -.4 feet. Max. temperature
Friday, 54, min., 43. Rainfall,
.17 inches.
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Roofing
Awarded
At Adair
Salem Firm Puts
50 to Work on
1500,000 Job
Largest roofing contract
ever awarded, so far as can
be learned here, that for Camp
Adair is held by a Salem firm
comprised by R. L. Elfstrom
and Carl Armpriest. Calling
for more than 250 cars of
composition roofing, the con
tract with that for all sheet metal
work in half of the cantonment
area, represents approximately
$500,000, a member of the firm
said Saturday.
Armpriest and Elfstrom, separ
ately engaged in business in Sa
lem, formed their partnership to
secure and handle the cantonment
construction job.
No shortage of labor has been
felt in securing help for their
share of the construction work,
they declare.
Charles Olson, for many years
Valley Motor company office man
ager, is in charge of the firm's of
fice at the cantonment site. Al
ready constructed there Is the con
cern's warehouse and approxi
mately 50 men are at work, it was
said Saturday.
Jobs for Small
Plants Urged
McNary Tells Nelson
Equipment Ready
For War Work
WASHINGTON, April 25-JP)
Senator McNary (R-Ore) urged
Donald M. Nelson, director of the
war production board, Saturday to
take steps to provide war work for
small shops of Oregon and the na
tion. The senator said that on the
basis of reports from his home
state and conferences with busi
ness men from Oregonhe, believed
that one of the most important is
sues before the WPB now is to get
the government procurement agen
cies to recognize the smaller con
cerns which have good equipment
and skilled workers.
"If conditions In. other states
are similar to those reported to
me by people from Oregon,"
McNary said, "there most be a
very heavy war production ca
pacity which Is not yet used."
McNary said he knew Nelson
was appealing to the procure
ment agencies and large private
contractors to place business
with smaller concerns but he
felt confident that a heavy pro
ducing capacity was not yet en
listed.
The senator said that of 274
metal working shops in Oregon
which have been studied and list
ed some are too small to take
war work but experts have found
a large number of Oregon shops
equipped and manned in a manner
that would insure good production.
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Hitler Plans
Report to
Reichstag
LONDON, April 25-V Con
tinental reports said Saturday
night that Adolf Hitler had re
turned to Berlin and was expected
to call a meeting of the Reichstag
soon probably Monday to make
a statement on German-French
relations.
A Reuters dispatch from Vichy
quoted the Swedish newspapers
NYA Daglicht Allehanda as say
ing German newspapers published
reports that the Kroll opera house
scene of Reichstag sessions is
to be closed, indicating a session
is imminent. The Swedish paper
also said Hitler was back in Ber
lin from the front.
- An earlier report credited by
the British news agency to the
Berlin' correspondent "of the Swiss
Gazette De Laussane, said this
correspondent had learned a large
number of French prisoners were
to be relased soon, but that most
of them would remain in Germany
as factory hands or be sent to
French industries producing far
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Despite ceaseless severe bombing
the Mediterranean, Malta went on the offensive Saturday to bomb
an airport at Sicily, miles to the north, and hit an axis supply
ship to Gen. Rommel's forces in North Africa. This map shows how
Malta lies athwart the Italian supply lines and how it receives
supplies from the ends of the
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Cargo Ship Loses
To Axis Subs But
Probably
Three'; IJ-Boats Follow American
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Catjo-tps8enger BoatTocpedo . ,
And Shell It Off East Coast
NORFOLK, Vf, April 25 -
torpedo and shelling attack, set
senger ship off the Atlantic coast Tuesday night in one of two
sinkings announced Saturday by navy, officials who said 44
passengers and crewmen were either lost or not reported from
the two vessels.
Nine passengers and five crew members were missing and
Family Men
May Get CaU
Marshall Sees Boost
In Number of
Recruits
WASHINGTON, April 25-
Many men with dependents may
be summoned to military duty this
summer in line with the new in
structions to local draft boards for
"more drastic action" to meet the
growing manpower needs of the
armed forces. .
Officials noted Saturday that
the instructions of national selec
tive service headquarters to the
local boards followed estimates by
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the
national director, that existing
quotas of men immediately avail
able to meet the expanding army's
demands would be exhausted be
fore falL .
Furthermore, Gen. George C.
Marshall, army chief of staff,
has predicted that summer will
see army training of recruits
stepped up to 15t,606 a month.
No figures on the current rate
of inductions have been made
public
In anticipation of the time when
large numbers of men with -dependents
may have to be called,
the army has asked congress for
legislation providing government
payments and allotments from
soldiers' pay to dependents. A
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Salem Music
Groups High
McMINNVILLE, April 2S-(P)
Orchestra and band' competition
ended the annual central Oregon
district high school music festival
Saturday. , " ;
Ratings: "
Orchestra, . Class J A Eugene 1,
Salem' 1. Class B Bend 1, Cor
vallis 1. Class .D McMinnville
Junior high 1. J
Bands, Class A Eugene 1, Sa
lem 1, Corvallia 1, Albany 1. Class
B-rBend 1, McMinnville 2,. Leb
anon 2, SUverton 3, Sweet Home
3. Class C Cresswell 1, Lakeview
3. Class D McKenzie 1, Corval-
lis Junior high 2, McMinnville
Junior high 3. -
Unsinkable
raids on the little British island in
Mediterranean.
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Got One
(iP) - Three axis submarines, in a
fire to an American cargo-pas
presumed lost from the cargo
passenger ship, and three men
were missing and 27 others had
not been reported as reached aft
er a medium-sized cargo ship was
sunk Sunday night
8urvivors related that the
score was not altogether one
sided and that one or two of
the submersibles attacking the
cargo-passenger were believed
to have been sunk. Lawrence
W. Earle, 18-year-old son of
Pennsylvania's former governor,
George H. Earle, said he was '
told by the crew of their rescue
vessel that they had certainly
destroyed one of the raiders and
probably another.
The 95 passengers and 75 crew
men surviving the attack on the
cargo-passenger ship were adrift
for 18 hours in six lifeboats be
fore they were rescued.
Harry King, Jr., 18, of New
York, whose father is a member
of the war production board, said
he saw submarines, sometimes
two and sometimes three, follow
ing the ship throughout, the day.
He was not particularly concerned,
he said, since the vessel carried
no cargo of military value and
the submarines were close enough
to see that women and children
were aboard.
One of the attacking- so br ma
rines, Earle related, fired a iar
pedo into the ship's port t'de
just aft of amidships, and the
raiders waited watil aboat IS .
minutes after the last of the six
lifeboats had been launched be
fore firing about 30 shells into
the vessel. From his lifeboat
he saw two submarines ex-
changing signals. The - nearer i
submersible, he said, was "quite
large and had deck guns fore '
and 'aft. " -- .
Eighteen men of the crew of 47
ana one passenger- ox the cargo
ship sunk Sunday night' were re
cued by the same ship that picked
up survivors of the cargo-passen
ger vessel. Three men we're miss
ing and presumed lost, and, 7.1
oiners, aiier saieiy launching a
lifeboat, had, not been reported as
rescued to the navy. ,
Laid Sports
SEATTLE, April 25r(ffV-Second
night game (seven innings): -Oakland
100 6-8 t
Seattle -U)00 020 0-2 10
Chelini and Glenn; Bevans, Lib-
ke (1) and Collins, Stagg (X). -:;
BaUered Island
Sends Aircraft
To Strike Sicily
Merchant Ship Crossing Sea
Is Bombed; Italian Airport
Feels Raid; Axis Continues
CAIRO, April 25 (AP) Despite continuous axis air
raids,, the battered little island
able "aircraft carrier" 60 miles from Sicily struck back.
Saturday at an enemy airdrome and a big merchant ship
which was carrying supplies to Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel's North Africa corps
The airfield bombed was
most of the German and Italian planes have flown against
Malta in virtually ceaseless attacks for the last four months.
The supply ship in the central Mediterranean was reported
probably hit by bombers, soaring from one of Malta's three
air bases at Hal far, Luqa and Tahali.
CCC Camps
Cut to 350
Remaining Enrollees
To Do Mostly War
Work, Protection
WASHINGTON, April 25-()
A retrenchment in operations of
the, civilian eopservation corps,
reducing the number of camps to
350 and the personnel to approx
imately ..70,000 announced
Saturday hFaul V. McNutt, fed
eral security administrator.
A CCC spokesman described
the action as an adjustment to
war time conditions, particular
ly to the present employment
opportunities for youth.
Of the 600 camps now operat
ing, McNutt said 202 would be
closed before May 31 and an ad
ditional 48 in June, making a to
tal of 250 to cease operations
within about two months. There
are about 85,000 enrollees in the
CCC at present t
The reduced operating basis
compares witn tne uua mgn or
2652 camps with 520,000 enroll
ees. On April 1 last year the corps
maintained 1500 camps with 270,
000 enrollees. The CCC expended
approximately $500,000,000 in the
fiscal year 1936, but expects to
use about $141,000,000 this year.
James M. McEntee, CCC di
rector, said the corps would
concentrate on wa'r work for
the armed forces and forest
protection, the latter principal
ly In timber areas of the north
west The announcement did not des
ignate the camps to be closed.
Ceiling Put
On Exports
WASHINGTON, April 25-(P)-
The government imposed a blan
ket price ceiling Saturday on all
commodities and products sold for
export
In an action Interpreted widely
as a preliminary to overall price
freezing within the United States
reportedly due Tuesday the of
fice of price administration or
dered the export ceiling in effect
next Thursday.
Under its terms, the export price
of any commodity is fixed at the
cost of acquisition by the exporter
plus the average premium charged
in the export trade on a similar
transaction between July 1 and
December 31, 1940, or March 1
and April 15, 1942 whichever
period yields the lowest average
premium.
45-65 Group
Men from 45 to 65 in the Salem area register today and Monday
at the Salem armory for the fourth classification by military authori
ties, part, of the 13,000,000 expected to sign up over the nation for
possible non-combatant war duty.' - -; '4
Frorh 9 a, m. to 5 p. m. today, from 7 a.;m. V 6 P m. Monday,
armory headquarters are to be open. ... , "
. In the Brooks community, registration offices are to be open Mon
day only. t - r ' ' ' ' ,-
, At Woodburn, where' registration, commenced Saturday, it is to
continue today and Monday in the council room of the city balL- -
Stayton's eligibles may register today or Monday in the Beau
champ building. - r -" "-- - r-
-. In Mt Angel, the city hall is to be registration headquarters today
and Monday. " --.-."'--"-- j ' - .
-Jefferson's registration Js to be held Monday- only, .h JbootUi
set up at the city halL . --
mt i.m. t hail f a H registration headauarters Monday.
Dallas registration Is to be at the armory on Monday, that atla
dependence In the armory, while throughput Polk county, wltlrsomt
consolidations, polling places are to be utilized. :
Registration offices close at p. nyMondar ,t v - . 7
of Malta Britain's unsink
at Comisco in Sicily, whence
In defense of the island fortress
itself, RAF fighters and ground
batteries knocked down four
planes and damaged 10 more out
of enemy squadrons engaged in
heavy raids during the past 24
hours, a Malta communique said
Saturday night It added that ci
vilian casualties during this rer-
iod were "considerable."
The heaviest of these assaults
came Friday night when fighter-escorted
axis bombers con
centrated . on Valletta harbor
and some bombs fell on the city
itself. A number of dive-bomb-?
ers took part in this, raid, while
a smaller force bombed and
machine-tunned a nearby air
port without serious daa&ma-e. " ;
In daylight follow-ups, th raid
ers struck three times at Malta
Saturday, the first time during
the morning in an attack of fairly
large force against western Malta.
Another heavy attack was made
In midday and a lesser one in the
afternoon but casualties from
these forays were described as
lighter than last night
Red Cavalry
Takes Over ,
Other Forces Bogged
Down; Nazi Ship
Sunk in North
KUIBYSHEV, April 25-MVRed
army cavalry units, scorning the
spring swamps which have bogged
down other ground forces, have
taken a number of German-occu
pied villages and reached an im-
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man front dispatches to Izvestia
said Saturday.
The horsemen were reported to
be harrassing the Germans at
every turn by lightning raids on
villages despite the efforts of Ger
man planes and artillery to check
them.
(The midnight communique
of the Soviet information
bureau broaoVast from Mos
cow reported that 88 German
planes were shot down along
the front Friday, bat said "no
essential changes took place.
(In the Barents sea, units of the
red navy sank a German ship of
12,000 tons, the communique said.
Presumably the ship was. being
used to reinforce German forces
in northern Finland.)
On the Karelian front it was
reported that a unit of Russian
guardista attacked a hilly sector
where the Germans had been for
tifying the crests during the win
ter and captured an important
height !
German efforts to recapture the
height were repulsed, Izvestia
said.
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