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: Ar& t&'-fjugsk 1r&$cci-kb&Kv X VC On Carpet i Scoro Salem's Senators on Tues day open their home season. Scores and fame stories are f 1 r 1 1 on The- Statesman sports pate, along with the little solon on pace 1 one. imiETY-SECOND YEAR .Renews, J &a. rm.L Ci. .1 m i xa in I " t r ' I t t mm Cr7 , avumtut wivu, uuiiuuui nwuoq, iay , I9U - - ; nw , j j ilO. 04 Ml Massive Maids -.n Coiatieeialt 4 Is Pie First Day Underwriting of Busses Started; 200 Workers Ask Five downtown chairmen reported pledges aggregating $7500 for the first day of the drive by the Salem chamber if commerce to underwrite a low-cost transportation serv ice between . the capital and Camp Adair, Pres. Carl W. Bogs announced Friday night "This la a fine start," Hogg de clared. "It looks as though our drive were meeting with 100 per . cent response." . -.,' .Chairmen who reported in to Hogg Friday ; night were Gene Vandeneynde, Linn C. Smith, Frank Doerfler, LoyalWarner and Floyd Miller. V The drive opened Friday morn ing with a breakfast at the Mar ion hotel attended by the eight iistrict chairmen and approxi mately 50 of their pledge circula tors, with Hogg, Mayor W. W. Chadwick and W. H. Crawford of -the Oregon Economic council! at the' head table. As the "bif guns" of the drive will not be fired until early next week, Horr said the next report, to be made at the chamber luncheon Monday noon, may not be much greater than Friday's. At the luncheon suggestions that " every family in the city be given ' an opportunity to join in under- writing 4he bus service, which 'the ' chamber believes will bring hun dreds Of Camp Adair workers here to live and many army officers . later, were quickly adopted. "The more persons who make pledges, the less the individual .cost per person will be if we do have to call on the signers to help defray the cost," Hogg explained. "However, this program has been set up by prominent businessmen of the city and we do expect it to pay its own way." Hogg said the drive would be continued until all businessmen and others interested had been given ; an opportunity to sign underwriting pledges. Promises - of from $3 to $28 a month for - one year, if the money is need . ed, are being sought. . The pledge drive was described by Clay C. Cochran, business ex tension manager of the chamber, . as "underwriting prosperity." . "Providing adequate transpor- . tation between what are soon to be the two largest communities in ) Oregon outside of Portland, Sa- lem and Camp Adair, means pros- f - perity," Cochran explained. "And it is our' patriotic duty as well to "help provide homes for Camp Adair workmen and later homes ' and entertainment for the soldiers " who will follow them." . Nearly 200 men now employed ; in building the cantonment in the Polk-Benton county area have al ready inquired of chamber offi - cials concerning the possibility of obtaining inexpensive tansporta " tion to and from Salem. "In 30 days from now, we ex 1 pect to have 1000 men from Sa . lem working at the camp." i Cochran said anyone missed in the current drive who desires to sign an underwriting pledge could do so at the chamber offices. Pension Meet Here Today ; PORTLAND, May 1-. D. . Perry, democratic state represen ; tative from Columbia county, Fri day called on leaders of state pen ! sion groups to attend a meeting in Salem Saturday to study a new old-age assistance bill drafted by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. ' Perry, chairman of the order's draf ting committee, said the bill i provides monthly payments of at least $40 to all needy aged 'and - eliminates the four appointive ; members of the present seven member county welfare commis lions. - i Our Senators Uci!::r $7500 dged, ; J ! - " l : ; : ;' - . I: : i."-v - t. .; - - 'I-. . j Spring Is Not As Before in Land of Nazi BERN, Swltierland, May 1 Discussing conditions in Ger many, the Berlin correspondent Of the newspaper Tagblatt of Bern wrote Friday that "spring to not as before." "Even my landlady who was always cheerful seems affected,' he said. "She looks depressed, almost worried. Former en thusiasm for the war seems to have dropped to zero." Then the correspondent re lated how the landlady had lost three of her sons, two in Crete and another near Sevastopol, while a fourth now is in the hos pital 4 Jack' Hughes Dies, Cheyenne Well-Known Resident Of Salem 111 for SeveralMonths John Hughes, 69, known to many a Salem youth as, "Jack Hughes. 69 years young," died in a Cheyenne, Wyo., hospital at noon Friday after an illness of several months. He had left Sa lem, his residence for more than 20 years, last; November o visit relatives in the Wyoming" city. Born in Wales, he came to the United States. when 12 years of age. For several years he lived in Chicago; in Wyoming he was later engaged in the livestock business. . Daring most of his residence in Salem he was a partner in ownership and operatioa of the Bluebird confectionery and res- taarant. IU health, one of the causes of his retirement ' from that business, sent him back to Wyoming; a few years ago, but he returned and was employed in the state public utilities of fices here. He was an active member of both Masonic and Elks lodges here. Survivors include Dan Hughes of Salem and John Hughes of Cheyenne, sons; Mrs. Charles Jackson, Cheyenne, daughter; Mrs. Clay Taylor and Mrs. Floyd F. Hodge, Salem, nieces, and other relatives. The Salem' son had left this week for Cheyenne, called by word of his father's serious con dition. Funeral services are to be held in Cheyenne. Smuts Warns Of Attack Calls for Full Force Of South Africa to Repel Jap Menace JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africa, May Gen Jan Christian Smuts, premier "of the Union jiof South Africa, warned the nation Friday the Japanese might attempt to at tack South Africa. "Although South Africa suc cessfully repelled dangers threat ening her borders from the north two years ago, the union is not yet out of danger," Smuts said in a call for an all-out effort ."You know how Japan Is today at the approaches to the Indian ocean where our continent lies. The menace is coming to us from the most dangerous quarter. We are nothing as strong in this country as Singapore but it was taken by the enemy. 4 "Rather than expose South Africa to that , final degradation we should be prepared and I am prepared to go the whole hog and inspan' all forces of South Africa in order to repel that menace." (Funk and Wagnalls college standard dictionary defines "in span1 as a South African word meaning "to harness or yoke up.") apraj Tax Gut Plan PENDLETON, May l--Gov, Charles A. Sprague told a Pendle ton audience Thursday night he intended to reduce the . state in come tax 20 per cent . : That much of a reduction possible, he said, because the state is In good financial condition. He asked renomination In th republican primary May i on the basis of his record and because he thought it unwise to change lead Says ership at this time. China's Back Door ! Threatened in Jap Drives Reinforcements IjSent to Meet Thrust 45 Miles From Border; Mandalay j Said in Salient of Jap Advance CHUNGKING, China, May l-(P)-Free China, endangered as never before by a Japanese back-door thrust which has pene trated within 45 miles of her border, sent reinforcements stream ing down the Burma road Friday the Japanese columns raging through northeastern Burma. Forging due north from captured, blazing Lashio, where the Mandalay railroad meets the twisting supply route through the mountains, the Japanese reached the vicinity of Hsemm, 22 miles northeast of Lashiqf along the Burma Road. ' i The Chinese high command said Friday night that the Chinese de fenders were holding steadfast in the Hsenwi sector under heavy pressure, 1 and that some of the south-bound reinforcements al ready had reached Hsenwi from China's Yunnan province. There appeared no doubt, now, that the Japanese . were going all out to reach China's Yunnan border, which is 45 miles east and 55 miles north lot Hsenwi. (For some time informed opin ion has inclined to the belief that the Japanese drive through east ern Burma was aimed at China, rather than in preparation for a westward a 1 1 ax k on India, j At their present location in the Hsen wi area, the Japanese not only are enveloping the actual Burma Road but are in a position to men ace the hew and incomplete In dia-China route to the north; the (Turn to Pago 2. CoL 4) lires, loots j Are Stolen ! Judge, 'Abe' Losers Among Thefts ; Told Police ': i Tire seekers in the Salem area are no respecter of persons, Sa lem police opined Friday night as they viewed reports pf most re cent losses. ! Justice George Rossman of the state supreme court had reported theft of a spare tire from his automobile as it was parked in front of his home on North Capi tol street early Friday morning. R. H. Collins of route jone, Lebanon, familiar to ; many a Willamette valley resident in the role of Abraham Lincoln which he assumed for -many parades and festivities because of his resemblance to the beard ed president from the midwest, told of loss of a tire and, rim Monday from his truck. Re turning to the scene of his loss he was Just in time to see an other motorist pick up the tire and rim and drive away, he said. : ' Missing from the front 1 porch of the Claud Chastain residence at 267 South Church street Friday morning was a child's "wUker," its four Wheels all rubber-tired and in good condition. j Toolsi too, were on the list of wanted articles. M E. J, Hoffman reported loss downtown Thursday of some plumbing tools. Elmer McClanghry of route two had reported to state police the theft of an electric motor, soldering Iron, two claw ham mers and a hatchet from an un finished dwelling on which he had been working north, of SaIem; near highway 99 E. A briefcase and papers' taken either from his car or from a Sa lem machine shop about C 'o'clock Saturday night were valued at between $8 and $9, G. B. Abraham of Amity told city police. Plumbing fixtures and: brass equipment from the old T. M. Barr residence, reportedly owned by Burt's Warehouse, have been removed, some over a period, of monthsj others recently, police have been informed. The ware house concern is said to be pre paring xo wreck the house. Archbishop Elected UUNUVN, May WPV-The Rt. Rev. Cyril F6rster GarbetV ?, Anglican bishop fof Winchester since 1832 and clerk of the closet to the king since 1937, was elect ed archbishop of York Friday suc ceeding Dr. William Temple,'who was enthroned April 23 as arch- bishop of Canterbury, primate of au England. in Burma in a supreme attempt to stop 8 Killed, Urash of Airliner SALT LAKE CITY, May 1-P) Eighteen persons died Friday night in the flaming wreckage of a United Air Lines mainlin- er which crashed against mountainside in sight of the Salt Lake City airport Seventeen persons were killed instantly; one man lived a few minutes after ground parties reached the plane. The huge craft was demol ished. ' Most of the wreckage burned. The plane, trip four eastbound from San Francisco,' came in for a routine landing, la contact by radio with the muicipal airport What. 1 happened then, United Air Lines officials declined to George Benton Gearhart, em ploye of a cabaret en US high way 91 which skirts the mount ain against which the plane crashed, saw the craft smash into the hillside. "It sounded like blasting," he said. Then the plane biased up with flames that you could see for miles." j R. M. Pearson, a Union Pa cific railroad yard checker, and a companion were first to reach the scene. They found wreck age and bodies strewn over the side of the mountain. One man was alive when they found; him, Pearson said. They covered him with blankets and Pearson hurried down the mountain for help. The man was dead before he returned.! A sleet storm. Indicated In a storm warning issued by the weather bureau earlier in the day, was In progress at the crash scene at midnight but the fire had been easily discernible from the airport United Air Lines officials said the plane carried 15 passengers, including two Infants, and : a crew of three. Local airlines officials sents ground crews to the scene, part way up the side of the rugged Wasatch mountains which rim Salt Lake City. United Air Lines gave the pas senger list (addresses unavail able): Capt Don Brown, pilot Harold Minor, co-pilot Stew- ; ardess Neva Cantwell, M. L. Patterson, F. B. Vogle, Mrs. 1 J. A. Lloyd. C M. Cole, Lt Frank enberg, Mrs. Palermo, Pvt M. Shapiro, R. P. DarrettJ J. M. Kershisnik, A. D. Herr, C R. Drenk, Li. J. G. Barrows, Lt C. S. ; Tucker, two infants, names unknown. Stay on Farm 1 Urged FFA . CORVALLIS, May L-ihOre- gon Future Farmers of America Friday urged youths to stay on the jf arm instead, of taking city jot :'----" The organization also advoca ted that a program be set lip to train city youths in the produc- tion of food during wartimeJ j. Elvan P 1 1 n e y, Junction j City, was elected president; AlvinKru- ger, Albany, vice-president;; Wil - lis Bailey, Enterprise, secretary; Jay, Hooten, Roseburg, treasurer. High schools honored fori put Buiuuuig turn -iiuusip- ment included: McMinhvffle, Newberg, Salem, Silverton and Woodburn. - ! Forest Grove won first place in the ' parliamentary; procedure con test Malin was second and : Al bany: third. Coming Home 7 WILLIAM D. LEAHY US Diplomat Leaves Vichy ! Train Also Carries ! Body of His Wife; Regret Expressed VICHY, France, May 1-;P)-US Ambassador William D. Leahy's special train pulled out of the I Vichy station at 10 o'clock Friday night watched by a- silent and tearful crowd of 'diplomatic , and j Vichy government representatives. the small American colony and a number of plain French, men and women wl9 somehow "hai heard about the ambassador's departure for home. On the same train was the body of Leahy's wife, who died a few hours after the ambassador re ceived orders to return to Wash ington for consultation. In the railway station's hall of honor Admiral Leahy shook hands with the representatives of practically every diplomatic mission in Vichy, including that "I'm very sorry to leave al of you, my friends," Leahy said, j Rear Admiral Rene Platon, sec retary of state in the foreign ministry, represented the : Vichy I government He told embassy j of ficials: , "We are very sorry to see him go. It is a great pity that he leaves us under these circumstances It is an honor for me to represent the chief of government on this I occasion. He is a great ambassa dor with a great heart" j Allies Catch Jap Planes Guns on Corregidor Drop Tirjree Raiders; Adolf, Benito Meet j By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor ' In the Australia theatre Friday the news was again that of suc cessful allied air action. This time it was announced that "allied bombers, had caught 30 Japanese planes aground at Lae, New Gui nea, and set off fires among them. At nearby Salamaua three enemy planes were shot down by allied bombers. Allied - Josses- in these actions ; were described as slight The enemy for his part raided Horn island off Cape York, which lies on the northeastern tip of Australia, and Tulagi in the ISol- omon islands. In the Philippines, General MacArthnrs communique an nounced, Corregidor's guns shot dowa three- Japanese raiding planes and damaged two. oth? era, and hit enemy batteries, truck e e 1 u m s and supply dumps. . . In Europe, the axis -disclosed that Hitler and Mussolini had Just I completed a two-day conference at Salzburg from which the Jap- anese were absent and it was as usual claimed that "great politi- cal 'and military events'' could be 1 expected to follow. J In Russia, .May day .was tele- 1 .(Turn to. Page 2, CoL 1) - , . XTT ' ' .1 I OUTSday7 V eather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature -data delay edU by army request River Friday, J foot Max. temp. Thursday, 5L Mln. 4L Preclpltat Thursday, Jt inch. - 0 rns For Jap US-Australia Route Forms Target Enemy Said Gathering Forces in Marshall Island Region By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, May l-(JP) The war in the Pacific appar ently is approaching a period of intense naval and land action among the islands southwest of Hawaii, well-qualified authori ties said Friday, with the se ruritv nf thp allipri simnlv rnntp - - ..... rrv J to Australia as the prize ajrl stake. A strong Japanese attack against one or more sections of the island chain guarding this extended life line probably is imminent it was added, and the ensuing action,; if this, develops as experts expect is almost certain to produce the greatest naval battles of the war to date. At the same time, these ex perts said, It may very well give American force holding scores of Island" bastions from Hawaii to New Zealand their first full- scale experience of the kind Of , amphibious warfare in which i the Japanese proved so profkl- , ent In their China sea cam paigns. j An attack on the US-Australian supply line had long been re garded in informed quarters here as one of the two methods by which the enemy might try : to eliminate the continent down-under as an increasingly powerful allied threat to his hold on the South China sea. ! The other method is an all-out attack on Australia itself. That apparently has passed from the realm of probabilities, at least for the present since General Doug las MacArthur's airforces have blasted Jap invasion bases with devastating effect Actual developments of a Jap anese strategy of blockade first was clearly indicated this week when reports from Australia stat ed that a considerable force! of ships and men was being concen trated in the mandated island area where the enemy has been building tip naval and air bases for several years. This force wss understood to be gathering In the Marshall islands, center of which Is Jaluit 2096 miles from Pearl Harboj, 1549 miles from Samoa and about 1509 miles from New Cal edonia. The actual direction of attack, therefore, might be against any one of three vital points guarding the Oute or possibly against aU of them and others in between. In any such campaign the Jap anese, despite their tremendous losses in overrunning the Philip pines, Hongkong, Malaya-Siaga-? pore and the Dutch Indies, would be able to bring up a tremerdous force. Although a many Jap ships of all types have been sunk or damaged, their main fleet strength is believed hardly to have been touched. ' l - Kansas Town Is Flooded GREAT BEND, Kas., May 1.-(P)-ThiS' south-central Kansas town of 9500 persons had the, ap pearance of an ! inland peninsula Friday, night menaced onj the west south and east by flood wa ters from the Arkansas river, spreading over thousands of acres of farm lands and inundating the south half of Great Bend. - - Five hundred homes were f in the flood area of! the -town 150 families were evacuated. and The water was from six inches three feet deep. -"- i to At Dundee, eight . taOes south west the stream was be from four, to six miles wide. The river was reported receding upstream. . " V dc&rfis ILdea of Supply Nava No 'Chutists In Carolina, Army Says - FORT BRAGG. INC. May L-VPy-llAi. Gen. Preston A. Weatherred, commander of the second district of : the Fourth corps area, said Friday night that reports that three uniden tified parachutists had landed near Bayboro, In Pamlico coun ty, were, false. Earlier he had said that "spe cially assigned officers" were investigating such reports. Soon after the report was heard in the vicinity of Bay boro, nearly 700 civilians, many armed with shotguns,, and law enforcement officers began a searhof the surrounding ter- Belgian Plant Blast Kills 250 Big Explosion in Nazi Plant Credited to Saboteur Band LONDON, May l.-()-A tre mendous explosion has wiped out the German-Controlled gas and explosives factory at Tessender loo In seething North Belgium, killed 250 persons and injured up wards of 1000, advices from the n a z i-occupied nation disclosed Friday. The blast occurred in an indus trial and mining area where sab otage has been rife, and the im pression was strong in London that ; the secretly-armed Belgium white brigade," a band of patri ots which is preparing for one day when they can assist allied invasion of the low countries, had now struck a hard first blow at the conqueror. The German army was . In complete charge of Tessender loo, and the German account of the blast distributed by the Berlin, radio, said cryptically that "the cause of the disaster, which has not been ascertained, Is the subject of an Inquiry." But laier in the day the Ger man radio jre ported that 100 communists" were being deport ed from Belgium to the east for fomenting sabotage in factories and elsewhere and for causing strikes. The blast occurred at 11:30 a. m. Wednesday. Free Belgian sources here said the factory involved was that of the societe Anonyme Des Produits Chimiques. Berlin said it was "completely destroyed." : Gies on List Awarded Army DSC WASHINGTON, May l--The heroism of 101 Americans and Filipinos in the defense -of the Philippines was officially recog nized Friday in a war department communique announcing a list of awards of the distinguished ser vice cross. Covering awards made since the Japanese invasion of the islands started December the list in cluded the names of Lieut Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright now Philippine commander, and others whose .decorations j had been res ported previously. ! - Added to the general honored was Brig. Gen. Spencer B. Akin, whose wife, lives at Charlottes ville, Va. - , ; r One navy officer, Lieut' John D, i Bulkeley, commander of a squadron of motor torpedo boats which inflicted heavy damage on enemy shipping, has . been . given the army's DSC, it was disclosed. Buckley) whose wife lives at San Antonio, Tex already held the navy cross. . - - .. Others who received the award, with name and address of their next of kin,, were: Second Lieut: Carl Parker Gies, Carl A. Gies, father, Salem, Ore. Truce; WatchM I Action Weather-Cut Aerial Aims oast British Lose Eight Fighters While Hundreds! Raid LONDON, May 1 (AP) Hundreds of British planes swung across the channel at late twilight Friday in what coast observers called one of the . -war's greatest s i n e 1 e thrusts against the nazi-held continental coast! Resumption pf the massive British attacks ' followed a weather-enforced overnight break m me nine-aay-oia, rouna-ine-clock offensive and; came on the heels- of neutral j dispatchesfrom Germany w h ch some London quarters interpreted as hints that the nazis were liore than willing to call off their aerial duel with Britain now, but which brought only an expression of scorn from an authoritative source here. ' The air ministry said eight British fighters jwere missing In the day's operations and that one German plane was de stroyed. ,' ' : The late afternoon attacks, cairv ried out by CgKter-escorted Bos ton (Douglas); bombers and bomb carrying Hurricanes, were made on the station and railway yards at St Omer, Calais,: and other tar gets. 1 . Commenting on 1 1 h e reported nazi willingness to call quits , in the aerial war, one informant gave this British response: "We are going after those blighters wherever they are and at every chance we get, and that is " final." ' : j j: j He referred Specifically to ja Berlin dispatch to the Swiss Jour nal de Geneve reprinted by the London Daily Mall. It said: j "It Is semi-offjcially stated here that Germany will call off the bombing of English towns if the RAF will change Its methods Jf bombing German cities. The present-bombing duel is highly unpop ular witn tne ujrraan people. Portland Jap Move Begins f About 500 to Enter Center Today on Way 'to Camps PORTLAND, pre., May l-(Jp) The first contingent of Portland Japanese and Japanese-American evacuees will file into an assembly center here Saturday, first stop In their long trek lb inland resettle ment camps. ., l m . i About 500 "persons, including volunteers for Special work as signments at the Pacific Interna tional Livestock i exposition center will be in me! first group. Some will go j to the center in their own automobile,, or with friends, providing they are checked out at control stations. Others will go in special streetcars, busses and vehic es supplied by the ywca.-,: ' -;j ! . M Registration fo evacuation ended Thursday night with; 1725 of ap proximately 2000 persons of Japa nese ancestry in' the Portland area reporting.;,;. ,j :f Fire in Sawdust p i! . Alone C Answering, a fcaU late ; Friday night to. the old fSpaulding mill, now owned by jOregon Pulp and Paper j company,! j city firemen, found a smolderHng fire in a saw dust heap undejr the hog fuel ' chain. ; j " ..X-.- : ; ; Sparks from a welder's tofch had evidently started the blaze, firemen said. ; Damage - was - f e ported I as Ughtf ( Salem Girl iGeU Key t"EUGENE, dr' 1--Among; 29 University " of j Oregon :i students awarded Phi Beta Kappa.? (scho lastic society) keys Frlday: was J Elizabeth Steeds Salem. '
