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Sorvico Men ; ? Our boys of Salem 'aad vicinity arc la uniform with Uncle Sua over the face of the (lobe. Follow hem dally ta The Statesman? "Service . Ilea' eelumn. ; On Pay Day t Every time yea get year -pay, bay bonds and stamps for the CSA. Cheer the bey ta uniform by getting aa ta teres ta fightmg snea and eculpment inHETY-SECOND YEAH Salem. Oregon, Thursday Morning, May 7, 1342 Price 5c No. 33 US Am "Bob" Hendricks: 1863- ' i POUNDDE7 161 I Tl : Tlv ttio; li " V ' " " - " t- Strikes Buirma Bombers Hit Jap Advance Relentlessly By PRESTON GROVER; . ! NEW DELHI, India, May 6-(AP)-The United States air forces in India were embarked Wednesday night on amounting and relent less campaign of attrition against the Japanese con querors of Burma. . Striking straight for the sea-head of the invading armies which have raged through the length of the Kipling country to enter Free China's back door and to threaten India, five flights of Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton's bombers in 24 hours had de stroyed at least 40 enemy planes and damaged 25 on the Mingala don airdrome north of Rangoon. The last of these planes, roar ing toward the target across the Bay of Bengal in this morning's dawn, could see the flames of Mingaladon 70 miles away and, once over the field, the pilots dumped their 250-pound bombs In the center of a sea of fire so bright that they could not distinguish buildings, runways or gasoline stores. They had shot down five oat of one group of 27 planes which " attacked this moraine Annet's message was quoted as sayinr, and the troops were said to hare I pat a number of flight British tanks out of action. Previously the French had claimed to have shot down seven other planes. Vichy French dispatches indi cated that the defenders were fighting the last phase of their ac tion, and that Diego Suarez must soon fall, but the British war of fice and admiralty were charac teristically restrained in report ing late in the day that the strug gle was rising in violence. ; - "The advance of our forces in northern Madagascar," the admir- alty and war office said in a joint late afternoon communique, "is being resisted with determina tion, and casualties today have been heavier. "Operations continue with the s support of our naval aircraft." The small port of Antsirana on ' the same harbor as Diego Suarez ; was believed here to be already within range of British artillery : fire. An appeal by Pierre Laval's cabinet for axis aid against the British was forecast by Free French sources here after a day v of furious activities by the gov- ernment la Vichy. Many diplomats predicted that . Laval might declare war on Brit ' aln, but others considered this " less likely since it would : inev itably mean war with the United States than a decision by Laval to assign the French fleet to Ger- many in reprisal for the Mada- gascar attack. j Both Laval and Admiral Jean ? Darlan, French defense chief, are reported to have doubted in the past whether the French fleet would fight for the Germans,, but (Turn to Page 2. CoL ?) U-Boats NEW YORK, May 6-P-Sub-marine warfare is producing' a breed of m en resourceful and courageous as fronitier Indian fighters of bygone years, a young submarine " officer said Wednes day on returning to the third na val district from far eastern wa ter for a new assignment! The sub men are men," he de clared. "They're a breed all their own. True, they get 25 per cent more pay, but it's the life, not the pay, that gets them to volunteer." Any faint- hearts are quickly revived by the will to make good, he said, in describing a sailor who wrapped rags around his knees as his submarine put to sea after war was declared, r-v- -i- j - "What's the matter got housemaid's knee?" asked his , skipper. ! k' "Well, sir." replied the 'blue Jacket, T may not bo able to stop 'em from , knocking but sure as hell I'm net going to let - the Japs hear them!" " ! f ; The officer, whose name was Withheld but who was described as -a former wrestler and foot ball player at Annapolis, said his first submarine patrol out of Ma Fifty eight years of newspaper Work in Salem were recognized at a birthday dinner here Wednesday night tn honor of R. J. "Bob" Hendricks, publisher of The Statesman from 1884 to 1928. Active dally at arduous writing tasks connected: with his historical studies, he returned immediately after the banquet to his 'office in the States man building, in which he is pictured above reading one of his recent books. R. J, Hendricks Honored At Banquet for 58 Years Salem Newspaper Work li "I want to live a long time yet; I'm better able to carry on hard work than I was when I was coming on 21 years old." With those words Robert Jackson Hendricks, "Bob" to thou sands of friends, former editor and publisher of The Oregon Statesman, expressed his views on life at the age of 79, in speaking at a testimonial birthday dinner given in his honor at the First Congregational church Wednesday night True to his statement, he re turned to the office which he re tains adjoining The Statesman editorial room to "read some proofs" and draft a historical talk he is to deliver to a Wheatland women's club today, '-fy-X- Fifty-eight y.e a rr-ago, - Sir. Hendricks, a youth of 21, with 8900 in earnings as a printer and proceeds of sale of a piece of property he had bought as a student at University of Ore gon In his pocket, came to Sa lem to buy an interest in The Statesman. First speaker at the dinner was Sumter F. Craig, also 79, who was a typesetter (stickman, the job was called) on The Statesman when Mr. Hendricks and a part ner took over the paper in 1884. His father, D. W. Craig, a former publisher of the paper, was shop foreman. "Things began to happen the first day he was here," Craig re called, of Mr. Hendricks. Among the 81 men at the din ner, 16 at one time were employed by Mr. Hendricks. They included: Ralph Curtis, present assistant publisher of The Statesman; Ste phen A. Stone, city editor, The Capital Journal; Ronald Glover, attorney; Lester B. Davis, retired newspaperman; Col. Carle Ab (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) New College Head Accepts LOS ANGELES, May 6 -IP) Dr. Morgan S. OdelL professor of religion at Occidental college since 1931, announced Wednesday he had accepted the presidency of Albany college at Portland, Ore. He will go to Portland in June on a year's leave of absence from Occidental. Make Men nila after war was declared lasted 52 days. ' "Not once daring- that time did we see the sua," he said. "Wo ran submerged all day sur faced only at nifbt te charge the batteries. Continually, of course, we were hampered by lack of air power, for the Japs had control there. ,: "Our $6,000,000 sub had to do reconnaissance missions which aircraft could have done better if we had the planes. The patrols, nevertheless, had their victories. "While patroling one day at periscope depth, the skipper saw three big Jap subs right there on the surface, in broad daylight We were at extreme range, but de cided it was worth a try. We let go the torpedoes, X cant tell you just what happened to those Jap subs.".' Sub warfare "is part hunting, part being hunted," he said, v "It includes long periods of waiting, waiting, waiting; long periods of looking, searching the horizon, stalking the Sea. We envy the plane pilots who can go right out, take a crack at the Japs and come back." li t .... Jury Upholds Boys' School Finds Complaint About Institution Baseless; Two Are Indicted Two indictments, one secret, and a special report quashing undis closed i complaints concerning the state training school for boys near Woodburn were filed by the Mar ion county grand jury Wednes day afternoon. The investigating body returned a true bul charging Knute tM- ward Holten, former cashier for the state public utilities commis sioner's department, with larceny of public money. His bail, al ready ! posted, was continued at $3000 by Circuit Judge E. M. Page. ; Holten was arrested early last month after auditors had reported a discrepancy in rec ords.; The indictment charges him ! with having embezzled $2143.67 between December 26, 1939, and April 11, 1942. It lists as witnesses who appeared be fore the grand jury Ormend K Bean, utilities commissioner; Franklin L. Davis. R. Erlcksen. Sephus Starr, chief of the state division of audits; Bernard Davis, Jessie Hoffman, and Captl Walter Lansing of the state police. "Not true" bills were also issued by the grand jury, exonerating Aldred Walter Tozier and Amelia Tozier of charges of carrying un licensed concealed weapons and of obliterating the identifying marks on a revolver, and the former also of charging of possessing a con cealed weapon after having been convicted of a felony. Neither District Attorney Miller B. Hayden nor grand jury mem bers would disclose the nature of a complaint made regarding the boys' School, which the report said was received in March! The jury reporjf read as follows: - j "W, the undersigned members of the Marion county grand jury, (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1) No Exemption Change Seen WASHINGTON. May 6-ttVRe- tentkm of the present exemptions on individual income taxes was forecast Wednesday night by members1 of the house ways and meas j committee as .C$uurman Douhton (D-NC) said they might start "voting tomorrow on the still er rates to, produce $300,000,000 in new revenue. r " : y "If j we do not decide to change the exemptions, it will then be only a question of rates," he re marked. The members reported that there still appeared to be little en thusiasm for President Roosevelt's suggestion that individual incomes be limited to $25,000 after pay ment of taxes. a ; ... j - . ' . - . - U -wrZM ml Diana a-" i ww m. ctuM: Putl at 6 Gallons Ration to Begin May 15 in East; Ickes Says Low WASHINGTON, May 6-(jP) Office of price administration instructions; covering eastern gasoline rationing provided Wednesday j for an average al lowance to ''non-essential" mo torists ranging somewhere be tween 2 and 6 gallons a week. At the same time OPA em phasized that the limits might changed before May 15 when rationing begins and that the final decision as to the size of the basic ration allowance would "depend entirely on the supply of gasoline that Is available for rationing." Unofficial OPA sources re ported at the time the ration plan was first announced that the probable basic ration al lowance would range between Vi and 5 gallons, but Petroleum Coordinator Ickes promptly de clared thai any weekly ration as low as 2V4 gallons was "whol ly unjustified." The official instructions issued by OPA to local rationing boards and registrars used the 2 to 6 range' in a schedule enabling reg istrars to tell at a glance which type of ration card should be is sued to each motorist, on the basis of his -need for automobile transportation. Each basic, or "A", card will have 1 seven i units, covering the 4f-day period between May 15 and July 1 when a permanent and more elaborate gasoline rationing pro gram wlil be instituted. NEW ORLEANS, May 6-P) Harold L. Ickes, petroleum co ordinator fr war, Wednesday night said the nation's war needs made it necessary "to eliminate every non-essential use of petrol eum products,'' and declared tank ers to supply the east coast prob ably were out for the duration. In an address before the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Senate Trims Agency Funds 12 Offices Curbed by Average of Million Dollars Each WASHINGTON, May 6.-(JFy-The . senate trimmed $12,314,513 from the fundrof a dozen federal agencies and curbed the fiscal op erations of the Tennessee Valley Authority Wednesday in passing the annual appropriation bill for the so-called "independent offi ces" -those not connected with regular departments. The measure, totalling $2,126,- 030,890, now returns to the house for action on the senate amend ments. One of these limits to $51 a year the amount most of the ag encies covered ta the bill can spend for newspapers and pe riodicals. Some agencies have spent several thousand dollars a year for this purpose. Another specifies that at least S20.000.000 shall be earmarked for the construction of barges and towboats to haul oiL gasoline, fuel and i other commodities over in land and coastal waterways. ' A Reductions made by the senate from the amounts voted by the house for other agencies included: National resources planning board $668,845 office of govern ment reports $406,270, civil serv ice' commission $907,307, federal communication; commission $312,460, -. federal trade commis sion $25224, federal works ag ency; $8,026,540, interstate com merce commission ' $81,545, ; na tional archives $101,600, national capital park and planning com mission $700,000 and securities commission $530,000. !' Our Senators ; ttcn 6-2 Tinted Watery Propaganda j SPOKANE, May -(ff)-The nails drum propaganda Into then prisoners la concentration camps for eight hours dally and the prisoners Wash it down with colored water called "tea" or "soup," depending upon the time of day, Hans Habe of Hun gary said Wednesday. Habe, Hungarian newspaper man who witnessed the fall of France and spent about three months in a concentration camp, is describing modern war to sol diers at American military es tablishments. He said the colored water was staple diet in the concentration camps, with black bread as :a suppertlme treat. . "I don't know how my friends subsist en what they are fed in those camps," he told reporters. "The nazls believe that by weak ening a person physically he will be weaker mentally, and thus be a good subject for propa ganda." Youths Fined For Paddling Eight Suspended at High School After Pleading Guilty Fines totaling $375 were levied against eight Salem high school boys and the youths were sus pended from school Wednesday in the firsfpublic outcropping in two years of the "secret society scandal" which has rocked the school periodically since the so cieties were banned in the . late '20s. - ' -i-." : The eifht entered pleas of guilty to charges of assault and battery filed against them Wed nesday mornlnr in the West Salem court of Justice of the Peace Elmer Cook by Mrs. Jean DalsielL mother of Donald Chapman, 15, prominent soph omore member of the high school basketball team. '. Outgrowth of what the defend ants declared was an initiation, supposedly of the Friars, and the mother maintained was tanta mount to a kidnaping episode in which her son was forced to join a earful of boys outside his home last Thursday night, the justice court case resulted in the levying Of $50 fines against Don Beecroft, Pete Schweigert, Dick Drinnon, Lyman Sundin, Bob Hinkle, Don Cutler and Frank Lukens, who allegedly told the justice of the peace they had participated in two initiations. Charles Burrus, who Cook was informed had tak en part in only one, was fined $25. Suspension was the school's Im mediate answer to Mrs. Dalziell's charge, with Supt Frank Bennett and Principal Fred Wolf declar ing the eight would remain out of classes until the matter had been more thoroughly investigat ed. Punishment inflicted "by the initiation' was so sever as to result in possible injuries in the bone area of one hip, Mrs. Dal ziell declared a physician had stated. That it was so adminis tered "because we cannot lose a member so easily" was explained (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) j Pledges Hit 14,800 for Bu&4y Ajdair i Pledges underwriting the plans of : the Salem chamber of com merce to arrange for mass trans portation to and from Camp Adair had reached $14,800 Wednesday afternoon, with many.not yet re corded and many business men not yet solicited, Pres. Carl W Hogg said the major effort of the underwriting drive would be fulfilled by the end of the week. The committee expects, however, to continue its activities, until ev ery interested citizen has naa an opportunity to sign a pledgei , Approximately 200 Camp Adair workmen already have notified the chamber that they would pa tronize a low-cost bus service. Business Extension Manager Clay C Cochran reported. . Between 450 and . 500 Adair, workmen are expected to settle herein about two weeks," Coch ran said. "One contractor is ! now transporting his men to and from Salem and others an asking about our bus program." . Isle's FaH Releases Japanese I Move Started to Clear Yankees;! 7000 Captured j By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, May 6-P) The fall of Corregidor, its de fenses demolished, its food and ammunition gone, released Jap anese forces Wednesday to mop up scattered areas of resistance in the Philippines and added a strong and valuable new sea base to their tenuous southward supply line. Already, Japanese troops in steel barges of the type used In landing on Corregidor were re ported pushing up the Pulangi river in Mindanao. In addition the enemy was debarking rein forcements near Cotabato on the same island. Independent, raiding detachments of Americans and Filipinos have been reported highly active on that island. So lone as Corregidor stood. Its big guns and Its accurate gunners kept the Japanese from making any free use of Manila may, or Manila's shattered port facilities. It is considered one of the most useful harbors in the western Pacific, and geographi cally Is ideally situated from the enemy point of view. But Corregidor fell, after a battering, four-week siege, which exhausted the supplies and the human physical endurance of! its dogged and heroic garrison. With i the enemy also won the small er rocky 'island fortresses Fort Hughes, Fort JDrum and Fort Frank which lie nearby. To the Japanese also went some 7000 prisoners of war, including, the navy announced late Wednes day, 3845 officers and men of the navy and marine corps. This de tachment was thrown together from the naval and marine per (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) i Registration Closes Today Half Marion County'g Residents Not Yet On Sugar Lists Today is the "last chance." Families or individuals who will have failed to register by tonight for sugar rationing will have no further opportunity to register nor to purchase sugar, legally un til May 21. At that time registra tion will be opened again but only at the rationing office in the Ladd & Bush building. Registration now is being carried on in the grade school buildings. A warning that retailers who failed to. register during the "registration of the , trade" period April 28 and 29, are not eligible to sell sugar until they mend the oversight, was issued from the rationing office. Sale of sugar by an unregistered retailer is a viola tion of the regulations and subject to severe penalties. i . Groceries with excess inven tories cannot accept further de liveries until they have turned over to the rationing board i for cancellation, war rationing stamps or sugar purchase certificates of weight value equal to the excess amount. -'"'-!'; Incomplete returns from over Marion county Wednesday showed a registration of 19,039 since Tues day night's reports, with issuance of 13,987 books. Total of registrations- for the first three days Was thus brought to 47,539, with 33, 417 books issued. More than half th county's residents were ; yet unregistered. ' . . ; Registration hours at elementary school buildings in Salem are from 4 to 9'pJB. I 1707 Japanese Enter , 4 PORTLAND, May MtfhTne first phase of Japanese evacuation from . the Portland a r a wended Tuesday night," bringing the total number admitted to the assembly center to 1707. Toll Raised to 7 PENDLETON, May 6HTHeath toll of a f our-engined army bomb er's crash near Here Sunday in creased , to seven Tuesday night as Sgt, John H. Starr, Littleton, Mass succumbed to injuries, . . Leads Fight i .... . "'-'v CHIANG KAI-SHEK Personal command of Chinese forces on the Burma front has been assumed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, The Associ ated Press said Thursday In quoting a Calcutta dispatch to the London Dally Mail. RAF Again Raids Nazis US Planes to Fight Under Separate Command LONDON, Thursday, May 7. -(jP)-Royal Air Force bombers attacked enemy, territory for the fourth successive night Wednesday night, tt was stated authoritatively Thursday, but Britain escaped retaliatory at tacks front the German ah force. ' " y'- ,' Objectives of the British alfht bombers were not Identi fied Immediately; In the three preceding nlg-hts they had smashed at Hamburg, Filsen, Stuttgart and Nantes. LONDON, May 8.-P)-The south German industrial city of Stuttgart was pounded by the RAF again Tuesday night for the. second night in succession despite continuing cloudy weather which made observation difficult. The air ministry said other un specified targets in southern -Germany, the docks at Nantes and airdromes in the low countries and northern France also were attacked. Four British planes failed to re turn. Southeast English coastal points were attacked by four German planes at dusk and by two at dawn Wednesday. Two or more persons were listed as killed and some damage was done. (The Germans said they effectively raided Industrial and rail Installations at the Do ver strait town of Folkestone.) Wednesday the RAF again swept northern France and bombed a power station at Caen. While the RAF thus continued (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Tuesday's Weather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request. River Wed nesday, 1.S ft Max. temp. Tues day, 73, Min. 36. Fighting SAN, PEDRO, Califs May Mother won by landslide when soldiers at Fort MacArthur took a vote to find out for whem they were most willing to fight ' After "her it was a close race between Father and Col. W. W. Hicks, commanding officer at the fort The colonel had an edge. Ranked ta the first tea womea were the boys' sisters, wives, sweethearts and Mrs. Roose velt la the first tea mea were President Roosevelt Gen. Doug las MaeArthur and Winston Charchm. . : . Tenth in the women's list was Ann Sheridan, the movie actress. Tenth, in the men's poll was "Ser geant Mulligan." Sergeant Mulli gan is a flat faced English-bull dog, the camp mascot" Here's the way the poll,' to oe announced in" Thursday's edition of The ' Alert, ' camp newspaper. turned out: 2 Tea men - I. Col. Hicks . . Father 3. Brother 4. Best friend 5 President Roosevelt 6. General MacArthur. . British IviEdge Sua rez - ;- - r Island Claims Raid Craft Are Downed By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, May t(AP) Attacked strongly from the rear by a British landing force which had penetra ted the outskirts of Diego Suarez naval base and beat en from the air by over whelming power, the de fenders of Madagascar in dicated Wednesday night that their situation was des perate and that they might soon take to the island's hills to wage guerrilla warfare. Vichy broadcasts said Governor General Armand Annet had tele graphed his government that his position was critical, and that 23 British ships, large and small, were in Courrier bay at his back ready to land fresh troops against his fagged defenders. The broadcast described the French troops as putting up des perate resistance and exacting heavy casualties, with their , few available aircraft doing their ut most to-drive away planes from a British carrier. , In Vichy, where the Petaln Laval eabinet offered "homage to the troop and their leaders -who despite great numerical Inferiority opposed heroie re sistance to the Anflo Saxon -.m, was aunuuncra in&I squadrons of British planes were steadily bombing the surviving- light French naval forces of Diero Snares. At least two French ships, the 1379-ton submarine Bevezier nnrf the 7110-ton auxiliary cruiser Bougainville, already had gone down under British naval mn. fire. Vichy claimed that seven British planes had been shot down Tuesday. LONDON, May 7-(Thursday)-(JP) The Daily ExDress ouoted tH French radio Thursday as saying that the 7000-ton French cruisers Marseillaise and Lamotte-Picquet, weremissing since the British at tack on Madagascar, and said that Vichy had expressed its fears that "they may either have joined the British or are trying to rejoin the French fleet in Indo-China." ISTANBUL, Turkey, May f (JP) The Istanbul newspaper Tenl Sabah, commenting oa the British landing at Madagascar, said Wednesday "this doesat constitute an act of war against Vichy, but Is a necessary meas ure of defense on the part of the democracies.' for 7. General George Marshall .8. Winston Churchill 9. Chaplain Michael J. Clare iv. ogi. mulligan Tea womea . 1. Mother 2. Wife (or sweetheart) 3. Daughter 4. Sister ... 5. Mrs. Rooseyelt C. Mrs. MacArthur - 7. Queen Elizabeth t. Queen Wilhelmtna v : 9. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek 10. Ann Sheridan. ' Corp. Albert De Iulius of bat tery IA, whose home Is in Ae toona, Pa, started the poll after he and some of his .campmates got into a lively discussion over the matter ' the other night ' "For whom do Amerkaa sol diers stand ready" to fight? was the way the vocation read. s , "Number one? on almost ""every ballot"- said ' the - corpdraV was mother.-' And -Sot -the men, ? it was close between Colonel Hicks and Father; We" rated the 'colonel first' though; because it's:&rougt hisf tireless effort that -we posses; the military knowledge" so neces (Turn to Pag CoH 3) Mom