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WWetin
Mass Overcome
British Begin to Negotiate
Terms of Surrender; Annet
Mav Organize; Giierrillas
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' LONDON May 7 (AP) British troops and warships
look possession Thursday of Madagascar's great harbor of
Diego Suarez after two days of brisk fighting and began
negotiating the terms of a surrender by which they hoped
to obtain the peaceful capitulation of all that Vichy French
Island. ' . ;
This toughV quick occupation accomplished in less than
48 hours after the establishment of the first British bridge
head at a loss of around 1000 of the British force was an
nounced .in commons by Prime.
pealed gravely to the French peo
ple thus to consider the episode:
V,' . A recognizable fact in the
liberation of their . country, in
cluding Alsace-Lorraine, from the
German yoke."
He told of the surrender of the
'French military and naval com
manders, but there was no imme
diate indication here as to wheth
er the Vichy-controlled governor-
general of the island. Armand
Annet, bad himself joined in
capitulating or whether lie in
tended to try to organne some
sort of guerrilla resistance in the
Interior.
At all events, it was retard
ed meat likely here that In
view ef the spirited though
brief defense the great balk of
effective French troops had al
ready been accounted for.
What the Vichy government
. would now do raised the most!
intense interest, but late in the
day .there had been no sign of
action from that capital. .
Vichy claimed that as of 1:30
P-m. French time. (4:30 a- m.
FWT) the French forces still were
holding out, -but it was subse-
- troently learned thatotnmiinica.
tion from Madagascar to franco,
had been out since morning and
it appeared that the Laval gov
ernment thus could hardly have
accurate information directly from
there.
Seven Spices
Restricted
WPB Order Does Not
Affect Deliveries
Of Black Pepper
WASHINGTON, May
The war production board Thurs
day imposed restrictions on de
liveries of seven important spices
which will have the effect of cut
ting retail sales by 50 per cent.
The orders, effective Friday and
made necessary because "the
availability of future supplies is
uncertain, , affect white pepper,
allspice (pimento), cinnamon
(cassia), cloves, ginger, nutmeg
; and mace. ;'
Deliveries of b 1 a e k pepper
are permitted at the same rate
as a year ago, and WPB said
; there was two years' supply of
black pepper in this country.
The order will stretch out pres
ent supplies of the other spices,
, which are
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WU Trustees
Investigate
'CO' 'Plaint
Student Paper Points
Out Enlistments,
Recruit Program
PORTLAND, Ore., May 7-P)
Willamette university's board of
trustees will investigate a com
plaint by Capital Post No. 9, Am
erican Legion, Salem, that Dr.
Carl Sumner Knopf, president of
the Salem institution, had pro
tested signing a draft registration
carcL
CL. Starr, acting president of
the college board, said here Thurs-
day night that a special eommit-
tee of trustees would be named,
at Dr Knopf 's request,; 4q inves-
tigate the Legion's assertions, that
h refused to sign hia card afthe
recent registration until he. had
written "conscientious objector
on the margin.
The Willamette board's com
mittee was expected Thursday
night to carry out its assign
ment promptly, discussion
amonr leeal trustees, who sug
gested the procedure, indicated.
Dr. Knopf left iSalem Thursday
morning for Berkeley. Calif., to
deliver a scheduled, commence'
ment address at the Pacific School
of Religion today.
Student interest in the incident
was expressed inursaay aner
noon in a petition placed in circu
lation by Westly McWain, Salem
junior. Alter receiving approxi
mately 50 signatures, the petition
was withdrawn and a reworded
one intended to avoid possible
misconstrual of the original was
substituted, -McWain said Thurs
day night. The new petition,
which he said carried 110 signa
tures and would be continued in
circulation, read:
"We, the undersigned stu
dents of Willamette university,
while we do not condemn con
scientious objectors, are not
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Broken Gates
Release r lood
Lower Sections of
Vale Region Are
Threatened
VALE, Ore., May 7-P)-Flood
waters from broken spillway
gates in the Beulah irrigation dam
60 miles west of here swirled over
the highway at Juntura late
i Thursday and began creeping up
slowly on low-lying portions of
the town of 167 population.
Earlier fears of a devastating
flood were somewhat quieted
when Robert HilL reclamation
! bureau engineer, said he believed
the gaps could be closed. He left
with work crews but they were
not expected to reach the dam
until 8 or 9 p. mv (FWT) and
meanwhile 2500 second feet of
I water poured through the gates.
C. C. Ketchum, superintendent
of the Vale irrigation project, said
the crest was moving down the
Malheur r I v e r at only two , to
three miles an hour and that there
should be no loss of life and lit
tie livestock loss even though the
gates should give way completely.
It is expected, however, that
; there win be considerable dam-
age on farms lying -near the river.
Wednesday's "Weather
-' Weather forecasts - withheld
and temperature data delayei.
by army request. Kiver Thurs
day, 1J ft Max.; temp.: Wednes
day, 7S, mm. 43. ,
Allies., .. Japs
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Japs In
Artillery Drives
Cs Forces
Back- Rapidly ;
TOK YO-(From Japanese
Broadcasts) -May 8-(Friday)
(P)-Japanese forces occupied
Bhamo, head of the Irrawaddy
river navigation in Burma, last
Sunday, an official announce
ment said Friday.
(Bhamo is the Burma ter
minus of a northerly by-pass road
linking up with the Burma road
in China above Lashio.
(It is 40 miles west of the Bur
ma-China frontier and 180 miles
airline northeast of Mandalay.)
CHUNGKING, China, May 7.
(P) The Japanese armies
which have raced into China
proper on the Burma Road
brouxht up artillery Thursday
in a savage attempt to break the
Chinese, defense lines, amid om
inous indications of general of
fensive against the Free China
of Chungking and Kai-Shek.
Driving so hard and so fast that
the defenders were unable to con-
d u c t planned demolitions along
the" great supply road, the Jap
anese out of Burma were known
to have forged ahead at least as
far as Chefang, 25 miles behind
the fallen border town of Want
ing.
Heavily supported by their mo
bile artillery as well as from the
air, they were attacking time aft
er time- and, although the high
command said the Chinese were
holding : their lines for the time
being and inflicting heavy casual'
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Copper, Brass
Use Curtailed
Production Except for
Essential Use to
Stop June 15
WASHINGTON, May 7-W
Production of all but essential
civilian 1 consumer articles using
copper, brass - or bronze will be
stopped June 15, under war pro
duction board orders issued Thurs
day..
In a sweeping revision of previ
ous copper restrictions, , empha
sizing increased military demands
for the! metal, WPB barred cop
per in more than 100 additional
items effective May 31, and di
rected that its use be stopped June
15 in all other items not sped
fically named except those for
which the government is allocat
ing supplies.
Beginning August 1, the order
applies even to the army, navy
and maritime commission.
Items ranging from neon adver
tising signs to Christmas tree
bulbs, pins, bird cages and fount
a in pens, are blanketed under the
the revised order, and WPB offi
cials predicted that manufacture
of most of the articles would be
stopped entirely because of the
shortages of metal substitutes.
Biilkeley
SAN FRANCISCO, May
Lieut John D. Bulkeley and three
of his intrepid torpedo boat offi
cers, who spirited General Doug
las MacArthur away from Corre-
gidor, reported in person Thurs
day that their mission to the
Philippines had been completed
at a cost to Emperor Hirohito of
four ships, including a cruiser,
four , planes and two armortd
landing boats. rV "V ' v
The Long Island City, NY, hero
of the dashing little PT boats re
lated in a matter-of-fact way how
on one occasion they came upon
a heavily armored enemy cruiser
in the dead of night Results: The
ship sank completely in approxi
mately, 20 ninutes.
The lethal boats found Japa
nese armored landing boats at
India
Lhina
me
'Alert at Dawn? Not Posed
4
Thousands of gun posts now ring
coast where aircraft plants, ell
vital defense related areas occur. Dawn breaking sends such a
crew as this on the alert for daybreak marauders of the sky. The
picture is routine is no portrait.
900 Axis i Nationals
nmoarK j
On
Swedish
Ship Carrying Diplomats, Families,
To Return With Americans Now in
Europe; Second Trip Scheduled
ucnocii V.111, way i
nationals sailed for Lisbon Thursday aboard the-Swedish liner
Drottningholm to be exchanged' for American . officials and
nationals nomewara oouna irom
m mm m, m m m-
mania and Bulgaria.
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arrangements which eventually
should bring home all . American
diplomats and consular officials
and many other American nation
als awaiting exchange in Europe
and the orient.
Six special trains carrying the
948 persons assigned to the Drott
ningholm arrived Thursday morn
ing and were taken by bus from
the Pennsylvania railroad sta
tion to the American export line
pier where they boarded the liner
immediately.
The departing group included
the former. German charge, df
f airs, Italian ambassador, Hun
garian and Bulgarian ministers to
the: United States, with their
families and -other officials and
nationals; also a number of axis
diplomats and nationals from
other American republics which
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Scrap Date Set
PORTLAND, May 7-()-Ore-
gon's automobile graveyard oper
ators were told by war production
board officials Thursday to have
all scrap in dealers hands by
May 15. 1
Tellsj of TTbrpedo Boat Battles
tempting to sneak -up hehind
Gen. Jonathan M- Wainwright's
men. Result: "We let 5t Japa
nese drown after one boat sank
because they opened fire first
and wounded one ef our officers.-
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"We took two prisoners, a Japa
nese captain and a ' private. The
captain was on his knees, ibis
hands in the air, crying: Me sur
render! Me surrender! "
. Bulkeley did the reporting, at a
press conference with Lieut Ro
bert Kelley," New York City, En
sign Anthony B. Akers, Beverly
Hills, Calif ' and Ensign George
E. Cox, watertown, NY, standing
around him,,-. , v - -V f
- The four 'youthful appearing
and tanned and hardened by their
strenuous work in the Philippines,
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important sections of the Pacific
storage tanks and wells and other
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Casualues apparently were
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58,920 Listed,
Sugar Ration
County Registration
May Run Another Day;
41,320 Books Given
IncomDlete returns from Marion
county registration boards showed
i nursuay uiUb uiat 11,001 per
sons had registered and 7903 books
had been issued since Wednesday
night This sum brought an un
official total of 58,920 individual
registrations for 41,320 books.
Permission to continue the reg
istration - today was received : late
last night by the rationing office
from W. S. Dirker, state sugar rationing-
director, in - case some
boards had been unable to com
plete their work Thursday. Offi
cials said a check with Supt of
Schools Frank Bennett would be
necessary to determine if any Sa
lem schools would be open today
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were flown to the United States.
They left almost immediately for
New York and Washington, t
The dark-haired; husky Bulke
ley, commander of the speedboat
squadron, in the Philippines, said
his mission had been to operate
under MacArthur and "attack
hostile shipping in Philippine
waters wherever we might find it
"When our; usefulness was at
an end and our mission complet
ed, we were flown out".
He related, still in a matter-of-fact
tone, of the last PT attack
off Cebu island. .- x " ' "'-.J
Ia that attack, we sank a Japa
nese, light cruiser of 600Q.tons
with two motor torpedo ; boatV
he said. .
"At approximately S pan. the
army famished us information
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Cruiser
Convoys
Attacked
By Nazis
Blow Returned
In Sinking of .
Destroyer
By The Associated Press
LONDON, May 7 The
110,000--ton lintish cruiser
Edinburgh was lost last week
ut uerman submarine, sur
face and air attacks on two
British convoys plying the vi
tal Arctic supply route to
Russia, the admiralty an
nounced Thursday night, but
despite the severity of the as
saults, spread over several days,
the British complished their
mission with relatively small loss
among the other naval and mer
chant vessels.
I mi.
One attacking German destroy-
er Was sunk and another was hit
and severely damaged, ana at
least three nazi bombers were de
stroyed.
The Edinburth was crippled
by enemy torpedoes and had to
be abandoned in tow and sunk
by the' British themselves while
she was homeward bound with
a convoy which already had de
livered its goods. One eonvoyed
vessel alseLwas sunk.
The second convoy attacked
was a large siring oi ouips -
rvintf "imoortant war supplies xo
the bitterly - contested Russian
front Although it was attacked
by repeated waves of dive bomb
ers and torpedo-carrying planes
which sank three ships, the Brit
ish nevertheless succeeded in de
livering 90 per cent of their car
Assuming all of the convoy
ships were of approximately the
same size, this would indicate
I UlilL Lire LVtlVVJ -VilAHlOUJ wM
composed f about 30 ships.
relatively smau, aitnougn n was
not specifically so stated. Cas
ualties aboard the Edinburgh
were not mentioned.
Thursday night the German ra
dio was heard to announce that
"the German navy will soon
strike a deadly blow against the
soviet lifeline on the Arctic front,"
but there was no further indica
tion of exactly what was planned.
Schools Expel
StllddltS
'Society Initiation
Brings Action by
School Board
Seven Salem high school upper'
classmen, who with an eighth
youth from last year's graduating
class Wednesday pleaded guilty
to charges of assault and battery
in what was termed a "secrc1. so
ciety initiation," were ordered ex
polled Thurs da- at a special
meeting of Salem school dirsct-
ors.
Others involved in the episode
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thai a Japanese destroyer was
proceeding - down the - Cetm
coast We planned to attack
south ef Cebu fade in a narrow
trait at midnight rT41. with
Squadron Commander Bulkeley
and Ensign Cox, and PT34 com
manded by Lieut Kelly and En
, sign " Richardson aboard pro
ceeded to the point and arrived
at 11-40 pjn. '
"We met the Jap cruiser at this
point with one destroyer close
aboard and three additional de
stroyers m the -nearby vicinity.
PT41 attacked first and struck
twice. PT34, under heavy shell
fire and . Illumination, attacked
and struck twice. , .
: That was his story oi the sink
ing of the cruiser. He told how
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Haval Figh
it ' it : it : it
im
Japanese Claim
Brilliant Action
Against Fleet
TOKYO-(From Japanese
Broadeastsl-May S-(Friday)-0P)
The press section of the
navy office reported Friday the
Japanese navy had scored "bril
liant achievements m the Coral
sea east of Australia en an Angle-American
combined fleet.
It gave no details immediately
bat said .they : would be an-'
nounced during the day. - .
Reds Try to
Break Siege
Strike Hard Around
Leningrad; RAF
Renews Raids
MOSCOW, May 7-(-The red
army, making what appeared to
be the strongest attack in many
weeks to break the long siege of
Leningrad, was reported Thursday
night, to have driven a wedge be
tween two German armies, en
circled one nazi detachment in an
important sector and wiped out
several centers of resistance in
the bogs west of Russia's second
city.
Thus, said soviet dispatches,
the Germans not only were fore
stalled In their attempts to get
spring attacks under way with
fresh , reserves, but had been
forced to retreat from a number
of wifter vaAiageT pointa '
A road which had united the
northern and southern sections of
the besieging force was cut, the
Russians said, by the capture of
junction point which the Ger
mans had held all winter. (It ap
peared this might be Krasnogvar-
deisk, 20 miles south of Lenin
grad). The naxls were using many
aircraft in an effort to turn the
tide of the land fighting at Len-
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Japs Demand
All Surrender
Report Is Unofficial;
11,574 Listed at
Forts in April
WASHINGTON, May 7-)-An
unofficial and unconfirmed report
that the Japanese required sur
render of the small units of American-Filipino
forces still fighting
on various islands of the archi
pelago as a condition for ending
their attacks on the Manila bay
forts was announced Thursday by
the war department
In a communique worded care
fully to make clear the completely
unofficial nature of the report
the department said a broadcast
from a Japanese-controlled radio
station in Manila said that Lieut
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright had
acceded reluctantly to this condi
tion to avoid further sacrifice, and
had issued appropriate,, orders to
his field commanders.
A communique earlier Thurs
day estimated that approximate
ly 1L500 men were surrendered
to the Japanese In the Manila
bay forts, bringing to more than
S0.000 the number of American -Filipino
troops now presumed to
be prisoners in the Philippines.
.The figure . was only approxl-
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Trade Barrier
Bans Promised
!. . '' - -..-'. .
WASHINGTON, M ay 7-UP)
Under thinly veiled threats of fed
eral intervention, representatives
of the state governments closed a
three-day meeting here Thursday
with informal promises to remove
voluntarily any local legal barriers
to the war effort .'
In the three days of speeches.
they had been told that highway
regulations which interfere .with
the loading and movement of war
material trucks, sanitary ordi
nances which waste scarce metals,
dairy 'regulations which hamper
milk deliveries for the army, and
similar hindrances must be elimi-
nated for the duration of the war.
. Not a gtfjgle resolution was
adopted. ;-"...." i 40
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Lose 11
sseis.
Three Planes
Lost by US
In Solomons
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS, Australia, May 8
(Friday) (AP) A great
naval and air battle is now
underway in the southwest
Pacific area, a spokesman
at Gen. Douglas Mac Ar
thur's headqua rters an
nounced Friday.
The' spokesman indicat
ed the battle was a contin
uation of the action an
nounced Thursday in a Washing
ton communique, which reported
that heavy damage had been In
flicted on Japanese naval units
off the Solomon islands Monday.
His statement followed swiftly,
the disclosure that allied bombers
Thursday had attacked Japanese
shipping in the Louisiade islands,
off the southeastern tip of New
Guinea, sinking one transport
The spokesman did not give
any additional information on
this action or the naval battle be
said was still underway, and did
not indicate whether they were
directly .linked.
(The presence of Japanese
transports, however, in the
Louisiade's might mean the be
ginning of the long expected as
sault upon Port Moresby, vital
allied outposts some 308 miles
to the west on the southern
shore of New Guinea, It might
even mean a thrust directly at
the eastern coast of Australia
Itself.)
WASHINGTON, May 7.-)-An
American naval force, inter
cepting a Japanese squadron ap
parently striking at the flank of
the life line to Australia, sank
eight enemy vessels, damaged
four and destroyed six planes at
a total United States cost of only
three planes, the navy announced
Thursday.
The furious sea battle, author
tatively regarded here as possi
bly the first in which strictly
American forces have engaged
the Japs in a general naval en
counter, occurred last Monday in
the vicinity, of the Solomon is
lands, lying northeast of Austra
lia and northwest of the suddIv
route bastions of New -Caledonia
and the New Hebrides islands.
The naval communique re
porting the results ef the battte
also disclosed that TJS submar
ines operating In the western
Pacific had sunk three more
Japanese ships. Thus, the ene
my's, total ship losses announ-
ced Thursday were 11 sunk.
Including seven - warships, and
four, damaged, aa fellows:
In the Solomons: - j . ,
Sunk--One, light; cruiser, two
destroyers, , four gun boats and
one supply vessel. '! '. ' . 1
; Damaged One 9000 - ton sea
plane tender, one light cruiser.
one cargo vessel and one trans
port . ,-r , .L--' .
In US submarine operations: '
. .Sunk One medium sized car
go ship, one medium sized tanker,
and one small cargo ship. ' v
- The sinkings raised the unof
ficially tabulated total of Jap
anese ship losses due to United
Nations operations to 251. In-
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