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SAN FRANCISCO, May
20 (AP) In its first
such order of the war, the
army Wednesday night au
thorized the release of 400
Japanese from a Pacific
coast resettlement center
to take jobs under a newly
created work corps for
Japanese.
Lieut.-Gen. J. L. DeWitt,
commanding general of
the fourth army, announced that
2 00 Japanese left Wednesday from
Portland, Ore., to take jobs in
Malheur county, Ore., and another
200 would follow them on Friday.
While the army did not specify
the type of work the Japanese
would do, it was recalled that
Oregon's Gov. Charles A. Sprague
had appealed to the army- for
Japanese to ease a critical labor
tor
bor
shortage in the wheat harvest,
The war relocation authority
announced the creation of a
war relocation work corps in
which all . Japanese over 16
1 Enlistment in the work corps is
' entirely yoluntary, and all evac
uees over 18 years of age who
are employable, both men and
women, may apply, the authority
said. These obligations were list
ed: 1- The enlistee must agree to
serve as a member of the corps
until two weeks after the end of
.the war.
2- He must swear loyalty to
the United States and agree to
perform faithfully all tasks as
signed to him.
The army also was concerned
- with the morale problem aris
ing from keeping large numbers
of Japanese evacuees in enforced
: idleness in the camps.
The works corps voluntary en
listment policy and the oppor
tunity offers to loyal Americans
of Japanese descent offers a rem
edy for both farm labor short-
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Gty Leaders
Discuss War
GRANTS PASS, May 20-(P)-Wartime
problems and their effect
on municipalities occupied the at
; tention of the League of Oregon
Cities and the Oregon Finance
Officers association as they open
ed their joint convention here
Wednesday.
" Mayor W. W. Chadwick and
C. E. Guehther, manager of the
; city water department, are repre
, senting Sa.lem at the Grants Pass
meeting of the League of Oregon
i Cities. Mayor M. J. Butler of
1 Independence made the trip south
' with them for the league session.
!
Ration Plans Ready
WASHINGTON, May
Senator McNary (R-Ore) an
nounced Wednesday the OPA had
notified him there would be no
stoppage of sale of gasoline during
registration for rationing in Ore
gon next week.
McNary added that an Oregon
motorist away from the state ,
during next week's registration
would be able to register any
time in June at any rationing '
board in the state.
' California motorists in Oregon,
lie raid, would have to . register
OTTAWA, May 2-G!P)-Mu-nitlons
Minister CD. Howe an
nounced In the house of com
mons Wednesday that no - ells
will be available for: heating
anywhere In Canada next win
ter. 1ie same as Oregon residents to
et gas to return home.
The senator said gasoline sales
In the state would not be cur
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Mai Gen. Russell P. Hartle (right) takes a look at some of the
American troops airivinr in a large conxoy at a North Ireland port,
Shipload after shipload of American troops equipped for offensive
fighting thousands of them witlr
Canning Sugar
Is Liberalized
One Pound for Each
Four Quarts of
Fruit Allowed
WASHINGTON, May 2 0-
Sugar allotments for home can
ning were liberalized Wednesday
night.
Under a new regulation, home
canners will be entitled to one
pound of sugar for every four
quarts of canned fruit, and an ad
ditional pound of sugar for each
member of the family to make
jams, jellies, preserves and fruit
butters.
Previous regulations restrict
ed each sugar ration cardhold
er to five pounds for home can
ning. If this amount has al
ready been n&ed fa putting up
early fruits and berries, It must
be computed in any. new can
ning allotment
The liberalization was made,
Price Administrator Leon Hen
derson said, to conserve fruit
which might otherwise be wasted
and to supplement commercially
canned supplies, thereby reduc
ing the burden on transportation
facilities.
The much smaller allotment for
jams and preserves was deliber
ately figured, OPA said, to en
courage home canning instead of
preserving, because the amount of
sugar required per can of fruit is
less in canning than in jam-mak
ing or preserving. J
Henderson urged consumers to
apply only for the minimum
amount needed immediately.
"The present regulations place
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tailed, except by the dealers sup
plies, until rationing goes into ef
fect on June 1.
"Gas tanks," McNary said, "can
be filled until that time."
Arch B. Sanders, executive sec
retary of the Oregon Coast High'
way association; asked McNary to
get the information from the OPA.
PORTLAND, May 20-ff)-Reg
istration instructions for gasoline
ration cards were . forwarded to
Rex Putnam, state superintendent
of. public instruction, who will
transmit them to 'school author!'
ties for - the : three-day signup
May 28-30.
Registration will be handled by
teacher-volunteer staffs at public
secondary schools as - was sugar
registration. In instances of early
school closing with teachers al
ready gone, school officials will
call on local offices of civilian de
fense lor volunteer personnel.
Meanwhile; O.'- L. Price, state
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The Yanks Are There
tanks and artillery have arrived
Allied Bombers Hit
Koeparig;
Plan Bigger Raids
Two Japanese Planes Are Destroyed,
Fires Started; RAF Showers Fire
Bombs on Mannheim Industries
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 21-(Thursday)
(JP Allied bombers destroyed two grounded Japanese planes,
damaged the runway and started large fires Wednesday in an
attack on Koepang, Dutch Timor, and also attacked military ob
jectives in Dili harbor in the Portuguese half of the occupied
island.
A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters also
said four of 12 Japanese fighter
planes were damaged when inter
cepted by allied planes during a
straffing attack j on the Port
Moresby, New Guinea, airdrome.
LONDON, May 20-P- For- j
ty thousand incendiary bombs
and "great loads" of the big
gest explosives from hundreds
of bombers were showered upon
the German industrial center of
Mannheim Tuesday night, the
British said Wednesday, and ev
en greater attacks employing
up to 1000 BAP j and American
bombing planes a night were
promised for the aerial offen
sive against the Reich.
Air ministry quarters said the
40,000 fire bombs were dropped
by one detachment of- four-mo-tored
Stirlings, leaving hundreds
of fires for the succeeding waves
of Halifaxes, Lancasters, Man
chester and Wellingtons with
their "heaviest high explosive
bombs" to shoot at '
Intelligence reports quoting the
raiders said the destruction in the
big chemical, armament ..and en
gine building center reminded
them of Germany's ruined Bal
tic port of Rostock.
It was the 54th raid on Mann
heim, a city of 283,000, and .the
first against Germany since .the
weather forced a lull in Britain's
air offensive 11 days ago. .
Lifting the curtain on the plans
for- this offensive,, authoritative
quarters said they were building
up to the point where 1000 bomb
ers would 1e sent against Ger
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Installation Begun
Of Traffic Ughts
Installation o semi-actuating
light traffic signals at the inter
section of Capitol and Center
streets was commenced Wednes
day by employes f the state high
way department. ! The signals are
joint project of city and state,
each paying halt as they mark
an intersection of one of the city's
principally - traveled streets and
the Pacific highway north.
Ready to
In North Ireland to reinforce the already big United States force there.
This picture was radioed from London to New York and speeded by
airmail to The Statesman.
British To
Goering Tells
Germans Why
Russian Fight Called
'Hardest;' Marshal
Gives Medals
BERLIN-(From German Broad
casts) -May 20-(P)- Reichsmarsh
all Hermann Goering told German
war workers Wednesday night
that "this war is the hardest Ger
many has had to fight," and that
during the terrible winter cam
paign in Russia "the Fuehrer suf
fered deeply for his troops, but
he knew he must not yield."
Awarding medals to a group of
armament workers, miners, and
farmers for distinguished service,
Goering explained the reason for
the . nearly . year-old offensive
against Russia thus:
"Russia's entry Into Rumania
and Finland showed that she
intended to put Germany be
tween two pincers and pounce
upon her while she was still
engaged in a life- and death
straggle ' In the west The
Fuehrer decided that It was nee
essary to strike first.' '
(The BBC Version as beard by
CBS said that Goering prefaced
his ceremonial speech by sayng:
Nobody must think that the cere
mony meant that they could sit
back and celebrate and that he
concluded by asking the Al
mlghty's blessing on Hitler be-v
cause It was unthinkable that
providence had raised this man
from such obscure beginnings on
ly to push Germany back into the
abyss.') ,
Tuesday's '.Weather
Weather forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed
by army request. Max. temp.
Tuesday, 71, Mia 55. ,
Fight
tseeing
Busses Banned
Rubber Saving Rule
Imposed on Most
Charter Tours
WASHINGTON, May 20-W)
To save the rubber used in rub
ber-necking; the government Wed
nesday banned the use of busses
for sightseeing tours and imposed
rigid restrictions on the charter
ing of special busses.
The regulations, effective June
1, permit busses to be chartered
only for the use of troops, work'
ers, school children and teachers
and religious worshippers or for
evacuating a danger area.
The chartering of busses for
picnics or other recreational
purposes was forbidden. Golfers
and other sportsmen in the east
have been chartering busses
lately In view of the gasoline
rationing.
The order was issued by Jos
eph B. Eastman's office of de
fense transportation. Eastman es
timated that sightseeing and char
ter busses traveled 21,000,000
miles last year and used about
126,000 pounds of crude rubber,
The order is intended to preserve
the tires on these busses, East
man explained, "so that they will
be available for operations essen
tial to the war production pro
gram."
Attack on
Nazi Planned
LONDON, May 20-iP)-Britain
intends to make "a carefully
planned attack" against the nazi
held continent, the government as
sured the house of commons
Wednesday, but until such an at
tack can be prepared it regards
the continued bombing of Germany
as its best contribution to the com
rrion war effort. .
Speaking in the absence of
Prime Minister ChurchilL Sir
Stafford Cripps, lord privy seal
and government leader in the
house, said that bombing . Ger
many is the best way of assisting
Russia "until such time as we are
able to make a carefully planned
attack upon the continent of
Europe, which we intend to do."
- Concluding a two-day war de-
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Our Senators
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Yunnan's
Front Is
Drenched
Hope Rain Will
Aid Defense of
j One of Fronts
CHUNGKING, May 20-(P-A
heavy downpour, perhaps the
beginning of the months-long
summer rainy season, drenched
the southwestern Burma-Yunnan
battlefields Wednesday as
China hastily strengthened de
fenses along the Indo-China
border to the south and fought
to stem the Japanese offensive on
the eastern coast in Chekiang.
The Chinese looked to the
rain as an ally which might fill
the roads with landslides, wash
out bridges, ravage Japanese
camps with malaria and hold
up for months the invaders' ad
vance through the mountain
ous, sparsely populated south
western tone.
No military action was reported
at all Wednesday from that area,
where at last accounts the Chi
nese had thrown back the Jap
anese along the Burma road at
the Salween in Yunnan and fought
a series of bitter battles 250 miles
to the south along the Thailand
frontier.
But the Chinese press said Jap
anese forces in Burma had been
raised to six or seven divisions
close to 150,000 men and about
50,000 higher than previous esti
mates.
In Chekiang, the Japanese, who
had gathered a surprising force
from the garrisons of Hangchow,
Nanking and Shanghai for a new
offensive, continued to sweep
southward.
With planes bombing a path
ahead, the Japanese had reached
the Tung river, some distance
beyond Chukl on the Chekiang
Kiangsi railway, and in a par
allel drive about 40 miles to the
east of the line had taken
Chenghsien and Changlochen.
The latter point is about 70
miles southeast of Hangchow.
The Chinese were putting up
strong resistance.
Japanese planes also bombed
various points in Kiangsi and
Kwangsi provinces, concentrating
particularly on Wweilin, capital
of the latter.
(The British in India announced
that RAF action in Burma was
increasing "in scale and fre
quency."
1st Delinquent
Notices out
First of several hundred notices
to delinquent personal property
tax payers in Marion county will
be mailed today, T. J. Brabec,
deputy in charge of Sheriff A. C
Burke's tax department, an
nounced Wednesday.
The notices are being sent un
der terms of a 1941 law intend
ed to stop the leak in tax col
lections that for years has left
many personal property levies
merely a book entry at the court
house. The notices will advise te de
linquents that if they do not pay
up promptly, the tax department
will issue warrants. Under the new
law personal property taxes may
be made a lien on any property
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Mrs. James T. Matthews Passes
Mrs. James T, Matthews, 76, :
known to many generations of
Willamette university students al
most solely through the stories of
her girlhood and courtship In
earlier' days of that institution,
died Wednesday night at a Salem
hospital four hours after she had
been removed there from her
home. Wednesday afternoon; al
though she had been feeling ill
for several days, she worked
among the flowers at her home,
1393 South 12th street ; - .
h For many years Mrsv Matthews
had lived quietly. Seldom seen in
public, , she was,, nevertheless,
recognized as a part ' of campus
life, at tjbat "Rebecca,, the sweet
young woman who inarried tithe
man now ,the "grand old mann
of the pioneer university. Stories
of the' childhood they, had shared
in the Willapa bay country, their
courtship ' on; the ; Willamette
campus, later incidents of home
life; woven into the 'addresses of
Dr. James T. Matthews have be-
Nazis Stop
Phone Calls
To Swedes -
. STOCKHOLM. May 21
(Thursday) -(JP)- ( Telephone
communication between Swed
en and Germany was cut off by
Berlin Wednesday night, with
out explanation. -
It was the second recent dis
ruption of telephone calls be
tween the two countries.
The service was cut for nine
hours May 9-10 and j at that
time Berlin hinted mysterious
ly that "good news is appearing
in due time."
International telephone dis
ruptions are favorite devices
when Germany is playing a war
of nerves on a neutral. The
naiis periodically stopped tele
phoning between the reich and
Russia for a month before they
lunged at the reds last June 22.
Growers Told
Aid Probable
To Prevent Losses
From Price Freeze
Berry growers and packers may
anticipate early federal govern
ment action to spare them from
losses occasioned by price freez
ing orders, if they proceed with
harvesting and processing of the
ripening crops, Edmond F. Maher,
regional price representative for
the office of price administration,
told a grower-packer committee
here Wednesday.
The group, named following a
protest meeting Monday night in
volving the prite order, discussed
a to-the-grower price for straw
berries but withheld announce
ment of . the figure.
Mahesv predicting a program
similar to tone now being for
mulated to aid vegetable grow
ers would be worked out soon,
said he hoped to have: definite
information to report to the
berry men within 48 hours.
. Prices fixed by the OPA on
preserves and other processed
berries, it was agreed at Wed
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Martinique
Ships to Be
Immobilized
WASHINGTON, May 20-(JPy- A
satisfactory agreement for im
mobilizing merchant, as well as
naval vessels under the French
flag at Martinique has been large
ly worked out, chairman Con
nally (D-Tex) of the senate for
eign relations committee, told re
porters Wednesday.
Connally said negotiations were
carried on entirely with Admiral
Georges Robert at Martinique and
that the Vichy government had not
participated. The chairman did
not elaborate immediately on de
tails, saying that "in the main,"
the agreemeent had been worked
out.
At the same time Secretary
Hull, at a press conference, said
that the warships at Martinique
which are being demobilized have
already been effectively immobil
ized by the removal of fuel oil.
Only enough oil was left In
their tanks, Hull said, to operate
their electric lighting systems and
other minor installations, and they
therefore are incapable of putting
out to sea.
; MRS. J. T. MATTHEWS
come a part of Willamette's tra
dition.
Born In California, j Rebecca
Chech
Nazis9
Drive
Soviet Denies
Claim Kerch
All Taken
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press War Editor
The Russian offensive
against Kharkov and it
Ukrainian hinterland
Thursday was still slowly
and ponderously rolling
forward and there were ao
cumulating indications
that Marshal Timoshenko
had caught Hitler serious
ly off balance in this first
great test of the spring
campaign.
Fresh German reserves have
been thrown against the Soviets
but five villages have been re
captured by the red army, and an
attempted German counter-offensive
80 miles south of Kharkov in
the Barvenkoviaizyum sector has
been checked, the dispatch said.
Never in nine days had the
nazi command been able to beat
the red armies down to halt. Ber
lin has tried to focus all attention
not on the Kharkov front but 400
miles to the south down In the
Crimea.
This was attempted by the
German high command's repe
tition of its previous extraordi
nary claims that not one but
three Soviet armies had been
"annihilated" on the narrow
Kerch peninsula in the Crimea
and by Its apparently studied
announcement that CoL Gen.
Baron Von Richtofen, one of
the most pitiless and implacable
of all German air officers, was
now on that front.
This was in turn accompanied
by the circulation of reports
through Europe that Von Rich
tofen might try to hurl a para
chute force of 100,000 men this
again a seemingly fantastic fig
ure across the Kerch strait into
the Caucasus.
The view that Hitler had lunged
in, the Crimea more for propa
ganda than for strategic reasons
was put forward with consider
able plausibility by the Russian
Major General Nikolai Shuravlev,
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Pass Overstayed;
Sergeant Ready
With Doghouse
FORT DEVENS, Mass May
20 (Jfy- First Sgt. Jack Young
received a wire Wednesday from
one of his men, a private who
was overstaying- a three-day
pass. j
"No alibi except weather and
good time. Prepare doghouse.
Arrive Friday" so ran the
honest private's message.
And with equal frankness,
Top Sergeant Young answered
by- telegram collect: ' . j
"Doghouse prepared. See yon
Friday, son."
Grant Brown went early with her
family to Chehalis, Wash later
to the Willapa country, where she
first met James Matthews, then a
lad. Together, they came to Sa
lem to enter Willamette univer
sity. Here they two years ago ob
served their golden wedding an
niversary and joined their uni
versity class in celebration of Its
50 year reunion. ? ;; -v
Two sisters and a brother in the
Pacific - northwest, ; Mrs. , Maggie
Alderson c Portland, Mrs. Mary
Compton of Hebo . and Arthur
Brown of Vancouver, ash"" art
among . the . survivors, who also
include in addition to the widower
two ' sons, Oliver 'Matthews, who
has made hit homettem-with
his parents, Donald Matthews of
Portland; grandchildren, tfames, T. :
Matthews and Ruth Matthews, of
Portland, the latter V Willamette
university junior. '!;;-:' !
Funeral arrangements are la
care of the Clough-Barrick mortu
ary i imsMM'J' ;vr'nr;