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vicinity are la naif orm with
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Vacation
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school enjoyed a "vacation
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near hen.
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Satan. Oregon. Friday Morning, May 22. 1942
Prlc 5c
No. 44
All
ites
Sink 3
ilxis V -Boats
Hit Shipping
Vessels
In Atlantic
' A L L I E D HEADQUAR-;
TERS, Australia, May 22
(Friday) (AP)--Allied sub
, marines have sunk a 7100
' ton Japanese cruiser of the
Kako class and two Japanese
cargo vessels, of 9000 and
. 6000 tons, it was announced
officially Friday.
General MacArthur's headquar
ters also said that 14 Japanese
planes- had been destroyed or
damaged in air raids on Japanese
. invasiombases in New Guinea and
Timor.
(There are lour ships in the
Japanese Kako class, each carry
ing a normal complacement of
604 men. -They are the Kako,
Hurutaka;. Kinugasa and Ooba,
all completed in 1926-27. They
are armed with six eight-inch
guns.
By Tht Associated Press
Both axis and allied shipping
took severe blows Thursday in
the war at sea, with allied sub
marines destroying a Japanese
cruiser and two cargo ships while
axis U-boats added five United
Nations vessels to the toll in the
'. Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean
ea.
The allied losses In the At
lantic and adjacent waters gave
- added significance to . the US
drive to ' increase present two-
a-day shipbuilding production
plans to . three-a-day by early
f alL Twenty seven branchings
are scheduled far . Saturday,
A small Dominican cargo car
rier, the PresidenteTrujiUo,was
torpedoed and sunk barely - one
hour after leaving . Martinique's
Port-De-France, dispatches, from
Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican re
public, announced officially.' The
captain and 14 others were land
ed at Martinique. Twenty four
other crewmen were killed by the
submarine's gunfire.
A small Norwegian merchant
man was torpedoed and sunk off
' the New England coast several
days ago, although the navy did
not disclose the attack until yes
terday. Twenty three crewmen,
; six of whom were so badly in
jured that hospitalization was
necessary when they were landed,
survived the attack. One crewman
perished in the blast when the
- .first torpedo struck.
According to survivors, the gun
crew aboard the vessel had; just
finished target practice when the
torpedo struck. Seconds la
' ter, another struck. None of the
crew saw the submarine.
- Eighty six survivors of an al
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New Process
For Oil Told
Standard Oil Develops
Method for Rnhber,
Aviation Gasoline
NEW YORK, May 21.-P)-A
new process by which the raw
materials for synthetic rubber and
an improved quality of aviation
gasoline can be produced simul
taneously from petroleum was an
nounced by W. S. Parish, presi
dent of the Standard Oil Co. (New
Jersey).
The new method, worked out
1 by. scientists of the Standard
Oil Development Co., a subsid
iary technical organisation, will
be made available to other oil
companies under the system of
patent licenses now being used.
Farish said.
He estimated it would increase
by 2 to 3 times the potential ca
pacity of plants now under con
struction for turning out buta
diene, a synthetic rubber raw ma
terial. y
"We estimate that the new me
thod win speed up the war pro
gram for production of. synthetic
rubber from plants already tin
derway and will provide the na
: tion with an increased potential
capacity, of raw material for more
than 400,000 tons of "Buna S'
rubber and 240,000 tons of butyl
rubber a year," Farish said.
"This is a new thing with us, a
development agreed on in the last
two weeks," he added, "and we
think it's important enough to get
excited about" .
Farish , said the new process
would be applied at a Standard
Oil aviation gas planf now being
built in the south. -.
Mexico ,Nesir Wat . om- Axis Natioini
Reds Pierce N(Hm Lines mi Kharkov
Germans
GheckecL
Ukraine
Russian Forces :y
Hold or Drive
On Full Front
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, May 21-(-The
heavily fortified nazi defense
line guarding Kharkov has been
breached at one point in a fiiri-
ous 40-minute onslaught; which
wiped out a key German
stronghold and carried Marshal
Simeon Timoshenko's tanks and
troops on six miles into an open
battlefield held only by German
infantry and scattered pillboxes.
Red Star asserted Thursday night
Along with this swift new sweep
toward Kharkov, prime prize of
ten days of 'the fiercest fighting
of the spring campaign, the army
newspaper outlined these develop
ments on the eve of the 12th
month of thej war:
In tht far north: Picked Rus
sian troops, wading : waist-deep
In ley watera, skirted 12 tt miles
around an enemy flank in Kare
lia, killed or wounded 100
Finns and Germans in a." sur
prise assault, then pushed on
' 12 miles more, cutting one of
the enemy' main roads to the
north. J
In the south: Gen. Viktor Von
Schwedler's German counter
drive into the Barvenkova-Izyum
sector 80 miles southeast of Khar
kov, menacing the flank of the
Russian offensive, has been check
ed. In the Crimea, outnumbered
but determined, Russian troops
still clung to the eastern tip of
Kerch peninsula, blocking the
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Tells Story
Of Arizona-
Eye-Witness Declares
Wrecketl Plane Blew
Up US Warship
KLAMATH FALLS, May 21.-
(iSVtPassed by N a v y Censor)
Loyal Bates, a civilian navy
worker who watched the Japan
ese surprise attack on Pearl Har
bor, said Thursday he believed the
battleship Arizona was sunk by a
plane already hit by American
anti-aircraft
It was docked right in front of
the hill where we stood," said the
former Klamath Fails mechanic
who viewed thetfiree-hour at
tack with fellowworkers. "A dive
bomber came in, the anti-aircraft
got it and it dived light into the
ship.
"Some say a bomb went down
the funnel. Well, right after tLe
bomber hit the ship, the plane
exploded and then the maga
zine in the Arizona went up."
Bates said the workers did not
realize it was a Japanese attack
until two of 1 the enemy bombers
were shot down. In rapid succes
sion two Japanese planes flew
into one spot where anti-aircraft
guns were trained. Both burst into
flames. The second wheeled over
backwards and crashed into i
housing project on Hickam field.
'Right then it just dawned on
us," he said, r we were Just like a
dumb flockof geese. Those are
Japs, somebody said.
Bates said most of the damage
was done during the first IS min
utes of the attacks ;
' "Yon could see the ships turn
.over In the harbor, could see
the boys fall la. , i
"There was aheavy sheet of oil
scum over the water. A lot of peo
ple tried to get their launches and
little boats out of the harbor to
get those boys out, but the Japs
kept machine-gunning the harbor
and made it pretty hard to rescue
anybody. , - ' - .
Wednesday's Weather
Weather , forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed
'by army request. Max. temp.
Wednesday, 79, Mia. 57. River,
.5 ft
Getting Ready to Protect
y z y .
Irreplaceable Men
In 'War Work to Be
K ept in Positions
Manpower Board Directs That Draft
Boards Confer With Employment
Officials Before Deferment
WASHINGTON, May 21-iJPyThe war manpower commis
sion took steps Thursday to make
in war production are deferred
their work benches. .
Paul V; McNutt, manpower
program to promote "the fullest utilization of the manpower
Bulletins
BUENOS AIRES, May 21-tf3)
The Argentine foreign office
announced Thursday night that
Japan had agreed to permit an
International Red Cross repre
sentative to visit Hongkong to
inspect the .treatment of Brit
ish and Canadian, prisoners,
but had rejected a proposal for
sending a Red Cross - supply
ship. . . t
BERLIN- (from German
broadcasts), May 21 (JPj- The '
French navy lost two subma
rines instead of , one in the un
successful defense of Madagas
car against a British landing'
force, the Berlin ; radio ; said
Thursday in a Vichy dispatch.
NEW YORK, May 21-P)-The
Moscow radio reported via Ge
neva Thursday night that "about
a score of Hitlerites' were kill
ed in a series of dynamite ex
plosions in : quarters - occupied
by the German authorities In
Paris. "- ''f
The broadcast was heard
here by CBS.
MOSCOW, May 21: HJt),
Twenty Germans were killed In
two dynamite explosions In the
headquarters, of German occu
pation authorities in Paris, the
Moscow sadle said Thursday
night.
! BERLIN-(Frem German
Broadeasts)-May 2 l-(-Sixty
Norwegians Including - seVeral
former cabinet members have
been deprived of their nationality-
"because t h e 1 r - attitude
proved - their hostility , against
the state and was likely to en
danger the country's Interests,
the German radio said Thursday
night ' ! r -
- LONDON, May 21-aVThe
Oslo radio said .Thursday night
15 Norwerians had been shot
to death for trying to' escape
to England.
CAIRO. Egypt, May 21-4P-A
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A
. -
V
y
certain that men irreplaceable
from the draft and remain at
chief, "announced an eight point
of this nation. This included a
directive to the selective service
system that local draft boards
consult with federal employment
service offices before calling to
the army individuals "skilled in a
critical war occupation."
- A spokesman said this meant
we will keep skilled men in in
dustry where they belong."
The selective service system al
ready had provided for deferment
of men in critical occupations, but
McNutt said there were some lo
cal draft boards "which defer too
easily" and others which "seem to
regard it as a breach of patrio
tism to defer anybody for occu
pational reasons."
.The directive means that lo
cal draft boards will eonsnlt
with employment service offi
cials in determining whether a
worker should, be deferred be
cause of his occupation. '
Thursday's action also provid
ed for a classification of war
plants according to their urgency,
and for a system of manpower
priorities to assure that the most
important plants get ample sup
plies of skilled men. ,
McNutt said the eight point
Droeram. to . become eiiecuve
June 1. would direct that:
1. The United States employ
ment service prepare and main
tain a list of those skilled occur
pations essential to war produc
tion in which a national shortage
exisits.f Such; occupations will be
designated as critical war, occu
pations.- T , I:"-.; 1-
2. The war production board
classify war plants and war pro-:
ducts in the order of their urg
ency in the war program.
3. The employment service make
preferential referrals of workers
to, employers engaged in war pro
duction in the order of .their pri
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Our Senators
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Aboard the USS Wilmette, some
where off Benton Harbor,
MlclL, la Lake Michigan, a gun
crew receives training to man
guns on merchant vessels to
protect vital cargo afainst sub
. marines, 'aircraft " and . surface
. v raiders. Here, the ' gui already
slghad on the target, a . gun
enw member leado -hcTlJnlo
-the breech. The gun Is almost at
point-blank range, aimed at
target between 1509 and 2500
yards away. Crews consist of
tea men, with an officer for
each crew.
Advance Tax
Paying Asked
Treasury Would Have
Employers Deduct
From Paychecks
WASHINGTON, May 21-
The treasury asked Thursday for
vast checkoff system under
which income taxes would be de
ducted from nearly everybody';
regular pay envelope.
Randolph Paul, tax adviser of
the treasury, revealed to the press
that he had made a formal request
to the house ways and means com'
mittee for authority to require all
employers to deduct advance in
come tax payments from payrolls.
He proposed that the deduc
tions amount to 10 per cent of
wages. Interest or dividends re
ceived in excess of a fixed scale
of personal exemptions. The de
ductions, In most cases, would
fall far short of paying the in
come tax bills, but would make
it easier, to meet the usual
March 15 deadline and also help .
the treasury finance the war
between the annual Income tax
collection dates.
Paul said the committee would
study: the proposal at least another
day before making any decision.
Congressional sources indicated
that the committee favored the
plan In principle, but might want
to exempt some types of em
ployers, such as farmers or house
wives, from the trouble of becom
ing tax; collectors.
For! most employers, the deduc
tion would be similar to the social
security taxes that they t Jready
take out of payrolls, and Taul said
it would be a relatively light chore
for them. -j ' J
Paul said the proposed person
al exemptions were based on the
regular income tax exemptions
which the committee has decided
to reduce to $500 a year for sin
gle persons, and $1200 for heads
of families. Also figured in would
be the $400 a year for each de
pendent, plus a small amount for
other deductions. ;
It would' work' this way: r
- A single penen would pay
' out of his regular pay check 10
per cent of every t blag he
makes over' $11 per week. Thus,
4f his wage were $25 a week,
11 weald be taxable at the rale
of 10 per cent, which would be
$L40 each week. If the worker
la married, his exemption would
be $20 a week. If he made $30
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Japs Put
New Men
On East
Land at Foochow;
Western Front
More Stable
CHUNGKING, May 2l-(&)
The Japanese, apparently intent
on knocking China out of the
war now or at least' seizing for
ward areas which some day
might cradle direct attacks on
Japan, have supplemented their
broad offensive in Chekiang
province with, a landing in force
near Foochow, Fujticn province.
The Chinese high command an
nounced that a dozen Japanese
transports Wednesday steamed up
the Min river a short distance
from Formosa strait, and unload
ed troops which, at communique
time Thursday night, were being
heavily engaged by the defenders.
The expedition landed on the
north bank, below Foochow, un
der a cover of a barrage laid
down by escorting warships, it
was said.
With perhaps 25,000 men in the
Foochow expedition the Japanese
were believed now to have a to
tal of 125,000 troops in action.
- The Foochow aetlen created a
second highly active front In
the Chekiang-Fukien seaboard
a r e a a n d constituted a new
threat at the rear of Chinese
forces which only a few hours
earlier claimed to have curbed
the enemy on the 150-mile Che-
, kiang front, throwing him back
In at least one sector..
About 1500 miles to the west,
on the vital third front in Yun
nan province adjoining Burma,
the Chinese reported they had re
captured Kanglanchai, key point
on the Lungkiangkiao-Tenghueh
highway and seized large quanti
ties of Japanese war supplies.
There was no change in posi
tions along the Burma road west
of the Salween river, the Chinese
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Pork Product .
Price Ceiled
WASHINGTON, May 2H)
Ham, bacon and other pork prod
ucts were placed under permanent
price ceilings Thursday at the
wholesale leveL
The order, replacing a tempor
ary. 60-day ceiling in effect since
mid-March, fixes prices of dressed
hogs and wholesale pork cuts at
levels no higher than those actu
ally prevailing during the March
3-7, 1942 period.
In general, the "permanent
ceiling" continues the prices in the
temporary one. An exception,
however, was a reduction from 2
to 1 ents a pound in the prem
ium allowed on sales to the army,
The purpose of this premium is to
compensate for additional costs
involved in meeting army siieci-
fications.
Army Cars Cut to Gallon a Day
FORT LEWIS, May 21-(P)-Even
before gasoline rationing, has
reached civilians, military author-,
ities here have put all army units
on a strict ration, of one gallon
of fuel a day for each vehicle: .
. -An ; officer explained that the
order . was the method chosen by
the Fort Lewis high command to
put into effect a' general war de
partment directive to reduce gas
oline consumption to a minimum
, This order has been in effect
nearly - a week,: officers disclosed
Thursday, ; and is seriously cur
tailing the use in training of prime
movers, Jeeps, command cars and
all other vehicles wearing olive
drab paint jobs. . ' ' U
v JCnlt li commanders Z Planning '
to take their troops and equip- ;
- meat into field maneuvers this .
spring most -figure 'closely on
: gasoline consumption and hoard
their regular daily quota for
perhaps a week ta advance. ":
; Messengers who have heretofore
(used jeeps and motorcycles.to de
4 Short A
Does Trick
For Ration
RALEIGH. NC. May 21 -(&)
Governor J. M. Brougbton said
Thursday he was satisfied how
to pronounce the word "ration."
He said It Is "rashun" and
not "rayshun.
How does he know?
At a conference in Washing
ton Wednesday with Leon Hen
derson, the head rationer in
the United States, Broughton
paid particular note to bow the
OFA chief caUed it.
It was "rashnn."
Club Members
Face Expulsion
Affidavit and Attitude
Required; School
Policy Told
Expulsion faces "secret society"
members in Salem high school's
student body, city school director;
declared Thursday as they an
nounced a new policy relative to
the outlaw organizations within
the institution in a document of
ten articles.
The declaration, issued -three
weeks after the most recent "inci
dent' in the long record of the
board's declared attempt to drive
the illegal ciubs from'the TdiooL
was formulated - hi a series of
board sessions and conferences of
directors with a committee se
lected from the school faculty and
administration.
Not to be denied privileges of
graduation are those, members
of the societies la this year's
senior class who, following an
explanation of the new policies
in conference with the dean of
boys or the dean of girls, ex
hibit a "satisfactory attitude"
and a completed affidavit sworn
to by both themselves and their
parents, the document indicates.
Just what that affidavit may
require was not made a part of
the board's public announcement.
However, it is indicated that the
affidavit may be a declaration of
intention to have no further re
lationship ' with the society . in
question while in school nor to
continue in it as an organization
drawing its membership from the
school after graduation.
Members of this year's senior
class failing to show such a "sat
isfactory attitude" and completed
affidavit "shall receive only their
credits and be denied all gradu
ation privileges and diplomas, and
memorandum of facts shall be at
tached to their permanent rec
ords," the document declares.
The memorandum of mem
bership la the Illegal societies
may be made a part of the stu
dent's permanent record even
after he has been graduated or
for, any other reason has left
school If knowledge of saeh
membership Is received after
date, of leaving the institution,
the document further states.
Such records, school adminis
tration members point out, are
often provided by the school for
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liver military orders will soon be
using bicycles, according to pub
lic relations officers. The quarter'
master already has a large ship-,
roent of the, pedal-powered ' ve-.
hiclej. on hand, v :? .
Because ' Fort Lewis, combined-
with North Fort Lewis and Camp
Murray, r is one of the largest
encampments in the . nation, - a
messenger on " a bicycle will be
a, good candidate f or a six-day
bicycle race when he gets tough
ened up to delivering the usual
quantity of daily orders.
A mule pack ( artillery outfit
,: stow uses "its mules to gather
dirty linen and deliver it to the
post laundry, three, miles dis
tant. The animals pack the cleaa
-laundry back . to the barracks
t oa the return trip.- All . this
saves gasoline, but not time. :
A gallon of gasoline sounds like
a liberal - allowance to civilian
users but officers point out some
of the prime movers used for
Powers
Kej ect
otest
Added Ships
Reported as
Torpedoed
MEXICO CITY, May 21
(AP) The axis has re
fused even to receive Mex
ico's protest over her first
ship loss in the war and
amid strong indications
Thursday night that Mex-1
ico will declare war quick
ly the foreign office was
investigating reports that
two more Mexican ships
were sunk by torpedoes
Thursday. . . '.
The foreign office declared Y
special bulletin weald W forth- ,
coming shortly en the reported
vmiw Sinkings , eft BratlL and'
somewhere bet ween. Cuba 'and
. the United States.
The axis rejection of Mexi
co's demand for "complete sat
isfaction" In the sinking of a
tanker off Miami last week was
made known through the Mexi
can legation In Stockholm to
which the note had been sub
mitted, since Mexico broke re
lations with the axis last De
cember. The foreign office had expect
ed an unsatisfactory replj but
apparently not a'tomplete re
fusal to countenance any claim
against the axis. .
"Therefore," the announce
ment added pointedly, "Presi
dent AvUaCanaehe will decide
what steps the honor and dig
nity of the country demand." '
The president was reported
engaged in drafting a manifesto
asking for a declaration of war
on Germany, Italy and Japan. "
It was said authoritatively
that the president's manifesto '
would be read before a special
session of congress within the
next day or so, calling Mexico -to
war.
Raid Sirens Fail
To Warn Schools
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21-P)
San Francisco shrieked its air
raid sirens Thursday for a minute
at noon as a test and school offi
cials said you couldn't hear a sin
gle squeal at 11 city schools. And
at 30 other schools,' the teachers
couldn't tell whether it was an
air raid alarm or just a fire truck
going about its business.
The city defense officials' are
talking again about buying some
more sirens to assist the 37 now
in use. j
hauling artillery weapons and
other .heavy trucks can grind out
only a few miles from the four
quart daily ration. -f . .
1 Troop trucks get only 11
miles to the ' gallon when
they're in the best condition. A .
modern motorized army,, with
thousands of kitchen trucks, '
maintenance vehicles, supply
trucks, prime movers, command
.ears and Jeeps, mast stay around
home on the:' aew. . allowance
of a gallon per day per . engine.
fAn officer poayJLbe; fofcetf to
pay for the amountiused 'by his
unit in excess -ol the 30 i gallons
per; inonh quota, tt- c i ' i
i Fort Iwis'officiali. laid they'
believed other army camps In the
nation may inaugurals gas saving
plans, but" probably hoi as: dras
tic as the one in. use -Officers
private' eari 'fall uh- .
der - the civilian bceid rtfUonihg
system and will receive" the same
allowance oiviiiaa automobiles.
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