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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1942)
Service Men Oar boy of Salem and vicinity are In uniform with Uncle Sam over the face ef the glebe. Follow them dally In The Statesman'! 'Service Men' column. Dear Deer? SAN JOSE, Calif, May X7 (AVMa John Kevich filed suit for divorce Wednesday because, she said, he said "I love to shoot deer because every time I bag one I Imagine It's you." POUND EX 17 1JINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, May 23. 1912 Pries 5c N 48 N iooio in Africa Make nick Tlira" County v Boosts 45 Employes To Benefit; New Budget The Marion counly citi sens budget committee granted salary increases to 45 employes, appropriated immediately necessary funds for civilian defense and met a number of mi nor requests for additional money, in all but conclud ing its work on the 1942 o budget at a night ses sion Wednesday. By trimming various depart mental budgets in other than sal ary classifications, the committee consisting of Leo N. Childs, Ray Glatt and M. G. Gunderson and the three county court members managed to effect the payroll in creases with the net addition of but $2320 to total expenditures. As the aggregate budget for all funds stands, expenditures total approximately $984,900. Maxi mum permissible tax levy within the 6 per cent limitation is $681, 584.45. Several funds are not sub ject to this limitation. . The budget does , not set up a levy for the state general or elementary school taxes, be cause receipts from income tax sources are expected to meet all state needs, the committee was advised by a tax commission representative. . Salary increases, voted in all grades from the lowliest clerks through janitors, elevator operat ors, bookkeepers to deputies and chief deputies in. the various of fices ranged generally from $5 to $15 a month. Most of the elec tive county officers are also to - receive additional salaries begin ning next January 1 by legisla tive fiat. The committee indicated it .would approve a $25,000 general fund emergency appropriation to day provided a recheck of its work today disclosed sufficient revenue available within the 6 per cent tax limitation. Such a fund, $15,000 above normal, was recommended because of possible war emergencies. The county civilian defense council was granted a $2500 spe cific appropriation to meet office, training program -end- control center costs, with the assurance given that war-caused emergency expenses could be paid from the general emergency fund. Requested as an aid to civil ian defense communications, in stallation of one two-way radio transmitter in the car of the sheriffs criminal deputy was authorized by the committee. Requ-st for a second transmit ter, for use in the sheriffs own car, was denied. The committee rejected "with reluctance" the plea of farm or " ganizations that the rodent bounty (Turn to Page 2, CoL s Hostesses Salem's new Hostess league of women authorized by the city recreation commission as a clear ing house for hospitality extended to service men met in organiza tion session Wednesday night at the YWCA. . Outlines of work done toward establishment of the t w branches of the league, senior and junior hostess organiza tions, -were presented. More than 200 applications for junior hostess recognition hare already been distributed to young wom en who have met the age re quirement by - passing 18th birthdays. It was declared. Other - blanks are to be made available . to applicants : when - headquarters are established with in, the next few, days. Would-be members of the junior hostess ' group must receive the approval of a special committee and must be able to offer three satisfactory ' references, members of the league aid. - Identification cards are to be Wages 5 248 Japanese To Go to Two hundred forty eight Japa nese nationals and American citi zens of Japanese descent from Marion and adjoining counties were registered in Salem on Wed nesday for evacuation Monday to a new city at Tulelake, Calif. Throughout western Oregon a to tal of 309 registered. Approximately 50 of the 248 completed physical examinations Wednesday and need not return to the evacuation center at Le gion hall here until Monday, it was said, but others are to re- 4 -4 s i V Rev. Andrew -T. Karoda of the Salem Japanese Community church at a busy day Wednesday after registering himself and his family for caught him as he assisted in translating: for Sekitaro Hada, 77, of one of the long-tables in Legion dents of the Brooks 'Japanese community, while younger men occupy places further down tbe table and await their-turns ra iliain along 4tie waft. The sUirtled young man 4n thelgfat-hand corner 11. - Barren Fltzpatrick. one of the county public welfare department staff tion, (rhoto passed by IS army Class Accents Patriotism Salem High Seniors Hear Addresses, Receive Prizes Pastel frocks of Salem high school's girl graduates appeared against a red, white and blue background at annual commence ment exercises Wednesday night. Youths in conventional dark suits were represented on the program by one who spoke of their pros pective donning of khaki or blue, and the relationship of state and individual took uppermost place in the address and music of the program in the school auditorium. A new challenge flung to to day's youth asks aid in the build ing of a new will for the na tion. Dr. O. R. Chambers, head of Oregon State college depart ment of psychology, declared. Reasoning, he said, is "Jigsaw puzsliag," as he urged members of tbe class of 482 members to demand the right to "trade pieces" but to inspect carefully those bits of human experience used to make up the picture on which their decision may be based. Describing as outright lies the claims of an older generation that (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Organize issued to the juniors, without which no admission is to be granted to the commission spon sored dances and parties. The young women selected are to do committee work, assist with stag ing of programs and to under take various activities related to soldier hospitality, operating their organization under a system wide ly used over the nation. A train ing course sponsored by Beta Sig ma, Phi, Rotana, Credit. Women's Breakfast club, Ecclesia, Univer sity YWCA, Junior Woman's club and Business Girls of the YWCA is to include approximately 10 lectures followed by discussion periods. Members of the Hostess , league are Mrs. Lowell Kern, . chairman; Mr. Karl Becke, vice chairman; Mrs. Waldo ZeUer, Mrs. Delbert Schwab bauer, Mrs. Clifton Mudd, Miss Ha Austin, Mrs. Walter U Spaulding, Miss Helen Barrett, Miss Marian Mitchell, Miss Sally McLellan, Mrs., Floyd E.' Kenyon and Mrs. Ralph Moody. Signed Here Cam on Monday ceive pb checkups through the san? 4?" quarters Friday. Fov 3c? he men registered here V" isday are to go on to ' q fcr d's control center pn Pq to volunteer for work b" y n Oreron's sugar beet inn... , while the others are scheduled to leave Salem late Monday afternoon by train for Tulelake, w h e'r e housing has been arranged for 10,000 Japa nese and a group of agricultural projects is assertedly in the making. hall.' Next to Hada Is shown Frank censors.) Women Flock To Answer Army Call WASHINGTON, May 7.-;P) -Women applied by the thou sands Wednesday for the 450 places as officer candidates In the new women's army auxil iary corps and many of them arose at dawn to be first in line at the army recruiting stations. An unofficial and incomplete poll of recruiting offices throughout the country on the number of applicants actual count in some places and esti mated count in others where definite figures were unavail ableyielded a total of 13,208. Some cities reported that the eager women snatched up all the pink application blanks that had been supplied and disap pointed applicants had to be turned away thereafter. This situation prevailed at all en listment points in Tennessee and Florida and at Richmond, Birmingham, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. California alone reported an (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Lumber Freed For New Bins WASHINGTON, May J7-(ff) The war production board modi fied its lumber 'freeze" order Wednesday to permit construction of storage bins, for the - nation's bumper spring wheat crop. At the same time, however, Ar thur T. Upson, chief of the WPB lumber branch, cautioned that 'for the next several months, con struction lumber will not be gen erally available for civilian pur poses. Upson's statement -was inter preted : here as indicating-that WPB probably would extend its original 60-day freeze which pro hibits large lumber mills from selling their ; softwood construe tion lumber to anyone except the army, navy and maritime commis sion. . Students Save Crop MILTON - FREEWATER, May 27-J)-Eighteen tons of sugar beets, valued at 118,000 and con vertible into 600 tons of sugar, have been saved by high' school students who were dismissed from classes during the past two weeks to relieve the acute labor short age in this area. v, '' K 'J- .J? , ' i y-.'iiw- jr. - " ' 111111 q. Cooperation of Oregon Japanese in evacuation undertakings was praised here Wednesday by R. H. Stewart of Portland, manager of the control unit here, fifth evacua tion center at which he has worked. "This seems to be the one outstanding thing we can do to help democracy, and I'm sure I speak for the great mass of our people here when I say we want to do it cheerfully," said Rev. Andrew Y. Kuroda, pas (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Hazel Green (extreme left) spent evacuation. Here the cameraman Independence, sitting next to him at Takayama, one of the older resi who assisted with the registra Chinese Circle Yunnan Town Report Heavy Enemy Casualties There And at Kinhwa TOKYO (From Japanese broadcasts). May 28-P)-A Dome! dispatch from a Japa nese base in central China re ported Thursday the fall to Japanese forces of Kinhwa, capital of the seaboard province ef Chekiang. CHUNGKING, Thursday, May 28-(yTVChinese troops have en circled Japanese-occupied Lung- ling, the Burma road town west of the Salween river in Yunnan province, the central Chinese news agency reported Thursday. This encouraging news came after the Chinese had reported that a Japanese army of 100,000 men driving southward in the seaboard province of Chekiang had suffered 15.300 casualties without being able to take Kin hwa, the provincial capital. At least 10,000 of the Japanese were reported killed. Front line dispatches this morning said the Chinese had beaten off a third violent Japa nese attack of Kinhwa Wednes day i morning. "The defenders themselves also suffered some casualties," these reports said. The Japanese were hurling tons of artillery shells and aerial bombs on the Kinwha defenses without being able to advance, it was said. The American Flying Tigers were reported sun nammenng Japanese troops in the Salween river ' area, presumably in the movement 'on' Lungling after the Chines e had repulsed Japanese attempts to cross the river. ' The ; surrounding of the Japa nese in Lungling, 25 miles west of the river, indicated the Chinese r (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Late Sports SEATTLE, May JT-fPH501"1 game: ' Los Angeles -020 130 0-4 7 0 Seattle J.040 000 0-4 7 2 - Raffensberger and - Campbell; Guay, Budnlck (6) and Collins.,. Portland, Ore, May 27-(ff) Second night game (6 innings): San Francisco 120 250-10 16 1 Portland .020 020- 4 9 2 Seats and Ogrodowski; Cohen, j Schubel (5) and Castro. I Axis Italian U-Boat Gives Up 21 Lives Lost in Atlantic; Brazil Rabid for Fight By The Acsociatcd Press Axis torpedoes destroyed five more merchant vessels in At lantic waters, reports Wednes day disclosed, while Brazilian sources declared ihat in addi tion to two submarines sunk recently another u-boat had surrendered to allied forces in the struggle at sea. At least 21 seamen lost their lives and 38 persons were miss ing in the latest ship sinkings. The vessels destroyed included medium-sixed US merchant ship, a Greek freighter, a New England fishing vessel, a med ium-sized British merchantman, and a Dutch freighter. Woodrow Wilson Harrison of Augusta, Ga., a naval gunner, went down with the US merchant ves sel, which was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico with a loss' of 20 sea men. Twenty two of the crew sur vived. Harrison kept his gun hjaz- mg until his ship went under com pletely. ..voj ; tmMm, Kineteen pther tmvment; were sucked beheatt the ; water when the sinking ship' struck their life boat.. The remainder fit the crew was picked up 28 hours later by rescue craft. The Greek cargo vessel was tor pedoed in the North Atlantic, sinking three hours later. All 31 of the crew were rescued. The Dutch freighter Flora was attacked in the Caribbean, dis patches from Willemstad, Cura cao, reported, although details were not disclosed. The fishing vessel was sunk by an enemy U-boat as the trawler was proceeding to fishing banks off tbe Atlantic coast. Nearly an hour of continuous shelling finally sank the 200-ton craft. Survivors were contemptuous of the submarine marksmanship, say (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Army Chiefs In London Two US Command Heads Talk Joint Action With British LONDON. May 27 -UP- Two of the chiefs of the US army's three commands conferred with their British counterparts Wed nesday night, and informed ob servers believed that plans for an invasion oi the comment as well as a vast air assault on Germany were being advanced. The arrival Wednesday of Lieut Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, com manding general of the US army service of supply, virtually com pleted a war council which these observers declared is the "pre lude to a vast increase of Amer ican ground forces to give the allies immediate overwhelming local superiority in men and equipment for an invasion of the continent" : It was understood that the conferences may also be con cerned with such world-wide coordinating efforts as a joint smash at the Japanese from In dia and blocking of an axis of fensive in Africa. i Somervell's arrival followed the appearance Tuesday of Lieut Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the US army air forces. This Tleft only Lieut Gen. Lesley Jr McNair, commander of the ground forces, out ot the circle, but the presence of Mai. Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower, head of the operations dl visions, seemed to assure ' that (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) Tuesday's Weather Weather ' forecasts withheld land temperature data delayed by army request. Max temperature Tuesday 63. mln. 48. River Wednesday 5.6 ft MBS Still Going After Jap Fighters ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Thursday, May 28.-VP)-A Hied fighters defending Fort Moresby airdrome In New Guinea against IS Japanese na val fighters shot down one of the raiders and damaged six .others. General Mac Arthur's headquarters announced Thurs day. One allied plane was report ed missing after Wednesday's daylight combat. . A second enemy attack at night was "without effect," the communique said. The communique text: "Port Moresby Fifteen aero fighters attempted a strafing attack on the airdrome. Our fighters intercepted, destroying one enemy plane and damaging six. One alUed plane is report ed missing. "The enemy attacked again at night without effect" War Workers Held to Jobs No Changes Allowed "Without Employment Service Approval WASHINGTON, May- 27-(tfVA freezing" of essential workers in critical war industries to .their present jobs was decided upon Wednesday by the war manpower commission to stop "laDor pirai ing." described as a severe inter ference with war production. In this far-reaching move, the United States employment service was -made the "sole hiring agency for critical skills in critical areas.' There was no immediate esti mate of the number of workers who would be affected, but it was expected to run into hundreds of thousands if not millions. A commission spokesman said the action meant that henceforth essential workers would be "un able to change from one war plant to another without approv al of the United States employ ment service." The policy will become effec tive, he told newsmen, as soon as the proper directives can be drafted, "which means immedi ately." He declined to discuss the pos sible effects the policy might have on tne staDinzauon oi wages in war plants. This simply means," he said, "that all employment in critical war plants will be handled exclu sively by the United States em ployment services. Pirating of la bbr has become acute, especially in the aircraft industry. The pi rating usually is done by a plant offering more money to a worker in another plant This practice, the commission has found, causes instability and slows down pro duction." The policy could be enforced, the spokesman emphasized, through war contracts, but he ex pressed an opinion that "em ployers will go along and we do not think compulsion will be necessary." The commission also took fm ther steps to make certain that men Implacable in war pre due tion may be deferred from the draft and remain at their work benches. Preliminary plans were drawn for a classification of war plants according to their urgency, and for a system of manpower priorities to assure the critical plants ample supplies of skilled labor. Government sources recalled that President Wilson in 1918 urged all employers engaged in war work to refrain from recruit ing unskilled labor in any manner except through the US employ ment service.- - v Our Senators Los!; 5-1 SIinUK. Russians Battle Forward Take Huge Toll As Fierce Nazi Attacks Broken By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Thursday, May 28 -(Ph Russian troops battling the Kharkov-Barvenkova fronts were reported Thursday to have beaten their way for ward in both areas after killing 4500 more Germans and cap turing large quantities of equip ment. The midnight soviet communi que announced that the red army had consolidated their gains be fore Kharkov while defeating fierce nazi attacks in the Izyum Barvenkova sector 80 miles to the south. A supplementary communique said 1400 Germans had been slain "in the Izyum direction,'' by the men of one rifle unit, and that" in another sector the Germans were in retreat after having failed to ford a river an attempt that was broken up by soviet artillery firing at short range. The Germans lost 1000 dead in that river action, and soviet cav alrymen stabbing 40- miles be hind the lines in another area slew 2100 Germans. Eighty two German planes were declared destroyed in Tuesday's fighting, while soviet losses were listed as 23 craft Front dispatches had said ear (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) ; Czechs Face Reprisals Assass ination Attempt On Gestapo Leader's Life Stirs Prague LONDON, May 27.-(P)-Rein- hard Heydrich, acting reich's pro tector of Bohemia and Moravia and gestapo purge master for nazi-conquered territory, has been wounded in an assassination at tempt in Prague and the threat of swift and terrible reprisal execu tions hung heavy Wednesday night over old Czecho-SIovakia. One Berlin broadcast saidHey- drich's wound was not expected to prove fatal but gave no other intimation of the seriousness of his condition. Another said the attack occurred at 1 p. m. Wed nesday on the Prague-Berlin highway but within the limits of Greater Prague. Reuters heard the Vichy radio say late wecmesaay nignt mat Heydrich's condition was grave. Whoever fired tbe shot, which Csech circles here feared would touch off an unprecedented wholesale slaughter of their countrymen, apparently es caped. The German radio said a reward of 10,000,600 crowns (worth $235,000 at the last quo ted exchange rates a year ago) would be paid for his capture. Berlin first announced themar- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Memorial Details of the parade and court house lawn services planned to climax Salem's observance .fef Memorial day next Saturday Were completed at 'a meeting . of. .the Federated Patriotic Orders' com mittee in charge of the day's pro gram Wednesday night v; ' The parade, which is to assem ble at Marlon square at 1:30, with Carl'Gabrielson as grand marsh al,' moves promptly t 1:45" p. nC It was declared. . . : - V Included in the line are l9.be representatives of the army,-, .the Salem high school , band, r state guard units, massed veteran oi ganizations, members of other pa triotic o r d e r s and auxiliaries, booster" and fraternal organiia tions, civilian defense corps, youth groups, Salvation Army, Red Cross and the sheriffs posse. ' J Again school children are to Five GoalOf Attack Puzzle Tank Forces Race Out in Libyan Heat BY WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor . The theatre of North Africa sprang to life again Wednesday, a sudden, strong armored thrust in Libya by the German Mar shal RommeJ overshadow ing for the first time in 15 days the great and still inconclusive battle of the Russian Ukraine. . ' - With tank columns officially described by the British imperial command as strong. Rommel sprang eastward in Libya to an area about 50 miles below the Mediterranean coast and just to the south of the British outpost of Bir Hacheim. ' This position, which , the axis was apparently trying -to flank, represents the point of a British triangle based along the shore at Ain 1 Gazala and Tobruk. About Bir Hacheim British tank forces were heavily engaging the enemy Wednesday night, and it was too early to say how affairs were going. . While it was clear from all of ficial reports that Rommel had lunged forward with something closely resembling a major of fensive some unofficial London quarters estimated that he was on the march with three arm ored divisions a more import-, ant question concerned his real designs. This being the season of terrible and wearing heat in the Libyan desert, it seemed most unlikely that there was any German plot to attempt to beat across a third ot Libya and all the face of Egypt to get -at the Suez and then on into the middle east and the southern approaches of the Russian Cau casus. The possibility that such" a grand maneuver was in mind, however, was not wholly dismissed in Lon don, although ' it seemed more likely that Rommel was attempt ing to screen some other thrust possibly, the long expected at tempt to go into the middle east via Cyprus and Syria. At all events the British Mediterranean island of Malta, which would' be a strong defen . sive factor 'against such a plot, was again under axis bombing attack, while the Britbh Libyan squadrons concentrated on Rom mel's lines to the new front Rommel" had been strongly re inforced in recent weeks; but so, too, had the British and they had been strengthened, moreover, by fl flow of supplies to bases built both by themselves and by Ameri cans. Plans Set replace absent national guards ' men in. one uf-the mass forma ; tions of the parade, laying their flower tributes at the foot of the " f War Mother's Memorial statue on the courthouse grounds as prelude . at t:15 to the after noon's program. : ' A salute by the Spanish Amer ican War .Veterans' firing squad, and Taps'! are. to be part of the memorial seryices, .with the Hag raising to the music oi the nation al anthem followed byGladys Mc Intyre Thomas's solo "rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner." In vocation by Rev. W, Irvin . Wil liams,' reading of General Logan'j orders by Col. Carle, Abrams, a brief 4 speech, by" GgVCharles A, Sprague andV the, principal ad dress by; Dr,: WMiam) W i; 1 1 $ c i Yoiingsonof Portland are .includ '(Turn to 'Page 2; Cot-6)' , -v.