.. .-1 . . ..... T ; Keep Posted Momentous events occur In all parts of the world while you sleep bat alo while The Statesman news services are reporting them. Keep petted; read Tlie Statesman. Quiet TAMTA, Fuu May So-tfP) MaJ. Gen, W. H. Frank ad monished soldiers Saturday net to rive military infor mation to their wives, be cause casual conversations can spread Innocently. POUNDBD 1651 NINETY-SECOND YEAR Sodom, Oregon. Sunday Morning, May 31. 1942 Price 5c. No. 43 meric aniEs j oin A (Com Mmm ami MWSL 1 ; Baxter Is Seniors' Speaker Commencement At Willamette, 4 p.m. Today Willamette university's cen tennial graduating class will hear their former president, Bishop Bruce R. Baxter, speak in the centennial commence ment exercises this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the senior high school auditorium. Bishop Baxter has chosen for his address the subject "Respon sibility." Rev. Robert Hutchinson of the First Congregational church will give the invocation and the a cappella choir, Dean Melvin Geist directing, will sing "America the Beautiful." Dr. Fletcher Homan, Altadena, Calif., president of Willamette university from 1908 to 1915, will give the scripture . lesson and Mary Virginia Hall, , Willamete alumna, will play "Rhapsody No 11" by Liszt. Pres. Carl S. Knopf will award the decrees and an nouncement will be made of seniors elected to Alpha Kappa Nu and awards of senior schol ars for 1942-43. Mark Walts will sing the traditional song, "Farewell Willamete," by Irvine-Bain, to be followed by the benediction by Dr. J. Edgar Purdy and the bugle calls. The commencement activities today will open -with the bacca laureate services - at the First -Methodist church at 10:50 a. m. with. ; President Knopf delivering -ceremony on the campus will .be held at 12:15 o'clock and. the all university ' and - alumni buffet 1 luncheon will follow at 12:30 . o'clock. The luncheon will be held . on the campus and the alumni . business meeting is slated for 1:30 . p. m. at Waller hall. Germans Say Plane Aided Parachutists Latest Theory in Attempt At Assassination By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, May 20-(P)-The Germans were reported Saturday night working on the theory that parachutists dropped from foreign planes had a hand in the attempt ed assassination of Reinhard Heyd rich, Hitler's "protector" of Bo hemia and Moravia, as the gestapo speeded its vengeance executions f Czechs to a total of 62, putting to death 44 during the day. Czech circles in London, who maintain close underground connections with their dismem bered homeland, said the ques tion had been raised in gestapo circles that parachutists might have been the actual attackers and that Czech citizens partici pated only by sheltering the con spirators. The German-controlled radio in Prague stated flatly that foreign saboteurs had landed by parachute in Bohemia and Moravia. It said some of those executed 'had been convicted of having sheltered agents who had landed in the protectorate fromairplanes by parachute in order to perpet rate acts of sabotage." (RAF planes were over old Czecho-Slovakia on the nights of April 25 and May 5, when, the air ministry announced in Lon don, the target of the raiders was the huge Skoda munitions works at Pilsen.) Ten women were among the 44 executed today by the Germans in ruthless reprisal for the attack upon Heydrich, the gestapo's second in command, who was crit ically wounded. Allied Airmen Ruin Supplies, Buildings MELBOURNE, Australia, Sun day, May 31 -(Ml The allied air force attacked the Japanese-held seaplane base at Tulagi, in the Solomon islands northeast of Aus tralia, Friday knight, 1 destroying fuel supplies, wharves and nearby buildings and leaving fires visible for 80 miles, it was announced Sunday. - Allied bombers also destroyed an enemy flying boat and silenced anti-aircraft guns at Tanamboga and Gavuto hvthe islands. Senate Okehs War Action By Mexico MEXICO CITY, May The senate unanimously ap proved a declaration of war on the axis Saturday, completing the congressional action neces sary to enable President "Avila Camacho to make the declara tion. The vote was 53 to 0. The declaration of war will not become legally effective un til Tuesday. It was learned the president plans to sign the war measures at a formal ceremony Monday. They will then be promulgated Tuesday through publication in the official Ga zette. Gen. Salvador Sanchez said the defenses of both coasts were being heavily reinforced and that a reorganization and streamlining of the army had started to prepare Mexico to resist any attempt at invasion. Holiday Death Total Hits 129 Two Killed in Oregon ; Nation's Fatalities Below Normal By The Associated Press The nation's Memorial day weekend fatality toll climbed to 129 Saturday night, despite gaso line rationing that kept thousands of automobiles off the highways. Reports of deaths on the roads and by other accidents trickled in through the holiday and by mid night all but 18 states had re ported at least one fatality. How ever, an unofficial total of 61 traffic deaths, 45 drownings and 93 misrollnnfwMn fatalities indi- cated that last year's toll of 451 . .w..-..lrVw - .1 lives would not be equalled. The National Safety Council estimated that 400 deaths were normal for the weekend. Michigan led the states with" 18 deaths, nine of them resulting from a wind storm Friday night The state had eight drownings, five traffic deaths, two electro cutions and two persons killed when buildings collapsed. The other died of shock after being struck by the limb of a tree. PORTLAND, May 30-(tf)-The death toll of Oregon's Memorial day observance reached three Sat urday night. Near Roseburg, James McHu gill, jr., 16, Oakland, Ore., was killed when the automobile he was driving crashed into a road side power pole. Minor injuries were suffered by Richard Mc Hugill, 14, and Joe Cole, 16, oc cupants of the car. Four-year-old Jerry Boyd Gray bill was drowned today in a pool at his Lake Oswego home. The boy fell into the five-foot deep pool while at play. His body was recovered after about 30 minutes but resuscitation efforts failed. Russell Ross, 17, one of a party of seniors from Drain high school, drowned in the surf at Newport. 2 From Salem On List of Prisoners WASHINGTON, May 30- The war department made public Saturday the names of 277 Ameri can soldiers, sailors and marines who are held as prisoners of war by the Japanese. Of these prison ers, 200 are at Shanghai and 77 are at Zintsuji, Shikoku Island, Japan. The list includes 12 officers and 88 enlisted men of the United States navy, 173 enlisted men of the United States marine corps and 4 enlisted men of the United States army. Most of those included in the list made public Saturday were captured at Wake island on De cember 3, 1941. In each case the next of kin has been notified. U. S. marines interned at Zintsuji: Oregon Kenneth Conrad Boley, pvt, 537 South 23rd street, Salem; Eugene Richter, pvt, 1050 Rural avenue, Salem. Our Senators Won 7-2 Lcs! 3-0 Slid Hit (2 Fa jries Occupied Ports, 8 Convoy Ships Feel RAF Fire LONDON, May 30 (JP Squadrons of RAF bombers taking advantage of a full moon struck at the German war ma chine Thursday night with a strong attack on factories in a Paris suburb, a smashing as sault on a convoy apparently destined for the far northern front and raids on occupied ports. In the most spirited raiding in weeks the Germans sent approxi mately 50 bombers against Eng land but authoritative reports said slight damage was done and seven raiders were shot down. The British acknowledged los ing 13 bonlbers. Topping the attacks . was a heavy raid on an important group of factories at Gennevil liers, 10 miles from the midst of Paris, where, the air minis try said, the Gnome - Rhone aero-engine works, the former Goodrich rubber works and other plants are being used by the enemy to produce war ma terials. Beyond saying a strong force of heavy bombers raided Genne villiers, the air ministry gave no details of the attack. (Authorities in Vichy and Ber lin were silent on whether mili tary objectives were hit but Vichy sources reported the -"northwest suburb of Paris' was bombed for . i nours. (Paris dispatches,' by way of Vichy, said 80 persons were killed and 200 injured, and about 200 houses in one suburb - alone knocked down. (The German high command said six British planes were shot down, but later Paris dispatches said only five.) The air ministry reported, RAF planes caught the convoy off the Frisian islands, which lie along the Dutch-German bor der, and its news service report ed eight German ships were hit by bombs. Four of these appar ently were set afire. " The ships were .said to be steaming northward with supplies doubtless intended for the north of Norway and Petsamo (Finnish) front. Water to Go Over the Top GRAND COULEE, Wash., May SO--Narrowirig the deadline on Grand Coulee dam's man-made waterfall to the approximate hour, Maj. S. E. Hutton said Saturday the "water will spill over the dam" about 3 o'clock Monday aft ernoon, Pacific war time. The hour can be given in ad vance, he said, because bureau engineers will control the flow, shutting off the outlet tubes which carry the Columbia river through the dam and, at the same time opening 11 big drum gates atop the dam. Famous Surgeon Dies BALTIMORE, May 20-Jpy-Iir, John M. T. Finney, world famous American surgeon, died Saturday night New Nation Remembers That more than a nation has been the cause for which men of US armed forces have given their lives throughout this country's history was the theme -around which Dr. William Wallace Young- son of Portland developed the ad dress of the day delivered to ci vilians and soldiers who covered the west lawn of Uie courthouse Saturday afternoon for memorial services. Men of the Civil war, he de clared, lived to see the benefits for which they fought accrue to their country,: regretting that most of them were gone before they had opportunity to see that strengthened nation take up the battle for the oppressed of the world. "Americans' have the right to remember that every one of our great wars involved fundamental human principles , . . Not one was US Tanks Aid ' Tanks from America's new stepped : 1 n : German troops on both active fronts Saturday, according to Assoc! ated Press dispatches from Russia is shown being unloaded from a Kauffman Axis Ship'O'Day Caribbean Gomes From Iceland as Commander Of Gulf Area; U-Boats Attack 17 Shijs XiA .L .... MIAMI, FJa., May 30 -i- one of its ace anti-submarine critical gulf-Caribbean sea frontier where the axis torpedo toll now exceeds a ship a day. At Washington the navy ment of Rear Admiral James 240 Japanese Leave Monday Approximately 240 Japanese from Marion and surrounding counties are to entrain Monday for Tulelake, Calif., where housing for 10,000 evacuees is in prepara tion. Living quarters have already been arranged for the Willamette valley group, they were informed as they registered in Salem the past week. Scheduled to leave the Southern Pacific station here between 5 and 7 o'clock Monday night, a spe cial train is to take the Japanese land Americans of Japanese de scent to their new wartime home. Berlin Laughs BERLIN (from German broad casts), May 30 -JP)- A foreign office spokesman said Saturday that the West Point declaration Friday of US Chief of Staff George C. Marshall that United States troops will land in France "cant not be taken seriously, either from the political or the military point of view." Friday's Weather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request. Max. temp. - Friday, 67, Min. 47. a war or conquest: ine speaaex maintained. -"' "War today is scientific savagery, social suicide. It defeats victor and vanquished' unless there stands behind it a people ready to utilize the peace as an opportunity to share the freedoms it treasures, he said. In the American flag, the speaker saw a "symbol of blood making not of blood-shedding, representing unity and justice; at home, fraternity and goodwill throughout the world." Master" of ceremonies for the program presented by public ad dress system from the courthouse steps was Rex Kimmeli. Flowers of hundreds of schoolchildren dropped at the , base of the War Mothers' me mortal statue weie the ceremo ny's tribute to men who have , lost their lives in the current war, while women's auxiliaries Many Fronts -r- ' - " - z U ' . - , v - np production lines were facing and Libya. One of the new tanks convoy ship in north Ireland. to Fight War The navy called Saturday upon fighters to take command of the department announced appoint Laurence Kauffman as head of the seventh and eighth naval dis tricts and all-sea areas from Jack sonville to the coast of Mexico, Kauffman will come here from Iceland, where as commandant of the naval operating base he has played a major part in . beating the submarine menace in the north Atlantic. He received the navy cross for world war service as com manding officer of the USS Jenkins which was "engaged in the fiasardous duty of patrol- long the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines and escorting and protecting convoys of troops and supplies.' The navy announcement said Kauffman was transferred "to provide more effective prosecu tion of the anti-submarine cam paign in the ' Gulf of Mexico area " His command area also will include the northern part of the Caribbean sea where nazi raiders have been active lately. Submarines moved into the gulf for the first time this month, and the navy has announced 17 at tacks oh shipping in the almost completely landlocked area. Survivors of 24 other torpedo or shelling assaults have told their stories at Florida ports since May 1. Earlier in the month ships were being attacked off the southeast coast, but more re cently the submarine warfare has been centered to the south, (Turn to Page 2 Col. 6) Soldiers of of various veterans' groups paid j tribute with wreaths to the I dead of each earlier conflict. The Spanish American War Veterans' firing squad delivered the salute, which was followed by "taps" at the close of the strictly memorial portion of the services. As Salem high school's b a n d. played "The Star-Spangled Ban ner,4 the flag on the grounds was raised - from half-mast. Gladys Mctotyre Thomas sang "Hail Co? lumbia," accompanied by Alice Crary Brown, and Rev. W. Irvin Williams pronounced the , invoca tion. - General Logan's orders for the first Memorial day were read by CoL Carle Abrams preceding Dr. Youngson's address, and the day's ceremonies were closed as 6-year-old Jeanne Orchard,' first in solo and later with .the crowd, sang "God Bless America." JT - J E ritisk Slash in Desert; Reds CI aim Drive Is Battle Nears Close After Three Weeks Both Side Make Huge Claims of Enemy Destruction ' By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Sunday, May 31 (AP) Marshal Timoshen- ko s soviet armies in the Ukraine have scored a bril- iant success in thwarting a nazi-planned drive upon Ros tov, gateway to the Caucasus, the Russians announced in a special communique Saturday declaring: that the battle of Kharkov is drawing to a close after 19 days of violent fighting in which the Germans have lost more than 90,000 killed or cap tured. Indicating the enormity of the clash of men and machines, the official announcement listed Rus sia's own casualties about Khar kov at 75,000, including 5000 killed and 70,000 missing. German losses in fighting equipment, were listed, at S4t tanks, not less than 1511 guns and . upward of 200. planes, against, soviet tosses of . 36 tanks, . 832 guns and : 124 planes. Branding German victdry.claiins as '.'fantastic" ,the .Russian de dared sarcastically that a . few more 'of these German victories and the German fascist army will be completely bled white." , (The, Germans, claiming. a great victory for . themselves on the Kharkov . front,, announced Satur day that Russian dead, there were , (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) WPB Freezes Tune Makers Instrument Production Halted; Stocks to Co To Military Bands WASHINGTON, May 30 -JP) The war production board Sat urday ordered production of vir-j tually all musical instruments stopped after June 30 and, ef fective immediately, froze stocks of 27 types of band instruments now in the hands of manufactur ers and wholesalers. All the frozen stocks will be made available to army, navy and marine bands. Beginning Monday, WPB or dered, no critical materials such as metals, cork, plastics, and rub ber, may be processed for musical instruments other than pianos and organs. Until June 30, however, the instruments may be made from fabricated parts now in stock. After that date production must be halted entirely. Piano and organ manufacturers who soon will be making glid ers and pilot training devices for the armed services may con tinue using fabricated parts until July 31, after which they, too, must close down for the dilution. Past Wars In colorful array, veterans and other patriotic groups, -civilian defense organizations, high school band, an army unit stationed in the city for the weekend, booster. fraternal and youth organizations, Red Cross and sheriffs posse moved through the city on sched ule as opening feature of the af ternoon's program, On the re viewing stand were Col. Elmer V. Wooton, Mayors Guy Newgent and W. W; Chadwick, Chief Justice Percy Kelly of the state supreme court - representing the governor, Carl Gabrielson, marshal, p. E. Palmateer and Dr. Verden JE. Hockett . Lining downtown streets was a crowd said to be the largest in many years to view a Salem -Memorial day parade, while ' courthouse ceremonies likewise (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) MaMe' Terrific Duke Pilots Naval Plane To States MIAMI, Fla- May SO - (JP) Traveling in a US navy plane which' he piloted most of the way himself, the Duke of Windsor-flew to Key West Saturday for a meeting with naval offi cials. Although he reported a "very satisfactory conference," the duke did not divulge the nature of his 'discussions with Capt. Russell S. Crenshaw, command ant of the Seventh naval dis trict. The duke and duchess, who observe their fifth wedding an niversary Wednesday, will leave Sunday for Washington where he wiU talk with government officials en matters .pertaining to the Bahama islands. Chinese Leave Ruined Kinhwa Hand Grenades Slay First 1000 Troops To Enter Gty -'' CHUNGKING. China, May. 30 (jp)-The Chinese officially, - an nounced' Saturday ; night that bomb-ruined Kinhwa had been abandoned to the Japanese after bitter fighting which saw more than 1000 enemy soldiers wiped out with hand grenades thrown by tired remnants of the city's de fenders in a final close -quarter engagement The Chinese high command de clared the main body of its troops had been withdrawn from Kinh wa, provisional capital of Che kiang province in eastern China, Thursday morning at 7 a. m. but some soldiers remained in Kinh wa in an effort by the Chinese to launch an attack from both sides as the Japanese entered. The city was turned into ruins after repeated Japanese aerial bombardments, the Chinese said, and an enemy unit of more than 1000 broke into the northern gate. It was this force which the Chinese high command claimed was "entirely wiped out . . . with hand grenades in a close quarter engagement." "The streets were filled with enemy corpses. Thursday afternoon, the high command reported, enemy units launched a concentrated attack on Kinhwa under cover of planes. The weary remnants left the city, retired to the west, and joined the main force in the suburbs after exacting more casualties from the invaders. Continuing their drive in Hupeh province (possibly an in direct attempt to relieve the Chinese in Chekiang province although it is hundreds of miles to the east), the Chinese report ed capturing more Japanese held points around Ichang, a Japanese stronghold -on the Yangtze river. Between 600 and 700 casualties were reported inflicted on the enemy. a Japanese force rushing up the Burma road from Wanting to reinforce Lungling has been nr tercepted, the Chinese declared only in a brief reference to the Yunnan front, The high command said Chinese soldiers were exerting strong pressure against Lungling. Oregon Tops Bond Quota PORTLAND, May ao-vfJ-Ore-gon has passed its war bond sales quota at $5,610,000 for May, state administrator Kay - Conway re ported Saturday. ; - ? ' Multnosoah county - oversub scribed its quota to put the state over it "mark and reports from the other 35 counties indicate prac tically all will reach theirs, Con way said. Several upstate coun ties already : have reported sur pluses. - s Averted Supply Trains Of Rommel Smashed Decision Expected in ' Two or Three Days; New Planes Used By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, Eirypt, May 30 (AP) Lieut. Gen. Neil'M. Ritchie's British and Ameri can-made tanks, engaged un til now in parrying the light ning jabs of the Germans to ward T o b r u k , have been thrown into a terrific counter attack in which much hard fighting remains before a de cision cact be expected. This armored clash is being fought out west of Acroma, 15 miles southwest of Tobruk, and Knightsbridge, a desert track crossing 25 miles southwest of To bruk named after a famous road junction in England. A decision In the whirling desert tank battle probably will eome within two or three days.' The Germans, who brought a limited supply of water with them when they struck at the British line -..at Ain El Gazala early Wednesday, have a difficult prob lern of getting tsupplies to -jb jos tle ground. . ' . At some junctures, raiding par ties have reached 50 to 60 miles beyond outer British land posi tions but these have been re pulsed. The British said Saturday that a great number of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German tanks al ready had been destroyed and that conditions over the sprawling bat tlefield were so chaotic it was im possible to make a sensible assess ment of the situation as yet. The battle area is about 20 miles behind the British positions around which the Germans swept Tuesday night, but considerably west of their farthest advance. While this decisive action was being fought under the most dif ficult conditions, British mobile columns roamed the desert (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Pulp Workers' Wages Raised 20,000 Effected by New Contract, to Be Voted On by Unions PORTLAND, May 30-UPY-Wage increases aggregating more than $3,000,000 will go to some 20,00i workers in the Pacific coast puTp and"paper industry under a new contract drafted here Saturday. The contract, effective June 1, will be submitted to local unions in Oregon, Washington and California for a referendum vote. Employers and union offi cials predicted ready accept- . ance. The Pacific Coast Pulp & Pa per Manufacturers association, the International Brotherhood of Pulpy Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and the International Brotherhood of Papermakers con ferred here week long drawing up the agreement which provides , these pay boosts: 1. An increase of 74 cents per . hour for employes with less than; six months' service, bringing base pay up to S2 cents; 2. An increase of 10 cents per hour for employes with more than six months' service, lifting their base of 85 cents. A one-week vacation with pay, formerly limited to work ers with two years' seniority Is provided for employes with one year's seniority. i v :l A separate agreement being worked out to cover -emergency wartime 'conditions. In -the.indus- , tryprovides:, ; . 'I'y, ,:i . 1. Safeguarding the jobs of men called into Oie. armed forces; 2. Governing wager land work ing conditions fbrwomen $rho re place men teniporarnr"r t ' . 3. Permitting wdrkers. tfa take . vacation pay but continue : work durintf th -w-