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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Tanks from America's new stepped
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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
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- 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,
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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-