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POUNI
1651
NINETY-SECOND YEAR
Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning, June 2, 1942
Price 5c.
No. 49
TTTs 71 TPTN T! A O o A o
out a. nw
Citizens
Approve
Budget
Fire Funds Cut
Heavily; City
Hearing July 6
Adopting in full the recom-
menaauons wmcn maae up ine
report of its special "trimming"
rommittee, the citizens' budget
tommittee of the city of Salem
completed its task Monday
night, and turned over to the
touncil an approved budget
calling for expenditure of $393,
738.47. Public hearing of the
document has been called for 8
p. m. Monday, July 6, in the
council chambers.
Cuts in general fund items rec
ommended by the five-man spe
cial committee total $30,23.75; in
the special street tax and fire de
partment tax funds enough to
bring that total elimination to
$48,516.78, the levy to $357,675.09,
approximately that of 1941.
Heaviest single deletion was
from the fire department tax
fund, the item of $10,000 for a
new pumper. The budget com
mittee of the whole had prev
iously removed from its esti
mates salaries for four of the
eight new men recommended
for the fire department; the spe
cial committee removed the
other four, for a second reduc
tion of $6600, explaining that
its action was not a criticism of
policy but necessitated by econ
omy requirements only.
From the engineering depart
ment the salary otone mant
$1650 and one clerk at $11Z2 were
deleted with the explanation that
less building within the city
should cut work in that office. An
additional recommendation that
the council should remove from
the city engineer's salary the $50
month allocated to him from
the sewage disposal plant bond
funds since the extra work for
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Hitler Plans Offensive
In June, Lochner Told
(Ediors note: Following analysis of Adolf Hitler s program is written by
Louis P. Lochner, the veteran correspondent and Pulitzer prize winner who
was chief of the Associated Press Berlin bureau during Hitler's preparation
lor war and the war years up to last December. Based on information re
ceived too late for telegraphing from Lisbon, it was written by Lochner
aboard the repatriation ship Drottningholm, which reached New York
Monday.)
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER
NEW YORK, June l-(P)-Some time in June possibly even as
late as July Adolf Hitler plans to give the command for a general
offensive on the entire Russian front. More than that, he hopes to
march through Turkey and Iran in order to execute one of his famous
pincer movements.
This information came to me on the last day of my stay in Lis
bon from a German source so well in the know of things that I can
not doubt its veracity.
The recent see-saw struggle on the southern Russian front, my
Informant pointed out, is merely a preparatory action, a clean
ing the boards for the major action that is impending.
Unless the United Nations spoil Hitler's game by really erecting
a second front in the west quickly and effectively, thereby compelling
Hitler to take large contingents of his troops and his air force away
from Russian, this is what is scheduled to happen:
The German dictator intends to "finish" Russia by a dramatic gen
eral assault along the whole line and from every possible angle. He
is willing to put all his eggs in one basket and concentrate on this one
military problem.
Hitler will, as usual, attempt
to confound his enemies by
surprise surprise both as to
the time of striking and as to
new weapons designed during
the long winter of comparative
Inactivity at the front
"We have a whole bag of new
tricks," my informant boasted.
Once Russia is smashed and
prostrate so Hitler still seems to
think the western world will be
grateful to him for having re
moved the curse of communism
from the earth and will come to
terms with him.
Btif to defeat Russia, he must
have the oil of the Caucasus. And
he can best take the Caucasus by
a pincer movement In other
words one section of his gigantic
army must approach the Caucasus
by way of Turkey and Iran.
"Iran is practically ours al
ready my informant said, con
fidently. "England has had to take
most of her troops out -of there
end hurry them down to India.
There Isn't any love for thfe Rus
sian troops stationed there. Ger
many will be welcomed' as a lib
erator." '
? Fearing that he had probably
already gone too far, he would
not comment on Turkey. The
name of one German person
slipped out, however, as hooked
. to leave for Turkey shortly,
Hils man often precedes the
troops,
Turkey's position has long been
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Grand Coulee
Water Roars
GRAND COULEE, Wash.,
June 1. (JP) The throaty roar of
the majestic Columbia river
drowned out for thousands here
Monday even the roar of wars
as North America's mightiest
waterfall came into being.
The Columbia gained its only
major waterfall exactly at 2:45
p. m. when 40 engineers deep
inside the mammoth concrete
block that is Grand Coulee dam
started pressing buttons and
turning valves.
A colorful crowd of nearly
10,000 persons lined the banks
to watch the river's first surge
over the top of the dam, the
first in eight years.
244 Japanese
Entrain Here
Friends Tender Gifts
As Group Leaves
For New Home
Two hundred forty four Jap
anese and Japanese-Americans of
Marion and adjoining counties
who left Salem by special train
Monday night were to arrive in
Tulelake, Calif., at 7:15 this morn
ing, officials in charge of the
evacuation said.
Traveling in coaches, with a
special "hospital car" fitted with
beds and attended by nurses,
many of the evacuees were recip
ients of farewell gifts from mem
bers of the crowd that gathered at
the Southern Pacific station to see
them off.
Women of the inter-church
organization which had been
active in sponsoring the Japan
ese church packed luncheons for
the travelers who for several
weeks had been living- in houses
barren of all but necessities be
cause other goods had been put
in storage.
Oldsters among the Japanese
were silent, largely unsmiling,
but children and young persons
of high school age laughed and
waved, shouted to non-oriental
companions who stood beside the
tracks and included in their fare
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Myrna Loy
Granted
Divorce
RENO, TJev., June 1 -(-Screen
Actress Myrna Loy, 36, was grant
ed a divorce from Arthur Horn
blow, 49, film producer, at a brief,
10-minute, hearing here Monday.
Miss Loy, who entered films in
1925, charged Hornblow had
treated her with extreme cruelty
which caused her "great unhappi
ness and injured her health."
Although the hearing was pri
vate, employes of the courthouse
and others turned out to see Miss
loy who wore a grey tweed suit
and a quilted grey ensembled bag
and hat to match. Her hair was
done in a new "victory bob," de
signed to conserve hair pins.
She was accompanied by Lois
Reiners and Shirley Ramsey. Miss
Ramsey testified . that Miss Loy
had resided at a Nevada guest
ranch for the last six weeks. Mrs.
Ramsey, companion and frierfa,
accompanied Miss Loy to New
York Monday night
Hornblow and Miss Loy were
married at Ensenada, Mexico, June
27, 1938, and for several years
were regarded as the film 'col
ony's most idealry married couple.
They separated March &?. , . -
Berry
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9-Cent Price Is
Asked for 1942
Strawberries '
Oregon berry growers, fol
lowing up a recent protest
over "freezing" of preserves ;
prices at a level they said
would not net them cost of pro
duction, voted at a second
meeting here Monday night to
call on US Senator Charles L.
McNary for help.
A telegram drafted for dispatch
to the senator today will ask him
to do all in his power to see that
strawberry growers receive di
rectly or indirectly nine cents a
pound for their rapidly-maturing
crop.
Growers representing 11,070
acres of berry lands, approximate
ly 90 per cent of the state's total,
attended the meeting.
A resolution adopted by the
more than 150 men and women
present asserted that "the OPA
(office of price administration)
at a meeting held with the pre
servers in Chicago did all in its
power to depress the market and
has promised growers some form
of aid, which it now develops,
when harvest is commencing, will
not materialize, all of which is
discouraging production."
The growers' special commit
tee, named two weeks ago at
the first meeting, decided also
that the federal government
should be asked to assure them
a price reflecting 110 per cent
. of parity.
No official parity price for
strawberries, crop on which de
liveries to packers in heavy vol
ume are near, has ever been set,
Prof. L; R. Breithaupt of Oregon
State college, said, "as far as I
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Bus to Adair
Club Devised
Direct Service Begins
Wednesday; Club to
Lease Equipment .
A club plan of bus service for
Camp Adair workmen living in
Salem was devised by the Salem
chamber of commerce transport
committee Monday with initial
trips to be run Wednesday.
"We believe we can provide
all the busses necessary under
the club plan, at the 40-cent
roundtrip rate," Business Exten
sion Manager Clay C. Cochran
of the chamber said. "This will
be in addition to and not in
place of the service now being
given by the Wood & Hart line
in cooperation with the cham
ber." Workmen were invited to join
the bus organization, named
Salem- Adair Defense club, at
meetings tonight, Wednesday and
Thursday nights at the chamber
st 7:30 p. m. Members of their
families may sign for them dur
ing the day at the chamber offi
ces. Under the new plan, the club
will lease school and other busses
on a mileage basis and haul its
members "free." Membership is
obtained by payment of a $1.50
initiation fee, to defray incidental
expenses of the organization, and
weekly dues of $2.40 in advance,
which happens to be equivalent to
six round trips at 40 cents.
The new service will prove at
tractive, Pres. Carl W. Hogg of
the chamber predicted; because
busses will be driven directly to
the various employment centers
on the Camp : Adair grounds; as
loads are made up consisting of
workers heading to the same re
spective jobs. O n e busload of
members, for; Instance, has al
ready been signed among admin
istration building workers, anoth
er among employes of an electri
cal contractor.
Cochran said at least three
club busses would make Initial
trips Wednesday, two or more
at 6:30 a. m. and the adminis
tration building bus at 730, all
te leave from la front et the
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Sunday's Wealher
Weather forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed
y army request Max. temp.
Sunday, 7, mla. 50. Elver Jlon-
day 4.f ft. .
Yankees to Join RAF on Invasion Path;
Indian Command Hits Tanker, Runways
All Planes
Return,
3 Raids
Jap Installations
In Burma Feel
Weekend Fire
WASHINGTON, June 1 J
(AP) The war department
reported Monday that Amer-
i c a n heavy bombers in the j
Indian command of Maj. .
Gen. Lewis H. Brereton had
conducted three successful
air raids over Japanese po
sitions in Burma this week
end, sinking an enemy tan
ker, damaging other vessels, scor
ing hits on runways at an air
port and inflicting some damage
on parked airplanes.
All the American bombers re
turned undamaged to their base
in India, said a department com
munique, despite heavy anti-aircraft
fire and attempted intercep
tion by enemy planes.
(Some details of the bombers'
feats had been released at New
Delhi, India, earlier in the day.)
The text of the communique is
sued here, No. 224 of the war fol
lows: "l Burma: ,
"General Brereton reported to
day that heavy bombers of his
command had conducted three
successful air raids over enemy
installations in Burma.
"On May 29 and May 30,
American army bombers at
tacked the airdrome at Myit
kyina in daylight raids. Heavy
damage to runways and some
damage to parked aircraft re
sulted. "Reconnaissance planes of Gen.
Brereton's air force flew over
Rangoon on May 31, and on June
1 American army bombers at
tacked the docks and shipping at
Rangoon. One enemy tanker was
sunk and other vessels were dam
aged. Heavy anti-aircraft fire was
encountered and ten enemy planes
attempted interceptions. From
these flights all of our planes re-?
turned undamaged to their base.
"2. There is nothing to report
from other areas."
CouncO Puts
Moore Again
Onto Board
Salem city councilmen named
Arthur Moore to succeed himself
on the munciipal civil service
commission, ordered the placing
of one "deadend street sign," ap
proved expenditure of $200 for
improvement of weather bureau
facilities and $250 for early sea
son grass cutting expenditures and
proceeded to adjourn in almost
record time Monday night.
The 30-minute session follow
ing the final budget committee
meeting attacked only routine
business by pre-arrangement, dis
cussed little.
The "deadend street" sign is
to go at the corner of North 23rd
and Hayden. The weather bureau
facilities at the airport are to re
ceive a number , of minor repairs.
Aldermen instructed the city
recorder to" notify , the- Oregon
Electric company,' as she had pre
viously done the Southern Paci
fic, of the need, for . immediate
crossing repairs to save tires of
passing motorists.
Oregon's Lumber
Output Highest
PORTLAND,. June l-JP)-Ore-
gon and Washington produced
approximately 11,580,203,000 (B)
feet of lumber during 1941, ine
Pacific northwest range and ex
periment station announced Mon
day. . -
The output, which does not in
clude mills cutting less than 50,000
board feet annually, was 18.85 per
cent higher than in 1940. Oregon
produced 1,102,457,000 feet more
than. Washington., ' .
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JERSEY CITY, NJ, June WvP)
Grinay" white in the rain, the
Swedish diplomatic exchange lin
er Drottningholm, last safe boat
from Europe, came up the bay to
its pier Monday with 908 Amer
icans, Latin Americans, quasi
Americans and immigrants after
an exhausting 10-day trip from
the enemy controlled continent
She was shadowed by at least
three U-boats, all of which ven
ished correctly after viewing
her unmistakable colors and
floodlit "diplomat" markings.
Most of her tired, nervous hu
man cargo was ill on a calm sea
before the gangplank came down
at pier F this morning to disem
bark diplomats, babies, old and
young men and women, dogs, pet
turtles and even two captive
crickets.
For an hour and a half after
the Drottningholm had tied up,
the passengers crowding the decks
and the anxious hundreds on the
pier waited In a dramatic hushed
tension.
Then a black-shrouded casket
bearing the body of Mrs. William
D. Leahy, wife of the ambassador
to France, was lowered to the
pier where a navy honor guard
covered it with the Stars and
Stripes. Mrs. Leahy died in Vichy,
France.
Preceded by several naval of
ficers, Admiral Leahy, grey and
lonely, walked quickly down the
gangway and entered one of .
several cars en route to a
Washington train. lie made no
statement.
Only then were the other pass
engers permitted to disembark.
The Drottningholm brought
from Lisbon a total of 573 United
States citizens, including 169 dip
lomats. There were 185 diplomats
from Latin America. Nationals of
33 countries were aboard, plus
19 stateless persons. There were
38 straight immigration cases and
several dozens of Polish and
Czech speaking passengers with
somewhat remote claims to US
citizenship. ' '
Ship Breaks
Day-Old Mark
PORTLAND,
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US maritime commission Monday
took delivery of the Liberty
freighter Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
constructed in a record-breaking
46 days by Oregon Shipbuilding
corporation.
Delivery- of the Aldrich broke
the mark of 56 days from keel
laying to delivery set Sunday as
the Mark Twain was turned over
to the commission.
The yard,, which required more
than 200 days to deliver the first
ships built last year, has been
paring , construction time sharply
in recent weeks.
Bombs Pulverized Naziland
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The British hurled e.OOO.1'30 pounds of Mgh txplcsives ' and incen
diaries from 1250 planes Saturday night upon Cologne (1) in the
greatest bombing raid of history. Previously RAF bombers raided
a key group of factories at Gennevilliers, just north of Paris (2),
and attacked docks at Cherbourg and Dieppe (3). The Germans
said they bombed harbors at Grimsby and Great Yarmouth (4),
while the British reported RAF planes hit eight ships of an axis
convoy off the Frisian islands (5). The Germans said two Brit
ish bombers were brought down over Helgoland (6). The lower photo
shows RAF bombs finding theif marks in a daylight attack on flocks
at Dunkerque, Francev Exploding bombs can be seen on the com
mercial dock, in the center of the picture.
Nazis in Libya Trapped;
Syd
hey Wrecks Jap Subs
By RICHARD McMURRAY
Associated Press War Editor
Remnants of two German tank divisions squirmed desper
ately to escape annihilation in a scorching British desert trap be
fore Tobruk Monday night. '
Allied hopes appeared brighter in Africa and Europe after
the mightiest bombing man has seen had left ancient Cologne a
sea of flames and ashes, and after six days of furious mechanized
warfare in Libya turned in Brit
ain's favor: A prized trophy of the
eighth army was Gen. Ludwig
CruewelL second only to the wily
Marshal Erwin Rommel in charge
of the axis Afrika Korps.
In the Orient the Japanese
opened a fierce new offensive in
Kwangtong province in Sonth
China, striking north from Can
tos in aa extension of . their
.hydra-headed drives attempting,
to briar Chiang Kai-shek and
his 400,600,600 compatriots to
their knees. The Chines claim-.
; cd more successes aronnd Ich
ang on the middle Yangtze. They
were fighting gallantly to stem
strong ; Nipponese columns In
CheUang and Yunnan provinces.
With their Australian allies, oth
er Americans bombed -Japanese
bases In Timor, New Guinea and
the Solomon islands In a great
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Over Million
Bids Near
Bids involving state highway
projects estimated to cost in ex
cess of $1,200,000 will be consid
ered at a meeting of the state
highway commission in Portland,
June 4, .. IL H. Baldock, state
highway engineer, announced
Monday. - c
Eight of the projects are con
nected with the Camp Adair army
cantonment and have received ap
proval of the army engineers. Two
government access roads, Involv
ing Portland shipyards, also are
included.
Work of the projects involved
in the cantonment area will get
under way as soon as the con
tracts are awarded, Baldock said.
Homeless
Leaving
Cologne
Luftwaffe Gives
Little in Way
Of Reprisals
By WES GALLAGHER
LONDON, Tuesday, June
2 (AP) British bombers
sprayed explosives over a
400-mile 'invasion path" on
the continent all day Mon
day as the United States air
force chief pledged that.
American pilots soon would
ioin the RAF in a gigantic
campaign to erase German
industries city by city in attacks
surpassing the historic 1250-plane
attack on Cologne.
Swarms of Hurricane and Bos
ton -bombers accompanied by
Spitfire fighters smashed at German-held
blocks and factories all '
the way from Holland to Cher
bourg, losing nine planes to. the
nazis'.two, a British communique
said.
As the word spread by radio
into Europe that "the Yanks are
coming," hundreds of great four
motored British bpmber$ were
fwaiting tihly good weatler tod
the order "go to it again!" in their
pulverizing . smashes at German
cities.
In the big daylight sweeps
the British attacked docks at
Flushing, Brngge, Cherbourg,
Boulogne, Dieppe, and Abbe
ville, and a silk factory at Ca
lais which makes parachutes for
' the German air force.
Hurricane bombers diving at
more than 400 miles per hour
ilaced their explosives "smash In
'.he middle of the factory," the air
ninistry news service said.
A small number of German
planes early Tuesday hit back at
an east Anglican town, starting m
few fires in the business district.
These were reported quickly con
trolled. Reports from neutral countries
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Mexico War
On Axis in
Full Effect
MEXICO CITY, June l.-WV
Mexico declared war Monday
night on the axis as of May 22
when the cabinet decided that full
belligerency was the only possi
ble answer to U-boat attacks on
Mexican shipping for which the
axis refused either to take re
sponsibility or make reparation.
The declaration was finally and
formally signed Monday. night by
President Manuel Avila Cama-
cho. ,
It placed the second - largest
Latin American nation beside the
other 26 United Nations at war
and gave them a solid continental
front from the, remotest arctic to
South America to the Colombian
frontier below Panama.
The largest Latin American na
tion, Brazil, has suffered the loss
of at least seven ships and torpe
do damage to another which did
not sink, but Brazil as yet has
gone no farther than to break re
lations with the axis and to attack
U-boats from the air in unde
clared hostilities. ;
Notice of the war declaration
was served on the axis Monday
night through Sweden, acting for
Germany, through Switzerland
for Japan, through P6rtugal for
Italy.
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