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Keep Posted . Momentous events occur In all parts of the world while yon sleep bat also while The Statesman news services are reporting them. Keep posted; read The Statesman. Going? A way? Going away, on a vaca tion or to a war JobT Bar The Statesman follow yon, to keep yon posted on events at home. Call till for de tails. FOUNDS! iC-i NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon. Wadnesctay Morning, Juno 3, 1942 Frlc 5c No. 80 CDFe v .Large 1 Geraiiaiiy 1 & " '.J1 : 9 Shiws JL Biaste Atlantic 41 Dead or Missing in Torpedoings By The Associated Press Deadly torpedoes have blast ed nine more ships to the bot tom of the Atlantic in intensi fied U-boat warfare but the loss of life was small, the navy reported Tuesday night in a three-day resume of announ ced sinkings. Only 41 seamen were listed as dead or missing from the nine vessels and incomplete survivor totals showed at least 286 sailors landed safely. Three announced sinking's Tuesday boosted the toll in At lantic and adjacent waters since the start of the war to 236. Six had been reported the previous two days. Fifty nine seamen from a 67 man crew survived the torpedoing " of a large American motorship in the Carribbean sea northwest of Trinidad. The men were picked . up by a United States ship one day after the sinking, which occurred May 17. They said that enemy projectiles exploded ammunition in the ship with as terrific blast. Only, one man was killed when a Panamanian merchant ship plunged to the bottom after a tor ' pedo hit in the Atlantic. The at tack took place May 20 and 44 survivors were rescued by an Am- erican naval vessel. Led by plucky Capt. Angus Shaw, the full crew of 61 from a British merchant ship landed at an'Atlantic port after sailing for eight days in open lifeboats. : During a storm the three boats became separated but the men were so sure of their course that they declined to be rescued by an outbound ship and continued f Diplomat9 Sh fArings 1M Americans Home 1?-' MY 'rrrrrAc lf" ."V, rM Jubilantly, passengers came down the gangplank of the Swedish-American liner Drottningholm, docked at Jersey City Monday The debarking passengers included many women and children. The Drottn ingholm, bearing the word "Diplomat" painted in large letters port and starboard and witht the Swed ish flag painted on the sides, brought marooned diplomats and others from axis countries to the United States, some of them en route to South America. Saddest of the arriving passengers was American Am bassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, who returned with the body of his wife. Newspaper men were aboard as were also diplomatic groups led by Herbert Pell from Budapest, George Wads worth from Rome and Leland B. Morris from Berlin. Two War Housing Projects In Portland Get Go Signal on to land. Lack of Supplies .Threatens Quakers : PHILADELPHIA, June 2-JP) Unless additional food and sup plies can be moved into unoccu pied 3 ranee, the American Friends Service committee may have to abandon its relief work there, Howard Kershner, director of the Quaker group's work in France, said Tuesday. 'Food ' Italians' Demand Of Slipping Mussolini (Editor's note: Richard G. Massock, back in the United States following five months' internment in Italy afer serving as chief of he former Rome bureau of Wide World, discloses the factors in Mussolini's decline in this article on "Italy today.") WPB Permits Contractors to Secure Sufficient Lumber to Finish Units; 1300 Houses Involved in Oregon WASHINGTON, June 2.-vP)-More than 100,000 of the most "essential"' war housing units now under construction involv ing 76 publicly-financed projects in 25 states and 51,350 privately-financed units in 20 state were given the official go-ahead signal by WPB Tuesday. Work on virtually all would otherwise have been stopped because of the "freeze" of supplies of construction lumber. John B. Blandford, jr., national housing administrator, reported. Under the special relief order, WPB will issue an overall authori zation permitting contractors on these specific projects to obtain enough lumber to complete them, it was understood. Officials said only about half the publicly-financed work already started was included in the approved list and the fate of the others already un der construction remained uncer tain. In making: the list of approved projects public, WPB empha sized present demand for lum ber "greatly exceeds the sop ply" and even contractors who receive authorizations to pur chase lumber could not expect prompt delivery in every in stance. Projects given the go-ahead signal and the number of dwell ing units involved in each, in cluded: Public projects: Oregon Portland, 400 units. Washington Bremerton, two projects of 1750 and 1000 units each; Keyport, 300 units. Seattle, three projects of 900, 350 and 500 units each. Also (Kirkland), 100 units; Vancouver, 4000 units. Private projects: Oregon Portland, 900 units. Washington Seattle, 1500 units; Tacoma, 300. Vancouver, 250. By RICHARD G. MASSOCK NEW YORK, June 2-(Wide World)-Mussolini, once the world's number one dictator, is dwindling in power, prestige and perform ance with his place in history much less secure than it seemed a dozen years ago. That is the very definite impression of observers who came back from Italy on the repatriation ship Drottningholm. The duce of fascism is losing if he: has not already lost his sway over the Italian people. His ill-fated foreign policy has made him a subordinate of Hitler, whose mastery of Europe has-encompassed Germany's anti-German ally, Italy. Unlike the ancient dictators of Rome, Mussolini can give his people neither bread nor circuses. In the grim blackout of war, the modern dictator is slipping. This does not mean that a revolution, either of the popular or palace variety, yet is stalking the man who rose, to power 20 years ago on the political ruins of the first World war. Mussolini's decline is a gradual thing. In majority opinion, de feat of the axis powers would swamp him into oblivion, a victory of Germany would leave him only a sort of pathetic gauleiter under nazi orders. Mussolini went to Bologna, former hotbed of socialism, to show himself to the workers nad charm them into renewed loyalty with his dynamic, theatrical personality. He intended going on to Milan for the same purpose. The Bologna pep-tour was a flop. Mussolini never went to Milan. "How about food for our babies?" women asked the strutting dictator. Unable to answer their demand, he was conveniently called back to Rome for "important affairs of state." Since then, Mussolini has made few public appearances. When fascist practice required that he utter his declaration of war against the United States from the balcony of his Venice palace in Rome, there was no enthusiastic cheering from the crowd that had been maneuvered into the square below. There was no bluster ing street demonstration by university students as there was when, Just 18 months before, Mussolini declared war on Great Britain and France.'' I Mussolini's addiction to the company of young women favorites has been blamed for part of his political decline. His affairs with two sisters, whom he installed in a villa on the outskirts of Rome, were common gossip for several years. .'. Now.it is whispered throughout Rome that he has replaced the sisters in his affections with a cinema actress. It is even said that a young man's recent appointment to high political position was a re ward for his having taken one of the sisters of f the idctator's hands. - - Psychologists might find in Mussolini's persistent application to amatory prowess am aging man's attempt to maintain the Illusion or youthful virility. ? Supposedly afflicted rwlth a poor heart, the dictator Is extremely sensitive about his health." f - v l On several ccasioris he has gone but of his way to show foreign '. newsmen that i he is neither tired nor sick. '-::;:-.". . Just how much attention Mussolini still devotes to administrative . problems is difficult to ascertain. He once personally handled a mass of detail in the government. He still holds the more important cabinet ministries. But German "liaison officers' in key administrative poei ' tidhs now "coordinate" Italian policies with those of nazi Germany, ' It took Hitler's army to extricate the Italians from the disastrous war against the Greeks, ordered by Mussolini against the advice of . - Observers consequently predict that history will record Mussolini AS a dictator who started strong but finished as an also-ran. British Lib 'Raid, Stand Russian Thrusts, Put Allies High On All Fronts Excepting China bers Bo D Barracks estroy 100 Warships Promised, '42 Navy ; Tells Congress, y kjx ouiioing; nans Made for Carriers WASHINGTON, June 2.-(P)- The navy informed congress Tues day that approximately 100 more fighting ships would be put into commission this year, ready to take battle stations on the far flung seafronts and to guard the vital shipping lanes between this nation and its troops and allies. The progress report on construe tion of naval vessels was furnish ed, in executive session, by Rear Admiral A. H. Van Keuren, chief of the navy bureau of ships, to the house naval committee, and was made public by Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) with the admiral's per mission. Vinson described the committee as "well satisfied" with the report. Simultaneously, tje announ ced committee approval of a $1,100, 000,000 measure authorizing addi tional construction of 500,000 tons of auxiliary vessels, such as ten ders and supply ships. He served notice, too, that he would introduce Wednesday an other big measure for a major in crease in the number of aircraft carriers, thus carrying out, he said, the navy's plan to "build and build" that type of ship and ob t a i n an "overwhelming" aerial punch. Allies Hit Jap Units on Timor, r Florida Islands ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Wednesday, June 3.-(P)-Allied bombers destroyed Japanese warehouses, barracks and road transports in heavy at tacks Tuesday on Timor and Florida islands above this con tinent, General MacArthur's headquarters announced Wednes day. Other offensive units bombed and strafed the Japanese airdrome at Rabaul, New Britain Island, the communique said. In the attack on Japanese-held Dutch Timor, the allied airmen chose a new target, the town of Atamboea on Timor's north coast near the island's center. Barracks were demolished and extensive fires left raging. Teh Large Cologne Area Ruined; Toll Heavy BERN, Switzerland, June 2 (P)-An area of about a mile by a mile and a half was virtually wiped out by British airmen in their Saturday night raid on Cologne, reliable reports from Germany said Tuesday. This meant a heavy death toll in the closely packed Rhineland metropolis but anything like a reliable figure on casualties was lacking. The military correspondent of Dienst Aus Deutschland said "the inner city suffered consid erable damage." Arctic Convoy Loses 6 Ships Constant Daylight on Route to Russia Makes Easy Prey LONDON, June 2-)-Battered five days and nights in the strange, unending light of the Arctic's mid night" sun by U-boats and at least 100 German nlanes. a bfr? US-Brit- mr.es souui oi AtamDota anom- i t.u i.. aa were taken nnder fire, the com munique said, i One allied raider failed to return from that operation. On Florida island in the Solo mon group northeast of Australia, a large warehouse was destroyed and other enemy installations were set afire. All the allied bombers returned. Bridges Out On Bail Again SAN FRANCISCO, June 2-UP) Harry Bridges surrendered to im migration authorities Tuesday on a deportation warrant . and was promptly released . under $3000 bond on an application for a writ of habeas corpus, first step in a lengthy legal , battle that may go to the supreme court of the United States. " ' " The west coast CIO leader was also granted court permission to leave California, enabling him to attend a conference of CIO chief tains in Washington opening Wednesday. Attorneys will argue next Mon day, before Federal Judge Martin I. Welsh over" granting Ihe habeas corpus petition, without Bridges being present in'court' CCCs Go to School WASHINGTON, . June All civilian conservation corps men with less than a fourth grade education were ordered Tuesday to attend classes in reading and arithmetic. White Collars Help Harvest, Utah, Idaho BOISE, Idaho, June 2-(JP)-The governor, and a great many other white-collared city dwellers, went back to the farm in Idaho Tues day. Business men, office workers women and men alike did their best to relieve an emergency la bor shortage in sugar beet fieidss One Survives Bomber Crash Portland Man One of Seven Killed Near San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, June 2-(P) Winging its way home from a night patrol, a navy bomber of the Catalina type crashed near Half Moon bay, killing seven of its crew of eight. The dead and their nearest kin were: Ensign Willis Wayne Camp bell, USNR; father, Brent W. Campbell, West 2256 Southeast 39th avenue, Portland, Ore. Carl Elmer Siedelman, aviation machinists mate; wife, Irene, San Diego, Calif. William Hart Stute, aviation pilot; mother, Mrs. Eloise J. Stute, San Clemente, Calif. Kenneth Wayne Simmons, sea man: mother. Mrs. w. u. Sim mons, route one, Pasco, Wash. Richard Cowman Viall, seaman; father, Clarence L. Viall, Dayton, Ohio. William Wayne Sands, radio man; father, William fan aanas, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) SALT LAKE CITY, June 2-(JP) Gov. Herbert B. Maw Tuesday declared an emergency existed and called upon all Utah citizens to aid in saving the . sugar , beet crop. In a proclamation, Maw asked business and professional offices to close part of each day and that the owners and employes work in the fields. Dr.. Matthews Said 'Slightly Worse - Dr. James T- Matthews, profes sor of mathematics at Willamette university for 49 years, who was taken to the Deaconess hospital recently for treatment of a stom ach disorder, was reported by hospital attaches -, as "slightly worse" Tuesday night after hav ing shown improvement the two preceding days. j . . . Tuesday to have "reached a Rus sian port with an indicated, loss of but half a dozen ships. The result was announced by the admiralty in a communique which gave a graphic picture of the perils of the arctic convoy route to Muransk and Arch angel, where there never, at this time of year, is any protecting darkness and where the break ing of the Arctic ice restricts maneuverability of ships to a minimum. German claims to the sinking of 17 or 18 ships were termed "an exaggeration of over 175 per cent German dive bombers, torpedo- planes and level-flying bombers assaulted the convoy almost with out pause from the evening of May 25 until May 30. Three of the at tacking planes were reported shot down for sure, two others prob ably were destroyed and two others damaged. One Heinkel, the admiralty dis closed, was destroyed by a Hurri cane fighter catapulted from a specially-fitted merchantman. In such cases, it was explained, the catapulted plane must land in the sea when its flying en durance is exhausted, and the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Strike Closes Taeoma Plant TACOMA, June 2-iip)-The city's largest lumber plant, St Paul & Tacoma Lumber company, was closed by strike Tuesday, choking off production on thousands of dol lars worth of defense contracts. Picket lines surrounded the fac tory and its three logging camps.' Approximately 1200 employes are involved in the strike, Cory don Wagner, company vice-president, reported. The strike was called by the ClO-International Woodworkers of America, whose local . secretary said long standing negotiations re garding - wage increases - had broken down, , The . secretary,. . Freeman -.L. Cochran, said the union demand edi $1 a day, wage increase and vacations with pay.' He said con ferences on wages began last Sep tember, .when the union sought a $L20 per day raise. Later, he said, the Union demand was reduced to $i. : , Keep Flags Flying AH Day Army SPOKANE, June 2JP)-A flood of inquiries from civilians as to how to fly their flags, prompted Capt. Joe Bush, public relations officer at Geiger field, Tuesday to issue a statement urging all persons to "keep 'em flying" from daylight to dark day in and day out. The inquiries started when it was reported that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had ordered the , flag over Manila flown all day regard less of rain, hail or bombs, Cap tain Bush said, and most of the inquirers wanted to know if they should let their flags get wet The sight of the flag defying elements of weather as well as enemies has definite morale lifting effect and, they should be flown, he said. The army flies their flags of course he hastened to add they use specially heavy storm flags in bad weather. . 1036 Planes Make Second Overnight Industry Bombing Axis Moves Desperately in Africa; Reds Drive to Break Nazi Plans; -Japs Open New Fronts in China BY WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor The royal air force struck at Germany Tuesday night for the third time in four nights in its massive, all-out campaign to pulverize German war production city by city. The specific objectives of the new assault were not announced immediately but the Berlin radio said they were in western Germany and reported 12 of the invad ing aircraft shot down. Western Germany already had been shaken in the first two devastating raids of the offensive the 1250 plane attack directed primarily at Cologne on Saturday night and an assault by 1036 planes aimed principally at Essen on Monday night. That the latest blow was effected by another large force was indicated to British along the channel coast Wednesday morning Jb the fact that Ihe roar of the re turning bombers continued for more than an hour. - In north Africa, the scarred axis armies of Libya were attacking only in desperation, trying to win through two gaps in the 50-mile British line running southward from coastal Ain El Cazala to Bir Hacheim, and while the final decision was yet to fall it was plain that the imperial armies of Brit- , ain had won two significant vic tories. They had broken Field Marshal Rommel's thrust for Tobruk, the key to Libya, the axis forces had lost by official British account some 260 tanks and 'were split with some of their tanks having been able to beat through back to the west but with a great number remaining entrapped short of the British unit had been annihilated, with 3000 captives taken. Rome reported 2000 British prisoners in hand. In Russia, the soviet forces of the northwestern Moscow front were striking- oat in local thrusts in sectors about Kalinin, appar ently seeking to break up sus pected German plans for an of fensive in that area as had ear lier' been done before Kharkov in the Ukraine. Soviet dispatches reported that while action had not been on a major scale it had resulted in an improvement of the Russian posi tion above the capital. The German high command re ported "only local actions" from the Russian front generally. In eastern China the coastal area was an arena of continued Japanese advances on three fronts. One enemy force was beating for ward from Kiangsi province, which adjoins Chekiang province on the west. This force was mov ing southward and eastward, and was heading for a juncture with another moving from due east. . Still another enemy column was driving northward from the Can ton region' of Kwangtung province along the Canton-Hankow rail way. . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Our 'Senators -Lcs! v v' &3 Vr.fe US War Asked On Balkans Congress Set to Act Soon; 150,000 More Would Be Enemies' WASHINGTON, June 2.-(P)- rresident Koosevelt asked con gress to make the list of America's enemies officially complete Tues day by declaring war on the axil satellite nations Bulgaria, Hun gary and Rumania. As "instruments of Hitler,' h said in a special message to con gress, these countries had declared war on the United States. Further, WASHINGTON, June Z.-(JPf-The Justice department listed Tuesday the number of aliens of Bulgarian, Hungarian and Rumanian nationality residing in the various states. Idaho 19, 36, 12. Montana 73, 99, 68. Oregon 88, 212, 112. Washington 124, 272, 100. he said, they were engaged in mil itary activities against the United Nations, activities which were about to be broadened. Therefore, he urged that con gress recognize the existence of a state of war between them. The acquiescence of congress in the president's request was re garded as a mere formality . Ar rangements were made to bring up a war resolution in the house (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) - Program for Restaurant Closing. Is A dop ted Here . A, tentative program by which one op more member restaurants will remain closed on successive days , of each week was adopted Tuesday night by the Salem Res taurant association In a meeting a the Quelle to discuss means of meeting'' existing' condJUoni v cre a ted by the war effort The group will meet tonight to draw up a definite schedule of closing of co operating members. - The curtailments of vital sup . plies by the rationing system, the freezing ef numerous Items of equipment essential to rt taurant openttloa uid an. exist- .-' ing shortage at experienced res taurant workers were foremost topics of . discussion; according ing Kaipn namgren, associa tion secretary. -5 : The iwam mm ! jproptaed will enable-members Of-ibe-cafe asso ciation to achieve-beiter jetticiency in operation through simplifica tion of working schedules, better service and- planndm e n u f to conform ' with: rationing restric tions. Nohlgren"sakL-.J -5 , . . : if -f-v "," 4