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12,000
Troops
On One
Allies Lose
Six; Senate
Will Probe
By C. YATES McDANIEL
ALLIED HEADQUAR
TERS, Australia, Friday,
June 5 ( AP) An allied sub
marine operating in the Pa
cific was credited officially
Friday with destroying or
damaging four Japanese
ships, one of them going down
with probably 12,000 troops
aboard, while allied bombers
continued to pound the enemy's
island invasion bases to the
north.
General MacArthurs command
announced Thursday that the
submarine, presumably American,
had sunk three ships an armed
and overloaded troop transport of
6000 tons, and two jammed sup
ply ships of 10,000 and 6000 tons,
respectively. A 7000-ton supply
ship was badly damaged, the com
munique said.
Friday's communique said al
lied bombers emerged without
loss after destroy ins Japanese
anti - aircraft installations at
Koepanr in Dutch Timor. The
airdrome also was attacked and
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Italy Guards Coastline,
Feels Heavy Human Toll
(Editor's note: Richard G. Massock, chief of the former Rome bureau of
The Associated Press and Wide World, concludes a series on "Italy Today
tH a discussion of the military situation. Massock reached New ork this
week after five months of internment in Italy.)
By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
NEW YORK, June 4-(Wide World)-Italy is fortifying her
Riviera coastline a defense, presumably, against British commando
raids.
We on the repatriation train from Rome to Lisbon glimpsed low
lying concrete pillbox fortifications under construction along the
coastline, particularly near Leghorn.
Military experts have concluded that the new defenses are in
tended to repel raiding parties from British submarines.
Basis for this assumption is the presence of shipyards and in
dustrial plants along the Ligurian coast which offer inviting objec
tives to British saboteurs. The Leghorn hydrogenation plant, Italy's
principal gasoline producer, is one possible objective. -
This plant produces synthetic motor fuel and also converts what
little crude oil reaches Italy. We observed that it was still in operation.
Commando raids on Italy thus far have been confined to Sicily,
where the German air force is based for its Mediterranean operations,
except for the parachutists dropped in southern Italy early in the
war to blow up bridges and waterworks.
How many raids the British have made in Sicily, usually from
submarines, is an Italian as well as a British secret. I am told, how
ever, that the British raiders planted portable radio sets on the
island.
These sets are said to be designed to make detection difficult.
They are moved about the island from one secret spot to another.
Their power is low but sufficient for the British on Malta to pick
up their code messages.
, The Italians, incidentally, found a-clandestine radio transmitting
set some time ago under a tombstone in a Leghorn cemetery. They
uncovered it when they observed that a Swedish widow, long a resi
dent of Leghorn, visited the grave of her late husband with what
appeared to be unusual frequency. She was sentenced to 30 years
imprisonment as a spy.
Mussolini has perhaps three million men under arms. But ob
servers doubt that he fears a military invasion of Italy, at least for
a long time to come.
The difficulty of the United Nations in maintaining long lines
of communication and supply in North Africa, along with other
considerations, seems to preclude the opening of a new European
- front on the Italian peninsula. Hence the supposition that Italy is
guarding herself against the commandos.
Instead of throwing even the mobilized fraction of his boasted
"eight million bayonets" into combat, Mussolini is using them mainly
to occupy Italian Libya and territory conquered by the German ally
in the Balkans and Russia.
Observers have revised- their estimates of Italian troops on the
Russian front down to less than 100,000 men. Tte Italian high com
mand goes through the motions of sending reinforcements to Russia
every once in a while, but the men don't go in sizeable numbers.
Itary'a poverty is the reason. Rich in manpower, she is poor in
trained combat divisions, because Italy, as one expert told me, i
"frightfully short of equipment from uniforms to arms." She also
is short of transport . , .
In our Internment city of Siena, a garrison town of the Bersag
lierl for many years, we saw raw recruits put through the rudiments
of infantry drill. Presumably they were called to the colors to re
place casualties in the war-swollen standing army. '
Observers estimate that Italy has lost more than 50,009 dead
in her disastrous campaigns, or about as many as the total American
dead in the first, world war. The war against Greece cost Italy
some 25,009 dead. Estimate of the wounded are unavailable, but
. the number is believed to be heavy, particularly of those with hands
and feet frozen in the mountains of Albania.
-i Lost, too, are approximately half a million men who feu pris
oners, mainly in the hands of the British in Africa.
Guerilla fighting in the Balkans, from Croatia through Serbia and
Uontenegrocontinues to take a heavy toll of Italian troops. A whole
regiment of grenadiers, with the commander, Colonel Latini, was
iriped out in Dalmatia a few weeks ago.
British Harry Nazis
By LandvSea, Air
On Channel Coast
Libyan Fight Lulls, but 7 German
Bombers Downed; Threat to China
Grows as Allied Generals Meet
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press War Editor
Three British arms, air, navy and ground forces, harried
the Germans along the channel coast Thursday in a series of
raiding actions underlining allied possession of the initiative in
the European theatre.
Pacific action was scattered and relatively minor save in
China.
Congress Votes
War on Balkans
Unanimous Act Waits
FR-Name; Quezon
Talks Briefly
WASHINGTON, June 4-P)-As
fast as the roll could be called,
the senate voted unanimously
Thursday to declare war against
Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania,
satellites of nazi Germany.
The house had taken similar
action Wednesday, and all that re
mains to complete the record is
for President Roosevelt to sign
the war resolution. He had urged
adoption of the resolutions on
the ground that the three nations,
who declared war against the
United States last, December,
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estoroys
Britain's attacks on the west
ern nazi flank during the day
were local but strong, and more
important for what was portend
ed than what was actually ac
complished. The Royal Air Force in the
hours just before dawn vio
lently bombed Bremen, the sec
ond biggest German port, with
an estimated 200 planes, while
the commandos with the sup
port of the British navy threw
in a reconnaissance assault on
the French coast.
They landed between Boulogne
and Le Touquet, and came away,
without heavy casualties, with
more information for the allied
high commanders those com
manders planning the real offen
sive one day to be thrown against
Hitler.
The damage to Bremen from
the RAF raid was by British ac
counts very high, and this was
only the beginning of a day of
punishment for the nazis. During
the morning and afternoon other
great British 'aerial squadrons
went over to attack the Calais
area, and Englishmen on the
channel coast could hear explo
sions from the vicinity of Bou
logne and Calais.
These new stirrings on the
western front were accompanied
by a lull in ground action in the
Libyan desert, where the . Ger
mans were using dive bombers
in an attempt to do what their
mechanized forces had failed to
do knock out the southern an
chor of the British line about Bir
Hacheim.
British fighter planes were said
to have shot down seven Stukas
in a single engagement
As to the situation afield, be
lated reports told of the cap-
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Hendricks
Rites Today
Funeral services are to be held
at 2:30 today from the Clough
Barrick chapel for Mrs. Robert
J. Hendricks, who died Wednes
day night several weeks after
she had been injured in an auto
mobile accident.
Rev. Robert A. Hutchinson is
to officiate and pallbearers are
to be John H. Carson, Karl V.
Pease, Daniel J. Fry, Lowell E.
Kern, Edgar T. Pierce and Rich
ard D. Slater.
Interment is to be at the IOOF
cemetery.
Out of respect to Mrs. R. J.
Hendricks, wife of The States
man editor emeritus and former
publisher, this newspaper's office
will be closed today from 2 to
3:30 p. m.
Rioters Arrested
VICHY, June 4-UPHDispatches
from Paris said Thursday that
three persons had been arrested
there after a group of youths be
longing to the pro-axis party of
Jacques Doriot tore down the
street signs marking the "Place
Des Etats Unis" United States
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11,000 in Assembly
Centers on Coast
. To Be Moved
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4-;p
Movement of 11,000 Japanese
from temporary Pacific coast as
sembly and reception centers to
inland homes for the war's dura
tion in permanent relocation cen
ters was announced Thursday by
Col. Karl R. Benedetsen, assistant
chief of staff, civil affairs divi
sion, of the western defense com
mand and fourth army.
Simultaneously, the wartime
civil control administration made
public plans for opening service
centers for the California portions
of Military area No. 2 in Chico,
Marysville, Auburn, Reedley and
Visalia. Necessity for the new
service centers was created by the
evacuation order covering mili
tary area No. 2, the eastern half
of California, issued by Lieut. Gen.
J. L. DeWitt earlier this week.
The new movement of the
11,000 Japanese to permanent
reloeation centers would involve
the shifting of one group from
the Mayer center in Arizona to
the Boston relocation project
near Parker, Arix., and of oth
er evacuees from Portland, Ore.,
Puyallup, Wash., and the Marys-
e, Sacramento and Salinas
assembly centers In California
to the Tulelake relocation center
in northern California.
The Tulelake center already has
been set up, accomodating 10,000
persons, and 500 evacuees were
moved there from Portland and
Puyallup late in May. Early this
month approximately 250 more
were moved from Mayer, Ariz., to
the Boston project.
Salem Girl
4H Leader
CORVALLIS, Ore., June 4-
Delegates to the state 4H club
summer session set up their self
government units Thursday with
election of Lorraine Filliger, As
toria, as president of the girls
council and Donald Hagg, Reed-
ville, president of the boys coun
cil.
Council members, .who are
presidents of the living units in
which the 2000 delegates are
housed, include: Luella Nichols,
Salem; Patricia Joyce, Sherwood;
Verle Saucy, Marion, and Reed
Vollstedt, Benton county. ,
Port Case Slated
Arguments in a case involving
validity of organization proceed
ings of the Port of Cascade Locks
and the legality of the port's $75,
000 bond issue are to be heard by
the state supreme court, that bo
dy declared Thursday. In a cir
cuit court case, Judge Fred W.
Wilson of Hood River county had
ruled in favoi of the port
hree
Jap Bombers Attacked
Dutch Harbor, Alaska, (circled)
and 15 pursuit ships Wednesday morning and other enemy planes
flew over later, the navy announced in Washington. Toward the
lower center of the above map and northwest of the Hawaiian isl
ands is Midway island, tiny US defense outpost which was at
tacked for the sixth time Thursday and repulsed the raid with a
heavy toll of enemy ships and planes. (Story column seven, page
one).
Gestapo Takes Toll
Of Czechs to Venge
Death of
Bloody Terror Takes 24 More Lives
But Builds Up Patriot -Assassins;
5000 Put in Concentration Camps
LONDON, June 4 -(JF)- Reinhard Heydrich, scourge of nazi
occupied Europe, died in Prague Thursday while the rifles of
his gestapo took terrible revenge among the populace for his
assassination, and Thursday night the German government pre
pared to bury him with all the macabre pomp accorded a Chi
cago gangster of the twenties.
Twenty four more Czechs, in
cluding three women, were exe
cuted in Prague and Brunn Thurs
day following the announcement
of Heydrich's death, the Prague
radio announced Thursday night.
But the bloody terror loosed
by henchmen of Hitler's hang
man, which already has claim
ed the lives of 187 hostages in
Bohemia and Moravia, including
32 women, was building up its
own counter-terror. The Ger
man radio Itself revealed that
nazis in the protectorate of Bo
hemia and Moravia were feel
ing the hand that strikes by
night; the revenge of patriot
assassins who come by para
chute from abroad to repay,
with bomb, fire and steel, for
the subjugation of their home
land. Indeed, a nazi broadcast Thurs
day evening, giving what pur
ported to be the details of Hey
drich's fatal wounding, said an
automatic pistol and an anti
tank bomb used by the two as
sassins were of British make and
that the same kind of automatic
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Prof. James T. Matthews Dies in Hospital
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DR. JAMES T. MATTHEWS
Japanese
was attacked by four Jap bombers
Heydrich
Senate Passes
Dependent Pay
Vote to Be Called on
Monday for Boost
In Service Salary
WASHINGTON, June i.-(JF)
The senate passed Thursday and
sent to the house a measure pro
viding cash allowances for the de
pendents of enlisted men in the
armed forces, but delayed at least
until Monday a showdown vote on
the question of increasing the pay
of buck privates and navy sea
men to $50 monthly.
Under the legislation approved
by the senate without a record
vote any soldier, sailor or marine
or coast guard man receiving $78
monthly or less could assure his
wife of at least $50 a month in
come. Of this amount, the enlL ted
man would contribute $22 from
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Dr. James T. Matthews, be
loved professor at Willamette uni
versity for .almost half of that in
stitution's century of existence,
died Thursday night at a Salem
hospital..
Death came to Willamette's
"grand old man" just 15 days after
Mrs. Matthews had died in the
same hospital. Six days ago he had
become ill apparently of a stom
ach ailment. ,,
-Alumni from many parts of the
nation here last -weekend for the
university's centennial commence
ment exercises were J offered an
opportunity to secure first copies
of his first and only . published
book but were denied the privil
ege of visiting hiin although' at
that time hope was held lor bis
recovery. , v
Battler,
.Damaged; More
Believed Struck
Damage to Island Is Minor;
Second Dutch Harbor Raid
Not Bombing; No Third
HONOLULU, June 4 (AP)- A Japanese battle
ship and aircraft carrier were damaged, other warships
were believed hit, and a heavy toll taken of enemy
planes in a heavy raid on Midway island Thursday, sixth
of the war, said a communique issued by Admiral Ches
ter W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet.
The communique said :
"At 6:35 a.m. today, Midway time, that island was
heavily raided by Japanese carrier-based planes, the
attack was repulsed by local defenders in which all
armed services are representd. A heavy toll of attack
ing planes was taken. Damage to material and installa-
Coast Radios
Quiet Again
. Canada Goes on Alert;
Midway Had Five
Prior Attacks
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4(JP)
All Pacific coast radio stations
went off the air Thursday night
in accordance with an order is
sued by. the western defense com
mand and Fourth army.
The statement issued by the ar
my said:
"A radio silence along the en
tire Pacific coast from Canada to
the Mexican border was ordered
tonight at 9 p. m., Pacific war
time,, by the Fourth fighter com
mand as a precautionary meas
ure." Wednesday night all the radio
stations went off the air for ap
proximately 8Vi hours.
VANCOUVER, BC, June 4
(CP)-Radio stations in British
Columbia's coastal defense area
were ordered off the air at 9
o'clock Thursday night by west
ern air command in what WAC
termed a "precautionary radio
measure."
It was the second night of ra
dio silence for the Pacific coast.
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1300 Finns Closed
PARIS, Occupied France, June
4-JP)-As a part of the effort to
develop industry along more pro
ductive lines, the secretariat for
French industrial production an
nounced Thursday that some 1300
firms would be closed for using
too much coal.
Wednesday's leather
Weather forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed by
army request. Max temp. Wed
nesday 71, min. 50. River 2.4.
Born July 15, 1864, near Pen
zance at the extreme southwest
corner of England, he was the old
est of the three children of Mr.
and Mrs. James Matthews. His
brother, William P. Matthews of
Tacoma, arrived in Salem a few
hours before Dr. Matthews' death,
and his sister, Mrs. Emma Wheal
don, makes her home in Salem
Heights.
The elder James Matthews was
a 1ocal minister in this coun
try, he would have been known as
a lay preacher,9 for he was
trained as a carpenter, in which
crrt he earned his living. How
ever, as a youth of 19 he commen
ced his preaching career and in
1874, two y ears after he had
brought his family from Penzance
to Portland, he Joined the Oregon
Skips
Carrier
tions on Midway wrere reported
minor. No reports of personnel
casualties were received.
"The Japanese carriers were ac
companied by battleships and
cruisers. One battleship and ont
carrier definitely were damaged
and other vessels are believed to
have been hit. Our attacks on the
enemy are continuing."
WASHINGTON, June 4 -JFl
Japanese planes attacked tiny
Midway island and its tough
marine corns garrison again
Thursday, while far to the
north, Dutch Harbor, which
was raided by enemy bombers
Wednesday, reported that all
was quiet.
The Dutch Harbor episode was
regarded by navy men here as an
effort to test American defenses
in the Alaskan area, a feeler ope
ration which might forebode a
later assault in force.
There were two flights of Jap
planes over Dutch Harbor Wed
nesday. The first set fire to ware
houses and caused a few casudl
ties, but no bombs were dropped
by the second. In addition, the
house of commons at Ottawa was
told of a report that there was
another attack last night. J. J.
Ralstpn, Canadian defense min
ister, mentioned the report, add
ing that no details were available.
Apparently Ralston later re
ceived information indicating this
report was erroneous as he re
vised his statement to say there
had been only one attack, pre
sumably referring to the first
flight of planes which dropped
bombs.
The navy department here said
it had received no word of a
third flight of enemy planes over
the base.
During the day Secretary of
War Stimson frankly warned
the public that additional thrusts
at American territory were very
much to be expected, but would
not speculate as to when or
where they might come.
During the day, the navy said
that the second of the two squad
rons of Japanese planes which ap
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conference of the Methodist Epis
copal church.
At Empire City on Coos Bay,
Oregon, Freeport (now in the
area of Longview ; and' Kelso),
and at Bay Center,' Wash- the
little English' family went .where
the church sent the; father. In
Bay Center, young James T. Mat
thews met Rebecca Grant Brown
and with her. attended Willamette
university at SalenvThu;began
the two great ' associations of his '
life, for he: married Misa Brown
in 1889 and a few" months after
his graduation Ifrom the pioneer
Salem university .he became
an instructor - at Willamette In
1893. ' :
While the family lived In Mc
Minnville?he had attended Mc'
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