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'r- Complete YouH find no newspaper can rive more real satisfac tion than roar local morn lnr paper, with Its WORLD NEWS Pins HOME COM MUNITY NEWS. n n Pay Day Every time you set yew pay. bay bead and stamp tor too USA. Cheer too boyg In uniform by getting in in terest ta fighting men and equipment POUNDDOi lCi NDIETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Orecon, Saturday Morning, Juno 6, 1942 Plica Sc. No. S3 .-spy . .VflN. YtiMtofe tA C i. XSSk.- r(N4't'eri.Hb!-!ti (Bit . w nn m m v . , Sharp Leads Raid Salem Youth in India Has Raid - Over Rangoon WASHINGTON, June 5 (AP) ;Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brerelon reported Friday lhat American army heavy bombers shot down at least two enemy planes in a day light attack on the harbor of Rangoon, Burma. One American plane failed to return. The bombers, led by Captain Frank Douglas Sharp, route seven, "box 3 IB, Sa lem, Ore., raided enemy shipping and docks Thursday, but because f a heavy overcast it was im possible to determine the dam age inflicted. Reporting the raid in a com munique, the war department said 12 Japanese fighter planes attacked the American force, which also encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire. Two enemy planes were shot down and a third is believed to have been destroyed, the war department aid. Capt. Frank D. Sharp, better known in Salem as Douglas Sharp, graduated from Salem nigh school and attended Wil lamette university before enter-: -r.lng.Uie army air corps. He re ceived his night traininr largely at Texas air fields and went to the far cast early this spring. Plane Crash Fatal to 14 Takeoff Trouble Ends In California's Worst Wreck SAN RAFAEL, Calif., June 5 iJPy- Fourteen men died in the blazing crash of a huge army bomber near Hamilton field Thursday nighf in the worst mili tary plane accident in northern California history. The big ship, carrying a crew of five civilians and nine sol diers, was swinging in a wide circle around the army air field to make an emergency landing after developing motor trouble on the takeoff. The plane was scarcely 500 feet in the air. It failed to clear a hillside and crashed through a grove of trees on the Herzog ranch. Airmen at Hamilton field, who had cleared a runway in (Turn to Page 2. Col. 7) CCC Denied New Funds; NYA Upheld WASHINGTON, June 5-(y!P) Born of the depression nine years ago, the Civilian Conservation corps was denied funds to carry on its work Friday as the house withstood strong administration pressure for war time continuance of the organization on a semi-military basis. The house voted, by tellers' count of 158 to 121, against a mo tion which would have added a $73,818,000 allotment for the CCC to a $1,058,451,660 supply bill for several agencies, including the la bor department and social secur ity board. Late in the day the house passed the $1,058,451,660 bill and sent it to the senate after rejecting by a voice vote, Rep. Taber's (R-NY) motion to send the measure back to committee. " If upheld by the senate, the vote on the CCC fund would write iinisprobably for at least the duration of the war to the triple "CL" which since its creation in 1933 has cost about $3,000,000,000 After the vote on the CCC, the house rejected, 118 to 62, a pro posal to eliminate all but $8,320, 000 from a $58,049,000 item for the National Youth administration. Rep.Dirksen (R-Ill) who made the motion, asserted the NYA work largely duplicated that of the of tio&ftf education. , Fights Subs m 'ivnw j mini w ii 1 1 m . i " - ' V I ?; ;' '$ :-'T-?- ?..; - t, , -' -- J " REAR ADM. J. L. KAUFFMAN U-Boat Menace Said Dropping Three Ships Down in Atlantic Friday; Fight Is On By The Associated Press Naval officers of the eastern sea frontier, a wreck-littered stretch of ' 1200 miles extending from Canada to Jacksonville, Fla., said Friday that the submarine menace in this district was steadily decreasing and that steps were being taken that would insure more gasoline for the drying New England states. This information came as Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman, com mander of the gulf sea frontier, promised more protection for ves sels plying between Jacksonville and the Mexican border. Kauffman, recently trans ferred to Miami frdtn Iceland, said "we mast 'consider -this' area as a battlefield until every enemy submarine which enters it is destroyed." Meanwhile, three more ship losses in the Atlantic one Dutch, one Norwegian and one British were reported, bringing the total to 20 this week and the total of ficially announced Atlantic at tacks to 247 since Pearl Harbor. Commenting on these losses naval authorities said Friday that they were severe and that the next four or five months would be "a critical period." In New York, naval officials said that less than one per cent of 2500 ships leaving an eastern port between December 7 and May 31 had been destroyed. They said that anti-submarine activity by planes and ships had driven U boats southward to the gulf and the Caribbean. They emphasized that American naval and air forces are still inade quate to cope with the problem completely and that it was up to America's humming shipyards and factories to produce the neces sary vessels and planes. "We've got to take it on the nose and on the chin until pro duction catches up with the needs," a spokesman said. Defensive steps are being tak en to insure oil tanker deliver ies along the coast, "fair" im provement has already been made. Another cheering statement from the eastern frontier was that more than 90 per cent of the crews of the ships torpedoed in the Atlantic had been rescued. Declaring that the "German submarine of today combines the characteristic of a destroyer and a submarine'' because of its speed and guns, an officer said the prob lem was much more critical than the last war. "They, are using subs with a sur face speed of 20 to 22 knots and they carry 12 to 16 torpedoes," he said. Nazis Shoot 26 Czechs LONDON, June S.--While the body of Reinhard , Heydrich, the assassinated gestapo hangman, lay in state in the castle of Czech kings at Prague , Friday, nazi fir ing squads executed 28 more Czechs, making- a total of 203 put to death in the nazi counter-ter ror campaign now ten days old. The sentences were imposed by courts martial set up by Heydrich himself before Czech patriots hurled a bomb at him a week ago Wednesday. According to nazi custom, the Prague radio announ ced, they were carried out im mediately, maintaining the score- a-day average once again. US Talons Control Of Food Production for Fighting Men Gains Fore WASHINGTON, June 5 -(P) The government assumed com plete wartime control over food supplies Friday in a move which eventually may make far-reaching changes in the eating habits of American ci vilians. Designed to assure ample sup plies for the fighting forces of this country and its allies, this control was vested by the war production board in a nine-member food requirements committee under the chairmanship of Secre tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. The group has authority to say what foods may be produ ced or may not be produced, to determine what commodities may be imported or exported and to allocate food supplies among civilians, the armed for ces, and American' allies. Besides the agricultural de partment, the committee has rep resentatives from the state, war and navy departments, the lend lease administration, the board of economic warfare, and the WPB divisions of industry operations, materials and civilian supply. With creation of this powerful committee focusing new attention on present and prospective food supplies, agriculture department officials emphasized that it should not, be assumed that food short ages or consumer rationing -of most foods are in prospect The totaly supply of food this year is expected, they reiterated, to be the largest on record and larger than total requirements, including those of Great Britain and Russia under the lend-lease program. Shortages may occur, and have appeared. In some Individ ual items, particularly sugar, canned vegetables, canned fish, pork, animal fats, vegetable oils, coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and tropical fruits. Plentiful supplies of wheat, fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk and cream, eggs, beef, lamb and mutton are in prospect. WASHINGTON, June 5.-()-Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard, cautioning that severe labor shortages may develop, Friday urged rural families to keep their daughters on the farm to help with war food production. Laundry Meet Ends Today Regulations on Trade Growing From War Under Discussion Laundryowners of Oregon, who registered nearly 25 per cent above expectations for their 22nd annual state convention here this weekend, close that series of meetings here tonight with their annual banquet and installation of officers in the Mirror room of the Marion hotel. Rev. Robert Hutchinson, pastor of the First Congregational church of Salem, is to be guest speaker on the subject "Bubbles and But tons." Another Salem minister, Rev. W. Irvin Williams of the First Presbyterian church, officiated at memorial services conducted Fri day morning by S. W. Larwenee of Portland. Sol Stern, representing the office of price administration, was said to have carried the brant of the panel discussion on war regulations at a lively ses sion In .which laundryowners and representatives of related trades hurled questions and sought explanations. "Obtainuig Maximum Produc tion Under Present Day Condi tions" was the subject -of Irving G. Gracelon of Jolliet, Hi; of the American Institute of Launder ing s department of production and engineering ."r A dinner dance in the Marine (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Thursday's Weather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request, Max. temp Thursday, 78, min. 43. River Fri day. U ft . . . . I Jap Flier With This is a Japanese pilot (right) taken prisoner after his Zero fighter plane crashed on a beach near Port Moresby. He is being escorted to a prison camp somewhere In Australia. Beating ofDishpans To Herald Attacks By Gas in Air Raid Wardens OCD Says Signal Must Differ From General Alarm, Gives Gas Hints SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 Pp San Franciscans will be warned of a gas attack by the beating- of pans, or tin tubs, by members of the city's 21,000-man air raid warden service, local Civilian Defense Director J. Helms decided Friday night. The warning method was suggested by the ninth regional US office of civilian defense for consideration of all west coast cities. In telegrams to defense coun cil heads, the regional OCD office laid down these regulations: 1. Warning against gas attacks should not be given in a general alarm, as is the proceeding when an air raid is believed imminent. The gas warning should be sound ed by the individual air raid block warden only after he has deter- mined that gas is present in THs particular area. 1. The gas warning should be easily distinguished from the air raid warning. A percussion sound, achieved by hammering or beating on a metal object such as a dishpan, Is the sim plest and most effective meth od, the OCD said, and the pub lic should be acquainted at once with the accepted signal. 3. When the gas alarm is sounded, the OCD said, the civil ians should seek shelter in a room on an upper floor and remain there until the block warden has notified them that the danger has passed. The general "all clear" signal, sounded when the air raid has ended,. does not mean that the danger from gas no longer exists. That is the block warden s respon sibility to determine. Middle Grove Man Missing After Manila MIDDLE GROVE, June 5 Mr. and Mrs. Walter Antiech have been notified by the navy depart ment that their son, Edmon An tiech, was missing in action after the battle of Manila bay. Edmon Antiech enlisted in the nsvr in July 1925: and was a machinist first class. He had serv ed with the Asiatic fleet and in 1935 while in Shanghai married a Russian girl -who was . living there. In July, 1937, "with his wife and daughter he visited, his lam iry here. " "X.f;'' In March, 1938, he was,, again sent with the Asiatic : fleet and had , been there" ever ? since.- His wife and ' six-year-old : daughter were in Shanghai at the time war broke out and his family has had no word from them. Besides his parents Antiech has four ' sisters: Mrs.1 Glen Hadley, Airlie; Mrs; Robert Young, Port land; Mrs: Virgil Eeebe, and.Mrs. Liu , Wilbams. Portland Clipped Wings Bay City Get Warning Job; Plant Blast Kills Many Shell Loading Building Explodes; 53 Dead Or Missing JOLIET, 111., June 5 -(IP)- An explosion inside the El wood ord nance loading plant left 53 men dead or missing rnday, but it halted production in only one of 12 units inside the plant one of the biggest in the nation. One building was destroyed at 2:45 a. m. (PWT) as a night crew packed cartons and, loaded box cars with explosives. Army offi cers said there was no suspicion of sabotage. Capt David P. Tunstall said 21 persons were known to be dead and 32 others were missing. Only four bodies had been iden tified 12 hours after the blast Others were literally blown to pieces and fingerprint experts were summoned to help with identification. Calls were beinb made to homes of missing to see if, by their. own good luck, they had stayed away from work Thurs day night Tunstall's original list of dead and missing contained 57 names but it was quickly shortened as workmen were located in hos pitals and away from the plant. The ordnance department's pol icy of scattering buildings over an immense area the Elwood plant covers 15,000 acres of flat prairie helped localize to one building the explosion that was felt as far away as 100 miles. Meantime the eleven other load ing lines continued on a 24-hour- a-day basis. Writer Named Hero's Aide ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Saturday, June 6.-(i'P-Iieut CoL Carlos Promulo, win ner of a Pulitzer prize for distin guished correspondence and the last, man to leave Bataan penin sula before its falL was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Douglas MacArthur Saturday. Homulo, formerly connected with the Philippines Herald at Manila, was awarded a $900 prize last month for . his observations and forecasts of, the far eastern situation. ' i Sniffers To Capital War Battle in China FDR Warns Japan About Use of Gas Allies Sink 3 U-Boats; Red Planes Strike Nazis in Arctic LONDON, Saturday. June C (P) British bombers were over enemy territory again Friday night, H was announced Satur day.' TOKYO (from Japanese broadcasts), Saturday, June 6 (JPf Advance Japanese units battling against stubborn Chin ese resistance outside the wall ed city of Chuhslen In western Chekiang province were report ed by Domei to have occupied the city's airfield Saturday morning. By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor On the most important of China's several fighting lines Friday, the showdown seemed to be approaching in the bloody battle for the Chekiang province -railway center of Chuhsien, and in India there were new stir rings. Almost s i m ultaneously with a disclosure that advanced Japanese troops had thrust to within 45 miles of India's border with Burma it was announced that the Indian sub-continent had been reinforced by the biggest convoy of arms and troops ever to reach its shores. And away to the south, before Australia, allied headquarters re ported strong new action against Japanese submarines a prowl in those waters. Allied airmen pro tecting the Australian supply lines sank two and probably a third enemy undersea boats to bring to seven their probable score for a week, the sinking of four sub marines in and around Sydney harbor having been previously an nounced. While this profoundly impor tant test remained in balance President Roosevelt announced in Washington the receipt of authoritative reports that the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Japan Radio Tells About Sub Attacks TOKYO (From Japanese broad cast), June 6-;p)-The Japanese press carried jubilant accounts Saturday of attacks by Japanese submarines on Sydney, Australia, and the Diego Suarez naval base on Madagascar. "Our naval operations arc ex tending over an ever vaster irea,' boasted the newspaper Asahi. (There still was no word, how ever, official or unofficial, from Tokyo on the Japanese attack Wednesday upon Dutch Harbor Alaska, and on Midway island Thursday.) . Hochi said the navy's latest ex ploits "have established complete Japanese domination of the Pacific and Indian oceans." (In the Sydney attack the Japa nese lost four of their midget sub marines and sank one old con verted ferry boat The British ad miralty gave the lie to a Japanese claim that a battleship of : the Queen . Elizabeth class and a light cruiser were damaged at Diego Suarez.) ' Planes Raid Rabaul f ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Saturday, June t -iJP) Allied planes have made a night attack' on the harbor at Rabaul; New Britain, bombing the wharf, warehouses and a coaling Jetty, General MacArthur's headquart era announced Saturday, , Heavy Dama Carol Avers War Not on Roumania MEXICO CITY, Jane 5 JP) Former King Carol of Roumania said Friday night the United States' declaration of war arainst his homeland was "against the actual leaders of the country but I can not con sider, and I don't think any body else can consider it a declaration against the Rol manian people." "There never has been and there is now no conflict be tween the United Stites and Roumanian people," the exiled monarch said in a statement I believe that the day the Rou manian people are able to ex press themselves freely they will be able to overthrow the present government and they certainly then will pass com pletely to the side of the Unit ed Nations." Joint G roup Settles, $46 House to Continue Fight on $50 Scryice Pay, - WASHINGTON, June 3.-)-A senate-house conference commit tee Friday agreed unanimously on compromise increase to $46 month in the basic pay of buck privates and apprentice seamen, but legislators said the fight for a higher rate was far from over. The senate had voted a min imum pay of $42 and the house $58. The present pay Is $21 for the first four months, then It goes to 130. First class privates and corres ponding naval ratings under the compromise would receive $52 a month compared with a senate approved rate of $48 and a house approved $54. The c o n f e r e nee agreement reached speedily after two unher alded meetings during the day, will come up first in the senate on Monday. Senator Johnson (D-Colo), co author of the legislation, predict ed senate adoption of the com promise. But Senator LaFollette (Prog-Wis), an advocate of $50, said he would fight to defeat it If rejected, it probably would be returned to conference with instructions to accept the house rate of $50. The house approved the latter figure in passing the bill in the first place. It did so by al most a 10 to 1 vote again in re jecting a conference report pro posing $42. The conferees not only com promised on $46 Friday, but agreed to make the increases op erative as of June 1 last The Or iginal bill provided that the in creases would become effective in the first calendar month after the legislation was enacted. Americans On Raid Staff WASHINGTON, June 5 -(Jt) Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mount- batten, the youthful chief of the daring British commandos, dis closed Friday that the commando general staff included American army officers. He made this disclosure in. a brief talk to American newspaper men; in. which- he told how the commandos raided the headquar ters of Field Marshall Rommel hi Africa; with the intention of kill ing Rommel . and bis staff ; and depriving the naris of leadership at the moment ot the last great British offensive : there. Rommel, it developed; was in Rome attend ing a birthday tarty, but the ! commandos got his staff. - - Mountbatten said, "but unfortu nately he was still the same Rom mel." . .' ge Vessels; Grows Midway Attack Borne Largely By Air Forces Yanks Continue Fight; Appearjws Major Try at Island HONOLULU, June 5 (AP) Japanese Naval forces attacking Midway island have suffered very heavy" damage to carrier, battleship, cruiser and transport classes and ap pear now to be withdraw ing, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said in a communi que Friday night. "As more reports come in, the communique said, "it ap pears that the enemy damage Is very heavy, indeed, involving sev eral ships in each of carrier, bat tleship, cruiser and transport classes. "This damage is far out of pro portion to that which we have re ceived." Except f or. a few . ineffectual shots fronr submarine Thursday night the Japanese failed to fol low up their initial air attack against the island, Admiral Nimitz added. The brunt of the defense to date," the communique con tinued, "has fallen upon our aviation personnel !ri which the army, navy and marine corps all were represented. They have added another shining page to their record of achievements. "One carrier already damaged by air attack was hit by three tor pedoes fired by a submarine. "On every occasion when we have met the enemy, our officers and men have been superlative in their offensive spirit . . . "There were reported several instances of enemy planes machine gunning our aviation personnel who bailed out in parachutes ot were adrift in rubber boats. "While it is too early to claim a major Japanese disaster, it may be conservatively stated that the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Oregon Trail Fete Planned Oregon in Top Spot; Trail West From - St. Louis PORTLAND, June 5-P-Plani for Oregon's centennial anniver sary next year unfolded Friday, with the arrival of Dr. Howard R. Driggs, president of the Amer ican Pioneer Trails association. "Your centennial commemora tion won't be confined to Oregon," said the New York university fac ulty member, "It will be a 2300 mile celebration. From St Louis westward it will be marked in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming -and all the other states the original Oregon Trail touched. But we are counting on Oregon as the great sponsoring state." Driggs said he believed war conditions in 1943 would have lit tle effect on the celebration. The association grew from the old Oregon Trail -organization af ter other states demanded atten tion for their pioneer trails. Funeral Today For Matthews ; -:k':i: .7 " - -.: r.' ' " 'Funeral, services or Dr. James T. Matthews, longtime -Willamette university professor who died Thursday night are to-be held at 2 o'clock 'this afterhoon-feom the First Methodist church. Dr. J. C Harrison, pastor of the church, is to officiate and interment is to be at Lee Mission cemetery, historic ground where founders and early leaders of the university .are bur ied. I r 4 ' -