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Advice Japan! s ... Official advice of the fed eral office of civilian de fense on what to do if an air raid , comes appears on pate six of today's States- HONOLULU, Jane Current gag here: .The pu rine commander at Midway in a message to Admiral Nlmitz: "Japs lose pants try ing to save face," Clip It out and save it. FOUNDS!?, NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Jan 10, IS 12 Price 5c No. 55 Off .... , .. . Sunk Go att 'Sub gUOll m. y : Allied Bombers And Lashio, Dowries Jap Planes Aerial Units Arrive to Help China Chinese Hold City; Jap Get Warning Of Bad News ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Australia, Wednesday, June 10 ( AP) Thirteen Japanese fighter planes were destroyed or damaged in com hat niitr "Nvr flntnaa TnosHav by allied bombers which also started many fires among ob jectives at Lae and Salamaua, General MacArthur's head quarter? announced Wednesday. Two allied planes were miss ing, the communique said. Allied bombers also started fires and scored hits on Japanese motor vehicles in an attack on Ermera in the Portuguese part of Timor island northwest of Aus tralia. A Japanese submarine also was reported to have unsuccessfully attacked with gunfire an allied ship off the southeast coast of Australia. WASHINGTON, June 9 - (JP) The war department announced Tuesday night that American bombers carried oat an attack en the Japanese at Lashio. ter mious of the Barms road, scor ing Mts - on the airdrome and planes on the ground, as well as en railway equipment and supplies. None of the bombers was lost by enemy action, said a - delayed report from Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Breretcn,,but four of the planes crashed in the Burmese moun tains because of bad weather on a return trip to the base in India. Enemy fighters attacked the planes without success during the raid, Brereton reported to the department One large flight of Japanese pursuit ships- kept one of the bombers under attack for 35 minutes, but the four-engined American plane returned to its base without serious damage. Extremely difficult w e a t her conditions were encountered said (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Scrap Rubber Collection Set FDR Figures 'Snappy' Campaign Will Aid Ration Problem WASHINGTON, June 9-()-A nationwide campaign to collect scrap rubber was announced Wednesday by President Roose velt The chief executive set no date for the drive, but expressed hope it could be started shortly and completed two weeks after it was inaugurated. He indicated there would be no expansion of the present east ern seaboard gasoline rationing at least until after the results of the campaign were known. Na tional gasoline rationing has been suggested in some quarters as a conservation m ea s u r e possibly starting around mid-July. One of the major problems Involved in the current gaso - Hoe-rubber situation, the presi dent told his press conference. Is the fact that there are no ac curate estimates en the -amount of scrap rubber available. No two persons agree ou the amount, he said, explaining that if the lowest estimate were cor (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Cattle Roaming Giampoeg Park Want a herd of cattle? , The caretaker at Champoeg me morial park, E. E. Morgan, has several large bands of cattle that he'd like to get rid of, he wrote to the Marion county sheriffs office Tuesday.; He complained they had been roaming through the park for SO days and "no one claims them locally.' i Paul Marnach. dog and herd law enforcement officer was di Ttpd bv Sheriff A. C. Burk to investigate the complaint, V Tarzan, Jr., and Yank Tank Here i "- i 'ni ' rr :r'" omA, "Keep buyimr war stamps!" was the plea of Johnny Sheffield, 11-year-old player of the Tarzan, jr., role In the movies, in his appearance In Salem Tuesday with the "Bay Tanks for Yanks" tour party sponsored by the US treasury department and Sheffield's studio. Johnny posed above on the tracks of the 13-ton army tank that accompanied him here, as the Marion county war saving's staffs parade to Victory Center on the courthouse rroonds began. At the Center, with Westly McWain as master of ceremonies. Mayor W. W Chadwick, Rev. Robert A. Hutchinson, Frederick S. Lamport, county war savings chairman, and' Sheffield spoke briefly to a crowd of several hundred spectators. I, I, I.,. . i fc - - 'fr - ... . .. .. Four Italian Supply Vessels Destroyed; French Hold, Libya British Sub and Bombers Successful In Mediterranean; Tenth Attack on Bir Hacheim in Desert Stopped By ROBERT BUNNELLE LONDON, June 9.-P)-Britain's new submarine Turbulent has sunk an Italian destroyer and four merchant ships rushing supplies across the Mediterranean to the hard-pressed axis army in Libya, even as huge RAF bombers struck mighty blows at axis bases in Sardinia and Crete. These offensive actions in support of the British desert army of Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck were announced Tuesday by the admiralty and RAF, The Turbulent's depredations were in the central Mediterranean on the axis supply lines between Naples and Tripoli. At least two of the medium-sized supply ships were loaded to the gunwales. Al though protected by two of Mus solini's sleek destroyers, the Tur bulent sent both to the bottom and also sank one of the escorts a 1628-ton destroyer of the Navigatori class the admiralty's communique said. A third supply ship was sunk out of another convoy. A small merchant vessel, laden with ex plosives, also fell victim to the Turbulent in another action. The RAF's raids struck bases 900 miles apart. The big bombers, based either in Egypt or Libya, set fires visible for 70 miles among barrack build ings at the airdrome of Canadia, capital of the overrun Greek is land of Crete last night. Explo sions were observed on the run ways, the RAF reported. Shipping was bombed in the Cagliari harbor at the southern tip of Sardinia, the large Italian island which lies almost midway between Spain and Italy. WITH THE ALLIED FOR CES IN LIBYA. June MJP) Free French defenders of Bir Hacheim held their desert stronghold on the southern an chor of the Gazala line Toes day after beating off the tenth and strongest axis assault in two weeks of savage battle. -' It started on Monday dawn with a pounding from 25 German dive bombers. There followed a long and heavy artillery barrage in which the enemy used guns of from 20 to 210 millimetres, the latter the biggest , cannon in use in the desert. At 10 a.m. Monday, three bat (Tura to Page 2, CoL 3) ff Hit 4ew Board's Work Teacher Jobs Salem District Gives Contracts ; Janitors May Change Shifts Personnel problems engaged Salem school directors at their brief meeting Tuesday night .with one request lor military leave, one resignation from a newly-elected teacher who plans to be married shortly and one notification of de cision not to accept a proffered contract. Raymond Carl, teacher of band, orchestra and industrial arts at Leslie junior high school, asked and received military leave. - Miss Dorothea Wilner, Spring field trade school teacher, elect ed to' the Salem system recently, has notified the board that she plans to be married in Boston later this month and so has tend ered her resignation. Elected in her place was Miss Winona Kae Duncan, Dallas teacher. Decision not to accept the con tract offered by the Salem sys tem was announced by one, and a similar contract was authorized for Miss Edith Clarke, now of Corval lis, to fill a temporary vacancy in the physical education department Positions as permanent substi tutes to replace teachers on leave next year were approved for Miss Muriel ' Bentson, who has been serving as a substitute here, and to Mrs. Lucille Kennedy, acting rural school supervisor the past year in Marion county. Janitors in the system, bow working 5H days for n total of 44 hours a week may shift their vacation schedules to work five (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Guinea H, Russians Slay 2500, Crimea Sevastopol Holds On; RAF Builds Bigger Raids on Nazis By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Wednesday, June 10 (yP)-Soviet defenders of Sevastopol killed 2500 Germans Tuesday in savage hand-to-hand fighting as the nazis hurled wave upon wave of infantrymen at the approaches of the Black sea naval base, the Russians announced officially early Wednesday. By sheer weight of numbers the Russians said the Germans blasted their way forward in one sector of the mountain-studded battle- front but that " Counter-attacking red forces hurled them back again. Twenty four German tanks were knocked out, the midnigm communique said It listed six German planes shot down and 14 damaged. Under siege seven months, the defenders of Sevastopol have been subjected to a series of extremely vigorous assaults for five days by planes, tanks and infantry in what appeared to be an all-out German assault But nowhere was there a sign of wavering in the Russian lines. Tuesday night's communique said the Soviets were holding firm. Upward of 50,000 picked Ger man troops already had died be fore Sevastopol since last fall, and the toll mounted swiftly by the hour, the Russians reported. While veteran red troops par ried every thrust of the Germans the civilian population went into the catacombs deep under the city to weather the fiery and explosive storm of the German air force. . A correspondent for Izvestia, of ficial newspaper, said several thousand incendiaries and hund reds of explosives were showered on the city, but the civilians quick' ly extinguished the fires and re paired damage to essential serv ice. -. LONDON, June -P)-The RAF bomber command Tues day night was marshaling : its incalculable air strength for as saults on Germany's vital war industries of " the Ruhr and Rhineland which air chief Mar shal A. T. Harris predicted (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Monday's Weather ' Weather forecasts withheld : and temperature data delayed at US army request. Maximum temp. Monday, (4, min. 52. Ri ver Tuesday, J ft. America Favored In France Leahy Says Nazi Pressure Stops Work by Petain By WADE WERNER WASHINGTON, June 9.-() Virtually all the French people are pro-American and hopeful of axis defeat, US Ambassador William D. Leahy told a press conference Tuesday night. : Admiral Leahy, whom Presi dent Roosevelt recalled from Vichy last April after the sudden return to power of Pierre Laval, arch-exponent of c o 1 1 a b Oration with Germany, also said a year and a half of close and cordial re lations with Marshal Henri Petain had left him with a "high personal regard" for the aged chief of state. He added, however, Petain was under such constant Ger man pressure it was difficult for him to do much for the re lief of his country. "I have just returned," Leahy said, "from a France that is com pletely submerged under an inva sion' of barbarians who have seized most oi tne country s ma terial resources and have de stroyed much of the spiritual pos sessions of the people. "The sense of freedom that one feels upon arriving in America is completely beyond my facility with words to express. Although stressing the pro- American attitude of the French people, he added that they "are suffering from a complete military defeat are unorganized, inarticu late, and have no influence what ever on the Jpposition or policy of the government" "There is, however," he went on, "no other agency than the government which we can main tain contact with the French people." Maintenance of diplomatic rela tions with the Vichy government despite recurrent crises and diffi culties, has been worth while. Leahy maintained. "It appears to me," he said, that America should continue to base its every diplomats and other policy and action on the one pur pose of defeating the axis. effort to enslave the world, and with this essential purpose in mind as well as in consideration of the tradi tional friendship of America and France, it is my personal opinion that every practical assistance should be given by America to the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Prince Rupert Alarm Brief Friendly Plane Causes First 'Imminent Danger9 in Canada VICTORIA, BC, June 9-CP) Unidentified planes approaching the northerly port of Prince Ru pert Tuesday caused a sudden imminent danger" alarm the first such alarm in Ccnada but it was lifted when the aircraft were identified as friendly. In a statement Tuesday night, Western air command of the RCAF said: "Owing to presence of uniden tified aircraft off northern coast of British Columbia, an air raid alert was imposed at Prince Ru pert at 12:30 p. m. June 9. The aircraft were later identified as friendly." The sudden wailing of the imminent danger signal at 2:05 p. m. PDT (3. -05 MDT) caused schools to close and some indus trial work to shut down. Some , school children went into the woods, but there was no alarm among the population of the northern port. Stores remained open, but most shopkeepers stood at their doors, looking toward the sky, and there was a general unwillingness to go indoors. ARP wardens turned out, and stood by their posts, fully equipped for emergency. The all clear was sounded two hours, and five minutes later at 4:10 p. m. PDT (5:10 MDT). There was no blackout Tues day night for the second straight night since June 3 when Japa nese planes raided the .United States naval base at Dutch Har bor, Alaska. Until Monday night the British Columbia . northerly city had observed precautionary blackout. - Berlin Claims US Loss 2 Carriers BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), June l(WP-The Berlin radio said Wednesday that imperial headquarters in Tokyo in the first Japanese an nouncement of the battle of Mid way, declared that two United States aircraft carriers, of the Enterprise and Hornet types, were sunk. Japanese losses were given as: One aircraft carrier sunk. One aircraft carrier heavily damaged. One cruiser damaged. Thirty five aircraft missing-. Factory, Farm Efforts Pooled Joint Boards Named By US and Britain For Resources WASHINGTON, June MP) The factories and farms of the United States and the United King dom were pooled Tuesday in such a manner that their operations may be directed toward winning the war as if the two countries were one. This was accomplished by the establishment of two joint boards, announced simultaneously by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in Washington and London. One is a "combined production and resources board" and the other a "combined food board." Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board, and Oliver Lyttelton, British production minister now on a mission here, comprise the pro ductive and resources Board. Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard and R. H. Brand, head of the British food mission here, com pose the other. The production and resources board is to combine the production (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Argentina C7 Protests Denounces to Axis Torpedoing of Tanker, April BUENOS AIRES, June 9-(JF) The Argentine government has protested to Germany and Italy over the "aggression" commit ted in the torpedoing of the Ar gentine tanker Victoria "with out warning" in American waters, it was announced officially Tues day night. The Victoria was attacked last April off Cape Hatteras, but managed to reach port with the aid of a US naval patrol. Argentina and Chile are the only two South American na tions still maintaining diploma tic relations with the axis, and Actinr President Ramon S. Castillo's government is under opposition fire for his "policy of prudence." The Argentine note was not made public, but a foreign office communique announcing the pro test said the Victoria was attacked April 17 "in full daylight" despite the fact she was marked plainly as an Argentine ship. The government said its exoerts were unable to tell the origin of the torpedo fragments taken from the Victoria, but added: There exists a coUectio:i of circumstances that permits one to suppose, whatever may have been the class of torpedoes, that they were fired by a submarine of one of the axis states. Argentine envoys in Rome and Berlin were instructed to protest in writing, "pointing out. the gov ernment has a solemn duty to denounce aggression committed against a ship of its flag, navigat ing as a neutral on the free sea in an act of peace commerce, and all without warning." Plane Alissing From Pensacola PENSACOLA, Fla, June A navy patrol plane with 10 men aboard has been unreported since it took off on a routine training flight last Friday and is pre sumed lost in the gulf, officers at the naval air station reported Tuesday. The next of kin . of the pilot and other occupants of the ship have been notified. V-v Renew Action Ship, Neah Bay 50 Survive Sunday Night Sinking, Landed in Port Angeles; Many Injured WASHINGTON, June 9 (AP) The navy announced officially Tuesday night that a United States merchant ship had been sunk by enemy submarine action off the Pacific coast. Senator Bone (D-Wash.) Sunday night off Neah Bay at of Washington. It was the first enemy submarine action to be reported off the Pacific coast in recent months. Survivors Tell Of Sunk Ship One Crewman Dies of Exposure; Vessel Down Off Coast A WEST PDA ST PDHT .Tnnp 0, (JP)-A band of chilled and weath- er-beaten seamen told Tuesday how they suffered from cold and exposure that killed one of their number after their merchantman was torpedoed in the Pacific off the west coast. The navy announcement of e sinking said the United States ship "has been sunk by enemy subma rine actionjfiff the Ffccific coast" The man who died of exposure was Stephen Chance, 56, second cook and baker, who died in the only lifeboat that was launched. The rest of the 60 men aboard the ship reached safety aboard two life rafts that were lashed together. A second lifeboat was smashed in the torpedoing, the survivors said. Two men were reported in seri ous condition. Stephen Malone, a fireman, was badly crushed in his bunk about 50 feet from where the torpedo hit. Vern .Wickert of Sioux Falls, SD., an oiler was In serious condition from oil which reached his lungs. Members of the crew said Wick ert was standing near an oil tank when the explosion burst it. He was either thrown into the tank or deluged with the gushing oil from it a It was the first torpedoing of a vessel off the west coast since the series of sinkings off the Cali fornia shore during December, the first monthof hostilities with Japan. The merchantman was under the command of Capt Lyle G. Havens, 48, of Sa Carlos, Calif., who said "I know it was a sub." It was to have been his last trip aboard the vessel and he remarked wryly: "And It was. It also was the last trip aboard her scheduled for First Officer E. W. Nystrom of Oakland, Calif., who soon will be taking over a command of his own. Nystrom is a former Washington State college student Nystrom and Captain Havens described Sunday night, when the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Fishing Safe, For TSimitz No Bragger PEARL HARBOR, Juno -A) Pacific fleet headquarters said at noon Tuesday there was nothing, new to report in the central Pacific area. News of the great victory was taken In stride by Pearl Harbor and Honolulu. , A victory mes sage to the population by Lieut Gen. Delos C Emmons, brought no great celebration among Honoluluans, such as might have been expected. People who had worked 24 hours a day for days simply went home and slept . Some of the tenseness of tho population went out with the victory news, as demonstrated by a Hawaiian fisherman on a deserted,- barbed-wire beach. "Tvo been reading the news paper and guess It's safe to go fishing now," he said. "I haven't been out since December 7. They say N units doesnt brag. ,. e d said the freighter was sunk the northern tip of the state Senator Wallgren (D-Wash.) said in Los Angeles he had been informed by telephone that 50 survivors, many of them injured, were taken to Port Angeles, Wash. The navy announcement said only that "a United States mer chant ship has been sunk by ene my submarine action off the Pa cific coast." Bone told of the sinking in a statement issued, he said, with the knowledge and approval of .1 : : tt j : -j " . a "uu""llra' "c ulu " ! ldef"fy .fig111- or ve n further details. "A freighter was sunk off Neah bay Sunday night by a subma rine," the statement said. "It did not involve any of our naval units. "It was Just another one of many present tragedies of the sea. I hope it will serve to strengthen our determination to carry on and I know our people in the state will take - it in stride," "We can not hope to escape such incidents," Bone's statement con tinued, "but the navy is doing its best to minimize the risks and stop the sinkings. "Our people are making their answer by buying war bonds and they exceeded their quota in May by 46 15 per cent This record is an inspiration to use back here." The incident, Sen. Wallgren told reporters, points to the ne cessity of a better patrol of off shore points. I tfaiafc-tb .defenses of our west coast are absolutely inade quate," he added, "They are In adequate from the standpoint of patrol and lack of army and navy planes to guard and pro- tect these vital areas. "It is my intention when I re turn to Washington to try and get a delegation meeting of west coast states to discuss the defenses of this coast The cooperation on the part of the army and the navy in patrolling all of our coastal areas will be of great benefit to coastal shipping." Blimps9 Crash . Fatal to 12 At Lakehurst LAKEHURST, NJ, June 9. -UP) The nation's first fatal blimp acci dent in nine years was logged Tuesday as one of its worst when rescue boats found only one sur vivor among 13 men aboard two lighter-than-air ships which col lided and fell into the Atlantic. Both blimps were engaged in a secret , experiment when they plunged into the ocean late Mon day night One training ship apparently carried to the bottom most of the eight men in its cabin, only one body being recovered. The one man rescued was from a smaller training craft Bodies of three of the other four men aboard this airship were taken from its tangled but floating wreckage. Determination of : th . cause awaited appointment of a naval board of inquiry. The naval air station here said only that the blimps collided while "engaged in an experimental - mission involv ing some hazard.f : -, f ; Five of the 1 dead and missing were civilian scientists' or tech nicians; the rest were navy per sonnel,' two ; tf-Jthem- prominent aeronauts-;:-:' r, The survivor was Ensign How ard S. Fahoy, jr., of Scarsdale, NY, co-pilot of tho small craft, wio escaped 'through a window as fhe cabin struck the water. He was injured. , , v '
