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( Today 3 Sections II A I J 1 I .1 I II. 20 POUNDBD 16&1 NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem, Orexjon, Sunday Morning. June- 14, 1942 Prico 5c No. 59 Airmen Seek to Banigfi Jsl Flag t - iy vv i y - Flags fly. today for victory as th United State celebrates the history of the nation's ensign and the role it plays today in the world at war. Highlight speech by President Roosevelt on the radio at 2:35 p. "Nazis Widen Sea wo To Include US Goast Radio Avers Answer Made to Second Front Plans BERLIN, ( from German broadcasts), June 13 --The German government announc ed Saturday night extension of its blockade across the Atlantic all the way to the American coast as a result of the United States' entry into the war and of "the development which naval warfare has taken since then off the American seaboard." (CBS in New York heard a Berlin broadcast saying the blockade extension was Ger many's answer to allied threats of a second front.) The official announcement said: "The operations area in which at all times military action must be reckoned with has been en larged to extend to the Amer ican coast across the Atlantic ocean. "This was caused by the fact that the United States entered the war, and furthermore, by the developments which naval warfare has taken since then off the American seaboard. Every ship which will sail in this area after June 26 is subjecting: itself to destruction. "The German government there fore is warning against sailing in the hazardous area which extends "From the Belgian coast three degrees east, over 62 degrees north, three degrees east and 68 degrees north, 10 degrees west to the coast of Greenland along 8 degrees north; then along the Greenland . coast to Cape Farewell : and from there. to Cape Harrison; thence along the coast to Canada, ; the United States of America to Key West; from there along 28 degrees north, 60 degrees west, 45 degres north, 20 degrees west : and 45 degrees north, five degrees west and then to the French - coast at -47 degrees, 30 minutes north." ,' f (Turn to Pago 2, Col. 3) Rich and Poor Alike Shop in The Wanl Ads Many authentic surveys, have disclosed ' the fact , that at least 1 out of 5 adults read the Want Ads EVERY DAY. Every edition of The - Statesman includes many Want Ads of keen inter est to every family. Homes, automobiles, household goods, busi nesses, services, are only a few of the hundreds of , things which may be se cured lor less money by shopping for a few days in Statesman Want Ads TURN TO THE CLASSIFIED PAGE NOW! Sliips Outwit Siibs i i Nation Vows Victory at Celebration By The Associated Press . Aeross the length and breadth of the nation war-stirred Amer icans paid tribute this weekend to the flag for which they fight, and, bound by ties of war, Joined their sister United Na tions In reaffirming their will to final victory. : In populous cities and in tiny villages bands played, troops marched and the "home front" paraded Saturday in honor of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Flag day. From his headquarters in Australia, the hero of the Phil ippines sent a message calling the designation of June 13 as "MacArthur day" a rededication "to the immortal ideals of West Point; 'Duty, honor, country ,'" Celebration of the : anniver sary -ot his entrance into- West Point "fills me with humble thanksgiving," he said. Emphasizing the comradeship of the 27 nations united against the axis powers, their represen (Turn to Page 2. Col. 4) 27 Jap Planes Raid Darwin Damage Light in First Bombing of Port Since April ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sunday, June 14 (JP) Twenty seven Japanese bombers escorted by fighters raided Dar win Saturday, but did little dam age, General MacArthur's head quarters announed Sunday. The raid was carried out while Australia with the rest of the allied world was celebrating MacArthur day. One enemy and one allied plane were lost, headquarters announced. It was the first raid on the northern Australian port since the United States navy and allied air forces Joined in smash ing a Japanese invasion thrust toward Australia. The Melbourne radio, heard in San Francisco, said that 27 bomb ers the same number reported in the Darwin raid attacked Derby, on the northwestern coast of Australia, Saturday. Apparently this was a garbled version of the Darwin attack. Fifteen previous raids have been made on Darwin since the war's start, the last on April 27 when allied defenders shot down three bombers and nine fighters out of a raiding force of 26 enemy aircraft, 17 of them heavy bombers. Two Trapped In Coal Mine RENTON, Wash., June Two 13-man rescue crews dug in relays Saturday in an effort to reach two miners trapped in the Renton Mining company's coal mine since 10:30 a.m. Friday by a cave-in The rescue workers succeeded in pushing through to the trapped men a pipe through which they were sent food. Approximately 400 feet of coal separated the men from the dig gers late Saturday, The trapped men were identi fied as Archie Skiver, 40, and Bob Stoneck, 21, both of Renton, Three others escaped when they felt a rush of air coming into the tunnel, indicating something was amiss. Foreman L. W. Emeyr, H. Stevenson and Crockett i Wimer got out the main shaft before the slide filled a branch tunnel with S50 feet of muck. . today is a m. (PWT). Barrier: Vessel Brings In Survivors rom Raider Allied Ships Sunk; Most of Crews Saved, Landed By The Associated Press Five ships were announced sunk in seas both near and far Saturday but two more struck back and returned to tell their stories. A small Norwegian freighter steamed into an eastern Cana dian port .with undisputable proof that it licked a submarine the submarine's survivors. A United Fruit banana ship, the Atenas, reached a gulf coast port with the jubilant report that an axis submarine was probably sunk and another freightened off in its voyage. The Norwegian ship's victory was announced by the Norwegian information bureau in Montreal but no details were given. It was merely announced that the U boat's survivors are now prisoners of war in Canada. The Atenas' exploit was an nounced a week ago from Cost Rica where the ship touched but crew members Saturday gave added details. When the first submarine was sighted the captain signalled to the gun crew and five shots were fired, two scoring hits. Nine hours later a second submarine opened fire on the vessel but the gun crew answered. When it heard the shot, the submarine crash dived and nothing more was seen of it. The US navy announced that in (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Exterminate Jew' Threat Of Goebbels NEW YORK, June 13-W-The German radio broadcast Saturday night a full version of. an article by Propaganda Minister . Paul Joseph Goebbels, published by the weekly periodical Das Reich, in which he threatened extermi nation of Jews in reprisal. for British air assaults upon Ger many. . The broadcast, heard here by CBS, quoted Goebbels as follows: "We defend our very , skins in this struggle for national existence and. we, use those means that are being forced upon ns by our enemy. We have never doubted that "through aerial warfare some and even heavy damage could be done to i. , ,r . ; "The question, however, re mains whether this sort of war fare is suited to influence basical ly the military situation- and whether the results Mr. Churchill hopes to get from it will actually be achieved to any appreciable degree. "It does not need any empha sis that the German civilian pop ulation, struck by this method of warfare, has to - suffer" bitterly under the British terrors. But London is mistaken when it be lieves that the German morale could be broken by terror meth ods. It is a complicated and very expensive way-of waging war. for both sides, but he who started it is responsible for it. -fin this war the Jews are play ing their most criminal game and they will have to pay for it with the extermination of their race throughout Europe and; maybe, even beyond. . US T roops Iir Eire 4th Coiivoy Has Heavy Tanks to Use in Offense By RICE YAHNER WITH THEAEF IN NORTH ERN IRELAND, June 13 -JP) Thousands of heavily armed United States troops equipped with 28-ton tanks, and other offensive weapons, moved into camps in northern Ireland Sat urday night from the "great est American convoy which ever crossed the Atlantic" in grim evi dence of allied hopes of opening a second front against Germany this year. Warships flying the US ensign shepherded the convoy through nazi submarine hunting grounds without incident, and this fourth announced AEF contingent swung jauntily down the gangplanks as if impatient to get along with the business of fighting Germans. From at least nine states they came an indication in itself of the diversity and size of the newest force. Troops from Pennsylvania. California, Geor gia, Illinois, New Jersey, Mary land, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky shouted cheerily at uniformed women of the British army auxiliary forces while mil itary bands piped out "Deep in the Heart of Texas,' "Jersey Bounce" and other tunes. For the first tune since the last war, negro troops were landed on British soil. An army statement said their number was small an that they were intended for "senM ices 6f supply." . Despite their growing numbers, the combined American, and Brit ish invasion forces virtually promised to Russia for opening a second front to divert nazi strength from the vital eastern front face grave problems before they can spring across the channel. Some 500,000 or more German veterans (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) GOP Leader C. A. "Cliff" Lewis, new chairman of the Marlon county republican central committee. Policy Group Is Appointed 15 Committeemen to Serve With Central Republican Body Appointment of 15 executive committeemen to serve with of ficers of the Marion county re publican central committee in for mulating policies and transacting urgent business of the larger com mittee during the fall election campaign was announced Satur day by C. A. "Cliff Lewis, new county chairman. ' The appointees are: Mrs. Cobie de Lespinasse, Hubbard; Chris J. Kowitz, Salem; E. L. Rogers, Quinaby; Frederick S. Lamport, Salem; J. T. Jones, Jefferson; Mrs. Nettie J. Spaulding, Salem; George Manolis, Silverton; Gordon Tower, Salem; " Fred J. Schmab, Mt,, Angel; Mrs. Doris Woodburn, Salem , Heights; Dorothy L Cor nelius, Salem; Ralph S. Nohlgren, Salem; A. E. LaBranch, Four Corners; F. A. Zimmerman, Sub limity, and Harry. Humphreys. . Officers in addition to Lewis are Mrs. R. L. Wright, vice-chairman; Mrs. Helen . B. Fkke, secretary, and Walter Lamkin, treasurer. New -: :l 1 Crew of Lex Cool States- Oregon Man OREGON CITY, Ore June 13 yp-WUlUm S. Hibbard, radio man who survived the sinking of the USS Lexington, told at urday of the crew's coolness . in the final moments' of the air-' craft carrier. - "We bad so much confidence In Captain Sherman," he told , an interviewer, "that we stood on the , flight deck eating lee cream while awaiting the order,. ,to abandon ship. . . V i f We k n e w the Lex was i oomed ; a few hours after the Jap .torpedo attack, but there . was no panic. When we aban doned, I Jumped Into the waves, SO feet below.' The water was warm and it ; was a nice eve- ' nlng out. Twenty, minutes later . a whaleboat picked meH tap.? ' The captain of the .Ixingion, ' Frederick Sherman, since has , been promoted to rear admiral. ; US Bombers Raided Nazis Four Planes in Turkey Interned; Worry c Shown in Germany LONDON, June 13 rtfV Four mysterious United States bomb ers, reported by official Turkish sources to have landed in Turkey Friday with ' American crews, were described in British press dispatches Saturday night as members of a US squadron based on Egypt which had been bomb ing axis bases on the German occupied Black sea coast of Rus sia. This, said an Exchange Tele graph agency dispatch from Ankara; -would seem, to be theM? Paulas memornd, f first Indication that a powerful i Accompanying his lettefc , American bomber command exists In the middle east." According to some reports reaching London, Rumanian re fineries . through which pass much of Germany's present oil supply were among the tar gets of the powerful, long-range bombers. In Ankara, United States Am bassador Laurence A. Steinhardt declined to make any statement concerning the incidents. Not only was this the first in dication that United States air forces as such were in combat (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) RAF Sweeps Over Germany . Weather Bars Raiding , Over Channel for Nearly a Week LONDON, June 13 -JP)- RAF Spitfires shot up several trains and . illuminating gas tanks and a factory Saturday in a sweep over' northern France. Near Staples,' the air ministry news service said, pilots saw a locomotive explode after a hit by cannon shells. Three other loco motives and railway cars were hit, one of them near the coastal town of Dieppe. At least nine persons were killed Friday night in .the bombing of an east coast town by a solitary German raid er. Others were believed to have been trapped. A west . midlands town was bombed Saturday by a lone Ger man plane in the first raid on that part of England in months. Sight damage and a few minor casualties were reported. The RAF reported that unfav orable weather since last Mon day had limited offensive bomber operations- to mine laying but that reconnaissance planes had dropped bombs at several points in. northwest Germany during the day Friday. ' Germans Qaini 12,000 Prisoners BERLIN (from German broad casts). June 13-()-The Berlin radio quoted "competent quar ters" Saturday night as stating that the Germans had taken more than 12,000 British prisoners, in cluding four generals and an ad mlral, in the course of the cur rent operations In Iibya. ". sin addition, it was stated, 600 British tanks, 300 guns and many motor vehicles were destroyed or captured. German losses were not . men tioned.; .' - . " Rubber Drive Begins Oil Stations tcr Pay One Cent a Pound for Scrap ; ;v-pqRTiii,'-'. jv& : .13 -PP) Plans foTOrefortr participa tion in the' nationwide scrap rubber drive, starting Monday, began to take shape : Saturday. - Oil company representatives met here to lay preliminary steps but : awaited 'announce ment, of .industry-wide '.procedure, expected oon,' fromrheadquarters in Los Angeles. '; ' Maj. Joseph . K. Carson, state commander of the American Le gion, urged the organization to cooperate with a war production board request to aid in the col lection. He named Willis K. Clark,. Portland,; state chairman of the Legion's drive activities. F. N. Youngman, chairman of the state industrial salvage com mittee, said every industry will be asked to comb individual plants for rubber. Urging utmost cooperation in the national rubber salvage pro gram from every Marion county community, C. W. Panlus, chair man of the Marion county sal vage committee, Saturday di rected all district chairmen to call their committees together immediately to make plans "which will, put this campaign across successfully." "Quick action is vital if -this campaign is to be successful,? de- MBV-J is a copy of the telegraphed directions from Herbert L. Gutterson of the war production . board received here Saturday by Ralph H. Mitch' ell, state executive secretary for the board. "The oil industry has agreed to make available all of its personnel and facilities, includ ing its filling stations and bulk plants, which will be used as col lection depots," the message ex plains. 'Reclaimable rubber which is acceptable will include all kinds of rubber except battery boxes and parts thereof and tire beads. Metal, wood and leather should be re moved from such articles as leath er shoes, baby buggy tires, etc.," it explains. A uniform price of one cent a pound has been agreed upon by the oil industry, which is to receive no profit from the trans actions, Gutterson 's message fur ther explains. "Aside from the obvious purpose of bringing in vitally needed scrap rubber, one of the important pur poses of this drive is to provide immediate factual data on the amount of reclaimable rubber in the country," Gutterson declares. Soldiers Aid Victims of Tornado OKLAHOMA CITY, June 13(A) Red Cross and other relief agen cies cared Saturday for 250 homeless victims of a tornado that killed SO persons in a south west residential district and roar ed off "whistling like 10,000 devils." That description came from Pvt. G. J. Prince of Will Rogers air field who saw the funnel dip down last night out of a storm sky, lift a huge truck and lay it down, near him in a ditch where he had taken refuge. The army sent soldiers from the air base who toiled through the night bringing dead and. in jured from the debris, then stay ed on through the day to help tend the survivors. ' An area two blocks square in the southwest corner of the city was scoured bare of houses, and only a few trees, limbs and leaves wrenched away by the wind, still stood. Our Senators - Xlti 0-1 Info Si AW M , ELMER DAVIS Davis Heads Coordination War Information to Be Consolidated In New Agency WASHINGTON, June 13-UP)-President Roosevelt Saturday cre ated an "office of war informa tion," headed by. Elmer Davis, the writer and radio commen tator, who was given authority to handle all- the information func tions of the government. The new agency will consoli date all of the functions and duties of the office of facts and figures, now headed by Archi bald MacLeish; the office of gov- ernment reports, headed by Low ell jM"Jlett; the division of in formation In the office for emer gency : management, in charge of Robert . W. Horton, and the for eign information service of the office of the coordinator of in formation, directed by William J. Donovan. Director Davis of the new of fice also will have authority, subject to policies laid down by the president himself, to "issue (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) Half of Enemy Carriers Gone Eight Sunk or Badly Damaged in Two Battles By WALTER B. CLAUSEN PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, June 13-OP)-Probably eight Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk or so badly damaged in the Midway and Coral sea battles that they will be unfit for early action, it was shown Saturday by communiques and reports of battle participants., This appears to be more than half of the known carrier power of Japan's navy. In most eases the decks of the carriers were filled with war planes. Indicating the loss In air craft runs well into the hund reds. Personnel losses to the Japanese In these two battles were tremend ous. While no official reports have been made on personnel casualties, unofficial estimates from authori tative sources, based on reports l eye witnesses, are that 5000 Japa nese, were killed in the Coral sea and 10,000 more , lost their lives in the Midway battle. At least six of the carriers which American torpedoes and bombs blasted out of the war either permanently or temporar ily were among Japan's best. Official communiques on the Coral sea battle reported the big carriers sunk or put out of com mission were the Ryukaku and the Shokaku, in the Midway ac tion two of those destroyed were reported to be of the Kaga or Akagi class. Huge 30,000 craft, and the other two modern 20,000 ton carriers. On March 18 In the south Fa ciflc t0. Japanese warships were reported sunk or da a laged. The Tulagi jrald on May 4 accounted for 12. In the Coral sea en Slay ' 7 and t fifteen more were re ported sunk and damaged. Mid way fighting- added at least an other score to the list '- This makes a grand total" of at least 67 ahlDS knocked out of Japanese fleets or badly crippled. Weatber TT - Hampers ' JL ' Alaska Most Navy Men See No Threat In 'Face-Save' WASHINGTON, June IS; (AP) American array and" navy aviation striking; when ever the dirty weather of the far north permitted, were at work Saturday to drive the Japanese from their finger tip hold on the outermost end of the Aleutian island chain stretching- westward from Alaska. The progress of operation was obscure. The navy, for the time, stood on its original announce ment that attacks against the Jap anese in the islands "are continu ing." The Japanese, the navy said, had made a small scale landing at Attu, westernmost of the is- ' lands, and enemy ships had been reported in the harbor of Kiska, in the Rat island group. The Japanese landing at lone ly Attu was the only achieve ment salvaged from Nippon's grand scale offensive attempt in the north Pacific. The southern wing of that offensive was brok en and sent limping away In the action at Midway. In army and navy circles, the Japanese landings were viewed as nothing to rouse concern. What ever Japan's original intentions, it was believed the heavy losses of Japanese warships off Midway had left the enemy in no posi tion to undertake to expand and exploit the footholds. Most naval men apparently in clined to the view thai no teal threat to Alaska was involved. Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, told reporters at Baltimore that the Japanese action was of "no real importance" and might even toecome an enemy liability. But there were those here who pointed out that a position on Attu could be of definite military value to Japan, even if it did not become eventually the first step ping stone for an attempted full scale move on Alaska and the North America mainland. It could be a listening post along the route from Alaska to Japan or to Siberia relieving to some extent the necessity for . Japanese reconnaissance by submarine, surface ship and air craft. Japan has a naval base at Para mushiru Jima, at the northern end of the Kurile island group and something less than 700 miles from Attu. Russia, America's al-, ly in the war with Germany (al (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) NEXT SUNDAY FOP IS TOPS! Cw3y.L.. This means that the "grand old guy" of the - family is going to have his day . yes, better, and better, too, for now more than ever ho is appreciated. There is no reason to let him down,' Mothers, Daugh ters, and Sons, for. Salem stores are not short at all on gift merchandise and you'll find the kind that will make his eyes "pop .out" whether it is a hat, a smok ing stand, a watch chain, or a pipe. . - Why not do your-'Tatter's Day .. shopping . .early, . too; for there, is, as you know, a shortage ot people to assist ' you in the stores and :no kidding ' . i you might have to wait jn line. Make that list out now -fr your -'favorite1 Dad? iftd plan to make Jhat seIeLjfiirior-. row. or-eariy in. the week. Surprise him! J