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r 1 F Dimout Tues. sunset 8:54 7ed. gunrisc 5x23 (Weather on Page 5) 1 PCUNI 1651 I r??r. :)fk LL-. SI f&l "l frTh (lY v mi r-v jio rzn k r i 1 : f '. IT SEEMS TO ME that the most important service of the protective division of civilian de fense is the aircraft observation service. From December 8, 1941, on to this day, observation posts have been manned all over west ern Oregon. It is because of the vigilance of these observers, all of them, except the forest lookouts,- volunteers, that people in the cities and towns have been free to sleep well of night,' with out fear that they may wake up to the sound of exploding enemy bombs, .i While the battle of Midway re moved the great threat of Japa nese invasion of our mainland, there is still the possibility of at tempts to fire our forests (as in Curry county last fall), and even by suicide raids to blast our fac tories and power dams. So con .tinued vigilance Is needed. -1 There is another reason for keeping up this service at full strength, and that is in assistance to our own" pilot. AT week ago I attended the assembly of aircraft observers at' Leslie school and heard officers of the Fourth Fighter Command tell the value f observation to their fliers in jki rea. With permission of the command I will report the inci dent related at the meeting by UL Young: ," ': A few weeks ago In this very -area you read of a bi-motor air plane being lost during a training mission. Undoubtedly you have noticed the increase in aerial ac tivity in the recent months but possibly have not thought of the reason behind it Yohnc men flying our planes are barely out 'of their teens and have only recently finished their primary, basic and advanced training under ideal weather con ditions at the various army - air force schools. They are flying combat aviation for their first times and are sent to this area for a two-fold purpose.One is that the weather and terrain that they encounter , here will better pre pare them for combat activity; the other reason that our area is ideal is the ground observer corps. Should these young men become lost or in trouble, the IV Fighter Command will be in constant touch with them through reports from the! ground observers of the aircraft warning service. All air craft are , charted by ; the army from reports of the observers. Aug. . r ed by our young men left a north ern air field on a traininng mis sion and headed for one of our nearby airports. One of the pur poses of this flight was for these fliers to gain experience in very bad weather. A constant track of these five planes was maintained on the filter boards by the re ports of the ground observers, and suddenly one post reported only "four bi-motors high." Almost im mediately miuuier ivk cost there reported "one bi-motor high." It was obvious to the con troller that one plane was off his course. He reached the pilot by radio and upon discovering that his instruments had failed, the controller was able to direct him properly according to the report received from the observation post over which he was flying. Since he was over a post not many miles from an air field, where under favorable weather conditions he would ; have probably- been able to see the field itself, he was told to turn slight ly to his right. For some unknown reason he veered to the left and upon realizinz his mistake began to (Continued on editorial page) OP A Officer Quits in Huff WASHINGTON, May 3 3. Kenneth Galbraith, deputy OPA administrator in charge of prices, resigned Monday night after a pe . riod of conflict in which OPA was rent by internal dissension and battered by criticism from Capi tol Hill and elsewhere. ; Galbraith, a former Princeton professor, who took office, with Leon Henderson at the outset -of OPA and held over under Admin istrator Prentiss M. Brown, has been at sharp odds with. Lou R. Maxon, another deputy adminis trator who was brought in by Brown. Brown announced Gal braith's resignation late in the day. . . ' Salem Firm Gets Contract WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31 (jP)-The Halverson Construction -m r-l yx. V warded a war department con tract for construction of storage facilities in V Deschutes county. Ore. The contract was less than Similar contracts jwere award ed to Babler Brothers," Portland, for construction of : taxi ways In Marion county; to Gilpin Con struction ; company," Portland, : for an overpass in Multnomah coun ty, and to Hord and Stuart, Port land, for temporary frame build ings in Clark county. Wash. innsTY TinsD yeab Freiicli Fleet: , To Aid ... Nine Vessels Held At Alexandria to v Fight With Allies CAIRO, May 31-P)-3rhe French naval fleet at Alexan dria has volunteered to fight for the allies as a result of success ful negotiations by Gen. Henry Giraud, it was announced Mon day night.1 ; The British government was kept fully informed throughout the" negotiations. This was the first official an nouncement of the move, which will bring ' -nine vessels into . the allied fleet. It was first made pub lic - by a Berlin radio broadcast and - was later unofficially ' con firmed by allied sources. It was reported here that the acreenent was reached several days afo, bat the announcement was withheld until the forma- tion of the French execntive committee combining the forces f Gen. : Giraud and Gen. Charles De Gaulle. - The decision finally ended ru mors of more than a year that the ships would be taken over in a surprise' coup. They had been interned and disarmed under the command of Vice Admiral Rene Emil Godfrey since the French armistice on June 22, 1940. ALGIERS. May 31 -iffy- A new governing body for France under the joint presidency of Generals nenri Giraud and Charles De Gaulle created it self Monday, in a historic as sembly, to administer French territory already liberated and to lead thef French t the side of the allies until victory frees -"the homeland. " ' Giraud and De Gaulle will take turns at presiding Giraud did so Monday in apparent deference to his senior military position but all actions will be taken by the committee as a whole and there will be joint responsibility. Each member will head a ministry sim ilar to that of an established gov ernment. ' f The members In this first marshalling of a unified body : of the leaders of France were seven, two places being left open perhaps for ethers who may come on from France: Giraud and his two designees, General Alphonse Georges and Jean Monnet. . De Gaulle and - his designees, Rene Massigli and Andre Philip. General George Catroux, who ! (Turn to Page 2 Story D) City Schools To End Work Tour thousand nine hundred ninty four students of the 11 Sa lem public schools will clear their desks and clean out their lockers before leaving classes for summer harvest work today. Although the number of stu dents I volunteering to work in Marion county harvest fields un der the platoon system has not yet been tabulated by the US employment service in Salem, it is understood that the enrollment of students from the fifth to the tenth grades will be -large. Students of the Salem senior high school who do not enlist in the army are expected to work in the Salem canneries and other seasonal work. Memorial Day Here Draws Large Crowd t Largest crowd and longest and most varied parade' since, cele bration of the city's centennial filled Salem's streets - Mo n d a y afternoon in observance of Mem orial day and in goodly number went on to the armory for the afternoon's formal - exercises. j Bands from Adair and from another military unit stationed in this area, with school musical organization filled the air; with martial music, above which rose the applause of persons lining the 'curbs as the colorful parade moved by. ! Favorites were the - military groups which joined the citizenry in the event Great tanks, amphi bian jeeps and even the beavy trucks - which convoyed sections of the parade were enthusiastic ally approved by watchers. 12 PAGES Jlfttmnrinl D v ttv rn; -a-a MJeatn. l ov &4. DedinetV - By the Ar resi :' The nxiioit Ar counted 154 violent de. m ever the three -day. holiday weekend, exactly half the death toll in the two-day holiday of 134 L The drop In this year's Mem orial day weekend deaths from 304 last year and considerably below the average of 400 on a . normal May weekend, was' at-" tribnted to war factors the -ban en pleasure driving In the" eastern states, the uninterrupt ed operation of war plants and the - shift of civilians to the armed forces, u ' -1 15 ' - f Seventy-two deaths were re ported ever the Memorial day weekend an the nation's high ways, a sharp drop . from the 1942 toll of 17 lives. California led the states in the number of highway fatali ties with 15. Illinois was second with nine, Pennsylvania third with eight and Texas f earth' with five.-;-: ; There were ne fatalities re-. ported from Montana and Ore gon. 300 Forts Lash Axis In South Bombers From Africa And Middle East Hit 'Underbelly ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 31 -Thundering fleets of American bombers from North Africa and the middle east con verged on southern Italy in day light Sunday to smash important targets at Naples and Foggia without the ..loss of a single plane. -More than 100 Flying Fortresses ofL-Xleut. Gen. Carl A. -Spaatz's North African command cascaded bombs' on Naples harbor, destroy ing shipping, railroads and subur ban airfields and shooting down 10 of possibly 60 ; enemy fighters that attacked them in the air. A Cairo communique reported that Foggia airdrome on the other side of the Italian peninsula was heavily assaulted - by - more than 50 big Liberator bombers of the allied middle east command, which blasted numerous . axis planes on the ground, set a gaso line dump ablaze : and scored di rect hits on barracks, j . No allied plane was lost on either of these hage missions, although enemy : pilots' for the second time In a fortnight tried to hit the Fortresses from above with small bombs. : The North African air force also maintained its destructive siege of Sardinia and Pan tell eria islands. Over Sardina one Lightning fight er was lost,' the lone allied cas ualty of the day, but its pilot was known to be safe. The axis lost a total of 14 planes in aerial com bat. t "'; .7 - Br even - conservative esti mate the combined allied oper ations probably employed aver 300 planes. The announced loss of one aircraft meant that these "sof tcning-sp" attacks of Italy were being mounted at the amazingly low ; cost of one third of one per cent. An allied communique report ing the assault on Naples said: "A large force of B-17 Flying ; Fort resses yesterday attacked Naples. Bombs were dropped on an air craft factory and a neighboring air field. Large explosions were caused in an oil storage depot and ' (Turn to Page 2 Story C) At the courthouse lawn, where a portion of the uniformed par ticipants were arranged in mili tary formations, patriotic organi zations and hundreds , of . school children laid their floral tributes at the base of the War Mothers monument. Sounding of taps and the firing of a salute were in cluded ' in the ceremonies? there, for which CoL Carle 'Abrams, grand marshal 1 for the day was presiding official . . . , : American warriors of the past, in whose honor Memorial day is observed by their sacrifices crea ted and safeguarded a rich legacy of freedom, security and material wealth, and may best be honored by a faithful stewardship of that legacy, Charles A. Sprague, form er governor and Statesman pub- " (Turn to Pase 2 Story A) Salem, Oracjon, Tuesday Morning, Jun 1, 1943 TTI .1 ' : f ederal M; . Op eration Ignored. 7 Wage Negolialions Recessed Until 10 a.m. Today .". - '. W A SHIN G T O N, June 1- (Tiiesday )-Fy-T hous ands of coal miners were idle today in a widespread strike, bringing government operations of the mines to an unprecedented cri sis.! 'v .-:v-' Even before the deadline, thousands of miners laid down their tools in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, and battalions of the nation's coal-mining army in West Virginia, Ohio and other 'states were ready to stay away from work today. Lewis and the operators met again Monday, but gave no re port of progress in their negoti ations for settlement of th- min ers demands for a $2 a day wage increases, portal to portal pay and other concessions. Secretary 1 ekes, who as fuels administrator has- operated the mines for a month in behalf of the govern ment, appealed to the negotiators yesterday afternoon to reach an agreement speedily so that "the uncertainty ; which : Is interfering with the maximum production of coal which this nation requires for war purposes, may be promptly eliminated." . ' Bat Ickes words brwrght no public response from the. nego- . tiators. who have been seeking" a common meeting ground --on the basis , of war labor board rulings in the a long-standing dispute. The labor board turned . down the miners $2 a day de mand but left the way open for an agreement on portal - to- por -tal . and ether matters which might net the miners as much as $1 a day mere than their present S7 a day basic wage. -v: President Roosevelt told a press conference May 7 that the miners, who, number about 500,000 were government employees. Asked if they could strike against the gov ernment, Mr. Roosevelt said ' that he had been in the government a great many years and could not (Turn to Page 2 Story E) OPA Approves Farm Priority Ration Plan WASHINGTON, May 31-() The war production board today provided simple priority proce dure by which farmers can pur chase 178 kinds of hard-to-get suplies. Under a program worked out by WPB's office of civilian re quirements, a farmer may buy up to $25 worth of any of the nam ed 1 items simply - by giving his dealer a signed certificate stating: I certify ta the war produe : tion board that I am a farmer and that the supplies covered by this order are needed new and will be used for the oper ation of a farm. -The certificate is not a WPB form It may be furnished by 'the farmer himself or, the retailer. The farmer may buy more than $25 worth if he has the certifi cate approved by his local county farm rationing committee. " WPB ordered j manufacturers and distributors to get. 66 of the scarcest items into retailers' hands without delay and in ade quate quantities for farm use. Among the 66 most urgent items are batteries, chains, cold chisels, pitchforks, hoes, harness leather, galvanized pails, pipe, horsecol lars, pliers, rope, shovels,, barbed wire and bale wire, wrenches, tube and poultry netting. Henry Ford Seen j As New President DETROIT, May 31-rVExecu-tives of the Ford Motor Co. met Monday, but made no announce ment as to who will succeed the deceased Edsel Ford as president of the company. Edsel tJed last week and it had teen suggested that his father, 0-year-old Henry Ford, will pick up .the reins he laid C-cv.a 23 years 8o. Where Japs Held Out ATT " STATUTi MIUS rfoz .7 Black arrows shew where. American forces attacked the but major concentration of Japs on Atte and .annihilated all but scattered ' snipers and Isolated bands of -"not more than St demoralised Jap soldiers. South of Lake Cortes' (a) -Is the scene of on drive; and at (b) southwest of Chlchagof. harbor Tanks penetrated a strangly held ridge. Areas outlined In black were last " strongholds of the Jsps-Assoeiated Press Map. L , Chinese Trap Hits , 75,000 jap Troops : CHUNGKING, Tuesday, June l-P)-One of the biggest vic tories for Chinese armies in the whole Sino-Japanese war the complete routing of five enemy divisions and the most shatter ing joint air victory over the invaders ever achieved over China Nazis Claim Gain on Reds " : Moscow Says 31 Axis ' Planes Downed Sunday In Leningrad Fight' LONDON, Tuesday, June 1. (P) -The Germans claimed to have driven a wedge into Russian lines above Smolensk 'Monday, and both sides reported. thrusts and parries of scouting raids as June brought the traditional month of best fighting weather to the long Russian front today. The nasi plunge against so viet lines, made east of Velixh, was Intended to straighten the battlellne "on a fairly large front," said a German broad cast recorded by the Associated Press. The Russians were dislodged despite fierce resistance, ' and red army counterattacks were repel led with the Germans holding the lines they were ordered to take,' the broadcast added. Velizh lies between Velikie Luki, soviet strongpoint, and German - held Smolensk. rvi. --:" ' A special Moscow broadcast reported - 31 German planes were shot down Sunday when the nasis tried te raid areas near Leningrad, against a loss of only three soviet aircraft. An official announcement also re : (Turn to Paee 2 -Story G) Funds Given Flood Victims WASHINGTON, May Sl.-OPh The federal government made funds available Monday, first to give emergency food, shelter and medical attention to homeless families in the. mid western flood area and then to rebuild roads and bring crop lands back into war food production. The war foods administration announced that the farm security administration has set aside $235, 000 for immediate needs and in structed FSA county supervisors to make small loans, usually $30 or less, to distressed farm fam ilies. When these, families return to their farms FSA loans win he made to put in new crops If other credit sources are unavailable. About $780,000 is available - for such loans. Eyewitness Tells of Dortmund Havoc STOCKHOLM Tuesday, June 1 -VPjrS v e n Malmberg, Swedish violinist, who has just returned from bombed Dortmund, said to day that the whole center of the German city is in ruins, v Malmberg, who experienced two heavy RAF raids oa.the city, said there were scenes, in Dortmund it was impossible to dcscriLe -, were claimed in a claimed in a special high command communique today. . The five Japanese divisions, perhaps 75,000 troops, were "com pletely routed" ; with heavy losses southwest of Ichang on. the Yang tze, I and 31 enemy planes were accounted for 23 shot down and eight more probably destroyed in an allied raid on Ichang Mon day, headquarters said.- . ' Allied ; bombers, presumably American, and Chinese fighters Joined in the assault on Ichang Chines forces are besieging Changyang, 12 miles bel o w Ichang, the special announce ment said, and . surrounding en emy remnants. "The route of retreat of the enemy's third- and 13th divisions has been cut, the communique declared. "Our forces started an all-front counterattack May 30. By noon on May 31 the enemy's five divisions had been complete ly routed as a result of the vigor ous Chinese encircling assaults. "Chinese forces are continu ing their mopping up operations and the enemy is still being surrounded in a big enclrcle : ment. . "The enemy troops left behind a large number of corpses and a large quantity of supplies In the mountainous regions as they re treated. Chinese troops are ex pected to make further gains." The special bulletin also claim ed that enemy forces at several points' in north Hunan had "col lapsed" and were retreating. Mott Announces Building Plan WASHINGTON, DC, May 31 (-Representative Mott (R-Ore said Monday the navy has ap proved construction of a $74,500 barracks for WAVES at the Astoria, Oregon, naval air station. Delayed Story Tells Saga Of US Carrier's JBattles V By EUGENE BURNS WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET, Dec 7-(Delayed)-The United States aircraft carrier Enterprise, in the year since Pearl Harbor, has sunk 19 Japanese ships, in cluding three carriers, ' and . has damaged , 13 enemy ships,- while her airplanes;'- and - anti-aircraft fire have shot down at least 183 pljins,t -;. " - ' The shins sunk totaled approx imately 211,200 tons and the ships damaged 157,000 tons additional. .The tonnage sunk by the air; groups of this one swif t-sirlk- lag carrier, unaided. Is greater than . the . combined ' total of Eritish and Genaan v- lonnase sunk in the battle of Jutland.: - With the assistance of ' other vessels, the Enterprise has sunk 10 more vessels - for a grand to- Wq Only Snipers Left; Battle Plans Eye, Use Of Key Base lign Against Kiska or Jap Kuriles Islands Looms as Next Step in North Pacific Fight tWASHINGTON, May 3 1 - settled down Monday to a campaign to eradicate scattered nests of enemy snipers on Attu pending disclosure of where the next offensive moves will be made. ,.: ) V - j 1 ' i Two major possibilities exist in. the north Pacific, a movi against Kiska, or a campaign to the west aimed at the Kurile is land chain reaching north from' Japan. : - -: -' t i Each became highly feasible with the annihilation of prin cipal Japanese forces on Attu near the tip of the Aleutian island . chain which reaches west and south toward .Japan. ' i I In event the next move should point to - the west, It appeared highly probable that Attu, where the Japanese have been van quished after 20 days of fighting, would play a large part, j As a weather station, if noth ing else, it would provide ad vance Information on conditions expectable by either air or sur face units heading toward the .west. '," . ; Also Attu 's air field, which theH Japanese started, presumably can be readily completed and with a bit of additional effort could be enlarged to accommodate even the largest of American bombing planes.. . i If that were done, with the Japanese base at Faramushrq only 630 nautical , miles away, it would be possible for bombers to roar out from tne Aleutians to hit that enemy ,. sea" 4 base just ' south ; of Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, -j- Attu, too, controls the fate of the big Japanese garrison on Kiska.' Either an attack In force Can be launched with the ase of the newly conquered bland, or forces there can take the slower but no .less sure method of starving eut the enemy on Kiska. This could be accom plished readily fer forces on Attu could prevent shipment of foodstuffs and supplies to the enemy base. Such a campaign of starvation could be aided by regular bombing raids on Kiska -from the American ah field at Amchltka, only 3 nautical -miles te the east. - Some speculation, also, turns ! (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Steel Lack Hits Kaiser , Ship Yard i PORTLAND, Ore.. May 31 -OP) A steel " shortage threatens ship production at the record-breaking Oregon Shipbuilding corpora tion, Edgar T. Kaiser, general manager, said Monday. : Testifying In a national labor relations board bearing. Kaiser said operations might be slow ed by June' 5. s "We have been getting enough steel each "month for., 15 or 16 liberty ships, and we have been turning out 16 and 17. Well, that procedure has caught up with us. We are hoping to get out of this spot, but it is the tightest hole we've been in, he said. " (Kugeno Burns, author of thts saga on the aircraft carrier Enterprise, was an Associated 'Press correspondent In Honolulu the day the Japanese struck tbCT. sinro. that tlnao -has. covered much of U Pacifie wartront. and for the last three weeks has been writing front Attu tn the Aleutians.) ; .1 tal of 29 ships totaling approxi mately 322,700 tons, and she has helped damage seven more ves sels for a total of 29 vessels with aggregate' tonnage of 222,000 tons. IC (Burns' story was released for publication - after the navy In Washington - Monday .'. issued . a Statement disclosing the Enter prise "is still afloat and fighting" after - absorbing terrific punish ment "belying the belief that car riers are extremely vulnerable." The navy said the Enterprise sank or damaged 20 warships between Pearl Harbor and - the battle of No. 3 : it u n Hi - The battle of the Aleutian! Bombers Rain 36 Tons on Japs at Lae ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, June 1-WP)-The Japanese base at La a. New Guinea, underwent its heav iest bombing to date ' Monday when two small formations of Liberators blasted the airdrome, the runway, the town area and the waterfront ' with . 36 tons of high explosives. . ' ; .' n This was the largest tonnage, ever . dropped upon Lae' and It . Included a number of 1,000 pound bombs. The previous rec ord attack against Lae was made but Thursday . when tt tons of bembs were dropped, The main target was the ter-, race which formerly was the) main residential sector. T h buildings there probably are used now by the Japanese for military purposes. Bombs were dropped front medium altitude and damage was reported to have been extensive. Despite intense anti-aircraft fire, all our planes escaped and returned to base. , Adverse weather conditions continued and the. only other" aerial activity . reported was in the Kai island area 500 miles north ' of Darwin. Long-rang fighters made a low-level straf ing attack against the airdrome) at Langgoer, destroying a med ium bomber and damaging a fighter on the ground. Six enemy fighters attempted to Intercept. One was shot daws in flames. All our planes ' re turned. Germans Bomb ! ' London Outskirts LONDON, Tuesday, June l-VPt -A small number of enemy plane dropped bombs in areas on' Lon day outskirts early today. ; A heavy anti-aircraft barraga began vin the heart of London) shortly before 2, a. m. and watch ers could see at least one enemy; plane. The alert ended within a ball hour. . ;-,r : Guadalcanal but November, and brought destruction to at least lid! Japanese planes.) . i ' Te de all this, the Enterprise , . ! baa steamed S,000 saOes ev- ' ery mile deadly te take bar aircraft within reach of enemy targets. She has been in every naval bat tle of the Pacific ocean except thd Coral sea engagement Then, with in two days' sailing, she was de tected by Japanese patrol plane, and the proximity , of the whi may have caused the Japanese" to divert some of their power. - The men of the Enterprise wha have not seen their home 'land for 23 .months, took part In these lmporUnt actions: 1. The landing cf marine pilots .(Turn to Page 2 Story F) ;. Prlca Sc. i