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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ,.H today the death in air combat In the South Pa. liipu; f". , isnroku Yamamoto, commander in chiet of her com- F5i i the man who planned and executed the attack on Pearl " .a one boasted that he would dictate peace terms to the ? w ?in the White House. sal su'?; hs been credited with inflicting more hurt to the ,B?2i of the United States than any other enemy commander finrr He was Japan's foremost naval leader. He is believed flSfhSiiest ranking commander of any of the belligerents to .i in this war. .... iu.. hmadcast said he was Kiiiea "on ine very front lines of i M1 directing operations against allied naval forces vdrrnnirain Yamamoto, ominniainidleir off Jap (Fleet,-Killed lanner of Pearl arbor Attack Dies Aerial Action CITY EDITION LANK COUNT HOME NEWSPAPER. VOL. 100 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943 ON STREETS 5e NEWS STANDS Se NO. 14J With' ' - t. lOASTFlX Admiral Ym n'who planned to "dictate the M in the White House." but I hb deith in the south Pacific. pproval Near n Cannery Pay BATTLE, May 21. W) A 10 it hourly pay Increase for 80,000 coy workers In Washington d Oregon, granted by the regi 1 war labor board, is virtually fain of approval by the na ul board, Dr. George B. Noble, pfil board chairman, said last Dr. Noble said he had been ta nned by top officials of the na ntl board that "this Important to bai the green light" because I Oil urgency of assuring a rec ti pack of fruits and vegetables lirur. Jilt decision covers - - 40,000 Pin Washington and near 0 in Oregon. Dr. Noble said the hourly wage lis for western Washington and I Portland area under the ded B would be: men, BOVk cents; jjuni 88; piece workers, tut plants In the Walla Walla, iMma, Wenatchee and Wlllam l Ta'Jey areas the scale would imen, 70 cents; women 63 W; rci worsers etift. mi board chairman said the ft would not have to go before office of price administration Bia director of economic sta aition, James F. Byrnes, If "atria do not Insist on price "Ms. He said canners had Md with the CIO and AFL In ftai ior the wage Increases. JM Products Plan! Wit for Eugene Ills Rieena rhmKo- . has isked for consideration r TP" m the ,l,e a $100,- wepa wood products "pilot Z w which Senator Rufus nan Intends to seek federal a? JLRowl,n' arnber prest Wednday sent telegrams to W Ellsworth, congressman Otegon's fourth district, and foluwT. "'man- "?ting bb t.j ' mer ot ""gen's Kv"d"Sr?' ' . "logical fct, v.,,lplan.t- Wil em, i umoermen s as- LtC i worK"i8 witl Hi! P'nt for this are.. 'eVr1 that ""'ma" he Ellsworth, would in- '' to , 0 everything pos L4lrt,hnai'V an lated in my tC'"cu El'sworth said ln h 7ned h chamb K nm .0f " " " not be f d fumt.Prject " uthor L WJn are "vailable. of u,d mak mmer- " wa". through ft ub0fatory at Madison, PiHTE2- ,nd- - from an airplane. Korm Succeeds Admiral Mineichl Koga, for mer commander of the Japanese fleet ln Chinese waters, was named Yamamoto's successor and already is in command, the radio said. - Broadcasts on Yamamoto's death were recorded by the Associated Press and the federal communica tions commission. A Tokyo radio announcer, in a voice which broke with emotion, gave the news to the Japanese people with these words from the official Japanese announcement: "An imperial headquarters com munique issued on May 21 at 3 p. m. (Japan time) Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander in chief of the combined fleet, while directing general strategy on the front line ln April of this year, engaged in combat with the enemy and met a gallant death on a war- plane." A subsequent broadcast set the locale of his death in the south. Presumably the "very front lines on the south' referred to the waters north of Australia, in the New Guinea or Solomon islands area where there have been fre quent naval encounters. Bated United States Yamamoto was possessed of a consuming hatred of the United States, acquired in his youth when nis lather told him of the "bar barians" who had "come in their Black ships, broken down the doors of Japan, threatened the son of heaven, trampled upon an cient customs, demanded indem nities . . ." His military trainlne started at me age or six, but he later switch. ed to the navy because, he said he wanted to "return Commodore Perry's visit" A Domei dispatch broadcast by me xoKyo radio after Pearl Har bor quoted him as writing: "Any time war breaks out between Japan and the United States, : shall not be content merely to cap ture Guam and the Philippines and occupy Hawaii and San Francisco. I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House t Washington."- Yamamoto spoke angusn uuenuy. Yamamoto, who was 89, had served as commander-in-chief of the combined fleet since Aug. 30, xib previously naa served as vice minister of naval affairs and as chief of general staff for the naval air force. Yamamoto was graduated from the Japanese naval academv in 1904, Just in time to fight ln the nussian-Japanese war as an en sign. He lost two fingers of his left hand while serving aboard Ad miral Togo's flagship in the battle of Tsushima. It was Yamamoto who planned the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, which set off the Pacific war, and Japanese navy minister Shigetaro Shimaoa paid tribute to thia trickery today as an operation -wnicn amazed the world." pros- Wa: Air Raid nung Signal NTT" Bliu, s i. " lor the repeated verr two mlnntM frVbl ,ir KlB?. "L A Inn. .. " w aa-cleat SifuU. Gleemen Hit 'New High' At ConcertforUSO By MARIAN LOWRY . Eugeneans have been listening to and applauding their Gleemen through 33 home concerts, always expecting and always hearing a high standard of entertainment and music, but Thursday evening's event seemed to hit a very spe clal high for pleasing performances. The evening, was a pleasant diversion from most the season has brought so far. As the crowd assembled one could hear snatches of conversation about this plant and that in the victory garden, or comment on the latest bulletin from the war news. Once the program, started, however, gar dens, the appeal of spring's out doors, and worry about the war 28,000 Detroit Auto Workers Out on Strike DETROIT, May !1. (U.B The regional war labor board ordered 28,000 striking Chrysler Corp. em ployes to return to work immed iately today am la increasing Indi cations that a breach la Imminent among top-ranking officials of the powet-ful United Automobile Workers (CIO). DETROIT, May 21. (U.B-Leo La Motte, director of the Chrysler division of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), charged today that current strikes in Detroit war in dustries are being "fomented by high officials of the UAW because of political reasons." Almost as La Motte issued his statement, company officials an nounced closing down ot a sixth Chrysler plant the De Soto bomber factory when 4,000 em ployes Joined 24,000 other strikers in Detroit's worst labor stoppage since Pearl Harbor. Five other planvs of the Chrys ler Corp. and the Kelsey, Hayes Wheel Co., and a plant of the Kay Dav Piston Corp.. all engaged in war production, were affected by the flurry of stoppages. A Chrysler spokesman said con tinuance of the strikes may close the corporation's tank arsenal Sat urday and jeopardize the jobs of 85,000 employes in 24 other tnrys ler war plants. WLB Intervenes The war labor board telegraph ed all local union presidents, de claring "the national interest de mands that the striking employes return to work immediately." Meanwhile, federal and state conciliators and representatives of the army branches whose supplies were curtailed by the strmes con ferred with company and union officials, hoping to obtain quick restoration of production. A Chrysler spokesman describ ed the stoppages as "plain sabo taae." althoush President R. J. Thomas and other ranking UAW- CIO officials insisted they were not authorized' by the internation al union. Lester Downie, an official of the Kelsey, Hayes Co., said the walk outs at his plants were "well plan ned." "This talk about it being a wild cat strike is the bunk," he said. "They didn't even approach us to neeotiate any grievances before walking out." A spokesman for Chrysler Corp, said 5,000 night shift workers at the firm's Dodge plant and 4,000 at the Jefferson and xercnevai plants responded to broadcast warnings from UAW-operated sound trucks not to enter the fac tories. "The men Involved in the strikes." he charged, "have legiti mate and serious grievances, but I believe that they and their leaders are making a mistake by seeking to adjust these grievances through strikes." At the same time Thomas al leeed the managements "are com. pletely responsible for the unrest which has led to today's walkouts. The strike had the backing of Earl Reynolds, Dodge local prest dent, who said he ordered the walkout to protest an alleged company policy of hiring new workers at pay higher than that given workers with seniority. A Chrysler spokesman "em phatically denied" that this was true and termed the series of strikes "plain sabotage." Woman Drowns Self In City Mill Race SEE GLEEMEN STORY PAGE t 4 Pomona Session Set For Saturday Saturday brings the regular quarterly session for the Lane County Pomona grange, an all- dey and evening meeting to d held at Cottage Grove union high school building with the Dorena and Hebron granges as the host unit. Business will be taken up during the day, with fifth degree initiation set for the evening. At this session, plans are to be made, too, for the state grange convention to be held in Eugene in June. Visitin grangers are asked to take vegetable salads, iello salads, cake, and doughnuts for two meals for the Saturday meeting. k S JhAt f S-SGT. GEORE W. WILLIAMSON Sergeant Wins 5 Decorations In One Month Five decorations within a single month, the final one the distin guished flying cross, which is the highest award he can receive next to the congressional medal, is the record of Staff Sergeant George Williamson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hedrick of 1248 Bethel Drive, Eugene. Sergeant Williamson Is a member of a Flying Fortress crew stationed in England. He formerly flew with the late Major Tom Taylor of Eugene, who was leader of their squadron. The first decoration which Serg. eant Williamson received was the air medal, given for raids over Paris at the time the allies bombed a large factory turning out trucks for the Germans. Three oak clus ters, each a separate decoration, for gallantry in action, had been added to the medal, and the latest V-mail letter from the flyer states: "Received the distinguished fly ing cross today. It's a nice medal in the shape of a cross, with four bladed propeller, made of gold." Over the radio, the Hedricks learned that their son's decoration this time was given him for bring ing ln his plane after the pilot had been incapacitated. Sergeant Williamson was bom at Drain, was graduated from Drain high school and enlisted from there in April, 1942. His parents have since moved to Eugene. The body of Mrs. Ada L. Camp bell. 65, 735 Jefferson, was re moved from the mill race Eighth avenue east early dav. Marvin O. Sandviker, who pull' ed out the body, told city police he and a friend were standing on the bridse about 3:25 a. m. They heard a splash near the Broadway crossing of the stream, an! jbout 10 minutes later saw me ooay floating down the mill race. Sand viker Jumped in and took out the body. City police and firemen were called. Firemen tried art! ficial respiration for about an hour. Tom A. Campbell, Mrs. Camp bell's husband, said his wife had been in poor health. , Survivors Include, besides the husband, one son, Wilbur, of Paisley, Ore.; a sister and two brothers, Mrs. May Turkington and Paul Zumwalt of Portland, anil Lvn Zumwalt. Junction City Rt. 2. I The Poole chapel has charge oil funeral axrangemtnU. I Japs On Attu Making Last Stand In 15-Square Mile Area; Planes Attack Yank Aircraft Allied Air Units Continue Blows On Germany LONDON, May 21 W W Amer ican Flying Fortresses heavily raided German U-boat and naval installations at Wilhelmshaven and tmden today ln anotner iwo- i during what was officially called "one of the greatest victory days nroneed assault on Nazi sea bases in th. hictm-v nt h .tmtM sir (n 113 Enemy Planes Destroyed Over Italy, Sardinia By NOLAND NORGAARD " ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. May 21. W I American fighters and bombers destroyed 113 enemy planes In wide spread and devastating raids yesterday apainst Italy and Sardinia Davies Delivers Note From FDR to Stalin MOSCOW, May 21, (U.PJ Jo seph E. Davies, President Roose velt's special envoy, delivered a personal letter from the president to Premier Josef Stalin in the Kremlin today. Davies spent several hours with Stalin after a formal call on Sov iet Foreign Commissar Vyaches lav M. Molotov. The president's special repre sentative was summoned to the Kremlin during a reception ten dered in his honor at the American embassy. U. S. Ambassador Ad miral William H. Standley pre sented Davies to Stalin and then returned to the reception. Davies then turned over to the Russian premier the personal. sealed letter from President Roosevelt which he had traveled half-way around the world' to de liver. which cost 12 of the big Boeing j bombers. The Fortresses swarmed back Into the non-stop Allied air of fensive against the continent after a one-day layoff that followed their double-barreled attack On Flensburg and Kiel. . Berlin Raided Speedy Mosquito bombers of the Royal Air Force raided Ber lin for, the second consecutive night at few hours earlier, while other planes struck at Nazi com munications and industrial targets on a broad front. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sin clair, speaking at Edinburgh, said pile-driver blows now being de livered against the Reich could be called the "Battle of Ger many," and would continue cease lessly until unconditional sur render had. been forced on the Axis ln Berlirj. The attack on Berlin was the 66th of the war by the Royal Air Force, and the fifth within an eight-day period. The air ministry announced that all of the Berlin raiders re turned safely, as they had' the night before. Neither raid was in great strength. Planes of the bomber, command laid mines in enemy waters last night. One fighter plane was missing from all operations, the air min istry announced. The intruder sweeps have been carried out for nine consecutive days by the RAF. A Mosquito light bomber pat rolling between Essen in the Ger man Ruhr and Bremen set fire to a factory with cannon bursts and attacked and halted a train. An other Mosquito hit seven differ ent trains near Bremen. A Canadian Beauflghter squad ron attacked locomotives, barges, supply wagons and canal Jetties, and other Beaufighters damaged two locomotives and destroyed a motor truck between Chartrcs and Orleans In France. One German Heinkel-III was shot down during the night by a Beaufighter. Two Beaufighters of the coastal command had shot down a Junkcrs-88 over the bay of Biscay yesterday. The strategical air force, under command of U. S. Mai. Gen. James H. Doolittle, is made up of U. S. heavy and medium and RAF medium bombers. Aircraft of a half dozen types participated in the whirlwind aerial action in which 91 axis planes were shattered on the ground and 22 axis pilots engaged in air combat were sent crashing in flames. One American plane was lost. Twelve of 25 Savola-Marchettl- 79s, three-engined Italian bomb ers, were set afire on the Mllas LONDON. May 21. W) A Reuters dispatch which quoted NBC said today allied air raid ers scored direct hits yesterday on a dam In central Sardinia, recalling the RAF breaehlnr on Germany's Moehne and Eder dams Sunday night. The great Tirso dam, which may have been an allied target, Is In central Sardinia on the largest artificial lake In Europe, Reuters said, describing It as about twice the siie of the quar-ter-mllo-lnng Eder dam. The hydro-clcctrio plant at Tlrso dam was said to provide most of Sardinia's eleotrlo pow er. The lake was described as 13H miles long snd three mile wide with a storage capacity of nearly 15,000,000,000 cublo feet of water. Thugs Beat, Rob Man Emmitt fc. Sizemore, construc tion laborer, is In the Sacred Heart hospital with a fractured skull. City police say that he was hit over the head with a club, near the Southern Pacific depot, and robbed of about )4. airdrome of Sardinia ln attacks without a pause to give the reel ing Axis air force any rest U. S. Flying Fortresses again raided Grosseto airdrome, SO miles north of Rome, and a spokesman said "some of the finest precision bombing of the war took place over Its hangars, administration buildings and runways. 58 Hit On Ground Fifty-eight of 59 aircraft parked on the ground there were destroy ed during the high altitude at tack, reconnaissance photographs showed. The fortified Island of Pantel lerio, 45 miles east ot Cap Bon, was raided again. P-38 Lightning fighters outfit ted with bombs ranged from one end of Sardinia to the other, blasting bridges, trains and bar racks. B-2S Mitchells with Lightn ing escorts, bombed the Villa-Cid- ro airdrome northwest of Cag- liari while B-28 Marauders es corted by P-40 Warhnwks at tacked the nearby Decimimannu airdrome. The roll call of enemy aerial disaster thus was brought to 186 planes In two days. Allied air craft destroyed 73 Axis planes aloft or on the ground the day 100,000 Flee Homes in Flood By The Associated Press Spreading waters from the rampaging Mississippi and Miss ouri rivers brought added concern to southern Illinois and Missouri today as other smaller streams in six mid-west states rose relent lessly, causing further widespread destruction in the flood-stricken zone. As the two big rivers Joined to gether early today some 10 miles northwest of the normal conflu ence near Alton, 111., the number of persons driven from their homes by the disastrous floods was close to 100.000 as estimated by Red Cross officials and other observers. Hundreds of civilian recrults-. lncluding high school boys and girls in some towns labored throughout the night in towns re garded as ln Imminent dnngcr, aiding engineers and soldiers In the struggle to hold back the surging waters. Red Cross officials rushed relief to the stricken families and gov ernment engineers and soldiers aided civilians ln evacuating homes In hundreds of towns and cities and farms. The Red Cross office at St. Louis said that in Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, more than 80,000 were homeless, while in Indiana official and unofficial observers estimated 12,000 were forced to flee their homes by the floods. The number left homeless In Kansas, the sixth state affected by the flood, was not calculated. SEE 113 PLANES STORY PAGE 2 Historic Lewis and Clark Rose Discovered Here Treasured among the flowers at the home of Mrs. E. L. Allison, is a white single rose, which traces its ancestry back to the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The rose is one of 23 original pioneer roses brought to the Oregon coun try in that period and through the later years before Oregon became a state. The rose, a large single variety, snow-white, with velvety foliage uncommon for roses, is unusually fragrant. Mrs. Allison was given the plant by Miss Mary Millard, beloved Portland teacher, who, through years of teaching and educational leadership, became known as Port lands "Grand Old Girl." Mrs. Millard gave the planting to Mrs. Allison in 1935 and told her the story of the rose's early day ap pearance in Oregon with the Lewis and Clark expedition. Mary Drain Albro, executive di rector of the Pioneer Rose associ ation, Portland, and others ln that group have recognized the rose as one of the 23 varieties of pioneer Oregon roses. This particular white rose was lost for many years, and the association expressed its delight to Mrs. Allison that it had been found again. It is one ot the old variety ot about 80 original briar roses, this one being a BEE "lllSTORIclsTOBr PAGE I ?i lT III , in. - MRU. f L. ALLIKON, fugene. Inspects her rare snd hbtnrle "Lewis snd Clark" roue, s descendant of one of the varieties brought to Oregon mora than a century ago by lbs two explorers. (Register Guard photo, WUUhlH jPrvtai) Bomb Remains Of Nip Garrison BULLETIN! WASHINGTON, May 21. (AP) Secretary of the Navy Knox said today that the bat tle lor Attu island is a suc cessful operation" and is now in the "mopping up" stage. Asked at a press conference whether he would say that to all Intents and purposes the campaign to smash the Japanese forca oa the westernmost of the Aleutian Islands Is now over, Knox replied I It s a successful operation no question about that. It la a mop- Ping up operation now. The situ ation la a good deal like the Tuni sian operation when the enemy was driven back on Cap Bon." - Japanese troops on Attu are now encircled on a little "peninsula oa the northeastern end of the Island, Knox noted, and "It Is only a ques tion of time until they will either be liquidated or surrender." The secretary wsa asked about axss reports that the Japanese were evacuating their troops from Attu and he aald, "I don't think they are; we control the sea ap proaches." He declined to talk about what might be done with regard to the Japanese forces on Klska Island. tnelr main base 172 nautical mile southeast of Attu. He said that would be discussing future oper- Mon. ; -:: -UiwZ..- 700 Attend Meeting For Air Observers SPRINGFIELD More than 700 attended the public meeting Thursday evening at the Spring field union high school auditorium, the event celebrating the opening of Springfield's new observation post and welcoming three visiting army officers who were Inspecting the ground observation work in the Eugene area. Col. John C. Gray, ground ob servation officer, IV Fighter com mand, Oakland, Cal., gave the principal talk. Through the day, Colonel Gray, accompanied by Ma jor Ralph T. Millet, ground obser vation officers, First Fighter com mand, New York, and Captain Ro land Stebblns, Jr., air defense branch, army air forces, Washing. ton, D. C, Inspected the air ram warning program as set up ln this district Colonel Gray and party were very complimentary in their ob servations on the air raid warning set-up for this area. At the evening meeting, the high school band opened the program with four selections, followed by songs by Miss Wanda Goodygoontz Miss Wlnnlfrcd Hansen accompan 1st. Lieutenant Joe Richards, ground observation officer, Eu gene, acted as master of ceremon les. In addition to Colonel Gray's address. Lieutenant Richards and Lieutenant William Hynes, Port. land, gave Instructional lectures on air raid warning service. Preceding the meeting, Colonel Gray, Major Millet, and Captain '.ebbins were honored at a din ner at the Eugene hotel by air warning officials here. WASHINGTON, May II The navy reported today that op orations on Attu Island ln the north' Pacific are continuing with the lates reports indicating that the Japanese are making a last stand in defense of ground on the is land's northeastern extremity. (The Vichy radio ln a broadcast recorded in London said tods that "the Japanese have begun t$ evacuate Attu." Thai had no cone flrmatlon.) The enemy, as of Wednesdays held an area of about 15 or 20 square miles with a line opposite American advancing forces about five miles long. . - Operations Continue i Today s communique however. gave no Information on what had occurred on Attu yesterday and officers said frankly that all they could be sure of for the present was that operations are continuing. They assumed that the Japanese probably had been driven back somewhat farther In the meantime. although fog and cold might have slowed down the American move ment. Navy communique number 385 said: "North Pacific: "On May 19th, operations en Attu continued. Japanese force have established positions on the high ground east of Attu village. United States army bombers at tacked Japanese entrenchments In) the area north of Sarana bay," Yesterday's communique else had told of operations on the 19th and had said that army bombers attacked military objectives ln the Chlchagof area. LAST PAGEANT nftOWINQ Final performance of "America the Beautiful, a pageant pre sented by the six elementary pub lic schools of Eugene, will be given Friday evening at 7:30 ln Wood- row Wilson Junior high auditor ium. This performance is for westside residents who missed the lint showing .Wednesday night. Regional WLB Man To Address Loggers Thomas T. Ncblett, of San Fran cisco, regional chairman ot the war labor board, will address the fifth annuRl Willamette valley logging conference Saturday, in stead of the previously announced Wayne L, Morse. The conference will be a din ner meeting starting at the Os- bum hotel at 8:30 p. m. Morse, publlo member ot WLB and now on leave as dean ot the University of Orogon law school. Is detained in Washington on of ficial business. Vic Torrey of Marshfleld, presi dent ot the conference, Friday named committee chairmen, In cluding Beryl H. Hunter and Faye Abrams, both of Eugene, and Fred A. Hills, Jasper. Approximately 200 loggers are expected for the streamlined event. The program will feature an ad dress of welcome by Loy W. Row ling, Eugene chamber of commerce president! response by C. W. Ing ham, president, Willamette Valley Lumbermen's association; remark by President Torrey and H. J. Cox, secretary-manager ot the associa tion, and committee reports.
