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1 ' A Buy Defense Bonds' Ji IllLCULlL 'Keep Em Flying' 54th Year, No. 86 ESwKTaSK Two SectIons-18 page Solem, Oregon 1 Friday, April-1ftriioft; Price Five Cents Flies Over Corregidor American S B8 if ... Ir H .1 II F P Sfci Plans Shaping For Public Bus Line to Adair Hogg to Reveal Details JNext Week; Corvallis in Recognized Area Cnlnm : ffllainoaa molt o vo in ' hear from President Carl Hogg of the Chamber of Commerce, next Thursday or Friday afternoon, a definite proposal whereby Salem "will be able to establish transpor tation between the city and . Camp Adair .cantonment on a rate basis of not over 40 cents per round trip. Transporta tion on tnat oasis appears to be an absolute requirement of the government for any com munity seeking certification as critical defense housing area, with accompanying priority privileges, 1 and that is Salem's goal. The meeting to be called by Pres- ' ident Hogg next week will follow a meeting of the chamber board Wed- nesday night with the newly ap- pointed business extension manager whose name is to be . announced Monaay. since ne is w piay an important part in all matters be tween the city and' the- canton ment his coming Is awaited before the transportation plan is placed before the business men. ... Obstacles Forseen Speaking about the plan 'today, Mr. Hogg mentioned certain hurdles that will have to be crossed before the goal can be reached. ' ; , First, It will' be hecessarj . to find' out If the Oregon publics service commission will grant .. the city franchise. - No difficulty about this kis expected, since , Oregon - Motor Qstigo, a major bus operator, in this - district, has encouraged the city to organise and 'operate: its -own sys tem. Next,, it will be necessary to. sell ' the business interests of the city on the idea of underwriting a serv ice that -will furnish transportation . on v40-cent round trip basis, and Mr. Hogg declares that whatever . Is done must be-understood, at the start as an enterprise carrying through as long as it is needed; and must not be done on a month-to-month basis. f Must Get Equipment . . A third hurdle is the possibility of getting vehicles. This, It is be- .. lieved, can be done for the reason that the city will -have the backing of cantonment authorities, Explanation is made that trans i portatlon facilities as required by Lithe government mean a great deal ..more than the benefit coming to Salem as a result. It will help the cantonment project along while under construction by carrying workmen to and from the project and enable many of them to live in Salem. After construction it will tion and meet a need of civilian at' taches of the cantonment. tonal leaders nelleve, relative to certification of the community as a defense housing area, that Salem or any other city in the canton ment district, will automatically be considered as qualified as soon as 40-cent transportation is establish' ed. Some are of the opinion that the reported approval of Corvallis today under title VI of the federal housing administration plan applies to all cities in the area. - (Concluded on page 11, column' a) News Yesterday -History Today This morning's newspapers proclaimed in screaming head lines: , -, I. The tau of Bataan, . 3. The sinking of two Bri tish cruisers In the Indian ocean. . 3. Reported agreement be tween British and Hindu lead ers on terms of Independence for India. 4. Announcement of gasoline quota reduction In northwest. All of these vital war de velopments were published' 16 hours earlier In yesterday's Capital Journal, always first with the news from the Fur East and the national capital. What's news today is his tory tomorrow. Keep up with the parade by reading the 'news when It is news. Execution Of 16,000 Serbs Looms Iiondon, April 10 (U.R) German authorities have posted proclama tions in Yugoslavia demanding an end to guerrilla warfare by Mon day and threatening execution of 18,000 hostage's, a Yugoslav refugee government spokesman said today. The statement followed disclos ure that the Germans had "invit ed" Gen, Draja Mihallovich, leader of the guerrillas to surrender and threatened that his family and the families of other Serb leaders would be arrested as hostages and held responsible for acts of the guerrilla leaders against the axis. The spokesman said that the new proclamation threatened the slaughter of hostages unless the guerrilla warfare ends within 24 hours from Saturday morning or some time on Sunday. Threaten Brest With Siege State : Vichy, April 10 (P) German au thorities notified the population of the coastal city of Brest on the Eng lish channel today to be ready for a proclamation of state of siege without advance notice. The state of siege would be pro claimed because of "the existence of elements which might, when the'moment appeared favor able, permit themselves to engage in manifestations which could have unpredictable repercussions," the German notice said. . (The tenor of the German an nouncement indicated it . was con. earned with;; subversive activities among .sthe- French, populations the German occupied'' city rather than in preparation for meeting a possible invasion attempt by allied forces.) 1 The declaration, published in the newspaper Depeche de Brest, said the state of siege, if proclaimed, would last indefinitely. - Five Killed in Bomber Crash Bakersfield, Calif., April 10 m Five men were Killed last night, the public relations office at Minter Field announced today, when an army bomber flying from Stockton, Calif., to Tucson, Arte., crashed on the Mojave desert near Bagdad. Lieut. James Lewis, public rela tions officer at Minter Field, said names of the victims were not avail able here. The plane, he said, was under command of a Lieutenant Ford. Lewis said the craft was one of a flight of seven which left Mather Field for Tucson with student navi gators on a training flight.- - All the ships landed at the Bakersfield bomber base, then headed east. - Near Bagdad, the crash carried our men to their deaths. A fifth bailed out, but his parachut failed to open, , His body was found. Salvage operations were started from the Vlctorvllle air base. Allies Face Desperate Battle On The Seas . London, April 10 (VP) Britain iace a desperate battle in the next three months to maintain dominion of the seas because of steady axis pro gress In picking off key bases- , throughout the world, an Informed naval observer said today, Bataan's conquest fits Into the axis pattern since It raises the im minent possibility that Manila bay will be opened up to aid Japan's lunge toward India and the threat ened junction with Germany some where in the near east, this source declared, "We must face the facts," he said gravely. "The Japanese, German and Italian fleets are nearlng num erical superiority, if they have not yet achieved it. "Every allied loss, such as the sinkings of the British cruisers Dor setshire and Cornwall In the Bay of Bengal, cuts whatever edge we have in guns and ships. . " "The great naval bases on which Anglo - American sea supremacy resu either have been captured, at tacked, or are continually menaced by the adroit axis Use of combined air and sea power." , Th axia opportunity to take ov Asserts Reds to Liquidate Nazis During 1942 Soviet Spokesman Says American Supplies Mak ing German Corpses Kuibyshev, Russia, April 10 (VP) The red army will liqui date the German army in Rus sia in 1942, S. A. Lozovsky, soviet vice commissar for for eign affairs told his press con ference today, adding tnat United States supplies are reaching the Russian forces and being "used to make nazi corpses." Asked how United States supplies are arriving, Lozovsky, official press spokesman, "all sorts of things for war" are being received "but pre cisely In what quantities is a se cret." ' - , "All the supplies we produce and those from the outside are used to convert the German army into corpses," Lozovsky went on. Ridicules German Claims He ridiculed German reports (evi dently not circulated generally) that Russian losses have reached 20,000,000, saying that anyone knows that only 10 to 12 per cent of a nation's population can be mo bilized for the army. : (Russia's population, by official estimate in 1940, was 193,000,000.) , Lozovsky said the Germans had stopped giving information on their dead and wounded. ' - . I' ;8Uggesy,,he said, "that they create a new vabeswij?, me 3Mgiiity killed'," ' ' Asked to amplify the statement that the red army would liquidate the Germans on soviet soil, Losov- sky said he could not go into battle plans. Asked if his liquidation pre diction was based on establishment of a second European front, he re plied that a press conference was not the proper place to discuss second front, - Reds IritWhite Russia London, April 10 W The Vichy radio quoted reports from Stock' holm today that soviet troops had crossed the frontier into white Rus sia between Vitebsk and Neve! in a sector 15 -miles northwest of Smo lensk and were continuing their ad vance. -The broadcast, heard by Reuters, said that if the drive could be main tained it would be a serious menace to the important Vitebsk defenses guarding the nazis Smolensk spear head toward Moscow. The Vichy radio, quoting a DNB dispatch, said soviet pressure against the Germans had increased during the last 24 hours in the Orel and Kharkov regions south of Moscow ana arouna Sevastopol,, tne Rus sian held Crimean naval base. Nazis Using Reserves Kuibyshev, Russia, April 10 m Soviet troops were officially declar ed today to have slain 4,470 Ger mans in repulsing one phase of a (Concluded on pose 12, column 9) The United States and Great er the French fleet was described by this source as "too good to miss." He believed It would be seised and combined with the Italian navy to support an axis offensive against Egypt and points east, and thus prepare the way for a blow at Rus. sla's Caucasian flank. Air power, "the cheapest form of attack," has been used wherever possible by the axis to sink isolated allied flotillas and heavy units, he declared, and added: "The great surface units of the nazis, the battleship Tirplts and the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the Italian battle aqua dron, and the entire Japanese first battle line are being husbanded carefully against the day when the axis forces major sea battles in both the Pacific and Atlantic." , The axis, he said, counts on vie tory In these forthcoming battles because of greater air power, fresh crews, and the time factor in Am- erclan armament production. Defense CryjsMes en Battered Bataan With its aimouBeement that the heroic defenders C Baiaais had collapsed in face of overwhelming Jap onslaughts, the war department in Washington released this as one of the latest pictures to arrive Stpm the beleaguered peninsula showing how St had been battered hy Jap air raids, Associated Press Photo, Jones vs One Round Bout , Washington, April 10 (ff) the Evening Star said today that Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones last night shook Eugene Meyer, editor and publisher of the Washington Post, so that Meyer's glasses fell to the floor and were shattered afjlKh'nressM displeasure' at fostKMi? Indians Reject British Offer New Delhi, India, April 10 (u. The working committee of the all India (nationalist) congress today rejected Britain's compromise pro posal on Indian independence. New Delhi, India, April 10 (IMS Nationalist leaders called for a mustering of India's fighting strength against the threat of a Japanese invasion today while ne gotiators worked on final details of a basic agreement with Great Brit ain providing for a new Indian government. Pandit Jawagarlal Ne hru, left-wing all-India congress leader and a -key figure in the ne gotiations with the British, Issued a statement calling upon the coun try's 400,000,000 people to "hold In dia until death." New Delhi, India, April 10 (IM! British and Indian leaders hope to announce tonight or tomorrow a basic agreement on Indian, defense and participation of Indians in the government pending implementa tion of Britain's offer of post-war dominion status, St was understood today; - : Details of a defense compromise, which would give Indians a sub stantial share of control over broad defense policies, and on Indian par ticipation in government remained to be negotiated. But it seemed certain that agree ment to principle had been reached and that neither side now consid ered the possibility of a break-up which had hung over the negotia tions for many days, Under the agreement reached be tween Sir Stafford Crlpps, British war cabinet envoy, and members of the Nationalist All-India congress working committee, the viceroy, the Marquess of Unlithgow, would have an executive council, corresponding to a cabinet, or 15 members. Den. Sir Archibald Wavell, com mander in chief in India and Bur ma would be a member of the council, Indian leaders would have most seats In the council but the pro portion assigned to the various In dian parties. Including Moslems, re mained to be determined. Rev, John B. Wand Passes at Baker Baker, April 10 Ufi The Rev. John B, Wand, H, Catholic pastor at Condon for 25 years until his recent retirement, died here Wed nesday, Coming to the Baker diocese in 1811, he was pastor of the Baker missions and built churches at Dur kee, Haines, North , Powder and Cornucopia, Meyer jorial aimed t gjtii The -acttaij fafaelulK, one of 'Washington old est and. most prominent good-fellowship ' organisations, :whieh'. was held at the New Wiitard hotel, ; The star said Jones was leaving the gathering, to keep a dinner en gagement and as he walked toward an exit he met Meyer, , "Mr. Jones the paper said, "ad dressing some worts that come from deep in the heart of Texas, to Mr, Meyer, then .took- .him by both shoulders and shook him. s Mr. Meyer's glasses tell to the floor and shattered. Several observers, think ing at first that Mr, .Jones and Mr. Meyer were merely over-enthusiastic in their greetings, smiled hap pily at the good fellowship thus dis played for they are old friends. (Concluded on psss II, column 3) Filipinos Heroes Of Bataan Fight . - By Seyel S, Mesre -Washington, April 10 0U9 The major share of the glory for the heroic three-month defense of Ba taan peninsula against overwhelm ing odtis must go to Filipino, troops, a fact substantiated today by avail able details of the last-ditch stand. More than two-third of the troops that tor weeks held a numerically superior Jap army at bay and finally although exhausted, went down at tacking, were Moines members of the Philippine commonwealth's own army and member of the Philippine Scouts, a branch of the V, S, army. Now that that Utile army has suc cumbed does not mean Filipino re sistance to the Japanese invader has ended. From thousands of mountain and Jungle fastnesses of the hund reds of Islands In the Philippine ar chipelago, Ptlipino guerrillas will make the Japanese "remember Ba taan," One high Filipino official here said organized and unorganised warfare win be Japan's daily diet "until the day of liberations." The fall of Bataan wilt Inspire in the Filipinos, he said, terrible reprisals upon the invaders. Navy Cargo Ship Accidentally Hit Washington, April 10 m The navy reported today that a tor pedo accidentally discharged from a motor torpedo boat In Narrangan sett Bay had struck the V, 8, 8, Oapella, a ,W0 ton naval cargo- ves sel yesterday afternoon. The navy's announcement of this mishap in Rhode Island waters did not say whether the torpedo had ex ploded but did note that the Ca pella, assisted by tugs, "has been anchored In shoal waters and is in no Immediate darner," , Brett Pledged to Avenge Bataan Melbourne, Australia, April 10 W " We've taken the sfffeissftrs against the Japanese to the sir sn& well .continue to increase it,-' Lieut, Gen, George H. Brett, sir c'niI and dep atyi .jjommsmier undsr -OfinfXal 'tXrogliur Mac Arthur is ttir- south west Pacific, declared today. only limitation, Is equipment' Brett added;. .. .. -"My plans are elear cut, I was assigned the task of - unifying and commanding allied air forces. , The goal of my unified command is to smash Japan In .the ir, . "Of the three forces under Gen eral MacArthur's command, - the allied air force is organizing and carrying Hie fight tats the enemy's camp, - "Planes and equipment are flow ing here at an ever-tecreasmg rate. They have to come a long way but they are coming with equipment, "The machines already In hand are laying a first class foundation for air . war - against the . Japanese and, simultaneously, are doing their best to hold the Japanese where they are north of Australia,' . Rls statement coincided with a warning from Australian -Air Min ister A, S, Dr&keford tttat Japan's air power has not bees diminished and that the taming point for Aus tralia's defenders still to to be reached, although 136 Japanese planes were knocked out o action In the past month, r "It would be fatal to think that the Japanese haw been brought to a halt although Australian and al lied air blows nsrthof Australia in the past months have been spectac ular," Drakeford said, ' Wine Industry Board Created Washington, April WV-Creation of a wine industry advisory committee of IS members was an nounced today by the war produc tion board. Marshall Mapping Strategy with Britons h Kitmuit W. Beattle London, April 10 M States chief of staff, hurried to the war office today appar ently in response to an urgent summons, to confer with the chiefs of Britain ngnang services, r Harry L. Hopkins, lease-tend ad ministrator, at the same time start ed a series of conferences with Brit ish war cabinet members. Reliable Informants said that both Marshall and Hopkins In their conferences today were dlseusslnj the urgent necessity for allied of fensive action. It was believed that In the war office conferences Marshall met Admiral Btr Dudley Psun, Gen. Sir Alan Brooke and Air Chief Mar shall Sir Charles Portal, the chiefs of staff of the nary, army and air force, Maj, Oen, 86 Hastings Is may, chief of staff to Prime Minis ter - Winston Churchill. In Churc British Aircraft Carrier Sunk In Indian Waters 23 Year Old Hermes Hit By Jap Planes Other New Ship Losses Denied London, April 10 Wf Britain's first aircraft car rier, the 23-year-old Hermes, has been sunk in Japan's tin abated effort to beat down the sea and air shield against invasion of India, but the en emy's total claims of victory are too extravagant, the Brit ish admiralty said today m a communique. Japanese planes ufter bombers or torpedo craft sank the 10,85ft-ten Hermes about 19 miles off Ceylon, a pivot of British streogtt the Hp of India on the western side of the broad Bay of Bengal, The loss of the Hermes came soon after the sinking of the hesv cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall, acknowledged yesterday, the same area. The cruiser losses had seri ously crippled British protection of the ses road to India, How, in tne loss of the Hermes, the Rojl tmvt has been stripped of another for midable weapon. 75 Jap Planes Downed Thus, Major General Jjesrfs K. Breretort's hard hitting meriean army bomber force In India was left with still greater responrtottltj in. the defense rthe ssbeontlnent, One Informed soaree said the at tacks itt Tfhieh the" Hermes, Denet- Unit- flnrr,H?M n.s.rn can? riimL , , HetBBat m. sank by bombs, not plane-launched torpedoes.,. Deny Jap Claims The Japanese, however, claimed even greater successes ta the flam ing, intermittent battle which has become perhaps the wart greatest test of seapower versus air power. A Japanese naval eonmnmhde said that besides the Hermes, 9100-ton cruiser of the Birmingham class and a 7S5a-ton cruiser at the Emerald class were sunk yesterday off Trtncomalee naval sfsitar, Cey lon. To this the London admiralty countered: "The Japanese claim to haw sunk cruisers off Trlncomaiee to known to be oulte untrue." Yesterday the Japanese claimed at merchant vessels and the two cruisers had been sunk in Indian ocean operations us ta Tuesday, April 7. Claim 2 Cruisers Today's claim added the Hermes, two cruisers, a destroyer, a patrol vessel and six other ships to the Japanese list of sinkings, but ot these the British confirmed only that of the Hermes, The Japs saitf aiso that a cruiser of the WHf-ton Leander class was damaged. The Japanese account of the bat tle said her forces suffered no da mage but lost 10 planes, Tokyo sto The British lost SI planes over land and sea. The Jap report in dicated Trtncomaiee was heavily raided. The British navy, already com mitted to guarding much of the north Atlantic, as well as th Med iterranean, was spread thinly over eastern waters. Observers said that (ConcliHtetl on ose It, wrfwmt Gen, George C. Marshall, United hill's capacity of defense mlntster arid Capt, Lord Louis Mountbatten, royal navy. King George musta who has been assigned to special: secretary war cabinet duties. Bath Marshall and Hopkins, (t: was understood, were In constani touch with Churehiii. It was learned that one of the themes ot Hopkins' talks with the prime minister and other British leaders was that the United BtMm did not want to waft until ft gained mass superiority in weight and amount of war material tat felt II must concentrate present resources tor immediate use to (else the intuitive irom the axis. Japs Assert Fight on Bataan Still in Progress American Torpedo Boots Sink Jap Cruiser Raids On Fortress Continue Washington, April 10 MB Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright reported xo President Roosevelt today from Corregidor that our flag on this beleaguered is land fortress still flies," Shortly before, however. the war department had re ported that fighting on Bs taan peninsula apparently had ceased. Mr. Roosevelt talk ing at a press conference, saM that of course we all feel badly about Bataan, There is no further news on this, he said, esssgfc that he had received what he called a grand message from Wainwright to answer to one he had dispatched to the general. Flag Still Fiying Neither message was released fit full, and Mr, Roosevelt read only the single sentence from Wain- - Wright's communication, that flag still flies over Corregidor, This communication came m thu morning. - The war department repotted to day that American .torpedo boats sank a Japanese cruised off Genu in the central Philippines tat that on Bataan peninsula, fighting ap parently had ceased. , A commimlque safat that Uentea ant General, Jonathan M. Wair. wriglit reported this morning tttat all communications between Sa taan, where his Amertcan-FBJpoM force of 88,853 effectives was crash ed, and the fortress island of Cof regtdor had been cut off tat near 2 hours. Jans Report Fighting (The Japanese news agency at S a. m BWT, today said, however, fighting was still in progress on Bataan.) Corregidor was raided freojjentft yesterday by heavy bombers,, and. Japanese artillery hammered at island fort both from the penin sula and the south shore of Manila bay. Ho material damage resulted, however, the communique said. The tart's guns refrained from replying to the shelling from Bataan to avoiC Concluded onjmeeM column Marines Sent To Corregidor Washington, April 18 m-tSas of the estimated 3500 marines and bluejackets In the original Americ an forces in the Bataan sector ot the Philippines are presumrt to have been evacuated lo the fortress Island of Corregidor, the navy an nouneed today, reporting they wei removed under cover of darknea when collapse of peninsula defensel appeared Imminent. The navy announced at the sam time in a communique that iteK ships, the 5075 ton Canopus, sab TnsttnR Ifmrtwr. the 840-ton MteJ sweeper Bittern, and the Btt-too Kapa, a lug, had been destroyed to prevent their being used by B enemy. The famous 37-year old Dewey drydock, which, Uke the ships, had been damaged by early Japanese bombings also was destroyed. Further, the communtoue report ed that a United States sutenartn while en duty in the vicinity of the Celebes sea had sunk a large, heartly-armed Japanese vessel de scribed as either an auxiliary eras er or a large tender. The navy did not give out offi cially the" exact number of marines and sailors removed from Bataan t Corregidor but said sfmpiy "their part In the struggle to save Ba taan now ended, the lia, ruwy and US, marine corps personnel who can fight in any further defeostre efforts In the Philippine have teen evacuated to Corregidor." Howeer, It was disclosed that the matin force originally assigned to 0 r my command in Balaatt had num bered about 1500 officers and mett and li was understood aittharttat Oveiy that the original force of MuejseStetj was estimated t aoottt aws, Concluded on sat II, eoloma !)