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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1942)
1 - - IB 'Buy War Bonds 'Keep 'Em Flying' Salem, Oregon ZAiL Vamm KJ O1? Enttred ucond claa Tuesday, April 21, 194 n.otk Price Five Cents matter at Balem, Oregon New A? II R IRX B .Ml Ri - OS Bus Plan for Cantonment Given Thursday Mass Meeting Called at Chamber of Commerce To Pass on Program "" One of themost important meetings of the year, is what President Carl Hogg and1 Business Extension Manager Clay Cochran say about a general meeting of the Salem Chamber of Commerce that has been set for Thursday night of. this week at 7:30 o'clock. It is highly important "to Salem business men, store, shop and general property owners because a proposal will be presented that "will open up the avenues to liberate Salem business, In the words of Mr. Cochran. )Mass Meeting Called The meeting will be concerned with the question of transportation between Salem and Camp - Adair, now the most Important issue before the city because on it hinges the matter of priority and housing. It had been planned to have a series of day meetings this week, but yes terday a brief meeting of some 25 . business men each of whom holds a number of Chamber of Commerce memberships, were of the opinion that one big general meeting would be better. Consequently that plan was adopted,' and it is Imperative, say the chamber .leaders, that sev eral hundred ' persons be present, .-"regardlesftOf'-'Whethefys.ithejwjraM chamber.',members..;.: , . The group yesterday, without ex ception, approved the transportation plan which is now taking definite k shape. It. will be fully ''revealed f Thursday night. . Permit Necessary -! ' v ' "It is going to be necessary," said 'President Hogg today, "for Salem business men and Salem citizens In general, to qualify for 40-cent round trip transportation service between here and Camp Adair before we ask - the public utilities commission for a permit to operate or acquire 1 equipment to carry passengers." Incidentally Mr. Hogg remarked that two men have approached the chamber officials with proposals to lease or sell buses to the chamber, "To make known to our people how they may qualify will be the purpose of the meeting Thursday night," .Mr. Hogg continued. "En dorsement of the proposal to be placed before them will be the green light to go ahead with getting the tpermit and leasing the buses. Un 'animous endorsement given the plan by the group meeting yester day Justifies us in expecting a very large turnout, Thursday night." Mr. Cochran . stressed the state ment today that "among those com- (Concluded onpnne 11, column 4) Peary Bombed By Mistake New York, April 21 (IP) John Raleigh, CBS correspondent in a broadcast from Australia, said to day that the United States destroy er Peary, acknowledged by the Unit ed States to have been sunk Feb ruary 10 at Darwin when the Japan ese scored five direct bomb hits, irevlously had been bombed by the Australians by mistake. ' As she was nearing Darwin after successfully undergoing many bomb ings at Manila and In the Indies, Raleigh said, "Australian planes mistook the Peary for an enemy craft and bombed her, unfortunate ly, more accurately than the Japan ese. "Her fire control and foremasts were carried away by direct hits, The ship, though frantically sig nalling, did not fire back at the allies, who honestly believed the vessel an enemy one. "Finally, a bomb fell on the after deck, setting afire the ammunition stacked beside four Inch guns. A seaman rushed to the danger spot and hurled the shell cases, afire, overboard. For this he was awarded the navy cross." . a The Peary finally reached Dar. In, short handed because mosqui toes nesting In green camouflage used In the Islands had Infected 23 men with malaria. A new fire con trol apparatus was on Its way when the Japanese attacked, Raleigh said. Camelback Recaps Now Available Portland, April 21 (U.PJ Recaps manufactured entirely of reclaimed rubber are now available for Ore gon class B motorists, the state' ra tioning administrator's office an nounced today. ! Although class B motorists have been entitled to recaps since April 1, retreaders have been unable to obtain allotments of the new cam elback (88 per cent reclaimed and 2 per cent crude rubber.) The sal vaged rubber is not sturdy en ough for trucks and it will not stand passenger car speeds of over 35 miles per hour. Navy Operates Brewster Plants New York, April 21 (ST-The Unit ed States navy today took over the Long Island city plants of the Brewster Aeronautical company be cause "no finished planes were be ing produced," said capt. George O. Westervelt, U. S. navy retired, as he assumed active command over production. The company has plants in New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Senator Harry F. Byrd (D., Va.), charged in Washington that opera tion .of one Long Island city plant was only 40 per cent of capacity. Westervelt said he had not had time to delve into parts production, but could say "no finished airplanes have been coming off the assembly line.1?; : .The plants located In New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have been running at only 40 per cent of -capacity In parts, with no fln- JnoVproduct. coming; pff Jlie aS TfimWv nnps '' J ' 'v '" V,,,: ;srhe plants have been taken ov er," said Westervelt, "because the president of the United States said the production was not satisfactory and he wanted steps taken to in crease that production." Germans Shoot French Hostages By Ralph Heinzen Vichy France, April 21 U,B Ger man military authorities have exe cuted 20 more French hostages at St. Nazaire In reprisal for the re cent British commando raid on the Important submarine base there, It was made known today. News of the executions was re ceived here shortly after Chief of Government Pierre Laval left sud denly for Paris at 5 a.m. to contact the Germans on his collaboration. 1st program. Thirty hostages had been shot at Rouen yesterday in revenge for the derailing of a German troop train in which 44 German soldiers were killed. ...'. The hostages, completely Innocent of the bombing, were taken from a concentration camp at which Free French sympathizers and alleged "communists" were held. (London reported that the Ger mans Intended to shoot 80 more In nocent French patriots Thursday unless those responsible for the train wreck were arrested. (Thirty-five hostages had been shot at Calais last week, and thus the total of new killings, In a Ger man -repression campaign, i brought to 85, with 80 more facing death.) , , Laval Pledged to War on Free French (Br thi Onlted Press) Pierre Laval, established as overlord of Vichy France by nazi pressure, is committed to attack Free France and es pecially the vitally important Free French territory in Africa, private advices receivea in the United States said today. These advices, received from a source believed to be unimpeach able, said Laval had made It plain that as chief of the Vichy govern ment, one of his principal policies would be an aggressive military campaign agalst Free France, es pecially In Africa. - They said also Utet because of deep hatred of Laval throughout France he might be the target of an assassin soon. They asserted that M per cent of the French people detested Laval's policies and as the result terrorism and harsh repres sion might provide the headlines from France before long. Laval was quoted u having said Soviet Rushing Fresh Troops To All Fronts Seek to Paralyze Nazi Efforts for Offensive Guerrillas Successful .Kuibyshev, Russia, April 21 (U.R) Mass movements of fresh soviet troops and war materials to all fighting fronts was reported by the Red Star today. The dispatch empha sized the determination of Russian armed forces to hold the initiative and paralyze Hitler's efforts to launch a 1942 offensive. Guerrillas were authorita tively reported today to have captured four villages on the north ern front, killed 783 Germans, in cluding a lieutenant colonel, de stroyed four tanks and blown up six ammunition and fuel dumps. . Guerrilla Action The size of their successes indi cated the guerrillas were becom ing most formidable. The alarmed Germans were sending out punitive expeditions, supported by planes and tanks, but the guerrillas either am bushed these hunters, or eluded them and continued their destruc tive forays. A dispatch to the army newspa per Red. Star said that Russian na val assault planes using a new night bombing sight device, had destroyed 17 German Junker . and Messer- schmltt planesaground at a Baltic , On "-pie Leningrad front,' advices said, the Russians have captured 17 bunkers in one sector, where Sov iet artillery . destroyed 21 German firing points and three bunkers and silenced two . batteries. Air Fighting Increases ' As the spring thaw progressed to the northern front, aerial fight ing increased, with the Germans consistently getting the worst of it, Dispatches from Murmansk said. 50 German planes had tried to raid that important port for American and British supplies, and' 15 were shot down, besides 12 being dam aged, One plane succeeded In drop ping bombs, which struck no mili tary objective. Several Soviet planes were damaged, but non was de stroyed. Soviet dispatches said Russian troops in the Leningrad sector had captured 17 Nazi strongholds . in throwing back the German 217th division,' A Red army communique declared that 1500 German 'planes had been destroyed by Russian fliers and anti-aircraft batteries from March : to April 14, and other Soviet ac counts said Red air squadrons had shot down 15 German planes in a battle over the Arctic port of Mur mansk. Soviet parachute troops, described as strong enough to free German occupied villages and "hold them against all counterattacks," were ported behind -the Nazi lines, Stookholm, Sweden, April 31. (AV Axis sources here reported today that Russian troops from Siberia had begun an offensive on the Au- nus isthmus, between lakes Ladoga and Onega, northwest of Leningrad Finnish soldiers called: the attack "the heaviest of the war," - that he would never voluntarily initiate a rupture In relations with the United States, He was said to believe that with himself In power, the nazls would have more confidence In Vichy and permit continuance of Vlchy-Unlted States relations. It was added that he was pre pared to give guarantees that no French Island or other part of the French empire would be used as submarine bases against the allies. But at the same time he was quoted that he would "tolerate" no allied Interference If he began a fight to take over Free French ter ritory, and added that he Intended to do so. I i s i v " - J i, li " s Airborne Cyclists Board Their 'Plane In full pack, cyclists of the airborne Infantry wheel up their vehicles aboard especlally-bullt fuselage, called a "mock-up" which is used for training. The "mock up" Is an exact replica of their future quarters aboard transport planes. Job of the airborne infantry is to reinforce paratroops trying to hold an attained objective. U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo. U.S. Warplanes Ferried to Britain '. - (Br the Associated Press) United States warplanes, now blasting the axis on many fronts, are already being ferried to British operational bases to.. join, in, tne. p,At s great aerial otiensiye ...sga.tnpf :,tne.i.oign tm5n'Loribs ..f oreign secretary -Antnony -rr. ! ; . . . Sunkbyll-Boal Norfolk, Va;, April 21' (P) Forty-' eight crewmen Reached shore safely after their medium-sized cargo ship of Panamanian registry was blasted by two torpedoes from an axis sub marine off the Atlantic coast early on the morning of April 12, the fifth naval district announced to day. Ono man whose name was not available was reported missing. Fourteen of the crew were landed at Morehead City, N.C., and the other 34 survivors were brought ashore at another east coast port, the navy said. : Nelson Davidson, third assistant engineer, of Sharon Hill, Pa., told fifth district public relations offi cers that at the time of the attack "it was pitch dark, and we. never saw a thing of the submarine. The first explosion'-was light and the second one much heavier; I didn't want to leave her. She was a beau tiful ship." First Engineer I Vincent McCarthy of Jersey City, N. J., who was In his bunk when the first torpedo struck said he ran to the engine room and "saw there, was no water there. After the second explosion' the mate ordereK my lifeboat down and I figured I'd better go along. There were three men In the water when we went by, but I saw one of them get to a life raft, and the other two were so close to It I feel sure they made it, I know positively that nobody was killed In the explosions, because I saw them all on deck before we put off, The captain stay ed on the bridge the whole time," Vatican Warned On Japanese Envoy London, April 21 (U.B An offi cial spokesman said today that the government had warned the Vati can, before It accepted the creden tials of a Japanese envoy, that ac ceptance "would be widely Inter preted as being the result of Axis pressure and a condonation of Jap an's treacherous and unprovoked at tack." The spokesman said Britain had been Informed by the Vatican that negotiations tor establishment of diplomatic relations with Japan were opened in. 1922 and It was decided to establish relations "In order to safeguard the spiritual In terests of the Roman Catholic or der." He said the Vatican said action should not be regarded as connected with "temporal Interests" or In any way dm to outside preuurt, jiiaen - discioseaitnat Frime Min- ister Winston Churchill has -ap proved a plan to organize, a com blned operations staff, linking Bri tain's army, navy and air force Into a single gigantic combat team. The move to coordinate the three british . fighting services perhaps as a. prelude to an allied invasion of nazl-dominated Europe closely followed conferences by Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. army chief of staff, and Harry Hopkins, Presi dent Roosevelt's representative, with British military and political leaders. Dutch quarters In London said German Field Marshall Gerd Von Runstcdt was building up a nazi bicycle army in. northern France anc' Belgium in defense against new British comando raids and a possible allied invasion attempt. Dutchmen escaping from Holland said the Germans were taking the entire production of bicycle factories In the low countries and Denmark and reported mounting anxiety s- mong nazi occupation troops over the. prospects of a British invasion. Dutch refugees said German auth orities had forbidden soldiers to sing the song so popular a year ago " We Are Sailing Against Eng land." .. .. .. . London observers said they ex pected to see the red,' white and blue insignia of U. S. army bombers in the sky any day now, and the London Daily Sketch declared: . "Soon at airdromes all over Bri tain there Will be gathered the force of planes that will make this coun try the world's greatest air base. Hundreds of United States aircraft giant bombers, -medium . bombers and dive bombers flown by Ameri can air crews." Nelson Plans Draff Of Business Men Washington, April 21 OJ-R) War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson said today the government may have to draft war production executives because congressional criticism is making experienced businessmen reluctant to volunteer their services. "We may have to have a form of organization that will draft men for these particular Jobs," Nelson told the senate committee investigating the war program, Businessmen find themselves sub jected to a barrage of criticism when they accept positions in the war production setup, he charged. Much of this criticism, he added, seems to be based solely on the fact that they are businessmen. Cafe Owner Killed 1 Mllton-Freewater, Ore,, April 31 W) An automobile crash on the highway to Walla Walla killed Fred F. Kllckner, 47, Freewater cafe owner, yesterday. Police said he ap parently fell asleep at the wheel, and the car veered Into tree. War Output Hump Washington, April 21 (IP) Donald M. Nelson, the -war production chief, testified today that the Unl ted States- was "over the hump'.', on JSiUlMX c.Droduot!on.,and - itf ki'.f ew months-would offsetne; equipment reserves built up py Axis nations. - "America, England and Russia are producing in much greater quanti ties essential war materiel than our Axis enemies," Nelson told the sen ate investigating committee in sum marizing accomplishments of the war production board since its or ganization last January 16. "I believe we are over the hump 'on production," he continued. "Ev erything we have is in production and we are getting Increased quan tities; We still have a reserve, built up by the Axis nations, to over come but In a few montns I think we will overcome that," Nelson' complained, however, that congressional criticism of dollar-a- year men was handicapping the WPB In its efforts to obtain the services of business executives. "We are having Increasing diffi culty in getting good men to come down here to do this Job. They have to face continued crltlsm of the honesty of their Intentions," he said. ' "It's a pity they couldn't serve a term in the senate and get used to criticism," said Chairman Truman (D Mo.), "But they are not used to it," Nel son replied, Compiles Book on Medieval Philosophy Mt. Angel, April 21 Wl A volume on scholastic philosophy has Just been completed by Prof. Mark Schmld, OSB, librarian of ancient books at Mt. Angel college. 1 The book covers the medieval phi losophy which served as tho back ground for the social and cultural outlook of the 13th, 14th and 13th centuries. Peace Offensive by Japanese Launched Tokyo (From Jananeso Tokyo radio broadcast today yohiko Kagawa, most famous as asserting that among Japanese Christian "prayers are being said for an early conclusion of tho war and the restoration of peace throughout the world." (The purpose of this broadcast by the government-controlled radio Is obscure but it might be the be ginning of a Japaneso "peace of fensive.", (Japanese leaders may be count ing on Kagawa's reputation In the United States, where ' he has lec tured widely, and where his books, in translation, have had consider able circulation, to gain attention for the suggestion that Japanese Christians, at least,, want peace. (Archibald MacLelsh, director of the of tic of ficti and figures, In Allied Bombers Raid Jap Base On New Guinea MacArthur Reports Enemy Landing at San Jose, Panay Island U. S. Army Headquarters in Australia, April 21 fP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur sig nalized the establishment of his new southwestern Pacific headquarters and completion of his staff today by issuing his tirst daily communique which embraced operations in the Philippines, Dutch East Indies and Australia. . With a staff composed largely of his aides who were in the Philippines, he also high lighted the attention he Is devoting to that sector of his command by announcing that Japanese artillery firing upon Corregldor fortress In Manila bay was abating. The big American .guns firing from the island had registered tell ing hits upon enemy troops, his communique said, and enemy shell ing and bombing was having negli gible effect. New Guinea Raid Announcing a new raid yesterday on Salamaua, Japanese foothold on New Guinea, north of Australia, Gen. MacArthur said the Japanese headquarters buildings were smash ed along withsome hangars, and a .luel dump, was destroyed. - MacArthur's headquarters, which said its communiques will supplant henceforth those which have been Issued by tho Australian govern ment, also told of allied air attacks upon Kbepang in Dutch Timor and Rabaul in New Britain. These ac tions had been previously announ ced by the Australians, however.. A previously announced Japanese attack on Port Moresby In New Guinea, also was mentioned. Un official reports from Port Moresby, said that nine heavy Japanese bombers escorted by six fighters made the 26th attack on that allied outpost today, but that the forma tions were broken up by anti-aircraft flic and Australian fighters. Raid on Rabaul Other unofficial reports from an advanced allied base said a new raid by American planes on Rabaul resulted in a direct hit on a Jap anese plane and straddling of oth ers. Elsewhere in the Philippines, it was announced that American- Filipino forces were continuing their aggressive patrol action against the Japanese occupying a fringe of Mindanao Island, and that the Jap ancse had not yet been able to overcome the defenders In Cebu and Panay Islands. At San Jose, In southwestern Panay, the Japanese have made a new landing, it was said. The first formal hearquarters pronouncement since General Mac- Arthur came to Australia, It demon strated that his newly outlined op erational organization Is now funo tlonlng. A Saturday night scouting flight over Kocpang was reported. Today's announcement said that In Sunday's attack on Rabaul, New Britain, a ship, wharves and run ways sustained direct hits and fly lng boats were bombed. Broadcasts), April 21 (IP) The a Dome! dispatch quoting To- of Japaneso Christian leaders. an address at tho annual meeting of the Associated Press yesterday warned that the Axis would launch a "peace offensive" this summer. He said "a pcaco offensive Is an offensive In political warfare, which "won victories In France which divo bombers and flame throwers and tanks and parachute troops could never havo won." He declared thcro could bo no negoti ated pcaco except tho kind that "frco men make." (Experienced observers have pre dieted that Japan might begin a peace drive as soon as she had conquered the territories she want ed to include In her "Greater East Asia co-prosperlty sphere." Western Japan Blacked Out For 6 Hours Reported Planes Came From China Damage of Big Raid Minimized (Br ths Associated Press) . New air vnirf nlnrma tonf central and wpsrwn .Tnnnn. containing vital naval bases, poses ana industrial cities un der prolonged alerts this (Tues.) afternoon, axis sour ces reported, even while Jap anese hl'Ofldp.asta rnTlfinlloH tr. minimize the effects of Sat urday's attacks attributed to American planes. The Japanese themselves . said nothinc of rhn nlarma stating Instead that the cabinet re ceived reports from its ministers tnat Japanese life had been affected only to a small degree by the Sat-' urday raids and that postal service was quickly resumed. The Berlin radio, however, re ported under a Tokvo dateline that alarms sounded In central and west ern Japan today between 4 and 5 p.m. (midnight and 1 ajn., PWT). Naval Base Blacked Out ("For central Japan the all clear sounded about 5 p.m.." the broad cast said, "while the alarm remained In force for western Japan, espe cially for Kyushu." -. , XKyushd,'one of the four-main is lands, lies south and west of the others, .nearest Ohinar'gri,'Jt"ira, the great' naval base of Sasebo, the port of Nagasaki and a heavy In dustry belt, Including many steel plants, along the northern shore. (Tho broadcast made no mention of planes seen or bombs dropped and the alarm mav have been mere ly a symptom of Japanese fears of air attack since the high com mand reported raids Saturday on Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe). Tojo to Tour Region it was announced that Premlei General . Hldekt Toln wmtM lcavf Tokyo tomorrow for a tour of in dustrial estaDiisnments in Mlye pre fecture. : (This Is a district some 250 miles west of Tokyo, Just west of the Nagoya Industrial district. It con tains the port of YokkaichI, which Saturday's reports said was visited by machine-gunning enemy planes, and many Industrial establishments making war supplies. (A Berlin broadcast, quoting Tokyo dispatch, said the Japanese government had decided to put Into effect Immediately the law passed by the last diet session providing recompense for Japanese subjects suffering air raid damage. Fam ilies whose wage earner has been (Concluded on ynge 11, column 6) Battle Raging For Burma Oil Chungking, April 21 (U.B Chinese forces under Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwcll are holding the western Burma oil town of Yenangyaung, 130 miles southwest of Mandalay, after liberating 7,000 trapped Bri tish troops and killing more than S00 Japanese, a Chinese military spokesman said today. Driving south from Kyaukpa daung, the Chinese launched a strong counterattack Sunday after noon and "rescued" the encircled British who had been caught In a Japanese trap seven miles north of Yenangyaung, the spokesman ad ded. He said the trapped British troops consisted of tank units and Infantry. (London versions of allied re capture of Yenangyaung said Bri tish and Chinese forces combined In the counter assault.) A Chinese communique yesterday said "thousands" of British had been liberated from the enemy trap, and the Chungking commentator placed Ule number at 7.000. He disclosed that a Chinese bat talion commander had been killed In the action and said his Identity Would be revealed officially soon. "Up lo the present, Chlncso troops are still holding Yenangyaung and keeping the Japs threo miles south of that place, although the latter are still preparing for seesaw fight ing there," the spokesman said.
