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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
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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.