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i fees, tea fefes tefes, IF Keep 'Em Flying Buy War Bonds 54th Year, No. 120 bSSSS I RT . Thursday, May 21, 1942 Price Five Cents h IHeaiHt of Kharkov Defenses r I I r : -rri Salem, Oregon . In Im. mm .1 II 0 0 0 No Berry Prices Fixed at Joint - Conference o Assurance Given of Fed feral Supporting Program As With Vegetables No berry prices were fixed at a closed meeting today here of canners and packers and berry erowers with Edmond Maher, regional director o the office of price administration from San Francisco. But Maher did give assurance that an effort would be made ' to work out a support ins program for berries similar to that worked out recently for processed vegetables and until that is done there can be no de termination as to what the fruit prices will be to, growers. He gave assurances he would en deavor to furnish further infor mation within 48 hours, it pos sible, as to the chances of a sup- nortine program being estab lished. . . .. . "With, a freeze on preserves in the east which permits only an 11-cent price for strawberries delivered barreled on the Atlan tic coast it's impossible to work out an arrangement without government support whereby either, the grower or packer can handle berries except at a loss," said Mr. Maher in a statement issued following the meeting." Program Expected In fact, information given at the meeting indicated that-, if packers buy at prices which the growers say is necessary to meet advancing costs '. they would "take a licking" of about $50 a ton. The government has just an nounced a supporting program for canned vegetables," contin ued Mr. Maher in his statement, "and meetings in Washington, D. C, are scheduled to take place within a couple of weeks to consider a supporting pro gram for berries. , "At this meeting today both the growers and packers felt that if some announcement could be obtained that such a program would be undertaken they could Bo forward with their harvest ing and packing, even though they would have to wait some time for details of the program to be announced." Support Essential V It was the consensus that the question of government support is of highest Importance not only in' view of this year's harvest but to assure that acreage will be replaced and -eplanted to (Concluded on pane 9, column 8) Hull Hopeful Of Early Win Washington, May 20 W Sec retary of State Hull indicated today he saw some- grounds for hope that victory for the unit ed Nations might come sooner than had been expected earlier this year. ', , He was asked at his press con ference whether developments in recent weeks on the home and foreign fronts encouraged him to believe in an earlier vie tory. In reply he- pointed out that the powers and facilities of the United States have been de veloping on a more and more massive scale, hot only for of. fensive-defensive operations but for outright offensive war. It was only natural, he sug gested, that calculations as to the duration of the war should be made in the light of those facts. In reply to other questions, Hull said the work of Immobil izing French warships at Mart inique still was going on, but that the task of removing fuel )oll from the vessels had been completed. This, he said, made it impossible for the vessels to put to sea, but left enough oil to operate their electric lighting systems and other minor installations. Walsh Cleared Of Charges Made By Newspaper Justice Prob Shows Ac cusations False Plot To Smear Senate Seen Washington,. May 20 VP) Democratic Leader B a r k 1 e y (Ky.) told the senate today At torney General Biddle had in formed him that a justice de partment investigation had "completely exonerated" Sena tor Walsh (D., Mass.), of pub lished statements that Walsh had visited a "house of degradation" in Brooklyn. Addressing a crowded senate in which Walsh's was one of the few vacant seats, Barkley told of the publication in the New York Post of charges, that Walsh had been a frequent visi tor to a house in Brooklyn at which Barkley said there were reports that soldiers and sailors were "plied with liquor" in or der that information on -the movement bf ships might be ob tained from them. Never Saw Place Walsh told him personally. Barkley said, that he never had been to the house in question and had been in Brooklyn only three times in his life, on each occasion to make public speech es. 1 The Kentuckian added that a justice department investiga tion,' which' 'he and 'Republican Leader McNary of Oregon agreed should be made, "com pletely exonerated" Walsh. Barkley took the floor at the opening of today s session to say that he. wished to make a statement involving the high privilege of the senate and "the highest personal privilege of the members of the senate. Accused by Crook On May 1, 1942, Barkley said; the New York Post printed e story growing out of the trial of a case in Brooklyn involving a defendant by the name of Gus- tave H., Beekman. Beekman was on trial, Barkley continued, for "an offense too loathsome to mention in the senate or in any group, of ladies and gentle men." Senator Clark (D., Mo.) con gratulated Barley upon his state ment, but said that he personally believed that "for the mainte nance of its own integrity, it is the duty of the senate to exam ine into the motives behind this filthy conspiracy." ': To that end, Clark suggested that the publisher of the New York Post and Walter Wlnchell be called before the bar of the senate for questioning. . He referred to Wlnchell ai "that commentator who disgrac ed the uniform of the navy of the United States" by undertak ing in a radio address "to smear not only Senator Walsh but three other members of the senate whose names happen to start with 'W'." Chinese Stall Jap Burma Road Drive Chungking, May' 20 (U.R) guerrillas have stalled Japan's invasion machine along the Burma road, but a serious new threat developed today in eastern China as plane-supported and reinforced enemy columns drove toward allied aerial and supply bases. AChungklng communique described bitter fighting in Che kiang province below Shanghai where the Japanese were press ing southward along five routes toward the air bases at Lishul and Chuhsien. "There are heavy casualties on both sides and fighting Is con tinuing bitterly," the communi que added. The Japanese were basing their southward drives from Chuklhsien, evacuated by the Chinese Sunday night after se vere street fighting, and Feng- Gas Rations To Spread All Over Nation Washington, May 20 (IP) The possibility of further gasoline rationing spread over the map today as the government consid ered curtailment of automobile driving throughout the country to conserve rubber. The war production board di rected the office of defense transportation to draw up a nation-wide Dlan. in consultation with Petroleum 'Coordinator Harold L.. Ickes. and Price Ad ministrator Leon Henderson. July 1 was mentioned as the logical date to start the program, if it finally was adopted. That is the date consumer rationing by coupon books will become ef fective in the east and Pacific northwest, supplanting the pres ent temporary card rationing system. British, French Clash Off Algiers . Vichy; France, May 20 (IP) A gunfight, which developed from an aerial patrol incident is re ported in official dispatch to have cost France one plane and Bri tain two Monday in the western Mediterranean off Algiers. The clash was regarded as Im portant militarily only in that it further aroused the Vichy gov ernment's temper, already stir red by the British occupation of Syria, Lebanon and Madagascar and a series of maritime, developments,,- The official dispatch announc ed last night, gave this account of the action: A British seaplane flying over Algiers bay was hailed by French pursuit craft with a ma chine-gun burst and forced down. -' A British destroyer nearbly opened fire on two French tor pedo boats which, ;the French declared, had been- ordered out to save the British plane. In stead, under the destroyer's shel ling, they turned, their guns on the plane and sank it. British destroyers threw up a heavy anti-aircraft fire. . The squadron, nevertheless, succeeded in shooting down an other British plane. One French plane failed to re turn to its base. Officials said "Once again the French see what means our for mer allies are using." Italians Admit Loss Of Submarine Rome (From Italian Broad casts), May 20 (IP) The high command announced the loss of an Italian submarine today, say ing it had failed to return to its base. r"The next of kin of the crew have been notified,!' a com munique said. (Italian submarines are re ported operating in the Atlantic as well as the Mediterranean, Where the vessel was lost was not announced.) Chinese demolition squads and chiao, reported taken by Japan ese spearheads Tuesday. The drive also was aimed apparently at Kinhua, a distribution center for goods filtered through the Japanese blockade. North of Kinhua, the Chinese said their forces were making a determined stand. A fleet of bombers, the communique said, was supporting the enemy at tack. For the first time since Janu ary, the communique revealed the Japanese have opened of fensive action In north Hunan province. A two-day battle was reported along the Hsinchiang river, with the enemy "routed." Australians Renew Demand For More Planes America Criticized for Sending Troops to Ire land Hunt for Invaders By Don Caswell Melbourne, May 20 U.R Aus tralia renewed its demand for more planes, men, guns and ships today as Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's allied air force contin ued its wide reconnaissance flights in search for an enemy invasion fleet. . One newspaper by implica tion criticized the United States for sending additional forces to northern Ireland unless they are intended for an immediate of fensive against the German-held continent of Europe. Air Minister Arthur S. Drake- ford, in a statement, said: Need for Planes "The need for planes cannot be too strongly stressed . . . our slogan should be planes, more planes and still more planes. Without them our task will be made heavier and longer. "The request made at London by Dr. Herbert Evatt, Australian foreign secretary, for delivery of planes to Australia as rapidly as possible needs the support of all Australians. It is encourag ing to find that his spirited and capable ' appeals are meeting with public support throughout the world," - -r ' The critical newspaper was the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Com menting on the arrival of Am erican troops in, northern Ire land, it said: Australia Needs Help "Australia would be the first to cheer the Americans if they were bound to Britain to par ticipate in the coming critical weeks in an offensive against the axis. . "But we shall not be so pleas ed if the Americans are going to camp for the summer. "The United Nations should be rushing more men, ships, guns and planes to points where fight ing is actually taking place." (At his press conference yes terday, President Roosevelt was told that some Australians feared the arrival of more American troops in northern Ireland, might mean the United States was minimizing the dangers in the southwest Pacific. Mr. Roose velt replied that he hadn't heard of it.) MacArthur, in a,, five word communique, his shortest to date, said: "Operations were limited to reconnaissance." Home Canners Get Certificates Portland, May 20 U.R All Or egon county rationing boards are authorized to issue sugar certificates immedla t e 1 y to home canners, the state sugar rationing office announced to day. Those who have not registered will be given opportunity at later date, the office said. Present regulations permit five pounds of sugar a person per year for canning purposes, the office disclosed. Japanese Marry At Assembly Center , Portland, May 20 VP) There was more excitement at the Jap, anese assembly center here yes terday than the day the evac uees moved In. . The first wedding was held there. The principals, both Ore gon State college graduates, were Molly Kageyama, whose afthcr was unable to attend because with other evacuees from the Hood River area he is held in an assembly center at Plnedale, Calif., and Ml)ton Maeda, form er junior engineer of- the Bon neville administration. War Races Shipbuilders Lined up two abreast, here are some'of 12 Liberty ships being outfitted at a large U..S. shipyard. Among other things, this war is a race be tween United Nations shipbuilders and the toll of axis sea raiders. . More Raids on Japan Probable k'-'"'' Washington, May -20."UH More raids oh Tokyo may be pos sible if the base from which Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle and his 79 men took off to bomb the Japanese capital remains a secret, officials indicated today. It is one of the most provocative secrets of the war and not the least interested to learn the answer are the Japanese. Officials hinted that a repeat performance of Doolittle's daring raid, which left a wake of death and destruction among warships, airplane facto ries and other military objec tives in Japan on April 18, de pends upon how well that se cret is kept. , Doolittle, the dare-devil speed flyer of more peaceful days, when asked if he was going to try another raid, replied: "That I don't know. It's in the laps of the gods and the war department." But those who watched him re ceive the congressional medal of honor from President Roosevelt yesterday and later listened to him answer questions at a spe cial press conference had no doubt that the short, baldish, 45-ycar-old flyer was rarin' to go. Doolittle revealed virtually all details of the raid that he knew except where the two-engined North American medium B-2S bombers took off, where they landed and how many wore in volved. And no hint came from anyone else as to whether they started their "hazardous and im portant" flight from China, air craft carriers or a secret base. British Aim at 1000 Bombers a Night London, May 20 (IP) Allied air commands are aiming at ex pansion, enabling them to send 1000 . bombers a night against German targets, an authoritative source indicated today. "A thousand planes is not a fantastic figure," this source de clared. "At present we have the fa cilities for sending 800 planes on raids, and these can be expend ed." The capacity of Britain as an air base has not yet been fully developed, he added. "The objective Is expansion so great that on any night with good weather conditions we will be able to send 1000 aircraft to bomb Germany," he said, point ing out that this would not mean every night. : German Filer Captured ' London, May 20 (IP) The Eng lish police took a war prisoner today a German flier who ball ed out of his Messerschmitt when It was hit by anti-aircraft fire and fell at Beachy Head Sussex. I - . lokyo Raiders Trained in West Spokane, Wash., May 20 (U.R) I Col. Ray L. Owens, chief of staff of the second air force, to day announced that all 79 pir lots and crew members who took part- in the American raid on Tokyo were trained in the north west, and Identified them as for mer members of the 17th bom bardment and 89th reconnais sance groups. Fort George Wright officers said the men had since been ab sorbed into other flying groups, but were members of the 17th and 89th during their training period. Col. Owens said the men were stationed at McChord field, Ta coma, Wash., last year, moving to Phelps field, Spokane, later, and then to army maneuvers In Lou isiana last fall. , - : From the - Louisiana war games, the men were transferred to Pendleton, Ore., where they underwent rigorous training in specialized and long distance bombing attacks. Except for a brief interlude at Phelps field, all training designed to fit them for the attack on Japan was car ried out at the Pendleton air base. ' Soldier's-in-laws To Get No Benefits Washington, May 20 (IP) Mothers-in-law, fathers-in-law and grandchildren won't get. any benefits from a soldier's or sailor's pay or from government aid to his depondenent. The house mili tary committee voted such rela - tives out and sent the depend cnts' allowance bill to the whole house today for final action some time next week, after congress decides whether to raise priv ates and seamen to a $42 or $50 monthly minimum. . Aside from ruling out grand children (which not many doughboys have) and in-laws (which more of them are get ling), the committee left the de pendents' bill unchanged, A sol dier with class "A" dependents (wife or children) would get $20 taken from his pay check every month. In addition, the govern ment would add $20 for a wife, Invasion of Europe Planned By Churchill Amassing Strength for Attack on Continent Air Raids a Prelude London, May 20 (U.R) The Churchill government informed the house of commons today, at the conclusion of a two-day war debate, that Great Britain Is amassing strength and intends to "make a carefully planned at tack on the continent of Europe.' The assurance was given by by Sir Stafford Cripps, lord pri vy seal and government spokes man in commons, after former war minister Leslie Hore-Bcl-isha had warned that Japan pro bably would attack Russia in the cast if the allies invade western Europe. Prelate to Invasion Cripps said that the RAF's heavy offensive against the vit als of Germany's war production is a prelude to an ultimate Inva sion, and the best way that Brit ain can aid Russia at this time, "This bombing Is, in our view, of material assistance to Russian resistance and the best way in which we can give assistance until such time as we are able to make a carefully planned at tack on the continent of Eur rope, which we intend to do,", he, said. . . '". v i,-.; ., , J " 'Cripps defended Churchill ai- ainst attacks on his conduct bf the war, both as defense minis ter and prime minister, and said that the government is willing to stand or fall on a vote of confi dence on Its war policies. Rejects Public Inquiry The government leader reject ed demands for a public-inquiry into the British reverses in the Pacific, including Malaya", Bur ma and Singapore. Of his successful mission to India to seek a defense agree ment under a British ' of for of post-war dominion status, Cripps said that Britain has not closed the door, to negotiations and is anxious to settle the problem. Meanwhile, he said, the Brit ish ore doing their best to solid ify the defense of India against a threatened Japanese invasion. Pledge to Australia Cripps wound up the debate for the government after Hore Bellsha had attacked the Chur chill war policies. Cripps repeated a pledge made earlier by Major Clement R. Attlce, deputy prime minister and dominions secretary, that Britain will do all in her power to aid Australia. Discussing the war in the Med itcerruneuri, Cripps said that during April more bombs were dropped on Malta than wore dropped on , Britain "in any month during the worst period of the blitz." The German luftwaffe made more than 5000 sorties against Malta during April, he said. Churchill wos unoble to take part in the two-day war debate. f - $10 for each dependent child, $15 for a child but no wife, and $20 for a divorced wife legally entitled to alimony, Under this scale, a wifo with our children would receive $20 from her husband's pay and $60 from the government. The allotments from a service man's pay would be mandatory If ho had dependents, but would bo applicoblo only to lower- grade men, up to the rank of the lowest army sergeant and the corresponding naval grade - The payments would not be gin until the fourth month after (Concluded on pais 9, column 6) Nazis Mass for Aerial Invasion Of Caucasus 100,000 Chutists Assem bled Russians Repel Counter Attacks By the Associated Press) Russia's armies storming to ward the great Ukraine steel city of Kharkov were reported by London sources to have fought their way "into the heart of the city's defenses" today, while the Germans were massing 100,000 parachutists for a giant air-borne invasion of the Caucasus. The German high command said that axis Crimean troops had already overrun the Kerch peninsula, across the narrow Kerch strait from oil-rich Cau casus. Moscow said battles still raged there. Rlchthofen Leader A Berlin communique also announced that General Baron von Rlchthofen, who directed the bombing of Belgrade' and paved the way for Germany's aerial In vasion of Crete, had arrived in the Kerch battle zone. Baron von Richthofen is an expert on troop transportation by plane- towed gliders. In the Ukraine, the red arm ies, led by monster 52-ton tanks, were pictured in Soviet dispatch es as advancing over 'fields lit tered with many hundreds of German dead In the .nine-dayi' old' oiliriiiv'a -against Kharkov, while the nazis desperately at tempted to ease the pressure with a dlversional attack 80 miles to the south. Apparently the Russians re fused to be decoyed. Smashing Ahead A bulletin from red army headquarters announced tersely:- , "Our troops waged offensive battles, beat off enemy counter attacks and advanced." At mid-day, the Russians re ported they were smashing ever closer to Kharkov despite stiff ened German resistance and de clared the fighting was spread ing like wildfire along the en tire southern flank of the 125 mile front Meanwhile, the Russians de clared that the German offen slve against Arctic Murmansk, port of entry for United States supplies to Russia, has been thwarted by the sinking of 95, 115 tons of German shipping In the Barents sea during April. (Concluded on page 10, column 7) Mannheim Hit By British Bombs London, May 20 VP) One de tachment of four-motored Stir ling bombers carried 40,000 fire bombs to Mannheim end attack ed that southwestern German city Inst night, air ministry sources said, In the resumption of major air attocks on German Industrial centers after an 11-day lull, the air ministry said other large forces of Hallfnxes, Lancasters, Manchoslers and Wellingtons at tacked Mannheim with "great loads" of fire missiles and "the heaviest high explosive bombs." "The first reports of the crews give an encouraging description of many fires left burning and of heavy high explosives burst ing among Industrial buildings," the air ministry news service added. The air ministry said 14 planes were missing from the night's operation, Including two fight ers. While bombers were hammer ing the nazl submarine base at St. Naznlro, In occupied France, in their first night blows after a weather-enforced lull of 11 days, the communique disclosed, Brit ish fighter planes raked enen'y airdromes In France and Hol land, downing one of the enemy planes which rose to challenge them, (Concluded on page 9, column 7) a.
