1 Jonaraal ! Buy War Bonds Keep 'Em Flying 54th Year, No. 189 matter at Balem. Oregon Salem, Oregon IH Monday, August 10, 1942 Price Five Cents A Land mencan roirces DO 2)011081100 f m m r i m : ; nr I II B W IB .1 Islands o 0 0 Japan's Biggest Liners Sunk by Allied Subs 4 Maru Ships, Converted Into Carriers and Troop Transports Destroyed (Copyright by United Press) Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 10 U.B Circumstantial evidence avail able to Americans enroute home from internment in Japanese territory indicated today that the Japanese liners Yasakuni Maru and Iwata Maru, both con verted into aircraft carriers, and the troop-laden Nitta Maru were among the first big vessels sunk by allied submarines in the Pa cific war. The three liners were in ad dition to the sinking of a fourth big Japanese ship, the 14,457-ton Taiyo Maru, which went down in flames off Hong Kong with loss of hundreds of enemy tech nical experts after an attack by an American submarine. Taiyo Maru Blew Up Japanese sources reported that that Taiyo Maru blew up and was swept by fire from stem to stern after the torpedo hit ex ploded a boiler. The Yasakuni Maru was of 11,933 tons, a ship of the great Mitsubishi company, built at To kyo in 1930. The Nitta Maru was of 16,500 tons and was built at Tokyo in 1939 by the same Japanese concern. Both 'vessels-, as. well . as, , the Iwata Maru, were reported sunk by American and Dutch subma rines. It was not positively establish ed that the Iwata and Yasakuni had been converted into aircraft carriers but the best available information indicated that they had. Each carried thousands of persons -addition to vast equipment for the Japanese armies conducting offensives southward at that time. The ves sels were among the newest and finest of the Japanese merchant marine. Hara Kirl by Captain It also was reported reliably that the captain of the Maga sattl Maru committed hara kiri late in May after his ship struck a Japanese mine in Japanese wa ters. A week earlier the emper or had decorated the captain for capturing the U. S. liner Presi dent Harrison in Shanghai on the first day of the war. The Taiyo Maru sinking caus ed the Japanese to change their plans in connection with send ing technical experts to the sou thern conquered areas. These experts now sail southward in small groups on a number of ships rather than in large units. This was said to have resulted in delaying the organization of plans to exploit occupied areas. Japs Get Large Stocks Eye-witnesses reported, how ever, that the Japanese were making the greatest effort in organizing the southern areas. These reports said the Japanese advance in some areas, such as Malaya, had been more rapid than expected and tjiat the Brit ish were not always able to carry out a scorched earth pol icy. Large stocks fell into Japan ese hands at some points, it was reported. , Gesfapo Killed In Poland London, Aug. 10 (U.B Lieu tenant Colonel Richard Gassier, who was the German SS (Elite) troop chief of police in the Kra kow district of Poland, was kill ed July 30 when his automobile was wrecked by patriots, a spokesman for the Polish gov ernment in exile said today. Gassier was a notorious ges tapo killer known s"for his cru elty and ruthlessncss," the .spokesman said. In Poland his principal task was protecting the German government offici als, He was the chief body guard of the German governor of Poland. .,-.....,v......m:..ii.u ,u. a Vice-Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, commander of Amer ican forces in the Solomon Island battle. - Ghormley Leads Naval Forces Washington, Aug. 10 VP) Ad miral Robert Lee Ghormley, 58, is commander of United States naval forces in the south Pacific. He is one of the navy's better known officers and has been in his present job with headquart ers in New Zealand since last spring. Before that Ghormley was special observer for the navy in London, a position to which he was assigned after completing a tour of duty as director of the vital war plans office of the of fice of chief of naval operations here. A regular naval officer who graduated from Annapolis in 1906, Ghormley had active serv ice "at sea 'during World War t, his principal , dusy being flag lieutenant of commander of bat tleship force one. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 57, is commander in chief of the United States Pacific fleet and as such is responsible for naval operations extending from the Bering sea into the southern most reaches of the Pacific. Nimitz' most recent previous op eration was the battle of Midway where he was in general control of the task forces which engaged the Japanese assault fleet. Fatal Flash Floods Cause Million Loss Philadelphia, Aug. 10 (U.B The death toll in flash floods in Bucks, Montgomery, Lan caster and Chester counties stood today at two, and the property damage was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Heavy rains Saturday and early yesterday morning sent walls of water down choked creek beds, flooded homes and industrial plants, upset trans portation schedules, and seri ously damaged hundreds of acres of farm land. More than 200 families were evacuated from their homes between Col legeville and Perkiomen. Cottage Grove Fire Fatal to Resident Cottage Grove, Aug. 10 VP) suspicious fires reached serious William King, 23, Cottage Grove, result of burns suffered early this morning in a motor cabin blaze, which the caretaker, J. D. Smith, said he was convinced was "deliberately set. The'blaze was the fourth sus picious fire in the Cottage Grove area in the last three weeks. King, a resident of one of the three cabins destroyed with a loss of $4,000, was severely burned above the waist, and died this morning in Eugene after being taken to a hospital there. Smith, who operated the Moro lodge for his son-in-law, Elmer Linn, Portland," told how the flames spread so rapidly that oc cupants were hard-pressed to escape. Two families were in the other building which burned but they managed to escape without injury. The epidemic of fires left Cot tage Grove residents and mill owners in a jittery mood. W. A. Woodard, who has suffered! Fatal Rioting In India as Strike Spreads Campaign of Mass Civil Disobedience Gains Mo mentum Leaders Jailed By Preston Grover Bombay, Aug. 10 (IP) Soldiers and police, fighting to control widespread rioting on the sec ond day of Mohandas K. Gand hi's campaign to end the British rule in India, having fired upon crowds in Bombay ten times yes terday and today as strikes and disturbances spread throughout the country. Bloodshed ushered in Gandhi's "non violent" civil disobedience campaign yesterday when the police were forced to fire six times. 8 Killed, 159 Wounded A -Bombay government com munique tonight said casualties on Sunday totaled eight killed and 159 wounded, but said it had no tally of today's casual ties in clashes in which demon strators stoned trains and auto- mobiles and burned government grain shops. Strikes closed some factories and schools. Twenty-three were sent to the hospital with bullet wounds suffered when police fired twice into' groups in the Dadar dis trict of Bombay, in Poona police fired on a crowd, mostly of stu dents, .near Parsurambhau col- lege; a'ffd!f4" 'weFe removed to' a hospital. Schools and colleges were closed. Goondas, the Hin du name for hoodlums, threw bottles through windows. Work Stoppages At Lucknow, police fired also on a crowd of striking univer sity students who were trying to form a parade. Thirteen were arrested. The work stoppages in some Bombay -mills were in response to Mohandas K. Gandhi's "do or die" call for a "complete dead lock" by strikes and all other non-violent means. As the campaign entered its second day amid shootings. showers of bottles and shouts of demonstrators, there were por tents of even greater trouble ahead. Hindus Attack Moslems Bands of Hindus stoned some Moslem shops in the "trouble area" of south central Bombay. Police have the greatest fear of repetition of the communal Moslem-Hindu riots which have followed previous civil disobedi ence campaigns. These riots often were the bloodiest and the most difficult to suppress. Throughout the city troops were stationed in groups rang ing from a dozen soldiers to a full platoon. (Concluded on Fafre 7, Column 4) Cottage Grove's epidemic of proportions today when Stewart died at a Eugene hospital as the the loss of his $75,000 home and a $40,000 dry kiln at his mill in two fires which have been termed by State Police Super intendent Charles Pray as prob ably the work of a dangerous pyromaniac redoubled the guards on his remaining mill property. He said they had been issued rifles and sawed off shot guns. J. H. Chamber, who last week saw his $300,000 mill burn to the ground in a fire which police have definitely linked with the Woodard blazes, was at a loss to name any former employe of his who might bear a grudge. The blaze which destroyed his plant has also been character ized as definitely incendiary. Other mill owners in Spring field and Eugene doubled guards and took every precaution to prevent further outbreaks. j Saboteurs' Bodies Leave Death House Armsd soldiers prassed spectators back as two am bulances bearing the bodies of six nazi saboteurs rolled out of the District of Columbia jail after they had been executed. .They had been found guilty and sentenced to death by a military court. Two other saboteurs escaped the death penalty by turning state's evidence. (Associated Press Photo.) , Victory House Days Scheduled To have charge of arrangements for the two big "Victory House" days slated for the Victory center at the courthouse lawn next Friday and Saturday, Fred S. Lamport, chairman of the Marion county war bond committee today named the executive committee which will put over the extensive plans under way. Sky Dragons Chungking, Aug. 10 VP) Am erican Sky Dragons caught the Japanese base at Haiphong in puppetized French Indo-China by complete surprise Sunday and in a concentrated bombing scored a direct hit on a 4,000 ton steamer and started a large oil fire on the docks, Lieuten ant General Joseph W. Stilwell said in a communique today. "All bombs landed in the tar get area," communique No. 33 said. "After the bombers re leased their bombs, escorting pursuit planes bombed and ma chine gunned the dock area. The complete lack of hostile opposi tion indicates the enemy was taken at complete surprise." No United States losses were suffered. It was the first raid on Hai phong by raiders based in China Haiphong has been sued by the Japanese as a port of entry into the French colony since Sep tember, 1940, when Vichy made its first accord with Tokyo. It is located in the north, on the gulf of Tonkin. More U.S. Troops Arrive in Britain At a British Port, Aug. 10 (U.R) A very large contingent of United Slates troops arrived at this port today and left immedi ately for training camps some where in rural Britain. Superbly equipped and tough looking, the Americans were in high spirits and swung from the docks immediately to special trains. Hour after hour tenders plied back and forth between the American troops transports and the dock as the troops were brought ashore. As they landed, a Scots army band greeted them with rousing Sousa marches, striking up as the first man dropped his duffle bag on the dock. Benghazi Shipping Bombed by Allies Cairo, Aug. 10 (U.R) United States army air corps and British heavy bombing planes have made successful daylight attack on shipping at Benghazi, the chief axis base in Libya, and scored a direct hit on one ship and near misses, calculated to do serious damage, on others. . Floyd Miller was named chair man at a meeting at the Cham- ber of Commerce this morning with W. L. Phillips,, E. J.-Scel-lars, .Bpreley Newman, Francis Smith and Bruce Cooper as as sisting members. At a dinner meeting held lat er at the Marion today detailed plans were being worked out and individual sub-committees being assigned. The big show will revolve around a unit being sent through the country by the Standard Oil company including the Stand ard Chevronettes, a group of pretty girls, who will have charge of bond and stamp sales put on in connection with the show. It is stated this unit is making 17 stops only in the state and Salem is one of four having a two-day stop. (Concluded on rage 7, Column 5) To Prosecute Saboteur Aides Washington, Aug. 10 (U.B The justice department plans to seek indictment of the 14 alleged con federates of the eight nazi sabo teurs on charges of treason and knowledge of treason, it was learned from an authoritative source today. These charges were discussed at a conference of Attorney Gen eral Francis Biddlo and mem bers of his staff. No official word was forthcoming, but it was learned that treason charges had been agreed upon Death can be the penally for treason, although the trial judge, at his discretion, may impose sentences of not less than five years in prison and not less than $10,000 fine. . Persons convicted of guilty knowledge, of treason mispri sion of treason is the legal term are subject to not more than seven years imprisonment and fines of not more than $1,000. Meantime, saboteurs George John Dasch and Ernest Peter; Burger, who talked and escape the fate of their six comrades in the electric chair remained in the district jail. They arc sub ject to the will of the justice de partment which may hold them available as possible witnesses against the confederates. ' Ralph Burnside. Lumberman, Dies Portland, Ore., Aug. 10 (U.B Ralph Burnside, 72, prominent northwest lumberman, died Saturday. Burnside was an official of the Willapa lumber holdings at Ray mond, Wash., although he retir ed from active work in 1840. Japan Claims Great Victories (Bsr lhf United Press) Japan moved with suspicious alacrity today to get its side of the battle of the Solomon Islands and the United States navy at tack on the Aleutians before the world ahead of any embarrass ing announcements from other quarters. In the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, in which Japanese forces' were'crushinglv 'Weated; Japan claimed the practical' de struction of the United States fleet, which suffered only com paratively minor losses. This time it assorted, in im perial headquarters communi ques, that a United States bat tleship, at least five American cruisers, two Australian cruisers, four destroyers, and 10 trans ports had been sunk, three Unit ed States cruisers, "more than two" destroyers and at least one transport damaged and 41 planes downed. It admitted only two Japanese cruisers slightly damaged ond seven planes lost. Regarding the Aleutians at tack, it said that Japanese forces had beaten off an attack by strong naval fr.-ces. Italy enthusiastically went beyond Japanese claims and had two battleships sunk in the Solomons for a time, but chang ed its mind. Enlistment Policy Changed by Navy Portland, Aug. 10 VP) The navy has changed its policy to permit enlistment of men up to the lime they are sworn in under selective service, Lieut. Cmdr. G. F. DcGrave, Portland district re cruiting officer, said Saturday. DoGrave said that previously men who had received notice to report for army induction could not be accepted by the navy un less released by draft boards. Osnabruck Of British Bombers London, Aug. 10 (U.B British long range bombers, resuming a powerful offensive against war-Industrial western Germany, made a concentrated atuick during the night on the great railroad and factory center of Osnabruck. Well-Informed statements that only a minute percentage of the plnncs engaged were lost, and official admission that six of the great bombers were missing, in dicated that the raiding force had run well into the hundreds. Germany admitted that "sev eral" fires had been started, as usual In "residential quarters." While the British planes were attacking Osnabruck, on the main Ruhr - Bremen - Hamburg railroad and one of the two chief communications centers of all western Germany, smaller forc es bombed other towns in north western Germany and lighter craft, on Intruder operations, struck at airfields In Holland and Belgium to keep night fight Red Defenses Said Cracking In Caucasus Russians Said Carrying Out Scorched Earth Policy by Blasting Wells By Eddy Gilninrc Moscow, Aug. 10 VP) Driven back by relentless, hard thrusts of German motorized troops and Alpinists, red army defenses be fore the oil fields of Maikop and in spurs of the Caucasian foot hills appeared to be cracking to day. Front line dispatches lolling of tremendous explosions roar ing over a broad area seemed to indicate the Russians wore car rying out with ruthless abandon the scorched earth policy in the first oil regions the Germans have been able to penetrate in their Caucasian thrust. In large-scale tank battles in Kolelnikovski area of the Don elbow, southwest of Stalingrad, the soviet machines appeared to be as strong as the Germans, and the red army was counter attacking with some success. Russians Gain in North Five hundred miles north of the Caucasus, in the Voronezh flank, the Russians were making further headway, expanding their bridgeheads on the west bank of the Don, taking -several "populated places in vioiWit fight ing, and repulsing German coun terattacks between the Don and Voronezh. The Germans were bringing up reserves and still maintaining communications .with their groups before the city, however. In the oil-bearing Maikop- Krasnodar area of the northwest Caucasus, said today's communi que, the Germans were "striving hard to advance," and dispatches from the front said great shrouds of dust and smoke were draped over a broad landscape already baked by a broiling summer sun. Oil Wells Blasted Pravda said roaring blasts scared a wide nrca, and it was reasonable, observers hero said, to believe that the Russians would destroy the oil installa tions before the Germans reach them. The Maikop fields pro duced about 7 per cent of Rus sia's petroleum. As the battle spread southward dispatches told of burning wheat fields, too, indicating that in some sectors the Russians had not been able to harvest the grain before llio approach of the enemy, as they were able to do farther north. There was no report here in dicating whether the Russians who had been battling along the Black Sea of Azov coasts had been cut off by the German ad vance south of Kuschevka. But it was possible most of them were giving battle along the Kuban. Target ers down. Fighter command planes bombed clocks at Le Havre on the occupied French coast. Western Germany had been bombed four times last week and in resuming the attack today, aviation quarters said, the Roy al Air Force was continuing a carefully charted plan to con centrate on railroad and indus trial centers. It was the 40th raid of the war on Osnabruck and the first since June 19. Three of a smnll force of en emy planes which raided the midlands and other British ar eas during the night 'were de stroyed by night fighter planes and gun fire. Initial Surprise Attack Succeeds Against Japs U.S. Cruiser Sunk, 2 Cruisers, 2 Destroyers And Transport Damaged Washington, Aug. 10 (U.B -Admiral Ernest J, King, commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet announced today that American forces have succeeded in effect ing landings on the Solomon Islands. The enemy has counter-attacked with "rapidity and vigor." He reported that at least one of our cruisers was sunk. Two U.S. cruisers, two de stroyers, and a transport were damaged in the operation in which allied forces are trying to recapture islands in the Tulagl area of the southerly Solomon Islands. Japanese Losses He said information as to the extent of damage inflicted on the enemy was incomplete at this time, but that a large number of Japanese planes have been destroyed and surface units put out of action. King said that an initial sur prise attack was effected and that "planned landings" were accomplished. The text of King's -statement: "(1) Offensive operations by U.S. naval and other forces, looking to the. occunlqaai,. islands in the -Tulagl area in the southeasterly Solomon Islands, have now been underway for about three days. MacArthur Assists "(2) The operations are under the immediate command of Vlce- Admiral Ghormley and under the general control of Admiral Nimitz. Certain of the forces under Gen. MacArthur are co operating. "(3) The objective of the cur rent operations is to expel the Japanese from the Tulagl area and to make use of that area for our own purposes. The enemy have been in process of consolidating their positions, in which their purpose has been not only to deny them to us but to use them as a base of offen sive operations against our posi tions which cover the line of communications to Australia and New Zealand. Surprise Effected "(4) An initial surprise was effected, and planned landings accomplished. The enemy has counterattacked with rapidity and vigor. Heavy fighting is (Concluded on Thro 7, Column 8) MacArthur's Bombers Busy By Don Caswell Gen. MacArthur's Headquar ters, Australia, Aug. 10 (U.R) -Allied planes maintained a 24 hour day offensive over the en tire northeastern invasion zone today in support of the United States and allied forces attack ing the Japanese-held Solomon Islands. From darting fighter planes to the great long range bombers, they ranged over New Guinea, the Bismarck and Solomons while sweating ground crews re mained at action stations to re fuel them and send them off again for a battle which Austra lians believed might mark the turning point in the Pacific war, It was authoritatively reveal ed that for one month the allied high command, In co-opcralion with the Australian cabinet and war advisory council, including leaders of opposition political parties, had been secretly plan ning the allied attack which was opened on the Solomons Friday. General Douglas MacArthur's air force was ablo to play its full part it was said aulhorative ly, despite the fact that he and Australians had consented to a diversion of vitally needed hew fighter planes to other and-fven more urgent theatres of the war.