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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.
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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.