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WAR PRODUCTION HEAD ORDERS HALT
IN AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE FEB. 1
OPM Office
Abolished By
Czar Nelson
Ernest Kaniler Named to
Direct Conversion of
Plants to War Needs
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP)
Donald M. Nelson announced to
day he would abolish the office of
production management and
bring all of its functions and ac
tivities under his authority as
chairman of the new war produc
tion board.
Last night Nelson commanded
the automobile industry to halt
production February 1 and turn
its full power to war production.
As a first move In the conver
sion program, Nelson appointed
Ernest Kanzlcr, long-time associ
ate of Henry Ford and formerly
In charge of Ford production, to
head, up the automobile conver
sion program with "all the autho
rity I've got to get that job done."
Nelson said that Kanzler would
have ample authority "if he
needs it" to compel automobile
plants to pool their machinery or
to take any other cooperative ac
tion which jnlght.be necessary tQ
assure success of the conversion
effort.
The reorganization will strip
Sidney Hillman of his title of as
sociate OPM director but will
leave him as director of the WPB
labor division one of the six
major board branches Nelson will
establish,
Qwould Prosecute Violators.
Criminal penalties for dealers
who ignore the government's au
tomobile freezing and rationing
order were recommended yester
day In a four-point legislative pro
gram submitted to the national
(Continued on page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
IN the Pacific war situation
Singapore is vividly spotlight
ed. An AP dispatch says:
"With the Japanese still ad
k vancing, Malaya's steaming
" jungle land, which the British
had looked upon as a sort of
natural Maginot line for Singa
pore, has taken its place as anoth
er outworn defensive concept and
Ahe battle for Singapore today
became purely a test of fighting
men and their weapons."
""PHE dispatch adds:
"Some of the fiercest hand-to-hand
combat in the history of
war Is in store, If not already in
progress, along the narrowing,
fluid line of defense in Johore
state, well within 100 miles of
the pivotal base (Singapore)
which the British call their Gib
raltar of the Orient."
1 OINCE the remotest times of
" which we have any record,
man has sought an impregnable
wall behind which he could hope
to be safe.
His earliest cities were walled.
The Chinese built a vast wall
along their whole northern bord
er. The French built their Maginot
line a wall of forts and guns.
But throughout history FIGHT
ING MEN AND THEIR WEA
PONS have provided the ONLY
defense that could be permanent
ly relied upon.
I n us note with pardonable
pride that in Luzon MacAr
thur and his men DID NOT re
tire to the walls and the under
ground chambers of Corregidor,
but STAYED OUTSIDE and re
lied upon their discipline, their
(Continued on page 2)
Prison Faced By
Top Silver Shirt
Pelley
ASHEVILLE, N. C, Jan. 21.
(AP) Superior Court Judge F.
Don Phillips sentenced William
Dudley Pelley to serve from two
to three years In state prison yes
terday after ruling that the 52-year-old
leader of the Silver
Shirts of America : had violated
the terms of a suspended sen
tence. It was seven years ago tomor
row that Pelley was convicted of
using fraudulent advertising to
sell stock. Upon payment of a
fine and court costs his sentence
was suspended on conditions of
good behavior. :
Judge Phillips held that Pelley,
who once told the Dies commit
tee on un-American activities that
his organization was anti-semitie,
had during his probation period:
Violated a state law relating to
the publishing of false and libel
ous statements, particularly about
the president of the United
States; shown contempt for the
court; had fraudulently and de
ceptively advertised; and violated
a law relating to the joining or
operating of a secret political or
ganization. Son in Navy Lost,
Local Folks Told
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Allen, who
reside on Rowe St., in Roseburg,
have received official confirma
tion from the U. S. navy depart
ment that their son, Robert Lee
Allen, is missing and presumed
lost as of the date of Dec. 7. He
was a seaman on one of the na
val vessels lost in the raid on
Pearl harbor.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen moved
here four months ago from Tex
arkana, Texas. They had received
no word regarding their son since
the battle of Pearl harbor and
asked the navy department for
information. They were informed
in a message received here last
night that a previous notification
that he was missing in action had
been sent to their former address
and that since that time the navy
had made further search, but
had been forced to make official
entry that he had lost his life.
Mr. Alien is employed here by
the Roseburg Dairy and Soda
works.
Intending Enlistee Loses
Money on Way for Exam
David Archie Cooper of Suthcr
lin today is advertising to locate
the person who found a billfold
containing S30. Cooper came to
Roseburg this morning to take
his physical examination for en-
i trance into the U. S. army. He
' cashed a check to meet anticipat
ed expenses connected with his
induction, but on his way to the
place appointed for examination,
lost the billfold In which he had
placed the money.
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Trade-Money
Pact Planned
For Anti-Axis
Gigantic War Output
Aim of Proposal; Chile.
Argentina May Be Taboo
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP)
A gigantic war production plan
for the western hemisphere
which includes abolition of all
trade barriers, establishment of a
common currency for all anti
axis nations and use of United
States naval and air units to con
voy hemispheric shipping was
disclosed today by a high com
merce department official.
The program, drawn up by the
United States, was expected to be
agreed upon at the American con
ference of foreign ministers, now
in session at Rio de Janeiro. The
commerce official predicted it
would be applied to all nations
subscribing to the plan.
If Argentina, Chile or any oth
er nation, does not enter the
hemispheric collaboration plan,
he said, they will be ignored and
the plan will be pursued by the
remaining American republics.
Argentine and Chile' were re
portedly holding back 'on one of
the major aims of the conference
total severance of diplomatic
and economic ties with the axis..
The plan, known as the joint
war production plan is being
outlined at Rio by Undersecretary
of State Sumner Welles, assistant
Secretary of Commerce Wayne
C. Taylor and Warren Lee Pier
son,, president of the export-im
port bank.
What Plan Provides ,
Major provisions of the plan
are:
1. Removal of all barriers, In
cluding tariffs, import duties, cus
toms and other regulatiftns or
restrictions of any character,
which prohibit or delay the free
flow of necessary munitions, war
or civilian supplies between the
American nations. They will be
eliminated for the duration of the
war.
2. Creation of a free interna
tional exchange currency to fa
cilitate flow of goods and prevent
delay in transactions. It would
be on a gold basis and in addition
to the American nations, Great
Britain, China, the Netherlands,
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World s Champion
This tough visaged group of Koreans, known as the world's
champion Jap haters, would like nothing better than to line up
some Nippies In their gun sights. They are some of 100 Koreans
drilling under supervision of California state guard at Los Angeles.
Church Leader Of
Britain To Resign
Rev. Cosmo G. Lang
LONDON, Jan. 21. ( AP)
The Archbishop of Canterbury,
primate of all England and a cen
tral figure in forcing the abdica
tion of King Edward VIII, an
nounced today, he would resign
March 31 to make way for a
younger man.
The archbishop, The Most Kev-
erend and Right Honorable Cos
mo Gordon Lang, was 77 years
old last Oct. 31 and "has been the
archbishop of Canterbury since
July 27, 1928. - "
The top-ranking ecclesiastic,
the archbishop of Canterbury is
the first peer of England next to
the royal family. The only other
archbishop of the Church of Eng
land is the archbishop of York.
It was considered likely In
some British quarters that the
present archbishop of York, 60-year-old
Dr. William . Ttfmple,
would be named Dr. Lang's suc
cessor. Following the abdication of Ed
ward VIII, in which Dr. Lang
was a leading fighter to keep
England from having a king mar
ried to a divorcee, the American
born Wallis Warfield, the vener
able archbishop placed the crown
on the head of King George VI,
Edward's successor.
Non-Support Charged
To Glendale Resident
Barney Smith, 24, resident of
Glendale, was in custody today
on a charge of non-support of
minor children. He was schedul
ed for preliminary arraignment
later today.
Jap Haters
2k '?mJ
Russians Take
Mozhaisk In
feloody Clash
Nazis in Retreat From
Moscow Front; Reds
Gaining in Kharkov
i (By the Associated Press)
Russia eelehrated her greatest
victory of the war today as the
red armies drove six miles be
yond fallen Mozhaisk, 57 miles
west of Moscow, in pursuit oi
Adolf Hitler's battered Invaders
along the Napoleonic road of re
treat to Smolensk.
London military Quarters esti
mated that 200,000 Germans had
been forced to withdraw toward
the narrowing Vyazma gap as a
result of Mozhaisk s capture. .
Vyazma is about half way be-
twen Moscow and Smolensk.
Simultaneously, a bulletin from
Hitler's field headquarters ack
nowledged that soviet troops had
broken through German lines on
the upper Donets river presum
ably in the fierce battle for the
big Donets river steel city of
Kharkov, Russia's "Pittsburg" In
the Ukraine.
The high command asserted,
however, that nazi counter-attacks
had thrown the Russians
back.
No hint of the defeat on the
central (Moscow) front was giv
en the German nation.
The fall of Mozhaisk was cli
maxed by bloody street fighting
In the nlare of burning buildings.
The eltv. forward anchor of
Hitler's winter defense front, was
occunied by triumphant red army
force Monday. It had been cap
tured by the Germans just tnree
mnnths affo in the heyday of
their now broken offensive
against Moscow the drive which
Hitler proclaimed wouia De ine
last great decisive battle" of 1941.
In London, soviet quarters de
clared that the fall of Mozhaisk
would signal a "titanic continua
tion of the battle" and that the
Russian army now had hundreds
of thousands of completely fresh
reserves ready to hurl into a
(Continued on page 6)
Republican Wins
Seat in Congress
WATERBURY, Conn., Jan. 21
(AP) Voters in the fifth con
uresslnnal district elected a re
publican, Joseph E. Talbot, as na
tional representative for the first
time In a decade yesterday, giv
ing him a margin of 3,615 over
his democratic rival and personal
friend, John S. Monagan.
In winning the seat held by J.
Joseph Smith (D), recently ap
pointed a federal district judge,
Talbot Dolled 23,278 votes to 19,-
B63 for Monagan and 1,877 for
for Edward J. Ryan, American
nrnirressive candidate. Both Tal
bot and Monagan had supported
the war aims of President Roose
velt and the virtually issueless
contest was marked by an ex
tremely light vote.
At the conclusion of the cam
paign, which observers termed
one of the most polite In state
history, Talbot and Monagan, each
a Dartmouth graduate ana a law
yer, threw their arms about each
other in a radio station, with the
winner exclaiming:
"John is a grand fellow, and
it is pretty tough when you have
to beat a fellow like mm."
Monaean responded:
"If I had to lose, I am glad to
lose to Joe Talbot as he has prov
ed himself a gentleman In this
campaign as he has throughout
his lile."
Auto-Army Truck Crash
Kills 2 Astoria Women
i TACOMA.Wash.. Jan 21 (AP)
i Two Astoria, Oregon, women
were killed yesterday when their
automobile was in collision wun
an army truck nine miles south
Of here on the Pacific nignway.
The dead were: Grace Kassin,
39, Edith Jensen, 25.
It was not immediately deter
mined which of the women was
driving the automobile. The army
truck was driven by Pvt. Henry
Robert who was taken to the Fort
Lewis hospital.
Singapore Battle Reaches
Critical Stage; Japs Dealt
Fresh Repulse in Philippines
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East Indies, to obtain oil, the Japanese, according to dispatches, to
day ocoupled, at heavy cost, all of Minhassa, the northeastern arm
of Celebes Island, shown In the center of the above map. The east
ern ports of New Guinea, pictured at the right of Minhassa, were
also raided by the Japanese. Captured by the invaders In previous
fighting were the Dutch oil bases at Amboina, on the Island of
Ceram, immediately south of New Guinea, and Tarakan, on the
eastern coast of Borneo. . '
Army, Nayy Planes
Crash; 3 Men Die
RICHMOND, Calif., Jan. 21.
(AP) One of the army's fastest
pursuit planes came whistling
9,000 feet out of a clear sky late
yesterday and crashed Into a
Richmond city park with an im
pact which shook the ground for
miles around.
Second Lieut. Richard J. Sand-
nor. 24. of Moccasin,. cam., puot
of the single-seater, was burned
almost beyond recognition.
The plane from Hamilton field
struck a clump of trees Just with
in the city limits and a mile irom
a busy highway, with such force
it sheared off three trees and
scattered plane parts for hun
dreds of yards.
MERCED, Calif., Jan. 21.
(AP) Deep sea divers traveled
175 miles inland yesterday to re
cover bodies of naval airmen
whose plane plunged through a
high tension wire into the Exche
quer reservoir.
Sheriff Castagnetto of Mari
posa county reported two men
were In the naval plane when It
struck a power line carrying 74,
000 volts. The aviators In the
metal ship undoubtedly were elec
trocuted before the craft hit the
lake, he said.
Grange Commended for
Landers Lookout Help
W. F. Boncbrake, master of
Melrose grange, today received a
letter from Governor Charles A.
Sprague, commending the grange
for Its action in raising funds
with which to maintain the Land
ers lookout air raid warning ob
servation post. The grange re
cently arranged to provide funds
to maintain a constant vigil at
the post by permanent obsei-vers,
due to the difficulties of travel
ling the mountain road during
the wet season. Previously a num
ber of the residents of the area
had .taken turns at the station.
Governor Sprague expressed
pleasure over the patriotic atti
tude and spirit of the grange In
its cooperation with the county
defense council.
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Army Officer Acquitted
At Criticism Hearing
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 21.
(AP) Col. H. C. Kress Muhlen
berg was found Innocent today at
a general court martial of
charges that he wrongly criticiz
ed distribution of combat planes
outside of the United States and
its Insular possessions.
The 55-year-old officer wns
charged with violating two arti
cles of war after a public speech
here Dec. 17.
This veteran of 38 years In the
army who was to have been re
tired next month, formerly was
commandant at Hickam field,
Honolulu, an objective In Japan's
surprise attack Dec. 7.
S. A. Peters Resigns as
Cashier of Gardiner Bank
REEDSPORT, Jan. 21. (AP)
S. A. Peters, Jr., resigned yes
terday as cashier of the First Na
tional hank of Gardiner. Peters,
a former slate superintendent of
banks' deputy, is secretary of the
Northwest Bankers' association
and state president of the Na
tional Bankers' association.
Captain Speeds U.
Into Jap-Held Bay,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-(AP)
For a daring exploit brilliantly
accomplished, the navy wrote a
new name on the role of Its war
heroes today and added one more
ship to Japanese losses for the
Philippines invasion.
The name belonged to 30-year-old
Lieutenant John D. Uulkeley
of Long Island city, New York,
who rocketed a swift motor tor
pedo boat into enemy-held Illnan
ga bay and torpedoed a 5,000 ton
Japanese vessel, despite a storm
of enemy fire.
Thus did the navy's new "P. T."
boat make Its spectacular debut
in the Pacific war theatre and the
action undoubtedly heralded
many similar attacks In the fu
ture. The nocturnal assault, suggest
ing anew the steadily wider op
erations of Admiral Thomas S.
Hart's Far Eastern command,
was reported by the navy depart
ment In a communique last night
which said that Bulkeley "has
been commended for executing
MacArthur's
Army Takes
Heavy Toll
Japanese Planes Extend
Raids to Dutch, British '
Islands in East Indies
(By the Associated Press) .
Allied warships were reported
shelling Japan's Invasion armies
swarming down the Malay jungle,
coast 60 miles north of Singapore
today, and the United Nations-,
were further heartened by Presi
dent Roosevelt's disclosure that,
"the Yanks are coming!" with
A. E. F. vanguards already In
action or en route to far-flung
battle zones. . -.'
An official Tokyo broadcast as-'
serted that allied warships had!
entered the critical battle of;
Singapore even as Japan's navy
minister, vice admiral Shlmada,.
hnflctorl thnf tho .Tnnnnpsi nAW
"virtually commands the Pacific
from Malaya and the Indies to
the west coast of the United
States." , , ;
On the same exultant : note.
Premier Gen. Tojo asserted that
Japan planned "increasingly vig
orous operations in the rscitic
unu would -continue Homing unm
the United States and Britain
were "brought to their knees."
Japanese bombers again struck
i nuini.. tjnAiwitnn
Island fortress today but paid a
high toll. Twelve of the raiders
were officially reported shot
down amid prolonged attacks on
residential districts. On the bas
is of 10 per cent as a heavy loss,
this would indicate that at least
120 Japanese planes were used In
the assault.
Sixty-four persons were killed
und 154 Injured In the attack. .
Japs Repulsed In Luzon
In the Philippines, a war de
partment bulletin said Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's valiant American-Filipino
defense forces had
driven back the Japanese Invad
ers with heavy losses "In par
ticularly savage fighting" on the
Bataan peninsula.
The Communique said Japanese
troops had gained "some initial
successes" by Infiltrations and
frontal attack near the center of
the line before counter-attacking
U. S. army forces hurled them
back and recaptured all lost
ground.
"Enemy losses were very
heavy," the communique said.
"Our casualties were relatively
moderate."
Far north of the main battle
sector, In upper Luzon Island, the
war department said a guerrilla
band of Gen. MacArthur's forces
staged a surprise raid on a Jap
anese airfield at Tuguegarao, kill
ing 110 enemy troops and putting
300 others to flight.
Coincldentally, the Russian ar-
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S. Torpedo Boat
Sinks Big Ship
his commission successfully."
Bulkeley had eight seamen, as
yet unidentified, in his crew, but
the matter-of-fact navy statement
hardly hints at the nerve-racking
peril of their mad dash. It re
ports merely that "this small boat
carried out its difficult task while
under fire of machine guns and
three-inch shore batteries."
The greatest protection tho
men had was the speed of their
powerful craft, whose 4,200 horse
power engine Is capable of pro
ducing a maximum of about 70
knots, or 84 miles an hour.
Besides speed, there was the
clement of surprise in the night
suprise increased by the fact that
Blnanga bay, tucked away Inside
Subic bay on Luzon Island, Is
far from any known base of allied
operations in the Far East. The
Japanese might reasonably have
expected American submarines in
that vicinity but they apparently
were not on guard against a
lightning attack by a lone small
boat.