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NINETIETH YEAR
Salem, Oregon, . Friday Morning. March 21, 1941
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Ron Rambles Rampantly
Sans Java Money Through
Spring Opening Crowds
' -r '- By RON CJEMMELL
- Sprang out into Spring Opening; couldn't find an o;
ing, sprang back into a huddle lor a check of signals, sprang
again. - . - ". ; ' - ll -
Came schnozzle-to-glass with a biddy's chapeau shoppe,; .
which gave generous evidence milady is to te a bit pancaked -upstairs
this spring.
! Dipped a shoulder and sidled up to a "glass-in parking j
lot for bodies, human variety, there learning folks will sit
on chairs and sleep in beds this spring. ,
Pivoted out of the way of a gang of giggling gals, sprint
ed between the orange and the green (not a cop in sight)
and ended up amid a covey of classy chassis which were go-k-
ing no place fast. They looked restful but expensive. j
r Poked a paw in a pocket in search of a nickel, thinking
-' of one cup ( of coffee,1 at the same time sighting no less than
- three signs advertising "personal loans." JJo coffee.; i .. , 11
He5rda'babe in blue say she reckoned peach is to be
- the predominant color for her sex this spring. She was talk
ing about clothes.
Ricocheted off a couple hundred other sightseers to land .
up alongside Salem's newest varieties garage, where could
bej seen more bunnies than ever came out of Easter eggs oi,
for that matter; that story you've all heard. j
Gandered at gents' furnishings (exterior), to be apprised
that, as usual, us guys will wear blue, brown, greea or gratf
again this spring.
Sprang homeward.
Made it, through a tiny opening in Spring Opening.
Worst Rain
Follows US
Noted War Analyst Sees Raids as
Effort of Nazis to Bolster German
Morale Against Adverse News ;
l; By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Noted War Analysist for Associated Press
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endured this year synchronized with house passage in Washing
ton of the seven-billion-dollar bill to finance all-out American
aid for Britain.
That might be coincidence but
more likely it was not It looked
like a Berlin move to brace Ger
man morale against the news from
Washington.' or against recent
British bombing raids on Berlin
and 6ther German cities.
The j;ermans hint- that the
raids 9 jtahiiare 'designed to
-Mften- ej telUsh s fr some I
sort 'of , deceive military kmw.!
These hinis are In the same
category -as rumors in Berlin
and 1 Rome ' that the first ship
load of United States armaments
to start for tnrland since pass
afe 'of the British aid bill has
been sunk.
The persons , circulating these
rumors undoubtedly hope that,
whether or not they prove to have
any foundation, they will serve
the immediate purpose of bucking
the Germans up.
Whatever, the reason for the in
tensive nazi bombardment of
London, it was out of line with
the air strategy the nazis nave
pursued recently in the battle of
the Atlantic. They had been con
centrating their attacks on Liver
pool, Glasgow, Hull and other port
cities which are more vital to the
British. ! -
Berlin claimed docks were the
principal targets in the most re
cent London- attack, and that
great damage was inflicted. Even
so, blasting port of London docks,
already battered hundreds of
times, could not add greatly to the
prime British problem of keeping
trans-oceanic shipping moving to
and from England. - ,
Herr Hitler ; has pledged that
American aid will not reach the
British in time. The evidence of
British bombs falling increasingly
about their ears must tend to con
vince many Germans that aid
from somewhere is already getting
to England inquantity.
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'TU Spring
Lib tieveais
KEW YORK, March
Tis 1 spriasT But the United
' here.
It was 12:21 son. Friday at
. Greenwich Observatory, ' Eng
land, when sprins was clocked
la. . ; .
. The difference in time, made
it '731 Thursday nifht in New
York a fact which the Ameri
can museum of natural history
thought sinifteant enouch; to
Issue a special bulletin herald
ing ."a five hour Jump in the
season of twittering birds,
blooming flowers, and the turn
inr of younr men's fancy." . ,
Late Spoit
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PORTLAND, Ore, March 20-(ff-Windy
Beal's goal in the last
ininute " of an overtime . period
gave I a Seattle semi-pro hockey
team? a l-to-0 victory over - a
Portland c 1 u b ' here Thursday
right. -.-- '
of Bombs
Aid Bill
Inn ins 'ISsni
Paul Ilau$erM, Column
' Dr. F. D. Voight, that nobbiest
nobbiest who coulj fettle al'the
defense production, . .problems "if
he. jfcaa, jenougnp
bottle caps andi .
box .tops,' :invit-r
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a hobby show at,
ea us to anena
t
the First MJS.
church Thurs4
day night.
So we went to
4Via Vi-VvVw chnur '
enough, but Paul H. Batuer, Jr.
most ! of the rest j
of the collectors hadn't collected
yet-
The first thing we ran into was
a rolling-pin. It was made from
myrtlewood, of all woods, I by L.
D. Waterman; Now a man must
be happily married, have a swell
insurance policy or be a bachelor
to go: around making rolling pins,
even j if they are made out of
myrtlewood. We don't know what
Mr. Waterman is, but the pin was
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Blossom Day
Plans Laid
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Planning for the Salem Cher
rians 1941 - Blossom day was
started at a meeting of the boost
er organization Thursday night.
If warm weather prevails, the
event will take place within the
next two weeks.
King Bing Frank Doerfler as
signed to Donald Deckebach and
Orval Lama the task of selecting
and? rmarking the" Blossom day
tour routes and to Carl Gabriel
son the making of arrangements
for open house at the state capi-
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The Cherrians will stage a
benefit dance the Saturday night
after Blossom day to raise funds
for a float to be entered lin the
Portland Rose festival. Arrange
ments are in charge of Deryl My-J
era, i William B e 1 L Claybourne
Dyer and Rex Kimmell. The
ticket committee, consists of Har
ry Weinstein, S. W." Starr, Carl
Collins, W. J. "Pat" Farrell and
William McCleary. j
Hattie McDaniel
To Many Again
HOLLYWOOD. March 20-P-
Hattie . McDaniel, negro character
actress, and J. Lloyd Crawford,
negro real estate man, will fly to
Tucson, Ariz Friday to be mar
ried,! the: Warner studio " said
Thursday. j ; ;:-;- 1 .:;
It will be Miss McDanleys third
marriajre. Crawford S 5 Iirsx. one
won an academy award last year
for he r performance in "Oone
With the Wind." -
We got there a-"
little early. Dr.j
Voight . was!
there s u r
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Quotas
Wheat, Corn Surplus
Causes Need of New
Market Controls
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WASHINGTON, March 20-(-Chjairman
Sinith (D-SC) of
xne ; senate agrifuiiure; commit
tee i n t r o duped legislation
Thursday which would give
corn and whet farmers the
choice of a tw-year marketing
quota, a single year quota, or no
quota in voting oh marketing con
trol proposals.
The legislations; was worked out
by agriculture department offi
cials. They informed congress that
large stocks of both corn and
wheat in this country, much of it
under government loan, will re
quire a referendum among corn
and wheat growers this year for
the first time, f
In these referpnda, two-thirds
of the farmers fating must ap
prove of the mfrketlnr restric
tions or they cahnot be applied.
If the marketing restrictions are
rejected, then tovernment loans,
which have supported market
prices, are automatically halted.
The new bill jjwas intended to
meet criticisms of Senators Lucas
(D-I1L) and Gillette (D-Ia.) of
the original departmental propos
als for revising! present law on
corn and whea marketing re
strictions. They fcaid they feared
an attempt to. impose a two-year
quota system on a single vote
might defeat thJ entire adminis
tration farm program for corn
and wheat.
Department officials said they
planned a referendum on market
ing quotas among wheat growers
late in May. I
WASHINGTON, March 20-UP)
The surplus marketing adminis
tration, an agriculture depart
ment agency, ha adopted a poli
cy of withholding information on
daily purchases f of butter, lard,
eggs, evaporated Jmilk, cheese and
other so-called surplus food prod
ucts. I
Officials said he disclosure of
such information might have an
unwarranted" effect on the mar
kets.
All Reelected
By Red Cross
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Marion Cotint y Officers
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Serve Again; Named at
Annual Dinner Meet
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Judge George Rossman was re
flected chairmafc of the Marion
County chapterj American Bed
Cross, at the annual dinner meet
;ng of the organization Wednes
day night at Mafion hotel.
Others unanimously chosen to
continue their offices for another
jrear were W. A Hamilton, vice
chairman; Mrsf Ronald Jones,
:3rooks, secretary, and Linn C.
iJmith, treasurer!
The strength f America lies in
he spirit of its people, George
Wisting, assistant general man
iger of Northwst Electric com
pany and last yfcar's chairman of
:he Portland fommunity chest
:ampaign, told f his audience in
the featured speech of the eve
iiing. By feelingf responsibility for
Less fortunate people, volunteer
ing our services! and having faith
in democracy we may drive out
1 1 i e n philosophy and ' foreign
ideals and helpi lead the world
sack to sanity, JWisting said.
Members of toe Red Cross mo
or corps from! Portland, dele
gates and officials from other
county chapters John Patterson,
ane county Red Cross official,
and Irl McSherry, chairman of the
Marion county disaster prepared
ness committee,! were among the
bther persons Introduced by Judge
Rossman.
Wheeler Calls for ! Grusade Against War
WASIflNGTt
March 20-0?)-
Senator Wheel
(D-Mont) Thurs-
jday night. callec
upon those who
ppposed passageof the British aid
bill to give "continued support in
crusade against war.
"Continue Thef fight, not against
the bill now alaw but against
war and against every step which
gives dictatorial powers to the
president, he urged in an address
prepared, lor an!; NBC broadcast.
"All-eut for f England, Greece
and China means all-in war for
the United States.?,
Legislators tho stood With
Join in Church Celebration
Three former pastors of the First Methodist church (above) joined
with Dr. J. C. Harrison, present pastor, Thursday night in opening
celebration of the church's 18.0th anniversary. Left to right are Dr.
Fred C. Taylor of Vancouver, Wash., here from 1925 to 1930; Dr.
Earl B. Farker of Eugene, pastor from 1930 to 1934, and Dr. J. E.
Milligan of Bellinfham, Wash., who held the local pastorate from
1934 to 1939. Statesman photo.
First Methodist Churck
Launches Anniversary
More Than 350 Persons at Banquet
Opening Four-Day Fete Celebrating
100 Years of Service to Salem
With more than 350 persons attending a no-host banquet,
the Salem First Methodist church Thursday night launched a
four-day celebration of its 100th
nate Sunday night with presentation of the sacred cantata, ''Oli
Tale of Style
nges Told
Anniversary Edition
Will Review YeaWv
of Developments
Spring fashions, 1941, are es
sentially the same in Salem as
in New York City. Save for an
earlier season on the west coast
and the differences brought
about by practical requirements
the models shown by Salem
merchants at their opening
Thursday night are the same
featured by shops on the At
lantic seaboard.
When The Oregon Statesman
was born 90 years ago it car
ried advertising for hardware,
general merchandise and dry
goods in a few narrow columns
down the center of inside pages.
Milady searched longingly for
mention of styles shown in
eastern centers several months
earlier.
Changes in transportation, in
advertising and in merchandis
ing have been great. The story
of these developments, as in
teresting as a novel, is told in
The Statesman's ninetieth anni
versary edition, to be published
Sunday, March 30.
Available at popular prices,
extra copies of the edition mar
be ordered before publication at
the circulation desk in the pa
per's business office.
Air Expansion
Doubles Deaths
WASHINGTON, March 20-(P)
The .war department" said. Thurs
day that the army air corps rapid
expansion already had more than
doubled the number of fliers kill
ed and officials predicted that fa
tal accidents would increase still
further. j :
. Acknowledging a "definite up
turn" in the rate as well as num
ber of accidents, the war depart
ment: advised that fatalities may
mount to 200 for the current fis
cal year, closing July 1.
If VV!
Wheeler in the unsuccessful fight
against the British aid measure
said his speech was a reply to
President Roosevelt's address last
Saturday in' which the chief ex
ecutive called for "total effort' to
assure "total defeat" of the axis.
He referred directly; to the
president's' address several times,
and at one point said that; "to
many of us, the president's recent
speech carried dark foreboding
for the' future of the republic".
"During the 181ft presidential
campaign." he said. "It was all
aid short of war now It is
, all-oat effort and the opiate
Q
anniversary which will culmi
vet to Calvary." Dr. J. C. Harri
son, present pastor, presided.
Also present were three former
pastors, Dr. Fred C. Taylor, now
of Vancouver,1 Wash.; Dr. Earl B,
Parker, Eugene, and Dr. J E.
Milligan, Bellingham, Wash. 'In
troduced were more than 30 per
sons, all members of the1 church
for at least 50 years. '
Included in the guest list was
Mrs. Mary Littler, 102 years old.
Ex-Congressman W. C. Haw
ley, member of the church since
1882, presided at the meeting
in the church auditorium fol
lowing the dinner. Speakers
were two of the former pastors.
Dr. Taylor and Dr. Milligan;
Dr. J. D. McCormick, last dean
of Kimball School of Theology,
now pastor at Newberg, and Dr.
J. M. Canse, former president
of Kimball School, now retired.
Dr. Parker, third of the former
pastors present, was unable to
remain for the program.
Wedding gowns worn in the
church during the past 65 years
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Oregon Girl
Disappears
At Capital
WASHINGTON, March 20-(JP)
-Disappearance of a pretty 22-year-old
war department clerk,
who cam here from Oregon last
Saturday, left Washington police
and army intelligence officers
without a clue Tuesday night.
The young woman, Miss Ruth
Egoscue, of Forest Grove, Ore,
left her rooming house for work
Wednesday morning but her. su
periors at the air corps section
said she did not arrive at the of
fice and failed to report Thursday.
Miss Egoscue's roommate, Miss
Doris Nolan, referred questioners
to army intelligence officers who
said, in turn, that the case had
been turned over , to capital, au
thorities .as "purely a police mat
ter." Their investigation, they
added, had developed no Informa
tion as to Miss Egoscue's where"
bOUtS. .. -J .-' -
Police said the' clerk -was de
scribed as "very pretty," ". about
five feet six inches tall, weighing
about 113 pounds. Detectives said
a search of her room showed her
belongings 'apparently Intact.' -
phrase short of war is conspic
uously lacking."
Wheeler said congress could, if
it would, still refuse to appropri
ate funds for Great Britain "with
out first obtaining Mr. Church
ill's 'war aims without knowing
if the objectives are the extermi
nation of Hitler or the annihila
tion of 80,000,000 German people.
He added that "Americans
should . still insist that congress
carefully scrutinize all appropri
ations to the end that no tax dol
lars are squandered.' V
After asserting that most or all
proponents of the British aid bill
eem im
Crown
Given Passive
US Officials
Oppose Aid
Fund Change
Stimson, Knox Assert
Big Fund Measure
in Right Form
WASHINGTON, March 20-(ff-Ready
for rapid action on
the $7,000,000,000 appropriation
for financing lease-lend help to
England, a senate appropria
tions subcommittee Thursday
heard a series of ranking ad
ministration officials oppose
any change in the measure as
passed by the house.
Secretaries Stimson and Knox,
and General George C. Marshall,
the army chief of staff, all testi
fied against proposed .changes
Which would split the big sum
involved into cash appropriations
and authorizations for the presi
dent to enter into contracts for
manufacturing war supplies and
turning them over to the British.
Such a breakdown, they were
reported to have said, would
"complicate the bookkeeping" and
delay the program.
Chairman Glass (D-Va.) of
the appropriations committee
left the hearing- expressing the
"hope that we may get this
bill through as promptly' as
possible.
-Members of the committee said
they bad heard of no plan , tor
American t naval vessels to con
vot war-careo shins to England.
The committee plannecT to hear
the: testimony of William S.
Khudsen of the office of produc
tion management Friday and that
of Harold D. Smith, the director
of the budget.
WASHINGTON, March 2M.&)
-A $3,446,990,644 naval appropri-
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Colonel Bates
Back at Post
249th Coast Artillery
Continues Maneuvers
Under Sunny Sky
FORT STEVENS, March 20
The sun shone brightly on this
post Thursday, and the 249th CA
carried on with its mock warfare
period planned as a nine-day ma-
neuvre. -
Commanders of units were en
thusiastic, as the rains which have
fallen since the start of the war
period Monday have greatly bin
dered training.
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur
Bates, of Salem, who was reverted
to an inactive status last fall be
cause of an operation, has been re
ordered to active duty with the
249th. Colonel Bates arrived at
the post Wednesday and took over
his original duties as commander
of the second battalion.
Steeves Named
Head of Elks
Dr. Laban A, Steeves was elect
ed exalted ruler of the'Salem Elks
lodge Thursday night.
Other new officers will be
James A. Byers, leading knight;
Clinton- Standish, - loyal knight;
Vernon Perry, lecturer; Lyman
McDonald and Dr. Ai E. Berger,
trustees; Harry Wiedmer, ' secre
tary; E. G. Burrell, tyler; T. E.
Aufrance, treasurer. . V";,
agreed that the president was not
authorized to use convoys and
could not send armed forces into
combat areas,: Wheeler cited a
statement by the president . that
"dollars alone: will not win this
war. , ....
' "Does this mean,", he . asked,
"that if supplies are hot enough,
troops will be dispatched? : What
is meant by the president's "bridge
of ships' . across the ocean? Does
this ! mean - convoys?-- Convoys
manned by American sailors who
will shoot at and be shot by Ger
man sea raiders?" v -(See
Lindbergh Story on Page 7)
Council
Cabinet
Resign in
Prince
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Of
reeks Renort Cantiire of Dnp
Relative; Italian Troops
Flee as Army Breaks up
By the Associated Press
Violent internal reactions were predicted early Friday to
the Jugoslav crown council's approval of a plan said to be passive
but effective alliance with the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis.
The council approved late Thursday night an alliance which,
it was said, would assure such semi-military assistance to Ger
many that the way would be cleared for her long-expected lunge
at Greece. ' : ,
Cabinet men and military chiefs were asked to initial the
agreement without discussion but three cabinet members vigor
ously objected and warned of serious internal disorders in pre
dominantly pro-British Yugoslavia. : . ,'
Nazis, Italos
Rap America
Germans Say US Aid
Ship Sunk; Posters
, in Rome Revile
' BERLIN, March 20-(P)-A big
newspaper banner-line told Ger
mans Thursday .of ah axis report
that the first shipload of United
States armaments to start , for
England T since passage of the
British aid bill had. been1 stink. '
, The 'newspaper Nacht Ausgabe
crediting - the" report to Rome,
commented:
fThat which was expected by
all J clear-minded men has al
ready happened. Herewith the
American people' finally under
stand the real meaning of the
lease-lend law."
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ROME, March 20-(P)-The anti-American
campaign in Italy
reached the poster stage Thurs
day with the. appearance of
broadsides on the walls of Rome
which coupled tne umtea siaies
and Britain in a "great conflict"
with Italy, Germany and Japan.
Virginio Gay da, who fre
quently gets his editorial slants
directly from Premier Musso
lini, wrote in H Giornale .
S Italia thai measures taken in
e United States against
fascists, nails and communists -in
public and private Jobs were
signs that President Roosevelt's
"War march is advancing . day
by day with quickened step to
ward involving the people and
fortune of the United States
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Italians Claim
Aviatrix Alive 5
ROME, March 20 (JP)-The news
paper n Pocolo advanced the the
ory Thursday that the famed avi
atrix Amy Johnson was an unwill
ing British secret agent who fled
toj the United States and that her
reported death in a plane: crash
January 5 was merely a ruse to
cefver up her. escape. ; : . . . f :
The article, , recalling that the
woman's body , never ; was found
after her plane was seen to plunge
into the Thames, estuary, said she
hid worked for British intelli
gence for several years and want
ed to quit but was afraid she
would be shot if she tried to re-
jPart of the information was at
tributed to an American aviator.
dentified only as "Murphy , who
was quoted as saying he had met
Amy in Detroit after she sup
posedly was dead.
econd Douglas Fir
'arley Set Wednesday
PORTLAND, March 20-?Vrhe
second Douglas fir Industry sur
vey conference -between opera
tors -and. unionists will be held
next Wednesday or Thursday; , at
lympia. Dr. Dexter M. Keezer
cunced Sbmsdaj-i :
Keezer originally indicated that
meeting would be held Tues-
iy, but later learned the date
ould conflict with the annual
eeting at Eugene Tuesday of the
Willamette Valley and Coos. Bay
-umber- Operators associations.
Okeh
h
Alliance
.May
j!.Pirtes!; ;
Paul Act
As a result, their resignations
were expected, thui giving Regent
Prince Paul a free hand to select
a pro-axis cabinet sure to approve
the alliance. .; -
Decision Follows Day - - '
Of Sensational Reports
The Yugoslav council's decision
followed a day of sensational Bal
kan news including a report by
the Greeks that they had cap-
tured.a cousin of Premier Musso
lini and repulsed two strong tanks
supported attacks by the Italians
in Albania.:' '. s-v
The captive 'identified by - the
Greek '; spokesman as 1 H - Duce's
cousin was Lieut-CoL TUveri Cig
Uo, commander of the 53rd battal
ion of the, 26th legion of Black-
shirts,
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In England, .u southwest coast
al town (perhaps Bristol or Ply
mouth) was reported smothered
with explosive and - incendiary
bombs from relays of Nazi war-
planes. . U ' . , v I .
There were reports of the
arrival of. British troops in Sal
onika; there were stories that
Italian resistance In Albania
was falling apart and that the '
Germans were ready to strike
at Greece at any hour with a
quarter-million men.
Italian and Albanian soldiers
fleeing into Yugoslavia for intern
ment told of a "rapid disintegra
tion" f the Italian army, and
they - thus . appeared , to support
widely circulated reports that Te
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War.JJews Briefs
LONDON, March 21 - (Fri
day) - (P) - H e a v y casualties
Mere feared early today In 'a
southwest coast ' town where
nasi bombers loosed showers
of explosive and incendiary
bombs at two-minute Intervals
In a savage1 attack that began
last night. It was believed to
be the, city's severest raid of
the war and followed the pre
vious night's heavy assault on
London. ' j
PLYMOUTH, Eng March I
King George was piped
aboard a former American d
stroyer manned entirely by Ca
nadlan officers and sailors dur
; lag a .visit Thursday to ths
' Devonport dockyard.
BERLIN, March 2 1-( Friday)
VP-lnfonned Germans said
today that, In addition to mak
ing a destructive assault on
London during the night, strong
units of the Luftwaffe "suc
cessfully attacked" the south
western city ef Plymouth with
bombs of the i heaviest caliber.
Several British airports also
were aald to have been bombed
and fires set In the heavy bight
raid en the British capital
Wednesday night were said t
be running still. '
SHANGHAI, March ri-Fri-day)-HForeign
military ob
servers said today that Japan's
next move would be the estal-
lishment in northern Thai! a r 1
of air bases from which to tb I
Chinese supply trucks eft t: .
Burma road. The Japanese wti 3
pictured as anxious to paralyse
China's southwestern UStlln
before United States all t
China under the lcnd-I;as Izr?
increases,
' WASHINGTON, March 23-(iP)-Germany
Is making a sur
vey of Its consular stairs ta c"
termine how many perse -3
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Group