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icSfcSrASSvSS? t5KK!aeK BWimi!?W-a.-i OS May Requisition-- Story Column One, Pago Ono iWcather ''" 'j i - -; r' "v ! Private Autos' ; . ' - I? t - Start Right Start year New Year right: Renew your States man subscription and tell your friends about Salem's morning" Newspaper, , which leads In NEWS local, war, picture. NINETY-FIRST TEAB lii- Seen Near Salem Salesmen Hit; FDR Tells : Work Program WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (AP) Automobile owners who have no vital need for a car received warning Friday that they may have to sur render their machines to the government for use by the armed forces or in essential civilian services. . Price Administrator Leon Henderson told a press confer ence that this was the "gloomy prospect" for the future, . although he indicated no plans .for requisitioning private cars .were yet being given official con sideration, j He gave this outline of the sit uation: 1 The automobile industry will be permitted to produce about 200, 000 more passenger automobiles this month,1 and then production will be shut down for the dura tion of the war. i These 200,000 units, plus 450,000 cars now held by dealers, will be insufficient jto fill the needs of consumers described, as. essential w under the 'tire rationing program. This means, he said, that ' there will j not be enough new ' ' ears to meet demands of phy sicians 'and surgeons, police, ' fire, .departments, and other - pro tec tire 'agencies or the need " for ' ambulances. All this i added up, he' made clear, to eventual government requisitioning of private cars, -though he! commented that in Germany and England Comman ' deering even now remained a "hot" and Unanswered question. ' The automotive industry was permitted to continue production this month! instead of being forc : ed to shut immediately, Hender son said, only after OPM and the - supplies priorities and allocations " board had assured him that the . January operations would not in terfere either with military pro duction or preliminary moves to i convert plaints to war industries, - Earlier In the day, President - : Roosevelt told his press eonfer- ' ence that the stoppage of pas ' ' senger car production - would ' create ' a " temporary unemploy ' ment' problem but that the ' hardship cases would be eared for. ' I ' Mr. Roosevelt said many auto mobile .workers would be forced out of jobs for a period averaging ' " (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) Year's Postal '40 . Postal receipts for 1941 totaled $393,648.36; an increase of $19, ,438 over the same period last year, according to Postmaster H, R. Crawford, who attributes the raise to the growth of the community and state, j ' . , . Vhea one stops to think that the election in 1940 was respon sible for considerable revenue that year,! the. Increase for 1941 takes j added significance,' Crawford said. Holiday mailing, the greatest this season; in the history of the postoffice,'i brought the receipts last month, to $52,637.05 an in crease of $5,199.21 over Decem ber, ,1940. ! Red Cross Day Is Designated WASHINGTON, J a n. 2-4PV- f January 11 Friday was designated Red Cross Sunday, v . - :- Chairman Norman9 H. Davis said it was hoped religious lead ers would bespeak support for the 'Red Cross war fund campaign and .Interpret from! the pulpit "those eternal veritiescompassion, pity and aid essentially exemplified " by the,Red Cross. El j I . Aulo Lack Nation Receipt Top CSRW(1 n . t ii FO(0p Air Raid Retaliation Routes . . i M..llllii.niiiiliinm mmmmm i:s:xu;:i::::::::it:::!::::;:::::tn::i::'i :p::::::;;::K:;::w::::;:i::i:::u:: Z!::::::::::: liiSsOwS -V PACIFIC Llli : ; S ! HilllHliHI 0 SOP H)pOl H:::llil3 Distance factors in the problem of aerial attacks on Japan and Japanese-held areas in the far east are shown in this map.' Speaking of the Japanese bombing of Manila, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said: "I bespeak due retaliatory measures." . a i British Capture Bardia In Bayonet, Kill or Take Prisoner In Fierce Battle ; Geri.! Rommel Hemmed In at Agedabia; RAF Rains Bombs CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 2.-P)-Southr African troops with fixed bayonets, rushing into battle behind powerful British tanks, have occupied the Libyan port of Bardia and killed or captured all of the 5,000 axis defenders, it was 52 Rationing j Boards Named " Tires, Autos First Job As Governor Announces State, County Quotas i Fifty two local rationing boards whose first assignment will be to dole out permits to buy automo bile tires and whose second Will be to pass on applications to pur chase automobiles were designa ted by Gov. Charles A. Sprague Friday. f - The governor also announced that a combined passenger aid truck quota of 4755 tires and 3977 inner tubes had been fixed as the quantities that may be sold In Oregon this month. None will be available for pri vate use. Sales of tires and tubes, now forbidden, may be made after next Monday upon approval fby official inspectors and the respect ive rationing boards. I ', The January quotas for Marion county are set at 113 tires and: 95 tubes for passenger cars, motor cycles and light trucks, 243 tires and 203 tubes for trucks and busses. Quotas for nearby coun ties include: -. I Polk Passenger, etc., 23 tires and 19 tubes; trunk and bus. 52 and 43. t Linn -Passenger, etc., ,43 tires and 38 tubes; truck and bus. 111 and S3. Benton-Passenger, etc, 29 tires and 34 tubes; truck and bus, SS and 47. Lincoln Passenger, etc., IS tires and 19 tubes: truck and bus, 43 and 38.- TUlamook Passenger, . etc., JIT tires and 14 tubes; truck' and bus. 51 and 43. - YamhiU Passenger,-etc.; 37 tires and 33 tubes: truck and bus - 99 and S3. - ' Four rationing boards were desig nated for Marion county, as foUows: Salem district Dean Goodman, Mrs. William Burghardt. John HeltzeL ? - . Woodburn district Lyman Shorey, C J. Ru. Mrs. Viola Henning.-. - . Silverton district Charles H. Boyt, W. R. Tomison. Mrs. V. Jones. i . Stayton district Eugene Spanlol, H. . ATurn o rage z, tjoi,, i) i WASHINGTON, Jan. : The treasury chalked up Friday the most expensive 'month in! its history at the same ' t i m e ' that President r Roosevelt - wai "putting the" finishing 'touches" "on ' the greatest war budget of all time. : The treasury revealed that It spent $257,103454 In De cember, the first month of the war. This was about $300,000,- 60(1 more than was spent In any - month of the World War era! ' The president and Budget Di- December fcr IT' ; LvtaOiYdStpK Hiii&:!::jj:: FRANCISCO VIA A IISTD A f . I A HAWAII 6800 Ml I::::::::::::::::- Tank Figh t 5000 Axis Troops announced Friday night. The high , command announced also that 1,000 imperial soldiers imprisoned there were liberated. The defenders numbered about 4000 Italians and 1000 Germans. The fall of the stronghold 15 miles from the Egyptian border, removed a . serious rear-line threat, and released British re inforcements for v the major contest 'more than $01. miles to the west where Gen. Edwin Rommel's remaining nasi ar- , mles are holding out at Age dabia. Official reports indicated the axis way rushing reinforcements to aid Rommel who is almost sur rounded j . by imperial J d e s e r t troops, j The final storming of Bardia's inner defenses came after terrific artillery! and air bombardments. Apparently the royal navy also participated by .shelling the Ger mans and Italians who had tried to make another Tobruk out of Bardia. . r' "Our! casualties are reported to be light the special British communique said. . When Jthe British took Bardia a year ago they captured 40,000 prisoner in a five-day assault That was" before nazi reinforce (Turn to Page 2, Cot 6) Snow Again A light snowfall Friday after noon anc night, which covered Sa lem sweets . and cartops - with a thin coat of ."frosting"; combined with a weather bureau prediction that Oregon would ' be warmer Friday night in the west portion, to give some promise of a let-up In Salem's spell of cold weather. Both WiirtiTniinr and tMTimm temperatjures for Friday, 33 and 19 were one degree higher, than for Thursday's readings of 32 and 18. , bst E rector Harold D. ; Smith sent , to the printer some of the last "por tions of j the firs t. war budget, which the president has indicat ed may exceed $50,000,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning next July 1 v. -Ui:;,. J Exact contents of the budget were n't virtual military - secret pending I . their presentation to congress ; expected about Wed nesday -I or Thursday of ; next 1 week, but the president said the :::: li::f.:::yitnm M POUNDDL7 1651 Saleixu Oregon, Saturday Morning; January 3, 1942 On Warj Signed 26 Allies Pledge All Aid And No Separate Peace With Axis WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (AP) The United States, Great Britain, Russia and China formally agreed with 22 other nations Friday to use their full military and economic might against those axis powers with which each is at war and further pledged not to make a separate peace with the enemy. Climaxing lengthy conferences among President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and diplomat ic representatives of the associat ed nations, the joint declaration implements the eight-point At lantic charter agreed upon by the British and American leaders last August It also makes the char ter a multilateral one by bringing in the 24 other countries. i Signing of the formal declara tion began Thursday. It was com pleted Friday at, the state depyart ment when several Latin Ameri can diplomats affixed names for their countries.i Announcement of the agreement was made simul taneously ' at 12 noon (PST) ia the capitals of jthe fG signatories. Secretary- of State Hull said that the joining of 26 free na tions "in the greatest common war effort in history" represented "the overwhelming majority of the in habitants of aUfsix continents." "This is a living proof that law abiding and peace loving' nations can unite in using the sword when necessary to pre serve liberty and justice and the fundamental values of man kind," said Hull s statement. "Against this host, we can be sure that the forces of barbaric savagery and organized wicked ness cannot and will not pre vail." The declaration said that the signers subscribed to the "com (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Plant Shift Fight Pushed McNary Encouraged After Parleys With Government Chiefs WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-flP)-Senator Charles L. McNary (R Ore.) conferred at length Friday night with Federal Loan Admin istrator Jesse Jones and said aft erward he felt encouraged in his effort to prevent changing the lo cation of a contemplated $20,000, 000 aluminum . fabricating plant from Fairview, Oregon, to some where farther inland. McNary said Jones had ex pressed the opinion that the ar my might be acting hastily if it ordered the sites of all new Pacific coast defense plants changed to inland areas. ; Jones' . adrninistration will ; fi nance the huge' aluminum plant.' McNary said Jones had told him during the. conference he . ;was keeping in mind the fact the gov ernment had paid $75,000 for. the land for an aluminum plant near Fairview, and dionot believe the plant should be . moved without careful consideration of all de fense facta involved. V McNary-. said . Jones showed . sympathetic Interest In his . ob- r (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) proposed expenditures for war purposes" alone 'Would be about $50,000,000,000.1 - -; . With about W.COO.OOO OOO foV non-defense - costs, . the . hndget iotal may reach 155.000,000,000 , or more than twice as' much as the' figure for the current fls-j ,'eal year ' r C Revenues in sight for the next fiscal year, as 'estimated by the treasury, are about $18,000,000, 000, but may be supplemented Jsj Pact By XDensive Monin m nisioMiois un After jAMed Chief 4 GEN. A. P. WAVELL Wavell Named Pacific Chief Australia Reports i British General to j Command All Forces ; CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 2 -(JPy-Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wav ell, British commander fpr India and Burma, and the first military; leader to score a smashing success against' the axis, will head f tha land, sea and air forces in the Pa cific, . the Australian Associated Press said Fday night. (The dispatch apparently re- f erred to command of all allied 1 forces since a Reuters dispatch from Canberra said Australian ; Prime. Minister John Curtin had I "confirmed Indirectly' that VPs- veil was being considered for! such a post.) The Dress service said it shad learned authoritatively that i the" 58-year-old general who laid jthe; grpundwork for the cbnquest of most of Premier Mussonm g Am can empire as to be the new Pa-; cific commander in chief; Earlier, Prime Minister Curtin, had said he was mystified by a London forecast to that effect' As commander in chief of the Pacific, Gen. Wavell presum ably w o a 1 d take precedence over. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, head of the bard-pressed Phil ippine forces. Admiral Thomas . C. Hart, commander of the tJS Asiatic fleet,' Gen. Sir Henry R. Pownall, the new British far eastern commander at Singa pore, Gen. Hein Ter - Foorten, Dutch commander - at Batavia, Chinese and other chieftains. General Wavell's headquarters at present are at Simla; India, where be was shifted last JulyJ changing places with . Sir Claude Auchinleck, present British mid-; die eastern commander. - : A few days ago an 'ABC mili tary council was' created' in Chungking, China. It was com posed of General Wavell,' Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese1 generalissimo, and Ma j .-Gen. George A. Brett, chief of the US army ah corp. ; After a three-day strategy con ference, General Wavell left; for Rangoon, Burma, enroute back to his headquarters. ! ' Bonds Funds Stolen 1 J '.. PORTLAND;" Jan. .2-iJ)-;Si im Grim, Portland, told police. Fri day that he had saved $1000 to buy .war bonds for his infant He withdrew: the funds, from, the bank in preparation for the pur chase,: but a burglar, beat him. td it- The money- was stolen from" his ; southeast Portland apartment large new levies which treasury and -- congressional . ; experts1 i are now drafting. ?. .-f i-i -f The f ederal 1 debt 71s A already dose to . $53,000,000,000 andi:the deficits in the rest, of this fiscal year1, and next year may bring it to around $100,000,000,000 of ficials said. -' . . . ' While these preparations were being made; the treasury disclos ed that direct defense spending reached a new , high of $1,848,- -.TiCT-.-.l' il . . . P ITT TO HTl IMF Moad to left OBeirias JL Allows ElilEry US Warships, Dutch Fleet I'l. East Indies Defenders prepare for Attacks Jn Force by japs BATAVIA, NEI, Jan. 2 (AjP) United States war ships and planes, already are helping the smalt but modern Netherlands fleet defend the Dutch East Indies, the Neth erlands command disclosed F r i day in a communique which reported attacks on one US; warship and two planes. The attacks occurred in the northern part of the archipelago, the; communique, said. No serious danlage was done to any of the US I or Netherlands warships, .it ifrasi stated, and no MJarnage at all wa4" sustained bythe.two Ua planes which were attacked In force by enemy aircraft in the same area. ; The announcement coincided with statements of a competent military informant in London to the effect that Japan's main task nowf was to' seize the Dutch East Indies and their rubber and oil, and that the Dutch defenders for the present must bear the brunt of the attack. ' . (The spokesman said that the Indies' defense powers were very strong and that the waters between the hundreds of Islands had been turned into death traps for Japanese transports and warships,! Already Dutch fliers and submarines have taken a heavy roll of both categories of enemy ships In offensive ac tions.) The Dutch communique again stressed the Japanese campaign of systematic iterrorization of the na (Turnito Page 2, CoL 2) Japs Arrested For Hissing Aflied Chief s LOS ANGELES, Jan. ,2-JP)-Two: American" born"" Japanese' youths, accused by Mrs. Winifred Stephens of spitting in her face whenshr upbraided them for ac tions 'in a theatre, were turned over! by police Friday to' the FBI for .investigation. ' . Mrs. Stephens told Police Offi cer E. C. Russell that the youths, Shlgeki Kayama, 21, and (Tomio Ambb, 19," hissed pictures si. ow ing'; President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill," ap plauded others of Japanese 7 m bassador Nomura and Envoy Ku rusU. and laughed at others of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor. ' The I youths '- denied V this : and Police ; Capt- Vernon - Rasmussen said Kayama declared, "She spat at me first" ' -! v ' ; . Rasmussen said , he decided - to turn' the youths over to the FBI after" Kayama ' admitted ' he had gone, to, school four years in Ja- 555,311 In December.; The effect of war upon the' defense program was shown by the fact ; that .this, figure f was' $400,000,000 1 more than was spent m November, 'and was about, four times the size of defense 'spending In December, 1940. .-.j";'?. r't- rVi"'"' , . The December- total brought .del ense oosts In .the first, half -of . the current fiscal ... year ta 8J14,1884C7r compared with ' - $1,787,088,62$ la the- similar Help Prica Za. Nws1cndi Islaiiid Capital It . ii . - i ' i' - .i ' T ; : 4 . . . j ' " - ' f ' - 1 f Bulletins Cavite Emptied ' LOffDON, Jan. SThel . admiralty ahnbunced Friday! night :that the 7,175-tdn Bfit- ish cruiser Neptune had beeni sunk oy a mine in the Med iterranean, -ii TOKYO, (Official Broad-: cast Recorded by (P)-Jan. 2j -A Japanese dispatch dated Hankow quoted military quarters as saying the Jap anese', "may not occupy Changsha permanently as it was the purpose to crush Chi-' nese: : resistance" in driving: on the Hunan capital. . Washington; Jan. 2.4) ' W-With the fall of Manila Philippine circles here be lieve hat the provisional . capital might have been, transferred to Malolos, 25 milesfto the north. r I Malolos was ' the capital of Genefal Emilio Aguinaldo'd in s Urgent government ir U89whi;the Filipinos re-4 ' fusicl -to accept America?! soyeirlignty following "expulfj sion ; of the Spaniards. . There appeared little doubt thai military headquarters was at Fort Mills, on forti-; fied Corregidor island at the entrance to Manila bay. Meted 3 of Fantastic Ring j Sentenced to Serve ; Total of 279 Years ! NEW" YORK, Jan. 2HIP)-Thirry men arid three women were jailed by Uncle Sam Friday, to serve's total bfj 279 years for participating in a fantastic spy ring centered in the third reich. 1 Sentences, meted out by Judce . Mortimer W. Byers in the east-4 era district court, Brooklyn, ranged from one year and a day . to 18 tears. In addition, S18,00tj in fines were assessed. . . The niostevere sentences, were given to. the 14 defendants who put the government to additional expense. The trial, with a . bat jterjofllegaTTsEtdS from Washing ton advising US District Attorney Harold M. Kennedy, lasted from September 8 until December 12, three 'days' after Germany de clared; war on this country. L As the stolid, spies, most of . them foreign-born' appeared beforet Judge Byers Friday, they . had none of the Jauntiness they , . displayed during, the trial Even the soldier-of-fortnne-wnlte, and professional spy, Frederick Jeubert Dnquesne,- who for weeksat in the: witness chair . . heaptnsjibuse upon the court the ; government legal 1 battery '. and the FBI, was rejected. , f He -quivered as Judge Byers sentenced - him to 18 . years, prac tically life sentence because Du-i quesne -is 64 years old..When D quesne's counsel pleaded for len iency for .his client. Kennedy countered by requesting the limit, lermmf hin a ; boastful, v ur (Tyrn to Page 2, CoL 4) itid Statei nortlon of the nrecedmr ..t. to the' past six months, . total expenditures of the' federal goV "ernmeiit were t $1 L552,159,88 Revenues" were' ; $4,165,910,978, leaving a deficit of $7,388,948,88$.. One. reason -for - the rapid; rise of the federal debt to the record level of $57,938,3123,096 on .Deii. 31 was the spurt in ( sales of de fense layings ; tdnds, which set a monthly record 1 $53525,654 ta December - - 1 SPie MaTimnm temper attre ; iTiday, IS, - Minimum, - It. ' : Kirer SJt feet. AH fur ther weather information, withheld by rorernment or- ;der. 1. ' 5e " s No. 242 Arih'v Mdve hy Nippbii As MacArthur Shifts Lines - I British Holding at Singapore While Russ Spear Nazis By The Associated 'Press The American-Filipino de fenders, grievously hurt but far from mortally wounded, stood staunch late Friday night upon the strong fortifi cations of Manila bay and in the harsh jungles to the north in the second phase of the great battle for Luzpn. ' Manila was gone, and Cavite naval base along with it; but yet MacArthur had Corregidor Island fortress, and Forts . Hughe and ., The Dago -that had. turned was l somber; but there were yet other : pages to turn.V . j The Japanese invader, who en tered Manila at 3 pm Friday, found nothing there but an open city which his bombers had sought to ravage. 1 Cavite, too, was enipty of all weapons and military equipment; all not destroyed by; Japanese bombers had been removed. No American warship,: no naval stores, fell into the j assailant's hands. . . The war departments late aft ernoon communique thus briefly told the story of a gallant con tinued defense: f "Americas and Philippine troops north and northwest of , t Manila : are continuing to re sist stubbornly attacks which are being pressed with Increas ing intensity." I The , invader, repojrtingi that MacArthur's men had withdrawn to Corregidor island and to the mountains of the Batan penin sula above it, indulged himself in unrestrained' exultation but yet his news and propaganda agency spoke thoughtfully of Corregidor and its mighty bat teries and its , anti-aircraft de fenses.' . ' 1 ; It was plain that by any view the conquest of Luzon stood yet in an uncertain and "bloody fu ture. Manila had been doomed from the start; but Manila Was not Luzon. -T- ; : The war and navy ' depart- . ment's . announcements on the , Luzon fighting. were bald and burnt and spare of detail, but they contained clues Which led military observers here to re construct ; the situation ta this' : fashion "-, - j ; -It was evident that with Jap anese forces approaching Manila from .two directions, over a ter rain .little' adapted to defensive , fighting, MacArthur.. decided to yield the city- and - continue ,the battle aa 'ground of; : bis 'own choosing. J ' -- So,'; - despite enemy ; harrass ; mehts, he ordered a -daring ma- ' neuyer. - The - defending' forces to , the south "withdrew iund Joined - v the American and Filipino troopi' " which had been resisting the at tack from -the norThis 5 left the southern approach to Manila . wide open and. the enemy march-! i ed in unopposed.- ! ?. 4"- f Ip '" But to, the north It fgave Mac Arthur a compact, onef unit fight ing force with the advantage- of shorter lines, closely coordinated command, and a broadj battlefield of . farm land, Jungle ind moun tain country in "which ,tQ make' a ,J( deterraifjed stand. ' iij ;-;-. i; ' - , -?r At his back was Minlla bay. the Soath China , sea', and the " long rugredly mountainous Ba- - . ; tan peninsula which forms the - western enclosure -of I-th bay. -Just off the end of the penht- ; aula lies Corregidor the rocky ' Island fortress, and tiearby If (Turn to Page 2; CoL 5 v ' ' . 'j !