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PAflKTWn - e s w sr . - 1 : 1 .- - - . I 1 i t . ' . m Bloody Malaya Battle Rages Berlin Admits Serious Condition; Sieges ! of Soviet Cities Lifted f Continued from Pace X) slans announced the recapture of Mosalsk, only SO .miles short of the Germans new Vyazma-Bryansk defense line. , , In Malaya the British still struggled to hold their Use In the area of the Slim river. boat M miles north el Koala Lumpur and 290 above Singa pore, hot clearly: were having the greatest of difficulty along the main highway leading down to Singapore Itself. Tokyo claimed that Japanese troops had beaten down to within SO miles of Kuala Lumpur;; and as usual the Germans went fur wer ana aiiegea, wiinoui any sort of confirmation, that the British defenders of the city had been cut off by Japanese rear ward action that had broken com munication to Singapore. Suspect as were these claims, some Japanese success had by all signs been achieved, but at tre mendous cost to I the invaders. British accounts . declared that the slaughter of Japanese in some areas is unbelievable;" the enemy's 5-to-l numerical super iority was beings sharply reduced. The Chinese for. their part re ported that South China offensive on a grand scale had broken the outer defenses of two Japanese held Chinese provincial capitals -""Canton, in Kwangtung. and Nanchang, in Kiangsi while the Japanese columns retreating from Changsha in Hunan province re mained under heavy assault Meanwhile, Chinese military spokesmen announced that Chi nese troops were movmg up to "designated positions'' la Brit ish Banna, which has a com mon frontier with the Thailand and Indo-China j bases of the Japanese drive down on Ma laya, and this alone with heavy allied air attacks on Japanese positions raised new specula tion of an early allied offensive against the Japanese flank and rear. Among ts claims of the day Tokyo made a confession that helped to illustrate one of the strongest Japanese fears the fear of the submarines of the United States Asiatic fleet It was ac knowledged that a Japanese freighter had been torpedoed and sunk off "the seven isles of Izu," group within 65 miles of Yoko suka, Japan's greatest naval base t the entrance to Tokyo bay. Youth Nabbed In Burglary; ; Thefts Told Thefts from the Salem Labor temple and a service station and entry of a garage Thursday night Were reported Friday by city po lice. A local juvenile boy was ar rested and admitted the station burglary. ; : The office at the Labor temple was broken into after 10:30 Thurs day night and a typewriter stolen, while an attempt was made to open locked steel files. : The youth was held for theft of $2 in nickels, about 100 pennies and some boxes of ammunition from the George Caldwell service station at 2490 State street Joe and King's garage at 530 Chemeketa ctrpot una HrnVn UI w Ma vnvu auiv Thursdav mVht hut nnthins taken. Water Bureau Accounts Up f A . - ioiai accounts, consumption and revenue and average accounts of the Salem water department during 1941 increased from the previous year. Manager Carl E. Guenther stated Friday night in his annual report to the commis sion. . i The figures, covering Only - metered accounts, show an in . , crease from SUM t 9M32 to. total Bumper of ' accounts, ' ta- - eluding residential : monthly accounts ever the year. ; Other accounts were '128 irri ; ration. 9004 commercial. ' 857 " Industrial and 511 municipal. Total billed consumption i rose from 228,106,400 to 237415,110 cubic feet Total billed revenue was up from $228,805.13 to $233,- 550.22. Average consumption per ac ' count " increased ' from- 2417 to 2458 cubic feet,: while average , revenue per account was boosted from S2.40 to $2.42. Russ Educator Sees Victory v KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Jan. 8 ' (Delayed)-)- Eventual victory for the allies in the Pacific was forecast Thursday by Prof. Isaac Zvavich of Moscow university in an article published in the Volga Commune, organ of soviet gov ernment departments In this aux iliary ccrUaL - . ' "Time Is the ally of the United States. Great Britain and China," Zvaric wrote. This ally -they u-SI tiisa ta their side, even If - . : ?1 they nave to sacniice temporarily m part of the Pacific." r .v . - i i 111 n l rtrrnmr 11 riiiiii ssosaeaeniiaoami i ' ' . . - 1 Draft Boards Get Warning (Continued i from page 1) ments, Hershey added. "It Is not the purpose of selective servlee to disrupt the coun try's basic social unit, the family. Our problem Is how to permit individuals ; to stay on tasks which they can best per form without setting up areas for evasion of military serv ice." "There must be no- areas, however which can be regarded as havens from the draft" Veto Voted on Price Control Solons Give Wickasd Power Over Ceilings On Farm Products (Continued from Page 1) ten senate debate, also went to the support of the Bankhead amendment after the Alabama senator narrowed Its applica tion somewhat (This was done by removing a phrase that also would have required the secre tary's approval before price ceilings could be placed on ar ticles manufactured from farm products.) McNary said that Leon Hen derson lacked the expert and technical background to fix farm prices. Senator Norrls (Ind-Neb) said he agreed with most things said by McNary .but insisted a single authority over all prices would bring best results in the war effort As finally approved the Bank' head amendment stated: "Not withstanding any other provision of this or any other law, no action shall be taken under this act by the administrator or any other persons with respect to any agrl cultural commodity, without the prior approval of the secretary of agriculture." Still unsettled were more than a dozen other amendments in eluding one by Senator Taft (R Ohio) which would give the price-fixing powers to a board of five members, instead of a single administrator. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -P)- Refiners were authorized Friday to increase the price of refined sugar 20 cents a hundred pounds. Price Administrator Leon Hen derson announced that wholesale prices are being adjusted propor tionately, but declared the action "should have no immediate effect upon the price, of refined sugar at retail. ',. .Retailers are; now, selling fopplies which they acquired at lower prices," the price admin istrator said, adding that he thought retailers could "be de pended upon to delay any price increase until their pres ent stocks on hand were ex hausted, and they must ' pay higher wholesale prices for re placement supplies." Other official sources said that when the increase was passed on to the public, it should not amount to more than one cent on five pounds of sugar.. Dairy Group Names Salem Director David Saucy of Salem, director of the Marion-Polk area for the Dairy Cooperative association, was renominated for the position at a meeting of the Salem unit here Friday. Election will be at the annual meeting of the association in Portland, February 3. Grover C. Poe, head field man. spoke, emphasizing the dairyman's obligation to his country in the present crisis. He told of the im portance of conserving farm ma chinery and supplies and said that women will probably be organized to relieve a farm labor shortage. The cooperative, he said, has done its sharp by Increasing produc tion, supplying milk for the army and manufacturing cheese for Britain. Jim Jackson of North Howell, unit chairman, presided. Fred C, Klaus, district manager, gave resume of the unit's activity in 1941. Jefferson Woman Taken by Death JEFFERSON Mrs. Minnie Elizabeth Whitby, 74, died Tues day night at the home of her son. J. R. Whitby in Jefferson, follow ing an extended fitness. The body will be shipped to The Dalles, where funeral services will be held Sunday. The Fisher funeral home is in charge. Mrs. Whitby, was born Decem ber 11, 1887, near Champoeg, In Clackamas county. She was mar ried at The Dalles to Joseph A. Whitby April 30, 1889. She had lived at The Dalles until 1889, then in Portland for four years and ai LaGrande for 30 years. H On Mr. f Whitby's retirement from the Union Pacific Railroad company, they . moved to- Jeffer son to live with their son. Besides her widower, she Is survived by her son of Jefferson, a nephew, Alfred N. i Robbing' of -Klamath Falls; and two nieces, Mrs, James McGiverin of San Francisco, and Mrs. Helen Alscott of LaGrande. Mrs. Whitby was a member of the Royal Neighbors, the DAB and the Methodist church, .-ti Noted Pacific Freighter Hit Most of Crew Saved By Dutch Air Boat; MacArthur Waiting (Continued from Page IX The interim at least -.gave the American, and JnHpIno defenders an opportunity for the thing which in addition to airplanes and ground reinforcements, they needed most rest At home, officials "scoffed at a blatantly boastful Tokyo claim that Japanese troops will eventu ally land on American son and find it a "simple matter" to sweep everything before them. The statements were made in the Japan Times and Advertiser. Officials here, not the least bit apprehensive, said such claims were for home consumption and pointed oat that before any such enterprise could be attempted, Japan would have to be supreme In the far east, destroy the United States fleet, reduce Pearl Harbor and neutralise Alaska. United States forces on the west coast have been on the alert since the Japanese attack on Pearl Har- bor which opened the hostilities, but their concern has been guard-! ing against sneak air raids, rather than any mass invasion effort I Augmenting defense establish-1 ments on the Pacific coast, the I navy Friday leased Treasure is- and, the man-built isle in Francisco bay, site of the Golden Gate exposition, as a base for men and ships. It is to be equipped for minor snip repairs, refueling, training gun crews for merchant men and housing naval personnel in the area. BATAVIA, Netherlands East I Indies, Jan. 10-(Saturday)-(P-1 Sinking of a Netherlands freight-1 r hv a Janannse nhmarln in I the Java sea was announced by the navy department today as these vital islands braced them- fnr maw .Tm,n. tr-1 vasion thrust which authoritative quarters believed to be lmml- nent There were only three known vere only three known rescued, a communique he Japanese submarine survivors said, as the shelled and machine-gunned the e-gunned tne I struggling in lifeboats and men the water. The three who saved them- selves leaned into the water and clung to the edge of their life boat while the Japanese were shelling It House Passes Measure to' Hurry Clocks WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -m- The house, which has voted Pres ident Roosevelt vast powers and I wea $17,830,394.28. These in astronnmirfll enmt vhtaA onr.i, I eluded motor vehicle reffistra- tj j m . , .. . rnuay irom giving nim aUinOTlty I over the nation's clocks. It passed a daylight saving time bill, 67 to 20, but one which allowed Mr. Roosevelt no discretion. It provided sim ply that the clocks must be moved ahead one hour on the twentieth day after the bill's enactment and stay that way until six months after the war's end. The bill passed after a debate marked by slim attendance, and a spirited discussion of the habits of animals and children, the laws of nature, and regulations gov erning duck hunters. Indications were the measure would be revised in conference committee, because the senate last Wednesday approved a meas ure permitting the president to advance clocks as much as two nours whenever and wherever he saw fit Sprague Lauds Newspapers (Continued from Page 1) Army and marine spokesmen told the editors and publishers On October 24, 1909, Amelia ager, as to possibility of secur that censorship will remain on a Marie England was married to ing through his office copies of voluntary basis If the present co- Fred Israel Oberson at the St calls for defense production bids. operation Derween tne press ana Josepn church of Salem. To this the representatives of the Port the armed forces can be main- union four children were born, land field off lc declared that h tain ed. The assurances were given by Lieut Malcolm E. Baser, former city editor of The Port land Oregonlan, now of the Fort Lewis public relations staff, and Capt Robert Paine of the marine corps. The 75 members registered for um mixiunt state press cozuerence also beard discussions on ration - ing, taxation and wage and hour laws. Rostock Leads EOCE To 83-54 Victory LA GRANDE, Ore Jan. Sharp-shooting Ernie Rostock played just half of the game, but piled up 54 points tonight to aid Eastern Oregon College of Edu- cation to an 84-to-45 victory over Mt Angel college, Rostock dropped in 18 field .mai, nd tw trZ r-nm of the first string also played but half of the game. They led at halftimett to 17. Named Bfayor Again . ' OBEGON-. CITY, Jan. 9-Wh William G. H. Krueger has been elected mayor for his third term, Th OSLGOIT STATE2MAIT. Sedans Volunteers I s KEITH I HANSEN Newspaperman Joins Marines Statesman Staff Member Enlists for Duration; Quits WU Studies Virst momhpr nf The Statesman staff to volunteer for service with one of the armed forces of the US since the beginning of hostilities, Keith L. Hansen of the news de- partment leaves today en route to San Diego, where he will don the uniform of the marines. Hansen Is to spend the week end in Portland with his mother, Mrs. Elnora Hansen, before going on to the southern city, where his enlistment through the Salem recruiting office will have preceded him. Since coming to The 'Statesman in September from the Oregonlan, Hansen has served in a variety of capacities in the editorial room, has carried a full course of junior studies at Willamette university and has heon rnrrosnnndunt fnr the Oregonlan from the university campus. "It was writing headlines for 4u..v v. v, r that did it!" he declared Friday. "I think that's where I belong.' Hl0l1WflV rlllln XAAfe1A YYCl A UAltA A , i Apportioned TV IVvsitsa J IJJLi 11C3 The 1941 apportionment of state highway funds to. Oregon counties totaled $404,110.51 in excess of the amount they re ceived in 1940, Secretary of State Earl Snell announced here Friday. The final apportionment for 1941, released Friday, amount ed to 1815,071.90, boosting the total to $2,815,071.90. as against $2,410,961.39 in 1940. The ap portionment is based on motor vehicle registrations. The motor vehicle fees in 1941 ! U;. m maau Ai f,,vii.wT, uiuiui veuitie ixueis lax siz,BS7,3Z.37, motor carrier fees $1,392,242.80, and fines $41,145.05. Counties receive their annual share in three apportionments, ' " . I' i s V one in July, one in December and Inc., and the Oregon Manufac the remainder at the end of the hirers association, served as year. chairman of the session. He Marion county's share under law would-be $59,581.04 while the actual apportionment will be r105,779'27 sVc-sf-Ao 1411 UtCO AXC'JLfJL til Independence T?. Wn,n . Ul T OITlcin I INDEPENDENCE Services I for Mrs. Amelia England Ober- I son, who died in Salem Wednes- I day. were held from thu Smith. Baun mortuary Friday at 2 p. m., witn Kev. Lk H. Vickers officiat ing. Interment was in the Belcrest Memorial park in Salem. Mrs. Oberson was born June 4, 1892, in Ontario. Canada. She came to Oregon at the age of eight years and spent all her school and girlhood days in In- I dependence. three of whom survive her. centralizing technicians and in They are, Wilfred Ross Oberson. I formation and hv notifvinc Indl- Uoyd John Oberson and Maxine ive Wt on. she is also survived by ner widower. All are from Inde - pendence; also one grandchild re- J The office, located at 815 Be siding in California. I dell building, is open to interest- "c" vucrsua was acuve in the Royal Neighbors of America, i we iMeignoors oi woodcraft and 1 the Pythian Sisters. The North Santtam highway be - twees Niagara and Detroit is pas sable but hazardous, state high way officials were advised Fri day. A sUde was reported there J Thursday. . AlkMV rf T?..-- S7rvt n " urov? 1wun?. -aM Z lT JJ , v, origin Wednesday night while its hi" j rTrrr ic - NY Sneietv IThti ' Tiiea Newport, bl Jul, . Avioff the Chinese coast about 240 Frederic William Rhinelander, 82, I prominent in New York and New - 'port society, died Friday p 1' Orwjozt, Zxiturdcty Meaning, Jaxmatj lt, 1S42 Plant Owners Hear Policies OFM Staff Outlines Program to Receive Defense Contracts (Continued from page 1) er in' the prime or sub category, are features of the office's serv- lice, Barnett declared. WMf nvs dc pwsiDic w put a plant or machine tool belong ing U each of yon Into defense production, but as far as Is prac tical It's ap to ns to sea that that job is done," Barnett said, pointing out that In order to obtain the maximum use of oar existing production facilities and ' machine tools, we are to advise manufacturers and business en terprises of specific ways in which, their facilities and ma chine tools, may be utilized In the production of material for the armed services." Members of the staff of his of fice attending Friday's session with Barnett included A. C. Ruck deschel, finance consultant; G. O. Matter, industrial specialist; John S. Bowes, contract specialist, and Ja Yates- engineer, all of whom PP3 M ih discussion "1""4 xuuuw rory aaaress Questions of priorities, means of securing materials, the prob lem of the small manufacturer in bidding against the larger in dustrialist when he Is- permit ted to bay only the amount of material required by the eon tract and the price of such ma terial becomes "prohibitive" If booght in small lots these are not problems for the division of contract distribution field office, it was declared In response to queries from Salem manufac turers. Industrial facilities, type and capacity oi ioo ana pertinent Information 1 1 s t e d on Iorms Proviaea J w u " Friday's meeting Is to become a U1 of e P2?n 1, . erence file so that Salem manu facturers may receive notifica tions when bids are called on products they can produce, it was declared. An effort to speed the noti fications from Washington, DC, to make possible the entry of more bids from the west coast gives promise of bearing fruit, Barnett assured his listeners. Three weeks' notice is now be ing given, whenever possible, of the type of goods to be re quired and some Indication of the quantity which may be needed so that when specifica tions arrive the, bidders may be prepared to establish "costs on short notice, he said. Pooling of resources for manu facturing, when accomplished through loose, easily adjusted or ganizations of various production units, was advised by Yates, who pointed out that prime contracts I mfpht thus be brought into the ; Introduced by Carl Hogg, chamber of commerce president, Robert M. McKean, manager of the Columbia Empire Industries, pointed to the experience of other industries throughout the state In their sometimes success ful efforts to secure wartime contracts. Salesmanship in securing such agreements is not the expression of greed but of patriotism in a time of stress when the nation's entire resources are needed, he declared.! William H. Crawford, direc tor of the state economic coun cil, discussed briefly the plan to organize upstate Oregon In to two promotion groups, one in eastern and one in western Oregon. 8och groups together with chambers of commerce can do much to awaken the public to the facilities it has to offer for defense production but the individual or firm most work to secure contracts, Bar nett emphasized. To the query from Fred Thielsen, Salem chamber man' j vidual producers or pools direct I ly they believed they could speed 1 operations. led manuiacturers. It was ex- plained. USC Clips UCLA 1 ur iiui aiuic LOS ANGELES, Jan. SHAV The University of Southern Call fornia basketball team defeated I the University of California at Los Angeles, 59 j to 51, for the 5Tth consecutive ; time hart to- fa opening farna of the 1942 southern division Coast coo- ference aenson. Chinese Raid AmOY I jjqs ANGELES. Jan. 9-OPr-The OiiHayuic inuu tow m iixloj uut Chinese Lm 1im mill 4ln4 tmi miles northeast i of HookKong, 1 NBCs listening M post here I ported. Endowment Fund For Ministers Being Sought f . r i ! In 'the Sunday service at the Englewood United Brethren in Christ church, nth and Nebraska avenue, William Hamel, a lay man of the church, will make the address opening the campaign to raise 1 $1,000,0001 throughout the denomination by July 1, 1943,' for ministerial pension endowment ! January 18 will.be known as ministerial pension day, at which time :Bishop Iri D. Warner will be present to assist in the cam paign, to raise the. quota. FOR Quashes Defense Row HarvarcJ Law Dean Will Share Job With LaGuardia I (Continued From Page One) said that Landls, scholarly per sonal friend of the president and t New York's fiery chief executive, wopld work together fashioning broad matters of policy governing the work of setting np safeguards against aerial attack. ' Landis indicated he would de vote his full time to his new job. This brought expressions of sat isfaction from several legislators, but others still; contended that the work could be carried on more; efficiently by the war de partment Salem Realty Board Plans Farmer Aid Desire to cooperate with a cornmittee of property owners in the proposed cantonment area near; Monmouth, planning relo cation of farmers, was expressed Friday by the Salem Realty board. William G. Hardy assum ed the office of president for the year.; Hardy, C. V. ' Johnson and F. H. Wen, named by the direc tors earlier this week to Inves tigate the listing of available farms by the Folk county agent were authorised to con tinue and to build a relocation program. Decision as to holding the an nual banquet this year was left o the' house committee. David Simpson of Portland, national president of realty asso ciations, will be in Salem a short time Monday afternoon and con fer with board officers. Chairmen of standing commit tees announced Friday by Hardy are O. E. Rae, arbitration; Do Teen Baker, programs; Rich Rei- mann, commissions and fees; F. H. Weir, ethics; Melvin Johnson, finance; Winnie Pettyjohn, house; E. A. Miller, legislation; C. V. Johnson, membership: Wil liam McGilchrist, jr., planning and municipal affairs: William Bliven, publicity; George Gra- benhorst, resolutions, and Leo N. Childs, taxation. Eight Miners Found Alive SILVERTON, Colo., Jan. Eight miners trapped by fire were carried unconscious out of the Pride of the West gold and silver mine Friday night. Rescuers found erven of them Slumped in a huddle at the end of a smoke-filled tunneL The eighth was found closer to the mouth of another tunnel. The workers had been impris oned: for eight hours by the flames and smoke. Hastily organ Ized first aid crews pumped oxy fen into the men's lungs. The exact condition of the victims remained undetermined. US Planes Aid Raids - ! (Continued from Page 1) i I abia to El Agheila meanwhile admittedly were pottiag p a stubborn fight The British acknowledged that Well-laid mine fields and bad weather also were; slowing up their attempts to (outflank the axis', army and force a decisive battle. But there were some indi cations Friday night that the nasi commander, his battered tank force, perhaps already slightly strengthened by - reinforcements from: the west, might make a fur ther stand west of El Agheila on semi-prepared positions. . ! (London military observers, on the other hand, thought Rommel more ' probably would seek to fight a slow delaying action In the hope that constant axis air raids on the British hase at Malta would smash its strength and thus crack the blockade of the axis supply lines from Italy.) Vance Funeral Set CORVALLIS, Jan. neral services will be held at 10 omr Saturday In file First Meth odist church here for H. T. Vance, head of the secretarial science de partment Oregon State college, who ' died m an automobile acci dent Tuesday. I By KIRKE L. ' Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman Amazine news has come from the Far East in the form of a rerjort that Chinese forces have punctured outer defenses of both Canton and Nanchang in thrown an encircling column around Ichang on the upper Yang tze river, high-water mark of tne Japanese invasion of that coun Capping a Japanese retreat from Changsha, hich the Chi nese picture as a; disastrous rout, Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek appears to have seized his oppor tunity to take the offensive on a wide front Japanese garrisons In China, thinned down or diluted to provide veteran divisions for invasion of .the i Philippines and the Malay peninsula, are feeling the weight of his limitless new armies, organized and equipped with American and British help. The re-born Chinese air force was thrown Into aggres sive action for the first time to harry the Japanese retreat from Changsha.; That b ano ther Item tn a. growing bul of particulars front China Indi cating that while the Japanese are slowed down but uncheck ed on other China sea battle fronts, fat central and sooth China they are definitely on the defensive. Chinese capture of Canton and Nanchang would represent far more than local-victories. The cities are capitals respectively of Kwantung and Kiangsi provinces and keys to Japanese occupation of nearly all the great eastern bulge where the Chinese main land juts Into the China sea. Both are within less than 600 air miles from the pivot of Ja pan's attack both on China and southward In the China sea, the island base of Formosa. The only Chinese-held port on the coastal perimeter of the China bulge be tween Canton and Shanghai is Foochow, directly opposite the northern tip of : Formosa across the narrow Formosa strait Foochow has been useless to the Chinese for supply or at tack purposes during the three Service Men In Salem today from his Se attle headquarters is Ensign Wal lace Sprague, sob of Gov. and Mrs. Charles A. Sprague. An as sistant to Nard Jones, naval pub lic relations director for the 13th naval district young Sprague ar rived in Salem on Friday night or a brief visit with his parents. Selective service notice to ap pear Monday for physical exam ination was received Friday by Francis Rothweiler, assistant Statesman stereotyper. J. H. Hoyt chief petty officer in the -US navy and somewhere in the Pacific ocean, says he weathered the attack all right and warns against belief of any reports on the War except from official sources, in a letter to his sister, Mrs. C. C. Tracy, Turner route one. DETROIT Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Moore have received a letter from theft son,: Keith written when on the way to Sheppard field, Tex. He was transferred from Ft Lewis, Wash. VALSETZ Alvin Martin, George Mason and Curtis Allen have joined the US navy. They were to leave Portland Monday or Tuesday according to word re ceived by, Mr; and Mrs.. Merritt Martin, but their 'destination was not disclosed. Alvin has operated a small auto repair shop here for some time. He also worked in the plan ing mill here. He plans to take up aviation, mechanical work. George is tike son of Mr. and Mrs. James Mason of Valsetz. He worked in the. cook house here for some time and later In the planing mill. 1: Curtis is the son of Mrs. Ed ward Sturgeon who is now living in California, but formerly lived In Valsetz for many years. Cur tis was employed in the mill here for about a year doing millwright and carriage work. He has been working In the Boeing Aircraft plant In Seattle. He plans to take up aviation mechanical work in the navy also. . PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. Former Gov. Ben Oleott received a letter Monday from his son. Ensign Chester W. Oleott, appar ently from Wake island, but not until Friday' could he be sure that it was from that hard-fighting mid-Pacific base.5 The navy - - department's an nouncement that a patrol plane carried dispatches from - Wake Dec 20, x the date the letter was written, cleared, the mystery surrounding: its arrival. On that day; young' Oleott wrote: Its not by any means a one-sided affair as the Japs are receiving plenty? war. welcomes whenever they come over. This outfit wUl never, give up.' SCO I i. i : ' V SIMPSON south China and iimultaneously years the Japanese have occu pied virtually all the rest of the eastern portion of south China. With Canton and Nanchang re gained, however, not only Chi nese but Anglo-American-Dutch allies would be a long step clos er to positions from which they could blast by air at the For mosa biue and at Japanese com munication lines running through Formosa strait toward French Indo -China, Thailand and the Malay peninsula. That (day still may be distant Neither! the scope and power of the Chinese counter offensive nor the extent to which Japan has de pleted her garrisons In China to feed veteran troops into her Phil ippine and Malayan ventures is yet measurable. The Immediate effect of Chi nese successes 1 however, must inevitably tend to lessen enemy pressure on Singapore's defend ers and against General Mac Arthur's lines northwest of Ma nila, Coupled with a eostly Japa nese defeat at . Changsha, the Chinese threats against Canton and Nanchang, to say nothing of thai Ichang operations as a potential menace to Shanghai itself, must compel prompt rein forcement of garrisons In China. Japanese army, as well as air and sea strength, is already spread dangerously thin. Including forces necessarily pinned idle in the north against possible Russian en fry into the Pacific conflict Re shuffling divisions to meet the multiple Chinese threats could greatly influence trends of the bat tles in the Philippines and in Ma laya, even before counter meas ures of the ABD powers to stem the southward advance of the Jap anese down the China sea are geared for action. Where They Art What They're Doing CINCINNATI, 0, Jan. Most men gain weight after a few months in the army. But Stake Owen B. "Slim" Wrassnian of Cincinnati. 1 Enlisting a year ago, he weighed 322 pounds. Home on furlough today, he weighed 250. "Andi boy! Do I feel swell!" he said. Class of 1941 graduates in civil. mechanical, electrical or archi tectural engineering may apply for commissions as ensigns in the civil engineering corps of the naval reserve, the thirteenth na val district has announced. Formerly, engineering" gradu ates were required to have a mi nimum: of three years active en gineering practice following col lege or? university before , becom ing eligible for a navy commis sion. Graduates with AB or BFA degrees in architecture are not considered. Beginning the first lap of a course; designed to give him a rating eventually as an aviation mechanic, Pvt Sam C. Wilson of Salem , has been enrolled in the mechanics school at Sheooard field, Texas, the world's largest air corps technical training school. Wilson,: attached to the siath school I squadron, began class work January 1 and Is scheduled to , graduate in May. Son of Frank S. Bowers of Silverton, he attended Snverton high school. William Murphy. 23. nf IS8 North 12th street, Friday receiv ed notice of Induction Into the army January 23. Murphy has been ai Salem resident for over a year land is employed at the federal JCCC office. He came to Oregon j from Cambridge, Mass. Capt Cecil Edwards. Who .n. tered army service while serving as priyate secretary to Gov. Charles I A. Sprague, arrived in Salem Friday from California for a 10 days visit with relatives. Edwards has been assigned to Fort Benning, Ga. For several month he has been In the re mount service and has purchas- ea, nunareas or horses for the federal government Closes if Houses PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. -()-Police Chief Harry M. Niles to day ordered operators of - 32 known houses of prostitution here to "close mdefinitely.' He said he was complying with military requests to "remove completely - the hazard of com mercialized p r o s 1 1 1 ution," and added; that similar orders had gone into effect at Reno, Seattle, Astoria Klamath Falls and Pen dleton. : t,
