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Com 1 1 I I Story Column One, Pago Ono Movie Goors r ri - . "What m 1 1 n picture hall we see tonight?" The Callboard, a daily feature la The Statesman, ana-wen thai question for movie fans. 1 Weather i .... t Forecasts withheld aid ether data delayed by army request Monday: Max. Temp. 34, Min. 26, NiNrrr-FmsT teab Scdem, Oregon Wednesday Morning, January 14, 1942 Prlc 3c Newsskmds 5e No. 251 IBM (Creates TO ft ; v 1 111 AM l Vl IE 1 1 tE..JT f - Mi II . .; 1 isf II II I I I I I , I Vt:-.:WT-' 'Tkmlt-X M,..!.VI' .. y' I 111" II IB . gr - i ! 1 ft 4 ' 5 I 4 5 ' - i r" ' r ; i '; "S i ; I ; t ft: ? l : "I " If 1 To ttndu stry Surprise Move of President Halts Gipital Furore WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (AP) President Roosevelt created a one-man control over America's vast war pro- i duc t i o n effort to n i eh t w i t h all power eon cen- t rated in Donald M. Nel 8 o ri, as a sort of gener alissi m o of supply. The snr prise was given out at the W h i t e House about two Dnld M. Nelson hours before Wendell L. Will ,itf- republican presidential nominee in 1940, wa to go on the air with a demand that one-man control be set up to end "debating society" methods. An advance text of fthe Villkie 'peeich:" had been tributedyn Washington early in the day, and Willkie himself had conferred at the White House this forenoon. In actually delivering his speech Tuesday night, Willkie deleted the demand for the one-man setup in view of Mr. Roosevelt'a action. .Under the president's plan, still incomplete, a new war produc tion board will be established, and Nelson made its chairman. Nelson has been serving as executive di rector of the supply priorities and allocations board. Members of SPAB, - comprising some of the highest officials of the govern ment, will serve on the new board under Nelson. The big bluff pipe -smoking Nelson who came into the defense program as Its purchasing agent months ago and has stepped con stantly into more responsible po sitions, will have the power of final decision on alL questions of procurement and production. . As such, he will be the big boss, the war-time esar, em powered to tell American Indus try what to do, and to expect Its ready compliance. Bis only (Turn to Page 2, Col. 4) Station Fire Destroys Car And Building Fire destroyed an auto, one building and portions of two others at a service station at 109Q South 12th-street early Tues " day afternoon before extinguished by the city fire department Origin of the blaze was not de termined, as no attendants were . In the building at the time. Managed by Paul Fyock, the .station was .leased by the Gil mor. Oil company from a Cor- vallls resident, according 1 ' te -" George jail, Salem branch man ager of the company. ; The auto, left by Allison Floss .. for. repairs, could not be removed In time from the lubrication shop, and . both were lost. The station structure ? and rest rooms were partially burned. " Fyock suffer ed first ; degree . face and hand burns when he tried to save tools, and was given first aid. . Equipment owned by the man ager was estimated to have been destroyed to the extent of $500. Nazi Raider Attacks Ilit English Towns ' LONDON, Jan.. 13-i!P)-Single German raiders diving out of the clouds In two daylight attacks killed ten persons and wrecked come business buildings Tuesday in a northeastern English coastal town. . Those killed Were in an" am bulance post which suffered a direct hit. 1 An east Anglian town also was the target of a light attack. Nelson Bute Over i 1 1 i I I US Gunners Jar PritisM, S Troops Blast a Home To Singapore 1 - " ' " " H ' - ' . - Jap Bases Bombed by RAF; Withdrawal Jof f Defenders Lauded j SINGAPORE, Jani 13 (AP) Demolition squads of royal engineers carried but broad and destructive blast ing operations in the path of the Japanese invader Tuesday, effectively easing pressure on British forces continuing their withdrawal along a line 150 miles above Singapore, j News of the slowed Japanese progress came as Singapore itself shook with exploding bombs dropped by Japanese raiders. But the RAF itself had cascaded ions of bombs upon the Japanese base at Singora, in southern Thailand, during the night, f British airmen followed up this assault on Singora military es tablishment and railroad yards with a daylight raid upon Port Swettenham, Malayan west coast port some 25 miles south of fall en Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Ufederated , Malaya Stafr& Wh e raid was the first recognition that the Japanese had occupied Port Swettenham. Over Sintapore, British fight er planes had a busy day chas ing Japanese raiders coasting In under cover of low-hanging clouds. Singapore's people, who scarce ly had been conscious Monday of raids in which 125 Japanese planes were engaged by fighters high n the clouds or at some distance from the city, were fully aware (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Food Packers To Apply for Army Orders Meat packing establishments, bakeries and other industries pre paring or packing food which may find a market in army procure ment offices are making arrange ments to qualify as suppliers of victuals to uniformed men In this area, representatives indicated Tuesday. Stringent army regualuons are not reflected in Salem's city ordinances nor are they likely to be. Mayor W. W. Chadwick said Tuesday night. "If they want the business theyll com ply," he commented, declaring he believed the milk industry might find the regulations most difficult to meet. Degree of pas teurization or methods used, he understood, differed somewhat from army requirements. . As a city, Salem demands that persons preparing , ana serving foods in restaurants have regular physical examinations, the mayor said, but has left other regulations to the state. Possibility 'ijeat an ordinance might come out of the current, activity was not denied by Chadwick, although he ; indi cated there had been no- request for one. . " liTf ar TT j HYleXlCO JtlOlClS German Staff MEXICO CITY, Jan. German Minister Rudt von Col lenberg and other members of the German legation and consu lar stalls in Mexico City were confined Tuesday in & hotel out side Mexico City by order of the Mexican government It was announced that the measure was in retaliation for similar treatment of Mexican diplomatic and consular authori ties in Germany,' who were re ported interned in a hoteT at Bad Nauheim. The government also announc ed It had ordered the Japanese minister and legation and consu lar staffs confined under custody in the Japanese legation building sere. Wiaiay Dutch Destroy Rdlads, Oil Before i ; ; Japs Strike tNDAN 0 3QQ Japan is striking hard by land and air, presumably from their Philippine base at Davae (1) at the Neth erlands East Indies. Tarakan, northeast coast of Dstch Borneo, was taken in two days, and the Minahassa area on the island of Celebes invaded. Washington reported United States army bombers seared a direct hit on an enfemy battleship in the Golf of Davao, and reported Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Philippine army have repulsed several Japanese attacks with neavy losses at Vl. Tokyo broadcasts said fire swept Kuala Lumpur after its capture (J, federated Malay states capital, under Japanese aerial bombrdment, as Nipponese spearheads drove closer. Enemy planes reportedly bombed Monlmeln (4), in British Burma. Cigarette Tax Remains Commission Declares Only Court Restraining Order "Will Halt Collection; Supreme Court Accents Writ ' Seeking Referendum on State Levy Oregon's 'tax commission will continue Jto collect the new state cigarette tax unless restrained by yourt order, its mem bers announced Tuesday following the state supreme court's acceptance of jurisdiction in mandamus proceedings filed by Axis Troops Take Stand In Libya CAIRO, Jan. lS-iflVThe Ger man desert army, in flight for 300 miles, took an unexpected stand Tuesday night at . the base of the Gulf of Sirte on a line running due south of El Agheila. Pursuing British vanguards made Immediate contact with this main force of the enemy remaining In North Africa, at a point which still is more than 300 miles short of Tripoli, the main axis base. Far back, near the Egyptian (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) Russ Reveal ' Capture of More Toivns MOSCOW, Jan. 14-(Wednes- day)-(P)-The Russians today an nounced recapture of Kirov in the Smolensk region and Gorokhovo, wear Mozhaisk, thus indicating the deepest westward pentratlon yet made in the red army's sustained counter-offensive against the nazi invaders. - The Bnssian eimmul que placed Kirov "in the Smolensk region," without - elaboration, bnt soviet sources identified the town as a rail Junction' 100 . miles southeast of Smolensk and ' 150 miles southwest of Moscow, : It is midway between Bryansk and Vyazma, and its location on the east-west , and -north-south railroads indicated its importance in the Russian surge back, to the west. . The communique said Gorok hovo was "near Mozhaisk but did not' indicate the distance or direction.' That region has been the scene of some of the bitterest fighting of recent days. Japs Into B DeBqi Oti MaMri Hard at Dutch the Oregon tetail Grocers' asso- ciation Accepting jurisdiction in the proceedings designed to compel Secretary off State Earl Snell to refer Oregon's new cigarette tax law to voters at the November election, the court set January 23 as date for Snell's appearance before it to Show cause why he should not certify the referen dum. I The tax commission's state ment was issued following con ference with its attorneys and almost simultaneously with those from the grocers associ ation representatives radicating action would be filed in Circuit court here shortly requesting that the commission be enjoined from collecting the tax pending the November eleection. The association contends that Snell accepted its referendum pe titions as adequate. and that At torney General I. H. Van Winkle's ruling that the association's state of contributions and expenditures was not sufficient is without any bearing on the validity of the ref erendum. The cigarette tax law. was en acted by the 1941 legislature but collection of the tax was de ferred by the state tax commis sion until last Thursday because of the referendum attack. After Van Winkle ruled that the completed referendum petitions were invalid; because of the al Ieged faulty contributors' and ex penditures' statement, collection of the tax was started. - xne tax amounts to iio oz a cent per cigarette.-Officials esti mate the tax will raise $1,200,000 the first year the law was in oper ation. Five-sixths of the tax has been earmarked for old age assistance and one-sixth for ' vocational training. Malta Warned of Raids VALLETTA, Malta, Jan. 1S- 6pV-Malta had nine air raid warn ings In the past 24 hours. Two German plaoes were shot down Tuesday. - OCCAM r East Indies FHILIFPINZ ISLANDS PACIFIC OCEAN Europe Church Actions Told Retired Y Official Reveals Conditions In Salem Addresses None of the great dictatorships of Europe denies to its people the right to worship; in none is the church a closed institution, but in all it bears a changed relationship to the state, Dr. Ethan Colton, re tired YMCA executive who re turned last year from Europe, told an audience at the Salem First Methodist church Monday night. Russia, particularly, Colton said, has interfered with opera tions of the church, denying to any religion the right to offer to persons under 18 years of age religious education outside the home and imposing upon priests who go into homes to offer in struction penitentiary sentences which it holds out as punish ment for violation of that regu lation. maun, ne characterized as a renegade from training for the priesthood, while Mussolini, reared in Catholicism, had once swung away from the church never returning to close affiliation. Hit- (Tura to Page 2, Col. 2) OPM Extends Ban on New Car Sales WASHINGTON, Jan. . 13 -(JF)-The office of production manage ment Tuesday night extended un to Feb. 2 the ban on sales of new passenger automobiles and trucks pending completion of details of the rationing program, j - The original order baited sales through Jan. 15. Officials said details of the rationing program would be ironed out within a few days . but that about two weeks would be required to get the administrative setup In op eration. - Under the ban, all sales of 1942 model cars, trucks and truck trailers are prohibited except to the army or navy and. certain government agencies. '- i Extension ' of the ban came as some 400 automobile dealers met with . the house ' committee " on small businesses to canvass their L. Clare Cargile of Texarkana, TexV president of the national automobile dealers association; re ported that government officials were working on a plan to allevi ate their difficulties, ' fi5s lbifc J Enemy Retreats Severe Losses Long Artillery Yank Losses ttglit, Reported BvMacAriku Untouched by Dive Bombers WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AP)-Weary, outnumbered and fighting with their backs to the sea, the forces of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur have nevertheless administered a jarf ring setback to the Japanese invader. American artillery "definitely superior" to that of the Japanese did the job! As reported Tuesday by the war department, 24 hours of continuous fighting had shattered and dispersed columns of enemy tanks, and armored units. Tarakan Isle Taken by Japs Small Garrison Foils Huge Invading Force By Blowing up Wells BATAVIA, Nemerlarid' East Indies, Jan. H-i-Tarakan off northeast, Borneo has fallen to a Japanese assault of overwhelm ing power, but the one prize for which the invader paid so heavily in ships : and planes and men the island's oil is still many a month out of his grasp, the Dutch announced Tuesday night Almost simultaneously with the disclosure of the NET com mand that the small Tarakan garrison had been overrun by vastly superior forces and that only; a tragic few of its men had reached , the Borneo mainland alive, it was established that the Dutch had meant business when they warned the enemy that it would be easier to come for the .island's riches than to take them away. AH oil wells and equipment (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1) To Call Bids On New Camp At Medford PORTLAND, Jan. 13--Col. Cecik Moore said today that the US army engineers' office here probably .would ask bids January 19 on construction of the entire army cantonment to be located near Medford. The date is tentative, he said, as is February 9, mentioned for opening bids. ' Details of construction includ ing the number of employes, type of buildings and precise location were withheld, i Olongapo, This Is a view of the United States naval base at Olonrapo, fa the Philippines, with part, of Sable bay showing. ' A Tokyo broadcast claimed the capture of this base on Lmson Island north of Manila . and boasted it was "capable of accommodating not only submarines, but also warships up te 12,0 futons. . N confirmation of these claims has cost from the United States navy. - - - i I nvader With After Duel r;CbrregidorIs it had scattered enemy infan try concentrations and inflicted heavy osses upon them.. It had silenced even artillery batteries probably 40 or more guns. And it had forced Japanese ar tillery units to withdraw a con siderable distance. f TOKYO, Jan. 14 (Wednes day)4(Qfficial broadcast ref corded Jby (ifU-Japanese taper! lal headquarters declared today that a Japanese submarine had. scored two torpedo hits on a United States aircraft carrier of the Lexington type in waters west of Hawaii. (The Japanese repeatedly have reported the sinking or damaging of US aircraft car riers but the claims have been put down by Washington of ficials as "fishing expeditions for information.) MacArthur's losses were de scribed as "relatively slight" Andf enemy air activity wis limited to dive bombing intended to increase the effect of Japanese cannonading. There were no en emy air attacks on Corregidor or other fixed fortifications. Thaw the day and night-long battle left MacArthur in . somewhat Improved position, still patently the master of the Batan peninsula, the rugged tongue of land between Manila bay and the .South China seal which he chose for a last des perate stand. Nevertheless, his was still a de laying battle, aimed primarily at keeping busy on the island Of Luzon enemy troops, planes and mechanized equipment which otherwise would be thrown into the battle for Singapore and the Dutch i East Indies. In the absence, of any reports that the American and Filipino fighters advanced as the Japs withdrew, it was assumed that they were holding fast to care fully selected defense positions probably selected months ago by the crafty strategist MacArthur (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) f (Mimed Captured by Japs Pan Pacts Signed At Capital Uruguay Given Aid; Conclave Opens Thursday WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (AP) The United States signed her second accord within 24 hours with a Latin nation Tuesday as the open ing of the Rio De Janeiro con ference of foreign ministers neared and Argentina ap peared to be the only one of the 21 American republics that would oppose a "solid front" rupture of diplomatic relations with axis powers. Informed diplomatic and gov ernment sources saw the timing of the two accords as an attempt to lay before Argentina, at a cru cial hour, a double example of hemispheric cooperation. Uruguay, Argentina's across-the-river neighbor, signed a lend lease agreement under which the United States will supply the South American republic with military and naval goods. It was reported that a loan of between $17,000,000 and $20,000,000 was involved. Monday night President Roo sevelt announced that Mexico and the United States had signed a mutual defense pact Secretary Hull, asked if sign ing of the two agreements had any connection with the open- lag of the sUereonferenee Thurs - day, said 'it was coincidental -rather than having special con nection. He stressed that both scree men ts were predicated on mut ual cooperation and hemispheric defense. The two agreements were an nounced as reports came from Rio De Janeiro that all American re publics, evcept Argentina, were readyrto sever, in a joint declara tion, all relations with Germany, Japan and Italy. i Argentina's reluctance to join such a declaration was regarded (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Russ, Nippon Pact Still Unchanged KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Jan. la (ff)-S. A. Lpa6vsky, Russian spokesman and vice commissar of foreign affairs, declared Tuesday that Soviet - Japanese relations were unchanged, still being based on the neutrality pact of last April. His press conference, first since war broke out in the Pacific, was attended by both Japanese and correspondents of the allied na tions. His comment on relations with Japan was in response to a Jap anese reporter's question. . He added that negotiations were under way for renewal of the Far Eastern fisheries pact with Japan which expired December 21 but they had not been concluded.