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Forecasts withheld and
temperature data delryed
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, January 15, 1942
Prlct 3cj Nowtstandj 5e
No. 252
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Nels
on
Serves
Notice
OPM Czar Says
- No Skakeup
Too Great
WASHINGTON, Jan. li(JP)
Donald M. Nelson served notice
Wednesday night that "utterly
revolutionary changes" in in
dustrial . operations may be
necessary to win the war and
made it clear that as the na-
tion's war-time production czar
he would unhesitatingly order
any necessary shake-up.
He urged all government
agencies to "carry on with the
utmost devotion and energy" in
letters to William S. Knudsen,
:OPM director, and the undersec
retaries of war and navy, and he
bespoke "the spirit which refuses
.either to count costs or recognize
obstacles" in an address to the
country at large.
The speech, warning bluntly
that civilian economy would have
to give way to war requirements,
was written p r 1 o r to President
Roosevelt's aannouncement that
he would create a war production
board with Nelson as chairman
and was to haVe been delivered in
person In Vincennes, Ind., Wed
nesday. Pressure of business here pre
vented Nelson from leaving, how
ever, ' and arrangements were
made for the speech to be read by
Bernard Gimbel of New York.
We cannot afford today to
direct ear war effort by the
ordinary, peacetime 'sensible'
standards," the address declar
ed. "We need to be cracked
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Raid Sirens
Stand Test
LeGarie Says He Will
Aak Installation of
Ten Througtiont City
Air, raid sirens tested Wednes
day may be Salem's official warn
ing device, after a long and thor
ough search for something suit
able. Alderman L. F. LeGarie,
city defense committee chairman,
stated.
A resolution to provide funds
to boy ten of the two-horsepower
sirens will .probably be
Introduced to the city council
Monday night, LeGarie said.
The alarm committee's approv
al was stated by the alderman
as I don't think we can do any
better." Cost Including Instal
lation Is expected to be about
$3500.
The signals will, if okehed, be
placed toward the edges of the
! city, to operate on electric power
s at the touch of a button at some
central place. They would sup
plement sirens and whistles now
available, which run through the
center of Salem from east to
west. '
The small siren was tried
Wednesday afternoon from atop
the Kelnholdt and Lewis build
- Ing at j South Commercial and
Iloyt streets. A 7H horsepower
horizontal siren was also test
ed. The smaller,' vertical, was
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Scripps Sell
Seattle Star
SEATTLE, Jan. 14-0!P-Sale of
the Seattle Star by Edward W.
and James G. Scripps for an un
disclosed sum was announced here
Wednesday. The paper has been
In the Scripps family since a year
after Its founding in 1899.
The Post-Intelligencer said the
v. sale price was approximately
1200,000. "considerably less than
its one-time average annual
earnings." x
The new publisher Is Howard
W. Parish, who once before served
in the same capacity and more
. recently, has been engaged in the
Publishing business in Reading,
- ra, said-Jacksonville, Ha.
Picked Wrong Customer
NEW YORK, Jan. If Two
negro brothers appeared in the
, police lineup Wednesday. One
was charged with stealing $815
worth of camera equipment from
the FBI, and the other with try
' ing to sell part of it to two de-
tectives.
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editor. Kennell-Ellis photo.'
Sports Chief
Assumes Job
Ex-Senator Player to
Take Gemmell's Plice
On Statesman Staff
Al Lightner, popular former
Coast and Western International
league baseball player, is making
his debut today' as sports editor
of The Statesman. He succeeds
Ron Gemmell, who is now in
federal government service in
Washington, DC.
The new chief of the color
ful Statesman sports paces as
sumes his new post with a
background of profession
al Journalism training and of
wide sports experience not only
as a professional baseball play
er but also as a football player
and a qualified football, bas
ketball and basebaU offtctaL ;
Lightner was an honor student
in Journalism and literature dur
ing his two years as a student
at Compton J u n i o r college,
Compton, Calif. He turned down
scholarships at Santa Barbara
State college and University of
Southern California to foin the
Hollywood baseball club in the
Pacific Coast league in 1938.
After playing first base with
the Hollywood team, Lightner
was farmed out to the Belling
hara club In the Western Inter
national circuit in mid-1938
where he played and manared
the Washington team until 1940
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Capital City
Plans Polio
Benefits
1 Celebration of the president's
60th birthday In Salem will be
marked this year by a dance at
Crystal Gardens on January 28,
according- to plans made on
Wednesday afternoon by mem
bers of the local chapter of the
National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis. Dr. V. E. Doug
las, chairman, presided.
! Again the Salem Trades and
Labor council will sponsor the
President's ball. Members of
the council in charge are C. W.
Crary and William En tress, also
members of the infantile pa
ralysis committee.
' In view of raising funds- for
the fight against Infantile pa
ralysis the committee will place
"wishing well" containers in
public places, so that pennies
and dimes may be given to
ward the cause.
: Members of the Marion coun
ty committee are: Mrs. David
Wright, Mayor W. W. Chad
wick, Rovena Eyre Maxine
Buren, Dr. Hugh A. Dowd,
William Gahlsdorf, William En
tress, C W. Crary, Oscar Olson,
O. L Poulson, Verne Gilmore,
Frank Bennett, Gene Tande
neynde, Mrs. George Moorhead,
lean Sevlllier and Dr. Douglas.
Defense Bond
Campaign
Nearly 100 workers reported
kickoff meeting of "General'
pledge campaign which is to
a majority of them the precinct
and republican part cyommittees,
were asked by.Felton to recruit
one solicitor for each city block.
j The duty will be to ask each
income earner in their block to
sign a pledge card stating his in
tentions of purchasing i the
amounts of defense savings bonds
or stamps he may specify. !
The bond drive has a definite
and important part in the nation's
VfiFlane
Repp
rts
Sea Raid
Navy Rescues 39
Of Crew; Attack
Closest to US
NEW YORK, Jan. 15-(JP)
The third naval district an
nounced tonight that the Pan
amanian tanker Norness was
torpedoed by a submarine early
Wednesday 60 miles south of
Montauk Point, Long Island
the closest approach yet made
to America's eal t coast by
enemy warcraft since the Unit
ed States entered the war. TSarly
Thursday it was reported 41 men
were aboard and 39 were rescued.
The terse navy announcement
said that naval craft had been
sent to the rescue from New Lon
don, Conn., and Newport, RI, and
that a number of survivors was
known to have been picked up.
Fourteen survivors were landed
by a naval craft Wednesday night
at the Newport, RI, island tor
pedo station. No one was allowed
to talk with them at the closely
guarded plant.
It was believed, however, that
none of those arriving here was
seriously injured, for the station
hasn't medical facilities to treat
serious cases, which are taken to
the naval hospital on the main
land. The - announcement did not
. identify the nationality of the
. submerged attacker, nor did It
say whether the damaged tank
. er, enroute from Panama, City,
Panama, had gone to the bot
tom.
The position of the oil carrier,
60 miles south of RJontauk Point,
which is at the eastern tip of
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Air Building
May Wait
Port Administration
Structure's Fate
In Army Hands
Construction of a permanent ad
ministration building at the Sa
lem airport may be delayed for
national defense reasons, Chair
man Tom Armstrong of the city
council airport committee, dis
closed Wednesday.
"The committee feels that
the question of whether we
proceed with construction or
not rests on the approval of the
army as to. its need and
the way it would fit into other
uses of the airport," Armstrong
explained.
Letters are now in the mails
inquiring of army engineers re
garding the building and asking
if it is believed construction ma
terials could be obtained.
Armstrong said plans for the
building, estimated to cost be
tween $20X00 and $20,000, had
been completed by Lyle J Bar'
tholomew, architect, and approv-
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Fairgrounds
Fire Minor
Flooring around a cookstove in
the 4H dormitory at the state fair
grounds was burned through
Wednesday night, resulting in
call for several fire trucks. The
fire was believed to have smold
ered through the day after national
guardsmen had moved out In the
morning.
A small blaze was first noticed
by the fairgrounds caretaker about
9:30 p. m.
Savings Pledge
Workers MeeHere
in Wednesday afternoon at the
Joseph B. FelWs defense savings
open next Tuesday. The, workers,
captains selected from democratic
defense program, J, A. Jonason,
professor of history at Linfield
college, McMinnville, t o 1 d the
workers.
County Chairman Frederick S,
Lamport explained the aims of the
pledge drive, for which the start
ing signal is to be a national radio
broadcast next Monday night.
AUied Chief
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A batman (English soldier servant)
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with his parachute as he started his flight to his new headquarters
In Java. The generalissimo of the united nations In the far east is
to consult with US Admiral Hart on how to stop the Jap drive In
the Islands war zone.
Postmaster
Tax Stamps
Crawford Says $2.09 Stickers May not
Reach Salem for Several Days; Penalty
Revealed if not Displayed February 1
Dqn't rush to the Salem postoffice today to buy your federal
auto tax stamp, Mr. Motorist:
The trip, Postmaster H. R.
night, will be a wasted effort, because the postoffice here has not
as yet received any of the stamps.
"It may be several days before
we get our supply, because we are
way out here on the coast," the
postmaster explained.
The first auto stamps, for the
five months ending June 30, will
cost $2.09. Next year's, you buy
them July 1, for a full year, will
cost $3.
WASHINGTON, Jan. U-JP)
The treasury Wednesday consid
ered postponing the sale of auto
mobile use tax stamps but finally
decided to start the sale Thurs
day as scheduled.
The stamps win be on sale at
postofflces and federal revenue
offices but shipping- delays may
prevent some of these offices
from having a supply Thurs
day. One of the final obstacles was
the fact that a score of states
prohibited windshield stickers on
automobiles. The treasury sought
special permits for affixing the
federal stamps and these arrange
ments were virtually completed
Wednesday night
The treasury asked motorists
to glue the stamps to the Inside
of windshields,! face to the glass.
Because the first of the stamps
were printed before arrange
ments were made with states
prohibiting stickers on wind
shields, the glue was put on the
back instead of the front.
The motorist will just have to
clue the stamps on himself," a
0 ff -
treasury spokesman said.
The penalty for not displaying
the stamp is a $25 fine.
Knox Claims
Disseniion
Propaganda
WASHINGTON, , Jan.
Secretary of the Navy Knox ac
cused Germany Wednesday of in
venting reports of dissension, dis
ease and demoralization In the
Reich to lull Americans into
sense of security and slow down
war production.
Knox described the recent re
ports of disaffection as, the prod
uct of the nan propaganda agen
cies and asserted that Germany
still maintained the world's great
est war machine. ? i
- Knox acknowledged some Ger
man withdrawals in Russia were
"hasty" ;: but cautioned, against
describing them as a rout I
wculd be "as silly an assumption
as we could make, he contended
to judge that the German army
was panic-stricken or about to
fall apart because it had retired
from some positions it had for
merly occupied in Russia.
Flies to Post
I
helps General Sir Archibald Wavell
Warns Auto
Unavailable
Crawford warned Wednesday
Fisk Seeking
Marshal Post
Competitor Appears
For Marion Sheriff
In US Job Race
Sheriff A. C. Burk of Marion
county has a new competitor in
his quietly-waged campaign for
the appointment as United States
marshal for Oregon, . position
which Jack Summerville, two-
ermer, may have to relinquish
this year, it was disclosed in Sa
lem Wednesday by letters re
ceived from Fred Fisk, US col
lector of customs, Portland.
Writing on his official sta
tionery, Fisk has asked demo--cratie
party friends here for
pledges In his favor for the
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Song Writer
Found Dead
NEW YORK, Jan. 14-y?3)-Song
Writer Fred Fisher, 65, who
wrote many of the nation's big
gest hits and composed gay lyrics
through years of ill health, was
found dead Wednesday, his body
hanging in the bedroom of bis
penthouse apartment.
His greatest success as a lyric
writer was "Dardenella, which
sold 6,500,000 phonograph records
and set an all-time high for sales
of popular music, the American
Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers declared. Fisher,
one of the earliest members of
the society, was one of the few
qualified for membership in all
three branches writing words,
composing music and publishing.
WU Sets
The west's oldest university,
Willamette in Salem, will begin
celebrating its 100th anniversary
on the official day, February 1,
Dean Daniel H. Schulze, general
chairman, announced Wednesday.'
Annual and special events honor
ing the - centennial are planned
throughout the' spring. - r
' Only program which has bees
postponed is the Founders' ban
quet, which was scheduled for
January XL
Willamette Sunday, exactly 100
years alter Oregon pioneers es
tablished the school, is to begin
the observance, with a day of re
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On
PMliBBine
After Attacks
Dutch Troops,
Planes
Gen. Wavell Arrives
: In Indies; British
Retreat In Malaya
BATAVIA, Netherlands East
Indies, Jan. 14-iP)-Dutch
troops successfully engaged the
Japanese invader Wednesday in
a skirmish on the wild and
mountainous frontier of Sara
wak and Dutch Borneo, and al
lied warplanes beat strongly at
the enemy from the waters of
the Celebes sea nortnward to
the lower Philippine.
On the already smashed and
blackened waterfront area of Tar
akan off northeast Borneo the
Japanese occupied oil-producing
island to which the Dutch had ap
plied the torch and hammer be-
uore yielding it to the enemy
Dutch bombers descended in force
and squarely hit at least one Jap
anese ship.
Other Dutch airmen ranged far
to the north to the southern Phil
ippine islands, the Japanese base
for , the . Indies; invasion, and
bombed runways of a Japanese air
field and scored three direct hits
on barracks.
This Jump in the tempo of
the allied counter aerial offen
sive, which was ineffectively
answered by unsuccessful Jap
anene attacks on the oU port of
Balik Papan, in East Borneo,
and the Rhio archipelago near
Singapore, coincided with an
nouncement of the arrival In
these islands of the allied com
mander in chief of the South
west Pacific British Gen. Sir
Archibald P. Wavell. (See pic
ture columns 4 and 5).
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Honolulu Has
Year's First
Raid: Alarm
HONOLULU, Jan. 14-P)-The
army, navy and civilians on Oahu
island proved themselves ready
for the enemy Wednesday when
a 16-minute air raid alarm began
at 11:42 a. m. (2:12 p. m., PST).
The entire island sprang into
action as the sirens wailed and
army fighter planes climbed steep
ly into the skies and streaked out
to sea.
Civilians in the streets said they
saw no enemy planes but an army
statement said "every air raid
alarm is the real McCoy. Unidenti
fied 'instruments of warfare were
detected. Until they are identified
they are reaL"
Wednesday's alarm was the first
of the new year for Oahu island.
on which pearl Harbor, scene of
Japan's surprise attack against
United States warships Decem
ber 7, is located.
Red Cross Coal Hit
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 14--
Portland reached its $220,000 goal
in the Red Cross war fund cam
paign Wednesday, Arnold W.
Groth, chairman, reported.:
Date For
ligious emphasis recalling the
founding i by the church.
Bishop Bruce B, Baxter, WU
president until last June, and Dr.
Carl S. Knopf, now president, will
speak at First Metthodist church
at 11 a. mpn the past and future
of the university.. Dr. J. C Harri
son, pastor; will presidef district
superintendents of Oregon will be
present At the same time, Wil
lamette services .wfll be held in
other churches over the state. Dr.
J. Edgar Purdy is chairman..
' The student a eappella choir,
directed by Dean Melvin H.
Grist, will present til first full
public concert Sunday, nights
Wallop Jap
Use? Nazi
US Asiatic
Fleet Safe
Says Navy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-()
Admiral Thomas C Hart has
succeeded in bringing the en
tire Asiatic fleet, with its war
ship s; intact, to comparatively
secure waters from which to
wage his fight against the Jap
anese, it was ascertained Wed
nesday nlghtr
The navy's sole comment has
been the laconic communique,
Issued immediately after the
fan of BfanUa, that "all ships
and naval personnel were re
moved from the Manila-Cavite
area prior to enemy occupa
tion,'' along with all records,
equipment and stores, and that
industrial facilities were de
stroyed. Not only was the whole com
bat force cruisers, destroyers
and submarines removed from
the untenable base at Cavite.
but also the "fleet train, the
"train; was the slaw-moving
collection of supply ships, tan
kers, earge vessels, tags, tend
ers, repair ships and other aux
iliaries essential to the fleet
Pari Conclave
'rogram set
Latin Nations Prepare ;
To Support "Charter;"
Two Countries Balk
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 14-UP)
Sixteen or more of the 21 Ameri
can republics plan to introduce
jointly to the Pan-American
anti-axis conference a resolution
supporting the Roosevelt-Churchill
"Atlantic charter." it was
learned Wednesday night.
On the eve of the meeting'
called to! form a united western
hemisphere front against the axis
powers, the two major obstacles
to unanimous and effective action
were these:
Ecuador's Insistence on ob
taining settlement of her 110-year-old
boundary dispute with
Pern before doing anything
else; and:
Argentina's announced refus
al to enter into any military al
liance or "acts of pre-belllger-ency."
;f
The Peru-Ecuador controversy
was reported authoritatively to
have been injected into pre-con-
ference maneuverings by Ecua
dor's foreign minister, Julio Tobar
Donoso, who was said to have de
clared he would not take part in
the settlement unless a basis of
settlement is reached with Peru.
Questioned concerning the re
port, Tobar Donoso said "the"
Ecuadorian delegation is now
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OMAHA. Jan. 14-ACharles
McDonald. S4, went : coasting
with his 4-year-old son, refus
ing to let the lad go alone be
cause "something might hap
pen." I
Municipal Jadge Perry
Wheeler fined McDonald fl
Wednesday for coasting fat the
street
Centennial
A symbolic Inaugural of Pres.
Knopf, who will make no keynote!
address as in former! years, is
slated for Monday morning fat the
chapel of Waller hall. Speakers
include f bur students, Gov. Charles
A. Sprague and Justice James T.
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A centennial ball, In charge of
a student committee, is dated for
Valentino's day, February 14. Fear
ture, according to Chairman Bob
Hamilton, will be the Centennial
girl, chosen from the student body
v Mary Margaret ; Ltvesay of
Dallas and. Don Burton of Sa
lem have been named to arrange
music for various events. .
Something
DidiHappen
Tkctics
Citizeris
Mepiilsed
Death Penalty '
Threatened if
Soldiers Hurt
Hostages May Pay for
Any Violence; Yanks
Bomb Enemy Vessels
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-(P)
The same harsh, ruthless prac
tices made familiar by nazi
forces in France, have been ap
plied, the war department re
ported Wednesday night, by the
Japanese in Manila 'and. other
invaded sections of the Philip
pines. Residents of the islands have
been warned that anyone who in
jures or attempts to injure a Japa
nese soldier or civilian' will be in
stantly shot If he can not be
found, ten hostages wfll be taken
into custody. The death penalty
has also been established for a
long list of actions including dis
turbing the "peace.
The department announced this
development in its second com
munique of the day, after telling;
In the first, of two Japanese at
tempts to crack the MacArthur
line on Batan peninsula. Ameri
can and Filipino troops - repulsed
both with heavy losses to the
enemy and relatively small cas
ualties to themselves.
The two stab-like thrusts,
supported by aircraft and artil
lery fire, were apparently in
tended to seek out weak spots
In the defense line, following
a previous Japanese defeat in
a full-scale assault by artillery.
Word of the enemy . tactics in
Manila had been communicated
in part to the department by
MacArthur. They were contain
ed, he said, in a proclamation
signed by the commanding gen
eral of the Japanese army of oc
cupation and published in Ma
nila newspapers. It said:
"WARNING.
"1. Anyone who Inflicts or
attempts to inflict an injury
noon Japanese scoldlers or In
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LaGuardia to
Resign From
One Post
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -iffh
Chunky little Fiorello La Guardia,
target of congressional critics be
cause of his dual role as New
York mayor and administrator of
civilian defense, said Wednesday
he would choose soon between
the two jobs.
While offering no definite in
dication of his ultimate choice, he
told a congressional committee
he would remain in the defense
post until congress passed two
pending : measures to provide
funds for defense equipment and
compensation for those injured
in civilian defense work.
A few hours later a conference
committee recommended a com
promise between house and sen
ate differences. It .would leave
control of the purse strings in,
La Guardia's hands, but would
limit total authorized expendi
tures to $100,000,000.
Prdgra
Release date is not yet known
for three books written zor me ,
celebration by Dr. James T. Mat
thews, professor of mathematics;
Dr. Carl G. Doney, former presi
dent," end Dr. Robert M. Gatke,
professor of history. '
A pamphlet to be issued by the
university in connection with the
centennial win be published! soon.
Centennial will be the theme "of
Freshman Glee, the March festival
of song; Citizenship institute for
high school student; May Week
end, and I commencement The
Founders', banquet la expected to
be scheduled at the latter. time.
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