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, !.;. Thm OEEGOII STATESMAN, Scdera, Oregon, Thursday Mornlncjv January IS, 1342 PAGE TWO ' . Nippon Using Nazi Tactics Hostages May Pay for Any Violence; Yanks - Bomb Enemy Vessels (Continued from Page 1) dlvlduxls than be snot to death. t.If the assailant er at tempted assailant , cannot , be ential persons as hostages who live in er aboat the street or - municipality where the event has happened, .n. Calais and Inflnential on to your citlsens and Tillages as soon as possible and should prevent these crimes before they happen on your own re sponsibilities. "4. The Filipino should un derstand oar real . intentions and should work torether with us to maintain public peace and order In the Philippines." The department also called at tention to a radio broadcast from Tokyo which said Japanese au j u 1-. l ii;.t.J gardless of the race or nationality of those involved, for a long list nt "arts riptrimpntal to the se curity of the Japanese armed . -M S J iorces. peace, violation of military or ders. espionage, concealment of requisitioned goods and circula tion of rumors concerning the Japanese forces. The department went on to fMtro that ttiM nruiaancc. menu were u maraea contrast to the terms of eaJolerr used in leaflets dropped by Japanese aviators" before the evacuation The two Japanese attacks on MacArthur's forces were an nounced in a communique which also disclosed that the Japs were setting up. bases on the southern islands of the Philippine Archi pelago. These, it said, were in tended for use in attacks on Ma laya and the Dutch East Indies. A third war department state ment combined with an announce ment from Bate via, Java, to era phasize the interlocking of mili tary forces in defense of the south western . Pacific! Three American bombing planes, the department said, at tacked Japanese landing forces at Tarakan. in the Borneo area, destroyed two enemy fighters, and possibly inflicted additional damage, and returned safely to their base, Dutch aircraft, said theBatavla announcement, bombed a Japanese base In the southern Philippines. The United States treasury, meantime, entered the Philippines picture with an announcement that American authorities in the islands had destroyed or removed "many millions of dollars" worth of as sets so that invading Japanese would not get their hands on the wealth. High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre, at the direct orders of President Roosevelt, started put ting this policy Into effect well before the fall or Manila. His powers extended even to the destruction of currency, and the treasury, called the move "the first application of the scorched earth policy which any nation has yet made to this class of valuables." In another announcement, the treasury said all Philippine cur rency and securities must be de posited or registered with banks in this country, and not be used without treasury permission. WU Freshman Wins Speech Competition ; Barbara Hathaway, Salem $igh school graduate and freshman at . Willamette university, won first place in after dinner speaking . Wednesday night at Linfield col lege, in a contest sponsored by r the Intercollegiate Forensic as rsociation of Oregon. - f Oregon State college won second. Others entered were ; Pacific university. Linfield, Pa . ciflc - college and Marylhurst .-. college. - '. ' Wes McWain won first for Wil - lamette in 1941, according to Dr. H. E. Rahe, iorensics coach. Miss : Hathaway! subject was "Bustle .. vs. Hustle." Soviet Draws Noose Tighter LONDON, Jan. 15-(Thursday) . (tfVContinuintf westward ad- vances by the red army, steadily " drawing tighter the noose about " the Germans in the strongly-held ; salient of Mozhaisk, 37 miles west .... of Moscow, were announced today .by the Soviet information bureau . in Moscow. ' ; Among a number of villages re ' captured Wednesday was Medyn, .i S3 miles south and slightly west of Mozhaisk,- the communique , 'gaid. . ', ' -Thus the red command quickly ccnflnaed 5 he' opinion of " in- . f ormed Russian sources bxre, who 2" vAS Tuesday's breaking," of the . " last German positional zone before f : 'I!cch&l5X -had cleared the whole cf ihr.tksk and Icy battlefield " .fcr a red army war of movement. On New Job - '! J 'v" I 7 Anell Payne (above), Salem YMCA employe for the past two years, began work Wednes day as acting boys work secre tary of the T, taking the place of Fred Smith, who was called to active navy duty. Payne, ap proved by the board and Junior board of directors, worked on the Y desk while attending Wil lamette university. For the past two summers he was en the recreational staff at Lakebreok hop ranch. Fisk Seeking Marshal Post Competitor Appears For Marion Sheriff In IIS Job Race (Continued from Page 1) ntarshalship, which he said he to seeking because Nan Wood Honeyman, former democratic congresswoman from Multno mah county, was unexpectedly appointed customs coll est or last month for the term start injr next May 1. Fisk wrote that he believed he deserved the federal marshal's job. He asserted he had had no idea that appointment of some one else as customs collector was under consideration and conse quently had net submitted his application for reappointment at the time Mrs. Honeyman was announced as the collector-elect, He termed her appointment personal" choice on the part of the president, one over which he would not argue. Prior to his appointment as collector, Fisk had served as Lane county judge. Earlier he had served for 10 years as a sheriff, fact he cited in his letters here as a qualification for the mar shal's job. Axis Hurling Air Assault In Africa CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 14-(P)-A vast axis air assault in the Medi terranean appeared to be well un der way Wednesday night as Ger man and Italian planes battered unceasingly at the British island of Malta, combed British communica tions across Libya, and attacked imperial troops attempting to en circle the nazi tank General Er win Rommel. British planes also were- in creasingly active, and the future of the battle of Libya appeared to hinge more and more on Malta's ability to stand up under repeated axis air attacks.. The small but mighty island fortress is only 60 miles from Italian Sicily on a direct line with Tripoli, main African base for feeding General Rommel's troops now drawn up on a 60-mile line between El Agheila and Marada at the gateway to Tripolitania. The Libyan battle was an acute supply problem for both sides. The British were dependent largely on sea-borne supplies from Alexan dria routed to the Libyan ports of Tobruk and Derna. So the Ger man air force bombed those ports relentlessly, presumably from bases in Crete. The RAF similarly hammered the axis ports of Tripoli from Malta, and also ships trying to dash across the narrow stretch. Maritime Board Offers Training Young men interested in sea manship and radio . telegraphy courses being offered by the United States maritime commis sion may obtain complete infor mation and application blanks at any of Oregon's 24 federal employ ment offices, Director L. C Stoll announced Wednesday. Men accepted must be be tween 18 and 22 years of age, with two years high school edacattom required fee the radio course. : Although a trainee is expected to serve at least a year after graduation, the maritime service does not require enlistment. The recently federalized employ ment offices also offer complete information concerning civil serv ice openings and defense employ ment opportunities all over, the nation. - . - " . Dairymen Name Chief ' -ASTORIA, Ore, Jan. 14 -UPy- Oscar Hagg of Tteedsvflle was re elected president of the Oregon Dairymen V association here Wed nesday. ,.-",,. . , Nelson Hints Great Change Declares Everything Else Secondary to Winning Speedily j. (Continued from Page 1) enough, if you please, to try to do things that sensible men would not try to do under or dinary circumstances. . MOur only hope lies in the spir it which refuses either to count costs or recognize obstacles but which drives furiously ahead with the fixed idea that the im portant Job jective will be reached in spite 3 of hell or high water. . "We can't waste anything. We can't let one worker or one ma chine be employed making goods for civilians unless those goods are things the country absolutely has to have in order to keep go ing. We can't use any of our basic raw materials for civilian manufacture unless the same test is met ,"We may have to require management and labor to adapt themselves to wholly new schedules and methods of op eration; we may have to upset commercial and industrial ar rangements which have endur ed for many years; we may have to trample on all sorts of privileges and prerogatives. None of that matters." Kelson said the government would rely on the great mass production industries for the bulk of the Increased armament re quired under the war program, and the problem of converting these industries to 100 per cent war production "may .and prob ably very often will call for ut terly revolutionary changes" in industrial operations. "What of it?" he demanded. "We cannot waste three months or three weeks, for that mat ter in wrangling and discussion; we cannot compromise this de mand for all-out production just because someone's toes are going to be stepped on. "Ton have read the magnifi cent story, of the marines on Wake island. Ton know what they did' with four airplanes. Suppose that during the last It months we,, the comfortable stay-at-home American people, had given that extra bit of self denial and made that extra ef fort by which those marines could have had 50 airplanes In stead of four: Don't you imagine the story today would be a Uttle different? Different? Why, those boys would probably be m Tokyo by now as con querors, ; net as prisoners of war. I "Keep that Wake island story in mind every day from now on. Use it as your measuring stick every time this nation has to make up its mind about some problem of industrial conversion, of expansion of production of raw materials, oi any ouierpnase of thi tremendous effort" . The address asserted that "no- thing on earth counts from now on but doing this job just as fast as it can possibly be done." "How it Is done does not matter in the least; by whom it is done does not matter; what it costs does not matter, he continued. "Nothing matters but doing it. We -cant do it we can't even come . close to doing it unless we make ev ery other consideration sec ondary.' In the letter to Knudsen and the other officials, Nelson defin- I ed the job as: "To make enough war ma- terial to . lick Hitler and the Japs, and to do It hi the short- estpossible time." to p o t mat. Meanwhile an exact delineation of his duties and responsibilities awaited a presidential executive order creating the new war pre- uuiuuu uuaiu. iiciauii is vj . uc j i i mri j ts chairman with explicit author xvj iu uiivx-u- lengeable decisions on all ques- tions of production, and procure- rnent a a. m dear Tuesday night in a prelim- inary announcement, which also said that the present supply pri- v""" """"iijieser oi oeaiue. aimeuc mans. would be dissolved and itsmem- bers blanketed into the new war production board. This wouldljack Walker of McMinnville, mane some oi uie must yuwenui i president; Wally Olson of Tula figures in the government subor-ljnook, first vice president; Stan- dinate to Nelson. Two Canadian Trains Crash CAHPLEAU. Ont. Jan. 14-UP) Two Canadian Pacific freight trains crashed head-on Wednes- .fli -ilJSfte UICu .a.wa WU vaac mini mu ww miles west of this northern On - tario raflwkjotown. The engineers and firemen of both and a brakeman were killed. The impact derailed both en- gines and 30 cars, hurling their nnoM over hundreds of Yards and mowing down numerous poles. Salem Pastor Named PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. , The Oregon State Holiness asso- elation reelected the Rev. W. EL Cox, Portland, president " today, The Rev.- D. L. Fenwick, Salem, was named, vice-president.'. ThisHelps,Too Among the many helpful bints sug gested for handling articles to aid in conserving rubber, is this- hint to women on how girdles should be put on properly. This model shows how the girdle should be rolled and care fully pulled over the hips, then un rolled upward into position desired. After washing, the girdle should not be dried over a radiator or in direct sunlight. : Sports Chief Ex-Senator Player to Take GemmelTs Place On Statesman Staff (Continued from Page 1) when Its franchise was bought for the Salem Senators. Lightner came to Salem and played through 1940 and much of 1941 at first and third bases and in the outfield with the Sen ators. I r i il. v. i - i I S5J55? ul e k iuucci league, me us wiivx ut- vided his time between officiating in sports contests in he Willam- ette valley and working in the Statesman circulation depart ment. State Hospital Building Is Approved t Plans for the $325,000 combin- ed medical center and treatment dormitory at the Oregon state hospital here was approved by the state board of control Wed- nesday and the board secretary was authorized to ask for bids. The proposed structure will be two and three stories high, of fire-proof construction and will have a capacity of 50 beds. Assumes Job i i e : 1 i a wnue dios were to ue solicited there was considerable doubt as to whether they would come wiuuu appropriwiwi oecause of war conditions. A"c flttU3Jwclc r r " T F 811(1 associates, Portland. t WU t ratftmltlftS r,1 ree HdCCt UlllCerS . . Officers for the spring semester were elected Wednesday night by two Willamette universitv f. temitiea. Th other nn. and three soronties choose leaders for an entire rhonl w.r i - " - I at rtnn ft a Elected by Kappa Gamma Rho are Jack Hedgcock of Seattle, president; Don Burton of Salem, Crst vice president! Bill Hobbs n atks-v .i ..t. : j i. Mark Hatfield of Salem, secre- tary: Howard Blandin of Port- hand, manager; Bob Perry of St Helens, member at lanre: Gil Uer. Aloha Psi Delta officer, are ton Nystrom of WashougaL Wash second vice president; Tom Davis of Payette, Ida, secretary; Jim Robertson of Albany, member-at-large; Sumner Gallaher of Salem, pledge master. Dan Moses of Portland is manager for the year. 1 PanpA TVl 1 fit CFCU -kTUSieeS Sue Chase Bank l Frr 1R Mllltrkn .v PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 14-( Thomas W. Delzell - and X L. Clark, independent trustees of the Portland Electric Power company, I made the Chase National Bank. naemoers oi me Doara saia uuujnow expected to go Into operation (New York, defendant in an il8,j a standard first aid course being 718,100 suit filed in federal court today.; . : The suit was based on charees of involved financial activities t the time the Central Public I Service corporation controlled the Pepco and " represented another phase in involved litigation now centering around the Portland concern, which' Is in federal court on reorganization proceedings. Tanker Sunk Off NY Coast Plane Spots Stricken Ship ; Navy Rescues 39 Crew Members (Continued from page 1) , Long Island about 120 miles from New York City, wold place it aDDroximately 110 miles due east of New York harbor. The Norness was listed in Lloyd's register of shipping as a vessel of 9577 gross tons, owned by the Tanker Corp, and sailing under Panamanian registration. Before 1939, the Norness sailed under the flag of Norway and traded between Liverpool, Trini dad and Key West, Florida. The text of the naval depart ment's statement said: "The third naval district an nounced Wednesday night that the tanker Norness from Pan ama City was torpedoed early this morning about 60 miles south of Montauk Point. "Naval craft from New Lon don, Conn., and Newport, Bl were dispatched to the rescue of the survivors. It Is known that a number of survivors have been rescued." Earlier in the day, reports from Washington said that a navy pa trol plane had spotted the strick en vessel, her decks awash and her crew bobbing up and down in lifeboats on the wintry North Atlantic The original position was given as about 60 miles south of Block Island, RL a position that would place the vessel only a few miles north of the spot the navy of ficially designated as the place of her attack. The patrol plane's alarm sent naval aircraft speedily to the rescue of survivors and pre sumably on a death hunt with depth bombs marked for the submersible. For hours after the wave-toss ed tanker crewmen first were seen, however, there remained some doubt as to the manner In which their craft was damaged the possibility that it may have been a matter of elements re maining until official announce ment was made that a torpedo had done its lethal work. Storage Plan Frovides IMew f. "O VaF JLieSerVe WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-(P) Plans for storing a reserve supply of 130,000 new automobiles in dealers' garages throughout the country were announced Wednes- rfa Kir PfIm A4min;4tr T - day by Price Administrator Leon Henderson. Automobiles shipped by manu facturers after Wednesday will go into the stockpile and probably none of the stored cars will be offered for sale even under ra- tioning for at least a year. Dealers will be allowed to add charges for storage, Insurance and other expenses approxi mately 15 a month to the price of each car when it finally is sold. Sales of new automobiles were halted January 1 pending estab - lishment of a rationing svstem. I w about February 2. All production 0f new automobiles is expected to stop after January 31 to permit conversion of the automobile in. I dustry to mass production of mili tary equipment Testifying before a house com mittee on small business during the day, Henderson hinted that there were no present plans to ra- tion used cars, although orders nuttins trie renin th-m were ready "if it becomes nece- aary.' TT RlooVli C JLJlUCillSL Lengthened WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-MV The state department Wednesday added 1800 names to its blacklist of firms and Individuals and cTen S wedLh toduTtxialistwith I JLVZ. among them was Axel Wenner- I m . ii I ."Zlr1" persons iae I ;rZT; for the benefit" of axis powers. and to whom the export of var ious goods is deemed to be detri mental to United States defense. are frozen. Wednesday's list extends tins form of economic warfare for the first time to territories outside the western hemisphere. Wenner-Gren came into th war news shortly after the out break of hostilities in 1939 when his yacht rescued some of the survivors from the torpedoed British vessel Athenia. Teachers Enroll In Aid Course SILVEKTON Teachers of the Isilverton high school enrolled in 1 tafcght here Tuesday nights. -The j decision to join this was brought about at a teachers' meeting Man 1 day, presided over by Supt H. W. I Adams.' " - 1 A special guest was Mrs. hner Boyer who has been a missionary in the Belgium Congo for 20 years. Mrs. Boyer spoke entertainingly of the education system . among the natives In the Congo. Stat at Play , ' r ' y - . s ' i, s N s V - - " i 't ' ' v-1 , v ' , .,v:.;:': w?r . Joan Crawford, Hollywood film star. goes wading in the warm water at Miami Beach, where she is on a oner vacation from the movies. Pan Conclave Program Set f nlin Natlnvia PpnnHt To Support "Charteri" Two Countries Balk (Continued from Page 1) studying with the greatest care various factors which will deter mine its attitude at the confer ence In order to determine its decisions at the opportune mo ment." i Undersecretary of State Sum ner Wells, the United States delegate, conferred with the Costa aiean foreign minister, Alberto Echardl Montelro, who afterwards talked with Tobar Donoso. On the bright side of the con troversy, it was reported that Peru now realized the necessity of an immediate settlement of the dispute. Undersecretary ; Welles confer red with several delegates during the day to canvass the situation. The Argentine foreign minis ter, Enrique Ruis Gulnasu, who announced this policy of neu trality was supported by a declaration Tuesday night by the Argentine president, Ramon S Castillo. Castillo's statement, however. nwho werrclear Iers m congress wno were cieariyi was in reply to opposition lead- putting the government under se- vere pressure to revise its straight laced policy of neutrality. Air Building May Wait (Continued from Page 1) I al obtained from United Air Lines as to the wing the air ser- vice would occupy. It would be 1 of either concrete or cement brick I construction, two stories In heicrht i 1 j j with a control tower above. The city council has pleted purchase of, all lands needed for future runways called for by Civil Aeronautics authority plans, Armstrong said. WPA crews are now at work extending the first paved runway 1000 feet, to give it a total length of 8000 feet Air service at the airport is j now handled from a pre- fabricated house fitted up for "e purpose. Indian Pupil Increase Sought , An increase Of 100 pupils the authorized enrollment cnemawa incuan school was urged upon the United States In dian service in a; resolution adopt ed by the Salem chamber of commerce board of directors i tviimici wc uvaiu I Wednesday shl. The resolution will point out that the school, now offering de fense training courses, has 100 applications more than the 450 T "Mmitted to enroll. At one time, i chamber leaders pointed out, Chemawa had 1000 pupils In res idence. l Bltlf rtHsv tnlstry cf At tae ant a!- of the Oiaaae Ouia- tvptoU cattiu-feaia anircmaui taroaU an rubbad with MtrtU pnduet mado MMtaCf to promptly rUT distraw f eolda and roreltiag ueMtid a-d eroapy Thm Qnlata ittwrn I h-ra always had cava, mm mother bm aaaond af msiar jsst aboat tae BEST predac asade when yse u Moatcrale. It's- ar tkan an rdioary aatvr Mntarcle kelps break Bp local eaafastioal TX S STRENGTHS: Ca-drra's add lfosterola. Alse Beeular aad Extra Strourtk for tw--t wfce prefer ;a straafar prodoct. All dragstores. Dutch Troops Wallop Japs Gen. Travel! Arrives In Indies; British Retreat in Malaya ' (Continued from page I) Wavell's headquarters will be somewhere In the Indies. His sec ond in command, Lieut. ' Gen. George H. Brett former chief of the United States army air corps, also has arrived. ; i M . u j -.AS 4ka Car. awak-Borneo frontier was or pre- limlnarr Mture.land to the tnWdttWUrXtZH tial fight the Dutch command re ported that 18 Japanese were killed to the loss of a single de fender Sarawak! the British-protected area, was overrun some time ago by the invader. . SINGAPORE Jan. U-tfV Imperial troops established a shorter , Malayan defense line northwest of this Island fort ress Wednesday night and au thorities disclosed that only one remaining federated state, neighboring Johore, remained under effective' British control. The new British line was form-' ed m a drenching rain storm. Presumably it was in lower Negri Sembilan state and the adjoin ing straits settlement of Malaca. Both these states border on Jo hore. Two days ago the British troops ' t m -1 -1 A. 11 V..a Seremban, the. capital of Negri Sembilan, 150 miles from Singa pore, but again they withdrew I southward before superior Jap- RANGOON, Burma, Jan. 14 ()-Both air a n d land rein forcements the first to reach the British Far East In more than a month of war with Ja panhave arrived in all-Important Burma. More are on the war. An official announcement said Wednesday that these Included anti-aircraft batteries for Ran - goon and other key points and additional ground crews for air units landed at Burmese air fields, some of which are hidden in the jungle close to Thailand, springboard for Japan's drive on Singapore. I (The wording of this dispatch may indicate that aircraft and aviation personnel apart from those making up the ground crews have arrived. The British have announced they do not in tend to disclose movements of aircraft and this might apply likewise to fliers). Approve New Quarters Public welfare commissioners of Marion county held their first meetin to tt commission's new . ... . . , "iU iUf" V ; I "uujr uu their approval of accommodations there and the arrangement of of fices housing the 27 commission I employes, Mrs. L. R; Clark, chair man, said. PAY BY in I at IT'S FASTER, SAFER AND MORE DIGNIFIED Truly, thereat notlung more precious than Time. Saye it whenever you can. One of the world great time-savers It a checking account. Paying by check is simple, convenient, safe and dig. nified. It gives yott a record of every expenditure. It's more business-like than paying by cash . . . and eliminates the risk. And the low-cost check fag service thatV nationally famous from Coast to Coast it the ChtckMaiter Plan. Sdca Enmch Firsi Ilaiicnd Bcalx d Periled Member Federal Deposit ' Insnrance Cerperation :- This Man Ha?. Right Idea MARKED TREE, Kas- Jn -14-)-Add paper conservation Ideas: When H. J. Krier receives a mailed advertisement including a postcard for a reply, he re turns It with this message; This advertisement Is nse less to me. Please conserve po per by taking me off yew maDIng list." . ) Raid Sirens r, j rri - LeGarie Says He Witt Ask Installation of Ten Throughout City (Continued from page 1) about 75 per cent as efficient as the other, and costs about one-half as much. . - The siren Weighs about 90 pounds and costs, with controls but not installed, $?40. A syste matic survey of Salem, to de termine best locations, is to be made by the committee, compris ing Frank Waters, W. M. Hamil ton and Harry V. Collins. They will probably be available for use within two Weeks. . A ockingbird,.type of whis tle is being developed here, but could : only supplement other I "" Ma ! T?'l jyiOrSe I1 lleS l?wL Z William B. Morse, Prineville, Wednesday filed his declaration for renomination for the office of representative in the state legis lature from the 26th district, Crook and Jefferson counties. Morse is a republican and is now serving his first terms In the leg- 1 islature. 3 Sale of t Mernoon t Frocks Nobbed or spun rayon that will wash. Better looking' and priced as low as cotton. Only ILE(IDM' Beautiful Shoes 234 N. Liberty TOO a 4 aJ CHECK! NO UINIMUU CALAKCE EVER ft! CSECX IIAV9 STAXTT&st Accetarf ITIABCresiTCr tat . AK8tarr.cvr4 At IITTLI At $1 Cbxttoesi rct R 72f?e-t wi n &m case -1, 4