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(Carole Believed Bead in TWA Plane- Crmh Insurrection 1 The role of Salem's Com pany K in fighting down the Philippine insurrection of 1899 is told by CoL Carle Abrams on The Statesman Sunday feature pace. NINETY-FIRST TEAB oosevett M Axis Cut i v. . Asked By Pan Bloc Argentina Seen Joining Latin Nation Accord , RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 16 (AP) Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela Friday formally asked the Pan-American na tions to cut their diplomatic ties with the axis to bolster the United States' war effort, and there were indications that reluctant Argentina may swing into line. Aside from Argentina's opposi tion to any "pre-belligerent" ac tion, the other two obstacles to complete accord in the foreign ministers' conference here ap peared to have been removed. ' ' Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian for eign minister and acting chair man, announced Friday night that the Peruvian-Ecuadoran boundary dispute was "never so close to a solution as now," and the Central American and Caribbean nations agreed to forego their demand for a unanimous Pan-American dec laration of war. against Germany, Italy, and Japan. , - Ecuador's foreign minister, Ju lio Tobar Donoso, has refused to attend the sessions unless the 100 vear old boundary squabble is settled. . Argentina's acting president, -. Ramon Castillo, - energetically protested to the conference that there was a campaign to mis represent his country's foreign policy, and declared that Ar gentina Is as "faithful and loy al', as any other American na- . tlon. In a letter read to the dele' gates by Aranha, the Argentine president said his delegates were instructed to reach an agreement on hemispheric collaboration af ter fully exploring existing prob lems. , , The United States delegates, it was learned tonight, are pre senting a series of proposals to stamp out the fifth columnist threat throughout the Americas. One plan is the creation of a Pan' American anti-subversive com mittee to meet "permanently in Washington. ; These US demands apparent . ly were all that will be pre , gented to the conference which was called to determine the ' hemisphere's attitude after the Japanese attack on Pearl Har . bor. This caused, some surprise among observers, but high offi cials pointed out that the Unit- .-3d States, as the victim of ag gression, was leaving the ini tiative for the stronger mess- . ures up to her sister nations. . Obviously, the proposal that all the countries break com- . pletely with the axis had full ' US support, they said. . - Gabriel T u r b a y , Colombian ambassador to Washington, in troduced the resolution for the diplomatic ' break, on behalf of -his government, - Mexico and .Venezuela. Although the text of this res : olutlon will not .be made pub Be until Monday, it was under 'toad that it condemned the . ' axis attack on the United States as an attack on all the Americas, and pledged . the western republics' not to rees - ' tablish relations with the axis I ' ' except by unanimous action. ". ' Castillo's protests were In line with an '. interview given the Buenos Aires newspaper, El ' Mundo, in which the president said Argentine foreign policy may . not be "so spectacular as some ; may wish," but that It neverthe less is "as serious, loyal and use - ful as any in the common cause lot America." .. German Bases Bombed A town on the English south east coast, ; Jan. J lS-GD-Heavy bomb bursts In the Calais area .Friday night indicated the" RAF ! airain was pounding German in- - vasion bases along r the French coast. I Where to C Bwn Vt Jt Heavy black lines indicate boundaries of Marion county's four ration ing districts. Would-be tire purchasers should apply for ration cer tificates to members of the local board in the district where the ve hicle for which tires are sought is registered. In Salem district, mem bers of that board are John Heltzel, Dean Goodman and Mrs. William Burghardt, each of whom is receiving applications, although inspect Rural Defense Drive Forms i Co-ops to Distribute Bond Cards; County Pays $3,000,000 Agricultural cooperatives, Farm ers Unions and Grange chapters are to distribute defense savings pledge cards to rural residents of Marion county, Frederick S. Lam porti county defense savings chair man, announced Friday. Depart ment of agriculture representatives will assist , The "rural solicitation plan for this county, devised by Lam port's associate chairman, Fred Klaus, Is being adopted by the state committee. Klaus and County Agent Robert E. Rieder will direct the campaign out side of incorporated cities. Lamport said representatives of the cooperating organizations were being called to meet at the county courthouse at 10 a. m. Monday for instructions. All state department heads have been-'" invited by Secretary of State Earl Snell to meet in room 321 at the eapitol at 10 o'clock this morning to hear the payroll allotment plan of defense savings' outlined by Lamport. Paul Wallace In Hospital Paul B. Wallace, president the Willamette university board of trustees and of Valley .-Motor company, was In Salem General hospital Friday -night undergoing treatment for a heart ' attack he suffered at his place of business at '10:30 a. m. The attending physician , de scribed Mr. Wallace's condition Friday night as "serious but sat isfactory." He ' ordered that no visitors ba admitted, ITT 1 Ke Marion County if Qualified ZsiM V FOR Vl j a W0006UKN f O.rv.i. W A. Applications For Tires Lag Says Ration Chief Persons Able to Meet Requirements for Tires or Tubes Urged to Apply Quickly Before Expected Spring Rush Starts Applications for tire purchase certificates have been below the Marion county quota and tions, John Heltzel, ration board said Friday night Mocldngbird Siren Passes Salem Test The mockingbird lost its iden tification with romance and beauty for Salem folk on Friday arid be came the herald of destruction as the whistle which bears its name warbled ominous notes over a large portion of the city in what committeemen declared the most satisfactory test given any air raid warning here to date. Not from the boughs of a for est tree as the bird is accus tomed to sing, the whistle which sounded its trilling signal over the capital city between 8:15 -and 8:3s Friday was mounted at the Valley Packing plant en the north Pacific highway. L. F. LeGarie, chairman of the city's defense .committee, shortly after the ..trial of the i Specially' equipped whistle ordered similar apparatus installed in the steam ship whistle -recently purchased and installed at the paper mill. - Cost of the mocklnrbird fix ture Is said to be considerably less than that of an individual siren of the type under consid eration as auxiliary noisemakers for the city's raid-warning sys tern. It . consists of a piston so placed inside the bell of a steam whistle as to live a definitely (Turn to Page 2, Cot 7) POUNDOD 4 J651 Salem, Oregon, Saturday RATIONING .Kmhic MARION COUNTY, OREGON JANUARY .1942 -LEGEND- District Headquarters District Boundaries (wher coincident with existing road,) District Boundaries ( not on Kitinq road) ors of the area have been divided each xtoud asked to send applicants Decisions are not made by the individuals but by the board as a body. Chairman in the Woodburn district is Lyman Shorey; in Silverton, Charles H. Hoyt, and in Stayton, to-date considerably below expecta administrator for the county, Persons able to meet require ments as to use of passenger car or truck and condition of tires or ;ubes to be replaced should make application to their ration boards this coming week to insure certifi cation before the spring rush starts, Heltzel suggested. To doctors, nurses and veter inarians using their cars largely for professional services, a specified group of law enforce ment officials, truckers carrying certain types of raw and semi manufactured materials, ambu lances and fire! trucks enough serviceable tires for each wheel of the vehicle land one solid spare are permitted. Possibility that those on the privileged list have' hesitated to seek replacement of a literally wornout tire because of possession of a spare and fear that, certifi cates might not; be available was suggested Friday! with the result ing advice that such deficiencies should be filled during the ordi narily "slow" month of January. Persons planning to buy tires and believing: that they can meet requirements shouldsee their tire dealers who call -direct them 'to inspectors,' who in turn can pro vide and help in filling out appli cation blanks which then go to the rationing boards in the .four Marion county districts. : t , i l j "j i . -fj Thursday's Weather ; Forecasts withheld and tem-j perature data delayed by army, request River' Friday, 4.1 feet Max, temp.; Thursday, 38, Mia Morning, January 17, 194$ men for Tires DISTRICTS into three groups and members of to one specified board member. Harry G. Rowe. Film Star in Missing Ship Sky Liner Reported as Exploded Near Boulder Dam; Gable to Scene LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16-(JP)- A Transcontinental Western Air luxury liner carrying 18 passen gers and a crew of three was feared to have crashed and burned 30 mile southwest of Las Vegas, Nev., Friday night Aboard were Carole Lombard, actress-wife of matinee idol Clark Gable; her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Peters; Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer publicity man. Otto Winkler, 12 army pilots, and three other passengers. Gable chartered a plane to go to the scene. The TWA plane was a Doug las Sky Club. The plane, flight three from New York to Los Angeles via Albuquerque, left Las Vegas, Nev, at 7:t7 p. m. Thirty min utes later workers at the Blue Diamond mine reported they saw a flare, then heard an ex- . plosion about SO miles south west of Las Vegas. . Pilot Art Cheney of Western Air Lines later reported he saw a large fire while flying over Table mountain. TWA said the 12 pilots boarded the plane at , Albu querque. It did not list their names but said several were lieutenants. ; f There were three other pas sengers. Four additional passen gers had left the plane at Albu querque to make room for the fliers. ' " ' Capt Wayne Williams, who began flying in 1928, was pilot- in the big- ship with Morgan A. Gillette as co-pflot and Alice Gets as hostess. Their addresses were . not given. Williams re cently? was in the TWA office at Kansas City. - W. W. Baker, station manager at Boulder City, N. U led a searching' party toward the : scene.;i- -"V v-r .;... c" .- O new US Naval ries Revealed Far East Toll Of Jap Ships Totals Eight WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (AP) Five more Japanese ships three transports and two cargo vessels lay at the bottom of the far Pacific to night as the result of hammer blows delivered by the United States navy. They were sunk, a commu nique announced, by units of the US Asiatic fleet raising to at least 24 the number of enemy craft destroyed by the navy and ma rines in less than six weeks of fighting. In addition to the action by the two sea services, war department communiques from Washington and from the army in the far east have claimed definitely the sink- : . . l a. .2 uig oi eigm Japanese crait, in cluding a battleship. The Japanese invaders on Lu- ron, meanwhile intensified their attack upon General Douglas Mac Arthur's depleted defending army, strung across: the approaches to Batan peninsula. Enemy dive-bombers attacked Incessantly, ths war department announced. Shock troops with special training stormed the de fense line. Japanese artillery kept up a continuous cannon ading. The communique men tioned neither withdrawal by the American-Filipino forces nor the Japanese troops, and it was apparently too early to per ceive the trend of the battle. But General MacArthur's head quarters found time to report to the department that in occupied areas the Japanese were "sys tematically looting and devas tating the entire countryside.'' It was another indication that MacArthur is. receiving numerous reports of activities behind the enemy lines. Announcing the sinking of the Japanese ships; the navy also said that the submarine menace off the Atlantic seaboard remained unchanged. Confirming an an nouncement made yesterday by the coast guard, it said that a second allied tanker; had . been observed in a sinking condition in the Long Island area and was assumed to have been torpedoed. The vessel was identified as the Coimbra which flew the flag of an allied nation. During the day, the war de partment took occasion to deny a rumor that the bodies of 150S men slain at Pearl Harbor had been brought to the Brooklyn navy yard, and without coffins. There was ; "no truth whatso ever" in the report, the army said, adding that in no ease would such shipments be made "unless the; bodies were cared for in coffins. "The war; department accords its honored dead the honor and dignity rightfully due the de fenders of our nation, the an nouncement said. There was, of course, no hint of where the five Jap ships were sunk, other, than that the action was in "far' eastern waters." But (Turn to Page 2, Cot 1) Artist Gets 1 Criticism9 From Police PORTLAND, Jan. lMff) Charles Voohries,, Portland art museum instructor, had only a few hours jla which to enter a drawing in a contest here. . He hurried to a Willamette river bridge in the early morn ing hours; and set to work on a view of Industrial Portland. - "Sketching .factory outlines. eh?" queried a passerby, " Tep, said Voohries. - The passerby,, a civilian air raid warden, called a cop. The artist wen! his freedom only by lengthy explanations at a pre cinct station and at police head quarters. . . - - , . ? Victo Story Column Mew 3cj Nrwastands 5e Ge Promoted LT. GEN, W. S. KNUDSEN Called by FDR "the world's great est production man, Win. S. Knudsen,; f former chief of the OPM, Friday was named a lieutenant' general of the ITS army to handle all production of arms fori the army through his Immediate chief Donald Nelscn, Anzacs Smash Jap Invaders British Colonials in Malaya Deal Costly Blows Near Singapore SINGAPORE, Jan. lfr-W-Eager Australians and other fresh em pire troops dealt costly blows to the Japanese hi southern Malaya riday and the RAF struck its hardest blows ot the six weeks of the conflict as the British com mand organized a final defense for the showdown battle of Singapore. : ; Battling the invaders along a shortened line, mixed imperial forces were reported to have knocked out 14 Japanese tanA and. ten armored ears alone the west coast above the plain of Malacca. The Australians, who had moved into the lines with Jovial shouts (Turn to Page 2. Col. 5) Publisher's Funeral Set For Sunday Funeral Services are to be held in Harrisburg Sunday at 2 pjn. for W. D. Morgan of Florence, longtime Oregon newspaper pub lisher who died this week follow ing a long illness. . On several occasions employed in Salem by The Statesman, Mor gan had a number of friends and acquaintances in the mid-valley area although his publishing en terprise had largely been at Har risburg and Florence. For 17 years he was editor and publisher of the Bulletin at Harrisburg and since 1928, with his son, Leland, had published the Siuslaw Oar at Florence. : -i .' Father ? of . several children, among them Miss C Genevieve Morgan and Carroll J. Morgan, both of Salem, he is survived also by his widow. Missionaries Interned By Japs in Thailand . , SCIO Jan. 16. Mr. and Mrs. A G. Seiglej brother-in-law and sis ter of Mrst Mylo Bartu of Scio, are among 22 US missionaries in- ternea in ... inauand aner .- that country, capitulated to Japan, ae cording to word received by Mrs. Bartu from the Board of Foreign Missions; of the Presbyterian cburch of the US at New York City. The, Sefgles ; yisited. in Scio on furlough several "years ago. Their daughter, 13, returned to the states last ApriL . . & " ' X s (fit w) i . " x ' S : .'txw:-:v:wPXi:-:;':':-;'. i V v lmmimmilv- , J . . " -- -'wt4 v - v, . - - - --v - - i Five, Pago One Priorities TILLAMOOK, Jan. If (fly-Maybe it was priorities the cow John Berns, local butcher, purchased and slaughtered had a large amount of tire rubber, some buckshot and a few staples in its stomach. No. 254 Chief Of OPM Gets Armv Job Nelson Assumes War Production Post as Qiief WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (AP) President Roose- Telt handed sweeping, overall supervision of the war production program to Donald Nelson Friday, then plucked William S. Knudsen from the OPM, gave him the three stars of a lieutenant-general, and placed him in charge of expediting production for -the army. An executive order formally, establishing the war production board which the chief executive had announced Nelson would head contained no "ifs," "but" or reser vations of any kind in placing su preme production under the chair man. And, in a clinching phrase, it declared "his decisions shall be final." The effect of this was to make the OPM, of which Knudsen has been director, completely subor dinate and open to possible-general reorganization at Kelson's di rection. What Knudsen's attitude might be was a matter of wide specula tion in the capital when a second announcement came from the White House. It said the former General Mo tors chief was being given entire charge of directing and expediting the. gigantic production involved in the war department's munitions program, with special emphasis on planes, tanks, guns and am munition. Mr. Roosevelt referred to Knudsen as "one of the great production men of the world," said the country already was 'immeasurably indebted" to him. and announced that on Monday he would send to the senate his nomination to be a lieutenant general. The two actions greatly extend ed civilian control over procure ment for the armed services, with Nelson, former Sears Roebuck ex ecutive, in the top post and Knud sen a key man in the wail depart ment. It was indicated that .much of Knudsen's work would be in the field, where his production genius could best make itself felt The White House said he and his staff would "visit the great arsenals add munitions factories - with the object of helping them constantly to improve and speed up their lines of production." Knudsen will be a member of the war! production board, and. iri his war department post, will be under the general supervision of Nelson. ! The vast grant of authority to Nelson directed that all fed eral departments, establish ments, and agencies "shall com ply with the policies, plans, methods and procedures in re spect to war procurement and production as directed by the chairman.' Thus, the war and navy depart ments themselves will be subor dinate to Nelson insofar as pro curement of weapons is concerned. Furthermore, the President gave his war production chief author ity even to rule on the specifica tions of those weapons, and to control the construction and finan cing of new plants and conversion Of old ones to produce them. With the task of producing j the weapons needed'for victory i turned over to others, it was ln- dlcated that Mr, Roosevelt was i giving a greater portion of his time to working out in general the problems of where and how i. those weapons shall 1 be em ployed. - . .. v- ; '. r The chief executive i made no forenoon engagements and. . bis presi secretary, Stephen. Early, explained that the time had, been reserved for reducing ,ib: written formula the Ideas, developed in recent staff conferences , -with, British and American military- tn& naval experts. . . m era