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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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. . . - - , . ?
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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
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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 . .
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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. . .
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