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Cutting Progress? ' SAN V FSANCXSCO. ' Jan. 22-(VTokx radio broad casts ; Batas battle report: "Our ' Undisclosed division advanced to undisclosed po sition on undisclosed river." Fighting the Battle of the Budget will be discussed by: Maxlne - Buren, " Statesman women'! editor, lit her week ly radio talk at 11 o'clock this morula over kki,m. ".-v 1 FOUNDDD 1651 NINETY-FIRST TEAR Sodom. Oregon. Friday Morning. January 23, 1942 Prlco 3d Nowsstonda 5c No. 259 Jap Mass .20$m. Mem M J : . J acAii 4 mtrattan i" . ' Nippon Capture Of New Britain Believed Soon Final Radio From Capital Says Huge Convoy Sighted Near Shore; Docks Blasted MELBOURNE, Australia, Japanese marines, in their first tory, were believed today to island 800 miles off the northern mainland after a withdraw ing garrison fired and dynamited dock installations at Rabaul, its capital. A radio flash from Rabaul at 4 p. m. yesterday (10 p. m. PST, Wednesday) said that 11 warships had been sighted 45 on the island. That was the last word from Rabaul which had undergone two, heavy Japanese air attacks dur ing the day. An Australian army bulletin issued Thursday night said: "It is considered that the tU- . tions were demolished by our forces and it is probable that the town has been evacuated. "It is not known presently - wfcetheiM fafci3ainese' forcer have attempted to land. The communique said the 11 Japanese ships were seen 30 miles off Watom . island, which is 15 miles northwest of Rabaul in St. George's channel between New Britain and New Ireland, both Australian mandates in the Bis marck archipelago. The London radio also reported that three Japanese aircraft car riers had been sighted off New Guinea, the British and Dutch mandated island lying west of New Britain on the; road to the Netherlands East Indies. For two days officials had warned that heavy Japanese air raids on both New Britain and .New Guinea were the prelude to Invasion, but Thursday night's announcement electri fied Australia. While newspapers cried out for allied air reinforcements, defense officials planned to blackout all cities on the mainland, and also began accepting enlistments from resident aliens Germans, Aus ' trians, Danes, Italians and Czechs These aliens, eager to fight the axis, flocked to join the defense militia units and recruiting serge ants smiled grimly as they wrote down such birthplaces as Berlin, Hamburg, Rome and Prague. Rabaul was the main defense point for all of New Britain, a voleanie island still not entire ly explored. Australian air un- ' Its apparently based there have been attacking Japanese inva sion bases in the Caroline is lands far to the north. The press reflected the growing alarm on this big, sparsely settled continent, both because of the New Britain developments and the situation in Malaya above Singapore. . The Melbourne Sun in a typi- ' cal editorial said: ; f "We sent troops from this country and poured equipment Into other theaters of war on the strength of assurances that Singapore guaranteed Austra lia's safety. J "Singapore, we were inform- ed by an impressive array of experts. , was impregnable. ; "Admittedly it has not fallen yet, but we are entitled to ask ' that an adequate - proportion of ' the vast resources ' commanded by our vital allies should be concentrated in protecting this vital fortress. if - ? IVe have given our best to : ward the common cause and .." now that we are In the van guard of battle we ask the al I Ides to divert to the Pacific the - men and machines, and above " : all, the air strength which alone can avert aa Asiatic (Japanese) . triumph." 5 1 Wednesday's Weather Forecasts withheld and temper ature data delayed by army re i iuest River Thursday, 2 feet : Max, Temp, weanesaay, w, 28.' if" -. ; Jan. 23 (Friday) (AP) invasion of Australian terri have landed on New Britain Japanese vessels including miles offshore bearing down Raver Offers State Power Bonneville Service To Salem InbU lu lion Proposed as Savings PORTLAND, Jan. 22 (-Bonne ville service to state buildings and institutions at Salem was pro posed Thursday by Administrator Paul J. Raver in a letter to the state board of control. He said savings would range from $19,090 to S3 1,640 annually, in answering the board's request for information on the economy of buying Columbia river power. Two plans were proposed, one providing service to the capitol buildinr, library, office build-in-, blind school, agricultural buildinr, printing department, (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Arguments on Cigarette Tax , Start Today Arguments in the state retail grocers association's suit to secure referendum of the new state cigarette tax law at the next No vember elections are to be heard at 10 o'clock this morning, the state supreme court announced Thursday. Limited to one hour, the as sociation's representatives will contend, it b understood, that the legislature has no authority to restrict the referendum by placing on the statutes a law requiring filing of expense ac counts, that the association's expense statement in its ref (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Epic Mutiny Tale Revealed When Ship Reaches US Port SEATTLE, Jan. 22 (AP) An epic story of mutiny on the high seas by a polyglot crew, determined to keep a Japanese-chartered ship from Thursday from Seattle's waterfront. The crew seized tne ship alter Japan's attack on Hawaii, steered for a friendly Pacific port and turned over the Japa nese officers to the American authorities. (Identification of either the ship or port would be a violation of naval regula tions.) i :The r dramatic tory was a u t h e n ti c a t e d by reliable 'authorities as follows: J The -vessel, loaded with 1,001 tons of coal, was 29 miles off the Japanese coast on December, t. when - the air waves crackled with accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor. r ".;' ' The '. Russian - radio - operator took the report - to his fellow countrymen aboard the ship. In stead of to the Japanese officers. The Russians Immediately eon spired with the Dutch and , Chinese among the crew of the Wear Invmion Tlieir VieicsjClash in Parley - i I Just when everything was running smoothly at the Bio de Janeiro hemispheric anti-axis conference, Argentina, through its acting president has again deadlocked negotiations. Here is shown Sumner Welles, head of the US delegation and Dr. Enrique Ruiz-Guinasu, chief of the Argentina delegation, talking the situation over after a formal dinner . Argentina Balks Again Ori Rupture JffitMAffls Acting President Castillo Fears Actual War; Remarks of Sen. Connally Are Quoted; Chile Firm on New Pact RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 22-0P-Argentina deadlocked the Pan-American conference again Thursday night with efforts to weaken still more the already revised resolution calling for an eventual diplomatic rupture with attributed these new difficulties to Argentine resentment over Senator Connally's remarks Wed nesday in Washington. Political leaders here said that Argentina apparently had swung into line Wednesday night; about the time the US senate foreign relations com mittee head declared "we are trusting that Castillo (acting president of Argentina) will change his mind, or that the Argentine people will change their president." Connally's statement had fol lowed; one by Castillo in which the acting president in Buenos Aires declared that, "right or wrong," Argentina would not mo dify her opposition to the rupture resolution. In f Buenos Aires Thursday night, , Castillo, in another pub lished; interview a method by which; he is making himself heard; over his own delegates at Rio De Janeiro declared that Argentina was "in solidarity with the American nations, but we do not agree that an attack on one of the nations of America signi (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) reaching Yokohama, came former Dutch freighter. Moving swiftly, the crew overpowered the officers and put them in the brig. Then the vessel was steered for an Amer ican port. ' Provisions were running low but 'the ship plowed forward through oft-times heavy seas for an undisclosed time. Once It was j overhauled by an Ameri can patrol, which allowed it to proceed after an Inspection of the uniformed cargo in the .orig; : Inhabitants of the port flock ed to the ship with clothing aft er learning some of the Chinese crewmen had suffered discom fort on the voyage. -; It was a clear case of mutiny, bat one for which the mutineers probably never will have to face a court. - .:';. f the axis, and some observers Box Factory Planned Here Spaulding Mill Site For New Structure To Be Built Soon Construction of a three-floor, 70 by 90 foot box factory as an addition to the former Charles K. Spaulding Logging company mill in Salem is to commence on or about February 1, E. A. Linden announced Thursday. Manager in Salem for the lumber division of the Oregon Pulp & Paper company, which recently purchased the Spauld ing properties, linden said the first two floors of the new structure would be used as a box factory, and the third floor would serve as an extension of the cabinet department of the present sash and door factory. Between 20 and 50 men will be added to the payroll of the plant, which now employs approximate ly 25 workers, it was indicated. Should the sawmill on the properties be returned to use, an other 50 men would be employed, Linden said, pointing out that dis position of the mill had not been determined. Opening of the mill, it was Intimated, probably would de pend on government orders, which it is anticipated will call for construction at the new box factory of ammunition boxes and incendiary bomb eases. The building is to face State street, standing at the northwes corner .of the present sash and door plant, approximately 80 feet from State street It is to be of heavy timber construction, cost o: which Linden declined to reveal. Two Men jCharged With 'Jaywalking Thursday : Only two persons were charged with "jaywalkhig Thursday by the dtjr police, under the new city ordinance which went Into effect Tuesday. . ; Both cited into court, they were Fred B.Clark, 215 South Winter street, and Dick Drinnon, 1340 Laurel avenue. ; Status Of 4 US Effort Reported Bureau Reveals Production to Outstrip Axis WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP) In a "report to the nation" on America's arma ment effort in the last 18 months, the office of facts and figures said Thursday hat "good strong founda lions had been laid for the greatest war program in his tory and that the United States and Britain would soon outstriD the axis in plane output iur imWoM- m th over-all review prepared at Pres- ident Roosevelt's request, "we shall have the plane capacity to increase our production to tne point where we can seize control of the air in all areas of the world struggle. The 20,000-word report listed great strides in output of ships, tanks, guns and ammunition, and placed the army's ultimate goal in enlisted strength at 7,000,000 men. (The office of facts and fig ures was .established, s e v e r a 1 months ax by the president jo supervise the Issuance 'of de fense Information releases by all government agencies. It is headed by Archibald MacLeish, librarian of congress.) The report said the navy had 346 combat ships under construe tion when Japan struck at Pearl Harbor to add to the 345 already built, that preparations were un der way to meet any axis push eastward by construction of bases in the western Pacific area, and that the army ferrying command, with $50,000,000 of lend-lease funds for servicing and delivery costs, had already delivered more than 1,000 planes purchased by the British. Here are some of the production gains and forecasts outlined in the report covering the period from the fall of France to PearV Harbor: 1. Nearly three times as many weapons and supplies of war will be produced this year as in the last 18 months. (Actual figures were withheld.) 2. Production of planes and tanks this year will equal that of Hitler in all the years before 1939 "when he was preparing to conquer the world," and "we are already on oar way to out building the world." 3. Output of tanks and other combat vehicles is now more than three times as large as a year ago; guns of all types almost five times as large. 4. Army plane production not only has been stepped up to a point where, with Britain's, it will soon exceed that of the combined axis, but the American army now has four types of combat planes (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Salem Plants Seek Navy Contracts Seeking the answer to the ques tion, "Can the navy give us some work to keep our shops busy?" representatives of the Salem Pro ductive Facilities committee are leaving today for Bremerton, Wash, to seek an interview with navy materials officers. An extensive list of materials for which the navy has use, pro- j ducts of foundry, machine shop, woodworking plant and electric shop, : was studied , by committee members 'at the chamber of com merce Thursday night. Hope was voiced that orders of a size that could be handled by Salem plants might be , obtained. . Such t orders, Lee U. Eyerly, chairman, reported, are being placed on a cost-plus-?- per cent basis. . " Eyerly, John " Waters, . engineer, and probably W. Wi Rosebraugh, foundry owner, are to make the trip to Bremerton. : Top-Citizen I W GEORGE: M. McLEOD First Junior Citizeii Named George M. McLeod, In Army, Selected by City Junior Chamber George M. McLeod, 26, one of Salem's most recent enlistees in armed service, was the city's jun ior first citizen for 1941, the jun ior chamber of commerce announ ceo- Thursday night at its annual banquet ou" attorny was not present, and the awards were given to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. McLeod. McLeod resigned more than a week ago as dean of Willam ette university college of law, to enter the army as a private and has been assigned to Hamilton Field, Calif. Gov. Charles X. Sprague pre sented the award, an engraved plaque and the US junior cham ber of commerce distinguished service key. McLeod .was graduated from Willamette and Its law school in 1937 and took graduate study at Harvard university. His mother was given a bouquet of roses, a new presentation this year. In the principal address, Philip H. Parrish, editor of the editor ial page of the Portland Oregon- ian, declared the world crisis is (Turn to Page 2. CoL 6) Chute Failure Kills Former Salem Pilot PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 22- (JP) First Lieut. James O. Reed, killed Thursday at Chanute field. 111., when he jumped from a plane and his parachute failed to open, was a Univer sity of Oregon swimming star in 1934-35-36 and a Salem hieh school graduate. He held the national colle giate individual medley record from 1935 until last year and was Pacific coast intercollegi ate 100 yard backstroke cham pion. . l Once before he had been forced to Jump from a plane. In October,: 1939. flying to a homecoming celebration at Eu gene, Ore., his fuel line clog ged and he bailed out and landed safely in rugged, heav ily timbered country east of Engene. He was the son of Mrs. Floyd L. Lewis, Raymond, Wash.; and the late Charles W. Reed of Honolulu. : Type of Boat Which Torpedoed Jap Ship t - Ihe United! States navy In New York released .this official photograph, describing it as that of the flagship of the mosquito boat fleet commanded by Lieut. John Bulkcley; made In New Tor k harbor three days before he left on his Far East assignment. In a boat like this he and a crew of eight darted inio lunanga bay m toe Philippines and sank a Japanese vessel, Bat aii ;.; - i f . ... . . , ammered By Ten Divi Heavy Fighting Develops in Jungles; Reinforcements for Enemy Landing; Cebu Bombed WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP) The Japanese, with 200,000 troops on Luzon and reinforcements still arriving, Thursday directed hammer blows at Gen. Douglas MacArthur' s army in an apparent attempt to crush it by sheer numbers. Reporting that enemy attacks were being intensified all along the narrow front on Batan peninsula, the war department said that the entire Japanese 14th army and other units had now been massed on the island of Luzon. Commanded by bulky, English-speaking Lieut. Gen. Masaharu Homrna, the force I included possibly ten divisions and auxiliary troops numbering altogether 5200,000 or more men. Only in the drive on Singapore are larger;1 enemy forces being employed, Observers believed. A raid bT 11 bombers on Ce bu, the Philippines' second city, which was reported at the same tune, suggested enemy intent to occupy tit her island areas which thus far have escaped Invasion, f , Cebu, about 150 miles south of Luzon on the island of Cebu, has been a major link, in communica tions between the unnec states and unoccupied sections of the Philippines. Whether radio facili ties there jwere damaged or put out of commission by the raid, which took place Sunday, was not disclosed by the war department. The sombre picture in the Chi na sea area was lightened some what by a: report from a high government - official that since Dec. 7 a stream of reinforcements had been started to the south west Pacific, while, meantime, defenses on Hawaii and the Unit ed States Pacific coast had been made stronger than ever before. The temporary advantage in naval strength that Japan gamed by treachery was de c 1 a r e d to have been largely offset by the mounting" produc tion and use of American long range bombers. Whether the reinforcements were ether than aerial was left unsaid. In the morning communique, the war department said partic ularly heavy fighting had devel oped along the left flank and cen ter of Geheral MacArthur's line, now believed to be about 25 miles norh of the fortress of Corregidorj Enemy reinforce ments were said to be landing both at nearby Subic bay and farther north on Lingayen gulf. Repulsed In earlier attempts to turn the right flank of the little . American-Filipino army and batter it southward along the single highway leading to Corregidor, the Japanese are making their new efforts to advance in exceptionally rug ged Jungle country. it it Beien sions British Launch Drive in Orient i Singapore Base Used l For First Strong i Counter-Off ensive SINGAPORE, Jan. 22-)-The British imperial line northwest of Singapore lunged, out Thursday in what appeared to be the first ' stron g f counter - offensive yet launched f by f the del efcdexs. and reinforcements of Hurricane fight ers went into action to shorten the ratio of the enemy's aerial superiority. , ' British, Australian and Indian troops, covered in their initial advances by heavy artillery fire, were engaged in a great and perhaps decisive struggle with the bnik of the invading forces in the rough Bukit Fayong hill area above Batu Fahat in west ern Malaya a wild battle ground 70 miles above Singa pore itself. This strong counter-thrust was intended to solidify the. western British .anchor in northern Johore state and to rescue the survivors of two Australian battalions and (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Nazi Desert Forces Are Turned Back CAIRO, Jan. 22-(P)-The Ger man desert army has been turned back after a sudden ten-milt thrust in the red mist of a furiou sandstorm, reports from the Gulf of Sirte battleground said Thurs day night This sudden lashing out by the army of General Erwin Rommal, after it had been pursued more than 300 miles across Libya, was described by the British middle east command as a "reconnais sance In force." : Three strong columns sup ported by most of the Germans' (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) . i i - ' -