PAGE TWO
Allied Fliers
Bag 21 Planes
Former US Navy Pilot
Gets Five Japs When
Rangoon Raid Foiled
(Continued from page 1)
Hon again after recovering from
a wound sustained in an air bat
tle Jan. 4, failed to return from
Friday's aperation and one RAT
' rrilot was lost The Briton was the
first to challenge the raiders and
was seen single-handedly attacK
tne 24 enemy craft. v
The day's ace was a former
nary flier, once with the U.S.
aircraft carrier Ranter, whose
home Is Pensaeola. Fla. He sent
three enemy craft crashing to
earth from the first wave of at
tackers, refueled, took off again
and shot down two In the sec
ond wave.
Then there was Jack, a mem
ber of the American volunteer
group, from Scarsdale, N.Y., who
raised his score to date to eight
by setting fife to one Japanese
plane and shooting the wing off
another. Then he ate a hearty
late luncheon. j
One RAF pilot knocked out a
Japanese fighter and himself made
a forced landing 100 yards from
the wreckage of his victim.
"What yonr Tanks and our
boys are doing today beats al
most anything In the history of
the Battle of Britain," a veter
an RAF officer commented.
"Give them better and better
planes and the Japs will get
sicker and sicker of this war."
As one participating American
flier put it: "The paddy fields east
of Rangoon looked like they had
a bonfire in each one. Those Japs
crashed far and wide
An official military commen
tator said withdrawing imperials
In the panhandle were in no sense
beaten and were not, in fact, nara
pressed.
Wake Island
Prisoners at
Shanghai Now
SHANGHAI, Jan. 2J-(Official
Japanese Broadcast Recorded by
AP) -About 1200 American war
prisoners from Wake island ar
rived here at 4 pjn. Friday, the
Domei news agency reported.
Their prison ship, escorted here
by a warship, reached Yokohama
from Wake Jan. 18, and some of
them were debarked there.
The others, including Com
mander W. S. Cunningham, will
be landed here Saturday for in
ternment
Commander Smith and some
other prisoners from the gunboat
Wake, which was captured here,
were allowed to visit the Wake
Island prisoners
One of Quints
Reported 111
TORONTO, Jan. 23-JP)-The
provincial government of Ontario
took time off from its war work
Friday and like any other anxi
ous parent called in the ' doctors
to examine one of its five wards,
. Marie Dionne of the quintuplets,
who has developed a muscular
ailment in one of her legs.
The preliminary report on Ma
rie's condition was made by Dr,
I. Joyal of North Bay, who was
called in when Oliva Dionne, fa
ther of the girls, said he feared
something was wrong. Dr. Dafoe
was out of the country at the
time.
Japs Rename
Wake Island
LONDON, Jan. 23-(P)-Reuters
news agency picked up Friday
night a Tokyo announcement that
the Japanese intended to. convert
Wake Island into "an important
naval base." I
; Wake and its two sister islands.
Peale and, Milkes, have been re
named by the Japanese "Otori,
"Hane," and "AshL" These mean
respectively, "red bird," "feather"
and "foot."
Ask Strike Mediation
PORTLAND, f Jan. 23-UPV-The
CIO Furniture Workers Union at
the Doernbecher Manufacturing
company appealed to the war la
bor board Friday to intervene in
their three-week-old strike of
1600 worker.
Legal Notice
FINAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given Out the
undersigned has filed in the Cir
cuit Court of the State of Ore
; gon, for Marion County, ; Probate
Department, her verified final ac
count as Executrix of the estate
of U W. Potter, deceased, and
. said Court has fixed Tuesday,
v January 27, 1842, at ten o'clock
A M, In the Circuit Court Room
' in the County Courthouse, at Sa
lent, in said County, for- hearin
amid final account and all objec
tions thereto. '.. :. .v..:"1 -Datsd
at Salem, Oregon, this
7ta Cay of December. 194L
- ORA E. POTTER.;
Executrix of the Estate
of L W. Potter, deceased.
. XtUttALD C GLOVER,
Attorney for Executor. ' "
Salem, Oregon. D 27-J 1-10-17-24.
Russ Pushing Beyond Mozhaisk
1 Vy VRCYA; I
I W BOROVSKV
I jjVYAZtAA m f SERPUKHOV
Red trooDS. recantou in Mozhaisk,
and Smolensk (4) were prime
Russian drives; broken arrows,
treatinr from Mozhaisk toward
hemmed In on both sides by Russian spearheads (2 and 3), aimed
at towns along the route.
High Court Hears Arguments
On Ggarette Tax Referendum
Arguments in the State Retail Grocers association's suit to
force acceptance for filing of cigarette tax-law referendum peti
tions were heard Friday morning by the state supreme court.
Representing the association,
WU Centennial
Plans Speeded
Date Bureau Slated
For Ball; Program
Of Events Revealed
(Continued from page 1)
Miss Austin, freshman from Ta-
coma. Wash., was chosen from
among five finalists. The others,
who will serve as a court, are
Pollyanna Shinkle of Salem,
Catherine Thomas of Corvallis
Shirlee Morgan of Enumclaw,
Wash and Bettie Browne of Ta
coma. All students attending the ball
at the armory are to register with
the date bureau, whether or not
they expect it to furnish them with
companions for the affair. Regis
tration will be next week, in
charge of Dorothy Tate of Sublim
ity, v
Her assistants In the living
organizations are Janet Blake of
Camas, Wash., Lausanne hall;
Eleanor Todd of Portland, Delta
Phi; Barbara Minor of Portland,
Beta Chi; Corydon Blodgett of
Salem, Sigma Tau; Art Wilson of
Portland, Alpha Psi Delta; Loren
Hicks of Salem, Kappa Gamma
Rho, and Atleen LaRaut of Rose
burg, Delta Tau Gamma.
Speakers at the inaugural cere
monies will include Wade Bettis of
Boring, Glenn Olds of Sherwood,
William Thomas of Salem and
Ralph May of Denver, Colo. Others
will be from the faculty, trustees
and alumni.
At the church service Febru
ary 1, a double quartet will sing,
comprising Carolyn Brown and
Lenore Myers of Salem, Mary
Margaret Livesay of Dallas, Jean
Kohagea of Hood River, Jim
Glasse of Albany, Mlehael
Carolan of Grants Pass and
Corydon Blodgett and Arnold
Hardmaa of Salem.
Concerts by the a cappella choir
and band are slated later in the
spring.
Chairman of the student cen
tennial committee is Bob Hamil
ton, junior, from Shelton, Wash.
Boys Treated
For Injuries
Jim Monaco, 146 Gerth street,
West Salem, and Roland Leach,
Salem route four, both 14, were
given first aid about 10:30 Friday
night for injuries suffered in an
auto accident at Liberty and Che
meketa streets.
Monaco sustained a 2H inch
cut on the forehead and other
hurts, and Leach suffered shock
and lacerations.
Girls Take Office
RICKREALL Four Rickreall
girls were installed into offices at
the Rainbow Girls installation in
Dallas Monday.
Jean Burns was installed as
worthy advisor, Charlotte Ross,
musician; Jay Van San ten, choir
leader, and Betty Winn, nature.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pence, Mrs.
John Winn; Mrs. Charley Ross
and Mureen Wells attended the
ceremony.
Teachers Get Raise
PORTLAND, Jan. 23-flVThe
business committee of the Port
land public school board approved
Friday night a 5 per cent pay in
crease for 1500 Portland teachers.
The increase, which must be
voted on by the full board, would
go into effect next Monday u
Young COP'S to Meet
The state executive board of the
Young Republican Federation of
Oregon will hold its monthly meet
ing at - the Schneider, coffee shop
at 1:30 p. m. Sunday. 1
pushed past the city and Rzhev (1)
objectives. Black arrows indicate
Russian objectives. Germans re-
Smolensk will find themselves
sponsor of the petitions which
the secretary of state refused to
accept for filing on grounds ex
pense statements which accom
panied them were insufficient, was
Alfred E. Clark, Portland attorney,
Not only were the expense stale'
ments in full compliance with the
law, Clark contended, but the law
requiring filing of such informa
tion restricts the referendum
power as no legislature has .au
thority to do.
Secretary of State Snell, whose
refusal to file the petitions was
based on advice of Attorney Gen
eral I. H. Van Winkle, was repre
sented by Rex Kimmel, assistant
to the attorney general.
King to Move
In Apartment
LONDON, Saturday; Jan. 24-
(JP)-The king and queen have
leased a fourth-floor apartment in
London s west end and will move
mto it in about a fortnight, The
Daily Mail said today.
Their decision to leave the pal
ace was prompted by a shortage
of servants and their own pref
erence for a "small intimate
home," the paper said.
Navy Reveals
Liner Arrival
NEW YORK, Jan. 23-CP)-The
third naval district Friday night
announced the arrival here of the
Grace liner Santa Paula, with
passengers after "a hazardous
voyage" in which she twice was
attacked by submarines two days
out of the west African port of
Lagos.
The navy said the vessel nar
rowly escaped collission early
Friday off the United States
coast as she and other unidenti
fied vessels "zig-zagged to avoid
submarines,' while running at
full speed, totally blacked-out
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H Halle Selassie a throne after return - i
From London comes details of a British-Ethiopian agreement pro
viding for restoration of full sovereignty to Halle Selassie and for
assistance to his reclaimed African Kingdom. It was understood tha
agreement provides tot the use of British officers as advisers for the
native Ethiopian army and for free Allied use of bases and com
munications. . Hails Selassie, whose kingdom was annexed by Italy
In 1938, returned to his native land from exue last year and aided
the British la wresting It and the rest of Italian East Africa from
, tha Itallagj, , The picture above was taken at that tune.
Tha OSSGON STATESMAN. Salem,
Nippon Takes
Three Isles
Australians Appeal
For Aerial Aid as
Invasion Feared
(Continued from Page 1)
fered two heavy Japanese air
raids.
While Australian militiamen
guarded the beaches of the main
land against this ever-nearer
threat, the government called
urgently on both London and
Washington for swift and ade
quate help, especially in planes.
In a broadcast Deputy Prime
Minister Francis Forde told the
people of this sub-continent:
"For the first time In history
Australian territory has been
attacked; for the first time in
history a foreign Invader Is
'trying to get a footing on Aus
tralian territorial sou. '
"We shall give battle to the
best of our ability wherever we
fight
"At this moment, Japan's at
tacking bases are within bomb
ing reach of Australia (prop
er). "She has achieved air
strength powerful enough to
devastate our cities and Indus
trial centers unless opposed In
the battle areas with adequate
weapons, machines and tools."
Nevertheless,, while thus pro
claiming that Australia was con
fronted with the most serious
threat in her history," Forde
pledged that with allied help "we
will clear the seas and land of the
Japanese menace."
Blackouts were imposed in all
Australian cities. A million gas
masks were ordered from Eng
land. Australia day, the national
holiday falling on Jan. 26, was
canceled.
Two Northwest
Navy Fliers
Die in Crash
NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 23-0P)-A
navy plane plunged into the At
lantic ocean early Friday near
Oregon Inlet, NC, carrying its
entire crew of eight men to death,
the fifth naval district announced
Friday niS
The plane sank immediately
after striking the water Officers
here said the cause .of the crash
was not known, and declined to
disclose any details concerning
the accident.
The public relations office at
the Norfolk naval operating base
issued list of those aboard the
plane among whom were two
northwest men:
Ensign Karl Allen Oliver,
USNR, whose mother is Adele
Allen Oliver, 116 Jefferson
street, Hoquiam, Wash.
Gabriel Marcelle Hoflack, avi
ation machinist mate, 1st class,
USN, whose mother is
Martha Mary Hoflack,
Broadway, Everett, Wash.
Mrs.
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Felton Heads
County Bar
Joseph B. Felton, Salem dis
tnci justice oi tne peace, was
elected president of the Marion
County Bar association at the
monthly lawyers' meeting Friday
in Salem. He succeeds Roy Har
land.
J. Ray Rhoten, secretary of the
association for four years, was
elected vice-president and Walter
famkin was named secretary for
line new year.
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Oregon. Saturday Morning, January 24. 1942
Water Board Plans $5 Deposit
Above Account
Probability that Salem water users may be required to main
tain a $5 deposit over and above accounts before they are granted
service at changed places of residence loomed following Friday
night', meeting of the city water
The 'standing deposit, commis-
sion members declared, appeared
the only means of protecting not
only the commission but landlords
against the financial vagaries of I
shifting population, and they in-
structed Manager C. E. Guenther I
to confer with the city attorney
ss io rewording 01 reguuuuus.
Flans for collection of sewer
rentals through water commis
sion offices as outlined In
tentatively-drawn proposed or-
Latin Nations
Approve Pact
Compromise to AllOW
Fol. Ponntrv to Art
At Own Discretion
(Continued from Page 1)
delegates Friday afternoon before
the open session,
Jose De Paula Rodrigues Alves,
secretary-general of the confer'
ence, denied reports that the ac
cord' already had been signed and
initialed.
Actually, of the 21 American
republics, all already are at war
against the axis or have severed
relations with the axis powers ex-
livia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru
At , Friday afternoon's meet-
in?, foreign minister Alberto
Guani of Uruguay announced
his country woald sever axis
relations probably Saturday,
and Brazil Is expected to take
ne same step.
aumner w uH imaersec-
retary of state who labored long
to brina Argentina and Chile in-
in th. BcrrAPmPnt AArssei the
v I
meeting in Spanish, declaring:
r
"The ideal of my life always has
been American unity. If it had
been possible, my government
would have liked something more
definite and stronger.
In our concept, the nations
which' carried war to the United
States also carried it to the other
Americas
This constitutes danger for all
of us. Our hone Is that we realize
this danger, act accordingly, and "have seen submarine cap- ' an
thus I vote in favor of the pro- tured or destroyed." The navy, it Heavy bombers and dive-bombmg
posals,'
Axis Regains
Libya Town
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KAA,XJLJ J Oil, Atf TV J A.AA UUCA-
nected force and covered bv
waves of bombers and fighters,
General Erwin Rommel's Nazi
Afrika Korps had plunged 90
miles northeastward Friday night
to reoccupy Agedabia on the low-
er western side of the hump of
Cirenaica, and some British mil
itary observers believed he had
pulled; the trigger on a full coun
ter-offensive.
Officially the thrusl by Rom
mel from his stronghold near El
Agheila, more than 400 miles in
side Libya, was described as a
"raid in force." It could be that,
since the main British forces nev-
er had advanced as far west as
Agedabia, and in this vast sea of
sand, swift and long-reaching ad-
vances no longer are surprising.
Evidence of increased axis
plane : and tank strength in Af
rica is the basis for the belief In
some quarters that Rommel is try-
ing to duplicate the counter-as-
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Party Honors
Salem Guards
Over fifty young people at
tended a party at the Salem Youth
center Friday night honorin-
rnarri. ttinn t th aimnrt
Danrin. fames, musical num.
bers and informal singing enter -
tained guests. Several piano and
accordion selections were pre
sented by Elva Riddle.
NYA girls were among
the
guests.
Two Ships Torpedoed
AN .EAST COAST CANADIAN
If -vt-r-xmvcuuuxn
two Canadian-bound freighters
rvn nt-itich onH
..
were disclosed Friday night when
rescue vessels landed 70 survivors
here. Names of the ships and places
and tunes of the sinkings were not
disclosed, but it was indicated the
sinkings were not related.
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ksu agaum proposea aDanaon-
ment tf Southern Pacific railroad
service to parts of southern Ore -
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postponed.
College Heads Meet
SPOKANE, Jan. 23-V-ReprtW
sentatives of engineering colleges
in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and
Montann met here Friday to dis
cuss methods of speeding courses
at their schools In line with the
nation, war effort. Results were
not reported.
Actor'g Mother Dies
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23-UP)Mrs.
Carrie Brown. Tracy, 67. mother of !
Actor; Spencer Tracy, died at her .
home Friday.
Upon
Moving
commission.
dlnanee were presented by
Lawrence N. Brown, city at
torney.
That the entire scale suggested
as payment to the commission
would altered should it be im-
possible to have tbi billing ma
chine now in use adjusted to pro
vide keys for the extra charge
on water-users bills was accept-
ed as fact by both toe cmnxnission
and the attorney. Bown said the
t" 7U"U""
ance until investigations as to the
machine accommodations had
been completed.
Employes of the water com
mission have accepted 100 per
cent the commission's surges
tion of defense bond purchases
T, t i rr.
der scheme, given final ap
proval at Friday's session, em
ployes have agreed to Invest no
less than 3 per cent of their
salaries In bonds, to which the
commission adds another S per
cent, eventually to go to em
ployes In savings.
The commission authorized
Guenther to buy back $3000 worth
' to-?wn,5SldV-
hiring in 1959, offered at 2.1 per
cent I
A fl a CnL
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Says Official
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-UP)-In
a statement eagea wiui gnm irony,
a navy spo.esmui uustiuseu xrt-
day night that an unspecified num-
ber of enemy submarines had been
Ucmidatl off the Atlantic coast I
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siomsis were Deing siepi secret to
deal a blow to nazi morale,
"Some of the recent visitors to
our territorial waters will never
enjoy the return portion of their
voyage," the statement said.
"Furthermore, the percentage of
one-way traffic Is increasing
while that of two-way traffic Is
satisfactorily on the decline."
Then the statement appealed to
people to keep silent even if
said, win cive out no lnionnation
about the fate of the enemv suh-
marine excursionists who don't get
home, until that information is no
longer of aid and comfort to the
enemy."
The nazis think themselves
pretty clever in the field of dsv-
I . -
cnoiogicai wanare. oecrecy sur
rounding the fate of their sub-
marines is a counter-blow the
American people can give them
which may serve to shake some of
their super-confidence
Soviet Nears
Latvia Border
MOSCOW, Jan. 23-iflJ)-Red
a
armies raging forward on the
north-central front for the great
advance vet of their miehtv of
fensive are within 120 miles of the
Latvian border in an enveloping
drive which thrMtn- th nt.v
German position east of White
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mand announced officially Fri
day night.
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rm viet fes
pounced upon the unsuspecting
Germans, killed 17,000 of the foe.
others and recaptured 200 towns
and villages in this stunning 65-
mile advance, a special communi
que said.
The spearhead of the soviet drive
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south lme rurnimg through Smol-
the main headquarters of
Adolf Hitler's central front armies.
1 Thls cut vital Rzhev-1
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Call Board
ELSINORE
Toda y O Icon and Johnson In I
"Heiizapoppu." Phi -A Date With
uit falcon," wiui George Saunders.
GRAND
a Today Walter Pidgeon, Maureen
oHara, Donald Crisp. Anna Lee In
IHow Green Was My Yalley.- "Battle
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T,J?iZr,?a Crrd. Itobfrt Taylor.
"When Ladies Meet." James Cagney
and Bette Davis In "The Bride Came
Icafitol
TodayJohnny Welamuller and Mau
reen u sum van in "Tarian'a Secret
Treasure." Grace Hayes in "Zia Boom
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I uonei iMrrymore m "Dr. Klldare'i
1 Weddinc Day" 'Jackie Cooper. Gall
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1 Today "Covered Wagon Days" with
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Nary" with Jamea Cagney and Pat
O'Brien, "Adventures f Captain
aaarvet"
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Battle 'Confused'
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the northwest probably consisted
of demolition bands to harry rear
line communications, and snipers
who hide m tnsm.
The Australians alse were
sing these guerrilla tactics, and
seme units had little ether
choice when cut off from their
wn lines.
One front dispatch told Friday
how , Ueutenant and his platoon
isolated, j; proceeded to
blow up a bridge behind advan
cing Japanese units, and then
lived off the land for days until
they regained their lines.
Nippon Starts
Terror Reign
MacArthur Reports
Invaders . Attacking
With Great Losses
(Continued from Page 1) .
eral MacArthur had received
message from Sir; Archibald Wa
veil, the allied commander-ln
chief in the far? Pacific area,
"formally congratulating him and
his command for; their magnifi
cent defense of the .Philippines.'
Meanwhile, reports from Min
danao, the largest of the south
era Philippine islands, said the
Japanese invaders there had or
ganized some 10,000 Japanese
residents of Davao into a local
n,fn ur 7 'T.
30,000 Inhabitants are Japanese.
President RaoupvI rficpl
here that the board of inm.i
appointed to Investigate the Tack
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submit its report shortly. He said
he was uncertain; whether or not
It would be made public
Dutch Blast
Eight Ships
In Macassar
BATAVIA, NEI, Jan. 23-(JP)
uic wuiui iui xnoies
air lorces caught a squadron of
Japanese warships and a train of
mvasion transports in the strait of
Macassar Frida and left them
crippled with twelve direct hits
on, eint
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Americaa-bullt aircraft m the
narrow waters which the Japanese
invaders of the Dutch Ist Indies
now are endeavoring to penetrate,
the Dutch flying fleet came back
to their, base without a single cas
ualty of their own. This was their
sxwe.announced to a special com-
munique: f -
One Urge warship pernaps a
battleship, directly bit by 100
kilogram (060 pound) bemba.
.v. One Jieavy cruiser, one light
cruiser and one Urge transport
struck by bombs of the same
caliberJ , "t-r.;
A destroyer, two Urge trans
ports and one ship dive
bombed by fighters and hit with
80-kHo (175 pound) bombs.
Fridays aerial ioray (possibly
carried Out from secret inland air
ports which the Dutch are reputed
to have established in tne jungies
of Borneo) was important in at
least deUying or weakening fur
ther landing attempts.
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