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fl r o o ice TCP roa1li(D)iiii No Dope! " Portland, Febl 8-(ff)-The groundhog came eat ; Mon day en schedule, cocked his weather eyes skyward, but didn't ur a wordMilitary censorship. NlNETY-rmST YEAH Entire US Pciciffic -Fleet Sea Chief TellsRala On Bases" Recent Events Prove Activity Says Nimitz HONOLULU, Feb.. 2 (AP) Every ship and every man of the United States Pa cific fleet, afloat and ashore, Is now being: utilized to the fullest extent to bring the war to the enemy's , front door, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said Monday. The fleet's spectacular as sault on Japanese concentrations - in the Gilbert and Marshall is lands Sunday, the commander- in-chief of the Pacific fleet com mented, was in accordance with the. characteristic United States navy tradition seek out the enemy and destroy him. "The question 'where's the fleet?' was answered partly by the splendid achievements of our ships and planes' in attacks on enemy concentrations in the Mar shall and Gilbert islands," Ad - miral Nimitz said in a statement "A month ago when I as sumed command of the Pacific fleet," Admiral Nlmits said, "I said that I had undertaken a (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Just Average In January i Willamette valley residents will probably remember 1942 for many years to come as the year of the big "silver thaw." Bat outside of the tremendous lee storm which downed tele phone : poles, electric lines, and trees, and wrecked havoc ' wherever It struck, January was not an unusual month, ac- cording to weather reports. Maximum temperature was . 67 decrees on January 25 and minimum was 17 on the 5th, average temperatures for the month of January, according to official weather observers. (- Total 1 rainfall for the month was 4.79 Inches, only three quarters of an inch above the inches. Heaviest rainfall day f the month was the 26th, when .89 inches felL Lightest days were January 2, 3, 13, 17, 28, and 29 when only a trace of rain fell. WU President is Formally r i ' f r. JXlgh officials of state and church participated Monday In the formal inauguration of Dr. Carl S. Knopf as t president of Willamette university. Soma of the members of the i academic procession who paused before the campus library for the above picture were (left to right) Gov. Charles A. Sprague - and Justice James T. Brand, both official visitors to the university, Pres. Knopf, Eishop Bruce K. Caxter, former president and bow head of the Methodist church la the Portland area, and Tinkham Gilbert, secretary of the board ir ill ha z i r in i-'s fiu ii 11 ii i Censored if - ' " ".::.:.':.'. l o i Amy ' H II? J Alderman Ford Resigns Post Howard Maple Succeeds New Federal Worker; Bus License Tabled (See Pictures, Page Two) Surprise resignation of Alder man Bert Ford and rapid elec tion of Howard Maple to the post as alderman of ward seven cli maxed Monday night's meeting of the Salem city council. aa 4 - Ford, leaving the city to accept a government appointment he is not free to divulge, tendered his resignation in person at the close of a session which had run with almost clocklike smoothness through an average three-weeks' accumulation of business. Nomination of Maple by James Clark, second alderman from the seventh ward and him self a council appointee, follow ed expressions of regret for the loss of Ford from other coun cilman. An attempt to leave nominations open for two weeks, put to a vote, was tied five-to-five until Mayor Chad wick insisted all councilmen present must vote, and the mo tion lost by one response. Maple, business manager of the Salem Senators ball club, Willa mette university basketball coach and assistant football coach, is the third member of the current council appointed by that body to replace resigning aldermen. Absence Monday night of Al derman George L. Belt, who it was understood, had spent 4he day in Portland arranging to join an (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) - Mr""" ox trustees. laesDca-ia pneio.j. Salem, Food stuff Prices At ark Officials Agree On Stabilization Of Living Costs WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (AP) Secretary of Agricul ture Claude Wick ard and Price Administrator Leon Henderson declared Monday night they were in "complete agreement" on food and farm product prices, and would take "effective, positive steps to stabilize the cost of liv ing." In a joint statement, the two officials said also that supplies of most staple foods were at record or at near-record levels, and "there is no occasion for hoarding of food." The price control bill gave the agriculture secretary a veto pow er over price ceilings on farm products. Farm-minded legisla tors wrote in this provision in be lief Wickard would favor higher farm prices than 'would hender son, who was formally nominated Monday to be price administrator. However, Wickard told mem bers of , the senate agriculture committee Saturday that he In tended to keep farm prices "around parity," rather than let them rise to the higher levels permuted In the price control MIL That testimony was receiv ed sourly by a number of com mitteemen. The Wickard-Henderson state ment pledged the office of price administration and the depart ment of agriculture to pool their resources and spare no effort to prevent inflation. On the point of how this could be done, they said: "First of all, we must have abundant production, and the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Fires Follow Quisling Rise LONDON, Feb. 2HP)-The Oslo radio reported tonight that fires broke out at both the city's east and west railroad staions a few hours after the induction Sunday of Major Vidkun Quisling as the nazis' premier for Norway. The fire at the east station, it was added, was not controlled un til Monday morning. Several persons were said to have been injured. Inaugurated - I - v - Top M POUNDDB lO Oregon Tuesday Morning, February 3. 1942 mtymg Wm To "Enemy's TDoor Where United Nations Struggle Against Jap Pincers K ( PAOHC rOCiAN w molts fflb: Tmte Urn Jb CAPt WIMC MILES AT COUATOK I j : fj;;;H;j;j;ji;;H;jjH; V' The United States navy reported a surprise attack by warships and planes of the Pacific fleet on Japanese naval and air bases In the : Marshall (arrow, 1) and Gilbert (arrow t) Islands had done great i damage. The raids struck five enemy bases fat tho Marshall group aad one oil. Makln island (2), portbern.Ule jf the GUbert group County Bonds Pledges High; More Than Million in Defense Securities to Be Bought This Year Marion county citizens will buy approximately $1,050,000 worth of defense bonds and stamps during the coming year, Frederick S Lamport, chairman of the county defense savings committee, esti mated Monday night as tabulation of pledges obtained by hundreds of "minute men" solicitors neared completion. "I believe this will make Marlon county the highest In the state in per capita pledg ing," Lamport said. "We esti mated more than $30,000 In pledges remain to be turned in from Salem minute men. All of the outlying towns have re ported in with heavy contribu tions promised, and rural solici tation has been completed." ; Lamport said his committee an ticipated purchase of at least one half million dollars more from persons who made indefinite pledges only. More than $2,000, 000 worth of bonds were bought in the county during the first Vi years they were on sale. : Employes'of the Oregon Pulp (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) ! Big Test of j Whistles Is Postponed j Wednesday or Thursday but not today may be designated as "day of whistles in Salem, L. F. LeGarie, city defense chairman, declared Monday night as he ex plained a revision of plans for testing the city's new air raid devices. I There may be Intermittent whistling throughout ; the day but no official test of the com- -' btned chorus of steam and com pressed 'air whistles because they are not all completely in stalled, LeGarie declared. :! Single whistles are blown,; he expalined, not to test the listeners eazsr but hv the process of installa tion, since adjustments are ' re quired to insure, the:, greatest carrying quality,: for the amount of pressure exerted and can; be made only in process of mounting the whistles. . , ; Sunday's Weather i : ' Forecast withheld and tem perature data delayed by acmy request. Elver Monday 5.7 feet: Max. temp. Sunday, fit, min 44. Rainfall, Inches. South River Will Be Resumed Today Kings Valley Association Worried Over Effects of Cantonment; Officers To Urge Bridge as Military Aid Good news and bad cheered and disturbed members of the Salem-Independence-Kings Valley Highway association at their annual road meeting at Monmouth Monday night. The good that a 60-man WPA crew would return to work this morning on the South River road, left Tut up and muddy when the workmen were called away to make improvements at the Salem airport last fall. The bad that construction of an army cantonment north of Cor vallis might shut off or at least seriously retard trade travel from Polk county south on the west side Pacific highway. The association at the sug gestion ef. State Sen. Dean Walker instructed its officers to watch development of plans for relocation of the west side high way closely and to prepare to present a strong case to the proper authorities stressing military importance of the Salem-River road - Independence road, including a bridge across the Willamette river at Inde pendence, as an outlet for can tonment and market traffic from Polk county. Fear was -voiced that canton ment traffic and business might all be directed toward Corvallis and Albany unless steps were taken to insist that the west side highway within and outside of the cantonment area be made adequ ate to handle an increased traffic load. Priorities and financing consid erations now make it unlikely that (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Dr. Knopf Pledges Pledged to follow the ideals of Founder Jason Lee, to be loyal and devoted to church and state, Dr. Carl S. Knopf was formally inaugurated Monday to the po sition he baa occupied since Sep tember,' the presidency of Wil lamette university. The ceremony was part of the school's cen ten rial bse!vance.r - The 100th birthday program began Sunday with services at First. Methodist church at which Dr. Knopf and Bishop Bruce S, Baxter, former presi dent, gave the addresses. Symbols comprised the major portion of the installation, held in Waller hall oldest building on the west's oldest campus. To Dr, Knopf was presented the "cloak Price- 3c Kemsisadj 5 which stretches southward toward the equator. Meanwhile tho siege of Singapore was but one incident la the broad Japanese plan ef con ouest in the southwest Pacific a plan which presented this map- picture of plncer-liko Nipponese the fabulously-rich Dutch telana 01 Road Work Jap Fishermen Surprised in Roundup SAN PEDRO, Calif., Feb. 2.-JF) Scores of sons of the rising' sun -little brown fishermen and fish canners who live in shacks on Terminal island were taken into custody Monday in a surprise dawn round-up. FBI Agent J. W. Vincent de clined to reveal the exact size of the group apprehended, but esti mated the male aliens numbered 400-of the island's 2100 Japanese residents largest colony , of Nip pon fishermen in the United States. Female aliens were not detained. Terminal island is the site of a federal penitentiary; Reeves field, navy air base; Roosevelt base, $32,000,000 navy ship term inal Jiow under construction; two shipbuilding companies, construct ing liberty' freighters, and sev eral oil loading wharves. The island is less than five miles long and about a mile wide. of Jason Lee 'by Wade Bettis, "key of character by Glenn Olds, "torch of truth" by William Tho mas and "hand of fellowship" by Ralph May, all students. Dr. Helen Pearce,i professor of English and president o - the alumni association, gave the pledge of faculty and alumni to the administration. : Gov Charles A. Sprague spoke of the relation of education and the state, and Justice James T. Brand, of the state supreme court, of education and justice. " . Charge ef the duty ef lead ership" wis given by Tinkham Gilbert, .secretary of the board of trustees, whe premised the -' board's support to Dr. Knopf. The president, in his responses to the speakers, declared his in Ho. 2C3 thrusts aimed mamly at invasion of Java. : Revolt Flares On Continent German Firing Squads Busy in France and Other Europe Nations By The Associated Press Revolt against German rule has erupted again in conquered Eu rope and the nazi firing squad is taking its inevitable count of victims.; ( In Paris, the German military commander announced the execu tion of six youths and the exile of 100 others for a series of bomb and gun attacks on occupation troops, r As usual, all were described as communists or Jews. But unusual:-was the announcement that the ICS had been banished to winter-bound eastern Eu rope. Heretofore the German answer to terrorism has been Immediate and indiscriminate execution. France provided the locale of two other executions. The victims were Belgians who went before the wall at Mons. Polish circles in London re ported 22 Polish Jews were ex ecuted! recently by the German gestapo at Warsaw and Kielce for "abandonment of their ghetto. From the Oslo radio , came reports .of fires that broke out at the city's east and west rail read stations Sunday a few (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Mexico Feels Temblor PTJEBLA, Mexico, F c b . Zrifl?) An earthquake strong enough to ring the bells in the cathedral tower here was felt at 7:20 Sun day night, and although panic resulted in crowded, movie thea tres no one was Injured. Jason Lee's Ideals tention to continue the principles of Willamette and its fulfilling of .obligations and to go ahead turning out leaders." v:- i .'. v The honorary decree of doctor of literature, : conferred by i the university, was presented by Pres. Knopf to Miss- Ellen J. Chamber- lm, recognized, as the oldest liv ing Willamette graduate, so far as year of graduation.- She was a member of the class of 1863. ; Sunday's worsMp service at the church was 106 years to the ! day after the . university was organ ized.: i V -:- ' ' ; j-i- " - - -. - H Bishop Baxter traced the in sUtutien's history as It reflected : la the lives ef its leaders. He : , mentioned Jason - Lee, David Leslie, Alrin Waller, Gustavus I'm Isle Ofifense Other Fights In Far East By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Ptcm War Editor The allied position appear ed critical all brer the Pa cific Monday night with the one bright exception of Luzon In the Philippines, where a powerful tntmj offensive had been utterly broken in a decisive American victor over two Japanese divisions of . at least 30,000men. - In 24 hours of action as heavy as anything seen since ' Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur fell back from Manila and re formed to begin his lone; and brilliant . delaying action, the American-Filipino line across Batan peninsula beat off violent simultaneous assaults on its right and left, Inflicting great casual ties. On Batan's west coast, at the American left, American-Filipino infantry and artillery hurled the invaders back to the shore, cap turing those not killed or drowned in flight, the war department an nounced. In the eastern sector American artillery blew away a Japanese frontal attack before it got fairly started and a subsequent enemy envelopment maneuver was torn apart Gen. MacArthur reported from the field that the Japanese com mand had thrown the best of Its shock troops into the struggle; this and all other circumstances indicated that the enemy had suf fered his greatest defeat yet in the Philippine theatre,' although it developed that he had reached a point on the American right within 17 miles of the Batan tip fronting Corregidor island fort ress in Manila bay. While MacArthur was thus outdoing himself, however, the rest of the oriental panorama was not pleasant for the United Nations. In the southwest Pacific, as well as Luxon, the day's princi pal successes were scored by Americans. A late afternoon war depart ment communique reported that Americanbombers had been in strong action both in the defense of the Dutch East Indies and in aid of the British at Singapore. Four US army bombers en route to attack eneny shipping in Balik Papan harbor, Borneo, shot down nine Japanese, fighter planes to the loss of only one American ship. Other American fliers carried out raids on the Japanese Malay an air bases at Kuala Lumpur and Kuan tan, and all returned unharmed. Because ' of poor visi bility the results they obtained were not determined. The siege of Singapore was having its slow beginnings. Ac tion was light for the moment aside from Intermittent British (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) , House Speeds China Loan WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-P) Legislation paving the way for a half -billion dollar loan to China which President Roosevelt said would increase that nation's ca pacity "to function with great military effectiveness" was sped toward enactment Monday by the house. -' . r " Chairman Bloom (D-NY) said the foreign affairs committee would hear treasury and state department officials at a private hearing Tuesday on the necessity for the legislation. Hlnes, Josiah Parrish, James Wilbur, Francis Hoyt. Thomas Gatch, Thomas Tan Scoy, wa lls Hawley, Carl G. Doney, K. , 8. Collins and C P. Bishop and, still living, Ellen Chamberlln, Mary E. Reynolds. James T. iMatthews, Robert Booth, Ame dee M. Smith; Nelson 8. Sav age and Paul B. Wallace. He declared, "I thank God they were devoirt aad practicaL. ' ; Miss Chamberlin, a resident of 150 West Luther street, is now , 82 years of age. She entered Wil lamette in 1384, before , Wallet: hall was completed, She was the WU faculty from graduation, until 1878, after which she taught at other northwest institutions until retirement In .1903. ? j.- Going Badly i f !