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Wholesale -"NEW YORK. Feb. t.-(ff) Burglars entered Bronx auto showroom one night recently, jacked up the front axles of 17 new can and stole the wheels with their . tires and tabes; also the 17 spares. Total: 51. You Pay Income taxes wCl bo duo soon. If yen aro In - doubt about your federal tax, tun U The Statesman editorial NINETY-FIRST YEAB prlc So Newsskmda V No. m Scdem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning. February 10. 1942 a in TT v : : . Tl 1 .BrMslk, Singapore II i Owe Bead, 220 IFfoere Fire Licks liner Normandie Hit Hard by Blaze At NY Docks Hole Cut in Hull as Vessel Lists; Navy Plans Quick Repair (See Picture on Fare t) NEW YORK, Feb. 1L (AP) The fire -ravaged former French liner Nor mandie rolled slowly oyer onto Us side at 2:45 a. m. (EWT) today, three hours after it had been abandoned in fear the incoming tide would overturn it. NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (AP) Sparks from a welding torch, landing on life preservers, touched off a fire Monday which roared through the three upper decks of the for mer French liner Normandie, once the pride of the French merchant marine As the crackling flames were brought under contro at about 3 p. m., (PWT) after three and one-half hours battle by firemen, the $60,000,000 ves gel, now ; the US naval auxiliary Lafayette, listed 18 degrees, to port in her berth. To counter-balance the weight of the tons of water pressing her to port, Rear Adm. Adolpheus Andrews, commandant of the third naval district, ordered a hole chopped into her starboard side and water was pumped into the ship's starboard tank. "I knew the damage has been confined - principally to upper decks the sky deck, A deck and some of the B deck," Andrews said, adding that the ship "def initely will be able to be re paired." He would make no estimate of damage. The admiral said the hole was hacked into the Normandie's side after "we thought first that it would be best to sink the ship by scuttling her." A plan tO open the seacocks was abandoned in preference for the other method. Although approximately 2200 workmen and navy personnel were aboard when the i Are started, only one workman was known to have been killed. He was Frank Trentacos, 36, who died in Roosevelt hospital of a fractured skull and Internal ln (Tum to Page 2, Col. 1) County Clerk Sees Recall To Service Possibility that he might be summoned back into active army service was foreseen here Mon day by County Clerk Harlan Judd, who took office early in December after approximately a year with military forces at Fort Lewis, Spokane and in Alaska. Only notification he has had to date of the recall to service . of all officers in the active re serve, Jndd said, was through I.ress releases . quoting Presi dent Roosevelt. In announcing the policy the president sug gested that active reserve offi cers should not resign their ci vilian jobs because of possible delays in placing them. Replacement of Judd, should he be called, would be the county court acting in the same capacity as that in which it last year ap pointed U. G. Boyer to serve as clerk pro tern during Judd s ab sence. ; ' ' V "i-; ' Boyer, veteran county,, clerk, died shortly after Judd's 'return to Salem. No candidate for the appointment will be mentioned by him, Judd intimated Ainoday. ; .... ... . .. Holv Land Raid Halted JERUSALEM, Feb. 9.-VThe Holy 'Land's first air raid alarm in months sounded Monday at Haifa but approaching enemy planes turned tail when ground Batteries went into acuon. Army Gets Youngest Recruit w is uJ:Hr i ... V i i t ' y. ly&X. Q s"" - j Here's one recruit who's going to be a bear for punishment. Young Bruno, eight-months-old black bear, was presented as an army mas cot by Dr. Fred W. Burger (holding Bruno's attention with an apple), Monday, and duly examined by Lieut. Commander Yerden E. Hockett (right) at the army recruiting office maintained in the Salem postoff ice building by Tech. Sgt. Willis S. Estep (in uniform at rear). Looking on are Dr. United Hosnitalrtv association (rear left) and Don Madison. 'Bruno Is being given to an army unit Civil Defense Rebuked By Inquiry inAlleged Agency Promised; WASHINGTON. Feb. MV doggling" in the office of civilian defense was promised Monday J as the house wrote a stern rebuke to the acencv into an aDDroDria- tion bill providing $100,000,000 Retired Navy Man Named to Moscow Post WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-JF) President Roosevelt named Ad miral William Harrison Standley, retired, as ambassador to Moscow Monday, thus for the second time choosing a high naval officer to handle this country's interests in a key European capital. , About a year and a half ago Admiral William D. Leahy was sent as ambassador to Vichy. Nomination of Standley, former chief of naval operations, to fill the vacant Moscow post was sub mitted to the senate for confirma tion. Little, if any, opposition was expected. Boom Starts' For MacArthur As President Washington; Feb. i.-y?) A suggestion that General Doug las MacArthur "would make a wonderful president for the United States of America" drew a burst of applause Monday in the house. 1 It was made by Representa tive Faddis (D-Pa) who re ferred to the commander of the United States forces In the Philippines as "the finest lead er the United Nations have." Mayor to Attend Meet Mayor W. W. Chadwick said Monday he would take a delega tion of Salem men to Albany to night to attend 1 an important meeting of the four-county can tonment committee. Among those accompanying him will be Coun tr Judge Grant Murphy and Postmaster IL R. Crawford. ured r Henry E. Morris, presidentsof the stationed near here. Office Congress 'Boondoggling' by Some Uses of Huge - An inquiry into alleged "boon- for gas masks, fire-fighting and other equipment Its rebuke was conveyed in an amendment forbidding the use of the funds for "instructions Dhvsical fitness bv dancers, fan dancing, street shows, theatrical performances, or other public en tertainments wnun sponsors hoped would oust from the set up Melvyn Douglas, the movie star, Mayris Chaney, dancing friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt, and others under fire. Officials said, however, that since the funds in this particular bill could not be spent for such purposes anyway, the amend ment would not cause the dis missal of the OCD employes. Their salaries are paid out of another appropriation. The bill as a whole, carrying $160,412,- 611 in all for various war pur poses, was passed on a voice' vote and sent to the senate. The mounting ridicule and re sentment over the conduct of the OCD which the debate reflected brought a pledge from house lead ers that all "frills and fancies" in the agency would be investi gated. Such expressions as these were bellowed through the house mi crophones: "Gas masks before boondog gling! Billions for defense but not one cent for folly!" Rep. Meyer (D-Md). - "How can we expect the people to take the war seri ously when the management of civilian defense is turned over to hoochie-koochle and fan dancers?" Eep Cox ' (D-Ga). "Billions for defense but not one buik for Donald Duck. Rep. Taber (R-NT). Rep. Mary T. Norton (D-NJ) took the floor "to pay my tribute today and always to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt," Mrs. Norton described her as "a woman who has done more for women, than any other woman of her time." . (Turn to Page 2. CoL 7) Sunday's .Weather FoYecasts withheld and tem perature data delayed by army request. River Monday, 9 J. feet. . Max. temp. Sunday, 43, min 42. FDR A8 nii- T"?ns ror Army Appoints Land Maritime Czar; Signs Navy Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 9- (AP) Admiral Emory S. Land became virtually a czar over all phases of wartime merchant , shipping Monday. Creating a war shipping administration to control op erations of ocean-going mer chant vessels, President Roosevelt named to head it the 63-year-old retired naval of ficer who already is chairman of the maritime commission which directs the mammoth emergency shipbuilding program. The president issued an execu tive order creating the shipping administration in between sigh ing a bill appropriating $26,495,- 265,373 for the navy and forward ing to congress a request for $22,- 888,901,900 for the army. In a separate message, the chief executive also asked that con gress repeal that section of the neutrality act prohibiting Ameri can citizens from purchasing or selling bonds and securities of belligerents. He expressed belief that it was never intended that this prohibition should be opera tive in wartime. Senator Austin (R-Vt) said re peal was desired because the sec tion banned American purchases of Canadian securities. One part of Land's new Job is to see that this country gets from abroad those materials which it Jnust import In. ordr . to turn the huge army and navy appropriations into -the wea pons. He was given power to control the "operation, purchase, charter, requisition, and use of all ocean going vessels under the flag con trol of the United States" except fighting ships, and those engaged (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) j-j Waming I f HIT Tl J; Yy CQlieSClS V V Salem residents who thought they heard the capital city's new chorus of whistles Monday after noon when the large instrument at the state heating plant was undergoing aajusimem nave a genuine ireai coming in me way of air raid warning tests WedneS' day noon, Alderman L. F. Le- Garie declared Monday. Six steam or air force whis tles of the mockingbird variety are to be blown in unison at 12 noon Wednesday and residents of Salem are asked to call the city police station if they do not hear the warning signal dis tinctly. With those reports on hand to gether with various other surveys conducted for his committee, :Le Garie, city defense chairman, said the placing of 10 electric sirens would be accurately figured to provide service where needed. The whistle adjusted to the ac companiment of what listeners called "loon-like cries' Monday is of the largest type in use here and was purchased by the state, Le- Garie said. When first installed it was not adjusted to reach nign notes and was a definitely as thmatic mockingbird," he declar ed. AN DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN THE SERVICE? Keep him smiling with neics front home. Send him The Statesman, ! Only CfJ g P1 onV1' IDEA Where Japs Are Claiming Naval Victories llpik Jfe CdebesSe ' SINGAPORE :!VMni x. Jliliil! nonKiPO XRA. tJjgNCKX m tf I i!! 11 banojcjwiasinJ' lllOPft Indian 0 300 AT EQUATO Cross marks spot south of Kangean island (1) where Tokyo claims ing the past week. Japanese also said they damaged shipping in Malacca strait west of Singapore (2). British guns on Singapore island still pounded JohoK Bahru area as the Japs invaded the bland. Dutch admit Japanese occupied New War Time Puzzles Some Failure to Remember Clock Change Results In Funny Incidents By The Associated Presa The nation's business slipped smoothly into war time (Monday) but some of its citizens didn't The tardy rolls in many schools increased, ("my folks forgot to change the clock.") f Some homes started out with foo much war time. (Mother pushed the hand ahead one hour when she- went to bed early Sunday night; father, coming in later, advanced it another hour, and daughter, back from a movie, pushed It up another hour. So the family got up at 4 a. m., standard time. Forty-five guests at the Dallas, Tex., jail staying over the week end "to sober up found the time transition had whittled an hour off their sentences. The Denver, Colo., police de partment advanced the clocks but forgot to move up the time for mine on the automatic traffic lights. Result: Big morning traf fie jam. The White House clocks fell into line all except one old grandfather's clock that still ticked off the hours of standard time Monday. The management at the Ta come, Wash., city hall had calls from the taxpayers. The city hall clock was one hour behind. Some war production plants had a problem arising out of the time change at 2 a. m. Monday (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Nation's Debt Limit Raise To Be Asked WASHINGTON, Feb. M) Treasury Secretary Morgenthau said Monday, "in the not too dis tant future I will ask congress to increase the debt limit to at least $110,000,000,000 and perhaps remove it altogether." Morgenthau pointed out at a press conference that the federal debt already is up to $60,284,184, 254, and is rapidly approaching the $65,000,000,000 limit The secretary said that this Friday he would borrow $1,500, 000,000 through the sale of se curities. He discussed this financ ing with federal reserve officials this afternoon. Pacific War Council Set LONDON, Feb. -9-fl)-The gov ernment announced Monday night the creation I of a Pacific council composed of British, Aus tralian, New Zealand and Neth erlands representatives who will meet Tuesday and apparently act in concert with the military com mittee in Washington. Representation in the council to deal with, war problems will be on a "ministerial plane," the an nouncement said, and added that "other ministers and advisers win attend as necessary." Prime Min ister Churchill will preside at :::x5 SgCRABAJA fcT'- Ocean CAST k Samarinds (3). Here's How to Foil Auto Tax Stamp Thief PORTLAND, Feb. 8-ff)- you're worried about someone swiping your federal automo bile tax stamp, try this: Apply pieces of moistened silk thread to the gummed sur face of the stamp in a criss cross design and trim the thread ends flush with the edges of the stamp. One help ful Portland motorist says any attempt to scrape off the stamp tears It badlxtt-.,tvbevlaBdt Jearn. used again. Women Skill Survey Set County Teams Will Meet Wednesday for Data on Canvass Next Monday Marion county teams organized to work on Oregon's survey of the skills of women are to rally Wed nesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Salem chamber of commerce rooms to receive last-minute in structions and materials required by the undertaking. Workers will join their cap tains whenever possible in at tending the session, Mrs. David Wright, county chairman of the survey, said Monday night but aD captains are expected to be present. More than 400 women are to be engaged In Salem alone In conducting the canvass, which opens Monday. Mr. Wright, Mrs. Robert Pence, who is Polk county survey chair men; Mrs. George Rossman, vice chairman of the state committee; Gov. and Mrs. Charles A. Sprague, State Unemployment Compensa tion Commission Director Silas Gaiser, and District Employment Office Head W. H. Baillie were members of the group from this area attending the statewide p re- survey rally in Portland on Mon day. PORTLAND, Feb. P-iPhOre- gon's census of woman power will blaze the way for a national sur vey to find replacements for men (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Optimism for Valley Future Expressed at Realty Banquet w- vptiiiiiaiH iwi uic uuiuinm now and in the post-war period was, stressed by Chester A. Moores, vice president of Commonwealth, Inc., of Portland, in I addressing the Salem Realty night. "I'm willing to bet there will be no post-war depression in the northwest," declared Moores, a Salem resident in his . younger days, who described the area's de velopment, especially in the direc tion of industry. California, he said,' had the Jump on Oregon, but this state Is lagging no more. Moores averred, - "Columbus -Just . didn't land on the right coast to find the great poten tialities which the nation holds and which the speaker demon strated by comparing the cheap and plentiful hydroelectric pow er of the west with that of east ern states. Role, that realtors will clay in defense and the development oi ; INDIES A allied navies were smashed dur Chinese Chief r Visits India "Will Discuss Problem Of Burma Defense in British Consultation NEW DELHI, India, Tuesday, Feb. lO- -Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-Shek has arrived in In dia with his staff officers for con sultations, and his meeting with the British and India officials was hailed by the viceroy as one "which bodes out enemy no good to their cost This meetlnr sets the seal upon the eomradeshlp-in-anns of two great nations which be tween them number 890,000, 00 souls, one third of the world's population," Viceroy Lord Linlithgow told Chiang at a reception. The. generalissimo referred to the movement of Chinese troops to the defense of Burma and In dia and added: "We pledge to our valued ally, who occupied an important and unique position, our friendship and cooperation in defeating the common foe, prepared to defeat aggression and insure victory for me uanwrauc ironi. The announcement today of Chiang's arrival said he had come for talks with the gov ernment and especially the commander-in-chief. Chiang is1 the United Nations' supreme commander of all land and air forces in the Chinese theatre of war. The generalissimo was accom panied by Madame Chiang Kal Shek. They will remain here several days as guests of the viceroy. The visit was looked upon by qualified sources as a factor cf first Importance in the conduct of the war. It was viewed as a dramatic expression of he clce relations between the great pow- (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Ex-Finn Chief Dies HELSINKI, Feb. 9)-Dr. Lauri Kristian Relander, 59, presi dent of Finland from 1925 to 1931, died Monday night after a long illness. A member of the Agrarian party, he was the Finn- isn repuDnc s second presiaenx. s lw wJ.v oiiu uic niuaiuciw. vauc Luii boafifi annual banquet Monday i resources was explained,; stressing the opening sentence of the real' tors' code of ethics, "Under all is the land.' T.-M.. Hicks, member of the board, cw a s toastmaster; ior the program, which included as other speakers Will Ross of :Porfland,1 voonunat representing - Gov. , Charles - A. Sprague; State Treasurer' Leslie M. Scott, who praised the vision of pioneers who laid out Oreeon's beautiful cities; Tom Stoddard, representing Claude H. Murphy, state real estate commissioner; Millard Holbrook ? of. Portland, president of the Oregon Associa- tion of Real Estate boards; A, D. J.' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) , Issue In i . Doubt At Navy Base Inyaderi Push , Defenders Back After Landings By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor Counter attacking: British imperial troops and Japanese invaders were locked on Singapore island Monday night in combat so violent the issue was still in doubt at the tropical dusk and a stern test was evident also on the Burmese front 1200 miles to the northwest. The Tokyo radio declared that Japanese forces in Burma had forced a crossing of the Sal- ween river, which winds from STQVGAPORT. Tuesday, Feb. IS Under extreme pres sure by Japanese invasion forces, British troops have exe cuted a further withdrawal on" Sinrapore Island, ft was an 4 nonnced officially today, , Sikang p r o v in c e highlands of China to the Gulf of Martaban, and "now are advancing west wards towards Rangoon." the capital. . i A Singapore dispatch filed at 6:30 p. m. local time said resi dents of that embattled naval base were anxiously awaiting the "out come of the British.; counter at tack launched in the afternoon. In the savage beginnings of this last goB6tbattU 4or Sagaporo-hov. enemy had clearly won a consid erable initial victory, in having been able to cross the Johoro strait with strong forces in ' the dark hours of early morning. His troops appeared to be In effective, although strongly dis puted, control of a 10 -mile stretch extending into the west ern island from the Kranji es tuary aiong ine nonnern coast. The great question was whether succeeding nights would' not cloak additional landings and i whether the invader thus could broaden and consolidate the in vested area. The initial invading bodies crossed the strait in vessels ap- parently adapted for that specific (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) British Take Offensive on Libya Front CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 9-yPr- Their desert lines finally stabil ized after a 250-mile retreat, th British returned to offensive tac tics Monday by sending out mo bile columns to probe the area. - west of Ain El Gazala and about. El MechilL " ".., The swiftly shifting forces of '- the British engaged Infantry -and artillery units as far as 12 miles west of Ain FJ Gazala and 52 miles west of Tobruk, said Monday's communique. .Other patrols were reported ac tive in the El Mechili area, 60 miles southwest of Tobruk in the vital crossroads area which guards the shortcut to the British rear as wel las the German rear. Alexandria was raided last night for the first time in five months, but the interior ministry i said only four bombs were dropped and these caused no cas ualties and practicallj po damage. (The Italian communique said hits were on important military I objective J Ohling Named Chairman of Fire Defense Merrill D. Ohling, Salem insur ance man, has been named chair- j o Marioncounty's fire de- or Bryan H. Conley ' announced Monday night. An intensive course of trainmgj Is to be offered in the f ugnung ci ure, woruey saio. Likewise planned as a defense training course, is a "series of les- . sons for air raid protection ward ens, Conley announced, one group of lessons for all civilians Is .to be made available to the - general public, he said. - !V: