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Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning. February 20. 1942
Price. 3o Nowstands 5c
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Beaverbrook
Works in US;
Gripps Rises
LONDON, Feb. 20- (Fri
day) (AP) Sir Slaf
ford Cripps, former am'
bassador to Moscow and a
rising star in British poll
tics, was named lord privy
seal and house of com
mons leader by Prime Mir
ister Winston Churchill to
day in a cabinet reshuffle
" dictated by parliamentary
criticism over Britain's re
cent military reverses and
by the approach of vital
spring offensives.
Oliver Lyttleton, known
. as "one of Winston's
' brisht young men
was
made minister of state
in
charge of production to
' supplant the dynamic Lord Bea
verbrook, who declined to join
the new-war cabinet on grounds
. of health.
' Beaverbrook, who organteed
Britain's! aircraft and tank pro-
duction, will go to the United
States to carry on the task of
f pooling the resources of the Unit-
- ed Nations.
Lyttleton, who has been minis
- ter of -state in the middle east,
will join the war cabinet, reduc
ed from nine to seven members,
and will exercise "general super
vision over production.''
Laborite Sir Stafford replaces
Clement Attlee as lord privy seal
and will take the place of Chur-
chill himself in facing a house of
tommons . which . has shown in'
creasing resentment over the fact
the prime minister has not shorn
himself of some of his portfolios.
Attlee, in response to domin
- Ions demands for representation
in the war cabinet, becomes sec
- retary of state for dominion af-
- lairs. Dropped from the war cab
inet were the veterans, Sir Kings
- ley Wood, chancellor of the ex
chequer, and Arthur Greenwood,
. labor minister without portfolio.
The hold-overs who will di
rect British strategy at a cru
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Portland Raid
Object Named
PORTLAND, Feb. 1$-JP)-The
secret Japanese organization
raided Wednesday by FBI agents
and local officers, who arrested
24 Japanese, was the Soku-Kai,
an affiliate of the Black Dragon
society, authoritative sources said
Thursday.
The society was said to be
strongly: nationalistic and made
up of members who had pledged
fealty to the Japanese empire re
gardless ' of where they resided.
Jap Planes Bomb Dutch Isles
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sooth isSi
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Vapaneso planes, In a direct assault en Java, heart of the Dutch East
Indies,1 bombed and machine-gunned several of the small Islands
. la the narrow Sunda strait (2), which separates Java from Sumat-
- ra. In a raid on a Japanese-held airfield at Palembang (1), south
Sumatra oil center, Dutch bombers shot down two Japanese fight?
er planes. Palembang had fallen to the Japanese Invaders, appar-
- ently coming from Borneo (arrows), after the city's oil stores had
, purposely been fired. Palembang is 269 air miles (broken line)
from Batavia, Javanese capital.
Salem
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Relecgfs
81 Men
List Includes 34 to Report at
Armory Today, 47 Sunday, Going
Directly to Fort Lewis Center
Thirty four Salem men will be inducted into the US army
today and another 47 Sunday, according to lists released Thurs
day by Marion county selective service board No. 1.
All but two, who have transferred to other boards for
industion, will report to the Sa-
em armory at 9 a.m. and will be
sent directly to Fort Lewis re
ception center for induction, rath
er than going to Portland.
Those reporting today are:
' Forbes John Mack, Arthur
Curtis Wilson, Thomas William
Karn, Gaston Robert Drake,
Herbert Kenneth Krech, Don
ald Nicholson, Charles H. Al
ley, Dale W. Arehart, Lloyd
William Mulcrone, Jack Harold
Holman, Don Leo Harkins, Ed
dy Goertzen, Leland Lee Ba
ney, James Charles Irwin, Carl
Herman Anderson, Nedry Val
entine Burris, Royal Tyler
Hayes.
George Nelson, George William
Law, Donald Walter Schaefer,
William John Bowden, Homer
Garfield Lyon, jr., Michael Jo
seph Balkovic, Walter Franklin
Irby, Earl Edward Wilkinson,
Lucius Delia Rajione, Kenneth
Clyde Hoogerhyde, Alan Duane
Edgell, Oren Clayton McDowell,
jr., Robert James Stevenson, Da
vid Mehl, Robert Jesse Prince,
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Russ Center
Un Smolensk
Giant Pincers Move
May Encircle Nazis
On Middle Front
MOSCOW, Feb. 19. -(JP) -The
Red army pushed more forces into
White Russia Thursday and
thereby advanced a northern pin
cer farther behind strategic Smol
ensk, where one of the strongest
German armies in Russia is find
ing itself increasingly threatened
with encirclement.
The Russians already had
thrust deep into the nasi lines
sooth of Smolensk, and some
observers expect an early an
nouncement of sweeping victory
in this area.
The people of the Soviet Union
specifically are-, awaiting next
Monday, the 24th anniversary of
the founding of the Red army, ex
pecting that a triumphal an
nouncement will be made of i
widespread liberation of soviet
territory from German rule. The
government for some time has
been silent on specific gains be
ing made by the soviet forces, re
porting only general advances.
Although Red army dispatch
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raft Board
Names Of
For Army
Held by Japs
KENNETH CONRAD BOLEY
DONALD WARREN BARNUM
French Court
Mulls Legality
In War Trials
RIOM, Unoccupied France, Feb.
llHAVFrance's supreme court
took under advisement Thursday
night the question of. its own con
stitutionality and, by implication,
that of the whole Petain regime,
after a violent attack upon it led
by Former Premiers Leon Blum
and Edouard Deladier, two of five
defendants, at the opening session
of the French "war guilt" trial.
Thus as the trial opened to fix
the responsibility for the defeat
of France, the accused leaders
of the dead third republic turn
ed the tables and took the of
fensive against the right of the
court to try them.
After a brief response from, the
prosecutor, who argued the court
was set up specifically to try the
defendants and not to consider the
legality , of the Petain laws, N the
president , of the court announced
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WPB Halts
Tractor Sale
WASHINGTON, : Feb. IMS3)
The war production board Thurs
day prohibited sales or -deliveries
of new track-laying tractors and
auxiliary equipment for them.
The order applies both to manu
facturers and to dealers and dis
tributors. - - '
WPB officials ' said ' demands
from the armed forces and lend
lease agencies for the heavy
tractors and equipment, Includ
ing bulldozers, angle dozers, pow
er v control i units and winches,
probably; will exceed- 1942 pro
duction capacity. Approximately
29,849 were produced last year.
Wednesday's . Weather
Weather forecasts - withheld
and temperature ; data delayed
' by army request.. Max. tem
perature Wednesday 53, min. SO.
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US Lists
Men Held
By Japs
Seven Prisoners
Of War Formerly
Of City, Vicinity
Lists of navy, marine corps
and civilian : personnel of the
United States presumed to
have been captured by the
Japanese in China and on the
islands of Wake and Guam
contained the names of seven
men from Salem and vicinity.
They were:
Navy Donald Warren
Bantum, Independence, tak
en captive at Guam; and En
sign Chester W. Olcott, Portland,
formerly of Salem.
Marines Eugene Vearl Rich
er, Salem; Kenneth Conrad Boley,
Salem, and Second Lieut. David
Donald Kliewer, Albany, taken on
Wake.
Civilians George B. Wilcox,
Dallas, and Van Ray Shott, Rick-
reall, taken on Wake.
No local men were reported in
the list of soldiers and marines
captured in China.
The navy department said
interruption of communications
' and other causes at the time
the various outposts were cap
tured made it impossible to ob
tain absolute information of the
exact status of military and
civilian personnel affected.
"However, from information
that had been available, -up to the
time or near the time -of capture
of some of the -groupswand, from
the rosters of personnel serving
at the different places," the navy
department added, "it is presumed
that those not otherwise accounted
for are prisoners of the Japanese."
Barnum is the husband of
Mrs. Donald Barnum and son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Barnum,
all of Independence. His wife
and parents received word from
him last week In the form of a
Japanese radio, broadcast
picked up by Carl Braun, Ore
gon City operator and- paper
mill executive. He was chief
radio operator on Guam.
Ensign Olcott, a son of former
Gov. Ben W. Olcott, was born in
Salem.
Shott, 35, formerly a cook in a
Salem restaurant, has a nine-year
old son, Jimmie, who lives with
Mr. and Mrs, Warren Burch,
Shott's grandparents, at Rickre-
all.
Boley's home is on Salem
route six and Richter's at 1059
Rural avenue.
Following is the complete list
of captured personnel released by
the navy department for Oregon:
NAVY
Wake Island
Chester W. Olcott. ensign, 2610 NW
Overton. Portland; Herbert Jack
Horstman. 82C, Meacham; Cassius Ed
ward Smith,' AS, Marshfiekl.
Guam
Donald Warren Barnum, CR, Inde
pendence; Malcolm Walker, MM1C,
5236 NE 37th avenue, Portland: Joe
Robert Young. CR. Cottage Grove.
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Trains Crash
In Florida
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,
Feb. 19.-P)-Two trainmen were
killed and at least 42 persons were
injured Thursday in the head-n
collision of two' fast tourist trains
operating between Miami and
New York. 1 '
Hours after the wreck, which
occurred on a curve seven 'miles
south of this resort center, only
two bodies had been recovered,
but Sheriff L. R. Baker of Palm
Beach county expressed belief
that others were buried beneath
the wrecked coaches. .i ' "
Christian
With the mass meeting at the
Salem high school : tonight, the
six day National Christian Mis
sion, which has brought ministers
and laymen here from all sections
of the state, will be brought to a
close. - . ,
More than 100 meetings with a
total attendance of over 20,000
will have been held by the con
clusion of the parley, Dr. J. Ed
gar Purdy, publicity -: chairman,
estimated Thursday.' " "
: "Of course, there have been j
many 'duplications but un
doubtedly 5000 to 18,000 differ- !
ent persons will have heard at 1
least one of the messages, Dr. ?
J(jToMjaMmt Darwin;
US Forces Arrive In Dutch Isles;
Yank Fliers Win Big Air Battle
Allied High
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AssembXinc ln.Jtva, central island of the Dutch East Indies archipelago, the Allied High Command re-j
cently laid out lis plans for the defense of the Dutch and British holdings 'and for the defense of Au4
stralia. Pictured above on their
General H. F. C. Walsh, General
General H. ter Poorten. America's Admiral Thomas Hart stands in the background. Since .this plc-
ture was taken, Admiral Hart has resigned Ms post and b enroute to the i United States to recover
from an illness. His place was
Contenders in Secretary
Of State Race Line Up
Political" Horizons Scanned for First
To File; Polk County DA Seen Only
Demo Possibility; Farrell Busy
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
Now that Ihe candidacies for the Oregon governorship at
this year's elections have advanced beyond the "maybe I'll run?
stage, democrats and republicans alike are scanning the horizons
to see which man will be the first to scratch his pen on the entry
Fingerprints
Of Wardens
Needed Only
Air raid wardens in specified
sections of Marion county, and
not every resident in the districts
they patrol, are listed for finger
printing and special identification
activities today, Marion county
defense headquarters announced
Thursday night.
Misunderstanding had caused
at least two of the several hun
dred Salem wardens, to notify
persons living on their blocks
to appear tonight at defense
headquarters, it was said.
All civil reserves volunteers
were asked -when they registered
to signify, their willingness to
register fingerprints and other
identification material. Some have
had their prints taken, tut a num
ber are still technically not quali
fied to serve,) Bryan H. Conley,
coordinator, explained Thursday,
Wardens may have taken the
preparation course but may not
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Mission Ends Torilit
Purdy said. In addition, two
broadcasts over KSLBf each
day have reached added thous
i ands. "
' Sessions have varied from
about 20 students In discussion
groups to audiences of 1600 to
1800 at ' mass meetings. All ser
vice clubs In the city have had
mission speakers, high school
classes have asked for discussion
leaders and dinners have been
overcrowded." - ' ' ...
, -When Dean Thomas W. Gra
ham began his series xm. Dyna
mic ; Christianity" Monday 200
were in attendance at the First
Presbyterian church. The follow
Command Convenes in Java
arrival at an airfield near Batavia,.
.Sir Archibald Wavell, Allies' commander-in-chief, and Lieutenant
taken by the Dutch Admiral Helferich. . . ...
list here for the post of secre-
tary of state. Indications are that
they have not long to wait
There is little doubt about
who the republican contenders
for the secretary's office will
be: Robert S. Farrell, Jr speak
er of the 1941 house of repre
sentatives, and Irl S. McSher-ry,-
deputy director of parole
and probation. Walter Nerblad,
son of the late Gov. Al Nor
blad, to whom McSherry was
private secretary, is toying with
the idea of putting his name
down In this race, too.
Local democratic leaders say
they don't expect to see a cam
paigner come out of their party
to contest the secretaryship with
the republican winner. But one
man, at least, has not shut the
door to his. entry in this race.
He is Bruce Spaulding of Dallas,
Polk county district attorney.
Blenttoned months ago as a
potential democratic opponent
to Republican Congressman
James W. Mott In the second
Oregon district, Spaulding Is
more likely to file Instead for
secretary of state If ' he de
cides against seeking reelection
to his present position. Strong
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ing day over 400 were in the au
dience and since , then the audi
torium has been taxed.
A smaller room was requested
by Carl Sumner Knopf, president
of Willamette university, for his
daily -seminar, ."Putting the Bl-
ble to ; Work," but he was per
suaded to try the larger audito
rium, which was soon filled to
near capacity. .
. "Because of the tire situation
. less outside visitors were In at-
tendance than was anticipated,"
. Dr. Purdy explained "A check
made Wednesday night , shew
ed that 99 per cent of the audl
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are, left to right: British Consul
Subs Attack
Aruba Again
Shells Fail to Hit
Refinery; US Plane
Drops Heavy Bombs
By The Associated Press
New U-boat attacks were re
ported Thursday in the Caribbean
but they failed to set fire to the
huge oil refineries on Aruba with
shelling from deck gunnery and
failed to sink two ships which
were however, damaged by un-i
explained explosions off Trinidad
the southern anchor of the island
Perimeter defenses of the Pana
ma canal.
The submarine attacking Aru
ba may have been sunk, for a
US army bomber flying the
dawn patrol, spotted it quickly
and dropped a heavy charge of
explosives as the prowler
crash-dived.
No casualties were reported
either at Aruba, well inside the
island defenses, or at Trinidad,
600 miles to the east.
There are US troops on both
Aruba, where they are cooperat
ing with the Dutch hosts in de
fense of vital oil, and on Trinidad
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Oil Delivery
Cut Planned
WASHINGTON, Feb. lsWJV
Oil industry sources said Thurs
day night that Petroleum CooN
dinator Ickes had approved a plan
to restrict deliveries of heating
oils to eastern consumers because
stocks are low. . - -
Designed to spread available
supplies, the program was said to
provide! x
l. Deliveries to. commercial
users must be limited to 14 days'
uppiy.
2. No house heating oil may be
delivered until the oil on' hand in
a residence .is less than one-fifth
of tank capacity. The tank may
be replenished only tip to threg-
Huariera 01 capacity. -
Tony Sarg Stricken ;
. NEWf YORK, Feb. l-vSVTony
Sarg, 60,r famous artist and cre
ator ol Marionettev; was reported
in :a critical condition Thursday
night !q Manhattan General-hos!
pital where he, underwent an oper
ation necessitated by ruptured
appendix Tuesday.
Heavy Attacks
On Australia
Fatal to 15
Clouds of Bombers
With Fighters Hit
At Big Naval Base
By The Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia, Feb.
20 . (Friday) . ( AP)
Air raid alarms sounded in
Darwin today for the second
successive day but Japanese
planes did not appear to fol
low up the two blows struck
yesterday in which 15 per
sons were said to have been
killed and 24 wounded at that
vital allied naval base on
Australia's north coast.
Air Minister Arthur S.
Drakeford announced that a
third raid had occurred but
ater information said no ene
my planes appeared although
the alarms sounded. 1
However, considerable damagW
admittedly was i n f 1 i c t e d in
Thursday's pounding some of it
on service installations - at the
port which ranks second in im
portance to Soerabaja in the
Dutch East Indies now that Singa- ,
pore and Amboina have fallen.
Drakeford has been considering
the recall of Australian airmen
from other parts of the British
Empire to defend the homeland.
Altogether 93 Japanese bomb
ers, escorted by fighters appar
ently taking off from an aircraft
carrier, attacked the port Thurs
day, hitting ships, docks, hospitals,
airdromes - and damaging "some
of our aircraft," a communique
said. '
The communique text:
"Two separate raids were
made on Darwin yesterday.
"The first was at II a. m.
by 72 wln-engined aircraf with
fighter escort of P-type single
engined planes.
"This force split into two
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Women Invited
To UH A Party
For Soldiers
Young women dancing partner!
for 350 soldiers are asked by Sa
lem's United Hospitality associa
tion to volunteer as hostesses for
tonight's "army party" at the cap
ital city armory.
Asking that the feminine
roests be limited Insofar as pos
sible to those 29 years of age or
elder. Dr. Henry Morris, TJHA
chairman, pointed out Thursday
night that "It seems wise to
have girls of approximately the
same age group as the men we
are entertaining. , ; ?
No charge is made for the dance,
but civilian ma are not bidden,
although they may view the pro
ceedings from the gallery. ;
Watch for
Series of
'Answers
-.,.H-r-cVi-1
To fho question ol "What
should wo do It f" asked
by mid-ralley residents al
most . dafly since December
7 The Stoiesman, cooperat
ing wi& Marlon county dvfl
lan " delenso i headexuartexgr
hers a series of cmswers.
In brief lesson form. snlt,
: cblo fox' clipping and i filing,
(or ior mounting on the bul
USn board la your home's
K llaciout : rocin), ,fils' "erlef,
cf answers" Is to bi uillih
d regularly , on - "the) local'
news, p a g e of The States-'
Watch foTrihe Erst
Tho Elock Warden' Satur-