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(f)-EeV. Tbeo H. Even, :
pastor of Z 1 o a Lntheraa '
ehorch. In annoucfaif Lea- :
ten services for Wednesday
evenings,' ' also added:
rwatchmea will bo sta
tioned to proteet your Urea."
Tho Insido
. Tow complete morning
newspaper, Tho Statesman,
offers 70a pertinent eom
. ments on war newt of tho
day by Kirke Simpson,
Washington analyst.
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Scdonau Oregon. Saturday Morning, February 21, 1942
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Revealed
FR Asks People
To Have Maps on
Hand at Talk
I WASHINGTON, Feb. 20
(AP) President Roosevelt's
Monday night radio speech is
to give a picture of a world
it war, the White House said
Friday, and will endeavor to
show the effect of battles
fought thousands of miles
away upon each little Ameri
can community.
In addition, said Stephen
Early, the president's secre
tary, "It Will be made very clear
thai the oceans on each of our
coast lines are no longer the sav
iors or the protection of the coun
try they were said to be by some
ot so long ago."
This statement followed asser
tions by both the chief executive
and ' Secretary of - War Stimson
attacks on American cities and
towns were not unexpected. Stan
son said protection could not be
iven because the nation's forces
must be massed for the offensive,
not scattered and weakened.
- In the face of these expressions,
three influential senators Walsh
(rWass.), Byrd (D-Va.) and
Johnson (R-Calif.) asked Friday
that coast defenses be strength
ened, quickly.
Meanwhile, the war prodae-
tien- beard pvblished flrvres
giving the total of authorised
war expenditures, plus war
t fnds requested f coaaress, as
S145,00,eoa,e00, a fUure only a
little less than the total naUon
.. al income in the years 1939 and
1949.
At the same time, with a $32,
170,90 1,900 army-navy appropria
tion bill before it, a senate ap
propriations sub-committee heard
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Women Survey
To Be Ended
Next Week
Hope that Marion county's vol
untary registration of women may
be completed by before the close
of next week was expressed Fri
day by Mrs. David Wright, chair
man. The statewide survey of the
skills of women is scheduled to
occupy two weeks; Marlon
county workers have anticipa
ted finishing their share of it
within 10 days from the date of
its commencement, which was
February ItA
-Each questionnaire card not
filled out during the canvasser's
call but left to be completed and
mailed by the registrant should
contain both the canvasser's sig
nature and the name of the
would-be registrant before the
canvasser leaves the premises,
Mrs. Wright said. A few lacking
this" information have been re
ceived, i -,
US Army Buys Lumber
At Portland Auction
PORTLAND, Feb. 20.-V
Northwest lumber sold approxi
ma tely 20,000,000 board feet of
lumber to the US army engineers
at an auction here Friday.
. MaJ. C E. Kirkendal said 15,
000,000 feet was for "water ship
ment" and 5,000,000 feet would go
to Oklahoma. r
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ice all over the world.
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Spectacular air view, made from a United States warplane during the
US navy's surprise attack on Wotje Island, January 31, shows smoke
and flames rising- from the Japanese naval base after th first bom
bardment by US planes. At left (1) two ships lie crippled. On shore
Mission Holds
Final Meeting
Friday Night Closes
Six-Day Session of '
Religious Groups
Six days of religious activity
such as Salem had never seen be
fore ended Friday night when the
National Christian mission held
its closing mass meeting at the
Salem high school.
Besides the mission Itself the
OrcfOB Putori' conference,
which drew several hundred
ministers to Salem, the parley
of the Oregon Council of
Church Women, and the annu
al meeting of the Oregon Coun
cil of Churches was held during
the week.
Between 5,000 and 10,000 per
sons-were estimated to have been.
in attendance at the 100 meetings
that made up the mission program
of daily seminars, mass meetings,
luncheons and dinners. .-
Practically all the Protestant
churches in Salem cooperated in
the enterprise. C. A. Keiis was
general chairman for the event;
Dr. J. Edgar Purdy, head of pub
licity; Wallace E. Winslow, pro
gram; Roy Harlan, youth; Floyd
Miller, civic; Tinkham Gilbert,
finance, and Mrs. Esther Little,
women's activities.
Death Takes
Former WU
Counsellor
PORTLAND, Feb. 20-JP-Dr.
John William Hancher, 85, re
tired educator and national fig
ure in the Methodist church, died
in his sleep here Thursday night
Former counsellor of finance
of the Methodist church, he came
to Oregon several years ago to
assist in the creation of a $1,000,-
000 endowment for Willamette
university. ,
He had been president of Iowa
Weselyan college and the
church's counsellor to colleges
and . universities. He made his
home for the past several years
In Washington, D.C
' He came here a. few days ago
for the funeral of his son-in-law,
Burton Beck, who died February
8.
Salem Sales
Rated High
Salem is the center of the
fourth best 'high-spot" territory.
in the United States today, for
concentrating sales activities, for
collections and other business op
erations, according to Forbes mag
azine. -. , ' '
, The ' area includes eight other
cities and made a median gain of
25 per cent over last year. :
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Photo of Flames Sweeping Jap
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Army Given
Removal of
Sweeping ' Authority From President jAime
Primarily at Japanese; Biddle Denies
Martial Law; Agencies to Aid Plans
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-flVIn a drastic move aimed pri
marily at the Japanese problem on the west coast, the army was
given sweeping authority Friday to remove "any or all persons"
rom "military areas" or to Impose restrictions on them.
The authority was conferred
on the president's war time pow-
ers as commander-in-chief.
Attorney General Biddle, who
had given a formal opinion on
the legality of the step, told a
press conference that thls is a
Japanese problem," and. the
army did not now contemplate
any action except on the west
coast and exeept with, respect
to Japanese and Japanese
Americans A at e r 1 e a b born
persons of Japanese descent,
many of whom . have dual
citizenship. v
Biddle explained, however, that
the order was "very simple and
very broad," and that the army
could act anywhere in the United
States in the heart of New York,
if it wished.
However, as a practical matter,
he said, it was not intended that
American citizens other than those
of Japanese descent would be af
fected. He said that there are about
60,000 such citizens in California,
in addition to 39,000 . Japanese
aliens, 52,000 Italian aliens ' and
19,000 German aliens.
No military areas have yet been
designated, Biddle said, but the
army hag been studying the
matter and may act very soon.
He added that the whole prob
lem Involved la moving fami
lies has been under considera
tion, and will require the eo
eperation of other agencies, such
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Four Entries
Discussed for
Polk Judge
DALLAS, Feb. 20.-(Special)-
Possibility that four men may en
ter the .contest for Polk- county
judge this year was being dis
cussed in the county today. -Herman
Van Well, who com
pletes his first term as county
judge this year, may run for re
election. , -
A second possible candidate
Is F. E. Kersy, Dallas ex-res tan
rant man. Kersy was narrowly
defeated for the county asses
sorship two years ago. -
The third potential candidate Is
State Rep. Lyle Thomas; West Sa
lem, who, it is believed, will either
seek the judgeship or file for re
election to the legislature ' l'
' The fourth name mentioned for
the judge s position was Tracy
Staats, tax deputy- for several
years under Sheriff Tom Hooker.
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a hangar (2) is fat flames. Toward the opposite side of the narrow
island dense smoke rises from an oil fire and barn ins installations
near what appears to be a seaplane base' (S). Note long- runways
on Island. .
Orders For
Coast Aliens
by an executive order based
Russ Reveals
US, British
Aid Flowing
MOSCOW, Feb. 20.-(iTl)-Red
Star, voice of the Russian army.
announced Friday tnat an ever-
increasing flow of war materials
is being received from the United
States and Britain, and predicted
that the gathering forces of the
three powers would crush the
nazi war machine this year.
The newspaper said "The help
we are receiving from our allies
is growing continuously," and
added that "no doubt simultane
ously the military efforts of our
allies will grow."
Pointing oat that "Germany
will be weaker In manpower
this spring than she was last
summer," Bed Star said Adolf
Hitler's spring offensive, If any,
was doomed t failure.
The army organ said the Ger
mans lost 0,000,000 men- in the
first six months of the war with
Russia and had proportionately
even greater losses since then.
This would place the total of Ger
man dead, wounded and captured
at something over 9,000,000 men.
Red Star: said Germany would
not replace such a loss from her
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rs. FDR
WASHINGTON, Fob. 20-ff)
Mrs. Franklin . D. Roosevelt re
signed from , the office of civilian
defense Friday to protect,. that
agency from criticism - by those
who., she said, "wish to attack
me because of my beliefs." - -
James M. Landis, OCD direc
tor, accepted her resignation- with
a - letter, praising her for a "vi
sion and energy. , that had en
abled OCD to carry out its tasks
and make citizens everywhere
aware that they have a war task
toVperform. -
' 'At the height of the recent
controversy :' over what many
termed the frills and furbelows
of. OCD, Landis succeeded May
er LaGuardia of New York,"
as director, and Mrs. Boose
velt announced she ' weald
withdraw as see as organisa
tional work was completed.
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Isle Base
Plane Wrecks
Fatal to 4
Two Army Ships Crash
t Near Tacoma; -Valentine
Precedes, Death Notice
TACOMATWash, Feb. 20-JP-
Two army planes killed four men
and injured three Friday in sep
arate crashes in western Wash
ington. An army air corps bomber from
nearby McChord field the fifth
in the past year was wrecked as
it came to earth 15 miles south
of here on the Fort Lewis mil
itary reservation, it was official
ly announced. Two of its crew
died almost instantly; the other
three were hurt, how seriously
was not immediately revealed.
The other machine, a two
seater from Gray Field at Fort
Lewis, crashed near Boqulam.
Both occupant were killed,
army officials said la announ
cing that the ship had bees -making
"a routine flight" at
the time. Then names:
Second Lieut Charles P. Clark,
of Tempe, Ariz., the pilot; First
Lieut Rudy J. Binder, the ob
server, of Elsequindo, Calif. The
letter's widow lives in Olympia.
TOPEKA, Kas., Feb. 20-ifl5)-
Mrs. W. E. Barlow received a
valentine gift from her son, Corp
Forest W. Barlow, Friday just i
few hours before she was noti
fied of his death in the crash of
an army "bomber near Tacoma,
Wash.
His fiancee. Miss Marie Brad
ley, also received a valentine.
They had planned to marry In
three months. -
Barlow, 22, was born in Topeka
and attended high school here.
He enlisted in the air corfcs last
Aug. 25.
Thursday's Weather
Weather forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed by
army request. Max
sure Thursday 57, Mia. 25.
Resigns From OGB
In ' addition, M a ry Chancy,
blonde dancer protege "of Mrs.
Roosevelt, resigned from a $4600
Job .with tho agency. Intense con
gressional criticism had been lev
elled at her having been given
the post. Landis accepted her res
ignation ""without comment." -.
. Recalling; her announcement
that she would leave OCD when
the' organizing waa done,- Mrs.
Roosevelt said in her letter Fri
day: -i - : " : , ,
' : "That Is now . accomplished
and by remaining I would only
make It possible for. those who
wish to attack me, because of
jny beliefs, to attack an agency
. which I consider can prove Its
usefulness so completely to the
people that It should be1 free
of attack, ta order te render Its'
. maximum servieav ;
Tinv Sub
Active In
Atlantic
Brazilian Ship .
Shelled; Planes
Rush to Rescue
NORFOLK, Va Feb. 20
(AP) Shelled into a bat
tered, flaming wreck, the
Brazilian freighter Olinda
Tf DU1IA vit wll AitOllUC I
coast Wednesday afternoon
oy an axis suomanne ae-
scribed by. the ship's crew as
"pocket size" and as being:
too small to have crossed
the Atlantic ocean without re
fueling. The fifth naval district an
nounced the sinking of the 4080
ton ship Friday after the 46 crew
members were landed here by a
rescue vessel which picked them
up after 20 hours afloat in two life
boats.
Captain Jacob Benemond, one
of 23 men, aboard the Olinda, who
were admitted to the US marine
hospital at Norfolk for treatment
for exposure, said the submarine
opened. fire on the Olinda at a
distance of about a mile and a
halt
The captain . said about 14
shells were fired at the ship be
fore the crew abandoned the
vessel, and that the submersible
then circled the Olinda and
fired about 29 more shells at the
ship. The : captain " said he
thought the - freighter also was
torpedoed, but he was not sure.
Suffering: . from , windrbum
eye and swollen, feet, the captain
related that the first shell bit the
antenna, making it impossible for
the radio operator to send calls for
assistance. ' The second shell hit
the engine room and the third hit
the forecastle.
The crew quickly took to the
lifeboats and the submarine, which
had approached to within a quart
er of a mile of the Olinda, or
dered the captain and the radio
operator to come aboard.
The submarine commander,
speaking English, ask. Captain -Benemond
for the Olinda's pa
pers. The papers, however, had
been left aboard the freighter.
I The captain then was permitted
to return to his life boat Shortly
afterwards four United States
navy planes appeared in the dis
tance and the submarine "crash
dived." One plane dropped a
buoy near the life boats. The buoy
was painted with the words "help
on way."
Employment
Office to Be
Open Monday
The Salem office of the feder
al employment service, will re
main' open next . Monday, ordin
arily a holiday to be observed
following Washington's birthday,
W. H. Baillie, manager an
nounced Friday.
Baillie said he had been In
structed, to keep the office open
In accordance with a request by
Donald Nelson, chief of the war
production board, that services
important to the national indus
trial and war efforts disregard
holidaysif ' " -t '
"No individual ts more im
portant than a good program. 1
feel that yours Is and will be a
program vital to the well-being
of the people of the- coun
try." "I need not tell you what the
world knows," - Landis replied,
"that you brought to the office
of civilian defense the vision and
energy to carry out those porti
of the executive order that direct
ed us to 'mobilize the energy of
everybody behind the - defense,
now the war, effort. v ---."Net
a farra nor a home but
.la bow conscious of the Imprint
of. your, spirit; indeed, no one
but now" knows that they have
a task m civilian defense This
has -been true building, ef
America's fighting faith,, beside
which criticism is puny, attack,
misplaced."
War Writer
Praised by
US Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2H
Clark Lee's dispatches f rem the
Bataan firhtlng front In the
Philippines were praised Friday
by the Infantry Journal as "the
best this war has produced on
any front, from the standpoint
of the military reader. .
' The Journal, a semi-official
publication edited by officers
- primarily for army men, noted
editorially that the Associated
Press war correspondent report
ed -the main details of the
fighting" and "not merely the
highlights."
W. ' A TB
KQ to Qti St I I
Awaits Drive
Japs Drop Cheap Fire
Bombs Behind Lines;
Shortage Is Seen
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-Jf)
The war department reported
Friday that Japanese planes had
dropped inferior, relatively harm-
less incendiary bombs behind the
Bataan peninsula defense lines,
stirring speculation that the Phil
ippine invaders might be ham
pered at least locally by a short
age of some war materials.
The missiles were found to
contain white phosphorus as a
filler, a substance credited with
only a fraction of the destruc
tive effectiveness of the bombs
dropped by the nasis on Lon
don. They fell on military installa
tions such as ammunition dumps
and stores of equipment, and pre
sumably any fires, they started
were oreadily extinguished, al
though a day communique was
silent W the damage. Chemical
I experts said water would put ou
phosphorus fire.
The chemical usually is used
to create smoke screens rather
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Service Men
Permitted to
SeU '42 Cars
PORTLAND, Feb. 20-(JP)-Men
entering military service may
dispose of 1942 automobiles, Price
Administrator Leon Henderson
informed the Oregon rationing ad
ministrator's office Friday in an
order amending previous- regula
tions. !
Until Friday's revision volun
teers and selectees were per
mitted to sell ears only to deal
ers. Who showed little mdkv
tlon to buy since their 1942 :
stocks were frosen.
Henderson's order also said
American citizens could not pur
Chase tires in a foreign country
without first obtaining a ration
ing certificate from county
boards.
The order extended the time
during which new cars sold prior
to January 1 could be delivered.
The February 26 deadline was set
back to March 2.
Dealers were granted until
February 25 to file inventories of
cars in their possession as of
February 11..
JLievrarie m
Recorder Race
With Davison
That two aldermen will be in
the race for another city office In
the May primary election was dis
closed Friday when L, 17 LeGarie
announced his candidacy for re
corder.' A. O. Davison filed his
i intention to run Friday.
- LeGarie, councilman for ward
two and chairman of the city
defense committee, b a grocery
proprietor. He said his expert-'
enee and interest fat municipal
affairs prompted him te be a
candidate and that he wiU re
tire from private business if
elected.
. Mrs. .Hannah Martin , Ranzen,
incumbent recorder, has not de
clared -her intention. Alderman
Boss Goodman may be a candi
ate ior we position, it was. ru
mored. - . C-
T7h Hie Japs Claim
aois.XO-(From Japanese Broad-
casts)-Feb, 20-(P-Imperial head
quarters claimed Friday the de
struction of 13 Aiuiralian war
ships and 26 planes in an air raid
on the northern Australian port
of Darwin.
Java Set
To Repel
Attacks
Bali Invaded as
Jap Jumping Of f
Base in Battle
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press War Editor
The fateful struggle ap
peared Friday night to have
begun for Java the last and
strongest Dutch East Indies
island not yet violated, the
only major base remaining to
the allies in the south Pacific
for menaced Australia for
the invader had invested Bali
and stood across only a mile
or so of water from Java
itself.
It appeared, too, that he had
struck at Portuguese -Dutch
Timor, to the east and lying to
the northwest of the Australian
mainland, for Tokyo claimed as
much and The Netherlands au
thorities were without informa
tion from that distant strand.
On Bali, a hot, shining and
aromatic little dot of sand and
coral, a kind, of Shangri La to
many and one of the most un
likely arenas in all the world for
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb.
21 '(Saturday) - Enemy
planes which raided Bathurst
bland near Darwin, Australia,
one - Thvsday lacluded several
bearing the swastika symbol,
an llAF 'wmmunlquo declared
today. - iv'' "
the opening of such a grand test
in marital history, the Japanese
enemy had won strong beach
heads. Ashore his troops were being
met by stout allied resistance and
in the air and upon and under,
the surrounding seas allied planes
and warships were inflicting
heavy casualties but yet he con
tinued to land.
In preliminary reports of the
running action on the supreme
allied command announced from
General Sir Archibald 1. Wav
ell's headquarters on Java that
one or more enemy cruisers had
been heavily hit, two direct hits
had been scored en enemy
transports, aa enemy cruiser and -a
transport had been hit by
lighter bombs and eight near
misses had possibly knocked out
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Efforts Urged
At Spokane
Lumber Meet
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 20.
-Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the
Portland Oregonian, cautioned
northwest lumber dealers Friday
that only one road led to all-out
victory in the present world con
flict and that road was "all-out
effort" .
"Heroic acts will , not win
wars oil must do their part,
and do it well." he said in an
address before the' Western Re
tall Lumbermen's association
convention. ;
TThis is a two-front war," Hoyt
declared, "and I am not referring
to the fighting: fronts. There is the
physical front, which includes
both the military maneuvers and .
the supply line; and there is the
economic front, around which re
volves the question of how we are
going to pay for all this and what
we will have when we, get
through. " :
"If we lose on either front we
lose on both."
Air Precaution
Aids Printed
. 't ." -.-;.- ;t- . , -
First of a series of lessons m
air raid precautions for civilians
appears on - the local news page
of The Statesman today.. Planned
as a daily feature to aid. resi
dent of .this area In understand
ing the preparations made for their
safety and the measure they should
take-in any; emergency; the les- ;
sons are .short, . to the ;Pointj and
easily, read, 4.-vV'.t, 4 ' .
" Marion county civilian defense.,
headquarters, under -Whoso aus- -pieces
the series has' been "pre
pared, have suggested, that reader
clip and save the series..; .v .