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The Inside Tear complete morals newspaper, The gtotwmn, ffen 70a pertinent com menti en war newt of the day by Klrke 8 Imp 1 en Washington analyst. jrr ITT 3 Sections 20 Pages FOUNDDB 1651 NINETY-FIRST YEAR Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning. February 22. 1942 Price) 3a NewstancLi 5c No. 28$ fifr BI Seizes Take Two In Salem Rou 11 Entire Western Area Combed in Sabotage Check In the biggest FBI raids of the war, loosed Saturday all along the Pacific coast and in Arizona, federal agents working with local police seized more than 500 Japanese, German and Italian aliens. Among the persons held, some of whom were linked with or ganizations in enemy na tions, were one Japanese and one German from the Salem area. Both seizures here were for possession of contraband, J, Douglas Swenson, chief of the FBI office in Portland, told The Statesman on Saturday night. They were the result of day-long investigation of aliens and their residences by federal bureau ag ents and men from Salem city police and Marion county sher iff s office. . , Jrj ?-' -..J. Western Oregon ""raids netted fewer arrests than those in Wash ington and California, reports from the other two coast states indicated. Swenson said seven Germans had been taken in the raids at Coos Bay, two Germans at other Oregon coast points, one each at Gaston and Hillsboro, a Japanese at Coos Bay, and two at Portland. - Fourteen squads struck simul taneously throughout Oregon in - , (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Eccles Named To Head War Board Office Establishment of a permanent office of the state war industries division in Portland, with David W. Eccles, state war industries coordinator in charge, will be an nounced early next week. Gov. Charles A. Sprague said here Saturday. The office will be a branch of the executive depart ment Eccles said he already had contacted a number of Oregon Industrialists, in connection with war contracts, and others would be Interviewed daring the next few days. . The war industries coordinator said he particularly was interested I n obtaining contracts for Oregon manufacturers involving wood life boats, projectiles and marine en gines. Oregon recently received a large marine engine contract, following Eccles' visit to' Washing ton, DC, where he contacted Ore gon's delegation in congress and government war agencies. Uar Boosiing Price of Home Ilaierials The world-wide demand now existing for lumber steel metals Is steadily pushing , prices upward. Price Increases on these basic home-building ma terials art certain to mean higher home-prices. The next few week may offer your last opportunity to buy a home at present prices. . .- . Consult THE STATESMAN Classified Real Estate Ads ...Turn to This Page Now! dup His Birthday J W s C New Car Ration Rules Released Purchase Permits to Be Granted by Local Boards After March 2 WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-(JP) Farmers, if they have no other means of transportation, defense workers, taxi operators, and essen tial traveling salesmen will be eligible to buy new automobiles eligible to buy new automobiles Acid fram i " mnimc ill Aside from these (roups, the elirible list follows in general that for rationing of new tires and includes physicians, visiting nurses, fire fighters, policemen and others regarded as essential to protection of safety and health. No one will be permitted to buy a new automobile, however, un less the local rationing board is satisfied tat the applicant's pres ent car is not adequate for the duties he performs. Rationing is effective March 2 and will govern the sale of the 340,000 new automobiles made available for distribution this year. The office of price administra tion directed that local rationing boards require an applicant to prove his need for a new car in the light of conditions peculiar to his community, and officials pre dicted that, with less than 10 per cent of last year's automobile pro duction available for sale during the next 12 months, "many persons on the eligible list will not be able to get a new car." Under the "local conditions" tests, OPA pointed oat, in some communities a local ration board mi flit decide that the needs of defense workers who must travel long distances at odd hoars to reach their Jobs oat weighed the requirements of some other class of eligibles. On the other hand, in densely populated sections with adequate transportation, a local board might rank most other classes ahead of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Friday's Weather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request. Max. temper ature Friday, 48, mln 34. Rain fall, .12 Inches. AP War Writer Reports C. Yates McDaalel, AMctotc Ptcm correspondent mni last Ameri can reporter to tear Singapore be fore Its fan, hat arriTeo safely la BataTia after a tertet of kreata-Uk-taf experience. He teUa his atory la thia eitpatea. the first direct word Iron him since he Wed his last cable from Singapore. Bora of Amerkaa parents at Seochow, China, IS years ace, anO eOacated at the Universities of Rfcnnaoarf tai Nortfc Carolina. Me Daniel tuts keen uOer lire oa aaneroos occasions la China. By C. YATES McDANTEL BATAVXA, NEI, Feb. 20-(De- layed)-()-I escaped from doomed Singapore February 13 aboard the last Vessel - to leave the battered and burning fortress and reached Batavia during an air raid alarm this morning. . In my seven, and one-half day journey I abandoned a bombed ship, was cast up on an uninhab ited island, made my way through a storm in a small launch to Sumatra, crossed that island'! Ifm Aliens US Ships Shortage Slows Aid Sub Losses Said Small; Building Seen Inadequate WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (AP) A shortage of ships was reported Saturday to be the principal obstacle to de livering much needed war supplies to the far-away bat tkfronts of the United: Na tions. War materials, crated and ready to be stowed away in cargo holds were said to be piling up on the wharves. Of course, the obstacle was ex pected to be only a temporary one, since the American ship building program is actually just swinging into full tilt, and pro duction is scheduled to reach a rate of two launchings a day soon. Appearing recently before a senate appropriations subcommit tee, Admiral Emory S. Land, in charge of the ship building pro gram, reportedly said that every effort was being made to avoid shortages of ship-building mate- d. ad prevent the labor dis- past m.....;.. U mm 7 m Al a. a -. flligp wic past nave un Later he. 'rate of construction is not enough." The subcommittee has been considering a $32,070,901,000 army-navy supply bill which includes $3,852,600,000 in ap propriations and authorizations for the shipbuilding program. In spite of increased activity by enemy submarines, losses due to enemy action were said to be relatively small. An important factor in the shortage was said to be the long distance to be cov ered in carrying cargoes to the far Pacific battle area. Sumner Welles, the acting secretary of state, said Satur day the hemisphere defense board would soon take under consideration the question of convoying ships running be tween North and South Amer- lea. It could be taken for grant ed,' he said, that practical meas ures for protecting such ship ping would be worked out in the near future. His statement was evoked by the recent sinking of two Bra zilian ships by axis submarines. Such enemy operations in the Caribbean and Atlantic, he said, were further evidence of the axis plan of world conquest. He agreed, he said, with Foreign Minister Padilla of Mexico that such attacks "give a spectacular reply to those who doubt that the continent is in danger.' WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, Feb. 2 l-oVThirty-nine members of (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Queen Lauds Defenders NEW YORK, Feb. 21-CrVQueen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, in a broadcast Saturday night to her people, praised the defenders of the Dutch East Indies for "their spirit of daring and perseverance, their many feats of heroism.' mountain wilds by truck, - rail, pony cart and completed 1200 round about miles safely through the In dian ocean aboard - a de stroyer. From the saltwater soaked pulp & Ysfa McDem'tl which fa, all x, '. that is left : of my.; Journal I will ' attempt to piece together my story, which in a larger sense is the story of the - last days of Singapore of the few who succeeded and many more who failed to escape the deadly and efficient fury of the final; Japanese ' onslaught on Britian's last stronghold in south ern Asia. ' - : ? , ..V. ' ' . ' '....-,. ' - . : 1 Pi j US, Butch Warships, WapUmes Terrific Resistance of Filipino Citizens Growing Bataan Chief Using Cavite Naval Guns Bay Forts Battered By Jap Artillery; Land Action Lulls WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (AP) The Japanese invad ers of the Philippines are meeting with growing resist ance from civilians, it was re ported Saturday in communi ques which disclosed also that Gen. Douglas MacArthur has the use of some four - inch naval guns in his defense of Bataan peninsula. The war department said Mac- Arthur advised that "civilian re sistance to the Japanese is grow- 4Ang utJntmity . and w tKromisg His dispatch cited as examples: Many informers have mysteri ously disappeared ... a secret society known as the TFF' or 'Fighters for FredoonV has been formed to foster civilian resist ance . . ." This resistance, MacArthur said, was fostered by the Fili pinos' "confidence in ultimate victory and hope that the Japa nese soon may be expelled from the islands." The report was taken here to mean that Emilio Aguinaldo, the aging, one-time leader of the Philippine insurrection, had Uttle influence among his peo ple. Recently Aguinaldo called for a surrender of the Philip pines to the invaders, a pro (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Press, Radio Key Men May Be Deferred "We consider the press and the radio to be playing a very vital part in the national welfare pro gram," CoL Elmer V. Woo ton, Oregon selective service director, declared Saturday in commenting on a report that Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, national direc tor, had announced that news and radio men could be deferred by local boards. That is riffht along the line we have been following here," CoL Woo ton said. "Anyone who is tat a key spot en s newspaper or in a radio station not re placeable immediately may be deferred." Colonel Woo ton has not received any new instructions relating to Hershey's announcement Early in the morning we were looking at the peaceful scene of the little islands when two Japanese light bombers circled ami glided toward vs. The eld ship shuddered when the bombs exploded Jast astern. A few minute later two more planes came over at not 1 more than 500 feet. This time they didn't miss. The decks seemed to bounce up - to meet us aa we flopped on our ' faces. I found a gaping hole through the, forward hold, .. . :. : . vV:- ' " 'Uf.v ; ; Ten minutes later ' there waa another, ear-splitting ' crash fol lowed by the hiss of escaping steam.' The ship ' listed and be gan settling. ; The engineer emerged from the boiler room and assured us the" boilers wouldn't explode because he'd opened the valves, ' ." The officers gave no order In West Coast MaMs Toll of Japanese Invasion Fleet; How Japs Have Encircled j MALAYA O SARAVMKlilK Ct,tbw ' SUMATRA WSISmSH&VA Ji SSfjf Java Sea a U "Tigssr I CAST INPIES jano Eg Jananese landinrs on the island of mo vine southward against Java 'R-'i.. .... mill Ji Vua... It.. ...... I a lt-441a Java sea with reports of TJSed Retread Bids Start Monday County Ration Board to Receive Applications; Classifications Named Marion county local ration boards have been notified that on or after Monday, February 23, they may receive applications for retreading and recapping of tires, although no passenger car tires are to be so treated until March 2. Whether there will be avail able in this area by March 2 suf ficient camelback to meet de mands and to serve those quali fied and certified has not been re vealed, ration board members said Saturday night. Camelback is the rubber foundation used in recap ping and retreading. Classifications of passenger cars entitled to retreading and recap ping of tires are listed as fol (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Yankees Try British Guns WITH THE AEF IN NORTH ERN IRELAND, Feb. 2-JPl United States artillerymen began range firing after a full day on a cold, bleak north Ireland moun tainside dropping high explosive shells . over the heather-tufted ridge. The Yankees, whohave been studying. British field guns, pro nounced the famed English 25- pounder superior to their own weapon. Saga to abandon ship, but within 1 mlantes a lifeboat waa lowered. Before it hit the water, 15 sailors tvmbled in and palled off, too terrified to heed the of ficers shoots to eeme back. After looking over the damage, the captain ordered the other two lifeboats put., overside. W put Miss Lim, the only woman pas senger,' in one. The rest' of us remained - on board hoping" that "t least, one "' of the leaky boats would be able to reach the near est island five miles away and return before we had to swim for it, The captain said he believed we might have another two hours, but the fire in the coal bunker was spreading and the list was getting worse. Propped against a coil of rope. I .tried to. continue my . journal, but was forced to drop . the job twice to answer the calL-'All Bali (A) again shortened the radius of the semi-circle of the attack from various bases (flag symbols). wtcnorlctorie, .. Cantonment At Medford CampWhite WASHINGTON, Feb. Names chosen for new training camps Included that of Camp White, at Medford, Ore., the army announced Saturday. The name honors Major Gen. eral George A. White, late com mander of the 41st division. He was prominent in Oregon and Utah national guard activities. Mahoney to BackMcNary For Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-(ff) Willis Mahoney of Portland, Ore., democratic senatorial nominee In Oregon in 1936 and 1938, said in a statement here Saturday he would not be a candidate this year and would support Senator McNary (R-Ore) minority lead er of the senate for reelection. Mahoney said he was convinced "that opposition under the lead ership of Senator McNary will be of the wholesome type that goes with vigor and independence but foregoes petty partisanship "While I believe that Senator McNary will be a constructive critic of this administration." he continued, "I believe that his criticism will be helpful and above personalities. I believe that democracy as a practical - form of government Is being (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Of Singapore Escape hands to fight fire,"' as Just one of 44 men aboard the burning and fast settling ship. We get the fires under con trol bat Japanese planes came over again and asaia. One waa so lew I saw the bomb awing- on the wing rack bat he &Wt drop tt. -1 helped hoist the life , rafts overboard bet the reUea -bamboo lashing broke and the rusty : tanks sank. 1 : :. -; . t - We were about ready to swim for it when one of our lifeboats returned. Thirty-six of us, indud ing the' captain and all but one of- Lficer climbed in. Six men volun teered to remain aboard for the next trip as our boat was leaking badly -and we were , crammed in like - sardines. After an hour1 of bailing, rowing and sailing, we touched ground on a coral reef. Java Prize Tokyo also reported: tannings on m 41. Mta. t k.U fAwartat i. ht - -rr.-ifc..,t-- Yankees Rule Burma Sides Japs Fail to Crack British Positions On River Sector RANGOON, Burma, Feb. 2 MS5) Japanese bombers raided the town of Bessein behind the de fenders of Burma Saturday, but American and British fliers blast ed Japanese positions and supply columns along the critical Bilin river front and apparently still ruled the air over Burma. For four days, Japanese forces have attempted to crack the British positions along the Bilin without apparent success. There were indications that furious fighting was in progress along the southern front, but no signs of new withdrawals by the de fending troops. Basse in, a railhead town at the mouth of the Irawaddy river, west of Rangoon, has port facilities, which apparently were the object of the Japanese attack. The Ira waddy is navigable for steamers (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Army to Use 25 Planes From Commercial Lines WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-flP) Commercial Airlines, it was an nounced Saturday, have agreed to turn over 25 transport planes to the army. The war department said care was taken to ask planes only from lines and routes where removal of equipment would cause the least possible disruption in air travel important to the war effort. We waded ashore on the little Is land of Bangka. Fifty .five men and one plucky girl piled exhausted and soaked, with their lers bleedinr from eoral eats. Into a launch licensed to earry. 15. " -i If the night on the island was miserable, ' the one aboard ' the launch was indescribable.; Waves rouea ; over tne uechr wnere we were sprawled wet and shivering but we were still hoping we'd make Sumatra before d a w n brought Japanese bombers. Daybreak found us approaching the mouth of the river up which we worked until late afternoon. No one was quite certain where we were except somewhere in Sumat ra, i . . ' . . ; Late that afternoon we got a ' big thrill : when, - rounding a r (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Taking Vast Offensive By Allies Hits Powerful Blow Flying Fortresses Smash Jap Planes; Dutch Ships Active BATAMA, NEI, Feb. 21 (AP) American and Dutch warships and war- planes, on the offensive in what promises to be their mogt powerful joint effort so far, are smashing Jap anese invasion fleets off the eastern and western ends of Java. . So vast and overlapping were the air and sea blows in1 defense of this island stronghold of the' United Nations that an accurate accounting of the successes al ready scored was impossible, but at least one cruiser was blown up, two destroyers sunk and several other warships damaged. Although successive commun iques here and in Washington Sat urday told of at least 18 separate bomb, torpedo or cannon blows on Japanese ships it was probable that several of the ships had fig ured in more than one of the at tacks. In addition to the cruiser blown up, two cruisers and two destroy ers certainly were damaged in a naval battle Friday night off Bali, at the eastern end of Java, when (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Four-County Meeting Set At Corvallis The four-county cantonment council has been called on to meet at Corvallis at 6 o'clock Wednes day night to consider a budget and revised plan of allocating costs of its activities, W. H. Crawford, executive secretary of the Oregon economic council, reported here Saturday. The bndget, agreed by the executive committee to be with held onto Wednesday's meet ing, and the new cost plan were worked out Friday. i i-- Counties' losses in assessed val uation on lands taken over for the Salem-Albany army cantonment will be taken into consideration in the new scheme of pro - rating costs of the council's cooperative program. . PRESS TIME! By tta latest press) tfme In the) states your Orecon Statesman dally girts yout Latest sports - . . , Latest world news".' .? . ........ .:.:...-.,,;. No increase in'price,' 68c per no.- r By carrier.'