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Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning. February 22. 1942
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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
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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. . .- .
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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
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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
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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
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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. ' -
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. .
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