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Garden Time Victory gardener, or flow er g ardener, youll be pay ing Increasing attention to that little plot of ground in coming weeks. Read LWle Bladsen's advice to garden ers, in The Sunday States- Relax! Sports help re relax front the worries of war. Follow the erents daily the Statesman sport page with comments by Al Light aer. - .-" . . POUNDS? 1651 NINETY-FmST YEAR Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, February 28. 1942 Price 3a Newttands 5c No. 223 aimkc, Allied Pilots Blast Jap Mm From B4 Jap Doom Foretold By Knox Naval Reports Reveal 53 Nip Vessels Sunk By The Associated Press WASH! NGTON, Feb. 25Such tremendous blows have been dealt to Japan's navy and merchant marine that if the rate of destruction continues for one year, her eventnal doom will be sealed, Unit ed States naval officials indicated Wednesday night. This authoritative word was given to reporters after the navy disclosed officially that it had sent 53 Nipponese naval and merchant vessels to the bottom since Dec. 10. (It also said in passing that it has good reason to believe that three more enemy submarines have been sunk by US naval ac tion in the Atlantic theatre, and four damaged. This brings the total of subs sunk or damaged by the navy in that ocean since the war began to 21, inasmuch as Secretary Knox had declared on Dec. 21 that 14 had either been sent to the bottom or hit.) Knox, in mentioning the figure of 53 Jap ships sunk since Decem ber. 10, added that the navy " be lieved it had sunk seven more and damaged five. Nor was this the whole picture. If blows dealt to Japan's oceanic might by the United States army and its air forces are reckoned in, the score stands: Snnk Believed Sunk Damaged 73 7 S3 Broken down into combatant ships and non-combatant craft this summary . reads: Combatant vessels . Sank Believed Sank Damaged 18 3 18 Non-combatant vessels Sank Believed Sunk Damaged 55 4 15 In addition, terrific blows have been dealt by the Dutch although the figures on their deeds were not up-to-date enough tonight to . include in the grand total, they have been sinking or damaging Nipponese vessels at the approxi mate rate of one a day. Looking at this picture as a whole, authorized navy spokes ' men declared "they (the Japs) can't keep these losses up over a year with their building pro gram.' To win under these eon (Tum to Page 2, Col. 2) Tuesday's Weather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request. River Wednes day, 1.3, feet. Max. temperature Tuesday 51. Min. 37. Battle for the 1 - v;: " - ?6: Keating s climax, the battle for the Burma road will decide the fate ef China's chief supply line, with British troops fighting desperate ly to hold positions on the western shore of the Ellin river. The Jans all-out drive on Rangoon is reported to be within ten miles ef the city and the British have ground. The heavy arrow Indicates where the Chinese are exert ing pressure and the probable last battle front. The British are re- ;' ported endeavoring to Join the Clw'sfBs Mind . , , I -s r- j 5 - x x - 9 t i - ; . - .. - A . - ' r f ' m - -A : v i ' - jf - , - - " - - f IRL. S. McSHERRY Race Quitted By McSherry Cancels Plans to Run For State Secretary; May Be Sprague Aide By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Irl S. McSherry, deputy state parole director, wrote himself out of the race for secretary of state Wednesday with the announce ment that he believed that in war time "we should be without too many contests unless there are issues involved which might be harmful to the best interests of our state and nation." It was understood that Mc Sherry was about to submit his resignation to the parole board, effective March 1, to head up Gov. Charles A. Spragne's re election campaign in the Willa mette valley, area. 4 " McSherry 's withdraWa X left only Robert S. Farrell, jr., Port land, speaker of the house of rep resentatives, as an avowed, if un officially declared, candidate for the republican nomination to suc ceed Secretary Earl Snell, who is seeking the governorship. It point ed attention to t h e question of whether or not one or more of Snell's staff might compete with Farrell. George Flagg, deputy secretary (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6 Oil Stations Favor Night Closing Plan PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 25-OF) Nightly closing of service stations on the Pacific coast to conserve oil supplies for the armed forces may come soon. Ford Sammis, pub lic relations director for the coast petroleum industry, warned Wednesday. He told members of the Portland Advertising Federation it was be coming increasingly difficult for the industry to supply growing military demands for petroleum products without restricting civil ian consumption. A majority of service station operators on the coast favor closing from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m., he said. Burma Road burned the capital practically to the Chinese CBratCDNQ . New Cantonment To Be Nation5 Largest, Record Speed In Building Army's Goal Wage Rates Are Set; Reservation Takes Form; Budget Voted Speed! That little word is going into action in the mid-Willamette I valley next week and out of it will come the largest army can tonment in the nation, in terms of temporary training bases, a horde of 8 0 0 0 workmen and their families, a monthly pay roll expenditure in surrounding towns and cities of approximately $2,000,000 and, later in the year, undisclosed battalions of soldiers Cantonment Summarized Construction Workmen expected to pour into four county area next week. Size Largest In the Unit ed States. Transportation- Running of labor trains from Salem, Albanyr and i Corvallls pro-r posed. Highway s Relocation through Monmouth studied. Wages Laborers 75 cents an hour, carpenters $1.37 Vi, plumbers $1.50. Payroll $2,000,000 per month may be spent in near by towns, cities. Cantonment council- $5500 budget adopted, sub ject to approval by city councile, county courts. Schools No serious over crowding anticipated until fall term. Housing Temporary types required for construc tion workers, families, gov ernment-built houses to come last USO Cherrians advised Salem denied grant for USO building, dedde to try again. and officers to drill and practice maneuvers and look for homes and places to spend time on leave. "Costs are forgotten, speed is the order, for we are at war,' Major R. E. M. Des Islet, on-the- ground builder of Bonneville dam and now of the Albany-Corvallis cantonment, in effect told Salem civic and business leaders Wed nesday afternoon and the four county cantonment council and visitors at its meeting at Corvall: Wednesday night Court action to give the army prompt possession of some 60 square miles of land for the can tonment is to be instituted in fed eral court yet this week, it is un derstood, to permit thousands of workmen to start building roads and prefabricating buildings next week Pleading for all-out cooperation on the part of the four counties and seven cities most directly af- fected by the cantonment, Major Des Islet said at the Corvallis meeting that "we've got-to do the (Turn to Page 2. Col. 1) British Ship bunk by Sub SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Feb. 25-iflVThe 5,88 5-tbniBritish tanker La Carriere was sunk early Wednesday by a submarine attack 75 miles south of Puerto Rico, sur- viyors reaching the Port Of Guam - ca reported Wednesday afternoon. Two boat loads of crewmen, one 1 carrying 20 persons and the other three survivors and a bodv.l reached the beach, and two other boats were reported still adrift at sea. The ship, first described from Ponce as an American freighter, was torpedoed late Tuesday night and sank four hours later, the sur vivors said. She was unable to send an SOS. V. . 4-County Conncil Told First Photo of Sub Shelling 3000 Expected Splintered wreckage of an oil well north of Santa Barbara Is shown la tne a Dove international il lustrated News Soundphoto, result of a shell fired from a Japanese submarine. The five-inch shell splintered the catwalk above the shed, hnnsinr numninr machinery other hil tr raninr hole in on the sea, vengeful American Barbara and Goleta in ever widening circles lor me nuge enemy submarine. Kenorta of flashing lights offshore and in the hills be hind Montecito indicated possible marauding submarine. County GOP Want to Know War Facts Chief of Party's Woman's Division Says Nation Confused by Washington Bureaus; Lauds Nelson, Hopes for OCD Betterment By ISABEL CHILDS "People of the United States axe aware we are at war! "They do not want to know give comfort and aid to the enemy, but they do want to know what the situation is and what Thus Marion E. Martin, assistant chairman of the Republic an national committee and head of its woman's division, poke of her findings on a recent cross- KAiinfrv trin o che fldrirpccprl Mgr;nn mM?n. in sa lem on Wednesday night, r,,; I L, ZZ. ZuZ willingness to sacrifice. That con fusion, the speaker said, had its birth in Washington. The office of fact and figures she termed an outstanding misnomer, called in the nation's capital "the office of facts and fancies." and pointed to I MacLeish's statement of January 14 that the maritime commission "is now launching, one ship every 24 hours" and to the coninussion's j report on February 12 that it had 1 produced 17 ships during January. Army encampments are cost ing $62 per man and the army statisticians with bodges board worker had estimated fairly a cost of C5ft per nun but testi mony has revealed that on the' advice of the budget - boreaa only $40 was asked with the express plan of securing the, rest later as a deficiency allo cation, she said, - The claim that republicans were i (Turn to Pag 2 CoL 5) ""IMilv:, r ...1 hf mi In the Elwood oil field, 12 miles and pierced the shed s wall. An- the refinery's pier. In the air and warcraft swept the seaa off Santa fifth column cooperation with the Told People army secrets nor would they we can do about it!" British Units In New York NEW YORK. Feb. 25-rVA ju ntuu frv. . ... . J is quartered in the New Yorkj metropolitan area, the war de partment bureau of public rela tions announced Wednesday. The bureau gave no information ne Dureau gave no on the idenuty 01 me units, me prooaoxe aurauon 01 weir skj w . 1 , . 1 m 41. . the area, or weir utumaie ues- tlnauon. , ' Norwegians Destroy Nazi Military Depot MOSCOW- Feb. 26(Thursday) -3-Th Moscow radio said to- f - ' : t .... day that Norwegian patriots had destroyed two new German nun tarv depots near Trondheini. ; set- ting fire to large quantities of mu nitions and fueL ' A sudpIv depot at Namsos also was fired, it was said. - - To Start Work By Next Week Citizens Warned not To Gouge; Transport Plans Are Urged ALBANY, Feb. 25-(Special) Albany must be prepared with in the next week or ten days to accommodate an influx of 3000 or more men, many of them bringing their families, Major R. E. M. Des Islets, command ing officer of the Albany-Cor vallis cantonment project, told a luncheon meeting of the Al bany chamber of commerce Wednesday. The major gave the figure as his estimate of the number of cantonment workers who would live in Albany because of its proximity to the cantonment area, highways and railroads. The re mainder of the workers probably will distribute themselves among Airlie, , Monmouth, Independence, Corvallis, Dallas and Salem, he said. Major Des Islets warned mer chants and owners of accommo dations against seeking excessive profits from the cantonment workers. - . . ' iH -. "You're not going to hurt any one but yourselves if you try to gouge these people," he declared. "Gouging practices lead suc- sively to dissatisfaction, labor unrest, strikes, damage to busi ness, higher wages, higher prices and eventually higher taxes," he added. Based on his estimate of 3000 or more construction workers lo cating here, Major Des Islets said Albany would benefit from about $500,000 a month out of a monthly construction payroll of about $2,000,000 giving ample chance to sell more goods at a fair profit. The major told his andience he was not trying to dictate what they should do but merely ad vising them as to some of the problems the cantonment would bring;. As to the building of the cantonment itself, "which is my business," he declared it his Job to see that everything be done as it should be done, let the chips fall where they may. Provision of ample transporta tion facilities to carry the camp workers between their jobs and their homes was urged by the maior so that as few cars as necessary be parked on the can tonment grounds. He also warned that housing projects in the vicinity of the cantonment can not be launched now because the cantonment con struction will absorb all available labor. Home building may -follow the peak of the rush at the camp. Tire Quotas For March Announced SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25-(ff) March quotas for new tires and tubes for passenger cars, trucks, motorcycles and busses in the sue western states, quotas which are 1 generally higher than last month, were announced Wednesday by office of price administration. Oregon: - New tires for passen ger cars, motorcycles and light trucks, L313; n e w tubes, 1,099; new tires for trucks and buses, 1 3 ,038, new tubes, 3,414; truck re- ..j, , flR 1 ' . - PORTLAND. F e b. 25-VRe- 1 treads and recans will not be available during MalfCh, to Oregon motorists with passenger automo biles, the -state tire rationing ad tninisteator said Wednesday. Camelback, used for retreading and recapping," would be released ov tne government oruy zor 1308 ii. . a ... .- m--.-- jiruat ana dus urea in we uiaie. - 1 me cince aaia. f , ftieanwrme, ciergymeq were in - l lormea iney- must prove their (need zor new tires' and tubes to obtain 1 ceruncates from local - rationing boards. Tokyo Trip Advertised By US Navy PORTLAND, Feb. 25.-()-Taking a page from the book wed by travel agencies, the Portland navy recruiting dis trict staff Wednesday issued, a new poster to bolster Its five month record as the nation's leader in number of enlistments. "Go west, young man," the poster read. "Personally eon ducted tours leaving dally for Tokyo. You'll want to be there when the band starts playing. Tour sponsored by the US navy, federal building, Portland." LA Wondering Over Air Raid Knox "False Alarm" Statement Puzzles; CD Officials Riled LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25-P) Thousands of sleepy citizens, who had thrills and chills early Wed nesday watching what they thought was an enemy air raid, were wondering Wednesday night what it was all about Navy Secretary Knox statement in Washington that, from informa tion reaching him, the incident was "a false alarm" echoed the already expressed opinions of many southern Calif ornians. (Los Angeles civil defense authorities rapped Knox' statement as detri mental to civilian morale.) But it brought no immediate relaxation in the tight-lipped silence of the army's western defense command. That silence was broken just once during the day, to admit that there was a blackout and shooting, and to add' , that ' no , bombs ; were dropped and no planes shot down. At 3:45 o'clock Wednesday aft ernoon fourth army headquarters issued this statement, without elaboration: The aircraft which caused the blackout in the Los Angeles area for several boors this morning have not been identi fied." If it was a false alarm, how ever, it was an impressive ana spectacular one. Anti - aircraft guns pumped thousands of rounds of ammunition toward an objec tive presumed fixed in the pierc ing beams of uncounted search lights. Southern California from the San Joaquin valley to the Mexican border was blacked out from 2:25 a.m. (PWT) to 7:21 a.m. (An alert against enemy at tack. Involving- all ef western Oregon, was ordered at 5:07 a. m. Wednesday, bat the all-clear signal was given at 7:45 aja. There was no explanation for the alert, ordered by the fourth interceptor command, Jerrold Owen, state civilian defense co ordinator, said.) The screeching wails of sirens awakened most of the area's three million sleepers and within a few minutes they saw a slow-moving object, which many thought was a blimp, caught in an intensely bright patch of light where scores of searchlights converged. The "poom, poom, poom" of anti-air craft guns rattled windows in some of the beach areas and there were brilliant bursts of fire, somewhat like the spreading of Fourth of July skyrockets, around the sky craft In some areas Ack Ack shells exploded In residential districts, bnt no one was Injured, Frag ments crashed Into a bed which a woman and a girl had left mo ments before to look at the raid. The "flak' as runners call it, also shattered a window. One official source, which de clined to be quoted directly, told The Associatt'Press that army planes went into action as soon as (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Phony Bills Circulated SEATTLE, Feb. 25.-(i!rVIfany one tries to slip you a 120 bill for change, better take a good look at it ' - ' Capf W, R. Jarrell of the secret service ' warned Wednesday ; that counterfeit $20 banknotes, were in circulation in : the Pacific north west, Hetsaid fourcf iherarwere recovered here Wednesday. The counterfeits resemble notes of the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco, series of 1934. Captain JarreU said Hhat the y were "smudgy on the backstder with crossbars on the White House windows incomplete. ' 30 Planes Crash In Victories More Transports Sunk; Invaders " Rest in Burma By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor American and allied pi lots triumphantly rode the skies Wednesday in a se ries of local victories from Rangoon to the Bismarck archipelago while the Jap anese invader lay resting on the Burma front and strengthened his forces upon the approaches to Java and Australia. Thirty or more enemy planes were shot down over the Burma area and two enemy river boats were smashed by the Amer ican volunteer group and the RAF, and there was no mention of allied loss. Seven American pursuit planes over Java tore into a formation of nine Japanese bombers protected by 14 fighters, shot down two en emy planes and damaged six oth ers without a single American casualty. Three more enemy transports were sent to the bottom by allied bombs off Macassar. A late afternoon US war de partment communique reporting that two Japanese transports had bfVn su3kv by-lieavy- .-iftanericasr! bombers in those waters appar ently referred to thii. thus indi cating that the Dutch got the thim ship. us army pursuit pianes, inisv commanique' disclosed, also jjad the better of it in a second en counter over Java this" time specifically located as having been over the great Dutch na val base of Soerabaja. There an American formation engaged an enemy swarm 52 bombers and 40 fighters and "shot down at least one enemy craft for cer tain and most likely several others. A rain, there was no American loss. The strongest formation ot Australian bombers yet to take the air smashed at Japanese mar shalling points, Rabaul on New Britain and on the part Portu- , (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) Russian Ring Moves Closer Plan to Trap German Troops Progresses on Staraya Russ Front MOSCOW, Thursday, Feb. 28 (iS-The red army's "ring around the 16th nazi army on the Staraya Russia front is tightening," a dis patch direct from that front said today, "and several more enemy garrisons have been surrounded and are being annihilated." Russia's heavy blow at the German troops appeared to be only the first part ef a ma neuver aimed at trapping all nasi troops in that bloody north western corner of Russia, and some red units were reported striking westward! toward the Estonian frontier, less than 180 miles away. (A Stockholm Teport! received in London said 100.000 German (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Think What it Me ans to Him! Keep Him Posted , About News From f Home. Send.Him - Vi. ". 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