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Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, February 28. 1942
Price 3a Newttands 5c
No. 223
aimkc, Allied Pilots Blast Jap
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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the area, or weir utumaie ues-
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Norwegians Destroy
Nazi Military Depot
MOSCOW- Feb. 26(Thursday)
-3-Th Moscow radio said to-
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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- ,
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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
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