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Attacks Made
On Churchill
? Cripps Boosted as
.Successor; Failure
1 In. War Resented
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zed as follows the failures, with
which Churchill himself .Is
'charged: . ,1,'., ;
Dispatch of the capital ships
Prince of Wales and Repulse to
Malaya, where they were sunk,
despite warning by the naval
Staff that they would have little
air support;
'V Placing of Lord Beaverbrook In
. positions where he alienated both
f the fighting services" and the
'heavy industries, and from which
i he failed to get to the L Middle
a s t needed . tank replacements
'and airplane parts; v'::.;-';;.,':;
u'v Intruding his (Churchill's) not
- always-successful Judgment Into
. conduct of the war (Britons re-
member Gallipoli);
, - Most of all the British, from
taxi driver to peer, are fed up
.- with talk - about "preparing for
.future offensives.,, v
V In the services themselves the
t heat Is en. The critics, most re
f eenUy disturbed ever the flight
1 ' of the nasi warships Gneisenau,
, - Scharnhorst and, Prini Eugen
from Brest to the North Sea,
:. want to get a younger, more
energetic sailor In the place ef
' Admiral Sir Pound, first sea
Moid. ; f
Hore - Belisha, once Britain's
war secretary, bolted the govern
ment liberal national party In or-
der to "express constructive sug-
gestions without fear of penalty."
: He has hammered consistently
'at Churchill's interference with
military affairs. A number of
. youthful -army, navy and RAF
officers also resent Churchill's ac-
staff meetings, and the system by
which the prime minister through
- his representatives can exert pres
sure on the highest military coun
cils. .'
iagar i. uarnvuie, who bolt
ed the liberal national party i
wit h Bore -Belisha, Maxton,
Gallacher and Vernon Bartlett,
the keen diplomatic correspond
ent who turned MP, are de
manding "action and not
words," and leaving no doubt
they think this nnobto&able
from Churchill.
Even, more dangerous to the
prime minister are, the rounded
sentences - of . the Times, the in
fluence of . -which is as great as
r.. VIW.MVU . M HUSU4
On February 24 the Times as
sailed bj - Indirection Churchill's
habitpf , overriding other -mem--
bers df the war cabinet and de
dared it essential that in the new
. group "its members shall singly
' or collectively enjoy true power
of decision in debatable issues of
policy."
BpcaKing oi we government's
. policy ea India, soon to be re-
UfmmJt 4 k. Tl. . Mll
here as elsewhere, new men,
not rooted in old traditions, are
required to represent the new
spirit and to make the new
. machinery work." '
' Also the u 1 1 r a - conservative
Sunday Observer, owned by Lord
Astor, brother of the Times' own
er. Major John J. Astor, recent
" ly swung in line beside its daily
." contemDorarv' Significant nt thla
change was the recent resifna-
: tion -of Hardy J. L. Garvin, the
m . ...
vyuscrvers iong-ume eaiior who,
friends said, refused to attack the
prime minister in his weekly
leading article which reaches the
same influential . public as the
,- daily editorials of the Times.
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House Trims
Farm Program
WASHINGTON. March &-IBA
The house slashed $600,000 Thurs-
y from the i6as.1SSit.S0 n4-
ure department aDDroDriatlons
X.an ecenomy bloc, with
strength, threatened
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WASHINGTON, March 5-6P)
The treasury, seeking to head off
congressional sentiment for a gen
eral sales tax as one means of
raising $7,000,000,000 in new reve
nue, told the: house ways . and
means committee that It should
be considered only "as a last re
sort". Amplifying the opposition ex
pressed previously by Secre
tary Morgenthao, Randolph
PanL his tax adviser, asserted
that a safes tax would have "a
very Inflationary effect."
"A sales '- tax is inflatinnsrv
compared with Income taxes,"
Paul declared. "But on the other
hand, a sales tax is not as infla
tionary as borrowing from banks;
it has a direct, effect on price
ceilings."
Morgenthau has proposed rais
ing $7,610,000,000 chiefly through
doubling individual income pay
ments, greatly increased corpora
tion taxes, and new and higher
excise levies. "
Large Trailer Camp
Started at Albany
ALBANY, March S-flpV-Con-
struction of a trailer camp of 750
to 100a units has bees' started
near the Albany bridge, Carl Cur-
lee, secretary of the chamber of
commerce, announced Thursday.
The project, he said, would help
meet the housing problem
brought about by the building of
an army cantonment
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Will Be Used in Training Uncle Sam's
Advanced Beechcraft training planes under eonstractlon for the US
army spread ever a huge expanse of floor space at the planl ef the
Beech Aircraft corporation In Wichita, Kan, .
Former Salem Girl Singer Gets
Applause of Pleased Audience
There's always a thrill in hearing an artist's first large home
town concert, after making successes in larger cities. That is the
experience Salem friends of Lucile Cummings, contralto and
former Salem Eirl had Thursdar niarht at th SaiAm t.ih hwi
aucuionum, -
Miss Cnmmlngs has won
many music honors ' since : she
attended Salem high school and
Willamette university, and went
to California to make singing
her career.
xne contralto Thursday nirht
Immediately gave the appear-'
anee of perfect ease and assur
ance. ..---r - ;
In her first group, three num
bers sung in German, she found
opportunity "to display a variety
of tones and range. '
The first "Zueignung"
(Strauss) was lively, the second.
"Isomer Leiser wir mean Senium-
mer" by Brahms was softly melo
dious. In the latter, Miss Cum
mings found a chance to reach her
low notes, which she did with
ease. But higher reaches we
thought sweeter.
An exception to this was
found' In an encore, "Deep Riv
er," in which she offered the
quality of her low, combined
with the purer sweetness of her
higher notes. We thought this
number one of her best .
Of the group of negro spirit
uals, let us say that they are far
more difficult for the white singer
to handle than one would sup
pose. This choice we thought less
wise than some, for although she
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had the voice, the swing that must
accompany spirituals was lack
ing. : :-
In such numbers as Daniels'
Beyond" and "Birth of Dawn"
by Leoni, Miss Cummings gave
her listeners their money's
worth in downright pleasurable
Interpretation.
Miss (Cummings is young, and
she has already accomplished
much. Many -critics have predict
ed a briffht future fnr fie in hr
chosen art, and we, snTnVerely
agree. -
Board Freezes
ewriters
WASHINGTON, March
The war production board Thursday-night
froze aH sales and 'de
liveries of new and used type
writers, effective at midnight
The order, expected to.be fol
lowed shortly by a rationing pro
gram,; was intended to conserve
the supply of typewriters for es
sential, use. The industry is un
dergoing conversion to war pro
duction. v
The sweeping order overrides
any outstanding sales . contracts
for typewriters or any priority
claims on typewriter deliveries.
WPB officials said the order
was issued chiefly . to prevent a
probable run on typewriter stocks
resulting from the conversion
program.
Wife Slayer
Is Convicted
PORT ANGELES. Wash- March
5.-GTV-A superior court iurr of ll
men and one woman convicted
Monty J. mingworth Thursday
night of second degree murder for
the killing of his wife, Hallie,
whose body was found in Lake
Crescent a year and a half ago.
The iury returned the verdict
against the Long Beach, Calif, bus
driver after slightly more than
two hours of deliberation. It de
liberated two hours before a' re
cess for dinner and announced its
verdict was ready 10 minutes aft
er returning to Its chambers. . .
iQingworth showed no visible
signs of emotion at the verdict,
but his mother, Mrs. . Flossie II
lingworth, of Long Beach, broke
into weeping.
Game Official Dies '
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore-
March , . o-iPHFrancis R. Olds,
member of the state game com
mission since 1039. died Thursdav
1 night ' He left a lodge : meeting,
complaining of feeling HI, and
died soon after reaching home.
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New Fliers
Experts Sure
Bomb Dropped
By Jap Plane
HONOLULU. March 5-tfVThe
army announced 'that "examina
tion of fragments by army ord
nance experts has confirmed that
the plane which dropped four
bombs on the outskirts of Hono
lulu early Wednesday was Japa
nese."
The army announced Wednes
day that three bombs were drop
ped and that they caused neither
casualties nor damage except : a
few broken windows.
Thursday's announcement in
dicated the finding of another
bomb crater besides the three
previously reported.
The plane flew over Oahu is
land at a high altitude and was
believed to have come from a
cruiser or other vessel at sea.
Army officials said planes were
sent into the air immediately af
ter the invader was detected and
said this possibly explained the
hurried jettisoning of the enemy
plane's bombs.
The bombing was the first in
the Hawaiian islands since the
Japanese raid on December 7 on
Pearl Harbor. "
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Jap Centers :
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from the Canadian border to
Mexico and along the southern
part of Arizona.
Thirty five Japanese or par
tially Japanese families residing
In Marion county outside of Sa
lem are - comprised of 88 aliens
and 83 citizens, statistics com
piled Thursday by Sheriff A. C
Burk's office reveal
Of the citizens, representing
second and third generations in
mis country, at least three are
attending college outside of the
county and one Is enlisted in the
armed forces of the United
States.
Nickel Mags
Double Price . ,
PHILADELPHIA. March H.--PS
-The Saturday Evening Post, a
mcxei magazine for more than a
century, will be 10 cent a copy
after April 11, the Curtis Publish
ing company announced Thurs
day, and a similar nrire hnmi was
disclosed immediately by Liberty
in. new- xorx. -.ff'';: -;-Publishers
of Collier aaiif th
would have a statement soon.
Walter D. Fuller. ' nresident of
the Curtis companv. said the Post
sold at five cents "far longer than
a ."
puousnmg conditions Justified."
Liberty said rising costs of paper
prompted its Increase -effective
with the April 18 issue. '
Just Change in Name
. w iuKK, March 8-tAVThe
Birth Control Federation of
America announced today it had
changed its corporate name a tha
Planned Parenthood Federa'tiojn of
America. -J . '
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PORTLAN D-taVLike mart
young men. C N. Jarvis. Portland
photographer, was skeptical about
a Duna date.
AH right, if he felt that wit
about It take a look first. dvtvt
his friend, a circulation solicitor
for the Oregon Journal
Jarvis did. DOSinx as a solicitor
for "the paper. He got a good look
at the girl who turned out .to be
a iioney and yearr subscrip
tion to tne paper . : t.-..
P. S. Jarvis kept the date. .
Due td the present dmin.
stances X will be unable to keep
up me monthly quota of one les
son. However, I shall toy to have
another lesson to submit soon.; I
hope this delay does not affect
my record in the Institute."
The institute answered that It
would not
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Batavia Fall
Defenders Plan for
Holding Action to
Delay Invaders
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strong allied counter-stroke soon
against the Japanese, .
Althongh the f aU of Singa
pore had opened the gates te
the brown flood, he said, and
the Dutch were left "practical- .
ly alone," they were not alto
gether alone.
.There are American, Austra
lian and British' forees in this
coon try which are fighting Just
as bravely as onr own men,' he
' added, V.;-!.l'Vr.4-iw. rl
' . . . And It may be expect
ed that at any moment the at
tack on the enemy win be
launched from another side,"
- Elsewhere in the Pacific, the
day was mixed, ;
Gen.' MacArthur'g forces on Lu
zon reported that In th nmin.,..
ly announced sinking of Japanese
amps m oudic Day ty the small
American air' arm thousands of
enemy soldiers were in aU likeli
hood drowned and killed, it hav
ing develooed that . th m!i
were transports.' .
On the Burma front the situa
tion was still critical for the Brit
ish and it appeared that the Japa
nese, having crossed the SIttang
river, were imT-Kinry for a drive
down the west short of the Gulf
of Martaban upon Rangoon in
southern Burma, - '
There was a report ef a
clash between allied and Japa
nese forees in the : northern
Burma frontier region where
ihe Chinese have long been
standing in considerable
strength. This came from Japa
nese, sources, who claimed that
in five hoars of fighting about
Chienxmai. In Thailand near
the Burma border, "the enemy
forces retired." .
In the Australian press there
was an expressed conviction that
recent enemy air raids on the
northern Australian port of Dar
win were the certain heralds of
an early attempt t invasion. .
Van Mook gave up for lost, by
the very Inequality of power be
tween the defenders and the at
tackers, the TltUe-defended outer
provinces' along Java's northern
shore.
"Against this force we cannot
pit a force which at all points
simultaneously can defend oar
country," he said. "In this ease
we must find our strength, as
MacArthur Mid, in. concentrat
ing and def ending certain areas
where nature gives us an eppor-
. tunlty to resist the superior
forees . . ' :
fWhatever happens we may be
sure that the final victory will be
on our side ... This war is one
big fight, and our victory can Just
as well be won in the waters of the
Pacific as on the wide plains of
Russia.
. "Every day that we hnM
brings us nearer to victory."
Meanwhile the enemy, casting
his air arm out over the southern
island, had opened aerial attacks
upon TJOatjap, the single port on
that shore that could be used to
disembark - allied reinforcements.
- The Dutch . command tnM .
story of tragically general allied
reverses, or an enemy force thus
far irresistible fand a fnrr whioh
London understood, although the
Dutch there had no conflrmatfan
had been strengthened by new
landings on the west coast of
Java in the face of allied coun
ter-attacks). .
"All ever Java," said the aft- j
emeon war bulletin, "the battle
against Japanese invasion troops
is raging."
w yuuuon on ue
three main fronts: . .
Batavia. In narthvMi
Japanese movement of envelon.
ment apparently was proceeding
unnawea. ; Krawang, 30 miles east
of Batavia. had fallen htt. .
complementary enemy thrust from
i wesi naa reacned .Tangerang,
only 10 miles short of the capital.
Bandoeng, inland in the western
section of the Island and southeast
of Bata-Poerwakarta, 23 miles
north-northwest of . that city, has
Deen overrun; the : airdrome at
KalidjatL 15 miles north f tj
doeng. was In enemv hunH, i
under allied attack; from the Sot-
bang area to the northeast a sec
ond enemy column was seeking to
ciose ue crap. ,
Soerabala. In the east t.tnn
the last ' remaining . railroad to
the west had.b e en cut by the
enemy In overrunning Soerakarta.
VA mIIu . ... .
w iuun uuana ana ine point of
the deepest enemy thrust from his
initial beachheads; - Bodjanegara.
SO miles West of SaeVahat ..4
the first of the two east-west rail
ways w oe reached, -also had been
captured by tha
appeared ' mat ne was driving to
vu uie uiana in two. , ' J - .: -
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Baron Uabbed
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- Baron Frits von Opel
Millionaire yachtsman and a hunt
ing enthusiast. Baron Frits von
Opel, above, has been seized by
federal agents at Palm Beach,
ITa, and held as a potentially
- dangerous alien. .
Car Owners
Told Tire
Hopes Dim
WASHINGTON, March 5-P)
Owners of 22,500,000 automobiles
now operating in this country re
ceived a blunt and doontr warn
ing Thursday that they can not
nope to get any new or retreaded
tires in the next three years or
longer, barring ; unforeseen war
victories or miracles.
Leon Henderson, director of
civilian supply , and. price ad
ministrator announced the
startling details ef the critical
war-time rubber shortage at a
public hearing of the special
senate committee Investigating
national defense.
After grimly testifying that
there would' not be a "single
pound of new, crude rubber"
available either for new tires or
retreads on some 30,000,000 auto
mobiles of ordinary citizens, Hen
derson said "that means . starkly
and simply that the majority of
these carfare likely to be laid tin
when their present tires are worn
out and the ingenuity of their
owners has been exhausted."
Later the chunky defense offi
cial modified this a bit by saying
officials still hoped to keep some
7,300,000 hof .these cars t operating
for defense workers, on tires made
largely from reclaimed rubber
during the next three years. :
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Salens to Aid
Ratioii Board
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has objected to the inconven
ience or ef the time spent, Helt-'
ad declared Thursday, bat thai
addition ef ether commodities
to the original tire ration makes
the task mere than a fall time'
Job for the three persons, and f
the expense cannot be nnderl
taken by them Indefinitely.
Efficiency demands that it
should be centered, he said. :
"Marion county is providing 123
a month toward the support of
the ; office; OUara indicated his
committee would probably recom
mend that the city provide S29 in
marcn and again in "Aprfl. Al
ready the federal government ha
made available funds for full-time
clerk hire, and some office sup
plies, ' HeltzeL has ' announced. '
German i Alien Nabbed -
-' PORTLAND, March 5-flVAr-
o an unregistered German
auen wno has been touring the
country with a etmm . ...
nounced Thursday bylUS Attor
ney ionaugh. . . : ; ,
- The alien was mrr.tA "i-'
Tfllamook region and had a
ma possession, at the
fime, Donaugh said. . -
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U be so precipitate thai they
left wounded in a hospital of
the vOagaef Slobeda and tailed
In a desperate last-mlnote ef
fort to set fire to Yokhnov and
destroy "' ammunition i t at p
there, As a result the Russians
captured a large Quantity - ef ,
materiel.
On the same front, a supple
mental report said, " Russian m-.
fan try . units smashed t h f 85th
German infantry regiment and the
first battalion of the 21st Infantry
regiment'''-;' . ' i : t
Yokhnov Is ea the TJgra river,
midway between the Moscow-Smolensk-MInsk
railroad roate
and ( the ; road from Moscow
south through Bryansk. It Is
kbout St miles southeast ef
Tyasma on the Minsk read, and
the same distance west ef Ka
luga ea the Bryansk read.
Attempted German counter-attacks
on some sectors of the front
were acknowledged by the soviet
command in its communique to
night. The enemy "tried to . stop
the advance of our troops." the
bulletin, said, "but suffered great
losses : In manpower and equip
ment and retired westward,"
Knudsen and
Army Probe
Fatal Blast
BURLINGTON, Ia March S
(ff)-Lieut Gen. William Knudsen,
the army's production chief. Fri
day personally will visit the scene
of the Iowa ordnance plant disas
ter where at least 15 persons died
Wednesday night In the plant's
second explosion within three
months."'; "
Stn. Clyde L. Herring (D
Ia) announced Gen. Knudsen's
visit after declaring the blast
Indicates , peer . housekeeping
Mmewhere." ; : . .
Herring; who' Is ehalrmaa ef
the senate subcommittee Inves
tigating defense Industries, said
he also would come here Fri
day from his he m e in Dos
-Moinea.:w.' . a. ;:f J--, -?. i
Grig. Gen. IV McFarland.' as
sistant-to the chief of army , ord
nance, and Brir. Gen. L. N. Camn-
belL Jr, assistant chief 'of indus
trial . service ; facilities, arrived
here from Washington late Thurs
day to attempt to determine the
cause of the terrific blast, which
shook the countryside within a 20.
mile radius last night. "
.Coroner Xtt GUes said IS
bodies had .been recovered. Day
and Zimmerman, Ine, operator
ef the 160,000,001 pUnt, identi
fied IS bodies and aald Ave
worunen were """"f and may
be dead.' ..... y ., .' r ;;
Fifty one persons were hos
pitalized, some in serious condi
tion, while an unknown number
of others were treated for minor
injuries. . :-c. , .
MaJ. J, H. Edeerly. chief of nro-
duction control here, said the
blast was due to an explosion of
amatol, a mixture of immnnhnu
nitrate and TNT. .
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