J
PAGFTWO
, . By KIRKE L. SIMPSON .
Wide World War Analyst For The Statesman
Despite fresh victories announced by Tokyo at Rangoon
and in Java, there are strong indications that Japan is shifting gayfag the camp would house 33,
at least temporarily to a defensive role in the Pacific. 000 men, would have a building
. 7 Tbe battle of communication lines is already on with Ameri- tix miles long and two miles
can forces apparently moving to
the attack. Bow, when and where
that attack will come must be of
greater concern to -Tokyo at this
critical moment than planning
new major aggressions against In
dia or Australia. :
- That an Amerieaa attack Is
brewing cannot bo doubted m
' - the light of recent operations of
US naval forces among Japanese
: Island outposts far west of Ha-
. wall. It was somewhere west
of the Gilbert bland that an
American task force engaged a
force of Japanese bombers and
virtually annihilated It
'f While Nipponese seizure of new
bases on the east coast of New
Guinea, withm close bombing
range of the Australian mainland,
; hints at an attempted full scale
invasion, it also suggests , a de
fensive purpose.
New Guinea is the southern
flank of the Japanese eastern
chain of island bases, developed
in Delth, to guard her 4000-mile
long supply routes. down the
China sea, American forces must
' travel twice that far from the west
coast ports either to reinforce and
supply defenders of Australia' or
..New Zealand, or to slash at Jap
anese communications in the
: China sea.
Tbe fall of Kangoon and
I - Java was clearly foreshadowed.
. Both have been written off as
lost la revised allied war plans
since the premature fan of Sing-
a pore undermined them. ,
What is important is whether
' Japan now turns to an attempt to
' consolidate., her victories by de-
- f ensive measures, or toward ' ex
: pansion of her attack against
either Australia or India, or both
' simultaneously.
" - The first impression is that she
. is endeavoring to stiffen the de-
' fenses of her eastern sea .flank
"' against - expected American at
tacks on her communication lines,
. deferring ; further , advances ' at
jfeast temporarily, .
, . A csriou sot la tho Tokyo
announcement of the capture of
Rangoon bears oat that eon
elnslon. It said the "main ob
jective" of Japanese operations
ta Burma had now been achlev-'
ed. The Burma road has been
completely cut. '. -
If that means a Japanese halt
in Burma, forces released with the
final mopping-up in Java will be
available, for use against Aus
tralia or to man island bases In
the Philippines, tho Dutch Indies,
New Guinea and far out eastward
- into the Pacific to foil American
stabs. .
Garden Value
Stressed at
Salem Meet
- Principles of making gardens
valuable were stressed Monday
night' as approximately 40 per
sons attended the first of a ser
. les of meetings on gardens, spon
sored by the Salem Victory Gar
i den - committee and -the Salem
v Garden club. - y , .
Prof. A. G. B. Bouquet, vegeta
. ble crop specialist at Oregon State
r college said value of gardens is
in the quickness of food produc-
. Hon and the variety of foods pos
sible. . He . declared there is little
use of' trying, to , garden without
- reasonably good land and serious
: intent and on a large enough scope
, to be worthwhile, not wasteful.
Miss Edith Schryver, chairman
of the committee, spoke of the im
portance of preserving home
beauties, not plowing up lawns
fur gardens, and W. G. Nibler, as-
sistant county agent, described
the county victory garden pro
gram.
Next : session Is set for next
Monday . night at Salem high
school.
Evacuation in
Oregon Only
If Invaded
There will be no mass evacua
tlon in Oregon except in event of
enemy invasion. Gov. Charles A.
Sprague declared here Monday.
The governor said civilians
would bo expected to remain at
heme through ordinary r token
tc!s raids but aided that if
t-a bosbinss became heavy and
izzient, arrangeinents .wcwli-'be
r-.zli fcr tie evacuation of in-
2I2jpCIoased and children to
rifar areas witxan the state.
Tls rc":y was tsreed upon at
s r:;:r.t ccrJcrcnce cf regional of-
tl e.s state evacuauon
" . Governor Cprajue said.
3 Ilclntjre, Portland, is
Japs Assured
Of Protection
By US Army
Safety of Evacuees'
Property, Crops to Bel
Arranged by Agency
(Continued from Page 1)
to discuss how to meet the ex
pected evacuation problem.
The Japanese group, represent
ing 10 states, has pledged full co
operation in any orders the army
may issue.
General D Witt said that
. Japanese living In the barred
. zones were still being encour
aged to work oat their own ar
rangements for resettling in
land, and that many were do
ing this Just how many ho did
not know. ,
He repeated earlier warnings
that Japanese who . plow under
growing crops would be arrested
and prosecuted as saboteurs. j
"Destruction of growing food
stuffs is outright sabotage ; and
will bo dealt with accordingly,
the general declared.
US Subs Bag
Nippon Supply Lines
Slashed At as Yanks
Bring Toll to 138
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It was considered possible that
some of the f
rJrfZl C "!
ikhuiuj Wins, mil
even though they were not they
win bo out of action for three
, '
declared.
The destroyer leader was de
scribed as an oversize destroyer
which, would normally head a
flotilla of destroyers. It probably
was a vessel of more than 2.000
tons. Size of the tanker was esti
mated at 12,000 to 14,000 tons, or
possibly more. None of the other
ships was sufficiently identified
to make estimates of size pos
sible. . . - '
The successful attacks against
these six raised to 12S the total
of Japanese vessels of taU types
sunk to date by American
armed forces in the Pacific.
Many of these have been attrib
uted to United States subma
rines. In combat vessels the
Japanese now are reported to
have lost St sunk or damaged.
Shortly after issuing its com
munique on submarine activity,
the navy Issued for the marine
corps an account of the sinking of
a Japanese cruiser December 11
and a submarine December 12 by
marine aviators at Wake island
before that tiny outpost fell to
the enemy. -
Major Henry T. El rod of
Thomasvule, Ga., and Captain
Frank Cunningham Tbarin of
Washington, DC, were credited
with sinking the cruiser, one of
seven enemy war vessels "which
the Wake marines destroyed. Sec
ond Lieut. David Donald Kliewer
of Wheaton, m, got the subma
rine. All three men are now pre
sumed prisoners of the Japanese.
Dairy Route
Goes oh War
Saving Time
A war-saving delivery system
for his dairy route goes into ef
fect Wednesday, Gus Schllcker of
the Foshay dairy announced Mon
day, r;; ' ; ' v . 7.
By dividing the 'entire route
now covered. daUy into two sec
tions, each of which will be
served every-other-day, Schllcker
plans to save between 12 and 15
miles on each day's delivery. - -l
Principal . problem in conduct
ing the new delivery schedule will
be securing enough bottles;
Schllcker declared. A shortage of
bottles threatens I the industry,
anyhow, he said, and a change
in the system of delivery win not
help the situation unless, home
Bakers regularly retera eapties.
chairman of tho evacuation com
mittee. Any general evacuation will be
ordered by military authorities.
Governor Sprague said. He warned
against spreading baseless rumors.
Routes to be traveled in event
of an evacuation would be marked
plainly.
Six Jap Ships
Tne
Coordinator
Said Needed
. Cantonment Engineer
Sees Communities in
Accord on Problems
- : (Continued tram pas 1) .'.
which he knew could solve their
problems. .
Gov. Charles A, Sprague in in
troducing the major, said the army
officer had the job of building in
six months a city equal in popu
I lation to Salem, which had been
ma,n ,, i,ur h
with with 1741 buildings includ
ing five theatres and 22 mess halls
large enough to feed looo men
at a time; hospital facilities, a
water filter plant, three reservoirs
and a sewage disposal plant The
camp will accommodate 5000 more
men than the one near Medford.
' Tho recreation problem was
one which tho speaker stressed,
.saying the army boys were de
cent, healthy-minded young fel
lows and "no moral problem"
but that they "will raise hell If
yea dont give them .something
to do" In the way of athletic
recreation, dances and enter
tainment. Major Des Islet related brief
ly the history of the army en
gineering corps, mentioning that
George Washington had started it
and that other notable members
were Gens. Meade and Robert E.
Lee and in this generation, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
L. U. Hoffman, who built
Salem's new high school and
other large structures here, may,
with two associates, be among
the men to construct the Al-baay-Corvallls
cantonment, ac
cording to the Daily Journal of
Commerce, Portland.
The Journal reported Monday
that it was understood Hoffman,
W. C Smith, Ine Portland, and
Howard 8. Wright company,
Seattle, were the successful bid
ders, as a group, on the, hospital
buOdlngs for tho cantonment,
which centers at Wells ta Ben
ton county.
Others considered likely to
handle other units of tho big
project, the Journal said. In
cluded Strong MaeDonald,
Inc. Taeoma firm, two nits,
and Moore Roberta, Saa
Francisco, another unit.
T!Vflnnortatirin nf -urnAm.ru tr
a.
nl f r o m the Albany-Corvallli
cantonment whv rnnitmrt
will soon be In full swing. Is the
faced by surrounding communl
ties, B. E. Edwards, field adviser
to the national ' defense housing
coordinator, warned business
men from Marion, Yamhill, Polk
and Benton counties who met
here Monday at the invitation of
the Salem Retail Trade bureau.
Edwards pointed out that the
question of how much housing
Is available to accommodate
the 80v workmen due on the
cantonment Job before summer
hinged on availability of trans
portation between tho site and
towns and cities tn which liv
ing faculties could bo provided
for tho men and their families.
Proposals that school busses be
utilized, old Oregon- Electric
railway coaches resurrected and
hop camps opened to the work
men were made by various bust
nessmen representatives.
Two bus lines now hold permits
to serve Salem, Pres.. Carl W.
Hogg of the local chamber of
commerce reported, but he said,
"the question is what facilities
they have." r
A detailed study of transporta
tlon and trailer camp problems
is now being made by Fred A.
Cuthbert, planning consultant ef
the-; Oregon Economic council.
and the state public utilities de
partment, W. H. Crawford, ex
ecutive secretary of the council,
told the group. - "
No final denial 'of a federally-
built USO building for Salem
has been made, Don T. Caput,
Oregon recreational .representa
tive of the federal security' agen
cy, said here Monday. . ' .
"In fact, neither has final ap
proval been given for TJSO
bondings at Albany or Corval-
lis," Orput added.
' Orput advised city; officials
and civic leaders to look at the
problem of providing recreation
for soldiers as a dtywide activ
ity rather than one centered in
a single building such as the
United Service Organizations
would maintain if the structure
were provided. -
Sprague Headquarters
Open in Salem Monday
Gov. Charles A. Sprague Mon
day opened his Willamette valley
campaign headquarters in . the
Senator, hotel building here. The
headquarters are in charge of Irl
McSherry, until recently employ
ed in the state parole offices. '
Gov. Sprague's state headquar
ters are In Portland, r
Dean Blorse Goes to DC
EUGENE, March P-(a5)-Wayne
L. Morse of the war labor board
left Monday for Washington af
ter completing his winter term
work as dean of the University of
Oregon law school. .
OKUON STATESMAN Salem.
State Fair Manager to Report :
On Probable Attendance at All
Shows This Year US Orders
Lieutenant General John L.
manding general of the western
Charles A. Sprague Monday that
next summer and fall on the
gatherings.
The governor . directed Leo
Spitzbart, manager . of - the - state
air, to obtain information on all
contemplated. fairs, shows and
other celebrations throughout the
state, v , - . ' ' , ,
Belief that permission might,
be gained to stage tho 1M
state fair hero, somewhat cur
tailed as to program, was ex
pressed by the governor.
All Inquiries relative to pro
posed large v public - gatherings
should be sent to Spitzbart.
Gen. DeWitt said that any ap
proval of any ' public' gathering
might be withdrawn at any time,
and that no approval will be giv
en more than three months in
advance. : Any approval; will ' be
given on the understanding that
the enemy situation will grow no
worse. ; - i:
In areas where blackouts are
probable, such 'events will be
limited to daylight operation.
Plans for proposed large pub
lic gatherings west of the Cas
cades, where such - : gatherings
have an estimated attendance of
more than 5000, must be sub
mitted to MaJ. Gen. Kenyan A.
Joyce, commanding general,
northwestern sector, Ft. Lewis,
Wash. '
In all locations west of the
Cascades where the estimated
attendance Is less than 5000,
and where the location Is not
on a main arterial highway or
within three miles of a defense
Industry nor a military instal
lation, provisional approval
win be given provided there
Is sufficient policing.
In the case of large public
gatherings east of the Cascades,
approval must be obtained if
such gatherings are on a main
arterial highway.
Streamlining
Strikes Navv
King Assumes New Post
Aa Chief of All Naval
Operations in Conflict
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Stark was responsible for keep
ing the fleet In condition for
any emergeaey and for long
range planning. Now an these
L functions are combined ander
one
The high command shakeup was
announced by Secretary of the
Navy Knox in a formal release
disclosing creation of the position
of "commander. US naval forces
operating in European waters'
and the assignment of Admiral
Stark to that command.
Relief of Stark, 61, and the
delegation of the powers to King,
83, was promptly interpreted by
naval authorities as a stream
lining process comparable to that
by which the war department re
cently was reorganized.
As part of this streamlining
process, the war department
Monday appelated a more
youthful general staff, reduced
ta a fifth of its former she. Giv
ing new emphasis to aviation,
the department named aa air
force officer. Major General
Joseph T. MeNaracy, aa deputy
- chief pf staff, second only to
General Marshall, who remains
as chief.
There, was speculation that
some more extensive reorganiza
tion of the navy department might
be expected in connection with
special staff to administer King's
duties as chief of naval opera
tions. This staff, Knox announced.
wiU be headed by Rear Admiral
F." J. Home, 62, who was Stark's
assistant chief of naval operations.
King's chief of staff as fleet com
mander will continue to be Rear
Admiral Russei Willson, 58. J ;
A further reorganization, au
thoritative persons predicted, un
doubtedly wfll give even greater
prominence and power , to naval
aviation than Is now possessed by
the bureau of aeronautics. King
himself qualified years ago as
naval aviator and is now one of
the few high ranking officers to
hold that qualification. Through
out the 1930's he was in some
sort of aeronautical command.
Army Repeats
Blackout Ban
In West Area
SAN FRANCISCO, March 9-ff)
Test blackouts still are forbidden
by the army in the western theatre
of operations,;, . which includes
California, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada and
Arizona. !
Lieut Gen. J. L. DeWitt, com
manding general of the western
deffw fwM and the fourth
army, Monday reiterated , ern
phasically a statement he made
last December 9 that any black
out in- the area he commands
would be the real thing.
"It Is not advisable under exist
ing conditions, the general said
Monday, "to permit practice ' or
test blackouts in any community
throughout the western theatre of
operations, and it is desired that
none be permitted."
Qrocoa, Tuesday Morning. March.
De-Witt, San Francisco, com
: defense area, . advised Gov.
restrictions will be imposed
attendance at all large public
Candidate
ROY J. RICE
Rice Files
For County
Court Post
Roy J. Rice of route three, Sa-
em, resident of Marion county
since -1927, Monday became first
candidate to file for republican
nomination as county commission
er, post he sought in 1940.
Jim EL Smith, incumbent, has
not yet determined whether to
become a .candidate, he declared
Monday, r
Member of the grange, Masonic
and Eastern Star orders. Rice also
has been active in Marion county
civic affairs. He is a past director
of the county's non-high school
board, past president of the Fed
erated Community clubs, past Po
mona master of the grange and
for the last eight years has been
chairman of the Marion county
farm board.
Bom at Rainier, Oregon, he
moved with his parents when he
was three years old to Hlllsboro,
where he resided until a few years
ago when ho came to Marlon
county, j
"If nominated and elected,'
Rice declared Monday, "I will
serve to tho best of, my ability
with courteous and square treat
ment at all times. X will cooperate
with other members of tho court
to insure harmonious, efficient
conduct of matters pertaining to
Marion county."
Final Bataan
Drive Hinted
Top Jap General Sent
To Faee MacArthur;
Ex-Chief Suicides
WASHINGTON, March 9-4P)
Frustrated Japan hinted Monday
at a forthcoming supreme effort to
wipe out resistance in the Philip
pines by assigning her most suc
cessful army commander to lead
the forces opposing Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
Lieut 0 e n. TomoyuU Ta
snashKa, conqueror of Malaya
and Singapore, was snade eea
mander-tn-chlef of the Invasion
forces, ; succeeding Lieut. Gen.
Masahara Homma who Is re
ported to have committed hara-
klra because of chagrin over his
failure to crush MacArthur
little army. ;1."""VV.--.
The shift of command, reported
by the war department. Inclined
military observers to the belief
that enemy forces released by the
subjection of Java' would soon be
used to i reinforce the more than
200,000 Japanese troops already
massed in the Philippines. '
During the last 24 hours,
communique said fighting -was at
a complete standstill on the Ba
taan peninsula front, but broke
out in a new sector of the islands.
Some CSt miles south of Ba
taan. In tho vicinity of Dtgea
on the Mindanao island Golf of
Davao,
VBTTCdo
brisk skirmishes
The gulf and Its princi
pal pert city Of Davao were oo-:
eupled early tn the Invasion and'
made a springboard for the:
southward drive through The
Netherlands Indies. ' 1
" Dispatch of a New Japanese :
commander-in-chief to the Philip
pines gave1 added substance to
the "persistent reports" relayed
Sunday that General Homma had
ended his life some two weeks
ago because of his failure to van
quish a foe possessing only a frac
tion of the Japanese numerical
streiigth::;-r:i iVV v
-. . - Dwindling enemy activity
since then also gave credence to '
the report. JUtes for nomma,:
MacArthur said, were believed j
-hell" la Manila an February tJ,
the very day of the surprise ad-t
vaace made by the American-'
FCIplno forces on Italian which,
netted-a territorial gain of five
soUea at one point. .
Yamashita lias established field
headquarters at the town of Can
Fernanda in 'Pampansa province
some 43 miles from the, fighting
front : - V ' ". "
i0 1942
Japs " Complete
Java Conquest
Australia or India ;
Both Expect Raids;
Defenses Prepared
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enveloping movement that left the
defenders threatened at their
rear and west, hard pressed on the
east and flanked on the north.
' Moreover, Akyab and Basseln,
the - only surviving ports giv
ing ' - water - communication ' to
India now that Rangoon has had
to be written off, were endang
ered. v '.'"'."
. The one Pacific theatre to re
lieve the general allied gloom was
Luzon in the Philippines. , -
On the Russian front, tho day's
main action was that west of Mos
cow where the soviet recapture of
Sychevka appeared to be about to
knock out the major German for
ward position at Rhzev, the north
ern, anchor of.ihe.nazi line run
ning southward via Vyazma to
Bryansk. -j
- Save for a narrow corridor open
ing to the southwest, Rzhev was
Isolated.
la. the more northern area of
Staraya Russa about 150 mttes
4.l Il.mil . k fill
FVW TT ; JM1.W II,. . ..m
were using strong aerial squad
rons In aa effort to break tho
encirclement of the German 18th
army, bat the Russians were said
to be attacking with great and
stUl rising power la their efforts
to annihilate that large force. .
At all events the day, saw the
creeping peril come closer to two
great sub-continents India on the
invader's right and Australia on
his left .. -v; .
So far as his actions spoke, tho
enemy indicated that his more im
mediate major smash would be at
Australia, for Japanese bombers
assaulted and 1 damaged military
facilities at Port Moresby on New
Guinea, the island that already had
been invaded in an area only 400
miles above the Australian main
land.
In the broadest such step yet
taken by an Anglo-Saxon country,
the Australian government as
sumed power to denude the
countryside at the approach of the
invader to burn and destroy any
thing and everything, whether
publicly or privately owned, that
might give him aid. ,
The Netherlands exile govern
ment in London Issued a categoric
statement that any arrangements
toward cessation of hostilities with
Japan were "out of the question,'
and pointed out:
. "No communication exists be
tween the Netherlands govern
ment and the Netherlands East
Indies. The enemy Is therefore
free to circulate any stories
which ho may think useful.
"The actual ; military position
on the Islands is not known. The
military commanders, including
those having to operate singly,
have been instructed to fight to
the last. They have freedom of
action where resistance would no
longer serve any useful purpose.
"Whatever the outcome of the
military operations In thf Neth
erlands East Indies, the powers of
the Netherlands authorities,
whether military or civil, do not
extend beyond arrangements re
garding cessation of local military
operations.'
Arriving by airplane in Austral
ia with 14 other Netherland of
ficials, Lieutenant Governor-Gen-enal
Hubertus Van Mook an
nounced:
"Our people are V-"-r on
with the resources they have
We are here to carry on the
fight and net to sit and mope.
1 "Thero-lf no use hiding the
fact that there Is bitterness la
some places in Java," he went
on, "bat oar people understand
the difficulties ef getting things
moved.
"American ships and Austral
ian troops did their best and
there Is no doubt about their
quality, but It was a ease of too
little and too late."
He estimated tint - Japanese
forces in Java at eght divisions
from 120,000 to 180,000 menor
"many more than we had."
Tokyo's claims to the capture
of S8,000- allied; troops would, if
confirmed, represent a greater loss
in men even than in the Singapore
disaster.
Tanker Crew
Safe in Cuba
HAVANA, March MThirty
nine crew members or the tor
pedoed Standard Oil tanker Na
need arrived at the Port of Bara
coa In ; northeastern Cuba, .dis
patches , from there said Monday
night. . '-viS:'' iy-;:V
They were brought ashore in a
fishing "smack which picked them
up shortly after their vessel was
torpedoed and shelled by a sub
marine approximately 29 miles off
Cape Maisi at the eastern tip of
the Island, the reports said.
AH of the crewmen -were re
ported saved bur two. men were
wounded slightly. - - V-
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LTeiay -Wei-
1 Vivien Lelfh
Tbxet
Cockeyed
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Sugar Ration
Books Arrive
County, Clerk Harlan Judd
Monday received 89,000sugar ra
tioning cards which later will be
turned over to Mrs. Agnes C
Booth, county school superinten
dent, for distribution in the vari
ous school districts.' .
The actual distribution of the
cards is in charge of tho teachers.
FDR Tells of
Price Fight
Declares Inflation
Halt Vital, to US;
Wallace Speaks .
(Continued from Page 1) !
the extent of their own work but
do not always . know what the
others are doing and that situation
'gives an opportunity to C the
enemy to spread malicious words."
"Labor, said the evil whisper,
sabotaging the war program
with strikes and slowdowns and
demands for higher wages. Busi
ness, it says,' is gouging the coun
try with ; unconscionable " profits.
And the farmer, according to this
treacherous voice, is using the
war to grab all he can.?
- - Bat, the president said, al
thoush there -f are "Instances ;
where a" few businessmen er a
few workers or a few farmers ;
are demanding and getting mere -than
they ought," tn general the
increases had been kept fairly
well la balance.'
"It seems to me," he said, "that
we ought to feel proud of the un
doubted fact that we art getting
cooperation and a reasonably fair
balance among 90 per cent qf our
population, and that if less than
10 per cent of the population is
chiseling we still have a pretty
good national record." : -
Speaking on the same program
with the president were Vice
President Wallace, who was sec
retary of agriculture when the
farm programs were started, and
Secretary of Agriculture Wlck-
ard. ' ' - v.. ;rV
Both emphasized the laapor-
tance In the war effort of stocks
accumulated ; under the ; ever-f
normal granary program, and
Wfekard said they had made it
possible to send Britain UOI,
tS long te&T of foods under
lend-lease in the period Between
last spring and last February lj
"Without those foods," Wkkard
declared, "it is unlikely that Bri
tain could have withstood the
battering which she has received
at the hands of the enemy. The
American farmer stands on the
front line In some of our, most
strategic battle areas.'! .-f
Wallace declared the ever nor-
Hnal granary program would en
able tens of millions of people In
this country to "have enough to
eat during the years of war."
Asserting that it was all-important
from a future standpoint
to maintain the farm program In
good repute, he continued: ;
"We most not at any time
give those Interests which have
always been against agrlcul-t
tore the opportunity to say that
the farmers are a selfish pres
sure group, taking advantage of
the war to get more than they
are entitled to." j
The farmers, he said, were "as
patriotic and unselfish as any
group of people in the United
States." He expressed confidence
that they would "do everything
tney can to help our great commander-in-chief
bear his burdens
most effectively in order to safe
guard the future of us alL"
If the majority of the farmers
lean over backward toovoid "un
due pressure on tho nation in time
of trouble," he said, "we . shall
be Just that much mora likely to
have a soundly functioning farm
program when the war is over.'
Winant Says
British Want
An Offensive
WASHINGTON, March. 9.-(P)
John G. , Winant, American am
bassador , to ' England, declared
Monday after a two-hour confer
ence with President Roosevelt
that United Nation reverses in tho
Pacific had only increased the de
termination of the British people,
and that these people would: like
to see an offensive, under wav.- I;
WinanV back from London for
the first: time since the United
States went to war, predicted that
the- Churchill government would
remain in power, despite criticism
levelled at the prime minister.
The British: trust ChurchilL he
said, and Churchill trusts the
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ship Dunkerque after repairs at
Toulon." , .
The Germans claimed Just .
before the French armistice thai
they bad seized as prizes of war
the Incomplete French battle
ships Richelieu and Clemenceaa
at Brest. r '..
This report later proved untrue
as far as the Richelieu was con
cerned, that vessel having es
caped to Dakar. It probably was
correct on the Clemenceau, which
was not near enough completion
to be moved. ' '
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nounced to February 21 that the
Dunkerque, , crippled by the Brit
ish at Oran in July, 1940, had
reached Toulon under her own
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The Jean Bat and Gaseogne,
sister battleships of the Elck
eUen and Clemenceau, wore
under construction at St. Na
aalre when France fell. Whether
they were destroyed or else
were sebed has never been dis
closed. ;
If seized before the armistice,
they undoubtedly would be
classed by. the Germans as usable
spoils of war; if not, they would
come under the armistice terms
Immobilizing the French fleet.
In January, 1940, the last time
official reports were available on
French naval bunding, it was an
nounced that 126 warships of all
classes were under construction.
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