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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1942)
On Pay Day j Be regular en the home, front! Hake regular P ft y rn purchases of US de- -fense savings bonds ftnd stamps. Tho Inddo i Tour complete morning newspaper. The EUteszun, offers yen pertinent ' eons meats en war news of tbo day by Kirke 8lmpsta, Washington .analyst . VC lXZZZTI-TIZST YEAH Salons. Oregon Thursday Morning, March 19. 1312 Fries So Nowstanda So Ho. SC5 II I U Shiftfo Maud ; 7 II JL. - w .Near Evacuation of All Japanese Set by . Army IB (AIM Evacuation of all Japanese, aliens and American-born alike, "will start early next week from the strip of coast designat ed as military area No. 1, the army announced Wed nesday night; . r The ' first to leave will be 1000 Japanese from the Los Angeles area, who volunteered to pioneer' in setting up community life at Manzanar, reception center in the Owens valley east of the rugged Sierra Nevada range. Said Lieut-Gen. J. L. De Witt, head of the western defense com mand: "I encourage and urge the continuation of such movements as the Owens valley- group has started. However, I desire to make it unmistakably clear that evacua tion will be continued with or without such cooperation." Military area No. 1 includes the western half of the states of Wash ington, Oregon and California and the southern part of Arizona. 1 Construction is under- way at the Owens Valley center and next week it will be prepared to handle -1000 aliens, DeWitfs an nouncement said. Later some 10, 000 can be accommodated. The first 1000 Japanese enter fag the section will 'go by their own" automobiles and in, busses and Jbralns. DeWitt said the army would provide escorts lor con voys, but pointed out the migra tion would not be under guard. ' These first arrivals will es tabHslt social centers, arrange agricultural work, recreational activities, hospitals and schools. "With such cooperation, those . mnwica wiu iina tneir nwiuw mach less - difncalt," DeWltt said In reference to the first volunteers. - ' I "We are endeavoring to pro vide this service to avoid forced sales and prevent unscrupulous people from taking undue advan tage. But if the affected groups fail to. take advantage, their lo wfll be harder." General DeWitt has indicated he considered American-Japanese potentially more dangerous to the nation's welfare than German and Italian aliens, who later wQl.be ordered out in a continuing evac uation possibly lasting several (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) . - Yank 'Flapjacks' Puzzle British . LONDON. March lt-(Jpy-Am- ' erkan slang, which always has enchanted the British, baffled them again Wednesday. The British Press association gave British newspapers this version of the transAtlantie tongue in reporting tho menus of US troops In northern Ire land: "Bacon and errs, known flapjacks,' have been scarce but they will now be a regular feature of the morning diet." Labor Law R epeal Is Opposed . WASHINGTON, March 18-(ff) Demands that congress enact some typo of wartime Jabor legislation met further administration ; op position Wednesday when army, navy and maritime authorities told special senate inquiry there was no need for such action. - Lining up solidly behind Presi dent Roosevelt's stand that v de strictive labor legislation would do no good at this time were Lieut Gen. William S. Knudsen, war "department production chief; Ad - miral Emory S. Land, head of the Maritime commission; ', Undersec retary of War Robert P. Patter son; and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard. One by one. the quartet of production authorities told a . senate appropriations subcom mittee which decided U look late production and labor con ditions that it would do no good o repeal the 46-hour week law, (s enact anti-strike legislation, ;r to pass any of tho numerous f reposals over which senate and I s-ss have been orating recent-I. r. -n Vinson (D-Ga.) of iSTARAYAj?? RUbbA iPSKOvuHmmlHHummi 4 I ;::;:::::?S. mm 'i- r. ::::"jhiiui Moscow dispatches Wednesday declared the German "escape corridor." from tho spearhead toward the soviet capital, had been narrowed, as shown by arrows, to a width of Yyasma. The Russians drove from Bely and Dorogobash. Shaded German control. Reds Circle Nazi Spear Garrisons Nearest Moscow Are Menaced; Russ Qaim German Supply lines Cut By EDDY GILMORE -MOSCOW, March 18-(fl-Digging deep into the Germans' strongly-held Vyazma pocket, had encircled the nails' most Mocowji4j?uC tion of grave menace. ,? ; - (Stockholm reports estimated that 200,000 German troops Canteens at Camp Planned, Salem Men Three Salem men have secured concession rights on the Albany CorvalliS army cantonment site and plan to open confectionery stands there within a few days, filing of articles of incorporation for Cantonment corporation at the Marion county clerk's office Wednesday disclosed. " The incorporators are Ernest A. Miller, Edward K. Piasecki and Donald A. Young. Capital stock is listed at $10,000. A stockholder said Wednesday night it was planned to place can teens on the construction site at locations designated by the build ing contractors. No alcoholic bev erages will be dispensed. The articles are drawn broadly enough to permit the incorporat ors to carry on, in addition to a confectionery trade, sale of men' clothing, garage, laundry and hotel service, and operation of barber shops, hair dressers establishments and Warehousing. Cellophane Use Cut WASHINGTON, March 18-ff) Cellophane may no longer be used for window envelopes the kind bills come in under a war pro duction board ruling Issued Wed nesday. the house naval committee said, however, that his group would go ahead tomorrow with hearings on a bill by him and Rep. Smith (D-Va.) to repeal maximum hours legislation covering war produc tion and to restrict profits. k In the senate chamber, Senator Lee " (D-Okla.) "suggested ati Donald M. Nelson, war production board chairman, cancel profits on war Contracts as a means of halt ing strikes and speeding produc tion. He contended that elimina tion of profits would end a "con test between management and la bor over.-profits." H All four officials testifying be? fore the committee .'opposed any proposal for drafting or regiment ing labor, according to an edited transcript of the secret testimony made available later ' WASHINGTON, March 18-iT) John I Lewis' United Mine Workers union, which put up much of the money for the CIO's early organization campaigns, has sent a don letter to tis CIO aslisg for a token rarest czt Trap Closes Before Moscow KALININ aimiipf iipP!iiiirf ' YTAZMA uivrncir nSKiiiiiiiil IppSDOROOQCyZH " w the red, army Wednesday night advanced spearhead pointed at itself in a posl- - were surrounded in the Vyazma- Rzhev pockets.) The newly encircled garrison was at cznatsK, on tne main Moscow-Minsk railroad and high way some 35 miles northeast of Vyazma and 100 miles west of Moscow. It was to Gzhatsk that the Germans fell back after their winter disasters at Mozhaisk and Borodino and since then the Ger mans are known to have concen trated huge forces at both Gzhatsk and Vyazma. By such "hedgehog" tactics they have kept a constant threat pointed-at the Kosslan capital through Icy months of reverses a fact which tho red army al ways has had to take Into con sideration in offensive epera- , tkms. . Dispatches telling of the newest red army coup did not give the date of the entrapment, but appar- MOSCOW, March 18-ff) Kosslan dispatches from the southwestern front late Wednes day said the Germans recent ly had killed 16,600 civilians in Kharkov, bringing the total of slain civilians in that city to 36,606 since the German occu pation began. ently it was several days ago, Tonight's communique said merer ly that nothing of importance had taken place at the front Wednes day. It claimed the destruction of 44 German planes, as compared to (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) an Indebtedness of $1,665,001, it was learned Wednesday, "v, An associate of Lewis said that the letter proposed that part of the indebtedness be liquidated by de ducting $60,000 in dues owed the CIO by the miners union for March and ApriL The UMW, he said, paid $30,000 monthly in dues tO tne CIO. -r;;:Z - : s : C Washington has seen much evi dence in recent weeks of strained relations between Lewis and Philip Murray, present head of the CIO and incidentally vice- president of the UMW. The two men, who fought side by side in I the labor movement for years, split in we presidential campaign ox 1940 when Lewis supported Wen dell Willkie, republican nominee. and Murray supported ' President Roosevelt. , Recently Murray rejected suggestion of Lewis that peace negotiations be resumed between the CIO and the AFL, reminding Lewis in effect that Murray and not Lewis was president of the CIO and that any peace move should emanate from Murray's of fice. 100 MILES 4 V T . .... of Zt miles about S3 miles west area represents territory under Draft Number 13 Hours Taken in First Lottery Since War Start By RICHARD U TURNER Washington, March With Jiree tncial bvbWes out tf more -. than 7000 possibilities ci', error,1 the first draft lottery of the war ended -Wednesday, es tablishing the order in which 9, 000,000 men will be called for pos sible army service. It took over 13 hours, and an all-night machine-like routine, to draw the numbered green cap sules from an out-sized and fa mous old goldfish bowL Secretary of War Stimson drew the first number. An Albany, Ga blue jacket, Albert Carter, grinning because the long grind was over, drew the last But then, a quick checkup showed that instead of the 7000 numbers which should have ap peared by that time, the total was 6998. Two were missing, Earlier, it had developed, moreover, that two of the capsules contained the same number 2885. It came out as the 742nd and the 1638th num bers drawn. . Selective service officials were momentarily in a dilemma,' but they went Into a huddle and after an investigation decided that a printer's error was involved. One of the 2885's should have been 2385. - Additional conferring resulted in a decision. The. result: 6342 be came order number 6998, serial number 2069 was order number 6999, and 2383 became order num ber 7000. No State Fair If Races Out, Says Director Whether the Oregon state fair will be held here this year may de pend largely on whether the dog races are held in Portland, J. D, Mickle, state agricultural depart ment director, declared here Wednesday, Mickle said it would be impos sible to pay the costs of the state fair without its share of the re ceipts from tha dog races.. The state fair receipts from the dog races last year aggregated approxi mately 130,000. This money is used to pay state fair premiums - and other fixed costs. -Tf .: ;" - ;f': Military Area Set In Portland Harbor PORTLAND, March 18-3-AIl unlicensed craft were barred from Portland harbor Wednesday as the navy designated a military area extending from above the Sell wood bridge to three miles below the Junction of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. ' ' v : Tuesday's 7eatlier Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army . request. Elver Wed nesday, L feet. Max. tempera ture Tuesday, 52, min. 4L Rain fall, .15 Inches. J , " ' Bobbles Fixed Air Fore Tak es 23in Brazil Jap Ships Navy Tells Two Craft Lost JBy JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON,-- M a r c h-18 (-American - Australian a i r l forces striking with relentless fury at Japanese invasion bases Uee br radio from Tokyo was uncovered by Brazilian m New Guinea have sunk 'or . c r t tt j j ' "' " ill .i i.s j . . . police at Sao Paulo Wednesday night while public re damaged 23 enemy ships, in- f, . . . , , . . . , . ' . . , . r , eluding 12 warships, and entmen smouldered and flared at tunes in two other wrecked numerous shore in- Latin-American republics over the loss of ships to axis spallations. (A 1 1 1 m d f otcm lost I one plane. The victory was announced I by the navy Wednesday. I Since 11 of the Japanese ves- sels vrere either transports or cargo ships it was considered probable that the raid had cost the enemy a considerable 'per sonnel loss as well as destruction of ships. . ... Results of the bombardment, directed at enemy vessels and in- stallations in and near Salamaua and Lae, New Guinea, were re- garded here as offsetting to some SAN FRANCISCO, March IS (A')-United Nations planes, scored a direct hit en s Japan ese heavy cruiser In a new day llsht attack on Rabaol, New Britain, an ' Australian I com munique said Wednesday sight. . "A direct hit on , the stern of Japanese heavy cruiser was imvwcu j a raws cwiuma i -a thtax: radW' Melbourne, nicked n I here by the CBS shortwave lis tening station. "Near misses were observed on four other large vessels. extent losses , of United Nations naval forces in the battle of Java late last ' month, . when five cruisers including the USS Hous- (Turn to Page 2. CoL 5) Tl 1 eoacK From Bataan Says War Can Be. Won Only hj Furious : - Aggression; ' SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (AV-Frands B. Sayre, US high commissioner to the Philippines, returned' to the United States Wednesday Insisting the United Nations can win the war only "by aggressive and furious attack." Gigantic planning and stupen dous outlays of money, alone will never win the war, Sayre said. He urged the United States to "match the gallantry" of the American troops on B a t a a n. which he recently left and speed aid to the Philippines where "sol diers and sailors . are going through the tortures of hell for us here Jn . America." s J i The commissioner, who will re turn to the southwest Pacific af ter reporting to President Roo sevelt gave no .indication of how he got out of the Philippines or crossed: the Pacific He was in Honoloulu -yesterday. : f ; "Returning to America after two and a half months of Manila and Corregidor under constant bombing and shellfire is like. en tering a new worldV Sayre said. "Life can never be quite the same again."' . ' -J ' , aayr . ' Jap anese Republics Preparations for Uprising Ylacie by Hadio; sinking Of Ship Recalls By Tho Associated Press ; An incipient plot by hoped to t of f an internal U-boats. The disclosure of Japanese which already has lost four ships probably a fifth which is too plotters listening nightly to the word of strike possibly in concert The other . countries gravely concerned over sinkings are Uru guay, which has broken relations with the axis and otherwise has manifested cooperation with the United Nations, and Chile, which Is a Fan-American holdout along with Argentina in still harboring axis diplomats, In the face of public demonstra- tions over the sinking of the Chilean freighter ioiten outside New -York harbor in the dark last Friday, the Chilean govern ment appealed for "serenity" and opined that the attacking subma rine if indeed, a submarine was responsible would have spared the ship had it been permitted to proceed with lights and flag to denote its neutrality. Uruguay ; took no such concili , . .v r irSZ. .. .rt Haiti and took note as Well . of the anti-axis demonstrations that protested not only this first Uru guayan ship loss in the war but also the anti-democratic elements remaining there since President Baldomlr dissolved congress to thwart a coun. The sinking of the Montevideo was tied up curiously, and by wartime coincidence, with the sinking of the German p o e k e t battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the river Plate estuary In Decem ber, 1939. Sorely wounded in the running battle with the British down the south American coast, the Graf Spee Refuged in Uruguayan wa ters while the British waited out side to make the kuX A Uruguayan technical mission headed by Captain Rodriguez Va rela inspected the Graf Spee and refused to extend its stay in port in effect, ruling that she must go out to meet the British again or remain bottled up for the du ration. The German commander scuttled the ship, then killed him self when he got ashore. The Captain Varela who thus made a fateful decision for Uru guay early in the war was the master of the Montevideo sunk by the axis off Haiti Moreover, the German ship Ta coma which had saved the Graf Spee on her raidings and has been refuged in the river Plate ever since has Just been taken over, her crew Interned inland, to re place Uruguay's loss of the Mon tevideo. - A ustralia By VERN HAUGLAND MELBOURNE, Australia, Marc i loMffHnder America's fhiect military leadership and support ed by still growing American re inforcements, Australia was be ing converted into a great con tinental fortress from which the allies one day Intend to spring forth to reconquer the southwest Pacific - In an atmosphere of ' mutual trust liking and quiet confidence that this position would be held against the heaviest Japanese as sault three distinguished Ameri can officers took their places In the grand drama of fighting fel lowship about to unfold: . Gen. Douglas ZlacArthur, su premo commander of all United Nations forces afield, aloft and at sea, for Australia and ;for all the southwest Pacific east of Singapore; -'.z.?' Lieut Gen. George BL Brett, deputy to MaeArthur and com mander cf allied air forces in the Australian-New , Zealand area; - Vlce-Admlral Herbert F. Leary, who already : was ta eommasd cf - t-s allied sea Plotting Learned: -Are Wary Spec' which Japanese in Brazil uprising off a moment's no- undercover operations in Brazil, to torpedoes in the. Atlantic long overdue, told of Japanese surreptitious broadcasts for the with other axis spies. Bulletins CANBERRA, March 19 (Thurs day)-(flV-United Nations bomb ers raiding Rabaul, New Britain island, scored a direct hit on the stem of a heavy Japanese cruis er, Prime Minister John Curtin announced Thursday. CANBERRA, March 18-(ff) Japanese planes twice raided Tu- lad, the. government seat on Flo rida island hi the Solomon group, Tuesday, . Prime - Minister John Curtin ; announced Wednesday night . Three Xcnexny v tTylnar boats raided Tulagi in the early morn ing," the announcement said, "and dropped 18 bombs from 7000 feet, damaging one firing boat Several persons, possibly na tives, were killed when Florida was bombed. There was slight damage to property." CHUNGKING, March 18-(ff) A Chinese high command com munique asserted W e d n e s d a y that the Japanese used poison gas in an engagement with Chi nese troops In western Suiyuan province March 13, causing sev eral Chinese casualties. (The. Chinese command prev iously charged that the Japanese used poison gas in beating off heavy Chinese attacks last Octo ber in the Ichang region, in west ern Hupeh province). Police Reserves Select Officers Completing their elections Wednesday night Salem police reserves named Virgil Allen, cap tain; Floyd Berke and Rex Als man, lieutenants; A. W. Zysset Harry Bramel, Carl P. Martin, L. B. Roree, Glenn Laverty and J. F. Snook as sergeants. " Gene Pohlman was elected lieu tenant of the motorcycle squad 1 and A. A. Eichelberger, sergeant Builds Springboard forces la(the Ansae sone. Australian Prime Minister John Curtin and Army Minister Fran-j cis Forde made plain that the ap-! pointments . were . welcome, and the prime minister added: nt is most gratifying that I am able to announce that there are most substantial American forces in Australia. "These forces are not only most heartening in their actuality but in their expression of the spirit of fighting shoulder-to-shoulder that win give to the democrades decisive strength In the struggle in the Pacific and all theatres of the war." ' - ' r.-.-T-x- Elustratlng thai there is te be nothing as usual net bud Bess as usual, nor pleasure as usual CurUn ; announced that racing, organized - sports and ; even motion pictures new were ut for the duraUan. c r Action officially reported dur ing the day was wholly in the air. It . was announced that allied clanes on Tuesdav had raided the enemy-held airdrome at Keeping on Dutch Timor, at the western end of the Japanese invasion arc Enemy planes , caused alarms a? Port Darwin, on the northern Get Eess Fuel Now i I -;- J i Price Last FridavL "WBetheTop Startinp Monflnv WASHINGTON, M arch 18 (AVThe office of price adminis- tration Wednesday night froze filling station prices for gaso line in the District of Columbia and. 19 states along the Atlantic coast and in the Pacific north west at the levels of last Friday; The emergency 6 0-day price ceiling covers the area where a 29 per cent curtailment in deliveries to service stations was compelled by the sinking of tankers and the diversion of shipping to war uses.' This curtailment takes effect at midnight Wednesday night - The price order is effective next Monday, March 23. Violations may be punished upon conviction by a maximum fine of $5000 or imprisonment for one year, or both. Acting Price Administrator John E. Hamm warned. Hamm said his office was giv ing , "serious consideration' te the licensing of all filling sta tion operators in the so-eallec "curtailment area" as an addi- " tionsi measure j te guarantee -compliance with the price . ceil ing. Under such a plan any gaso line retailer who violated the or der would be subject te court action to have tbo license su- " The price order applies to gasoline stations in Maine, New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts,' Rhode Is land, Connecticut; New Jersey.' . New, York, Pennsylvania, Mary laodV Virginia, l DelaVTaxe;. West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia; Florida east cf the Apalachicola river, Oregon, Washington and the District of Co- lumbia. , These four rules were set forth: 1. No price may be charged for. , any grade of motor fuel that is higher than the price that was posted for 'the same grade at the .close of business, or at 11 p. m. (local time) on March 13, 1942. 2. If for some reason mere was (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) Work Progresses On Two Runways At Local Airport The 1000-foot extension of the -first or northwest-southeast run way, at Salem's municipal air port is ready for paving, George E. Hanson, new WPA area super intendent reported Wednesday. A crew of 140 workmen is now engaged in constructing a second runway, the north -south line, which is to be 5050 feet long, ap proximately : the same length as that , of the first runway as now extended. Much of the grading has been completed and large quantities of base rock applied, but relocation of a drainage ditch remains to be carried out ' 1 i - Hansen indicated the paving of the extension and of the new run way doubtless would be let out to private contractors. Australian mainland, and at Port Moresby on New Guinea, but nd bombs were dropped. . V American troops have been ar riving in Australia at irregular intervals for several weeks, and this stream is continuing. In it aside from ureentlv needed planes and pilots, are skilled me chanical crews. : 7 ! One of the greatest achieve ments has.beea. this transport of these men, planes and arms across the dangerous Pacific Each con voy, each ship had its story. ; Lieut Gen. Brett said in an . Interview that ; Amstrallaa and Americas fighters would fight 1 as ar single unit using Identical , planes and equipment and that he had recommended . that the ; 'US take ever the task of pre-', viilnc all aircraft f cr Australia, " It was made plaia meantime byt Lieut ' CoL Lloyd 'Lehrbas,- US army press oficer, that Gen; Mac-; Arthur's transfer here in an army plane from Bataan did not mean any lessening of American effort in the Philippines. : We have been holding the" Japanese in the Philippines," he said; "and we intend to continue holding them in the Philippines."