Border QiidrretLpoj ceic. aee on .; Is " - III.- W"TTT H II T"VfT ay; Kims' Camp' 'Car Wiidone 1 J JL - . : :.- .-- - 35-Mile -limits' ' ' Prescribed by c ; Highway Board V- PORTLAND, March 2Hfj The state highway commission tviav rtrdrd a SS.milA rwaI limit' in the Medford "and Cor vallis army cantonment, areas and awarded a contract ' for highway improvement near the Medford cantonment. - . .v -7 Chairman Henry F. Cabell -said the reduced speed limit was 'effective immediately: Traffic congestion was given 'as the ret 'son lor the order. -'" ' .', The ... commission discussed President' Roosevelt's recent re taest for a te-mile speed limit, bat said It had no authority te set a statewide restriction. v , .. "We only have jurisdiction in case of a certain : stretch of high way 1 unsafe from anengineer Ing standpoint, '.which includes construction problems such as those -now -developing at canton ments," Cabell said. W -Commission Attorney . J. M. Devers said the state legislature had the power to change the 55- xnile-an-hour limit set in 1941. , The construction contract awarded by- the commission te iay went te Berke Bros Fert land, en a tew bid ef $311,tt7JS for work en ' the Crater - Lake fclg hway northeast of Medford v . la the cantonment area. - .The-eoctraat was for the north unit of a nine-mile project between .. W 1 -. VI 1 A. 9 . . - -I . 1 fM..-. north unit covers 4.91 miles.- ' Alt bids on' the south unit of 4.01 miles were rejected by the - commission as excessively nign. - Bids en this section will be reed- ertised again In two or three 'weeks. ;4J f . Berke; Bros,' bid en the north unit ' was approximately 98000 above the engineer's estimate, the commission pointed out, but all bids on the south unit' were from 180,000 to $30,000 in excess of the -engineer' estimated cost of $368, 800.' Bids on the south unit were fualified by contractors who stipu lated that their figures would hold . nmlv If tiwv wr wfii1 In bidding on the north unit -' The commission said bids for. highway Improvements en the , Pacific highway near' an army - cantonment in the Corvallis re- glesr probably would be adver tised for opening at next month's -meeting. Coordinator Decision Is The credentials committee of the , Four-C o u n t y Cantonment council Is down to four applicants In considering men for appoint ment as coordinator of the four counties and nine cities most af fected by construction of the Al bany-Corvallis army cantonment. Grant ' Murphy, ' Marion county Judge, reported Friday. ' Murphy said the committee wold meet at 4 pjn. Monday at the Linn county courthouse to de cide on a final report to be pre sen ted at the council's regular meeting in Albany that night Seven applications were consid ered at a meeting this week, with an eighth to be presented Mon day. The committee consists of Coun- ty Judges Murphy of Maron and J. J. Barrett of Linn, and the council executive committee members Mayors H. W. Hand ' of Corvallis, Leif Finseth of Dal las and M. J. Butler of Indepen dence. Legion Seeks USO Center . A special ccramlttee from Cap ital Post No. 9, American Legion, Is undertaking a strenuous effort to obtain authorization for con struction of a USO building in Sa lem to serve as a recreation cen ter for soldiers, Ray J. Stumbo, Chairman, announced Friday. ; "We're going riht after;-this, taking all possible -slieps ' a co ' operation with -other interested t -encies." Stumbo said. "Well take It up -with Cen. McNary first" "- : The San Francirco cilice of the f:drsl security treaty recently recommended s gainst approval! f USO building here. -Other members of the. Legion cemrrJtiee are Brazier C SmalL O. E. "l.Iosw Palmateer and Rex Approaching (' AN . . . -. - I ' V- i Dispatches from European capitals territorial' grievances' m : Rumania just: above center tn the above dlstated settlement. Hungary in for oca. j j,. osite Opp Rumanians Shout for Transylvania Return; Dispatches Indicate End" Of Dictated 'Press Armistice' LONDON, Saturday, March strengthened her borders with' R growing, territorial, grievances, the correspondent said Saturday. The. Vichy news agency in Jap GruiserIs Adttedito: Yank Bomber Get . Direct Strike in Rabaul Harbor ... , WASHINGTON, March 20-flP) -The . addition of a Japanese cruiser to the mounting total of enemy ships sunk or damaged by American army bombers in the aerial hit-run battle to forestall invasion of Australia was reported Friday by the war department Striking a distance of possibly 800 miles from their bases, two bombers made a direct hit on a large cruiser In the harbor of Ra baul. on the island of New Britain. Belatedly reported front Gen.' Douglas Mac Arthur's Australian headquarters, the attack r took place Wednesday, a communique said. It followed a foray made the day before by a single long range bomber on a Japanese held airport at Koepang, on the Island of Timor, some 1508 miles te the west ; (The Rabaul raid appeared to have been reported Thursday by Prime Minister . John Curtin of Australia who announced at Mel bourne that "our aircraft'' bombed (Turn to Page 2. CoL 7) ToU Salem Chamber Votes to Hire Extra Man to Boost Industry Expansion -of activities of the Salem chamber of commerce in to the field of industrial and other , forms of promotion was approved at a members' meeting called in chamber auditorium Friday afternoon by the board of direc- tors. The membership, ; represent ed by more than 151 business and professional men and worn- en. specifically : authorized ' the sUrectors te Invoke a $3 assess ment per member to start the program and to proceed with plans for the employment of a business and extension director. Fred D. Thielsen, who has car ried the title of manager for sev eral years, will continue his pres ent duties with the designation as executive secretary, Pres. Carl W. Hogg said.' "The chamber i now out of debt," Hogg explained, "and we feel it's time to expand our pro gram to carry on much-needed promotion of new industries and to meet emergency problems such as the need of a cheap, adequate transportation service between Ealem and the Albany-Corvallis cantonment"- - yrvj -V ; - Eosr explained t-at the di rectors after eonf errizg with a group ef business leaders ear ner in the week had decided, that the SS assessment would ; pay for the first six months cf the new program and predicted that the new business cunxser early this morning tell of growing for- the return ef Transylvania,' map, lost te Hungary In an axis- turn Is increasing her border armed Mm R umariia 21-(Hungary has militarUy I because of Rumania's on Daily mail's Geneva a Bucharest dispatch reprinted here Friday said that Rumania's acting; premier, Prof. Mihail An- tonescu, had charged that the Ru manian - army was insulted "by Wolds' fnd writings", in -Hungary. Aitoneseu's speech waj Inter- : rupted by shouts of -we want Translrranla,- t h e patch said,' referring to the slieo of territory which Rumania lest te Hungary through an axis-dictated settlement at Vienna. - Saturday's mail dispatch from Budapest via Geneva said that "the Hungarian . government has been shocked by Aontonescu's speech," and that the "press arm istice' between the axis satellite countries now. definitely was end ed. FDR Calls Army Day WASHINGTON, March 20-iff) President Roosevelt ' asked tha American people " Friday to honor on April 6 the first "Army day," of the war a citizen soldiery pre paring to achieve a "victory upon which may be built a firm struc ture ef peace and freedom. - . ' In a proclamation' setting -the day aside for appropriate observ ance, he urged the people to de vote special thought "to the great responsibility for contributing un stintedly of their effort and their means m order that our armed forces may be adequately equipped for victory.' would by that time in coopera- with Thielsen and the regular membership committee have raised the organization's mem bership te a level at which nor snal dues would cover exsenses. UUUUUH IUUI0UUU CVUIUUklCV, uc dared he believed "the time ripe for the chamber to put on a pro gram that will do the community some real good." "We all realize that we could be more aggressive In going out after new Industry," Gene Van denynde, who attended the ear lier meeting, said in adding his word of approval to the program. "The merchants win benefit from any new industry, large of small" "The assessment .wont hurt anyone," Ralph Cooley comment- ed. ' --- Pres. Hogg said the business and extension manager would be selected by a committee consist ing of three directors and two other business men to be named within the next two or three days. "The aalary will be up to the committee," Hogg xaid. "It Is be lieved Salem can afford -a hirh type man for this job." - Corzasll the field far arp!l-:- . casts - was cpea. Two arpca tlons have already been tviade for the Job. - r . Berkley A. Newman, builder and former managsr of the new Montgomery Ward store here, has been mentioned as a possibility for. the new position. umahia 7 7i. ' Strategic Nazi : : Defense Center .j Qaimed Taken : i .MOSCOWi March 2(Mr-Red Star, official army publication, said Friday night that, the Ger man army has lost, its "blitzi striking power and is now un-t able (to develop an offensive over xne entire Kusian xroni. : The toll taken of the Ger-f mans In retreat has so' weakened the nasi army, the ' paper said, that it will be unable to hurl its full force' against the red army as it did last -summer. It admit ted, however,' that the ' Germans can concentrate " great forces on separate sectors of the front "Every Inch of Soviet land oc cupied by the enemy was taken at the cost of enormous looses." i Ked Star said. "At Odessa the t Germans and Rumanians lost a half minion men, - at Kharkov, UMH." - The Russians put more pres sure on the trapped German 16th army at Staraya Russa Friday and reports from the front told of the capture of an important nazi de fense center and slaughter of hundreds of desperate nazis try ing by any means to break out of the encirclement Tass, official Soviet news agen cy, saux the cbeiense center on tne after only its commander and 1 north central front was captured I men were left alive. , Other, dispatches said 1908 iermans were killed at a forti fied Junction point It was not clear whether these accouata dealt with the same er separate actions, hut all reports said the (Turn to Page X. CoL 5) . - - . MuiriliO A clrAsi A fUJiC niSlkCU U Campaign AFL'a Green Complains Of Oklahoma Backing For Anti-Labor WASHINGTON, March 2H) Senator Thomas - (D-Okla.) said Friday he would ask a senate com mittee to look into a complaint by William Green, president of the AFL, that a campaign of un disclosed backing was on in Okla homa for the passage of war-time ana-labor legislation In that state Crccn told an an prepriations subcommittee, school cnuoren naa oeen aaaoo u sur- render their lunch money to pay for telegrams' urging such legisla tion upon Senator Lee (D-Okla.) The Oklahoma Publishing com pany, publishers of the Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times, he asserted, too, had spon sored a mass meeting to advo cate "repealing the 40-hour week and outlawing strikes.'' Those things bad been done, ho said, despite the fact that there had not been a single strike fas war production fac tories in Oklahoma since the war started. In Oklahoma City, meanwhile. the Times published a statement saying the Oklahoma Publishing company "has received no money for initiating or conducting the editorial effort it has made to cause congress to remove present (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) Soviet Japanese Fishing Accord . e Extended Tear MOSCOW. March 20-iffVThe Russian government announced Friday night a one-year extension of the soviet j Japanese fisheries agreement which expired last De cember. A protocol to this - effect was signed Friday at Kuibyshev by Andrei J. Ylshlnsky, vice com missar of foreign affairs, and LL Gen. Ycehitsugo Tatekawa, retir ing Japanese gmbasgador to Rus sia. - ' 5 . - The announcement of the agree ment said there had been an "ex change of notes on the question.' Under terms of the extension, the Japanese agreed 'that their fishing companies would not bid durisg auctioning at five cf the 12 fishing grounds oa which the rent period expired last December. '.'.' The Jap&nese also ejreti to pay 23 per cent more cn all payments made by their fishing companies. Thiirgday's T7cal!:cr , Weather .forecasts wi'.heU and tecrerat-rs delayed ty ar my revest L'Tcr rriJay, 1 feet Iax. tf r'rsratare Thurs day, 63, Ela,-12. . - - ' . MacArthur Is Greeted by Melbourne ; 'Says President Sent 'Z Him to Prepare for " ; 1 Assault on Japs : : By C. YATES McDANIEL MI L B O U R N E, Australia, Saturday, March - 2 1-(P-Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived here early Saturday .and was enthusiastically r greeted' by-' a large c r owd, thrilled' by his promise a few hours earlier that allied defense would give way to an offense to drive rthe Japa nese out of the Philippines. - The hero of Bataan, supreme commander of United Nations forces in the southwest Pacific, In the first interview of his new position, said the present defens ive phase of the war would be followed by. a grand allied at tack. MacArthur came here ' by train from Adelaide. Gen, MacArthur's train pulled into the station, where a great crowd had gathered to welcome him, at 9:30 a. m. ."I am glad indeed to be in Im mediate cooperation with the Aus tralian soldier," the general said when he arrived. . a "I know him well from World war days and admire him greatly. - ' ."I have' every eenfldenee In the ultimate sueeess of our joint cause, bat sueeess tn modern .war rrefuires , somrflilng men than courage and willingness te die.' ; It -requires, Lcaeful pre- paiatlaeL--::-ft; "This , means : furnishing' suffi- CieL ttooja;-and, sufficient m terial to meet the known strength of a potential enemy, - "No general can make some thing from nothing. Mjr success or failure-will depend primarily upon the resources which bur respective governments place at my disposal. "My faith in them la complete. In any event I shall do my best' I shall keep ther soldiers' faith.' "The president of the United States," he said sucdntly, "or dered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of -organizing an American, offensive against Japan. "The primary purpose of this b the relief of the Philippines. : came through and I will return. TUrrtef but clear sugges Uon of what allied strategy Is U be first a dynamic del ease and a great push through the southern arss nme on a day ef heavy air fighting ever the , , (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Air Patrol's Planes May Rise Soon Belief that the Salem airport may be Included among the "des ignated" fields of the state from which 'private planes may be flown under army regulations held by members of Salem's civ il air patrol, officers of the group said Friday night R. E. Herr, senior aeronauucai inspector of the CAA, said Friday in Portland that such might be the case. Because the Salem airport has been under armed guard, private ly-owned planes have been stored there without dismantling since the outbreak of the war. Withdrawal of army guards this weekend leaves the task of guard ing the private ships, all . owned by members of the civil air patrol, to the civilian defense organiza tion. ' Most urgent request for the pro posed designation entered with the army has been for use of the Salem city port a a base for for est patrol flights. Oregon Quota of Tires Exhausted POHTLAITD, March r-CTVTL Cre-3n rationing administration s&ld Friday the -March automobn tire quota had been exhausted tz that a request for additional tire had been mad a. , Even passer j:r err Urts Lev fiisrrpeared, f Cirl B. Cad a til, tx ecutive secretary, said. because they have been Issued for liht commercial ..trucks.'. : . . . lie i M he feared some indus tries, cyjeily lumber,' mijht have to curtl cperaiions. Protests JOHN. CURTIN Curtin Ileluctant to Give np"31inister; Oitiixhm Surprised By The Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia, March 20 An empire : family clash of personalities, -policies and pur poses between British Prime Min ister Winston Churchill. and Au stralian Prime Minister John Cur tin came out into the open Fri day and created a sensation that almost - crowded war. new from Australian zront pages.: '-. .Caught urine midaie was nano- sbme, moustached Richard Casey, the, Australian minister So, Wash ington who' is. going to the middle east SS minister of state for .the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Evacuation Japs 2000 in Pint Group Going to Camp In California LOS ANGELES, March 20-4P) By . train and motor caravan the big push of Japanese out of stra tegic coastal areas will begin at daws Monday, with 2000 evacuees transported to Manzanar; process ing station situated 235 miles northeast of Los Angeles. . - Army trucks and Jeeps will lead the way to 1000 aliens and Ameri can-born Japanese, from Fasa dena's famed Rose Bo wL beginning at f a. m. The Japanese will drive their : own ; automobiles. . Another group of 1000 will go in two spe cial trains, leaving from Los An geles. ' : ', S. Although only a few buildings have been completed In Manzanar, the walls and roofs of several are up, and there wfll be sleeping ac commodations for those who ar rive Monday. When completed, the Manranar Japanese colony will have 490 buildings housing 10,000. Primarily, the Manzanar camp Is designed to accommodate the Japanese while they are classified as to capabilities before they are transferred to inland concentration camps for the duration of the war. MasExeciJh In Axis Counti ..... By The Associated Press From German-subject but still defiant lands of Europe- came ac count! Saturday of brutal, mass machine-gun executions of 4000 Serb- patriots, of wholesale new arrests among - Belgians .- and Frtnchrsea and harsher restric tions upon Jews by axis satellites. " Yugoslav government sources In London, quoting from eyewitness es, told how the Serb men and boys were mowed doom late last November after Hitler personal ly had . InvchEi a lC3-f cr-l r prfcil - a-init .Yugoslavs Unconverted- to., the- fuehrer's "new tr der." '-. ' . ' .An t'.iz-Jl was taas ca' a Cenaa. riircl shortly fcTlir r tZ-r's ellct tdlzitsr C.s tr ee.::. 3 cf 1:3 E::U fir ecry Cerrsaa tttr.cr kied. At tl!s ratio it Urns appeared that IZZ patriit pall with their lives fcr tie "dzsih ef J xzslx : TSe" bclatsd eyewitieis ac count said the roundup cf CaJ Casey taught Amid Dispute Monday StilweUTalies Command Over- YaiilhS ':..: A' vJ: lis. . Reveals Intention, to" ' Drive. Japanese OutV . .Qear Into Tokyo ? , CHUNGKING', Oua, March 2(MPVLieut.: Gen. Joseoh ' W. Stilwrfl the ITnltM Rtatpi ... T .i t I cusciosed Friday that, he com-1 mends all American ; forces in India. Burma and China in ad- aiuon to tne two cnuiese armies in Burma, and said: "The United States means business, . and we wont be satis fied until we see American , and Chinese troops in Tokyo together." The officer who recently be came chief of staff to Chiang Kai- Shek told a press-conference he was unable to go into details, "but you may assume from the fact that I have been assigned to com mand any United States forces in China, Burma and India that the effort contemplated Is large. , " "President Roosevelt has ex pressed his determination te so all means necessary to clear China of the Jaswavcse." The American volunteer, group znera -wno aireaoy nave won lame over Burma and China wfll nroi tect the Chinese forces m Bunnai I General StfllweU said. , ; Just returned from an inspect tion of the Burma front, he said he did not know how the Jap anese were using their Thai (Sia mese) allies; in Ve campaign, "but there are. indications that the Thais are not going W fight too desmiFapaa V v ' a " if a. i " sio.caiiea. ior paaence wnuo am United Nations mounted their in evitable cojonter-offenoive against Japan, saying; "there is a : great deal of work to do first, and there are mistakes to be repaired. . , "We anew the Japanese were a lot of savages, and we knew they were not afraid te die," he said. "We were rather snrprised by their initial seceeoses, t cool eonslderattoa shews .. that the probabilities were tn favor ';e sack sawcesses. .... ..'.. . , -; ' "In the United States we were too dumb to see through their in tentions, and. now we are-paying for it We realize they- are a dan gerous and .aggressive . - enemy bur" where they have been met by anything like eoual strength they have been licked. AU of Ballot Places Taken The hole in Salem'a city ballot was filled Friday with the filing of EL R. Wagner's candidacy for the sixth ward alderman's post At the same time indications pointed to at least one other can didate in me field. Friends of Clark Craig, confectioner at 17th and Market streets, declared he would file this morning. Wagner, resident of Salem since coming from San ' Francisco 10 years ago, is office manager for Hunt Brothers cannery and lives at 1023 North 20th street. The council position for which he has declared . himself : a candidate ; is that now held by Philip Holmes, who because of lack of time has declared himself out of the race. of Patriots ies Revealed Serbs started in KMfitviVi month after Hitler Issued his per-1 socal order. "Germans started to search all houses for the men, the Yugo slavs related. "The men were led out of town. Nobody knew the reason f or s r.:::ure. The Germans rounded up about 000 men and boys, from 15 to about tX Alioui bewildered. sH wcre net unduly , perturbed and' some even sang throughout Oe nLrht. - Ca 'Teeiiiy, Kerember Xt 'C.S- C:rti-a t.IIIcn r:::d CLulln the tlorr;:s Li'.V HicLts ef V terztl r trl tr-L:i tz.1 tcra t v,crk tltlr tJicLlae-rcss ca tl-cxa. . "About 1C3 scliocrrs with I schcclbocks stZl la. their .hands I were with them. The number exec-;-'! was more than CC3.Ac- cr:.'.-; ts ta . 'efnciil statement cf the rr.-jcr. cf Hrr-ijevic, about CO. per cent of the whele male pcpuliUcn was kZIed.' 703. Casualties -Inflicted Upon Biirma Invaders VW,"Asenetoted Press " ? - . " NEW; DELHI, India, March Mvxnv Japanese sureauy nave suffered 700 casualties in heavy " fighting now in progress south tougn t; n i n e s e cavalrymen v spurred into action against the) ra v armorea ears, miannr , ana norsemen, . the Bnusn an- nounced tonight Official advices placed the scene of . the Sittang front on the left ' wing of British-Chinese line, defending central Burma.---. . - - The fighting had spread north- . ward front a point some 15 miles south of- Toangoo. where . the ' Chinese troopers swooped down " , on the Japanese yesterday, and the. British in a new , defense , line tn the vicinity ef Toangoo were heavily engaged today, Hard fighting continues, spe cial communique said. In the first strong Chinese ac tion on the Bntish-held - front since Chiang Kai-Shek's, troops took up positions in Burma last January, the .cavalry detachment pounced on a mixed force of 400 Japanese infantrymen and caval rymen south of Pyu, killed 100 of the enemy - a n d destroyed the column's entire complement "of three armored cars. . -, - v . '. , Pyu is 39 miles south of the important . British defense point I of Toungoo, on the eastern rail- I highway route northward to Men dalay.- Tireof British troops have been falling back1 slowly along this route. and the locale of . today's fight demonstrated not only , the offensive deternuhatiohs t Ueut Gem jeeephv fituweU, the a . - ' . j t A-asv m.: BMed . l yymenran cwnnanaerai mm w nese forces, but it showed plain ly their new liaison witt their British allies. - Japs to Stop Law of War Changed to Permit Seizures From Neutrals ? i BERLIN (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS)-March 20-(JP) The Berlin radiOj in a Tokyo dis patch, said Friday night that "re vised" Japanese naval regula tion hereafter would, permit the Japanese to halt all neutral ves sels' and seize "former soldiers, propagandists, and skilled labor ers whose work may benefit ene my countries, and hold those persons "as prisoners of war.. . The radio said that "details' ef changes In Article Vm of the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) no LONDON, March - 21-(Satw daylHVRasslan troops ... are maintaining Intense pressnre ef the city of Kharkov and violent fighting also , Is ... taking place north of Taganrog en the Sea of Axov, the Ylchy news -agency said Saturday , la a dispatch quoted by Renters. : Barling largo nnmbers ef men at Kharkov, the Russians . were reported te have made temporary Infiltrations ef nasi fortifications before being driv en back. SYDNEY,1 March IMSatur-eUy)-ff-The war tn New Gnl nca probably will be compli cated by outbreaks of head hvnt- lag among cannibals from the Sepik river area where some ef ; the world's wCdest tribes are found, the Port Moreshy -ear-respondent of the Sydney : Bmn , reported ,. Friday . ' . : ;.;-;- -i The remaining white civiliaaa in the Japanese-lavadod areas ,are threatened by the outbreak ef this warfare, while seme na tive police have Joined maraad Ing bands preying en ether na tives, the dispatch said Sa quot fcg rtfrrrts -'reaching Pert . Tloresliyv-" ':,;:":v-' ; IICCCC.V, T'arch IMSatur-day)-(.?-Coviet guerrillas were rcrcrl:! . Eatsrday .' to have LLIcl Ccrczns at Bryansk, 73 txiles northwest of Orel, and to have penetrate 1 the city, where they set fire t dUlxry stores and posted Ur'.Lg leaf lets on German b&IIeUa boards tm iw V-r4 ml the cl'.y. '- Enemy Ship Bulleti