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ceic. aee on .;
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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