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Picks Manager,
Eyes Road Issue
H. C. Johnson, Albany Real
Estate Broker, Gets Job;
Labor Horde Reported Due
V By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
ALBANY, March 2S (Special) The Four-County Can
tonment council selected its manager-coordinator here Mon
day night- H. C Johnson, 48-year-old Albany real estate
nian and immediately began damping the troubles of the
nine city and four county members in his lap.
Johnson, recommended from a field of eight applicants
by a special committee named in
Salem earlier this month, was
employed "for an indefinite pe
riod" at a salary of $250 a month
to serve as fact-finder, trouble
shooter and liaison man among
the council members and for
them with Lt CoL R- E. M. Des
lslets, engineer in charge of con
structing the Albany-Corvallis
cantonment, and with other gov
ernment officials.;
First problems Johnson was
asked to seek, answers to were:
- L mo will pave five miles
f the read leading from Inde
' pendence to Wells, headquar
: ters ef the cantonment.
r t. What may be done to
. break . through priorities and
relieve a critical shortage ef
. - bousing reported from Lebanon
and Sweet Home.
3. How to obtain transporta
tioo facilities for the thousands of
workers .expected soon to be ,tm
ployed on the cantonment' con
tacts.
4. How to discourage landlords
from charging exhorbitant rents
to present tenants in an effort
to get them out and make way
for higher-paying cantonment
workers.
.This Is just the lull before the
storm," William H. Crawford, di
rector of the Oregon Economic
council, predicted in commenting
on the housing and transporta
tion problems.
: Rather than a rumored labor
shortage, the mid-Willamette
valley may soon find Itself
overran with workers from
evtaide. Crawford said one
high federal official had Just
warned him.
The problem of roads, to carry
workers to and from the canton
xnent, and to handle through tral
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0.
Birthday,9
Colonel!
ALBANY, March 23 No sing
ing telegram may Lt. CoL R. E. M.
Deslslets, army engineer in charge
of building the big Albany-Cor
vallis cantonment, have received
Monday night on the eve of his
19th birthday, but he did get i
loudly-sung telephone call con
gra tula ting him on his recent ad
vancement from the grade of
major. -
A congratulatory statement
the ;- normally staid council
members said a standard form
of resolution was "too stiff"
was read by Mayor H. W. Hand,
chairman, by long distance tele
phone to CoL Deslslets at the
officer's' present residence In
Corvallls. Then the council
members broke forth In song,
Happy birthday to you, over
the same circuit.
The statement, to be signed by
the nine mayors and four county
judges comprising the council,
and William H. Crawford, Oregon
Economic council director and ad
viser . to the cantonment organi
sation, and' sent to CoLDesIslets,
read as follows: -
Lt CoL R. E. M. Deslslets,
US Army Engineers,
, Corvallls, Oregon.
The four county cantonment
Council In regular meeting as
' sembled on this date extend greet
ings and hearty congratulations on
&. well deserved promotion in
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Sunday's Weather
VTeather forecasts ; withheld
ml temperature data delayed
ly arry request. River Monday.
1 f::i. Ilix. temperature boa
Cir, SI, ruia, IS.
jULciuuy
Couvicil
Declares
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HERMAN W. LANKE '
Lanke to Run
For Recorder
Appointee Is First to
Seek Post; Quiets
City Rumors
Herman W. Lanke, Marion
county recorder by appointment
following the death of Albert J.
Egan, silenced rumors Monday
that he might be a candidate for
the Salem city recordership by
filing at the county clerk's office
for the republican nomination for
his present position.
Reared on a farm east of Salem,
Lanke entered his present office
after 12 years In state employ,
his last service at the capital as an
auditor in the office of secretary
of state. He is secretary of the
Marion county republican central
committee and secretary-treasurer
of the County Clerks' and Re-
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MacArthur in
Interview Inspires Anzacs -
By VERN HAUGLAND
UNITED STATES ARMY
HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
March 23-PhWith confidence
and deep r feeling. Gen. Douglas
MacArthur spent two hours Mon
day In giving news correspond
ents V complete - account of the
Pacific war situation, ;
The conference was "off the
record," but all the 80 corres
pondents . agreed - that the . su
preme commander left nothing to
the Imagination as' he strode to
and fro in a - makeshift press
headquarters and dealt out the
facts. :
; MacArthar spoke for most of
the : time with statesmanlike
calm and with a precision of
expression, bat his face con
torted as he mentioned cruelty
and treachery of the Japanese
foe..
In emphasizing his intensity of
feeling against the "devils" ac
cused of atrocities on allied na
tionals, the general shook his in
dex finger, - " S :- - -
While sparing nothing of the
stark realities of the situation, he
declared his unbounded faith in
the cause of the United Nations,
and his voice became husky with
the deDth of his emotions. , 1 -
The impression mads on Aus
tralian news men by the sum,
keen-eyed American gmeral was
typified by this account from the
Melbourne Herald's correspond
ent: - - -
"He Is sot only a first-class
Bataan's
Area Dull,
Prepared
B iMen Give
F J$ge; General's
Is Declared
WLiHINGTON, M a rch 23
(JPy-An apparent lull returned
to, the Philippine fighting front
after two days of intensive Jap
anese attacks which prompted
defenders to brace for a full
scale enemy offensive.
From Lieut. Gen. Jonathan
M. Wainwright came no further
reports of aggressive enemy pa
trol attacks or siege hammer
ing of the Manila bay forts fol
lowing his disregard of a de
mand that the American-Filipino
defenders surrender "or
suffer the consequences."
Official observers-were with
out an explanation but noted
that General Wainwright had not
revised the report he made Sat
urday that a renewed assault on
the Bataan peninusula positions
appeared probable.
The war department announced
meanwhile that the troops on Ba
taan had sent to Gen. Douglas
MacArthur in Australia a pledge
to carry on the fight with the
same courage and zeal they show
ed under his personal command.
It was a message of congratulation
on his safe arrival in Australia to
assume supreme command In 'the
south Pacific,
LONDON. March 23-A)-Gen-eral
Douglas MaeArthur's Im
mediate task Is the formation of
an American-Australian "com
mando army" for a land, sea and
air offensive against the Jap
anese, dispatches from Sydney
said Monday.
The Dally Mail's correspondent
said MacArthur would be aided
by "subordinates picked from his
own proven officers, who came
with him from the Philippines or
from Australian commando lead'
era." Both the Daily Mail and the
Herald listed the following steps
as MaeArthur's likely procedure:
' Formation of a small battle
council consisting of MacArthur,
Lieut Gen. George H. Brett, US
iar chief and allied army, navy
and air chiefs; preparation for
mass war exercises to form one
offensive force; rapid expansion
of commando training; speedup
and expansion of army and air
coopers tional training; ruthless
elimination of red tape, and
series of important staff changes
in three services with a rigid pol
icy of ability as the basis for pro
motion.
fOff Record9
thinker but a fine speaker.
"It would be a pity if duty
were to preclude Australia from
hearing him. He has the sort of
news Australia wants to hear.
"When yen meet him yea
realise how he infused the
mixed Philippine force with an
heroic fighting spirit, for he'
will obvknsly be anhappy until
he rettrn In triumph to
out the Invader.
"I can not say what MacArthur
said, but none who heard could
fail to be heartened not only by
what" he said but also by the
way he said it." .
MacArthur, also conferred at
length with Australian military
leaders, including Army Minis
ter Francis M. Forde and Chief
of Staff Lieut. Gen. r, V. A. H.
Stardee. . v:
Forde said he was greatly im
pressed by MaeArthur's grasp o:
the situation and was high In his
praise of the American.
During aU this round of ac
tivity, MacArthur tfil wore the
hash Jacket and light khaki
trousers which he had
when he arrived last week af
ter his 2889-mile flight from
the Philippines.
MacArthur summed up his de
termination in replies to con
gratulatory messages from Gen
eral Sir Archibald P. Wavell and
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
To the one he said, "I will do
my. best;" to the oHer, "I have
absolute confidence in complete
victory."
Cripps Opens
! J
ampaigri tof
Unify India '
NEW DELHI, India, March
ZS-tTHBritaJa's emissary, Sir
Stafford Cripps, arriving as the
"Great Friend" of aa India sur
prisingiy become the frontier
with tho axis, began Monday a
whirlwind eampaixn to nnlf y
the country's discordant mil
lions on a program ef freedom
and self-defense. :
Explaining that he planned to
stay but two weeks, he said he
hoped that his conferences with
an extraordinary variety of In
dian . leadership wonld .bring
"quick decisions'' which would
permit the Indian people to
"associate themselves folly and
freely, not only with Great
Britain and the other domin
ions, bat aloe with ear great al
lies, Russia, China and ' the
United States . ; . to preserve
the liberty of the people of the
world'
He said he had come "to set
eat finally and with precision
the practical steps which His
Majesty's government proposes
as a method of fulfilling their
past promises of self-government
to. the Indian peoples.".
8 Scarcities
Get Ceilings
Top Price Placed on
Home Appliances
Wholesales HiM
WASHINGTON, March 23-P)
The office of price administration
Monday night put price ceilings on
eight major "scarcity articles -
refrigerators, typewriters, vacuum
cleaners, washing machines, iron-
era. - radios, phonographs, .J and
heating stoves to checifa "sharp"
inflationary price movement
The price action, broadest yet
taken by OPM, covered the princi
pal items whose jnanufacture has
been ordered halted or curtailed
in order to convert the industries
to war production and conserve
critical materials.
It was OFA's greatest in
cursion Into the field of retail
price control. Moreover, the or
ders also set maximum prices on
wholesale marketing and in two
Instances vacuum cleaners and
typewriters lids were pat on
manufacturers' prices.
The ceilings apply only , to new
articles, not to used ones. Of six
of the articles typewriters, do
mestic warshing machines, ironing
machines, phonographs, rado re
ceiving sets, and domestic heat
ing and cooking stoves and ranges
the price decrees were tO-day
"temporary orders," pegging the
prices at the level of last Thurs
day, March 19. -
The two permanent price ceil
ings applied to household vacuum
cleaners and attachments and to
household mechanical refrigera
tors. In these instances the ceil
ings were fixed at the manufac
turers' recommended retail price
lists.
Wholesale figures on the vacuum
cleaners and refrigerators were
"frozen" at the level prevailing
October 1-15, 1941. The whole
sale maximums on the other six
articles were fixed at the prices
of March 19.
The ceilings are effective next
Monday, March SO.
Acting Price Administrator
John EL Hamm said OPA had
received "thousands of complaints
from the buying public of prof
iteering."
Other officials said the price
boosts in the mam were brought
about by retailers who foresaw
that they wonld bo unable to
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Great Labor
Need Told
PORTLAND, Ore, March 23-)
Oregon will have to find 70,000
additional workers, for shipyards
and military construction In the
next six months, state employ
ment service officials were told
Monday.
v. Lee Harding, Industrial : en
gmeer for the service, . told
branch office managers of the
service that '60,000 would be
needed in the shipyards and 10,-
000 for military construction and
metaleraft Industries. ;
' Almost half of the men will
need vocational training, he estl
mated,'- adding that the supply of
skilled welders, ship joiners and
marine electricians is nearly ex
hauateiL ?-'
Alien-Jap
w Is
D eclared
Must Be Home at
Night; Move-out i
Is not Delayed . j
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23
VPhA rigidly-enforced curfew
will become effective next Fri
day for all Japanese-Americans
and enemy a 1 i e n s i n critical
military 2ones, .the army an
nounced Monday night.
"Military necessity dictates
such action, and military neces
sity requires strictest enforce
ment, said Lieut-Gen. J. L.
DeWitt, head of the western
defense command.
"Ihis is a war measure, and
wafn again that swift justice
will follow any violation,
whether it involves disobedi
ence to the curfew or the pos
session of contrabrand articles."
DeWitt's announcement said his
public proclamation No. 3, to be
issued Tuesday, would establish
NEW YORK, March 23-OP)
The New York Times says In a
dispatch from Washington that
a nationwide roundup of some
1000 : alien seamen who ham
pered shipment of supplies to
tho allies by deserting their
ships has been ordered by At
torney General Blddle. '
a curfew between the hours of 8
pjn. and 6 ajn. Aliens affected
Include not only those of military
$ x urn to rage , wot 0 1
Rayburn Speaks for
Time-and-a-Half
After 48 Hours
WASHINGTON, March 23-0P1
The movement to alter the wage-
hour law received powerful sup
port Monday night when Speak-
er Rayburn expressed the opin
ion that time-and-half pay should
begin after 48 hours, instead, of
40, as at present.
' He gave his views In endors
ing a provision in a resolution
adopted Sunday during a mass
meeting la Dallas.
"I endorse the resolution pass
ed yesterday m Dallas, calling
for a 48-hour work week," .he
said. -
"I think that time and a half
should be paid for employment
after 48 hours.
There Is a rising clamor en
Capitol E13 for new labor leg-
islatlea, bat President
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Balkans Have
aints
BERN, i Switzerland, March 23
(-Rumania already has lost
115,000 men In the fight against
Russia, and the people are com
plaining bitterly, over the losses
both of manpower, and territory
ceded to Hungary, the Balkan cor
respondent of the Basle National
Zeitung said Monday night.
This is only one aspect of the
complicated Balkan squabbles
which may wreck Germany's at
tempt to gain more reinforcements
in the struggle, sources with close
Balkan connections said. "
They j pointed out that King
Boris of Bulgaria still was resist
ing attempts to pit his. country
against the soviet, but conceded
there was a possibility of Bui'
garia being talked into a cam
paign against Turkey.
Extension Oiling
Order Received
Army engineers stationed in Sa
lem received instructions Monday
to proceed with the oiling of the
1000-foot extension to the northwest-southeast
runway at the mu
nicipal airport. Alderman - Tom
Armstrong, chairman of the air
port committee, was advised.
The job is expected to be fin
ished yet this week.- '
The runway, first to be paved,
originally was 4013 feet Ice. '
la 150 feet wide. -.
Curfe
Oiaiigtoflaw
Cets Support
Compl
North Australia
Terrific
Sinks Three Jap Merchants
Port Moresby
Again Raid's
Focal Point
Enemy Loses Nearly
50 Planes, but .
Carries Assault
By C YATES McDANIEL
MELBOURNE, Australia,
Biarch 23(AP) In the face
of heavy losses inflicted by.
powerful allied counter-action
hat had damaged . or de
stroyed nearly 50 enemy
planes in four days, the Jap
anese command h u r 1 e d its
bomber squadrons Monday at the
whole of the northern Australian
defense periphery and allied pilots
replied with far-ranging attacks
upon enemy bases above the
mainland.
Wyndham, on the western Aus
tralian mainland,' was under as
sault for 10 minutes by a medium
force of enemy bombers and to the
east Port Moresby on southern
New Guinea, an advanced allied
position which the Japanese for
days had sought in vain to re
duce, was attacked by 19 heavy
bombers' which dropped 67 bombs.
Again,,, it ; appeared, the Port
Moresby .airdrome was the' target
of targets.
Fovr- Japanese fighters dip
ped to 200 feet with their ma
chmegans and cannon blaring,
and ran into a steel barrage
One' plane : swerved sharply,
crashed into a lull and bomnced
29 yards up its side. The pilot
was hnrled more than 40t feet.
A second plane was believed
destroyed.
Immediately before, bombers
had attacked their objectives in
two waves of ten -and nine ma
chines. Many high explosives
and scatter bombs were dropped
but the damage was believed
slight
The extent of the raid, toge
ther with the known heavy losses
the Japanese have suffered in re
cent weeks, indicated the enemy
had built extensive air power in
New Guinea and might be expect
ing to use it for an air base
against the mainland.
MOSCOW, March ZS-4P)
Moderating weather.
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Details
ete
County Commissioners Ralph
Girod and Jim E. Smith and Engi
neer N. C Hubbs returned from a
survey of the North Santiam high
way ; Monday afternoon with the
announcement that agreement had
been reached with a state high
way department representatives
on all details of a program to re
place nine bridges In the gorge
section between Detroit and Niagara.""-'
Completion of the program, es
timated to take six months, will
bring the elimination of the pres
ent one-way traffic bridges which
now Impede traffic through the
gorge. .: Two of the new - bridges
will be 14 feet wide, as against
several of the present structures
that are. only 11 feet in width.
The remainder will be 18 feet
wide.;. ,v;e: - i i -.- . - w: '.rr.
Present load limit ot eight tons
when tho new structures are ready
for use, Engineer Hubbs reported.
Lumber orders for the program
will be made up within the next
few days and work started before
mid-April, Hubbs Indicated.
onag
Compl
SuLscription Rates of Statesman
Will Be Advanced: on April 1
Effective April -1 circulation
rates of The Statesman will be
as follows: - '
-By Carrier: : - ' . . " -
f X5 per copy
.75 per month -,
9.C3 per year
By Mail (in Oregon)
$ .to per month ,
SX3 per six months'
' - S.C9 per year
Assault;
Britain Coast
Has Air Raid
ON THE SOUTHEAST
COAST OF ENGLAND, March
2S.-W)-The air war over the
channel flared up again Monday
night as German raiders stabbed
at coastal areas in the' sooth
and southeast of England by
moonlight. : 1 ,
' They e a s e d considerable
damage and seme casualties on
the southeast coast as one group
of five bombers swooped for a
swift a 1 1 a ek. . Many of the
bombs ' landed on a business
section, r ; ', V;-
: There was a sharp, flve-min-nte
attack on . another area.
The German raids followed a
foray by British fighters on the
French coast earlier in the day.
Jap Airplanes
Both Sides Strive for
Air Control as
Chinese Dig in
LONDON, March 23.-WV
Strong Japanese plane reinforce
ments were being rushed - Into
Burma Monday as blow and
counter-blow ' against airdromes
signified the vast importance at
tached by both sides' to control
of the skies. '
The British cemmand reported
that for the second successive day
heavy Japanese bomber, forma
tions dealt serious damage to a
British flying field in central
Burma, while the British them
selves pounced down on a Jap
anese base on Mingaladon.
Ten to 12 Japanese planes were
reported destroyed over or on
the airdrome 10 miles, north of
Rangoon.
Informed sources in London
said the Japanese were speeding
more planes into Burma in a de
termined effort to wrest air su
periority from the RAF and . the
American volunteer group.
These sources said, however,
that It eenld be assnmed the
defenders also were getting re
inforcements and declared thai
the ' Japanese still were . far
front the goal of supremacy. '
In the earlier stages of the
Burma fighting, the AVG alone
has accounted for more than 250
Japanese planes.
While land action lagged, Brit
ish headquarters at New Delhi,
India, said:
"Further serious raids took
place Sunday on an airdrome In
central Burma, causing: . damage
to RAF property. In our attack
on Mingaladon on the morning
of March 22 we destroyed 10 en
emy fighters for certain and three
probables. The ground results are
not yet at hand."
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Naval Base
Work Halted
-: SEATTLE, March H-ft-A dis
pute over drivers for a' contractor
delayed work on a road project
at the Sand Point naval air sta
tion for a short time Monday.
The controversy was over driv
ers of three trucks of J. B. Stur
gill of Spokane. Most ot the trucks
on the Job are owned or leased by
the navy.
At 13th naval district head
quarters it was said that the only
result of the dispute was to term
inate the work of the ' private
trucks eight hours ahead of sched
ule. It was their last scheduled
day on the job. Union drivers
complained that SurgQl had hired
non-union men.
By Mall (outside of Oregon)
: $ .C3 per month
-129 per year
The Increase In rates, -which
has been postponed for some
months after that of other Oregon
dally papers, has been - made
necessary by Increased costs of
operation, together with decline
in advertising -revenues due to
war conditions. .:":"
Undergoes
US Navy
Italian Boats
Victims Near
Home Shores
U-Boats Invade Lair
Of Enemy to Shoot :
Total to 183
WASHINGTON, Biarch 23.
(AP) United States sub
marines, making Japanese
waters their hunting grounds,
have sunk three more of the
enemy's merchant ships, at
tacked and "probably sunk" '
combatant ship and dam
aged two freighters, the navy re
ported Monday night
The communique ran the score
of Japanese ships announced of
ficially as destroyed or damaged
by American and Australian ac
tion since the start of the war to
183. Surface ships, airplanes and
rsubmarines accounted for " them.
An undetermined number of ves
sels also was sunk by the Dutch.
Of the American-Australian total
of 183, the United States navy
has sunk or damaged 118 vessels.
The latter figure breaks down as
follows:
, Combatant ships:
' Sank or believed sank. 35.
, Damaged, 10. r k .
-' Non-combatant shipst
Sank. 48. ' ' i
jMiicvea suns, it. -v-r
' Damaged, 1L v
" The navy communique, Monday
night said that , the combantant
ship probably sunk was a de
stroyer or anti-submarine vessel,
indicating that one American sub
marine skipper turned the tables
on the Japanese. The merchant
ships sunk were described as a
7000-ton tanker, a 6000-ton ship
and a SOOO-ton freighter.. ,.
The communique (No. 60 is
sued at 5:30 pjn.) said:
"Far east US submarines op
erating in Japanese waters have
recently added the following to
the list of ' enemy, merchant ves-
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ins
LONDON. : Tvesdar. Btarch
It-yty-Thm military maneavera
hi northern Sweden are a
screen for complete mobilixa
tloa of tho Swedish army In tho
face of heavy German concen
trations along tho Baltic coast,
the Dan Express foreign edi
tor, Charley Foley, wrote Taes
day. .
The reacrvca who took part
la these maneavera "will not bo
released, and more are being
taletlr ealled op every day,"
he said.
The final stage of mobiliza
tion b expected by April t, the
second anniversary efthe Inva
sion of Norway ho said.
WASHINGTON, March 22.
JPfTiiK navy announced Mon
day night three . enemy mer
chant vessels had been sank la
Japanese waters by United
States submarines.
CHUNGKING. China.' March
tS.-W-Sirpplles of all kinds
now are moving ever the tortu
ous overland route between
Sinkiang province and the so
viet anion which, for the time
being, la China's main road link
with the outside world, lt was
'disclosed, Monday, 'tf-, .
- This rood formerly carried
only miner freight bat has be
come ot major Importance since
; the Japanese eat the , Burma
road from Man dalay. Tho
China-India road designed to
replace the Burma road, still Is
nnder construction.
LONDON. March tXrifr-Th
Bast air commander who direct
ed the devastation of ' Warsaw
and Coventry, Field Marshal
Gen. Albert Kessclringy . has
been pat in charge of German
airmen In Sicily, British Infor
mants reported Monday
T. m-w . ms Infjrnirtld
AM J - wwm m a. -m
here as possibly pointfn to a
Itepped-cp aerial offensive
gamst Malta, possibly followed
sy seaborne Invasion.
Bullet