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Defeat for Nazis :
Diplomat Tells German Position
Gleaned by Inside Information
NEW YORK, March 25-(A3-A.' A. Eerie, assistant secretary
of state, predicted Wednesday night that the summer of 1912
would make it plain that "the nazi rulers of Germany have lost
the war and have decreed their own ruin.
. In an address prepared for a Greek independence day dinner
not
To Leave yet
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25
(AVAIl Japanese and Japanese
Americans in military area No. 1
the .western portions of -Washington,
Oregon and , California
and southern Arizona ' will be
forbidden to leave the area under
a new order which Lieut Gen. J.
L. DeWltt will sign tomorrow,
the western defense command
and fourth army's civil affairs
division announced Wednesday
night
The order will go into effect
on Sunday, March 29. Those af
. lected must remain within the
area until evacuated under army
supervision." v . ' i
, "Gen. DeWitfs order prohibit
ing alien , or citizen Japanese
from leaving military area No. 1
is to insure an orderly evacuation
and partly to protect the Japan
ese." Col. Karl Benedetsen said.
"Several groups planning volun
- tary evacuations have been fear
ful of starting, through reports of
threats in" other states.
Sun Spots Loom
PITTSBURGH, March
25-(P)
A scientist warned Wednesday
night. the world appears to be in
for 'the strongest electron assault
from the sun . in ' many decad
possibly one that will outclass the
Aurora Borealis show of last
September 18 which played gen
era! hob with radio and tele
phone communications.
Oil Solution Offered
PORTLAND, March 2 5-(Jt)
Construction of wooden sea-going
barges was advanced Wednesday
as a solution to the Pacific north
west's oil and gasoline transporta
tion problem by David Eccles,
Oregon war industries coordina
tor. '
Fire Destroys Hotel
McMINNVILLE, March 25-J)
The Brooks hotel at Carlton was
destroyed by fire early Wednes
day and a dozen guests fled their
rooms in night clothes. The man'
angement estimated the damage
at I20t000. . 1
Prices up in East '
WASHINGTON, March 1 2S-(JP)
The government Wednesday ap
proved a price increase on gaso
line and fuel oil in 17 eastern
and southern states and the Dis
trict of Columbia, to compensate
for higher oil transportation costs
resulting from tanker sinkings.
UO Alumni Elect
PORTLAND, Ore, March 25
(A1)-Alumni of the University of
Oregon Medical school Wednesday
Bight elected Dr. Carl Ashley,
Portland, president
ST. CHARLES, Mo.-Cfl)-Mem-,.
bers of the AFX. Chauffeurs and
tfy Truck Drivers' local have voted
to penalize any member who sub-
Jecta tires on government-owned
? vehicles to unnecessary wear and
. - -v abuse. "
' The union will report such cases
, '. to contractors and if the offend
t Ing driver is discharged the union
' will give him no "benefits or pro
s'- tection" and also will fine him.
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first consideration In the com
pounding of prescriptions. The
assurance of fresh, potent
drugs, and the concentrated
services of skilled registered
pharmacists outrank the price
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strangely enough, in actual
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here, Berle asserted:
"We now have Information
I from -urces inside of Germany
making it clear that the Germans
themselves know that there can
be but one and. The German peo
ple know, as we know, that no
provision has been made by the
nazi government for the year
1943. -
"They know t ha t the saa
chines they need U prodaee the
tools of war are m toager re
paired. They knew that the
skilled workmen and the young
engineers who as s t So the
production of tomorrow have
been and are being sent half
trained, to the slaughter mm the
fighting fronts in Russia. They
know that the battalions which
go out do not come back save
as a collection of shattered
wrecks.
"They know, indeed, that the
men who have gone to the "Rus
sian front are frequently not" al
lowed to come back to Germany,
lest the German people learn
what has befallen."
Berle traced the predicted col
lapse of the German war effort
to t h e resistance of Greece in
1941 which, he said, "made pos
sible the reinforcement of the
eastern Mediterranean,' and "de
layed the German attack on So
viet Russia for several weeks."
"Without the glorious weeks of
Greek resistance I believe this
would not have been possible,'
Berle said. "And so I say that to
the spirit or freedom in Greece
every people in the world owes
a debt of gratitude."
The state department official
accused Germany of now trying
to "bribe" both Hungary and Ru
mania with promises of Transyl
vania to take a bigger part in the
war against Russia.
"Today a German agent in
Budapest is Insisting that the
axis shall take the flower of
Hangarian yoath and send them
as soldiers under German com
mand to fight or the plaint of
Rassia," Berle asserted.
"This is not to defend the free
dom of Hungary, for, as soon as
these soldiers have gone to Rus
sia, the Germans propose to take
over Hungary. Their plans are al
ready laid.
"This is to give Hitler a chance
to bribe Rumania. The bribe will
be an offer to lei Rumanians take
back Transylvania from Hungary.
For this price the Rumanians are
also asked to send. the bulk of
their army to fight once more in
Russia. Hitler is already short of
men; and the German people now
fear what further slaughter may
do to their race. ...
This plan is now under ne
gotiation in Budapest and in the
Rumanian capital. Should it slip
up, a second plan is to offer Tran
sylvania as a bribe to Hungary,
if her divisions will go out and
fight Russia. Indeed, it is not clear
that Transylvania has not already
been promised to both parties."
Berle praised Greece for its
fight against Italy, asserting that
In the five months before Ger
man Intervention It had
"brought the Italian empire lit
erally to its knees."
"From that defeat" he said,
"the fascist 'and nazi legions have
never recovered.".
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How British
Licked Fleet
Eyewitness Account of
Mediterranean
Triumph Told
(Continued from Page 1)
We were then south of the toe
of Italy."
With my field glasses X looked
to the starboard. There on the
horizon was. the Italian fleet
Wlthoot a tnesnent's delay fwsr
cargo vessels were sent in the
opposite direction! accompanied
by part of oar aenadroa, and the
rest of ns headed for the enemy
Our strategy was similar to that
by which the cruisers Ajax, Exe
ter and Achilles harassed the Ger
man pocket battleship Graf Spee
to defeat off Montevideo, Uruguay.
Every ship in the squadron began
making a smoke screen as we
charged the Italian fleet
The battleship's long-range guns
began kicking up spouts of water
to the right and left of us long
before we were in range to open
fire. -
As we came to the point where
our guns could reach the Italians
wo swung sharply to the left and
began firing broadsides.
As the Italian guns began get
ting oar range we abruptly
doubled back, hiding behind the
smoke-screen we had created.
From time to time we dashed
through the smoke to fire a few
salvoes, and then docked back.
After an hour and a half of this
the Italian fleet withdrew tempor
arily.! The enemy was afraid to
break through the smoke screen,
fearing that as he came near our
destroyers would have plunged
out with scores of torpedoes.
With a little more than .two
hours to go before darkness closed
in, the Italian fleet pressed de
terminedly forward upon the eon
voy.
Again we sent the convoy scam
pering away while we turned again
on the enemy. But this time he
appeared determined not to be
stopped by the Screen of smoke,
and he came in to 15,000 yards,
then 10,000.
For battleships, that Is almost
point-blank range, and his
shells smashed slckentngly close
to as every time wo dived out
of the smoke screen to have a go
at him.
We broke out of the smoke.
There was the enemy. A huge bat
tleship and three cruisers bearing
straight down upon us.
Instantly they let go a salvo of
15-inch shelsl which raised house-
high geysers beside us. We loosed
a quick series of salvos and
ducked back into the smoke.
Once Inside the smoke blanket
we turned sharply to the right It
was barely in time.
Three huge spouts of water
leaped up as 15-inchers hit exact
ly where we would have been had
we not turned. - f
By now the enemy was within
easy gun-range of the convoy,
which was shielded by a thin
wall f smoke, and the admiral
of the squadron ordered the fleet
to close in on the Italians with
a torpedo attack.
Under cover of dark the squad
ron headed for Alexandria, and the
convoy, shielded by units of the
fleet raced to reach Malta during
the early daylight hours.
As the squadron neared home
waters the admiral broadcast , a
message to the ships companies
saying: u . .-
"By your endeavor and those of
our forces at Malta, the Italian
fleet failed to make contact with
the convoy, nor did the axis air
forces damage any ship in it until
off' Malta norwithstanding the
great scale of attack, which Is at
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Grocery Clerks
Will Be Trained
Independent grocers, of the Sa
lem area at a meeting Wednesday
night in chamber of - commerce
rooms of the Oregon Food Mer
chants association decided to spon
sor a class for training of clerks,
with Elmer Berg as Instructor.
At least IS earollees are sought
for the class, officers declared,
and would-be pupils either now
working in grocery Stores or in-J
terested in such employment may
get In touch with Mr. Berg. Short
age of experienced clerks caused
by the war has resulted in opening
of such classes in various Oregon
communities, it was declared. Wo
men, particularly, are expected to
take the training.
Friction in
Balkans Rises
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an official spokesman, was heard
in London to declare that the time
had come for Bulgaria to inter
vene actively in the war. "Bul
garia has for long years been the
playground of communist propa
ganda and she has suffered great
harm," the declaration said.)
The huge rich province of
Transylvania, awarded to Ru
mania after World war I, and then
sliced off for Hungary by Hitler
in 1940, is the prize apparently
still being dangled before first one
nation and then the other as their
services are required.
The Rumanian press and
awhile, aeeordmg to dispatches
received here, have met de
mands by' the rekh for more
troops to hurl against Russia in
the spring with a clamor for
return of Transylvania as the
price of further help.
Ration Books
Distributed
A total of 85,332 sugar ration
books, each accompanied by a
registration card and instruction
leaflet have been delivered by
her office to the 111 school dis
tricts of Marion county, Mrs. Ag
nes C. Booth, county school su
perintendent reported Wednesday
to County Clerk Lee Ohmart
Nine days in the office and 65
additional hours, which she terms
her personal contribution to the
cause, were devoted to the work
of preparing and distributing the
materials. Mrs. Booth and Mrs.
Lucille Kennedy, rural School su
pervisor, traveled a total of 404
miles in making distribution with
a mileage and other actual expen
diture cost of $46.97. The Salem
area alone received supplies for
45,000 Ration iplients
Two Circuit
Judges File
(Continued from Page 1)
seen shrink from several
ties to one comprised by Marios
county alone.
'Page took his post last June
when the boundary lines of the
district were shortened and Judge
L. G. Lewelling was given " the
newly-created Linn county dis
trict Educational product of Sa
lem public schools and Willamette
university, and former faculty
member of the university's college
of law, he had practiced law,' in
Salem since 1913 when he was ap
pointed to the bench by Gov.
Charles A. Sprague.
tributed to our gunnery and dex
terity.
"Above all, Malta has received
stores vital to the island's defense."
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Andamans in
Bengal Lost
Japanese Approach
Ceylon-Calcutta . .
Supply Route
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The Andamans had been bombed
at will for weeks. '
Actually tt was part of a gi
ant aoa-laad pincers en India,
The Invaders land arm of the
scissors was closing slowly
Wednesday on the eastern road
to Mandalay. v.;v;.v;'
A force of 1000 Japanese, skirt
ing the Chinese outpost lino de
fending Toungoo, some 200 miles
below Mandalay and even closer
on a diagonal route from the Ve-
nangyuang oil fields on . the
northwest captured an airfield
north of Toungoo.
Officially it was acknowledged
that the situation was serious.
Chinese forces were sent out
early this morning to dislodge
the enemy from the air field, and
a heavy battle was under way.
In an earlier outflanking
sally, a mbxed force of Japa
nese horsemen and plain clothes ;
infiltrators managed to cut the
Toungoo-Mandalay road at Te
dashe, ZS miles north of Toun
goo, but Chinese forces drove
out the cavalry and mopped up
the others. It was stated.
Japanese bombers with fighter
escorts made heavy attacks on
the remaining RAF airdromes.
With the RAF engaged in de
fense of its landing fields, the
"Flying Tigers" of CoL Claire L.
Chennault the American volun
teer squadron are blasting with
terrific effect at the big Japanese
air bases in both Burma and
Thailand from their own stations
in China. Yesterday they smash
ed 40 to SO grounded aircraft at
the Chiengmai, Thailand, base but
lost Squadron Leader John
Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk, who
crashed near the scene of the
raid.
Eleanor Goes Home
SEATTLE, March 25-iAVMrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt left for New
York Wednesday night after a few
days' visit here at the home of
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Mrs. John Boettiger.
Instructor Leaves
CORVALLIS, Ore., March. 23.-
(flV-Sgt C. C Woodbury, ROTC
instructor at Oregon State college
for 22 years, will leave April 1 to
become a captain in the regular
army.
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IN THIS total war, we Americans want the help
of our allies. We must in turn help them every
way we can. One such way is to shareour sugar
with them. : '
Our factories may have to use sugar in the man
ufacture of smokeless powder ammunition. In
fact, sugar may prove vital to producing shells
and torpedoes quick! These tre the reasons sugar
has become a precious substance for the duration.
So at the table and in the kitchen let's
take full advantage of the sweetness in
every spoonful of sugar we use. Let's
accept gladly any sugar rationing order
--because sugar may stand between
an American soldier and Heath. K
If we don't waste it, we in this country will always
have sugarto cat The proposed sugar ration is ac
tually; more liberal than the U. S. ration in 1918
One reason why this liberal ration is possible is
that a quarter of cur sugar is now grown inside
- America. Grown on fertile western farm lands,
The
Disloyal atkena.
To Be Interned .
WASHINGTON, March 24-CR
The government will move to
cancel the citizenship of persons
who were still loyal to Germany
or Italy, when naturalized, At
torney General Biddle disclosed
Wednesday. He said that at least
29 legal actions would he started
soon, with "several hundred" to
follow. .
The attorney general told a
press conference that the German-American
v bund's "whole
Ideology, philosophy and activity?
had been under investigation for
a long time and that other or
ganizations, Including some Ital
ian groups, also have been stud
ied. . -
Friday Test
Set, Sirens
Signals for Air Raid
Warning to Get
Daily Try out
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adjustment is to be tested. ; r
- Reports from persons of nor
mal hearing la any part of the
city who do not hear the S
o'clock blasts are asked by the
committee. Calls are to bo re
ceived at the city police station,
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Of such vital importance are
the signalling devices, LeGarie
declared Wednesday, that regular
tests are to be inaugurated with
the Friday all-out trial. However,
unless some fault Is discovered, it
is not planned that whistles , and
sirens will be blown together
again except for air raid warning
when they win be sounded stead
ily for two minutes, he said.
Sirens are to be sounded in
unison each noon to provide as
surance that they are in working
order; the whistles are to be test
ed Individually at least once a
week. LeGarie explained. Both
types of signal might become
gummed or be put out of commis
sion easily if regular tests were
not Instituted, the committee de
clared.
Dairy Labor Short
PORTLAND,. March 25-ff)
Dairymen in the Portland area are
confronted with a labor shortage
so acute that 50 per cent of them
have seriously considered selling
their herds to the stockyards, S.
B. Hall, Multnomah county agri
cultural agent declared Wednes
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Jap Supply
Line Raided
Most of Enemy's S7
Island Installations
Are Destroyed w . . . . .
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cus raid was "swift and cleanly-
completed." V.TH -
"Two enemy patrol boats of,
the small cutter class also were
sunk." this officer said. Fuel,
barges, dredges and almuar
equipment were destroyed, and
a few prisoners were hreught:
back.' They were taken from
the water. (ftessaaably they
from the destroyed
"Wake was quite well defended
by coastal batteries. Our surface
bombardment group, of consider
able gun power, silenced a large
part and air bombardment ac
counted for a large part of the re
mainder." Destruction of the enemy Instal
lation on Wake indicated there
was little possibility that the is
land, lying 2000 miles west of
Pearl Harbor, ever would prove
very useful to the Japanese. They
apparently were trying to develop
it as an airplane supply base but
the impossibility of protecting It
adequately would appear to make
it more of a liability than an asset
for them. . ? -
Naval authorities here described
Marcus as also primarily a supply
base with the added possibility
that the radio, station there may
have served the Japanese ..in .de
tecting American ship and plane
movements In that section of the
Pacific. - " i -
Cripps Meets
Two Leaders
NEW DELHI, India, March 25
(JPf-Sir Stafford Cripps, bearing
proposals for . greater indepen
dence of India, conferred sepa
rately Wednesday with the presi
dent of the Indian national con
gress party and the leader of the
Moslem league, two major politi
cal factions in this land of many
diversities.
The congress party chili, Mau
lana - bdul Kalan Azad, emerged
from the meeting with an air of
grave preoccupation, declining
any comment
The Moslem, Mohammed All
Jinnah, was all smiles as he left
Cripps, asserting the British cab
inet plan would be placed before
the Moslem league's working
committee on Friday.
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This home-grown sugar beet sugar is as
pure and sweet and wholesome as any sugar in the
world. On your table, or in jelly-making or in other
cooking, pure beet sugar acts exactly the same as
any other top-quality sugar. It looks the same
tastes the same. Not even chemists can detect the '
slightest difference. '
ilianks tothe West's sugar
sugar. So it s no great hardship to
t cut down on sugar to any required
ration level while we need sugar,
to make smokeless powder. This -is
one.wayfvrry American can
help step up the U.S. war effort. "
Turner Child Hurt
la Fall From Auto 1
Ronald Salter, f our year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Salter, Turner, suffered a skull
fracture Wednesday night when
he fell out of the car In which he
was riding with his parents. Re
was taken to the Salem Deacon
ess hospital' and attendants late
Tuesday night reported his condi
tion as "not very good." -
Drive Is Held
likely, Luzon
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Indies-Australia front than Japan
proper.
la aR. the Japanese occupy
considerably leas than one-half
the Philippine territory.
Off the southern tip of Luzon,
they hold the island of Massbate,
and opposite the entrance to Ma
nila bay, the small island of Lu
bang. Southeast of Lubang they
have occupied the port of Calapan
and a small coastal strip on the
north shore of Mindoro, across the
narrow Verde Island passage from
Batangas province, Luzon.
Southward, there Is a group
of large islands still free of the
Japanese except fer an occas
ional shelling- of then posts by
enemy naval ships."
Below these lie Mindanao, sou
thernmost of the large island and
roughly the same size as Luzon.
Here the Japanese hold approxi
mately as much territory as the
American-Philippine forces : still
retain in Luzon. -
NY Blacked;
Out, Practice
NEW YORK, March 25-(P-The
towering skyscrapers forming New
York's famous skyline were blotted
from view Wednesday night as
lower Manhattan . had . its first
blackout of the war.
The 20-minute test began at 9
p. m. (EWT) and covered five
square miles, extending from the
battery north to 14th street
Chinatown, Greenwich village,
the Wall street district and the
populous East Side were included
in the zone. Directing the program
were 1500 policemen and 9000 air
raid wardens. More than a quart
er of a million people live in the
area.
All surface traffic was halted
but subways and the elevated
lines continued operations.
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