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On Pay Day "
Every time yea ret your
pay bur bonds and stamps
for the USA. Cheer the boys
la Uniform by retting an In
terest in fighting men and
equipment.
. MAKS&FECLD, March 2 V
(tfy-Twenty-two tons of foe!
floated away Thursday sit-;
er a power company saw
dost barre caved In and
dumped half the load Into .
Coos bay. :
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Salem, Oregon. Saturday Morning, March
Prico Sci News'.
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No. 313
Leads Hunt '
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Given
A
Vi A re Memo
Army Cantomrjeiilt At
Corvallis, W ar
Heroic Lieutenant
From Astoria Died
In Mexico in 1916
Henry Blair Member of Pioneer
Oregon Family; Cousin lives
In Salem; Clippings Found
United States newspapers of 26 years ago cried out the
.death of a young Oregonian, Lt. Henry Rodney Adair, for 'whom
Friday the second World -war's largest cantonment was named.
West Point graduate and a brilliant horseman, 34-year-old
Henry Adair died as he had lived, undertaking the most difficult
and most necessary task at hand, the news stories of June, 1918,
indicate. .
As a scout on the Mexican border, he was with the 10th
cavairy ai wurizai wnen me surprise auacx. wai inreaienea we
American continent with warfare was staged there June 21,
1916.
Press dispatches five days later carried the story of an
eye-witness, Capt Lewis Morey, who "told of the heroic death
of Lt. Henry R. Adair, of Portland, Ore., in an attempt to re
plenish" the ammunition of trapped negro troopers. .
"Lt, Adair died fighting, his last words being, Go on,
sergeant, to ' a non-commissioned officer at his side, Capt.
Morey said," according to the news story of the day. ,
"The two were on their way to the pack animals carrying
the ammunitiorir when they were intercepted near a small irri
gation ditch by a detail of Mexicans. Lt. Adair already had been
wounded and lost his pistol in previous fighting, but he had
borrowed another and was fighting a hand-to-hand battle when
m xzrfi lrU1t Wo fell ftsilrarari nnrroMYtia nnrT nra Mitcrtit
by the Ttegro sergeant as he slid toward tl& ditch "which Was
deeply filled with water."
Born in Astoria, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D.
Adair, who at the time of his death were living in Portland,
both Oregon pioneers. ,
- At tne age oi lo tne youth naa entered Bishop scott acad-
emy; two years later he went to Astoria high school, graduating
in 1904. He completed his course at West Point in 1907 and had
been engaged constantly in active army service both in the US
and the Philippines until the time of his death.
A well-known horseman,
the United States and Europe,
juacuson square vsaruen u lew years Deiore nu aeam ui compe
; tition with British, French and Belgian cavalry officers. An
expert polo player, he had played in Egypt and Gibraltar as he
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- - Newspaper clippings telling of the heroism and showing
pictures of her handsome young cousin are treasured keepsakes
ef Mrs. Mabel A. Lockwood of Salem.
WeVe Got to Get Them
Before They Reach Land
Down Under Spirit Found
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MELBOURNE, Australia, March 27-(JP) Via Radio)-Q,uoting
a Melbourne resident as saying "we can't block all the openings
: to Australia, we have got to get out and knock the Japanese back
before they get to us," (P) War Correspondent C. Yates McDaniel
o t a J. a iui. - f , 11 a i - i j Jl
oeciarea rxiaay mat una is me
jen everjrwuwf.
4But national pride does not
which is facing tStem," McDaniel
said in a - Droaacasi to me yimea
States over the Blue network.
Look at the map of the south
ern Pacific, my Australian friends
tell m anrf vou will m I verr
wul rann wh wt cannot afford
ta b tmshed out" McDaniel as
serted. "If we are, what a Job u
will be to get back, for southern
Australia is closer to Little Ameri
ca than it Is to Honolulu, and it is
a long, long way further than that
to the United States."
, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's dash
to Australia by torpedo boat and
plane lilted the nation's already
high morale, McDaniel added, but
he observed that "the Australian
man In the street Is asking, 11
American torpedo boats and planes
slip through waters and skies pa
trolled by Japanese warships and
r. arplanes, then why can't Japa
nese ships and planes get here?"
."Australia today knows the
rawer to this question," McDan-
.1 asserted. "Australia also knows
hat should be done about it.
Jever before have this people of
A finhtinff race been more certain
tat as you know the other- fel
low is going to do unto you, do
j ou also unto him, but do it first."
The immensity of the areaVto
- be defended and problems of mov
ing tens of thousands of troops
into battle position now absorb
tie energy of the nation, he said.
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7 x
he had taken many trophies in
had broken the record jump at
spirit i nave seen, neara ana
blind Australians to the danger
Signal Found
Ineffective ,
In One Area
. Possibility ' that 'a sound dead
spot In Salem had been uncovered
by Friday afternoon's test of air
raid warning devices - was seen
Friday night at the city police
station, where calls concerning ef
fectiveness of the sirens and. whis
tles were received.
In the area near- the Cherry
City Baking company in the north
end of Salem, reports indicated
that some listeners were unable
to hear the signals even out of
doors, while 10 miles north of the
city limits at the Lake Labish
store and four miles outside of the
city of Chemawa Indian school
the noise was distinct to persons
both inside and outside of build
ings. - "
In Polk county at a point 10
miles almost directly west of the
city, one woman heard the sig
nals and recognized them as air
raid warnings although doors and
windows of her house were closed
Declaring she had neglected to
read notices of the coming test,
she rushed out of the hills to de-
tenefne cause of the alarm.
Lar
gem
Deslslets
Divulges
Decision
Designated Title
Pro ves Surprise
Within Valley
ALBANY, March 27
(AP) The army cantonment
now under construction in the
Albany-Corvallis area win be
known as Camp Henry R,
Adairflamed for a member
of a pioneer Oregon family
who was a hero of the 1916
Mexican campaign.
Lt Col. B. E. M. Des Islets.
commandant of the cantonment
said Adair, a second lieutenant
in the cavalry, was the first man
killed in Pershing's punitive ex
pedition against Mexico.
Famous for his last words. "Go
on, sergeant, Adair was killed
at Carrizal. Mexico. June 21. IBIS.
He was a native Astorian.
Lt. Henry R. Adair was a
descendant of Oregon's first
federal revenue collector, Gen.
John Adair, according to R. J.
Hendricks, historian.
Gen. Adair was aonointed bv
Pres. Polk as collector of cus
toms of the port of Astoria In
1848, year the Orecon territorial
government was established, and
arrived at his post in the-spring
of 184.
The mother of Mrs. Mabel A.
Lockwood, 368 North Liberty
street, Salem, was a conskv of
Gen. Adair.
Designation of the cantonment
as Camp Adair was a surprise to
agencies in the mid-Willamette
valley that had been advocating
giving the training post the name
of McAlexander. after Mat. Gen.
U. G. McAlexander, "Rock of the
Marne," of World War I fame.
18 Billions
Bill Starts
Includes Lead-Lease
Funds; New Army
Corps Announced
- WASHINGTON. March -
Another big wartime appropria
tion bill S18.302.1S7.148. mart
for the army started through
congress Friday and simultane
ously President Roosevelt orderad
a special effort to. expedite the
shipment of lend-lease war ma
chines and materials to Russia.
The big fund included 11.200.-
000,000 automatically available
for the lend-lease program, rais
ing tne total or appropriations or
authorizations for the purpose of
arming the nation's allies to $50,-
000.000.000. In addition the a im
propriation will raise the total
of defense and war appropriations
since July L 1940. to S1W.000.-
000,000.
Meanwhile, Secretary of War
Stimson announced prepara
tions for future warfare In the
air and oa the desert, with tho
emphasis on a greatly expand
ed use of gliders and parachate
troops, no ordered" the Imme
diate creation of a special desert
corps of S000, and said para
ehnle troops were being ex
panded, to three fall regiments.
In presenting the appropria
tion bill to the house, the appro
priations committee stripped Its
report oi military Information
considered of value to the enemy,
but it did make several disclo
sures:
A total of $8,990,000,000 Is for
building 31,070 planes, complete
ly equipped with spare parts, and
ordnance. Money for 33,000 planes
was provided in January. A re
quest for funds for 23,550 more
is .expected soon. The plane build
ing program is scheduled at 60,000
planes in 1942 and 123,000 in 1943.
Pool Scene of Death
OREGON CITY, March 27-
Four-year-old Larry Bauer, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Eausr, was
drowned late Thursday la a pool
at the family home here. , -
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ADM. JOHN W. GREENSLADE
Navy to Head
War on Subs
Includes Army
Planes; Action
Follows Charge
WASHINGTON, March 27-ff)
The command of army planes
hunting U-boats off the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts was turned
over to the navy by an order an
nounced Friday as a new move
to increase the effectiveness of the
war on submarines.
The order, issued Wednesday
by Gen. George C. Marshall, army
chief of staff, and Adm. Ernest
J. King, fleet commander in chief,
war disclosed by the war and
navy departments, which asserted
in identical communiques that
cooperation already was "close
and effective" in other respects.
The army air units were
made svbjeet to orders of naval
commanders of the "sea fron
tiers" to end any uncertainty
over control of the weapons
used in tho , anti-submarine
campaign,, . .
The Atlantic "sea frontier," ex
tending from the Canadian bor
der to the Caribbean, is com
manded by Rear Admiral Adolph
us Andrews, who was relieved
of shore administrative duties ten
days ago to devote his full at
tention to the anti-submarnie war.
The newest action toward unity
of command closely followed a
complaint by North Carolina's
governor, J. M. Broughton, that
"shocking lack of cooperation
existed between tho army and
navy and that the war on U-boats
was "wholly inadequate and
"frequently Inept To this com
plaint, directed In telegrams to
Secretary Stimson of the war de
partment and Secretary Knox,
the official announcement made
no reference.
Unity of command, it was not
ed, "already exists for all army
and navy forces in the Hawaiian
Islands and the Caribbean.
Off the western coast of the
United States, tho task of
guarding against enemy sea ac
tivities is divided between Bear
Admiral John W. Groonslade,
commander of tho western sea
frontier, and Rear Admiral C
& Freeman, the northwest sea
frontier commander.
Hero's Widow
Goes to Work
LOS ANGELES, March 2?-4)
Mrs. Colin P. Kelly, 23,. widow
of the heroic American air force
captain who was killed after he
had sunk a Japanese - battleship
in the Philippines December 9,
went to work Friday as a secretary-stenographer
at a defense
plant.
She ' had ' traveled over the
country selling defense bonds and
aiding in Red Cross drives.
"But now," she said, "the time
has come for me to go about the
business of earning a living for
myself and our son. Corky. He
is Colin P. Kelly, III, two years
old.
Soldier Is
Sentenced
TACOMA, March 27-rVSgt
Walt W. Carroll; 25, of Fort Lewis,
was sentenced Friday to serve not
more than 20 years in the state
penitentiary for shooting his 17-year-old
, bride, Norma Mae Carroll.-
r -
Sgt. Carroll ' pleaded guilty to
charges of first degree assault.
The soldier admitted in a signed
confession to police officers to
shooting his bride -of a few weeks,
and then turning the pistol on
himself, when he became con
vinced she no longer . eared for
him. The shooting occurred March
1. Both recovered rapidly.
6 Poi
nts
Ordered
Nazi-Held
Set for April;
; Reds in North
BERN, March 27 (AP)
The German army has been
ordered to h o 1 d j six main
points on ' the Russian front
at all costs while nazi trans
portation experts effect the
difficult ; movement of new
supplies for a spring offensive
now reported timed for the third
week in April, advices from both
German and neutral areas Indi
cated Friday night.
The points which the nazis ex
pect their troops to hold against
Russian attack which in some
cases approaches encirclement
are: y -
Staraya Russa below Lake H
men, where the 16th German ar
my long has been in desperate
straits; Vyazma, bastion of the
deep salient on the front west of
Moscow; Orel, Kursk and Khar
kov, consecutive forward posi
tions on a north-south line pro
tecting the Germans in the
Ukraine and Donetz basin, and
Taganrog,, advanced nazi position
on tho Sea of Azov, on the route
to the Caucasion oil fields.
Military observers in Istan
I bul, predicting Germany would
make Its new smash at Russia
In the third week ef April, said
there was some possibility of a
concurrent thrust at the United
Nations' Mediterranean area,
perhaps from Greece, Crete and
Rhodes via Cyprus and Syria.
By Tb Associated Pre ...
MOSCOW, March 87 A Rus
sian seaborne force has landed be
hind the German lines on tho
Murmansk coast under the pro
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Mott Avers
Little Given
Lack of Sacrifice by
Business Subject
Of Complaints
WASHINGTON, March M-VP)
A complaint that neither labor
nor management was "making
any sacrifice" to promote the war
effort was injected Friday Into
congressional hearings on propo
sals for war time revision of the
labor laws. 1
Both Chairman Vinson (D-Ga)
of tho house naval committee.and
Rep. Mott (R-Ore) made this ac
cusation upon learning that Wil
liam P. Witherow, president of
the National Association of Man
ufacturers, would receive a salary
Increase of $8333 this year as
president of .the Elaw-Knox, a
Pittsburgh steel fabricating plant
Witherow had appeared be
fore the committee to urge that
, congress legislate ' against any
further spread of t n e closed
shop agreements would Contin
ue but new ones would be f Or- '
bidden. i
Mott, questioning , ' Witherow,
learned of bis salary increase, a
raise which would carry his com
pensation to $50,000 for the year.
"You haven't made any par
ticular sacrifice then,? was Motfs
comment. . . - - i .
. Witherow replied that he w a s
working "day and night 18 hours
a day," and that the work he was
doing was "way out of propor
tion to the salary increase.
"It Is my opinion,1 Mott said,
"that neither labor,, nor man
agement Is making any sacri
fice." ' ., ,
"Nor the public either. Yin
son : added., v '-. r 1 U V " -They
amended their statements
however, to make lt plain that
they considered small business
men, and particularly automobile
dealers, had made a sacrifice. -.
Mac Arthur Is Said
Hope, of tlie 7orId
EUGENE, I. larch 27-(AVral-mer
Hoyt, publisher of the Ore
gonian, styled Douglas MacArthur,
United Nation's supreme com
mander in the Pacific as "the
symbolic hope of the worlds
He told the Eugene chamber of
commerce Friday that General
MacArthur is "the superman we
all thought we were before Pearl
Harbor." . ' !
Fight Here
A
i
Y io ton
Toungoe, where bravo Chinese
troops are withstanding odds on
three sides, appears - In latest
dispatches' to be a focal point In
tho Japanese t campaign ? for
, Burma, . The city appears : In
tho center of this map, north of
Kangoon and en the Sittanx
rlver. At Promo west : of
Toungoo,.Britlsh forces are de
fending the central Burmese on
fields.
RAF Presses
European Raid
Crippling Industries
Is Principal Goal;
Nazis Hit Back
'By The Associated Press
LONDON, March 27 Hundreds
of British bombers cut a blazing
pattern for the RAFs 1942 of
fensive against western Europe,
unloading everything from fire
bombs to massive two-ton ex
plosives overnight upon the Ruhr
valley and other nazi targets
across Belgium, The Netherlands
and France.
The giant Krupp works at Es
sen, subjected to its second as
sault In two weeks, was the main
target 'and other, squadrons
pounded an oil refinery near
Ghent, airdromes in The Nether
lands and docks at Le Harve.
Taxing "up. where the night
crews left off, daylight raiders
roared over the channel Friday
to strafe coastal targets and
channel shlppta.
Tho air ministry said RAF
bombers with a strong escort of
fighters attacked Ostend, Belgium,
with one British fighter lost and
one German plane destroyed.
The Germans struck back in a
swift bombing and machine-gunning
raid on two southwest coast
towns where property was dam
aged but only one casualty in
flicted. ' Another high-flying nasi
formation was intercepted over
the southeast coast by RAF fight
ers and sent reeling back across
the channel. ; ,
Friday night lone raider
bombed and snachtno-gunner a
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Malta Raids
Continued
VALLETTA, Malta, March 27
(JPf-Yor the third successive day
the Malta communique conclud
ed Friday night "A raid Is still , in
progress, But around this island
lay . the wreckage of seven axis
planes destroyed Thursday a
stinging blow reflected in t h e
smaller-scale raids Friday.
In addition to the seven planes
destroyed yesterday,. . the com
munique listed two more as prob
ably destroyed and 11 damaged.
It brought the official total of
planes definitely known to b- -e
been destroyed over Malta for the
first 28 days of March to 83. Me y
others are listed as probably de
stroyed. There was some property dam
age Friday but no casualties, the
communique said. .
Jim '. ,Mill9;
- By DeWTTT MACKENZIE
NEW : YORK, March
When death came to James A.
Mills at Ventura, Calit, Friday at
the age of 58 it robbed us of one
of the striking figures of our time.
Few men had traveled so far, or
lived such a life of thrills and
danger and adventure . as had' the
ubiquitous Mills in his search for
headlines for the newspapers of
America. But. be was more than
famous as a correspondent of the
Associated Press.
This quiet unassuming gen
tleman was the friend and con-'
fldant of a host of notables,
ranging from kings and queens
. to humble offspring ef the solL
Indeed, It may not be an exag
geration to say that he bad as
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Burma Decision Is
Thought Near As
Australia Is Quiet
. . . i , , . .. ,
Small Jap Naval Force Enters
Bay of Bengal; Bombing Over
Luzon Heavy; Damage Light
r . By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press War Editor
The Australian ramparts were strengthened Friday
night by Australian troops whose battle flags had gathered .
honor in Greece and Crete, in Syria and Libya, and as the
continent was thus step by step made more secure the ene--my
again was spending most of his force in Burma and
the Philippines. .
Under the supreme leadership of Generalissimo Doug
las MacArthur, the Australian General Sir Thomas Blarney
Leading Navy
Recruiter Is
Asked How
: PORTLAND, March
Jfavy recruiters the nation over
want to know what makes the
Portland district lead the nation
In enlistments.
' That was the tribute paid Lt
Cmdr. Glenn F. DeGrave and Ids
staff Friday by Capt. E. B. Lap
ham, western, division recruit
ing Inspector, as he arrived from
San Francisco. , .
The 11 western states are far
ahead of the rest of the country,
enlisting 23.6 per cent of the
nation's total, Lapham said,
Lapham said DeGrave's appli
cation for transfer to sea duty
would be granted for his recrult-
plng record here, probably within
a' month, DeGrave was recently
promoted from lieutenant
Exemption Is
Seen, Curfew
Applications Can Be
Obtained at US
Employment Office ,
Official notice from the western
defense command that certain
classes of persons may request ex
emption from or deferment of pro
visions of. civil exelusian and cur
few orders was received at the Sa
lem office of the ITS employment
service Friday by Manager W. H.
Basil. - -
Ro said application forms for ex
emptions were available at his of
fice, 710 Ferry street, or by ad
dressing requests to. the US Em
ployment Service, postoffice box
787, Salem.
Tho army notice stated that lo
cal draft boards were to pass upon
the completeness of applications
and sufficiency of required proofs
and, If approved, forward them to
a designated military commander
for final decision. If the latter
approves the application, a per
mit will be Issued authorizing the
applicant to live and work in the
prohibited or restricted area speci
fied and exempting him from tho
necessity of conforming with cur
few regulations.
'Quoth the Raven'
A New Liberty Ship
PORTLAND, March 27-4P)-The
Edgar Allen i Foe, 23rd Liberty
freighter launched by the Oregon
Shipbuilding ! corporation, went
down the ways here late Thursday.
NewsmaB, -Is D ea d
wide an acquaintance through
out tho world as any other per
X must qualify that word "ac
quaintance," for Jim, as we al
ways have called him, was a man
of friendships. To meet him was
to like him; to know him was to
love him, and so it was that many
came to place their trust in his
loyalty and great breadth cf un
derstanding. In my own travels ia
many lands I have crossed and
recrossed Mills trail, and, times
without number the first inquiry
made of me by all sorts of folk,
from dignitaries to doormen, was
if I knew Jim Mills.
Jim ,long had known that he
was condemned to die, but I'm
sure that when the call came be
tools command of these tested re
turning veterans and of all other
allied land troops, American as
well as Australian.
While action before , Australia
remained light weak enemy air
attacks on Port " Moresby, New
Guinea, and new allied bombing
assaults on the Japanese base of
Koepang, on Dutch Timor, north
west of Australia events in Bur
ma appeared ' reaching toward , a
showdown. ' ) -
The Chinese on the allied
left anchor In Burma, cut off -above
Tungoo, by an enemy ;
flanking movement, caught la s
circle of enemy fire and under
cruel punishment, appeared to
have a chance to beat off the en
veloping; disaster after alL' for
Chungking announced that rein
forcements had reached them.
Despite this It was still touch
and go, particularly In view of
the lack of Chinese sir support.
On the allied right, held by
the British about Prome and the
more vital of. 'the iwo because It"
stands athwart the approaches to
CANBERRA. Saturday, March
fc8-P)-Army ' Minister Francis
Forde announced ; Friday that
members of- the Australian Im
perial force which has retained
, here to aM in the defense of the
country had brought full equip
ment with them.
the central Burmese oil fields, ac
tion had fallen into a momentary
lull, but it was there that tho
really critical, battle appeared to
bo shaping up.'
Japanese forces were moving up
directly toward Prome along . tho
Irrawaddy river, by boat and
afoot, and ethers were reported
coming in obliquely through passes
In the Foma Pegu mountain chain.
The enemy's maneuver appar
ently was Intended to wholly sepa-
rate the allied right and left, for
the moment containing the Chi
nese with the minimum essential
force while he gathered Ids strong
est forces for an attempt to throw
the British back toward the sea
Some British observers thought
that the success or failure of this
plan would determine the deci
sion for all of central Burma.
It was again apparent that ,
despite the matchless work of
the. British and American vol ;
unteer . group fliers against
enemy basis, Japanese air power , '
was considerably the greater la
. tho Burma theatre as a whole.
As had been expected since the
fall of the Andaman Islands, in the
Bay of Bengal on India's flank, al
lied reconnaissance confirmed that
a small enemy naval force was
operating In those waters a cruis :
er and a few destroyers. Any
dispatch of major enemy ' fleet
units into the Indian - ocean ' re
mained unlikely.
. In the Philippines, the Japanese
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wasn't afraid. He always had met
the thought with that slow, en
gaging smile of his, - as though
death were the least of his wor
ries. As a matter of fact I believe
it was, for he faced it many times
in very terrible forms, and wo
shall, think of him as meeting lt
With his captivating grin.,
lt would bo difficult to name
a spot outside tho poles which
' Jim Mills hasn't visited, writ -:
ten about ' and - photographed.
Indeed, his " friend; Mahatma
: GandU once remarked .t hat
when be reached the pearly
gates the first person he expect
ed to see would be ' Reporter '
: Mills, looking for a story I
' guess the Mahatma , spoke a
greater truth than be realized
when he made his Utile Joke.