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Plant Cause of Blast Is Uiilmown At Connecticut Plant; 25 Injured; BuUets Fly ; BRIDGEPORT, Connv March 2S(AP)--Six persons wre missing, presamablj killed,' after an explosion and fire that demolished Saturday, a small brick building': of the sprawling Remington ims company plant, one of the na tion's biggest munitions centers " " ; A company official reported Saturday night, 7 Yi hours liours after the explosion, that no bodies had as yet been recovered from the wrecked building, but added that a" care- House Parses ' ; - , . I V - " --J , Big Army Bill Includes Limitation ! Of War. Profits ; On Contracts "WASHINGTON, March 28-(ff) After sharp debate' over the na tion's war production effort; the house Saturday night passed a $18,301,981,345 army appropri ation contdhlng, a provision to limit war profits on contracts paid for from the appropriation. Sponsored by. Rep. Case (R- SD). the profits limitation was accepted by a standing vote of 70 to 8 without debate, a few min utes before the bill was passed by a voice vote. - Case said the amendment would mean that "net profits" en contracts, probably " after taxes, had been computed, . would be limited to C. per cent, bat there was neertainty amona eteer snembers over op eration of the limitation. ; Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) ..of the appropriations committee told reporters that "while the objec tlve Is splendid, the amendment Is absolutely unworkable" and woulcThave to be revised in the senate. The blf bill would provide funds for 31,970 new warplanes and scores of o t b e r combat equipment and supplies. All bat about '$1,000,000,000 . will be spent for the army, with the air corps taking half of the sum for planes and eorrelary sup plies and parts as another step in President Roosevelt's an nounced goal of 60,000 planes this year and 125,000 in 1943. Presenting the measure to the house, Cannon spoke of "amazing increases in tank production and an output of planes which he said .borders on the miraculous." But some republican members said they could not go at far as Cannon in reporting progress, Rep. Ditter (R-Pa) asserting flat ly, "Let's give up fooling the Am erican people by an optimism that may prove disastrous for our own tecurity, he said. The house, after passage of the aoDTODriation measure, began a two-week "informal recess. Orig Inal plans called for a formal re cess, but democratic and repub lican leaders arranged only for . no business to be transacted un tfl Monday. April 13. Daily ses sions will be held, however. Quezon Is On Second Term UNITED STATES ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Saturday, March 28.-:(ff)-Presi-denK Manuel Quezon of the Phil ippines, who has arrived In Aus tralia, took his oath'of office for second term last December 30 In a bomb shelter after the Japanese had entered Manila, officials dis-, closed Saturday. : ' The president, his cabinet mem' bers and family, made the haz ardous trip from the Philippines to loin General Douglaa MacAr- thur in the fight to regain their country, but details of that trip remained a secret for the time be- " "' " ' r . .... , ? r , j Unnecessary Suits '. 'At Law May Go .,. t ... .. . - WASHINGTON, March rresident Roosevelt has approved ft plan under which all pending fend future federal court investl rations, prosecutions or suits un tier the anti-trust laws would be temporarily deferred where it was tbown toe action would Interfere with the progress of the war ef fort - - - - , i ful check had failed to locate any of the six missing , workers, three women and three men, either at their .homes or in hospitals. The list or. missing: Miss Katharine Butler, 52. Mrs. Ellen Hansen Potts, 19. Mrs. Ethel Gonther, 29. ' Ernest Bendetto, 32. George Carrkk, 36. v" '' George Dutcher, 44. More than 25 other workers listed as injured in the blast which shook the huge munitions plant, sent bullets whizzing dangerously through the vicinity, touched off general fire alarm and brought a rush of ambulances to the scene. A freight car and an automobile also were destroyed. Most of the injured, cut by fly ing glass, worked in an adjoining building where windows and sky lights were shattered. About 25 other employes were treated for shock at the com pany's emergency nospitais. The first explosion, followed by a' series of smaller blasts, started a fire in the rains of the building, used for packing and shipping ammunition. The flames snread, to .three nearby honea, but these fire-were ex-f tiniWIIH UBMIU7 - . , In a formal statement, the com pany said Saturday the cause of the blast was "undetermined" and that no estimate of the damage was available. City Ballot Perhaps Done Issue Fails to Appear; Mayor's Ring Has But One Hat As deadline for filing of candi dacy in S a 1 e m's May elections, Monday, May 30, approaches, po litical prognostics tors of the city believe the ballot already made up.' Without an issue, save the undercurrent whisper of "open1 and "closed" city, a backwash from the long-standing pinball argument, the candidacies, or lack of them, are said to reflect the greater interest of the populace in national and international prob lems. Former council member and current city water commissioner, f. M. Dough ton is only candidate for mayor, post willingly vacated by W. W. Chadwick, who seeks election to the. state legislature. Greatest competition is that for the reeordership, now held by Hannah Martin Hansen, who intimates that her retirement from city politics Is a retire ment for the time at least from publie life. In the field are Al fred Mundt, longtime assistant in the office. Aldermen A. O. Davison, Ross Goodman and L. F. LeGarie. No opponent has appeared for Paul H. Hauser, city treasurer, or (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Cripps Meets Big Leaders f NEW DELHI, India, March 28, -A')-Sir Stafford Cripps, .British war cabinet member who is seek' ing an independence formula to weld India into a solid bloc against . the axis, will meet . the great . Indian leaders. Mohandas Gandhi i and Pandi t ' Jawaharlal Nehru, again Sunday. . It was disclosed also that the British plan to grant India domin ion status might be released for publication Monday morning. The all India congress working committee will hold an executive meeting tomorrow to discuss Sir Stafford's proposals. ; Friday's Weather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request Elver Satur day, 4 feet . Max.- temperature Friday, 04, mln 32. .. 1 Nassdr.e Maid ; . . ' : '. ' Survivors in Port Tell of To rpedoed Vessels in Atlantic , Rescued From Five Sunk Vessels; ' At Least 24. Seamen Are Known Lost; One Boatload Missing By The Associated Press The survivors of five torpedoed vessels have reached the safety of widely scattered 24 of their shipmates are known to be lost and hope is rapid ly waning for another group adrift in a lifeboat. ' Twenty-two crewmen from who arrived in Norfolk recounted the heroism of their pilot, Able Seaman Oscar G. Chappell, who burned to death at the helm while he kept his ship headed into the wind so 22 others could escape. The sinking! occurred off the Atlantic coast Thursday. Rescued by a ship that dropped dozen depth charges when it arrived on the scene 30 minutes after the attack, the survivors said 11 shipmates were lost when a submarine pumped . three torpe does into their tanker. At Savannah 23 members of the crew of another tanker said 13 were missing and believed lost The survivors left their boat In lifeboats and rafts, also In Atlan tic waters near the coast, after two torpedoes smashed amidships. They were picked ; up- the; form ing morning. " ry ? Thirty four survivori from an allied merchant ship reached an East Canadian port after drift ing four and one-half days in their lifeboats before an allied freighter picked them up. They said still another boatload was missing after the torpedoing in the western Atlantic. The entire crew of a Greek freighter reached , Miami safely from Nassau after a submarine torpedoed their vessel once and then came to the surface in West Indian waters to shell it with a deck gun. Chief Mate Antonias Falangas said the raider fired a warning shot and gave the crew time to abandon ship before it opened fire 6 times from the sur face. The torpedoing of a United Na tions motor tanker by an Italian submarine was described by 34 survivors who reached New York after their three lifeboats were sighted and picked up by a United States destroyer. Seven more gun men were rescued by a ship bound for Trinidad. None was lost. Portland Youth Dies, Australia BURBANK, Calif, March 28 Roy Weber, a graduate of Oregon State college and member of the United States army air corps has been killed in Australia. Word of the flier's death was received here by his mother, Mrs. Golden E. Weber. There were no details. A brother, J. M. Weber, lives in Portland. Japanese Prepare to Leave Aliens Adjust Last SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 ifl) West coast Japanese were reas sured by the government Satur day night ; that their property rights are to be protected despite their forthcoming evacuation un der army control. ; " The Wartime Civil Control ad ministration, an ? army . agency warned that any persons taking advantage of the perplexed state of mind of Japanese to defraud them of property would be pros ecuted by the department of Jus tice. .. v . ' I At the same time it announ ced that arrangements had been mad for storing the property of the Japanese prior to issu ance of exclusion orders. . Lieut. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, chief of the western defense command, commenting on reports of Japa nese panic and forced sales, said: v "No Japanese ' need sacrifice any personal property of value. Atlantic ports, but at least an American merchantman Cutis Used in Valley Arrests State Police Find Violence Necessary To Make Lockups Violence left its record on the state police blotter in the quiet mid-valley region Saturday as of ficers booked one mart with a gun l wound In bis arm hv the Marion county jail and put another they said had narrowly escaped similar treatment in the Polk county lock up, Lenoir Grant Red of Mill City, who allegedly drew his gun and announced he would not accom pany state police Saturday morn ing, found he wasn't as quick on the draw as Officer Bert Walker. The shot .from Walker's revolver entered Reed's arm above the wrist and came out near the el bow and was declared not serious. He was arrested on a warrant charging him with pointing a fire arm at another person. The com plaint had been filed Hy "Pink" Mason, who declared Reed bad (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) 2 Democrats Plan to File For Congress McMINNVILLE, Ore, March 28 VPj-Dr. Macbeth A. Milne, Port land dentist, announced at a dem ocratic meeting here- Saturday night he would file for US sena tor Monday if no other democratic candidate appeared. Senator McNary, republican. Is unopposed so far, and leading democrats have urged that both parties support him for reelection. In the meeting, at which dele gates from eight counties were present,' Lyman Ross, Aloha, .also declared he would file for con gress in Oregon's first district, where James W. Mott, republican incumbent, is unopposed. . "If he cannot dispose of it at a fair price, he will haye oppor tunity to store it prior to the time he is forced to evacuate by an exclusion order. Tersona who attempt to take advantage of Japanese evaen ees by trying to obtain proper ty at sacrifice prices are un American, nnfair. and deaerr- ' bag only of the severest censure. PORTLAND, March 28-P) The- huge "- Pacific International Livestock Exposition building here Is. being, converted into a tem porary, reception center for ene my aliens, army authorities . dis closed Saturday.- . ' T. D. Wilcox, exposition presi dent, said plans for the ' north west's largest livestock show were proceeding on - the : assumption that the army would be through with the building by October 3 tterf JS'I PEONS' TREACHERTi COSTS ADAIR LIFE . Portland Boy, Distinguished in Army Service; Killed at CarrizaL ! Witk a letter Just received by his ! parents tellinsr of us scout duty aerMa the Mexieaa border, tfcs news armed yesterday that Lieutenant Henry Rodney Adair was killed Wednesday in th surpriM attack m tho lOtk cvmlry at Csrrisal. Th re volt has not boea confirmed officially Lieutenant Adair was bora in Asto ria M years am, and is the son of Mr. and lira. Samuel D. Adair. S8 Eaat Eltrentb street North, -who are Bianeera af Off on. -- .- . At the in of IS Lieutenant Adair entered Bishop Scott academy, re maiA at, Uiai tnrutouom xor swo years.-. From there fce went to the Astoria high school, where he was rraauaiea in inii wa muKi rcvav ing kin appointment to West Point He completed his coune at West Point in 1907 and sine that time has been enrared in active service ia the army, both in the United States and ia the Philippines. . ... Lieutenant Adair was a well known horseman and has a great many tro- nhiM takes in the United States ana Europe. In competition with British, French and Belgian cavalry officers he wen the water himo at the horse how at Madison Square Garden, Kw Vm-tr. Mrreral years aro. break; The heroism of Lt Henry B, Adair, for whom the Albany Corvallls cantonment has been named, was theme for many an Oregon newspaper story in Jane, 191. These clippings from the Portland Evening Telegram, reproduced in engravings for The Statesman, are part of the collection of the young calvary mans' cousin, Mrs. Mabel Lock wood of Salem. The plctore was taken In 194 when Adair bad just entered West Point follow ing his graduation from Astoria high school. Bids on Camp Road Soon - -' '.. 'r . .'. The state highway commission will call for bids for the widening and reconstruction of 15 miles of the West Side Pacific; highway leading to and through Camp Adair in Polk and Benton coun ties late in April or early in May, Chief Engineer R. H. Baldock an nounced Saturday." The" project will include construction of a new bridge' over the Luckiamute river. Minute 1' when this year's exposition is scheduled to opien. j- v - , ' . Army cssineers nave' started . remodeling - the structure . to provide dormitories for unmar ried men and women and for families. Military officials de " dined to give details en dormi tory capacity or time ef com pleUoav but said accommoda ttons wwald b "adequate) and comfortable.' - ' : The biennial Boy Scout circus for the Portland district, compris ing nine Oregon and five Wash ington counties, scheduled for the building April 10-11,' was can celled. . - ; " SEATTLE, March 28-(P)-Japa-nese names have disappeared from ship passenger lists and bank checks, but on -one list in Seattle there are more than ever. It's the marriage license ap- Blast British Ex-U S Harbor " Until Force Returns; May Be Start of Secoiul War By The Associated Press T ""' LONDON, March 28-.8ritains combined force of com mandos, airmen and sailors making their most spectacular raid yet upon the German-occupied French coast, converted a former United States destroyer into a sriant time-bomb, laden with five tons of explosives and blasted the main dock gate of the big German submarine base at St. Nazaire early Saturday. In a special communique Saturday night, the British said "there is every hope" that the gate of the large dock at the Atlantic coast, was destroyed. . (The German high command claimed that the destroyer blew up before it reached the dock.) ' Special s er vice troops were landed and carried out pre-arranged demolitions in the dock yard before the 1090-ton destroyer Campbeltown, formerly : the US Buchanan, waa sent nosing toward the main gate with, her giant load oi explosives. . . ; ; " . This ex-American destroyer, had bad her bows . specially stiffened and filled with five tons of high explosive, the com munique said. "A delayed action fuse had been fitted to give our forces sufficient time to com plete ether demolition work and withdraw before the main ex plosion took place." The British acknowledged the sortie was made "not without some , Baltimore, March H-iJPy-Tb destroyer Campbeltown, form erly the U S S Buchanan was named In honor of Capt. Frank lin Buchanan, the first Ameri can to set foot in Japan with Commodore Ferry's expedition. Capt. Buchanan, a Baltimor eau, was also the erganlxer and first superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. casualties" and indicated some of those lost may have been aboard the destroyer. If this sacrifice of the destroyer did what it was Intended to do, it wrought havoc in one of the main lairs of nazi submarines preying upon allied shipping in the Atlantic and knocked out the only dock on the continental At lantic coast capable of accomodat ing the 35,000-ton German bat tleship Tripitx. Certainly tremendous damage was caused by the explosion of such a quantity of explosives and with, the destruction inflicted by the commandos the raid appeared a highly profitable one. The Campbeltown, built in 1919, i (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Problems - plication record at the asditori office. . : For the most part, expectation of evacuation orders is given by the prospective brides and grooms as one reason for deciding to be married immediately.' - We hadn't . planned to get married at toon, said Eobert fiosokawa, 23, American-boni Japanese gradaato of Whitman college, as he signed bis name to the resister - beside that et Toshl Teshizawa, 20, Milwaukle, Ore, Satnrday, "bnt these travel restrictions went into effect and . I got worried, so I went down to Salem Wednesday night ; and kidnaped Toshi right out of schooL" Kiss iToshlzawa was a Junior at Willamette university. "I was .waiting for him all the time she replied. The auditor's records showed 14 . .. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) f S Leave hip At s through this daring assault St, Nazaire, the largest on Fight Tactics Attack Desperately to Obtain' Footholds; s Reds Repulse MOSCOW, March 28.--Driv- en back upon the defense of for tified villages and cities by the crushing waves of the soviet win ter offensive, the German armies have switched tactics to open- field fighting in savage counter attacks aimed at shaking off the Russians iron grip and gaining them fresh footholds for a spring push. That was the picture of the mil itary situation as it was drawn Saturday night both by an author itative foreign military source who has been with the Red army at the front, and by the army newspaper Red Star. a , Each conceded that the nasis. on aU sectors of the huxe front, are counter-attacking furiously at tremendous cost la this all-or-nothing effort to regain the initiative. Bat both agreed that the initiative still was firmly held by the Russians and that the present German army can not compare in power to the dl- v (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Bulletins BERNE, Switxerland, March 28-!P-Bulxaria was pledged In principle to war against Rus sia Saturday by her premier, Bogdan Pbilov, but he avoided an outright promise of the troops which Adolf Hitler has demanded of King Boris. BEXKE, Switxerland. March 2S-(&')-Mlddle Europe's rumor factory burred Saturday night with reports that Pierre Laval, pro-axis former vice premier of France, was about to make vp with Marshal Petaln, rejoin the Vichy cabinet and travel to Berlin next week for talks with German Foreign Minister Joa chim Von Ribbentrop and Air Marshal Hermann Goermg. , LONDON, March ttF) Squadrons " ef RAF : . fighters ranged over the channel area from Le Havre to Dnnkerqne Saturday and the air ministry news service reported that some of the most furious air fighfing in months took place, 13 Ger man planes being destroyed. . One BAF squadron alone saw SS German planes and a group-1 f Spitfires shot down 19 ef them, it w a i reported. The British lost five pluieav in the day's fighting, a ' eommnnique said, ;;. v. VXv . MELBOURNE, Australia, March ?f-(-Prime Minister John Curtla announced Sunday the seventh Japanese raid on Darwin yesterday was the "most expensive'' for the enemy thus fir tad "iT'ordei hlsf neg L'titlo tesnlta.-. So3ttom -. - - - - : , .. . G0)0CL. uccess New M en Allies Fleet-Use Seen; i US Subs Claimed Busy in Damage Associated Press War Iditor A rising tide of reinforce ments flowing to the United Nations in the Australian-Asi atic war theatres gave fresh hope Saturday night that, if the allied forces are not. yet sufficiently strong to underta'a: the long, hard drive that leads at last to Tokyo, still for the pres ent they may be able to pen this Japanese within the bounds of their current conquests. News of those reinforcements came from virtually every sector. In Australia seasoned, strapping New Zealanders joined the grow ing, armies under the banner of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and ac cording to one report a full Dutch East Indies division was landed in Brisbane to Join the fight From Burma came word that new divi sions had bolstered the Chinese portion of the aJliedUne and. bad helped win back a vital air field north of Toungoo. - Even the axis bad what for it must have been a disquieting reportthat Britain was dis patching a powerful naval task force into the Indian ocean, where Japanese fleet units were observed earlier this week off the newly -seized Andaman is lands in the Bay of BengaL Only in the holdout Philippines did the gallant American and Fil ipino troops carry' on the fight alone. But even without outside aid Lieut-Gen. Jonathan Wain wright's men were carving, out glittering new passages to be in corporated into the annals of their brilliant stand. Not content to wage a purely defensive fight, Walnwrght's troops on Bataan and on the Is land Of Mindano 600 miles to the south jabbed at Japanese outposts in daring raids. The sharpshoot Ing gunners of Corregidor and the other. Manila bay forts, mean while, raised such a destructive hail of anti-aircraft fire that ene my bombers were forced to a height from which their air could be no better than "very inaccu rate." The enemy still hesitated in his frontal assault on Australia, and even the air attacks that are the inevitable prelude to In vasion lacked authority. Port Moresby and Darwin, twin keys to successful defense of the continent, had their 21st and sev enth air raids, respectively. But neither was effective, and Port Moresby's garrisoncow likened to the men who held1 Tobruk boasted that some 190 enemy planes which have dropped nearly 2000 bombs have caused only neg ligible damage. While allied bombing planes . (Turn to Page , 2, CoL 1) Salem to Get Army Units On April 6 i : TACOMA, March 28--Fort Lewis officers announced , Satur -day night that units of the army stationed In the northwest would participate in Army day jcelebra-. tions in . five northwest cities . April . ; -1 ' -. "Elements" of troops will pa rade, the announcement said, in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Port land 'and Salem. ; l , '3 Bolster :' WASHINGTON, March 2-(ff) American air power will . go on . view on Army day; April G, at army air ' stations and . a : dozen major cities..1 The war department announced Saturday that Lieutenant General Henry IL ; Arnold, air f oree1 com mander, had ordered , full particl. pation In the Army day obServO ance. - - .i - M,