Invasion
TAFTV'M arch St-iff)
Japan cm fish net floats
were reported washing BP
: on Lincoln county beaches
Monday la Luge numbers.
On Pay Day
Every time, 7011 ret your
pay, buy bonds and stamps
for the USA. Cheer the beys
n la uniform by getting an ln-
terest la flthtlnf men and
. equipment
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iieixty-first yeah
Saloxru Oregon, Tuesday Mcvnlng, March 31 1942
Price) So Nowaicmds 5c
Wo, 313
McNary
1 icfcete;
Carson;
141 Would-Be
Nominees Add
Names Monday
Earl Nott Seeks Demo
Nomination, House;
Rep. Mott Unopposed
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
Entry books lor the May 15
primary election were closed
wearily by state election de
partment employes at 5 o'clock
Monday afternoon with 141
names added to those accumu
lated up to Saturday night,
raising the number of candi
dates for various local, state and
national offices from Oregon to
308, barely 31 fewer than four j
years ago.
The last day for filing brought
in an opponent for US Sen.
Charles L. McNary and two seek
ers after the democratic nomina
tion, two democratic candidates
for first district representative In
congress, a third and a fourth
man into the picture for Marion
county's two state senate posts,
four more republicans and one
democrat for the four lower house
seats and a third contestant into
Circuit Judge L. H. McMahan's
race for reelection. .
Multnomah county citizens
flocked into the capitol to torn
In their names for that district's
13 seats In the state house of
representatives 45 republicans
m and IS democrats. ,
There were 178 candidacies forj
, the 120 nominations 60 republic
an and 60 democratic for lower
house contests.
- Arthur M. Geary, Portland at
torney, entered the lists in op
position to Sen. McNary, with
Walter W. Whitbeck and Dr. Mac
Beth A. Milne, both of Portland,
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Cripps Says
Decide Now
India Congress Is
.Reported to Be
Divided on Issue
VEW DELHI. India. March 30
jPV-Sir Stafford Cripps took di
rectly to the people of India
Monday night Britain's oner on
an immediate seat in the war
VnWnt and free constitutional
equality after the war, but de
bates among leaders 01 this suo
Mntlnent'i divergent millions
delayed any 'straightaway yes or
no answer.
Broadcasting to India Monday
night, Cripps declared:
, "Our proposals are definite and
precise. If they are rejected, no
thing can bejdone until after the
war
LONDON, V March 2(HJP)-The
India coneress party was re
Ttnrtid to be divided on the pro
posal for Indian independence of
fered by Sir Stafford Cripps, an
Exchange telegraph dispatch
from Calcutta iaid Monday night
One section of the party, led
by Raja Gopalachariar, considers
a settlement ot the deacupoc pos
sible an informed source said.
Another group led by Mohandas
K. Gandhi was reported as be
lieving the proposal' does not
meet the demands ox ine con
gress. ,
Perhaps It Was
Taken for Sub .
. MANTEO. NC. March ga-CP)
A big whale, with a wounded
aide, was washed ashore five
miles aorth of Kitty Hawk Mon
day, fishermen who viewed It
said the mammal evidently had
been hit by aa explosive or a
ship
East week several smaller
whales were washed ashore near
tlyrtle Ecach, SC. It was sup
mm! thev bad died from
cusslon caused by depth charges.
Silent Star Dies .
ie&th has removed another film
0 table of the old ; silent screen
days. Charlotte Burton, heroine
cf manv a serial as well as a
f::turs picture, ruccur.bsd to
heart Ctack Saturday. V
Opposed ; Moth
Face
Enter Races
0
7
Earl A. Nott, Yamhill county dis
trict attorney, who Monday be
came a candidate or the demo
cratic nomination for .'congress'
man, first district. , ;
State Kep. Allan G. Canon, try
ing this year for a seat In the
senate.
Rep. George R Duncan, who Mon
day declared himself a circuit
Judge candidate In opposition to
L. H. McMahan, Incumbent.
Gille Is Last
To File for
City Position
Last minute filing Monday of
Albert H. Gille, 1368 Center street,
as a candidate for the position of
alderman from the second ward,
provided competition for Frank
P. 'Marshall, incumbent, and left
only David OUara of the fifth
ward of Salem unopposed in the
council race.
Gille, employed In the state
forester's office, hesitated In his
filing Monday until Informed
through the: attorney general's
office that his work would not
be jeopardised under the natch
act
A late would-be filer for the
position of mayor, sought only by
I. M. Doughton, reportedly
changed his mind when he dis
covered that; a petition carrying
the name of 277 registered voters
of the city would be required to
place his name on the ballot
Piling of Runway
To Halt Hazard
Work of fling the 1000-foot ex
tension on the northwest-southeast
runway of the Salem municipal
airport was commenced Monday
by civilian employes, working un
der army directions.
The task was expected to take
less than three days and to cancel
what has been called a serious haz
ard to airmen Unfamiliar with the
Salem port to whom the graded
and graveled extension looks little
' different frcn the tara-rurfaced
runways from above.
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Prange File for
Commissioner
Three more candidates for
Marion county commissioner,
one for county judge and one
for county recorder registered
for places on the May election
ballot Monday before the clos
ing hour arrived at the county
clerk's office.
Commissioner Jim E. Smith,
who had kept silence concerning
his intentions this year, signed as
a .candidate for the republican
nomination. He was followed by
Henry Werner, Central Howell
farmer and republican, who ran
against Commissioner Ralph Gi-
rod two years ago.
. Smith gave as his program
business-like administration, "bet
ter government and lower taxes.'
Werner wrote that he proposed to
"perform the duties of the office
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Senate Okehs
se
Buck Privates to Cet .
Double Money; 1st
Change Since 1922
WASHINGTON, March 30-(ff)
The senate voted 73 to 0 Monday
to boost the starting pay of Uncle
Sam's "buck privates" from $21
to $42 a month.
The measure, which now goes to
the house, increases the base pay
of enlisted men all along the line,
adjusts allowances for other per
sonnel in the army, navy, marine
corps, coast guard, geodetic sur
vey and public health service, and
equalizes pay in the ranks of the
army and navy. It was the first
basic change proposed in the rate
of army pay since 1922.
No provision is made for In
creasing the pay of commission
ed ofleers with the exception of
second lieutenants of the army
and naval ensigns. Both now get
$1500 and would receive $1800
under the blU.
Senator Johnson (D-Colo) chair
man of a subcommittee wmcn
studied the bill for six months,
described the increases as "very
moderate." He said he was sur
prised to find that "the Austral
ians are still a couple of Jumps
ahead of us," paying their privates
$62.10 a month.
The following table shows the
present and proposed monthly
base pay:
First figure, present based pay,
second figure proposed:
Master sergeant chief petty of
ficer, $126, $138.
First or technical sergeant petty
officer first class, $84, $114.
Staff sergeant petty officer
second class, $72, $96.
Sergeant petty officer third
class, $54, $66.
Private, first class, seaman
second class, $36, $48.
Private, apprentice seaman, $30,
$42.
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Saved Assert
Nazis Knew
MIAMI, FUl, March 30.-6P)
Survivors declared Monday, that
the commander of a German sub
marine knew the homo port and
destination of a US freighter tor
pedoed and sunk In West Indian
waters, while British sailors said
they were waved to safety before
a U-boat opened a shelling attack
to sink their ship. - '
One man lost his life in the
sinking of the American- vesseL
Three were lost after the. British
tanker was sent to the bottom.
The Americans said; the sub
commander even knew what the
ship was carrying.
They - said he exhibited his
knowledge in talking to crewmen
taken aboard -the undersea boat
Sinking of the British ship was
announced ' ircn Nariau; Mlarch
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Pan-American Staff
And Pacific Council
Form in Washing
MiUUry Officials Will Collaborate
To Protect Hemisphere; Seven
Nations to Plan War Effort
WASHINGTON, March 30 -
staff of high military officials of
hoped for by advocates of Pan
Monday, with promises from both the United States and Latin
American leaders that everything would be done to protect this
hemisphere from invasion.
Named "the Inter-American
met at the Pan American Union
banners to hear Secretaries Stim
son and Knox and Gen. George
C. Marshall promise victory in
the war for democracy. In turn
Ma. Gen. Espinoa of Chile, senior
officer of the Latin American
MAJ. GEN. S. D. EMBICK
delegates, said the spirit of Latin
America held that liberty was
"almost a biological necessity and
pledged his colleagues' support
The delegates elected Lieut
Gen. S. n. Emblck of the United
States aa permanent chairman
and agreed to convene again
April C with specific outlines
for a general agenda.
One of the principal problems
will be the control and protection
of inter-American shipping. An
other will be to gear the needs
and resources of each nation into
a system of mutual defense.
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Boy Survives
Second Fall
Of 40 Feet
Surviving his second serious fall
in less than three years. Albert
Miller, Jr., of 179S Berry street
was reported in "fair" condition
late Monday at Salem General
hospital, where he was taken af
ter dropping more than 40 feet
from a rope to the platform in the
senior high school auditorium.
xoung Miner probably sus
tained a fracture of the skull, the
physician who attended him de
clared. He landed on his left foot
breaking several bones, and there
is a possibility that his spine, in
jured in the previous accident
may have been hurt but full di
agnosis was not possible immedi
ately it was said by the doctor.
who declared the lad "severely
tfimi aYt Tint rHtlranv". tnlitml
At Leslie junior high school
year or two ago. Miller is said to
have fallen between SO and 40
feet to pavement .when he alleg
edly attempted to leap from Cure
escape to fire escape. He was
working with a stage decorating
crew of students when Monday's
accident occurred. He Is a wres
tler at the school and was a mem
ber of the Jayveo B football team
lastfalL - .
City first aiders, who responded
to the afternoon call to the high
school, later dressed laceration
of the right knee for Alice Per-
rine, 13, of Salem route seven,
who said she had; been' in a bi
cycle collision.
- Three-year-old Larry Hams of
1265 Hum avenue was sent to
the Salem Deaconess hospital by
the first aid staff to receive addi
tional : care for scalp - and cheek
cots received when' he fell as be
carried a window. .
Sunday's Veather
TTeather forecasts withheld
and temperature - data delayed
by army, reeuest.: Ktver Mon
day, J fttt Uxx. temperature
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wider their massed national
Waged
Nazis Claim Transport
Sunk, But Admit
Destroyer Loss
By DREW MTDDLETON
LONDON, March 30-(ff)-The
Germans claimed destruction of a
Murmansk-bound transport laden
with American-made tanks and
munitions Monday at a cost of a
nazi destroyer sunk In a convoy at
tack which 'may have been the
first big-scale sea and air battle
for command of the allied far
northern route to Russia.
Official London was silent on
this German report; which said
a British cruiser was torpedoed,
but fas Its own offense against
the Germans Jn the north, the
ah'mlnistry announced SAP pa
trot planes torpedoed and prob
ably sank a German supply
ship and set another afire Sun
day night In operations off the
Norwegian and Danish coasts.
Torpedoes were aimed at two
nasi vessels, but the results were
not determined. (
The Germans said their com
bined sea and air attack, appar
ently in the Arctic off North Cape,
LONDON, Tuesday, March
31.--Tbe Leningrad radio
reported today that Russian
troops . had captured an Im
portant strategic point in the
Leningrad sector, and had killed
50 Germans In one brief nasi
effort to retake the position.
occurred during a dawn blizzard
day after nazi airmen had
pounced on the same convoy and
damaged four merchantmen and a
British destroyer.
For some time the British have
expected a determined nazi effort
to cut the allied route to Mur
mansk, informed circles said, be
cause the Germans are beginning
to feel the sharp effect of United
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Would Give
Up Overtime
NEW YORK, March 30.-tiP)-A
plan to waive time and one-half
and double pay for weekend and
holiday work, provided money
thus saved would , be paid by the
company to, the government was
ratified Monday by representa
tives of 70,000 employes in 30
plants of the Westinghouse Elec
tric and Manufacturing company,
the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers i of America
(CIO) announced.
The plan win be presented
Tuesday to the company when
contract negotiations between
management and union will bo
resumed.:. .'J
The same plan was ratified last
week by the US conference of
General Electric locals, 'represent
ing 100,000 workers In 28 plants.
Lato Sports
NEWARK, NJ, March S3-ff)
Fritzie Zivic, 147, of Pittsburgh
making his first start here since
losing his world's welterweight
boxing championship to Freddie
Cochrane, knocked out Wild BUI
McDowell, 154, of Patterson, In
list of the sixth frame of a sched
uled 10-rounder Monday night
- ORLANDO,, Fla, March 30-6P)
Pitcher Buck Newsom signed with
the Washington Nationals Monday
night the club headquarters, an
nounced. The salary agreed upon
for the Tiger holdout was not dis
closed .l-:.. . ".
Battle
AmH
Allies R ea ch A i r
Over
Enemy
Ploodsl Push
Rve-MUe IjBgh
Plane Is Shot
Down by Yanks
Land Fighting Less
After Defenders
Repulse Japs
WASHINGTON, March 30
(P-Siout defenders of Bataan
peninsula in the Philippines
were reported Monday by the
war department to have fought
the Japanese to another stand
still by their repulse of the
first major enemy attack in
weeks.
By daybreak Sunday, fight
ing had dwindled to 'clashes be
tween patrols, after Lieut Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwright's American-Filipino
forces drove back.
with heavy losses, an onslaught
launched Saturday night
Sharpshootlng ant l-alrcraft
gunners on the nearby fortified
Island of Corregtdor gained new
laurels by knocking down a
Japanese plane from an altitude
higher than 27,000 feet or more
than five miles.
. Few planes have been shot
down from such heights on any
fighting front and officials were
inclined to credit the feat to "a
ucky hif as well as to marks
manship of the gunners who
have definitely accounted for nine
enemy craft in the last! six days.
Round the clock bombing of
Corregidor continued, but the war
department disclosed that recent
ly the number of raiders has not
been large, in contrast! with the
54 planes which on -March 24 sig
naled resumption of the attempt
to batter the fortress island. The
communique said damage inflict
ed to military installations . thus
far was not serious. 3
On Bataan enemy dive bomb
ers carried out further attacks on
both the front lines and rear po
sitions of. the defenders.
Senator Calls
For Labor Bill
Connally Declares
Indifference Will
'Catch 'Em up,
WASHINGTON, March 1HJP)
A statement by Majority Leader
Barkley (D-Ky) that the senate
was "not yet ready to consider
amendments to labor law brought
from Senator Connally (D-Tez)
Monday the sharply worded ad
vice that the voters would catch
up with senators if such an atti
tude continued:
Tm not threatening any
body," he told the senate. Tm
not a candidate, rm; trying to
save some of these boys who
are. : j--
The incident developed out ot
Connally'a attempt to. have the
senate consider Monday a labor
bill he has proposed. It provides
that if a dispute threatens to im
pede war production In a plant
the government could take ever
the plant and "freeze? all ls xr
conditions. Barkley objected that
consideration of the bill would
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'' Force , of the military. ' curfew
was felt Monday. In Salem public
schools and at Willamette uni
versity,, where a total of 23 Jap
anese American students were be
lieved effected by the ruling re
quiring them i to travel no more
than five miles away from their
homes, -.y-- i'-.-p.-,' '. i'--.- -4
From the senior high school 10
young Japanese and frost Fairish
junior high school two took home
books and . equipment Monday
with the promise of as much re
mote control help as tha schools
can provide In keeping up their
lessons, Supt Frank Bennett said.
At Willamette, where, ques
tion sf the Clltrtzt tetweea
"homo", and "residence estab
lished for purposes of attending
toller had not been' fzlly
tresei ert, IS . were tzivszz'Zj
Salem
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Welcomes
AP'sLee
MELBOURNE, Australia,
March 30.-(ff)-Clark Lee, As
sociated Press war correspon
dent who covered the fall of
Manila and the siege of Bataan.
arrived here
Monday.
Lee, whose
dispatches from
Bataan were
described by
army men as
"the best the
war has pro
duced on , any
front came out
of the Philip
pines just two
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Clark L
weeks after General Douglas
MaeArthur reached Australia.
One of the most dramatic
dispatches of the war In the
Philippines came from Lee last
Christmas day when be wrr,
the first eyewitness account of
the Japanese Invasion along
Lingayen gulf.
After the fall of Manila he
was not heard from for days;
then on January t he sent from
Corregidor fortress the first
dispatch by any American news
man since December 31.
Subsequently he produced
stirring accounts of the valor
and cool courage of the defend
ers of Bataan.
Supreme Court
Rules on Labor
Closed Shop Out for
Unions Aided
By Employer
WASHINGTON. March 30.-UP)
The supreme court outlawed Mon
day any closed shop contract be
tween a company and a union
where the labor organization had
been assisted by the employer.
An 8 to 1 opinion, delivered by
Justice Reed, asserted that the
Wagner act prohibited such con
tracts. Justice Roberts dissented.
The litigation grew out of rival
ry between five AFL affiliates
and a CIO union over obtaining
members at the Electric Vacuum
Cleaner Company, Inc., of Cleve
land.
The labor board found that the
company had made a closed shop
agreement in 1937 with the AFL
affiliates after coercing employes
to join these organizations and to
"forego the CIO affiliate. Meth
ods employed, the board said, In
eluded discharges, threats of dis
charge and a lockout
In other labor decisions Mon
day, the court:
1. Held 8 to 4 that a state (spe
cifically Texas) had the const!
tutional right to prohibit picket
ing of business by persons not dl
rectiy related to the businesses
affected. '
2. Ruled unanimously that the
Wagner act was not infringed by
a Wisconsin employment relations
board order directing a union to
stop mass picketing and other
specified activities in connection
with a strike.
S. Upheld 8 to 0 the right of a
labor organization to picket ped
dlers of bakery products in New
York City as a protest against "the
economic and social evils of the
popular system.
ap
Japanese' Students Leave
effected by the curfew. One
co-ed, according to President
Carl 8. Knopf, had last week
cancelled her registration and
returned to her homo In Seattle
fearing that she might be sep
arated from her family
Whether "; Monday's "freezing"
order will require those in school
here to remain at their Salem
residences, or whether they will
be ordered to their homes was not
known' although clarification . Is
expected this week. -Whether any
exemptions VH1 be allowed later
had not been hinted Monday to
either Bennett or Knopf, they
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SAN FRANCISCO. March II
tAVTho army Issued Us second
avaczailra erfier ef the war
llzzizi t!;it, stitln a dead-
$1.
Superiority
New Guinea;
to Kear
Chinese Hold
British Strike
Toungoo Defenders
Claim Nipponese
Use Poison Gas
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
. Associated Press War Editor
. The allies appeared Monday
night to have won the first
phase of the battle for Austra
lia, for American and Austra
lian air superiority over the
northern approaches to that
continent was officially pro
claimed, but the position In
Burma was at a delicate balance
foreshadowing an imminent crisis.
Australian Airminister A. S.
Drakeford, in the most heartening
declaration from that far rampart
since the enemy first , appeared in
the outer islands, announced that
the invader was at least tempor
arily out-mastered over both New
Guinea and New Britain and that
he had suffered a disaster of the
first rank to his sea power.
Probably more than II per
cent of Japan's entire '' cruiser
strength had been knocked out
of action by American and Aus
tralian fliers In attacks off the
the single area of Lae on New
Britain, he said.. This . Indicated
that four to five such ships had
been crippled. Since the Japan
ese navy at the start of the war
had 41 to 50, aside from about
a score of other vessels knocked
out there In running operations
since early March.
As to the struggle aloft ho
stated that in recent weeks at
least 48 Japanese bombers and
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Bulletins
CHUNGKING. Tuesday,
March 3 l--Members of the
third pursuit squadron f the
American "Flying Tigers' shot
down one twin-motored Japa
nese bomber Sunday afternoon
when a number of Japanese
planes attacked Lashlo In up
per Burma, the central Chinese
news reported today from Kun
ming. KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Mar.
SHAVAndrel J. Vlshlnsky,
vice commissi r of foreign af
fairs, received Naotake Sato,
new Japanese ambassador to
Russia, Monday to discuss Sa
to's . planned trip to Moscow,
where he will present his cre
dentials. PLYMOUTH, England, Mar.
XO-Ty-L e s 1 1 e Hore-Belisha,
former war secretary, suggested
In a speech Monday the selsure
of the French island of Mada
gascar In the western3 Indian
ocean In the name of the Free
French. a
LONDON, Tuesday, March
ll-iVA Reuters dispatch
from Maymyo, Burma, said
British tanks attacked the Jap
anese and Inflicted heavy cas
ualties upon the enemy Sunday
St mlleav south of Prome, right
wing of the allied Burmese
' front, i.-,;, J .
Ihmo of noon (PWT) next Sun
day, April S, for the removal of
, all Japanese citizens and aliens
'from two critical areas tn the
Loo Angeles harbor district.
Previously, an persons of Jap
anese ancestry had been ordered
cleared from Bainbridge Island, in
Puget Sound opposite the Brem
erton navy yard. ? ,? c
Lieut Gen. J. L. De Witt's g econd
exclusion Order affect some 30C3
persona, who must evacuate the
prescribed areas on Friday, Sat
urday, and Sunday, to tha new rs.
sembly center at the Santa Anita
race track, east of Los Angeles.
Santa Anita will house the group
pending their removal to reception
centers, such as the new colony
at Manzanar, or other designated,
locations. , ... vv , r - j--
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