Hchira On Pay Day : - Every time yea get" year tzri buy bonis and stamps far the USA. Cheer the beys bi uniform by getting In terest ta fighting men and segment. - -OA , 171X3 CITY, Ho April 1: (-PhCip Bakler, tf. left aa orphan by the Chicago ; fire ef 1171, burned to delta ta his home Wednesday; : NVx: PCUNDQD 1ZZ1 Salem, Oregon, Thursday IZstslaq. Apt2 2, 1SU PrfcaSc. Ha 117 Kazi-Red in Two-: Craft? Are Sunk Southern .a9 - -: ' X" ii YXL -v C :V YfN V n Fight On Titanic Struggle May Determine Summer Result t LONDON, April (AP) B i 1 1 e r fighting now under way in the Do nets basin on Rufteia's southern front wa re ported Wednesday night to be gradually developing into a titanic clash which ultimately may determine the outcome of 1942's warm weather operations on the entire Russian German battlefront. Dispatches from both Moscow and Berlin indicated that the en tire front from Leningrad to the Black sea now is locked in a see- law struggle, with both the Rus sian and Gem an high commands movina masses of reserves into the central and southern zones. Incessant German counter at tacks to recover lost around and relieve the encircled nasi 16th army In the Staraya Russa see- ter on the northwestern front are stressed in reports from Stockholm. . . These repdrts state that the be leaguered German force, which originally numbered 100,000 men, has been cut in half by methodi cal Russian bombing and artillery fire. - . Wednesday night's Moscow com munique told of a number of suc cessful operations on the Lenin grad front in which about 3000 German officers and soldiers were annihilated during the past two dajs. , : A Xttssiaa drive to close a pincers movement on the stra tette town at Yyasm from the Berth Is believed to have ad vanced farther with a soviet an nouncement that IS villages on this northwestern front had been Recaptured within 24 hoars.' T 'Meanwhile the Moscow radio broadcast to the people of Vitebsk, only 75 miles from the Polish bor der, 'that their hour of liberation Is "not far off." Valley Gties Are Queried 'Defense Housing Area Approval Depends On Transportation W. H. Crawford,, Oregon .Eco nomic council director, -Wednesday sent letters to officials of towns and cities affected by the Corval lis-Albany army cantonment, to determine whether they can qual ify under-the defense housing critical area provision,, which car riea preference rating under the priority system. ' The letters were sent out at the request of Folger Johnson, Port land, state director for federal housing. Under the federal regulations cities and towns eligible for the adequate public transportaUon al- certain to be placed in operation in time to serve the project, with the cost not to exceed 40 cents ' per round trip on the ' cheapest available basis, and the running time not to exceed two hours per round trip. Letters were sent to officials of Salem, Dallas,. Monmouth,, Inde pendence, Albany, Corvallis, Eu ' gene and Lebanon. Japanese Japanese-A mcriean . public school pupils,' sent home with' bocks' and supplies ' early this week and told to remain until the new army curfew regulations had been clarified, may return to their classes, state and city school ' authorities ..were informed Wed fcesday. V V-.r - f v;a;:,v An interpretation of the regu lations by US District Attorney Carl Donaugh places schools in ihe ; classification of "employ rxent," to which aliens and Japanese-Americans have not been r nled the right to travel, State ; - pt. Putnam informed City pt Frank B. Bennett, Fourteen I "public school pupils - and l -roximately 10 Willamette xmi- rs'ty students had been affected 1 7 tl.2 tsruer Interpretation. April l-;D-raU- yw0 Groitps Freedo m Nehru, Wavell Talk Sikhs and Mahasabha Fear Results; British Are Fearful That AU-India Congress Uninfluenced by Comment NEW DELHI, India, April Z-(ThBrsday)-'-Slr Stafford Cripps disclosed Wednesday with a shew ef optimism that he was prolonging his stay here after all bat a glimmer of hope' apparently had vanished for the proposal of post-war dominion statos he had brought to India,' , Tie said his postponed departure was due to this view ef the general situation and that 1 think I can possibly do something useful next week. (This Indicated that Britain may, have decided to modify her all-or-nothing provision In the dominion offer since Indian objections to some points apparently were wrecking the whole plan). , ' LONDON, April l--Pandit Sir Archibald Wavell, British commander for India, have ar ranged to meet for a talk on control of Indian defense, said a dispatch late Wednesday night Herald. .. Wavell' s forthcoming meeting with the dominant Hindu June Call Set , 4',. i.7- - . ,; i For New list Prompt Classification Ordered; Call in j May-Possible S WASHINGTON, - AprU irVP) Draft headquarters served notice Wednesday that some of 'the men who registered-on February; J may be summoned to the train ing camps in May, and that June most probably would 4 see a por tion of them in the service. Those who registered on that date were men ' between 35 and 44 inclusive and those who had become 20 and 21 in the recently preceding months. A lottery de termining the order of their lia bility for service was conducted on March 17. The Intent of the army re garding this group was made plain In selective service order to all local draft boards. They were told to start classifying the new registrants immediate ly and prepare to fill the June call, and possibly the May call. In part from them. This clarified an uncertainty as to whether these men would be lumped with the earlier regis trants and become subject to ear ly call or whether the army would exhaust the first group before tapping the second. ' . The method of coordinating the two groups is to be explained in detail In a later announcement. As recently outlined, the plan is as follows: After the men have been classified, a local board deter mines how many from each group are 1A. If it has, for example, 60 1A men from the first group and 40 from the second, all calls from the army for new men are filled 60 per cent from the first and 40 per cent from the second. AnUV Jnffineer. at JrOrtlancl Ollll tea PORTLAND, April l.-flVCol. Cecil R. Moore, US army engi neer in charge of the Portland dis trict, said Wednesday , he would report to Fort Lewis Friday for troop duty. . t ':'. : Moore, who ; had': been ' district engineer here sincej. 1938, will be succeeded by LL CoL Donald J. Leehey. . .... KeturriVtoS fle : nerthwest . college stmdents expeeting to be lneladed ha the coastal : evacuation . ef ; enemy aliens and American-born Jap- , a e s e now are registering on their respective eamposes, Kob ert . O'Brien, assistant u dean ef arts and sciences at the Univer 4dty of Washington, said Wed nesday. -The registration is for the pur pose of enabling these students to continue their education In east ern and middle-western schools. PORTLAND. AnrH - 1-PV-Tfa huge International Livestock pa vilion wfll be converted into a re ception center for Japanese evac uess within a day or so, Lieut CoL D. Leehey of the US army eneineers said Wednesday. All evacuees handled from the Portland center will be moved Reje ct Proposal; Jawaharlal Nehru and Gen. from New Delhi to the Daily leader in the au-India congress party was looked upon as a new attack in the effort of Sir Stafford Cripps to settle the Indian prob- em . with the offer of. dominion status after the war. " NEW DELHL India, April 1.-(yP)-The Sikhs, warriors ef this Punjab, and the extremist Ma hasabha group ef Hindus Wed nesday night rejected the Brit ish plan for Indian post-war in dependenee, and all India awaited tensely the decision ef the majority all-India congress. In the light of expectations that the workin committee of the con gress would turn down the plan because of British insistence on controlling India's war-time de fense, there was an increasing awareness of the consequences of failure of Sir Stafford Cripps mission to this sub-continent. The deepest impression was made by strong comment of the British and United States press, pointing out that if Indian leaders, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) Fire Fighting Sand Provided Small Charge Planned In City Distribution From Several Bins Bins of clean sand to be. used, if occasion arises, in fighting in cendiary bombs will be made available to residents of Salem within a few days, City Defense Chairman L. F. LeGarie declared Wednesday night. . ;T C f Although donors of . the sand have offered to haul it without charge to the city, he s a I d, a small charge to householders is contemplated for the dual pur pose of making the quantities available go, further and to pro vide a fund to reimburse the haulers for at least a portion of their mileage costs. Fear that placing the sand at strategic points around the cap ital city might not mean that it would be there when needed was expressed by LeGarie, who said ii a charge were made there would be some curb on ardent gardeners and -the builders of children's sandboxes. . Bins are to be built at the three district fire stations and later an attempt will be made to place some In each Immediate neigh borhood. - ' - r outside of military district No. by July 1, he said. r - "' LOS . ANGELES, April H) Mass evaenatlon ef Japanese famUies one wtth44 members to the government's new Owens valley eamp at Manza- nar; Calif, beran In earnest 'Wednesday.'". y:: F 1 V e . hundred of themfrom moon-xaced babies dutchine Ted dy bears and dolls to wrinkled old men Icarrylngi aU , their "worldly possessions . in cloth sacks left Little ; Tokyo" by snecial train zor me internment center that to be their home for the duration of the war. All of the families, laclndlng .the one with 44 members, rang ing from babies to rrasisslh era, wIU be kept InUct at tie eamp. . From Besieged Bataan f v ) -1 v. ' t : , 1 . i h I Smoke rises over Nichols field, US army airport near Manila (above); after a Japanese raid December II fired homes. The picture, one ef the first out of the Philippines since the war beg-, fa hy Associ ated Press from the US army signal corps. The lower photo depicts Pres. Manuel vfaezon el the lnvsaea rnuippine eemmonweuui as i he paid an informal call en Gen. Douglas MacArthtur daring the batUe of Bataan. before MaeArthor left to assume snpreme em- mand In the senthwest Pacific. strated News photo, wears a tin tnnr,.wne is nauess. Victory Parade Monday, 11 arm Includes Troops Salem's "Victory parade," bureau and now ronsolidated observance of Army day will be held next Monday at 11 a jn Col Carle Abrams, grand marshal, announced Wednesday. Tvi. peewit fca nToclaimed'Anril 6 as "Total War" day.l The purpose of this parade, Columbia Bill Is Introduced Proposes Authority to Run Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams WASHINGTON. ApriT l-HUPr-A possible, break In the long deadlock- over the establishment of a Columbia r power administration appeared Wednesday as Sen. Ho mer T. Bone of Washington mtro? duced a new bin, extending to the prciKJsed authority the privilege of issuing Jrevenue bonds for. fi nancing a vast public power nev work. ' , . . " ' ' . " The authority would adminis ter' the Bonneville and urana Coulee power projects' and could issue revenue bonds for the acqui- ' -4 - (Turn to Page z, wa. aj CIO Demands Vote In Two Shipyards PORTLAND, ; April l-iff)-Con-gressional investigation of the na tional labor relations board will be demanded unless a vote on union reference is ordered in a ship yard here and in San Pedro, John Green, national president of CIO shipyard workers, said Wednesday, - Accusing the NLRB of an alli ance with the AFL, Green said the board had sidetracked CIO charges of Ciiscrimination against the two yards. -' ' -;. " - S, . 4' Qneson, In the international ma-1 helmet and stands beside MaeAr- first planned by the retail trade With civilian' defense agencies' Abrams said, "is to stir up a more intense interest in aeiense and the need for universal and unified action." - All the federal troops avail able here will march in the pa rade. Including a large detach ment ef cavalry and mechanised nnits, the . grand marshal dis closed. " All civilian defense groups, such as the f police and fire re serves, citizens' defense corps, ambulance corps, sheriffs posse and air raid wardens, will take part In the parade, Ed Colby, deputy , county ; coordinator, said. SttJlZSSSSi m , CoL Abrams said general orders for the parade would be Issued by WU riffraff 'fan TP Alia. his chief ofataff, Capt E. R. Aus tin, later this week. The parade will form at Marion square at 10:45 a jn.isr:"'rrZ:. v, ; - : "I am calling en all business houses and " indostries to close between " 11:4$ ain. : and ; 12 neon,' Col. Abrams added. . V . Sen." Douglas McKay as chair man of the Marion county defense council, is heading up the group making plan s for , the parade. Communities outside of ' Salem should either participate in the Salem parade or arrange an appropriate JArmy day observ' ance of their own, Cclby adviseL Tuesday's fV7eas!ier .Weather forecasts wii!J!:e!J . and .temperature data delayed by army request. Elver T7ed nesday, Jt feet Hax. ttrr.rcr ature Tuesday, 2, dx, 45. SainfalL M Inches. Ya n k ti R ep u I s e A 11 Attacks in Bataan: Aus sie s Mobilized Jap Warehouses Burned, Philippines; Chinese Join Forces in Burma as Enemy Retains Supremacy in Air By WILLIAM . AsweUted American resistance was rising Wednesday night in the Philippines, Australia's mobilization, wav reaching ihe peak of urgency, and only in the Burma making progress of consequence.: Successive war department of a major enemy attack on General Wainwright's main line on RAFBonibers Raid Continent! Berlin, Paris Radios Silent ; Ten Ships Reported Down LONDON, April l.-AVThe Berlin radio went off the air late ' tonight. The Paris radio had gene eft earlier. LONDON, April J.-(Thursday) -yp)-The Royal Air force bombed the Matf ord works at Poissy , on the left bank Of the Seine 10 miles from Versailles, Wednesday night, it was announced Thursday. It also was announced that the RAF attacked Germany. BERLIN-(F rem German Broadcasts)-April 1-(T h r s- 4ay)-I-DNB said Tnanday that . It . British bombers were "shot dews Wednesday night ta what It described as nnlaanca raids'! aver western" and north western Germany.. The ten planes, lKfaid, were only the total for "present re- ports. -, Slight damage to residential dLs tricts in several towns was report ed by the news agency, which said several civilians were killed and others were wounded. sire -pie AnlTllLfl T IPITI ttt Tl aw y Qg HetlCeni NJ Standard Oil Gave What Government "Ahle to Use" .WASHINGTON, A prii The president of -Standard Oil company .(New Jersey) acknow ledged Wednesday that the com pany failed to give all informa tion about Its synthetic rubber processes to a navy representative in 1939 but contended that the company did furnish "everything t,!!T,CMld,nakepr,C , W. S. Parish, Standard presi dent made this statement after Senator, 0Mahoney (DWyo) had challenged his testimony that Standard gave "full information" to the army and navy, "covering Standard's synthetic rubber ac tivities." . "When yea testified that yea : were making full disclosure," O'Mahoney asserted, "as a mat- tor ef fact yea were net" Farlsh pretested O'Mahoney "s . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) . Plant -Idleness Due Shortage I . ,k, . - - -. , , I I . ill r fA r I a I V 'I'lillvl AC4AZ5 . PORTLAND, April L-iffVIn ability to obtain' materials ' and lack 'of orders were the major causes of idle capacity in 72 of 110 meetal-working plants in Oregon outside of Portland,-a survey showed Wednesday. ' David Eccles, state war indus tries coordinator, said his study disclosed that 31 per cent report ed idle capacity was due to lack of orders, 23 per cent due to lack of materials and 13 per cent due to lack of materials, orders and f.centgave tuut wigs tuucu muvi mm u lone cause. i Meanwhile, Eccles said attempts were belrg taade to interest Port land business leaders In the pos sible 'development of an electric steel furnace for production el p'g and sponge iron from ore deposits in Columbia and Curry counties. SMITH WHITE " Pms'War Iditor theatre' was the Japanese enemy . " ; s t;? 1 ' : communiques told- of the defeat I Bataan peninsula, Luzon, and re- ported two audacious and high ly successful American-Filipino raids on the Philippine Island of Mindanao. There one body of troops struck a Japanese sapply base' near DIgos and burned 22 ene my military warehouse to the gronnd. while native Solas thrust to the very center of the Japan ese-ocenpied city ef Zam- boanga, destroying machlaegaa nests and ether enemy posi tions, killing many Japanese and withdrawing without less- s to themselves. On Bataan, some American out posts had to withdraw a short dis tance under heavy enemy assaults which were subsequently checked in violent hand-to-hand fighting with the loss of no material Am erican position. Moreover, as the accent re mained on American military ac uon, the navy announced that US naval and army, forces had now destroyed: or were presumed " to have destroyed a total, of 28 axis submarines, the bulk of 'them In the Atlantic Three of these sink Ings were-, announced ' during Tuesday. - An single Aastraliaa from IS to 45, and the married. as well between IS and 35, were called np for Immediate mili tary service and the toaghest kind ef war training was pat Into effect ander the general supervision ef Generalissimo Deaglas MaeArthor and the personal direction f his tight band man for all the allied ground forces. General Sir Thomas Blarney. ; Allied bombers rode: the sou thern skies again in a continua tion of their counter-offensive against the enemy's invasion bas es on Timor and New Guinea, and their successes against enemv aircraft within the last three days were thus tabulated: Four planes shot down for cer tain, 18 destroyed in all proba bility, 11 known to have been damaged, for a total of 33. Ia Burma the enemy held complete control ef the air ever the allied right, manned by the British, and was by all signs la sabstantlal command along the Chinese-held left as welL On the right, where the allied anchor of Prome stands athwart the routes to the central Burmese oH fields, the forward English and Scottish troops which previously had been isolated by an enemy roadblack thrown in at the town of Shwedaung had by heroic counier-anacKS cut tneir way back through to the main bodies. but the invader's pressure upon Frame, itself was hourly growing. Large enemy forces strongly held Shwedaung,-which Is Just 10 miles below Prome. and other columns were astride the : rail way some 30 miles southeast of Prome in the vicinity of the town of paungde. The whole of the al lied right was thus facing crisis. On the allied left, after the bloodiest battle yet foaght ta Burma, the Chinese h a d re formed seme . 12 miles north ef Toangeo, the Important ' town en the read to Manadalay that new was wholly, la enemy hands. ,, i..--. . KThia juncture was effected by the survivors of a Chinese Toun goo garrison originally, estimated at SCC0 to 10,000 men which, un der the command of the American General . - Joseph -. StQwelL had crossed the Sittang river under terrible enemy fire and rejoined the mam Chinese forces. fniercer' tO Enlist POHTLAND, April l-ff)-Rich- ard X Neuberger, Portland maga sine writer, announced Wednesday In a Washington, DC, dispatch to the Oregonian that he planned to g3 fcita &e amy and would no seek reelection to the state legisia ture. In Break- Ten Norse Ships In Sweden Try : Trip to Britain STOCKHOLM, AprU 2 (Thursday) (AP) Ten Norwegian ships berthed in Sweden since the German v invasion of Norway made a dash for England early Wednesday, and at least two were tor pedoed and sank jast eatside the" three-mQe limit. , A third ship was damaged, and -two ethers tarned back late Gote borg. the Swedish west coast port where they had been tied ap. Presamably the fife ethers' reached the epea sea. . The sunken ships were identi fied as the 1245S-toa Skyttera, and the C222-ton Baecanees. The former, floating whale efl factory bailt la 1SS1 was registered at Oslo, as was the Baceaneer, .1 a tanker. Survivors were believed to have been taken aboard the attacking . vessels, and presamably these were nasi ships since the waters at the entrance ef the Kattegat are ander German control. , , - ' The ships were struck aboat ix miles off Kaerlngoea, which is slightly north of Goteborr. The area Is opposite the nerthern Up ef nazl-occupied Penmark. ,1 la London an Informed British9 source said there was no confirma tion ef the reported attempt to break through the German block ade, bat "naturally we weald be glad to add to ear services any good Norwegian ships." - Free French Sai DeGaaDe Calls for Becognition if Forces Fight WASHINGTON, April 1-4JO Vice-Admiral Emile Muselier, na val commander of Gen. Charles DeGauIle's Free French forces, has resigned from the French: national committee in London it was dis-' closed Wednesday. , " LONDON, AprU 1-4P)-Gea. ' Charles De Gaalle, showing his resentment at lack ef recogni tion accorded his Free French movement by .the United Na tions, declared Wednesday that his followers weald march "shoulder to shoulder with her allies en the express condition that her allies go forward with her.- Vi !-r y (Forty live words of this dis patch were deleted by censor). The Free French leader, ad dressing a luncheon audience, called the men of Vichy "infamous champions , of capitulation,", and then asked: '-. " "How could anyone suppose that In their attitude toward fight ing France (the Free French), the democracies would Indulge in an absurd kind of snobbery and themselves be influenced by their regret at not finding in her ranks great many erstwhile famous names?" 1 , -; , , - o This was the first time that Gen eral De Gaulle so openly and em phatically expressed the evident bewilderment of his faction and that of - many Britons over the relations of the allied governments to the Vichy regime, on the one hand, and to the fighting Free French on the other. Bulletins v BSKN. Swltserlaad, April L -Eumaniaa Ferelga Minis ter MihaO Antonesca declared .Wednesday that his country In tends to fight soviet Koscia to the finish beeaase "We are fighting- for a new state and ' new human being." V BIO DK JANEIXO, April L -P)-The United States' embas sy announced Wednesday Bight that a Nerd American ship was attacked last a I g h t' off f the. coast ef the state ef Ceara, add- lag that the stricken vessel bad sent a distress signal. - ... .: CKCNGSING, t Chms; : r5t L-jf-A- smmber f.-eiyElans were kUled and wounded anl raany ihcrsts' w t f -dasiaielj-Tuesday afternoon when Z9 .(Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) aneaa