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; :
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday IZstslaq. Apt2 2, 1SU
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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,
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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-
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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
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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
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aneaa