Tho Insldo ' Your complete morning newspaper, The Statesman, offers yen pertineat eam- meats em war sews of the far by Klrke Simpson, Waslungtem analyst. - Candidafo Chicago, Aprfl 14 -(ff) Gen, Douglas HaeArthrfs name wu written la ea ". , , democratic ballot as S to- dldate fer US senator fa PCUNDDD Tuesday's primary election. Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning. April 15 Price 5c Ho. 323 IZnZTT-FEST yeah . Island Successful Maids on Energy idmbu87i Trucks on MindLjao, Strike Positions on Luzon; Cebu Continues Resistance WASHINGTON, April 14 (AP) The army reported Tuesday that an American-Filipino raiding party had am bushed a Japanese truck column on the island of Mindanao and inflicted heavy casualties with no losses to itself. At the same time, it said small bodies of troops in northern Luzon had conducted successful raids against "lightly held enemy positions in the mountains." Luzon is the principal Philippine island, on which Is located Manila and Bataan peninsula. Mindanao is far to the south. Plan Includes All Groups Committees Named on Recreation Survey tor Assistance 1 Every organization In the city ef Salem is to be contacted for assistance in a defense recreation program, members of the new committee named last week by Mayor W. W. Chadwick decided at their organization session at the chamber of commerce Tues day night A survey in which every pa triotic, service, women's, fra ternal, business and church or ganisation In the capital city Is to be asked what faculties It can offer, what services It will provide, rets underway tonlfht when O. E. Falmateer presents to the executive committee of v the ! Federated Patriotic Socie ties of Salem blanks to be tak en back to the It organisations ' they represent for information and volunteered aid. The questionnaires, to be mime ographed today, are modeled on those In use elsewhere, brought to the Tuesday meeting by Don Orput, federal security agency representative. Each organization or group of organizations is to be asked to name a defense recreation com mittee through which the central steering group may work in se curing cooperation for various projects. - Establishment of a temporary service club In the HoUyweod business area for army men sta tioned here looms with appoint- asent ef what was termed the "nucleus of a committee" for inch a project Miss Helen Bar rett Mrs. James IL Nicholson, Jr and Mrs. T. J. Brabee were appointed to select ethers to serve with them for Immediate . development of such a center. Tom Armstrong, Rev. S. Raynor Smith and O. E. Palmateer were named to select a finance com mittee. , Frank Bennett was appointed public relations chairman. Bulletins MOSCOW, April lS-(Wed-nesday)-WVY ugoslav guerril las have routed a German puni tive expedition of 8000 ' troops, and are besiering the cities of Sarajevo and Valjevo, the Mos cow radio said Wednesday, One surrounded Italian rar rison Is starving to death, the announcer said. VALLETTA, Malta. April 14 (AV-Three German planes were shot down and four more were damared over Malta Tuesday as the island remained under a day-long alert with the third attack ttm In progress Tuesday night the high command an nounced. " . . The harbor area and air fields were bombed and there was some civilian property damage and some fatalities. " STOCKHOLM, Aprfl 14-(ff) The Swedish-American' liner Drottlngholm, under charter to the . United States government for an exchange of axis and "American diplomats, is sched uled to leave here Wednesday Vila some 200 non - official Americans going home. EZ<N (from German Siroadcasts), April 14-()-The ; i t&iians annonneea in k m e I (Tuesday that departure of Unit "cd States diplomats and news papermen Is now scheduled for Troops JL. in". ctr - A lie army cummuninue uis' dosed that an American motor torpedo boat which sank an ene my cruiser near the central island of Cebu last week ran a gauntlet of enemy fire to do so but es caped unscathed. Repeated salvos were fired by a destroyer which attempted to come to the rescue of the cruiser. The raids in northern Luzon brought to four the number of points at which the Japanese are still meeting vigorous resistance in the Philippines. The communique told of con tinued artillery battles between the island fort of Corregidor and enemy guns ashore. An .early-day communique had disclosed that fighting eon tinned on Cebu, with defending forces heavily outnumbered bnt offering a stubborn resistance. Some 12,000 Japanese troops were landed on the Island last week. The fourth area of resistance was Mindanao, where, in addition to the ambushing of the truck column, "sharp skirmishes'' were reportdr, but . detail - were t not given. V ' - As for Bataan, the famed last stand peninsula where American and Filipino forces were finally crushed last week, there was no word, except an announcement from Tokyo claiming that 40,000 prisoners including 15 generals (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) Four Lost in Two Sinkings Eight More Missing From Torpedoed Merchant Ships NOFOLK, Va April 14 -UP) Four seamen were lost and eight others were missing after two medium sized merchant ships were torpedoed off the Atlantic coast last week, the fifth naval district announced Tuesday night Fifty nine survivors from the two vessels were landed at More head City, NC. The first of the two attacks, occurring Thursday, set the cargo ship aflame, and surviv ors said the vessel was still burning and settling by the stern when they were picked up by a rescue vessel. Two of the crew. Third Mate NowaU ' Sweeney and Ordinary Seaman Richard Lyons, were lost when they leaped overboard after their lifeboat caught fire. The other 22 crewmen were landed at Morehead City, where five were hospitalized. Lyons body was recovered later, . The second ship was torpedoed (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) Million Miles Away Was Closest-to-Ea rth Comet CAMBRIDGE, - Mass, April 14 JPy- Harvard astronomers said Tuesday - that latest calculations of tho path of a new celestial ob ject which is either a comet or a "minor planet" indicated that the body probably came within a million miles of the earth a near record for visitors from space before receding." ;" Commenting on reports from two Berkeley, Calit, astronomers concerning the first computation of a "probable path" for an ob ject originally sighted more than a month ago, the Harvard astron omers said that if the postulated positions were correct, the object approached " closer to . the earth than any comet - -, And they added that only one' other large celestial object the i minor planet Hermes which loomed within 475,001 miles of the earth In 1937 ' ever had eome closer. "If the calculations are correct one astronomer, said, "the object First Aid; The Grand Revelation NKtlCIIKKTERV KV AmrH 11 ' : ' - TT-Kxa miners of a Red Cross first aid class whistled softly In appraising results of a written test for adults. "Some of the answers," said Roy V. Benson, director of wa ter safety and first aid, "are, to say the least surprising." "Surprising," Benson felt were these: . Tor dog bite Tut the dog away for several days. If he has not recovered then kin it" To avoid aute- infection "Put slip covers on the seats and change them frequently and al ways drive with the windows open." 1 For fracture To see If the limb Is broken wiggle it gently back and forth." Respiration was described "as a handy thing to know how to do especially if you live far from a doctor." To prevent head colds "Cte ' an agonizer to spray nose until It crops into your throat" Without going Into too great detail, a description of circula tion of the blood, stated simply: "It flows down one leg and p the other." 8 Slowdowns Are Revealed Knox Advises Against Suspension of 40-Hour Week' WASHINGTON, April 14-(i?5) The development of "slowdowns" in eight plants with important navy contracts was reported Tues day by Senator Byrd (D-Va) on the basis of information from the office of the assistant secretary of the navy. The navy's compilation, as made public by Byrd, Indicated that in five of the plants the re ported slowdown was attributable entirely to labor and that In the other three management was partly responsible. In one of these plants alleged "inefficient man agement" was cited, in another some available machines were said to be unused, and In the third the difficulty was attributed part ly to "continual changes In speci fication by prime contractors." Production losses ranged from 25 to 90 per cent "I am startled and dismayed by a navy department report on slowdowns in industries en gaged In vital naval production," Byrd declared In a statement "If anything Is more reprehen sible than a complete halt of work on war production, It must be a deliberate slowdown." Byrd said the report was for the week ending April 11 and that similar weekly reports pre viously had made no mention of slowdowns. The report was sign ed "C. W. Fisher, Rear Admiral United States Navy," director of shore establishments, T. M. At kins, by director." - ' - " Meanwhile Secretary of the Navy Knox told the house naval committee that he "wouldn't be surprised" if President Roosevelt issued an executive order defin ing a national war labor policy. He predicted that such a policy would be evolved either by executive order or congressional action as a result of "this pres ent confusion" over the labor (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) Monday's Weather Weather forecasts withheld and temperature data delayed by army request . River Tues day, -.1 foot Max. temperature Monday, CI, muu 45. came exceedingly close to the earth some time during the last montn - and was probably as close at one million miles from the earth before it started to re cede." , He estimated it was moving at a 20-mile-a-second clip." ; The available evidence sug gests, the astronomer declared, that the object Is a comet with material diffused over a large . area, but said there also was a possibility that it might be an asteroid, or "minor planet hav ing a diameter of about 500 feet The closest any previous comet ever came to the earth was i million and a half miles - Lex ell's comet in 1770. The minor nlanet TTptttim vii IS times-larger than the postulat es size oi the new object and during the time nf the RmnM Visitation astronomers estimated inat it could have torn a huge hole in the center of .New York City if it had struck Manhattan. 1 'Social Justice9 Is Barred From Mail9 Alleged Seditious Father Coughlin Founded Michigan Magakine Declared Attacking War Effort of Nation; Hearing Set WASHINGTON; April 14(AP) Social Justice, a weekly newspaper founded at Charles E. Coughlin, was excluded from the malls temporari ly Tuesday, night and a hearing ordered to determine whether it should be barred altogether for alleged seditious utterances. Postmaster General Walker announced that the hearing would be held April 29. Pending the hearing, he directed the postmaster at Royal Oak to with hold the publication from the mails until officials at Washing ton determine its "mailability." Walker acted on the recom mendation ' of Attorney General Biddle. He made public an ex change of letters in which Biddle declared that examination of So cial Justice since the war began December 7, 1941, made it clear that "it has made a substantial contribution to a systematic and unscrupulous attack on the war effort of 'our nation, both civilian and military." "Social Justice reproduces in this country," the attorney gen eral said, "the lines of the ene my propaganda war being wag ed against this country from abroad. The espionage act of 1917 is designed to defeat this type of attack." Officials said that the ltfchiganir,05tion Hlr , federal corporation records showed Fath er Coughlin as one of the original founders of Social Justice. It was added, however that records do not disclose that anyl- stock in the Social Justice Pub lishing company, publisher of the tabloid, is now owned by the priest The paper lists E. Ferrin Schwartz as editor, and Cora Quinlan as secretary-treasurer. Its weekly circulation was esti mated at 200,000. Father Ceuglin disavowed any connection with Social Jus tice last July, at that time dis closed that his parents, Thomas J. and Amelia Coughlin, owned the magarine. . The Michigan Catholic, in an issue of April 2, published a statement by Monsignor Edward J. Hickey, chancellor of the De troit archdiocese, saying that Father Coughlin had withdrawn from responsibility for Social Justice with the issue of May 27, 1940. The publication was found ed in 1936. The newspaper has been a bit ter, critic of the administration for a long period. RAF Blasts At France in Daylight Raid LONDON, April lHflV-British fighters and bombers ranged over northern France with compara tive freedom for itt hours Tues day in their longest daylight of fensive of the year. From the Boulogne -Calais coastal strip to Caen, in Norman dy, airmen bombed and strafed German targets and on their way home engaged in brisk dogfights with nazi interceptors 20,000 feet above the channel. Two American pilots tangled with eight nazi fighters in one scrap and scored hits on a pair of the enemy. Losses for the day were even four British and four German fighters:' OSCManls Coordinator Of Research CORVALLIS, April 14 -JP) Elimination of static in aircraft radios during precipitation is be ing sought by researchers and X CL Starr, OSC professor , of engi neering, has been named national coordinator. - . ' i'St " He began work on the problem several, years ago for commercial air lines, which - sought to end the interference with or, blanking out of communication between the ground and metal planes during rain, snow or sleet storms. J f He . was notified that the army and navy air corps were prepared to spend a third of a million dol lars here and at other research laboratories in finding a solution. in mm Royal Oak, Mich, by Father uying Placed in BEW Wallace Heads Group To Wage 'Dollar War' in World WASHINGTON, April 14-) President Roosevelt Tuesday handed to the board of economic warfare, headed by Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, sole responsi bility for waging the war with dollars on foreign fronts. , A - sweeping executive order, cutting into authority previously held by the Reconstruction Finance KKcuucs. gave nwiKi ooaru power to direct this country's buy ing of war materials and civilian goods In any .world market. . - frrevieusly Wallace's organhta-' t&n had power only to advise and recommend, while RFC and at least six other agencies . had fingers la the actual policy making and purchasing of rob ber, and other critical supplies. Tho decree, one official source said, created a "foreign Donald (Turn to Page 2, CoL S) FDR Says Plan Coming Progresses on Ideas For Combatting Inflation WASHINGTON, April U.-(fP)-President Roosevelt challenged advocates of sweeping cuts in non-defense spending Tuesday to show where savings could be made, and said his over-all plan for combatting inflation was pro gressing. He made it plain at the same time that conclusions drawn from his studies of the labor situation would be included. He had not fmade up his mind, he said, how ever, on a method or date for making the program public. Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that taxes over and above those re quired by the present law would be involved, but was un certain whether taxes in addi tion to those recommended re cently by the treasury would be necessary. Making these statements at a press conference, the president was asked fcbout the possibility of reducing non - defense expendi tures as an anti-inflation move. He said he was uncertain and was having a funny time over that question. An old friend, an economist, wrote him six weeks ago asking the-same Question which, Mr. Roosevelt said, was a generality. He asked the economist to stipu late where savings might be made. He had received three let ters from his friend, he added, none of which answered the ques tion. ;j Closely Involved, he said, 'was the uncertain question of ; what exactly, was a non-defense expen diture. 1 Private Becomes Colonel for Day , . GOODFELLOW FIELD, San Angelo. Tex " April 14 -JP) Private first Class Joseph G. Pflpger looked at his warrant of promotion and his eyes popped! In black and white, very of ficial looking, it read: "Joseph (V Ffluger is hereby appointed from private first class to the rank ef coIoneL But; the shock passed. The colonel was quickly changed to corporal; the mistake charged to a typographical slip Foreign B A Burmese Defense Pushed Many Jap Planes Ruined in Raids By RAF, Yanks By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON. April 14-UPVThi. Japanese invaders, slowly beat ing back both anchors of the allied line, stood Tuesday nicht only 20-odd miles from the fringes of the Central Burma oil fields and as the crisis ap proached in that campaign for Outer India the powerful counter-action of American and Brit ish airmen formed the one bright spot amid the general and in creasing gloom. Successive communiques from New Delhi reported that RAF bombers raiding the enemy-held Andaman islands the presumed base in the Bay of Bengal for part of the vast Japanese naval concentration now aprowl in those waters on India's flank had de stroyed or put out of action 13 enemy flying boats, and related other successful allied actions. In one of these, American Volunteer group filers turned Into a minor disaster for tho In vader his attempt to assault an allied airdrome In the Shan states of northeastern Burma, for when the fighting was over seven enemy planes had gone down under fierce American attack. Other American airmen de stroyed three Japanese bombers without "loss to themselves in an attaSk on grounded enemy air craft at the Toungoo airdrome., . The British for their part, aside from the Andaman assault, re ported heavy successful bombing attacks on enemy troops above Prome. Two British planes were lost, however, in this foray. Yet another attack was made on Japanese river craft "convey ing enemy troops, many of which dived overboard, said the com munique. , It made plain that the 13 fly ing boats smashed in the Andaman islands accounted for the entire concentration. The Andaman raid, centered on the Japanese base at Fort Blair, left one enemy flying boat sinking, two afire and 10 damaged and it waa regarded as the possible signal for a gen eral allied aerial counter-offensive against the Japanese in the Bay of Bengal, where an enemy fleet of three battleships, Ave aircraft carriers and many other warships is known to be concentrated against British naval forces who are greatly in- ferior numerically. Despite the cautious hopes thus raised, however, ; the position afield in Burma appeared to be growing more critical by the hour and the main hope of the British and Chinese now appeared to lie in fighting delaying actions until the start of the rains in mid-May. Rites Here Thursday Funeral services for Lena Grossen, 75, who died Tuesday at the Methodist Old People's Home here, will be held in Salem Thursday, followed by graveside services at South Yamhill ceme tery, McMinnville. She previous ly lived in Portland and has a brother In Germany. "v. Roosevelts in A partmerit After NY Moving Day NEW YORK, April 14--ff)-The first family of the land moved Tuesday and with typical house wifely supervision the first lady made sure every trunk and tro phy arrived in good shape. - Getting a Jump on other New Yorkers, who usually clean house in , May and move in October, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was up early and worked late direct ing transfer of presidential household effects from the fash ionable 60s to the more modest Greenwich village. , Sweeping a straggling lock from her forehead, Mrs. Roose velt arrived at the entrance to 29 Washington Square, west, in mid-morning, and with: the aid f a negre maid carried several, small pieces of luggage from her car - to the elevator which whisked her to the Roosevelt's newly leased apartment, which, consists of three bedrooms, liv In Again -i - - f c v ' i-rr PIERRE LAVAL Axis Coluinn's Ruin Claimed Rommel's Troops Keep Trying for Strong Libyan Holds CAIRO, April .J-;P)-Virtual destruction of an Italian battal ion which was part of the axis columns attempting to establish strong points in the Libyan no- man's-land was claimed Tuesday by British military sources while the desert fighting went on in the midst of swirling dust storms. A South African unit attacked the Italians 12 miles southeast of Tmimi five days ago, it was dis closed, and killed 60 Italians, wounded many and took 165 pris oners, including five officers. The British were continuing to harrass nazi Marshal Erwin Rom mel's tanks and artillery which are doggedly , digging in in an attempt to hang on to their new positions. The latest reports said British guns had scored direct hits on a column of tanks, ar mored cars and artillery In the northern, or Temrad sector, 12 miles southwest of Gazala and about 60 miles into no-man's-land from the main British positions at Tobruk. Gov. Sprague Opens Drive In Rally Here Gov. Charles A. Sprague's cam paign for reelection was launched on the "home front" Tuesday night at a rally in the Salem chamber of commerce Floral room at which more than a dozen speakers expressed their friend ship for him as a neighbor as well as the state's executive. Greetings were brought to the meeting from chairmen of Reelect Sprague committees in Lane, Benton, Linn, Yamhill and Polk counties. Speakers included T. M. Hicks, Marion county chairman for the governor; Leo N. Childs, Glen Adams of Polk county, Tinkham Gilbert, John Ramage of Wood burn, Mrs. Winnie Pettyjohn, J. D. Mickle, Marvin Jordan and Carl Williams of CorvaUis, Dr. Frank Brown, Clifford Harrold, Chris J. Kowitz and Claude Mur phy. A message from Paul B. Wallace, who was unable to be present, was read. Tone of the campaign, in which Secretary of State Earl Snell is contending for the gubernatorial nomination, will be "gentleman t (Turn to Page 2, CoL 7) ing room, dining room, kitchen, aaaid's room and tare baths. , She nodded cordially to a group of her new neighbors standing under the awning of the apart ment house and smiled when one of them said, fit is a pleasure to have you for a neighbor. Mrs. Roosevelt returned later to the former Roosevelt home at 47th East 65 th ' street for another load of small baggage. All of the president's were born at the 5th street home which served as the town house for the Roosevelts,' and among the things brought by a van was baby's chair, xne Roosevelt grandchndren often , visit them. " Despite moving day, Mrs. Roosevelt found time to attend and speak t a luncheon given in honor of her and Mme.. Maxim LItvinoff, wife of the Russian am bassador. . Move To New Aid ' Laval Given Job; Coast Built XJp Against Invasion I Associated Pros War Xditer From its long semi-obsciirl- ty tht European t h e a t r emerged Tuesday night as the most critical of the war the arena of a victory for Ger man power politics which overshadowed the Japanese' enemy's continued advance' upon India's Burma flank and all other phases of the strug- . gle in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Acting to strengthen their west ern position against the possibili ty of an allied invasion of the continent, the Germans forced Marshal Petain to his knees. In effect, it seemed, they were about to throw him out as the head of the melancholy remnant of what was once France, and to extort NEW YORK, April U-tP) The British radio said Pierre Laval, newly returned to power in the Petain government, told interviewers at Yichy Tuesday he wanted to maintain friendly relations with both Germany and the United States. from Frenchmen 100 . per cent "collaboration!' ' against their, jild allies and friends, Britain and the United States. ' All was not clear, . much" re mained to be explained, but if matters were as bad as they look ed this was the position: Petain agreed to set up a new ; government in whieh It ap peared that he himself would be a decorative nobody and" the real power would bo held by Pierre Laval, the Gallic Quia- ' ling who has made a career of panting to do Hitler's bidding. Admiral Jean Darlan, another anglophobe, presumably would stay close to the top, possibly as head not only of the French fleet but of all Vichy's armed services. The additional possibilities dis cussed in dispatches from neutral Switzerland were most sinister: Vichy mght give certain conces sions, involving such strategic points as Madagascar and North and West Africa, for axis supply and transport needs; Vichy might even give the nazis military aid, perhaps the French fleet for con voy duty. Some saw the possibility that Hitler's plots might go even fur therthat he might insist on complete control of the French fleet which, combined with that of Italy, could force the British t6 evacuate Alexandria as a navaj base and leave Malta In the most perilous position. An this would Imply an out right break with the United States and that coming to pass it would f oUow that tho United States would be free for such direct action as seemed re quired to protect American and allied interests but there was still a considerable question as to whether Vichy was' ready to go quite that far. For example, Petaln's govern ment during the day angrily re Jected as "injurious" an Ameri can explanation as to why Wash ington had established a consul ate-general at Brazzaville In Free French equatorial Africa, and thus brought itself .to the very brink of a severance of American relations. - . - V At all events Hitler was mov ing in on Petain and this in turn fitted neatly into the situation created by an obvious spread of fear in Germany of an allied at tacka fear that seemed to lie principally in the current visit to England of General George C Marshall, chief of staff of the American army,, and Harry L Hopkins. yT"fV- "$--'Hf - 1 For the first time since the war began it ; was plain that many nails were about to catch the frizM neurosis that they, ha cultivated so often In the past against little nelghborinsr Countries, and the British and mother allies were - sardonically , amused at these traces of hys-; teria among the nerrenyefky - , . "We are expecting an invasion at any time. Let toem .try. tt; we are ready," so said an authorita tive nazi spokesman.; V; ft On the Russian battlefront at well the Red armies were giving (Turn to Page S, Cot 4)..