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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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