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. across fleld at imaginary enemy. (Photo approved by US Army.
(Additional pictures oa pare two.)
Horses and Machines
Team Up to Defend
Pacific Northwest
(Military aataoritles a few atys ago took newspapermen and ntwi ml
cameramen oa another trip to sec what Is betas done to c uard the Pacific
aortkweat (rem possible enemy Invaders. The following story, passed by
the army authorities, tells what they saw.)
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER .
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, April 21
"It's a funny thing, but the people just won't ever seem to rea
lize that a troop of cavalry is good for anything but to charge
In a line, with sabers advanced."
It was, yes, a veteran cavalry commander speaking, but,
first, a forward-looking fighting man, and he was giving a clue
to warfare, Model 1942 the Victory model, all Americans hope and
pray.
Defense Troops Seen in Action
His rjassing remark took life that day. by its verycontrast with
what was transpiring before news
see some of the Facilic nortnwesx s iinesx aeienaing troops in actum.
Action!
The world has speeded its pace vastly since cavalry brigades
rrp first set to stirrina rhyme,
keeping up, right here in the northwest
The news men saw them at it.
An enemy imaginary for the moment was coming inland.
Streaming out of a headquarters station near an important city
a came scouts on popping motorcycles and in jeeps, horses and men
in eiant motor-drawn trailers, officers in roaring command-recon
naissance cars, gunners in snarling
that enemy, to discover his positions, his kinds and disposition of
forces.
Convoy Moves Into Hills
The Drocession wound swiftly
ward. Had the enemy been a real one, advancing on northwest soil,
similar columns would have been winding over other highways
simultaneously. They, like the column the news men followed, might
at strategic points have taken to country side roads, spiraling up into
the Coast range.
This day's convoy bounced and wove its way high into these
hills until such road as there was became too tortuous for the por-
tees pronounced "portays" the
. go farther.
Big Carriers Hidden
The convoy halted in a clearing. Soldiers and horses poured out
of the bis trailers. Almost before the men had saddled their mounts
and swung astride, the portees had disappeared into thickets, under-lowering
fir trees, following the jorder. 'Conceal portees!" '
Off down the -crooked trail trooped the horsemen, their Xk
first to find the enemy, then to send back reports of bis strength, and,
finally, to fight a delaying action until the heavier combat organ
izations could move into contact
That, the veteran cavalry commander emphasised. Is the
primary use of mounted troops today, "to search oat the enemy
and then fight a delaying action, and that Is what It always has
been.9
Today's cavalrymen may most aptly be termed "mounted in
fantry," for they ride armed with semi-automatic rifles and all the
other equipment of an infantryman, and they normally fight from
the ground, relying on their horses merely for swift transportation
where motorized equipment can't take them. And if the enemy is
pressing forward in overwhelming force, they serve as a buffer again
between the foe and their own retreating battle forces, fighting that
delaying action.
Horses and Machines Teamed Up
Here it is appropriate to point out that a modern American cav
alry unit has many aces up its sleeve other than fine steeds and
hard-hitting, fast-shooting riflemen. Mechanized platoons are a stan
dard part of today's cavalry reconnaissance team.
The news men saw in the day's theoretical action just where the
mechanized platoons fitted into the pattern.
While the horse troops were deployed through the woods, motor
cycle scouts raced down such roads as there were, searching for
signs of enemy concentrations. One such scout roared over the brow
of a hill and around a sharp turn into a "road block." Brakes and tires
screamed; he whirled his cycle and raced back with a message,
which was relayed both by motorcycle and by radio from a Jeep
squad to officers toward the rear.
Jeeps Take to Brush
In a matter of minutes two jeeps burst down the slope, their
movement describable only as "hell-bent for election. When they
came in sight of the "block," actually a blockade of logs stacked,
criss-crossed and bound by heavy cables so that not even a tank
could have got by, they simply veered off to the right and left of
the road, straight into the brush, with scarcely a change of pace.
Those little quarter-ton, four-wheel-drive "nags" of steel, snort
ed like mustangs as they dug in, it seemed. Their three-man crews
leaped out, quickly concentrated rifle and .30 calibre machine gun
fire on the mythical foemen guarding the blockade. Others rushed
in in the same manner and in a matter of seconds were pouring
imaginary shells from rubber-tired 37 mm. anti-tank guns into the
enemy.
Officers Call for Armored Cars
" From a short distance back, officers at a command post had their
heads together. Steel-clad scout cars, they decided, would be needed.
"Dah-dah-dit-dit," the signals went out from the radio jeep to
the scout cars, and almost instantly the armored fighters rushed
1 forward, smashed aside through the trees and underbrush to join
the fighting jeepmen.
, The .30 calibre machine guns and .50 calibre rapid-fire com
bination anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons they carried were
added to the defenders' fire power.
Air-Driven Saw Clears Road
Theoretically knocked out, the enemy guards retreated, and the
pioneer and demolition squad which makes and destroys such em
placements as road blocks was called for. The squad rides a heavy
truck mounting, instead of guns, a heavy compressor and chests of
heavy construction implements such as air-driven rotary and chain
: saws, jackhammers and axes, crowbars and dynamite. The squad
made short work of clearing the road.
Back of all this fighting equipment, of course, must follow the
maintenance echelons. First echelon this day was the field service
crew, with its crane truck carrying power-operated grease guns, etc.
a mobile service station. Second echelon, a still larger truck, car
ried valve grinders, an arc welding outfit and other tools familiar
to an automotive shop fitted for any task other than a complete over
haul. . Ten-Ton Towcar Comes in Handy
' It was no trick at all for the cavalry unit's ten-ton towcar to
pull one of the heavy scout cars out of a deep, muddy gully into
which it had slid. v ' --v!"
r The horse troops, too, had their ''maintenance' men their field
. blacksmith, with his portable forge, their expertly-schooled saddlers
and their veterinary officers., -
; r -The thrills of seeing cavalrymen wheeling and chartfhg were
; hot omitted, for particular benefit
v ended with mad charges across
screens, and with massed field actions by the jeeps and scout cars.
' i & The ghost enemy had now been , taken in hand by the heavier
' combat troops; the cavalry withdrew to protect the flanks and the rear
the home forces, .
Cavalry Fits Northwest Terrain "
Thu sneed and terror cast ahead
ofLother wart have been yielded
the horse hasn't yet cone into total
country as the Japs will encounter in the Pacific northwest if they
arc ever ' reckless enougn to essay
NORTHWEST Cavalrymen chut
and camera men permitted to
and the army s "little dogies" are
armored scout cars out to find
over smooth highways, coast
army's cavalry troop carriers, to
of the cameramen. The field day
fence rows and through, smoke
of them by the . cavalry brigades
by the horse to the motorcar, but
eclipse, especially in such rugged
aa invasion cere.
Scandia
Threat
Strom
Yanks Nearly
Ready to Fly
Over Europe
By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
Associated Press War Editor
The belief in some respon
sible quarters that a second
active front will be opened in
Europe this spring was
strengthened Tuesday night
and Scandinavia appeared the
most likely arena of the ini
tial action possibly an allied
attack on occupied Norway
but more likely a German
thrust against Sweden.
Such an eventuality was sup
ported by reports from the Nor
wegian telegraph agency that sev
eral additional nazi divisions, one
of them armored, had arrived in
Norway in a continuing major
movement of reinforcement.' and
by a variety of other circum
stances. These included:
A LONDON disclosure that
heavy American bombers as
signed to fly with the RAF as
an aU-American force a force
which with the RAF would make
of the United Kingdom The
world's greatest air base" al
ready were being ferried over.
Plain and accumulating indica
tions that the Finns on Hitler's
northern flank against the Rus
sians were under sustained soviet
attacks of great power, especially
on the Aunus isthmus between
Lakes Ladoga and Onega The
Finns themselves acknowledged
that a major Russian offensive was
now in its 10th day, although
claiming that it had made no prog
ress. If, as was reported Independ
ently from Stockholm, the Kos
sian assault forces were made ap
of fresh Siberian troops It was
beyond question that the Fin
nish lines were In great peril.
Fitting into all this picture were
reports that the Germans in north
ern France, Belgium and the Neth
erlands were creating a mobile
army of cyclists, who assignment
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Registration Is
Down, County
1817 Cards Removed
From Voter List;
Linn Group Rises
Registration of voters for the
May 15 primary election this year
dropped by 1817 in Marion coun
ty from the total for the 1940 pri
maries, Lee Ohmart, acting coun
ty clerk, announced Tuesday.
Total registration in the county
this year is 35,341. of which 21,
201 is republican and 13,767 dem
ocratic Other classifications are:
Independent, 233; socialist, 35;
prohibition, 33; progressive, 8,
and miscellaneous, 64.
A contributing, factor la the
decline ef Marion county regis
tration waa the weeding' oat of
mny cards representing . cJt
isens who had net voted for two
years er longer.
The republican rartr lost 498
by this year's registration while
democratic voters declined - by
1247.
The 26 Salem precincts contrib
uted 13,977 to the county totaL a
drop of 1100 front 1940. 1 Of the
Salem registrations 9988 are listed
s republican, and 5835 as dem-
ocratic.; ' .. ' . ' . - -,'
women oiiummbotnen, 8260
w 7717, in the Sm-iristration,
a possujie reaec "VV entry
of many men inTS n& fc serv
ices and ethers In f indus
tries elsewhere. . FiSthe county
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Plane Based
Shangri La,
FR Laughs
WASHINGTON, April ll-Vft
With a grin. President Roose
velt said Tnesday that Ameri
can planes reported to have
bombed Japan last Saturday
came from a new secret base fat
Shangri La. a fictional Utopia la
Tibet
Seriously speaking, the presi
dent would not throw any light
on the reported bombing; would
not even confirm that It oc
curred. "How about the stories of the
bombing of Tokyo?" he was
asked.
The only thing he could think
of in reply, he said, was the
story about a sweet young thing
he said that was a generic
term who was a dinner guest at
the White House and wanted to
know where the bombing planes
came from and where they went.
He said he told her they came
from Shangri La.
Torpedo Boats
Hit Cruiser
Navy Tells of Two
Merchantmen Lost
In Atlantic -
By The Associated Press '
The navy reported tuesday that
two US torpedo boats attacking
at night off the Philippines dam
aged and possibly sank a Jap light
cruiser escorted by four enemy
destroyers cheering news in the
wake of a naval report that a small
US ship and a medium-sized Nor
wegian ship had been torpedoed
off the Atlantic coast.
Meanwhile the Argentine gov
ernment reported from Baenos
Aires that the $l,6t,000 Argen
tina tanker Victoria had been
damaged by a torpedo or mine
and was continuing toward New
York under difficult conditions.
Indications were that the two
US torpedo boats had been under
heavy fire from the five enemy
ships as the American craft at
tacked the cruiser near the Philip
pine island of Cebu.
Although the American craft did
not withdraw until they had com
pleted their mission, one of the
torpedo boats, the PT-34, finally
was forced ashore at Cebu, the
navy said, but the other, the PT
41, made good its escape. The navy
said that a third boat, the PT-35,
had been lost, being destroyed to
prevent its falling into enemy
hands.
From New Orleans, the 8th
naval district announced that a
medium sixed American cargo
vessel was torpedoed and sunk
in the Caribbean sea April 4
with a loss of three lives.
Nine seamen who reached port
at Lewes, Del., exhausted after 10
days at sea, reported that a Ger
man submarine crew sank their
medium-sized Norwegian tanker
off Burma Easter Monday and
then tossed them food as they
huddled in a lifeboat
Klink Wins
In Speaking;
WU Man 5th
SALT LAKE CITY, April 21-
(AV Tom Klink of Pacific uni
versity, Forest Grove, Ore., was
the winner Tuesday night in re
gional finals of the national ex
tempore discussion contest on
Pan-American affairs.
He will be eligible to enter the
national finals in Washington,
DC, May 14, an dalso will be the
guest of Nelson Rockefeller; US
commissioner of inter-American
affairs, on an expenses-paid - trip
to South America.
; Finishing in order behind Klink
were Henry Lopez, University , of
Denver; John Baird, University
of. Southern California; Miss
Pearl Steiner, College of the Pa
cific; Wallace McCalL Willamette
university; and George Mooney,
Washington State College. -
Only 107
Washington Men
Comprise Part,
Bataah Forces
WASHINGTON, April 21
(AP) Out of a total of some
3000 national.guardsmen who
took part In the heroic de
fense of Bataan peninsula in
the Philippines, only 107 were
evacuated to Corregidor be
fore Bataan fell, the war de
partment disclosed Tuesday.
The others who are still alive
are probably prisoners of the
Japanese.
The 3000 men composed the
192nd and 194th tank battalions
and the 200th coast artillery, anti
aircraft Three officers and 104 enlisted
men of the 200th coast artillery
were evacuated to the Corregidor
fortress, a communique said.
Each of the tank battalions
was believed to have contained
between 7M and 8M men. The
192nd waa made up of compan
iesJroaa Wisconsin, Illinois,
Ohio-, and Xentacky,. and ; the
194tk of companies from Min
nesota, Missouri, California aad
Washington state.
Besides national guardsmen,
regular army troops and' Filipino
contingents took part , in the de
fense of the peninsula, the Fili
pinos comprising the bulk of the
forces. Most of the defenders, re
ported to total less than 37,000
when Bataan fell, are believed in
the hands of the enemy.
Earlier in the day a communi
que disclosed that Corregidor and
the other island forts in Manila
bay had emerged with colors fly
ing from a terrific pounding by
Japanese big guns and dive bomb
ers. The communique reported
that "damage inflicted was not
great'
Meanwhile, fierce Japanese
attacks forced American and
Filipino defending forces to
abandon two points In Antique
province on the island of Panay.
These developments were an
nounced in an army communique,
summarizing the continuing re
sistance to Japanese invasion in
the Philippines.
A heavy artillery fire was con
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Felton Named
As Associate
Aids in County Bond
Sales, of Which
$3,000,000 Made
Joseph B. Felton, Salem justice
of the peace, has been appointed
by the United States treasury de
partment as associate chairman of
the Marion county war savings
bond staff, Frederick S. Lamport,
county chairman, announced Tues
day.
Lamport said he had requested
Felton's appointment because sale
of war savings bonds and stamps
"are expanding , daily." He re
ported that approximately $3,000,
000 worth of bonds of the various
series had been sold throughout
the country.
An intensive drive is under way
to increase payroll allotments for
war savings, a plan Lamport de
clared was meeting with wide fa
vor,' because it makes possible
regular, systematic savings by
American workers. -
Saying he felt the payroll sav
ings' plan would be readily accept
ed Jby Marion county firms, Lam
port pointed out that employes of
the Oregon Pulp & Paper company
alone were buy more than $8000
worth of bonds per month by this
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Monday's AVealher .7
- Weather -forecasts withheld"
and tentperatare data delayed ;
by army request 1 River Taes
day, -Ji feet Max. tempera tur
Monday, 1T KhW 48.
Guards
Evacuate
nn
Sweet 16
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LONDON, April 21-;P)-Looking
more than ever a Windsor, Prin
cess Elisabeth entered public
life Tnesday on her 16th birth
day, reviewing as "her royal
highness the colonel" the famed
grenadier guards on the grounds
of Windsor castle. The tall girl
who may some day be Britain's
sovereign took the salute, smil
ing and self-possessed, with her
mother and father and her little
sister, 11-year-old Margaret
Rose, In the background. Then
she walked away, holding Mar
garet's hand.
General Names
Pacific Staff
Headed by Philippine
Comrades; Minister
Tells Strength
US ARMY HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, April 21 -JPf-
General Douglas MacArthur se
lected Tuesday a staff headed up
by his old comrades of the Phil
ippine campaign and formally be
gan his tour ot duty as supreme
allied commander of the South
west Pacific by issuing his first
military communique for this en
tire theatre ,a roundup' of the
allied position from Luzon south
to the Australian sea frontier.
While his vast command was
thus put into smooth operation as
one integrated unit the political
leadership of mis commonwealth
issued to the world through the
Australian army minister Fran
cis M. Forde one of the most
heartening declarations since first
the enemy's shadow began to fall
to the south from the Dutch East
Indies.
Speaking at Rockham pton,
Forde declared:
The war has turned In .our
favor.
"We will not rest until we
are at fuU strength and onr
forces are fully equipped.
"When the allied' offensive
against the axis is unfolded it
will be a staggering spectacle The
day for it to be unleased is not
yet here, but it is not too far off.1
These were MacArthur's ap
pointments:
Chief of staff, Ma. Gen. Rich
ard K. Sutherland, 48, a West
Virginian.
Deputy chief of staff, Brig. Gen.
Richard J. Marshall, 46, a Vir
ginian. ;
Their chief assistants, also all
Americans: ,
Personnel, CoL Charles P.
Stivers; military Intelligence,
CoL Charles A. WlUonghbr:
operations and training. Brig
Gen. Stephen J. Chamberlain;
apply. CoL Lester J. Whitlock;
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Mrs. Leahy
Dies, Vichy
VICHY, France, April 21-4P)
Mrs. William D. Leahy; 66, wife
of the United States ambassador,
died Tuesday. '
The state department summon
ed Admiral. Leahy home for con
sultation when pro-naxi Pierre
Laval regained power last week.
but the admiral had delayed his
departure because Mrs. Leahy, re
cuperating from an abdominal
operatk, was unable to travel.
, Her death was a surprise. An
embolism or blood clot reaching
the heart waf believed to have
been fatal. She ; underwent tht
operation 12 days ago, and re
cently had discussed with the. ad
miral the advisability: of her' re
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PeaceOffeosive
Alert Is
Cabinet Hears Report Island
Life but Little Affected by
Raid; Plane Fights Reported
By The Associated Press
Central and western Japan were held under new air
alarm Tuesday afternoon, the Berlin radio reported, but the
Japanese themselves confined their broadcasts to deprecia
tory reports on Saturday's raids on four gTeat cities and to
hints of a peace offensive in a lengthy account of prayers
by Japanese Christians for an early peace.
The German report said that alarms sounded between
4 and 5 p. m. Japanese time (12 and Un, Pacific war
time), and that "for central Japan the all-clear sounded
about 5 p. m while the alarm remained in foree for western
Japan, especially for Kyushu."
Kyushu is the most southern
and westerly of the four main
Japanese islands, nearest China.
It has many steel mills, the great
Sasebo naval base and the im
portant port of Nagasaki.
, The German broadcast said
nothing of planes or bombs, so ,
the alarms may. have neeay pro
eaatleaary of nervous reaction
to the raids Satarday oa Tokyo,
Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe.
The Japanese made several
broadcasts About those raids.
One said various ministers re
ported to the cabinet Tuesday that
Japanese life had been affected
only in a few instances and to
small degree and that the trans
portation system was -hardly dis
turbed.
Another, in French, told of two
planes being attacked Saturday by
Japanese interceptors.
Shortly after 1 p. m. Satur
day), they picked up an enemy
plane which seemed to be of the
North American B-25 type, fly
ing at less than 1000. meters," said
this broadcast.
' Anti-aircraft Are caused the
plane to reduce Its altitude, the
report continued, and "the ene
my plane then attacked with
machine gun fire and, flying
close to the ground, fled along
a certain fiver.
"The enemy plane then climbed
but waf attacked again over Oshl-
ma island (60 miles southwest of
Tokyo) at 1500 meters. It caught
fire and lost altitude gradually,
finally disappearing in the clouds.
But from the circumstances it ap
pears the plane must have fallen
into the sea.
4H Exhibits
Open Today
Judging Is Underway;
First of Winners
Announced
Doors open to the public at 1
m. today upon thousands of
exhibits of the things boys and
girls of Marion county 4H clubs
have made, records of work they
have done, plans for projects to
be carried on this summer. Judg
ing in the various fields, well
started Tuesday night, will have
been completed by that time,
Wayne D. Harding, county club
leader, believes.
The exhibits, arranged in show
rooms at . 863 North Liberty
street, represent home economicsH
art and poster work, hobbies, for
estry, f woodworking and related
fields of 4H club -endeavor, '
: Fromthe winners selected
this, the annual spring show, will
be chosen entries for, this fall's
state fair. V, - - .-"i V
r Illghllxhta of Thnrsday'sr pro
gram are to be the contest to
select j the healthiest 4H. dab
boy and girl In Marion eonnty,
" and . demonstrations . la the
Cherry City bakery aaditoriam,
; the latter a caatmaaUea ef the
competition which opens this
''afternoon. , " '
Exhibits will be shown to-the
nuhlie. without charge, from . 1
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3 Hours
Trade Ration
Begins, Sugar
Dealers to Receive x
Blanks Today at
High School
"Registration of the trade" for
sugar rationing will start today,
the Salem rationing board an
nounced Tuesday.' In general, all
firms, individuals and public in
stitutions which deal in sugar or
purchase it other than for house
hold consumption, are advised to
call at the registrar' office in
the Salem senior high school
building today between 1 and 8
p. m. or Thursday or Friday be
tween 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. to ob
tain these blanks.
This applies only to the Sa
lem rationing district, boun
daries of which were estab
lished heretofore In connection
with tire rationing. The trade"
In the ether Marlon eonnty ra
tioning districts will obtain
these blanks at the Silverton,
Stayton or Woodburn high
schools, respectively.
Retail and wholesale grocers
handling sugar, managers of in
stitutions and "industries using
sugar, restaurants, bakeries, ho
tels, boarding houses, farms or
other operations "where a board
ing house situation prevails," are
the ones required to register in
advance of the general rationing
date.
The blanks may be obtained at
the hours indicated and those con
cerned are advised to obtain them
as soon as possible as the forms
are somewhat lengthy and . will
take some time io fill out
These sugar handlers, or users
wUl be able to receive supplies In
amounts based upon their oast
consumption, and any conserva
tion of supplies on the part of
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Allies Battle
Hard, Burma
By The Associated Press '
NEW DELHI, India, April 21
Heartened by the first allied vie
tory of the Burma campaign re
capture of the desolated oil center
of Tenang-Yaung and rescue of
7000 encircled British troops
Chinese and British forces held
grimly Tuesday to a line running
westward from the 8000-foot
heights of Mt Popa to the broad
Irrawaddy river, '
A British communique confirm
ed that the Chinese under the
American Lieut-Gen.. Joseph W.
Stilwell had joined British arm
ored forces In ani attack swhlch
drove the Japanese' back 'south
ward from Yenanyaung, where
the British had destroyed 6000 on
wells last week-to keeprthem
from the hands of the invaders. 4
. As a result the communique"
said, the British main forces were
enabled to move northward across
the-Pinchaung river, -,' ' , - .