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TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1942
ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c
NO. 5?
Gigantic IN aval Battle Raging in Java
pspufels
w Board
eetmg ror jumuu;,
ike Lift txpecrea
icmUCTON, Feb. 21.-01.B
jUry of Labor Frances Per-
certified to the war
board a dispu'o between the
ci-KeUy Lumber Co., Spnng
j nn. and the International
Ltorkers (CIO) involving 200
LL and union demands for
U increases, a union snop mm
fa vacations.
LoTvr.nFT.n. Feb. 21. (Spe-
) Alter lour
bargaining between union and
tito by the war labor board in
L. the no-Booth-Kelly dis-
f, was apparently assured Sat
lar morning following a Wash
' that. Secre-
ircin aniiuuin.... , ,
t j i .hm- Trances Perkins had
t ified the disagreement to that
Ewas assumed that the month-
i ,hita oraer wouia ue imcw
n. srinifieid mill, operations
Lmed, and the union demands
L .are increases, union shop,
d vacations, and other working
tract provisions arDitraiea Dy
km labor board alter me men
tr. hark at work.
CIO officials said Saturday that
Dminf official confirmation of
t certification, the union nego
itinf committee will recommend
e immediate return to work of
1 150 striking plant employes
hvided that the company agrees
illow them reasonable time to
turn to their jobs and does not
tace any discrimination.
A mass meeting of all Booth
illy union, employes has been
lied tor Sunday at 2 p. m. in the
irinjfield CIO hall. At this time
e members of the negotiation
pmittee explain the significance
the certification, and, if the
Ker has been confirmed, will
tow the membership to vote
kon a resolution calling for their
ftum to work.
The CIO is requesting that Com
issioner Jessie Jacobsen of the
bariment of conciliation service
fringe another meeting with
wth-Kelly representatives for
K purpose of discussing the certi
htion and immediate steDs to be
fen in reopening the mill.
Mac Arthur
Not 'Wordy'
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 21
(U.R) A sample of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's terseness was posted
today on a bulletin board in the
Springfield Armory where the
Garand automatic rifle is manu
factured. In answer to a 32-word message
of congratulations sent by an ar
mory official in behalf of the
plant's workers, MacArthur re
plied from Bataan:
Thanks."
Uruguay Under
Martial Law
MONTEVIDEO. Feb. 21. tm
President Alfredo Baldomir kept
lirm grip on the Uruguayan
government today in an interior
political squabble which resulted
in dissolution of congress, cancel
lation of scheduled national elec
tions March 29 and placed an army
or iy.uuu men in control of the
country.
By an unexpected executive de
cree, he blocked Uruguay's leading
opponent of Pan-American cooper
ation, Luis Alberto de Herrera,
from forcing his hand on a tech
nical voting dispute by which
members of de Herrera's opposi
tion party might hold cabinet posts
and at the same time combat the
government in congressional de
bates.
De Herrera has long opposed
Baldomir's foreign policy and has
been an outspoken critic of the
administration's plan to build
naval and air bases from United
States funds.
far Supplies Pile
p Awaiting Ships
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 (Pi
ped war materials were re
pd today to be piling up on
piencan wharves
htly needed cargo ships to carry
m to the far Pacific front.
J of sufficient shipping,
mer than Inadequate production,
oesenbed authoritatively as
most serious obstacle in the
By Of hnleta-;..-
uisiant lines.
Iever, there was a conviction
" capital that shipping would
1 My a temporary bottleneck.
A senate armrnnriatinnc k
Mtee was assured by under
tary of war Robert P. Patter
ni!e,crday ,hat manufacture
Idmini p -'""j. iiom near
K ,Emory s- Land' chai--
tC-the mari'ime commission,
IZTr "?'vod a less encour-
FJ" turning out raron ,..i, "
DronJL.i-0'0-901-900 y-navy
Cl bJ!L?'7,n J?'-
feu anH . "'. i a jpropria
K,l!?n,ract authorizations
lips. Th. V,,1'4'8 "erehant.
liii.m l contemplates
4?.r0ddaUvCli0n t0arate
Jr,.1 fv"V effort was
ISSS. aIlevia,e Portages
Y i to hnlH I a pan,CUIarIy steel,
h He wi rrup,cd cnstnic
h rate J, rcportcrs Iater that
CCh!!lmo.mb were said
h "." ""ormcd that shin
Fanlu . cne"iv action weri
to piE',ue!,ah w
d at th i ,p on wharves
deumSr convoys has
kr -
l-wi As i si-TTiTTTrt
b fic ?. h.e fact that some
n'm.. De.cl05ed Monday
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t:001 office0, s",rdirom ,he city
no hft :j
Army Objects To
NLRB Hearing
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (U.B
Some United States planes were
reported today to be grounded in
the Far East, the Middle East and
in this country for lack of parts
whose production may be further
curtailed by a national labor rela
tions board investigation of a dis
pute in two Curtiss-Wright plants.
War and navy representatives
were said to have objected to the
proposed NLRB hearing on
grounds it would hamper produc
tion by disrupting the plants. But
the investigation now is scheduled
to proceed under authority of the
NLRB.
One responsible official estimat
ed the number of grounded planes
in the hundreds and said half of
them were in combat areas. Check
ing other sources, however, the
United Press was informed the
number of grounded planes was
comparatively small and that the
parts situation which had been
acute had shown recent and basi
cally satisfactory improvement. In
formation was contacting wnetner
the planes had been shipped to
combat areas without necessary
parts or whether the shortage was
in spares now needed.
NLRB headquarters here told
United Press that the Curtiss
Wright case -was pending in the
New York regional office. But
Defense Area
Includes All
Of Washington
All Japanese Must
Surrender Firearms
And Explosives
OLYMPIA, Feb. 21 P) Wash
ington state was declared a pro
tective defense area today by Gov
ernor Langlie, who ordered all
Japanese to immediately surrender
to the state patrol all firearms,
ammunition, explosives or other
instruments which might be used
to damage property or life.
The order was issued by procla
mation after conferences with the
military, at which the necessity
was stressed for immediate action
to keep articles of destruction from
persons "who might use them in a
campaign of sabotage, conducted
at a given time or timed simul
taneously with an aerial bombing
or possible attempted invasion."
The state patrol was authorized
to regulate the sale, storage and
use of explosives and firearms in
the hands of everyone in the state,
including white American citizens.
There will be no interference with
ordinary firearm sales to sports
men for hunting purposes.
Regulations for explosives will
be drafted with a view to disrupt
ing industrial operations as little
as possible, while still affording
the safeguards deemed necessary
by the army and navy, the gover
nor's office said.
All Japanese, however, must
immediately surrender their fire
arms and explosives to the patrol
by next Thursday, Feb. 26, and
any violation is punishable by
fine and imprisonment.
Receipts will be issued by the
patrol and the firearms will be
r -
"o holiday.
SEE
DEFENSE STORY
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SEE ARMY STORY
PAGE 4
Conciliation Panel
Studies Lumber Dispute
Charles Ray, federal conciliator
from Chicago, said talks between
representatives of the W. A. Wood
ard lumber company of Cottage
Grove, the federal panel and
striking AFL union members
"were progressing" Saturday.
The groups were scheduled to
continue their discussion at 1:30
p. m. after a recess for lunch. The
three-week old dispute grew out
of a strike of loggers asking for
transportation to the woods. The
mill workers went on strike Feb.
H when the woods crew picketed
the mill.
Ray heads a federal conciliation
panel investigating the strike.
Portugal Sends
Protest To Japs
LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 21 W)
Premier Antonio Oliveira de
Salazar told the national assembly
today that Portugal already had
entered an "energetic protest" to
Tokyo against Japanese occupa
tion of the southwest Pacific
island of Timor, Jointly the terri
tory of Portugal and the Nether
lands. Salazar said that the Japanese
knew that Portuguese troops were
on the way to take over the pro
tection of the Portguese portion
from Dutch and Australian troops,
who occupied it last December.
"We have remained faithful to
the thesis that there can be no
strategic reasons for the violation
of the sovereignty of states," Sala
zar said.
The Portuguese press already
was protesting the "new viola
tion" of Portuguese territory
when the national assembly was
assembled in extraordinary session
to hear the premier.
"We maintain this principle,
the premier declared, "That vio
lation of rights by one does not
justify violation of the same or
another right by others."
He outlined negotiations his
government had conducted with
Britain by which Portuguese
troops were to take over their
own guard of Portuguese Timor,
and paid tribute to the good will
of the British, Australians and
Dutch.
Low-Number Bike Tags
Must Be Called For
Children who were awarded low
numbers for bicycle license tags
must pick them up at the police
station before next Saturday, ac
cording to a police announcement
made Saturday. After February 28
the numbers will no longer be
reserved.
Officer Richard Spies, in charge
of the bicycle licenses, said Satur
day that over 1000 tags had been
affixed to wheels belonging both
to children and adults in Eugene
during February. He expects about
three or four times this number
as total licensing figure.
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THE NAVY SHOWS ITS
STRENGTH These pictures,
taken during the raids on Jap
bases on Wotjc, Gilbert and
Marshall Islands, show the
navy in action on the open
sea, a different matter from
being caught in Pearl harbor,
as the Mikado s navy is dis
covering in the Java sea to
day. Above a U. S. cruiser bom
bards Wotjc bases, left, a war
ship swiftly dodging a load
of Jap bombs.
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Pan-American Convoy
System Considered
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. P)
Acting Secretary of State Welles
said today the question of convoys
for inter-American commerce
would be considered soon by the
hemisphere defense board.
Commenting at his press confer.
ence on the sinking of two Brazil
ian merchant ships by Axis sub
marines, the acting secretary re
marked that convoys constituted
one of the means by which the
American republics would cooper
ate for their mutual defense.
He then added that correspond
ents could take it for granted that
practical measures of that charac
ter would be worked out in the
near future.
Meanwhile, Rear Admiral Em
ory S. Land, war shipping admin
istrator, advised President Roose
velt of the establishment of the
Washington organization to super
vise the pooling of cargo vessels
for the United Nations.
Land will represent the United
States and Sir Arthur Salter will
represent Great Britain on the
Washington board.
Civilians Ordered
To Evacuate Darwin
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 21
VP) Evacuation of civilians
from Darwin, northern Australia
naval station which was bombed
by Japanese air raiders Thurs
day, was ordered today as mili
tary authorities clamped strict
control on all activities in the
area.
All women will be removed
from Darwin except nurses, an
announcement said.
Australian authorities, mean
while, issued a flat denial of
Japanese claims that heavy dam
age had been inflicted on Allied
naval units in the Darwin raid.
They said, however, that for mili
tary reasons a detailed statement
of the damage actually inflicted
by the raiders could not be made
at present.
Prime Minister John curun,
denying a statement by the Tokyo
radio that a hospital ship at Dar
win was not attacked during a
Japanese raid on that port, said
that the "hospital ship was at
tacked and damaged and (Siere
were casualties."
Just A Matter
Of Adaptation
COFFEY V I LLE, Kas. The
mother cat on the Carl Rich farm
didn't mind so much when an old
hen butted in and took over the
raising of two new kittens.
But Rich figures the cat has a
legitimate complaint now.
Each night when the hen goes
to roost, the kittens climb up be
side her to snooze.
Employment Office
Cancels Holiday
Observance of a holiday follow
ing Washington's birthday has
been cancelled by the Eugene of
fice of the United States employ
ment service, according to an an-
nouncement from J. H. Bagan,
manager. This was done in line
with the government's drive to
speed up production and to enable
the office to continue service to
employers on war contracts. No
claims for unemployment com
pensation will be taken Monday,
however, Bagan said.
Hitler's Spring Offensive Said
Still In 'Communique Form'
Twenty Lost On
Torpedoed Ship
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 21
(A)The sinking of the tanker
Pan Massachusetts off the Atlan
tic coast Thursday afternoon by an
enemy submarine was announced
by the navy today after the land
ing here of 18 survivors. They told
a harrowing story of their escape
and the death of 20 fellow crew-
man in an inferno of burning
oil.
Cant. Robert E. Christie, 52-
year-old sea veteran who lost the
first ship of his career, said two
torpedoes exploding in quick suc
cession turned the ship into a mass
of flames and "the sea soon was
afire for half a mile around us as
the gasoline and oil spread."
Christie, of 1308 Mesquue si.,
Corpus Christi, Tex., said "three
or four shells also exploded on us
after we were ablaze" but the sub
marine "was not seen by any of
us the two lookouts died in the
fire aboard ship, and they are the
only men who might have seen
it."
The survivors were picked up
by a ship which Captain Christie
Nazis Announce
Soviet Losses
In Rshev Area
, By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(Wide World War Analyst)
The German high command
dusts off the old, warped phono
graph record about "encirclement
and annihilation" on the Russian
front today and claims the slaugh
ter of 27,000 Russians and impris
onment of 5,000 in four weeks on
the central sector.
It has "very good reasons of its
own for this prc-spring offensive
by communique:
1. It is time for Adolf Hitler to
pretend to make good on his prom
ises, made in his speech of Janu
ary 30, that good news for Ger
mans might be expected from the
east in a few weeks.
2. It is probable that the Rus
sian command will announce by
I tomorrow or Monday the accumu
j lated results of the last few weeks
' of winter counter-offensive, and
since there is every reason to be-
lleve these gains hava been ex-
to
tensive, the Germans want
take the edge off them.
German "military circles," which
designation is a device used by
the Nazis to accredit information
which the high command docs
not want to stand officially be
hind, say this action took place
"near Rzhcv." This probably is
an excellent tip that the Russians
will announce capture of that city,
on the upper Volga 125 miles
northwest of Moscow, which they
long ago by-passed. They prob
ably also will announce and docu
ment gains far west of Rrhcv,
close to the frontiers of the Nazi
occupied and typhus-ridden Bal
tic states, plus an important pene
tration of the south.
This expected Russian com
munique may well be the last
compilation of large-scale offen-
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0. E. Crow Appointed
Defense Commander
The appointment of O. E. Crow
to the post of commander of ci
vilian defense organizations in the
Springfield area was announced
Saturday by Judqe Clinton V.
Hurd, chairman of the county dc
fense council.
Crow will take over the dirco
tion of defense activities in the
newly created District No. 9. The
district includes. Springfield and
environs, the Mohawk and Mc
Kcnzie river valleys and the Mid
dle Fork of the Willamette up to
and including Dexter.
The new commander will co
ordinate defense organizations
already set up in the areas and
establish new units as needed.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Adolf Hitler's high command
asserted today that German tank
forces had killed 27,000 Russians
and captured 5.000 prisoners in a
four-week battle of encirclement
near Rzhev, key nazi Invasion base
125 miles northeast of Moscow,
while the London radio reported
that fresh Soviet troops had L.id
ed In the Crimea.
Russian front-line dispatches
had previously declared that the
German hold-out garrison at
Rzhev, guarding the north flank of
the nazi retreat from Moscow, had
been surrounded.
In the Crimea, a BBC broadcast
said Russian troops were advanc
ing upon the port of Feodosiya,
at the neck of the Kerch penin
sula. Soviet warplanes aiding in
the defense of Sevastopol, Crimean
naval base, were declared to have
killed nearly 30,000 Germans in a
scries of 300 offensive thrusts.
On the Moscow front. Hitler's
headquarters said German troops,
fighting in bitter sub-zero cold,
had "destroyed the bulk of an
enemy army and beaten a large
part of a further enemy army"
presumably in the Rzhcv sector.
The claim of total dead and
wounded would represent about
two divisions, or half of one Rus
sian army corps.
A still larger Red army assault
was pledged in Moscow to counter
Adolf Hitler's plans for a spring
offensive and Red Star said the
Russians were determined to "put
an end to nazi Germany in 1942."
U. S.-Dutch Fleet
Smashes Back At
Invasion Hordes
Two-Day Engagement
May Surpass Battle
Of Macassar Strait
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
United States and Dutch war
ships, aided by dive bombers and
fighting planes, smashed back at
Japan's invasion hordes in a flam
ing sea battle oft the island of
Bali today, and by latest accounts
had already blown up a Japanese
cruiser and inflicted damaging
blows on two other cruisers, two
destroyers and four transports.
As the battle raged into its sec
ond day in the shark-infested
Java sea, dispatches from Batavia
said it was potentially greater
than the fight for Macassar strait,
the scene of Japan's worst naval
disaster of the war.
United States cruisers and hea
vy bombers, combined with Dutch
cruisers and destroyers under the
aggressive command of the Dutch
Vice-Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich,
were reported blasting furiously at
the invaders.
"Flying Dutchman" Return
The N. E. I. warships steaming
out to battle must have seemed -like
a ghostly return of the legen
dary "Flying Dutchman," for Im
perial Tokyo headquarters pro
claimed on Feb. 6 that "The Dutch
navy was practically entirely wip
ed out."
On that date, a Tokyo commun
ique asserted that two Dutch
cruisers were sunk and a third
Dutch cruiser comprising "the
main N.E.I, fleet" and a United
States cruiser were damaged in a
fight in the Java sea. This, fol
lowed the bloody battle of Macas
sar Strait, In which various esti
mates listed Japanese losses as
high as 46 warships and trans- '
ports.
U. S. Bombers Score Hits ' '
A war department bulletin. Is
sued in Washington, said at least
10 heavy American bombers at
tacking the Japanese armada off
Bali scored direct hits on three
enemy cruisers and four trans
ports, and also shot down four
Japanese planes.
Four American planes were
acknowledged lost.
Batavia dispatches said the Java
sea fight was the first Allied nav
al offensive in the critical battle
for the Indies.
One Allied destroyer was tor
pedoed and sunft.
A bulletin from United Nations
headquarters in Java said the
planes sank a large Japanese trans
port and scored a series of direct
hits on enemy cruisers and de
stroyers. "One of the cruisers, which re
ceived two direct hits of heavy
bombs, was seen to be stationary
and on fire," a communique said.
Dispatches from Batavia said
the fighting began shortly after
midnight yesterday' in Lombok
DeWitt Restores Army
Salute Regulations
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21 )
The army has got strict again
about salutes between officers and
men.
Under a new order by Lieut. -Gen.
John L. DeWitt, command
ing general of the western defense
command and fourth army, sa
lutes will be exchanged on prac
tically all occasions when officers
and enlisted men meet.
This restored older regulations
that were modified in 1940 to pro
vide that salutes need not be
exchanged between an officer and
enlisted men when "off duty out
side the confines of military posts,
ramps or stations unless the en
listed man is addressed by an officer."
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Skiing Good At
Cascade Summit
Five feet of snow with a six
inch topping of new snow that's
the confection the skiers will be
hurrying to sample Sunday at the
Willamette summit winter sports
area. The Greyhound company
is again sending up a bus, which
leaves the Tenth and Pearl sta
tion at 7:45 a. m., and the Col
lege Side Inn at 8 a. m., returning
late in the afternoon. The bus will
stay at the ski area all day giving
the skiers a warm and comfort
able place to catch their breath,
between slides. On the way up,
the bus will make stops at Oak
ridge and Salt Creek Falls.
The ski tow will be in operation
as usual Saturday and Sunday,
On account of some schools ob
serving Washington's birthday
Monday a holiday has been de
clared for several class ski parties,
that day.
The highway department has
cleared a large parking area for
cars and school busses at the junc
tion of the summit and the road
leading to the play area and the
lake. Lunches and refreshments
can be had at the shelter.
The following are expected to
represent their organizations as
guests of the Upper Willamette
Winter Sports association this
Sunday, Feb. 22: J. R. Bruckart,
supervisor Willamette National
forest; R. A. Elliott, assistant sup
ervisor Willamette National For
est; Lloyd Lillie, Boy Scout ex
ecutive; Fred Brenne, secretary
chamber of commerce; J. E. Turn
bull, chairman, highway commit
tee, chamber of commerce; J. M.
Edge, Greyhound Lines,