Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, March 21, 1942, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textf Raid Signal ttoTi bUaU. repeated every five iee. ' lnnlM. will be the nfflrlsl Home Edition fi or i- nit wsln' 'nL A lon steady , ,pproxlmately minute lont. will U, lll-dea' signal. LAN IE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1942. ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5a llagForces Reported Neariog abor Situation juses Uproar Washington Luirv Planned Into Lipaign Backing trike Legisianon WASHINGTON. March 21-P Thurman Al'nOlU, BUBiBLtiiit. v- lmpv general accused organized and de- Znnt" independent business id aid that farmers, consum- and businessmen were at its "ufflatly told the house judici rt committee that a measure to wuire government registration I unions and trade associations iotsn't go far enough" in pro ding the public from practices organized laoui. When ynu look at, the entire fclure, Arnoia ai"u, nation is putting a very uu- antial handicap on the distriDu- m of all civilian necessities. WASHINGTON, March 21 (U.R) wn were underway in con ies today for an investigation of hail and telegrapnic campaigns Lwiwt at members seeking en- Wment of anti-strike legislation tit susoension of the 40-hour rek for the duration. Chairman Harry S. Truman, D., So., of the special senate defense vestigating committee, an- lounced he would conduct such ti inquiry if formally requested do so by chairman Elmer nomas, D., Ukia., or a senate libcommittee on military ap- iropriations. Thomas, whose group has been olding hearings on the labor- roduction situation, said he in- fcnds to ask for an investigation. He is convinced by four days if testimony on strikes, produc- pon and allied problems, he said, pat "the way things are now, tongress isn t Justified even In Iressing hearings" on measures Imposing wartime labor legisla tion. Meanwhile Jhe house naval af fairs committee recessed until tonday its hearings on a bill by Rep. Howard W. Smith, D. Va.. outlaw the closed shop, suspend Ihe requirement of time and one- tilf pay in excess of 40 hours a reek, and limit profits to six per it of cost for the duration of Ihe war. Despite opposition of adminl- tratlon leaders, the committee Is ixpected to report the measure avorably. Further hearings were llanned, however, with testi mony from war production Chief Donald M. Nelson, labor leaders, inn otters. The heads of the two major la- f or organizations AFL President rmiam Green and CIO President PjUip Murray testified before Romas' senate group yesterday. MCh demanded Invacticratlnn nt file eamnai?TlS foi nmm laVir,, lasic. lation. Green parted by Oklahoma City's two pewspaners and charonl it In. Nved "large outlavs of monev" MsOUBht fimipt Americans war effort." fa Jap Aliens leave Los Angeles LOS ANGELES. March 21 OP) l-The nation's greatest forced mi- P'lon was launched today as a fay caravan motored slowly and pietly out of Los Angeles' "Little Fokyo" and headed for (hi. ffreen Nintry of Owen, valley. i lnre busses and a streamlined mck made up the procession as "f!y 100 foreign and American ""n Japanese and their worldly Soods began the 235-mile Journey t0 new home nnnW military '"Pervision at Manzanar, Calif. "iey were the first of an esti mated .15 nnn " ,l .uw wnu win pupuiaic lC government'. t... p,"?uard of r.imK-, J.:t... ses. cooks, waiters, bakers and "nwgraphers will labor over the Wkend to prepare for the mass Ration, which starts in earnest rrnne Rnllnnn Tnlae Jaunt Across State SEATrrr. . .. . . hit "larcn zi tn a i'ge balloon eicaped its moor fflB in th. p c,j .... m?i!fday' second interceptor com- u oiucers said today, and came earth ir , A .... '- UdlUII, WIC. ilncn. ...ij ,i j u.it..i th.' ilrc"n solid' indicating that h.i.u g had ascended to great ""Sot before losing iU gas. SPRINGFIELD PERMANENT POLICE RESERVE Shown here with members of the regular department this auxiliary police unit has had three months of special train ing, is prepared to help in any emergency and is at present aiding the civilian defense pro gram. In the front row from left to right are: Sgt. Don Mcakins, Patrolman Charles F.sk ridgc, Lieut. Bob Pirrie, Captain Orval Smith, Lieut Walter Johnson, Police Chief Ted Finucanc, Patrolmen James Beach and Frank Cogill, and David Hoffman. Second row: Sgt. Tex Johnson, Delbcrt Johnson, Frank Bainbridgc, Garnet Rowland, Wayne Elliott, Frank Gates, Sgt. Percy Bycrs, Lee Martinson. Back row: Sgt. Theo. Cogill, Merle Cas tecl, Lester Patrick, Dale Carson, Ernie Louvring, Glen Lowry, and Floyd Hilliker. Two U. S. Ships Victims of Subs NORFOLK, Va., March 21 F) Lightning flashes that illumin ated the sea for miles helped an Axis undersea raider to torpedo and sink a large American mer-1 chant ship off the Atlantic coast , early wcanesaay, memueis m uie crew reiaiea on ineir arrival ai IMoriolK. Tne navy announced inc sinking today. Twenty-six survivors ot the 41-, man crew were picked up by a res- , cue ship after five hours in a life- ! boat and were landed at morioiK. ; Thirteen others were rescued by i gave up and rolled over, exhaust another vessel and taken ashore at ed. Morehead City. N. C. Two crew- men were listed as missing. Their identity was not immediately es tablished. Expressing belief that an elec trical storm aided the submarine in finding the ship, James Miller, wiper, of Pelly, Tex., told news men, "There were great bright flashes of lightning' and you could see for miles. I think the sub would have missed us if it hadn't had this light to aim by." There were four lifeboats on the shfp, but one was blown to bus by the blast of one of two torpedoes that bored into the port side. Another could not be launch ed because it was on the windward side of the ship. Chief Engineer Joseph F. Lafo of Westhaven, Conn., said the 26 men in his boat were "terribly crowded and so many of the men were sick it was hard to keep the boat's bow into the wind." WASHINGTON, March 21 IIP) The navy announced today that a large United States merchant vessel has been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. This was the second torpedoing announced today. Earner, tne navy said another large merchant ves sel had been similarly torpedoed. New Building Curb May Be Invoked WASHINGTON, March 21 U.B All building except that directly tied into war production may be stopped within a week or 10 days with issuance of war production board orders restricting plumbing and heating equipment to specific construction, it was learned today. W. Walter Timmis. head of the WPB's heating and plumbing branch, said the orders, awaiting final action by WPB officials, would restrict such equipment to defense housing projects and to plants holding war contracts for necessary expansions. in addition, he said, they would provide for substitution of many materials normally used in its connection with the orders. Under such a plan, it was said, stocks of heating and plumbing supplies needed for repair pur poses would be kept in local com mnnitin. Surpluses would be si phoned off for defense housing or for war plant expaiiM.m.-. in industrial dants, unit heaters would be used instead of hot water or steam pipes since the latter would use greater quantities of critical metals. .mi icncn niFS nmrr.flN CITY. March 21 W Edward A. Kocn. 73, publisher of the semi-weekly B'nn r" been We'veralmonthi. f4eLd. r t 1 1 1 i in'' N- A- --- skunk Dsriptsistrike-Bound Fraternity Row u.t-j BERKELEY, Cal.. March 21.. (U.R) A half-canned skunk who created an impressive traffic problem on the University of Cali fornia's fraternity row, recuperat ed today in the humane society's animal shelter, tired and out of ammunition. Thg skunk stuck his nose ,n a jm search of food, and 1 (u.r. i( c)a.j Blinded and un-, able to remove tne can tne skunk ! charged back and forth across the street, bouncing off the curb with each charge and putting up a defensive barrage that kept traffic at a distance. He finally Ration Registration Dates Announced CHICAGO, March 21 (0) National sugar rationing registra tion dates were fixed today by the office of price administration for April 28 and 29, and May 4, 5, 6, and 7. The announcement was made here at a meeting of the -48 state rationing administrators and re gional supervisors by Frank Bane, field chief for OPA director Leon Henderson. Industrial . consumers, such as confectioners and candy makers, will register, for 'their rations on the two April dates, using their nearest high school. Individual consumers will regis ter May 4-7 at the public schools. WARN OF PRUNE PEST CORVALLIS, March 21 (Pi Oregon State college entomolo gists warned yesterday that con- ditio-ns were right for prune thrips to damage orchards considerably. They advocated immediate spraying with a solution of three gallons of lime sulphur, a pint of nicotine sulphate and 100 gallons of water. THE LONG LINE of convoy (too) "somewhere in the horizon. Merchantmen of every size and description make stroyer, one of the uniU of th : Railway jei-tcu . WASHINGTON, March 21 -(P) President Roosevelt today or dered seizure of the Toledo, Pe oria and Western railroad and its operation by the government, in the interests of the "successful prosecution of the war." The president acted after a long series of unsuccessful government efforts to get George P. McNetlr. Jr., president of the 239-mile road, to arbitrate a strike of 104 work ers. Mr. Roosevelt issued qn execu tive order authorizing JoseDh B. Eastman, director of the office of defense transportation, to take immediate possession of the prop erty and to "operate or arrange for the operation of such rail road in such a manner as he deems necessary for the success ful prosecution of the war." Prior to the issuance of his or der, the chief executive conferred with chairman William H. Davis of the war labor board, the fourth government agency which had at tempted to persuade McNear to arbitrate the nearly three-months-old dispute. Bomber Crash Takes At Least Five Lives MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 21 iP) At least five persons were killed when a two-motored army bomber crashed and burned near the municipal airport today. The dead, brought to a Memphis funeral home, were not immediate ly identified. Two others were reported pulled from the flaming wreckage, badly burned. The plane took off from the air port and crashed in the under brush a quarter mile from the air port. XT" "11 . in iflmjf i i liSlIM itll i ff kMkWdHhiMHaWii convoy's, escort, lead the way Reds Close In On Nazi-Held Town of Orel Siberia Said Ready To Furnish Many Divisions. Of Troops By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, March 21 ) The Soviet army was reported clos ing in from north on German held Orel, key town 200 miles south and west of Moscow today, and increasing guerilla attacks in the Bryansk region west of Orel were said to be impeding the nazi withdrawal. A dispatch to Red Star, organ of the Red army, said the ad vancing Russian forces had cap tured a German-designated mayor of Krenin county in the Mtsensk district just north of Orel. Looking toward the time when the Red army will need masses of fresh manpower, a Siberian dis- i patch said that Siberia was ready to provide the front with "tens of well-trained divisions." Meantime Soviet' soldiers and workers alike were urged to in tensify their war efforts so the momentum from the winter of fensive in the north could be maintained against nazi salient concentrations. While bloody fighting progress ed along the serpentine front, the Moscow radio said guerillas had wrecked 15 troop trains and killed 4327 Germans near Bryansk and recently penetrated the heart of that railway city 220 miles south west of the capital to burn mili tary stores. Staraya Russa Entered (Russian troops were reported by the Vichy radio to have enter ed Staraya Russa, base of the encircled 16th German. . army; temporarily infilteratcd Kharkov i fortifications in an attack which I the garrison finally repulsed, and struck violent north of Taganrog, ! Azov seaport that is the southern ' anchos of the nazi lines., The newspaper Red Star said Germany was weakening but still capable of assembling huge strik-1 ing forces on chosen sectors ior renewal of the invasion drive be gun nine months ago tomorrow. There were no substantial changes in the front overnight, midday communique said It re- ported however, that Soviet units on the Kalinin front the general name applied to the sector north west of Moscow had re-occupied three more villages and slain 250 Germans in a single day of fight ing. Col. Gen. Andrei I. Ermenko broadcasting from the central front said his forces were now fighting for two large towns which he identified as "A" and "V" after a winter advance of 150 miles in which they recaptured six cities and 2500 vllages. Japan and Russia, neutral to ward each other under the Moscow-Tokyo pact of April, 1941, extended Japanese fishing rights in Soviet far eastern waters through 1942. The agreement was signed in Kuibyshev. PHYSICIANS TO MEET PORTLAND, March 21 CUB Approximately 150 physicians are to attend the 30th annual post graduate session Monday at the University of Oregon medical school at Portland. Pacific" stretches across the up the convoy. Below, a dc for tome of the vessels. MacArthur Receives Hero's Welcome At Melbourne By VERN A. HAUGLAND MELBOURNE, Australia, March 21 (AP) General Douglas MacArthur rode triumphantly into Melbourne today and promptly promised the cheering thousands who gave him a hero's welcome that he would do his best to carry the cause of the United Nations to "ultimate success." "I shall keep a soldier's faith," General MacArthur de clared simDlv in a short srjeech. Americans Raid Japs on Island WASHINGTON, March 21 (P) The war department reported today a surprise raid by American and Philippine troops on Japanese forces near Zamboanga on the Philippine island of Mindanao in which heavy casualties were in flicted on the enemy. American and Filipino losses were described in a communique as negligible. Meanwhile the liarbor defenses of Manila bay were reported un der "extremely heavy" shelling from Japanese artillery, which in cluded 240-millimeter (about eight-inch) guns but the war de partment said little damage of military consequence was done. Fighting on the Bataan penin sula continued in a lull. Officials said the reference to American troops on Mindanao might have been to Philippine scouts, or forces sent to the islands from the continental United States before the Pacific war, or both. The scouts, although Filipinos, are an integral part of the United States army but limited to service in the islands. Who is in command in Min danao was unannounced. In early stages of the fighting for the large southern island, Lieutenant Colonel Noger Hilsman was in command of forces which were forced out of the. port of Davao The scene of the raid on the Japanese near Zamboanga is about 500 miles almost due south of tne Bataan fighting front. The pic turesque city was occupied by the enemy this month. War in Brief By UNITED PRESS BERLIN A German high corn- mand communique said today 35,- 000 tons of Allied shipping nad been sunk off the North Ameri can and West African coasts, in addition to a United States coas tal patrol boat. SAN FRANCISCO Japanese aircraft attacked Broom and Derby ' in western Australia yesterday and carried out reconnaissance flights ! over the northwestern part of the ; subcontinent, Melbourne radio re. ported in a broadcast today record ed by the CBS listening station. MOSCOW Russian and Japan by signing a prolongation of their Siberian fisheries agreement at Kuibyshev, indicated that they in tended to remain within the frame work of their neutrality pact and contemplated no radical alteration in their relations, neutral sources said today. SAN FRANCISCO Melbourne radio today announced the arrival in Australia of an unnamed freighter with 173 bomb holes in her hull after a five week voyage from Singapore. The ship carried a mixed crew. The captain was Dutch, the chief officer Swedish, some English engineers and the seamen were Chinese.. TOKYO Tokyo radio continu ed today its campaign of villifi cation against Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur who, it has charged, "de serted" his command in the Philip pines for the "safer naven oi Australia. "In the (warrior) code of Bushid'o," said the radio, "Mac- Arthur is a traitor and should be ' executed without delay." Defense Leaders To Confer Sunday The perfecting process which ! makes the Lane county dcfcnse .. .. . program a little more efficient' with narh (iifTKOriino wpoIf will be continued Sunday nt a special meeting of district commanders, police reserves captflins, chief mr raid wardens and official instruct ors, it was announced Saturday by Co-ordinator Howard Mernam. The meeting, to be held in the faculty room at Friendly hall on the university campus, will begin at 10 a. m. and probably will con tinue throughout the afternoon, Mr. Mcrriam said. There will be an instruction period and a general descussion of ways to continue the improve ment of the defense set-up. The things learned during the instruc tion period will be passed on to community groups in later sub disuict leaiionj. Australia Tne aemonsirauon ior tne nero of Bataan, deeply tanned after his days in the Philippines, was one of the greatest in the history of this commonwealth. The amazing journey of General MacArthur with his family which started in extreme secrecy behind the Japanese lines on the besieged Philippines, ended in the sudden flare of pomp and public acclaim at Melbourne's rambling, brown Spencer street railway station. The Australians at the station, still thrilled by the general's strte ment yesterday that a grand allied attack would supplant the present defense warfare, gave a great yell when the broad-shouldered su preme commander of the United Nations in the Southwest Pacific stepped from the Adelaide ex press. Praises Aussies General MacArthur paid tribute to the Australian soldiers in his short talk to the welcoming throng. I am glad to be in immediate cooperation with the Australian soldier." he said. "I know him well from World War days and admire him greatly." Then he touched In a general manner on the coming struggle. "I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause. but success In modern war re quires something more than cour age and willingness to die," the general said. "It requires careful preparation. "This demands furnishing suf ficient troops and sufficient ma terial to meet the known strength of a potential enemy. "No general can make something out of nothing. Mv success in the , fujure wni depend primarily upon the resources which the respective governments place at my disposal. "My faith in them is complete. "In any event, I shall do my best. "I shall keep a soldier's faith." U. S. Warning Sent to Vichy WASHINGTON, March 21 4 The United States was on the verge of seizing Martinique last month and has warned Vichy that any harboring of Nazi raiders there would mean American action. This was disclosed yesterday by an authoritative source who gave the following outline of the situation: A German submarine entered the harbor of Fort De France, capital of the French island, on Feb. 21 and sent ashore a wound ed member of its crew. American observers immediately notified Washington. They are stationed on Martinique to watch for such occurrences because it is in the chain of Islands flanking the Panama canal. It was promptly established that the submarine took on no supplies and did not attempt to open communication with anyone on land. The sailor was suffer ing from a gangrenous wound in the leg, possibly from shellfire during a surface action against American coastal shipping. The state department immedi ately sent to the French govern ment, through Ambassador Wil liam D. Leahy, a warning that the j u"ited SI,M W11 nnt permit the use of French western hemi sphere ports by axis warships or planes for any purpose. Vichy was told that unless she gave categorical assurances that no Axis submarine or war plane would be allowed to visit any French western hemisphere pos session the United States would be ! 11 to take such action as , would protect American interests. Thai irr r-n 1 r rr turn nmnhniin """ 4u u V ""I"' " "lie necessary to take over the protec tion of Martinique itself, the United States would not hesitate to do so. I The Vichy government subse j quently gave categorical assur- i nres that no Axis vessels or nlanes would be allowed to enter French ports or territorial waters in the western hemisphere under any pretext. This closed the in cident of the submarine. Two major units of the French fleet, the aircraft carrier Beam with a number of American made planes, and the cruiser Emile Bertin arc at Martinique. The rruiser Jeanne d'Arc is be lieved to be at nearby Guadeloupe. Appeal Macle For More Men And Material Two Enemy Cruisers Sunk Or Damaged By United Nations By Associated Press Fierce head-hnntlng savages were reported on 'the verge of returning to cannibalism and intertribal warfare In New Guinea today, complicating the defense of that Japanese-invaded Island, while a Vichy radio broadcast asserted that sea borne Japanese forces were ap proaching Australia near the important harbor of Perth. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Gen. Douglas MacArthur told cheering Australians today that more men and machines were ur gently needed for the battle rang ing along the southwestern Pacific front. As if echoing the words of the Allied supreme commander as he was welcomed to Melbourne, the battle on the island approaches to Australia developed as follows: 1. American and Australian bombing attacks sank or damaged a second and a third enemy cruiser off New Britain island and batter ed the Japanese-held base of Saumliki on Yamenda island, 225 miles north of Australia. (This boosted the toll of enemy ships in the island sector to 25 or 26, in cluding at least 14 warships.) 2. New Japanese raids were made on Port Moresby, where the enemy met heavily allied antiair craft fire, and on Broome and Derby, in northwest Australia: 3. Persistent but unconfirmed Axis reports circulated that Jap anese fleets were approaching Aus tralia, possibly aiming for Perth on the southwest coast 4. Axis sources reported that the Japanese had cut across New Guinea to the south coast near Papua gulf, an advance of 110 miles through the jungle arer where Aborigines were reported engaged in inter-tribal warfare because of withdrawal of Austra lian administrators. 5. An Axis source also said Jap anese warships were pressing deeper into the Solomon group, northeast of Australia, in an ap parent effort to strike at the Fiji islands and the Allied supply route from America. All of these developments In dicated the Japanese were mass ing forces north of Australia and apparently attempting to speed up their invasion operations in an ef fort to strike before MacArthur can muster greater strength in the southwest Pacific. Army Orders Change For Air Depot Site Army authorities have request ed United Air Lines to change the site for the new air depot back to the south end of the field, it was announced Saturday by Mahlon Sweet, member of the aviation committee of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce. Original plans called for place ment of the $22,000 structure at the south end of the field, but the army built revetments there, and it was decided then to construct the building on the east side near the apex of the taxiways. Now the plan is to pull up two revetments and shift back to the south edge of the field. A lease of the depot site was executed at the meeting of the city council Monday, March t. new lease, similar to the original one, probably will be signed Monday night, March 23. at the regular council session, it was indicated by Mayor Elisha Large. Construction may be resumed by Tuesday. There will be little change in the plans, but the selection of the original site will provide a better loading apron and make the con struction of access roads a little easier, it was pointed out. Destroyer Buchanan Is Commissioned NEW YORK. March 21 OT The 1.630-ton destroyer Buchanan, named for the first American naval officer to set foot on Japan ese soil, was commissioned today at the Brooklyn navy yard. Capt. Franklin Buchanan ac companied Commodore Matthew C. Perry at the "opening" of the Orient and he led the men ashore. He also was the first superin tendent of the naval academy and captained the confederate ironclad Merrimac in the Civil war. The Buchanan, a sister ship of the Aaron Ward, was launches at Kesrny, N, J., Nov. 23, JS -