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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 -