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Yank-Filipino
On Mindanao
Heavy Losses Inflicted
Lull in Bataan Fighting,
Manila Bay Defense Hit
Washington March 21 (IP)
The war department report
ed today a surprise raid by
American and. Philippine
troops on Japanese forces
near Zamboanga on the Phil-
which heavy casualties were
inflicted on the enemy.
American and Filipino loss--ftes
were described in a com
niunique as negligible. Mean
while the harbor defenses of
Manila bay were reported under
"extremely heavy" shelling from
Japanese artillery, which Included
240-millimeter (about eight-inch)
guns but the war department said
little damage of military conse
quence was done.
Philippine Scouts
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 Mindanao
was unannounced. In early stages
of the fighting for the large south'
em island, Lieutenant Colonel Ro-
. ... ger Hilsman was in oommand . of
forces-which'Were forced outuf the
w The scene of the raid bn; the
Japanese near Zamboanga is about
600 miles almost due south of the
Bataan fighting front. The pie-
turesque city was occupied by the
enemy this month, '
Brett Rules Air
r'lgnung on &ne jsauatui penuiaiutt
continued in lull. -
In Australia, the war department
announced. Prime Minister John
Curtin has appointed Lieut. Gen.
George H. Brett, U. 8. army, to
command the Australian as well as
United states air forces operating
on the southern continent.
The communique, No, 154, based
on reports received until 8:30 a. m.,
PWT, said:
mm "1. Philippine theatre:
"In a sudden surprise raid, Gen
eral Walnwright's American and
Philippine troops on the island of
Mindanao inflicted heavy casual-
ties on the enemy near Zamboanga.
Our losses were negligible.
Lull in bataan
"The harbor defenses of Manila
bay were under extremely heavy
shelling from enemy artillery U
cated on' the south shore of Ma-
nila bay. Intensive fire from 240-
mm guns was concentrated on ourf
fortifications. Very little
darnige
of military consequence was in
flicted on our installations. Our
guns effectively returned the fire.
"There was no fighting In Ba.
taan.
"2. Australia:
"With the concurrence of our
government, the prime minister of
Australia has appointed Lleuten
ant General George H. Brett, Unit
States army, to the command of
Uthe air forces of Australia and the
United States operating In Aim
tralia.
"3. There is nothing to report
from other areas." ,
Claim U-Boais Sink
Six More Ships
Berlin (From German Broad
casts), March 31 VP) U-boats have
sunk six more ships totaling 38,000
tons and a U, S, coastal patrol boat
In operations off the American
and west African coasts, the high
command said today.
A German submarine, attacking
a convoy in the Atlantic, scored
four torpedo hits but was unable to
observe the results because of the
"strong defense put up," the com
munique continued.
German planes sank a 4,000-ton
freighter in British waters and an-
rther merchant ship, described u
'fairly large" .was damaged, It was
claimed.
The communique declared a U
boat commanded by Capt. Poske
"distinguished Itself In operations
in American waters."
2 More Big
Ships Sunk
By Torpedoes
Washington, March 21 W) 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. Earlier, the navy
said another large merchant ves
sel had been similarly torpedoed.
Hungary and
Rumania Clash
Bern, Switzerland, March 21 (IP)
Old hatred between Hungary and
Rumania two axis states has flar
ed up again despite efforts of Ger
many to make it appear that all
Europe has been united behind the
nasi spring campaign against Russia.
This hatred, menacing Adolf Hit
ler's plans, has been more or less
dormant for the past year since Ger
man pressure imposed a truce on the
press of the two countries, but ap
parently even the German efforts
were unable to keep it suppressed
indefinitely. ..
In fact, informed quarters said,
the renewal of tension between the
two countries is due directly to Ber
lin's Attempts to play one against
the other with the hope of getting
the maximum aid from each.
(The London Daily Mail's Geneva
correspondent reported that Hun
gary had militarily strengthened her
borders with Rumania because of
Rumania's growing territorial griev
ances). ' Rumania's feelings were made
known Thursday by Prof.. Mihail
Antonescu, who has been serving as
premier since his uncle, Marshal
Ion 'Ah tenesmi, took1' ; btier ' active
command of the-Rumanian army.
He declared the dispute over Trans
ylvania was far from settled as far
as Rumania was concerned.
This was the first public mention
of the subject by a high official
since the Vienna conference of
1940, at which the axis awarded
northern Transylvania to Hungary.
Head Hunters of
New Guinea at War
Sydney, Australia, March 21 VP)
The Port Moresby correspondent of
the Sydney Sun reported today that
the war in New Guinea likely would1
be complicated by outbreaksof
headhunters by cannibals front the
Septk river are, where theworld's
wildest tribes may be found.
It was said the whiles remaining
in the area already we're threatened
by the outbreak of tribal warfare
and that someatlve police have
'Joined the marauders in holding up
and robbingfriendly natives.
Vichy Reports Japs
Marina Perth Harbor
'New Yorki Ma'ch ai (yp) The
Vichy radio, which has been report
ing Japanese fleets off Australia for
several days, said this morning:
"Japanese squadron Is approach
ing Cape Leewin, the southwest cor
ner of the Australian continent.
This fleet is said to be approaching
the important harbor of Perth."
CBS transcribed the broadcast in
New York.
Government Seizes
Strike Bound Railroad
' Washington, March 21 (U.R) President Roosevelt today
ordered the office of defense transportation to seize the
strike-bound Toledo, Peoria &
ate It, "for the successful prosecU'
tion of the war."
It marks the first time since
World War I that the government
has taken over a railroad, as well
as the first seizure by the govern
ment of a private concern since the
Pacific war started.
Mr. Roosevelt Issued his order as
president and ' as commander-in-chief
of the army and navy.' The
order followed receipt of a 17-page
collect 'telegram from McNear,
giving his side of the controversy,
William H. Davis, chairman of
the war labor board, conferred with
the president this morning and the
executive order followed.
The president's order directed Jo
seph B, Eastman, director of the
ODT, "to take immediate posses
sion of all real and personal prop
Russians Storm
5 Key Nazi Bases
1200 Mile Front
Red Army Reported in'
Starayq Russa Hitler
Admits Violent Attacks
(Br the Associated press)
Russia's armies, crowding
the Germans off balance be
fore Adolf Hitler can launch
his spring offensive, were re
ported storming against five
key nazi bases on the ' 1,200
mile front today, and a Viehy
radio broadcast declared sov
iet troops had already fought
their way into Staraya Russa.
Other. Russian assaults
were aimed at Bryansk,
Kharkov and Taganrog, Star
aya Russa, 150 miles below Lenin
grad, is the base headquarters of the
trapped German 16th army which
has been cut off for weeks in the
frozen marshlands around Lake II
men. ' .
Front-line dispatches "said the
Russians also were closing in from
the north on German-held Orel,
200 miles southwest of Moscow,
about half way vbetween the U, S. S.
R. capital and Kharkov. i
Hitler's Report
A bulletin from Hitler's field
headquarters acknowledged the in
creasing violence of Russian as
saults, declaring that nazi troops
had beaten off six fierce attacks
yesterday southeast of Lake Ilmen,!
in the Staraya Russa sector, 'but
gave no details on the fate of Sta
raya Russa itself, . :
Many-deadweriileffr on the field
and numerous prisoners were- tak
en," a German communique said.
The high command also conceded
that the Russians were pressing the
offensive in the Crimea, in the
Donets river basin of the Ukraine
and on the central (Moscow) .jjtttd
northern (Leningrad) fronts.'
Guerrillas Active
Russian guerrillas were officially
declared to have kHed 4,327 Ger
mans and wrecked' 15 troop trains
near Bryansk'' railway city 220
miles southwest of Moscow, and
audaciously entered ;its heart to
burn German supplies and post
Russian pamphlets on German bul
letin boards,'
Forecasting that Adolf Hitler
would develop sector 'concentrations
rather than generally strengthen
his lines with the spring, the army
newspaper Red Star called for
fresh Soviet reserves and war sup
plies to maintain the Russian of
fensive. The Soviet army was reported
closing In from north on German
held Orel, key town 200 miles south
and west of Moscow today, and In
creasing guerrilla attacks in the
Bryansk region west of Orel were
said to be impeding the nasi with
drawal. A dispatch to Red Star, organ of
the red army, said the advancing
Russian forces had captured 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 dispatch
said that Siberia was ready to pro
vide the front with "tens of well
trained divisions."
Western railroad and to oper
erty, franchises, rights and other
assets, tangible or intangible, of
the Toledo, Peoria & Western rail
road and to operate or arrange for
the operation of such railroad In
such manner as' he deems neces
sary tor the successful prosecution
of the war."
Although the railroad runs only
239 miles, it Is essential to the war
effort because it by-passes Chica
go and provides a direct route for
transcontinental freight shipments.
Five' unsuccessful attempts were
made by-four different government
al agencies to persuade McNear to
submit to arbitration. The agen
cies were the national (railway)
mediation board, the office of de
fense transportation, the concilia
tion service and the war labor
board.
Si F, ":
ift)miiiiiii.n ii
New Allied Battleship to Stormy
learning seas which crash over
the allied warsmp which brought Prime Minister Winston cnurcmu to tor united states lor .us
conferences with President Roosevelt.
HoggNamesBoapd
To Pick New AMe
Acting with the authority conferred upon him yesterday
afternoon by members of the Salem Chamber of Commerce,
President Carl Hogg this morning took' the first step toward
putting into operation a program to revitalize the activities
of the chamber and to provide centralized leadership in deal-
Burma Battle
Continuing -
. New DelhWfhdia, .March 21;t
A Britislyifefachment Sighting on
the Iraawaddy front in' Burma has
driveri'-the Japanese from Letpadan,
on- the Rangoon-Prome railway
(.about 20 mites north of Tharra-
waddy, it was officially reported to
day. Letpadan is an important junction
point about 109 miles northeast of
the Irrawaddy delta port of Bas
sem. The railway from Bassein con
nected with the Rangoon-Prome
railroad at.Letpadan, I
Earlier the British ' announced
tliat the Japanese suffered 700 cas
ualties in heavy fighting south of
Toungoo, Burma, where Chinese
Japanese armored cars, infantry and
cavalrymen. ;
The official advices .'placed the
Chinese-Japanese fighting on the
Sittang river, on the 'left wing of
the British-Chinese line defending
mid-Burma. f
Chinese Guerrillas
Raid Amoy Island
New York, March 21 VP) The
all-India radio said today that an
entire Chinese division was concen
trated on the, mainland opposite
the Japanese island base at Amoy
and was being shelled by Japanese
batteries to "prevent further Chi
nese raids" on the island. f . '
The broadcast, heard by CBS,
said extensive Japanese aerial re
connaissance . was reported over
southern Honan and western Sharw
tung provinces, scene of recent
fighting, '
Chungking, China, March 21 0Ph-
Guerrillas have repeatedly raided
Amoy island, important Japanese
supply base at- the mouth ot the
Klulung river, and Japanese bat
teries shelled Chinese positions on
the mainland in an attempt to dis
courage further attacks, the Chi
nese Central News agency said to
day.
58 New Merchant
Ships Ordered
Washington, March 31 VP) Con
tracts for 68 additions! merchant
ships 88 tankers and 32 emer
gency cargo vessels were award
ed today by the maritime commis
sion. Fourteen of the tankers will be of
the Cimarron type, described as one
of the largest and fastest tankers
afloat, and the other 12 will be of
the coastal type.
The Cimarron type tankers will
be built by the Bethlehem Steel
company at Sparrows Point, Md.
The martitime commission now has
ordered a total ot 181 ot these
tankers, .
Seas The big, new British battleship, Duke of Yaek, drives through
her turrets as her heavy guns spew forth smoke and flame. This is
Associated Press Photo,
Jung witn community prob
lems arising out of the location
of an army training cantonment
near Corvallis, when he named the
committee authorized to consider
applications and employ a -special
business and activities director lor
the chamber, (,(.;. .. s -:'
. Designated . .smemWs iof -tjie
seleotfon committee are: .
Committee Named
From the chamber board of di
rectors Dr. Henry E. Morris, Guy
Hlckok and George Rhoten,
Prom the membership at large
Mayor W, W. Chadwick, Gene Van
deneynde and Linn smith. -
No time has been fixed for the
Initial meeting of the group, which
is authorized to select a director
from among applicants for the job
or otherwise, and to fix his salary
for a six months' period. The added
expense to the chamber is to be
financed through an assessment of
$5 per membership approved at yes
terday's meeting. -
To Handle Problems
One of the immediate duties of
the director will be to give his full
time attention to problems arising
out of the cantonment, such as se
curing a TJSO recreation center for
Salem and arranlgng for adequate
transportation facilities to connect
the city with the camp, Hogg said.
In this he will assist and cooperate
with those who have already been
working on these projects.
- The $5 assessment is to take care
of the program for an estimated
six months. After that it Is be
lieved added memberships, which
will be part of the new director's
job, will be sufficient to make the
membership dues- meet the added
cost. - : "
The members were called without
actual knowledge ot the purpose of
the meeting, and around 150 were
(Concluded an page 9, column 8)
Free French Raid
Italian Outposts
London, March 21 ( Free
French columns in the south Lib
yan desert have raided new Italian
outposts in the Zulla-Temejja dU'
trict, northeast ot Kurzuck, to a
point 300 miles south of the Gulf
ot Sirte, Gen. Charles De Gaulle's
headquarters announced today.
One post was captured on the
branch Junction of a railway run
ning 'to Tripoli and BeVtgazl "after
violent fighting,'1 the communique
said.
The Free French patrols were said
to have seized gasoline and am
munition supplies on the way to
the Italian posts.
The F-cnch forces returned to
their bases in the Lake Chad area
after the raids, the communique
added.
Five axis planes were reported
destroyed during the operaUoni1
Case Called Suicide
Portland, March St U The
Multnomah county coroner's office
today termed suicide the death of
Mrs. Oertrude E. Barbur, X, wife ot
a Portland fireman. Report laid
ant took poison.
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7
11. 1 Confirms
Jap Atrocities
Washington, March SI 8U9 The
state department today announced
receipt of reports from American
official sources in the far east con
firming charges of Japanese atro
cities in Hong Kong,
British Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden, speaking in the house of com
mons March 10, charged Use Jap
anese with cold-blooded immier of
British troops .and the rape ol Brit
ish, and Chinese women m the
former British port. Hong Kong
capitulated last Christmas day aft
er, a, 16-day legs,
The -stats Apartment .aBnouaweAj
on December 29 that best available
information indicated approximate
ly 1,000 Americans and iOO Fili
pinos were in Hong Kong when it
fell, . . -
Today's annsiacement saish
"The department has received
from American otflclal sources to
the far east reports which en the
basis of information received by
ttte reporting officers trom a num
ber of persons who haw recently
escaped from Hong Kong confirm
the statement made by .the British
secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, Anthony Eden, In the house
of commons on March 18 in regard
to the outragious treatment by the
Japanese of the captured population
of Hong Kong
Alien Exemption
Order Signed
Washington, March si mm Pres
ident Roosevelt signed aa executive
order today permitting exemption
ot certain persons from tse aMen
enemy classification in order to
permit them to apply for natural
isation, , '
; "I hereby except " the order said,
"from the classification alien en
emy' all persons whom the attorney
general of the United States shall,
after Investigation faliy establish
their loyalty, certify as persons loy-
to the United Slates
The law provides that, except Tor
such persons as the president mey
exempt, alien enemies may be na
turalised only if they had made a
declaration of their intention "not
less than two years prior is the be
ginning of the state of war."
Arnold Says Unions
Destroying Business
Washington, March 21 W) Thurman Arnold, assistant
attorney general, accused organized iabor today of "injuring
and destroying" independent business and said that farmers,
consumers and sasmsssmsn wers
"at Ita meres?.
He ftatly told the house Judtetary
committee that measure to rejjuire
government registration of snions
imd trade tis.'.ocSfttions "doesirt go
fur enough" in protecting the public
Irom practices of orgaHUsed labor,
"When you look at the entire pic
ture," Arnold asserted, "the situa
tion Is putting s Tery rabsiaiiital
handicap en the distribution of aU
civilian necessities,
"It is impeding the distribution
ot housing and food and Injuring
or destroying the independent bu
sinessman at a time when we are
trying io save the consumer and in
dependent businessman,"
Ha told Om committee that "no
other group la our society" couid do
fillidri Airmen
ninwu miiiiwii
Blast 2 Cruisers,
Rabaul Harbor.
Aerial Warfare Contin
ues with Jap Mids on
Broome and Derby id
Canberra, Australia. March
W The aerkl defenders
of Australia's northeastern
sea approaches within the
past 24 hours have left one
heavy Japanese cruiser sink
ing in the harbor at Kabaul,
New isntam, and one other
heavily damaged, two com
muniques disclosed today.
ihe latest report on yester
day's smash at Japans left
wing of conquest, adding one
cruiser to fee score of those dam
aged, also told of continual enemy
reconnaissance over areas of New
Guinea and Fapsa.
Early this morning a Japanese
heavy bomber ms driver off from
Port Moresby, New Guinea's port
capital, by anti-aircrsf t fire.
The Japanese had struck at two
piaee on the west coast of Australia
Ports Bombed
Targets of the Japanese raids
wore the ports of Broome said Der
by wMeh are situated respectively
about $m and G75 mHes southwest
of oft-bombed Darwin,
Derby which had not previously
been bombed was attacked b two
Jftpasese planes which thrice swept
few over fee town wife machine-
guns crackling, a communique said,
Kg damage or casualties were re
ported there tart at Broome & fores
-df itm4y Dombcrs - pretested - fey
fighters dropped 50 bombs on fee
eivHIan airport kHHfig one civiMan
and damaging several commercial
aircrait
Plane Bombs Ship
A tone Japanese plane also at
tasked a snail ship off Darwin, fir
ing &QS rounds without doing any
damage the announcement declar
ed. The sinking of te Japanese
erttlser at Rabaul brought to 2s!
fee number of Japanese warships
and merchant vessels officially - re
ported sunk or damaged ia waters
north oi Australia in iess than two
weeks.
ibwther Japanese cruiser was re
ported badly damaged, along with
two merchant ships, in an air at
tack on Rabaul last Wednesday,.
Refugees arriving ai Port Mores
fey, Hew Guinea, from bombed north
coastal villages reported Yicierit
outbursts among the island's na
tives, with wild bushmen from the
hills joining in looting plantations.
Meanwhilej the German radio
quoted Tokyo dispatches as assert
ing that Japanese shock troops had
reached the Gulf of Papua, on the
southern side ot New Guinea island,
and that ihe last decisive attack
for complete occupation of New
Guinea had begun.
The broadcast said ether Japanese
forces striking down from the north
were executing a pinccr movement
against Port Moresby, New Guinea
capital on the gulf of Papua, only
390 miles from the Australian main
land. Contf&esi of New Guinea, when
completed, probably would signal
fee start of an ail-our Japanese
assault against Gen, MaeArthur's
defenders of Australia itself.
anything like the things he said
have been done by labor unions,
Unions alone, he said, have been
able to do these things without be
ing subject to prosecution,
Arnold charged the unions with:
1 Iploiisiion of farmers
3 Undemocratic procedure, "in
cluding packing Us membership to
Insure ejections,"
3 Impeding transportation,
4 Making it impossible to get
cheap, buub production of housing,
t Forcing businessmen to employ
"useless" iabor,
8 Restricting "efficient use of
men and machines,"
"Independent businessmen ail over
the country are completely c 'he
mercy of any organised tabor group,"
he declared.
Hero's Welcome
Given General
By Australians
Promises to Do His
Best Shall Keep a
Soldier's Faith'
By Tern A, Hattftand
Melbourne, Australia,
March 21 (VP) General Doug
las MacArthur rode trium
phantly 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
declared simply in a short
speech.
Hie demonstration lor the hero
ot Bataan, deeply tanned after his
days in the Philippines, ires one of
the greatest In the history of this
commons-calti!.
Receives Ovation
The amazing journey of Oenerat
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 Spen
cer street railway elation.
Hie Australians at the station,
siiil thrilled by the general's state
ment yesterday that a, grand allied
attack would supplant the present
defense warfare, gave a great yea.
when the broad-shouldered'suprenta
commander of the United Nations is
the southwest Paclfia stepped irorti
the Adelaide Express,,
Oenerat MacArthur paid faibuia
to tiie Australian soldiers Is his
short talk to the welcoming thttmg,
Tribute io Anzacs
"I am glad indeed to be in imme
diate cooperation with the Austral
ian soldier," he said, "X know him
well from World war days and ad
mire him grcatiy,"
Then he touched in a general man
ner on the coming struggle,
"I have every confidence is the
ultimate success of our Joint cause,
but success In modern warfare re
quires something more than cour
age and willingness to die," the gen
eral said, "It requires carelul pre
paration. This demands lurafahlng suffi
cient troops and sufficient mater
ial to meet the known strength of
a potential enemy.
"No general can make something
out of nothing. My success in the
future will depend primarily spot
the resources which tiie 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,
It was not known how long Gen
eral MacArihur and bis family
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Vichy to Bar
Axis U-Boafs
Washington, March 31 SIB A
fundamental issues in relation be
tween the United States and Vichy,
which recently have been In danger
of rupture, was removed today with
Vichy's assurances that axis Bub
marines and planes will not be per
mitted to enter French ports to
the western hemisphere.
The assurances were received aft
er the United States sent Vichy a
stiff warning, virtually an ultima
tum, which presumably conveyed a$
least a hint that this country would
take over the French pevtsessionj
unless the pledges were forthcom
ing. Principal possessions involved art
Martinique, Guadalupe, St, Pierro
and Mlquelon Islands, The first
two are In the West Indies; the oth
ers off Newfoundland,
With the promise to bar axis war
vessels and military planes from
these islands, Ute Vichy govern
ment under Marshal Henri Phiiipp
Petain now stands committed to:
A position of absolute neutrality
with regard to the war in Europe.
Keepini the French fleet out of
axis hands.
Barring submarines and war
planes from French porta, regardless
of pretexts or circumstances.
Continuation of the naval accord
permitting the United States is
maintain observers and patrols at
and around the French islands.
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