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Defense Of
Maikop Area
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Red Lines at Two Other
Points Unbroken: RAF
Raids German Cities
(By The Associated Press)
Dispatches telling ol tremend
ous explosions heard on the Cau
casus front indicated toady that
the Russians carrying out their
scorched earth policy, were dyn
amiting the menaced Maikop oil
fields, toward which powerful
German tank forces were smash
ing through sagging Red army
defenses.
A Russian communique, said
the lines guarding the Volga held
firrn under assault northwest and
sonthwest of Stalingrad, but
acknowledged withdrawals close
Oto the Maikop fields and the jut
ling spurs of the Caucasus foot
hills. . The Russians fell back in the
Armavir region, 60 miles north
east of Maikop, after a fierce en
gagement. The Germans were re
ported "striving hard to ad
vance." Another withdrawal was
made under heavy German pres
sure in the Kropotkin area, 60
miles north of Maikop, the Mos
cow communique said.
The Germans, who have claim
ed the capture of Maikop, Kro
potkin, Armavir and Krasnodar,
55 miles northwest of Maikop,
said their forces thrust 170 miles
southeast of the oil field center
and seized Pyatigorsk. They
claimed to have reached the north
slopes of the Caucasus range
along a 250-mile front.
The Germans described Rus
sian resistance on the Stalingrad
ront as desperate but said the
Wxis onslaught was beaten to a
standstill in the Kletskaya area,
80 miles northwest of Stalingrad,
and northeast of Kotelnikovski,
95 miles north of the Caucasus,
Red army counter attacks were
; making further headway, the
Russian war bulletin reported. It
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THERE are hints in the news as
' this is written that the crucial
moment of the battle of Russia
may be near.
LIENRY CASSIDY, AP corre
spondent at Moscow, says:
t "Hurling HUGE tanks against
"ihe nazi mechanized onrush, the
red army CHECKED the Ger
mans today along the whole Stal
ingrad front in one of the great
tank battles of the war. German
Infantry were crushed by the hun
dreds under the steel war wag
ons." From Rzhev, far to the north,
between Moscow and Leningrad,
come reports, confirmed by the
Germans, of increasing Russian
pressure.
TO THE south of , Rostov, the
' German juggernaut rolls on.
It is spearheaded by dive bomb
ers, followed by light tanks, which
are followed by heavier tanks and
behind these are the mechanized
infantry the typical blitzkrieg.
The Germans are reported to
I be within 30 miles of Maikop, the
'first of the Caucasus oil fields.
AT THIS point, take a look at
your map. It will tell you that
the Stalingrad front,, where the
Russians are counter-attacking, Is
less than 200 miles from Rostov.
IF the Russians have the heavy
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India Torn by Rioting After
Jailing of Gandhi, Aides in
Civil Disobedience Campaign
BY PRESTON GROVER
BOMBAY, Aug. 10. (AP) The All-India congress party's
campaign of mass civil disobedience gained momentum today as
workers left their jobs in 18 mills and rioting flared anew in Bom
bay, where police fired into a large and turbulent crowd which re
fused to disperse. .
Violent disorders broke out in various parts of the city, with
demonstrators stoning suburban trains in one area and burning a
government grain shop in another.
Twenty-three were sent to the hospital with bullet wounds suf
fered when police fired twice into groups in the Dadar district of
Bombay; in Poona police fired on a crowd, mostly of students,
near Parsurambhau college, and 14 were removed to a hospital.
Schools and colleges there were closed. Goondas, the Hindu name
for hoodlums, threw bottles through windows.
At Lucknow, police fired also on a crowd of striking univer
sity students who were trying to form a parade. Thirteen were ar
rested.
The work stoppages in some
Bombay mills "were in response
to Mohandas K. Gandhi's "do or
die" call for a "complete dead
lock" by strikes and all other
non violent means.
As the campaign entered its
second day amid shootings, show
ers of bottles and shouts of dem
onstrators, there were portents of
even greater trouble ahead.
Bands of Hindus stoned some
Moslem shops in the "trouble
area" of south central Bombay.
Police have the greatest fear of
repetition of the communal Moslem-Hindu
riots which have fol
lowed previous civil disobedience
campaigns. These riots often were
the bloodiest and the most diffi
cult to suppress,
Throughout the city troops
were stationed in groups ranging
from a dozen soldiers to a full
platoon.
They evidently were being
shown largely for moral effect,
however, for they were not par
ticipating with the police in
breaking up disturbances. But
they carried their rifles.
The curfew from 7 p. m. to day
light plus rain kept the city quiet
last night, but the mid-morning
saw a renewal of the distur
bances. Writer's Car Bombarded.
In a two-hour drive through
the troubled area my car was
shot at several times. Rowdies
threw bottles, pots, rocks and any
thing they could hastily seize
from stands of nearby shops.
The windows of the automobile
were smashed and I was show
ered with glass fragments. The
car was dented in half a dozen
places but I received only a few
stinging pelts from the broken
glass.
One Indian, detecting that I
was an American, shouted to the
crowd to stop, but he could not
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Ex-Mayor of Fairbanks
Faces Shortage Charge
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 10.
(AP) William N. Growden,
former mayor and U. S. commis
sioner, was to be arraigned in fed
eral court today on a charge of
being short in his accounts as
commissioner.
Growden, about 50, was serving
his third term as mayor. He re
signed recently, announcing he
planned to return to the U. S.
army signal corps. He was also
chairman of the Fairbanks selec
tive service board.
He got his political start in
1932 when he was elected to the
territorial house of representa
tives from Ruby where he was a
signal corps sergeant He was ap
pointed U. S. commissioner here
in 1933 and was elected a few
years later to the city council. Af
ter serving four years he was
elected mayor.
ROSEBURG, OREGON,
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Prune Purchasing
Plans Being Made
i WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.
(AP) The agriculture marketing
administration told Senator Mc
Nary (R.-Ore.) that if the support
prices for prunes were applied to
the. i94Z production it should re
sult in farm prices of $130 to $135
a ton in i California and $140 to
$145 a ton in the Pacific north
west. '" ".
The AMA last June announced
support prices for prunes which it
said would result in prices of 5")
cents a pound in the northwest.
The price was based on prunes
running 80 to the pound, with $1
a ton deducted when the count
was higher and $1 a ton added
when the count was lower. It said
the support would cause prunes
running 60 to 65 to a pound to
bringe 64 cents In the Pacific
northwest.
The AMA said the details of Its
dried prune purchase program
were expected to be announced
within a week.
Boy Strikes Half Sister,
Then Watches Her Drown
YREKA, Calif., Aug. 10. (AP)
A 12-year-old boy, Vincent Mc
Neal, was held in the juvenile de
tention home today after a coro
ner's jury ruled that he struck
his 3-year-old half-sister "with
homicidal intent" and then look
ed on while she drowned in the
Salmon river.
The victim was Madeline Anna
belle Orcutt.
Coroner Treadway said Vin
cent and his four half-sisters, all
under 7 years of age, were wad
ing In the river near their home
at Somes bar, in the mountain
wilderness 60 tfllles west of
Yreka, when the drowning oc
curred. All of the children lived with
Vincent's motheV and stepfather,
Mr. and Mrs. Elman Orcutt
Sam Brown, Ex-Oregon
Lawmaker, Gravely III
PORTLAND, Aug. 10 (AP)
Sam Brown, the Gervals farmer
who became one of Oregon's lead
ing political figures, Is In a crit
ical condition in a hospital here
with pneumonia.
Brown, who is 68, was stricken
Thursday. He has been in ill
health for two years.
He was a member of the state
house of representatives from
1923 to 1933.
He was runner-up for repub
lican nomination as governor In
1934 and 1938 and ran second to
Charles L. McNary for nominat
ion to the U. S. senate In 1936.
MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1942.
AS MB APPROACH
Woe in Store For
Japs, Senator Says
PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (AP)-
It won't be long now, Senator Al
bert B. (Happy) Chandler of Ken
tucky warned Japan yesterday.
"Before long we will have bases
at the front and back doors of
those Japs," he told an Inter
viewer.
"We are outbuilding them right
along, and although they are dif
ficult to get to, the navy and
army and air boys are right after
them now," he added.
Chandler, chairman of a senate
military affairs subcommittee en
route to Alaska to investigate
military conditions, said he con
sidered presence of Japanese
troops in the Aleutians a menace
to the northwest."
"I hope to see every Jap blown
off the Aleutians soon," he said.
Worry Unwarranted.
The United States does not
need to worry about holding the
Aleutian Islands, Colton D. Har
per, McMlnnville, said Saturday
on his return from Dutch Har
bor where he was a construction
worker.
"As long as we have boys like
we have up there, we are not in
any danger," he said in an inter
view. At the time of the Japanese
raid, he said, "the townspeople
nearly went crazy, but the sol
diers and sailors and most of the
construction workers took it on
the chin like men."
One Killed, 11 Hurt When
Bus and Auto Collide
RICHMOND, Calif., Aug. 10.
(AP) One man was killed and
11 other persons . were injured
when a crowded Greyhound bus,
after a collision with an auto,
rolled almost two miles down a
major highway yesterday with
the bus driver slumped uncon
scious over the steering wheel.
Many bus passengers, frighten
ed by their plight, leaped from
the vehicle to the pavement, re
ceiving minor injuries.
The strange bus Journey ended
when El Cerrito firemen rigged
up a block and tackle device from
the bus to a moving fire truck,
and brought the bus to a halt.
The police said the bus, going
south on East Shore boulevard,
collided with an auto driven by
Victor J. Yell is, 19, of Berkeley,
a shipyard worker.
Yellis was killed, and a passen
ger with him, Miss Eileen Carson,
19, Berkeley, was injured.
The throttle and gears of the
bus were Jammed, so that passen
gers could not control it.
Fire Destroys Motorcycle
On First Trip After Buy
Robert Fielding of Roseburg
now knows the meaning of the
term, "the hot seat." Fielding
bought a second hand motorcycle
in Eugene Saturday and rode the
vehicle to Roseburg. He was get
ting quite a thrill out of his new
means of transportation Sunday
afternoon and was riding along
Jackson street when the machine
backfired and set his trousers on
fire. Fielding Jumped off the
motorcycle to extinguish the
blaze on his clothing, and the
flames spread to the carburetor
and gasoline tank. The fire de
partment was called and smoth
ered the blaze with chemicals, but
the motorcycle was entirely de
stroyed, f
Oi XXX NO.
War Output
Must Not Lag,
F. DR. Warns
U. S. Stride in Full Need
Only Begun, Declaration;
Sacrifices Lie Ahead
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.
(AP) Twenty major American
war plants receive nev army
navy production awards today
following President Roosevelt's
declaration that battle needs de
manded "an unceasing flow" of
weapons and materials.
"The united efforts of our
army and navy striking at the
enemy on every continent and
every ocean, and of our people
at home working without inter
ruption to turn out the weapons
of war, Mr. Roosevelt said yes
terday, "cannot fail to produce
the victory which will again es
tablish the tradition of free men
throughout the world."
"in a message read over a spe
clal broadcast, the president said
"great progress" had been made
on the production front, but add
ed that in terms of what, will be
required to defeat our enemies,
we have only just begun to get
into our stride."
Speed Pledged.
The president's message fea
tured a broadcast during which
top government and labor offi
cials pledged their united efforts
to speed war production.
"An army-navy production flaR
flying above a factory or mine
will bear witness that manage
ment and labor there are doing
their utmost to help their army
and navy win this war," the
chief executive's message said.
Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz,
commander-in-chief of the Paci
fic fleet, told the nation of a "cru
cial need for more raw materials"
and warned that victory would
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Cottage Grove's
4th Fire in Three
Weeks Kills Man
COTTAGE GROVE, Aug. 10
(AP) Cottage Grove's epidemic
of suspicious fires reached ser
ious proportions today when
Stewart William King, 23, Cot
tage Grove, died at a Eugene
hospital as the result of burns
suffered early this morning In a
motor cabin blaze, which the
caretaker, J. D. Smith, said he
was convinced "was deliberately
set."
The blaze was the fourth sus
picious fire ln,the Cottage Grove
area In the last three weeks.
King was a resident of one of
the three cabins destroyed with
a loss of $4,000.
The epidemic of fires loft Cot
tage Grove residents and mill
owners in a Jittery mood. W. A.
Woodard, who has suffered the
loss of his $75,000 home and a
$40,000 dry kiln at his mill In two
fires which have been termed by
State Police Superintendent Char
les Pray as probably the work
of a dangerous pyromanlac, re
doubled the guards on his re
maining mill property. He said
they had been Issued rifles and
sawed off shotguns.
J. H. Chambers, who last week
saw his $.100,000 mill burn to the
ground in a fire which police have
definitely linked wi!h the Wood
ard blazes, was at a loss to name
any former employee of his who
might bear a grudge. The blaze
which destroyed his plant has al
so been characterized as defin
itely Incendiary.
Other mill owners In Spring
field and Eugene doubled guards
and took every precaution lo pre
vent further outbreaks.
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Saboteurs Dodge
Electric Chair
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GEOKUE DAHCII.
While six of their fellow nazi
saboteurs paid the penalty In
the electrlo chair at Washing
ton, D. C.i last Saturday, the
two pictured above escaped with
prison sentences because they
aided the government In build
ing its case. Burger reoeived a
life term, Dasch 30 years, both
at hard labor. The group of
eight were landed on U. 8. soil
from nazi submarines, equipped
with explosives, as well as
American money, Intended to
be used In bribery attempts to
gain access to war plants.
I. B. Goodman Killed
Self, Pathologist Says
Evidence produced by the post
mortem on the body of I. B. Good
man, who died Thursday from a
gunshot wound in the head, indi
cates that the fatal wound was
solf-lnflicted, according to a re
port received today by Sheriff
Cliff Thornton. The post mortem
was conducted by Dr. Joseph Bee
man, state police department
pathologist, who reported his
findings in a written statement
received by the sheriff this morn
ing. The course of the bullet,
powder burns and other evidence,
the report states, Indicates that
the shot was fired In a successful
suicide attempt.
BULLETIN!
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.
(API Admiral Ernest J. King
announced today that American
forces had landed In the south
eastern Solomon Islands with the
purpose of driving out the Japa
nese and permanently occupy
ing this strategic area In the
southern Pacific.
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Resistance of Japs Stubborn
As Combat Enters Fourth Day;
Losses Thus Far Unannounced
Mac Arthur's Forces Cooperate in Offensive by
Blasting Foe's Bases in New Guinea, New Britain;
Results of Raid on Japs at Kiska Not Yet Given.
(By the Associated Press)
The battle of the Solomon islands was developing today into)
a major offensive which seemed likely to eclipse the defensive vic
tories of Midway and the Coral sea as American-led forces kept
up their blows by sea, air and perhaps land against heavy Japa
nese opposition.
The latest word from Admiral Chester W. Nimiii, United
States naval commander in the Pacific, indicated that the initia
tive still was firmly in the hands of the American fleet and other
allied forces as the battle of the Solomons blazed into its fourth
day.
"Operations are progressing favorably," he declared late
Sunday.
A communique issued in Washington late yesterday said,
"considerable enemy resistance has been encountered 'and it is
still too early to announce results or to estimate either our own or
enemy losses."
In the extreme western Aleutians, a United States naval task
force operation against the Japanese-seized outpost of Kiska ap
peared completed its results still undisclosed.
Women Volunteer
At Filter Center,
But More Needed
An appeal made Friday even
ing from the platform during the
Victory day celebration here by
Sregeant McElroy of the local fil
ter center army staff for women
to work at the filter center was
successful In producing a number
of applications, Lieutenant J. T.
Runyun, commanding officer, re
ported today. However, lieuten
ant Runyan states, there Is still
a great need for additional work
ers anT he Is urging that cvpry
woman wining to give umo 10 ue
fense work, register Immediately
at the armory.
Many women will be needed
to serve as replacements during
the vucatlon season, Lieut. Run
yan states, while the opening of
school In September will take
away many of the younger work
ers who will be returning to
high school or going to college
and universities.
Monotony Is Deterrent
"We realize that this work be
comes monotonous and tiring,"
Lieutenant Runyan stated. "If
the coast was actually being
bombed at Intervals, we would
have far more volunteers than we
could possibly use. But because
there is a daily monotony with
out relief of excitement, it is dif
ficult for some women to stick
with the Job.
"It should be realized, how
ever," he continued, "that we
must not relax our defenses. We
have seen nil too plainly what
happens when we fall to keep up
our guard. We've been licked.
We don't want that to happen
here, but It can happen if women
who can but won't give the time
to this Important work fail in giv
ing their service."
Lieutenant Runyan urges that
women willing to servo the filter
center register at the armory
without delay. Those desiring
special information arc asked to
call at the armory with their
questions.
Bill Bans Women From
Beer, Liquor Stores
SALEM, Aug. 10. Women
would be prohibited from enter
ing beer dispensaries or state li
quor stores under a bill now being
proposed for consideration at the
1043 legislative session.
Identity of the sponsors of the
proposed leglslntoin was not dis
closed here hut the bill was re
ported to have its origin In Port
land. Beer dispensaries, under the
proposed bill, would Include all
places where beer Is sold for con
sumption on the premises.
Youth Admits Theft From
Stepfather to Buy Auto
PORTLAND, Aug. 10 (AP)
With one penny left In his pocket,
Robert Grover, 17, Portland, walk
ed up to a policeman last night
and said, "1 stole $1,100 from my
stepfather Wednesday night."
Officer Paul A. Curry took the
youth to headquarters where he
told detectives that he took the
money from George W. Wann
and with another youth bought a
car for $4r0 which they drove to
Seattle on a spending spree.
Grover was charged with larc
eny. Rail was set at $1,000.
a Japanese communique, xamu-
iar in its extravagant claims of
American and Australian warship
losses, said Japanese naval as well
as air forces were in action in de
fense of the Solomon island bases,
sinking or damaging 28 allied
warships and transports against
damaging of only two Japanese
cruisers and downing seven
planes.
However, unlike its account of
the Aleutian foray in which It
claimed that a strong United
States naval force had been beat
en off, Emperor Hirohlto's high
command made no assertion that
the allied attack In the Solomon
area had been repulsed.
Hint of Japanese Reverses
A Japunese news agency ac
count, quoting Tokyo naval quar
Uirs, appeared to be clearing the.
way for an acknowledgment of,
reverses. It said the Americans
had picked on a weak line in the
Japanese chain of advance bases.
Admiral Nimltz said the attack
on the Tulagi area In the south-
eastern Solomons, 600 ' miles
across the Coral sea from Aus
tralia, was being pressed by sea
and air against Japanese land
based planes and gurrlsons.
Although allied sources made
no specific mention of transports
in the attacking fleet, Admiral
Nimltz' reference to enemy land
garrisons suggested the possibil
ity that American or Australian
troops might have been put
ashore and that land fighting
might be In progress.
It was at Tulugl! on Florida Is
land, that the Japanese assem
bled the Invasion armada which
was smashed by land and carrier
based bombers three months ago
In the battte of the Coral sea.
MacArthur Also Strikes
The fight for the Solomons
touched off land and aerial activ
ity along the whole vast barrier
of islands north and northeast of
Australia as Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's forces lashed out at the in
vaders. His communique said allied pa
trols inflicted casualties on tha
Japanese In skirmishes in the Ko
koda area on the Papuan penin
sula of New Guinea midway be
tween Japanese bases near Buna
and the allied base at Port Mores
by. Attacking by day and night, al
lied bombers battered the key
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U. S. Air Force
Soon to Attack
Nazis, Chief Says
LONDON, Aug. 10. (AP)
MaJ. Gen. Carl Spaatz, comman
der of the United States army air
forces in Britain, declared today
that the American air force was
ready to begin attacks against
Germany "within the immediate
future."
"The American air forces and
the Royal Air Force have worked
in such full cooperation that we
are proceeding ahead of the act
ual schedule," he said.
"Within the immediate future
operations in accordance with
plans that have been In the mak
ing between the Royal Air Force
and the American air forces will
commence. Our enemy at the ap
pointed time will feel the might
of a thoroughly coordinated British-American
air force."
MaJ. Gen. M. W. Clark, com.
mander of U. S. ground forces in
Britain, said "the sooner a second)
front could be opened, the bet
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