PAG2 TWO
Tit OnSGOri CTATESMAir, Sckxa. Onoa, Friday Morning, Esss&tr 19, 1811
Russian Center Counter-Attacks
Seen as Forcing Hitler's Hand
In Starting South Offensive
By KIRKE I S-MPSON
Special to The Statesman
Russian counter, attacks in the center have not yet discern
ibly eased nazi pressure on either the north or south flanks of
the lonf battle line; but they may have forced Hitler into pre
mature action in the south.
Salem Soldiers
Get Furniture
Four Ft. Lewis Trucks
Take Room Fittings
Purchased by Croup
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cost, made possible the filling of
two other large trucks. Dr. Hen
ry Morris, the association's pres
ident, declared. ,
. Six velour-upholstered daven
ports in a neutral shade, & half
.dozen overstuffed chairs, library
tables, one large pine table, mag
azine racks, mirrors, pictures and
lamps were included in the ship
ment, Morns- said, all at a cost to
the hospitality association of $116
f First individual cash contri
bution to help the association
pay the $200 expenditures It has
undertaken for the Fort Lewis
lounge and Fort Stevens was re
ceived Thursday afternoon from
State Labor Commissioner
Charles Gram, who volunteered
his check for $20, Morris said.
"We're sure that the money will
be given by persons interested in
seeing that our boys in camp, are
comfortable, , and we are very
nearly as sure that this won't be
the last expenditure for the Fort
Lewis lounge," Morris said, point
ing out, however, that probably
other calls will be for Jess costly
requirements.
Milk Cap Law
Not Effective
In Salem
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der hat that future hearings on
prediction and distribution
costs might force later In
creases. The department's order will ap
ply throughout the state, regard
less of local milk sanitary ordin
ances, he added.
' ' The agriculture department spe
cified that all bottling and cap
ping of grade A milk musf bo
done by machine and the cap or
cover must cover the pouring lip
of the bottle. Caps must be pur
chased in sanitary tubes and kept
there until used.
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He has started what looks like
the most threatening offensive of
the 90-day-old conflict an offen
sive aimed at severing red army
oil arteries tapping the Baku
fields.
Unquestionably, conditions far
this drrre would have been Bet
ter a little later. The first hard
freezes In the southeastern
Ukraine are dot next month.
Until then rains along the whole
coarse . of the Dnieper from
west of Moscow to the Black
sea ins ore high waters and
seas of mud, with which the
German drive toward Rostov
must contend.
Once the ground freezes in the
south, both tank warfare and the
maintenance of communications
with the rear would have been
easier for the Germans until heavy
snow fell.' Mud and high waters
in the lower Dnieper marshes and
along every tributary stream is
certainly complicating matters
now for Hitler's commanders.
Yet the nazi war lord appears
already to. have loosed his legions
in a vast interlocking double of
fensive east of the Dnieper that
reaches all the way from the Dne
sa river north of Kiev to the
Black sea and now has expanded
to include the Crimean peninsula.
London reports that the Cri
mea Is already Isolated by road
and rati from Russian armies
east of the Dnieper; and that
"there are Intimations of an im
pending nasi sea-air attempt to
seise the whole Crimea to bol
ster the eastward drive from
: the Dnieper.
The British are reported to be
bringing pressure otf Turkey to
deny former Italian war craft now
flying the Bulgarian -flag the right
to proceed from the Aegean to the
Black sea. This indicates that the
British and Russians anticipate a
sea-air attack on the Crimea.
It is feared that once the ships
entered the Black sea, Bulgaria
would re-transfer them to Ger
many. Russia and Bulgaria are al
ready verging toward hostilities.
Moscow charges Bulgarians are
actively cooperating with the Ger
man attack, of which the rumored
warship deal might be a part
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be sold to CCC camps f or cents
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set a price of 12.75 cents a quart
to the camps.
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contract before the 12.75-cent rul
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anchorage In Ilarsfjaerden. a fjord tenth of Stockholm which long had been used as a proving gronnd.
Known casualties were SI killed and 11 injured. The disaster was an accident so far as could bo told
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FDR Asks New
War Aid Fund
Congressional Leaders
Predict Quick Action
On Six Billion Needed
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ities and articles." The sum of
$1,196,000,00 was for ordnance
and ordnance stores, including
armor and ammunition, and
$685,000,000 was for planes,
plane engines, parts and ac
cessories. With allied sources abroad
calling for a "Niagara" of sup
plies to Russia, Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau revealed
that financial assistance to that
country began a month ago with
a treasury advance of $10,000,000,
against a prospective shipment of
an equivalent quantity of gold
from the Soviet union.
The Russian ambassador, Con
stantino Oumansky, Informed the
government that the gold would
be shipped within 90 days, but
the Soviet government needed
the money immediately to pay
American manufacturers for goods
already ordered.
The $10,000,000 payment was
approved by the state depart
ment. Kussia does not receive
assistance under the lend-lease
act. Wednesday, Secretary of
Commerce Jones, the federal
loan administrator, announced
than an RFC subsidiary was
baying 100,000.009 worth of
minerals from Kussia, for which
payment in part would bo made
in advance.
In requesting the lend-lease ap
propriation, Mr. Roosevelt noted
that of $7,000,000,000 already pro
vided, a total of $6,280,000,000 had
been allocated. "
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Adolph Hitler's high command has reported the annihilation of nine
. soviet divisions and the crushing of nine ether divisions with the
bloodiest losses" a grand total of some 70,000 men in fighting
south of Lake Xlmen on the Leningrad front. The Germans an
nounced the capture of SS,000 red army prisoners, StO Yanks and
025 not disclosed. German losses, as usual, were not disclosed
either. The nasi bulletin said the vast slaughter occurred "during
the past weeks" and Indicated a smashing blow to Leningrad's de
fense army of 1.000,000 men. Above map Is based en latest de
velopments on the eastern European front.
Aid Car Gels
False Alarms
On Accidents
False alarms and needless calls
bulked large in the 24 hours of
activity for the Salem first aid
car and crew ending Thursday
night, Captain Percy Clark de
clared. Two minutes before midnight
Wednesday the ear was called
to a point two blocks north of
the Southern Pacific underpass
on the Pacific highway to And
nothing. No Indication that
there bad, been an accident or
any untoward occurrence could
be discovered by members of
the red oar's crew, they re
ported. At 4:20 Thursday morning,
answering a call to 15th and State
where a "serious'' accident alleg
edly had occurred, the first aid
crew met a man hunting a tele
phone to call a wrecker, after his
car had struck a telephone pole
shoving it between 50 and 60 feet
into a walnut tree. Neither the
driver nor any other person had
been injured..
A call to Court and Commer
cial at 2:35 Thursday afternoon
sent the first aid car rushing to
the spot where a woman report
edly had been struck by an auto
mobile. First , aid attendants de
clared no sigh of an accident was
visible and the only person In the
vicinity apparently in need of
ineir assistance was "one
drunk man.'
very
Boston Fire Quelled
BOSTON, Sept 18.-4P)-Flames
that destroyed four Boston &
Maine railroad freight sheds,
forced the evacuation of nearby
tenements and finally crept almost
to the state prison walls were
controlled Thursday night after a
two-hour battle that brought hun
dreds of fire fighters to the
crowded Charlestown section.
Remember When?
VTNALIIAVEN, Me.-fl)-0 ld
timers wondered, when they saw
President ' Roosevelt sailing - by
this Penobscot bay Island on the
last leg -of. his. momentous ocean
cruise recently, If he recalled a
.business, venture here in ".years
gone by. With two partners, the
president used to own a lobster
pound on nearby Green island."
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM, Sept 18.
-(-Training of American pilots
for the British Atlantic ferry serv
ice has been taken over by the
RAF, it was, learned Thursday,
with ferry training school facili
ties here to be utilized by the
army air corps in the future.
The transfer, which was with
out official corroboration, would
mean that the famed Eagle Nest
flight center, an advanced school
in four-engine bomber training,
henceforth will service army pi
lots in big-plane training.
Christmas Comes
But Once a Year
NEW YORKH)-Alice Frost,
the radio , actress, decided she'd
get the Jump on Christmas shop
ping. She bought a number of
gifts and then, left them on a
subway train.: .
She phoned the lost and found
department and asked "Has a
package of Christmas presents
been received up there?" ,. ,
The clerk, after a glance at the
September calendar, said "Lady,
call back December 25th and 111
see if Santa has left anything for
you. r-'-i, ;.;... -;v
Grid Star Number up j
GARY, lad. Sept'
Tom Harmon, lachigan's Ail
American -i halfback last fall,
was placed la' class 1 by his so-,
leetlve service board Thursday
night, subject to : Immediate
physical examination to deter
mine whether he Is ready for
servleeV"- , 1 .
Film Chiefs to Talk
WASHINGTON, Sept' lMff)
Senator Clark (D-Ida) said Thurs
day a quartet of top-flight execu
tives in the motion picture Indus
try would get a chance to answer
charges of monopoly and produc
ing war propaganda films.
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Of Salem Groups .
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from nearby valley: communities
who lined the curbs to; watch the
parade, found food fof comment
in the contrast between middle
aged overcoated men wearing
white, armbands and the dancing
drum-majorettes of the city's
gaily uniformed junior band.
They ' commented on the scarlty
of uniforms, the lack of national
guard music, the very apparent
evidence that this was the home
guard. i
. like London,' a high school
girl declared the streets In
which pools ef rain still stood,
shivering as she made; the com
parison. j
The bands played different mu
sic and most of the! marchers
weren't In time to any of it but
watchers applauded and opined
that "they're the people who'll
be able to tell us where to get
food, what highways to take,
where to find, shelter probably
just as well as If I they had
rhythm!" . i
Outlining plans followed In
Oregon fa organization for ci
vilian defense, Gov. Spragno
' mentioned plans for; a state
wide mimic "air raid in Octo
ber, probably to be attended by
a blackest. Oregon's plans and
Marion county's organisation,
which he declared fprobably
further advanced than those in
other counties.' he said were
"part of a great pattern" In the
national scheme. j.
Residents of the state must not
forget that the economic life of
the commonwealth goes on, the
governor said, reminding his mid
Willamette valley listeners of the
part they have played in recent
weeks in harvest of crops and ex
pressing his gratitude to those
who have responded to the calls
for agricultural and industrial
help.
Speaking in the absence of State
Coordinator Jerrold Owen, who Is
attending the American Legion
national convention, j McSherry
read messages from Owen and
from Mayor F. L. LaGuardia of
Now York, national head of the
civilian defense organization.
His address followed intro
duction of Bryoa H. Conley,
county coordinator, who ex
pressed his appreciation for the
cooperation given by Marlon
county residents. "If !we learn
and dent need it we lose noth
ingif we need it and haven't
learned we lose everything,
Conley declared ' !:
Introduced also were Ed Colby,
county registrar and liaison offi
cer; Glenn Wade, county radio
publicity chairman; J, E. Law,
press chairman; Wilbur McCune,
head , of the county's air raid
warning service; Miss Feme
Pfohl, secretary, and Tom Hill,
chairman of parade arrangements.
"No bomber can ' break
through the defense we have
exhibited here tonight or per
, haps not" said Hill as a plane
' swooped low over the field and
a flash explosion beside the Red
Cross tent was apparent eaase
for a half-dozen persons to fall
nearby. -Onlookers
chuckled when one
stretcher pole cracked, but young
women from the first aid squad
ron merely rolled the "victim of
the bombing" into a blanket and
carried her from the field as rap
idly and apparently with as little
difficulty as bearers!, of more
orthodox stretchers.
Music for parade and pro-,
gram was provided by the city
bands and lodge and organiza
tion maskal groups. Dean Mel
,vin Geist of Willamette univer
sity's school of music led in the
singing of "The Star-Spangled
Banner" and "God Bless Amer
ica." The salute to the flag,
held by Boy Scouts, was led by
Glenn Wade. Two ! numbers
were contributed by the 2t-SI
club trio as features of: the
program. "-'j;Vl.
Only unexplained feature of
the occasion was the rumor cur
rent throughout the day and even
among the ; grandstand , crowds
that a blackout was to accompany
the performance. At the close of
the one-hour' program, 'county
civil defense leaders said no time
had been set for a blackout, that
no mention of such a i cossibilitv
in connection with the mobiliza
tion had been made; j
Dangers accompanying : any
blackout experiment are consid
ered sufficient to require that one
shall not be held unless carefully
planned v and until the general
public has been warned, they said.
Prognun
Bulletins
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stve sweeps ever the continent
destroying 1(. German planet
and losing IL
Hits were scored en a power
station at Rouen. France de
spite heavy ground fire.-
TOKYO. Sept IP-(Friday)-(py-The
foreign : office-controlled
Japan .Tunes and Ad
vertiser, discussing the forth
coming departure next week ef .
numerous foreigners on a Brit
ish evacuation steamer, said to
day In effect that it was good
riddance. . ;
"The day of the foreigner In
the east Is gone," said the organ,
Th day ef exploitation ef Fa
dflc states by western govern
ments likewise Is nearly fin
ished." :
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister'
Teljtre Toyoda, speaking at a
banquet in celebration ef the
tenth anniversary of the "Man
ehurlan incident" said Thurs
day, night that September IS,
If 31, was a landmark in world
history because It started a
chain ef events leading to con
struction ef a world "new order"
and gave Japan precedence in
"new order" planning. .
British Get
Food Supply
Unloading of Ships at
Unnamed Port Revealed ;
Huge Amounts Told
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the planes into the air three days
after he unloads them. He can
unload two an hour, he said. They
already .have undergone test
flights.
At the next wharf sweating
workers were tackling food, wide
eyed and smacking their lips at
what passed through their hands.
The first lot consisted of big
sacks of beans from Hansen, Ida
ho.
"Lots o soup therej mate,"
grinned a grimy docker.
There was a rumble as men
rolled off tubs from Chicago
if m r m A TXFtanm1n KMnl
cheese.
Another ship, its decks packed
high, showed full bright brown
cartons bearing the label, "seed
less raisins from Fresno, Calif."
At the edge of the docks lay
a broken bag of Georgia pea
nuts. I picked one np and got
ready to flip it Into 'my mouth.
"Walt!" warned Cot J. J.
LleweHy, parliamentary secre
tary to the ministry of war
transport, "the penalty for loot
ing is death." .
I put the goober down.
4 The ministry of war transport
said - 'that "lease-lend cargoes' and
Other Imports had been landed
at the 850,000-tons weekly rate
for the last ten weeks. The min
istry said there had been a big
speed-up due to a quicker "turn
around" of ships.
Midwest Seen
Food Pivot
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er In each country. With the aid
of state agricultural colleges,
fanners will be shown how they
can make more money by in
creasing the products needed
under the defense program.
Next year's production goal of
two per cent over this year's all
time record was calculated, Wick
ard said, to meet an increased de
mand for nourishment In defense
industries, to supply a quarter of
Britain's food needs and to begin
piling up food stocks to feed
European nations after the war.
RATON, NM, Sept. W-VPy-t. E.
Mollin, secretary of the National
Livestock association, Thursday
condemned the establishment i of
110 per cent of parity on cer
tain agricultural commodities as
"decidedly -unfair and inimical to
the cattle Industry." : .
' He' declared that ho one could
foresee the results of what he
called parity; price-fixing, or
whether the . remedy conceivably
would be new parity prices.
Mollin, addressing a meeting
of the - New Mexico, Cattle
, Grower's . association executive
board, expressed opposition to
the president's authorised power
to lower tariffs on South Ameri- -eaa
meats, adding there was "no
situation demanding such ae-
He said lower tariffs were being
advocated in Washington, chiefly
because of Secretary Hull's "ob
session" for tariff reduction, and
Red Fortress
Guns Silent
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Kronstadt Shattered
- By Stukas, Say Finns j
Crimea Is Isolated
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anticipated, were preparing a
land, air and sea offensive In
tended to seise not alone all of
the Crimea but the whole ef the
vastly more ; important Donets
. river basin in the lower Ukraine.
This would follow fiie German
pattern in the south,; where al
ready much of the industry of the
Dnieper river basin has been lost
tc the defenders. .The Crimea Is
principally important for Its Black
sea ports, but German occupation
of the Donets basin would be dis
astrous. ! . i .'.:
The available information from
Moscow . Itself did not support
London's gloomy picture al
though this of course did not nec
essarily signify that London was
wrong. . '
The Russian government pub
licly took the position that the
war had only begun, and started
assembling a reserve army of al
most incredible sizea "minimum
of 25,000,000 additional men, It
was unofficially estimated by
ordering every able-bodied man
between 16 and 50 not already In
military service to begin train
ing next Wednesday.
. All these i millions, it was
stated, will stand behind regu
lar soviet armies estimated to
have aggregated 1,000,000 men
In the west as of some weeks
ago, along with another 4,000.
000 trained men ready for im
mediate action.
Too, one of the' most authori
tative military publications in all
Russia, the army organ Red Star,
asserted that the fogs of autumn
already had closed in to swallow
up "the dreams of Hitler's gener
al staff for a blitzkrieg In the
east" Still, said the paper, "wo
must realize that the war will be
long and severe."
For their part, the Germans
claimed the capture of a city
called the key to the soviet arma
ment Industry in what the nasi
high command declared was an
unhalted and irresistible" sweep
of . the German armies eastward
from the Dnieper river toward
the Donets and Don basins.
As to the central front, Berlin
claimed that sharp soviet counter
attacks were repulsed
Before Leningrad, which still
appeared by various accounts
to be holding out weH, a single
German; infantry division was
declared to have stormed lit
Russian pillboxes, bat beyond
this local action .the nask
claimed j few speeifici successes.
Maneuvers in Bulgaria osten
sibly a neutral but j actually a
camping ground for nazi troops
continued during the day to cause
exquisite concern in Turkey and
elsewhere.
The principal developments re
ported were that Bulgaria had
mobilized 330,000 of her own
troops, and was calling up still
more; that German expert road
builders were at work in south
ern and southeastern Bulgaria on
highways which would be a big
help In any, nazi land and sea
offensive' toward the Suez canal.
Six hundred German engi
neers were said to be at work
on Yugoslavian railroads which
would be similarly useful.
Reports that the axis was try
ing to slip warships into the
Black sea via the Dardanelles for
use against the Russians, by nom
inally transferring them to the
nominally neutral Bulgaria, were
denied.
The Turks were understood to
have told the British that Bul
garia hadn't asked any such tran
sit privilege and that even if she
did it wouldn't get her anywhere.
High Schbol
Gains Ten ;
Gain of only ten Students at
Salem high school since Tuesday
was reported Thursday night in
dicating enrollment over the sys
tem has probably not yet reached
the 5000 mark.
The high school had a regis
tration Thursday of 1554, an in
crease of 95 from the opening
day," ' ; -
The total city enrollment is ex
pected to swell Monday with the
return of hop pickers.
"in the name of national defense.
which seems to cover everything."