V Hxb OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Thursday Morning. February 23, 1842 . FAGE THREE.-, Defense Carpenter Trainees Build Houses for Practice Building of frame structures, just for practice, near the sen ior high school symbolizes the activities of national defense train ing in Salem now, Coordinator C. A. Guderian declared Tues day. The trainees are members of the newest class, rough and tries. The carpentry course has 80 men enrolled in four classes, two running concurrently through the daylight hours. The work is six hours daily for six days per week. Enrollees began by removing some partitions under the dinger grandstand and converting the space to classrooms and a work shop. Most -of the work, howevej, is done outside, just east of the grandstand. Following blueprints, the men soon change piles of lum ber into small frame buildings. Guderian said the trainees would probably be ready for work when cantonment employment is available. Land Board Agent Quits For Politics Marvin Klemme, Burns, Wed nesday resigned as special agent for the state land board, to be come a candidate for the repub lican nomination for representa tive In congress from the second congressional district Klemme has been in charge of blocking school lands in eastern Oregon. He previously ' "was with .the grazing division of the department of the in terior until 1938 when he re signed te make a world tour to study grazing problems In Eu rope and Asia. 4 Klemme filed his declaration in the state department here af ter his resignation was, ac cepted by the, land board. He will be opposed by Lowell Stock man, Pendleton, who previously filed bis declaration of candidacy. "Whiping the Japs is Klemme's first consideration," according to his declaration. Walter M. Pierce, LaGrande, democrat, is the incumbent, and will seek reelection. Fire Reserves Conduct Drill An . even dozen men drilled Wednesday night at the central fire station for the second time, as part of the city fire reserves, in charge of Chief Harry sBuck' Hutton. x Meetings of the reserves have all been changed from 7:30 to 7 p.m., in order to take advan tage of daylight. Drill nights at the outlying stations are Mon finish carpentry, which has beep in session one week and is direct' able employment is forecast for the near future by M. B. Lamb, defense employment officer at the Salem office of the US em ployment service. He said Joor ney men machinists are also needed .in several coast indus ed at providing workmen for the army cantonments. Although welding classes are full at present, some vacancies exist In aviation sheet metal courses, from which consider- day, east Salem; Tuesday, south, By JORKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst For The Statesman 1 una x i luajr, nana. V : -ft Service Men Where They Are What They're Doing Corp. Douglas L. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jones, 655 North 17th street, Salem, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. Alfred H. Yunker, son of Mr. and Mrs.-Otto A. Yunker, Scio, was recently promoted to the rank of corporal at McChord field, Wash. He is now stationed in Fort Dix, New Jersey, for a train ing period as a radio operator. He is the brother of Otto A. Yunker, route two, Salem. Reports that the Russians have cracked the Staraya Russa pivot of German .lines just south of Lake Hmen and have ad vanced in the Smolensk sector, 250 miles farther south, suggest that the Stalin counter offensive is rolling again in high gear. A nazi stand at Staraya Russa has been holding up for many days what has appeared to be the cutting edge of a vast Rus sian squeeze play aimed at 'lop ping off the whole nazi left flank. If Staraya Russa has fallen be fore the onslaught of Russian troops who claim they have smashed a three-division German army in that area, the direct road to Pskov junction, key to Ger man communications on the Bal tic flank, is open. A nazi retreat from Leningrad will certainly be in order if the road cannot be promptly blocked. It was through the Pskov Porkov gateway that the Ger mans drove from Estonia, out flanking the Lake Peipus fron tier moat to the south, to lay siege to Leningrad. Half a score railroads and highways con vene at Pskov. Staraya Russa itself is an im portant rail and road junction. A double system leads northwest around the lower shore of Lake Ilmen to Shimsk where it inter cepts the main communication line supporting German forces holding Novogorod. Another 40-mile stride to Shimsk would isolate nazi forces along the Volkov river. It also would open a second route west ward to cut direct Pskov-Leningrad communications. A converg ing attack on Pskov itself from the west and northwest would be possible, although that vital Ger man junction still is more than 100 miles distant from the near est known Russian spearhead. Coupled with a red drive to within 50 miles of Smolensk, the Staraya Russa operation takes an added significance. To meet both threats Hitler must rush heavy reinforcements by land and indirect routes. The Russians have the advan tage of interior communication lines. Their hopes of clearing the foe from all the north flank to the Esthonian border and also forcing a wide nazi retreat in white Russia are not too extrava gant if the attack can be kept moving. Robert Spence and Don Curtis Brunson, Albany; Andrew H. Ze diwck and Ralph B. ..Woodcock, Corvallis; Donald E. Slonkcker, Sweet Home and Darrell L. Da vis, Independence, have enlisted hi the navy recently. Mrs. Cayrene Starr, Salem and her daughter, Mrs. Frank Porter, Silverton Hills, have returned from a visit with Sgt. William Benson, at Fort Stevens. They are Bentson's mother and sister. . LYONS A farewell dance, sponsored by the Mehama Wom an's club, was held Friday at the Santiam Valley grange, for boys who are entering the service this week. Those leaving are Nor vill Carter, Hubert Wagner, Glen Beringer, Charles Bosch, Clarence Fetrow, Raymond Haney and Bill McCall, Mehama, Donald Thay er and Henry Holzfuss, Lyons. Raymond Haney and Henry Holzfuss were unable to be pres ent, Haney being in Missouri vis iting his parents before he goes. Others were present from Stay ton, West Stayton, Gates and Detroit UNION HILL Mr. and Mrs. Otto Berg, Lebanon, and son Elaf, ot the US marines, visited at the homes of Mrs. Mary Tate and Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Tate Friday. Berg, who has been sta tioned in Iceland, is home on a furlough. MT. ANGEL Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Welton motored to Ft. Lewis Sunday to visit their son, Micky, over the two day holiday. They found that Micky and Edmond Fennimore, another youth from Mt. Angel, are to be sent to a Texas airfield. BUENA VISTA Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Prather received word from their son, Guy, at Logan, Utah, that he has joined the service. DALLAS Two Polk county boys,4 Sgts. J. C. Pleasant and John Benge, were in Dallas re cently visiting with their families before leaving for Ft. Banning, Ga., where they will spend sev eral months in training for commissions. Robert Gahlsdorf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gahlsdorf, 985 North Church street, has enlisted with the US navy in airplane maintenance and is to leave for Portland fi Saturday to entrain for San Diego. He was graduated in 1938 from Salem high school, where he was a member of the National Honor society. Since then he has been employed as a shop mechanic. His father is commander of Capital post, American Legion. Pastor Group Makes Plans For Services The Salem Ministerial associ ation at its monthly meeting at the Argon hotel Tuesday morn ing made plans for the annual Good Friday services sponsored by this organization. Services this year are to be held at the First Evangelical church, Rev. Paul Petticord, pastor. Preliminary plans were also made for the Easter sunrise serv ices at Belcrest Memorial park. Don Douris, Rev. Edward Allen and Rev. W. H. Lyman were ap pointed on a committee to make arrangements. Rev. Weaver Hess, new pastor of the Nazarene church, was welcomed as a member. PORTLAND, Feb. 25--The Portland navy recruiting district announced the following enlist ments in the naval reserve: Slem Harry E. Wilcox, Mer rill V. Ames, Johnnie N. Howe, Art iuf R. Terpening. McMinnville James H. Coats, Leslie D. Bennett. Independence Hollie R. Chis holm, Wilson B. Chisholm. Stayton Donald M. Thayer. Newberg Walter W. 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