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itcop Posted Momentous events occur ' fat an parts of .the world while roa sleep bat also while The Statesman news services are reporting them. Keep pest ed read The Statesman. GayCtb x KLAMATH TAILS, Hat 1S-(P)-H teemed Ilk old times here Men day, as a team of. Pereherens, with braided manes and tails, went to work pulling an old-fashioned beer wagon. IIUIETY-SECOND YEAR Scdem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning, May 19. 1942 FrlcrSc' No. 41 ' ' '' '' - pou n cn cr i&Sl mm New Iliplil of Yanks "r 'jST iy 0 Berry in en Td;.Meet Packers ...... -! Price Freezing Necessity Told At Meet Here ! More than 200 Willamette valley berry growers jammed the Salem chamber of com merce auditoritfm Monday I night to hear what the fed era! office of price adminis tration (OPA) jnjght do to break a stalemate in con traeting of the 1942. crops brought on by recent blanket price freezing order.. Told that the federal govern ment probably would by some formula make up to the farmers the losses they will take if they contract their berries at a price the packers can pay, they adopt ed a suggestion that a committee of farmers meet with packer rep resentatives here Wednesday to arrive at a basis for dealing in the strawberry crop whose har vest will start next week. "The best thing you can do here is get together through com mittees, decide the best price the packer can pay, then go to Wash ington (DC) for the difference," Edmond F. Maher, regional price representative for the foods sec tion of QPA, told the growers. "You'll get it!" . Maher said federal officials . realized that the blanket price freexinr order, which went Into effect for wholesalers last week and for retailers Monday, would " "squeese .someone in certain 'commodity's ImesTTTTh'e "'; step ' . was necessary, ' regardless, he ' declared, because the earlier plan of selective price regula tion was not curbing Inflation. By vote of the growers, George Tate", of 'Sublimity, who presid ed over the meeting, named a 12- ' man farmers' committee and in- Ivited the packers to meet with - the group, with Maher promising to be present, at the chamber of ' commerce here at 10 a. m. Wed- (Turn to Page 2 CoL 6) French Back On Cou ncil City Fathers Approve Issue of $40,000 Of New Bonds -' Salem city council received back ; a former member in the person of ' C F. French, passed for third and final reading an ordinance author- - lzing issuance of $40,000 worth of ' refunding improvement ' bonds, heard the report on the canvass of the recent city election, voted fa- - vorably on resolutions creating a warehouse revolving fund and a minor lien revolving fund and : handled a half-dozen smaller items - In rapid fashion Monday night. ' - Following the three-hour bud ' get committee session, aldermen - discussed little and passed, eject- ed or held over without argument requests presented in their own short meeting. 8 worn into office along with French was Claude Jorgensen, elected to succeed himself at the post of alderman from the third - ward to which he had previously , , been appointed. French was -. elected : - Friday to , succeed - Howard Maple in ; the seventh . ward. Other new council mem , bers take office January 1 along - with Mayor-Elect L M. Dough -r; ton.!..: '"' r, - Dr. M. E. Gadwa was named by . Mayor W. W. Chadwick to fill a V vacancy on the city boxing com ; mission created ; by the recent ; resignation of Dr. John F. Lynch. : Attention of council members - was called to the upcoming va cancy on the civil service commis . slon when the terms of Arthur H. Moore, chairman, expires June 1. ; Mattery of opening . a street through' the block between the Turner oadand Howard street? petitioned by a number of . resi dents of that area, was left with- " but action on recommendation of -' the streets committee, which re ' ported lack of funds to buy the necessary right-of-way. 1 - " Action on a resolution which would have provided funds to send - a delegation of city officials to a " meeting of the League of Oregon Cities was postponed indefinitely. Tne city recorder was In- . sirneted to direct a second letter . . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) a T v , - CN$K v I Line of fit . Farthest ) BRYANSK Jtoni l i Advance V I t ',w 9' I FETROVSKI V 1 j-J TAGANROGl3l sPrjOSTOV jfcnylteiM?! To Caucasus I IliillSiQSSpitf lAnd Oil Fields 1 Firing at point-blank range, soviet machine gun on the Crimean front, where German forces are hurl ing a heavy attack toward the shows where fighting- is reported reu xorces commueu Monuay Volchansk and Chunguyev dispatches. Stubborn battles continued in the Kerch area (2), in Crimea, where the naxis were on the offense. Russian troops eount- er-attacked from Sevastopol (3). Budget Trimmed Another Cut Ahead Art Center Assistance Is Removed; Increases Include $1000; for Work On Miller Street, Salary Changes Pruning away a net total submitted to them, members of Monday nicht declared themsplvps Hicuticfioi with rnlf f their original committee-by-committee deliberation and auth - . , . . , . . . . . orizea appointment 01 a commission of five of their members to .A..J -. " 11 . iuujr every iiera m me suggestea expenauures with a view US-Panama Pact Signed WASHINGTON, May 18-Up A pact between , the United States and Panama Mondav clinched the right of this country to use airfields, and big-gun em placements . planted . throughout Panama to guard the canal zone. The agreement, signed in Pan ama by Edwin C. Wilson. United states ambassador, and Octavio Fabrega, Panamanian foreign minister, formalizes the permis sion to occupy the defense areas which was granted last year by former President Arnuiio Arias, now in exile, and settles other problems in . the relations of the two countries. . . Postmaster Named . WASHINGTON, May l-UP President Roosevelt has sent to the senate the following postmaster' ship nomination: Albany, Gardner T. Hockensmith. " - Reds mid 7is Press Attacks o ioo RUSSIA gunners (above), silence an enemy Caucasian oil fields. Map (below), fiercest on the Russian front. The o rou jowara ov springboards, according to Moscow s Proposals $10 9 of $10,719 from budget figures the Salem city budget committee ... ... . to bringing the document at least within 6 per cent limitation re quirements. Approximately $15,000 must be slashed away before the bud get could be considered within those limits,' Chairman David 0Hara declared. Even at that point, he maintained an in crease of close to five mills in the city's share of the 1942-43 tax levy would be indicated, a condition he suggested taxpay era would; not tolerate. Cut completely from the budget " . iKUl VI fiiuv 4UA assist- ance of the Salem Art center fteresi Recognition of the city's interest provided by such ' contribution would take out of the ownership of federal agencies and place in the legal possession Of the etWe!n r ' 500 and $2000, Mrs. W. A. Ander- aw vi uic act ucnier Doara ae - dared. face of earlier requests for addi- 11WU1KU UUWU DT igU,M, ID tional support because of assur ance; that WPA would not cro 719 vide aid this year, the public play-1 Lines" that its projected seryiceforjehiefs, the Oregon State assocla-j by army request. Elver. Men grounds -fund was left in the! Eugene has been postponed untnltion ct fire fighters and the Ore- day, 1.7 ft Max. temp. Sunday, tTurn to page 2, CoL 3) River Bars Jap Advance Chinese Destroy. Push Columns; Thailand Fight Reported By The Associated Press CHUNGKING. May 18 The west bank of the broad, turbulent and mounts in-walled Salween barring the eastward advance of the Japanese up the Burma road has been cleared of the enemy and his columns have been wiped out or driven back to Lungling, the Chinese announced Monday, Some 250 miles to the south, however, extremely heavy fight ing was reported in progress as reinforced Japa n e s e attacked from three directions In an. Ap parent effort to drive up from Thailand between the mighty Salween and Meking to flank the Salween defenses. The Japanese reverse along the Salween was announced after fierce artillery fire had been exchanged for days across the formidable barrier which the Japanese did not dare to attempt crossing. Instead, Chinese reinforce ments were flung across the stream, and in a bitter struggle the main Japanese forces were thrust back all the way to Lung ling, 20 miles from the river, and remnants which clung to posi tions at Mailaopu and Hungmu -Ia t m, shu were wiped out (These places,' not shown on. available maps in New York, apparently were where the Japanese reach ed the river.) As a result, said the Chinese, Paoshan, 55 miles beyond the Salween by the winding Burma road, and the next Japanese ob jective in that theatre, is no long er menaced by the northward movement from Lungling. Ally Bombers Hit Shipping Transports Probably Sunk; Invasion Threat Strong t ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, a .111. tvhm ia I aii;i wiun dr-iv mrnin Mnn - 1 -av a Japanese shipping off Koe- Dang. Timor island, scoring di- rect hits and nrobablr destroying two transports, General MacAr- I . . .. thur's headquarters said Tuesday. One heavy Japanese bomber was shot down and probably three others were destroyed, and three fighter planes dam aged when 34 heavy bombers and 15 fighter planes attacked Port Moresby in New Guinea. Minor damage was caused to i the runways at Port Moresby and one allied plane was reported missang, the communique saia. SYDNEY. Australia, May --WJPI I Gen. Douelas MacArthur has Kr tt ,,tK lntnini nffiror - and th chiefs Of the T 7 7 7 w oince ox civu aeiense 101a fLJl Relegate, of three firefighting 71 -fr V.r. T":rl ui me event u move in the southern Pacific. gUd by General MacArthur; in the .- Philinnines and have already had Philippines and have already J - (Turn to Page 2. CoL 2) 1 ; ' EUGENE, - May lMJ-Mayor VJ4 v.i - 1 Elish'a Large said Monday he had - 1 been informed by United Air I after the wan Russians Roll Oyer D e fenses f- . V . : i . . Tank, 'Chutists ' Va nquished With Push on Kharkov By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Tuesday, May 19 (P)-M a r s h a 1 Semon Timo- shenko's armies of the south, beating down and roiling over the teamed attacks of German tankists and parachutists of tne sort that had run wild in France, were reported- early Tuesday, to be still advancing on a 100-mile arc about Kharkov in' the Ukraine. "During May 1 8," said the Soviet command's midnight com munique, "in the Kharkov di rection our troops conducted of fensive operations and advanced." Less official information earlier had indicated that Timoshenko's ileft hearing Krasnograd, in Of . Kharkov, and that his right was moving up on that Ukranian metropolis itself. Oa the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea, the midnight bulle tin reported only a continuation of "stubborn battles in the region of the town of Kerch." Before Kharkov, said Russian dispatches, the bloodiest and most violent of German counter-thrusts where tanks pulling armored trailers of infantrymen charged the Soviet line headlong and para chutists were dropped in single groups numbering as high as 120 -had vemhere. failed to check Every Soviet account indicated that .the German " command was hurling every weapon of its ex- plosive armory into the supreme defensive effort. As to the Crimea, the mid-day Soviet communique reported that Russian troops yet held to their positions in Kerch, on the penin sula of that name, in dogged re sistance against locally superior force. The German high command conceded a "desperate" Soviet re sistance on the Kerch peninsula, but claimed that the defenders there were "facing annihilation." Of the Kharkov front, an aft ernoon announcement from Berlin asserted that 324 Rus sian tanks had been destroyed since May 12. A number of suc cessful German counter-attacks. one of which was said to have relieved an encircled German base, were likewise claimed. In London, a British military commentator, summing XT Z general situation, lunosnenKOS leii wins mreauj rested on Krasnograd, and that the Russian advance thus was continu- Timoshenko's left wing already ing on a 100-mile arc, the north ern end of which was at the town of Volchansk, 30 miles northeast of Kharkov. This advance, he added, involved double the scope of operations as of a few days ago and by reason of this and German counter-at tacks had been slowed down in I - 1 T V V....t. H"""5 Jiu-C3- i,u"""c WCYC1 fbad it been halted, he said 1 Of Crimea, he " declared the J "fi m ofe Kerch complete command of the Kerch I peninsula, the Russians holdmg 1 2 n ovl nA-;4:nM UnA oniy lsoiaiea posiuons. xiere, ne said, German casualties had been very high. (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Eire Problem Great, Coast BAKER, May 18-i!p)-The Paci fic coast faces an acute war time fire problem and there is immedi ate need. of making the people realize., the danger. Assistant Regional Director Jay Stevens of the office of civil defense told roups Monday. .j-.., ..uui .v.u U," SSLS ahSS StB1mad pe xrawarneaierenswno " LTL-u . : .ot vu vm cause o f the large number of j frame, buildings, Stevens told the! I Pacific roast association of fire igon ire uueis associauon. ; Japs Rename Streets in - . i Philipp xnes TOKYO, (From Japanese Broadcasts), .May 16-(JP)-A Domei dispatch ' from Manila said Monday that - "to com memorate the return of com plete peace and order through out, the Philippines following the " fall of . Corregidor' the principal streets, parks and bridges of Manila . have been given Japanese names. - This,- it was ' said, was done by the civil administration, un der Jorge B. Vargas, "with the understanding of the Japanese expeditionary force." Thus Dewey, boulevard (named for the 1898 victor of Manila bay) becomes Boulevard Heiwa - (peace) : Taft avenue (for the first American gover nor general, later president of the US), Avenue Daitoa (greet- er east Asia); Harrison boule vard (for Francis Burton Har rison, governor general under President Wilson) Boulevard Koa (progress of Asia); and Harrison park, Park Rizal (for a Filipino hero); Jones bridge becomes Banzai (ten thousand year ) bridge. Bombing Halts Hawaii Lava Greatest Mauna Loa Eruption in Years Threatened Gty . 9 HILO, TH, May lS--Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii island, after two weeks of its greatest activity since 1881, has finally been quieted by aerial T6mbing. The army lifted its censorship on eruptine Monaay nW danger from the volcano in 1 var h hue wall of lava flowinB-two miles a dav. was di- verted just tore it reached the Hilo water supply and shifted southward 1 1 miles from the center of the city. The huge mass came to a stop shortly thereafter. The eruption began April 26 from a fissure ripped from the side cf the 13,675 foot volcano at the 9300 foot elevation. In a brilliant display several 600-foot fountains spewed a great stream of Quick-running fluid which later turned into a slow moving wall of lava 60 feet high. This wall ate into the for est a few miles from the Hllo water supply. On May 2 warplanes dropped bombs. The bombing, following a procedure taken in the 1935 erup tion, finally closed off the flow, which eventually stopped entirely on May 13. Torpedoes Hit -g- -r JfflHZ Kl gfPTl & RAF Reports at Least Two Direct Strikes Off Norway Coast By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, May 18 The powerful 10,000-ton German I . ' . . cruiser Prinz Eugen was regarded Monday night as knocked out of the vital battle of the Atlantic I P6181" for three ,months b Leaping wound of two or more 1 aerial torpedoes driven home be I - .9 1 S ? T A i fore dusk Sunday mgnt r-y an RAF fighter-bomber squadron which caught her slipping along the Norwegian coast Reporting the aerial striking force reached Norwegian wat ers while it still was light, the air ministry news service said "the attack was pressed heme in the teeth el strenuous opposi tion from a large foree of en emy fighters . and - heavy anti aircraft f Ire. One - attacking pilot said he saw a "great pil lar of smoke" rise - from the superstructure of the cruiser alter he sent his torpedo home. There were , two large , explo sions 15 seconds apart, the news service reported. It said another pilot saw a sheet of flame leap other torpedo "running , weU toward the ship- : torpedoing : the ' Prinz (Turn to Page 2, CoL 4) 1 . . . - t - Sunday 8 ,W, eatner Weather ' forecasts withheld I and temperature data delayed i aa, sua u. CoTtvoy Equipped p Go Into m. Many Veterans in Largest Convoy of War; US Sends Tanks By RICE AEF HEADQUARTERS, ( AP)-Shipload after shipload Heavy ped for offensive fighting thousands of them with tanks and artillery have arrived in North Ireland to reinforce the already big United States force here. Fit and eager for a scrap, as public enthusiasm in Britain against Germany on the continent. These tanned combat troops brought an array of power many tanks and other equipment in a fleet of transports and suDDly shins almost as vast I as the largest convoys of the last 1 war. They were preceded by other formidable contingents which ar rived between late January and early March. Reinforcement of the rapidly expanding American garrison followed closely the arrival of advance units of a Canadian ar mored division- and thousands more men which the dominion is contributing to the great land and air force, the allies are mar shaling for liberation of Europe and empire. Many of the United States. . soldiers who swarmed ashore . In Ulster were from midwest- tern .and north central 'states, .their ranks stiffened and smartened by : the presences of veterans and members of pick ed units. Among them were young, tough men wearing the newest type combat helmet. Scores of, them, despite their youth, already have served in the far east. Both the crossing and landings were without incident. . The men arrived fit and the disembarkation, carried out in the greatest secrecy and security precautions, was smooth and swift. The great convoy made up of liners and one-time fancy cruise ships converted to troop carriers apparently escaped the enemy's aerial eyes and the troops quicks ly disembarked to disperse them selves among secluded bases pre pared for them throughout Ul ster. The United States navy, charged with the most impor tant Atlantic eonvoy Job in more than five months of war, kept intact Its record for never having lost a troopship. The army also shared in the praise for the safety of the troops, for the guns aboard the trans ports were manned by soldiers of the army's transport service, and the ship's crews themselves were civilians. A British officer, to whom the operation was an oft-viewed scene, said: "This is the finest I've ever seen." The first enlisted man off the first ship to arrive in this contingent was Pvt. Marvin O'Neal who said he was "an Irishman from South Dakota" the town of Philip. Coming ashore with O'Neal was his commanding officer, Capt Junior Miller, Rapid City, SD. In cheering contrast to the ar rival of other contingents, these troops stepped ashore into "an American picnic," a wharf shed where stewed meat, vegetables, pork and beans, slices of lunch eon meat, ' pickles, jam, bread, pears and apricots "and coffee were waiting for them. ' One lieutenant colonel, an in fantry veteran of the first world war, remarked as he hurried along: "The last time I came over on an old cattle boat This time it was a liner. The war is getting better." . j ',v-:.--'.. Day and night the unloading continued.' Every American and British defense unit air .and ground F was fully alert as huge field guns were hoisted out of holds, and rolled away. Am munition cases, , unloaded al most as quickly as the troops themselves, were .taken into the countryside by truck and train. These men had been in inten sive training since coming, off the army's unprecedented . field . ma neuvers ia the south more than six months ago. tjPro ops ensive for Fight YAHNER Norther Ireland, May 18 of American troops equip these fighting men came over mounted for a second front Ceiling, Floor Put on Goods Order for Vegetables Said Precedent to Fruit Regulation WASHINGTON, May 18- The office of price administration and the department of agriculture collaborated Monday in announc ing a ceiling over the prices of 1942 crop canned vegetables and a floor under them. - The doubhf-edged price action was designed to protect consum ers from unwarranted increases and to protect the canner by guaranteeing him a price of 92 per cent of the OPA-prescribed maximum. Through a government purchase program, the department expects to encourage canners to contract for all the vegetables that the pro ducers in his area can deliver, in line with the food-for-freedom program -of expanded farm pro duction. Government purchases for lend-lease and other use at the 92 per cent figure, it was believed, " would control the canned foods markets. The vegetables to be sup ported are asparagus, lima beans, snap beans, beets, sweet corn, car rots, peas, spinach, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes and tomato juice. Only USP grades, A B and C are covered. OPA also announced that simi lar price regulation on canned fruits could be expected to fol low "in short order." The formula for figuring can ners' prices is based on the aver age price charged by each canner for sales made during the first 0 days of the 1941 pack. To this he may add 8 per cent for necessary cost increases, including increased cost of labor, supplies, containers and the like; plus the actual in creases in the cost of raw pro duce for the 1942 pack over the 1941 pack. Such raw materials in creases shall not exceed, however, the advances in cost as of May 4, 1942. ' j, V ' i ' The formula applies only at the canner's level and only to canned vegetables packed in 1942. Ceilings for the 1941 packs and those of prior years will continue to be the highest prices prevailing in March, as prescribed by the universal ; price order.' - - I , Wooden Ships ed WASHINGTON, May 18-tip) Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the maritime . com mission, : told Sen, ..McNary (R Ore) that it did not appear ; the steel shipbuilding program "can be expanded by the use of wood for seagoing vessels.'', v i The v senator had urged 'the; adoption of a program 'of wooden' ship building to meet war time needs. Land" reviewed T the I pres ent shipbuilding r program aid said ' the greatest 'difficulty ws m securing steeLA? iJt" Land aaid the commission was considering using" wAt "Con structing certain typos of vessel for use on Inland waterway u in coastal waters f " - " Discourag