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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
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Berry in
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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-
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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 $40,000 worth of
' refunding improvement ' bonds,
heard the report on the canvass of
the recent city election, voted fa-
- vorably on resolutions creating a
warehouse revolving fund and a
minor lien revolving fund and
: handled a half-dozen smaller items
- In rapid fashion Monday night.
' - Following the three-hour bud
' get committee session, aldermen
- discussed little and passed, eject-
ed or held over without argument
requests presented in their own
short meeting.
8 worn into office along with
French was Claude Jorgensen,
elected to succeed himself at the
post of alderman from the third
- ward to which he had previously
, , been appointed. French was
-. elected : - Friday to , succeed
- Howard Maple in ; the seventh
. ward. Other new council mem
, bers take office January 1 along
- with Mayor-Elect L M. Dough
-r; ton.!..: '"' r, -
Dr. M. E. Gadwa was named by
. Mayor W. W. Chadwick to fill a
V vacancy on the city boxing com
; mission created ; by the recent
; resignation of Dr. John F. Lynch.
: Attention of council members
- was called to the upcoming va
cancy on the civil service commis
. slon when the terms of Arthur H.
Moore, chairman, expires June 1.
; Mattery of opening . a street
through' the block between the
Turner oadand Howard street?
petitioned by a number of . resi
dents of that area, was left with-
" but action on recommendation of
-' the streets committee, which re
' ported lack of funds to buy the
necessary right-of-way. 1 -
" Action on a resolution which
would have provided funds to send
- a delegation of city officials to a
" meeting of the League of Oregon
Cities was postponed indefinitely.
Tne city recorder was In-
. sirneted to direct a second letter
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CN$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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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SSLS ahSS
StB1mad
pe xrawarneaierenswno
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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
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&
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
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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