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Salem, Oregon. Friday Morning, Juno 12. 1942
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No. 57
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On Entire Fror
Fails to Progress
Fiercest Fight at Kharkov;
Sevastopol Holds; African
Battle Improves for Axis
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Friday, June 12 (AP) The Germans have
thrown strong tank and infantry forces against Russian de
fense positions on the Kharkov front, and fierce battles
have developed, the government announced Friday.
Stubborn fighting continued to rage in the Crimea,
where the Germans were smashing against the soviet naval
fortress of Sevastopol. The red army was reported inflicting
heavy losses on the nazis in repulsing their attacks.
In three days of fighting there alone, the official mid
night soviet communique stated, nearly 15,000 German offi
cers and men were killed. The
nazis -lost more than 50 tanks and
60 planes in the same period.
The communique stated there
were no significant changes on
other sectors, although earlier bul
letins had reported action over a
wide front which, combined with
the great land battles of the Cri
mea and the Ukraine, brought the
war on the Russian front to the
highest pitch of the year.
There Mas mass aerial com
bat at the Black sea and again
far to the north in the Arctic.
Nowhere did the Germans ap
pear to be making any import
ant progress.
In contrast to the pace of the
blitz campaign last summer, Rus
sian dispatches indicated that the
Germans now are'moving only at
terrific cost through the meat-
grinders of the red army's de
fenses around besieged Sevasto
pol and in the Kharkov sector. -
There were no details on the
second battle of Kharkov, match
ing the two old adversaries, Mar
shal Semon Timoshenko and Field
Marshal General Fedor Von Bock,
who already had faced each other
in the battle for Moscow last year
and in the first battle for Khar
kov this spring.
The latest reports said Von
Bock this time was taking the
offensive,' apparently seeking to
regain ground lost to Timoshenko
last month or to test out and
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2500 Pilots
A Month Set
Navy to Increase Rate
Of Training From
Recent 600
WASHINGTON, June U-(&)
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the
house naval committee reported
Thursday night that the navy
would be training pilots at the
jate of 2500 a month by the end
of this year, as compared with 600
a month at the outbreak of hos
tilities. In a statement approved by the
navy, he said that the figures were
based on information obtained in
n executive session from Rear
Admiral J. H. Towers, chief of
the bureau of aeronautics.
"While I cannot divulge details
of the testimony,'' Vinson said,
"I feel free to state both as to my
own view and that of the commit
tee, that the admiral's testimony
was extremely encouraging,
v "I asked for and received a
frank report on the progress of
procurement and training, which
in general indicated that naval
aviation, while suffering from
some unavoidable delays, has suc
ceeded in achieving a surprising
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Committee Plans
High Smoke Tax
WASHINGTON, June ll-()
A $107,000,000 increase in the tax
bill of tobacco smokers, including
a half -cent raise in the tax on a
pack of cigarettes, was approved
tentatively Thursday by the
house ways and means commit
tee, along with a doubling of the
5 per cent levy on transportation
. fares.' V -
' Moving swiftly through a series
0f v treasury department recom
mendations: for increased excises,
-vthe committee then proceeded to
tiebate a proposal to impose a new
tax on soft drinks. A vote is ex
pected Friday. . . .
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92 Will Leave
Salem in Draft
June Inductees Report
Saturday Morning,
Go to Portland
Ninety two men from the Sa
lem local selective service district
have been notified to report at
the Salem armory for induction
at 7.45 a.m. Saturday, the board
announced Thursday. They are to
be sent from Salem to the induc
tion station in "Portland. ,
The list, which includes two
volunteers for officer training, is
as follows:
For officer training Robert
Henry Day and Wilson Alpin
Bauman.
Others Percy William Meier,
Philip McKay, Walter Earl De-
vine, Curtis Everett Service, Rob
ert Curtis Taylor, George Little
Heath, Daryl Melloy Wiesner,
Terrence Michael O'Brien, Ralph
Benjamin Reasoner, Walter Tho
mas Noland, Eugene Carl Pohl
man, Chester Eldon Davis, Harry
Bernard Erickson, John Clifford
Krogh, Merwin Garris Hickman,
Ralph L. Sorahan, Kenneth Her
bert Marston, Thomas James
Medley, Henry F. Skeels, George
William Bowen, Paul Warren
Whipple, William Edward Aigel
tinger. Melvin C. Davis, Otto Ernest
Arndt, jr., Eston Edward Lough,
James Carl Boyer, Robert Walton
Callahan, James Lynn Bennett,
George James Arens, George Er
cel Donaldson, Roth B. Livingston,
Ralph Donald Meyers, Forrest
Glen Huston, Lawrence Ivan
Engstrom, Philip Brooks Knight,
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G. A, Collins
Made Major
Operations Chief Has
First Commission
At Camp Adair
It's "Major Collins" now, if you
happen to meet Glenville A. Col
lins, chief of operations at Camp
Adair, who spoke before the Sa
lem chamber of commerce re
cently. Senior civilian engineer of the
cantonment force, Collins Thurs
day received his commission as a
major in the US engineer corps.
He will continue as chief of oper
ations under Lt. Col. R. E. M.
Deslslets, area engineer in charge
of constructing Camp Adair and
of several other large US engi
neers' projects in western Oregon.
first officer to be commis
sioned at the new cantonment, 1
Major Collins was presented
with the gold oak leaves desig
nating his grade and the gold
castles marking him as a mem
ber of the engineer corps by
CoL Deslslets Thursday on be
half of the employes of the op
erations section. Gift of such
insignia to a newly commis
sioned officer is considered a
"good luck" omen in military
circles.
Major Collins came to Adair on
February 1 from bis residence at
Palo Alto, Calif., turning down a
bay district assignment because
he hoped to make his home in the
Pacific northwest, He Is an en
gineer of more than SO years ex
perience, designer and patent
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Heroes of the battle of Midway returned to Oahn field at Honolulu in
an army transport plane. Flying baddies, who were forced to stay
behind, gathered around the big plane to greet them. This picture
Czech Exiles
Vow Revenge
Executions Estimated
To Reach 690 Since
Heydrich Killing
LONDON, June ll.--The
Czecho-Slovak government in ex
ile vowed revenge Thursday for
the mounting wave of nazi execu
tions which have reached per
haps 690 since the assassination
of Reinhard Heydrich, the gas
tapo's purge master and "pro
tector" of the Czech homeland.
The nazi executions continued
their reprisals' at an increased
tempo. The Prague radio an
nounced Thursday night that
another 34 Czechs had been
executed Thursday, including
ten women. This brought the
official total to 340, not count
ing those put to death in the
wiping out of the little town of
Lidice.
At least another 350 persons
were shot to death in that brutal
reprisal, according to the estimate
of an official Czech spokesman in
London.
These "barbarous acts" were
protested in a formal note to the
allied governments which said:
"The Czecha-Slovak govern
ment will take the necessary steps
which it may regard as desirable
to secure retribution for these
atrocities and will relax no ef
forts to bring to account all those
who committed these crimes or
were in any way responsible for
them."
Specialists'
Corps Begun
WASHINGTON, June 1 WP)
President Roosevelt launched the
new army specialist corps as an
auxiliary of the armed forces
Thursday by naming Dwight F.
Davis and seven others to key
posts.
Davis, former secretary of war,
who has been at work on organ
izational details for more than
three months, was nominated to
be director general and the senate
immediately gave its approval and
also endorsed the other nomina
tions. Within a few days, officials
said, the first appointments of
trained professional and technical
men will be made. They are to
take over certain desk jobs and
other tasks, freeing regular army
officers for actual combat duty.
Already nearly 200,000 applica
tions have been filed since the
new organization was set up in
preliminary form in February.
Wednesday's Weather ,
By US army request, weather
forecasts are withheld and tem
perature data delayed. Wednes
day's max. temp.. 64, min, 49.
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House Passes
App rop riation
Begin on
Administration Forces Hold Strong
To $336,000,000 Bill; Said Able
To Provide for 400,000 on Rolls
WASHINGTON, June 11 -P- A $336,000,000 appropriation
for the WPA was passed by the house early Thursday night as
administration forces withstood a determined, two-day attempt
to abolish the relief agency or reduce its funds.
As finally passed and sent to the senate by a roll call vote
of 277 to 52, the bill provided for only a fraction of the funds
expended in WPA's peak year of
1939, when WPA carried three
million persons on its rolls and
spent $2,230,000,000.
Earlier, the house had voted:
184 to 133 against an amend
ment designed to prevent the
WPA from starting any new
projects except those certified
by the secretary of war, secre
tary of navy, or maritime com
mission chairman as essential to
the war effort.
183 to 140 against sending the
supply bill back to the appro-
WASHINGTON. June 11-JP
The vote, by which the house
refused to cut next year's WPA
appropriation by one third in
cluded the following northwest
representatives:
Republicans for: Mott, Ore.
Republicans against: Angeil,
Ore.
Democrats against: Pierce,
Ore.
priations committee with orders
to cut the funds by one third and
to turn administration relief over
to the states.
The hottest fights came on the
amendment by Rep. May (D-Ky),
chairman of the house military
committee,- to restrict WPA to
war projects, and on that of Rep.
Taber (R-NY) to return the bill
to committee for revision.
The administration forces rest
ed their case chiefly on the con
tention that President Roosevelt,
in submitting the estimates of
WPA's needs, had pared them "to
the bone."
On the other hand, those ad
vocating even greater reductions
or the agency's complete abolition
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July
Flag Parades
Set Saturday
Celebrations Planned
Over Country to
Honor Heroes
By The Associated Press
Featured by two potential, record-shattering
parades, the nation
begins a two-day observance of
Flag day Saturday at a time when
the Stars and Stripes mean more
to its citizens than perhaps at
any time in recent history.
Actually Flag day is Sunday,
commemorating the action of
the continental congress on
June 14, 1777, authorising the
red, white and blue emblem,
but many communities will
hold their principal celebrations
the day before.
New York and Chicago both
have scheduled parades, the for
mer for Saturday,, the latter for
Sunday, with hundreds. of thous
ands of marchers including color
ful military units, war workers
and floats.
Upwards of a half million
marchers will move up Fifth ave
nue in New York from mid-morn
ing until after dark in a proces
sion which its creators estimate
will require at least 11 hours. Its
theme will be "New York at war."
In Chicago Mayor Edward J,
Kelly has promised the "biggest
parade in history" with a million
marchers, and 1000 floats. After'
wards there .will be a giant war
savings rally in Soldiers field.
At Boston Sunday President
Manuel Quezon of the Philip
pines Is scheduled to make his
first public speech in this
country at United Nations ex
ercises In the Boston Garden.
Marblehead, Mass. will ; enter
tain Capt Arthur Robinson of
the cruiser , Marblehead which
made an epic 13,000-mile voy
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2 Ships Sunk
In Atlantic t
American and Swedish
Merchantmen Hit by
Torpedoes, Shells
By The Associated Press
Axis submarines, blasting at al
lied shipping in the Atlantic, sank
two more cargo vessels, it was
disclosed Thursday, boosting
united and neutral nations' of
ficially announced sea losses in
that area to 260 merchantmen.
The latest victims of enemy
undersea craft were a small
Swedish cargo ship whose
neutral flag was plainly dis
cernable under her spotlight at
the time of the attack and a
medium-sised American mer
chantman. Both vessels were
shelled to the bottom, with the
lone fatality identified as the
captain of the United States
ship.
The master of the neutral ves
sel related that his ship was sunk
June 1 after desperate maneuver
ing to keep the U-boat from get
ting within torpedo range. When
a torpedo was fired, narrowly
missing the ship, the merchant
man's spotlight swung to focus on
her Swedish flag. Ignoring the
identification, the submarine's
deck gun opened fire from close
range.
The captain ordered the vessel
abandoned after three of the crew
were wounded. All 20 crew mem
bers were picked up the next
afternoon and brought to an east
coast port.
Shells from . a speedy, 200-foot
axis U-boat destroyed the Amer
ican ship about ten days ago.
Chief Officer W. C. Edward-, the
vessel's engineer, told how the
submarine captain personal"- aid
ed air injured seaman off the
blazing ship and into a lifeboat
and distributed water and cof
fee to the escaping crew..,.
. The undersea craft shelled
the cargo , vessel" for about ' ten
hours, ' according to Edwards
story, until finally a. shell
crashed . into- the fuel tank' and
the ship sank. Eighteen surviv
ors were landed at an east coast
pott. Seventeen other 1 .crew
members arc miming..
A recapitulation of four allied
ships' sinking recently announced
off Canada disclosed the rescue of
over 80 seamen and the death of
14 others. -
Dutchmen Warned
LONDON, June 11 Aj The
Netherlands government In Lon
don broadcast a warning to the
population of . Holland Thursday
night to keep away from -the fac
tories being used ..byvthe Ger
mans for war production because
the RAF was about to attack
these plant with ' "exceedingly
heavy bombs. - ;
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Creation This
Year Promised
Washington, London Reveal
Visit of Molotov to Sign
Hitler-Shaking Agreement
By The Associated Press
The fighting giants of the United Nations : the
United States, Britain, Russia, disclosed Thursday that
they had come to a complete understanding on the urg
ent and tremendous undertakings necessary- to the
opening of a second front
this year. Then they outlined their master plan for a
post-war Europe in which Germany never again will be
able to draw the sword.
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Identical government announcements in Washing
ton and London, dealing with the military fact of the
conversations which, last month, brought Soviet For
eign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov to both capitals,
said without any elaboration:
"Full understanding was reached
with regard to the urgent tasks
of creating a second front in Eu
rope in 1942."
Many seasoned observers, con
sidering all the known angles of
the situation, concluded this
meant that the United States and
Britain had promised to bend
every energy toward amassing
this year, the ships, the planes,
the uns, nd.thei J)nten which they
must have for continental inva
sion, but that there was as yet no
positive assurance that this in
vasion would begin before Janu
ary 1, 1943.
The course of Russia's own
summer battles may bear more
heavily than anything else on
the final decision.
WASHINGTON, June U.-(ff)
In rapid-fire announcements cal
culated to deal an immediate blow
to nazi nerves and to prepare the
way for allied offensive action,
the United States, Great Britain
and Russia Thursday disclosed
they had reached complete under
standings on "the urgent tasks of
creating a second front in Europe
in 1942."
The understandings were arriv
ed at during secret visits by Vya
cheslav Molotov, the soviet for
eign commissar, to London and
Washington. Molotov, flying here
in a huge soviet bomber, spent
from May 29 to June 4 conferring
with President Roosevelt
Besides the historic disclosure
of the conversations relating to a
second front, it was announced
that:
L Russia and Great Britain
had entered Into a 20 -year mu
tual assistance treaty, which
among other things pledged
them to "common action to pre
serve peace and resist aggres
sion in the post-war pertof."
(Details are given on page two
of today's "Statesman.)
2. The United States and) Russia
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Juniors Hold
Fete of Roses
PORTLAND, Ore., June 11 -(JF)
Youthful participants in the Port
land Rose festival held the stage
Thursday night as 10-year-old
Junior Prime : Minister Richard
Helser crowned Junior Queen
Phyllis II, 9 years old.
vueen unmey ei the .-- senior
court paid her annual visit to the
Shriners "" hospital for crippled
children Thursday. . v . t " "
The - Rose show continued to
attract large' crowds to the ex
hibit of more than 4000 blossoms.
Women in Army
Slay Cut Tresses
' FORT DES MOINES, la, June
ll-(T-Bobbed hair may be the
official fashion of the women's
army auxiliary corps. - t
' WAAC training school officers
here said hair dress standards
have not yet been .finally estab
lished for the corps in Washing
ton but they expressed belief that
the girls may be required to shear
all tresses at the collar-line level.
. A neat and not unmilitary ap
pearance will be the objective,'
one officer said.
on the European continent
German Radio
Derides Treaty
Claims Trip Known;
China Sees Japan
Between Two Risks"
NEW YORK, June 11 -()- The
German radio, barely mentioning
the British-Russian mutual as
sistance pact itself, went to
lengths Thursday to argue that
informed quarters in Berlin had
known for several days about
Vyacheslav Molotov's visit to the
United States and Britain.
If the Germans actually knew
of the Russian foreign commis
sar's travels they had singularly
failed to exploit their knowledge.
Nothing was forthcoming on the
subject from Berlin until well
after the announcements had been
made Thursday in London and
Washington.
Taking the easiest tack possi
ble, radio Berlin said practical
ly nothing about the treaty it
self but professed to find in
Molotov's visits "proof that the
situation of the soviet onion is
most critical" since Joseph Sta
lin had sent his "best man to
the capitals of the democratic,
powers In order to describe to
the latter the desperate situa
tion of the soviet anion in the
most impressive manner."
MOSCOW, June 11 -JP) Huge
crowds of Russians returning
home from work stopped in the
squares, and streets Thursday
night to listen in impressed si
lence to the broadcast announce
ment of the historic Russian
British mutual assistance treaty
and the soviet union's understand
ing with the United States on war
and post-war problems.
The announcement also was
greeted withi. profound satisfac
tion in official. circles.
Three communiques were issued,
one telling of Molotov's trip to
London, and another of his visit
to Washington. The third gave
the text of the soviet-British 20
year treaty.
CHUNGKING, June ll -P)
Announcement that an under
standing on a second front had
been reached among the Unite
ed States, . Great Britain and
Russia Thursday night created
a stir la. the Chinese capital,
which is eagerly waiting to see
the effect upon Tokyo.
Unofficial quarters expressed
the belief the accord might en
tail revision of all Japanese plana
and mieht result in nostnonemenl
of any move against Australia of
India.. : fc ".
It was said Tokyo might soot
have to choose between two risks:
First, seeing Gennaiy crushed;
which would meaif Japan's down
fall; second, supporting JSerman
by attacking Russia. wpich might
yield the same result ' . .
The uAderstandlpf coincided
with' fresh , Chineie reports i of
Japanese troop ' toovctlcnta -1
Manchuokuo on the Russian Iron
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