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Newspaper Page TextAGE TWO Thm OETGON STATESMAN. Scdom, OroO, Saturday Morning. Juno 13. 1942 (G unter -Attwck Fiercely Thursday' Weather temperature data delayed. Thursday's max. temp. (5, rain. 47. River Friday. Ut ft. ,. Weather forecasts withheld by request of ths US var and I ' 30 ID n)lr7J Sevastopol Dashes Back Nazi Drives; Chuhsien Yields Showdown Fight Expected in Libya; nviftt lrooners rirea dv ireaiv Signing With Britain, America By The Associated Press The red armies, fired by the Anglo-American pledges on creation of a second European front, were counter-attacking Friday both against the nazi armored forces which have begun an offensive from Kharkov in the Ukraine and against the be giegers of the Sevastopol naval base in the Crimea. From their lerried fortifications about Sevastopol, the Russians were credit- Tokyo Raiders Coming oome Some of Planes Went To China, Radio Cairo Says NEW YORK, June 12-(P-Leslie Nichols, MBS correspondent, has "reported in a broadcast from Cairo that at least some of the United States planes which raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities in their sensational April 18 attack landed in China, MBS headquart ers announced Friday night. Nichols said that 11 pilots, In cluding several wounded, of the 79 who participated In the raid with Brir. Gen. James H. Doo little had now passed through Cairo en route home from China. His statement that these 11 had landed in China after the raid was the first public hint regarding this phase of the operation. Their start ing place has been a strictly-kept secret. The statement was made in a broadcast Wednesday night from Cairo which Lester Gottlieb, MBS public relations director, said had been withheld until tonight when released by the office of censor ship. The pilots were reported return ing home now in a sub-stratosphere bomber for a well-earned rest. Gen. Doolittle announced in Washington on May 19 that all the raiding planes reached their destinations safely after blastinf a 40-mile path of fire and de struction through Japan. He de clined to discuss a Russian an nouncement that an American plane had landed in Russia shortly after the raid. President Roosevelt said that Shangri La, mythical Tibetan sanctuary portrayed in James Hilton's novel, "Lost Horizon," was the starting place of the raid. The axis radios, missing the point of the president's jest, solemnly broadcast later that they were unable to find Shangri La on their maps. Salary Survey Aid Approved City water commissioners Fri day night authorized C. E. Guen ther, manager of the city-owned system, to cooperate with bureau ox municipal research of the Uni versity of Oregon and the League of Oregon Cities in a survey to determine comparative scales of salaries paid employes of municipally-operated utilities. The planned survey, as presented by Howard Ennor, would provide in formation of value to the commis sion in later cost studies, it was de clared. Guenther was authorized also to act, with Chairman Van Wied tr, in bidding on a $40,000 issue of refunding bonds to be offered by the city of Salem on Monday. The purchase of bonds would pro- vide "stop ap" during the com - tog lt years and make available -tuns needed in 1952 to meet the commission's own payment sched ules, Guenther said. PI aires Attack Japan Parties The landing on Attu was not the first on , American territory , but was' the. first-so far as is known on American soil on the eastern side of the international . dateline, technically in the west- trn hemisphere. ' -Aetaally, however, Attn b a small sad rocky Island having little apparent strategic value which is the fact thai led au thorities here to believe the I Japanese were seeking. In the - first instance to snake : se V. cessful Fftttlge attack against ; remote tef Btery in order to re- -port raid which . night ."offset their, setbacks in the battle of Nl&vtyi '7: tAttu island. Is about 20 by, 35 I gnUes in . extent, and Indented by i gnany bay, and long Inlets. It -., has mountains up to 3000 feet fcigh, nd reefs offshore make j navigation hazardous. - A small native village, Attu is I ed officially with destruction of 50 German tanks and damage to a dozen more; ten enemy batter ies were reported smashed in one day by accurate soviet cannon fire and three nazi Infantry regi ments and a cavalry squadron destroyed. China's veterans, yielding here and gaining there in their fight to hold a vital eastern China rail line, received their own heartening proof of the coming might of US air power planes of the American Volan teer group, again In the oriental sky, wiped oat half of a Japan nese force of 18 bombers and filhters over the Sooth China base of Kweilin. After indepen dence day, these pilots will be come part of the regular US army air force. In the Libyan desert the Brit ish eighth army was fighting, in the sands 30 miles or less from Tobruk, an armored battle which appeared to be the prelude to a showdown thrust by the nazi Africa corps and its Italian help ers. The axis made this possible by breaking Bir Hacheim, Free French garrison at the lower end of the allied semi-fortified for ward line, which now is out flanked. Shi ids oiirsrest Invasion Need Allied Air Force Will Overwhelm Germans; Nazis Plug Holes LONDON, June 12 -()- Ships are the crux of plans for the allied invasion of the continent and "when they are ready we are ready to invade," a naval inform ant declared Friday night. Armies far stronger in equip ment and at least equal in train ing to those which hold western Europe for the Germans are ready to cross the channel and the North sea. These forces, the naval ob server said, will be preceded by an overwhelminr air force which by February, 1943, will outnumber the German air force, as now constituted in the west, by about two-and-a-half to one. "But, 'he added, "I can prom ise you the invasion will not come in the way everybody ex pects." This source's insistence on the need for shipping to move an invasion army reflected the pri mary objection to the "invasion now" idea voiced by British mili tary, naval and air men during the past three months. German commanders of oc cupation forces apparently were reacting Friday to the Implied threat of invasion contained' In the British-American-Russian accord by bolstering their de fenses of western Europe's coastline and plugging holes In their tlfht control of the con quered populations. British sources said the Ger mans, obviously concerned by im plications of the accord regarding a second front, backed up as it is by the growth Of allied armies and the concentration of overwhelming air power in the British isles, were erecting new machine gun nests and anti-tank gun positions along the coasts to stop future com mando landings or invasion by heavier forces. located at the head of Chichagof harbor on the north coast of the island. In the village, the navy said, OTTAWA, Jane 12-(P)-Vlee-Admlral Percy W. Nelles, chief of the Canadian naval staff, said "the attack has begun" 'when informed tonight of the Japanese landing- on 'Attn Is land and th movement of Jap- -anese ships 'among the Kat Is-. "lans of the Aleutian group. He declined to comment far- are a church, and a trading post maintained by white men. Vessels of the coast guard have visited Attu ieach -year- but 'Otherwise there has been little community tion between the village and the outside world.. , 51 Jap Ships To Yanks9 5 Is New Score By Th Associated Press la two great tea fights, the United States nary has rolled np a score of about II to I against the Japanese In ships sank and damaged with addi tional reports of Japanese losses vbtnally certain to come in. The navy's tabulation Friday si the osteoma of the Coral sen straggle listed at least IS enemy ships sank and more than 20 damaged. Up to now, the disclosed toll taken by Americans la the Mid way battle stands at f oar ene my aircraft carriers and a de stroyer sunk; three battleships and eight to 11 other ships dam aged. These figures probably will be raised to the final ac counting of what happened to the Jap armada of 30-odd ves sel. American ship losses: one air craft carrier, two destroyers and a tanker sank; one aircraft car rier damaged. 25 Slain by 2 Tornadoes Twisters Hit Houses In Oklahoma City, 10 Minutes Apart OKLAHOMA CITY, June 12.- (JP)-At least 25 persons were killed and 100 injured Friday night by two tornadoes which ripped through the southwest part of Oklahoma City, leveling more than 60 houses. Scores of persons were missing. Both tornadoes struck in the same area, cutting a swath through a 16-bIock residential area. The first twister struck about 9:30 p. m. and the second about 10 minutes later. Only one of the dead was iden tified. She was Mrs. Ina Trout, 50, who was in a grocery store which was demolished. Other dead were in hospitals and morgues. City hospitals were crowded with injured. Soldiers from nearby Will Rogers air base aided in rescue work and many injured were taken to the base hospital. A half dozen automobiles on one street in the area were picked up and carried into ditches and fields. Debris was piled 10 feet deep in some streets. Every available highway pa trolman, police officer and fire man was rushed to the scene and helped pull victims from the wreckage of their homes. Virtually every ambulance in the city was pressed Into serv ice. Mr. and Mrs. Bob McCarty and their three children were driving home when the twister picked their automobile up and turned it over three times. They were un injured. A refugee center was opened at a grade school with cots, blankets and food provided for the home less. Class rooms and corridors were filled with the victims. Fifty Red Cross first aid work ers through the night adminis tering to the less seriously in jured. Stars Appear At Rose Show PORTLAND, Ore., June 12HP) -Film stars Edmund Lowe, Mary Brian and Marjorie Weaver urged a Portland rose festival crowd Friday night to buy war bonds. In former years this would have been the day of the f esti vaTs rose parade. Instead an indoor program was held, featuring music, vaudeville and the movie stars. Weatherford Dies THE DALLES, Ore., June 12 (flV M. E. Weatherford, 70, large scale Arlington wheat rancher, died here Thursday. Among sur vivors are Mark V. Weatherford, a brother, Albany. The territory of Alaska main tains radio station KDE there, the navy said. bt other wise there were no Installations ef any Importance reported there. Kiska island was described as a mountainous block of land ly ing north - northeast and south southeast with a ridge of moun tains, running up to 4050 feet, as the backbone. The shores are hilly and rocky. Our Senators T7ca 3-1 Columbia Power Bill Denounced By Gov. Sprague Avers Pending Bone Bill Would Set Up a "Super Government" And Force Public Ownership The proposal to form a Columbia power authority now receiving hearing in congress was denounced by Gov. Charles A. Sprague Friday as a measure that would set up a "super government" and force public ownership of electric power fa cilities on communities throughout the state regardless of their wishes. "The evident intent of the var ious Columbia power authority bills now before congress Is to do just that," Gov. Sprague said, In a letter replying to an inquiry from B. H. Klzer, Spokane, Wash., re gional chairman for the national resources planning board, regard ing his attitude toward the Bone bille, on the Columbia area series, series. The device of usinc a federal agency to acquire private power systems would be tantamount to forcing public ownership on various communities, the gov ernor maintained. Saying that the wartime emer gency is being used as an excuse to push this program forward, Gov. Sprague declared that in his judgment "there is no war condi tion which makes immediate ac tion necessary, and "in fact, it is wiser policy to defer such con troversial questions as public ownership for post-war deci sion." Gov. Sprague said it is not suf ficient to freeze at present levels payments in lieu of state and lo cal taxes on utility property which may pass into public own ership. "The requirements of income for government show steady in crease," Gov." Sprague continued, "and it is only fair that expand ing investments in electric enter prises should yield increasing con tributions for support of govern ment. Otherwise the burdens borne by remaining property grow steadily more disproportion ate as the total tax burden in creases. The western states al ready suffer because a very large proportion of their lands is own ed by the federal government arftl so is off the tax rolls." Gov. Sprague said the vesting of broad powers in a regional federal authority, as contem plated in some of the power authority bills, would establish a super government, extra-constitutional in character, of un certain status, which would fur ther complicate the relation be tween the states and the fed eral government "These regional authorities of fer convenient vehicles for wield ing vast economic and political power, responsible to no definite constituency," Gov. Sprague de clared. The governor said there is em braced in some of these bills grants of powers over waters of streams which supercede the long established rights of landowners to waters for irrigation, held un der state law and confirmed un der state courts. 'While the Columbia power bills are not as comprehensive in this regard as some of the others the fear is justified that rights of the states to control waters for irrigation purposes are endanger ed. The risk is not to the abstract rights of states but to the very real rights of water users and to continued irrigation develop ment' Gov. Sprague outlined his own ideas respecting the organization of a power administration as fol lows: Planning for state and re gional development should be done as at present by state and . regional planning a g e n e I e s, heading ap in the national re sources planning boarsL. Projects recommended by such agencies should require approval by the congress and appropria tions from the congress. Existing federal agencies such as the reclamation service, the army engineers," etc., should be used in their respective spheres without making one authority su perior to the other agencies. The rights and interests of states and communities should be given due consideration and cooperative re lationships maintained. "The proper function of the power authority for the federally owned plants on the Columbia river is the wholesale distribu tion of the electric energy produ ced at these plants. I believe the authority should operate as a part of the department of the interior. the same as the reclamation serv ice, with a single executive head. To 1 n s u r e expression of local opinion " in " the development of policies of administration ' a ' re gional advisory board, truly rep resentative in character, might well be created. The authority should not override state regulatory agen cies In the fixing of resale rates for energy. , Gov. Sprague said 'that be cause of the vital Importance of this proposed legislation to we peopie m we rccuic norw- Allowance Bill Receives Okeh Pay to Dependents' Of Drafted Men Is Set in Conference WASHINGTON, June 12-) Legislation providing allowances for the families of service men $72 a month for a wife and two children, for example was ap proved Friday by a senate-house conference committee, and there were forecasts that it would be enacted speedily. At the same time, the con ferees tentatively accepted a senate provision aimed at de ferring family men from the draft until the ranks of single men are exhausted. This provision confers "upon the president, acting through the selective service system, authority to defer any or all categories of those men who have wives or children, or wives and children, with whom they maintain bona fide family relationship in their homes." Previously selective service of ficials have been required only to consider financial dependency as distinct from family relation ships in granting deferments. Maj. Francis V. Keesling, selec tive service official, said that the new allowance payments could not be made before October or November, although they are ret roactive to June 1. The allowances are similar to those provided daring the last world war but are considerably larger. They would apply to the four lowest pay grades In the army, navy, marines and coast guard. Army men ranking from buck privates to line sergeants would be affected, along with corresponding grades In other services. The service men would contrib ute a fixed amount monthly and the government would add amounts depending upon the fam ily relationships and number of dependents. Mrs. Hewitt Named Grange Delegate Salem grange Friday night elected Mrs. Lena Hewitt alter nate delegate to the Oregon grange convention at Milwaukie next week. Her duties will be to keep Salem members informed as to hearings on resolutions con cerning them, in the absence of Grange Master Theodore G. Nel son. west, hearings should be held In this area so that the views of residents of the northwest states, particularly of Oregon, may be heard. The governor stressed that the people of Oregon initiated the Bonneville project WASHINGTON, June 12-)-A Joint senate-house committee tak ing testimony on legislation to establish a Columbia" poer ad ministration, to market power from Bonneville and Grand Coulee on the Columbia river, declared Friday it would give private power companies full opportun ity to present their views. PORTLAND. June IZ-fP)-Congressional hearings on the Bone-Smith Columbia power authority bill should be held In Oregon, the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's association pro tested Thursday night., Chairman George T. Gerlinger, Portland, of the association's leg islative committee wired Senator McNary: lAunber operators In western Oregon are very much concerned with respect to this bill being so hastily disposed of without hear ings' here.- . - . ? ' '? . . 5 DAIICE " : Heizcr EVERY SATURDAY Rowland4 Band 2 Miles North on Rivex Road Ration Board Moves Today ToGtyHall Doors Open at 9 a.m. Will Accommodate More Sugar-Seekers The long wait is over for wom en of the Salem district who seek authority to buy sugar for can ning. Chairman John Heltzel de clared Friday night as he an nounced that the county-city ra tioning board office would open its doors at 9 o'clock this morning in the roomy council chambers of the city hall. Instead of a few hundred ap plicants, between 2000 and 3000 a day can be accommodated in the new "quarters, Heltzel esti mated. Moving hurriedly to meet the emergency, Salem eity eouncil men as Individuals had Friday night authorixed use of their chambers by the war rationing and price administration board. Without waiting for formal meeting call, members assured city officials that they would favor action suggested editor ially by The Statesman, making available enlarged office room without outright expenditure. More than 40 volunteer work ers are to be provided through the Marion county civilian de fense council office to work un der Mrs. Julia Hopp, assisting Mrs. Florence Bell with the reg istrations for sugar canning ra tions, automobiles, tires, tubes or other commodities. Women in the offices of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company have been instructed to assist with the rationing on their weekly day off. With this help. Heltzel suggested Friday that the current rush for early season can' ning sugar should be over within a week, although it is planned that the new quarters will be utilized for duration of the war. Filing cabinets and other office equipment of the rationing board are to be moved by county truck and crew this morning from the Ladd & Bush building offices to the city hall. Bombers Land At Ankara BERLIN (From German Broad casts), June 12-(;P)-The Ankara radio, correcting an earlier report. broadcast an official statement Friday night that three large Brit ish bombers landed at Ankara air port Friday and that a fourth crashed near the city, the Berlin radio said. The pilots (whose nationality was not given) were quoted as saying they were chased across the Black sea from the Sevastopol front by German fighters. The planes were reported seized and the crewmen interned. The earlier report had identified the planes as American. Viesko-Hannaman Begins House Job Viesko & Hannaman, Salem firm of general contractors, have started the housing authority job at Milwaukie, a $1,756,000 project. Old buildings on the site are being razed and offices and ware houses are being constructed. Lo cal sub-contractors on this job are Armpriest Sc Elfstrom, roof ing and sheet metal work; Nath raan & Ransom, plumbing; and "Ben Otjen, excavating. Many Sa lem men are employed on this project A one hundred housing unit project being built by Viesko & Hannaman for the same housing authority is rapidly n earing com pletion near Oregon City. 15c mas Tax 1 to 'HMI.1 1 TWO GOOD SHOWS Tim Holt -Dude Cowboy "Down in San Diego1 -Also- Dead End Kids little Tough Guys SEA HAIDERS1 II COMING SUNDAY Goatinnoas Sunday . 1 to n rn. 18c Plus Tax IB tttSTG 6K u f( - rc frrwgT Esfwrt - , - REMEMBER Wake Island Remember ..... B AT A AN Remember . . .... CORREGIDOR Remember DUTCH HARBOR Remember ....... 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