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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
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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.- . - . ? ' '? . .
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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.
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