Service Men
Our boys of Salem and
vicinity are In uniform with
Uncle Sam over the face f
the globe. Follow them daily
In The Statesman's 'Service
Men' column.
No Draft
' PORTLAND, June 15-tf)
Carl Herinr. 40, Madras,
chairman of the Jefferson
county selective service
beard, made certain he
wouldn't have to draft him
self. He enlisted in the navy.
NINETY-SECOND YEAH
Salem. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. June 16. 1942
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Salem Council
Elects Member,
Deletes Bonus
Budget Bill Receives
Two Readings, New
Amendments Slated
Salem city councilman Monday
night cut a $50 bonus from the
monthly salary of the city engi
neer, made official the granting of
their chambers as an office to i
the city-county rationing board,
sold a $40,000 issue of refunding
improvement bonds, established a
grass cutting fund, and over ac
cusations of "railroading," elected
Dr. M. E. Gadwa to the ward
seven post left vacant by the
resignation of James M. Clark.
Snarling- occasionally over
what they declared were impli
cations they had not intended
when they authorized a cut in
next year's budget, they let pass
for its first two readings an
ordinance to reorganize the of
fices of city engineer and build
ing inspector into a joint setup
under control of the engineer,
but declared they wanted the
matter studied before it comes
to a vote two weeks hence.
. Scheduled for a vote at that
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time also, when public hearpig chm
the matter has been called is the
" proposed city budget, passed Mon
day night for first two readings.
Only technicalities barred presen
tation of amendments to that doc
ument, which would have put
back into the expenditure side of
the sheet $3365 and have lopped
off $4500, Alderman Lloyd Rig
don stated following the session.
The amendment will be presented
two weeks hence, he sa in
sufficient votes are assured to
carry the amendment, he said, ex
plaining that Ihe additions would
include $1000 of the larger sum
cut from the city library, $500 to
the emergency fund, the money
cut from the city attorney's ste
nographer's salary and some as
sistance in what he termed the
"already short-handed street
cleaning department." Deletions,
he said, would be asked in the
- street lighting fund, which under
present conditions, he declared,
. would not be utilized in full and
from the bridge fund, maintain
ing that the money budgeted for
bridges could not be expended
for them.
Voting to notify an applicant
for refund of the city's $5 liquor
license fee that the money was
for investigation in securing the
license a.d not for the license it
self, whicn the city has no author
ity to issue, the council declared
it time to establish a policy in the
matter. In preceding incidents the
money has been refunded, but al
dermen explained that there had
been other questions involved
which would have made refusal to
return the fee apparently a type
of persecution. No personalities
were involved this time, it was
declared, and the policy would
hitherto be in effect.
In accord with its contract of
last year with Architect Lyle P.
Bartholomew, the councU au
thorized payment for his serv
ices in preparation of plans for
an airport administration build
ing, now fully approved but ap
parently not to be built during
the war. The building plans
call for expenditure of $37,000;
Bartholomew's pay, at 60 per
cent of 5 per cent of the. total
cost, would amount to $1110.
The $50 allotted to the city en
gineer's monthly salary from the
eewage disposal bond funds for
extra work involved in prepara
tion for and construction of the
proposed plant, now by general
agreement apparently not to be
built until the close of the war,
was canceled from that salary
without any argument, by resolu
tion. Y
After the council had voted per
mission to the city-county ration
ing board to use city Mil council
chambers as an office, expenses to
be borne jointly by city -and
county at summer rates, Alderman
L. F. LeGarie urged that the
search for "more suitable Quar
ters" be contirued. Stairs to the
council room are difficult, he de
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Radio Announces Two British
Cruisers Sunk in Big Convoy;
Libyan Decision Said Near
ROME (From Italian Broadcasts), June 15. (AP) A
violent battle raged through its second day in the Mediter
ranean Monday as Italian warplanes pounced upon "remain
ing enemy units" of one of two huge British convoys which
the high command declared had already lost two escorting
cruisers and a destroyer and suffered great damage to an
aircraft carrier, a battleship and three other warships in an
effort to break through from the Atlantic.
(British quarters in London had no comment to make
on the report which so far
sources.)
The convoy, declared by II Gi
ornale d'ltalia to be the biggest
ever sent into the Mediterranean
by Britain and said to consist of
about 30 units a battleship, two
aircraft carriers, four cruisers, 10
destroyers and 12 to 14 transports
was believed bound for Alex
andria or Malta.
Twenty Italian planes were lost
and 15 planes which rose from the
two defending carriers were shot
down, the Italians said.
LONDON, June 15--On
battlefields 1500 miles apart
Adolf Hitler's armies smashed
across the tortured sands of
Northern Africa and Russia's
wreckage-littered Ukraine Mon
day night in a supreme effort,
aimed eventually at closing - a
vast pincers about the coveted
oil fields of the Middle East for
which his need grows daily.
These coordinated thrusts to
ward the great land bridge be
tween the Caucasus and Suez, an
area producing a seventh of the
world's petroleum supply, ap
peared to be the opening phases of
a campaign on which the nazi
fuehrer is expected to gamble
everything for victory in 1942.
In the Libyan battle, on which
hangs the fate of Egypt, the Ger
mans were hammering at the ap
proaches to Tobruk and the Ital
ians claimed they had smashed
through to the Mediterranean to
isolate South Africans west of Ain
El Gazala, plainly a dangerous
threat to the allies.
There the British eighth army
counter-attacked up and down the
fluid desert line in a series of
blows designed to thwart Marshal
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V. A. Douglas
Changes Task
County Health Officer
Commissioned, Takes
Civil Defense Post
Dr. Vernon A. Douglas, for the
past 14 years director of the Mar
ion county deparement of health,
has received a commission as
surgeon in the reserve of the
United States Public Health ser
vice. He has been appointed by
Dr. Fred T. Foard, San Francisco,
regional medical officer, as medi-
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i DR. V. A, DOUGLAS
cal -officer for Oregon civilian
defense. He took over his new
duties Monday and his office will
be located in the state civilian
defense headquarters.
Dr. Douglas has been serv
ing as state medical officer on
a volunteer basis since his ap
pointment by Gov. Charles A.
Sprague in March. As medical
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Scrap Rubber
Starts Trek
Most Adults Refuse
Payment; Basements
Yield Material
WASHINGTON, June 15.-()
Boy Scouts bearing baskets of old
rubber heels, housewives with
discarded hot water bottles and
farmers toting old tractor tires
flocked to the nation's filling sta
tions Monday in a collection drive
designed to help offset Japan's
blows a? the United Nations rub
ber supply.
The campaign was started on
orders of President Roosevelt, and
on its outcome may depend the
question of whether 3 nation-wide
system of gasoline rationing will
be instituted to save tires.
Filling stations were author
ized to pay a penny a pound for
the scrap, but many people con
tributed it w i t h o u t charge.
"Early returns indicated the
campaign will be an outstanding
success," said William R. Boyd,
jr., chairman of the petroleum
industry war council.
At New York, however, Sol
Herzog, counsel for the Eastern
States Gasoline Dealers associa
tion, said he believed the initial
collections were slow because
"this was dumped on the dealers
so quickly and without prepara
tion they were unable to make
any plans." He added few gaso
line stations were equipped with
scales to weigh rubber.
Many communities planned
house-to-house canvasses by Boy
Scouts and school children to
make sure contents of garrets and
cellars were thoroughly combed.
The Seattle Goodwill Industries,
a philanthropic organization, had
a head start with five tons of
scrap rubber collected in recent
weeks. Salvage stations reported
scarcely any adults would accept
payment. Children trying to earn
pin money scoured neighborhoods
with their play wagons.
Salem service station opera
tors, used to selling auto tires
before rationing assumed their
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Plus $25,000
Tax Is Urged
WASHINGTON, June 15.-()
Super-levies to take from single
persons all income over $25,000
after payment of regular taxes
and from married " couples all
above $50,000 were formally rec
ommended by the treasury Mon
aay wun tne declaration that ; a
nation at war cannot afford "lux-
urious living for a few."
The idea of such a wartime tax
was first advanced by President
Roosevelt in his April 27 message
to congress outlining his anti
inflation program. Monday, Ran'
dolph Paul, tax adviser to Secre
tary Morgenthau, laid the specific
plan before the house ways and
means-committee. -
Lutherans at Albany
ALBANY, June 15--The
29th annual Oregon-Washington
conference of the Lutheran church
will open here Tuesday with
delegates from Alaska, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon in at
tendance.
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near the Aleutian islands. Four of the ships were- used in the attempt to drive the enemy from the area,
and their hits Included one on a carrier. The B-26 is a medium bomber with a total of 3700 horse
power, range of 2000 miles and speed in excess of 350 miles per hour.
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Huge axis forces, outnumbering Russians in some instances as much
15-mile deep defenses of Sevastopol (A) on all sides in the first general offensive against the Crimean
port since last December, but Soviets reported their army holding ground. The Germans were said to
have driven wedges in red army lines at some points on the Kharkov (B) front by repeated onslaughts
but the general advance was reported checked. Dotted arrows indicate how Germans hope to apply a
pincer to Rostov, and from there strike at ports of Astrakhan and Batum. Solid arrows show where
main nazi armies are now trying to strike eastward. A Reuters correspondent reported seeing three US
bombers at Ankara (1), Turkish capital.
Gill Praises
Farm Unions
Apparent Failure of
Dairy Unionizing
Said Pleasing
MILWAUKIE, June 15. -(P)
Ray W. Gill, retiring master of
the Oregon state grange, Monday
lauded the "apparent failure" of
an attempt to unionize Oregon's
dairy industry and said, "If there
is to be a ceiling on farm prices
there should be a ceiling on labor
and industry."
Addressing the C9th annual
convention of the state grange,
Gill said he was "pleased to
note" that the attempt of John
I Lewis' United Mine Workers
to organize dairymen did not
have the national or state sup
port of the AFX. and the "reg
ular branch of the CIO."
Observing that unionization had
failed to make much headway, he
predicted that "the astonishing
strength and speed with which the
farm and cooperative organiza
tions of the country united in op
position to the movement of Mr.
Lewis ought to settle this ques
tion for a long time."
If farmers expect to make prog
ress through - unionization, they
should Join the national farm
groups and cooperatives, Gill said.
He said the war emergency was
no time for strikes or unreason
able demands and urged that re
strictions on labor's hours be re
laxed to attain full production.
"What we say of labor we say
with equal: force to .business and
professional men," Gill declared.
Gill, master of the state
grange for 10 years, will be
succeeded by Morton Tompkins,
former state overseer, who will
be Installed Friday night as the
convention closes.
Secretary of State Earl Snell
predicted the Pacific northwest
will have great industrial develop
ment which will provide larger
markets for agricultural com
modities. v
Good News in Pacific
was credited Monday with the sinking of a Japanese cruiser operating
Germans on Two Fronts
Lost on Carrier
Warren William Page, 18-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Page
of Salem Heights, who was re
ported missing in action after
the battle of the Coral Sea. He
was on the aircraft carrier Ix
ington, having been assigned to
it tn May. 1941.
Mrs. Wright
Reelected
- Mrs. David Wright was reelect
ed to the board of directors of
Salem school district No. 24 Mon
day - after an election held that
afternoon. A comparatively light
vote of 74 ballots was cast with
Mrs. Wright, only announced can
didate, receiving 71.
Two write-in candidates, Percy
Cupper and L. M. Flagg, re
ceived r two and one votes re
spectively. Mrs. Wright has served as a
director for several years and at
the present time is chairman. Otto
Hoppes was chairman of the elec
tion board. '
as five or six to one, slashed at the
Oregon Labor
Said Example
State Federation Opens
Annual Meet; Salem
Men Elected
MARSHFIELD, June 15.-)
Oregon State Federation of Labor
leaders told their 40th annual
convention Monday that Oregon
labor's strikeless war production
is "an example for.the nation" and
the federal proposal to freeze
workers In their present jobs holds
an "alarming" threat.
President Paul E. Gurske said
not a single day has been lost be
cause of strikes in the state's war
industries, operated on a union
shop basis.
"The desirability of that type
of operation and acceptance of
the principle of collective bar
gaining have here been dr-non-strated
as the most eff erent
method for industry," he said.
Executive Secretary D. E. Nick
erson predicted thaf the AFL wil
intervene if the manpower com
mission's freezing plan proposes
a system "which would be unjust
to union labor and would lower
efficiency in the placement of
labor."
A flood of resolutions was in
troduced during the opening ses
sions. They included:
1. Treating conscientious objec
tors as aliens and deserters and
making; them ineligible to work
for $2.50 a day.
2. Favoring the Brown amend
merit to the Hatch act to permit
teachers to participate in politics.
3. Making civil service status
mandatory for state, county and
municipal employes.
-4. Seeking amendment of the
nBtni loyraent compensation
law to Include employers with
a quarterly payroll of $150,
with one or more employes.
. Nickerson, in his annual report,
said that "one phase of the freez
ing process that of requiring j all
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Words Scarce on New Blows
Against Alaskan Invaders;
Aircraft Carrier Struck
JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, June 15 (AP)-Striking again
at the Japanese, this time far north in the Aleutians,
American air power has sunk at least one cruiser and
damaged seven other vessels, including an aircraft car
rier, it was officially disclosed Monday night.
The blows were delivered against a Jap force striv
ing desperately to break into the western hemisphere
by conquering a few bleak islands far out in the north
ern Pacific.
While officials refrained from making any de
cisive claims, it appeared
third great American sea-air
Vessel in Gulf
Victim of Subs
5 Reported Sinkings
Boost Atlantic Toll
Of War to 270
By The Associated Press
Deadly axis U-boats have crept
Mick into-the gulf of Mexico, free
from underwater raiders for
two weeks, the navy reported
Monday night in announcing the
sinking of a large Panamanian
merchant vessel.
Blasting of this, ship and four
others elsewhere boosted the an
nounced sinkings in the Atlantic
and adjacent waters to 270 since
Pearl Harbor.
In addition the navy authorized
an announcement of the disap
pearance of the New Orleans
freighter Miraflores of the Stand
ard Fruit and Steamship Co. The
2158-ton ship sailed from Haiti
February 14 for New York and
has been unreported since. She
carried a crew of 34.
The other four ships torpedoed
were an American merchantman,
a small US merchant vessel, the
Norwegian tanker South Africa
and an unidentified craft. At least
186 seamen were rescued from
these four and the Panamanian
merchantman and at least nine
were killed.
Only one life was lost when a
submarine sank the ship in the
Gulf June 11 and 58 sailors were
saved. Survivors reported two
quick torpedoes caused the ship
to list so badly that its deck gun
ners were unable to fire.
After a submarine sank the
small US merchantman off the
south coast of Cuba June 7, one
of the U-boat crewmen dived
into the water and picked up a
life preserver to establish the
identity of the victim. The tor
pedoing cost six lives and 27
men were rescued.
Survivors of the larger Amer
ican merchant craft sent to the
bottom June 1 south of Cuba,
twice out-argued would-be res-
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Senate Okelis
Family Help
WASHINGTON, June 15.-ff)
The senate speedily approved
Monday legislation to aid the fam
ilies of service men through a
system of pay allotments and gov
ernment grants.
The measure, w,hich now goes
to the house, clears the way for
the drafting of husbands and
fathers who are family breadwin
ners , if army and navy .heeds
should require it. One of its pro
visions, however, authorizes the
president, to direct draft boards
to take into consideration a man's
family relationships . when the
question, of Inducting him arises.
Sunday' Weather
Weather. ; forecasts withheld
and temperature data delayed
by US army request Sunday's
max. temp. . 74, Bin, 52. Elver
Monday, JL ft.
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to many authorities that a
victory was in the making
to add to those which only re
cently repelled the enemy, in de
structive routs, from Australia
in the southwest Pacific and
Midway island in the mid-Pacific.
Breaking a three-day silence
on Japan's attempt to gain a
hold on the rocky islands at the
tip of the Aleutian chain, a navy
communique and a report which
came indirectly from Lieut. Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, army air chief,
gave this accounting of Japanese
losses:
Sunk One cruiser.
Damaged One aircraft car
rier, three cruisers, one destroy
er, one gunboat and one trans
port. (The damage to several
of these vessels was severe.)
Army and navy aircraft, ham
pered by fog and foul weather,
are continuing their attacks, the
communique said, and the indi
cation was that more successes
might be expected. So far, no
American losses have been re
ported; -
"Except for these continuing
air attacks upon the enemy land
ing parties and their supporting
naval contingents, the general
situation in the Aleutian islands
appears unchanged," the navy
declared.
This statement was interpreted
authoritatively to mean that no
word had come through of fur
ther Japanese encroachments on
Aleutian territory in addition to
those reported last Friday.
It was stated at that time that
small-scale landing had been
effected on Attu island, a rocky
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HOW WAS
FATHER'S DAY
CONCEIVED?
It was a Mrs. JohnJSruce
Dodd, 'way back in 1 909
in Seattle, Washington . . ,
seems her Father was a
swell guy In addition to
the everyday kind of
goodhearte dness he
shared with most Fathers
. . . his concessions that
the living room rug was
no ash tray, and his yield
ing of the family horse-and-buggy
to the kid3 for
a date (sometimes!) . . he
must have had something"
unforgettable, singular.'or
even great ql? out hirh.
Looking back,-after she
was married. "Mrs.- Dodd
resolved to" ho h o r" her
Jather with something no
i
one seems to have.mought
of before . . . ix national
holiday " dedicated, to r ALL
Fathers. - So t he r e you
have it ... In 1909 Fath
er's Day came into being.
in Making
If