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Service Men Oar boys of Salem ud vicinity are in uniform with Uncle Sam ever the face of the globe. Follow them daily la The Statesman's 'Service Hen' column. Going Away? Going away, ea a raca Uon ar il war Job? BaT The Statesman follow yon, to keep you posted on create at home. Call till for de tails. FOUNDCC7, 1651 NINETY-SECOND YEAR Satan, Oregon. Wednesday Monuncj. Juno 17, 1942 Price 5c No. II Thousands - See Two U Torpedoed Navy Planes, Boats Search For Submerged U-boat Off Virginia; One Ship Sunk NORFOLK, Va., June 16 (AP) An enemy submarine torpedoed two large American merchant ships Monday with in view of thousands of persons who stared seaward spell bound as bombing planes, a navy blimp and a half dozen naval surface ships roared over the area in search of the daring- undersea raider, dropping bombs and depth charges that sent huge geysers of water skyward. The navy had no comment as to the fate of the sub marine in announcing the twin attack Tuesday. Only one man was killed in the torpedoings, which occurred about Fear of Power Bill Described Tugman and Pierce jHeard by Committee On Measure WASHINGTON, June 16-JP) An Oregon newspaper editor told a joint congressional committee Tuesday people of his state were "fearful" of legislation to create a Columbia power authority to mar ket energy from the big Bonne ville and Grand Coulee federal hydroelectric projects. William M. Tugman of the Eu gene Register-Guard asked the committee to proceed cautiously and slowly in considering the Smith-Bone bills (SA2430 and HR6890) which would set up the authority to purchase private utilities in the Pacific northwest and resell them to municipalities and public utility districts. "There is a sincere and far reaching difference of opinion en these bills in the northwest," the editor told the committee. "We want this committee to consider all the complex factors Involved." He said Oregon elections to de termine creation of public utility districts had resulted negatively in a majority of cases. Tugman said public ownership of utilities should "grow from the ground up and not be handed to you top down" and told of the operation of Eugene's municipal plant, to which he pointed with pride. The editor charged the Bonne ville power administration "med dled" in local politics, and said that should the Columbia author ity be created, there might be a tendency toward control, of mu nicipally operated plants! "I have no illusions about private power companies and the methods they have used at certain times." he added, "bat methods employed by Bonne ville to promote Its ideas are (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) JLandis Calls Oregon Okeh Owen Says Interest Shown in Civil Defense Plans ' Keen interest in the plan of civilian defense control center operation adopted by the city of Portland, was displayed by James M. Landis, federal director of the office of civilian defense, at a meeting of state council execu tives in Washington recently, Jer rold Owen, Oregon civilian de fense director, declared upon his return here Tuesday. Landis unequivocally said that the criticism ol civilian defense activity on the P a c 1 f i c coast, which he made on a recent trip here, did not apply to Oregon. Owen said Landis displayed a de sire to cooperate with state civil ian defense organizations and agreed to revise j regulations and forms to which objections have been made by the states. Regional and sectional directors of the office "of civilian defense who attempt to dictate state pro grams and operations were mild ly criticized by Landis, Owen de clared. ' Prohibition Asked PHILADELPHIA, June 18-P) A resolution asking President Roosevelt to impose national pro hibition by executive order during the war was adopted Tuesday by the Women's Christian Temper 'fcnee Union of Philadelphia. S Ships 30 minutes apart. He was Rubin Redwine of Philadelphia, second assistant engineer aboard one of the ships. There were 46 in the crew of the vessel and 62 in the crew- of the other. The first ship attacked remained afloat until late Monday night and the other was towed into a port. Soldiers, sailors and coast guardsmen cleared the Virginia beach for a stretch of 100 yards in front of a coast guard station and held back the crowds as a surf boat brought ashore three empty lifeboats and the body of Redwine, which was found float ing about a half mile from his ship. His shipmates believed he was hurled overboard by the ex plosion of the torpedo. A hush fell over the throng of bathers and pleasure seekers as Redwine's body, covered with oil, was removed from the surf boat nad carried to the coast guard sta tion. Bedwine's 45-shipmates had abandoned the ship In three lifeboats shortly after a single torpedo tore into their vessel's starboard side forward of , the amidship ' house. After .rowing part of the six miles to "shore they were picked up by a pa trol boat and landed several miles down the beach. The lifeboats were towed ashore by a coast ruard surfboat From the time of the first at tack, which occurred shortly af ter 5 p.m., until late Monday night, thousands of persons lined the beach and watched the planes, blimp and surface craft pursue their grim game of hide and seek with the enemy raider. First Engineer A. W. Brown of Philadelphia told newsmen in an interview granted by the navy the ship was armed but the gun crew had no opportunity for a (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) FR Proposals Rejected, Tax $25,000-Top Plan Goes To Shelf; President , Dissatisfied, Speed WASHINGTON, June 16-(P) President Roosevelt expressed dissatisfaction with the progress of the long-pending tax bill Tues day as the house ways and means committee shelved his suggestion to limit ; individual incomes to $25,000 after payment of taxes. By almost unanimous consent, the committee decided there was insufficient time now for a de tailed study of this question. Another presidential sugges tion to separate the new excise taxes from the rest of the bill and rush them to enactment so the treasury could start collecting- them more speedily also was rejected. Chairman Dough ton (D-NC) of the committee commented "it is too late now to divide the bilL" The president, discussing the matter at his press conference, remarked the tax portion of his anti-inflation program was be hind schedule and every day which passed without action on the tax bill was costing the treas ury considerable money. Mr. Roosevelt did not answer direct ly a question whether he would prefer to have a sales tax voted rather than have the revenue measure fall short of the $8,700, 000,000 goal, commenting only he hoped a bill would reach him eventually sometime this year. Our Senators Lcsi 10-7 .ai msm aliami Great Nazi Losses Svfi Inflicted on narkov Sectors cr Counter-Attack Surprises Germans; Nazi Stormers at Sevastopol Pay Heavily; Many Tanks Destroyed By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Wednesday, June 17-P-Soviet forces counter attacked in one sector of the Kharkov front Tuesday and in the battle for Sevastopol inflicted frightful losses among 125,000 nazis storming furiously and futilely at the Black sea naval base, the government announced early Wednesday. Surprising the Germans, Marshal Timoshenko's forces wiped New Job MRS. GEORGE R. K. MOORHEAD County Health Worker Quits Mrs. Moorhead Joins Staff of U of O Medical School Mrs. George R. K. Moorhead has been appointed field secre tary of the division of social hy giene at the University of Ore gon Medical school, according to announcement Tuesday by Dr. Donald M. Erb, president of the university. Mrs. Moorhead will work with Dr. Adolph Weinzirl in the devel opment of a social hygiene pro gram for the state which is being established through funds . from the Brown estate. Mrs. Moorhead will begin her duties on July 1 with headquarters in Portland. Mrs. Moorhead has served as director of health education for the Marion county department of health and executive secretary of the Marion county public health association for the past six years. She has submitted her resigna tion to the board of directors, ef fective June 30. Mrs. Moorhead has been re sponsible for the successful 'tu berculosis seal sales in Marion county and it was through her efforts that Marion county was awarded its first state honor this year. Tinkham Gilbert, president of the Marion county public health association, has appointed a com mittee to interview applicants for the position of executive secre tary. Mrs. Moorhead is chairman of department of public welfare of (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) fc. - V ' ':Kv;-a Camp Makes Salem Salem, city of salaries, took stock this week and reclassified herself as a payroll metropolis, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks to be cashed often after banking hours by men and women employed at inearby Camp Adair. i , Somewhere between a half million and a million dollars monthly Is flowing Into the capital city from the canton ment construction, a rough check revealed Tuesday. This, in addition to the seasonal increase in paychecks which be gins in Salem with the strawber ry harvest and the preparation of hopyards for the summer grow ing period and to the recently restored payroll at the Oregon Pulp & Paper company's sawmill, is reflected in purchases of mer chandise as well as war bonds and in new bank accounts as well as payment of old debts, merchants and bankers declared. At Salem chamber of com out an enure enemy column in a sharp counterthrust in the Khar kov area, the midnight communi que reported, while in other sec tors about the big Ukraine indus trial center repeated German charges were smashed. With these two fronts blazing with fierce but still indecisive fighting, the Russians launched a minor drive of their own in the long quiescent Bryansk sector, southwest of Moscow, and in a spurt of activity on the Leningrad front ejected the nazis from a strongly fortified position. More than 400 Germans were reported killed in this engage ment, one of many which flared up and down the front Tuesday as local sparring continued on a widening scale. Another 200 of the enemy were slain in the red army's counter attack on the Kharkov front, and 30 armored vehicles and four tanks were destroyed. In red air force attacks Fri day, presumably In the Sevasto pol battle, the Russians report ed a 3000-ton transport and two motor boats sunk, four trans ports and two patrol boat d&ai-' aged. The Soviet airmen also were credited with destroying 12 tanks, 100 heavily laden trucks and an entire railroad train. In one small corner of the siege lines at Sevastopol, red navy ma rines broke into German trenches and killed 250, the high command said. T a s s, the official news agency, said three infantry regi ments of perhaps 7500 men "were exterminated" in beating back heavy German attacks. Fifty tanks (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) No Reports On Aleutians WASHINGTON, June 16.-(JP) The army and navy were silent Tuesday night on the progress of fighting in the Aleutian area, where American planes are re ported to have sunk a Japanese cruiser and damaged a carrier and six other vessels of the enemy invasion fleet. It was pointed out that foggy weather and poor flying condi tions frequently have interrupted the American attacks on Japanese landing parties at Attu, most re mote of the Aleutian chain. The latest navy communique issued last night, said air at tacks on enemy landing parties and their supporting naval con tingents were continuing. Dies at Tillamook TILLAMOOK, June 16-() Franzel L. Mills, 43, prominent Tillamook merchant, died here Monday. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. merce offices where the Salem Realty board operates a bousing service, "desirable" houses and apartments were snapped up almost as rapidly as they went on the rental market the past three weeks, it waa said. Less call was noted for rooms or for room and board. In spite of this apparent in flux of workers and their fami lies, by far the larger share of the cantonment payroll checks cashed here have been written to regular residents of this area, bankers believed. Small farmers, school teachers, laborers, - a variety - of ; men . and women to whom the "big" checks of defense workers still appear oversize have ; "salted away; a portion of their earnings, but have bought also not only work clothes but in many cases a better grade of dress clothing than previously demanded, merchants . indicated. Unaware of what share of their sales were to cantonment work esse Lexington' Will Sail Again WASHINGTON, June 16,-iA3) The navy announced Tuesday another "Lexington' will be launched shortly to replace the carrier destroyed in the battle of the Coral sea. The new vessel, nnder con struction at the Fore River plant of the Bethlehem Steel com pany at Quincy, Mass., had been scheduled for commissioning as the USS Cabot, the navy said. Bat the name was changed, spokesman explained, after 2,000 workers at the shipyard requested she be christened the Lexington to "thunder destruc tion on the enemies of the United States." Dependent Aid Bill Is Passed Amendment Designed To Prevent Breakup Of Home Life WASHINGTON, June ld.-(JP) A bill making financial provision for soldiers' and sailors' depend ents and stating a congressional policy that the selective service should "not break up the insti nation of the home" was passed Tuesday by the house and sent to the White House. A measure raising the pay of the armed forces to a minimum of $50 a month, to cover contributions to dependents, also awaits Presi dent Roosevelt's signature. The dependents' allotment bill was intended primarily to pro- Vide assistance to the dependents of service men of the lower pay 4 grades, up to line sergeants in the army and third class petty officers in the navy. It was Lamended in the senate to make a sweeping change in the draft status of family men. This amendment, finally ap proved by both branches after conference, gives the president authority, through the selective service system, to defer men having wives or children with whom they maintain a bona fide family relationship in their homes. Heretofore married men with dependents have been de ferred on financial grounds. The new legislation, while rec ognizing the financial aspects of dependency, permits deferment of family heads primarily be cause of their family status. A married man whose dependents have adequate income from other sources could be deferred be cause of his family relationship. Chairman May (D-Ky) of the military committee told the house that the purpose of the amend ment was to emphasize the con gressional policy "not to break up the institution of the home. Men at the head of households, May said, will not be drafted until all other available manpower has been exhausted. Some local boards, May said, have been drafting married men with self-supporting dependents; others likely would feel that fi nancial dependency no longer con stitutes a .valid reason for de ferment in view of the payments provided. While payments under the bill should be taken Into con sideration, house conferees said in their report, they should not be deemed conclusively to re (Turn to Page 2, Col. 8) 'Payroll Metropolis' ers but knowing that some of them could be so credited, gro cers said homemakers from fami lies on the new payroll bought a little more lavishly, talked vita mins in preference to filling qual ities of foods. One restauranteur estimated a 33 per cent increase in business the past month which in other years might have been credited to tourist trade. Late closing hours made beer parlors and poolhalls favorites for the cashing of payroll checks in early-closing Salem business area. . Through Salem banks last week flowed approximately SlsO.OOO in known cantonment payroll from definitely "out side" sources. That Is, neither bank included in its figures Portland or Salem checks, al ' though at least two primary and three or four secondary con tractors are local firms, carrying their accounts and paying their employes here. State institu milk in Battle First Participation By US in Told as Carriers Given Nod for New Naval Shins i Construction Bill Calls For No Battleships; Reliance Shifted WASHINGTON, June IMA3) Legislators disclosed Tuesday the navy has charted a new and precedent-shattering course in warship construction, with a decision to concentrate on building of airplane carriers at the expense of new battleships heretofore considered the back bone of sea power. Emphasizing crowing recog nition of the vital role of air power in the world conflict, the house naval committee approved an $8,500,000,000 measure call ing for 500,000 tons of carriers and omitting any provision for new battleships. In its entirety, the measure contemplates con struction of 1400 ships of all other types. The plan to concentrate on car rier strength was considered espe cially significant in view of smashing American aerial blows at Japanese sea and air power in the Coral sea, Midway and Aleu tian areas. The decision was first disclosed by Sens. Ellender (D-La) and Brewster (R-Me), members of .the senate naval affairs committee. In separate interviews, they told reporters top-ranking admirals had said the United States would start no new battleships and that some heavy cruisers, now under con struction, would be converted to carriers. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house naval committee, like wise said work has been de ferred temporarily on "four or five battleships in order to con centrate on carriers." While the navy has far from abandoned battleships altogether, he said, events had proved conclusively the aircraft carrier "is the back bone of the fleet" The navy appeared to sound at least a temporary death-knell for the contemplated, huge 60,000-ton battlewagons which it has had un der design more than a year. Brewster announced plans for these giants were being abandoned for the present, but both he and Vinson stressed the capital ships nearing completion would be launched and commissioned as planned. Monday's Weather By army request, weather forecasts are withheld and tem perature data delayed. Mon day's max. temp. 63, min. 52. Tuesday river, 3 ft tions have quoted their annual payrolls as approximately $2,- eev.oot. Gloomsters who counted the cantonment construction workers' funds spent thriftily in most cases here and looked ahead to comple tion of most of the work at Camp Adair by August 1 were reminded by more optimistic persons that bids are to be opened in Portland today for construction work at the Salem airport, and that the army will have moved into Adair before the workmen have moved out While size of the project at the Salem airport was not announced for publication, E. A. HilL civilian superintendent, commenced work of establishing his office in the hangar building there Tuesday. Surveyors staked i locations for barracks to house airmen and ground crews at the new airbase and actual construction was ex pected to commence within a mat ter of hours. - M'edi Air Force Wins Army Liberators9 in Fight To Sink Cruiser, Others When Convoy Is Attacked LONDON, June 16 (AP)-US army four-motored "Liberators," RAF torpedo planes and warships of the Brit ish fleet were disclosed Tuesday night to have sunk one of Italy's two remaining heavy cruisers, left two Italian battle ships battered and burning, least six other enemy men - of - churned the central and eastern Mediterranean since Saturday. It was the first officially air forces in the Mediterranean theatre, now blazing into Salvager Bruce, Hollywood actress, (above) meets President Roo sevelt's appeal to all Americans to search for scrap rubber with . this batch of discarded rubber boots and tires. She ransacked her own home, canvassed her neighbors and was able to de-L liver a wheelbarrow load of scrap rubber to a gas station reception depot Rubber Hills Keep Growing State Gives 200 Tons; Farm Senators See Rubber in Wheat Foothillfof discarded tires grew into mountains in service station yards of the mid-valley area Tuesday and more than 200 tons of scrap rubber had been sold in Oregon to roll into war produc tion during the first 48 hours of the concentrated nationwide drive for the salvage material, state war production authorities estimated. Service stations in the Salem district affiliated with one major oil company had gathered 20 tons by Monday night; others expected to tally their purchases today, and more than 100 tons of rubber had already moved into the Portland area, it was said. One dealer here Monday was reported to have sold five carloads of tires and inner tubes. Not Just tires and tubes, al though they made the greatest showing in the first-day's sal vage, but all types "of rubber goods past their days of useful ness are wanted. It was em phasised over the nation. . County employes in Los An geles were urged to contribute discarded rubber stamps and chair seat pads. In Washington, .DC, President Roosevelt said Tuesday he thought it was a grand idea for people to contribute rubber mats ' from their automobiles Jo the scrap rubber collection cam paign, which he declared had got off to a big start. Trom the i White House family, he disclosed to The Associated Press; there were con tributions of a basket of rubber toys and even his Scottie dog, (Turn to Page 2 CoL 4) v """""" m - ' - - - V 0 k(ll , ? 4v, ."J "wi "J I' kill Carol terranean and destroyed or damaged at war in the battles which have recorded participation of US I full summer activity. coecial communiques from the ' command in Cairo and the .iralty and air ministry in London piled up impressive re ports of allied successes after two days of axis claims of the smash ing of two great convoys, bound from both east and west for Malta and Tobruk. The Germans and Italians announced a total of 16 allied vessels, including eight cruisers or destroyers, had been sunk for sure and 38 other ships had been damaged, some of them being called total losses. Replying to this, the admiralty- air ministry communique an nounced flatly the convoys had delivered the goods to both Malta and Tobruk in the face of the heaviest kind of attacks by su perior enemy naval and air forces. It was conceded there were British losses; they were not specified, but . the communique said "the fantastic enemy claims to have sunk cruisers and to have damaged battleships and an aircraft carrier are without any foundation." This communique listed a 10,000-ton eight inch cruiser of the Trento class and at least two destroyers sunk by "his majes ty's ships, naval aircraft the RAF and the United States army air corps," in addition to heavy losses inflicted on the axis air squadrons. It was the Cairo RAF headquar ters, however, which told the more complete story of how the big Consolidated B-24's of the new US army air force establish ment in the middle-east cracked the backbone of the Italian fleet just off Italian shores. The total damage wrought by these American bombers and by the RAF and British fleet air arm torpedo planes was: Sinking of the Trento cruiser in a combined American -British assault; setting afire and damaging the two Italian bat (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 6) DODE3K& HELM! Plan now To read Your Thursday Statesman F,0r wide Selections - :0f.pfu:;;. j; For Father ; Offered; ...By your y Salem V ; Merchants!