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Thm OREGON STATESMAN. Salem Oregon, Thursday Morning June 18. 1942
Nimitz
Losses
Pacific Cominch Has Praise
For Airmen and Submarines,
Says Strength Increasing
By WALTER B. CLAUSEN
ABOARD A FIGHTING SHIP, Pearl Harbor, June 17-(P)
Admiral Chester W. Himitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific
fleet, said Wednesday that Japanese personnel losses in the
Coral sea and Midway battles were at least ten times greater
than ours, and their plane losses
In every battle with the enemy since December 7, he said,
"his losses have greatly exceeded
UTS."
The admiral, whose master
ful strategy set the stage for one
of the world's greatest naval
battles and utterly destroyed a
formidable Japanese plan to oc
cupy the Hawaiian islands, de
clared that air power "has taken
the leading role in fleet engage
ments of the war in the Pacific
and will continue to do so as the
war progresses."
The commander-in-chief of the
fleet eulogized the heroes of the
battle of Midway island in an
emotion stirring scene aboard this
fighting ship.
"We are greatly increasing our
fighting strength," he said. "Our
ihips, planes and pilots are being
added in constantly increasing
numbers. It soon will be possible
to organize additional carrier
groups." Until that time, the ad
miral asked the veterans of the
battles recently passed "to hold
the line until our reinforcements
re ready to take over."
(Only Tuesday, in Washington,
Chairman Vinson of the house
naval committee disclosed that
work was being deferred tem
porarily on "four or five battle
chips in order to concentrate on
carriers. New legislation to aug
ment the naval forces lays em
phasis on carriers, cruisers and
destroyers. )
The ceremony recalled those
'historic words uttered bf the
commander in the closing hours
of the treat battle:
"Pearl Harbor has rfow been
partially avenged."
Wednesday, Admiral Nimitz
aid:
"Officers and men of the Paci
fic fleet. I take great pleasure
In quoting the following from a
dispatch from the secretary of the
navy.
" 'Now that returns are all in
end the full magnitude of the vic
tory is established, as Secretary
of the Navy I want to extend to
you my heartfelt congratulations
of the magnificent victory won by
the forces under your command.
The battle of Midway will pro
Tide one of the most inspiring
pages in American naval history
for all time. I should like to ex
tend through you to your officers
and men the expression of pro
found gratitude of the entire navy
for the courage, resolution and
resourcefulness which the men of
the navy and the marine corps
comprising the forces under your
command displayed in this ac
tion.' "Although the results obtained
in the Midway action," continued
Nimitz, "are properly attributed
to the fine teamwork of all ser
vices working together, I wish
particularly to commend the of
ficers and men of the carrier air
groups who formed the spear
heads and shock forces of the at
tack, not only at Midway but in
the P-ral sep srd before that, in
the Marshall-Gilbert and Wake
Marcus operations."
"Air power has taken the lead
ing role in fleet engagements of
- the war in the Pacific and will
continue to do so as the war prog
resses. Veterans among the car
rier air groups pioneered the air
tactics that have been so efficient
against the enemy.
"Owing to the enemy's treat
initial air superiority, there has
been little oppert unity for rest
c relief of carrier air groups
and their lasses have been
heavv. Although we feel keenly
the loss of manr Tine officers
and men, we take pride in
knowing- they gave their lives
is turn back rravr threats te
r country.
"We can take satisfaction in
the knowledge that in every meet
' tnc with the enemy since Decem
ber 7 his losses have greatly ex
ceedd ours, and that in the Coral
sea and Midway actions his per
sonnel losses were at least ten 1
times greater than ours, and his I
.plane loes in almost the s?me
ratio.
"We are greatly increasing our
'battle strength. Our shops, planes
and pilots are being added in con
stantly increasing numbers. It will
toon be possible to organize addi
tional carrier groups and to ro
tate them through carriers in or
der that there may be periods of
relief for our hard-pressed vet
erans. . "Until that time I ask that each
nd every one of these veterans
continue, with unswerving per
erverance and devotion, to hold
.the line until our reinforcements
are ready to take over.
"the Coral sea and Midway
battles aft the first in history in
which -great aerial duels were
fought by carrier fleets. Our air
groups fcave " proved, by their
.Skill and courage, the superiority
bf our forces. They hava shown
that in our ships, in our planes
nd In our personnel Is the stuff
i that makes for victory.
' "Particularly worthy af .
ffen Is the wark of -"
Declares Japs'
Much. Greater
in the same proportion.
marines. These snips are usual
ly present at the klU, or have
had a hand in the events lead
ing up to the point Their work
roes on under difficult condi
tions day and night, weeks on
end. They probably spend more
time in hazardous contact with
the enemy than any other
branch of the service."
"The many acts of outstanding
gallantry and courage will not go
unrewarded, Assurance is given
that necessary recommendations
will go forward as rapidly as cir
cumstances will permit
"And now I am proud to be
able to bestow, in the name of the
President of the United States,
medal awards to the personnel of
two widely-divergent elements
of the fleet submarines an3 avia
tion. With their brothers-in-arms
of the surface squadrons, they are
as one in indomitable courage and
cool resourcefulness in actkti with
the enemy."
State Grange
Hears Justice
Douglas Avers Need
For Cooperative
Era at War's End
(Continued from Page
1)
and women with hoes and plowti
and tractors men and women on
production lines men and women
In civilian defense men and
women who expose their lives
and their loved ones to the en
emy's assault, and who do not fal
ter or despair.
"The farmers of China, culti
vating narrow terraces in hun
dreds of remote canyons, the ar
tisans of China- making ammuni
tion by hand in dozens of dark
caves, stand behind the armies
which have resisted the Japanese
for five weary years. The same is
true in Russia, in England and in
Australia. The same is true here."
Earlier, the State Grange
ratified the election of Morton
Thompkins, Dayton, as master
succeeding Ray W. Gill. Port
land, veteran master who re
fused renomination. La Grande
got the 1943 convention.
Other officers: Elmer McClure,
Wilwaukie, overseer; Blanche
Pickering, Warrenton, lecturer;
Bertha Beck, Portland, secretary;
Ray W. Gill and Peter Zimmer
man, Yamhill, executive commit
teemen; Roscoe Roberts, Jackson
county, steward; Allen Wheeler,
Lane, assistant steward; Arthur
Brown, Polk, chaplain; Glen L.
Adams, Polk, treasurer; Ruth Pot
ter, Gilliam, Ceres, Mabel Hughes,
Josephine, Pomona, Lucy Wood
ward, Umatilla, lady assistant
steward.
There were three ties which
will be voted off later: Mrs. Min
nie McFarland, Morrow, and
Henry Gustafson, Coos, third ex
ecutive committeeman; Arthur
Ilahn, Harney, and Max Kligel,
Multnomah, gatekeeper; Bertha
Honscom. Umatilla, and Ethel
Parker, Malheur, Flora.
Woolen Fabric
Gets Ceilinir
WASHINGTON, June 17 -(JP)-By
issuing a price ceiling on
worsted and woolen fabrics, with
prices lowered as much as 25
cents a yard in some cases, the
office of price administration
Wednesday paved the way for
special ceiling order, expected
shortly, on men's suits and over
coats. -
The new order also included an
Inducement to mills to mix at
least 25 per cent of rayon or cot
ton in their fabrics. This was in
the form of a price premium
for such blended goods.
The new order on worsted and
woolen sets individual ceilings for
each mill by going back to the
mill's price in its last selling seas
on and adding specified percen
tages or mark-up to cover ii
creased ce-.ts from that time up to
March, 1942.
Snorts
EUGENE. Ore., June 17.-;p
The Eugene Athletics captured
their fifth straight Oregon State
baseball league victory Wednes
day night with a 4-2 win over
Silverton.
"Oscar Miller pitched effective
ball in the pinches for the league
leaders, whiffing eight Red Sox.
Silverton ,000 000 0112 9 4
Eugene .100 011 01x-4 2
Day' and Riesco; Miliar and
Bishop. ' T -
New Aviators
Score for US
Allied Raid on Italian
Fleet Called Easy
By Hoosier Leader
(Continued from Page 1)
don that both convoys got through
with needed supplies but the cost
was conceded to be "consider
able," because of violent German
and Italian air attacks.
No tabulation of" convoy losses
was given, but one source said it
was believed that the British lost j
no warship larger than a destroy-1
er and that four merchant ships
were sunk or damaged.
, The combined German-Italian
claims in the four-day run
ning fight added up to 53
ships sunk or damaged a fig
ure that the British admiralty
scornfully dismissed as "fantas
tic." Besides the axis naval losses,
the RAF announced that 14 axis
planes were shot down at sea on
Monday alone and many others
probably never reached their
bases, so badly were they hit.
The convoy which reached Mal
ta (and which apparently suf
fered the heaviest of the axis at
tacks) was shepherded the final
300 miles by relays of RAF fight
ers which sallied out from Malta
continuously from Sunday night
until the convoy arrival Monday
night.
Nothing was said in London to
confirm speculation that United
States warships might have been
in the convoys. The Consolidated
Liberators were the only Ameri
can fighting forces specifically
mentioned as participating. All
the American planes got back to
their bases said their commander,
Maj. A. F. Kalberer of Lafayette,
Ind.
Interviewed Wednesday at
an allied air base in the Libyan
desert, he calmly reported that
the whole operation was a sim
ple as "shooting fish in a bar
rel." At another point he remarked
that it was all as smooth and sim
ple "as a commercial air flight.
Kalberer should know, for in
peace-time he flew moret than
1,000,000 miles for United Air
Lines on runs between Tulsa and
Ponca City, Kansas City and Chi
cago, and Chicago and New York.
In 1937 he began flying the Ba-tavia-Naples
route for KLM (Roy
al Dutch Airlines), then flew in
the East Indies before joining the
US army air forces.
Pension at
Age 60 Asked
(Continued From Page 1)
provide jobs for its administra
tive staff."
Other resolutions sought a
safety code for outside electrical
workers, $300 wage increase for
all federal employes, increased
funds for the ' state labor bureau,
appointment of a labor represen
tative to the tax conservation
commission, graduated hourly pay
schedule for substitute postal
employes, overtime pay of lhk
time for postoffice employes, abo
lition of trade barriers in truck
transportation.
The federation asked that
culinary workers be brought
under the industrial accident
law and urged support far the
wider use of domestic coal in
Oreron.
It also asked "that wage rates
of men's jobs passing into wom
en's hands during the war be
protected. Ambulance service for
conscientious objectors also was
advocated but those refusing to
enter it would be put into intern
ment. Finances Are
Considered
Problems of finance topped all
other subjects for discussion when
the new executive board of the
Marion county republican central
committee met for its first ses
sion Wednesday night at the Mar
ion hotel. ,
Named to the state finance
committee, George Manolis is to
serve with Chairman C. A. Lewis
and with Mrs. R. I Wright on
the county - committee's delega
tion at the state central commit
tee meeting called for Jane 28 at
the Imperial hotel, Portland.
Walter Lamkin was appointed
chairman of 'the budget' commit
tee, to which were also named
Frederick S. Lamport, Mrs.
Wright, Harry Humphreys, and
Manolis. -"
Kiwanis Club Elects
CLEVELAND, June J. 7-(P)
Fred G. McAlister, a London, Out,
attorney who believes service
clubs can materially aid the war
effort, Wednesday became "presi
dent of Kiwanis International.
Board Okehs
State Fair
Annual Show to Go on
If Military Permit
Can Be Obtained
(Continued From Page 1)
will be charged, except a small
sum probably 25 cents
for each car. This sum will be
baaed on she car, and not the
number of occupants.
The grandstand admission will
probably be increased to 50 cents
to offset partially the free gate.
Under the limited fair, no live
stock exhibits, either open class
or junior dviisions, will be held,
as the north section of the
grounds is now occupied by sol
aiers and there is no assurance
that there will not be soldiers on
part of the grounds at fair time.
If soldiers occupy Dart of the
grounds at that time, a barricade
will be erected to keep the fan
crowd in the south section of the
grounds. Neither will there be a
poultry show or county exhibits.
Taking cognizance of requests
for use of the grounds for special
entertainment features, the agri
culture board expressed its judg
ment that the fair officials should
not go further than they already
have in opening the fairgrounds
to the public for entertainment
features.
Budget Director George Aiken
spoke briefly to the board, ex
plaining the necessity for cur
tailing use of state cars due to
the serious rubber shortage. He
asked that state cars which are
now being withdrawn to make a
rubber pool and parts stock pile
be stored in a desirable place on
the fairgrounds.
Earlier in the day the board
heard reports from department
division heads and approved pro
posals outlined by Director J. D.
Mickle for curtailment of expenses
of department operations.
Four Allied
Ships Sunk
Survivors Landed in
Ports; Only Nine
Found of 100
(Continued From Page 1)
lost. Seven crew members who
were last seen clinging to a life
raft were reported missing.
The loss of 24 crewmen most
of them caught below decks was
disclosed by survivors of the Hon
duran vessel. The 35 seamen who
were rescued told of drifting on
rafts for six days before aid fi
nally arrived.
The landing of 14 survivors
from an unidentified allied mer
chantman was announced from an
eastern Canadian port. Survivors
refused to discuss details sur
rounding the torpedoing of their
ship but it was learned that one
of the crew died aboard a rescue
craft.
In Havana, the newspaper El
Pais reported a US vessel had ar
rived in Cuba with 20 survivors
of an unnamed Nicaraguan steam
er which was torpedoed.
From Mexico City, official
Mexican naval reports indicat
ed no trace had been found of
any survivors of the Dutch
steamer KNSM other than the
nine crew members who landed
at Quintana Roo Tuesday. Ac
cording to the newspaper El
Universal Graflco, the total
number aboard the vessel was
about 109.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
Hull declined to comment on re
ports from Rio De Janeiro specif
ically mentioning the Spanish
freighter Aldecoa as having sup
plied fuel to an axis submarine
during a recent South American
run. Hull stated he had no infor
mation regarding the incident
since the affair was a naval mat
ter. Canada Gasoline
Ration Sliced
OTTAWA, June 17-W- The
government announced Wednes
day a 20 per cent reduction of the
gasoline ration in the provinces
of Quebec, Ontario and British
Columbia but held out hopes of
an increase shortly for the mari
time provinces, which recently
suffered a drastic cut.
The reduction of the unit in theT
three provinces was to permit
refineries to change their runs so
a$ to produce more fuel for heat
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Recognition of Battle Effect
Given by Aussie Minister
As Allied Fight Deepens
(Continued- From Page 1)
forces in Alaska. Lieut.-Gen. Ken
neth Stuart, chief of the Canadian
general staff, made the announce
ment as he arrived at Victoria to
take over temporarily as chief of
the Canadian Pacific command.
The Japanese enemy "himself
was forging strongly ahead in his
large-scale m o p-u p campaign
against the Free Chinese armies.
With the undisputed capture of
Shangjae, an important station on
the 450-mile Chekiang-Kiangsi
railway, he lacked but 50 miles of
having the whole important line.
The Chinese said Shangjae had
cost the Japanese 8000 casualties.
In the Pacific the enemy also
held on. There was nothing to
indicate he had been ejected as
yet from the foothold he has seized
on the soil of North America, in
the barren, fogbound Aleutian
islands which trail like a pigtail
from the headlands of Alaska.
This was the Mediterranean pic
ture:
In the Libyan desert the
British eighth army, after three
weeks of destructive battle with
the powerful German-Italian
African corps, found itself in a
position of tank inferiority, and
it remained to be seen whether
the reinforcements just deliver
ed to Tobruk would be enough
for counter-attack. The British
advanced line in the desert had
been completely engufed and
the imperials were holding posi
tions In a semi-circle about To
bruk, fortified desert seaport
80 miles from the Egyptian
border.
Reinforced axis columns were
battering southeast of Tobruk in
an attempt to cut off the seaport's
land supplies. So far they had
been repulsed by the combined
defense of British reserve tanks
Volunteer Fire
Group's Ranks
Remain Open
Ranks of the volunteed fire
men's association which head
Quarters at the east Salem station
are open for more recruits, p.V
fessional firemen there said
Wednesday.
Dual purpose of the organiza
tion has previously kept from
membership and incidental train
ing a number of men who would
have liked to join, firemen be
lieved. Men with civilian defense as
signments outside the fire fight
ing field are eligible for the as
sociation, of which WillVm H.
Mills is president, it was sasd.
The volunteer group expects to
serve the city in numerous in
stances not connected with civ
ilian defense although it is to
provide men for fire fighting in
case of sabotage or bombing.
Members are from all residen
tial areas of the city, firemen de
clare. Applicants should report
at the station, on State street
near 18th, Monday night, they
suggested.
Salem Boy Named
Editor at Camp
Travis Cross, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Cross, 535 North
Church street, has been named
managing editor of the Boys'
Statesman, official paper, pub
lished daily, of Beaver Boys'
State at Corvallis. Cross is one
of the 12 Salem youths attending
the American Legion sponsored
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and the RAP'S fighter bombers.
The smoke was clearing, if mo
mentarily, from the Mediterran
ean itself. With British sea losses
in the weekend battles unspeci
fied, though admittedly "consid
erable,'' the RAF came home with
the good lews of a second attack
on the two battleships crippled
Monday in the joint British-Amer
ican assault off Taranto. On
Monday night, it was announced,
British torpedo planes scored a
hit on one of the capital ships as
it neared its home base.
The Germans, trying to stress
their extravagant claims to a dam
aging victory over British naval
power, broadcast a Madrid dis
patch which said that eighteen
British warships, including the
battleship Malay and Jwo aircraft
carriers, had returned to Gibraltar
and put dead and wounded ashore.
One cruiser, this enemy broad
cast said, was towed home in a
sinking condition. It was implied
that four other warships of the
squadron never got back.
The main assault of the Ger
man armies on Russian soil was
concentrated in repeated at
tacks by tanks, planes and men
on Sevastopol and the outlying
Russian bases on historic Bala
klava bay, which Hitler must
reduce if he is to use the Black
sea for a supply lane hi con
nection with a smash against
the Caucasus.
The red army had thrown back
six attacks on an important road
in the Sevastopol defense zone
and still held battered Balaklava,
where the Light Brigade charged
88 years ago, but Moscow dis-
patches said bluntly that this was
the greatest German offensive
ever made against the Crimean
bastions.
The air front in western Europe
was quickening again, two years
from the day when France asked
the Germans for an armistice.
Taking advantage of a brief let
up in the difficult mid-June
weather, the RAF attacked Ruhr
and Rhineland with medium
forces over Tuesday night.
British scout planes came back
with pictures of heavy damage
done to the shipbuilding yards at
Emden in the bombing of June 6,
which was one of the series of
destructive raids which followed
the 1000-plane attacks on Cologne
and Essen.
From the black despair of
France, on this anniversary of
defeat, came the thin voice of
old Marshal Petain, to admit
that "discontent is growing, an
ger is rumblinc" among the
people for whom he asked, in
vain, an armistice of honor.
On all the underground lines
of communication with the con
quered continent there was, mean
time, news of a growing tide of
savagery and terror by the nazis
to put down the patriots, and in
the reich itself the German peo
ple were called upon to display,
again, "an iron purpose."
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efficiency in production of war
and civilian necessities.
The committee announced these
actions:
1. A tax of 5 per cent an
transportation of freight and ex
press by common - carriers by
land, water or air, similar to the
World war tax of 1917-18. Esti
mated yield, $300,000,000.
2. An increase in the second-
class postal rates for newspapers
and periodicals enough to cancel
the annual $78,000,000 deficit in
curred by the postoffice depart
ment in transporting them at
present rates.
3. A tax of 5 per cent on all
parimutuel wagers. Estimated
yield, $25,000,000.
4. Extension to all coin-op
erated amusement and gaming
devices of the $10 a year tax now
imposed on certain gambling de
vices. Estimated yield, $5,000,000,
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BUENOS AIRES, June 17-(ff)
Germany . expressed "profound
regret," Wednesday for the tor
pedoing of the Argentine steamer
Victoria and offered to pay in
demnity, a move regarded here as
evidence of a new German anxi
ety not to jeopardize friendly re
lations with this country.
Coincident with Berlin's in
creased concern over these rela
tions, there was developing with
in Argentina a growing opposi
tion to the government's policy of
dealing with the axis.
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