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Story 3 Sections "Random Harvest," book length serial story by Junes Hilton, author of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips' and "Lost Horl son," will start Tuesday morning In The Statesman. 18 ICS! NINETY-SECOND YEAH Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning, Juno 21. 1942 Price Sc. No. is B Sink U Pages m Ship At Cripps Assures; Britain Readies t - - Junipoff Area Hard and Successful West Attack Planned; War News Dims British Enthusiasm By NOLAND NORGAARD LONDON, June 20 (AP)-Sir Stafford Cripps, par liamentary deputy for Prime Minister Churchill, promised Britain Saturday that this country and the United States will "launch a great and successful attack upon Hitler in the west" but gave no hint as to when or where. He said.nazi measures to meet it might influence its timing. Simultaneously, the nation received what appeared to be evidence that Britain is making steady preparations to cast the fateful die. The army announced it was taking over as a training area a 36 square mile zone in East Anglia, an ob vious possible jumping off place for a drive across the channel. Ordinarily these developments would have produced a wild fren zy of expectation in Britain, com ing as they did just when Chur chill is conferring with President Roosevelt in the United States, when there have been recent ar rivals of strong United States ar my and naval forces, and when the war in Russia is nearing its first anniversary. Speculation would have been heightened by these other devel opments: 1. The disclosure that just be fore Cripps spoke, Churchill was in consultation by transatlantic telephone with at least one of his aides, Maj. Clement R. Atlee, dominions secretary. 2. An announcement by the German radio, which just gained njtice Saturday, that German au thorities, apparently in a defen sive mood, had widened to the east and west the already ex ten s' e minefields in the Skagerrak b ween Norway and Denmark. But British reaction was con ditioned by growing- uneasiness ever the German attack on Se vtstopol and deterioration of the British position in North Af rica, coupled with indications that Hitler may be preparing to seize the initiative In an even more decided manner in the Mediterranean. The cause for disquiet over the . (Turn to Page 2. Col.. 1) Three Killed In Tornado Three Indiana Cities Struck; Two-Mile Swath Made KOKOMO, Ind., June 20-Cip-A tornado dipping into three sections of Indiana late Saturday killed three persons here and injured ap proximately 150 others, 12 of them seriously, as it struck Kokomo, Frankfort and Indianapolis at about 6 o'clock Saturday night. Police estimated tiie damage here at $500,000. Nine persons were in a hospital here. , The storm cut a swath two city blocks wide and two miles long through the city, damaging about 400 houses. The storm struck Kokomo after .sweeping across the northern part of Clinton county. It also struck in Indianapolis, ripping roofs off several houses. Five hundred members of the American Legion here were called out by Police Chief Jackson to aid in rescue work and to prevent looting. Ally Bombers Strike Rabaul ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sunday, June 21-(P) Allied bombing planes have. fought their way through Japa nese fighter defenses and bombed the enemy-held air bases at Rabaul and Lae, General MacAr thur's headquarters announced Sunday. At Rabaul, New Britain, the al lied . bombers hit f wharf installa tions in what was termed a suc- - cessful night attack.. I At Lae, an important base in New Guinea, the raiders directed their fir on the airdrome, de stroying "two enemy bombers on i the ground. . ::- ". . ; The Japanese defense, in which Zero fighter planes took to the . 'sir, was described in the daily headquarters ' commun ique as in effective. . - Pope Elected Chairman of County Demos Well-Attended Meet Hears Candidates, Chooses Officers Carl T. Pope, Salem attorney, was Saturday named chairman of the Marion county democratic central committee when that or ganization met at the courthouse in its first session since the pri maries. He succeeds J. F. Ulrlch, capital city realtor. The meeting, said to be the most largely attended committee session- in a number of years, elected Mollie McKinney, vice chairman; John.,, Marshall, state committeeman Theola Jory.'state committeewoman: Geary Neal of Sublimity, congressional commit teeman; Frances M. Randall, con gressional committeewoman; James Moertel, secretary, and Theda Wells, treasurer. Candidates speaking at the or ganization session included Dan Hay, Frances M. Randall and Clare Brabec for representative; Kenneth Bayne for county judge, and Joe Prang for county com missioner. Pope agreed to hold district meetings in Stayton, Silverton, Mt. Angel, Woodburn, St. Paul, Jef ferson and Mill City to assure voters of the county an oppor tunity to meet and talk with can didates for the various offices. A telegram from Earl Nott, can didate for congress from the first Oregon district, and a number of speakers in his behalf were heard. Discussion also centered on the committee's plans to provide sup port in Marion county for demo cratic candidates for secretary of state and the governorship. Willkie Asked To Convention Republicans Set State Meet for Eugene In Early Fall Wendell Willkie, lauded at a party luncheon here Saturday noon by Rep. Frank J. Lonergan, Portland, is to be invited to speak at the 1942 convention of the Oregon Republican club, set for Eugene early in the fall, R. M. Fischer, president, announced at the close of an all-day executive committee session at the Marion hotel. "If we can t get Mr. Willkie. we hope to have Thomas E. Dewey, Sen. Arthur Vanden berg or Gov. Harold Stassen of - Minnesota," Fischer said. The convention city was chang ed from Bend to Eugene because of transportation difficulties. Willkie, "1940 republican nomi nee for president, "represents that which is truest in American life for private enterprise, en- couragement of individual thrift and initiative," and was "right in foreign affairs," Lonergan, retir ing from seven years in the legis lature to run" for circuit judge in Multnomah county, told a lunch eon gathering of 51 people ar ranged by the Marion county chapter of the Republican club In honor of the visitors, candidates (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Hero Of ficial Dad SPOKANE, Wash., June 2HJP) Mrs. John Bruce Dodd, founder of Father's day, announced Sat urday night that Gen. Douglas MacArthur had been named "of ficial father" for the 194J obser vation Sunday. v - iv " Germans B att' VS. net. Defenders Firm as Rommel Nears Border MOSCOW, Sunday, June 21 (JP)-The Germans continued Saturday night to batter Sevas topol with some 150,000 men and hundreds of planes and tanks and at the same time registered a new advance in a revival of fighting on the Khar kov front, the Russians announced early Sunday. With the nazis recklessly charg ing the north and south sides of the fortress, the Soviet communi que reported one defending bat tery wiped out an entire enemy infantry battalion while an anti tank unit of the Black sea fleet in three days knocked out 23 nazi tanks and killed three hundred Germans. In a one-line reference to the new fighting on the Kharkov front, the Soviet announcement said: "In one sector our troops fought advancing enemy troops." Launching a secondary drive of their own, red army tanks and in fantry forces killed 600 Germans and captured a number of weap ons and equipment, including six tanks, on the Bryansk front south west of Moscow. This drive started after Russian sappers cleared a gap in a German mine-field, open ing the way for the onrushing Soviet attackers. BERLIN (From German broad casts), Sunday, June 21 () The thunder of guns in the battle of Sevastopol is so great that it is shaking houses along the Turkish coast, 200 miles away across the Black Sea, and has been mistaken by inhabitants there for an earth (Turn to Page 2. Col. 7) Chinese Stop Jap Column Retake Town of Wutu As Heavy Fighting Is Continued CHUNGKING, June 20 JP) Chinese shock troops intercepted a strongly armed Japanese col umn near Hsiayi in East Honan province and killed 500 in a spirited battle Wednesday, the of ficial Chinese Central News ag ency reported Saturday night. The Japanese had 170 trucks, seven tanks and more than ten field pieces. Chinese losses were not stated. Parrying the main Japanese ef fort in eastern China to domi nate completely the Chekiangsi railway where 100,000 east and west bound Japanese are less than 50 miles apart, the Chinese said officially that street fighting was continuing in the suburbs of Kwangfeng which is 20 miles in side Kiangsi from neighboring Chekiang province. One Japanese column broke throurh a Chinese cordon at Sanchi, five miles southeast of Kwangfeng, early Friday and retreated north, a communique said. Another force forced a crossing on the Sin river- and captured Wutu, but the Chinese retook the tov.n in the after noon. In the southeast province of (Turn to Page 2. Col. 4) Senators Ask Fiind Caution WASHINGTON, June 2(HJP) With nearly $94,000,(i00,000.appro priated since the start of the pres ent congressional session on Jan uary 5, many legislators are be ginning to talk of a necessity to hold down further financial com mitments. Two veteran senators Norris (Ind-Neb) and McKellar (D Tenn) gave public notice - this week of their belief that congress must proceed with more caution when voting money. They teamed to oppose a broad program of gov ernment payments to civilians suf fering injury, disability, death or detention as a result of enemy at tack. . "The financial resources of our government are not . unlimited," Norris. warned. The imagination is staggered by the colossal debt we are piling up." : - Head for Women's Army On the way today to Salt Lake City and the women's army auxiliary corps officers training school In Iowa are two Salem women, first called from here, Mrs. Gwendolyn Loomls Taylor (left above) and Mrs. VeNora Vera Thompson. Chipmunks Bought With Scrap Tire REDMOND, June 20 - (A") Central Oregon's scrap robber drive Saturday had yielded 250,000 pounds of rubber and a nest of chipmunks. H. R. Edwards, regional drive coordinator, knew what to do with the rubber but puzzled over disposition of the penny -a-pound chipmunks which were discovered inside an old tire casing. Conflicts Daze Fair Officials Eastman Asks All Be Cancelled; Wickard HoldVfor Mtfrlale PORTLAND, June 20-;p)-Offi-cials of the few Oregon fairs still on this year's calendar were caught Saturday between con flicting government viewpoints, and most exhibitions allowed any of the farmers' prized products probably will be on pantry shelves and in the fields. Latest upsetting news came from Joseph B. Eastman, de fense transportation chief, who suggested that all fairs be call ed off for the duration. His statement came after Sec retary Claude Wickard urged fairs be continued as a morale booster. WASHINGTON, June 20- Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard is in complete accord, aides said Saturday, with the action of the office of defense trans portation in asking that county fairs be cancelled for the dura tion to save tires and other transportation facilities. Another consideration was the army's earlier order banning large crowds. In the midst of these conflict ing views, many Oregon fairs and traditional summer events have been cancelled. Others, still hope ful, are uncertain whether to go ahead with plans or not. Oregon's No. 1 event the state fair already had been stream lined to a state 4H club show and a regional Willamette valley fair. Now, even that is doubtful. Man ager Leo Spitzbart said he is awaiting the return of Agricul ture Director John D. Mickle be fore going ahead with plans. Mult nomah and Columbia county fairs still are on the schedule. Also in the balance is the fate of Pendleton's famed roundup which has asked the army for a go-ahead but as yet has received no reply. Cancelled are the Astoria regat ta and salmon derby by navy re quest, the Molalla buckeroo and Klamath Fall's buckeroo days. However, both the Baker rodeo and the St Paul rodeo have an nounced army approval. Klamath Falls scheduled an amateur horse show as a reduced substitute for the regular event but reports Sat urday were to the effect that the horse show's size may approach that of the cancelled buckeroo days. Swedish Captains . Refuse Dutch Trip r LONDON, June 20 ('-()-, Six teen Swedish, ship., captains have signed a Joint declaration refus ing to sail their vessels to The Netherlands port of, : Rotterdam because of the "continuaF RAF bombing of "ill-protected German convoys passing along the North Sea coast," The Netherlands Newt Agency Aneta reported - Saturday night: - Two . on First LaptoWAAC Teacher, Nurse Are Selected; Two More Expected Soon Two Salem women left Satur day night for Portland on the first lap of their trip to the wom en's army auxiliary corps officers' training school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. They will leave Portland by train this morning for Salt Lake City, their first stop. So far notified by the war de partment to report at Salt Lake City, they are Gwendolyn Loo- mis Taylor, 864 North 16th, and VeNora Vera Thompson, 558 Mrs. Taylor is the wife of Jack R. Taylor, now with the United States army officers' training school at Camp Lee, Virginia Taylor was a staff sergeant with the Oregon national guard and has been in the army two years Mrs. Taylor is a graduate of Reed college and has been teach ing at the Capital business col lege. They have no children. Mrs. Thompson is a graduate nurse and has been working as a paper layer at the Oregon Pulp and Paper company. She has lived in Salem for 12 vears. Her oldest son, Neil Thompson, is with the US navy and stationed in Alaska. A 16-year old daughter. Kather- ine, and an eight-year-old son, Donald, are in Salem now but are to go to live, for the dura tion, with friends in Lewiston, Ida. Jean Richmond of Woodburn left Friday night for Salt Lake City. Transportation for two oth er women was sent to the local recruiting officer but until the women get their teleeraDhed or ders from the war department, it will not be known who they are. The Salem district includes many Willamette valley points south and it is possible the others may be from out of the city. Three 'Youths Escape State Prison Annex State police spread their net Saturday night for three youths who had escaped during the aft ernoon from the state penitentiary annex south of Salem in a prison truck. James Ogden White 22, four timer, committed last winter from Salem on a car larceny charge, with Roy. Lawrence Bogg 26, four-timer, of Multnomah county and Jack Groves, 25; twice a loser, of Lane county, all trusties at the annex, left fellow workmen there with a load of ashes about 2 pan. and evidently kept on going, of ficers said. The trio wore regulation black and white striped shirts and denim trousers. ; White was serving a three-year term. Bogg, conimitted March ; 12 of this year on a larceny charge, was serving a two-year term, and Groves, also, in for larceny, had served almost 20 months of his five-year term. . Friday's Weather ' Friday's max. temp. C7, min. 52. Saturday river, .1 ft By ar- my request, weather forecasts arc withheld and temperature data delayed. - -. " ' ' M er chant Ships Set for Gompletion Soon Nazis Realize Increase in Sea Defense Torpedoes Sink Two More in Atlantic; Navy Mans Guns By The Associated Press The maritime commission asserted Saturday that arm ing- of America's merchant ships would be completed in a few months,' at the same time the nazis acknowledged that the allies had "strongly increased" their defenses along United States gulf and Atlantic-Coasts. Meanwhile, however, torpedoes from enemy submarines sank two more small merchant vessels a US ship in the Caribbean and a Nicaraguan ship each sinking bringing loss of life, the navy an nounced. This increased the announced loss of cargo carriers of the Unit ed Nations and neutral countries since Pearl Harbor to 288. On the comforting side was a state department announcement that an agreement had been reached by which Cuba "offered facilities to the United States war department for training . aviation personnel and for oper ations against enemy undersea -craft . . . work on these instal lations will begin at once." The Berlin radio in a German- language broadcast for European consumption and recorded here by CBS said "the fight asainst ene my supply shipping and patrol and escort vessels of the enemy assumed particular fierceness in the past week," but added: "The enemy has strongly in creased his submarine defense and convoy protection, and is using for the battle against the ever (Turn to Page 2. Col. 8) Bond Sales Fail Goal 700 Million May Be June Total; July To Be Big Month WASHINGTON, June 20-P) Indications are that the treasury will fail to reach its goal of $800, 000,000 war bond sales in June. One unofficial estimate Satur day, based on the first three weeks' results, was that the month's sales would be $700,000, 000. June 15 tncome tax payments and unavoidable delays in install ing payroll deduction plans in business establishments were giv en as reasons for the possible quota failure. However, all officials agreed that June sales figures were not of primary importance, since the bond sales campaign is geared to work up to a climax in July. They recalled that sales were running about $500,000,000 a month in March and April, and that quotas Of $600,000,000 for May and S800, 000,000 for June were established merely to show the setup r eeded to meet the real goal of $1,000, 000,000 a month beginni g in July. Treasury planners said, they were confident of making the J uly quota, and hence' would make no apologies for the smaller Juno sales. ; . V- Heart of the campaign for July and following months is th pa y roll sayings plan; In nearly every fcusmess "office" or factory, 'min utemen" are going around asking people to authorize the deduction of "at least 10 per cent of their paychecks to be used to buy war bonds. With totals climbing daily, these written commitments assure sales of about $200,000,000 a month, at last reports. . Our Senators tfca 3-2 Lcsl 4-2 mm- Bad Weather Ends; Surge Of RAF On LONDON, June 2K?VThe RAF, after a lull enforced by bad weather, made a big-scale attack on Le Havre Saturday, sending over "many squadrons' of fighters and American-made , Boston bombers against the big French seaport Just across the channel. More than 309 British planes were hurled Into afternoon at tacks alone, the air ministry announced, and they ranged up and down the continental coast and as far inland as St. Omer, in France. Furnes,. en the Bel gian coast, came in for one heavy attack. An air ministry communique said objectives at Boulogne, Calais and Dunkerque also were attacked. Four enemy fighters were destroyed while six Brit ish fighters failed to return to their bases. The offensive against the German-held port followed a night bombardment on Ger many. The air ministry said a bomb er force, which It described on ly as "strong,"' dealt major dam age to the German naval base of Emden and also attacked the rail Junction of Isnabruck over night The raid was the heaviest in two weeks, British sources said, noting that use of the word straf BSMlly -"Jndicte r a force' of 259 to 309 planes ' Japs Smacked Between Fogs Navy Spokesmen Says Weather Hinders Both Sides SEATTLE, June 20-)-Japanese invaders of isolated Aleutian island points are "getting smack ed whenever there is a rift in the fog banks," a 13th naval district spokesman said Saturday. He de clared the "so-called mystery of the Aleutian battle is merely a mystery of weather, of fog and snow, coupled with a desire to keep the enemy in the cjark." He said: "If the public is confused about the situation in ' western Alaska, then so Is the enemy and that is all to the good. You can't make a state ment about a battle until the battle is decided. As Admiral King has told the American j people, the battle for the Aleu tians is continuing. As already announced, the attack was bo surprise and the initial attacks at Dutch Harbor were met." The statement continued: . "It's a weird, wild country up there. There are great patches of fog and rain in which the enemy can hide, as a band of guerillas may hide in the bush. There are literally thousands of small bays and inlets. The Japs know the country, but so does the navy. "Why haven't the army and navy already driven the Japs out of the Aleutians? The weather ex plains that, in part It's one thing t get at them in clear skies and another to get at them when the weather is foul and thick and snow is in the air and quick forming ice burdens the wings of planes. You can depend on it, they are getting smacked when ever there is a rift in the fog banks. Some of the greatest stor ies of the war, some of the finest contributions to naval tradition. come out of this strange e of give and take in the Canned Fruit Price Ceilings Too Low. . ; WASHINGTON, June ZOjitP) The agriculture department 'ad vised . Price Administrator Leon Henderson Saturday that price ceilings' on many canned fruits and berries were tod low to per mit canners to pay growers prices to which they are entitled tinder the price control law.. , The ceilings were set at the highest , prices canners, distribu tors and retailers charged in March, - " . - will struggl Aleutians. AX Arming First Reports Made by Navy Long Expected Nazi Subs Equipped For Mine-Laying; Ship Damaged WASHINGTON, June 20 (AP) The first official re port of enemy mine laying operations along the United States coast in this war came Saturday in a navy announce ment that mines had caused the recent sinking of one mer chant ship and damage to an other off the Virginia shore. The navy said careful investi gation had convinced it that the two ship casualties were not "as previously believed," the results of submarine attacks but were caused by i the "vessels striking enemy mines." "Undoubtedly these mines were laid by an enemy subma rine under the cover of dark ness, when detection is ex tremely difficult," the navy said. That was the only official navy comment regarding the minelay ing, but the development had not been unexpected in naval circles. ffmnsRw tql ha number of long range submarines equipped for mine laying. Avail able records show several ocean going U-boats of more than 1000 tons displacement are fitted for minelaying and naval experts be lieve Germany has been busy building more. These are in addi tion to many coastal type U-boats used for laying mines in the waters around England and in shipping lanes leading from that country. Moreover, the Germans recent ly announced what they called an intensive submarine campaign against all shipping along the coast of North America and ex tending east to the shores of Eu rope. While the announcement set June 26 as the deadline for ac tion in that area, it Was possible the enemy had started off his campaign early with minelay ers supplementing the already extensive operations of the torpedo-firing submarines. After the United States entered the first world war, German mines were laid along the American coast. 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