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Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning, Juno 21. 1942
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Cripps Assures;
Britain Readies
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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
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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
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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
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VS.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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